How to clip on Twitch: make, share and download clips

Any logged-in viewer can make a clip of a live stream or a past broadcast (a VOD), as long as the streamer allows it. To make a clip on Twitch on a computer:

1. Press the clip icon under the player. The Clip Creator opens as an overlay you can drag around the page, so the stream keeps playing. It mutes the stream so you can hear the clip.
2. Drag the slider under the video to the moment you want, up to 60 seconds.
3. Check the crop. Twitch suggests a portrait frame that keeps the webcam and the game in view. Accept it, adjust it or dismiss it.
4. Give it a title and press Publish. Leave without publishing and the clip isn't saved. Twitch asks for both so fewer clips get made by accident: in 2024 it said 76% of clips had been.

You get a link to copy and share. On the Twitch app, the Clip button is at the top of the stream (tap the video if you don't see it). You can trim and title a clip on your phone, but editing its portrait layout needs a computer.

If Twitch won't let you clip a channel, it's usually one of these:

• The streamer has turned clips off, or off for the category they're streaming.
• Clips are for subscribers only, or for followers only (any follower, or ones who've followed for a set time, from 10 minutes to 3 months).
• The streamer has blocked you. Twitch also warns that clipping the first minute and a half of a VOD can fail.

The clip button works on your own channel too, and streamers get a few more ways to catch a moment while live:

• The Clip That quick action in Stream Manager. Clips made with it get captions by default.
• Your voice. Say “Twitch, Clip That” on stream and Twitch clips the preceding 60 seconds, tells you when it's done and puts it in your Clips Manager. Its help center lists this under Auto Clips, an invite-only alpha for channels streaming in English, with a waitlist in your Clips Settings.
• Auto Clips. For channels in the alpha, Twitch transcribes the stream, picks engaging moments with AI and publishes titled, captioned clips within about 30 minutes of the stream ending. At TwitchCon Rotterdam in May 2026, Twitch said it would move to beta in the coming months.
• Stream markers. Type /marker in your chat (add a few words after it to label it), or use the Add Stream Marker quick action. Markers show up on the VOD's timeline when you make Highlights later.

Who can clip your channel is set in Creator Dashboard, Settings, Stream, under Clips Settings: turn clips on or off, exclude categories, limit clipping to followers or subscribers, let viewers add captions, choose who can feature clips, and decide whether viewers can post your clips straight to their own TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. That last setting is off by default.

Every Twitch clip is saved twice, in landscape and in portrait, and the Clips Manager shows them side by side. The portrait version is cropped automatically to keep the webcam and the game in frame. To change it, open the clip's editor, choose Edit Layout and pick:

• Stacked: two boxes, the webcam over the gameplay, with a line you drag to size each one.
• Full: one box, which suits a stream without a webcam, or just chatting.

Edit one clip's layout and Twitch uses it for every future clip of your channel, by you or by your viewers. Then the Share menu posts the clip directly to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat (Stories or Spotlight), with a title and description filled in for you, or shares a link to X, Facebook and Reddit.

Streamers can post their own channel's clips. Viewers can post a streamer's clips to their own accounts only if the streamer has turned on the setting for it, and then the streamer's channel name is added as a hashtag on TikTok and Instagram that can't be removed. YouTube posts don't get the hashtag.

Clips live on the channel and in the Clips Manager (Creator Dashboard, Content, Clips), which has two lists: clips of your channel, and clips you've made of other channels. You can search them by title or category and filter by who clipped them, the date, or whether they're featured.

• The streamer can always re-edit the title, trim and portrait layout of any clip of their channel, delete it, delete clips in bulk, or delete every clip from one video. They can also time out or ban whoever made it.
• The viewer who made a clip can edit or delete it until the streamer edits, features, exports or shares a link to it. After that it's locked, so a clip the streamer chose can't change under them.
• Captions on a clip of your channel can be turned on or off, or corrected, for 30 days. After that they're locked.

Clips don't count toward any storage limit: Twitch's storage table lists one for Highlights and uploads, and a time limit for VODs, but none for clips.

Clips. From the clip's Share menu, choose Download and pick landscape or portrait. You can download clips of your channel and clips you made. If there's no portrait option, the portrait version hasn't been made yet: open Edit Layout, change anything, save, and give it a minute to render.

VODs. Twitch lets you download your own past broadcasts, Highlights and uploads:

1. Go to Creator Dashboard, Content, Video Producer.
2. Open the three-dot menu next to the video and choose Download.
3. Wait. On a long video the download can take a while to start, and it's one video at a time: Twitch has no bulk download. Audio muted by Twitch's audio recognition stays muted in the file.

Or skip the download: connect YouTube on your Twitch Connections page and use Export in the Video Producer to send the video to your YouTube channel. YouTube only takes videos longer than 15 minutes from verified accounts, so verify yours first.

Only a channel's owner and its Editors can download its VODs, and Twitch's terms of service don't allow downloading from Twitch except where Twitch expressly permits it. For another streamer's stream, use Twitch's clip download or the files the streamer gives you, or ask them to make you an Editor.

Streaming in 2K or in the vertical and horizontal dual format? That version of the VOD goes after 7 days, and the 1080p or horizontal one stays for the rest of your time.

Highlights are how you keep the best of a VOD past its expiry. In the Video Producer, press Highlight next to a past broadcast. The Highlighter shows the stream on a timeline, with its clips and stream markers on it: mark segments, join several into one reel, give it a title and publish. Highlights you haven't published still count toward the 100 hours, so delete old ones to make room.

On Twitch, clipping is a feature: any logged-in viewer can clip a channel that allows it, and the streamer sees every clip and can delete it. Posting clips somewhere else is a different matter. Twitch's terms say that when a streamer turns on the features that let viewers share their content off Twitch, they license other users to share it, as far as those features need. That's what the Share menu does when the streamer has allowed it.

Outside that, the stream is the streamer's. Clip the ones who've asked for clips, through a clipping campaign or their own clipping program, name them on every post, and leave out moments with music playing, which can get a clip muted or claimed on TikTok and YouTube. For how the law looks at clips, see is clipping legal? (it explains the issues; it isn't legal advice). For finding streamers who pay for clips, see how to find clipping campaigns.

Twitch's portrait clip is a quick start. For clips you edit yourself, the layout that works for gameplay is the same stack: the webcam across the top at 1080 × 608, the game in the 1312 pixels below, and captions on the seam between them. The free split screen video maker builds it in your browser from a clip or a VOD. For a just chatting stream, crop to the streamer with the vertical video converter. The sizes each app wants are in video sizes for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and picking moments is in how to clip streams.

The clip button catches one moment at a time, and only the ones someone pressed it for. A four-hour VOD has more in it than that, and finding it by hand means watching the stream again. Clyper does that part, but it doesn't take Twitch links. Give it the VOD instead:

• Upload the file you downloaded from the Video Producer: MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 4 GB and 4 hours long. Long streams are big: at an assumed 6 Mbps, an hour is about 2.7 GB. Split a bigger file with the free video splitter, or
• Export it to YouTube and paste its link. Set it to unlisted in YouTube Studio if you don't want it on your channel.

Clyper reads the whole stream's transcript, picks its best moments and cuts each to whole sentences, up to 30 clips. It finds the webcam and stacks it over the game where there's gameplay, frames the streamer alone where there isn't, and captions every word on the seam. You check each clip in the editor and download 1080 × 1920 MP4s with no watermark. More in stream clips with Clyper.