Twitch to TikTok: paste the VOD, get TikToks with your facecam on top

A stream is wide: the game fills the screen and you sit in a small box in a corner. Crop it to 9:16 and you lose either your face or the game. So Clyper does what clippers do by hand, the stacked layout:

• It finds your webcam by itself. A webcam is one live face, small, staying put at the side of the frame, low down or tucked into a top corner. Faces in game art that never move or talk are ignored.
• It gives you the top. A head-and-shoulders crop of the webcam fills the top 1080 × 608, big enough to keep your face in frame as you lean around.
• The game goes below, 1312 pixels of the middle of the screen, where the action and the crosshair are.
• The captions sit on the seam between the two, so they cover neither your face nor the game.

When the webcam isn't on screen for most of a clip (a just-chatting segment, a full-screen cam, an IRL stream), Clyper drops the split and follows your face instead, or holds the middle when there's nobody in frame. To lay out one clip by hand, the free split screen video maker does the same stack in your browser. More on the layout on stream clips.

Twitch's Clip button saves one moment of up to 60 seconds, picked by hand while you or a viewer watches, and it can share a portrait version to TikTok. That's good for a moment you already know about. The rest of the stream, the stories and takes nobody clipped, stays in the VOD.

Clyper works from the whole VOD: paste a twitch.tv/videos link and it reads every word of the stream for moments worth posting. A clips.twitch.tv link is too short to clip, so the form asks for the broadcast instead. How to share Twitch's own clips is in how to post Twitch clips on TikTok.

Twitch keeps past broadcasts for 60 days for Partners, Prime and Turbo users, 14 for Affiliates and 7 for everyone else. Paste the link in the first week and the clips are yours to keep; download the VOD too if you want the whole stream, as how to download Twitch VODs shows.

• Subscriber-only VODs don't work from a link: download them and upload the file (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 4 GB).
• Kick streams: Kick links don't work yet, so download the VOD and upload it. See Kick VOD to clips.
• Your own OBS recording works too: OBS recording to clips.

Every way to get a stream in, step by step, is on Twitch VOD to clips.

A credit is a minute of video. A whole 4-hour stream uses 240 credits and gives up to 30 TikToks. You don't have to clip all of it: turn on Clip part of the video and pick the best 2 hours, for 120 credits and still up to 30 clips, one for every 2 minutes. Pro's 600 credits a month cover that for 5 streams; Starter's 200 cover 1. Which plan fits how often you stream is on Clyper for streamers.

• Upload the file. Download the MP4 and upload it in TikTok, rather than sharing from another app, so there's no other logo on it.
• Mind the music. Twitch deletes clips where it detects copyrighted audio, and TikTok asks you to post only what you have the right to share. Pick moments your voice carries, and add a TikTok sound after you upload.
• Write a caption that adds to it, with the game's name and your channel, so people can find the stream.
• Post the top scorer first, then one a day. See how to get more views on TikTok and how to grow on Twitch.
• Clipping someone else's stream? Only with their permission, like a clipping program or campaign gives, and name them in the caption. See which streamers pay clippers.