Hours of footage
A stream is long, mostly quiet, and the highlights are scattered. Scrubbing through it by hand is where clipping time goes.
YouTube's own Clip button makes a short link to a moment in the stream, for sharing on YouTube. To get a vertical clip you can post on Shorts or TikTok, you need the replay, the moment, a vertical frame and captions.
The good moments are there. Finding them is the work.
A stream is long, mostly quiet, and the highlights are scattered. Scrubbing through it by hand is where clipping time goes.
A stream becomes a replay once it ends and YouTube has processed it. That is the version to clip from.
Streams are filmed for a monitor. Cropped straight to vertical, the speaker or the game falls out of frame.
Four steps.
The same rules apply as for any clip: the stream belongs to whoever streamed it. Clip your own streams freely, and somebody else's only with their permission - which is exactly what a clipping campaign gives you.
For regular YouTube videos, YouTube to Shorts. And for how many clips one long recording holds, clips from one video.
SnapDub works from the replay, so the stream has to have ended. For live moments, YouTube's own Clip button is the tool.
Long replays are fine. The longer the stream, the more moments there are to choose from, and the more credits a run uses.
YouTube's Clip is a link to a short part of the original video on YouTube. A SnapDub clip is a new vertical video file, captioned and ready to post anywhere.
Auto-import watches a YouTube channel and clips new uploads as they appear, on paid plans.
Paste the replay link and get vertical, captioned clips back - no scrubbing through hours of stream.