How to clip a Twitch VOD for TikTok

Four steps, whether you do them by hand or use a tool for most of them: find the moment, reframe it vertical, caption it, post it.

Find the moment

Rewatch the VOD, or scrub for the moment you already remember being good — a clutch, a reaction, a bit that landed in chat. For anything over an hour this is the slow part. By hand, there's no shortcut — you watch the footage.

Reframe to vertical

A Twitch VOD is recorded 16:9. TikTok's feed is 9:16, so a straight crop cuts the sides of the frame — if the action or your face is off-centre, it goes with them. Reframing means choosing what stays in the vertical crop, not just trimming the clip's length.

Caption it

Captions keep a clip readable with the sound off. Burned-in captions covering the dialogue stay on the video wherever it is played, where an auto-caption toggle is something the viewer has to find.

Export and post

Export the vertical file and upload it through TikTok's own app or web uploader. That's the whole manual path — the first three steps are the ones that take the time.

Where Reelium shortens this

Paste a Twitch or Kick VOD link, or just your channel name, and Reelium ranks the moments in it, using viewer clips and chat reactions when your stream has them — the “find the moment” step above, done for you. You preview, keep, drop or re-trim each one, and accepted exports come out vertical with captions burned in, ready to post to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.

Frequently asked

Do I need to download the VOD first?

Only if you're cutting it by hand in a video editor. Reelium takes a Twitch or Kick VOD link, or just your channel name, and works from that directly.

What size should the clip be for TikTok?

Vertical, 9:16. A Twitch VOD is recorded 16:9, so a straight crop loses the sides of the frame — reframing to keep the action centred is a separate step from trimming.

Can Reelium post straight to TikTok?

Yes — accepted exports can go to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. You can also download the file and post it yourself.