Stream Highlights: Find the Best Moments of a Long Recording
What Stream Highlights Does
A long stream holds a handful of moments worth keeping and hours around them. Stream Highlights does the watching for you. It transcribes the recording, picks complete episodes in chronological order, and shows them in a list you can review before anything is rendered. The result is a short version of the stream that still tells it in order, and a source for vertical Shorts.
Start a Highlight
Paste a link or choose a file
Tap Stream → Highlights and press Paste to drop in a link to a Twitch or YouTube recording. You can also choose a file from your device.
Pick the length
Choose 10, 20 or 30 minutes for the finished reel. Then tap Find best moments.
Let it work
A long stream takes a while. The job shows its stage and an estimate, and you can close the app while it runs.
Review the Moments
When the search is done, the review screen lists every proposed moment in the order it happened. Each row shows:
- a preview frame (tap it to watch the moment);
- a title and a one-to-three line summary;
- a score badge, green for 8 and above, orange for 6 to 7, grey below;
- the moment's position in the stream and its length;
- a check mark. Tap the text to include or leave out the moment.
The header shows how much of your target length the selection fills, so you can trim the list until it fits. Moments that did not make the cut stay in the list, dimmed, in case you want them back.
Export the Reel and Chapters
Export renders the selected moments in stream order as one 16:9 video. Bitcut also prepares chapters for the YouTube description, following YouTube's rules: the first chapter starts at 0:00, there are at least three, and each lasts at least ten seconds. The finished reel is saved as a project under the original stream.
Turn Highlights into Shorts
On the result screen tap Make Shorts. Bitcut runs Generate Shorts on the reel and builds vertical clips from it. On a stream, a normal face-tracking crop is a poor fit, because other faces can appear in the browser, in clips or in a game. Instead, Bitcut looks for your webcam frame, shows it on a still so you can correct the box, and lays each Short out with the webcam on top and the game or screen below. Other options are Webcam only, Content only and Off, which is a plain crop.
After that, each Short is cut into scenes, so the layout can change when the shot changes. Subtitles, music and export work as in any other project; see export subtitles.
When It Does Not Start
| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| Private or removed recording | Make the recording public, or download it and choose the file. |
| Subscriber-only on Twitch | Download the recording from your Creator Dashboard and choose the file. |
| Longer than five hours | Cut the recording into parts and run each one. |
| No speech found | Highlights are chosen from speech. A stream with no talking has nothing to pick from. |
| Server busy | The job waits in a queue and shows your place. |