AI Shorts from any long video or live stream

A one-hour live stream or a long YouTube video usually holds several moments that would work as a 30-to-60-second vertical clip. Finding them, cutting them, turning the frame vertical and adding captions by hand takes an evening. StreamLive Pro does that work automatically, and leaves you the part that needs a person: deciding which clips are good enough to publish.

What happens when a live stream ends

When you end a broadcast, with nothing else to press (you can turn this off in settings), StreamLive Pro:

1. Transcribes the speech, with a timestamp for every word.
2. Has AI pick moments that stand on their own: a complete answer, a clear point, a short story.
3. Cuts each moment into a vertical 9:16 clip.
4. Reframes the picture to follow the speaker, so a wide 16:9 shot does not become a vertical frame of an empty chair.
5. Adds captions in the language spoken, and makes a thumbnail.

The clips wait in your Shorts list. You open each one, watch it, fix or delete, and publish. The clips stay, but the full recording of the broadcast is kept only if you pressed Record; otherwise it is removed about two hours after the broadcast.

Shorts from any long video, not only live

You do not need to have streamed with us. Upload any video file (a recorded lecture, a podcast episode, a webinar, a video you published on YouTube last year) and the same process runs on it. If the video is on your YouTube channel, use the original file you exported, or download it from YouTube Studio first, then upload it here.

Step by step:

1. Open the Shorts page and choose "make Shorts from any video".
2. Upload the file.
3. Wait while it is transcribed and cut. A longer video takes longer.
4. Review the clips. Trim a start that comes in mid-sentence, fix a caption word, delete what does not work.
5. Publish all the approved clips at once to your connected accounts, now or on a schedule.

The help articles create short clips automatically and publish all Shorts at once go through each screen. The long guide turn a live stream into Shorts covers what makes a moment worth clipping.

AI picks can be wrong

The AI does not know your audience or your subject the way you do. Expect some clips that start a sentence late, end before the punchline, or pick a moment that only makes sense with what came before. Expect it to miss a moment you know was the best of the hour. That is why nothing is published without you: every clip waits for review. Plan a few minutes per broadcast to go through the list, keep the good ones and delete the rest.

Captions on Shorts, including Hebrew right-to-left

Some viewers scroll Shorts with the sound off, and without captions the clip is lost on them. Each clip gets word-by-word captions with the highlighted-word animation, in one of more than 80 caption designs.

Hebrew needs care. In a right-to-left language, punctuation and numbers have to land on the correct side of the line, and that is easy to get wrong when each word is animated separately. StreamLive Pro handles Hebrew right-to-left properly, including with the highlighted-word animation. For comparison: OpusClip's own help center says right-to-left languages are not supported (its help article, checked 29 October 2026). More on Hebrew captions on Shorts: Hebrew captions for Shorts.

Captions can also be translated, so a Hebrew class can get English Shorts captions, or the other way round; see auto captions and translation.

Getting better clips out of the same broadcast

The picks depend on the material. A few habits help, and none of them need extra equipment:

• Say the point in one go. A clip works when the answer is complete within a minute. An idea spread over ten minutes with interruptions is hard to cut.
• Repeat the question before you answer it. If an audience member asks something off-microphone, the clip will start with your answer and no question. Repeat it into the microphone.
• Keep the speaker in frame. The reframing follows the person speaking; it cannot follow someone who walked out of the shot.
• Clear sound beats a better camera. Captions come from the transcript, and a clean microphone gives a cleaner transcript.

Where the clips go

Approved clips go to your connected accounts: YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook and the others you connected. You can adapt the text for each network and publish now or schedule. See publish to social networks.

How many Shorts a month

The number of automatic Shorts a month depends on the plan: 10, 30 or 300. In the 7-day trial you get 10 Shorts, and Shorts made in the trial carry a small watermark. On a paid plan there is no watermark. The choice of moments also differs: on Pro and Studio it goes deeper, with polish on each clip.

What it does not do

• It does not know your audience. The picks are a first cut, not a final edit.
• It does not publish on its own. You approve every clip.
• It does not dub or clone voices. The speech in the clip stays as it was spoken; captions can be translated.

Turn a live stream into Shorts: who it is for

• Weekly classes and lectures. A one-hour class becomes a week of short clips for the channel, without anyone sitting with an editor.
• Podcasts. Each episode yields clips for Shorts, Reels and TikTok; see video podcast.
• Newsrooms. A live interview becomes a short clip with its main quote.
• Creators who stream on YouTube and want the same material on TikTok and Instagram.

If you are comparing clip tools, the guide OpusClip alternative sets out where each fits. Restream sells clips as a paid add-on on top of its plans (checked 4 November 2026 on restream.io/pricing); here they are part of every plan.

Pricing

Shorts are included in every plan; the plans differ in how many a month (10, 30 or 300). Creator is $29 a month, Pro $85, Studio $199. 7-day trial, no credit card. The trial never turns into a paid plan by itself. Details: pricing.