> Canonical: https://www.cliphi.com/tools/kick-to-youtube-shorts # Turn your Kick streams into YouTube Shorts Drop in a Kick stream or clip. Cliphi pulls out the best moments, crops them to vertical, and adds the captions and music for you. ## How it works 1. **Paste your Kick link** Drop in a clip or a full past broadcast. Hand Cliphi a whole stream and it watches the lot to find the moments worth posting. 2. **AI finds and reframes the moment** Cliphi spots the plays and the reactions chat blew up over, then crops each one to vertical so your camera and the action both stay in shot. 3. **Post to YouTube Shorts** Each clip comes out vertical and inside the Shorts length limit, with captions on screen and a title and description written for you. Publish from Cliphi or download it. ## Why Cliphi - **Built for a newer platform** Most clipping tools still ignore Kick. Cliphi treats it as a first-class source, so you can repurpose a stream the same day it goes out. - **Clip while you are still live** Cliphi can work on your broadcast in real time, so a highlight can go up before you have ended the stream. - **Keeps working after you post** A written title and description help a Short get found in search and on the Shorts shelf, so it can keep pulling views weeks later instead of dying in a day. ## Repurpose your Kick streams while they are still fresh Kick has pulled in a wave of streamers fast, but the short-form tooling around it has not caught up. Most clippers were built for YouTube and Twitch, so Kick creators end up cropping and captioning by hand, or they skip repurposing and leave the reach on the table. The moments that pop on TikTok and Reels are usually buried somewhere in a long Kick broadcast, and digging them out by hand is the part nobody has time for. Cliphi treats Kick as a first-class source. Paste a clip when you already know the moment, or a full stream when you want it to find the highlights across a few hours of footage. Either way you get finished vertical clips. The crop keeps your camera and the gameplay in the tall frame, the captions track what you are saying, and the music sits under the moment instead of fighting it. Because it can also work on a broadcast in real time, you do not have to wait until you are offline. A highlight from tonight can be cut, captioned, and posted while you are still on, which is the fastest way to turn a Kick moment into reach somewhere else. ## Sized for the Shorts shelf Shorts has its own rules. A clip has to be vertical and under three minutes, and the first couple of seconds decide whether someone watches or swipes away. Cliphi opens on the moment, keeps the framing tall, and burns in captions so the clip reads even on mute. YouTube leans on text more than other platforms, so Cliphi writes a title and a description too. That matters because a Short can show up in search and on the shelf long after you post it, and it sits right next to your long-form videos, which makes it an easy way to send people back to the full upload. Shorts also leans on volume, so a batch of clips from one upload gives you something to post most days without filming anything new. And because the export is clean with no watermark, it does not get quietly pushed down as a repost. ## FAQ ### Can I turn a Kick VOD into clips? Yes. Paste the past broadcast link and Cliphi watches the whole thing, picks the moments worth posting, and makes a vertical clip from each. You do not have to clip them on Kick first. ### Does Cliphi work with Kick clips and full streams? Both. Paste a single clip when you already know the moment, or a full stream when you want the AI to find the highlights across the session. ### Can I clip my Kick stream while I am live? Yes. Cliphi can process your broadcast in real time, so a highlight can be cut, captioned, and posted before the stream ends. ### How long can a YouTube Short be? Up to three minutes. Cliphi keeps clips inside that limit and trims to the strongest part, so you are not relying on a slow opening to hold attention. ## Related - [Kick → TikTok](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/kick-to-tiktok.md) - [Kick → Reels](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/kick-to-instagram-reels.md) ## About Cliphi Clip your Kick streams. Paste a link and get YouTube Shorts clips you can post today. [Get clips](https://www.cliphi.com/)