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# Turn your YouTube livestream into YouTube Shorts

Paste a YouTube livestream and Cliphi clips the best moments in real time, crops them to vertical, and adds the captions and music for you.

## How it works

1. **Paste your livestream link** Drop in the link to a YouTube live broadcast while it is running, or a stream that has just ended. Cliphi starts working through it for you.
2. **AI clips the best moments as they happen** Cliphi watches the stream, finds the moments worth posting, and crops each one to vertical with whoever is talking kept in frame.
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

- **Clips while you are still live** Cliphi processes the broadcast in real time, so a highlight can be cut and posted before the stream has even ended.
- **No waiting for the VOD** You do not have to wait for the upload to finish processing. The clips are ready close to when the moment actually happened.
- **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.

## Clip your YouTube livestream while it is still running

A livestream is where the moment happens live, but by the time you have ended the broadcast, exported the VOD, and started cutting clips, the moment has cooled off. The audience that was buzzing about it has moved on. The whole advantage of streaming live is speed, and clipping by hand the next day throws that away.

Cliphi keeps the speed. Paste your YouTube livestream link while you are on air and it works through the broadcast in real time, finding the moments worth posting and turning each one into a finished vertical clip. The crop keeps whoever is talking in frame, the captions track the audio, and a music bed gets matched to the moment, all without you stopping the stream to do it.

So a highlight from twenty minutes ago can be cut, captioned, and posted while you are still live. Instead of waiting for the VOD and clipping the next day, you ride the moment while people still care about it, and every clip is a door back to the live channel.

## 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 Cliphi clip my livestream while I am still live?

Yes. Paste the live broadcast link and Cliphi processes the stream in real time, so a highlight can be cut, captioned, and posted before the stream ends.

### Do I have to wait for the VOD?

No. Cliphi works through the broadcast as it happens, so clips are ready close to when the moment happened, not the next day.

### Does it keep the speaker in frame for a live broadcast?

Yes. Active speaker detection follows whoever is talking and keeps them centered in the vertical crop, the same as it does for an uploaded video.

### 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

- [YouTube Live → TikTok](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-livestream-to-tiktok.md)
- [YouTube Live → Reels](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-livestream-to-instagram-reels.md)

## About Cliphi

Clip your YouTube livestream. Paste a link and get YouTube Shorts clips you can post today.

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