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How it works

A stream goes through five stages. Four of them are automatic. The fifth is you, and it is deliberately the one that cannot be skipped.

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The full review page: the add box at the top, the queue of videos with their status, and below them the rendered clips with players, titles, hashtags and Approve buttons.

Everything in one page: what is queued, what is rendering, and what is waiting for you.

  1. 01

    You paste a link

    The one thing the tool cannot do for you is decide which stream is worth clipping. You paste a YouTube or Kick VOD link into the box at the top of the review page, pick which streamer profile it belongs to, and press Add.

    If only part of the stream matters, you type a range, for example 48:00 to 1:28:00. Only that stretch is downloaded and only that stretch is ever transcribed, which is what makes a four hour stream workable on a laptop.

  2. 02

    It transcribes the audio locally

    The audio is separated from the video and run through speech to text on the processor, on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded for this step.

    Each streamer profile carries a short vocabulary list, the names and in jokes that speech recognition otherwise mangles, and those are fed in as hints. A second small model restores punctuation, so the transcript has real sentence boundaries rather than one long run.

  3. 03

    It picks the moments

    The transcript is read in overlapping chunks. What comes back for each candidate is a quoted first line, a quoted last line, the line that pays the moment off, a title, a hook and an honest score.

    Those quotes are then matched back against the transcript, so the clip boundaries are anchored to speech rather than to a timestamp somebody guessed. A candidate whose quotes cannot be found is dropped rather than trusted.

  4. 04

    It renders the vertical

    Every clip is rendered from a written specification: which crop, which captions, which words to emphasise, where the title card sits and how long it stays, where to zoom on the payoff, how loud the result should be.

    Because that specification is a file on disk, a clip re rendered next week comes out identical to the one rendered today, and a change to one clip cannot quietly change another.

  5. 05

    You approve, then it posts

    The finished clips appear in the review page, each with its own player, its title, its caption and its hashtags. You can edit the start and end, re render, or delete a clip you do not want.

    Approve is the only thing that publishes. It uploads the file to the accounts enabled in that profile, TikTok through the Content Posting API and YouTube as a Short, and reports back what happened. Nothing is scheduled behind your back and nothing is posted twice.

Where the work happens

Downloading, transcription, selection and rendering all run on your own computer, and the review page is served from it at a local address that nobody else can reach. The only traffic that leaves is the download of the stream you asked for and, after you approve a clip, the upload of that clip to your own account.

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