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📖 Guide

How to use KumoMoments

The short version: paste a Twitch VOD link, wait for the AI to find the good bits, then use Twitch's own clipper to publish. Everything below is the long version.

1 · Get a Twitch VOD link

Only Twitch VODs are supported — the archived broadcasts at twitch.tv/videos/…. Clips, live channel URLs, and uploads aren't accepted.

Paste it on the KumoMoments home page and hit Analyze VOD. Analysis usually runs in the background — you can leave the tab and come back.

2 · Free VOD & pricing

Your first VOD is free — up to 3 hours. VODs longer than 3h only charge for the extra time. After that, normal pay-per-VOD pricing applies.

3 · Review the suggested moments

Once analysis finishes, you get a timeline of highlights. Filter by score or category, click any marker to preview it, and use Trim start / end if you want to tighten the window.

💻 Works best on desktop. On mobile you can still browse — if Twitch's clip editor doesn't accept the timeframe, tap the timestamp to open the moment in the Twitch app and clip from there.

4 · Send the moments back to Twitch's clipper

When you click Add to my clip list, we add the moment to a queue at the bottom of the page. We don't hand you an MP4 — we send you back to Twitch to finish the clip. Here's why:

  • Twitch's native clipper is better. Frame-accurate trim handles, live preview, title/category editing, permanent hosting with view counts and a shareable URL — none of which a downloaded file gives you.
  • One-click cross-post to YouTube. Once a Twitch clip is saved, the same page has a Publish to YouTube / Export to YouTube Shorts button. Twitch handles the upload, vertical reformat, and captions.
  • Only the channel owner or a mod can clip a VOD, and only from the Twitch site itself — that's a Twitch restriction, not ours.

5 · Using the timestamped links

  1. Click Open at … — it opens the VOD in Twitch and seeks to the clip's end time.
  2. Press Alt+X (or the clapperboard icon in the player) to open Twitch's clip editor. Twitch pre-fills roughly the last 60 seconds — the exact window the AI picked.
  3. Drag the trim handles if you want to tighten it, paste the AI-generated title/description, and hit Publish.

Why we open at the end, not the start: Twitch's clip editor always looks backwards from the current playhead — "the ~60s before now", never "the ~60s after now". Seeking to the end puts the AI-selected moment inside Twitch's default clip window on the first try, so all you have to do is trim.

6 · Cross-posting to YouTube Shorts

After you've saved the Twitch clip, open it on Twitch and hit Publish to YouTube Shorts. Twitch handles the upload and vertical reformat. Paste the AI-generated caption and hashtags from KumoMoments and you're done.

Still stuck?

Email kumasubs2020@gmail.com and we'll help.