Looking to optimize your content creation workflow? AI clips is an AI video repurposing tool that analyzes your recordings and automatically generates captioned shorts/reels for quick sharing. This feature is available in the Free plan (limited), Core plan, and above.
Paid plans include increased clip limits, branding control, and longer clip generation options.
How to Generate AI clips
- Complete a recording or live-stream with StreamYard, then navigate to the recording in your video library and click on it.
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After your recording has finished processing, click Generate clips.
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StreamYard will analyze your video using AI and automatically generate vertical (9:16) captioned clips with a title.
4. As soon as your clips are ready, they’ll appear in your left sidebar on the dashboard. You can click View to open them in your Library.
Instant clip Capture ("Clip That")
During your recording or live-stream, you can mark a highlight by saying “Clip that” out loud.
Nothing will happen on screen while you’re live—there’s no interruption, notification, or visible action.
StreamYard notes the moment and, once your recording has finished processing, the AI will automatically take the previous 30 seconds of your video and use it as one of the suggested segments for clipping.
This feature helps you mark important moments in real time—no need to scrub through your recording afterward. The captured segment will appear with your other AI clips once processing is complete.
Optional Prompt (Available When Regenerating clips)
After your first set of AI clips is generated, you’ll have the option to generate them again.
When regenerating, you can either:
- Pick moments automatically (AI chooses the highlights again), or
- Enter a text prompt to guide the AI toward specific topics or themes you would like to include.
Prompts must reference words or topics that are actually spoken in your recording, since the AI works from the transcript.
Timestamps or visual-only cues (e.g., “when I wave my hand”) aren’t supported.
This feature gives you more control if the initial clips don’t match what you had in mind.
Editing, Branding, and Customization
AI clips can be edited and customized:
- Adjust the clip duration, including adding up to 60 seconds before or after the detected moment
- Customize captions (font, style, color, position)
- Add your custom logo (Available on paid plans)
Click Adjust to enter the Editor:
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In the Editor, you can make the adjustments you want (caption style, add a logo, etc.)
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In the sidebar of the Editor, you will find the settings to fully personalize your captions (Word layout, Placement, Spacing)
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You can use the Set as default toggle to apply your chosen style to future AI clips generations. This creates a persisting style, meaning your next batches of AI clips will use the same settings automatically.
Once the clip is generated, you can also:
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Click Download to save your clip.
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Click Publish to send the clip to your connected Shorts & Reels destinations.
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Use the three dots menu to edit the title, delete, or share the clip.
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Click Play to view your generated clip.
- AI clips also include a Virality Indicator tag to highlight moments predicted to perform well on social media.
If You See “Unavailable”
If you see a message that says Unavailable after clicking Generate, it indicates that the system wasn’t able to identify high-quality clip moments.
This may happen with videos that:
- Have no clear speech.
- They are not conversational in format.
- Have significant layout changes.
- Include screen sharing as the main visual.
Note:
Some destinations do not accept clips longer than 90 seconds. If your clip exceeds a platform’s limit, you may need to download it and upload it manually.
Monthly Usage Limits
AI clips availability and the number of clips you can generate depend on your plan:
| Plan | Monthly clip Limit | Restrictions |
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| Free | 2 | StreamYard logo required, no custom logo |
| Core | 6 | - |
| Advanced | 25 | - |
| Business | Unlimited | - |
Shared Limits for Multi-Seat Accounts
If you have multiple seats, all users share a single pool of monthly clip generations.
Recording Requirements
You can generate AI clips for recordings up to 6 hours long.
Recordings shorter than 30 seconds are not supported.
FAQ
Do you support different languages?
The supported languages are currently English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Tagalog, Turkish, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian, and Thai.
Does StreamYard use my data to train an AI model?
No. We do not use your recordings or personal data to train any AI models.
Your privacy is protected.
When you use the AI clips feature to generate a short video, we do not create new content nor learn from your footage. Instead, our AI simply analyzes the recording you already created and selects moments from within that same video. The AI only works inside your recording to identify highlights—it does not store, reuse, or learn from your data for future model training.
Your videos remain private, and they are processed only to provide you with the requested service of generating clips for your account.
If you want additional information on how we protect your privacy, you can contact us at privacy@streamyard.com.
Why does my video layout change for AI clips?
AI clips automatically reframes your video by tracking who’s speaking and adjusting the crop to keep the speaker in focus. If AI clip can’t reliably detect a face, such as when the layout changes often, participants appear very small, or screen sharing dominates the frame, it avoids making tight or uncertain crops.
When this happens, it defaults to a safe, landscape-inside-vertical view (a 16:9 video centered within 9:16). This ensures the final clip stays clean, stable, and easy to watch.