Turn Twitch clips into Instagram Reels
Eklipse finds the moment inside your VOD, reframes it to 9:16 with your facecam still in shot, burns in the captions, and sends the finished Reel to Instagram. No second editor, no download and re-upload.
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Twitch clip to Instagram Reel
How to post a Twitch clip to Instagram
Connect your Twitch channel to Eklipse, let it import the VOD and mark the moments worth cutting, open the clip you want, convert it to a 9:16 Reel with captions, then publish it to Instagram from Eklipse or export the MP4 and post it from the Instagram app. Four steps, and only the first one is setup.
The reason this is not just a crop: Instagram Reels is a vertical frame and Twitch capture is not. Taking the middle of a 16:9 recording throws away the killfeed, the minimap or your face, which is usually the part that made the clip worth posting.
Connect your Twitch
Link the channel once. Eklipse imports each VOD after you stop streaming, so there is nothing to upload by hand and nothing to remember.
Let it find the moment
AI Highlights reads the whole VOD and marks the plays, the reactions and the points where chat went off. You open the clip rather than scrubbing for it.
Convert it to a Reel
Eklipse reframes the clip to 9:16, keeps your facecam in the frame, and adds auto captions, stickers and copyright-free music.
Publish or download
Send it to Instagram from inside Eklipse, or export the MP4 and post it from your phone if you would rather write the caption there.
Inside the four steps
The parts that usually cost you an evening
Finding the moment, reframing it, captioning it and getting it onto Instagram are four separate jobs in most workflows, and each one is a place the clip quietly never gets posted. Here they are one pass.
Find the clip without watching the VOD back
A four hour stream might hold six things worth posting, and locating them by hand is the job that gets skipped after a long night. AI Highlights reads the recording for you and marks what stood out.
- Detection runs across the whole VOD, not just the last few minutes
- Picks up kills and clutch rounds, and also laughs, reactions and chat spikes
- Works on Just Chatting, IRL and podcast style streams, not only shooters
- Every detected moment lands in your library as a clip you can open
AI Highlights
The whole VOD, read once
Mark the personal ones yourself, mid stream
Detection catches what looks like a highlight. The moments that only make sense to your chat are the ones you want to call out while they are happening, without alt-tabbing out of the game.
- Say “clip that” and Eklipse keeps the moment
- No hotkey, no second monitor, no break in the stream
- Voice clips land in the same library as the detected ones
- Runs alongside detection rather than instead of it
Voice Command
Two words, mid game
Reframe to 9:16 without cutting your face out
The usual failure of a horizontal clip on Reels is a centre crop that keeps the middle of the screen and loses everything that mattered. Eklipse builds the vertical frame around the action and your camera instead.
- Smart layout holds the facecam and the gameplay in one vertical frame
- Auto captions are generated from the clip audio and burned in
- Templates, stickers and copyright-free music are already in the editor
- Everything stays adjustable in the browser if the AI cut is not the one you wanted
Vertical converter
9:16, facecam intact
Post it to Instagram from the same screen
Most clip workflows end with a download, a transfer to your phone and a re-upload, which is where the momentum goes. Connect Instagram once and the finished Reel leaves from Eklipse.
- Publish now, or put it on the calendar for a time you pick
- The caption and hashtags are written once for every destination
- The same post can go to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Facebook
- MP4 export is still there if you would rather upload from the phone
Content Planner
Instagram, TikTok, Shorts, Facebook
What a finished Reel looks like
The streams this was built around
A Twitch clip after reframing
Detection is trained on gameplay, so the shooters are the obvious case. It also reads the streams where the highlight is a reaction rather than a kill, which is where most Just Chatting and IRL clips come from. Each title below has its own guide to what gets clipped.
The rest of the workflow
What sits either side of the Reel
Reels is one destination for a clip Eklipse has already found and cut. These are the steps around it.
Elsewhere on Eklipse
All features/ Free tools/ Use cases/ How Eklipse works/ Help centre/ All questions
Clear before you connect
Creating an account costs nothing. Clipping runs on a paid plan.
Know what you are signing up to
Connect Twitch, look around the dashboard and see how your VODs come in without paying anything. Generating clips, converting them to 9:16 and exporting without a watermark are part of the paid product, so it is worth knowing that before you plan a posting week around it.
Streamers in the Eklipse affiliate programme
Less scrubbing, more clips actually posted
MrMarvelTVTwitch
ItsEyeQewTwitch
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RoloPoloTVTwitch
TheGigaDadTwitch
wrldkaileeTwitch“It’s made clipping after long streams less of a hassle. I’ve just started streaming; its AI clipping feature helps pick out the best possible clips.”wds.corey · Trustpilot
“It’s a helpful AI tool to find clips and moments that fit short form content creation.”Noor Mass · Trustpilot
“The web app works really well for what I use it for, I really like the auto clipping function as well as the studio for manual editing, and auto-posting.”Adam Crockett · Trustpilot
Before you connect the channel
Twitch to Reels, answered directly
How do I turn a Twitch clip into an Instagram Reel?
Import the clip into Eklipse, either by connecting Twitch so your VODs arrive on their own or by uploading a file. Open the clip in the editor, convert it to the 9:16 vertical format, add auto captions, stickers or music, then export it or publish it straight to Instagram. The reframing is the part that matters: Eklipse builds the vertical frame around the action and your facecam rather than cropping the centre of the screen.
How do I get clips from Twitch to Instagram without downloading them?
Connect your Instagram account to Eklipse once. After that a finished clip can be published from the same screen you edited it on, either immediately or at a time you schedule. You only need the download and re-upload route if you would rather write the caption in the Instagram app.
How does Eklipse turn a Twitch stream into clips?
Connect your Twitch account and stream as usual. Eklipse pulls the VOD afterwards and AI Highlights reads it end to end, marking kills, clutch rounds, reactions and the points where chat reacted. You can also say “clip that” during the stream with Voice Command to mark something yourself. Everything it finds lands in your library as a clip you can trim, reframe and send to Reels, TikTok or Shorts.
Does the facecam survive the crop to vertical?
Yes, that is what the smart layout is for. A straight centre crop of a 16:9 capture usually loses the facecam, the killfeed or the minimap. Eklipse composes a 9:16 frame that holds the gameplay and the camera together, and you can move either of them in Eklipse Studio if you want a different arrangement.
Do the Reels come out with a watermark?
No. Exports on a paid plan carry no Eklipse branding, so what you post is your clip with your captions and your channel on it.
Can I make Instagram videos with Eklipse for free?
Creating an Eklipse account is free, and it lets you connect Twitch and look through your VODs. Generating clips, converting them to Reels format and exporting without a watermark are part of the paid product; Eklipse has no zero-cost tier. The standalone browser tools at eklipse.gg/tool are genuinely free and need no account at all, so they are the place to start if you only want to try the editing.
Your last stream already has a Reel in it.
Connect Twitch, let Eklipse read the VOD, and send the clip to Instagram before the moment stops being current. Auto-clipping also runs from the phone, so the edit does not have to wait until you are back at the desk.
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