Guide

How to turn a Kick stream into TikToks

A long stream has a handful of moments that work on their own on TikTok. Here is how to get them out, by hand or with a clipper, and what TikTok wants from each clip.

In short: copy the link to the past broadcast from your Kick channel's Videos tab, cut the best moments into 9:16 clips at 1080 × 1920 with captions, and upload them to TikTok. A clipper such as RipClip finds the moments and does the cropping and captions for you.

Before you start

• Clip your own streams, or streams whose owner has said yes.
• Kick keeps stream replays for 30 days on verified channels and 7 days on others, and caps how many you can keep (30 or 16), per Kick's help centre. Clip a stream soon after it ends.

The manual way

Free, and fine for one clip. For a whole stream it means watching it back in full.

1. Open the stream on your channel's Videos tab and find the moment.
2. Cut it with Kick's clip button, then bring the clip into a video editor.
3. Crop the wide 16:9 picture to a tall 9:16 frame around your face or the action, or stack your camera over the gameplay.
4. Add captions, export at 1080 × 1920, and upload it in the TikTok app.

With a clipper (RipClip)

RipClip goes through the whole stream for you, then hands you clips you can still change.

1. On your channel's Videos tab, open the stream and copy its address. It looks like kick.com/your-channel/videos/ followed by an id.
2. Paste it at app.ripclip.org. RipClip reads the stream and cuts the moments that stand on their own into vertical clips, framed on the speaker and captioned word by word. Paid plans also write a title, post caption and hashtags for each.
3. Open any clip in the editor to change the cut, the captions or the look.
4. Schedule it to TikTok from the calendar. Posting to TikTok switches on once TikTok approves RipClip; until then, download the clip and upload it in the TikTok app.

A 2-hour stream uses 66 Horizon Units, and the free plan's 110 cover a 4-hour stream. More on clipping Kick streams.

What makes a stream clip work on TikTok

• Vertical and sharp. 9:16 at 1080 × 1920, the shape TikTok fills the screen with.
• Start on the moment. Cut the build-up; open on the line or the play itself.
• One moment per clip. A clip that needs ten minutes of context from earlier rarely stands alone.
• Captions on. They let people follow along with the sound off.
• Keep your face in it. If your reaction is the point, frame on you; if the gameplay matters too, use a split layout with your camera on top.
• Spread them out. One stream can fill a week of posts instead of one busy day.