Monitoring a live stream and clipping in real time

In the normal flow you wait for the stream to end and clip the recording. This is different: CutPro clips during the broadcast, and the cuts arrive in batches while it's still on air.

Works with Twitch, Kick and YouTube.

Getting it running

1. Add the streamer you want to monitor (search by channel name) or pick one of the featured channels in the discovery tab.
2. Choose the clipping strategy and, if you like, a template so the clips come out in your identity.
3. Set the days of the week and time ranges the monitoring applies to.
4. Turn it on.

If the channel is offline, CutPro waits. When the streamer goes live, clipping starts on its own — you don't need the page open, and you can be notified by email, Discord or push.

Only a workspace administrator can create or change monitors.

How the clips arrive

CutPro works the stream in 10-minute windows: it accumulates that stretch, transcribes it, identifies the best moments and generates that batch's clips — repeating the cycle for as long as the stream lasts. The screen shows the current phase and the time until the next batch.

How many clips come out of a batch isn't fixed: it depends on what happened in those 10 minutes. If nobody said anything in the window, it produces no clips.

What it costs

The logic here is different from the rest of the product: you pay per batch generated, and the price of a batch drops the more people are clipping the same stream.

That makes sense: the heavy work of downloading and transcribing the broadcast is done once and shared by everyone monitoring that channel. A stream full of clippers can end up free.

You also only pay while the streamer is live within the days and hours you configured. A streamer who's offline or outside your window costs nothing.

The price of the next batch appears on screen before you turn it on.

The 10-minute minimum

After you turn it on, there's a 10-minute minimum before you can pause — the button shows the countdown.

The reason is the mechanics themselves: 10 minutes is exactly the size of one clipping window. Switching on and off midway would throw away work already in progress.

When credits run out

Monitoring is paused and the screen tells you how many credits you're short for the next batch.

Watch out for one detail: when the balance runs out, every live monitor in that workspace is turned off, not just the one on the stream in progress. After topping up, you have to turn them back on.

Availability and limits

Live clips depend on a feature that isn't on every plan — the screen says so explicitly when yours doesn't include it, and the route is an upgrade.

Two operational rules that prevent surprises:

• The raw stream recording is kept for 7 days after it ends. Past that, the clips from that broadcast can no longer be opened or edited — export what matters within the week.
• An idle workspace gets its monitoring paused. If nobody in the workspace shows any sign of life for a few days, monitoring is paused automatically, so credits don't burn for someone who left it running.

After the clips are generated

They follow the normal path: review, adjust in the editor, export and publish. Applying a template to the whole batch is usually the fastest step — see templates and automatic subtitles.