Creating a job
Every control on the New Job page, what it changes, and when it is worth touching.
Choosing a source
A public Twitch VOD. Paste the URL and ViddyFlow pulls the video, the audio and the chat replay. Chat reaction feeds into scoring too: a spike of messages is a good sign a moment landed.
An uploaded file. MP4, MOV or M4V, up to 12 GiB. There is no chat replay, so moments are scored on the video and audio alone. The streamer profile suits uploads better than audience for that reason.
Checked before you are charged. A still-live broadcast is rejected until the stream ends, because an in-progress VOD cannot be downloaded cleanly. Private, subscriber-only, deleted and region-restricted VODs are also caught up front, each with a message saying which it is.
Highlight profiles
A profile decides what counts as a good moment. You must pick at least one, because this is the step that chooses which parts of your stream survive.
| Profile | What it favours |
|---|---|
balanced | Weighs chat reaction and the streamer equally. The sensible default, and the one to use if you are not sure. |
audience | Leans on chat. Picks the moments your viewers reacted hardest to. Strong on busy streams with an active chat, weaker on quiet ones. |
streamer | Leans on you and your gameplay: your big plays and reactions carry the moment. Works even with little or no chat, which makes it the better fit for uploads. |
Each profile is a separate reel. Selecting two profiles renders two highlight reels and charges generation credits for both. Pick more than one only when you actually want more than one video. A shorts-only job always runs exactly one profile, since there is no reel for a second one to produce.
Processing tier
This sets how carefully ViddyFlow analyzes the stream, and it is the single biggest lever on what a job costs. Rates are per hour of source video, not per hour of output.
| Tier | Credits/hour | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
Rapid Sprint | 18 | Cheapest and fastest. Fine for straightforward streams. |
Stable Tempo | 25 | A step up in accuracy for a small extra cost. |
Creator Focus | 38 | Middle ground. Noticeably more careful than the entry tiers. |
Studio Polish | 55 | High accuracy. Best for streams that are harder to follow. |
Auto Balance | 65 | A strong general-purpose choice when you do not want to think about it. |
Director Finish | 90 | The most thorough. Worth it when a mistake would cost you the moment. |
A higher tier means better moment selection and better captions, so this quietly affects everything downstream. If your shorts have captions that read strangely, moving up a tier is the first thing to try.
Reel length, or no reel at all
The highlight reel can be anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes. ViddyFlow fills that budget with the best moments it found, in the order they happened.
Setting the length to 0 turns this into a shorts-only job. No reel is rendered, and no generation credits are charged for one, so you pay only for processing the stream and for the shorts themselves. You still choose a profile, because that is what decides which moments become shorts.
Shorts are chosen from the full pool of good moments, not from whatever fitted inside the reel, so a short reel does not mean worse shorts.
Teaser intro
On by default. The teaser is a fast montage of peak moments taken from the best clips, played before the reel proper starts, so a viewer sees the payoff in the first few seconds instead of waiting for it.
Snippets are shown near-greyscale with a COMING UP... label and the story name, the clip audio is ducked to half volume underneath, and a white flash bridges the teaser into the reel.
| Setting | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Clips in the teaser | 2 to 6 | How many peak moments get sampled. Defaults to 4. |
Snippet length | 2 to 10s | How long each sampled moment plays for. Defaults to 5 seconds. |
If the stream does not contain at least two usable peaks, the teaser is skipped automatically rather than shipping something thin.
Reel title card
Off by default. When on, each segment of the reel opens with its story name shown over the video for about a second and a half. It gives a long reel some structure, at the cost of a little screen real estate.
Shorts have their own separate title card setting, covered in Vertical shorts.
Clip length
Sets how short and how long any single highlight is allowed to be. Raising the minimum gives moments room to breathe and land; lowering the maximum keeps things punchy and fits more distinct moments into the same reel.
Both ends are capped at 180 seconds. If you set a maximum below the minimum, the maximum is raised to match rather than the job being rejected, so a mistyped value costs you nothing.
Language
Stream language tells ViddyFlow what language your stream is in. Detection is automatic and usually right, but a stream that mixes languages can throw it off, and a wrong guess leads to worse moment selection. If your stream is not in English and results look off, set this explicitly.
Metadata language is the language of the generated titles, descriptions, tags and chapter markers. It defaults to the stream language. Set it separately when you stream in one language but publish to an audience in another: German stream, English titles, for example.
Metadata can be generated in 28 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
What is on other pages
Shorts count, framing, captions and title cards are covered in Vertical shorts. Background music and branding intro/outro clips are in Music and branding. What a job costs is in Credits and plans.