FOR STREAMERS & GAMERS
Turn a four-hour stream into a week of clips.
Cut the highlights out of a long VOD, caption them, and reframe to vertical without a second machine or a cloud render queue.
THE PAIN
- The best 30 seconds are buried in four hours
- Clipping tools want a subscription and an upload
- Vertical clips mean re-cropping every single one
THE WORKFLOW
Import the VOD or record the session
Cut highlights and caption them on-device
Reframe to 9:16 and export at 60 fps
FROM YOUR PHONE
Cut a clip on the phone between sessions, caption it and post it without going back to the desk.
Zella for iPhone →WHEN THIS OUTGROWS THE FREE TIER
Gameplay is where 60 fps stops being a spec and starts being the point. Pro renders at 60 fps and lifts the 2-minute cap that a good highlight run will pass.
Everything else here is free forever: the complete editor, all the AI, unlimited recording, and watermark-free export up to 2 minutes at 1080p. Pro is $89 once and covers Mac and iPhone on a single purchase. See pricing →
The clip economy runs on the opposite schedule to streaming itself. You are live for four hours and the thirty seconds that travel are buried somewhere in the middle, findable only by scrubbing back through a VOD you already lived once.
Zella works from the transcript instead of the scrub bar. It transcribes the recording on-device, so you find the strongest moments by reading, cut them on the timeline, and export captioned vertical cuts.
Rendering happens on your own machine, which for this audience is usually the strongest one in the house. No upload of a multi-gigabyte VOD, no queue, and no per-minute processing bill.
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SHIP
Vertical clips from a long VOD
Cut the highlights on the timeline; captions and face-aware 9:16 reframe turn each into a ready short.
A 60 fps highlight
Pro renders at 60 fps instead of the project frame rate, which is the difference between smooth and stuttery on fast motion.
A facecam clip with a clean background
On-device background removal with no green screen, dropped onto a backdrop or a transparent plate.
A montage cut to music
Beat Sync detects beats and punches a zoom on each, with sensitivity and punch tuned separately.
THE HONEST ANSWERS
My VOD is four hours and 40 GB.
Import it and cut from it locally. Nothing is uploaded, so file size costs you disk rather than bandwidth or a queue position. What it does cost is transcription time on a long file, which runs on your own hardware.
I stream on a PC.
Then this is a real limitation, not a footnote. Zella is Mac and iPhone only. If your capture machine is a PC you would be moving files to a Mac to edit, which for some setups is fine and for others is a dealbreaker.
Free caps at 2 minutes and gameplay needs 60 fps.
Correct on both, and worth knowing before you start. A single highlight clip usually fits inside 2 minutes at 1080p, watermark-free. 60 fps rendering and 4K are Pro at $89 once, and Pro Week gives seven days to test whether the frame rate difference matters for your content.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Can Zella cut clips from a long stream VOD?
Yes. It transcribes on-device so the strongest moments are easy to find by reading; cut them on the timeline and export captioned vertical clips.
Can I export gameplay at 60 fps?
Yes, with Pro. It renders at 60 frames per second instead of the project frame rate, which suits gameplay and fast motion.
Does Zella work on Windows?
No. It is Mac and iPhone only, requiring macOS 14 or later and iOS 18 or later.
Is my VOD uploaded for processing?
No. Import, transcription, editing and rendering all happen on your own machine.
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