How to find your aces in a Twitch VOD

Scrubbing a long Valorant VOD for your 3Ks, 4Ks and aces is slow. If you only remember the ones that felt big, you'll miss some that would have posted well. This guide walks through the manual way to find them in a Twitch VOD, then the automatic way, and the honest limits on both.

What we're looking for

A single round where you finished 5 kills — a round-level ace. 3K and 4K rounds use the same signals, so the method is the same for all three. The hard part is finding the round, not confirming the kill count once you're there.

The manual method

Open your past broadcast on twitch.tv/videos/<id>. In practice the only reliable in-player signals are visual, round by round:

• Kill feed (top-right). A round where your name appears 5 times in the kill feed is an ace candidate. 4 times is a 4K, 3 is a 3K.
• Center-screen multi-kill banner. Valorant shows a short multi-kill banner when you chain kills. Seeing the ace-tier banner in the VOD is the quickest confirmation.
• Combat report panel. In Valorant this panel appears when you die (and at round end). If you see 5 kills in your row, that round was an ace.

Scrubbing round by round is slow. A Valorant competitive round is roughly 1:40 of real time plus a buy phase; a multi-hour VOD contains many rounds, and most of them aren't ace rounds. Expect a careful manual pass to take tens of minutes to over an hour, depending on VOD length.

The automatic method (what Clutch does)

Clutch takes the same VOD and returns up to 8 vertical shorts, ranked by predicted CTR. "Up to" is literal — a VOD with no multi-kill rounds returns 0 clips. The pipeline is Valorant-specific:

• It reads your combat report panel to count the kills attributed to your row that round.
• It uses the kill feed timestamps to place the clip on the actual kills, so clips start and end on the right moment rather than at the round border.
• Rounds where another player got the kills (spectating a teammate's ace from the grave) don't count. Only your own kills do.
• Each clip gets a predicted-CTR score, so the clip most likely to perform on TikTok / Shorts is ranked first.

You give Clutch either a Twitch VOD link (from your own channel) or a direct file upload (mp4, mov, mkv, webm, up to 15 GB, up to 4 hours per VOD). Processing time grows with length — a multi-hour VOD can take up to about an hour.

Honest limits

• Clutch reads your kill count from the combat report panel. If that panel never shows on screen in a round, that round can be missed.
• Spectated / co-stream VODs will miss plays you didn't make.
• Non-standard HUD / overlay / aspect ratio can throw off the HUD-matching assumptions.
• Valorant only. YouTube/Kick VOD links aren't supported yet — but file upload works for recordings from either.

What Clutch does not do

• It's not a round-win detector. The clip is tied to your kill count, not to whether the round or match was won. The generated title will say "4 kills in one round", not "4K round win".
• It's not a general gaming AI. We don't clip CS, LoL, Apex, or Fortnite. Submitting a non-Valorant VOD will fail the Valorant-mode check and the pipeline will stop early — and it doesn't use your quota.
• It's not a live-stream capture tool. Clutch runs over a VOD after the broadcast ends (or a file you upload). If you want clips while you're still live, another tool fits better.
• It's not a magic quality filter. If a round has no multi-kill, no clip is produced for it — "up to 8" is literal. A VOD with 0 ace/4K/3K rounds returns 0 clips.

The short version

If you clip once a week and don't mind the scrub, the manual method is free. If you stream multiple hours a day and want the clips posted before the hype dies, Clutch takes the VOD link (or a file) and gives you back up to 8 ranked vertical shorts. The pricing page has the current quota numbers — 10 VODs per month on the paid plan, 3 VODs on the free trial, no card.