HOW IT WORKS

You add the source. Jolnova handles the repetitive work.

Live sources are tracked in the background, links and local files are processed on demand, and everything ends up in one review queue.

SourceScheduleCaptureDetect FormatReviewExport

STEP 01

Add or choose a source

Paste a Kick, Twitch or TikTok channel to track it continuously, drop in a YouTube or VOD link for a one-off job, or pick a video that is already on your computer.

Kick channel — live tracking
Twitch channel — live tracking
TikTok account — live tracking
YouTube, Kick VOD and Twitch VOD links
Local MP4, MKV, MOV and WEBM files

Local files are read in place. Jolnova never moves or deletes your originals.

Automation

STEP 02

Set the hours it may work

Streamers go live at certain hours, so there is no point tracking an empty channel all week. Give Jolnova a weekly plan and it stays idle outside it — or leave the schedule off and it tracks around the clock.

Weekly time ranges, several days per range
Ranges that pass midnight, like 20:00 to 02:00
One-off exceptions for a single date
A live recording is roughly 5.6 GB per stream per hour, so this is real disk saved

It is a local timer. Jolnova follows the schedule while your computer is on and the app is running — nothing runs in the cloud.

Run schedule

STEP 03

Capture or process the video

Tracked channels are checked on a schedule. When one goes live, Jolnova starts recording without asking. Links and files skip that step and go straight into processing.

Recording starts automatically for live sources
Several streams at once — 1 on Starter, 2 on Creator, 4 on Pro
Links are downloaded, then processed
Local files are read directly from disk

Live Tracking

STEP 04

Find the candidate moments

Jolnova reads three signals from the recording — how dense the chat gets, where the audio jumps, and what is actually being said — and cuts a candidate where they line up. All three run on your own machine and cost nothing per clip.

Chat density against the calm baseline
Audio spikes: laughter, shouting, sudden loudness
Speech content from the transcript
Sensitivity is a setting: Few, Balanced or Many

No clip carries an AI score or a quality grade. Every candidate goes to the review queue and you decide what leaves it.

Review Queue

STEP 05

Prepare vertical output

Each moment is cut and reframed to 9:16 using the layout you picked for that streamer — or the one saved in a clip preset.

Auto — decide per stream
Game — camera on top, gameplay below
IRL — full frame on a blurred background
Camera corner — large content, camera in the corner
Full screen — use the source as it is

Clip presets

STEP 06

Caption it — and correct what was misheard

Speech is transcribed and burned into the video in the same encode. Transcription is never perfect, so every line stays editable: fix the wording, or delete a line you do not want on screen.

Transcribed, burned-in subtitles
Edit or delete any subtitle line — on every plan
Timings stay exactly as transcribed, only the words change
Font, size, colour, outline, placement and background box on Creator and Pro

Saving re-renders the clip once from a clean master, so correcting the text twice does not stack quality loss.

Subtitle text

Subtitle editor with the transcribed lines open for editing

STEP 07

Write the clip metadata

When you approve a clip, a title is written from what actually happens in it — so you are not renaming files by hand. A description and hashtags come with it.

Titles written on approval
Description and hashtag suggestions
Optional text or image overlay you can add yourself

The transcript and a short chat summary are the only things that leave your computer. Your video is never uploaded.

Clip detail

STEP 08

Fine-tune the clip yourself

Before you approve anything you can cut the ends, drop a logo on the frame or write a line across the video. Every change is applied to the original clip, so editing never costs you quality.

Trim the start and the end with two handles
Pull up to seven extra seconds back from the recording on Creator and Pro
Place an image anywhere and resize it
Add text with position, size, colour and background
Remove any effect and get the clean clip back

Trim clip

Trim editor with start and end handles over the clip timeline

STEP 09

Review and export

Open the review queue, work through the candidates, and approve the ones worth posting. Approved clips download in HD to whichever folder you choose.

Approve or reject in one click
Undo a rejection at any time
Watermark on or off on every paid plan
Download one clip or a whole selection
Choose the destination folder yourself

Download the finished clip, or connect a YouTube account and schedule it on the calendar. Nothing goes out that you did not approve yourself.

Clips library

THE EDITOR

The four tools you actually use.

They sit on the clip itself — open a clip, change it, approve it. There is no separate editing project to manage.

Subtitle text

EVERY PLAN

Fix a misheard word or drop a line. Timings stay exactly as transcribed.

Subtitle style

CREATOR & PRO

Font, size, colour, outline, placement and an optional background box.

Trim

Drag the two handles until the clip starts and ends exactly where the moment does.

Image

Image overlay

Drag a logo or badge onto the frame, resize it from the corner, apply.

Text

Text overlay

Write a hook, choose where it sits and whether it gets a box behind it.

Effects are always re-applied from the untouched original, so adding and removing them never degrades the video.

Ready to build your clip workflow?

Install Jolnova, add one source, and let the first clips arrive on their own.

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The free trial runs for 3 days or 50 clips, whichever comes first, with the Jolnova watermark and 720p export.