Stream to YouTube. Live broadcasts into Shorts and long-form uploads.

Live broadcasts produce raw VOD assets that almost never survive the YouTube algorithm without re-cutting. A 4 hour Twitch stream, a 90 minute YouTube Live launch, or a 2 hour Kick session all carry the same problem: dead-air gaps, side conversations, raid lulls, sponsor-read pauses, music-licensing risk, and chat-only beats that depress watch-hour and break mid-roll eligibility on a raw upload. Strip those out and the same broadcast becomes two distinct YouTube assets: a long-form re-edit chaptered into focused 8 to 25 minute segments, plus a Shorts batch from stream-peak moments that compounds shelf-velocity. FORKOFF runs stream to YouTube as a managed lane because the per-format brief is non-trivial. Long-form chapter selection lives at the strategist layer: which 8 to 25 minute segments survive the 30 second hold, carry mid-roll insertion candidates, and read as stand-alone uploads on the channel. Shorts hook craft lives at the clipper-roster layer: which stream-peak moments survive the 12 second mute-autoplay floor on the Shorts shelf. Music-licensing risk lives at the brief layer: which audio gets stripped, which gets replaced with cleared tracks, which broadcasts get skipped entirely. Mid-roll eligibility is the wedge for long-form re-edit. A raw VOD upload routinely fails the 8 minute floor for mid-roll insertion when dead-air gaps and side conversations stretch the runtime past 12 minutes without the focused content density YouTube rewards. A re-edit chapters the broadcast into 8 to 25 minute segments where the focused content sits inside the eligibility window. Per-chapter watch-hour goes into the audit ledger. Channel monetisation review reads the ledger per chapter, not per raw VOD upload, which matters for streamers feeding YouTube revenue into creator-economy financial reporting. Shelf-velocity is the wedge for the Shorts batch. A 4 hour broadcast typically produces 6 to 12 stream-peak moments (chat-velocity spikes, viewer-count spikes, raid arrivals, host reaction beats) that survive a 12 second mute-autoplay hook on the Shorts shelf. The Shorts batch posts to the same channel as the long-form re-edit, which compounds shelf-velocity feedback into the next broadcast cycle. Per-Shorts qualification rate goes into the same audit ledger as the long-form chapters, so the per-broadcast roll-up reads cleanly. The cross-watch loop ties the two formats together. A Shorts cut from a stream-peak moment that includes a verbal pointer back to the long-form chapter (and a description link to the same chapter) drives long-form watch-hour signal. The qualification ledger reads per-Shorts and per-chapter together, so the editorial calendar's next broadcast decision has data on which broadcast styles produced the highest cross-watch into long-form. DIY VOD tools auto-clip on chat-velocity peak and miss the long-form chapter selection entirely. Pricing on raw view counts rewards short, loud Shorts that loop fast and lose interest fast, while raw VOD uploads tank watch-hour and break mid-roll eligibility. CPQV across both formats rewards content that earns the per-format watch-through. Streamers and brands running 5 plus hours of live broadcast per week buying VOD-to-YouTube production at retainer scale see total channel watch-hour and Shorts shelf-velocity compound across the YouTube surface. The audit ledger reads cleanly into channel monetisation review and creator-economy financial reporting.