What's up, guys?
Welcome back to the Gaming
Careers YouTube channel.
In today's video, we're
going to be looking
at the brand new updates
to the Twitch highlighter
that have just been
released, today in fact.
They were announced back at Twitch Con,
but the features actually
become live today
and it makes it so much
better if you're creating
highlights from your twitch streams
for offline content to help you grow
whilst you're not live streaming.
Now the Twitch highlighter has actually
been out for a while, but previously
you've only been able to create highlights
as one single segment of your livestream.
With this new update to
the Twitch highlighter,
you can now combine
several different segments
of your live stream into one highlight
effectively editing
highlights from a stream
together into one combined clip.
We're going to be diving into
the full feature overview,
how you can use it, why
you should be using it,
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Now you might be
thinking, why would I want
to be spending time editing together
highlights of my stream?
Am I not doing enough by streaming three
or four days a week already?
Well the truth of the matter is,
you need to be spending
time after your stream
editing together the
highlights of your stream
because they VODs, these videos, they work
for you whilst you are offline.
The way this works is
that if somebody arrives
at your stream when you
aren't live streaming,
they obviously see your offline image,
but they'll also see
in the top right corner
a link to either your most recent stream
or your most recent video.
You can let that video be a highlight reel
of your last stream, effectively showing
this person that's arrived at your stream
all of the best bits that they missed
last time you were live streaming.
And that greatly increases the chances
that they're going to follow and look
out for your stream next time you're live.
You can also, of course,
share these highlights
on your social media.
Places like Twitter and
Instagram are incredible places
to share highlights of
your gaming moments,
of your live stream
moments, and every single
like and retweet you
get there is effectively
opening up your network and
your potential audience.
More people seeing the best
bits of your live stream.
To make your life even
easier and to prevent
you from potentially having
to sift through hours
of your own live stream footage,
Twitch has a feature that they introduced
last year called Stream Markers.
When you are live in your
actually Twitch live dashboard,
you will see a section
called Stream Markers.
When a specific moment
happens in your stream
that you want to remember
and you want to add
a Stream Marker for, you can simply click
the add marker button
and it will add a marker
at the current timestamp.
After you've added these Stream Markers,
they will be visible
in the highlighter tool
that we're going to
get to in just a second
which makes it much easier.
You're not going to have to sift
through all of that footage.
You can see specifically the highlights
or the Stream Markers that you created
whilst you were live streaming.
There are actually a few different ways
that you can create markers that don't
all have to be done from
the Twitch dashboard.
You or your editors can
type in slash marker
and then a description if you want to
and that will also add a marker.
Another way of doing it if you
are using your mobile phone
to monitor your stream, is
you can add Stream Markers
through the Twitch app.
Finally, if you have
invested in a Stream Deck
or a Stream Deck Mini, they of course have
an integration to adding
markers at the current
live timestamp whenever you press it.
Which makes it super easy 'cause you
can just press the button
on your Stream Deck
whilst you're live and
you know that moment
is then marked when you
get to the highlighter
so you can easily find your highlights.
So, actually how you use the
new Twitch highlighter is,
if you go to your Twitch dashboard
and you come down to Video Producer,
you should see a list of all of the videos
that you've produced and all
of your last live streams.
If you come to the live
stream that you want
to create highlights
of and you come across
and click the highlight button,
it'll take you into the new highlighter.
Now let's quickly go
through the interface here.
In the top left you have
the Highlight Queue.
This is kind of like the render queue of
a traditional editing software.
It's basically where all
of the separate highlights
that you want to produce go
before you actually publish them.
So we're not going to spend
too much time on this section,
but in the top right you
have your source video.
This is the full VOD of your live stream.
So however many hours you
were live streaming for,
this is the full amount.
You can see this live stream that I did
was 2 hours 51 minutes.
This is where you're going
to be previewing exactly
where you want to set
your in and out points
and actually watching back
the edit that you have.
And then down in the bottom
you have your timeline.
This is specifically where
you're going to be setting
in and out points for
the individual segments
that you want to highlight
and put together.
You also have some controls
for zooming in and out
and displaying any markers
that were made on the stream.
So to use the new Twitch highlighter,
you just need to scrub through and find
a point roughly where you want
to start your first segment.
So, just any moment that you remember,
or if you have Stream
Markers in your timeline,
you can obviously skip straight to those.
I'm going to look around this
section a little bit earlier,
around about here, yeah.
And then hit the play button
and watch through this.
Now, I don't want this
whole thing segmented.
I just want to get the
points where, you know,
you get a kill or some sort of highlight.
And in this example,
I'm just going to create
highlights from a match
that I won in Apex Legends.
So, I obviously don't
want to get the bits in
where I'm missing shots.
I want to start this clip
just after this person dies
and shoot across at this person.
So what I've done now, is I click
the start segment at playhead button.
You can also use the hotkey,
Alt and less than sign
and that has moved the
start of the segment
to the point of the playhead.
I now want to end this segment there.
So you can see I have a nice
little yellow section here
of a timeline which is the
in point and the end point
that I have just set and
to do that all I've done
is been clicking these buttons,
start segment at the playhead
and end segment at playhead.
And if you want to, you can come in here,
zoom in and actually drag and
change the in and end points
that you want, but that is effectively
how you create a segment.
And the idea is, with this new update,
you can create multiple
segments from one livestream
and stitch them all
together into one highlight.
So find your next segment that
you want to start the highlight at.
You can also scroll through here
on the timeline rather than
the actual source video preview
and find the section
that you want to start
the next highlight at.
Here you can see I'm in another fight.
So just back a few frames and I'm going
to start a new segment here.
Now, it's key that you
don't press here to start
a segment at the playhead.
You actually need to
add a new segment first.
So click the plus icon.
That'll start a new
segment at the playhead.
Watch through the clip and find the bit
that you actually want
to end the segment at.
So this is just a little fight
with a couple more people.
And when you get to the
point where you want to end
the segment, you're going to again hit
the end segment button or
Alt and greater than sign
on your keyboard just
to finish that segment.
Now keep repeating this process throughout
the whole of your live stream,
finding the exact segments that you want
to be stitching together in your video.
A quick note.
If you ever need to delete a segment,
you just make sure that
you're highlighting it.
You can tell which one's
highlighted because it's yellow.
So click on it to highlight it
and then come up to the
remove selected segment
button here and that will actually remove
that segment from the highlight.
Now that you have chosen
all of the segments
that you want to include
in your highlight,
you can come up here and use
the preview all segments button
and this is going to play
back all of the segments
that you've chosen without
the bits in the middle
that you've chosen to cut out.
This is going to be exactly
as the highlight video
is going to appear.
So watch it back.
Feel free to go back in
and make any changes.
You know, drag things a little shorter
or change things up however you need to
to make the highlight
exactly as you want to.
But once you are happy,
you can come up here,
name your highlight
whatever you want to name it
and choose the game that is being featured
or the Twitch category
that's being featured
and then you can click publish highlights.
Now Twitch will take a couple of minutes
just processing and actually
creating the clip for you.
In the meantime, you can
create or you can rename
or you can rename the title.
You can add a description.
You can also upload a custom thumbnail
which could be interesting because,
as I said before, this
is going to be the video
that is shown when somebody
arrives at your Twitch channel
whilst you're offline.
So if you get a nice custom thumbnail
that really entices people to go and click
to watch this highlight video,
that's certainly going
to drive more traffic.
If you're going to be doing highlights
for every single stream that you do,
creating a thumbnail probably
isn't the best use of time.
There's probably things
that you could spend
your time on to grow your stream
that would be a better use.
So, completely up to
you as to whether or not
you want to use a custom thumbnail.
It will generate one for you just based
on the video that you've created anyway.
Now once your highlight
video is published,
you might notice that there
is a share option up here
where you can share it to social media.
Which I definitely recommend doing,
but I actually think there's
a better way of doing it.
If instead of using the share button,
you instead download this highlight,
you'll get an actual video file
that you can then upload to Twitter
or to Instagram and that's
much better than using
the shared dialog 'cause the shared dialog
will just copy a URL and when that appears
in a tweet it's not as engaging
and it's not as likely
as people are going to
actually watch the video.
Whereas if you download the
actual physical video file
and upload that then to Twitter,
you'll get a much nicer preview window.
It will also play it just
below a certain length
and people are much more likely to engage
and watch your highlight reel.
Now I think this is just great that Twitch
is empowering users to
be able to create more
offline content for all
those moments where they're
not live streaming to still
gain and grow an audience.
But there are a few improvements I would
to see Twitch make to the highlighter tool
over the coming months.
Firstly, would be the ability to be able
to add segments from
different live streams.
So, imagine a scenario where you're trying
to do a full walkthrough of a game
and it's going to take you
five or six live streams
to actually get through that game
but you want to create a
highlight video at the end of it.
Currently, you can only create highlights
from a single live stream.
So you can stitch certain points
from that one live stream,
but I'd like to see Twitch add the ability
to be able to add segments
from different live streams
and edit them all together
into one highlight.
Another limitation that I found
is that you have to play back the segments
in the order as they
appeared in the live steam.
So you can't rearrange
things, take a segment
from the end, put that at
the start of your highlight,
or anything like that.
They have to play back in the order
that they appeared in the live stream.
Finally, and probably the
biggest feature I would
Twitch to add to the new highlighter,
is the ability to undo
if you made a mistake.
The specific mistake I kept making
is when you want to add another segment,
you would click the start segment button
rather than actually adding
a second segment first.
What would happen is when
you click start segment,
it would take your previous segment
and move it all the way across
because you technically
didn't add a new segment.
I mean, that's probably
just something that I need
to learn to do, but I made the mistake,
like, two or three times in a row.
It was super frustrating not
being able to undo the mistake.
Just to go back and
correct what I had done,
I had to actually physically go back,
create the segment again.
I have been lucky enough to have testing
this new highlighter for
the last couple of weeks.
So I know that Twitch is
dedicated to improving it
and hopefully they'll take some
of these suggestions onboard.
So now my call to action for you guys,
is if you're going to be using
this new Twitch highlighter
tool that's been released today,
come and share the clips that you create
in the Gaming Careers discord.
We've got a channel completely dedicated
to sharing Twitch highlights,
and now with this new highlighter tool
it's going to be easier to
create better highlights
by stitching together multiple segments.
I'd finally like to say thank you guys
so much for the 150,000
subscribers we've reached here
on Gaming Careers and also
for the amazing response
that we've had to the previous video
about OBS version 23 and all of
the new Nvidia improvements.
If you haven't seen that,
I will link it up here
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getting an amazing response.
I've been really taken
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As always, a massive thanks to my patrons.
These people keep this channel running
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I'm doing in creating
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And subscribers, I'll see
you in the next video.
Peace.
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