Optimize clipping and clip organization
Optimize clipping. Literally anything, even removing clipping entirely, would improve this.
This is the current workflow for clipping on Android 10 app version 13.1.1:
load the currently live streamer's homepage in twitch app by clicking on their name, not image icon.
Close the live video by swiping down if it pops up. Make sure you've clicked on the livestreamer's name, not image icon.
close the live video again, if necessary.
go to video tab and scroll down to "most recent", then choose the first video, even if it doesn't seem to have the right post time or runtime.
if it automatically starts playing the wrong video, cancel the autoplay and choose replay, or close the video and try again. It usually plays the correct video the second time.
find the point you're trying to clip. Warning: clicking multiple times on the forward and back skip sections will increase the delay of the skip and add more time to the skip.
wait until the whole section you want to clip has passed, then click the clip icon on the top of the video and edit, then click trim the clip to the desired length. There is such a significant and unpredictable delay between clicking clip and actually getting the clip that you WILL need to trim the clip. Note that there is less "wiggle room" on mobile than desktop and it may take a couple of tries to get the right section of the video. At this point you can still use the mobile device's back button, but "hangtime" will increase dramatically after doing so.
after providing a title and clicking publish, you can just barely click "share" at the bottom of the now minimized video. Aim carefully.
Copy/share the link using the device share menu as normal.
If you want to make multiple clips, or watch the live stream, exit the twitch app entirely and start from step 1, as there is no way to recover/clip from the minimized video.
Note: clips can only be viewed on the clip dashboard in the browser, which cannot be reached using the twitch webpage. Instead, search "twitch clip dashboard" in your favorite search engine to access the page.
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wilfredthesentientdog commented
I have a complaint with clipping which is that the titles for clipping don't have any guidelines clearly set out or at least any place I can find. Ideally I'd like there to be a feature that would just highlight what is not allowed in the title so I can remove it but all it says is that there is a problem with my title and I should change it. I would gladly do that but I can't figure out what is wrong with the title. Thank you to whoever takes the time to read this, I appreciate it.