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Being able to watch/highlight unpublished vods

In this most recent age the unpublish feature is really helpful but in order to clip, highlight and even watch the VOD you have to publish it first. Which defeats the purpose
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  • XalatarTV commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disappointed to see this request is already more than year old. Kind of surprised a multi-billion dollar company can't do something seemingly so simple.

  • VulpesHD commented  ·   ·  Report

    Problem:
    When a VOD gets unpublished, the ability to make highlights gets disabled.

    Why do we need it?
    Maybe in a stream something got leaked, lets say a phone number. This is like a 10 second part from your 10 hour VOD. And for this you have to disable your whole VOD and you cant make a highlight from it.
    (There is a workaround that consists of re-publishing your VOD while you make the highlight. (And this is a potential issue, cause during this anyone else can also see your VOD)

    Solution:
    Editors+ should be able to make highlights from the unpublished VODs.
  • jc_mo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I agree. Nobody is going to watch 6-8 hours of me playing a past game. They watch live and highlights. So I disabled automated publishing and was just going with highlights and clips. Mistake, first I couldn't add a marker via my stream deck any longer. Also, there is no highlight option for the previous stream. I haven't attempted to publish it then make a highlight of something interesting yet. So I am guessing just do it the old way then unpublish the long stream nobody will go back to watch.
  • KevFromTheBunker commented  ·   ·  Report

    Really need this to happen ASAP. I suspect in the mean time you can "publish, highlight, and then un-publish again. Silly tho.
  • HaydenGreysonSongs commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is urgent and absolutely necessary for me as a musician on Twitch.

    WHY CAN'T WE HIGHLIGHT UNPUBLISHED VODs?

    It's ridiculous to say musicians can perform cover songs but then immediately have to UNPUBLISH the VOD or risk DMCA strikes. This makes ZERO sense!

    Easy fix!!! Simply allow us to highlight UNPUBLISHED VODs.

    Thanks Twitch!
    Hayden
  • Fitti commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unpublished VODs are currently entirely unusable. I am not able to watch them, put them into the highlight editor, or even download them.
    If a VOD has to be unpublished, because something got leaked during it, it is impossible to remove that part of the VOD with the highlight editor UNLESS you re-publish the VOD and let everyone else watch the leak.
    Please let us edit VODs while they're unpublished.
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