"Show Full Video" button under a clip is missing most of the time
Why does the "Show Full Video" button under a Twitch clip disappear so quickly? I'm watching a clip from less than 24 hrs ago and it doesn't link to the VOD anymore, even while the VOD is still published.
For editors, the ability to jump to the VOD to the timestamp of the clip is an absolute gamechanger to save time. Especially with Twitch limiting clips to 60 secs, very often we actually need to cut a longer clip of the VOD.
Between that and the fact that older clips only show a relative date, "A year ago" for ex., finding the original stream for any clip takes way more time than it should.
If you want longer clips than 60 secs, please upvote the idea here: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/923368-video-features/suggestions/43672260-longer-clips
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ThatSameer commented
I did a little digging. First of all, the 'Watch Full Video' button on clips seems to now be hidden within the 3 dot menu on the clips page (the same menu where you can report a clip).
However, that is only if it's working correctly... I believe there is a bug with Twitch. The clips which do not have the 'Watch Full Video' button all have their "vod_offset" property missing (null) in the API data. I am suspecting it's due to when a VOD is set to private and then published, it seems to lose the vod_offset data, causing the 'Watch Full Video' button the clip to disappear. Bear in mind, VODs default to private after streaming. This is something for Twitch to fix. It is very frustrating indeed.