Updated Clip Creation Flow
As more and more of our new viewers come to Twitch from mobile, we want to make it easier to optimize your Clips for mobile sharing.
We're updating the Clips workflow to automatically generate a portrait version of every Clip you and your viewers create so you can clip, edit, and share your clips to both mobile and desktop - on and off twitch - in one single flow. These updates are available for web first and we'll be bringing these updates to mobile later this year. As part of this update, we are also making a few other changes:
- Updated Clips Manager: We’ve simplified the Clips Manager so you can now easily view your portrait Clips. We have also added new editing options so you can re-edit the trim, portrait crop, and title of any Clips of your channel, at any time.
- Adjust Aspect Ratio: You can tweak the aspect ratio as you edit the portrait versions of your Clips to ensure it captures the content you want.
- Intentional Clip Publishing: Historically, the moment a viewer first clicked “Clip”, the Clip was saved and published. Because of this, 76% of Clips created are created by accident. To ensure Clips are created intentionally, the person creating the Clip will now need to hit “Publish” and give the Clip a title before it actually saves and publishes. This update will help increase the quality of available Clips, making it easier for you to find and share your top moments.
Adminmonzzieee
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NuclearSlayer52
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the new clips creation lags alot when trying to move the start/end segments, as well as the playhead
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Royal_Rogue
commented
The download files have become corrupted in a very strange way since the update. When I download a clip, it plays fine in VLC. However, when I import the clip to Vegas 18, the video file breaks. Sometimes the audio becomes unsynced from the video. Sometimes the clip gets cutoff halfway through.
I know this isn't Vegas's fault, because I've tested a bunch of other video files, including old twitch clips. It's ONLY the new clip mp4s that break when imported. Everything else works perfectly the very first time. -
SkippRnim
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I have a big issue with point #3 and doesn't work well now into our workflow.
When I create clips for channels where I'm an Editor, I'm usually actively watching the livestream and hit the clip button and go back to watch the stream. When I have time when there's some downtime in the stream or after the stream is over, I would go back to the clip tab and properly create the clip. Being precise with the in/out marks and also coming up with titles that work well. For clips on music streamers, I often liked taking the time to craft a clip exactly so that if it loops the music is seamless. I now no longer have time to do this. The quality of my clips has plummeted or worse yet, no clips at all.
For streams that are sometimes 8 hours long or more, the time in which I need to come back to these clips can be long.
The way it stands now is that we've lost many many good clips because the tab has somehow "timed out" and we can no longer "finish" the clip.
Also having the markers in the VOD highlight of the clips that people didn't follow through with was extremely helpful in being able to go their ourselves and remake the clips at those points of interest.
Now when we go to the highlighting timeline all those useful points where people clipped the gold mine of where to zero in on a VOD are now gone. This is extremely disappointing to see this implemented without more testing.
So no, I disagree that this is actually a good thing because now we no longer have these indicators in our timeline. It doesn't give the users enough time to finish these clips that happen in an active stream. You are now requiring a clipper to stop, watching the stream and perhaps miss an even better clipping moment because they are now forced to finish the clip immediately. When you are watching and clipping from multiple streams at the same time, this requirement makes things even more difficult.
So I would like to elect that you give clippers more time to finish clips. Allow the clipper to have the clip in an editing stage that they can go and create the quality clips they want to. Also return the ability to see all the attempted clips in the VOD timeline so that we know where to create our own clips for ones that didn't get created or highlights for longer moments.