Twitch clips allow users to capture and share short, exciting moments from live streams and VODs (videos on demand). Clips make it easy to highlight funny, epic, or memorable moments to promote your channel and content.
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What Are Twitch Clips?
Twitch clips are short videos ranging from 5 to 60 seconds clipped from live streams or past broadcasts. Both streamers and viewers can create clips by simply clicking the clip button while watching a video. After a clip is made, the user can edit the start and end times before publishing.
Clips are useful for:
- Promoting your best content
- Sharing exciting moments with your community
- Creating compilations or montages of your streams
- Turning clips into Shorts for YouTube or TikTok
How to Create Twitch Clips
On Desktop
Creating clips on desktop is easy:
- Hover over a live or archived video you want to clip
- Click the clip button (looks like a clapperboard)
- Trim the start and end times as desired
- Add a title and description
- Publish the clip
You can also use the keyboard shortcut Alt + X to start clipping.
On Mobile
Making clips on mobile works the same way:
- Tap on the video you want to clip
- Tap the clip button in the corner
- Trim and edit the clip
- Add a title
- Publish
Clip Start/End Times
When you create a clip, Twitch automatically captures 20 seconds before your selected start time and 5 seconds after the end. You can drag the edges of the clip timeline to customize the length, with a minimum of 5 seconds and maximum of 60 seconds.
Aim for clips between 15-45 seconds long for optimal sharing.
Editing and Managing Clips
After making a clip, you can edit it before publishing by:
- Trimming the length
- Adding a title and description
- Adding tags
- Choosing a thumbnail
To manage your published clips:
- Go to your Creator Dashboard
- Click Clips in the left sidebar
From the Clips Manager you can:
- Edit published clips
- Download clips
- Delete clips
- Turn clipping on/off for your channel
Sharing and Promoting Clips
The best part about clips is being able to share those awesome moments with your community!
Ways to share clips:
- Post to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
- Embed into forum posts and websites
- Add to YouTube descriptions to promote your Twitch channel
- Include in your Twitch About section
Encourage viewers to make and share clips of your streams too. User-generated clips help expose your content to new audiences.
You can also make compilation videos using your best clips to showcase your streams’ highlights!
Twitch Clip Tips
- Add clips to your Highlights to make them easier to find
- Use clips when making channel trailers
- Turn clips into Shorts for additional platforms
- Engage viewers by asking them to clip their favorite moments
- Use clips from special events to promote upcoming streams
Why Clips Matter for Streamers
Twitch clips allow you to easily highlight and share your streams’ best moments. Promoting these short, entertaining clips is one of the best ways to attract new viewers to your channel.
So utilize clips to grow your audience and give viewers clips worthy of sharing!
