How to Capture Great Twitch Moments with Clips

How to Capture Slap-up Twitch Moments with Clips

Fire up any given Twitch channel, and you're jump to come across something you'll desire to tell your friends about. Whether you lot've merely seen a mind-blowing multi-kill in Overwatch or just witnessed a hilarious outburst on your favorite gaming talk bear witness, it's now easier than ever to capture and share those special moments on the popular streaming site.

Thank you to Twitch's new Clips feature, it only takes a few clicks to testify off some awesome highlights from the channels yous scout. The characteristic is steadily rolling out to Twitch users everywhere, though it currently works merely on partnered channels (in other words, channels with a subscribe button). If you lot've got Clips, hither's how to use information technology.

1. Fire up your Twitch channel of choice. Note that Clips is currently limited to partnered channels — if the channel yous're watching has a purple Subscribe push on it, you lot're good to get. Also proceed in mind that Clips merely works with alive content, and not pre-recorded videos.

2. Hover over the video player and click the Clip icon at the bottom right. A 30-second video prune from the stream will bear witness up in a new tab. Co-ordinate to Twitch, Clips captures the previous 25 seconds from when you lot clicked, as well equally five seconds after.

iii. Click the next tab over to view your clip. (Hither'southward one of mine). You can employ the Twitter, Facebook and Reddit buttons at the meridian right to share the video to those sites, or simply re-create the link and transport it to a friend. Those who watch the clip volition see your username at the pinnacle right, as well as links to go right to that streamer'south page at the bottom. If y'all want to save the clip, simply right-click it and select "Relieve video equally."

Captured whatever particularly crazy Clips of your own? Feel free to prove them off in the comments below!

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Mike Andronico is Senior Writer at CNNUnderscored and was formerly Managing Editor at Tom'southward Guide. When not at work, y'all can ordinarily catch him playing Street Fighter, devouring Twitch streams and trying to convince people that Hawkeye is the best Avenger.