Clip and Editing Thing

PLEASE GIVE ME INFORMATION ON HOW TO FORMAT THIS, I DON'T WRITE ANYTHING EVER
If you want to talk DM me on Twitter @airplanegorilla

Disclaimer: This writeup won't go into detail on how to use software, the software linked is extremely popular so you can google how to do specific things, I have a small guide on how to get started.
Disclaimer 2: I'm a viewer, all of the theory stuff is based on things I've seen and talked to other creators about

Note: When I say "clips" most of the time I am refering to all 3 kinds (clips, highlights, and compilations)

LINKS
Putting all the links up here so they're easily accessible, explained more in section 2.

Clipping Software and Sites
https://github.com/Franiac/TwitchLeecher/releases
https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html
https://untwitch.com/

Editing Software:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
https://www.lwks.com/
https://fxhome.com/product/hitfilm-express

Subtitling:
https://aegisub.en.uptodown.com/windows

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#1. Why clip?
#2. Programs and how to get started
#3. Editing theory
#4. Extras (information for chuubas and further theorycrafting)

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#1

[ Why Clip? ]

"Have no money to give? Clip your favorite moments. Clip as much as you can.
Clipping is vital for growth and improvement.
Your chuuba will love you forever if you send her polished and edited clips too. You can edit clips for FREE"

This honestly is self-explanatory, clips are simply a great way to market your oshi (or yourself).
It is important to have quick and digestible content for people to look at, streams are nice but it's a lot to ask new people to go to the streamer's channel, and then click around on VoDs and random Twitch clips.
Edited clips aleviates this issue and also gives you potential OC to boot.

Another benefit of clips is it's content for YouTube, if you're genuinely serious about content creation it's important to have good YouTube channel maintenance and presence.

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#2

[ Programs and how to get started ]

/Programs (+ sites)

As linked above, there are 3 free editing software that are excellent for starting out.
DaVinci Resolve is one of the more popular ones and I recommend it for a first timer. (Series of videos on how to use it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc6mrdlIbh-UDRaarVXx7L5y)
When you go to download it, it'll ask for information but you can just put gibberish for it (https://i.imgur.com/Xz0deD5.png)

There's also downloader program/sites linked such as TwitchLeecher and UnTwitch, TL is a great program that's easy to use and very good at organizing videos.
YouTube-DL is a bit more obnoxious to work with because it's a command prompt thing but there's guides on how to use it, the only feature you'd really need to learn is splicing specific timestamps.

Aegisub is the premiere subtitling software, it's much easier to use than subtitling inside editing software so it's preferable for longer videos, however it's less flexible in terms of editing and effects.
In order to imprint Aegisub subtitles onto a video you need to use VLC. (Series of videos on how to use it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc7BgGTaDAvvsGEoLolq09YP)

/Getting Started

First step is finding a moment, there's a few ways to go about this.
If you're a viewer you can write down the timestamp (if it's a lengthy moment) or clip it (if it's 60 seconds or less).
If it's something that spans across a stream you'll unfortunately have to be good at your timestamps or scour the VOD (avoid making videos like this if you can)
Another method I've tried involves watching clips sorted by 7 Days and use the "Continue Watching" feature to acquire more context on the clip (for moments similar to timestamp method).
TwitchLeecher and YouTube-DL both have ways to trim to a specific time on the download so if you don't wish to download the entire archive you don't have to.

Once you found a moment you wish to clip, obtain the video file by downloading archives using TwitchLeecher or youtube-dl depending on the platform.
If it's a twitch clip, use UntTwitch.com instead.

If you're a streamer, you can use stream markers (explained more in Section 4, ctrl+f Stream Markers)

Once you found a moment you then plop it into your editor of choice.

= Resolve Quick Guide =
Step by step on how to do a basic edit in Resolve

1. Find your clip and download it (https://i.imgur.com/PwYMryT.jpg -> https://i.imgur.com/rJmwkPM.png )
2. Open Resolve, make a new Project, drop the clip in (By default it'll be on the Cut tab but I recommend you do everything in the Edit tab https://i.imgur.com/MAthuet.jpg )
3. Play around with your workspace and see what does what (Like these buttons https://i.imgur.com/nDn4mo0.png )
4. Click on the clip and open the inspector, in this clip there is a loud noise which I will isolate and then edit (Inspector View https://i.imgur.com/1SCgQaH.png , Using the Blade tool (shortcut key B) to cut where the noise starts https://i.imgur.com/aPewU5I.png )
5. Using keyframes to create a zoom effect over time (click on the carat to set a start point https://i.imgur.com/0wu5IUk.png then move to later in the video, change values and hit the carat again https://i.imgur.com/6Mit0By.png )
6. Play around with effects, I decided to go with "Light Rays" and "Glow" and played with sliders to get this effect (Effects tab https://i.imgur.com/gA6MBb1.png , Playing with settings and keyframing https://i.imgur.com/OYgAi4E.png )
7. Add more effects and visuals if you wish, things like images or sounds you can drag into media pool and then onto the timeline like anything else.
8. Once you're satisfied, you can then add on subtitles (Subtitles in the effects tab (if you're gonna be using this a lot vs Aegisub, add it to favorites by clicking the star) https://i.imgur.com/PB1Bz6M.png , Example of subtitle tab and placement on timeline, use the timekeys to tune the subtitles and the "style" tab to make the subs look how you want it to https://i.imgur.com/bdpTiz8.png , By default all the subtitles will look the same because "Track Style" is ticked, if you want some subs to look different for whatever reason, untick this)
9. When you're done and ready to render, go to "Delivery" tab, preview everything over and put in your preferred settings (Because the clip was in 720p60 I will render it in 720p60 and in MP4 format https://i.imgur.com/SgLc2zI.png , Don't forget to check Subtitle settings and Export -> "Burn into Video" https://i.imgur.com/9xgX2dI.png )
10. Add it to the queue and then render, after the video's done, double check to see if anything didn't go through in the final product. (Rendering Queue https://i.imgur.com/vwsbH7h.png , subtitles appear fine and looks good https://i.imgur.com/L8JlsnO.jpg )

The finished product = https://files.catbox.moe/cy816n.mp4 (I probably messed up transcribing, gomen TANE...)

= Aegisub Quick Guide =
Let's say you just want to add subtitles, this is a walkthrough on that.

1. Find a video you want and then put it into Aegisub (In this example I fetched a clip with UnTwitch.com, https://i.imgur.com/Lj87uvd.png )
1.5a. Before you edit, open the styles manager and create a subtitle style (Opening Subtitle Manager https://i.imgur.com/aCQp4dq.png , Style Manager https://i.imgur.com/WI66NBV.png , Playing around with styles https://i.imgur.com/bPfLJDj.png )
1.5b. When you're finished, save the style, and move it to the current script (Moving over to script https://i.imgur.com/Ty0InZW.png , Select it from the drop down box https://i.imgur.com/hy09bi3.png )
2. Using the audio bar, find parts that you want to subtitle, play around with the controls but usually you only need left/right click to set the range and playback buttons (Player is set to subtitle this specific portion of audio https://i.imgur.com/hZoZse8.png )
3. Type in the text, preview it to make sure it looks correct, and then hit the green checkmark next to the blue arrow to move to the next segment (Typing and previewing text, you can preview the selected portion with the [>] in the bottom left in this image https://i.imgur.com/Hny1ekA.png )
4. Repeat for all text segments until it's finished
5. When you transcribed everything, File -> Save Subtitle As.. and save it as what ever you wish ( https://i.imgur.com/TdWIlwI.png )
6. Open VLC, click on Media -> Convert / Save, and add in the appropriate files ( https://i.imgur.com/LCZg03P.png )
7. When you click convert, click on the wrench ( https://i.imgur.com/bZYtcmk.png ) next to "Profile" and then go to the subtitle page and make sure it looks like this ( https://i.imgur.com/xzYa8Vy.png , I also recommend checking "Keep Original Audio" https://i.imgur.com/MUXApoW.png )
8. Save as whatever you wish and then hit convert, VLC will now close and reopen and the scroller bar should start moving, once it hits the end it'll automatically close, if not close it yourself
9. Check the final product to ensure everything went well ( https://i.imgur.com/Qdw4p6I.jpg )

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#3

[ Editing theory ]

Because this isn't a guide on how to use the software in detail, the most I can do is autistically write down information that I have learned based on my own works and the works of other people I've seen.
I'll be showing a lot of examples, hopefully you can adopt some of these styles based on the clip you're editing and figure out how you would like to edit.

I separate clips into three catagories based on content and length.

1. Clip
2. Highlight
3. Compilation

Clips are simple, clips show a moment and focuses mainly on that moment (such as a single attempt on a boss).
Highlights are (usually) lengthier videos that encompass multiple moments related to a centric thing (to compare to clips, highlights would take the most entertaining moments in general out of multiple attempts on a boss fight).
Compilation uses multiple clips to showcase an even more focused thing (to compare to above, compilations would take only the most entertaining failures/deaths out of multiple attempts on a boss fight).

The bare minimum make up of a VTuber clip is (video containing moment/moments) + (subtitles).
This can be sufficient, subtitling, even though it doesn't seem like much, adds a layer of "professionalism" to a clip and makes it a lot more coherent. A lot of big clip channels do simply this.
It's quite easy, but it's not great at selling.

To make a clip more attractive you have to add in effects. Note that depending on the clip you may have to do more or less with it. Editing requires balance, going overboard with editing feels disingenuous, you want a clip to show off the chuuba more than anything else.

/Quick notes on editing
-Subtitles are recommended to be in everything you do.
-Keep it concise, if there's too much irrelevancy (5-10 seconds of something not related that kills the flow), crop it out.
-When starting out, focus on shorter clips and use simpler effects (like zooms)
-Study examples and see what styles would fit you, the person, and the content you're trying to edit, if you're close with the person, ask their opinions
-Don't be afraid to try things out, you should always keep a level of consistency but try different effects, different timings, add things in, take things out, it's fun playing around with the software

Examples of edited clips I like and descriptions

Clip: No visual aid outside of a basic zoom to show a small detail/prompt that one may miss, lets the moment/reaction play out for the viewer to digest and take in what happened.
https://twitter.com/ElliottAmbers/status/1415128299400048646

Clip: Subtitles have effects on them, instead of zooming; uses emotes for emphasis. There is action and reaction throughout the whole clip so ending with a cut scream meme is acceptable.
https://twitter.com/matsuromeru/status/1358488999422230534

Clip: Another simple edit with only subtitles and cut scream meme, while being less "casual friendly" it excels for audiences that know what happened (which is important if you're looking to market yourself to certain communities)
https://twitter.com/ElliottAmbers/status/1409620367522648064?s=20

Clip: An example of a lengthier clip. Uses mainly zooms and a sound, shows good display of cutting excess and only keeping relevant things, also has an outro that explicitly shows the streamer's TTV name (WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT, ALWAYS BE SHILLING)
https://twitter.com/ArypieVirtual/status/1415149842108751873

Clip: A unique storyboard clip! If you're an artist (or even if you aren't) this is a great way to add some spice and originality to a zatsudan clip. I personally would have added a place for subtitles to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEpmkB6a6hI

Highlight: Highlights is when things start to get lengthy, highlights tend to encompass multiple moments that may or may not be related across a stream or a solid stretch of time (in this case a stream). It uses the same kind of editing as other clips only much longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrbgVmEvfg

Highlight: Another lengthy one, uses zooms and images, has subtitles, again, the usual editing but extended to match 9 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8ifAN5GwI

Highlight: Shorter than the above two but much more explosive, uses everything from zooms, images + meme references, sound effects, screen effects, and more. Effort edit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQ7UcqPysg

Compilation: This is a compilation of suffering, tries to focus on her cringing. Mainly uses zooms and screen shakes for emphasis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD2YEBOZq4E

/More editing quick tips

--Shorter videos are generally better- -
2:20 (twitter cap) is the most I'd go for a clip and 3-5 minutes are my preferred times for highlights/compilations.
Keeping it tidy means less work for you, more retention for other people. A lot of statistics I've seen shows that people tend to watch roughly 2-3 minutes of a video.
Being entirely honest, I imagine most will not sit through a 9-10 minute long video unless the person really like someone and you shouldn't take all that time to make a video that long unless you want that ad revenue.

--ALWAYS SHILL--
Even if there are socials on a streamer's overlay, having some sections decidated to showing "I stream on Twitch! twitch.tv/YOUR_OSHI" or something along those lines is really important.
You always want to assume that there will be people watching this person for the first time ever and they have no idea how to look at descriptions or anything like that you so have to shove it into their face.

--Work smart!--
Don't edit a clip anymore than it needs to, if an idea is already in place then just add subtitles and let it flow with some basic zooms or images.
Try not to include every moment, it's hard but truly dig deep and search for the moments you deem are your favorites.
Try to edit efficiently i.e Don't download 4 hour long streams and skim it all, just take an hour or two and get moments out of it if you can, be adaptive, if you find one really good moment that lasts 2+ minutes, boom that's a video idea.

--Don't be too hard on yourself!--
With the drought of clips on /here/ any effort is honestly appreciated, you don't have to try and make masterpieces.
Even an edited version of someone's Twitch clip is valued because of reasons stated in Section 1. Your oshi will love you for any clips you make (not guaranteed)

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#4

Extras (Information for chuubas and further theorycrafting)

Here is where I say all my extra information for chuubas, it'll be formatted similarly to the protips right above.
Again, a disclaimer that I'm only a viewer, and this is information based on my own thoughts and discussions with others as well as observation of content.

/Self Effort and Content Theory

--Don't be afraid to clip yourself!--
If nobody is doing it, you gotta do it yourself if you want to get your bearings, you can even just do Twitch Clips if you don't have time for formal edits
Someone told me before that it feels weird to clip yourself and while I do agree I also believe it's perfectly fine so long as you aren't clipping anything weird.
I won't link them but some examples being:
I saw a selfclip of someone asking a delirious person who they like the most and trying to prop themselves as the answer.
A clip that only you find funny (saw a fighting game clip of someone blocking an attack from fullscreen away and nothing else)

If worse comes to worst just make a burner or ask someone else to do it via a timestamp.

--Using Stream Markers--
I mentioned this above and it gets mentioned sometimes but it seems like new people don't know it exists every time it gets posted so I think it's worth mentioning here (https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/creating-highlights-and-stream-markers?language=en_US , https://i.imgur.com/aNhxE2V.png screenshot of leddit post on using them)
Stream Markers are timestamps that you put on your Twitch VoD that lets you know something happened there when you look it over.
The cool thing about these is that there are many ways you can trigger it, either in chat with /marker or /marker description, adding the widget to your OBS through custom docks, or Stream Deck if you own one (Saw someone post this cool vid on alternatives to Stream Decks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73EqEBVbfs )
It shouldn't matter if it's late, when you put down a marker you know the general area that a moment happen, much better than skimming through a VOD just to find something.

--Thoughts on deliberate clip creation--
I feel like I could talk about this for a long enough that it should have its own section but it's dependent on everyone and what kind of content they wish to do
The gist of it however is that if you're comfortable with your content, you should start being aware of when you can play into moments.
People like Bat, Yozora, Little_S are all pretty good at it, it can feel a bit fake at times but that's up to your discretion and comfortability.
The 3 mentioned generally will be loud, confident, and set up moments where they feel comfortable (like with their chat), chat can be utilized for more than simply conversation.
Pekora for example also clearly goes along with dumb chat suggestions to put herself in interesting situations.
An example of overreacting I saw recently is CallieCalico going on a big tangent about why she dislikes fighting games, the reaction was genuine and showed a nice level of "overreacting" and was played up very nicely (also showcases a good example of tagging https://twitter.com/CallieCalicoTV/status/1412610857205436424 )
Never ever try to force moments however, awareness is the most important word here, know what your range is and be confident when you do it, if you don't feel comfortable doing something, don't try to force it.

--Using chat--
If you're a chuuba who is blessed with a relatively active chat you can utilize it in various ways.
Don't be afraid to instigate banter or start conversations that leads directly into clip territory or things like that.
An advanced strategy involves looking at chat speed and interaction, higher levels of both indicates a potential clippable moment.
To add onto this, I once artificially sped up a crop out of chat and put it in the video, it made what was happening more exciting just seeing other people "excited", just some concepts to think about.

--On uploading and sharing your clip--
Once you have a clip, obviously you have to share it with people. I'm an advocate of putting it on both Twitter and YouTube if you can.
On Twitter, uploading it during prime time and then retweet it again later, using #ENVTuber and #VTuber
On YouTube, upload it and name it appropriately (something along the format of [clip/highlight/(nameofgame)/(activity)] (yourtitle) [ENVTuber] ex; [chatting clip] YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I DID WITH YOUR OSHI [ENVTuber])
Don't forget to tag it appropriately as well (Add #hashtags into the description and the first 3 will show up https://i.imgur.com/jDWj97i.png , Use the tagging system to put in a bunch of stuff also https://i.imgur.com/fGvD8iq.png )

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/Even MORE theory and thoughts

--On Twitch Clips-
Twitch clips are easy to make, however they're very limited. I spent a few hours watching the clips of 60+ /here/ chuubas not too long ago and a common issue is letting it run on for too long or there just isn't enough action.
Edited clips are powerful because you cut the fat but because Twitch clips have little to no editing other than time, it's a lot harder to get good clips this way, it's very reliant on the streamer to entertain for the entire time.
This isn't really something you can control unfortunately, clipping is clicking on a button and it's no one's fault that Twitch fucking sucks (why does it publish even when you don't hit the button?)
If you care, you can try to vet clips but it's not worth losing sleep over having a tidy Twitch Clip section.

--On YouTube Maintenance--
I mentioned clips are good for YouTube and it's because some of my favorite content creators consistantly upload videos since they started making content.
It's important to always keep your name in the ether if you wish to grow and reach various audiences. AvoidingThePuddle's constant uploads allowed him to invade people's feed and get popularity.
Consistency is really important, even if you only do a small thing once a week or every two weeks. Clips can seriously help you incline and IMO every upload you do is basically you buying a lottery ticket, you never know what might make you incline.
Clips and videos are nice investments in any case because they're your content.

--YouTube Maintenance Plus--
My personal views on YouTube is that you should keep it neat and tidy.
This means when I open a YouTube page I don't want to be bombarded with VOD videos and have to look intensely for the shorter stuff.
I've read that YouTube dislikes longer videos and if your channel is filled with super lengthy videos then it's less likely to recommend you, streams are okay though.
This means I would recommend uploading all your VODs elsewhere or unlisting them and sorting them into public playlists (public playlists will still show unlisted videos in Playlists tab).
Every little bit of professionalism counts.

--YouTube Shorts Algorithm--
So this is a peculiar one because #shorts obviously works on a different algorithm than normal YouTube, and it seems worth it to try to get on there
But after doing a bit more research it seems that the videos I've seen that do the best has #shorts tagged (in description) instead of it actually being a short (it still could be but I don't see #shorts in the title, and the video isn't portrait mode, it's still <60 seconds though)
I honestly don't fully understand what is going on here but there is something going on regarding how you tag your video.

--On other uploading sites--
If you wish to go after zoomer humor audience, TikTok is unironically fantastic for racking up exposure
It may not lead directly to views but exposure is still highly important and if you're comfortable doing the content that is demanded on there then go for it, it's generally effortless stuff if you ask me

--Other content--
Stream content and edited stream content is great but if you feel confident, try to tackle other types of content.
Natsume Moe has a lot of good examples of simple non-stream related content you can try, things like Randon's thinkpiece about males gave him a lot of exposure too.
Seriously, if it's not too much of a hassle on you, make reaction videos and fun stuff like that.

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\Resources

-If you're looking for resources, use google, generally you can find everything you need.
Myinstants.com for SFX, stock photos of anything, YouTube also generally has any effect you could want, as long as you know the keywords.

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Closing Remarks

A lot of this stuff might be stuff you already know, some of it might not be, in any case I hope something caught your eye or was interesting.
I wrote this with the assumption whoever reads it is a total beginner regarding all of this because one thing I noticed is that people know about different things so I shouldn't assume a person would know x, y, or z.
There's stuff I left out because I didn't want to make this too long. It's really meant to be things to think about when you want to make formal videos and start editing.
I left my twitter up top, if there's any issue just hit me up.
If people like this enough I probably will update it with more example images and things like that.

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