Twitch Clips Guide???

It seems like a lot of people are unsure about Twitch Clips in some degree or just don't know much about them in the first place.
I'll try to note down some things about them in this writeup.
This is assuming you have no idea what this feature is at all, a complete beginner.

-What are Twtich clips?
Twitch clips are a feature on Twitch.TV to "clip" up to 60 seconds of the past 90 seconds of the stream (90 seconds from the moment you clicked the clip button or pressed alt-x)
Basically, it's an easy way to preserve a moment that just happened without going through any hassles like downloading the VOD.

-Importance of Twitch clips
It is crucial 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.
Twitch clips allows someone to potentially quickly get a grasp of what someone's content by watching a few clips of them.
Clips can also be content in itself to be posted on Twitter/YT/other socials, can be used for editing, and it has a niche use as a "marker" that something eventful happened during that portion of the stream.

-Quick Twitch Clips How-To
1. Go to the thing you want to clip, it can be a stream, a past broadcast VOD, or a highlight that the streamer uploaded, essentially anything that isn't a clip can be clipped
2. Clipping can then be done by pressing the clapperboard button on the player or by pressing alt-x while focused on the player

!!!!! NOTE THAT CLIPS ARE "PUBLISHED" AS SOON AS YOU PRESS THIS BUTTON OR DO THE SHORTCUT, TWITCH FUCKING SUCKS AND DOESN'T LET YOU KNOW THIS (Twitch clips that are like this will have the stream title as the name and will be 30 seconds), You'll have to delete it later if you accidentally clicked the button

3. When you press the button a new tab will open allowing you to choose how long you want the clip to be (from a minimum of 5 seconds to a maximum of 60 seconds) and also naming the clip
4. After you set the time range and name the clip you can hit the publish button to save your settings

//Things of note

-Downloading clips
You can download clips using UnTwitch
If you want VODs you can use TwitchLeecher

-What to do with a clip
When you make a clip, you should try to show it to the chuuba if you can, or at least make the chuuba be aware that you made clips of their stream
Posting the clip you made in the chat also helps them know that they're being clipped

-Clips dashboard on Twitch
You can check all the clips you've made by going to your Clips tab in your Dashboard (fastest way to get there is clicking on your profile picture -> video producer -> clips)
On this page you can search by category and channels, as well as sort by date created. Also on this page you can delete clips or rename them.
If you're a chuuba this is also where you can vet your clips, you have the power to delete clips other people made.

-Views on clips
Viewership on clips isn't super important but because the clips tab on your channel sort by High-to-Low viewcount only, it's important that you get your clips to have some views on it so it gets pushed towards the top and becomes easier to find.
Easiest way to do this is to link it in chat when you make the clip, some people will click it and it gets pushed upwards thanks to those few clicks.

-Clip length
15-30 seconds is a good length for most clips, it can be lower if you wish but the most part you shouldn't need to go higher.
The only times you should have a long clip is if it's a story or there's consistent action throughout the clip.
Assume the person who will watch clips don't have a long attention span to wait 20-30 seconds for something to happen, have the action start in the first 5 seconds into the clip.

-Clip names
When it comes to naming, try to keep it simple and don't go for funny stuff unless you know it'll land well.
Usually I just state what occurs (x jumpscare) if I can or quote them ("No way I'll die here") or make a statement (Got too cocky at y), I'm not a funny person so I don't often go for jokes.
Note that names help the chuuba out too, when they look at their dashboard they won't know what the clip is until they click on it, having an obvious name helps them out especially if they get a ton of clips.

-Clip "etiquette"
Being familiar with the streamer helps a lot when it comes to knowing good moments to clip.
Generally try to avoid things that you THINK would do well (like coomer content) and instead try to keep it relevant to their content/personality.
You want clips that they can potentially put out there and attract actual fans instead of false ones.
But also don't think about it too hard, clip stuff you think is funny or good.

-Clip editing
I believe Twitch clips are a great gateway to editting, you can take a clip, slap on some subtitles and maybe effects and it's easy content for social media.
Another good usage would be for when a chuuba plays a game for a few streams, you can compile clips of that game and then put it all together and have an easy compilation/highlight reel for the chuuba to post on their YouTube.
Another way as mentioned before is using clips (from you or another person) as a point of reference, let's say a clip shows something happening but you want more context, you can download the VOD using TwitchLeecher and crop only the section the clip is in and edit together a video including the context leading up to the clip.
Take inpsiration from all those clippers out there like Vtubers R Us, they honestly don't put in that much effort, most of the time they're just uploading raw clips themselves with subtitles over it.

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Conclusion
Twitch clipping is a relatively intuitive system and is one of the more important parts about Twitch IMO, the ability to preserve moments and put them out there is highly underrated and can do wonders for the exposure of someone.
It has limitations like the fact that it makes a clip the moment you click on the button, the 60 second limit, and how the clip ends at the point of when you clicked the button, but it's a very handy system nonetheless.
Some of this information is common/obvious but hopefully this helps somebody

\/\/\/ Editing \/\/\/

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
https://nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

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 )
It's also possible to save subtitle as an .srt and import them into editing software, you can do either method, I usually just burn subs with VLC because I tend not to edit/add effects to subtitles.

Truthfully, any of the software works and in regards to easy jobs like this you can use whatever you want, the process will be a teeny bit different but it's the same at the end of the day.

/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.
-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

/Editing quick tips

--Things to learn--
Realistically you don't need to know much other than how to use the cut tool so you can trim clips and keyframes so you can have zooms or movement in your video.
There's a lot of presets for effects and transitions included in editing software so you don't have to go out of your way to do any of that stuff.

--Shorter videos are generally better--
2:20 (twitter cap) is the absolute most I'd go for a clip and 3-5 minutes are my preferred times for anything else.
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 have a real reason to (such as ad revenue from having a 7-10 minute video).

--ALWAYS SHILL--
Even if there are socials on a streamer's overlay, having some sections dedicated 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)

==Examples==

Examples of edited clips

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

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

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

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

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 and incorporate the model somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEpmkB6a6hI

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. This is a good time to mention that unless you have an audience who will watch stuff like this, I don't recommend making your videos this long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrbgVmEvfg

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