Becoming a renowned streamer on Twitch takes much more than just playing video games and broadcasting them on the world's largest streaming platform. Streams often last for hours, which can result in a huge amount of content that can be difficult to organize.
Fortunately, Twitch offers a built-in Highlights feature that lets you create short clips from your streams. In this article, we'll show you how to make Twitch highlights using its native tool, as well as how third-party software can help you further enhance and streamline the process for even better results.
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Part 1. Why is it Important to Produce Twitch Highlights?
Imagine you're browsing through Twitch and you find a channel you like. Naturally, you'll click on a stream you'd like to watch, only to realize that it lasts for a couple of hours. Wouldn't it be better if you could just look at the most epic moments from each stream?
Well, actually you can, because the Twitch's Highlights option lets you create short previews of each video. Besides enabling you to make the best moments from your streams easily accessible to all visitors of your Twitch channel, the Highlights feature also makes sharing short gaming clips on other social media platforms much easier.
The people who are already following your streams on Twitch may not be online at the same time as you are and by making a highlight of your latest steam you can summarize the best moments for them, and show appreciation for their support. Here's how you can make your Twitch highlight.
Part 2. How to Make Twitch Highlights: 2 Methods
In this section, we'll look at two easy ways to make Twitch highlights: using Twitch's built-in tool and using third-party software for more customization. Whether you want a quick option or more editing control, we'll guide you through both methods. Let's get started!
Making Twitch Highlights with Built-in Tool
Next, let's explore how to create highlights using Twitch's built-in tool.
Step 1: Register and Set Up Your Channel
Create a Twitch account and set up your channel. This process is quick and should take only a couple of minutes.
Step 2: Enable Automatic Archiving
Before your first stream, go to Twitch Settings and enable the "Automatically archive my broadcasts" option under the Channel & Video tab to prevent videos from being deleted after each broadcast.
Step 3: End Your Stream and Go to Video Manager
Once your stream is over, go to the Video Manager section on your Twitch dashboard where you can view all your recorded broadcasts.
Step 4: Select a Video and Click Edit
Find the video you want to highlight, click the three-dot menu next to it, and select "Highlight" from the options.
Step 5: Set Start and End Times for the Highlight
A new page will open where you can adjust the start and end markers on the video, or manually enter the times in the provided text boxes.
Step 6: Add Title and Description
Use the "Describe Highlight" button to add a title, select the game being played, and choose the language of the video.
Step 7: Create and Share the Highlight
Click "Create Highlight" to finish. You'll be given a URL and an embed code for sharing or embedding the clip on your website.
Making Twitch Highlights with Third-party Software
While Twitch's built-in highlight tool is useful, third-party software like Wondershare Filmora can take your highlight creation to the next level. Filmora offers a suite of advanced features that can automatically extract key moments from your stream, making it easy to generate highlights without manually scrubbing through hours of footage.
It also helps you create videos that are optimized for sharing on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Let's explore how Filmora can simplify and enhance your process of making Twitch highlights.
Key Features of Filmora's Smart Scene Cut
- Auto Detection & Highlight Creation: Filmora's Smart Scene Cut automatically detects key moments in your Twitch stream, including scenes featuring people by recognizing faces, bodies, and motion.
- Social Media Optimization: When your Twitch highlights are ready, Filmora can automatically adjust the video format to fit the requirements of different platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, making it easy to share across multiple platforms.
- Customizable Editing: After scene detection, you can fine-tune your highlights by adding transitions, effects, and background music, giving you full creative control over the final product.
Steps of Making Twitch Highlights in Filmora
Just follow our simple steps to create Twitch Highlights:
Step 1 Access Smart Scene Cut
Launch Filmora and start a New Project. Import your video in the Media field and click on the Smart Scene Cut icon, or right-click the video and select Smart Scene Cut.
Step 2 Analyze Video Content
Move the cursor to select custom objects for identification. Click Start, and Filmora will automatically analyze and identify video content.
Step 3 Select Your Favorite Scene Cut Mode
After the analysis is complete, Filmora will default to displaying separate scenes with characters. You can also choose to cut highlights or customize object scenes.
Step 4 Customize Your Highlights
When you're done with scene cutting, you can select and add the clips to the timeline, then proceed to further optimize and customize your highlights, adding your unique touch with edits, effects, and transitions to make the content truly yours.
Part 3. How to Upload Twitch Highlights to YouTube
All your highlights will be available in the Video Manager panel, so you just have to click on the Download button located directly below your freshly created highlight if you want to save the clip to your computer before uploading it to YouTube.
Twitch also offers a much faster way of sharing highlights to YouTube, although you first need to go over to Twitch Settings and locate the Connections option. Afterward, just click on YouTube and your Twitch and YouTube channels are going to be connected.
Head back to the Video Manager, click on the Export button and proceed to insert the title, description, and tags. Make sure that you are signed in to your YouTube account, before clicking on the Export button so you don't have to go through the entire process twice.
Part 4. Tips for Making Twitch Highlights
As you can see there is nothing complicated about the process of creating Twitch Highlights. The following tips will help you understand the process better and explain why you should produce highlights for each new stream you share on your channel.
Twitch Highlight is a Promotional Tool
Building a sizeable audience isn't easy and you should use every available resource to increase the number of your subscribers. Highlights of the best gaming moments from your broadcasts are an excellent way to summarize what your channel is about and to impress the visitors of your channel.
Keep It Short and Creative
Although there are no strict rules regarding the length of a Twitch highlight, you should try to stay well within the two-minute mark. Of course, there is nothing stopping you from making highlights of any duration, just keep in mind that viewers don't always have the time to watch ten or fifteen-minute video. If you choose to go for a longer highlight format, try to be as inventive and creative as you can.
Share Twitch Highlights on Other Social Media Channels
YouTube is the largest video sharing platform on the Internet that hosts an incredible amount of content related to gaming. That's why sharing high-quality videos on YouTube can help you get more followers on your Twitch account. Although sharing Twitch highlights on other social media networks can't hurt your chances of gaining more fans on Twitch it will hardly have the same impact as sharing the best moments of your broadcasts to YouTube.
Conclusion
Promoting your live streams is as important as being a great gamer or having a radiant personality. Producing a short highlight on Twitch doesn't require you to spend much time editing the video since you can just find the best moments in any of your streams and turn them into short clips that are fun to watch and easy to share.
Do you like creating highlights on Twitch? Leave a comment and let us know what is your favorite highlight on Twitch.
