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- Okay, so you're streaming and somebody hosts you,
or raids you or donates you $1 million.
("Money Money Money" by DFRG).
You immediately are grateful, right?
You go in the chat, you go,
"Can one of my mods, shout-out whoever it is?"
And they use a shout-out command in your chat.
It shows the link to that person's channel
and maybe even what game they were just playing.
But something that would be better
is pulling up one of their clips,
of their best moments on your channel, right there
and then for you and your community
and their community as well to watch and enjoy.
But what if this wasn't just a shout-out tool?
What if the tool also gave you access to showing clips
from people who had links in your chat and said,
"You should check this out. It's pretty funny."
Or a clip that you wanted to watch again.
Someone could just link it, it gets nominated
and you can all watch it on your stream
without having to do things like switch over
to a different window, pull up a browser, check it out
and watch it there, make sure the audio's coming through.
Just take all of this complication off the table
because Clippy takes care of it.
But what is Clippy?
I'm glad you asked. Weird me.
Developed by Dom Neuner,
it allows you to not only just shout-out another person
in your chat but it brings up
one of their most popular clips on your stream
for cool-looking motion zoom animation.
Clippy was recently acquired by eFuse,
and you do have to have an account on eFuse
to access Clippy's features.
But beyond that, I don't see anything else binding you
to use eFuse in general.
You can get yourself signed-up
and logged into the Clippy dashboard page.
On the Clippy page at the top,
you will see your shout-out source URL.
This is what Clippy runs from in your OBS or Streamlabs OBS.
Yes, this works in Streamlabs OBS
but you should probably still be using OBS studio.
And just in case you haven't got browser source hardware
acceleration enabled, all you need to do is go to settings,
down to advanced, scroll down until you see this check box
and just make sure it's checked.
If you're encountering any stuttering with Clippy,
it is possible you don't have this checked.
So just pop into your settings and make sure it's enabled.
So you should have the URL copied to your clipboard
from Clippy's dashboard,
and if you just head over to OBS Studio
and add a browser source, we'll just call it Clippy.
And we don't actually need to really change the dimensions
here, we can just paste it in here,
click control audio via OBS, that's going to be useful.
Click these and hit okay.
In your audio type, you can adjust the source
so that you and your stream can hear it
by setting it to this.
And you should be good to go, just shut this down.
I'm going to run a test in my own Twitch chat
and see how this reacts on OBS.
So, if I type SO and just any streamer I wanna put in here,
this is what happens.
Look at this here, do you see how cool is this?
And everyone in your stream can see this and hear this.
It's pretty neat.
Now that it is working in its basic form,
we're gonna configure it and fine-tune it so that it works
for multiple situations and multiple streamers.
I'm gonna explain that in a minute.
If we go back to the Clippy settings page,
we can change a few things such as what command we wanna use
to shout people out and what command to use
if we wanna stop a clip
just in case it's not your cup of tea.
You can just stop the clip, ban the streamer,
report the channel, it's all done, man.
It's good to go get back to streaming.
You can mute and unmute the audio of the clip with commands
and you can even use Clippy
to watch the last posted clip in chat.
So, if there's someone who you trust
has posted a funny clip in chat,
you can watch it with your community
just by typing exclamation mark, watch.
And if you add a link with the watch command,
you can watch that specific clip. Very cool.
This particular bit, I really, really like that.
I love the whole shout-out stuff
but this here is just something for you and your community
to enjoy specifically, which is lovely.
I love it. I love it. I love it.
And you can see here, you can switch the date range.
So, if you just want to pull up the most popular clip
in the past day, week, month, year
or the best clip of all time, you can do exactly that.
You can even set the minimum views required
when selecting a random clip.
And while you can choose to pull up a random clip,
I'll be honest.
Some people clip weird stuff
(gun snaps)
it can be a bit weird.
Say you have a few people you want to shout-out
or a few clips that you wanna watch,
you can queue it all up in Clippy.
And if you have good people in chat who you can trust
either in mods or VIPs or just everybody,
give everybody access.
No, you can open up permissions to different categories
and let those categories handle Clippy for you.
Pretty cool.
No, I wouldn't let everyone use this
because it just won't end well.
It won't.
If the person that you're shouting at doesn't have a clip,
may it within the last 24 hours or last seven days,
and you were using that perimeter with Clippy,
don't worry because it actually rolls
over into the next period and it looks for a clip there,
and then the next one, until it finds a clip.
Though, I do feel like the 24 hour one
I would probably never use
because I think that whenever I look for popular clips
from somebody, I don't look in the last 24 hours.
I look generally over the last month, maybe the last week,
maybe longer than that, maybe the last three or six months
and I kind of see what has risen to the top
in terms of popularity.
Okay, so that's all the features within Clippy covered.
The next thing I wanna look at is optimizing this
for your OBS or Streamlabs OBS.
Because you're gonna be viewing clips
from a variety of different streamers,
everyone's got their own audio balance
and their own audio settings.
This is not gonna take that into consideration,
it's just gonna give you the output
of whatever the clip is and that can be a good thing
and it can be a really bad thing.
You can have people who are way too quiet
and you can't even hear the clip that well,
or people who are way, way too loud
and it just blows the audio out way beyond what you've got
your pulse set-up set to.
You need to have some kind of control and balance.
What I think might be worth doing
is setting some audio filter parameters
on the output of your browser source for Clippy.
I find that putting a compressor on
and using these settings, feel free to pause
and take a look at these settings.
So, these settings give me a result that let my stream
and myself hear the clip without it being overpowering
or underwhelming or damaging the audio of the original clip.
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(gun snaps)
(laughs)
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(gun snaps)
(laughs)
- Give these settings a try and if they work, great,
if they don't, feel free to tweak them.
Tweak the output gain, if it's too loud or too quiet
and just get it set-up right for your own stream balance.
Okay, that's everything
I can think of in terms of how you can get Clippy
up and going to the best of its abilities right now.
Would you use Clippy?
Is there any features here that I haven't mentioned
that you would like to see in it?
Let me know in the comments below.
I am Defrag and we'll meet again.
I'll see you guys next time.
Whoosh.