- Welcome back to Two Minute Tutorials.
In this video, we're going to be talking about
what you should be doing at the end of every stream
that will help you grow and it only takes two minutes.
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You've heard me say in countless other videos now,
that the easiest way to grow your audience on Twitch
is to build an audience on a separate platform
that is more discoverable
and then bring that audience across to Twitch.
Twitter and Instagram are two examples
of social media platforms
that are perfect for sharing your stream highlights on.
And if done correctly, the shares and the likes
that other people give on your video
will help bring more attention to your Twitch channel.
Now although that sounds like a lot of work,
it really isn't.
Twitch has specifically built tools
that help you create these highlight videos
very quickly from within the Twitch website.
Okay, so where you want to go is
from your Twitch dashboard to the Video Producer tab.
And this is a collection of all of the different
past broadcasts that you have,
as well as any videos you've uploaded to Twitch
and any highlights that you have created.
Find the stream VOD that you want to create highlights from,
and then come across here and click this button here,
which will open it in the highlight editor.
It'll bring it up in a window like this,
which is going to be playing back your full stream VOD.
So from the very beginning to the very end.
And what you want to do is
find the moments of highlights
that you want to create from this.
And then as you're watching it,
you want to hover over the start segment button,
and as soon as you want the highlight to start,
you can click that,
it'll trim the start of this highlight to that point.
And then when you want the segment to end,
you just come across, click the end segment,
and what you can see here is that, down in the timeline,
Twitch has created the segments.
So the yellow box is effectively
the in and out points from the full stream VOD
of what you wanted to highlight.
Now if you want to add more than one highlight,
script through to another area of the timeline,
this time make sure you click the plus icon
to add a another stream segment.
So I'll just show you that as an example here.
So I'll scroll through to let's say 22 minutes.
If I wanted to create one here,
I could create a second segment at the playhead,
scroll through and then set an endpoint
for that segment as well.
When you are finished choosing all the points
from your stream that you want to put into a highlight,
all you have to do up here is
name the highlight whatever you want to name it,
put the game category if you wish to,
and then click Publish Highlights.
Now what Twitch is doing in the background
is it's stitching together
all of the different segments that you have selected,
basically rendering out the highlight for you.
This will take a couple of minutes.
It depends on how many segments you have
and how long the highlight video is in total.
But whilst this is processing,
you can start thinking about
how you want to title this on Twitter or on Instagram.
When the video has finished processing,
you can see here in this window,
there is actually the option to be able to share it
to places like Twitter.
The reason that we're not going to be using
that shared dialogue,
is that is actually just going to give you a link
that you then put into Twitter,
and it's not going to play automatically,
Twitter isn't going to promote it as much
because it's not a native video.
So what we're going to do instead
is we're going to download the video
and then we can upload that to directly
to places like Twitter and Instagram,
as a native video rather than as a Twitch embedded link.
So once that's finished downloading,
all you have to do is head across to Twitter
or wherever you're going to post it,
upload the video as a native video,
the one that you've just downloaded,
and then give it a good title.
And really spend some time thinking about the title,
because that is part of what is going to be liked
and shared by your audience.
If you're wanting to post this to Instagram,
it is a bit more tricky,
'cause they don't have a native web client.
But you can use something like Dropbox or Google Drive
to add the video to those services
and then download it again on your phone
where you can again, write a title
and share it to Instagram.
A few bonus tips that I have found
help these videos perform better,
I would suggest trying to keep these highlights
below 30 seconds where you can
and definitely below a minute.
When they stretch to two minutes,
which I think is the limit on Twitter,
they get just a bit long to watch.
So I'd really try and make sure
that the editing is quite tight
and you're really just showing the highlight
and not too much of the before.
I'd also recommend not posting these
straight after you finish your live stream.
You should go through and create these videos
straight after your live stream,
so it's all in the top of your head
as to when the best moments happen in the live stream.
But I've seen the best engagement posting
these about two to three hours after your live stream ends.
And one last thing to mention
is that the very first frame of these videos
is often used as the thumbnail on places like Instagram.
So, if you're posting this video natively to your Instagram,
in your grid, in your three by three grid,
if somebody goes to your profile,
the very first frame is going to be the thumbnail
that you see for this video.
So try and choose something a little bit more engaging.
So hopefully this video has been useful.
A quick and easy way to grow your stream
on other platforms like Twitter and Instagram
with just a couple of minutes of work
after each live stream.
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to the Gaming Careers patrons
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
Peace.
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