How to Make a Twitch-Like Clip of a YouTube Video

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The option is still very rare

Reading time: 2 minJulien Lausson Julien LaussonReading time: 2 min Julien Lausson Julien LaussonGoogle has been working since the beginning of the year on a feature allowing you to share short extracts of videos, in the form of clips. Like Twitch.

Third-party services that offer to create excerpts from YouTube videos better watch out: the web video giant is preparing to deploy its own tool to generate video clips. a duration of 5 to 60 seconds. Access to this option is via a scissors icon, to signify that you can cut out a piece of a video and then share it.

Want to experiment with this tool immediately? Restrain your passions: only a very small handful of channels on YouTube are eligible, which currently makes it quite difficult to find one to access the editing table. However, we can already see videos showing how to use the tool, like this sequence shared on Reddit by a user.

Create a clip from a YouTube video

An option similar to the one on Twitch

The option that YouTube is installing on its platform is equivalent to that found on Twitch, which is very handy for isolating a salient passage from a video game streaming session. The games often lasting several hours, Twitch had the good idea to allow the public and the videographers to produce short sequences that are worth seeing.

Besides, perhaps a sign that this feature on YouTube is inspired by the one found on Twitch, it was the YouTube Gaming channel that first talked about it on Twitter on January 28th. This kind of functionality lends itself rather well to the broadcast of video game games, in order to show a highlight or a memorable moment with the streamer or the streamer.

Today, the tool overflows from the video game universe to reach all of YouTube. In a help page, however, Google warns that the tool “is currently available in a limited alpha version. […] Creators cannot register to participate in the alpha testing phase, but we hope to roll out this feature soon.” There is no deployment schedule.

Last thing to know: Clips will not be available on videos made for kids, live streams longer than 8 hours, and live streams that are not recorded. If the clip is longer than 30 seconds, advertisements may appear. Finally, the fate of the clips is linked to that of the videos: if they pass in private, it is the same thing for the clips. Ditto in case of deletion of the media.

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