In 2023 still, the best streaming platform for gamers and podcasters is Twitch. You can reach out more than thousands of viewers and earn a decent amount of money with it. But with only streaming on the platform you may only gain one subscriber at a time, in the other hand with highlights and cut out videos you can earn more viewers on other platforms like TikTok or YouTube. For that you also need to record everything while you streaming, or save Twitch streams on the platform.
How to save Twitch Streams? – Answer
Open Twitch.tv and click on your profile, then select Creator Dashboard. Enable “Store past broadcasts” under VOD Settings on the center, and your Twitch streams will be available 7 days in the Video Producer tab.
By default Twitch video stream saving is turned off, but in this guide you will learn how you can save and export Twitch streams, also make highlights from them or create YouTube videos. It is absolutely free so let’s go and find out how you can do it!
1. Store your streams on Twitch
The first step that you need to do to save Twitch streams: Go ahead and login to Twitch.tv, then click on your profile and select Creator Dashboard.
After that, you find yourself in the setting interface. Select Stream under Settings menu, at the left. Scroll down to the VOD Settings and enable “Store past broadcasts”
After you turned on the VOD Settings, you can select “Always Publish VODs”, itt will publish by default all of your streaming after you end the broadcast. If you turn it off, the recordings will be available only draft in your account. The second option is to exclude categories, which helps you to select content, which may not your main one, and you do not want to publish.
Basically that’s it! You’re ready to go. These settings will take action after your next streaming.
Also we should mention, that If you’re a simple Twitch register, then your recordings will be only available until 7 days. Twitch currently changed the amount of days, so until 1 sept 2023 you have 14 days. However If you purchase Prime, or you have a partnership with Twitch, your videos will stay on the platform till 60 days.
How to save Twitch streams to your PC?
Ok, now we now how to save to the Twitch platform our streams, but how we can download it to our PC. In this step we take a look at that too. After you logged into Twitch, click on your profile and select Video Producer option.
The next thing you will see is the Video Producer surface. In the center you find your previous streams. To save Twitch streams, click on the three dot and hit Download. The platform will load a little, it takes time to convert your video, but a popup will appear after that with your stream.
As you can see we selected “Export” option too, which helps you to instantly upload the Twitch stream to YouTube, without any download, export and upload. It’s a big feature so you can have a seperate channel on YouTube, where your streams stored.
How to create Twitch Highlights from saved Twitch streams?
Twitch also have a feature where you can make short videos quickly on the platform without downloading, cutting and uploading the video itself. As previously saw, there’s a Highlight button under the three dots. This function we will cover later.
Why you should save Twitch streams?
It’s an absolutely free feature, so later on If you don’t hit record on OBS, you still have the full footage of your stream. Also you can create easily highlights or unique cutouts, shorts If you enable this feature. Twitch streams can be huge in terms of storage. So one hour long Full HD broadcast can be 5-10 GB, to able to store it, you need a large amount of capacity. Also as we mentioned earlier, to reach a decent amount of viewers and followers you need to have a seperate YouTube, right now, a TikTok channel to create awareness.
