Twitch Stream Recaps: How Your Best Clips End Up in the Recap
Until now, anyone who missed your stream had two options: scrub through the whole VOD or hope someone shares a clip. Twitch Stream Recaps change that. A Stream Recap is a set of clips from your latest stream that Twitch shows on your channel page – and, in the mobile app, right on your followers’ home screen. Twitch announced the feature on October 20.
What is a Stream Recap?
About an hour after you go offline, the Recap appears on your channel. It holds up to 25 clips in the order they happened during the stream. There’s nothing to post: every stream gets its own Recap, and it stays on your channel page without expiring. The only requirement is a stream that ran for at least one minute.
The Recap shelf on channel pages shows up on every platform, browser included. The more prominent spot is in the mobile app, where Recaps from followed channels appear on the home screen. If a stream doesn’t have enough clips, Twitch hides its Recap. And don’t mix it up with the annual “Twitch Recap” – that’s your personal year in review.
Which clips make it into a Recap automatically
Clips that you and your channel editors create while you’re live are added automatically. Clips from viewers – Twitch calls them Community Clips – are not, but you can add them yourself with “Add to Recap”, as long as they come from that stream. According to the Twitch blog, saying “Twitch Clip That” works too: it creates a clip and drops it straight into the Recap.
Automatic inclusion is on by default. To turn it off, go to Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream and find the toggle under Clips Settings. From then on you build the Recap yourself, from the Clips Manager or with the plus button in the app’s bottom bar.
Reviewing and editing your Recap
You edit the Recap from your Stream Summary, on the web or in the app, at any time. It lists every clip from the stream, filterable by your own, your editors’ and the community’s. Add or remove clips and change the title, which defaults to your stream title. Twitch also lets you crop clips, edit their captions and adjust the layout. Delete a clip entirely and it disappears from the Recap as well.
Why more clips matter now
A Recap is only as good as the clips in it. If a stream ends without enough of them, your followers see nothing at all. When there are enough, viewers react and comment – and Twitch says that engagement helps it recommend clips to new viewers in the Clips and Live feeds. Viewers who missed a stream can also recover their Watch Streak by watching Recap clips. The Auto-Clips Twitch announced at TwitchCon Rotterdam point the same way.
The easiest way to more of your own clips is a chat command. The free Clip Command creates a clip on !clip, even alongside Nightbot or StreamElements, and ByteMate has a !clip command of its own. Both create the clip through your own Twitch account, so it counts as your clip and lands in the Recap automatically instead of staying out as a Community Clip. After your first stream, check your Stream Summary under the clips you made yourself to confirm it works for you.
FAQ
Do I need to be an Affiliate or Partner?
No. According to Twitch Help, anyone who streams on Twitch gets Stream Recaps.
How long does a Recap stay up?
There’s no expiry. Every stream keeps its Recap on your channel page, though you can remove individual clips whenever you like.
Can I include my viewers’ clips?
Yes, but only by hand. Pick Community Clips in the Clips Manager and choose “Add to Recap”. They have to come from the stream the Recap covers.
Can I turn Stream Recaps off completely?
Twitch only documents a toggle for automatic inclusion, not one for the Recap itself. With it off and nothing added, the stream has no clips in its Recap – and without enough clips, Twitch hides it.
Wrapping up
Stream Recaps turn clips from a social media extra into the summary for everyone who wasn’t there live – right on your followers’ home screen. The more good moments get clipped during a stream, the better your Recap looks. After your next stream, open the Stream Summary and see what’s in it. What’s changing in our own tools is listed under Status & Changelogs.
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