Automating highlights for streamers
TLDR: Turn your streams into clips and highlight videos automatically. Sign up for a free account here
My favorite thing about growing up was playing video games with friends, passing the controller around, trying to beat a hard boss in a game like Zelda. As I grew older, my circle of friends that still played video games shrunk more and more. That’s why I watch Twitch streams—you can replicate that experience of egging someone on while they take on the challenge of, say, a Dark Souls SL1 run. It’s just like that experience of passing the controller around as a kid, except over the Internet.
The problem is, with my work and social schedule, I don’t have as much time to watch streams as an adult as I did to play games when I was a kid. Most big streamers are on all day while I’m at work, and only start up again in the late evening, when I’m getting ready to go to bed. The next day I’m always poring over Reddit trying to find all the action I missed. That got me thinking—what if there was a service that helped streamers and fans catch all of the action for every stream? Instead of having armies of media assistants clipping five hour streams into digestible highlights ready for YouTube, an autonomous service could cut videos into clips, and generate highlight videos that streamers could share directly with their fans.
I work at Vidorvr, a video intelligence company. We focus on making video content understandable—identifying people and topics, classifying scenes, and, most importantly, making all of that metadata searchable. At Vidrovr, we’re constantly trying to find new ways to implement our platform and video content everywhere more useful.
Our newest experiment is called Seamhack. Seamhack is a way to make 5+ hour long streams digestible. We sync with your Twitch account, gather up your VODs, and break them down into the most exciting moments. You can share these clips with your fans, or combine them into a highlight video that you can easily upload to YouTube or share with your discord server. For streamers, Seamhack helps trim the fat off of your videos and make it easier to share your content widely. For fans, Seamhack means you never have to miss the action or hope someone clipped that one moment.
How it Works
Seamhack uses a multi-modal approach to analyze your videos to find exciting moments. By taking into consideration on screen text, audio, visual features, and chat dynamics, we ensure that all the action is captured. Our clipping process is entirely automatic, but we let you modify the clips as you see fit to make sure the algorithm didn’t miss anything. You can title and publish clips and share them with friends and fans, or combine clips into highlight compilation videos. Currently Seamhack only gets videos from Twitch accounts, but we’re adding the ability to upload your own videos soon.
Getting started is easy: just sign up with your email here and you’ll get a signup code.
Once you have an account set up, authenticate with your Twitch account and we’ll handle the rest. It takes a bit of time to get all of your videos into our system—we download at the highest quality possible—but you should start seeing some clips in your dashboard within 30 minutes. Once we’ve downloaded the videos, it only takes about 5 minutes to clip them.
Click on any clip to edit and publish it. Publishing creates a permanent link to your clip that can be easily shared to all social media, like below!
You can also generate highlight video like this one! We combine your clips and crossfade between them, creating a seamless compilation from your VOD. Soon we’re going to add the ability to upload custom title videos so you can make sure your branding is consistent across platforms.
We built Seamhack because we wanted a way for streamers to connect with their audience. We’re excited to be releasing it in a public beta, and hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it. You can sign up for a free account here. Please let us know if you have any feedback!
Frag on,
— Team Seamhack