Mixer streamers can limit clip-making to their regular viewers

Mixer Ask live streamers about their gripes and they ll probably complain about the glut of user-made clips. It s not uncommon to see multiple clips for the same event, seemingly pointless clips or even creepy clips that take moments out of context. Microsoft might have a way to prevent those junk videos in the future, however. Partnered Mixer streamers now have the option of restricting clip creation to people who ve achieved a minimum rank in their channels. If you re a broadcaster, you could use this to limit clips to regular viewers and keep out the trolls.

If you re a viewer, you ll have a better shot at producing quality clips. You can trim clips to specific sections and preview the results before you publish them. You re limited to at least seconds and a maximum seconds, but you ll have a better chance of preserving a hilarious moment than you did before. Mixer is offering the new clip editor alongside the old one for a short time to ease the transition.

To some extent, Microsoft needs these tools. Now that it has high-profile streamers like Ninja and Shroud on Mixer, it s dealing with a flood of users who might be new to the service or new to these streamers, at least. This could help partnered streamers manage their channels and inrease the chances a given clip will be worth keeping.

Mixer is changing the way it does its clips: it’s letting its verified Partners control who gets to make them, along with adding better editing functionality to the clipping feature itself. Streamers will be able to choose who can clip their streams, based on their channel progression rank — basically a loyalty program that you enter by watching a channel’s streams.

"We know that having clip creation available to every viewer can sometimes produce out-of-context or low-quality clips, and we believe in giving partners more control of their community," wrote Mixer product marketing manager Ben Favreau in a press release.

The natural idiom of video online is the clip: a snappy, snackable hit of video that, when done well, is something delightful or surprising to share with the people in your life. Links are a love language. On live-streaming platforms like Twitch and Mixer, they’re also often the only way those services interact with the wider internet; streams are generally measured in hours, and as a matter of course — being live — they aren’t edited. Clips, on the other hand, function as portable highlight reels more bite-sized than YouTube uploads that can break out of the streaming ecosystem and possibly achieve some measure of virality.

The idea is that by giving Partners more control over who can create clips, more and better clips will be created — and it gives them another, more granular form of control over their channels. Another consequence: the move will probably eliminate at least some of the risk of harassment clips carry with them, because by restricting who can make clips you also restrict the content therein — it will be harder to weaponize them to embarrass or intimidate streamers if only a streamer’s biggest fans can make them. And it’ll be slightly more difficult to end up on Reddit’s infamous rLivestreamfail.

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