How to make a highlight reel from your gaming streams
For shooters, battle royales and most competitive games, two kinds of video do well on YouTube: one great game from start to finish, and a montage of your best plays. Both start the same way: finding the plays in hours of stream.
Find the plays
- Viewer clips. In shooters and battle royales, most of the clips your viewers make land on a fight, and the most clipped ones are often the final fight of a win. Start there.
- Chat. A burst of messages right after a fight usually means it was a good one.
- Your own list. Write down your best games and plays right after the stream, while you still remember which match was which.
The full game
Pick one game you'd want to watch yourself: a win, a comeback, a close final circle.
- Cut the lobby, the loading screens and anything before the drop.
- Keep the match whole from there. The tension builds over the game, and cutting it apart loses that.
- Add chapters for each round, circle or key fight.
The montage
- Open with your best play. People decide in the first few seconds.
- Keep each play short: the setup, the play, a beat of reaction, then cut.
- Don't stack ten similar kills in a row. Mix in a clutch, a funny moment, a fail.
- Use only music you have the rights to, or the video can get claimed or muted.
Then the Shorts
Every play in the montage can also be its own Short. One play per Short, vertical, starting right on the action.
The faster way
For gaming streams, POVSync turns the moments your viewers clipped into Shorts, with your webcam over the game if you want it. You can put your best moments together into one video in the editor, and it writes the titles. Posts go out on your schedule once you approve them.