I've recently started speedruning, but since my internet is shit I record it and then upload it rather than streaming it. The problem is since my internet is shit, a 30ish minute run takes like 12 hours to upload to youtube. Because of this I've been looking for some other way I can upload my runs, I was thinking of uploading them to twitch, but I don't know how that goes. Any suggestions?
I don't think you can upload videos straight to twitch, like taking a file and uploading it to twitch or something, it goes the other way around though where you can stream something from twitch and have it exported to youtube, and you can make highlights and save vods on twitch, only thing I can think of is try to lower the quality of the videos when uploading to youtube
Twitch has an upload feature, it was implemented a few months ago. However, if you're upload speed isnt great, then I doubt it will go much faster than uploading to YouTube.
I also don't know if Twitch has a limit on file size or video length that you can upload to it (I don't think it does, but might wanna double check). But it's worth a shot to see if it fares any better for you.
Highlights they do, past broadcasts they do not. You can archive your past broadcasts, but they'll be auto deleted after a couple weeks (idk the the exact time).
[quote] I believe it's 30 days, or 60 if you have turbo. Not 100% sure though. [/quote] It is. If you can't record locally the best thing is to highlight the runs on twitch, that way they'll stay for more than 30 / 60 days.
Thanks doc. That's what I do unless I want to locally record it.
[quote]Highlights they do, past broadcasts they do not. You can archive your past broadcasts, but they'll be auto deleted after a couple weeks (idk the the exact time).[/quote] Today I learned something. I always record locally too and upload them to YT, so I have only skimmed how long what stays in Twitch.
Do not use Twitch as your video archiving service.
Let me repeat that, because it's a really important point to make:
DO NOT USE TWITCH AS YOUR VIDEO ARCHIVING SERVICE.
Twitch VODs are fucking dreadful at the best of times, with random playback issues, no speed control (makes life harder for moderators trying to do accurate timing), and there is no guarantee of permanence with Twitch VODs. Timmiluvs should know better than to say "Twitch highlights last forever", because this is only on paper. Apparently people have already forgotten about the Great Twitch Highlight Break-ening of 2016, in which Twitch changed their highlighting system and video URLs, which caused many video links to just break entirely, necessitating authorblues creating the extension to try and retrieve broken highlight links. Some of the aforementioned VODs have to this day never been able to be retrieved, so a bunch of speedrun times essentially disappeared into the aether because Twitch fancied messing with their archiving system.
Don't even consider using Twitch as your primary archiving site, just bite the bullet and go with YouTube. I know how much of an arseache it can be to upload large videos, but YouTube is about as safe as you're going to get for long-term video storage that won't just disappear. Moreover, export all of your important Twitch highlights to YouTube, this will run in the background so shouldn't be much skin off your back.
I've exported all my highlights to youtube, just in case what happened last year happens again. If you just run a meme game and want to get a time on the LB, twitch will do you fine. However if you actually care about your runs/videos (and most people do), read Drakodan's post :D