Setup
Can you clip someone else's Twitch stream?
Yes, and it takes about ten seconds to set up.
- 1Turn on ClipFor in Boltis.
- 2Type the streamer's Twitch name into the field and save.
- 3Press your hotkey while they are live. The last 60 seconds is clipped.
It is the same Twitch clip API that the Clip button on their channel page uses. The difference is that you do not have to have the page open, find the button, and click it while the moment is still in the buffer.
Clip for another channel
Your hotkey clips them instead of you
Channel
Day one
Can you test the hotkey before you go live?
Yes, and this is the reason ClipFor matters more than it first appears.
There is an awkward gap for anyone installing Boltis for the first time. You cannot clip your own channel until you are live, because Twitch has nothing to cut from. So the first real test of your setup would otherwise happen during a stream, which is the worst possible time to find out that you bound the wrong key.
ClipFor removes that. Point it at any channel that happens to be live, press your key, and watch the clip appear. You have now confirmed the hotkey registers, your Twitch account is connected properly, and the clip reaches the editor, all before your first stream.
Everyday use
How do you clip when you are not live?
The same way. Your own channel being offline is irrelevant, because the clip is cut from their stream, not yours.
In practice this is how most people use ClipFor day to day. You are watching someone, something good happens, and pressing a key you have already bound is faster than finding the Clip button and trimming it in the Twitch editor before the moment scrolls out of the buffer.
The clip lands on their channel, as any Twitch clip of their stream does, and also appears in your Boltis library so you can crop it vertical and caption it.
Auto-revert
What happens when you start streaming while ClipFor is set to another channel?
Boltis puts itself back on your own channel, immediately, and tells you it has done so.
This is the part worth understanding, because the failure it prevents is genuinely bad. ClipFor exists because you are not live. The moment you go live, that reason has expired, and anything still pointed at another channel is now a trap: your next hotkey press, during your own best moment, would save a clip of a stranger's stream instead. The thing you actually wanted would be gone, and you would not find out until later.
So Boltis reverts as soon as it sees you are live, and shows a message saying so. It does this whether you went live with Boltis already open, or opened Boltis while you were already streaming.
While you are offline
@nerozyn
ClipFor is pointed at a channel you are watching.
The moment you are live
your own channel
Boltis reverts by itself and tells you it has done so.
Without this, your next hotkey press during your own best moment would save a clip of somebody else's stream.
Persistence
Does the setting survive closing the app?
Yes. If you set ClipFor to a channel and close Boltis, it is still set when you open it again. You do not have to retype the name every session.
That persistence is exactly why the automatic revert has to cover the case where you launch Boltis while already streaming, not just the case where you go live with it open. A setting that survives restarts would otherwise survive into a situation where it is actively harmful.
Ownership
Whose clip is it?
Theirs. This is a Twitch rule rather than a Boltis one: a clip of someone else's stream lives on their channel and credits them, exactly as it would if you had clicked Clip on Twitch.
You can still open it in the Boltis editor, make it vertical and caption it. Just be aware that you are working with someone else's content, and the usual courtesy about crediting the streamer applies.