Twitch requires streamers to hit 75 concurrent viewers and to stream at least 25 hours a month before they're eligible to become a Twitch Partner to get a larger cut from subscriptions. The accessibility of streaming, the precarity of the platform, and the niche they operate in, makes being an editor for Twitch streamers often exploitative. And there are unions too, something that is still only grassroots (opens in new tab) for YouTube editors. In the US, they can earn around $50,000 to $120,000 a year working in film, depending on the size of the project. Video editors outside YouTube, freelance or not, often do less work for a lot more pay. In other media, the amount of work Twitch editors do would make you a respectable salary. To call them editors is an understatement they are producers and sometimes full-on content creators, making all the same decisions they would on their own, except most of the credit and pay goes to the streamers.īeing an editor for Twitch streamers is often exploitative. Lug said he's satisfied with his relationship with Snuffy, but knows it gets hard for others out there. And then afterwards I'm dead for at least a couple days," Lug, a video editor for popular Twitch streamer Snuffy, told me. I'll often wait until another day to even start on the next part unless I'm under a deadline. "By the time you can start adding the fun bits, you're already exhausted mentally and physically and it can be hard to find any creativity. A lot of the time really comes from the tedium of cutting a VOD down to EXACTLY what you need/want for the video," Pinoy said. I’ve made some in four hours, others can take days. And given YouTube's unceasing thirst for video drops, you have to do all of this in a short amount of time or risk losing precious views. You need a good eye for comedic timing and for the sort of moments that not only sell the streamer's personality but keep a YouTube viewer's attention.
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Once the editors have the clips, they bring them into a video editing software like Adobe Premiere and start laying in effects, subtitles, and memes.
Others get clips handed to them from the streamers, but not every streamer is directly involved in the process.
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Some editors have to scrub through full streams to pick out funny or skillful moments, a process that can take several hours and sometimes even longer than the stream itself. That's all alongside the immense amount of work it takes to make the videos. That means publishing anywhere from six to 10 videos a month, writing descriptions, moderating comments, making "Community" posts, and watching analytics. Several of the editors I spoke to for this story not only make the videos and thumbnails for YouTube, but they also manage entire YouTube channels.
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