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Stream Scheme

Stream Scheme

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This Advice Stops Streamers From Growing

Video Overview & Insights

If you want to grow your stream, then you've heard the advice to use Stream footage, VoDs, and Clips to make long and short format videos on YouTube and Tiktok, this advice was amazing 6 years ago, it helped so many Small Streamers grow immensely, but the truth is that advice stops streamers from growing in 2026.

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I know this advice isn't... nice? Or easy? So, I just want to clarify, myself and near a dozen Twitch Partners and creators were all suffering with using Stream Footage for years.... we thought we sucked as Creators, and were going to fail, until we just stopped using Stream Footage and did things the way I describe in this video, we followed the same steps, planned, recorded, and edited the way I describe here. Nearly immediately we all saw huge changes, for example, Reapz and Myself suddenly had shorts blowing up like never before. I wish I could do it all, stream, make videos, have all I want, but truthfully if I want to be a Content Creator long term I had to understand the things I talk about in this video are more important. 5 years ago this advice worked, but it just doesn't anymore.

I hope this helps you guys, and genuinely you find a way to start moving forward, because I understand better than most how much it hurts to be stagnant desperately trying to breakthrough.

— @StreamScheme

These days to grow a stream you need to step away from using your stream footage and learn to plan, record, and edit content offline, with value aimed at those audiences.

🔴How To Record Gameplay On PC With OBS:

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Never stop believing in your dream! Small Creators check in! Thanks for the advice!

— @THagz01

https://youtu.be/aLxDKcMsRps

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I had never thought to change the resolution of the recording area to record the webcam and gameplay BESIDE each other! Wow! Thank you for bringing that to my attention. This is going to make it so much easier and more convenient to NOT have my face over something important in the game. Keep up the great work with the videos!

— @TheDynamicGamer87

https://www.youtube.com/@ConnorDawg/videos

🔴Check Out Scamboli:

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This video just completely shifted my perspective. Thank you so much for posting this. Side note I read the transcript for this video instead of watching any part of it. Just goes to show that storytelling really is the star.

— @ilynnd

https://www.youtube.com/@ScamboliReviews/videos

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Thank you so much for the video. How you described offline content creation (the purpose, the plan, how to do so) made so much more sense than anything else I've heard. Sending so much love.

— @rosegarnet91

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How To Grow On Twitch?

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Hey dude I’m just starting out and your videos have been very useful. I’m at the adhd phase “watch everything available about the topic” and your videos stick out from the rest. Very informative, very concise, and honest. Subscribed. Please keep that up 🎉

— @qkhan69

If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.

But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!

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If you see this, I wish you the bestest luck on your journey! Let’s support one another 💜 chase them dreams

— @HeadLockAHoe

Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.

🕘Timestamps:

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If you see this, I wish you the bestest luck on your journey! Let’s support one another 💜

— @HeadLockAHoe

0:00 Should You Make Content On YouTube To Grow Your Stream?

1:00 Why Does Everyone Use Stream Footage?

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The high resolution dual screen recording was a great idea on top of the re-recording clips. I think this is really gonna help me level up my videos.

— @munz_0

2:30 Why Your Shorts Views Are Worthless

3:40 Why using Stream footage leads to awful technical issues that ruin your content

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I knew they recorded post-edit phase! Cause sometimes I am like "this feels engineered like they knew". Big tips in this video ^_^
I am honestly sick of people saying just make short form content, take your clips. I just saw most people did not benefit from that style.
It makes sense to curate better content to then make people excited and eventually follow their way to live stream engagement.

— @WitchyVODs

5:07 How To Get Clean Video and Audio For Editing The BEST YouTube Videos possible

5:58 How To Record Footage To Make Editing 10x Faster

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I know this is 4 months old from the time I am putting in this comment but I have to say thank you! I did my very first stream yesterday with what I thought was a plan. I did not want to get caught up by paralysis by analysis. This advice is pure gold. Going to keep watching other content and apply the advice. Thank you good sir.

— @Antix773

6:40 Why Making Videos From Stream Footage Ruins Your Streams AND Videos

7:30 How copying Big Creators will ruin your content

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Thank you sir, this video is on point.

— @skaapgg

8:29 How To Make YouTube Videos That Actually Get Views

10:41 Why You Should Make Thumbnails And Titles BEFORE Recording

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I want to send this to some friends to help, but anytime I try to help I get dismissed and ignored. So instead I’m going to be selfish and keep this gem to myself. And if my friends read this in the future, now you know. Maybe listen to me next time?

— @Teafawn

11:40 How Big YouTubers Lie To Make Better Content

12:43 How To ACTUALLY Learn Editing

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For me when he said "and the third thing we’re going to steal from big YouTubers… hit with a long ass unskippable ad! Followed by lie. I don’t know why I watch these dumb videos I guess it hope that there will be something new that I haven’t tried yet. But to be honest you can be very skilled at editing be interesting but unless you are what the brain rot masses consider interesting you will forever remain a smaller streamer or YouTuber. And honestly it’s better to be a smaller YouTuber/streamer because if those brain rot people find you interesting you’re one of them and probably need to reevaluate your life. Sure the money might be nice but can’t be worth it and to be honest we could do with less brain dead wealthy "content creators" on YouTube!

— @YeahWords

13:18 Can I Really Not Use My Stream Footage?

What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?

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I am a small streamer and I have a long way to go. But this dose help me and give me more of an idea to what I can do. Even though I suck at editing but hey learn as you go :p

— @Shiba-e6u

The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.

Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up

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this is so helpful! we are going to watch all of your advice videos!

— @shabadasher

By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.

If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.

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I started at 0 subscribers 39 days ago! Thank you for your help in my growth! I am at almost 1k now. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

— @TheLostTourGuide

For more information visit this Bitrate graph: https://stream.twitch.tv/

The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.

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Thank you for this info! ❤🎉

— @muffingurl911

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Thanks for the advice!

— @MillyAna24

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If anyone comes across this comment I'm live on twitch every night please help me grow just a dad trying to make it in life 🙏🏻💪🏻

— @PlutoGames710

💬 Streaming Guides:

How To Stream On Twitch The A to Z Guide:

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Should you also stream live a few days a week while recording offline!

— @Kenzitronn

https://bit.ly/HowToStreamOnTwitch101

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I resonate to this advice, present times changes and past experiences made me confident and I feel its the moment to start content creation, like following the artistic path that were left behind,
and the advices, tries, ups and downs, different career paths, make sense now. Nothing better than live by your own expression and write your story.
Thank you for the honesty

— @1NachS

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💬Website: https://bit.ly/Streamscheme

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#twitch #growth #guide

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this video came to may recommendations at the perfect time, i am a smol vtuber too and i was doing the stream clips and edit them, i feel like it was not growing but than your video was like, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IS WROOONG, now i have a reason to keep pushing and trying out your tip. Thanks a lot!

— @ShuraPurpleDude

More User Perspectives

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My question: I stream using lightstream because I use console. So I’m not sure how to go about recording gameplay with it. I’m going to look into it.

@evanshaleknightlystudios
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This is some eye opening advice. Thanks brother, from Canada. Curious, which mic would you recommend? Currently have a Blue Yeti and not really happy with it. I feel like it's not really the right type?

@d_0_w_b_0_y
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Fantastic advice overall, But I have one big question about the offline content advice?

What if a streamer didn't have the equipment to record offline content?

E.g, I stream on a console and don't have a PC good enough to record offline content?

So if using VOD footage is bad for long and short form content then would someone like me be screwed?

@ItsTyheem777
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Creating content offline is a great idea! I’m just getting started and juggling a full-time job with a 24/7 on-call schedule, so streaming isn’t always feasible. Plus, my social awkwardness adds to the challenge. I’ve never considered recording offline to create content. I’m so glad I stumbled upon your video; it really changed how I see things.

@KaizenTxLive
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Thank you for the advice, I was kinda thinking about this, i wanna enjoy my games but still can have online presence. During the stream is kinda chaotic.

@heybrycee
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Hey Eljay, thank you for making these videos. Your videos are the best content creation advice that I've seen. You mention relevant problems in detail, offer unique insights as to why they might be problems, and give actual, actionable tips that someone can implement right away, in addition to providing examples.

This video really helped me because I've been stuck on trying to create content based on stream moments. It takes so much time, and I always put it off. This felt like permission to let streams just be streams instead of "content machines" so that I can focus on making something more intentional and designed for it's type (shorts, long-form, etc.) It saves me time, effort, and extra work because now I can just let these things be and not worry about the VODs.

I've always struggled with WHAT content I want to create. I know that's a personal thing, and can only come from me, but I'm trying to figure out how to define my content creation rather than a "niche". I'm not the type of person who does well with sticking to one thing and one thing only. My interests vary, and it's not always the same "category". I'm not the usual standard of content creator: "challenges", "speedruns", skill and such.I'm not necessarily masterful at any one thing. I know a couple tidbits about various topics, but nothing super cohesive.

So I guess I'm just wondering what your advice would be to small creators who struggle with making authentic content that isn't centered around any of the "standard" content types. I definitely want to be authentic. That's the only thing I know I want my content to be.

Thank you for all you do, Eljay. I really appreciate it!

@iamvensey
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I feel like I'm backed into a corner a bit as I am an Esports commentator and I just upload my weekly competition streams. I don't have my cam on in these as it takes away from the actual competitors which is understandable. Not sure there's actually much I can do with my videos but now you can only keep 100 hours on twitch so I just move it all to YT. Thinking my best option after uploading my longer format videos is to then make a highlight package from each?? Open to ideas...

@funky_au
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unsure if you will see this but what are your thought on publishing both vods and videos to the same channel?

@emazetv
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ball knowledge

@bloxie-g
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Highly underrated video. Probably gonna rewatch this a time or two and make sure I’m locked in. These are all tips I’m going to try in the future thanks man

@SillyWilly870
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NGL I clicked in here expecting the same advice every other Youtuber shills but this one actually brought something new to the table that I could learn something new from, so thank you!

@risuruuu
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I play games like Tarkov, MechWarrior, survival games very niche games so I don't plan on growing anyway because my games I enjoy playing don't have a large enough viewer base to really pick up on when much better creators already occupy those spaces.

@CYBERHOUNDYT
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I Highly Support This.

@UnlockedMagick
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1 min into the video and i guess i just gotta start talking about the war for views. like a true asmondfrog

@OGPardon
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I love how it ends with "if you watched this far, please advertise my content in any possible way, thank you"
Nice cta

@SaralendaEonfeather
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Thank you for this honest and incredably straight forward information. No click bait, no "do this, get a million views" bs. Just helpful and realistic adviced. You have a new follower :)

@FelixSchnakenburg
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Don’t use stream footage just use game footage offline lol

@GrimTheReaperGames
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Thanks brother!

@dubtendergaming
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I’ve been losing my mind trying to figure out how people get their camera so crisp in clips. I even upgraded to a 2k mirrorless. Thank you for showing the OBS resolution for recording off stream! Can’t wait to get started.

@omglauradreaming
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i hoped my views will increase this year🥺

@LunarAxis28
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Amazing advice but how would you do this with automotive content

@K5ASHFPS
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I am like a week in streaming, I got affiliated and 80 something followers all week and then shave my head because I get a big follower goal and now I never let nobody in my chat was averaging 10 viewers now now I only average two

@JacobJones-hm7wt
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Shit i got lucky to break 200 views on a short good thing i dont give a shit about views lol

@TheFreelancer131
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As great as this tip sounds, the big question is that of time commitment if you don't do streaming and YouTube as your main job.

@FlatMoki
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Really fantastic stuff. As someone who has been making offline content for years and just started streaming and doing shorts, this is the exact advice i was needing to hear. Thank you !

@cloudwaslive
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Man… I feel like that’s a lot of work I like to make clips because there short and with the zero views I don’t have to worry about sound alerts and it happens I can start over from what I’m saying, YT videos take for ever for me and energy all by my self and plus the luck too

@cloudshadow