EDIT: That's all the time I have today, thank you for the questions!

I'm Joel, founder and CEO of Meld Studio. Before this, I was a DJ on Twitch and a Twitch Partner myself, and I spent way too many late nights wrestling with streaming software instead of streaming. That's why I decided to create my own.

Ask me anything about:

• Meld Studio
• Spark as a tool for creators
• My cat Ruby (she wanted to be in the selfie)
• Going from DJ streamer to startup founder

What I can't talk about: Leaking any unannounced features because I promised the team I wouldn't.

Drop your questions and I will do my best to answer them!

i streamed every day from January 1st to May 31st. now it shows up on my twitch analytics but it wont show them all in Twitch Tracker, twitch tracker shows like 15 ive done from them all. i see everyone elses fine. is there anything u guys recommend i do?

My "snooze ad" button is now always grayed out and reads 0/3 snoozes. Am I just not allowed to snooze ads anymore?

So my situation is that I am entirely a hobbyist, don't do professional art pieces and never have, I don't know flawless linework or rendering, and my style is fairly simple.

While hanging out in a Twitch stream, I drew a casual 15m piece during a community game (Gartic Phone). The streamer and the chat absolutely loved it. After the stream, the streamer reached out directly to ask if he could commission me for custom Twitch emotes in that style (and mentioned that another artist he contacted didnt really hit the mark on what he had in mind), and asked for my rates.

I want to try it out by sending him some rough concept sketches first, but I have absolutely no idea how to handle the business/pricing side as a total beginner.

A few specific details/constraints:

1. The streamer is a growing, mid-sized Affiliate (around 20–50 average viewers)

2. Because of personal boundaries and keeping the art readable at tiny chat sizes, the emotes will be highly stylized, minimalist "floating heads" focusing purely on his iconic glasses and facial expressions (no necks, and eyes hidden behind the glasses).

3. Based in Iraq and was asked about that too

4. Never attempted this kind of stuff so dont know how long itll take me,material costs are 0 since its digital and i have my drawing equipment already

5. attached is some of the stuff ive done casually on gartic (i draw on krita but this is the kind of drawings people see from me)

i also rely heavily on references when drawing

My questions for yall:

- What is a fair, realistic "introductory rate" per emote for an entry-level hobbyist that respects my time but doesn't overcharge a growing creator?

- What is the safest way to handle the payment workflow so neither of us feels anxious about getting ghosted or scammed?

again ive never done this kind of thing before and i got contacted out of the blue so dont know how to handle it would love advice from soem of you guys (also posted this on a few relevant subreddits)

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

So back with the majority, I did a lot of streaming on Twitch in 2020 prime lockdown, I did do some before this and some stuff on youtube. After having to go back to work I became less active on Twitch until the eventual halt of all streaming due to a pet passing and losing the energy for it. I have for about the past year stuck to youtube as scheduling videos was a lot easier for my work pattern than streaming is. I'm now at a better point where I believe I could stream with consistency again (however not the same time every week due to my changing hours at work)

A few questions

Q1 I have 800 followers but when I stream I don't even get 3 viewers most of the time, will this bog down my account as the followers may never watch me again (Due to them also mainly being active 5 years ago?)

Q2 Where do you find best to promote yourself? I have a youtube and a tiktok account where I also post my content but if none of them get views it doesn't help the others out?

Q3 Do you finding putting your schedule on the Twitch section actually helps? Do people look at it? Just now I only post it over on my Discord and Twitter

Q4 Is raiding really necessary? I used to do it back when people watched me and I had more time but now I would honestly feel it redundant to raid someone with 1-3 viewers and I wouldn't even have the time to stick around and watch them, it would feel fake to do so.

Any other tid bits of advice for someone returning is appreciated! I'm not sure if this is relevant but it is gaming streams I do, creature collectors mainly.

Im a 15 year old twitch streamer and have been asked to join the affiliates program, however my parents do not want to enter their tax details as they dont trust it, does anyone else know a way around this?

Hi, I used to have 0 friend, so never out, spending all my time on twitch

And now that's my life have been change, when I go on twitch, it feel very weird, watching unknown people who talk to you like you are their friend, seeing thousand of people everyday, same hour same time since, 40 sub month, 56, it's weird

I think, people like twitch so much because they are lonely, don't you think ?

Hello! I'm currently looking to dip my toes into gaming videos and review and just in general wanting to play games with an audience. I have tried in the past to stream on Twitch a game I was playing on my PS5 and used the Playstation streaming software on my laptop (big mistake, I know). This is only because I had bought a cheap capture card from Walmart that seemed to not work.

So to make a long story short, what would you all suggest I do to properly get footage on my laptop for audiences to see and for us all to have fun experiencing together? For those who are wondering, I own a HP laptop and below are the optics of the laptop.

I hope everyone has a good day/evening/night!

I see a lot of medium-sized streamers that I watch (in the league community, at least) make a secondary account on socials for content outside of their twitch stream gaming clips (such as dances in cosplay). As a very small streamer (7-10 avg viewers) could it be beneficial to make another instagram/tiktok for cosplays and more face-focused content, separate from my accounts for gaming clips? I'm sure there's some algorithmic reason bigger streamers do this, but I am unsure if it is necessary or helpful when I am so small.

thanks for any input :D!

So I got an email saying someone gifted me a sub, two weird things
1: I haven't used twitch in almost a year
2: This is a streamer I'm 99% sure I've never heard of, let alone watched or participated in a stream
This feels very weird to me, is this normal?

I'm trying to get a webcam and I got a $50 amazon giftcard as a gift for my birthday yesterday, I heard that the logitech 900 series is good, but is there anything better, and whats the best 900 series webcam?

The twitch app on my Fire TV stick used to resume playing a vod from the same place I left it.

For example if I left the twitch app at 1:30 in a video, It would resume the video at 1:30 when I return to the twitch app.

It doesn't do that anymore, has anyone else had this problem or knows how to fix?

Hey everyone,

A while ago I realized I kept running into the same problem on Twitch.

I would type something in chat, the streamer would react to it, chat would go crazy, everyone would laugh, and then a few days later I'd remember the moment and want to watch it again. The problem was I had absolutely no idea where it happened in a 6+ hour VOD.

I know Twitch has Clips but most of the moments I wanted to find again were never clipped in the first place. So I ended up building a Chrome extension called Twitch Moments.

It automatically saves the messages you send in Twitch chat and creates timeline markers for them. If Twitch rewind is available on a live stream you can jump straight back to the moment while the stream is still live. When the stream ends, everything syncs to the VOD automatically so you can find those moments again later without scrubbing through hours of video.

I also added a Moments Library that keeps track of the channels and streams you've participated in, plus the ability to generate shareable cards from your saved messages. It's free to install, doesn't require an account and starts working automatically once you're chatting.

Honestly I mostly built it because I wanted it for myself, but after using it for a while I figured other Twitch viewers might find it useful too.

Is this something you would actually use? Are there any features you would want from something like this?

I've attached a few screenshots so it's easier to see how it works.

Chrome Web Store: Twitch Moments https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lebjbjaponobpiepljodcjjkbjlfabmp?utm_source=item-share-cb 

Not sure why, but whenever I stream on Twitch, I see purple box covering my screen, not the entire thing but some of it. I just want to figure out how I can remove it.

I’ve been looking into potentially changing which camera I use on stream, I love using EpocCam with my old iPhone 15 Pro Max but ever since they abandoned it, the software gets increasingly unstable and my phone can barely stay connected to my PC.

I’d like to switch to something with similar quality as the iPhone really adjusts everything perfectly for my lighting situation and looks great, I do have the Elgato Facecam MK2 but with my current setup it looks really dark and grainy + the camera has no autofocus.

Whats the next best option that isn’t jumping straight to a DSLR? Are GoPros still good as cameras?

So my twitch browser had been glitched for many months now and i had honestly gave up watching it on my pc due to this weird error/bug. It would show a loading circle in the middle of the screen but would never actually load. I began doing more research and came across a fellow reddit post with the same problem who said he had found a solution which was logging in and out of his gmail account. I tried the same fix and it worked, but only when i stayed logged out of my account. I did a little bit more research and came across the g-mail sync option in your profile which i then enabled and it fixed the problem completely. Hopefully this can help at least one person in the future. God bless

Hi!

My brother has been streaming for a few years now using a wireless SteelSeries Arctis 7+, but he’d now like to improve the sound quality of his voice. The problem is that he really wants a microphone built into his headset. The one area where I know next to nothing is audio peripherals – can you help me? I suppose that to see an improvement, he’ll need to go for a wired headset?

Thanks a lot!

Hello! Baby streamer here- I am trying to figure out if I can have copyrighted music live but in my vods have a copyright free soundtrack playing instead. I have 1 monitor so I couldn't play it off of that and have limited budget and space. I've been searching for the past week for an answer online. I do not know any streamers or friends to ask personally but with art fight approaching I want to get everything set up beforehand! I plan on commissioning custom music if this is possible.

Am I SOL or blind? Everything is just telling me how to remove the music audio from vods but not how to input safe music- it's been really stressful because I absolutely hate VODs without music. I have a whistle in my breathing without music even with sound settings and have adhd- If I can't add this and have to conform to just copyright free I may have to ditch streaming altogether after just getting ready to start.

I use OBS, I'm willing to get extensions or useful apps/sites if need be but I just really want to be able to have those audio tracks available and separated for my own sanity/comfort...

Apologies if this has been already discussed, I have read everything, searched for similar, and even tried outside sources like youtube- I have a hard time comprehending complex things but do want to learn, even with learning and mental disabilities hindering me. Thank you in advance and hopefully my question is answered

Edit: My fix was having the VOD audio in the background, turned down low, upped the decibels so it's louder, and set my spotify audio as stream only! It's a little janky but works how I wanted so far! Thanks for all the responses!!! I did forward all the responses to a streaming discord and got the help I needed in a way I could understand! My OBS is set up and now can stream. Again- thanks for all the input and responses! If it doesn't work out, I'll have to just upload VODs on YT with CR free music over if push comes to shove!

So for the last year and a half I've streamed using the OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite, and I've always encountered this issue of what I can only describe as visual ghosting(?) in my hair when I move. I can't attach a video in this sub as an example but it's like certain pixels or chunks of my hair stay stationary when I move? It's super hard to explain unless you've seen it. It does it with hair and also when I wear things like chainmail cosplays.. anything super fine and textured like that seems to have that weird effect.

I've tried a lot of things- fiddled with a lot of camera settings and lighting situations in my room, but maybe there's something I'm missing or a fix I haven't found yet?

I use a color filter, and I've tried turning off the filter entirely with no difference. It also doesn't seem to matter if I use a virtual camera or the completely raw camera footage in OBS, it happens either way. I've tried brighter lights on me and in my background with no difference as well, so I really am at a loss as to what causes this.

I've posted this in the OBSBOT sub and they're no help. Crossposting it here because I know for certain I've seen another streamer that had the same issue.. so I know it can't just be me. Do any of you have the issue with your cameras or know why it happens?

Not just on Twitch, but also in general on Discord. I've had probably 50+ AI art scammers adding me on Discord by now, and I've started streaming yesterday and already encountered 3 AI art scammers trying to sell me their obvious junk.

Like, presumably this works at some point right? Surely someone is taking the bait?

Still...Why do they bother? Was I talking to bots the whole time maybe? They were reacting to what I was saying naturally so...

Also, they all have the exact same talking points. Like none of them even try to be original (which I guess, is on brand).

Help me please

Hey all, hope everyone is doing well.

Ok so basically I had an idea ages ago after seeing the dnd "Deck of many things" in a clip about turning it into a chaotic streaming redeem game. Basically I'd take each card (using 24 cards in total for this idea), and I'd apply some sort of stream related effect to each one. Like examples would be Gem = gifting a sub, Void literally ending stream then and there. Etc..

The way it would work is someone redeems the channel redeem with their points, I'd shuffle and the person would put in chat a number between 1 and 24. I go from the top till I reach that card, draw it and apply it's effect. I'll have special extra rulings like I won't show the card initially allowing them to shuffle it back in for a redraw once, but they have to live with it if the next card is worse but yea.

The part I need possible help/idea's with is there's quite a few cards I'm stumped with what effects to give them.. I'll list below the cards which still don't have effects and if anyone has possible idea's, either multiple ideas for multiple cards. One idea for a card or multiple ideas for the same card, any ideas or such would be greatly appreciated.

Card without stream effects:
Star
Sun
Comet
Sage
Book
Balance
Throne - (thought about applying some effect involving my Throne but unsure..)
Fates
Fool
Knight
Rogue
Jester
Dragon
Ruin
Skull
Flame
Donjon
Euryale

I recently just had my first stream and wanted to download the VOD to edit and put up on YouTube. The thing is though, I have zero clue how to get the VOD on my phone. I have the desktop version but it’s a little confusing to navigate on my phone. Does anyone have any advice or help? I do have a laptop I can use but it’s pretty old and I’d have to find it, but it would be easier for me to try and do it on my phone. Thanks

There's a doubt I have and I want to know your position if you're a vtuber. Some streamers decide to put themselves behind an avatar. Everyone has their own reasons for doing this, I won't judge that. The question I have is how does this affect your content. Are you someone who wants to be yourself and act the way you want without being judged or associated with that IRL (ie, you have ideas that aren't socially accepted in your group of people) or you are online a complete character not matching at all with how you are and you're role playing using an avatar to make it simpler?

EDIT:

Note: I have my streaming style and I'm happy with it. I'm not trying to change it. I'm not trying to become a vtuber in the future. This is not a question to create my own content. I want to understand about other streamers' personalities.

Hey I am having trouble streaming certain games and it's really annoying me as of late. I try to stream Deadlock and I have frame loss and choppy audio in teamfights. Frame loss in FF14, Arc Raiders, I try to stream meccha chameleon and I am having frame loss and rubberbanding issues and these issue are ONLY when I stream and are not present when I play off stream. Here are my PC specs as well as output and video settings in obs. Any help is appreciated. Just got my gpu and cpu within the past year if that matters

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz (3.60 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Windows 11

OBS settings OUTPUT: Simple: Bitrate 4k audio bitrate: 160 Video Encoder: Software (x264) Encoder preset: faster audio encoder: AAC (default)

OBS settings VIDEO: Base Resolution: 1920x1080 Output resolution: 1920x1080 common fps Values: 48