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See every spike in chat at a glance.

A messages-per-second graph stretches across the entire VoD. Peaks are usually clippable moments. Click to seek, drag to bracket a clip, filter by emote to narrow it down.

Why a graph beats scrubbing

On an eight hour stream, scrubbing for highlights is hours of work. The chat already did the work for you. When something funny, scary, or impressive happens, message volume jumps. The graph turns that signal into a visual you can scan in five seconds.

You stop guessing and start clicking. Each tall bar gets a click, you watch the few seconds before it, and you decide whether to keep it.

Built for emote filters

The graph is most useful when filtered. A KEKW-only graph shows where chat laughed. A monkaS-only graph shows where chat got nervous. A POG-only graph shows the highlights.

Voding loads global Twitch emotes plus the channel emotes plus 7TV, BTTV, and FFZ for the streamer you opened. Multi-select dropdowns make filter combos one click away.

A real session: from "opened the VoD" to "ten clip drafts"

Open a six-hour VoD. The graph paints in under three seconds because chat is already in our database, so there is no transcoding step on first view. Filter to KEKW + OMEGALUL and ninety percent of the timeline goes flat; the remaining six or seven peaks are the laughter moments. Click the tallest one. The player jumps to that timestamp and the chat log scrolls back to that second. Watch ten seconds.

If it is a clip, drag from a beat before the spike to a beat after it. A bracket appears on the graph and the clip opens in the sidebar. Name it, tag it "funny", move to the next peak. Six hours of source becomes ten clip drafts in twelve minutes. You spent zero time scrubbing.

Versus scrubbing, versus tools that ignore chat

Most VoD editors treat chat as decoration: render it as a single image you cannot search, or omit it entirely. Scrubbing the source video at 8× takes an hour for an eight-hour stream and you miss things every time you blink. Voding inverts the problem. Chat already noticed every moment that mattered when it happened, and that signal is permanent. It survives the stream. The graph turns the audience into the search index, the peaks are the candidates, and the click is the seek.

About the chat activity graph

A line or bar chart showing how many chat messages were sent per second across a VoD. Tall bars mean chat reacted to something on stream, which is usually a clippable moment.

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