First start
The first time Clutch opens, it asks one question: What will you use it for?
- Streaming games: your game or screen, your webcam in a corner, game and desktop sound, and your mic.
- Talking to camera: your webcam full screen, with your mic.
- Recording videos and tutorials: your screen with your mic, set up for recording.
- Vertical video (TikTok, Shorts, Reels): a 1080 × 1920 canvas.
Clutch then finds your screen, webcam, microphone and video encoder, lists what it found, and builds a ready scene. Your microphone gets noise suppression straight away, and Clutch picks the performance profile that suits your PC.
Want a specific resolution? Click Choose the resolution myself to see every canvas preset (1080p60, 1440p60, 720p, vertical and more).
- Record: click Record in the top bar.
- Go live: click Go Live, pick your platform and paste your stream key.
- Clip your games: turn on clip mode in Settings → Clips.
You can run the first-start setup again at any time: open the setup menu in the top bar and choose New setup… (see Setups).