- Here's how a live stream like a pro using StreamYard.
In this complete StreamYard tutorial,
we're gonna take you through step by step how to use it.
Plus share why we think StreamYard is one of the best
live streaming software right now.
There's been some pretty big updates
since our last StreamYard tutorial.
So we'll be packing in some of those new features
into this one too, but also know that StreamYard
works really well on both computer and on mobile devices.
So I'm gonna take you through the process
on using it on a desktop, but the process is pretty much
exactly the same on mobile too.
Guys, we're over here on StreamYard.
You wanna go up to the top right hand corner.
Hit get started if you don't have an account yet,
or if you've already got an account like I do,
we're gonna hit log in.
You wanna enter your account email and hit get login code.
That's gonna email you out a six digit code.
That is your password.
You wanna enter that in the box,
hit login, and you are inside of StreamYard.
Now up the top right hand corner,
you've got your my account area.
Over on the left, you've got your broadcast
which is what we're seeing here now.
Any upcoming live streams will be listed out in here
along with any past live streams too.
Under videos is where you can see
all your recorded videos from the platform.
Destinations is where we can set up
all the places that we want to go live to.
'Cause one of the standout features in StreamYard
is having the ability to go live
to multiple places all at once.
So you can see already, I've got my Facebook profile here,
I've got my Facebook page added here.
We can go ahead and add our YouTube channel too.
And by the sounds of things,
we'll have Instagram as an option in here
in the very near future.
So I'm gonna go YouTube channel.
We'll go ahead and authorize that
and sign into our YouTube channel.
And that now shows up as a destination
that we can broadcast too.
Below that is members.
This is where you can access and assign
different team members,
giving them access to your account.
With some further team settings
down the bottom left corner here.
Let's go ahead and set up a broadcast.
So we're gonna come back to broadcast.
Let's go create a broadcast,
and straight away we get to choose
if we want to create a new broadcast,
which is a live stream,
or if we want to use a pre-recorded video.
We're gonna create a new broadcast.
We can then select the destination
of where we wanna broadcast live too.
Again, I've got my personal profile,
the Primal Video page and our YouTube channel.
Now we can actually select on multiple options here
to broadcast to multiple platforms.
We also have the option to choose record only
so you can use StreamYard just for creating
regular videos as well.
So let's go ahead now and just select
say our YouTube channel.
And you can see here,
we get the ability to enter a title, a description,
and we can set the privacy of that stream.
Public, unlisted, or private.
Now if we select Facebook as well,
we can see that we can enter a title
and description for Facebook too,
but it doesn't necessarily need to be
the same title and description.
Down the bottom here, we can actually customize this app
for each destination.
So we could pick YouTube here,
then enter a description and title just for YouTube.
And then over on Facebook,
we might wanna call it something else.
So it's awesome that you've got that capability in here.
Now for this preview, I am gonna deselect Facebook.
We're just gonna go ahead with YouTube.
I am going to change my settings here
to be an unlisted stream,
and we're gonna call this test stream.
Now if you don't wanna go live straight away,
you can actually schedule your streams for later
by checking this box.
And then we can choose the time that we want
our live stream to happen.
We can also upload a thumbnail image here too.
So we're able to set up the complete live stream
all from within StreamYard.
I'm gonna uncheck that.
We're gonna go back to create broadcast.
So from there, you'll have to allow permissions
so that the web browser here
can access your camera and your microphone.
So you wanna go ahead and approve that
no matter which browser you're using.
And then a preview of our webcam
is going to show up down here.
So because I've got multiple webcams selected,
I'm gonna choose settings.
I'm gonna come over here to camera,
and then I'm gonna select which camera I want.
So I'm gonna pick this one here,
which is you up here.
Hey, I'm on camera.
And we can also choose our camera resolution here too.
I'm gonna choose 1080 'cause that's what this webcam is.
And now we're gonna go back over to the general area,
and in here we can choose our actual
broadcast quality of the stream.
Now this is one that will be dependent
on which plan you're on with StreamYard
as to whether you have access to 1080P live streaming
or just 720.
And then there's a bunch of things in here
that you can customize up if you'd like.
Normally, these default settings
are going to be fine for most people,
but you've got things in here like being able
to record a separate audio file for each guest.
So if you ask someone who does wanna repurpose your content,
then that could be a good one to have on.
Okay, so we selected our camera.
Let's go down to audio.
Again, we get to choose which microphone we want to use.
So for this one, I'm just gonna pick
the builtin microphone on my Mac.
We can see that that is working there now.
And for speaker, in case we're gonna bring in a guest,
we can choose how we want to hear them.
Again, for the purposes of this one,
I'm gonna choose just the built in speakers on my Mac.
But normally you probably be selecting a set of headphones
so that there's no echo.
But speaking of echo, great segue, Justin,
there is also echo cancellation built in here as well.
So if you don't have the ability to use headphones
to cancel out any echo or feedback,
there is noise suppression and echo removal
built into StreamYard too.
Now unless you are running a more professional setup
where you are manually adjusting
your microphone volume levels,
then I would recommend that you're leaving this box checked
so it's automatically going to adjust
your microphone volumes for you.
Now we're not gonna go through every setting in here
because there is a lot, but the next area down here,
virtual background will help you remove the background
in your video or blur it.
So we can blur the background here.
Now you actually can't adjust how much blur is applied,
but you also can swap out the background again
without the need for a green screen.
So there's a couple of presets in here,
or you can add your own background.
Now if you are actually using a green screen
or a blue screen, then you will wanna check this box here,
and get that set up in here too.
Now the next one down is hot keys.
Now this one is a relatively new addition for StreamYard,
and this will allow you to set up keyboard shortcuts
or hot keys to trigger different things
that can happen while you're live,
while you're creating your broadcast.
But this also means that you can use
a switching device like the El Gato Stream Deck
to action these things at a button press.
So for those of you that are looking to create
a more professional live stream,
the Stream Deck is an amazing tool to help you do that
and to streamline everything while you're live.
And the last one down here, guests,
you can see we've got options in here for the guests
to be able to see the viewer's comments on or off.
Again, I'd recommend that you just leave these as default,
and you can also turn on things
like having a sound play when the guest joins.
Like a doorbell so that you know that someone's joined,
and also forcing them to authenticate
before they join your stream too.
I'm gonna close outta this one.
Now that we have our webcam and audio sorted,
we're gonna enter our name for the stream here.
You can see it says Justin Brown down the bottom,
and let's go enter studio.
So what we're seeing now is the default
StreamYard broadcast interface.
This is the broadcast room.
And straight away, it's saying to us down the bottom here
you're not part of the stream yet.
Click to add your audio and video.
If you click on that then,
it will bring us up into the stream.
Now if you ask someone who wants to do
a more professional stream, you can actually now bring in
multiple camera angles into here too.
So if we come down the bottom here to share,
we can add in an extra camera.
We can pick what that is.
Let's just choose here the FaceTime camera,
the front camera in this laptop, and again,
we get to choose the resolution.
Let's go to share.
So we can see now we've got two different webcams
that are added in here, and we can switch between them
using these different presets or different layouts here
so that we can change up the way that this looks.
So whether we want just one on camera,
we can also switch between them
using the little solo layout button down the bottom here.
So we can switch between the different camera angles,
and at any time we don't want a camera on the stage
and ready to present, we can just hover our mouse over it
and press remove.
And that is pushed back to, I guess, the greeting room,
the waiting room.
It's a video source that we can add back in at any time
just by clicking on it.
So down the bottom here, you've got your main controls
to mute your microphone, stop your camera.
We've got your settings down here as well,
which is a lot of the settings
that we just ran through before.
You've got the share button down the bottom here
where you can bring in slides,
and the slides can come in from Google slides
or slides from your computer.
It says here they support Google Slides,
PowerPoint, and PDF.
And if you are using Keynote, it gives you a workaround
to get that working as well.
And again, when they're added, they'll just show up
as another video source down the bottom here.
We can also share a video file,
and we can also share the computer screen too.
So if I go share screen, we can either choose
our entire screen or we can choose
a specific window or application.
I'm gonna choose entire screen.
Let's pick screen number three and hit share.
And again, that shows up as a source down the bottom here.
So we can click on this to add it to the stream,
and you can see we've still got
our two video sources that are in here,
and we now have a screen share too.
And again, we can switch between things
with the different presets along the bottom here,
allowing you to quickly jump between
these different scenes and different layouts.
Different looks literally with the click of a button.
And again, if we wanna remove it from our stream,
we've just got the remove button down the bottom here.
Now the next one along is where you can go
to invite your guest,
and I will get to that very, very soon.
But we're gonna customize up this interface first.
So if we come across to the site here
where it says brand and select on that,
in here we can create brands
or different groups of assets and templates and things
that we can use for our live streams,
and for even different types of live streams as well.
So you can see if we come up
to the top here to this dropdown,
we've got Brand 1, we've also got Primal Video.
So these are obviously test ones that we've set up.
Or we can go ahead and create a new brand
for our test video here.
Then we can choose our brand color.
Maybe for this one it's some sort of yellow,
and we can choose the layout of our titles,
what we want our titles to look like.
Now to test these so we can see
what they look like on screen,
we can come back up here to comments
and we can hit show on this test comment,
and that's now going to appear
within our branding colors, yellow.
So if we come back over here to the brand now
and try these different themes,
we can see what that can look like.
We can also choose to just show
the display names for your guests and yourself on screen
just with this toggle here.
And if we scroll down, we can add a watermark
or a logo on here too.
So the default is the StreamYard one there,
but you don't need to use it.
If you're on one of the paid plans,
we can upload our own logo here too.
So let's go ahead and pick a Primal Video logo
and select on that, and that is now uploaded.
Again, we can turn it on and off just by clicking on it
to enable it or disable it.
The same goes for the overlays as well.
There is a default overlay here.
You can see it says live with StreamYard up the top,
and down the bottom we've got our StreamYard show.
Again, this is a demo one for you
to show you what you can create,
but you have the ability to upload your own templates,
and graphics, and designs, and stuff
to really create the branded live stream that you're after
just by coming down here and choosing ad overlay.
Then you can upload a transparent P and G or a graphic
that you can use as an overlay
to sit on top of your webcams and screen shares.
So this is where you can create something totally custom,
or you could use a service like streamer templates,
which goes through and creates
a lot of these templates, and brands, and things for you
that you can then customize up
to use specifically in StreamYard.
And we've got a free design there
that you can download and play around with as well.
So don't forget to check out the links
down in the description for extra resources
and tools like this.
Now the next area down is video clips.
So if you do want to play back a video
inside of your live stream,
we'll have a countdown timer at the start of it.
This is where you can upload your own.
There is a default countdown timer here,
but if we click on this,
then this is automatically going to play.
So a lot of this customization you can either do before,
or you can trigger these things on and off
while you're live as well.
You can see how easy this is to dive in here
while you're live and click on things
and bring up different overlays, different templates,
and play video files all from within this simple interface.
Now, if we go back up here,
let's turn off the StreamYard overlay.
Let's hide that one.
Let's hide the Primal Video one.
Let's turn off our display name.
Let's go back down here though,
and let's pick on the background.
So I can show you what that looks like.
So right now with this shot here,
we're full screen so we're not gonna see a background.
But if we come down here, we change our layout
to say one of these ones here where there is a background,
then this is where we can see that.
So if I click here on bubbles dark,
then we've now changed up the background.
So a lot of those templates, and themes, and things
that you can get to use in here,
again from places like streamer templates,
you can just use them as background templates as well.
Now if it keeps scrolling down, this is another new feature.
You can add background music to your streams.
Now there is some presets in here for you,
or you can go ahead and add in your own music,
which you can upload directly into StreamYard.
So that's the overall branding,
and the look and feel of your live stream.
If we come back up here though to banners,
in here is where you can create while you're live,
or you can pre configure beforehand
any text or titles that you wanna use in your stream.
Now you can categorize and group these
into folders like I have here.
So under Q and A banners, let's open this up,
then we've got some questions that we could bring up
and ask our guests or our livestream viewers.
So I just press on these.
We've got questions like Mac or PC, Android or iOS,
coffee or tea, and all of these, again,
we can just trigger while we're live,
or we can customize up and create them
while we're live as well.
So we can quickly add a new one here, red or blue,
and we can hit add banner.
We can then select on that, and that can be shown.
Now with these as well, we also have the ability
to create a scrolling banner across the bottom.
So if we go here test text and choose
scroll banner across the bottom, let's go add banner.
Then when we click on this one,
it's going to have that banner with that scrolling text
moving across the bottom.
And then again to hide these,
we just wanna click on them again, and they are disabled.
So really, really fast and easy.
And then back up here under comments,
this is where we can see all of our live stream comments
from whatever platforms you're broadcasting to.
So if you are broadcasting to multiple platforms,
they're gonna all be aggregated in here for you.
So you've got one place to look to see everything,
and we can easily feature these on screen too
just by selecting on them.
So if we click on this one here, this is an example comment.
This is how it's going to show up
with this particular brand and theme that we have set up.
And again to hide it, we just want to click on it again
and it goes away.
Now we can interact in the chat as well.
Down the bottom here, we can post that comment
and there is also a private chat
for you to interact with your guests while you're live.
So I'm gonna go ahead now and show you
how to invite a guest.
So we're gonna go down the bottom here to invite,
click on this, we're gonna get a private URL.
It says we can have up to 10 people on screen at once.
We wanna grab this link, copy it, or hit copy to clipboard.
We wanna send this out or hand it out
to anyone that we want to join our stream.
Okay, so I've sent my link out
and I got two people in the green room.
So I'm gonna go ahead and hide one of my webcams here
just so it goes back to full screen.
For me again, you can see how easy this is
to jump around and do everything while you're live.
But I have Ellie and Mattea from Primal Video team
in the green room here.
So again, I can chat with them over on the side
here in private chat, but when I'm ready to bring them on,
just like any other video feed,
I can just hit add to stream.
So I can either bring them up one at a time,
Ellie is on screen now,
or I can bring everyone up all at once.
So we've got Mattea and Ellie.
Thank you for joining us in here.
They're literally in the next room in the new studio.
So this is pretty cool to have everyone all in the one spot,
but we also have the ability now that everyone is on here,
we can either switch between soloing someone up full screen
so I can bring Mattea up full screen
or Ellie up full screen, or come back to me.
We can also bring up the screen share as well,
and we can use these templates across the bottom
to change up the layout based on how many people
or what video sources you have included here.
All just with a click of a button.
Now you, as the host, you also have the ability
to mute your guest microphone as well.
If there's something really loud or distracting going on,
you can mute and unmute from down the bottom here.
And you can also bring up your guests'
computer screen as well, screen share.
So we can see here we've got Mattea is sharing her screen.
We can click and add that to the stream as well
for a crazy weird effect, but let's remove that.
But you have the ability to bring in not only your guests,
but also their computer screens too.
Now when it's time for your guests to leave,
either they can leave themselves,
or you can actually kick them out
and remove them from your stream.
So we come down here to the three dots for say Mattea.
We have the option to edit her name
so we can change the text,
or we can actually choose kick from studio.
So if we click on this one, goodbye, Mattea.
We can kick her out, but we can also, if we needed to,
if you've got someone that just keeps coming back,
just keeps trying to join,
you can actually ban from the studio too.
So I'm not gonna ban Ellie,
but we will remove you from the stream.
Thank you for joining us.
So now probably the most important thing is going live.
So if we wanna go live,
we wanna go to the top right hand corner here
and hit the blue button that says go live.
But before you do, you can quickly check
that everything is right.
So we can see here we're going only to YouTube.
We can hit edit to edit our title
and our description and everything.
Make sure that we got our privacy settings right.
So the same settings that we can figure at the start,
but we can make sure that that's all good.
Again, if we wanna add Facebook
or any of our other destinations,
we can select those up here too.
But that's all looking good.
I'm gonna go ahead and hit go live.
It's gonna confirm that we're ready to go live.
Let's go live now,
and now it says up in the top left hand corner
that we are live.
So we have our peace of mind that it's all working.
We also have the big end broadcast button
up in the top right hand corner.
Okay, we can see at the top here
we have two people watching.
We also have the comments coming through,
and again, to feature this comment.
So from Ellie here, I can just click on this
and that will be featured on screen.
And to hide it, we just click on it and it's gone.
And one of the really cool feature in StreamYard
while you're live is the StreamYard giveaway tool.
So this is how you can run giveaways, contest, competitions,
all from within StreamYard.
Now to do this, you do need to open up a new tab.
So we're gonna go to the website, streamyard.com/giveaway.
And again, you can set this up before you go live,
but you will have to have your broadcast created.
So if you're still logged into StreamYard,
you wanna then choose your broadcast.
We've got here our test live stream,
and then the way this will work
is that we can either randomly draw
from anyone that is commenting in the chat
if we leave this empty.
Or we can ask people to enter something specific
to be in the draw.
So if we ask people to type in #PV for Primal Video,
we can then choose start collecting comments.
That's then gonna tell us how many people
have typed that into the chat.
And we can see here, we've got two entries in the draw.
Two people have typed in #PV.
Then we're ready to run the draw
and see who the actual winner was.
We can just hit draw, and that's gonna go through
and pick from either myself or Ellie,
the only two people that typed it into the chat,
and it is going to pick a winner.
Now the beauty of this is you can actually be
screen sharing in StreamYard
this screen as well, this webpage.
So that you can actually incorporate that
as part of your live stream.
So this is a really great way to drive deeper engagement
and interaction with your followers.
And once you're done with your live stream,
you just wanna head to the top right hand corner,
hit the end broadcast button.
It's going to confirm that you do want to end the broadcast.
So click on that and it's gonna take a few seconds,
and then the broadcast has been stopped.
From here, you can come up to share
and we can download the recording of that entire broadcast,
or we can embed and share that out directly from here too.
Or we can go over and view it
on whatever platform that we were live on.
And again, this is a great tool,
not just for live streaming, but also for creating
pre-recorded videos too.
Having access to all these tools
and be able to switch different camera angles and things
all at your fingertips.
So that is a complete StreamYard tutorial.
Now if you wanna see how StreamYard stacks up
against some of the other top
live streaming software right now,
then check out the videos linked on screen
whether you're on Mac or PC.
I'll see you in there.