- You guys ever get it where you go to sleep
at the end of a long day with a headache,
and then you wake up with that same headache?
That was today.
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One of the biggest trends right now is livestreaming
and I think it's only gonna get bigger from here.
The reason why I think that is 'cause
it's the logical progression of reality TV.
First we had the old school, the originators of reality TV,
back in the days of cable,
and they were super produced and kind of fake,
actually they were really fake
for the most part, reality TV.
Then after that we kinda moved into daily vlogging.
Vlogging became the new reality TV,
and it was a lot less produced which made it feel more real.
There's still a lot of fake stuff in vlogs,
but it's more real than the original reality TV.
And now we have livestreaming - it's as real as it gets,
it's the realest form of reality TV
that you can get right now.
And I think people in general
are craving that real interaction,
having that real relationship with people,
especially in this day and age of social media
where it's kinda like a fake social interaction,
they want to feel like they're hanging out with you
and that's what so cool about livestreaming right now.
So that's why I think livestreaming is the future
and that's why I've started dabbling in livestreaming also.
I've done a bunch of livestreams now,
it started out, every Friday I was doing livestreams,
now it's every Thursday, pm, I'm livestreaming.
If you haven't seen it yet, come hang out this Thursday,
or the next Thursday, or the next Thursday.
I try to do it every single Thursday, 3 pm Eastern Time.
I do Q&As, we talk about different stuff, there's
a lot of interaction between me and you guys, which I love
because I think it's the best way actually, to interact
with you guys right now.
Just the chat and everything, it's really fun,
I really enjoy it, and that's probably the biggest
reason why I do it because I actually
really, really like it.
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One of the biggest questions is how do you
actually livestream, what do you need to livestream.
I've been getting a lot of comments about how crispy
my livestreams are, I take a lot of pride in that,
so why don't we head back to the office and I'll
show you guys my setup.
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Alright, so let's first go through the hardware, the gear
that I'm actually using to livestream.
First off, camera C300, Mark II.
This is the brains, you do not need to use a camera
like this, you can use pretty much anything.
Lens is the Sigma 18-35, and I'm using a Røde NTG3 mic
up here for sound, the light is an Aputure 120d with
the soft box, the light dome, I think it's called
the light dome, that's great, really like that.
Computer is my MacBook Pro, I've also used the iMac,
but this works great, no problems here.
My monitor here is the LG, I don't even remember what
this thing's called, some sort of widescreen LG monitor,
works real great.
And then the only real extra piece of hardware that
you need to buy is this thing,
called the Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Recorder,
and that basically just allows you to connect the camera
to your computer and get that video feed through.
I think it's like $150, that's really the only extra piece
of gear that you need to buy, and of course, an extra dongle
to get it going.
Right now I'm using SDI cables but you can also use HDMI
to get it to your computer.
It's handy, I like it.
So this is my livestream setup.
This is what it looks like when I'm livestreaming,
and like I said, the only extra piece of hardware
I'm buying is that little box right there, $150.
But you're probably saying "Well what about the software?
You're probably paying a lot of money for that."
Nope. It's actually free, let me show you guys.
So what I'm using to livestream the software is called
OBS Studio, open-broadcast software, I think that's
what it stands for.
It's totally free, works on Mac, works on PC, works
on everything, which is really great,
and it's free.
Of course, like any program, it looks a bit daunting.
When you open it up and it's like "What the heck
is going on?" but it's actually fairly simple.
I won't go through the whole program, but I'll kinda
walk you through the most important stuff,
the things that I do and that I think are really important.
So, the first screen here, this is what you're streaming.
Anything in that box, that's what you're gonna
be sending out, that's what you're gonna be livestreaming
so just be aware of that.
Then we have our little scenes, which we'll get to,
but basically I have a countdown, I have an intro,
and then I have the actual camera, the video feed
of myself.
Then we have the sources that are in those scenes:
the camera, the video files all that, and the audio,
and then there's a little scene transition,
but you don't have to really have
to worry about that right now.
And then just, start stream, start recording,
that's basically all you need to know.
So going back to the scenes, basically I made
a little 10-minute countdown in After Effects,
and then you can kind of import that video clip
into OBS and, after that ten minutes is up,
I just flip to the intro, which is my normal intro,
I just modified the ending a bit,
and then once that intro in done I just go
to the video feed, and that's essentially how
I do my livestreams.
I found this to be really important to have this little
countdown because it deals with the awkwardness of
the beginning of the livestream where people are just
coming in, they're starting to join the livestream,
and you're not having to just be there awkwardly
talking about nothing or having to repeat yourself
a bunch of times.
The countdown allows the livestream to populate,
get enough people there, so that when you do start streaming
there's people there and you're good to go and it's not
awkward right at the beginning.
Let's go through the settings just a little bit.
In general, you're not gonna touch anything.
Stream here, you're just gonna grab the stream key
from YouTube or Twitch or whatever you're using to stream.
You're gonna grab that key, plug it into here
so that when you hit 'start streaming' on OBS
it's gonna send that to whatever stream key you put in here.
For output we're gonna go to advanced instead of just simple
and then we're encode in 264, we're gonna go CBR,
and then I choose a bit rate of 10,000 and that might be
too high for you depending on how fast your internet is
but I like to keep it high, so the higher the number,
the better quality your livestream is,
but it also will need more internet power to push it
to the internet, so depending on your internet speed
kind of play around with this, but 10000 for me has been
a good amount.
The rest of the settings here, I haven't changed at all,
and then I'm just doing a 1080 24p NTSC,
that's about it for the settings, real simple.
If you want to dive deeper into the settings,
there's a bunch of different videos on OBS,
just look it up.
Once you have all that set up, you're just gonna go into
your YouTube channel or Twitch, I haven't livestreamed
on Twitch yet, but I assume it's pretty similar to this.
So, I would go to my YouTube channel, go to creator studio,
and then hit livestreaming.
Here I'm just gonna change the thumbnail, the title,
and the description to match that livestream.
So my next livestream is gonna be about my journey
to 400,000 subscribers, so that's my thumbnail,
I have my title here and the description,
and that's basically all you need to do here,
then you just go back to OBS Studio,
once you're ready to start streaming,
you hit 'Start Streaming' and you're off to the races.
Don't start accidentally, and make sure to remember
to stop the stream also.
And that really is how you livestream, it's as simple
as that.
You can see the camera is recording right here,
and then this is what my monitor looks like,
I got OBS Studio here and then my YouTube stuff here,
super chat, all that stuff, normal chat, I keep track of,
and the video feed, you guys can see right there.
So yeah, that's the technical side
of how to start streaming.
You basically just buy that little box
and then hook it up, and you're good to go.
Maybe I'll do another video about the actual process
of making good stream content 'cause that's
another whole beast of its own.
It's one thing figuring out the technical, the hardware,
the hooking up the whole thing side,
it's a totally different thing having
a really good livestream.
I feel like I'm still learning that.
There's a few really important things that I've learned
so far, but most importantly
I just really like livestreaming.
It's the best way to interact with you guys,
I just have a lot of fun doing the livestreams,
they just fly by, even though I'm there for an hour,
two hours sometimes, it goes by so quickly,
and I really think it's gonna be the next big thing,
and it already is starting to be.
I think the biggest reason for that is that it's
just so accessible.
Pretty much anybody can do this, there isn't a lot
of filmmaking know-how, once you figure out this little bit
it's just the same thing over and over again,
and you're just focusing on the content,
that's really what makes it a good or bad stream.
So yeah, if you guys want another livestreaming video,
maybe more on the content side, just leave some thumbs-up
in the comments, and join me for the livestream
Thursday at 3 pm, that's what I do.
I'll see you guys later, I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
Bye.
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