Let me ask you a question. Are you ready to get organized?
I'm not talking about your garage or your bathroom shelves or your linen
closet or your pantry. I'm talking about your StreamYard studio. Let's
go. How's it going? My name is Melanie Dyann Howe, and in this video,
I'm going to share some pretty cool features in the StreamYard studio.
They're going to help you stay organized so that you can create a great show.
Before we get started,
I definitely want to invite you to subscribe to our channel if you haven't
already, we have lots of live shows.
We are uploading content all the time to help you improve your live videos.
So in this video, I'm actually going to share with you some features,
but I want to talk about why these features are important.
So using graphic overlays and videos,
and even the banners and the tickers,
those lower third things they show up on screen, are really,
really great engagement factors.
They're going to help you create a very professional stream that's also
going to increase the engagement,
but they can get a little bit overwhelming when we start to introduce all these
extra bells and whistles and if you're creating the show by yourself, well,
you can get lost in the shuffle if you're not careful.
So we're going to talk about ways that you can stay organized and using some of
the organization features that you may or may not be aware of inside your
StreamYard studio. Now, here we are inside of the beautiful StreamYard studio.
The first thing I want to talk to you about are the brand folders.
Now the brand folders come into play when you have different show types,
or maybe you just have a different look and feel for different shows that you
create. So now some people have multiple brands,
like they may have a personal brand, they may have a hobby brand,
they may have a professional brand, right?
Each of these is probably going to come with a different set of logos and even
colors and of course, graphics like overlays and videos. Now,
if you're only one brand, you might have different show types.
You might have an interview show. You might have a Q&A show.
You might have a road show, whatever it might be.
Each of these shows may also have a different color scheme or a different set
of graphics. At StreamYard,
there are multiple live shows that are produced and they each have their own
color scheme and a series of graphics.
So I definitely want to show you how to use brand folders to organize different
show types or different brands. Okay,
let's dig in and let me show you how these work.
Now to get to your brand folders,
you're actually going to need to be in the brand tab on the right-side of your
menu, navigation inside the studio. To create a new brand,
you actually have to click on this little drop-down arrow and you're going to
notice that you have an option to create another brand.
We'll call it Friday show. And then when you go to that,
it's going to give you a whole new set of assets to change,
so you can actually update the color here to whatever color you want that to
show to be. We'll go with hot pink because it's fun and exciting.
Maybe you want to change the theme.
That's also going to carry across and be saved inside this brand folder as well
and then of course, if you're on one of our paid plans,
you can upload a logo overlays video clips that are unique to this particular
Friday show and then all you have to do to toggle between brands is dropdown the
menu, go back to the other brand, toggle between different brands,
and as you notice, the theme changes,
the colors change and if you have assets uploaded into those brand folders,
those are also going to be available to you as well. Now,
the other thing I want to point out is that you can rename your brand.
So if you change the name of it later,
you can also change that name and you can of course delete the brand if it's no
longer a relevant show for your live streaming broadcasts. Okay, next,
let's talk about organizing these assets that are inside of the studio.
So there's a couple of things that I want to make sure you're aware of.
One is that when you upload a file of, for example, an overlay,
it's actually going to name that file inside your studio as the filename,
but you can rename that file by clicking on the three dots and
selecting rename it's then going to let you change that to whatever you
want to say so that it makes it again easier to quickly see what
it is, what these assets are and how you want to use them. Now,
the other thing that you can do is you can also rearrange the way these are
displayed in the studio.
So when you upload them by default is actually just going to upload them and put
them in the order that you upload them,
but you can now drag and drop to move them around. So for example,
if I were to have my thank you for watching video first, well naturally,
it actually comes at the end of my stream,
so I want to put it probably at the bottom of the list of those video clips.
So I highly recommend that you actually name these files so that they are
something that is quick to seen, makes sense, fits in the screen,
but also put them in the order that you plan to use them in your stream.
I promise you won't regret it. Okay,
now let's talk about your banners and your tickers.
So these are the lower thirds that come up on-screen that you can
control, bring them up and then, and then un-display them during your streams.
Now much like the brand folders,
you're going to be able to create folders for your banners and tickers. Now,
something that's really interesting is that while inside of each brand folder,
it's going to organize your graphic assets, your color, and your logo,
the banners and tickers folders are actually accessible across
all of your brands, so they're not organized by brand.
They are simply organized by folder of those banners and tickers.
But what I recommend you do is you create a folder for each one of these brand
folders that you also have created.
So if you have show type a and you have show type b, we,
you should have banner folder a and banner folder b that goes with each of those
shows.
So you'll notice over here that you can actually simply click create a new
folder by clicking on the plus sign and we'll call it new folder and you
can actually rename that folder later if you decide to.
You can also duplicate the folder if you have a series of those banners and
tickers that you want to repurpose and maybe just make some tweaks to,
and of course you can delete the folder when you're ready or done with that
particular show type.
I do this all the time actually to keep my studio clean and organized for better
streaming. Now,
the other thing that's really cool is you can also rearrange these folders as
well. So if maybe you want to have one at the top, just for, you know,
precedence, you can do that too. Now,
if we go inside of our actual folder itself,
you can also rearrange those banners as well.
I highly recommend that you put these banners into the order that you plan
to use them. This will absolutely make using, keep creating that show flow,
that agenda,
or however you want to use these banners and tickers much simpler on you. Now,
again,
you can also edit the names and edit these in the middle of your stream while
you're streaming,
or you can simply delete them and actually just create a new banner as well.
So that is something else that I wanted to make sure that you knew that will
actually improve the way that your show flow goes and make it a lot easier for
you to utilize these awesome features. Now, as you're just starting out,
you may not find all of these organizational features quite as exciting as maybe
somebody like me who has lots of different shows,
but I will say organizing and renaming, those overlays,
those backgrounds and those videos, everyone should be considering that,
put them in the order that they belong,
organize your banners and your tickers in the order that they belong,
that will actually make your show flow experience a lot easier.
And then of course, as you add more shows to your live streaming journey,
which I hope you do, then you can absolutely utilize the brand folder feature,
which I absolutely think is a huge game changer. I love using that feature. Now,
something I didn't mention during the demonstration is that you can also
switch between brand folders, midstream,
and it's going to automatically apply. So it's going to change the coloring,
it's going to update the logo.
It's going to do all those things and reutilize those assets while you're
mid-streaming.
So you can even use the brand folders for maybe different segments of your show
as well.
Definitely going to help you stay really focused on your content so you can be
very engaging and not looking around trying to find the different things that
you want to apply to your live video.
So I hope you found these features as exciting and as fun as I do,
and I hope you start using them. Now, if you found this video helpful,
obviously let us know in the comments,
how you plan to use these features and of course,
as always make sure that you are subscribed to the StreamYard channel and click
on that notification bell so that you do not miss any of our videos or our live
shows as well. Thank you for watching this video. I hope you found it helpful.