In this video, I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and stream
to YouTube utilizing OBS studio.
Let's go ahead and dive in.
So the very first thing you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna
go ahead and open up OBS studio.
If you don't have OBS studio installed, I'll put a link in the
description of this video for you to go ahead and get it all set up.
So once you have OBS studio open, you're gonna come here to the right hand
side and we're gonna select settings.
The first thing we're gonna do is gonna get connected to YouTube.
If you're gonna come on the left, you're gonna select stream.
When it says service, you're gonna click that and you're
gonna select YouTube, RTMPS
now you're gonna have two options here.
It's gonna say Connect account, which is the recommended, and
it's the one I recommend as well.
And then use your stream key.
Now, before we go ahead and connect our account to YouTube, there's one
important thing that you need to know.
If you've never streamed to YouTube, you are gonna need
to go ahead and get approved.
Then it does take 24 hours for you to go ahead and gain access.
The amount of subscribers and viewers and things that you have does not matter.
You just need to get approved and request access, and it does take 24 hours.
So let me go ahead and show you what that looks like if it's gonna be your
first time trying to stream on YouTube.
So once you get logged into your YouTube channel, you're gonna
come to the top right and you're gonna go ahead and select Go live.
Once you go ahead and select that, it's gonna bring you
to a screen just like this.
It's gonna save request access to streaming once requested, it may take up
24 hours to get access to live streaming.
So you simply go ahead and select request, it's gonna give you a
timer, and then you'll be able to check back in within 24 hours.
So once you've gone ahead and gotten approved, you can go ahead and
continue to follow along with the steps that I'm about to show you now.
So we'll come back here to OBS and now we can go ahead and select Connect account.
Once we do that, that's gonna go ahead and ask us to go ahead and get
logged in with our YouTube channel.
We'll then go ahead and say, continue to give access to obs and it's gonna say
authorization completed successfully.
You can now close this page, so I'm gonna come back here to OBS
and you're gonna see here that now my account has been connected.
Then you wanna make sure you select here where it says, ignore streaming
service settings, recommendations.
You wanna make sure that that is unchecked.
Then you're gonna go ahead and press okay.
This is gonna go ahead and pop up a window just like this.
Now because OBS integrates to YouTube, you're gonna be able to monitor your
YouTube chat directly inside of os.
So you can see here YouTube chat, the one tape broadcast has been created.
Your livestream chat would appear here, right?
So we'll go ahead and scroll this over.
We'll go ahead and tag this here to the left.
So just drag it until you see it pop up, and now it's gonna
go ahead and be in place.
So now that we have that in place, now we want to go ahead and set up our livestream
to be able to make sure that when it goes live, So you'll come here to the right and
you're gonna select, manage, broadcast.
This is the benefit of connecting, using the recommended option
because you can customize everything directly inside of obs.
So you're gonna go in and select, create a new broadcast.
You're gonna name this, your title of your stream.
Make sure you utilize something that generates some curiosity, gets people
interested on the what you're gonna be talking about, your description.
This is where you're gonna be able to put in links to follow you on
social media to be able to donate.
This is where you put in the information about what your stream's about and
what bigger people can find you.
Now here where it says privacy, this is extremely important because if you
have this on private or unlisted, that means that when you go live, no one's
gonna be able to see your stream.
So you wanna make sure you have this on public.
Then you want to do your category.
You wanna go ahead and put gaming.
You wanna go ahead and put, no, this is not for kids.
And then you want to go ahead and put in your thumbnail.
You can go ahead and upload your custom thumbnail, which I recommend.
And then as far as latency, I recommend leaving it at normal.
That's gonna give you the best quality.
So then you can go ahead now.
And when you do that, when you have it on public, you can go
ahead and say, create broadcast.
Now, I don't recommend creating broadcast and start streaming cuz
you want to be able to set up your settings to make it look good.
So I'm gonna select, create broadcast.
It's gonna say creating a new live broadcast.
Please wait.
You're gonna see here that now on the lefthand side, my chat is now available,
so we wanna jump over to YouTube to make sure that that broadcast was created.
Now remember, we're not live yet, so we'll come back here to YouTube to
make sure that we are all ready to go.
So on your YouTube channel, you're gonna come to your profile icon.
You're gonna go ahead and select YouTube Studio, and then on the left
hand side, you're gonna select content.
Then you're gonna come to the top, you're gonna select live, and you're
gonna see your broadcast here.
What you wanna select is little icon here that says View in live control room.
So once you click that, you're gonna be able to see here that
now our live has been created.
We're not live yet, but it has been created for us.
It's gonna have our title, our description, everything is ready to go.
So once you've done that, we now need to come back into O B S studio.
So just.
Connecting your YouTube channel to OBS studios.
Not everything you need to do.
Now.
We need to make sure that your settings are correct.
That way your stream looks good.
You don't want your stream to be laggy or to be choppy.
You wanna give your viewers a good experience.
So let's go ahead and get our settings set up so that way your stream looks good.
So let's go ahead and jump into OBS.
All right, so inside of OBS Studio, you're gonna come to where it says, Settings.
We're then gonna go ahead and first we're gonna double check our video.
So you, on YouTube, you can go ahead and stream higher than 1080p quality.
But for this example, I'm gonna use 1080p since most people are
gonna watch your stream on mobile and that's all you really need.
So you wanna make sure you have 1920 by 10 80.
1920 by 10 80 and then your FPS, you want to have it at 60.
This is what I recommend, but again, it's all gonna be based on your
computer and your internet speed.
So if you do need to go ahead and lower this, you can go ahead
and drop this to 30 to be able to make sure your quality looks good.
So once you have that in place, we're gonna come to where it says output.
These are gonna be the settings that are gonna be super important to make
sure that your stream looks good.
So you can come up top to output mode and select advance.
And then here for your encoder, you're gonna have several options
based on what you're utilizing.
So typically you can use X 2 64 or you can go ahead and use your
graphic card if you are on a Windows.
And if you aren't on Mac, you're gonna want to use your hardware in coder.
So then we're gonna come down here where it says Rate control C B R.
This is gonna be the most important aspect of streaming.
Your bit rate is gonna determine how well your stream is going to
look and to be able to find out what bit rate you can utilize.
This is all based on your internet speed.
So I'm gonna show you now how to go ahead and check your internet speed so
you know what kind of bit rate you can put, so that way your stream looks good.
So let's go ahead and jump back into the computer.
So you're gonna want to come to a website called speed test.net, and I'll put a
link in the description of this video.
You're gonna want to hit go, and then once you hit go, that's gonna
generate a number just like this.
It's gonna generate your download speed and your upload.
The number that we care about is gonna be your upload speed.
This is what we're gonna utilize to determine our bid rate.
Now if you come to the link in the description where I put a link
telling you what bid rate to utilize based on the quality that you want.
This is provided by YouTube.
So again, I mentioned we're gonna do a 10 80 p 60 frames per second kind of stream.
So if we click that, it's gonna tell us that our video bit range
needs to be between 40 509,000.
So to be able to understand what this number is, I just look at
the first number four and nine.
So what you want to do is you wanna at least have a 20 upload if you're gonna
go 9,000, and if you're gonna go 4,500.
You want to have at least a 10 upload.
So that's gonna be this number here.
So I have 500, right?
And I only need 20 to be able to go ahead and do 10 80 p 60 Frank per second at the
highest number that YouTube recommends.
Rule of thumb that I recommend is that whatever your upload speed is, cut
that in half and that's gonna be the amount of bit where you can utilize.
So for me it's 500.
I can say two 50.
So 250,000 is what I have available, which is overkill for
what YouTube is recommending.
So now that we have that number there, and if you can't do 10 80 p because you're
internet speed, you can come here and do seven 20 P 60, and you can see here
that it's gonna allow you to go as low as 2,250, meaning you can just have a five.
Upload.
Right.
So that's gonna, this article is gonna be available for you in
the description of this video.
So now that we know that bit rate, we're gonna come back here.
Right?
So I know that I can go ahead and put 9,000 because my internet can support it.
So once you have that bit rate, you input that there.
Your key frame interval, you're gonna put it at two seconds and your
profile, you're gonna put it at high.
You're gonna go ahead and select, okay.
So now that we have our settings correct, what we're gonna want to do now is now
that we have everything ready, We're gonna go ahead and hit start streaming,
and so that's gonna say start streaming.
You can see here that now we're live.
So what we want to do is we wanna go ahead and jump back over to YouTube to confirm
that we're now sending over our stream.
So you see here that now we are live, everything is ready
to go, excellent condition.
You're gonna see here that I can monitor my chat.
And now everything is ready to go and I can start to go live with my audience.
Now, inside of OBS studio, you're gonna be able to manage your
chat here on the left hand side.
But if you want to go ahead and have overlays and graphics and to make your
stream look professional, you wanna go to stream designs.com and I'll put link
in the description of this video where you can get overlays for your stream.
And the package that I'm using here today is gonna be called Shadow.
That you can go ahead and find on stream designs along with other packages.
So this is gonna be the shadow package, and that's gonna go ahead
and include everything that I need to make my stream look professional.
So you can see here that I'm gonna go ahead and have my overlay screens, my
panels, my alerts, everything that I need to make my stream look professional.
So you can go to stream designs.com to be able to get overlays, and
then once you go ahead and have your overlays to be able to know how to
go ahead and get 'em all set up.
Go ahead and watch this video where I walk you step by step on how to set
up overlays inside of obs Studio to make your stream look professional.
I'll see you guys in the next video.