- If you want to go live on YouTube using your smartphone,
in this video I'm gonna show you the best new,
free livestreaming app that's available for both Android
and iOS users, and it's also available for PC users.
Now the app I'm talking about today
is called Prism Live Studio,
and it's an absolute powerhouse of an app.
As I mentioned, it is free,
and by the end of this video I want you
to be able to livestream with this app,
so I'm gonna open it up and I'm gonna walk you through
and show you the features that you need to learn first
so you can get up and start livestreaming with this app.
But before I do that I do want to mention
a couple of things that are very important
that I want to get out of the way first.
Number one is if you have under 1,000 subscribers on YouTube
you can use this app to livestream,
so if that's you keep watching this video.
Number two, you can multistream with this app,
and this is huge because if you want to multistream
and send streams to different platforms
you can do it with this app
and you don't have to pay anything for it,
but it's important that you go read
the terms and services of any platform
that you want to multistream to to make sure
that you're not breaking any rules over there.
Number three, Prism Live Studio
allows you to stream up to 1080p.
Now if you've used other streaming apps in the past
you know that you've been limited to 720p.
Well, now you have 1080p if your upload speed allows it,
so if you have a fast internet speed
you can stream out at 1080p for that crispy livestream.
Number four, Prism Live Studio
isn't only a livestreaming app.
You can also shoot and edit your video
inside of this app for free,
and you can also shoot and edit
your photos inside of this app,
but for this tutorial we're gonna
focus on livestreaming on YouTube.
For the video and the photo feature,
I'll cover those in future videos
because they're definitely worthy of their own video,
but for now let's open up Prism Live Studio
and let me show you the features that you need
to know about so you can start livestreaming.
Now when the app first opens up
you're gonna see the interface, and by the way,
I do want to mention that you can use this app
in either portrait mode or landscape mode,
but for this tutorial we're gonna use portrait mode.
And the first thing I want you to look at is up
in the top left hand corner with those three little dots,
and if I tap on that it's gonna open up a little interface,
and if you're in photo mode you're gonna be able to turn
the flash on and off, and you can turn the mic on and off.
Now because I'm recording this with
a screen recorder I have to turn my mic off
because the app wants to use my mic,
and when we get into the actual
livestreaming portion I will turn this back on.
You can turn the camera on and off,
and you can view in full screen like I'm doing right now.
If I want to go off of full screen I simply toggle that off,
or I can toggle it right back on.
Underneath that you're gonna see flip front-facing camera.
Now what this does is it literally rotates your camera.
I know you've seen livestreaming before
where maybe the logo on their shirt
or things on the wall is actually backwards.
What this does is if you have an image,
and here's one of our Nimminati stickers,
if you have something that is backwards
you tap on that and it's gonna spin it around
so everything looks right in your livestream.
I'm gonna turn that right back off.
Underneath that you have save video after streaming.
If you toggle that on what's gonna happen
is after you've finished your livestream
it's gonna take your livestream
and turn it into a vide and save it into your gallery.
But I'm gonna close this up
by tapping on the three dots again.
Now over to the right of that
you're gonna see that little recycle button,
that's gonna switch the cameras on your phone.
Currently I'm using the selfie cam,
but if I wanted to use a higher quality camera
or use the back-facing camera I'm gonna tap on that
and use the back-facing camera.
But for this tutorial I need to see what I'm doing
so that I know what I'm pointing at,
so I'm using the selfie cam.
Over to the far right you see the profile image,
and if I tap on that it's going
to open up where you see live and video.
Now these are assets that I've used in previous livestreams,
and it saves them here, and this is also
recordings of livestreams that I've recorded.
But if I want to delete one of these
I look at the three little dots
on the bottom right hand corner,
I tap on that, go down to the bottom,
and I tap on delete, and it's gone.
Now next to my name you're gonna see a little gear icon.
If I tap on the gear icon
it's gonna open up even more settings.
Right at the top you see my account.
If you tap on my account you can log out
or you can delete your account,
but you don't want to do that,
so we're gonna back up and go down to live settings.
Stream destinations, if I tap on stream destinations
this is where you can connect all of the platforms
that you want to stream out to.
I'm currently connected to YouTube.
That means if I hit the ready button
to go live to start streaming
I'm gonna immediately start streaming out to YouTube.
But if I also had Periscope connected, or NAVER TV,
I would start streaming out to them at the same exact time.
This is where you multistream,
but for this tutorial we're just
gonna keep YouTube selected.
Backing out of this, heading down to video settings,
video resolution, I'm currently set at 720p,
but if I tap on that I can go all the way up to 1080p
if I have a fast internet upload speed,
or if my internet speed is slower
I can take it down to 480p or even 360p.
I'm gonna leave it at 720p for this video.
Backing out of there and underneath
video settings you see general.
Now my notifications are currently off,
and underneath that you see conceal watermark,
and what this means is that if you do not
want the Prism watermark on your stream or your video
you can remove it by activating notifications.
You don't have to pay any money, it's absolutely free,
but they do want to send you notifications,
so if you toggle that on you can see I get a message
that say notifications are turned off.
Prism Live cannot send notifications.
Turn on notifications in the device settings
to remove the watermark.
To get out of this area tap on the X
on the top right corner, then tap on the X
once again to get back to the livestreaming screen.
Now if you look down at the very
bottom you're gonna see three words.
You're gonna see live, video, and photo,
and you're gonna see a yellow dot on top of the word live.
That means we are using a livestreaming feature.
However, if I wanted to swipe over to video,
that would activate the video feature,
and if I wanted to swipe over once again to photo
that would activate the photo feature,
and like I said before,
I will make videos on these in the future,
but for now let's go back and focus on livestreaming.
Now let me show you how you can add
some effects to your livestream,
and this is also where you add text,
you can add stickers and emojis,
and you can actually use your finger to draw on your screen,
and that's gonna show up on your
livestream while you're broadcasting.
Really cool feature, and to get to those
you're gonna head down to the bottom left hand corner
and tap on that little pencil icon.
If you open up that is gonna open up
a bunch of cool features that you may
or may not want to use while you're livestreaming,
so let me tap it and open it up
and show you what they do have.
Now the first row that you have here,
these are things that you've used in the past,
it does remember them.
For example, for fun I've done something like this,
(chuckles) or this.
And I've even actually worn some sunglasses like this,
but you can also add some really effects
like a VCR mode or maybe an RGB mode,
or something like this.
This may or may not work for your particular livestream,
but it is something that they do have builtin.
And if you look down at the far bottom
you're gonna see another row of icons.
You can tap on those and you can add other emojis,
you can add frames, you can add smiley faces.
Now each time you tap one of these
it will load something different.
I can tap that one once and it shows that.
I can tap it again, (laughs) and it's gonna load that.
There's my thumbnail right there.
Tap it again and it's gonna add that,
so on and so forth, you get the idea.
To the right of that, these are animated stickers,
so if I tap one of these, say you have someone
watching your livestream and it's their birthday,
well you can load up the happy birthday sticker.
You tap on that and it says tap onscreen,
so wherever on the screen you tap
it's gonna show happy birthday.
And they have a bunch of really cool
animated stickers for that.
Moving to the right is a really cool feature,
and this is the drawing feature.
Now right at the bottom you see
you have a bunch of color options.
I'm gonna choose yellow, and then I'm gonna change
the pen size by tapping right here,
and this is a different type of pen tool.
You can have a standard pen tool or you can have a glow.
Now I'm not an artist and I'm not gonna try
to draw something on here for the tutorial,
but I am just gonna scribble just to give you
an idea of what you can actually do.
And I think this is a really cool feature,
especially if you can draw or you want
to write something on your screen.
This will broadcast whatever you scribble live
to whatever platform you're streaming to.
That is a really cool feature.
To the right of that is a text feature,
and this is pretty self-explanatory.
You can come in and you can type in whatever you want.
Let's type that in.
You can change the font, you can change the size.
You can put a background behind it,
and when you're finished just type done,
and you can touch it and move it anywhere you want
on the screen while you are livestreaming.
Now one really cool thing about this
is if you have a website you want to send people to,
or just something that you want to say or advertise,
you could type your full website in
and use that, so that shows up here.
You don't have to just say hey like I did,
and if you want to get rid of it
simply tap on it and then hit the X,
or you can make it larger or you can shrink it down,
or just hit the X and it's gonna go away.
Now in terms of pinching and zooming,
if I tap right here in the center
it's gonna expose on my face.
I can also pinch and zoom with my fingers
and it will zoom in just like this.
Now those are features that you may or may not like,
that's entirely up to you,
but here's something else that you can do.
If you look on the far right side you're gonna see
an icon with three little circles on it.
If you tap that it's gonna open up filters,
and the way the filters work,
it works just like Instagram or any other app with filters.
You can go back and forth and find filters that you like
and just tap on it and see what it looks like.
Once you find the right settings
of the one that you want simply look down at the bottom,
tap on done, and then tap on the screen again,
and then you're gonna have that filter
applied to your livestream or video.
But I know you didn't come here to just
learn about the filters and the emojis.
You want to learn how to actually go live,
so we're gonna hit that ready button down at the bottom.
I'm gonna go live and I'm gonna show you
how the chat works and I'm gonna show you
how to add photos and videos to your livestream.
So let me hit ready down
at the bottom and start livestreaming.
Now the first thing you notice when I hit
the live button is it takes you to another area,
and here it says prism stream test.
It's gonna say something different for you.
That's what I wrote in mine,
and you're gonna have your name, your channel name there,
and it's gonna say public and it's gonna show you
what resolution you're livestreaming at.
So let's start with the title,
and for YouTube this is gonna be your YouTube title,
so if I tap on that I can go back
and I can add any title that I want.
So let's just say Prism YouTube Test and then I hit done,
and by the way, it also shows you
how many characters you have left.
So you're gonna tap on done,
and this is gonna be the title of your YouTube stream.
Now underneath that is my name,
and if you see public, if I tap on that I can send it
to public where everyone can see it,
I can unlist it, or I can send it private,
but for this particular tutorial we will go public.
So I'm gonna leave it there and I'm gonna tap on OK,
and then we're gonna stream out at 720,
but if you want to change that
at the last minute you can do so here.
Right at the top you see adaptive bitrate,
and what that means is it means the bitrate
will adapt to your network connection,
so if your internet's a little bit slow
the app will help push your signal up,
and that's a really cool feature.
It's on for this particular stream,
but if I turn it off you're gonna see
all the features down at the bottom
that are now gonna be able to be changed,
so of course you can change your resolution here.
You can change your bitrate,
so if you want to push up a higher quality
you can do it here.
This is set for 4,000, but you can set it
all the way up to 6,000.
Underneath that you can have your frame rate.
You can do 24 frames per second or 30 frames per second.
Underneath that is keyframe interval.
You can tap on that and it kind of
helps keep everything synced.
I'm gonna close this off, I'm gonna hit OK.
And then of course you still have,
at the bottom you still have your emoji areas
and all the effects that you want to add to your stream,
or you have filters if you want
to change that at the last minute,
and you simply close this by hitting
this little down arrow right there.
Now when you're ready to go live you simply hit
the go live button, and we're gonna do that right now.
(twinkly music)
Okay, so now we are live using Prism Live Studio,
and you notice we had a countdown,
three, two, one, to start the livestream,
and it also told us which orientation our phones was in.
So now I started this in landscape,
that means I have to finish it in landscape.
I can't turn it to portrait mode
and things are not just gonna flip over.
Things will get sideways if that happens.
Now all the stickers and emojis,
those are down in the far left with the little pencil icon.
Of course your filters are there in your center,
and when people come into the chat
you want to look over to the far right
hand side to the little chat icon.
You tap on that and it's gonna open up your keyboard,
and this is how you can reply to people
when they come into your chat.
Now of course up here at the top your settings
are still here for the microphone on,
save the video after streaming, and so on.
All this stuff is exactly the same.
But up here in the center you're gonna see the red box.
This tells you how long you've been livestreaming,
and next to it is the little person with the zero.
That means no one is watching my livestream right now.
If people come in here you're gonna see that number change
based on how many people watch the livestream.
Now here's something else that's really cool,
if you want to add a video or a photo, or even music,
you can swipe over and you go into the studio portion.
So if I want to add a video I simply tap on video
and I can go through and I can find
a video to show on the livestream.
So I've added the one video,
and when I want it to go onto my screen
I simply load it into my studio and I tap it,
and it's gonna show up on my screen now.
People can see this right now,
so if I tap on it and I move it around
I can also pinch and zoom and resize it,
and you notice the play button that's right in the center,
so if I tap that play button it's gonna play the audio
that's associated with the actual video file.
Let's do that.
- [Man] So what's happening?
- Right now we are going to another one of houses--
All right, you get the idea there.
So now if I want to delete this
I just tap on the X and it goes away.
You can do the exact same thing with music and photos.
You can swipe back, you can go through your music selection,
and they do have music builtin
but you'll need to download those before you go live,
and you can also access the music on your device
but make sure you actually have the license
to use those before you livestream with it
so you don't get a copyright strike or a copyright claim.
I'm gonna cancel out of that.
And then you see here down in my studio I have a video.
You can load this up with as many
video or photo assets as you want,
and if you want to delete them
simply tap on edit over here on the right,
tap on the file you want to delete,
and then tap delete, remove source.
And then we're gonna swipe back
to the main screen and continue livestreaming,
and you can do all of this stuff while you're live,
and this can be a lot of fun if you're
trying to make an interacting livestream.
So as you can see, there are three people
now in the chat right now,
and if I want to reply to them
I go to the bottom right hand corner
and I tap on the chat icon and I can reply.
And then as you reply your own reply
is gonna show up on the screen as well.
So when it comes time to end your livestream
all you have to do is go up to the top
right hand corner and tap on the end button
and it's going to end your livestream,
and that's what we're gonna do right now.
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