I'm super excited because of that neon sign right there.
Isn't it
Freaking awesome?! Just gotta do a few more touch-ups.
But so far I'm super stoked about this new studio setup guys probably
saw this with the recent live stream that I did with Gerald Undone on
YouTube and Facebook.
And actually that's what we're talking about in today's video is
the app that I use to live stream.
It's called The melon app and so in this video, I'm going to show you
everything there is to know about how to use melon app some of the pros
and cons and some things that I think could use some improvement.
Let's get into it.
Hey everyone, Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. Today
I'm going to be talking about a new streaming app called Melon app and
it's developed by a group of people that work for StreamLabs, which is
owned by Logitech. Melon app was developed by this team because they
wanted to create an easy-to-use streaming app for Content creators
that connect with other people and just be able to jump on quickly and
have the streams be pretty seamless and I have to say it was a super
Seamless to stream with Gerald undone last week to both Facebook and
YouTube at the same time.
The best part about melon app is that it's completely web based which
means creators don't have to download the app.
I didn't have to download the app to my computer Gerald and have to
download it to be able to stream.
It's just in your web browser the Studio is there.
It's really easy to use and right now you can get started with melon for
free.
There is some limitations with the free.
A plan such as Watermark and a limited number of streams that you
can do.
But if you really like it, it's actually decently priced right now
for the early bird discount and you can get HD streaming you can record
you can have up to six guests, you can do brand customization.
We're going to get into all of this in the video.
So I'm going to start with the things that I love about it that I think
that you guys would find useful in terms of how to use it and some room
for improvement.
So let's go ahead and jump on and so my favorite part about melon is The
great and easy to use user interface when you first login and sign up and
you enter the studio.
It's really easy to use at the bottom.
There's the area where you can easily connect your microphone connect your
camera.
You can show the live feed chat.
You can screen share you can also edit and customize the screen and go
live.
It has everything at the bottom.
It's very intuitive to use and it was super easy to connect my a
high-quality camera for the live stream.
So what I use for the live stream was my Canon EOS are and I use the Flint
4K plus capture card to convert to the video signal of my cannon into a
webcam.
And then this just connects to my MacBook Pro here via USB and the
Flint 4K plus connects into the Canon EOS are from an HDMI 2 mini HDMI
cable.
And so when I went to select my webcam, I just Able to select my
Canon EOS are using the capture card and for the streams audio.
I just use the exact same setup that I have right here the road and two
USB mini which connects to my computer via USB and I can just
select it in melon up as the audio source and it's a great high quality
microphone and it's pretty decently priced as well.
And in terms of the output of the audio so I could hear Gerald I use
my air pods and I just plug them in and it was great because I was able
able to hear him and there was no audio interference from my speaker.
So it's really important to wear headphones when you're streaming all
of the gear that I used for the live stream.
I've linked down to it in the description box below and up here is
a video on how to do your own high quality live stream setup.
So another thing you might be wondering about streaming is brand
customization.
When you use the pro version of melon app, you can do a lot of different
customizations of the settings so down at the bottom you just hit edit
screen and you'll be able to edit the name that's displayed so when you're
streaming in there's a name up in the corner of your window so I just put
Premier golf but you can edit this to any name that you want you can also
choose to have HD streaming on and you need to have the Pro Plan to be
able to stream in HD you can also turn on the ability to record the
stream if you want to be able to record it and reference it in the
future which is what I did you can also choose whether or not you want
the participant names to be shown during this dream during my dream I
had the participant names on and one thing that I would like to see from
the melon app team is the ability to customize how this looks so updating
the font in the color may be placing it just below the subject so that
way it's not right up in the corner of the screen I would have liked to
be able to move that position another really cool thing that you can do is
you can upload your own logo with the Pro Plan so I uploaded the gal logo
and it was up in the corner of the screen during the whole Stream So
immediately People saw oh, this is gal stream.
So it's great for Brandi.
And of course, you don't need to have your logo at all.
It was just an option.
Another thing you can do is choose to have a banner up on the screen.
Now this was okay.
It was almost like a lower third, but what I would really like to see is
to be able to add in our own custom lower third animations, so I didn't
have this on during the stream.
But what I would really like to be able to do in the future is have my
own logo Graphics pop up and I did let the melon team know that I would
love to see this.
And they definitely thought it was great feedback.
So definitely keep a lookout for animated lower thirds in the future
in this melon app.
Also in the beginning of my stream.
I had a ticker at the bottom with kind of ticking text that just
reminded people to leave their questions for Gerald and myself in
the chat box.
So that way people are reminded constantly to engage with stream as
it's happening.
You don't have to have this on you can always turn it off and I was
able to turn it off halfway through the streams.
You didn't see it.
After sometime in the last thing you can do with the settings is change
the background.
So if you're playing around with the layout of the stream the background
can be just a solid color or you can upload your own image custom
artwork.
It's just kind of like a wallpaper in the background and I would recommend
having something that's not too busy because you don't want it to
conflict with the different screens that you have at the same time.
What's really cool about the melon app.
It's really easy to share your screen as well.
So if you want to share your entire desktop stop you can do that or you
can just share a window.
For example, I just shared a window of Gerald's YouTube channel that I
could then pull up during the stream and you could have myself you could
have Gerald to and the screen up at the same time or just the screen
itself and it's really intuitive to play around with the different
layouts.
One thing I would like for the screen sharing component is the ability to
share a pre-recorded video instead.
So instead of screen sharing the ability to add A movie file that can
play during the Stream So, I think that's something that could be added
in future versions of mountain and there's scheduling to so you can
easily schedule your streams to go out to whatever platforms you
connect to so I scheduled the stream about 5 days in advance on both
Facebook and YouTube and in melon app, I just typed in the title and
the description and it auto posted an auto alerted my subscribers and
followers on Facebook and YouTube that I had.
Planned this stream and that was really cool because I was able to
plan it in advance and help promote it one of my favorite components was
onboarding experience for bringing a guest on the show would Gerald it
was super easy.
I just had a link for him to join the stream.
He didn't have to download anything and he just opened up that link and
it had the setup of his Audio and Video making sure that it was
working and then he could join the stream and we were not live at
first.
He was just kind of In like a waiting room with me and we are able to do
the setup and actually the setup.
I thought it was going to take like 15 minutes to test and because it
was so easy to use we ended up just having a tech setup for like one
minute.
So we ended up going early to this dream, which is actually a great
thing.
And so for this stream I ended up just being on camera first
introducing Gerald and when I wanted to show him, all I had to do was
click on his video on the left and say show on stream and then he
automatically appeared and to the right of me and we were perfectly in
the split screen and I didn't have to do any customization.
Like I would have to do a no BS it's like super easy to use.
So as I mentioned before I stream to Facebook and YouTube for the Gerald
undone interview and what was great about this is we were able to
capture the attention of both audiences of one person was on
Facebook or another audience was on YouTube or they prefer YouTube or
something you could capture both of those audiences.
And if you have a Twitch account and Periscope, you could also stream to
those platforms as well as you can stream up to four different
platforms at once and all of the comments that are left on the
livestream on all of those platforms are aggregated into the chat box
window in the melon app an interesting thing that happened
during our stream though is that the comments didn't come in for some
reason and I wrote to melon app and I told them hey like the comments are
didn't come in on this dream.
Is it just a bug?
What happened?
Because at first when we were streaming for like 10 or 15 minutes
or so, I saw no comments at all.
And I thought nobody was watching the stream because I hadn't streamed in
a while.
It's like great stream Kells.
Nobody's tuning in.
Thanks Gerald.
Sorry that nobody's watching but you know, it was fine.
It turned out that the there was just some sort of bug and the melon team
is working on it and I was actually able to just hold up my phone and
look at the YouTube chat and answer questions that way so it wasn't a
big deal.
But at first I was like Jesus nobody turning in nobody.
To watch Gerald.
But yeah, that was really cool.
Another thing.
That's really cool to the right of that is a private chat.
So if you need to message your guests privately you can just message them
there and I think that that's really useful especially if somebody's
audio goes out which didn't happen in our stream, but you can just say
hey, we're about to go live right now.
Make sure your mic is on you can just use the private chat for that.
And lastly another thing that I love about this app is that they make it
free at first in the pricing is really be reasonable.
So definitely take advantage of the early bird discount.
You'll find the pricing in my description box below which is
subject to change but definitely take advantage of it now and see if it
might be a useful tool for you.
The melon app team is also super responsive to feedback.
So if you have any suggestions for the future development just leave a
comment below and I'm sure they're going to read it and be super
grateful for that.
And another thing I just wanted to say is that I'm super grateful that
melon out.
Reached out to me and said hey, we have this tool because it definitely
inspired me to go live again.
I hadn't gone live gosh on YouTube for probably at least a year and the
app was just so easy to use it.
I was like why not?
Let's give it a try in especially now during this time.
It was nice to connect with Gerald who is in Canada of far away and I
it was nice to be able to connect with another content creator and
stay tuned in January 2021 because we'll have some more guests on the
show and I'll I'll try to go live at least once a month.
So again, my link is in the description all of the gear that I
use for live streaming is down below happy to answer any questions you
guys have about your lives setups.
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