- In this video, I'm going to teach you guys how
you can live stream on YouTube
whether you're an absolute beginner.
If you've been doing it for a few months
or even if you're a pro, it doesn't matter.
Because if you watch this video all the way until the end
I guarantee that you'll learn something new.
You'll get some tips on how to start streaming
and we'll give you a setup that you'll be able to use
in every single stream.
And once you've set it up once with this guide
you'll never have to touch it again.
If you just want to directly stream to your audience
through YouTube, then we'll be going through that now.
But if you really want to maximize your content
and make your stream look as unique
as possible using third party software
then click on this time code here.
So to get started, log to YouTube and head
to the homepage where you'll be able to see these icons
in the top right.
If it doesn't appear, in that same spot
will be a button prompting you to log in.
So now you should see the camera icon
with a plus sign in it, click on that and hit go live.
YouTube will then take you through a process.
That's actually pretty similar to uploading a regular video
with a few differences here and there.
So we'll need to fill in the title and description
of the live stream, the category that it falls under.
And you'll also need to check
whether your live stream is made for kids or not
in order to follow YouTube guidelines.
And if you're not sure about YouTube's guidelines
or whether your content fits in that category, then click
on that link here that says what is made for kids' content
and make sure you don't miss this at the bottom.
There is a blue colored more button we can actually fill
in any tags
which are essentially search terms that we want to rank
for on YouTube hit next.
And now we can actually start to customize our
live stream a little bit in this customization tab.
It is a bit misleading here
because you aren't physically customizing
how your live stream looks
with things like overlays or animations
but it's options to customize your live stream
by adding a live chat, which is on by default.
There's also an option for you to have a live chat replay
which means that once a live stream is over
and it's uploaded to YouTube as a vod,
which is video on demand,
essentially a recording of your live stream.
Then people will be able to see the exact messages
that were sent out at an exact moment of the stream.
And this is fantastic
if you have any sort of exciting moments or surprises
or even if you just want to look back
at what chat said at a certain time
which is really, really good, especially for feedback.
Speaking of chats, we can also toggle
whether we want absolutely anybody to message
in our live stream, or if we just only want our subscribers
of the YouTube channel to be able to message.
Now, this is totally up to you and what your preference is.
But if you do choose subscriber only mode
then you can actually set a time limit
as to how long they've been subscribed
for before they can actually start messaging.
This is usually used by big content creators
who have thousands of people coming into
their live streams every single day.
So it's easier to manage the chat for them then
but for a small creator, I'd recommend
that you leave your chat open to everyone
to really maximize your interaction
with as many people as possible
rather than limiting yourself to your subscriber count.
And finally, on this page, we have the message delay system.
Again, usually used by large creators.
It enables you to control how long people need to wait
between sending each message.
It's usually good for stopping spammers
or chat being absolutely flooded
which makes it difficult to read.
But if you're just starting out, I wouldn't worry too much
about this because we want people to interact
with our content as much as possible here.
Once you fill those in and hit next
we're now onto scheduling our YouTube live stream.
We can select whether we want it to be private,
meaning that only we can access the stream.
unlisted, which means that anybody
with a link can access the stream.
Or public, which means that anybody the internet can watch.
If you're a growing content creator
then you need to have this on public.
And then you need to schedule at the bottom
when you want to go live.
But once you've scheduled this, it'll come
up on your YouTube channel as a scheduled live stream
which will notify your subscribers and gets them pumped.
But back to setting up the live stream here
we'll need to hit the blue button
and your live stream will now appear in a preview window
which shows you what exactly what your audience will see.
You'll see the thumbnail for the live stream
which is initially your channel banner.
If you've not set it before
but to change this hover your mouse
over the thumbnail, and you'll have the option to
take a photo using your camera
or even upload an image to use as a thumbnail.
And I always recommend
that you have a thumbnail for every single stream
just like with a regular YouTube video.
You wanna make sure that it's as clickable
as possible and people aren't gonna really do that
if it's just your channel banner.
And whilst we're on this page
let's talk about how you can change your settings
for YouTube live stream, just in case
that they haven't automatically detected the correct ones.
So at the bottom, we can select the settings
which microphone and camera we want to use
for our YouTube live stream.
And because I'm directly streaming from YouTube rather
than any sort of third party software like Obs or V
there isn't much customization that I can do here
when it comes to sharing a screen
or anything other than just having my camera,
but never fear,
I will show you how to customize your live stream
in just a moment.
But for those who want to directly live stream from YouTube
once you've chosen your camera microphone down here
when the scheduled time comes that you've entered before
then you can press go live and that will start your stream.
But if you notice
with live streams on any platform, you'll see
that popular content creators have very unique layouts
with animations, sharing their stream and adding music.
So let's go through how you can do that for free.
With third party software
I'm gonna give you two options here.
One is OBS, which stands for open broadcast software
and is a very popular piece of software.
And then the other one that we're going to
be using is V to do the same thing.
The difference between the two is
that OBS requires you to do a lot
of settings changes to manually get it
to where you want your live stream to be.
So it can be very intense, especially
if you're someone new to live streaming
and can be very daunting at first.
And you'll have to go
through hours and hours of tutorials online
in order to get through and understand the software,
whereas on V they'll automatically optimize
the live stream for you.
So there's no chance of you going through
and having to learn hours and hours of tutorials.
And you can just get into the live stream straight away
which you'll see later on.
But I just thought give you two options.
Let me know the comments down below
which one you decided to use and why
but let's get right into it.
To get OBS simply type OBS studio
into your browser and head onto their website.
There's a download button here, depending on your system.
For me, I'm on a PC.
So I'll click on that and let it download.
Once it's opened up,
you'll see something that looks potentially daunting
but I'm going to break down all of these parts
and explain how they're useful
when customizing your live stream.
On the left hand side, you have a section called scenes
and the purpose for this is that when you live stream
on a regular basis, you start to notice
that you want to switch between sharing your screen
sharing your camera and all different types
of things that you want to show your audience
but changing the self every single time you want to
change your perspective
or share your screen can be very time consuming
and can really bore your audience.
So the purpose of scenes then is to automatically
set these up before a stream,
and then you can use one click of a button
to transition over from one scene to the other.
When you click on a scene or press the plus sign
to create one, you can see what the scene
is made up of in the source tab.
By clicking on the plus icon at the bottom
we can add a whole load of assets to our stream
like our microphone, our camera and even browser sources
which is essentially a link from the internet
which is commonly used for gifs or animations.
So to get started
let's add the basics and we'll go from there.
So if you wanna click on this plus button here
we'll want to add our video capture device
pick the device that you're referring to for me
it's this camera here, then select the resolution.
If it gives you the option
to and hit, okay.
Hey, here's our camera.
So let's add our microphone in the exact same way.
Click on the plus sign, hit audio input, capture
rename it to microphone, and hit okay.
Now select which microphone it is and hit okay again.
And if you want your audience to hear what you hear
through your computer, like
if you're playing a game or some music
you'll also want to add the output capture source
and choose your headphones
or speakers that you're listening through.
Now we can see that we've got three things
in our scene here but if I create another scene
and click on it,
we can see that the assets that we've created
only apply to one scene.
Which is what I was talking about before
where if you create different scenes,
you can transition between them
through the click of a button.
And if you just need to delete a scene or a source
just click on it and hit the minus button.
For this first scene,
I named it to camera because I just wanted that to be
at the start of our live stream.
So we're introduced to the audience.
We can say hi, we can talk to them just with our camera
but now I want a scene dedicated to sharing my screen
and my face cam to create this new scene,
instead of pressing the plus button
and doing everything from scratch again, right?
Click on that first scene that we created
and hit, duplicate, rename this to screen and hit.
Okay, you can now see that no matter which one we pick
and no matter which one we click on
we have the same sources in here
and that's good if you just want to expand on a scene
but use it in a different way.
So let's edit it to include our screen
by hitting the plus button here
and adding a display capture.
Click on which display you wanted to show
via this preview here and hit okay.
It should then come up on the screen in full
and our camera is behind it.
So cold click on the display capture
and drag it below the camera source.
So just to clarify anything that is
at the top source will be at the very very front
and anything that's at the bottom
will be at the very, very back.
Which is why it had to drag our camera
up to make sure that it was above our shared screen.
Now, our camera is above covering the screen.
So on the preview click on the face cam here
and you'll notice an outline with red squares on the edges.
Let's drag that into a size that you would like.
I'm just gonna drag this to the bottom right corner here.
And now you have your screen
and camera ready for live streaming.
So now we've got our camera
we've got our microphone,
and now we've got our speakers.
Those are the three main things that you'll need
for a live stream.
And then we also added in a shared screen
in case you want to show any games
or any sort of other content for your live stream.
So now let's connect your OBS third PI software with YouTube
so that you can start streaming with one click of a button
an easy way of connecting your OBS to YouTube
is by clicking on settings here and then stream.
In this dropdown bar you'll want to select YouTube
and then click on connect account,
which will take to Google.
And then you can select which Google account
you want to connect to.
And whilst we're in this settings tab
we can actually also change our audio and video
in the settings to the default devices that we want to use.
If you've already set up the sources like we did before
this shouldn't matter too much
but just to save you any hassle in the future
we're gonna set it up now.
So in the audio tab,
I would need to select my default microphone
which is this at2020 here.
And then my speakers, which are my headphones.
And then if we click onto video,
we'd want our video to be at 1920 by 1080p,
which is the resolution that my camera recalls at,
which is 1080p HD.
But these settings will be specific to your device
what your device can output
and what your computer can actually handle.
And if you don't have a powerful PC there just recommend
that you go 1280 by 720 here
which is just 720p HD.
Now, if we wanted to, we can head back to the main screen
select the scene that we wanna start with
and then hit start streaming.
It'll then tell us to set up a broadcast
which goes to very similar steps that we did
through setting up a live stream directly on YouTube.
It asks for the title description, category,
thumbnail, and privacy settings.
So fill all of those in just like we did before on YouTube.
And if you've already scheduled a live stream on YouTube
you can also click here on choose an existing broadcast
but once that's been set up,
hit create broadcast and start streaming.
And you're already on your way to being live.
It'll show you at the bottom here
how long you've been live streaming for,
and you can actually check exactly
what your live stream looks like and sounds like
through your YouTube channel.
But you can see how finicky live streaming on OBS can get.
It can take a lot of time to set up and especially
if you want it to be very unique to you
and have your own unique animations that can take
even more time than it took in this video.
So now I'd like to show you some software
that does the exact same thing,
but with a lot less steps.
If you click on the first link of the description
it will take you to veed live.
All you need to do is set up an account.
You can hit the live streaming button where you'll be taken
to the studio and you can get your camera
and microphone set up here.
Once you've done that, you can click
on enter the studio button
and here we can actually customize our live stream.
There are a bunch of backgrounds that we can use
as an option to upload our own custom overlays and logos.
And then there's also the option
to change the layout of the stream.
But instead of manually dragging everything around
like we did on OBS,
veed has presets that we can choose from.
We can also invite a guest to our live stream here
where we can add their camera to the stream
which is great for collabs,
talking to friends, or even podcasts.
To start streaming,
we'll need to click go live in the top right.
Select YouTube as your platform and enter our stream key.
You can find this on your YouTube channel
by going back to the live section here
and copying and pasting this key.
Now hit go live and your live stream will begin.
Once you finish your live stream
there is an end stream button in the top right.
And what's great about this is
that veed automatically records your live stream.
So you don't have to record
and live stream at the same time.
This means that you can edit these videos or repurpose them
into YouTube videos or TikToks or even Instagram reels.
And if you want to learn how to repurpose your content
from a live stream, or even a YouTube video into a TikTok
or Instagram shot, then click on the short video
that we made over here.
So to actually edit these live streams,
we can click on the recording that veed has given us
in this tab here, just click on the video
and it'll show up automatically in the timeline.
In this example, I'm going to take the live stream
that we just did and repurpose it into a short that upload
to TikTok and Instagram, because there was a really funny
specific moment that I want to take from it to do that.
I'll change the size of the video over here on the top left
to the TikTok layouts that I get the right size for it.
It'll show up here in the program monitor,
and now we can actually start to split
and remove all the content we don't need
by moving the play ahead to the parts
that you want to remove.
Just drag it over, select the part that you don't want,
hit the delete key on your keyboard, and then drag the rest
of the content forward so that you don't have
any blank spaces.
So now that I've repurposed this live stream into a TikTok,
let's get it exported
In the top right we'll need to click the export button
and click on the HD preset that is there by default.
And all you'll have to do is click
on the export video and just wait for it to render.
And it'll show up here where you can download it.
You can share it to social media automatically
or you can even embed it into our website.
So your live stream is set up.
You understand the basics
and you're ready to go with your first live stream.
If you have any questions about live streaming
how to use OBS or veed,
let me know the comments down below
and I'll be sure to get back to you.
We absolutely love the fact
that you can interact with your audience live
through live streaming or through YouTube videos.
And we've actually made some free editing templates
that you can use to make your YouTube videos
and live streams stand out.
So join me over here in these two videos
where we'll teach you about these free templates
and also extra videos, that'll teach you how to
improve your videos on social media.
So I'll see you guys over there.
Goodbye.