We can go a long time plugging along as live streamers with not much
changing at all.
And for a long time, live streaming has just been kind of plotting
along.
But then occasionally we get a new software that really shakes things
up and it makes you wonder what the old dogs like Stream Yard are
going to do about it.
Will they survive?
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Stream Yard, Restream and Melon have been the staples of browser live
streaming for quite a while now.
They're known best for how easy they are to use, especially when you
want to do streams where you're gonna add guests.
They also eliminate the need for high-end machines to do a live
stream.
Now the downside to all the easy use stuff is they just aren't very
customizable.
If having a really slick stream with a lot of overlays, transitions
and scene customization is a thing that you wanted, you usually had to
go with a more complicated software like OBS.
And adding guest is not an easy task in OBS, but that was the trade
off for all those other features.
But now there's a new browser based streaming tool that breaks this
mold.
Not only can you have multiple scenes transitions, overlays and layer
configurability, but it's a breeze to add a guest.
That new software is Evmux.
Of course there's a link in the description down below if you want to
check it out for yourself.
It's like the halfway house from Stream Yard to O B S and all the
features that I mentioned can be had in the free version.
I don't even know how that's possible, but that's what they're doing
and I think it makes the future of Stream Yard Restream and Melon
questionable at best.
I mean, why would you accept all the limitations of those when you can
do much more really easily with evmux?
And in the free version, your guest is as good as mine.
But let's take a look at evmux and I'll show you how easy it is to set
up and use.
So here's what you get when you first log into evmux and it's pretty
simple to use.
I'm just gonna use the single broadcast and we're gonna type test in
here to title it.
We're gonna go to the studio.
And when you look over on the left hand side here, you've got dynamic
scenes or pro scenes and pretty much what you get when you use Stream
Yard, Restream or Melon is dynamic scene.
That's it.
That's all you get.
You can add your camera to it.
It has the lower thirds, you can change the layout.
You can go ahead and invite guests right here.
All of these things that you can do happens in one scene in Stream
Yard restream and Melon.
The beautiful thing about evmux is that you can just do that if that's
what you want.
With Dynamic Scene, you can basically do anything that you could
possibly want to do in Stream Yard, restream, or Melon.
You can add videos, you can add a shared screen, you can add guests,
you can move your guests around in a very basic way.
What makes evmux unique is pro scenes.
And pro scenes allows you to do exactly what you would do in O B S,
and that is to create multiple scenes that you can switch in between
and have transitions in between.
So what evmux really does is it gives you all the guest adding
features that you get in Stream Yard, restream or Melon, but it also
gives you all of the scene switching features that you get in O B S in
a browser-based live streaming tool.
Let me show you how it works.
So we can just add a scene here and we can call this scene coming soon
and we can just set it up with a simple template or something like
that.
Let's put in a countdown.
So this would be something that we would switch to immediately when
we're starting.
We can add new layers to it and all that kind of stuff if we want.
But for now, that's our initial countdown.
Then we'll do a main scene and we're just gonna use an empty scene for
this and we can add our camera to it.
And there we go.
See how it gives us an option here for our camera?
It, it doesn't just have to be filling up the entire screen.
It can be as small or as large as we want to be.
So if we wanted to go with the camera up here and maybe put a backdrop
in, well we can do that and we can upload and basically select a media
file here.
You could do a static background or a background that moves.
We're just gonna do this right here and then we can select it and all
we have to do is move it below our image and there we go.
So now we have that.
We could go over here and put banners in there.
So all we have to do is, you know, something like this could put our
chat in there, we could do whatever we want, but now we have our main
scene.
Let's say we're gonna set it up like my normal live stream and we want
a tutorial scene.
We can do that.
Boom, we could create a new scene.
We can add my camera right here could shrink that up.
So you can see when we shrink it down, our lower third gets a lot
bigger.
Obviously the lower third works fine there, but it's too big here.
So we can right click on it and go in here.
We can do custom lower third and go to lower third style and we can
just disable it or we can make it smaller.
Whatever we want to do, we're gonna just disable it for this scene.
And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna share our screen.
So if you wanted to share the audio, you could do it right here.
Let's go ahead and do that and we'll share our screen and click share.
And then it just comes up down here.
We add it to the scene and we're gonna make it big to fill up the
background here.
And all we have to do is move it below there and there we go.
So now we have a tutorial screen.
We're on this screen right here.
We could, you know, be showing OBS tutorials or whatever we want to
do.
And then all we would really have to do is maybe a closed screen.
So we'll do welcome here, create that one, let's do end select one
here, create and boom.
And obviously it's looking for an image.
So we can replace that image if we want.
If we find the right one, which I think it's this one here, we have to
remove that from the scene.
And there we go.
And all we have to do is modify our text.
See, it gives you the ability.
All this stuff is kind of included.
All you have to do is select the stuff, makes it really easy to move,
click off it so you can see what you got.
And we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna change the text on here, bada
bing.
And we just need to stretch this out a little bit.
And there we go.
So we've got our countdown, we've got our main screen, we've got our
tutorial, and we have an end screen.
You can't do anything like this with Stream yard, restream or Melon.
Now you can also right click on this and add a stinger transition.
Needless to say, they have some transitions already loaded up and if
you create your own transitions, you can load them in.
So all you have to do is select a transition that you want to use and
we can go and do them all.
There we go.
So when you are just previewing it like I am right now, you're not
gonna see those transitions.
But when you go live, you're going to see those transitions and how
they work.
So for me, getting just this, which is what you're going to get from
Stream Yard, restream or Melon or like this, where you can create your
scenes, move your guests wherever you want, have guests in some
scenes, not have guests in others, and all those kind of things that
you could do with OBS, well, I don't know, it just seems like this is
way beyond what you get with any other browser-based live streaming
tools.
You can even set up hot keys.
If we go over here, drop this down, we can go into hot keys settings
and we can add hot keys to this so that you're going to be able to use
something like a stream deck or whatever, or just hot keys on your
keyboard to switch scenes.
Activate assets.
This is like OBS except for it's easy to add guests.
So you're probably thinking, oh my gosh, this probably costs like so
much money.
Well, let me show you what you get with the free version.
So here are the plans and you can can see in the free plan.
And this is, you know, for everyone.
You get the Pro scene builder, you get five GBs of storage, you get up
to 12 onscreen participants, totally free, fully branded overlays and
backgrounds, backstage mode, push to talk full hd, multistream to two
destinations, lower thirds banners, tickers, integrated chats, pretty
much everything that I've already shown you on screen templates,
highlight comments, the virtual background.
So yes, you can remove your background if you don't have a green
screen.
Screen sharing slide shows now it does have some streaming limits.
You can see there two hours for each live and a total of 30 hours per
month with the free version.
And you do get the watermark, but none of the other services offer
anywhere near 12 participants on your screen for free in full hd.
So if you don't mind having the watermark and a couple of limits on
streaming, you never have to pay a single dime.
And if you upgrade for 20 bucks a month, you get all the stuff that
you have for free with unlimited streaming hours and 20 bucks a month
is about the same as what you're already paying for Stream Yard or
Restream or Melon.
And with this, you get something that is much, much more customizable.
It's absolutely incredible.
You want me to do a more complete, full featured review of what you
can actually do in evmux?
You should definitely let me know down in the comments below.
And of course we have a link in the description so you can go check
out evmux for yourself, totally free.
See what I mean?
It has a lot of the OBS functionality plus the ease of stream yard,
restream and Melon.
If you wanna learn more about evmux you should check this video out.
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You can find their links down below in the description, under the
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I couldn't possibly do this without them or you.
So thanks.
My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.