- [Instructor] Okay, so now you can use a Microsoft Stream
to do a live event,
so you can broadcast yourself in real-time
and other people can view it from your organization.
So I've gone to the Microsoft Stream main website right now,
and I'm a Microsoft 365 user so I can access it,
and then other people in your organization
can see it as well.
There are settings to control who sees it,
but right now we're just going to focus
on how to broadcast this event.
So well, left click on live events,
and then you get this starting screen here
that's asking for some details.
And the first thing it wants to know before you start
is the name of the event.
So we're going to act like we're going to
announce a new location for our company, right?
And you can also do a thumbnail.
So I just made one up here,
and Midwest, that's where we're locating.
I'm not a graphic designer, okay? (chuckling)
The video language, let's just leave that as English.
And you can specify a time for the event,
or you can say,
as soon as the encoder is connected.
So, yeah, you may want to schedule this
for 11 o'clock on a Thursday, right?
But just for purposes of this demo,
we're going to say as soon as it's connected.
And then the next area that you can control is a permission.
So, if you just want to broadcast this say to a branch
that may be moving to the Midwest or maybe being split up,
you would specify that, maybe they're set up as a group
or you can broadcast this to a particular channel
that you have set up in stream for specific people.
So we'll leave this how it is right now.
And if we look at the options,
you can put a people timeline on it.
So that'll generate a timeline
of the different people talking in the video
once it processes the video.
So that won't show for a little bit.
And you can allow people to comment on it,
and you can allow auto-generated captions.
So those will be pretty accurate, but not perfect.
So if you want this video to be around for a long time
and have accurate captions,
you'd want to go back and check those.
Now let's left click on save right now,
and now it's...
Let's go back to details.
So now it needs some information on the actual encoder
that you're going to use.
When I was setting this up,
I downloaded Wirecast S but I wasn't able to get it to work
when you just use as preset,
but I was able to get it to work
when you configure it manually.
So let's do that, it's not very hard.
And this is what's called this server ingest URL.
This is what we're going to paste into Wirecast S.
But, we'll first really want to start the set up.
So now Microsoft Stream is thinking
about what it's going to do,
and you have to wait for it to be done
before you start to broadcast.
And now it says ready to connect.
So now that it says that, we'll come to Wirecast S,
ignore what I have in the background there.
That's the screen recorder of making this video
about making videos.
And let's just use this template here.
We'll say presentation, we'll click next.
And then it asks you some questions
about your sources, right?
So if this is going to do a presentation,
it might be wanting to project your screen.
Mine happens to be, name this,
there's I'm only using one screen,
but if you have more than one,
be sure that you capture the right one.
And when you are broadcasting live,
it would actually be nice to have more than one screen
because you could use one for your content
and then the other one for your kind of control room
where you would leave something
like Wirecast S up and running.
But regardless, I have one, so we'll leave it there.
I have to tell it what your camera is
and what your microphone is.
So if you have an external microphone like I do,
be sure that you have it selected.
Otherwise it's going to pick up your internal mic
and your audio won't sound as good.
I have mine disabled so it can't accidentally pick that up,
but be careful with that setting.
If you have an external camera, same thing.
Now let's left click on next.
You'll see the main interface of Wirecast.
and you get this weird infinity mirror action
that happens here because it's recording itself.
Recording itself, recording...
Yeah, you get it.(chuckling)
So this will go away as soon as you have
what you're presenting in the foreground.
And let's talk about what this is looking at right now.
So they're in layers and if you come look,
the camera is first,
then the screen,
then the microphone.
So to configure any of these, let's first switch our view.
So in the upper right hand corner,
right now we're looking at what it looks like a live.
Let's look at a preview.
And then when I select the camera layer, for example,
you can see there's a frame around the camera here,
and then you can change the settings.
I have my webcam too low, right?
Let's do that.
You probably don't want a giant microphone in front of you,
but (chuckling) I'm assuming you don't.
And you can do some things too.
Like if you double click on the camera,
you'll get a control panel on the left hand side.
Shouldn't dig too deep into these
'cause we're probably not doing how to use Wirecast,
we're doing how to use Stream,
but let me do one thing
and that's to key out the green screen.
It's not doing a very good job
over right now it's all fuzzy.
Maybe I can change some of that, there we go.
That's just to show if you want to be on top of your screen.
So I do this in my videos where I...
That way you can see the content
and maybe you don't wanna show
what's in the background in your room.
You can green screen it out,
but you need an actual green screen to do that.
And you can also just control your camera a little bit
where you can kinda crop out the sides.
And so, let's say this is what we want to project,
and remember this background is going to be
your presentation, right?
But right now it's showing Wirecast,
because that's what I have maximize on the screen.
If I had two monitors I would move this off to the side.
But you also wouldn't be able to see the video
of making the video, if I had two monitors.
It's saying ready to connect
because you're not streaming yet,
so you're not sending anything to stream,
but it's ready.
So, what you need to do
because you have this on configure manually,
copy this URL, so I just left clicked on copy.
We'll go over to Wirecast,
and we'll select output, output settings,
destination as Microsoft Stream,
but in the address you need to change this.
Maybe you can get it to work without changing this,
but I wasn't able to,
click okay.
And then you want to start the stream,
so left click on stream,
and let's watch Microsoft Stream on the right.
So instead of ready connect,
now it says you're ready to go live.
And it needs a little bit to catch up
because there's this lag, right?
I'm taking Wirecast, I'm sending it out to the web,
then it's coming back to Stream,
the way we have it set up right now.
But then there you go.
So your users aren't going to know there is a lag
because they're not watching your live,
they're watching this.
And you can take Stream and switch it to the audience view.
The audience view is this on the right hand side
because you haven't started your event yet.
So they're still seeing the thumbnail.
Let's start the event.
That just takes a little bit,
and then they're going to be seeing,
remember what's over here in Wirecast.
And here we go, so remember I have audience view selected.
So this in the upper right hand corner
is what they're seeing,
and it still looks weird right now
because it's my screen
where I'm actually just recording this video.
So, you would go to your presentation
and you would maximize it.
They would be seeing this,
and they would be seeing your camera if you have that on.
And that's how to stream in Microsoft Stream.
So let's talk about what happens afterward.
Let's say we went through this event,
you made your awesome announcement,
and you clicked end.
And they're just saying, hey, once you end it,
you can't restart it.
This is a one-time thing.
So let's still end it.
And then it has to do some thinking here.
And it's processing the video,
and then afterwards is going to be in your content.
But first it's asking, do you wanna trim it?
Let's say yes, because you might wanna trim it
because you just think that the announcement
in the middle was important,
you might have had some,
I know, chit-chat in the beginning,
and maybe at the end you took some questions
that you don't want saved.
So let's just say we're going to trim this,
left click on apply and it's saying,
you're permanently going to lose the beginning
and the end if you trend them.
That's fine with me, we'll say continue.
And this is telling you that it's working on your video,
but it's already here.
So this is the recorded version
that you're seeing afterward.
So if you go to my content and left click on videos,
this video is going to be in your catalog, right?
And you can change some settings on it
now after it's done, but you've already broadcasted,
and this is just saved here
as another video in Microsoft Stream.
So, next up we're just going to talk about
how to use Microsoft Stream itself to record your screen.
So that's a lot more simple,
and that would be to record a video
that you're just going to post to stream later,
so it doesn't have the encoding software involved in it.
And I'll see you in that video, thanks.