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The Mac platform is finally a viable streaming platform, thanks to the
M 1 chip and a new audio program that changes everything on the Mac.
Adding audio to your Mac is now really easy and even separating it.
And the free version does some incredible things.
And I'm going to show you all of that today.
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I did a video on this amazing app it's called castor and I outlined
the full featured version and its price is well worth it.
But there are folks out there who can't pay for apps just yet with
their streams.
So I wanted to show you how to get the most out of this amazing app
and set it up for your live stream, using the free version.
So you know what?
Let's dive in.
So this is the castor page.
The link is in the description down below.
All you have to do is click on download castor, but you can see it
tells you a little bit about it.
You're going to learn everything you need to know from this video, but
this is what the webpage does look like.
All you have to do is click download castor, and then you just go into
finder in your downloads and I'm going to right click on this and go
to open and it will bring this up.
And I just click continue and continue.
And it's going to ask me to agree with the license and then I just
install it.
It'll ask me for my password to install it.
And I just put that in and click install the software.
It runs through.
It's very small package.
It runs really quick.
And then you just have to click restart for it to restart your
computer before you can start to use it.
And now it's fully installed.
Of course, once you restart.
This is what castor looks like when you install it.
And it looks confusing, but it's really pretty easy.
Your inputs are over here on the left.
You can see desktop audio is selected and you have a soundboard built
right into this, which is awesome.
Over here on the right are your outputs.
And this one is the castor stream mix output and your headphone
outputs if you want to monitor it through castor, you can drop this
down and select how you want to monitor it.
So if you have headphones connected, that's probably how you want to
monitor it.
And this one over here is what's going to go to your stream right
below that we do have a record feature, which is fully included in the
free version and really awesome.
It will record the sound board and the desktop audio tracks
completely separate as well as the mix in the castor stream mix.
So you'll have all three of those recordings when it's finished
recording.
It makes it really easy to mix or adjust the levels if that's what you
want to do.
Over here on the right, this will change the visual mode from dark to
light.
Then you can actually adjust the scale of the application right here
below there, we have a hot key feature, which is included in the paid
version.
We have a midi setup, which is also included in the paid version.
Below that we have a pin feature, which will pin castor to the top of
the screen so that it doesn't disappear when you open up other
applications.
And below that we have a ground control audio, which is another pro
feature here in the center these are pro features as well.
And when I say pro features, I mean, they're not included in the free
version.
With this top add button on the pro feature you can add other inputs
and here you can add other microphones and here you can add other
devices.
And of course, those are pro features in the pro version.
You can add pretty much as many inputs as you want, and you can even
direct them independently to OBS, which is really, really cool.
But you may not need that.
Up here in the top right we can go to settings, we can adjust the
number of visible tracks.
We can adjust the latency.
We can also change the sample rate.
We can adjust the recording settings right here.
You can also get to your midi settings, your hot key menu, which is a
pro feature.
You can check for updates.
You can delete ground control devices.
There's a preferences down here as well that you can change a couple
of different things.
And then there is the licensed box where you can activate and
deactivate your license.
So let's show you how you can use the features in the free version.
If I open up OBS, we just want to make sure that up here in volume
control, castor is selected and that's really all you have to do.
Even if you're just going use this for desktop audio.
It is literally the easiest way to capture desktop audio on a Mac.
And like I said, it's totally free.
You just install this, you select castor audio up in your volume
control, and I'm going to show you how to add it to OBS right now.
So we just click this plus, and we're going to go to audio input
capture, and I'll just put castor in here.
Then I'm going to drop this down and I'm going to select castor studio
mix one and click okay.
And there we go.
So now our castor studio mix one is directed to OBS.
So if I just bring a video over here, I click play.
We can see it in castor that it's working.
And if we go down here into OBS, we can also see it is working just
fine, right there.
We can adjust the volume directly to the entire mix right here, which
would adjust the volume on the soundboard and on the desktop audio.
And we can go over here on the left and adjust the audio directly on
each individual.
And anytime we can just click our applause or whatever, there are four
different tabs for the soundboard and it will play right through our
audio.
Absolutely awesome.
Now you can see, we have a Chrome tab up and if I click play, we have
desktop audience selected.
It's going to play the desktop audio, and we are going to be able to
see it right here in OBS playing directly to our stream.
If I drop this down, I can actually select Google Chrome directly.
And that means I'm capturing only Google Chrome's audio and not the
rest of the desktop audio.
So that's fantastic.
If you get desktop alerts or maybe you're listening to something else
on your desktop, like music or something that you don't want broadcast
through, well, this selects the actual Chrome individually.
So we can add this window right into our OBS by dropping this down and
doing a window capture, selecting that Chrome window clicking okay.
And we just have to make sure that Chrome window is active so we can
actually see the video.
And there we go.
So we've got our Chrome audio playing in here, and if I pause the
Chrome video, you can see we're not getting any audio sources inside
OBS.
And if I open up that other video again, and we play that, you're
going to see that it's not going to pick that up.
And that's because we have the Chrome audio selected.
So other stuff on our desktop is not going to come through castor.
It really allows you to separate out your audio or just select a
specific piece of audio that you want to hear on your stream.
And this is in the free version.
It's absolutely awesome.
So while the free version doesn't come with a way to add a bunch of
different audio tracks that you can input separately, like the paid
version does, it still allows you to select a specific piece of audio
and input it in.
The perfect example of this is this game right here, which I'm going
to show you.
I can add a game right in here.
And then all I have to do is drop down the castor dropdown and
select that game.
And you can see now we're getting audio from the game directly in, and
we will not get other desktop audio or anything like that.
We will just be able to use the soundboard and the game audio it's
really, really awesome.
And when you first install castor, it does give you a 14 day free
trial of the pro version, which has a lot of awesome features.
And I highly recommend that you take advantage of those features,
check them out and see if it's something that you need.
You can probably get by with the free version of course, if you're
just looking for desktop audio or you want to have one input that you
can separate out of all the other stuff, but it doesn't hurt to check
it out.
I really think that it's well worth it.
It's $49 one time to get the pro version and have access to as many
tracks as you want completely separate in OBS.
It's a complete game changer for live streaming on a Mac.
For sure.
There will soon be a bunch of new, amazing features and plugins coming
to castor as well.
And they aren't content to just rest here.
If you want to find out more about these amazing features and learn
what the full featured version can do, you should check this video
out.
Trust me it changes everything when it comes to streaming on your Mac.
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Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.