- What's up guys, welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
I had a realization the other day,
that I had uploaded dozens of guides
for PC streamers that want to livestream
to sites like Twitch, YouTube, Mixer,
using any kind of streaming software,
but I've really neglected those console streamers,
people that wanna play games on their console
and livestream those.
Typically, there's two different ways
that console streamers can livestream.
You could either livestream from the console itself,
using like the Twitch or the Mixer app,
but the customization that you can have
for your stream is somewhat limited.
Really, all you can do is maybe add a webcam
in a predefined location on top of your game,
but that's about it.
There's no real way of adding alerts
for followers, subscribers or donations.
There's no way to add overlays,
you can't overlay your chat, or anything really like that.
If you did want to add all of those fancy extras
on top of your console gameplay,
the only real option was to have a capture card
and a gaming computer of some sort,
so that you could plug in your console
to the capture card and then use
a normal streaming software to overlay
all of those cool things on top of your livestream,
but that is not only expensive,
but it's also quite a complex setup.
So, console streamers were kind of caught in this balance
of having either a super basic livestream
with just gameplay and your webcam,
which was obviously free if you'e doing the console,
versus a really expensive setup,
but that, a setup that allowed you to have all
of those extras on top of your livestream.
Well, all of that ends now, thanks to the new integration
between something called Lightstream and Mixer.
Lightstream is a cloud-based streaming software
that allows you to stream from your Xbox,
still adding in all of your overlays and alerts,
without needing a PC or a capture card at all.
Now, Lightstream itself allows you to stream
to any streaming platform, so Twitch, YouTube, Mixer
or Facebook, but in this video I'm specifically
gonna be talking about the Xbox and Mixer integration.
And remember, this all goes out live from my Xbox
without any need for a capture card
or even a PC to be running at all.
You will need a PC or laptop of some sort
to do just this initial setup,
where you're designing, customizing
and creating your stream,
but it doesn't need to be a good computer,
it just needs to have an internet connection.
You could even use a school or library computer to do it
and it only ever needs to be done during this setup.
Once that's done, you can completely run
and manage your stream without a computer at all.
The integration between Mixer and Lightstream
is currently available for all Mixer partners and pros.
All you have to do, is head over
to your broadcast dashboard on Mixer,
scroll down, and enable the integration
and then remember to click save first,
and now that that integration is enabled,
anything that you broadcast to the Mixer channel,
will route through Lightstream.
So, next thing to look at is entering
into Lightstream Studio, so just click that button
and authorize your Mixer account.
So, this is Lightstream Studio.
This is where you'll arrange all of your scenes
and sources for your livestream.
In the middle here is your canvas,
this is basically a preview of what
you're gonna be sending out to your stream
whenever you go live.
Up at the top here we have some controls,
allowing you to enable or disable the integration,
as well as showing some info as to whether
your stream is currently live or offline.
Here in the left, we have our layers or sources.
If you're used to previous streaming software,
for each scene.
So, this is where you'll be able
to add all of those extra elements
that we were talking about to your stream,
things like text, images, alerts and overlays.
Bottom left here, we have our audio controls.
This is where we can control how loud different sounds are.
Down in the bottom, you finally have your scenes.
This is where you can add additional scenes,
so if you want you know, a be right back scene
or an intermission scene, as well as your gameplay scene,
this is where you can add
and choose which one you're displaying.
And then finally, over here on the right,
you can pop open your Mixer chat
and get a live preview of what is being broadcast.
Now by default, Lightstream has already added
your Mixer feed into scene one.
So, this feed is basically whatever you stream
from your Xbox to Mixer.
So, in most cases this is gonna be your game play,
or maybe this is gonna be your game play plus your webcam.
Then we're gonna be adding all of
the extra elements on top of that,
like overlays and alerts, here in Lightstream.
So to start customizing how your stream is gonna look,
I'd recommend first firing up your Xbox,
so that we just get a game preview
to come through into Lightstream.
It's gonna make positioning your overlays
and elements much easier, 'cause you don't want
to have a stream design where some
of your overlays are blocking important parts of the game.
So, fire up your Xbox and fire up a game
that you think you're gonna be streaming.
Next, you're gonna want to press the Xbox button
on your controller and head across
to the "Broadcast" and "Capture" tab.
Click broadcast and sign into Mixer.
Now, if you have a USB webcam
that you want to use for your stream,
you can plug that directly into your Xbox.
I'd recommend doing so, I think it makes
for a more immersive and interactive stream
when you can actually see the streamer
that's playing the game.
So I've just plugged in a cheap Logitech C920.
Kind of an industry standard for streaming,
'cause it's cheap, it's very good quality
and it's plug and play,
so you can plug it into your computer
or into your Xbox directly.
So, I'll come down to the camera options here,
enable the camera, and just change the position,
the zoom and the pan so that my image
fits nicely into the stream.
Finally, you can click "Start broadcast," close the menu,
and then head back over to Lightstream
and you should now see that your Xbox feed
is coming through into the Lightstream Studio.
So, here's where the real fun begins,
now you can start to add in the overlays
and alert integrations all on top of this Xbox live feed.
The first thing I'm going to do,
is add a webcam overlay to my livestream,
just because the way that Xbox adds a webcam in,
it doesn't look particularly aesthetically pleasing.
I think just like a border around my webcam
would integrate it a little bit better
into my livestream.
So to do that, all we need to do,
is come up here to the layers, click the green button
to add a new layer, and then choose image as our media type.
Now, with all overlays and alert designs,
Mixer and Lightstream have actually done you a huge favor
and already included a whole host
of example overlays that you can see here,
for you to choose from and use freely if you like.
Alternatively, if you want to upload your own,
if you've designed some yourself
or maybe you've purchased some, like a premium pack.
I personally already have many
of the Nerd or Die overlays downloaded,
so I'm gonna be using one of those.
So, if you would like to follow along exactly
with the tutorial as I'm doing it,
I will leave a link in the description
to the overlays that I'm using.
But really, you can browse through here,
the Lightstream, and then mix overlays
that they've got included or as I'm going to do,
upload my own, so I just click "Upload image,"
and then I browse to find it on my computer,
allow that to upload, and then click okay.
Now, if you're used to streaming or Photoshop
or any of those programs, one thing that's key here
is that you want to make sure that your layers
are in the right order.
So, these layers in the top left,
if you think of them as like layers of a cake,
so if you have your Mixer feed
above your webcam feed, then the webcam
is not gonna show at all,
because it's technically hidden by the gameplay.
So, you wanna make sure that this webcam overlay
that you have is just one above the Mixer feed,
that way it'll display above what your Xbox
is streaming to Lightstream
and then we're gonna have a nice border.
So, you should see that we have
a webcam border here now, what you wanna do now
is reposition it, resize it,
so that it fits exactly around the webcam
that we have from our Xbox.
The next thing that I want to add to my stream is alert,
so that whenever somebody follows, subscribes
or donates to my stream, a nice little alert
will show on top of my gameplay.
It's a super interactive way
to bring your viewers along for the ride,
make them feel part of your stream
and also alert you that somebody has taken
an action to interact with you.
So, Lightstream works with quite
a few different providers for alerts.
For me, I'm gonna be setting mine up through Streamlabs,
a super popular alert provider.
So, to be able to set that up,
all you need to do is firstly open up a new tab,
head across to the Streamlabs website,
and log in, and make sure you're logging in
through your Mixer account.
Next, we'll head over to Widgets and Alert Box.
I'm not gonna go through all
of the customization options here
for setting up alerts in Streamlabs.
I already have a super detailed tutorial
about how you can customize and choose exactly
which alerts to show.
I'll leave that video linked up in the top corner,
so if you want to watch that, open that in a new tab
and watch that a little bit later after this video.
So, all we really need here from Streamlabs,
is to copy this widget URL and paste it back
into Lightstream Studio here.
Once that is pasted into Lightstream,
we can go back to the Streamlabs website
and use these test buttons to simulate
a user action just to make sure everything's working.
So, you can simulate a user following
or subscribing or donating to your stream
and after you press the button,
you should go back across to Lightstream Studio
to see the alert hopefully showing up
on top of your gameplay.
Exactly as with the webcam overlay,
feel free to resize and reposition this alerts overlay layer
wherever you would like in your, in your stream.
Now, it's completely up to you
to add all of those extra elements
to make your stream look as professional
or however you want to make it look.
So things like event lists, social media handles,
your Mixer chat, donation goals.
Remember to add additional scenes,
so that you don't just have your gameplay scene,
you also have maybe an intermission scene
to jump to whenever you're not playing games
or a be right back scene or stream starting soon scene.
You can really customize the stream exactly
as you want to now.
Once you've finished creating all of the scenes
that you want and polishing them to look exactly
as you wish them to, all you have to do is make sure
that the integration is turned on, up in the top bar,
and then whenever you stream from your Xbox
it's gonna go through Lightstream,
add all of these layers on top,
and send that stream out to Mixer.
You no longer need a PC to be turned on or a PC at all,
every time that you go live from your Xbox,
it's gonna be adding all of these things in automatically.
If you want to be able to change scenes
whilst you're streaming, you can quite easily
do this from a mobile device.
All you have to do is load up mixer.golightstream.com
on any mobile device and you can easily choose
to switch scenes from the comfort of your couch.
So hopefully, now you have a really aesthetic
and professional looking stream,
just directly from your Xbox to Mixer
without any need for any capture cards or expensive PCs.
Honestly, I think this is a super exciting technology.
I'm curious to see where Lightstream go
with the future with this.
Hopefully integrating more platforms
and more consoles as well,
but hopefully that guide has been helpful.
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