Hey what's up guys - Rob Balasabas here now this video is all about
RESTREAM STUDIOS so if you've just discovered Restream Studios and want to
know how to use it to livestream to multiple channels or even just one
channel then this video is for you I'm gonna take you behind the scenes into
the Restream dashboard the Restream live studio dashboard and show you all the
different features, all the different buttons and all the things that it can
do for you and hopefully it will answer some of the questions that you already
have. Now, if you have more questions after this video make sure you leave a
comment down below or join us in our Weekly FRIDAY Subscriber Q&A Chat
sessions that happens right here on this channel
and now let's jump into my screen but before we do that let's roll the intro!
My name is Rob Balasabas. Hey! Alright so for this tutorial you will need a
Restream.io account now the good news is that this RESTREAM STUDIOS
feature is available on the FREE plans so that's all you'll need you can
click on the link in the description or down in the first comment of this video
to find a link to get started now that is an affiliate link and you will be
supporting the channel by clicking that link so I do appreciate it now go ahead
and set up your RESTREAM.IO account it'll take you just a couple minutes and
once you've done that let's go over to the next section and I'll take you
behind the scenes into the restream studio dashboard alright so the first
thing that we need to do is actually set up our destinations and I'm not gonna go
into that in this video because I already have another video it's gonna
pop out right here this is a video that's entirely all about setting up
your destinations on restream so go watch that video then come back here and
we'll dive into re-stream studios okay so the next thing you need to do here is
just click on the live studio button on the top left of your screen okay so now
you see my webcam that's actually my webcam right there and I'm gonna turn it
off just so that it's not distracting us here in so many so many Rob's on the
screen alright so this is the default background for the restream studios so
the first thing I want you guys to look at here is the chat tab so this is
actually where you'll see all the comments that comes in from all the
different social channels and pages that you are streaming to also depending on a
channel you'll be able to reply to the comments right here directly from this
tab so you don't have to have all the different tabs on Facebook groups
Facebook pages YouTube live Twitter all that stuff all open and watching like
seven different channels you can actually just have everything here it
will pull all the comments into this tab and you can see it you can reply to it
you can reply to all of them or just specific channels directly here from the
restream Studios broadcasting tool the other thing is that if you click on a
comment it actually shows up directly on the screen itself so your audience can
see their comments which is really really really fun for them it's a very
good way to engage with your audience now the next thing I want you to look at
is captions this is the next tab over to the right and now you can actually have
different captions right here you can ask questions you can tell people you
know where to connect with you on Instagram on YouTube or ever you can get
them to start engaging with you by having preset captions already made
right here now to set this up is really easy all you need to do is at the bottom
right here there's a primary text which is the one that shows up on the top and
this is testing captions and then you can have a secondary text which is
testing captions secondary text and then click on add captions and now it's here
I'm just gonna click on it and there it is on the screen I just realized I'm
covering it so I'm gonna move my screen over see and there it is you can see
that right there now the next thing over on the tab is graphics I'm gonna click
on graphics so this is really cool you can put your logos on the top right so
right now it shows powered by restream do I've uploaded the to buddy logo as
well so you can see that that shows up just like that and then you can upload
other logos really easy but just click on the upload button right there
the next thing down below that as far as graphics is your overlay now this is
gonna be going on top of everything that is on the screen so right now we don't
have an overlay but if I put this one on you'll see that now there's a live Reese
overlay just like that I also used this other overlay every now and then during
my livestream so I can have many many overlays here depending on what it is
that I'm trying to do with my show and so again you can upload overlays just by
clicking on the upload button right there and then down below that is
background so right now I'm using this background right here with just a
standard default background by restream if I click it it'll hide the background
and it'll just be anything it'll just be me so you know anything that you put on
the screen but if you want to put a background sometimes people use
backgrounds sort of like as a pre-show they'll put a background there kind of
saying like hey somebody's gonna be coming up here you know we're gonna be
going live in like two minutes that sort of thing and that's usually what people
use it for now you can also upload pictures or maybe even screenshots that
sort of thing if you like you can upload those as well and have them ready for
your live show or your live stream webinar or Q&A session the next thing
below that is participants name you can actually toggle this on or off right now
it's off now if I toggle it on you'll see that my name actually shows up at
the bottom left of the screen which you can see right there and then lastly you
can change the primary color now this is sort of the theme color this is the
color that's gonna be used in your name also the color that's used in the
captions and also when you show comments on the screen and you can change this
easily just click on colors and then you can just change up the color right here
alright so now I want to show you guys how to set up your channel so just click
on setup on the top right there and here you go again this is all the different
channels that you've set up all the different destinations that you've
already set up again if you need that you can click on the video that pops up
right above me here to see how you set up your destinations on a restream once
you do it's really easy because then now you can just basically toggle on which
channels or destinations as free stream calls it that you want to go live into
and so if I want to go live into my Facebook page as well as my Facebook
group as well as LinkedIn then that's all I need to do right there now I can
also put in my titles and my description here and then click update all and that
will put those titles and description for all of the different destinations
that I'm going to be going live into so that I don't have to do it for each one
one at a time it just saves me really really quickly now let me take
you to the bottom part of this you guys already saw this that there is a mute
button so I can either mute or unmute myself really easily with my audio I can
also enable my camera there's the camera that's turned on
again that's taking the webcam here from my laptop or I can turn it off I can
also share my screen so if I click on that there's an option that pops up to
ask me to select the screen that I would like to share in the live stream so if I
wanted to share this main screen let's click on that and you'll see my screen
is being shared let's turn that off and now I can also invite guests so if I
click on this invite guests button I can have up to four people in the stream so
meaning me and three other people now from experience I've done hundreds of
live streams I probably haven't had more than three guests so four people on the
screen at the same time so this is perfect now to invite those guests it's
really easy there's a link here I just copy that link and I send it to them I
can email it to them I can send it to them in a DM whatever is easiest and
they'll be able to just click that from their browser on their laptop or desktop
and they'll be able to join my live stream right here and then here in your
settings you can select the audio input so which microphone you'd like to use I
have a Yeti microphone that I can use or my MacBook Pro built-in microphone here
I can also select which video source I want to use so I can use either my
webcam that's built into my laptop or my Canon m50 right here using the webcam
utility app alright so now you're all set up all you need to do is click the
orange go live button when you're ready and you're essentially gonna go live now
here's what it looks like as an example from the restream YouTube channel as
well as on their LinkedIn live channel right here alright so now go test the
stuff for yourself check out restream Studios restreamed IO again there's a
link down below that you can use to get started with restream right away now if
you want to schedule your next YouTube live using all of these awesome tools
check out this next video I'll show you exactly how to do that step-by-step or
watch this other video right here that YouTube thinks you may like see in the
next video bye bye!