In this video I'm showing you the equipment I use to produce HD or 4k
streams on my desktop using a mirrorless camera or DSLR camera coming up Hey
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when we publish new educational videos about video editing and production every
week so in this video I'm going to show you what equipment you need to produce a
high-quality stream then how to hook it up correctly to your computer on your
desktop and then we're gonna jump into the software you can use a free OBS
software you can use Wirecast be live TV to stream just to Facebook I'm going to
jump into all of those and show you how to use them correctly so you can get
started streaming so let's jump in here I have the Joby Gorillapod connected to
the Canon m3 mirrorless camera and it has an m to EF mount adapter for the lens
it's a wide-angle lens it's a 10 to 18 millimeter another thing that I want to
stress is that you don't have to use a mirrorless or DSLR camera you can certainly
use a wide-angle Logitech webcam but this is cooler because you can have
interchangeable lenses to create different looks wide angle is great for
desk setups because you're able to get a wider view so that way the lens isn't
really close up in somebody's face so you should certainly explore other
options this is just the camera that I currently own that I use in all of my
youtube videos and so it's just convenient to not have to buy another
camera to use as a high quality streaming camera next you'll need some
type of microphone I have an SL 600 USB condenser microphone that can connect
directly to my computer via USB also with this USB condenser microphone you
can get an optional pop filter so that way it reduces the pops and clicks as
you speak so I definitely recommend getting this of course you don't have to
get this particular model you can use any USB condenser microphone there's tons on
Amazon and on B&H so this is just the one that I have but I don't want to
limit you to just this one there's definitely other options out there and
then to connect the camera to the computer you're going to need an HDMI
cable and the most important part is cam link
you can't just hook up your camera via USB and expect it to work as an HD
webcam you need some sort of capture card or a converter like this cam link
to convert it into an unlimited stream camera so that way you can stream
without your camera turning off right so this just plugged into your computer by
a USB and you put in the HDMI cable connect it to your camera and it does
that for you now Elgato is the producer of this it's a gaming equipment company
so you can go check out some of their capture cards and you can look up to see
if your camera is compatible with cam link if your camera's not listed you can
reach out to the elgato team and they should be able to get back to you but
this is one piece of awesome equipment and I think it cost around 120 dollars
but it's definitely worth it
I have the mini-hdmi here so what I'm going to do is just plug it in to the
side of this camera here like so make sure that it's you're putting in the
correct way you don't want it to get ruined here so now that we have the HDMI
cable in the camera the next step is connecting the other end of the HDMI
cable in my case the full HDMI into the back of the cam link here okay so
there's a little HDMI input here and the USB end goes into the computer so I'm
going to connect this into my cam link right now like so so now that that's
connected we can put this into the computer and set up the stream so I have
my USB condenser microphone it's an SL 600 by editors keys it has a cable that
connects in the bottom here USB and it connects directly into my computer so
let me just hook this up now and I almost forgot you guys should get some
type of light to help illuminate your face during the stream I have this LED
light by newer here and it's bicolor so you can make it more of an orange color
or more of a white color or a mixture of both there's dimmable switches on the
back so I can make this more orange by turning off the white or I can make it a
mixture like this or turn off the orange-ish look to make it just white
and you can also get a light stand separately right now I'm at a standing
desk so I can make this fully extended while I'm standing and doing a live
stream and it's really easy to use that way I don't have to worry
about putting another tripod for a light on my desk so the first step is to make
sure that the framing of the camera looks good before you actually jump into
the software if you try to turn on the Canon m3 right now it'll only flash on
for a second that's because when it's connected via the HDMI it
turns off the live view functionality so before you plug in this HDMI it's good
to unplug it first just temporarily and then you can use the flip up feature on
the m3 here so you can see that I'm looking at myself right now and you can
make sure that the framing of the shot looks good and because it's a wide angle
you see a lot of the shot I can zoom in as much as I want here until I get the
framing right then once everything looks good then you can plug back in the HDMI
so I'm going to hit record off because we're not going to be recording during
the live stream okay so let's just turn that off and let's plug this back in
alright
now we need to jump in and show you how to use the live broadcasting software
hook it up to your YouTube or Facebook account so you can get started streaming
and have that nice picture so first up is OBS so OBS is open broadcasting
software it can be used on a Mac or a PC right now when you open it up the window
is very empty there's not much going on well first we need to add our video
capture source so you're going to go down here to sources and hit the plus
button and go to video capture device and you can call it whatever you want I'm
going to call it m3 since that's my camera then I'll hit OK and then from
device we have to choose cam link because cam link is the one that's
connecting us right now so now you can immediately see it and the options we
have are 1280 to 724 for HD so we're going to select that and hit OK and here what
we can do is make this bigger or smaller to fill up the frame and you can see
that I'm cut out of focus so this is when you can make adjustments on screen
here like so so you can see it and do the best you can until it's just right
like so so then you can make further adjustments if you want to make it more
side the beauty of the wide angle is that you can kind of play around with
the angle it's kind of funny angle there I think that looks good you can kind of
see my computer so again you can adjust framing again until it looks right and
then I think that I look a little bright so I'm just going to adjust the lights
real quick so then for audio we want to connect this audio source so we're going
to go down to plus and go to audio input capture and here I'm going to call it my
SL 600 and hit OK and here I'm going to select USB microphone because that is
the microphone that SL 600 and then hit OK and then immediately you start to see
input levels here on the screen which is awesome
because that means that it's active and right now if I talk really loud then and
you get that sort of red mark and you don't want that you want it to be in the
green so now we have the image and we have the SL 600 microphone so all we
need to do now if we wanted to stream right if we wanted to stream we would
have to go up to OBS preferences and here is where you put in your stream
info so here's where you choose the service if I want to stream to YouTube
I'm going to choose YouTube you can also choose Twitch Facebook live Twitter
Periscope those are the like the most common but after you do that you need to
change the key and this is the private information and you don't want to share
this key with anybody else but you can show it I'm not going to show it because
I actually have my stream key in here and the way that you do that is you
actually go to your YouTube back-end so if I go to YouTube and then you go to
your creator studio then you're going to go to live streaming and here is where
you're going to basically set up the title the description of your stream so
you can put in any links that you have here in description you can choose the
category you can choose if you want it to be private to test for the first time
unlisted or public I'd recommend doing it private for the first time and then
once you're 100% sure you can do public and this is where you can see your chat
as well and down at the bottom this is where you get your stream key so you
would just reveal it and then copy it and then you go back to OBS and you
paste that stream key here and then you hit OK so notice that the stream video
went off when we were doing that well we actually have to change some settings
and the camera to fix that so what I'm going to do is just turn the camera back
on again and you can actually see what is on the screen inside of OBS because
the HDMI cable is giving you a preview of what you see and if you hit the info
button it'll show you different overlays and you can turn them off by hitting
that info button and I'm not seeing anything on the
screen of my m3 right now I'm just pressing the buttons and I'm seeing
everything on OBS so I'm going to go to menu right now and I'm going to use the
scroller over here just to navigate to the wrench tool here and then I'm going
to move to power saving and this is where we want to change this so the m3
doesn't Auto power-down on us after a couple minutes right so we want to
change this to off so that way the m3 doesn't turn off while we're in the
middle of the stream okay so every settings for different cameras are
different so this is just for the m3 there's different settings for turning
off the overlay so for example if I exit menu you see all these overlays here
some cameras have a menu setting called HDMI output which allow you to turn off
all of those settings but on m3 you just hit the info button to remove those
which is something I had to figure out just by messing with the settings now
that we have YouTube's set up we have the camera settings good we can actually
start streaming right now and it'll automatically connect to YouTube and
then what will happen is you'll get some notifications at the bottom here to see
the frame rate what percentage of your CPU is being used how many gigabytes per
second and you can see how long you've been live for and if we go to YouTube
you can see that we're now live from the desktop and you can get a preview of the
live stream right now I'm private but if I was public you would see all of the
you know people asking questions or people saying hi so right now this is
how you stream in OBS let me just stop the streaming here another option is to
use BeLive.TV for facebook live and all you have to do is connect your account
and then you hit start broadcasting and here you can choose whether or not you
want to do solo an interview with another person a talk-show with multiple
people so I'm going to select solo and by the way this is a trial mode
right now so there is a monthly fee that you'd have to pay to use this for
certain features per month but you can have I believe a 14-day trial to test it
out so I'm going to click on solo and then I'm going to choose on a page that
I manage which is Premiere Gal so it'll connect I'll do it Premiere Gal and
then you can type in some text and then you can choose to share it with somebody
add your branding so you can add in your logo or change the branding colors if
you wanted it to be more like a purple color and then hit save branding and
then create your broadcast and here is where you connect your camera so you
have to click on this gear icon to make it's the right one and then what we're
going to do is make sure we have the right microphone in and it's giving you
a preview that you know we're picking up audio which is good so this is my SL 600
then I'm just going to hit save and reconnect camera and then you would hit
start broadcast and then you can write on-screen updates if you want to so say
hello and then you can show that it will be in your branding so that's how you
use BeLife I think it's awesome I just wish it also went to YouTube as well so
that's my live stream setup and that's how I do high-quality live streams to my
YouTube channel and Facebook page if you guys have another way of streaming or
another piece of gear that you use I'd love to hear about it be sure to leave a
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