if you want to grow on twitch you need to go above and beyond your stream can't just be gameplay and
chatting anymore that's why i'm gonna give you seven ways you can instantly make your stream
more engaging so when viewers drop by they don't just leave instantly let's go hey i'm Eljay from
streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_ there are links to
streamscheme.com and to me in the description so if you want to check me out while i'm live
go for it today i'm going to be showing you guys how to make your stream much more engaging whether
it's simply learning how to cut in while you're live or maybe it's potentially to add a custom
overlay maybe it's learning how to use voice mods or simply adding sound effects to your stream
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of the easiest ways and also probably one of the most effective ways i've found when it comes to
adding a bit more emphasis to your words and also being a lot more engaging i come from a filmmaking
background and one of the techniques to make speech much more engaging is to use a wide medium
or close-up and cut between them depending on what is being said for example if i said subscribe or
else your family gets it it doesn't really do anything but if i said subscribe or else your
family gets it then it adds a lot more emphasis to the statement to do this while live all you
need to do is grab your camera layer duplicate it layer it on top of the old camera grab the top one
zoom the camera in a bit and then you can keybind it either in your settings to toggle the source
on and off as seen on screen now you can go to settings hotkeys find your scene you're working
in find the layer and then hotkey it to a button you don't use such as your numpad for example
or if you have an elgato stream deck or a stream deck alternative usually they're very simple and
easy ways to set that up repeat this process again but zoom in a bit further and then you've got your
wide your medium and your close-up all good to go and then while you're live you can manually cut
in easily if you want to set this up inside your game screens where you're not using a full screen
camera it's very easy to do again all you have to do is follow the same steps as i showed you a
second ago however when you've zoomed in obviously it'll go outside your webcam box so you just hold
alt and drag it back in to crop it i love voice changes because i feel like they're a great way
to add a little bit more emphasis and break up the monotony that comes with sometimes a big long
stream for example if i want to get everyone's attention i can stand here and i can go chat
tab back in i need your help with something or if i wanted to i could make myself sound like a god
and then hard transition into sounding like a chipmunk or i can go ahead and add oh don't you
do it like i'm on the phone they've all got really good uses that can help you engage or
make someone laugh for example if i said to you guys hey subscribe or else your family gets it
then it doesn't really do much what if i said to you subscribe or else your family gets it
and it adds a lot more emphasis now i usually go xlr for all of my effects and it's actually
the reason why i bought the lego xlr large rather than golix la mini the mini doesn't come with any
of these reverb effects or any of the samples and truthfully it's really intuitive to use honestly i
have zero issues using this go xlr i set it up on day one and it's just been gold every single day
of the week well you don't need a go xlr when you're starting out especially not to do voice
mods for example you can use a free option or a freemium option like voice mod when i say freemium
i mean that it's half locked behind a paywall and half free the way voice mod works is it's software
that takes your microphone signal edits it and then you send that signal back into slobs and obs
as a new virtual microphone this way you toggle the software on and off and it simply adds the
mod that you have set up i don't want to go in too deep but how to set it up because there's plenty
of videos if you do want an entirely free option and you're an obs user then i've actually linked
in the description a tutorial by nutty i know i talk about him all the time and he shows how to
use vst plugins to pretty much set up full voice changes and voice mods as much as you want my
actionable tip here is to really try and find out how you can incorporate a voice changer into your
stream not all of things i've shown you today will be perfect for you but i'm sure there are
some way you can take the voice mods and make them work with your content let's talk music now i come
from a filmmaker's background and that means that i absolutely hate music or at least the way that
most streamers actually use music because it's being used completely wrong the way most people
pitch music is they pitch it as background tracks but the reality is music adds so much to a stream
and so much to videos as well it can completely change the energy your chat has it can completely
change the vibe that your entire stream has and honestly it can get people so engaged so quickly
i've mentioned how my entire first five minutes of my stream is actually choreographed to music
i have a song that plays for a perfect amount of time and then i transition into another song that
has a perfect drop after 10 seconds everything lines up and i start my stream and go through
all of the process people are used to it and they know to expect it and it gets them super hyped up
i've also got other tracks so if i'm gonna do something epic like take on a dark souls boss
or maybe it's the final bracket of a tournament about which dessert is the best dessert then i'll
turn on my epic boss music and we'll fight it out to that or if i'm doing geoguesser or some other
heavy quiz based thing then i'll chuck on some countdown music or some thinking music to really
add to the emphasis of that all of these tracks help to engage my viewers and help set a tone
and by switching on the fly because i have them all on a playlist and open as i stream it means
that it really isn't that much hassle for me to add and set a scene perfectly so please add music
to your stream because it can really add emphasis but also just the lack of music can add emphasis
if i'm gonna say something or i'm gonna pretend to be angry at chat or someone calls me out or
someone says i look like fat chris pratt which happens twice a stream pretty much then sometimes
you cut all the music and you look them dead in the eye and you say hey what'd you say to me
in the same vein as music adds emphasis and sets a mood you can add sound effects to really punctuate
what's going on in your stream as well for example a lot of my viewers will donate really bad puns as
tts and i always finish it off with one of these or maybe i'm going to play some thunder if i'm
in a stark and stormy horror game or maybe if i'm going to announce something really shocking
that one's one of my favorites but i don't get to use it very often i'm doing all these sound
effects using sampled buttons on my go xlr however you can do them with a stream deck a stream deck
alternative or you can also set them up with voice mode which i mentioned earlier or you can just
simply import them into your software and then set sources to turn on and off the same way i showed
you with hotkeys earlier next up let's talk about how you can make your viewers feel more engaged in
chat now i've talked about better twitch tv a lot or frankface z which i haven't mentioned as much
but it's also fantastic but the thing is i really need to bring this up again because you guys are
missing out on having hundreds of emotes set up in your channel that is ingrained in twitch culture
literally every large channel has these set up and when someone from a large channel decides maybe
i'll watch a small streamer today and they rock up and they can't type omega lull or keck w and it
does really take away from the viewing experience and the chatting experience so much so that i've
actually been in small streamers chats and i've seen people complain about the fact they can't use
better twitch tv or they can't use frank of face c because the streamer just doesn't have it set up
you're probably a bit confused about what i'm talking about if you haven't seen this done before
but essentially have you ever been in a chat and you've seen someone typing omega lol or keck w
or cat jam and it's just the word typed out well that is actually an emote code and those people
are using better twitch tv or frankface z and that is an extension that turns that remote code into
an emote that everyone using that extension can see and most people on twitch have that set up
so they can see in a mode you just can't and the best thing is is you don't need to be an affiliate
to use this or anything like that you can set up literally over like a hundred different emotes
for your channel based off other channels or even just upload your own and people can
start using them straight away it also has a huge library listed from most popular to least popular
meaning that you can just go and take the top 50 most used emotes and add them to your channel it
even uses animator the mode so if you want to you can either take animated remotes from that list
or i'm gonna have a tutorial coming soon about how to make your own animated remotes and upload them
so let me know if you want to see that i've linked in the description a tutorial for how to set up
better twitch tv i really recommend everyone who wants to be a streamer or even if you're just a
viewer go get better twitch tv look at my tutorial get yourself set up it is amazing and it really
helps out every affiliate i've seen the final step is turning on custom overlays such as this
and yes you guessed it you can either use a stream deck or stream deck alternative turn it on
or the same way as i showed you earlier you can set up manual hotkeys on your keyboard in order to
turn them on and off these are a really good way to add a little bit of comedic effect for example
if i'm doing something really smart or really dumb i can turn on this one and chow will often find it
pretty funny or maybe i die in a game over and over again like this one for example that i used
a lot during dark souls the hardest part about setting these up is actually creating the asset
outside of streamlabs or obs and then adding it in now if you decide to go with a still image
most likely a png then it is so easy to add these in you just have to import it which i'll show you
how to do in a second if you choose to go a bit fancier and add something animated like this
then it's actually going to take a lot more effort and i'm going to try and show you how to do it
but unless you have some experience with editing you probably won't be able to do this for example
let's search hd green screen rain if we take something like this rain effect and we download
it and take it directly into obs or streamlabs then we can add the chroma key effect to it quite
easily with some fiddling we can get an okay look but the file is actually an mp4 meaning
it can cause a lot of lag inside obs or streamlabs personally the way i do it is i prefer to take the
green screen into after effects and then use after effects to remove the green from it and create a
webm or transparent video file the reason i said i use a webm in this situation is because it's the
smallest video file that still has transparency a mob has transparency as well however it is
far too large do not use mobs inside obs and slobs unless you have a crazy beefy computer
this webinar is how we made all 35 free stingers that are included in our discord as well by the
way now you don't have to have after effects here you can technically use something like davinci
and go in and remove the green screen in there the problem with davinci though is i'm not sure
it can export out webm's which means you have to export it out as a mob or as a gif file and then
use some sort of free program like convertio to convert it from a mob or a gif into the web amp
all of this seems complicated but there are ways you can do it really simply for example
you can just search up the grand theft auto wasted image and take that as a png and use that instead
it does the exact same thing as adding rain it's just different so once you have your transparent
image that you're going to want to add to your scene all you have to do is open up streamlabs
or obs you want to make a new scene inside your program and then import your asset add your camera
in as well and put it below the asset and then right click the scene not the source add filter
color correction bring down the saturation the reason i say to add filters to the scene and not
your camera is because a lot of you guys have the same camera source so if you add a filter to one
camera source it'll affect every camera source you'll now want to go back to your game scene or
wherever you want to use it add source add scene and then select the scene you just built make sure
it's at the top and then you can set your hotkeys as shown earlier in the video or a streamed
extreme deck alternative to activate the source when needed and you're all set up and good to go
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