are you wondering how to do a live
interview on YouTube or how to add
guests into your YouTube livestream well
in this video we're going to show you
the best options to do it hey it's
Justin Brown here from primal video we
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all the links to everything we've
mentioned in this video you can find
linked in the description box below so
let's jump into it now if you've tried
hosting a live interview on YouTube then
you've probably already realized that
the process isn't as simple as it is on
other platforms like on Facebook life
well the good news is that adding a
guest or multiple guests into your
YouTube livestream is possible and
there's now a few options to do it some
of them are free some of them are paid
each of them really has their own
strengths and weaknesses so I definitely
suggest sticking around to hear out all
of these options to make sure that
you're getting the right one for you so
the first option is using Google
Hangouts now Google Hangouts is
something that's been around for quite a
while and it's had this feature for a
really really long time as probably the
first tool to easily let you go live on
YouTube live with multiple people in the
conversation or in the live stream you
can actually have up to 15 guests on a
call which can be broadcast live now to
be able to bring people in all you need
to do is to start a hangouts call you
can start the call and then send the
link around to the people you want to
bring in to the call once you're ready
to go live all you need to do is press
live and you've added a broadcast this
live to your YouTube channel now while
it is probably one of the easiest ways
to go live on YouTube with guests in it
it's also probably my least favorite
option for doing it it is limited in
quality it is only 720p so it's not as
high quality as some of the other
options but it's also not that powerful
and you don't really have a lot of
control and features and things around
that to make this dream to look good and
there's also a watermark a little logo
appears in the top corner of your live
streams so none of those are
deal-breakers but personally while you
can do it in hangouts I think some of
the other options are about to cover are
much better options option number two is
using Skype and OBS now while this has
been something you could do for quite a
while integrating Skype
the video calling an audio calling
program with OBS which is free live
broadcasting software it's been pretty
clunky and there's always been hardware
issues and audio issues and those sorts
of things
integrating the two lots of audio
feedback and echo and while you can get
it going or could get it going before
it's now much much easier Skype now has
support for a new feature called NDI
which you can enable in Skype when you
enable the content creator mode what MDI
lets you do is to bring your Skype call
your video calls from Skype into live
streaming software like OBS so if you've
got two people on the call then you're
able to bring in each person's video and
audio as a separate camera source to be
used inside of OBS or other live
streaming software now we're talking
about OBS here because OBS is totally
free Skype is free this is a good
solution it's not gonna cost you
anything now with this new support for
Skype and NDI now to enable NDI on OBS
you will need to install the NDI plugin
it's a free download once you've got
that installed you'll be good to go
and again all the links to everything we
mentioned will be in the description
below so the biggest advantage is we're
doing this besides the cost of noting is
that you're able to get a really
high-quality feed out of Skype and into
OBS and do your live streaming to
YouTube or to even other other platforms
as well like Facebook or twitch using
OBS and you also get full control over
what the live stream is going to look
like you can set up different scenes or
different camera angles or different
views or scenes inside of OBS that you
can switch between so you can really
customize what your livestream is going
to look like and even set different
scenes that you could switch between so
if say I'm talking for a while you could
make me fullscreen and then when there's
two of us talking we could probably have
5050 so they're on half and I'm on the
other half and vice versa when they're
speaking we could make them fullscreen
so you've got that control to be able to
control what the end product looks like
and it's really good quality another big
plus we're going with this option is
that most people these days have a Skype
account already if not it's not a big
deal to set one up and create one again
totally free and then it
easy to integrate with OBS you're also
not limited to just having two people on
the conversation this will work with
three four five people but be aware that
the more people you bring in the more
load this is going to have on your
computer so while I've tested it fine
having two and three guests in that
probably wouldn't push it beyond that
unless you've got a really powerful
system and a really decent internet
connection as well the more people
you're having in the more conversations
you're having the more internet
bandwidth you're going to need to be oh
not only hosts the Skype call but also
push it out as a live feed as well you
also be able to use this method whether
you're on Mac or PC as well as both
Skype and OBS have support for both I
think the biggest downside though with
using this option of Skype and OBS is
the complexity to get everything set up
if you're someone who is not technically
minded or you don't want to spend some
time playing around with settings inside
of OBS then this may not be the best
option for you but if you already know
OBS you know how to work it or you're
happy to get up to speed with that then
this will give you a heap amount of
control and features and you're really
able to dial in the look of your live
stream as well option number three is to
use ECAM live now sorry PC users and
Linux users ECAM live is only for mac
but if you are on Mac then this is an
amazing solution this is actually how we
do it for a lot of our live streams
it's got direct integration with Skype
so that you can open up your Skype call
and automatically the Skype call comes
through as a feed or a source that you
can use inside of ECAM live so the
biggest downside of option to where it
was complicated to set up and there's a
bit of a learning curve to learn OBS
there's none of that with ECAM live
because it's so intuitive and so easy
and there's not an overwhelming amount
of features and settings and things that
are going to take some getting used to
or some knowledge around to be able to
get them set up right ECAM live is by
far the easiest most intuitive way to do
it if you're on a Mac now just like with
option number two and using OBS you're
not limited with ECAM live to broadcast
just to youtube you can actually
broadcast a Facebook to periscope to
twitch to a lot of other platforms
well and they've also got inbuilt
integration with switchboard live and
restreamed IO
to help you actually share and broadcast
your strings to multiple sources so you
could go live to both Facebook and to
YouTube simultaneously all with
everything you need inside of ECAM live
another really big feature of ECAM live
that none of the other options that
we're going to cover here have support
for is the integration with YouTube
comments but also Facebook comments as
well anyone that leaves a comment on
your live stream you can actually
feature that comment on the screen you
can pick it up you can move it around
but the whole idea is that this is a
deeper level of integration and
interaction with your audience while
you're live to be able to click on a
comment feature it on-screen answer that
question or talk about that topic and
then move on to the next one is a huge
feature
now while the other solutions up until
now have been free solutions this one
isn't a free solution is a paid option
but I think at the $79 price point it's
crazy cheap considering what this
software is going to let you do again
all the links to everything that we're
talking about you can find linked in the
description box below but just remember
that this option of using ECAM live is
only for mac so if you are on PC Linux
or a Chromebook or something else then
maybe option 4 might be the one that
you're after so option number 4 is to
use zoom now soom is an online platform
for hosting and running group calls a
zoom is another fairly intuitive really
easy to use option for going live on
YouTube with multiple people or multiple
guests on your stream now one of the
biggest features or biggest advantages
with using zoom is that you're able to
get a lot more people onto your live
stream or into your live call than any
of the other options some of the plans
will let you have a hundred people on a
call and some of them will you have 200
people on a call now the way that
actually displays the webcam for the
people on the call there's only really
two options here this is the speak of
view which whoever is speaking gets
highlighted and gets brought up
fullscreen and as that changes then it
automatically adjusted to whoever is
speaking or there's the gallery view
which is like the picture in picture the
the Brady Bunch style view where there's
small squares on the screen showing the
webcams
of whoever is on the call now this is
limited you're not able to get all 100
on the screen at once or 200 people once
you go over a certain amount it will
sort them off into pages of people so
that's something to be aware of if you
did really want to have a hundred people
write live on your live stream don't
know why you would but yeah you can't
have them all on there at once but the
moment that they do speak then they can
be bought up full screen on that live
stream the other really big advantage
with zoom is that because it is all
hosted and run through their cloud
platform is that you don't really need
to have fantastic internet connection
because you're not downloading and
uploading everyone's calls to stream out
it's all managed from their online
platform and broadcasted out from that
so at the absolute minimum if you've got
enough upload speed for you to send a
high-quality picture or high-quality
video from your webcam to zoom then that
should be enough for you to be able to
have a high quality experience with
going live from zoom with multiple
people so it can really take the
pressure off and still allow you get
good results even if your internet
connection isn't fantastic and also
because it is running through their
platform and through the cloud that
there is no real intensive CPU usage
either so I'm not going to put a huge
load on your computer so it doesn't
matter if you've got one guest or 100
guests the load on your computer is
going to be the same which is fairly
minimal the downsides though of using
zoom is that you don't have anywhere
near the amount of flexibility or
control that you do with the other
options that we've mentioned so far so
with option number 2 and OBS you could
customize what it looked like for your
broadcast now with zoom you don't really
get much control you're really limited
to those two views the gallery view and
the speaker view and that's it then you
can still do screen shares and those
sorts of things share your computer
screen on the live but there's not much
more control or anything else you can
configure beyond that point now the
other big thing to be aware of with zoom
is that you don't just need to have a
zoom subscription this isn't a free
thing you will need to have a paid pro
subscription and you'll also need to
have the webinar add-on to be able to
actually do the live streaming part but
once you've got that added to your
account then it will let you go live to
either u2
or to Facebook so the minimum to be able
to use zoom to go live to YouTube is
$54.99 per month that's including the
base rate of the pro plan plus the
additional monthly fee to access the
webinar features which have the ability
to go live from it and at that price
point of $54.99 per month you can have
up to 100 people joining your live call
so zoom is option number four option
number five is using professional live
streaming software very similar to
option number two we had Skype setup
with OBS this is where we're using Skype
with professional level software
Wirecast vmix or there's a few others
out there as well now the biggest
benefit with using professional live
streaming software like vmix or like
Wirecast
to bring in guests and livestream to
youtube with multiple people in them is
that you'll get the greatest amount of
control and flexibility and power and
performance as well with your live
streams so essentially it's very similar
to option number two where we were using
OBS but Wirecast and vmix have so many
more features and so many more tools and
a lot more power and performance in
behind it to give you much more
flexibility and much more control with
your live streams now both V makes my
cast also have their own calling feature
their own guesting feature where you can
bring guests in and invite guests into
your live stream but in my experience is
just as easy if not easier to use the
new Skype integration with nd I support
and bring in your Skype calls then using
the built-in guesting features on V mix
or on Wirecast and really deep power and
the performance that comes in when
you're using Skype cindy i feature and
integrating it into v mix or Wirecast
is the quality that you're getting
through it's a much higher quality
there's a lot less dropouts you're using
Skype for the call which again is much
easier to get people set up and running
most people have a Skype account there's
no need to try and explain to someone
how do they need to join your Wirecast
call or your vmix call people these days
they know how to use Skype or they can
get up to speed with it really really
quickly but also once again that these
Skype feeds just come in as another
video input just the same as adding an
the camera into Wirecast or vmix would
and you get to control and position and
set up different scenes or different
looks so that you can position this
wherever you'd like and change the
background and those sorts of things
to really customize this up to get a
professional-looking live stream now
this option of using wire cast and vmix
is really aimed at the professional end
of things because it's going to come
with a much bigger price tag so with
wire cast you've got two options you can
get the studio version or the pro
version the wire car studio is going to
cost you six hundred and ninety five
dollars this will give you two guests
using its own built-in calling feature
called rendezvous or there's the pro
version for nine hundred and ninety five
which lets you add up to seven remote
guests using their own built-in
rendezvous platform and obviously a heap
of other features as well now if you're
just looking to bring multiple guests in
through Skype and you're not going to
use their built-in rendezvous feature
then you can probably just get away with
the studio version now vmix on the other
hand has a heap of different pricing
options from a free edition right up to
a pro edition or a pro license for
$1,200 now the biggest thing to look at
when you're selecting which plan is
right for you would be the maximum
output resolution and the quality that
you're going to be able to broadcast so
I'd say where most people would be
sitting would be either the basic HD at
$60 u.s. or even the HD plan at 350
dollars u.s. now obviously if you're
interested in this you'll have to go
through the features and work out which
one is right for you but I'd say most
people we should be able to get away
with either one of those two and the
other thing to be aware of is that
because V mix and Wirecast are full
production suites they can actually put
your system under a lot more load
depending on the computer that you're
going to be running them on and V mix is
only going to run on Windows whereas
Wirecast will run on Windows or Mac okay
so that was a lot of information that
we've covered off pretty quick in this
video but those are the five ways to
currently go live on YouTube bringing in
a guest or having multiple people on
your live stream way alive so in summary
then if you just want a really simple
way to do it without much control and
not necessarily the best quality then
check out google hangouts if you're not
an absolute beginner and you're happy to
learn software like OBS and
fiddle around and to customize
everything up if that's you then option
number two using Skype NDI and using OBS
could be the best option for you if
you're on a Mac and you want something
that's really feature-rich and really
powerful but also really easy and super
intuitive to use then hands down and
that's gonna go to ECAM live if you want
to bring a heap of guests onto your live
stream then zoom might be the answer for
you and if you aren't the more
professional end of things and you want
full control over everything you want
all the features all the bells and
whistles then it's going to go to vmix
or to Wirecast but personally for me and
i'm someone actually owned Wirecast and
uses it for corporate and professional
live streaming for us for youtube and
bringing in guests it hands down goes to
e cam live there is no simpler way no
easier way in my opinion to do it but
still have a heap of good features and
heap of good control over your live
stream while you're live so you can well
done now if you're interested in
recording those online interviews
whether you end up running them live or
not then linked on screen is a video
showing you exactly how to do it I'll
see you soon