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How to Stream Live on Youtube: Fast & Easy
By Howard Berenbon
Youtube continues to enchance their platform, and one of the latest features allows easy living streaming. Anyone can go live to share anything they want (with some limits) on Youtube and connect with their subscribers in real time. Now, with their improved live streaming feature, you can do it in just 10 minutes. You just need to get the proper streaming software. Just so happens that there's a free software package called Open Broadcaster Studio, that will allow you to live stream right out of the box (okay, no box, it's a download) in 10 minutes or less. But, first before you download the software, you'll need to verify that your computer will handle the work. If you're into gaming, and have a gaming computer. It should be fast enough to do the trick. If not, make sure your computer is at least an Intel quad core I5 or equivalent machine so the software can take what you're displaying and send it through to Youtube in real time. Most middle level gaming machines can handle live streaming with OBS Studio, so if you're into gaming you've got the right hardware. And, Open Broadcaster will work on three platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux and those versions are available as a free download at http://obsproject.com. You'll need a camera to live stream, and I suggest a Logitech C920 HD 1080P Webcam with a built-in microphone. I use it, and it costs only $49.99 from Amazon and it works great.
Setup
Once you determine your computer system can handle the load, download the software from OBS Project. After installation, you can leave all settings at default, except two under the streaming settings in OBS Studio. Here you will enter your Youtube "stream/name key" found in the Youtube Creater Studio Live Dashboard Menu under "Encoder Key." In OBS Studio, you will also need to select Youtube/Youtube Gaming which in a box just above where you enter the stream/name key. Don't forget to click Apply and Ok after you enter the key. Then it's back to your Live Dashboard in Youtube. Here you'll set up your video title, description and you can add a thumbnail for your up coming live video, very important for visibility on Youtube.
OBS Source Selection
Once you've got your key entered into OBS, you'll need to prepare your sources for stream, which is under the soure menu in OBS Studio. I show the source selections for my channel in the Youtube video below. But here's what you do. First you create a Scene from the left menu and name it whatever you want. I've named my scene Youtubelive. Then you select sources for that scene. Start with selecting your Video Input Source, which is your camera.It will detect that on your computer. If it has a build-in microphone, you'll see that when you access your camera settings. When your camera is up on the screen, you can adjust the size by dragging at the corners of the square. And you can also position the camera on your screen. Then select the display type. I use the Display Capture, so whatever I have displayed on my computer monitor, that will be streamed along with the video source of me. If you want to stream video displayed on your screen, you'll probably want to stream the audio from that video, so you'll need to add another source: Audio Output Capture to your list. That's about it to get you up and running with streaming on Youtube in 10 minutes or less. If you need more detailed instructions, several great tutorials are available at the OBS Studio Website, OBSproject.com. I also uploaded a short video entitled "How to Streaming Live Setup in Less Than 10 Minutes" and you can view it below.
Start Streaming
One more thing. To go live from OBS studio, after you've added your video Title and Description and an attractive thumbnail, you click on the Start Streaming button on the right side of the OBS Studio menu. When you're done, done forget to click Stop Streaming.
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