- Are you wondering how
to do a live interview on YouTube or how to add guests into your YouTube live stream? Well, in this video, we're gonna show you the
best options to do it. (upbeat music) Hey, it's Justin Brown
here from Primal Video. We help you amplify your
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we mention 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 Live. Well the good news is that
adding a guest or multiple guests into your YouTube live stream 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 you 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. It's 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
fifteen guests on a call, which can be broadcast live. Now to better 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 wanna bring into the call. Once you're ready to go live, all you need to do is press live, and you better 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, in that you don't really
have a lot of control, and features and things around that to make the stream 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 that we're 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 and
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. And what NDI 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 plug-in, 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 mention will be in the description below. So, the biggest advantages
with doing this, besides the cost of nothing, 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 platforms as well, like Facebook or Twitch, using OBS. And you also get full control over what the livestream 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 live stream 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 full screen, and then when there's two of us talking, we could probably have 50-50, so, they're on half, and
I'm on the other half, and vice versa, when they're speaking we could make them full screen. 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 with
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's 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 gonna
have on your computer. So, while I've tested it fine having two and three guests in, I 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 able not only host the Skype call, but also push it out
as a live feed as well. You'll 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 wanna 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 happy to get up to speed with that, then this will give you
a heap amount of control, and features, and you
really battle to dial in the look of your live stream as well. Option number three is to use Ecamm Live. Now, sorry PC users and Linux users, Ecamm 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. Its 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 Ecamm Live. So, the biggest downside of option two, where it was complicated to set up and there was a bit of a
learning curve to learn OBS, there's none of that with Ecamm Live because it's so intuitive and so easy, and there's not an overwhelming amount of features and settings and things that are gonna take some getting used to or some knowledge around to be able to get them set up right. Ecamm 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 Ecamm Live to broadcast just to YouTube. You can actually broadcast
to Facebook, to Periscope, to Twitch, to a lot of
other platforms as well, and they've also got
in built-in integration with Switchboard Live, and Restream.io to help you actually share
and broadcast your stream to multiple sources. So, you can go live to both Facebook and to YouTube simultaneously, all with everything you
need inside of Ecamm Live. Another really big feature of Ecamm Live that none of the other options
that we're gonna 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 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, it 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 Ecamm Live is only for Mac, so, if you are on PC,
Linux, or Chromebook, or something else, then maybe option four might be the one that you're after. So, option number four is to use Zoom. Now, Zoom is an online platform for hosting and running group calls. Now, 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 you live stream
or onto 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 let you have two hundred people on a call. Now, the way that it
actually displays the webcam for the people on the call is only really two options here. There's either the speaker view, which whoever is speaking
gets highlighted, and gets brought up full screen, and as that changes then
it's automatically adjusted to whoever is speaking. Or there's the gallery view, which is like the picture in picture, the Brady Bunch style view, where there's more squares
on the screen showing the webcams of whoever is on the call. Now, this is limited, you're not able to get all one hundred on the screen at once, or two hundred 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 on 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 brought 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 to get good results even if your internet
connection isn't fantastic. And also because it is running
through their platform, and through the cloud, there is no real intensive
CPU usage either. So, it's not gonna put a
huge load on your computer. So, it doesn't matter
if you've got one guest or one hundred guests,
the load on your computer is going to be the same,
which is fairly minimal. The downside 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 two and OBS, you can 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. Now, 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 YouTube 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 one hundred 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, where we had Skype set up 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. And the biggest benefit with using professional livestreaming 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 vMix and Wirecast also have their own calling feature, or their own guesting feature, where you can bring guests in, invite guests into your live stream, but in my experience, it's just as easy, if not easier, to use the new Skype
integration with NDI support and bring in your Skype calls, than using the built-in guesting features on vMix or on Wirecast. A really deep power in the performance that comes in when you're
using Skype's NDI feature and integrating it into vMix 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 that 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 another 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 Wirecast and vMix is really aimed at the
professional end of things, because it's gonna come with
a much bigger price tag. So, with Wirecast, you've got two options. You can get the studio
version or the pro version. The Wirecast Studio is
gonna cost you $695. This will give you two guests using its own built-in calling
feature called Rendezvous, or there's the pro version for $995, which lets you add up
to seven remote guests using their own built-in
Rendezvous platform, and oversee a heap of
other features as well. Now, if you're just looking to bring multiple guests in through Skype and you're not gonna use the
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 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 gonna 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 U.S. Now, obviously if you're
interested in this, you have to go through the features and work out which one is right for you, but I'd say most people
should be able to get away with either one of those two. And the other thing to be aware of is that because vMix 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 vMix 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 while you're live. 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 to 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, that's
gonna go to Ecamm Live. If you wanna bring a heap of
guests onto your live stream, then Zoom might be the answer for you. And if you're on 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 gonna go to vMix or to Wirecast. But personally, for me, and I'm someone that
actually owns Wirecast, and uses it for corporate and
professional live streaming, for us, for YouTube
and bringing in guests, it hands down goes to Ecamm Live. There is no simpler way, no easier way, in my opinion, to do it, but still have a heap of good features and a heap of good control over your livestream while you're live. So, Ecamm, 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. And I'll see you soon.
