How to Livestream with Blackmagic ATEM Mini and OBS

hey what's up everybody welcome back to Ministry hacks today I'm going to be showing you how to set up a basic live stream using an A10 mini pro a laptop a rode wireless go-to mic and a couple of cameras here we go check it out so as you can see we have our basic setup going on here we have a laptop and for us it's a 2019 MacBook Pro it's not the newest MacBook out there but it is more than capable of handling a live stream we have it plugged in we want to always make sure you got your power adapters hooked up to everything because it could die on you and if you're streaming something like a church service that's 60 minutes or more it will kill your battery so you want to make sure you have external power hooked up there all right we have our A10 mini pro by Blackmagic design as I said in our video on our just live portable setup and if you want to check that out there's a video link uh check that out I think this is the best thing that you can invest in other than getting your Basics like a camera computer some something to protect your gear but this thing is a live video switcher it's a video encoder and it's a video streamer so super cool super versatile it's not very much money I'll put a link in the description below for this and all the products that we have here today if you want to check it out and add it to your setup but again the A10 mini pro we got two cameras here today we have a older Panasonic Lumix gh2 this thing's like 15 years old very out of date as many people will tell you but what I will tell you is that you can use it as a live stream webcam using the A10 mini pro and then our other camera we have a Blackmagic design pocket Cinema camera 4K all right and then the some of the other things that we have hooked up here right we got a external SSD hard drive it's a one terabyte hard drive by SanDisk it's connected with a thunderbolt 4 cable as I mentioned in our live stream uh portable setup gear is that you don't want a cable to be the reason you can't capture your uh your uh video because it just couldn't hang with the the requirements that it needs and so a thunderbolt 4 cable supposedly can do up to 40 gigabytes per second should be more than enough bandwidth to handle those 4K files transferring to your SSD as long as it has a high read and write speed which the SanDisk Xtreme Pro does and so we have those cameras set up we have our rode Wireless go to mic pack right we have our receiver here it's actually plugged into our A10 mini pro and then we have the other mic right here this is the transmitter that will connect to the lapel mic that's on my shirt as you can see so that is our audio for this and so when you're hooking this all up right again you want to have power to everything we have power to our laptop we have power to the A10 mini pro as you can see it's on our cameras are on and they're charged but what I like to do is have a power adapter hooked up to our cameras during service because our service is over 60 minutes and a lot of these cameras battery life just won't hang in there that long so again you don't want a power source to be the reason that you couldn't capture or stream your service all right so we have everything there when we're hooking up our stuff together right we have a another Thunderbolt or a USBC cable here going from our USBC output from the A10 mini pro goes right into our MacBook Pro here and what that allows us to do is actually sends the feed and then through our laptop that's where the live stream is actually sent out broadcast to the world we have a HDMI out on the back of the A10 mini pro which goes to our external Monitor and so one thing you do need if you're going to use the A10 mini pro you need an external monitor it doesn't have to be a big TV like this it could be a small little six inch display they sell some of those as well which are actually super cool and sweet or it could just be a really old monitor you have sitting around as long as it has an HDMI input it will work and so when you plug it in and you turn on your monitor this is what you will get so you'll get this whole thing you can see our cameras are on but you have camera One camera two camera three and Camera four so you have up to four cameras say one of them you want to be an iPhone you could do that if you wanted to you could have another camera it's a Sony the alpha 7 I don't know what what you might be using but you can really use any camera here and you'll see those camera inputs then we have our preview this is what we're currently on so we're on camera one and then we have our program that's what our audience would be seen so if this is black that means that our live stream audience if we're streaming their screen is black as well so they're not going to see anything until we actually switch something on there now you can see we have some video going right we're going to just fade that back to black so you want to hook up your external monitor HDMI out and then of course you hook up your cameras with a HDMI cord for our Panasonic Lumix gh2 again it's a very old camera and it has a mini HDMI port in it that goes out and so we had to have a special cable a mini HDMI to an HDMI that's hooked up there and then we have a regular HDMI to our Blackmagic pocket cinema camera over here and then the last but not least we have our rode Wireless go to pack hooked up here for our audio so we have clean audio no matter which camera angle we might be streaming on the audio would stay the same so that's hooked up plugged into mic number one now once you have everything set up it's plugged in it's kind of ready to go you can see it's rocking and rolling at least the setup now we want to open up our laptop and then what you're going to do is you want to download OBS OBS is an open source software it allows you to stream it's free online I'll have a link in the description for that if you need to find it but it's free very versatile many streamers use it professional ones just because it's free doesn't mean that it's bad or cheap it's actually very good software and so you can see we opened up OBS here the next thing you want to do once you have OBS opened is you're going to want to set up your stream settings so you go to settings you get this list here and we'll go to stream all right and for us our service that we use is restream restream is a great option it allows you to stream to multiple platforms at the same time you're not losing quality your stream it's it's great I can't say enough about it you could stream to Facebook live YouTube you could stream to Twitter all at the same time you could even do multiple accounts on each platform if you wanted to do that and go that route and so it's great but say you don't have a paid subscription for restream or any of those types of things what you could use is say your Facebook live say you wanted to go live on Facebook that's where you're going to be live streaming most of the time you'll plug in your Facebook server there your Facebook stream key you'll have to go into Facebook and set that all up but then you copy paste the stream key in here hit apply hit OK and you're ready to go same thing with YouTube set up a live stream on YouTube get your stream key plug it in here apply hit okay you're pretty much ready to go a couple other settings to make sure you take note of all right we got our output here which gives us some options we have streaming recording audio um replay buffer when you're streaming the streaming tab is the one that you want to pay attention to make sure your output actually matches what you're putting out on your A10 mini pro the A10 mini pro can only do 1080p at the max resolution which is more than good so don't think like oh man I need 4K most people don't stream in 4k they they stream in 1080P they record it at the same time and capture it in 4k and then afterwards they do post-production and they re-upload it in 4k that's what most people will do so because the stream in 4k takes a massive amount of bandwidth and Wi-Fi and even if you have the internet capability to stream in 4k most of your streamers will not have the internet capability to stream that in 4k in real time and so this puts it out in 1080P we want to make sure our streaming settings on OBS match that so we have 1920 by 1080 right we have our encoder at 264. that's the best codec for live streaming on YouTube and things of that nature it plays well with everything we want to make sure our bit rate is set up a good bit rate and you can look this up I'll put a link to an article in the description below you can see what each platform might want but for 1080 for the most part somewhere around 3 500 kilobytes per second to 5 000 is kind of where you want to be for 1080. if you're trying to stream in 4k you want something around 80 000 that just kind of shows you how much more information you're pushing out but that that's what you want to make sure so we have ours set up at 3500 it seems to work well our rate control CBR there we have our this one's not set up right now but our key in keyframe interval we actually want that at two seconds if you're streaming to something like Twitter you want that to be three but each platform has a little bit different options there but making sure we can optimize it as much as we can control here all right you want to hit apply and then a couple other things to check make sure your audio is set up that you got we have our Blackmagic design as our audio source so it comes from the A10 mini pro pushes through that USBC cable into here that's the audio we want our audience to hear um but say you wanted your computer to be the audio that they hear you could plug that in other mics other inputs you could do as well and then you want to also before you're done here make sure the video tab matches that resolution so again we're streaming in 1080 so we want that 1920 by 1080 as the base canvas resolution and we also want our output resolution as that 1920 by 1080 so it all matches up and then the last part too we want to make sure our frames per second match what we're actually shooting and streaming in so say you have this set to 60 frames per second but your camera is only set to 24 or 30. there might be a little bit of weirdness in your stream so trying to match it to what you're streaming we like to go with 24 frames per second we're not streaming enough sports event and so there's not this High action-packed film that we're trying to do we just want to stream a basic church service and so 24 frames per second allows us to do that and it's less data that we're trying to push through the internet for that live stream and so hopefully the theory would be there'd be a little bit less lag time in there with 24 frames per second versus 60 frames per second but you could set it up to 60 frames per second if you wanted to do that but do note that some of the platforms don't allow you to stream at 60 frames per second I think Twitter the max is 30 frames per second YouTube you could stream up to 60 frames per second but just make sure the platform you're streaming on allows that frames per second all right and so we want to set that up once it's all good we hit apply we hit OK and then from there if everything's plugged in we like the way it looks we got all of our video sources audio sources plugged in all we need to do now with the stream key plugged in as we hit this button up here start streaming boom once we hit start streaming this thing's going to go live and if it's hooked up to restream like ours will it's going to go live on Facebook live on our YouTube channel as well as our Twitter account and so all those three platforms will have the same stream going at the same time now of course our program if we're going Live Well our program is dark so someone might actually comment in the chat and they'll be like hey I can't see anything and you're looking over here at the preview you're like oh why can't you see anything well it's because you haven't put anything on the program yet so we want to go to camera two boom there we go camera two is live but now someone in the chat's like hey I can see it but I can't hear anything well that's because over here on our program this is what the audio that our audience is is hearing well they don't have anything going on we got stuff going on here Mike one right that's our microphone going in there we got audio on camera one because it has its mic on as well but what we want our program audience to hear is what we have here and so we want to make sure boom we turn that on now all of a sudden you can see that the audience has audio there now what we're looking at right is the levels going out now it's hitting into that red we don't want that that means that it's peaking that means there's going to be static there's going to be just it's going to sound terrible especially if you're doing music and worship and you got guitar you got background tracks maybe you have keyboard drums especially bass that thing is going to be peaking and it's just going to sound so staticky and bad and but the nice thing about the A10 mini pro is that you can adjust that on the fly so say I'll go camera one again right say we want to adjust that it's a little bit peaking we can go right here A10 mini pro mic one it has the audio volume adjustments it's actually for the gain and actually we're going to lower that down and so as we're lowering it see it's at negative three decibels right we can go a little bit lower and now we got that in a nice range where it's right there in the green a little bit of yellow that's kind of where we want that's The Sweet Spot maybe even we want to bring it down a little bit more to where it's more in the green and every once in a while hits that yellow it might be a little soft but now if the audience types in the chat like hey it's a little soft today I can't hear you can adjust that real quick on the Fly and I love that about the A10 mini pro you don't need a bunch of extra gear and stuff to get your audio to where you want it now as we're streaming again we got our different camera options right camera One camera two but say for us like we have a little bit of an intermission so worship happens and then we say hey take some time to meet and greet those around you grab some coffee grab your bible and grab your seat right and so in that time we like to cut to a still we have this pre-loaded into the A10 mini pro and you can preload different media right in there maybe you want to preload um in a logo right you could do that if you wanted to but we've re pre-loaded this and just says welcome we will begin soon that way our live stream audience knows that they're in the right place they're not they're not late they didn't miss anything like they know like hey it's on it's streaming we're gonna start here very shortly and so we'll have that go and then once someone steps up there to the pulpit and they're about to start their teaching or they're welcoming people well now we're going to cut back to camera one and then boom there we go and now we're on we're ready to rock and roll and then say we get towards the end of the service hey thanks for joining us today make sure you like And subscribe to our channel to stay tuned for more content like this have a blessed week and we want to cut out Fade to Black boom make sure the audio's off and we're done there and then all you have to do in OBS is hit stop streaming and then the stream is over it will end automatically and then it's available for your YouTube Facebook Twitter audiences unless you have chosen different settings in YouTube you can actually disable it that once you're done going live it will make it a private video so people can't go back and watch it which is kind of nice if you're going to upload a 4K option later on while we're talking about this is that well we stream in 1080P through OBS we're actually capturing the same video on our Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 4ks we're capturing that in 4k to our external hard drives right and that's why it's important to have those cables right we have Thunderbolt 4 cables to help it be able to push that data through so we don't have dropped frames or corrupt files things of that nature but we capture all of our video in 4k so that after the service is over we actually bring that video down off of YouTube and then we go to a post-production workflow and we start to cut and edit that 4K footage and then we re-upload it to YouTube that way people when they're watching later on they have a good quality stream because we want to bring the best to our audience and so we do that and so make sure you capture that but you need some some large ssds again we use a one terabyte and so just for instance if you don't know much about live streaming or or recording in 4k if you're recording say a 60 Minute service in 4k a 60 Minute service in that resolution is going to be about 500 gigabytes so that's half a terabyte just and that's just one camera so if you have two cameras recording in in UHD 60 Minute service right you're talking that's a terabyte right there for one service alone now that's just the raw files after you edit it and you actually export it in 4k and it compresses it it comes out to somewhere around 20 Gigabytes for a 60 Minute service so it's not terrible but just have that in mind that as you're editing through this stuff and you're looking to add new gear and software and Hardware to your live stream and your recording setup and it does take some massive storage so if you don't have that yet make sure you budget for that bigger hard drives make sure your computer is capable of it this MacBook Pro right here it's a great MacBook but I mean it cannot handle a terabyte of video and editing it I mean I can it it's possible but it takes a century to do it because it bogs down the whole computer and so while it's trying to render video you can't you literally can't do anything else so you want to make sure you have a computer that's capable of actually handling that I have another computer that we use it has a four terabyte hard drive and so we load those files on there so we can edit it on the Fly export it there's plenty of space and then after it's all said and done we delete those files those big 500 gigabyte files to free up space because we have our edited version of our final product so that's our basic live stream setup using an A10 mini pro a laptop a couple of cameras and the rode Wireless go to mics I hope this was helpful for you if it was let me know in the comments below and make sure you subscribe for more content like this on our Channel thanks for watching guys stay tuned for the next one peace out

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Length: 19min 11sec (1151 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023