How to use Streamyard - Streamyard hacks for better livestreams

hello and welcome to the live stream whether you are joining live with me now or if you're catching us on the replay in this video i'm going to walk you through some of my favorite stream yard hacks now i've got a bunch of tutorials already on the channel about stream yard but in this video i'm covering hacks to help make your live streams even better now for those of you who don't know me my name is sarah newan and i help coaches coaches consultants and creative pros build their business using social media and video with ease and i live stream a lot about live streaming now make sure that you check out the links in the description because i'll have all the links to all the time stamps as well as any of the resources mentioned in this video now really excited to showcase this so in the description i've got links to a full tutorial on stream yard as well as my review of streamyard and other live streaming software platforms as well i use dreamyard i love them i recommend them very highly there's a link in the description to my affiliate link if you want to try them out and i love them because they're so easy to use and with live streaming there's so much going on one of the things that you don't want to be stressed about is whether or not the software will work and whether or not you can learn how to use the software which is why i highly recommend streamyard as a software option particularly if you're new to live streaming it's one of my favorite software options and i use stream yard as well as other options but i love stream yard because of its simplicity now i'm going to go into some of my favorite hacks and these will be things that um you know you may or may not be aware of these are features that i think are a little bit underutilized and we're going to walk through them so that you can know exactly what they are and how you can also use them to get better live streams out of stream yard so let's go over to my computer and the first hack or the first feature that i really love that stream yard have is multi-streaming now the ability for you to live stream once but to then push that same video out to multiple platforms so at the moment i'm live streaming to youtube to facebook as well as periscope yes periscope is still a thing but you can also multi-stream to other platforms as well so let's have a look at how you would actually do this so this is stream yard and after you've logged into stream yard you can create a broadcast and you will be able to connect it to different destinations if we go to this destinations tab on the left hand side you'll see that i've got set up my facebook page i've got a demo facebook page which i use for demonstration purposes i've got my youtube channel and periscope if i select add destination you'll see i'll also be able to connect it to linkedin if i wanted to do linkedin live streams as well as twitch and there's also custom uh rtmp which allows me to connect to other live stream platforms using this which i'm not going to cover because it's a little bit beyond me but these are different destinations that you can live stream to at the same time and the way that you would make that happen is you would simply go to create a broadcast well actually the first thing you would do is you would go to destinations and you would select at a destination and you would click on the actual destination you wanted to go through and then you would allow all of the permissions after you've done that you would go to broadcast create a broadcast and you'll be able to select all of the destinations to live stream at once right and there is a limitation depending on the plan that you're on but i am just going to for the purposes of this demonstration show you that it really is as simple as going to create the broadcast and selecting the two three four um destinations that you want to live stream to and that that's incredibly efficient right so you don't have to live stream to facebook and then upload that video to youtube you can broadcast once and we'll push out to both of those platforms and it's as simple as simple as that so you would select the destinations that you want to broadcast to you'd create the title for the live stream so i'm just going to do demo and then you would go create broadcast and this takes you into stream yard as it's setting up um that was it so after you see after you connect you'll be then able to select your camera by selecting cam slash mic this is using my mac camera and you can see all my mess right now but i'm going to switch over to my capture card which is my canon 90d that's the camera there and the audio that's the correct microphone that i want to use and i'm going to close it off i can choose how the name displays and then i go into the actual broadcast i put my full name if i really wanted to and select enter broadcast now that's the first little hack so being able to multi-stream i'm not sure whether everyone's really aware of it or not but it's definitely something that is a great feature to have that comes with it so you may as well use it so hack number two that i really love with stream yard is the ability to have intro and outro videos so at the beginning of this live stream you if you were live and at the beginning of all of my live streams i will have an intro video that plays for about five minutes and it has music and a countdown timer and i have an intro video so that it will push a notification so that people know that i will be live and they've got a bit of time to join me before the live stream actually happens and it also is a buffer between me going live or me pushing the live button and me talking so that just helps that helps me make sure that i'm not live streaming um and i'm talking before the actual feed is pushed through so having intro and outro videos is a really cool feature of streamyard that you can use as well and it is in the brand section so if you hover over to the brand section you'll see if i scroll um where it says video clips this isn't just for playing video clips within your live stream if you were to be wanting to play a video for whatever reason you can actually upload intro and outro videos and play them and that's what i've done and that's what i do and that's what i recommend you do as well it also um you know it gives you a little bit of a pump it's a little bit of excitement before the live stream starts so i you would simply upload the video clip now i have a link in the description to my tutorial that shows you how to create your own intro and outro videos really easily no high-tech um required using canva and you can do it mostly for free so once you've created it you would simply select upload in the videos clip section here upload overlay and then you would choose the video file and once the video file is uploaded to add it to the live stream all you would do is select it and it would start playing during the live stream and this is a countdown that i've got so that is a really underutilized feature that i feel that is part of stream yard that people don't use maybe because they just haven't thought about it but now you know about it as well so the ability to do you know your countdown timers for your intros and the outros of your live stream or from this video clip section as well so that is feature number two that i wanted to talk about now feature number three screen sharing so when it comes to live streaming i feel that people haven't quite explored or aren't really aware of all of the different ways that you can live stream and i think there's this big perception that when you're live streaming that it simply is just you know the ability for your community to ask you questions um for you to go spontaneously but that's not true you're able to deliver content really efficiently um and you can present information in so many ways you can you can present information by tutorials and sharing your screen you you can present information by showing like a keynote or powerpoint presentation once again sharing your screen and this is a feature that you get within stream yard so let me show you how easy it is to do within within the within a stream yard now on once you've logged into stream yard it's this option at the bottom here right where it says share screen so you would select that they give you this friendly reminder that you it works better with two screens and you would select share screen and then you get the option if you have two monitors to choose between which monitor that you want to actually share so you can share the entire screen you can also choose between an application windows if you just want a specific application to show you can do that as well i'm going to go ahead and open um an application or you can just show a tab as well so if you've got multiple tabs open um you can show a particular tab if it is open so i'm going to go share entire screen and it's as easy as selecting the screen that i want to share clicking share and there's a lot going on on my screen right now and then you can see the entire screen and i've got all of my ecam overlays and things here but you can imagine that if you were just going through a presentation you would walk through the presentation or if you're on keynote you could simply just go to i think it's play and then play in window and then you'll be able to see just that section so that's how you would share your screen completely underutilized feature of um stream yard and a great way of actually you know creating and sharing content in my view so that's how you would share a screen you know when it comes to screen sharing as well the other cool thing that i like about it is that um let me add myself to this stream and let me remove myself from here so you're not seeing double of me so if i'm on the screen here and i want to share um my screen i would go to share screen at the bottom here right and then i'm going to let's share going to be a little bit confusing but that's okay um let's share screen number two so i'm sharing this screen and then the options that i have i'm going to select the background is that i can change the display so i can have it so that i'm still as you can see here on the actual screen the camera is still showing that source and then i've got the screen on the right hand side alternatively i can also switch it so that it's full screen and i'm completely out of it if i have a guest on the actual stream yard live stream with me we can both be on screen while looking at a screen as well so it's really versatile and it really is a great way of being able to deliver content so absolutely love the feature to share your screen highly recommend it it's a great and it's kind of like a quick hacky way of producing content really quickly it's like here let me show you a tutorial of how to use stream yard and share your screen so that's a great feature that i absolutely love now let's talk about my next favorite feature so the next favorite feature that i have is overlays right so overlays are a little bit misunderstood and probably extremely underutilized i absolutely love having overlays and stream yard makes it really easy let me show you how so back over here actually i'm going to remove myself because i'm already on the screen i'm going to stop sharing the screen and remove there okay so if you have a look in stream yard in the overlay section here right so people tend to think that overlays adjust your lower third so all they are is you know your lower third or a basic graphic but overlays are so much more than that overlays are a really great and easy way of adding visuals to your actual live stream so you know i've created this overlay where i'm now all of a sudden i'm inside a computer in your computer there's a bit of inception there also you can also use overlays to have teaching points or to communicate messages during your live stream they it's such a such a such a simple way but such an effective way of adding visuals and you know teaching points and just another way of communicating using during your live stream and to break it up from just being a talking head video like you see here so my next favorite hack or current favorite hack is definitely overlays and they're incredibly easy to add so once again link in the description i've got a tutorial that shows you how to create your own overlays using canva and i also just absolutely love being able to add overlays and i really want you to start thinking of overlays beyond just you know being a lower third with your name on it but you know in being something that can have a teaching point on the screen or emphasizing a key idea or emphasizing a point so overlays are such a great way of leveling up your live streams and completely underutilized the other thing that i love with how streamyard does it is you can create your own ones they're simply transparent images and then to add them once again it's just clicking on this plus button underneath the overlay section right so once you've got your overlay whatever it is you can just add it to the overlay section and then when you want to use it when you're on stream yard you just select it and then once you're done with that overlay you want to move on to the next one you click it again and then it's gone the other little hacky tip that i have for you is with overlays another way to use it is if you go to banners on the right hand corner here you'll see that i've got a couple of questions and these these were questions that i had for a collaboration that i did with queenie who's on the live stream now and with the banners you can also use them as your overlays as well and this was a little trick that i did where i have the questions when i have someone on a live stream um in the banner so one i don't have to remember anything because there's a lot going on this head i can't remember everything so i like to have the questions as banners and then i can just have the questions on screen my guests can see them on screen the viewers can see them on screen everyone knows what's going on so another great way of using the overlays is using the banners to either have a key talking point or to have your questions if you're doing an interview or you're doing a collaboration and they really are as easy as clicking on this create banner typing oh i can't spell because everyone's watching me typing text and then adding banner and once you're ready to use it you simply click on it and when you're ready for it to disappear you click on it again and then it disappears so that's the other little hack i really really love this one and then i think a couple of people that i know where i showed them were like i really like that so take it take it and use it you can change the colors slightly with stream yard if you go to brand i've got it currently set to this yellow color because i'm into yellow at the moment if you wanted to pick another color you would just select that brand color and choose whatever color suits your brand gives you the feels for the day you've got the whole color spectrum so you can you can match it to how you know you want it to appear so that's the other little hack with the overlays now let's talk about my next favorite thing they're all my favorite things i can't pick one or the other so my next favorite thing is adding a guest to your live stream now i feel that um this is completely underrated when it comes to stream yard and let me tell you what so in my experience using lots of different software using ecamm live using stream yard using bee live using um obs that you know he who shall not be named it's really complicated to add a guest and to have their audio work and to have everything appear nicely with stream yard it is incredibly easy all you have to do to add guest add a guest to your live stream is to click on the invite section here at the bottom of streamyard and this provides a link right and you would send that link to them whether you're sending it via email or sending it by messenger whatsapp whatever they just have to select that link open it up in their browser they can also use it on their mobile device and then that that will add them to the actual live stream it really is that easy and once they're they've joined you will be able to see them in the bottom um section here so that's how easy it is to add a guest and i cannot emphasize why this is so fantastic with stream yard after struggling to do it with other software options like it really is one of my favorite features um i know that with stream yard you can have like 10 up to 10 guests on your live stream at the same time and i saw someone testing it out and they stack it up like the brady bunch so it's just literally one like rectangles on top of each other which is great if you want to have 10 guests um that gives me a bit of anxiety but you know the options definitely there and it really is as easy as getting your guests to click on the link and then allow them to do what they do and then have them appear on your actual live stream that is definitely um one underrated underused people don't understand how complicated it is until they have to do it and it doesn't work so that is definitely a feature and a hack that i highly recommend that you use now the fourth well i don't know what number i'm up to right now but um the last one that i'm going to walk you through tonight is the ability for you to live stream from your mobile device using stream yard now let's talk about this a little bit so there are not a lot of live streaming software providers who allow you to live stream using your mobile device really easily but stream yard recently have enabled this functionality and i'm going to walk you through how to do it now why would you want to live stream with your mobile device why not you know if you don't have a webcam if you don't have a dslr but you have a mobile device that has a camera then you can live stream and with doing it with streamyard means that you can add overlays you can add you know banners you can add all the things that i've showed you how to do in the live stream tonight um you can do that but from your mobile phone now um let's see if this works but i'm going to try to show you how to actually do it from your phone or from my phone so that you can see what it looks like all right let's see how this goes now i'm going to have to switch over um just give me a little moment to switch over to my iphone and it's worked thank god okay so right now you can see my mobile device and i you need to use safari in order for it to work and what you want to do is after you've loaded safari you want to go to streamyard.com you want to log in using your account um and once you've logged in then you'll be able to create your broadcast right it looks very similar to actually looks identical looks very similar to how you would do it on desktop but we're going to do it via my phone and we're going to follow along tonight and hope that everything goes well and i've made my offering to the demo guides and that this all works so i would go to create broadcast select the account that i want to live stream to you know add your title add your description i'm going to go to create broadcast then you need to allow cam and mic access so allow okay then you as you can see i've got the microphones working because the green thing is jumping up and down um camera is working because you can see my face i can put my name in as how i want it to appear and i can't type because everyone's watching me and then i'm going to go to enter broadcast studio and like that um i should have turned it on the side but i didn't think about it um to go live all i would then do once i'm ready and once i've got all of my overlays set up i would go go live right we're going to go live on my demo page and then it's going to go live and that's it so that's how easy it is right a couple of clicks from your browser and then you're live streaming from your mobile device i did put it in vertical mode for the purposes of this demonstration but if you turn on the side um it turns on the side like this is i really should have thought about this like that see it will go into whichever mode you um turn it um to have it on so anyway that was worked out better than i thought it would and once you've finished so you you know you get to see all the same thing so i can add my banners um if you know as i see fit i can see all the comments in the same place that and i can deal with them at the bottom there and once i'm done i would simply click n but just like the desktop version you can you know have your guests so you can invite a guest send the link to them and yeah so that's how it kind of works now let me end this that's how you would end the broadcast and then you're done so let me come back to here that wasn't too bad i wasn't sure how that was going to go but uh sometimes live demos oh don't really work out how you expect but that wasn't too bad so that essentially um wraps us up with my hacks and um oh i'm going to go to the questions because i see that there's a couple of questions all right oh okay um so i'm going to address the questions oh quinny's here hi queenie thanks for joining us um i'm doing a collab on queenie's channel in a week in a bit so i'm excited to go on there we've got a really good topic so watch out for that one i'll be posting about it soon queenie said this video is coming out at the perfect time so i'm glad that the timing worked out well okay let me see the next question do all these softwares come in free options or do they have pricing my friend software particularly live stream software if you are a developer or if you know developers they will be able to tell you that there is a lot of programming that goes to make into making software let alone live streaming software so yes they do require payment stream yard has a free version but with the free version you have their watermark on it right so you've got to give them something you want to use the software that they pay people to create and maintain you've got to let them have their logo on your live stream then they have paid options that you can use as well majority of the live stream software options will have a free version and a paid version or they will have a trial period where you can use it um for free for a period of time so you can test it out but you have to remember like if you want to live stream you know and you want to use software to make it easier and have all this extra functionality someone's going to build it so that's why livestream software costs money and all software costs money because someone has to build it someone has to maintain it oh okay oh pete john says hi pete another collab friend youtube friend of mine says oh i need this good to see you on the live stream um david pearl says yes streamia has free option but they also have the paid option as well patreon says really need to snazz up my streams i use banners and that's about it well pete now you know you've got links to all of the tutorials to create your own overlays your intro and outro you know videos as well so we're going to get you uh snazzed up your live stream snazzed up before you know it um b it's oh hi b b e says hi i never realized there were all of these features i hear you be so a lot of people i know when they start using live stream just go live which is you know good on you um but then they don't use all the features available to them they don't know that they can have these overlays they don't know they can add videos they don't know that they can add you know guests to the feature and you're paying for it for the most part so may as well use all the features that are available to you to create um amazing live streams pete says stream yard is gold for guests yes it is for the most part so pete and i had a collaboration a couple of collaborations in the last few weeks and it was so easy it was just like here's a link i don't have to do anything now that's it they'll join when they join no configuring the sound no doing the ndi thing and adding people in via skype just to have the audio not work so so much easier b it says if your guest is another youtuber does that go into their watch time too the answer is depends so if um it depends if you connect their account to multi-stream two um via the live stream and most of the time you probably wouldn't do that but yeah it depends if you do that or not but when for example pete was on my channel um that watch time counted to me and not to his channel and when i was on his channel it counted to his channel and not me so because it was going directly to our respective channels hopefully that makes sense um yes so oh yes patreon says i need to check out streamia mobile now that you can host so yes definitely um particularly you know given that the camera on your mobile device is pretty good these days so it's a great option to enable you to start live streaming if you don't have a camera and you do have a mobile device so definitely definitely love that so that essentially wraps up the live stream thanks everyone for being here and everyone for joining i think i've covered um all of the questions and yeah so that essentially wraps us up and hopefully you found this video really useful and if you where where are all my overlays if you found this video useful give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already i live stream a lot about live streaming to help you live stream better and i also create a lot of tutorials on social media and i have a lot of fun now if you are looking to level up your live streams make sure you grab a copy if you haven't got it already of my facebook live cheat sheets it's a super simple guide to get you up and streaming on facebook live even if you've never hit record before so i'll put it on the screen and i there should be a link in the description but um grab it if you haven't got it already and you know happy days so thank you everyone for joining me tonight a bit of a crowd tonight so it was a pleasure to be here and i will see you on the next live stream bye for now

Channel: Sara Nguyen

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Length: 29min 6sec (1746 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 31 2020