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1. Welcome to the Livestreaming for Beginners: Hey everyone, welcome to the live stream course for beginners. So we're going to teach you everything step-by-step. What type of gear do you need to live stream? How to use the software to live stream? We're gonna use VMX to do our live streaming. It's a really professional, good value software to start your livestreaming, whether you're doing it to platforms like YouTube. On Facebook. We're gonna teach you how to do live transitions, do things like add titles, multiple inputs. So if you've got a professional mirrorless camera or you've got a webcam, how you can use both those cameras to create increased production value. So you can do things like add tickers, titles like graphics. What if you want to do live streams on Facebook and YouTube to build your subscriber growth. So there's really good benefits to learning live streaming. It's less saturated. It does have different skill set like being able to improvise, perform live. That's almost like putting together show. By the end of the course, you're going to know how to get started, how to do your own life's dreams. As a bonus, you're going to, let me see how I finished publishing my live stream videos over to youtube. And what is my strategy with live streaming on social media? You're going to get those extra behind the scenes. Like how I tag my youtube posts, how I have my thumbnail ready. Because when your live stream in the workflow is a lot different than traditional publishing, you're not editing offline. You have to plan things in advance and you're going to learn how to do that. And my approach into livestreaming in the core.
2. Who is this course for: Hi, my name is Greg Kang and welcome to the course. We're going to be chatting about who is this course for? If you are a creator or a huge Huber that already has some skill or experience creating videos. Or if you already have a channel, it really helps because some of the platforms that you can stream to include YouTube, Facebook, et cetera. So this course is for absolute beginners. If you already have a channel like I mentioned, but you want to start live streaming, you're not sure what software you need, some step-by-step guidance. And of course that's not too technical then this is going to be a great course. We're going to be teaching you which software you use. And we're going to show you everything from getting started setting up your inputs, getting your audio, your video, and some suggestions for gear, and actually how to use the software, because I've come from the same place that you may have, may have been in your live stream journey. Where it's a little bit confusing. There's a steep learning curve. But there are a lot of benefits to live streaming. And I think it's really fun, fun way of producing content. I'm actually recording this video using my live streams software and I really like the lower thirds graphics, so want to take that off and on. I mean, the software, it's just great. So in the next couple of videos, we're going to dive into what is live streaming and why you want to live stream and a whole lot more. So we'll see you in the next lesson.
3. WHAT GEAR TO LIVESTREAM: Alright, let's talk about the gear to live stream. A lot of people and 20-20 realized. Okay, the webcam that I use is alright, but if you want a boost in production value, you can do things like invest in a webcam. One of the popular webcams I found from my research is the logic tech C 920 as pero, that's full 101080 P, full HD type of webcam. And that goes for about a 130 us. Now if you don't want to spend that much when you can do if you have a good Android phone, maybe you can even do this for Apple. But what I do is I use my Android phone. I use an app called Droid cam X. It's a paid app, but they also have a free version. The paid version is about five bucks. It gives you access to record in full HD. I can even turn on the lights on my phone. I can take photos remotely. So it connects wirelessly from my phone over to my computer. And it's actually this video is coming from my phone right now. So I just said it on a tripod that I can just mount my phone so that's great. It's a wireless camera feed has good quality. But some other options. If you want to get your mirrorless camera or DSLR, you can use a cable. And now the Panasonic GS five is mirrorless cameras that I use. They have tethering software that you can install on your desktop so you don't need to buy something like a capture card. You basically just need to install the software. You can connect a KML from your camera to your computer so that you can see a live feed. So the DSLR also has similar software. If you have a cannon, now, if you don't, then you may need a capture card. So capture card will convert a signal from your camera on HDMI over the USB. So let me just give you the brand of the capture card. It's called El Gato. And these are not cheap. These go for about two to 300 us and they are very popular right now because a lot of people are into improving the production quality on their Zoom calls, but also the webcam. So an investment in good video for doing things like livestreaming or zoom calls are going to be a good investment because it can use the same camera for both. Let's talk about audio. So I encourage you to invest in good audio, probably more so than the video because you definitely want both to be on par. And sometimes people are just listening to your live stream, they're not watching it. So the first step would be to invest in a USB microphone, like a Blue Yeti is very popular and that's a safe bet. And I think that goes for about a 100 bucks, maybe a little bit more. And now if you want to increase or quality, you can get a microphone that has a XLR connection. My mike right here is a Shure SM58. It uses a XLR cable, which I'm going to show you. So this type of cable here, so this tends to be higher quality. And I plug that into my audio recorder. It's a Zoom H5. But you can plug-in an XLR mike into different boxes that connect from your connect the mike to the box, and this box connects to your computer. So these are basically helping you to control things like the recording levels. Maybe even boosts the audio a little bit, but just a hands on your budget. So the next thing we're going to be speaking about is the software. So before we leave the gear, I would also recommend that you have good lighting so you can either record a close to the window to get good natural light or just use the lies that are available to you. But if you want to take a step higher, what you can do is invest into an LED light or a soft box, which I'm using right now. So soft box is just going to diffuse some of the light. And it's really going to help you get a better picture. Because that's probably one of the biggest factors when you're recording live stream or from your webcam to get better video quality. So the camera is one factor and you definitely want good lighting. So I'll put my gear kit below for live streaming just for easy access if you're interested in the gear that I use. So in the next video we'll talk about the software that I use to live stream.
4. What software to livestream: K, What software can you use to live stream? I think the OBS, or the open broadcast software is the most popular because it's free and open source. Personally, I try to use it at the beginning and I just found the interface to be unintuitive. And I'm using a Windows ten computers, so I found another solution thankfully, and that's called V mix and that's what we're going to cover most of the deep dive lessons using that software. Some features that I look for in livestream software include multiple inputs. So being able to record either from your camera or from q-dot videos are audios or Slideshow. And being able to make a smooth production, being able to have transitions so it can transition from camera over to another video. I'll even try to show you an example of that later in the course. But other important factors are to have good overlays graphics, and being able to record an offline copy. So while you're livestreaming, you're broadcasting of social media, but you're also creating an offline copy. Software will also allow you to adjust things like the video and audio quality. Because depending on our Internet bandwidth, we may need to choose the appropriate quality so the livestream is healthy, it's a good connection and it doesn't stall. One more important feature in the software that you use is that there should be an ability to stream simultaneously to multiple platforms. So I like v-max because you can set up profiles for up to three social media platforms. So you can stream live to three different social media channels at the same time. So if you have a Mac, you may not be able to use Vmax, but there's another software called E CAM that you can use if you have a Mac. So there are some different types of software options that you can use. But like I mentioned, the mix is my preference. Because of all those features I mentioned the mix has plus it's good value, it's a lifetime purchase. It's free for 60 days and $60 US, I believe, for the basic HD option that allows you to stream in full HD and you get up to four inputs and it's very powerful software. We mix also has advanced options like live color Corrections, multi-view. So I can do things like picture and picture and you can even program certain buttons if you have a game controller or maybe you've got a iPad, you can use an app. So you can remotely wire hot buttons to help with live streaming for a one-person. So, yeah, let's move on to the next lesson and then we're going to deep dive into how to actually use v-max.
5. Livestream input oveview: Hello everyone, welcome to this video. We're gonna go over some basic inputs in v-max. So the inputs are again, very important for getting your inputs or your sources into the mix. So you can see we've got two inputs and we can close them. So right now we have two blank inputs and we're gonna go through the inputs in general. And then we're going to focus on some of the more common inputs. And then we're gonna go ahead and set up some so you can access the inputs from the bottom left menu. You can click this button here, or you've got a quick access menu. If you click the up arrow. And if you mouse over, you can see all the options you have for video and title. And this is actually is simplified lists. This is more of the more common use inputs. But if we click on add input, this is going to open up a window here. So we've got videos where you've actually got finished videos. And you can actually queue up some videos from here, especially if you've got a long video, you can load it up more than one depending on the number of inputs that you have. The basic HD version allows you to add four inputs. So an input could be video, could be audio, could be a title. So you gotta use them sparingly. So let's just say I want to add this YouTube intro as my inputs. So I'm gonna select the video. If you don't have anything here, you can click browse and then find it on your hard drive. And the good thing is that V mixed remembers the past videos you open so that it becomes faster to access them if you haven't changed locations. So select, okay. Now we've got an input. And this input is on the preview window, and it's also on the main output window. But if we were to queue up a certain scene, we can do it on the left-hand side, so we've covered that in another lesson. Let's get back to the inputs. So back on the inputs, we've got DVD. If we have any DVD content, not too many people use that these days. The list allows you to create a playlist and it's not available in the basic HD edition, but I do want to let you know that it's there and it's pretty powerful if you do have a playlist and you wanna do very long live streams camera. So if you've got various cameras attached to your computer, you can access them there. So for example, we'll just add basic HD webcam, which is connected to my laptop. This is not going to be the best quality. Blow. So we're over there and you can see we're not getting audio from this input because it's not highlighted. So we can switch back and forth between the inputs and the output window. Currently we've got input one, but if I wanted to transition to a PUT to, I can highlight it and then click one of my transitions to do that. All right, let's go back to inputs here. So we have room for two more inputs. Okay, so let's move on here. So if we have a song, an MP3, or a wave, you can do that over here. Now if you want to add your microphone, you can go to audio input. Currently I'm using my microphone so I'm not going to hit OK. But if I did want to use my main microphone, which is my H5 connected through USB. I can go ahead and hit okay, and that's gonna give me some various options which we will cover later. Another important input is your title. So we will go ahead and create a title soon. I just want to point your attention to just the vast amount of titles that we do have in V makes. We've got tickers, we've got lower thirds, and we've even got scoreboard. So we're just going to create something very basic. So we do that by highlighting it. And we've already got inputs 12, so we're gonna select, leave it a three, hit OK. It's gonna give us a chance to enter in the headlines. So we're just going to leave that. And I'll just change the description input. And over here we have the ability to change the font. We can decrease the font size or increase the font size, changes the color at some ticker settings. And then we even have the ability to connect it to a data source, some spelling. Let's go ahead and just add that title. So we do that by highlighting it. And then we'll click the one over there, channel one. And there's our title. Alright, so we have three inputs set up right now. And the last input on this show you, which is a pretty important one, is our NDI desktop capture. So this is great. If you want to connect over to your desktop, the NDI is not gonna be covered. This is out of scope for this beginner's guide to live streaming. This is a proprietary standard for a video feed. I'm actually not an expert in it. So just want to let you know that if you want local desktop capture, you have to click that tab, NDI selected by default. So if you have some programs open, sometimes they will hear like Adobe Premiere or you've got v-max. But you can select Display too, if you have a monitor setup. And if you want to connect to your main display, display one, and you would just select OK, so I'll just show you that. And then I'm going to switch it over to my live view, which is connected to my camera in the next lesson. All right, so now we've got desktop capture as our fourth input. So we're gonna go ahead and we're just going to switch to that input there, which is our desktop. And you can close any of these inputs just by clicking the close over there. So that's just our quick overview of slugging, selecting inputs, some of the main ones. So we covered the video, title, desktop capture, as well as audio.
6. Vmix overview: Hi and welcome to the overview of the mix. V mix is, at a glance, it looks like a pretty simple and sleek software, but underneath the hood there's a lot of details and there's a lot of areas that I actually don't go. But the good news is that we're going to cover just what you need to know because this is a beginner's guide to live streaming. So we're gonna start off from the top left and then we're gonna go clockwise, and that's how we're gonna do it. So top-left, we're going to look at these areas over here. So you can either open a project that you've already created or click on the dropdown arrow to recall projects that you've saved in the past. All right, you can also open the last project. Okay, before we go any further, I want to point your attention to the preview screen. So the previous screen is right over here. This big window here. So this is where you can queue up your videos before they go live. The live window is over here. So this is what your audience is going to see. And this area is where your inputs will go and your audio mixer is over there. So these are the four main parts just before we continue. Alright, so here is our preview window, and you can rewind your preview before it actually starts. You can even just play it up. Now on the top right, this is where you can display your waveforms or your RGB parade. If you're a colorist, you can even just keep them both up there. We'll go into color grading later on. Over here you can display your grid lines if you're, maybe you're using a mobile device and you want to get an idea of what those grids are. Anytime there is a gear here, whether it's in an input or actually this is an input. From over here. The cog will give you a whole lot of options. And you have the ability to color just you can set up a color key. If you have a green screen, you can do advance color correction. You can change the positioning if you want to zoom in, zoom out. There's multi-view for picture and picture or different viewing formats that's all over here. Triggers, we will not be going into detail, nor tally lights or p, t, z. Those are more advanced options and as well as the advance. Trust me, we have plenty to go through with the areas that we've covered in the inputs. Alright, one thing I did want to just let you know is that most of the areas in these settings for an input you can always reset. So don't be afraid to experiment. Okay, another important area is the transition bar. This is where you can transition your preview into the output. So if you wanted to manually move your CUDA video to the live output, this is where you would do it. Let's just take away those grid lines. And let's just bring it back to the beginning here. So we have different transitions over here, and we can simply just click any of them to cut over from one to the other. I'm just going to add another type of video just so we don't get mixed up between two. I'm just going to quickly add an input. We'll cover inputs in more detail later on. So over here, this is an example of our live window. And let's just say we wanted to queue up this other video. So remember I told you we can even preview it before we bring into the live window. Let's just say we're ready. We can simply highlight are queued up, input the video we want to bring live. And we can cut for quick cut, or we could have done it a bit more gradually. So let's bring back input one. We're going to do something more gradual using merge. There we go. So that's a little more gradual. You can try all these different transitions here. And if there's a drop-down, there's even more options. So a ton to play with over there. Let's just bring this to the main window. So like I mentioned, you can do this manually. You can do the manual transmission. And over here we can also preview our inputs. If you have an external monitor or you just want to see how it looks like on a larger screen. This is an example. There is a little bit distorted right now. But yeah, that's how you can display it on a full-screen. Like so. Okay, let's turn that off. And let's pause this. Alright, so that's our transition window. So in our live window is pretty similar to the controls that we already had. We've got the ability to scroll forward or backwards. We can play or restart it. So pretty similar to the controls in the preview window. Okay, let's take a look at the top right. So let's just say we have multiple inputs and we wanna pause them all. We can just click this button. Alright, Basic will simplify your interface. So if we take a look at the bottom and we click basic, a lot of that disappears. So all the performance stats, a lot of the extra buttons are gone. When we click basic. Alright, so settings, so these are the settings for the entire v-max. Alright, so I'm not gonna go into all of them. This is where you can change some of the colors, your themes, your output size, frame rate. If you have more advance outputs or NDI and S, R, T, and this is where it is. I don't touch this. You have some options here for language and different positioning. More preference type of decisions you can make over here. Performance if you have a graphics card decoding the location when you want to record and the file format. If you have an external output. Audio over here. Yeah, different playback devices. This web controller is of particular interest because you can take this URL, you can copy this into any mobile device on your network and you can get a web version of this interface. Tally lights. We won't going to in this course, shortcuts says where if you want to set a shortcut and you have something like a joystick, you can set those up over here or go switchboard activators. We won't go into. Now about if you've purchased your license, this is where the information is going to be. It's going to display your version of v mix as well as 0 license key and the number of inputs that you have access to. All right, just note that for any of these settings, you can go back to default. You can import and export them. Alright? If you have any questions, you can look up a Online guy by clicking the question mark. Over here. It'll look something like this. Okay, a lot of detail. Alright, so continuing on, the audio mixer will go into more detail. But this is sort of hidden. So I just want to point out, if you have complex audio, I have multiple audio inputs. You want to control the volume. The audio mixer is the best place to manage that. So that's sitting right over there on the right side. Now, let's look at the bottom right corner. So if you want to lock your buttons and you don't want anyone to tamper with anything. You can click the lock over there. This will take a snapshot of your outputs. Alright? So we can take a screenshot. I'll just quickly show you what that. Looks like just to be clear on what it's taking. So if we scroll up, I'm going to open up the image. Okay, so, uh, pretty much just took a snapshot of whatever is happening on our live screen. Our output, alright, that will display are shortcuts. These are our performance stats over here. Our graphics card, our video internet speeds, all that stuff. So we're there. You can also get some stats on graphic card usage, your CPU render time, all at the bottom over there. This hamburger here will allow us to access other parts or accompanying programs of v-max. So we've got data sources manager if you want to supply data to V mix, that's not gonna be covered in this course. We got V makes social for social plug-in. We have G titled designers. So if you want to create something of your own titles, this is where you can do it. Legacy total designers exactly that. The old way of doing it. Deming's video tools, diagnostics, and NDI, config. We won't be going into these guys. I'll give you an introduction to social and titled designer. But for the most part, those are outside the scope of this course. We got our overlays settings over here. And now let's go over to what I call sort of the meat of the mics. So if you haven't advanced version, this is where you can configure a playlist and you can set up videos to play in a particular order and they can loop. So very powerful feature. Alright, so we just simply just click that button to start it that goes for any other buttons. And you can use the gear to set up things. Alright, multicore under won't be covered. This is a more advanced feature. Streaming is extremely important. So if you wanted to start streaming to all the inputs, you would simply just click the button. If you click that up arrow, you can select individual streams or again, start all streams. Now to configure it, we click the gear. So you can set up multiple profiles. Tests. Alright, so we have default and we have tests. And for each profile you have three slots where you can configure a livestream to particular destination. So I'm going to blur out my stream key. But you can see if you click the drop-down, there's many destinations that you can stream to. So the main ones that we cover in this course are YouTube, Facebook. Twitch. So for each profile, you can set up the different quality and audio and you can start them individually or start them all at the same time. So streaming settings. Alright, if you have an external outputs like NDI, RS, RT, this is where you can do that. We will not cover this in this course. If you wanna do a local recording at the same time that you're live streaming. This is where you do it. And I use this quiet a bit. Alright, so the main area that I spent time in is deciding where to save the file and the size and the frame rates. So that all happens over here. Add input is a very important area. So like I mentioned, so this is going to be a very important part. So we definitely want to pay attention and we have a dedicated section on this, but inputs are pretty much where you get your content from. So right now I've got two inputs from my existing videos. And this is where you can also set up your audio or your cameras or your photos, whatever content that you want to display. This happens in the ad input area. So if you have a lot of different inputs, which I don't have, you can organize them using these different colors slots. So right now this is in the orange area. So you can do things like if you right-click on it, you can create different categories. Let's just say video or audio. Hit OK. So they're labeled now. And let's just say I wanted to put this input in the video categories. So I would hit the cog, go to general and tap the category that I wanted in. And there we go. I can do the same for this one. By clicking the red. We can also change the name over here, by the way. So there are now both in the video category. So if I want to open the video, I simply tap the red and that opens them both. All right, so that's our overview of v-max. It's very powerful software and you don't need to know every single little thing to get started. One more thing I did want to cover is these numbers over here. So let's just switch to this other video. So it'll make more sense. Over here. This is the time remaining on the video. This number here is where we are in the videos who are nine minutes and in five seconds, and this is the total length of the video. So these are important to pay attention to when you're actually live streaming. You want to get an idea of how much time is left on the video. Let's just say maybe we want to go into a bathroom break or your, you know, you want things to run smoothly and you definitely want to know how much time is left on your video. Alright, so I hope that Overview helps give you, gets you more familiar with v mix. And like I said, we're going to dive into these areas in more detail as the course progresses.
7. Vmix adding a mic: All right. Let me show you how I add my microphone on V mix. So my microphone is a little bit unique as it is a model connection. But I think you will get some tips if you want to reduce the feedback from your headphones. Testing. Okay. Connect your headphones. Tip one testing. Okay, it's coming into my headphones now. Now we're going to click the gear. And a general click audio settings. I like to change this to separate Mono. So comes out of both earphone. Your setup may be a bit different. So we're gonna click that icon there so the audience no longer coming into my headphones. You'll know when you try it and my drive you a bit crazy or be a bit distracting, okay, so now our microphone is set up correctly in V mix. Now we're ready to stream.
8. Vmix audio inputs: Okay, in this lesson we're going to look at the audio mixer. So this is where you can control your audio, especially if you have multiple audio sources. So to open audio mixture, it's on the right side. It's a little bit hidden. So if you just left-click it, it should appear. So if your audio mixer is not free, meaning you can move it around, you can click the pin cushion. Okay, so here's our audio mixer, and we'll just cover some of the options in more detail. So over here, this means the audio is going to the master. Master is over here. So we got our mass or volume. And over here, this will turn off or on the audio for this input. So if it's highlighted, it's going to the master. So the master is the sum of all the audio inputs. If you just want to hear the input, if you have multiple inputs, you just want to hear input from this source. You can click s, This is the solo. And you can control the volume to decibels over here if you just want to hear it out of your left headphone or less speaker, You can do that over here. And center is where I like it to be. I want equal an equal amount of volume coming to both sides of the headphone. Pretty tough to put it back. More or less. It is. Alright. So if you want to get more Vance, you can click the gear. And we'll go over some of these options quickly. So this is the format that your audio is coming in from. Now. If you have a different audio setup, words coming in mono and you want to hear it in stereo. This is where it can change your channel, do separate model. This is the setting for my microphone, so I'm pretty familiar with it. Okay. So you can see your options change when you change it a separate model. And if you want to adjust the gain, you have the option to do it over here. If you want to introduce some delay, if your video is slower than your audio, this is where you can do that. Personally, I don't change any of those settings. Plug-ins will cover in another lesson. Eq is an equalizer if you've ever done any type of audio editing and Premier Pro or your video editor. This is a more advanced way of controlling the different frequencies depending on the audio that's coming into your video. Maybe there's a light hum or a high frequency coming in and maybe you can remove those or reduce that effect by controlling the EQ. And just note that there's a reset button on all of these options. So feel free to experiments. Compressor is a good option if you've got a loudspeaker and the RP peaking on your audio meter bars. You can just click it there to enable it and experiment. Noise gates will reduce the amount of audio depending on the decibel option that you set. Channel mixer allows you to set different audio settings. If you have a stereo input coming in and over here, you can set up a different channel matrix. I don't mess around with this area too often. Actually, I don't mess around with it at all. Now, if you have a lot of different audio inputs and you just want to keep your audio mixer clean. You can just uncheck it there so it doesn't show up in the audio mixer. And I'll just check it to bring it back. Now, this is important part. So if you're providing the microphone audio for your stream and you don't want to hear it in your headphones, you can uncheck that right over there. And that's something that was driving me bonkers when I first our livestreaming because I was talking and was coming right into my ear. And it took me quite a while to figure that out. So uncheck this on your microphone input if you want to remove that. All right, I just want to point your attention to actually live audio monitoring. Ok, so let's click on our audio there is changed up back. Okay, so these are your audio meters here. So if you see these moving in the green area, you're getting audio and your goal is to avoid this from hitting the very top, the red, that means you're audio is coming in way too loud. Alright, if you want to add in your microphone, you can simply click at input. And over here, this is where I can add my microphone. But because I'm recording this tutorial now, I might get some interference, but if I hit OK, that's going to add in different audio input just from a microphone. So that's our overview of the audio mixer and the audio inputs. We will go deeper into the inputs later on in the course.
9. Vmix audio plugins: Alright, this is just a quick talk about the audio plug-ins that we went over in the audio mixer. So if we bring the audio mixer back and we go to the gear, we will see that there's an area for plugins. So this is something that I don't personally use. But if you want to learn more about this, I suggest you check out the V mix master class. And if you want to look at some potential plugins that you may use, the instructor of that class recommends these plugins on the site. Waves all calm. These are pay plug-ins that you can install into the mix that will do different things like give you a AUTO-TUNE, Auto-Tune voice. If you've ever heard some of those electronic sounding vocals, you can get that and install it on the V mix or this particular plugin will give you a noise suppression automatically. I will show you another plugin that he recommended. It's the Renaissance plugin. So you can see this is a software plug-in and it does cost money from 20 to $30. This is a more advanced feature. I'm talking about Audio plug-ins. If you have different musical instruments or you're trying to do more advanced things like singing. Maybe you want to look at the audio plug-ins area into the mix personally, just for live streaming, for podcasting, for doing what I need to do as a YouTube or a Facebook streamer. I don't use the audio plug-ins, but that's the section that it is. And the V mix masterclass is a course that you can learn more about it. And I pointed you to a third party site. You can purchase some audio plug-ins.
10. VMIX inputs advanced: Okay, so in the last lesson, we learned how to add our basic inputs. And now I just want to go a little bit deeper into some of the controls once you've already selected your inputs. So we have the ability to add audio for any of our inputs by selecting the audio, it'll highlight it over there. So that just means that if I want the audio from this video or my microphone, I can turn on the audio for that input. Can also close the input by clicking clothes. And if I wanted to switch or cut to my input, even though it's not displayed yet in the main output, I can select Quick Play or cut to quickly go over to it. If you want that input to loop, you can highlight it. Right now. Mine is not highlighted. And I can play it over there, but it's not going to change to the main window. So if I select Quick Play, it's going over to the main window. But it's already finished, so let's just highlight it again. And in the preview window, I can rewind it or just Fleck restart. So let's just say I switched to my camera, I'm going to select cut. And now I want to go back to the intro. I can select Quick Play. See the progress loop is just going to keep on playing K. We can pause it over there. We can also see a preview of this input by clicking over here, sort of a full-screen view of that. And we can also click the gear cog on any of the inputs to open up a whole new set of options. So that the general area of this inputs here, this is where we've got the resolution. We got options to sharpen and mirror the inputs. C, If I select mere there, it's just changing it around. You can sharpen it. We can categorize it into the different color blocks we've colored cover that in another lesson. Can also change the name of the input to something that makes a bit more sense. Color just this allows us to make some color adjustments. To say we want a more reds or bring out the blacks. Or we can just select Auto, or we can even reset things. So that's pretty powerful. Color key, this is if you've got a green screen background and you want to remove that one solid color, and this is where you would do that color correction. This is a little bit more advance color grading. Okay, we're not gonna go into detail over there, but that's where it is. And you can reset any of the settings there. Position. This is pretty powerful so we can decide, okay, if we want to zoom in on our image, our input, we can do it over here. We can even pan and we can crop X and Y axis. Multi-view. This is a little bit more advanced. We will cover this in a separate lesson here, but let's just say we want to sort of a picture and picture type of deal. And we wanted to add my camera feed over to this input. This is where we would do that. Alright, so I can actually change my picture in picture positioning. All from the multi-view triggers, you can set up some shortcuts. And these areas tally lights, P TZ, and advance our little bit more advance out of the scope of this course. But hopefully, this gives you an idea of some of the power and options that you have for each input.
11. VMIX CREATING YOUR OWN TITLE: Okay, in this video, we're gonna learn how to use the GET editor to create our own title or customize and existing one. So just a quick recap. When you want to add a title, you click on Add input, you click on title. And you can see there's a lot of titles with GT in it. So this means that it's been created with the GZ editor and you can edit these titles in the GT editor. So I actually want to add it one of the bullet titles I like to create lists. And for some reason there aren't a lot of good list title. So I got this one over here. To that I want to modify. So this one is called scoreboard title lineup. So there we go. I got it open. And so let's just say I want to modify this one. So it's giving me, let's just say pros and cons, right? So it's going to be a timesaver for if I want to use this one in the past and just say, let's just call it the summary. Because I do a lot of tutorials and I want to give the main points. And I wanted to do things like right from the start, I want to choose the correct text and have the layout that I want. So I want to remove this line over here, move that line and just delete some of this text over here. Alright? And it's a very simple interface. If you've used Adobe Photoshop or any graphical designers, very similar type of feel. So I can even copy and paste control c and control v. Let's see if we can just recenter this SUM using shift click to highlight them all. And I'm going to click there. Alright. So I'm just going to click and move them all to the center loops. And you can control Z if you make a mistake. We will just want to move the text. So I'm just going to be able to the center. And let's just see if we can modify this font on and change this to Baba's. Baba's knew. And maybe a bit bigger. Not that big. Okay, so we have the ability to style it. And that's much better. Let's go back to home. And let's just say I want a different font. I forgot the one that I chose, prima. And maybe I wanna change the color of this. Something a bit more uplifting. Or I can access even more colors. Hit OK. And there we go. So let's just save this file, save as let's call it Greg's summary. Let's go to Vmax. Let's close the existing scoreboard. Let's see if we can find my title and see if it works. There we go. Greg's summary. Hit OK. And let's just create a sample lists. Camera. Wait, so what did we learn? Titles, modify existing, new titles, colors. This is just an example. Okay, let's just see if this works. Great. I like that. Okay, let's go back to G T designer and learn how we can create one from scratch. This is the hard part. So when you create a new title, we have the option to select 1080 PhD, 720 P, or even 4K ultra HD. So let's create an alter k h d one, since that's becoming the new standard. I'm just gonna create a simple lower thirds by clicking on the rectangle on the left. And I want to create a nice long block that fills the grid here. All right, maybe not that high because I still want room for lower thirds. Ok, let's change the color. Let's get a gradient. Something darker like that. Nice. Now let's find another rectangle. Four are lower thirds. Alright? So let's just say we went around the edges. We can do that. Whoops. Okay, so I got that one there. So there's various effects here. We can actually crop. I can crop out from the horizontal or the vertical. We can even add a shadow. Alright. So let's add or text snow flips. Its very small. Okay, so I'm just gonna make this nice and wide. So we got lots of room over here. And now let's select the font. Something exciting. The same one, Bob us nulla. And I'll show you how I pronounce it. Maybe a bigger 120. And I'm going to copy and paste the title because I want to use the same font. And let's make it a bit smaller. And there we go. Let's just save this Briggs lower thirds. And let's go into V mix and see if we can use it. Click on title. Okay, designing your title. Learn how to do it. Click the one overlay and boom, there you go. So just keep in mind that this title is designed for ultra HD 4K, which this video output isn't. So it's coming through a little bit, squished more than usual, but if it was 4K resolution, then this title would be appropriate. So I should probably actually rename it to lower third 4K. And actually there's an opportunity, I will mention just, just in general with these graphics. There isn't a whole lot of 4K animations. V mix video editor. So anyways, there's an extra tip. So hope you found this helpful if you want to customize your own title or create your new title.
12. Using a phone as a web cam: Alright, in this video, I want to show you how you can turn your Android phone into a pretty good webcam that you can use as a camera input. The mix. And this tip will also help you to use your phone as a webcam just for anything on your computer. So draw cam is a free and paid version. I'm using the paid version of the app. With the paid version, you get more options. You can use full HD and you simply start drawing cam on your phone. You open the clients on your desktop, and then you just entering the IP address that is listed on your phone. So I'm just going to enter in the IP there. I'm just going to select video. And now my Droid cam client is giving me a feed live from my phone. So now we can do a number of options. I can actually turn on the light on my webcam. I can, I can crop in and a little bit crop out. I can even take a screenshot. I can mirror the image. And I've got some options over here to white balance. Can change the white balance options depending on my lighting. And I can also put on an exposure lock. I can boost the brightness, which we don't really need right now. And once you're happy with that, you can just leave it running in the background. Now, when we open V mix and we want to add another camera input, we would simply click add input. Select camera. And now we would select droid camps source three as our option. So now I can select, okay. And boom, now I can use this webcam, my phone as a webcam and a source in the mix. So the Prize for joy cam is about $6 US at the time I'm recording this October 2020, things being changed by the time you see this. But this is how we can use our phone as a webcam.
13. PlanNing your livestream show: Hi, this video, I'm going to share some tips from my live streaming experience for how to add production value, as well as preproduction tips for planning for your show. So I'd like to keep things simple, but I think a little bit of planning and visualization can go a long way. So let's start off. I recommend having a YouTube intro. So this can be a short ten seconds or 30 seconds that you use at the beginning of the video. It's a video that's already being created. And you can use that to start off your video just to introduce someone to your brand. It's something that's really exciting short. And I like to put it in my live stream either at the very beginning or at the very beginning. I'll just introduce the topic. Then I'll cut to the intro, cut back to my web camera, talk a little bit, and then I'll cut to my video. Well, that's what my plan is for this video anyways. So in order to prepare for the show, things that I will do with envy mix is I'll tests on my webcam. I'll test cell by Mike. I will test out the titles and I'll queue up my video and my interests so that everything is ready. So that when I hit the stream button, I am ready to Q things up at a moment's notice very quickly. So I already have applied in my mind, I'm going to talk, introduce a topic, put the intro, cut back to my camera again, talk a little bit, and then I'm going to queue up the video. I find that it really helps to have at least one video queued up available in your inputs so that if things do not work out, you can always cut to the video and have some time to fix things up. You really want to make use of your transitions and the left window in the preview area so that you can cue things up, you can fix things. And then when you're ready, you can then transition back over into the output window so you can continue your show. So in summary, you want to have a plan, think of your stream as a show and be prepared. Have a plan. Have all your inputs, setup, visualize in your head how is going to go and be prepared for things not to work out, whether it's the platform not working, whether there's internet speed issues, definitely helps to also do a local recording just as a backup. And to make use of the transitions to cut back and forth and definitely have one finished video and your input that you can play to buy you some time to gather yourself and get back into, get back into the show so that you're prepared to deliver again if something does go wrong. So I hope these tips helped you for planning your live stream show. So it's success.
14. Vmix how to set up local recording: If you watch the overview, you will see that we covered the record button. So this is if you want to make a recording of your output while using the Mac software. So the output, again is whatever the audience sees. It's usually what is displayed on this right window here. So we're gonna talk about how do we set that up into the mix. So we set that up in the record button at the bottom left, we can click on the cog does set that up and we just simply one record. You'll click that record button. So there's different formats that you can use to capture your video, AVI, w and v. There's WMG streaming, which I don't use, but it's their MP4 is the option that I use. And then we've got FFM, peg, fee mix, AVI. So I'll cover and before that's what I'm most familiar with. But each different format has similar fields. So we can select the location where we want those recordings ago. And we can set up the recording size and it goes all the way to full 4K video and set the different frame rates. Just use NTSC 30 frames per second. The bit rate is the overall quality and file size. I just usually the mind at 12 for now. And I use H.264. And these are the options that from from Profile downward, I just leave them as they are. Maybe one area that I may want to change is audio bit rates. So this is 128192 CD quality, anything above that is pretty good. And you also have the option to record a wav file if you highlight. So that will record a high-quality wave alongside the main recording. So we hit OK. And it will say, okay, this resolution is not supported. So I've got the basic HD versions, so that covers all the way to two full HD. So there we go. And if I wanna record, I simply just hit record and you can see that it's counting down over here. So if I stop recording, you'll get a prompt. And I can look for the location that I set it up to go, which is right over here. Now sometimes it does take a little while depending on the size I'll be recording how long you recorded for. So here we go. We've got my video file and I also have the separate.wav file that I set up. Let's just show you quickly. So there's no movement because I wasn't playing the video. But if I was playing it like that and I recorded it, would, it would capture that. So that's how we can set up our recording. Local recording into V makes a good option to do water actually livestreaming in case something does happen, there's a mistake, or maybe there's a problem with the platform itself. You've got your local recording as your backup.
15. PREPARING TO GO LIVE STEP BY STEP: Okay, in this example, we're going to actually go live. We're going to use a video that I've created. It's about an hour and a half. And so what I've done here, I'll just start from the beginning. So right now I've got my audio inputs, I've tested it out. And I've gone to audio settings and I click the headphone icon just to test myself, make sure that the audio is coming through. And for my specific microphone, I put it on separate Mono, so it comes through as stereo because of the way that it's set up to my audio recorder. So I got the audio taking care of. Now I've got my title over here. So I just want to modify it. Best of Vancouver. Alright, so this is my overlay graphic. Test that out. Now I want to queue up my video. So this is all my local hard drive. And I just, I've highlighted it. I just want to quickly scrub through. Just generally make sure everything is okay. And I'm going to add a YouTube intro here. So what I'll do, I'll start on this intro and then I will transition over to the long form video. Alright, so with all this setup, I'm going to head over to my Facebook Live. I actually just want to create a thumbnail before I begin some using a program called Adobe Spark. Sub duplicating previous design. And I just want to customize a little bit. This is the thumbnail that my subscribers are going to see on YouTube. Right? Okay, so I'm just going to quickly delete it. You can use other programs. Of course, create your thumbnails. I just want to show you my full workflow here. And so I'm just going to try to find an applicable relevant photo of Vancouver. Alright, we're going to continue to just prepare our thumbnail to stream, particularly over to YouTube because of that, thumbnails pretty important. So I'm just going to add this photo to complete my thumbnail. So I wanted over there. See if we can just change the color. And let's try find another image. Scan over to photos. Let's see if we have any other ones. Can always change it later. I think I like this one. Strike that down there. Let's try that again. One of the photo to go in this spot here. Okay. So we can just say a little bit hokey. There we go. And let's just put our branding over here. Alright, so there's our thumbnail. Let's download it as a jpeg. And now we're gonna go over to our YouTube dashboard and we're going to select Create, go live. So what's great about this is I can just use that emoji because it's already got the Canada emoji. All seasons. So maybe I'll put a autumn emoji. And if you're wondering about why am I putting emojis, I think I think they stand out, but more. So this is another thing you can do on your YouTube videos. Alright? So just take out some of the unnecessary stuff and change that to monetization. Let's change the thumbnail and click save. Now if it's not changing, you can click Edit again. Looks like it didn't save any of my changes. Let's just do it again. Click Save. Alright, so now we can copy the stream key and go back to the mix. And this click the gear icon. So YouTube live stream. Now, if you haven't already, you'll often click sign up just to go through that process. But I'm going to just paste my stream key there. I'm gonna blurred out for the video and then I can just select the quality of that wants. So I'm just using the same as twitch. Okay, so Thirdly, and we want to stream to Facebook Live. And okay, so I'll want my Facebook page. Alright. And let's just see if we can add an emoji here. These little pre-production things are important. Ok, so we can set up in advance if you want to cross post two pages. So we clicked cross post some more pages. And so a three other pages so I can click Save. Alright. So now the last thing we need to do is click that stream button on V mix. Then we need to come back here to click Go Live. So that's a last step. Four, Twitch and YouTube. You do not need to do anything but for which you need to make sure that you have updated it. There isn't a way that I know of at the moment to change the title from V mix. Alright, so just to recap, we're in v-max. We've got all our information setup for Facebook. So we've added the URL. So to setup Facebook, depending on your Facebook page and any changes. And I'm going to just copy the key. So usually the stay static and then you can just save, save them. So for next time you don't need to redo all the stream setup. Again. The last step is to click stream. Alright, so I just want to prepare this video. I'm going to click stream and then I'm going to go over to my YouTube window. There's a bit of a delay. So on YouTube we're waiting for that live notification which we just saw. Sorry, I'm just jumping around here. You've got to also check my twitch and modify the stream info right on the twitch platform. And then we're gonna go back to YouTube. So we have to remember to N stream on YouTube. Now on Facebook, we need to click the Go Live button and we also need to end it on Facebook after it's finished, as well as clicking and stream on V mix. So a few little things to remember that you will pick up as you just do it more and more. So I hope you found this video helpful for simultaneous streaming step-by-step.
16. Vmix adding titles: Okay, in this video, we're going to learn how to add titles. We're going to cover three different types of titles. First we're gonna do a basic lower thirds title, then we're gonna do a ticker title. And lastly, we're going to learn a timer title. I'm going to show you how to add these titles as an overlay. And then we're going to end by showing you how we can use the multi-view to actually add that title as part of your video input. So let's get started. So to add your title, we need to go over to add input and select Title. One of the things I like a ball v makes is that it gives you so many titles to begin with. So to filter down on those titles, you can use any of these tabs. And I'd say probably these two are very good generic ones. One of my favorites is one where you can actually add an image. So V scroll down here. It's this one over here, and not covered in this lesson. But there is a tidal editor that you can access from the hamburger Shi Ti titled designer. Alright, we got a little bit distracted. Let's go back to our tidal. So once you've found the title you want to add, simply hit, okay. Okay, so it's added this title as my fourth input over here. So we've got two fields we can enter. Closest puts a work digital. For the heading. We don't have too much space. So we'll just put Chiang Mai for the description. Day in the life. We've got a bit more space there. And for our image source, we can select any type of photo. So I'm just going to select a profile photo. Alright, and close. So if we want to add this title, I can simply click one to overlay it on top of my output video feed. So we can see here Chiang Mai Day in the Life and the image. So if you want to close this, you can simply just hit close. And if you want to edit the text, you can right-click select title editor. So please note this texts. If you change, it will change in real time as you can see here. Alright, so I'm going to cover some. Basic controls. So you can actually click the plus here if you have a lot of different titles or speakers and you want to be able to recall them very quickly. Let's just say, I wanted to change this over to Bangkok. I can click add there, so I can quickly alternate between the two very quickly. So that's more of an advanced option. If you do want to change the font, you can do that over here. Alright, you've got a lot of different options. Changed the font, you can change the size. Okay, let's just change the 36. That's a bit small. There we go. So over here you can decrease the font size. You can add it by clicking the plus button and change the color. You can click over there. Hit OK. And ticker setting and we'll cover later on when we select a ticker type of font. If you want to connect this to a, something like a CSV file, you can do this over here. This is a little bit more advanced and you've got your spell check over here. Alright, so that's our basic tidal. So let's just close this. And let's cover the ticker title. So let's just close that. So we've got room for an extra input. And let's just take away our overlay a title by clicking on one. So we're gonna select, add input. We're going to select title. We're going to click on the ticker tab. And I'm just going to select the very first ticker. Select OK. And we got a lot of texts here. So we can say this is the day in the life of very Kang in Thailand setting up his office for the day. Alright. So we can simply click plus and you can see we've got the ticker going over here. So quick way to add a ticker title. So the last title we're going to add is a countdown. Already have one open here, but let's just go through the process from the beginning. Select add inputs, go over to title. We're going to look for GT timer. Or we can just click timer. I'll select this one. Hit OK. So to adjust this, this can be a little bit confusing. If you want to add one minute or five minutes, you would click on the settings. And you would add five. And it will stop when it's down to 0, so it hit OK. OK. We need to press play to get that going to increase the size. So I've added this timer to my main window over there, and you can see that it's starting to count down. Alright, let's just say we wanted to add a title as part of the video. We don't want to overlay it on top. So let's just say this is our main video and we wanted to add this title over here, tidal 23, our mean lower thirds title. So this is a good segue to go into multi-view, but I will just show you quickly if we go to the gear on our video inputs and we go to multi-view. You can see that we have all these different slots here. So if I selected number two, for example, and I selected Title 23, you can see that as it's appearing over here. And if I wanted to reposition it, I can click position. And now I have the ability to move it around right on my video input. Different options here, at which we will cover more in the next lesson. But when I put this video into my output, it's just going to display the title throughout. I don't need to put any overlays that's already on there. So that's how we can put our titles directly into the video. So we've covered three different titles, some options to customize them. And in the next lesson we're going to cover multi-view.
17. Vmix basic colour correction overview: Do a basic coverage of the color correction tools available in the mix. Now, I think it's pretty cool that V makes does have live color correction available. But my personal recommendation would be to do the color correction in your video editor, like Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X. There is a lot more options available in the video editor, and it's just a lot better to do it if you do have the time. If you are doing a live feed and you wanna make some color adjustments, mix does have some options for that, which we'll go over in this lesson. Now for getting a good picture. If you're doing a camera feed, I always recommend to do everything that you can to get a good picture quality from the beginning. Good natural light or an additional light source may be having a good camera lens if you are using a mirrorless camera, I'm just filming from my phone right now, but it's sitting on a tripod. And I've made the most that I can with the natural light, the external light, and it's sitting on tripod. I've got an exposure locks so it doesn't change exposure while I'm filming. So we've gone over that. You can display these different waveforms and RGB parade if you are a color grading sort of person. But there's just a lot of, lot to know in the mix. And for most people, especially beginners, I think you just want a good picture. So if you are more advance, you can use these RGB parades. You can use the waveforms. And if you wanna go down that route and do a deep dive, you can check out this video on YouTube. This is a recommendation from the master class I took. It's from Neil t, a simple guide to color correction in the mix. Alright, but I'm going to show you two examples of how we can use the tools in the mix to make some corrections. So first of all, let's make an attempt to fix up my image coming from my phone. Alright, so we can click on the gear COG over here. And color just on the left-hand side is where we've got our basic color options. We've got our display right beneath it. I'm just going to resize it over here. So if we want to change the reds, add more reds, we simply just bring that bar up and we can always just click Reset. Greens are there. And our blues, right? So if I had this RDP parade display beside my image on the left window, these bars would definitely go up. Alright, there's auto white balancing, so we can click on and neutral color from the image below. And a neutral color should reflect all I'd evenly. Alright, so we can give that a go. Alright, now if we just want to add more color, that's the saturation. So he can simply doll it up. We can see it's a little bit too much, right? But if we want to add a little bit, we can click that, add up to about 20. That should be okay. If we wanted to adjust the blocks, we want an increase the blocks. We can dial it up. We can see that we don't really need adjustment there. Now the white stretch. If we make that adjustment and we can see the images blown out. But if we make a slight adjustment there, you can see that we've got a bit more brightness. Alright, so that's my image over there using the basic color adjustments. And I can always just reset that back to the beginning there. Alright? If you want to make more advanced adjustments, you can click on the color correction. Alright, we have two different ways we can color correct. We can use the color bars. And if we click that again, we can use the color wheels. We can also save some presets. Let's just say we're using a particular type of camera, like I'm filming from my phone and I found the right combination. If I'm filming in the same conditions every time that just has that great picture. If I find that, I can save that presides and I can load it up again. Alright, again, we've got our basic saturation. If you want to dial up the color that's over there, that doesn't look too bad. We've got the ability to change the hue, which will change the shade of my skin from purple all the way to green. So I'm just going to leave that, reset that back to 0. Just so you know that it's there. Alright, so lift is for block and shadows, gambler for the mid tones, and then the gain is for a highlights and brightness. So these are tricky because if you do move any one of these in any direction, they make changes to one or more colors at the same time, which is why I don't like these. And can also make changes right over here if we want to make it brighter and can make it dark over there, let's just say when a brighten up a little bit. Okay, let's see the mid tones over here. Can dial it up a bit. Maybe more. Orange, orange tone. Okay, and let's check out. Just lost my mouse there. This is reset that we wanted to. Bump up the blocks in the shadows. I could do that over here. But for the most part, I like this image. This isn't too bad. I've made some minor adjustments to saturation to the gain. So I'm going to save this as a preset, and I'll just save it under V mix webcam. Alright, we can always reset everything. There's resets beside every option over here. Okay, so this is without it and let me recall it again. So some slight adjustments over there. We can also zoom in on the picture. All right, so that's an example of making a color correction to my camera feed. Now, I do have a drone clip over here, which will be a bit more fun to play with because this is yeah, very nice image. So let's just put it on pause. And we are going to click on the cog. And we'll go through a basic color adjustments. So this is obviously very green. We'll just use the image below. So if we wanted to just zoom in, we do that. Let's just zoom out. Okay? So if we want to add some greens over there is simply just added there. Oh, that's a bit too much. Honestly, the correction that I would make to this add a bit of saturation, maybe brighten it up a bit. And that's it. I'll be happy with that. That's a little bit too saturated, but it's definitely got a little bit more pop to it than it did before. So let's just take that away and see how that looks like. Reset. All right. Okay, let's go to the color correction and let's see what we can do here. Just take away everything. Alright, so we've got our color wheels on. So let's just say we want to bump up the highlights a bit. Let's just move it up. Let's just say we wanted to add a little bit green. Okay, I don't like that. That's a nice shade when we move it over to this direction for the gain. Okay, mid tones, I don't think there's too much we can do there, but let's add in some saturation and left. So this is gonna be your blocks and shadows. Let's see. Definitely isolates the grass, changes it to a nice wheat color. So you can experiment there. It's a little bit judgmental. I mean, you can be the judge for yourself. Is that better than it was originally? Let's take that away and we can see that. But honestly experienced speaking, just adding a little bit of saturation, maybe adjusting the exposure. And if you're using your color correction tools and your video editor, you can adjust things like the contrasts. So that's just a basic introduction to color correction. We can also click the color wheels to access a different way of color correcting using the color bars. Right, so we can adjust. And the visual settings red, green, and blue for our lift, gamma and gain. All right, so now that you've got a basic introduction to live color correction, you can make the necessary adjustments, whether it's in a video or camera feed, to make those basic adjustments. Again, if you want to make more advanced stuff, I recommend you do it in your video editor.
18. Vmix how to do transitions: Alright, we're gonna cover transitions in a bit more detail than we did in the overview. Transitions are really important part of live streaming and envy mix. Because if you want to add multiple inputs or you want to add multiple videos, this is a great way to transition between all those different inputs. Just to demonstrate, I'm going to add my camera inputs. So I'm gonna select add camera. I'm just going to use the camera on my laptop just as an example. And I'm going to just turn on my soft box lights so as the best quality and then I'm going to hit, okay. Alright, so I'm gonna turn on my soft box or white box. There we go. And this is just for demonstration purposes. So let's say I click this inputs and I wanted to transition from my YouTube intro, which isn't the right window, over to my camera inputs. So the quickest way to do that, just to click any of these transitions. So quick play is like a cross dissolve is pretty quick. A cut. It's pretty fast. Just like that. Now, if you want to access more options is to say vertical slide. You can see all these options here. And you can change the duration from the default, which is 500 milliseconds to something different. So if I wanted to change this to cube zoom, I can select my input and click it. There we go. So that's the cube x2. So there's a lot of options here. I think it's a little bit overkill to be honest, but it's better to have a lot of transitions than have a few. So if I click over here, merge, I think you get the idea. And we even got fly in, so we can fly my camera feed in. A lot of different options. I encourage you to experiment for the most part, I just use the Quick Play. And this is a good option to know about the manual manual button. And some tips before transitioning is to make sure that your preview is set up at the right place. If you want to start at the beginning, you can bring them back there. But if there's a particular spot and you want to find queued up there first before you hit your transition button. Alright, so that's just a bit more detail on transitions. A very important part of making a smooth transition to another input in v-max.
19. Vmix using the playlist: Okay, we're going to learn how to use a playlist. So playlist is very powerful because you can queue up existing videos and you can order them, and you can put them in a loop. So to access your playlist, it's at the bottom of the mix. You can click the gear to create and delete your playlist. So to start off, we need to add the inputs or the videos that we want to include on the playlists. So I'm just going to add a new video. So we select, add inputs. We can select the video I want to choose. And then this is going to scroll. So I'm just looking for a particular video that I created very recently. There we go. Hit. Okay. And I just want to say that having a YouTube intro or any type of intro for your live stream is a good way to add production values. So this is my YouTube intro here. It's just a short 15-second video that really introduces someone brand new to me, my content, my brand, understanding what I'm about. That's the goal anyways. Alright, so I've got my headphones on right now so you can't hear that. So I think you've got the idea from the visual. So let's just queue up our playlist now by clicking on the gear. So we're going to start off with our YouTube intro. And then we're gonna start off by going to our drone aerials and then to the Chiang Mai video. And this is where we have the option to check a loop or not. And when we're ready, we can click Start. All right, so let's finish playing the intro nods gonna go on to the drone video. Alright, so I'm not gonna play that all the way through, but I think you get the idea. The power of using a playlist is that if you have videos that are pretty long, you can actually leave this on autoplay if you have it in a loop. And yeah, you can basically live stream for a long time by using this feature. So the playlist in the mix.
20. Vmix multi view and virtual inputs: Welcome back. We're going to be talking about multi views and virtual inputs. So in the last lesson, we put a title directly into our video inputs so it wasn't overlaid. So just to review, if you want to put a title or another picture and picture that's done through the multi-view. We're just going to reset this back to the way it was. So we can just see that an overlay just shows up quickly and then we can take it away. But if we want to just add it in the video itself, not as an overlay, we need to use the multi-view. So we're gonna click the gears and we're going to learn about the multi-view. So in the multi-view, we've got ten different slots and ten takes the priority. And it's as simple as clicking the drop down. And you're able to select any of the inputs that you have open here. Alright, so just so I have one more input, I'm going to demonstrate what the virtual input does. So a virtual input is basically making a copy of your inputs. And we can do that by clicking this create virtual input button. So we've got a fourth virtual input right over here. So now we are currently in input one. And if we click multi-view, now we have the option to fill in the slots. So it can actually select the very first window. So for the first slot, I can actually add in my virtual input as a picture in picture right over here. So I've added that input as a picture in picture. Now I can add my title right over there. And when I click position, I can move it around anywhere on the screen. I can zoom in and out. If I click this checkbox for cropping action, I can actually crop out horizontally or vertically. Alright? And you can reset that all. Ok, so I'm just gonna put my lower thirds title over there. And you can use any of these slots to change that. So I can add my ticker over here, that click position. I can move it all the way to the top. And I go to multi-view. You can see that I still have many slots left. So you can also see in the right-hand side we have some preset layouts. But let's just close this and let's just see how it displays on the main output window. You can see that we've built up this, this multi-view over here. We can actually just cut to the virtual input, which is the clean version. Right? So if you look at the virtual inputs, let's just stop the playback here. If we look at the virtual input and we click on the cog, and we click multi-view. You can see that nothing has been done to the multi-view over here. But if we click on the gear for our very first input, you will see all the work that we did. For our very first input. We've got the picture and picture. We added some titles and the ticker. Now let's use the preset layouts. And so I just want to add my web camera. I think it'll be more useful for this exercise. Ok, so we have my webcam over here, and let's just say we wanted the webcam to go into my video, which is the first input. So I can select this layout on the right-hand side. And then for number two, I'm selecting my webcam, so it just displays like that. So I've selected this layout over here. So on channel one, we've got our virtual input, channel two, we've got our web camera. Or I can select this layout over here. I can reposition things on channel number one. And if we wanted to just go back to the original, we can click a multi-view and we can select none over there. So that's an example of how we can use multi views and virtual inputs. Very powerful way of creating a custom video feed. So we can see here we got our virtual input, which already has a multi-view. So by adding this virtual input into our first video input, we're creating something pretty complex. So I hope you get the idea of how we can use multi-view and virtual inputs.
21. Vmix saving your preset: Hi, in this lesson we're going to go through how we can save our profile. Let's just say we have our stream setup, we have our input setup, and we want to do feature live streams using this templates. So very simple, we can just click save. And you just want to come up with a name for this preset, Colonna presets. And that's it. So it's going to save everything as it is, all these inputs with the videos, as well as my streams over here. Which is just a huge time-saver. If he just want to load up your preset, have all your video and audio inputs ready so that you're ready to livestream as soon as possible.
22. VMIX thiings to do during streaming: We're just going to look at some of the activities we can do once we are actually live. So by having a queue video takes a lot of pressure off of yourself to be the one that's actually providing the content. So you wanna make sure that if you are using your microphone, that you have clicked the audio buttons so it's not lit up, that it's not green if it is, your audio will come through on the feed in addition to the audio from the video. Another thing to look at is this button here. This means that streaming, you can also see the stream feed in the top over there. You can also take a look at your stats at the bottom there. Just take a look to make sure that your CPU and your GPU is an overtax. So right now met 14% for my CPU and a percent for my GPA, which is Mike graphics cards. So we should be okay. And then you want to actually go to the platform. So on Twitch, I can see up a viewer, 16 views. And if there's anyone that was chatting, I'm here ready to respond to them. I can see my bit rate here is 2.7 kilobits. Now let's go over to YouTube. Alright, so now it was excellent and then it was complaining it's not receiving enough video to maintain smooth streaming. And we can also look at the concurrent viewers and we have our live chat so that we can open up the widget. So hopefully this changes here, which just telling us that our stream was healthy and now it's not healthy. Facebook, we got 2.8 megabits per seconds and the audio. And if anyone were to chat, I can do that right here. And after you're done streaming on Facebook, remember to click and live video and do that on YouTube as well, right over here. So hopefully the stream improves. But these are just some of the tasks that you can do while you're watching. You can also interact with the feed. If I wanna put that graphic overlay, I can click one over there. If you want to promote anything or you just want to make a more dynamic, you can actually change the titles. So I can take it offline and I can change it. So I'm just going to click plus, so that's going to keep my title over there and I can change it to Squamish. Alright, so it's a bit more dynamic there. I'm changing the lower thirds to apply to whatever is on screen, so that's something else you can do. So I hope you found this helpful and you can move on to the next lesson.
23. Vmix web controller and shortcuts: Hey, what's up, everyone? In this lesson, we're gonna learn about the Web controller and learning how to access shortcuts using a mobile device. Or maybe it's another type of device. Maybe it's a gaming controller. Maybe you have a midi. But I'm just going to use another mobile device, my iPad, to access the web interface of the mics. So we can do cool things like access shortcuts right from our mobile device. And this can be handy if you just wanna do quick transitions and have a nice graphical layout in front of you if you want to just do quick transitions or overlays. So to do that, we're going to start off by going over to our settings. We covered this during the overview of the mix when we went to the web controller. So we can go to web controller and you can just get the website address and the port number. So for me this is 19 to 16, eight dot one dot 12 colon 8088. So I punch that into my web browser. I'm just using the Chrome web browser. And on your V mix, you can set a password if you want. I just check the boxes for controller shortcuts titles. And by checking this box, I'm saying that I don't want to be asked her password to log in. And you can check the other box, allow software on the computer, access without login, then HIT okay. Alright, so after you go to your mobile device, just punch it in to make sure that you can access v mix. Now I'm not sure if you can see that completely, but there is a icon. And it's got the four white blocks over there that will look something like that. So that's the screen we're going to open. So this is where you can display the shortcuts that we're going to create right now. So to create the shortcuts, we're going to the bottom right-hand corner with the four wide squares. We're going to click that. And you can see I already have two buttons over here that I've created that also show up on my mobile device using that web address. Okay, so we can click edit here, and this just opens up a whole set of opportunities here. So I'm going to show you the two shortcuts that I've created. And we're gonna go through and create a new basic one. Before we get started, I just want to show you all the possibilities. If you do want to sum, someday, creates something more advance. So we've got keyboard shortcuts, many joystick. And if you click templates. They've already got templates for all these devices that you may use from mid-90s. Keyboards can control hads, XBOX controllers, some devices that I'm not that familiar with, to be honest, but it can get pretty advanced and you can import these controls here. The ones for the Xbox are actually meant to control the p t z cameras, which are not covered in this course, but you can just create basic shortcuts here. So we just click on All. So my overlay shortcut, just click at it. I set a control key. So there's a dropdown here with all the keys that you can press on the keyboard. So I just selected a and then you can choose the functions. So there's quite a lot of options here. Probably not the best layout. But you can choose a category and with each category you've got different options there. So the overlay one, I access from overlay and I just selected overlay input one and give it a title. So the title here will show up on the web controller. And it's very important to make sure this box show in web controller is set up so that it will show up on your mobile device. So I hit OK. And I'll just show you the other one I created. This is a zoom fade away or zoom transition. And I just set the B key to control this transition for x2. And I just call the name of this button zoom. Okay, so let's go ahead and create one more button here. And you're gonna click add. Let's just select C function. Let's do a transition. Let's just do a wipe reverse and we're going to call it wipe it. Okay, we're going to hit OK. So we need to refresh our browser for this to show up. So I'm just going to type in my browser. I'm going to hit go, so it reloads that IP address. And now I can see my new button over there. Hopefully you can see that. And we're going to test it out now. So by clicking this button here, WIP, I'm now accessing this transition. So I can also test all the other shortcuts I created. By pressing the overlay. I've got my title there. And there's that new WIP, WIP transition I created. And here's my zoom one. Alright, so I also want to point your attention to one other thing while accessing the web controller. So there is a box that's a colored walks with two white squares and an orange and a green square. That's right beside the area that we've been in. It's right over there. So by clicking this, you can access some other controls from B mix. For example, I can control my preview screen by tapping the different buttons. So C1, you can just test out the controls. When I'm tapping on it. It's changing the preview feed. And I can also control the output right from my mobile device on the web controller. So that's pretty cool. So this is what that screen looks like right over there. So just another way to control V mix remotely using shortcuts and another interface. So hope you found that helpful. There's a lot of potential there. I still have to wrap my head around how I would use this because actually I just use my keyboard and mouse, but by setting some transitions up that you use quite frequently or titles, you can just access them at a price of a button. So I just wanted to point out this feature to you using the web controller.
24. VMIX how to connect your mirrorless camera: Now let's just say we've got a mirrorless or SLR camera and we want to add that feed over to our v-max. So I'm just gonna make some room for one more input because of a maximum of four. So cannon SLR cameras, as well as the Panasonic GH five, they have software that allow you to tether, connect your camera over two. Let's just say your computer using some software. So I'm going to show you the Panasonic GH five. This is free software. It's called Live View. And it allows me to connect my mirrorless camera, which I'm looking at it now, over to my computer so we can actually use this as a feed. So I'm going to show you how we do that. So I've connected the software using the cable to my computer. I've gone to the Panasonic website and I've downloaded this software, the tethering software, which is free and it is still fairly new as of 2020. So I'm gonna show you how we can use this as a feed. So I'm actually going to move this to my other display. And then I'm going to click this button. And then we're going to use V mix to add this as an input. So what we're gonna do is just close this. And we're gonna select, add input. We're going to select NOT camera, because it won't be displayed over here. But what we could do is go to desktop capture and go local desktop capture, and then we're looking for Live View. All right, so let's just try it out. Quick Play. So there we go. So there's a little bit of a gap in this picture. So if we go over to the gear cog, we might be able to zoom in a bit. So I'm just using the multi-view to scale this up a bit just to fill up the black borders on both sides. Was that okay? Okay. So we have the live view connected to my camera right now. And now I can switch from my webcam camera over to my mirrorless camera to give me two camera angles on my v-max. So that's how we can connect our mirrorless or SLR camera. You would do a similar type of thing. If it was a Canon SLR, you would use the live you display or just connect directly to the software. Or you could display the live view onto one of your monitors and then select that display.
25. VMIX streaming to twtich: Alright, we're going to see how we can stream to twitch from V mix. So to get started, let's open up our V mix and you'll need to make sure you have an account already on Twitch. So I just want to start off by just saying that I'm not a twitch expert, but I'm going to show you how you can start your first stream to suit which. Alright, so I've got a layout that I have set up. And I'm just going to preload it. But the main area you need to go into is by clicking on the cog where the gear. And I've got twitch setup on the number three profile. So you can set up 23 profiles that you can stream two simultaneously. And I've already created an account. You'll have to click this link and go through the sign-up process. Alright? So once you go through the sign-up process, then the mix will have permission to stream over to twitch. So here we are, I'm logged in. If you do need to get the stream key, you can go over to video producer, go under Settings and click streams. So over here, this is your streaming key if you do need it. So I've already logged into Twitch and you can select your channel. So I'm just selecting the San Jose channel because it looks like the latency. It's pretty low. Go into San Jose. And I can select the quality here, 720 P H.264, and a 128 kilobits. So I'm just gonna stick with that and save and close. So now when I'm ready to stream on Twitch, I'll need to have some content ready or I'll have my camera setup. In this case, I'm just going to cue up a video. So this is a video I've just added on one of my inputs. I'll just quickly show you. So at input and selecting just one of the videos from over there at the top. So this is on my hard drive. Alright, so I can just simply play that. And then when I'm ready, I can click stream. But because I've got other channels over here, it's going to stream to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. At the same time. If I just want to start Twitch, I can click Start three because this is under my third profile, but you can decide if you want twitches. Number one, you know, you can always change that over here, under the drop-down. Alright, so if I want to start my Twitch stream, I can simply click Start three. Go over to my Twitch stream manager. And then if I need to adjust any of the stream info, I can do it here. It's going to add a tag. Doesn't look like there's any. There is one for travel. Done. Alright, it's streaming are ready. Okay, so that's how we can stream over to twitch.
26. Post livestream: Alright everyone, we've just finished our live stream. We streamed to Facebook, and we also stream to my YouTube channel. So I'm just gonna look at some wrap-up tasks here. So Facebook has asked me, your video will be posted soon on digital nomads in Asia. This may take a few minutes to rate the quality of the broadcasts. Well, I'd like to take a look first, so let's just see if the video and the audio quality came through the history with UK, which timely right now. Okay, that looks good. That's looking good. I think on the Oskar's like solely girls I've alright. So let's just save that. I think we don't need to do much. And we're waiting for the video to be ready. Let's go over to YouTube. So YouTube, there's some different tasks here. First, let's just check the stream, the video and the audio quality. And then we're just gonna make sure our description copy and our tags are okay. Then we'll look at putting in our ads for monetization. And then we're going to do the end screen. Alright, so this is a large file that looks like different countries. There's a price to pay. Okay, so let's go over to details, clicked on details. Let's just make sure our title and any offers that we have are in the description. Alright, I've got my link to digital nomads in Asia, got my tidal. And let's just check our tags. Okay, do we have everything in their digital nomads? Best off? Whoops. Best. Make sure we got all the countries. Ok, and then let me just change the title to living here. Living was a key title. Alright, now, let's just take a look at our monetization. Very important. Because that's a lot of work there. We put three R's are streaming. We wanna make sure we have ads at the beginning and after and during, probably every 30 minutes, I would say. So with a 3R video, I think we can insert six adds. Normally, if it's if it's irregular, 10-minute video, maybe you just want to insert one ad, I think every seven minutes is okay. But since this is a longer form, let's do every 30 minutes or maybe we could do every 25 minutes. Okay. That means more work for me. Okay. So we have one that's 37 minutes an hour. Hour and a half. Doesn't need to be an exact science, but sometimes there's better times and others. Alright, so that's the last one. And it looks like after video got uncheck. So let's just save. Then we'll go to the end screen. Okay, that's not ready yet because the video is still processing. So that's all we can do for now. Both for the Facebook, in the YouTube later on we're going to, all we need to do is fix our N screen. Just make sure that people are something that click on after the stream is done. And Facebook, we've already ready finish. Okay, so hope you enjoy that and figure out what to do after your stream.
27. Webcam review hd: What's up, guys? So here is the review of the largest tech, my new webcam, the C 920 S PRO HD webcam. So it's 2020. I got into live streaming. I bought a new microphone and, uh, found some good live stream software, and I started to use my smartphone as a webcam. In general, live streaming became a lot more popular. Everyone stuck in the pandemic just spending more time doing video. And I remember I was in Malaysia and zoom calls were the rage. I couldn't find a webcam at any of the computer stores or good webcams at the computer swords and Malaysia. So I got back to Vancouver, Canada. I got into quarantine for two weeks and, you know, the rest is history. I use my smart phone as a webcam using software like joy cam max, which is great. There's something to be said about the convenience of having a webcam that's this always on. There's just less hassle last setup and it's easier to create content. The software that I use V Mix allows you to use multiple camera angles. So with my smartphone as a webcam, as my logic tech, C19 20 S PRO HD webcam as a web camera as well. I can do multiple camera angles. So this is, this is just such a great new way to create content. And I got some industry information from pawn five just to back up the momentum that's going into livestreaming. So according upon five, a popular New York Stock agency, which I talk about a lot on my YouTube channel. Live streaming has grown 99% from April 2019 to April 2020, livestreaming will grow into a $70.5 billion industry in 2021. That's $70.5 million. All right, so I just launched my livestream course on Udemy, links below. And I got some really good sales on my launch. And I thought it was time for me to invest in a better webcam. And I got the review of the Sea 1920 S PRO webcam. Just some specs that a glance. It's ten ADP, full HD at 30 frames per second. It does have a improved version for 2020, I believe it's the 922 or 924 as version. Basically, the only difference is I can do higher frame rates, which doesn't really matter. In my video world, i, i care about high frame rates, like 60 frames per second or a 120 frames when I'm doing slow motion. But for live streaming, this webcam is great. I'll put a link below if you want to purchase it. So some of the features are that it has autofocus. Its field of view is 78 degrees. Just for reference, a GoPro normal wide angle is 130 degrees. The webcam cons with the USB cable, it's pretty much plug and play. It's got two months, one mount she can just attach on top of your monitor. It's really easy to set up, no screwing or anything involved. It also has a thread for a tripod. If you do want to mount the webcam on top of the tripod, there is some optional software which can download from logic tech, but you don't really need to do it. We will review that software and we will compare the picture quality from my smartphone versus this logic texts. So let's get started. So let me just summarize the unboxing for you. So it was pretty straightforward. Pretty much. I just took it out and you get this right here, this package. Basically you do have to touch one part and its lid over here. And you basically just clip it on like that. Alright, so you just put it on top there. And then you can just simply close it like that. Webs clips on pretty easy. There's a thread mount at the bottom and you can clip it on top of your monitor, like so. And as far as the software, you don't need it. I plugged in right into my live stream software and I'm able to, I'm able to use it and right out of the box. But the largest tech software does give you some options. You can actually record from that software right out of the box. You can add some texts overlays, you can take some photos, and there's some filters on there. But one drawback for me is I can't use that software at the same time as V mix. So let's cut over to the picture so we can compare the two. Actually, let me try and do a side-by-side. So over in the top corner is the largest tech right now. It's not in the same position. Let's try get it in the same position to compare. It was from the largest tech right here. Okay, let's shut the lid. There we go. Logic Tech, and this is my smartphone. This is my smartphone. Let's take that away. So up there is the that's the largest tech, the webcam there. But let's just take that other picture out of the way. Webcam, smartphone. Webcam. Smartphone. Or let's do it side-by-side. Okay. The big picture is the webcam. Alright, so that's my review. Pretty easy set up. I can do multiple camera angles now. So if I wanted to put my webcam over on my monitor right here, Zach and put the monitor right here. So let me know which webcam you think is better. Let me know what you think about the picture. And again, if you enjoy this video, please give it a like and subscribe. If you do want to learn how to livestream, please check out the course below using v-max. And yeah, if you want to buy it, check the links below by.
28. Adding the new webcam as a 2nd camera: Okay, in this lesson, we're going to learn how we can add a second webcam. So you may have seen the other video on the logic tag webcam review and how we connected it and all the features. But now we're gonna go through how do we actually add that as another input. So we can toggle different camera angles on our live production feed using two webcams if you have them or maybe even three webcams. Plus. We're going to learn how we can use our mobile device or iPad to control those camera angles using the web version of v mix. So stay tuned until the end. So over here we are under our inputs. We selected add input. We went over to the camera area and we selected the largest tech camera. We selected no audio because we're gonna be using the audio from our other microphone. And there we go. We've got the other camera input from the logic tech and we can switch over to the other one. But this is a little bit cumbersome because we, while we're recording, we have to remember how to switch the angles on the software. So this is where the mobile device comes in. We have a separate lesson on this. If you go to the web controller lesson or how to control it using a mobile device. Basically, you can go to your global settings and we'll cover this at the end. But you basically just punch in an IP address. So here's a look at my software over here. And we gotta click on that green and white icon. That green and white icon is going to give us access to touch buttons that allow us to change the output. So we're focusing on the output Ro and C4 and C2 correspond to my inputs. So c2 is for my smartphone, and C4 is for the logic tag webcam. So by tapping these c2 and c4, I can change the camera angle just with a touch of a button. So that's pretty cool. So since I'm a nice guy, let's actually go through how do we find that IP address? So we're gonna click on our global settings. The settings at the top right-hand corner. You gotta wait awhile. Wave for the pop up. Click on web controller and there's the web address. So hope you enjoyed those bonus lesson. And if you have and you have enjoyed the course, I'd appreciate a 5-star review for the course wherever you're watching this. Thanks a lot and I appreciate it.
29. Vmix livestream summary edit: Hey, congratulations for finishing the live stream course. So I hope you had a lot of fun and I kept things fun, not too intimidating. The next step is to take some action, start live streaming, invest in remixed, maybe invest in the necessary gear if you don't have it and get started. I've given you some options to get started at a very cheap costs while producing very professional results using the mix. I hope hopefully show you that you can get started livestreaming without diving into all the complexity and just get started, start creating some shows. Try pre-production and planning for how you want to present your content. Live streaming is a great way to repurpose your content as well. By adding the element of making to show you can talk before you present your videos and really just make it a fun interactive experience. And if you're doing it on YouTube, you can monetize on that as well. And again, the algorithms like Facebook and YouTube do like live streaming. And so a way to separate yourself from the pack. Thanks for watching and good luck on your livestreaming career. Bye.
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