I'm going to talk about some of the tools now that you're going to need to stream on Twitch.
It's not too many, but bear with us.
One thing you'll need to create a great stream is broadcasting software.
Today we're going to walk you through 2 options:
Twitch Studio and Streamlabs OBS, both available for PC and Mac.
For the easiest, most streamlined to use, check out Twitch Studio.
Both are highly flexible and customizable,
but getting the basic setup down is simple.
Let's take a look.
You can get your video and audio setup
and start broadcasting in just a few minutes with Twitch Studio.
When you first start up Twitch Studio,
a quick tutorial will walk you through the basics.
First you can select your main microphone.
Check, check.
Next, choose the webcam you’d like to use.
And size to the screen area.
Tabbed, you’d prefer,
depending on which game you're playing or playing music,
so for doing music we’ll go full.
You can add additional audio sources
just by hitting the plus.
You’ll see all sources that are plugged into your PC right here.
You could check audio sources.
If there's anything in excess you can mute.
Camlink is obviously picking something up, so mute.
So we have desktop audio playing.
You can also listen and check out what's happening in your stream audio.
Once you have everything saved,
you can start your stream.
Streamlabs on Mac is just as easy as it's ever been.
Let me show you how it works.
Here is what a completely blank template looks like.
To add sources is incredibly easy.
The first thing you want to make sure you have is video.
So find Video Capture Device, Add source.
You can name it whatever you want.
Once you're in here,
if you're just going off laptop like we are right now,
FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in),
and there we go.
Transforming is super easy.
Right click, Transform, Stretch to Screen
and there you go, there is everything right there.
So you'll also need audio: cogwheel, Audio,
Mic/Auxiliary Device going with Built-in Microphone,
because let's say we're just streaming from here,
we don't have anything else plugged in.
So you can hypothetically just be sitting in front of your Mac,
playing acoustic, singing in the microphone and that'll work.
You're still getting your music out there.
You're still giving people content, which is amazing.
You can get into customizing everything later on.
You can add stuff like different images
if you want your band’s logo, different Window Captures
if you're capturing something else in there,
but the main thing right now is your webcam
and your microphone that's all built in.
If you want to add in different Audio Input
Capture Devices, you can do that.
Go to Add Source, Audio Input Capture.
Let's see, we have something really plugged in.
In this case we've got the Apogee Element.
That's in, now I’m capturing all the audio from my actual DAW into it, as well.
If you're using just webcam this is what it would look
like and that's totally fine to start.
Don't feel like you have to have a super rig getting into this thing.
The main point is you getting live, starting your music
and getting your community engaged immediately.