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Welcome to Episode 242 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall.

My name's Gage and I'm here with Dan, of course.

We have some fun stuff to announce tonight, so excited for that.

And for anyone new here, Dan and I are the founders of StreamYard.

We do these town halls every single Sunday at 6 p.m.

Pacific and we do them for a few reasons.

1 is to stay in tune with all of you, go through the same flow that you all do with your own shows and productions.

That's why we're calling it Ask StreamYard.

So if there's anything you'd like us to touch on tonight, feel free to leave it in the chat.

We'll do our best to get to as many as we possibly can.

And then I always mention the 3 pillars of StreamYard, which are ease of use, stability, and professional stream.

So if you're about those 3 things streamers the tool for you See people tuning in from all over the world tonight.

We have Indiana we have New York Claire from Australia as usual and even Mike from China very very cool Before I forget we have awesome some awesome content on stream yard We've got YouTube channel reviews with D&Daniel, the second Saturday of every month.

Really great show if you're looking to grow on YouTube.

Both of them are pros when it comes to all things YouTube, and they give Basically specific feedback on individual channels, so it's really helpful for things like thinking about you know your your audience and your niche and You know how often should you be posting?

What what should you be using shorts anything can think of is Will be talked about there when it comes to YouTube Then we have enhancer live streams the last Tuesday of the month with Nick Nimmin.

Again, Nick's a pro when it comes to all things video, so check that 1 out for your specific live streaming questions.

And then 1 thing we've been doing at the start of these so that we get to know a little bit more about you, you get to know a little bit more about us.

It's a fun fact, and the fun fact we had for tonight is favorite dog breed, if you have 1, if you have a favorite dog breed.

Hard to say, so I'm not too much of a, I've never had any pets, never had a dog or a cat or anything.

So for me, hard to pick 1 exactly, but I would say, I think my favorite dog breed are huskies.

I just found they look pretty cool, they're very friendly, at least in my limited experience.

It was between like the first dog I ever had as a kid or the most common 1 my parents would get.

My parents often had, like as I got older, German Shepherds growing up.

Yeah, they look pretty intimidating, but yeah, very cool.

Yeah, the ones we had were always quite friendly, but yeah, they can look intimidating.

Let's do a few questions before we get into the updates.

1 here from Dataisking says, can you allow us to see the number of people that are waiting and show their names during the live?

If you could be a little bit more specific data, because 1 thing I'm wondering is like when you say people waiting, part of me thinks like, are you talking about guests waiting to join the studio itself?

Are you talking about people waiting before the stream starts on, and I assume on social or maybe something on air?

If you could be a little bit more specific, it would be helpful.

Yeah, what I'm picturing is maybe he's looking for showing the viewers on social ahead of time.

But if it has something to do with the studio, let us know.

Anna says, to use a second camera, can I use a guest link?

So if you mean Anna like can you join the studio yourself as a guest to have a different camera angle?

Yeah absolutely before we added the the extra camera feature that was definitely something people did regularly.

You'll just wanna make sure that if it is close to you, you'll wanna have it muted so you don't have audio feeding back and forth or whatever.

Kathy says, love the pause feature when recording.

Yes, if you're trying to make a recording super yeah having to remake a broadcast can can be a bit cumbersome.

Yep Mental health toolbox says any reason I'm getting an audio delay.

I'm using an external mic via an interface and a deal are D I'm guessing that's s DSLR Canon camera via the webcam utility.

So I'm guessing a mental health toolbox that it has something to do with the interface.

Like there's a lot of things that are, that you're going through before ultimately hitting StreamYard.

So I would check if there's anything you can tweak.

Interfaces often have a setting to tweak, like the sync between the audio and the video, so I'd check if there's any settings there.

And then also, I would go to the live chat, and they can sort of walk through step by step, like ask you what the individual devices you're using are and try to troubleshoot with you.

We'll get to those in just a second, but I want to make sure we don't miss the updates for tonight.

So you can now post Trim's videos to Facebook.

So very similar to the feature we mentioned a couple weeks back, the ability to post basically long videos directly to YouTube.

You can now post those videos directly to Facebook as well.

Yeah, if it's useful, actually, let me just walk through it.

Just also, especially for anyone who's not familiar with how the YouTube posting flow works.

So I'll just explain it a little bit first.

So as a lot of you probably know, we added trimming a while ago on StreamYard.

So you do a stream or a recording, and let's say you wanna trim a 5 minute chunk out of your 1 hour recording and post that off to YouTube, you can now do that directly within StreamYard.

So you don't have to download the video and then go over to YouTube and upload it.

And we also have had that for Shorts and Reels for a while, but that's specifically for Shorts and Reels, whereas this new 1 is for like a 16 by 9 longer form video.

So this is on our library page or media page as we call it.

So if you're in the library, in the left half if you're on the library, you just click into any 1 of your videos and you'll come here.

So this is just a video, it's literally just a countdown timer.

If I then go to edit and repurpose, so you can see I can repurpose as a short and real or a longer video.

This is where we now have the Facebook option.

So if I click in there, I can basically, let's say I want to just have the last, I don't know, 10 seconds or so.

So I've changed my 30-second countdown into a 10-second countdown here.

So historically, as of a month ago or so we had YouTube publishing But now I can also publish to Facebook as well and fill out the title and description if I click publish That'll be posted to my page.

I didn't have to That you know download the video go to Facebook upload it separately or anything And I'm hoping we can add even more platforms to this pretty soon.

But for now, we've only just got YouTube and Facebook, which is pretty awesome.

If you guys have any questions or suggestions, definitely let us know.

Let's do a couple of questions here, and then I wanted to also talk about some more details around the recording controls feature.

Dimebag Daron says, or Dimebag Coin says, can you add the ability to take input from my RTMP camera?

The way YouTube lets me RTMP directly to my YouTube channel.

So we don't have the ability to take in an RTMP feed directly into StreamYard yet, Dimebag.

In the future, it's definitely a possibility.

The way some folks work around it now is basically just instead of using RTMP, they'll basically just get that RT, like whatever, presumably the RT is like some camera that you're capturing.

Basically just get that camera onto the computer that's running StreamYard and just screen share it or use a virtual web camera to get it in that way.

But definitely understand the need for it and it's something that we're open to.

Mubi says, Hey guys, try to add guests to my stream without a destination By doing it a different way I think if I remember the question last time movie it was yeah, you just you want it without going live You want to try inviting guests?

So yeah, you absolutely can do that The way I would do it if you just go to stream mirror.com You're logged in you'll see on the dashboard if you hit create and select the recording option, I click the recording option, get into the studio, and once you're in the studio, you'll see a button at the bottom that says invite, which will have a link, and you just have to send that link to your guests, and if they click that link, they'll be able to join the studio with you.

Yep, And everything will work quite similar to as if you were doing a live stream to YouTube or Facebook or anywhere.

It's just you'll do a recording instead of a stream.

And you don't even have to start the recording.

You can just invite them, play around, click some buttons, see how things work, and then do a live stream later on if you wanted to.

And Nurse Adrian, I see your question about some issues with lagging.

The easiest way to troubleshoot would be with the live chat.

I'll have so many questions that it would be hard to do here.

So if you go to StreamYard.com slash contact, there's a live chat there and they would be able to help you step by step.

If you've already done that and they haven't been able to resolve the problem, let me know and I'll check and see if I can find like the logs and see if there's any more info I can find.

Build with Mooney says, would you recommend as a woodworking channel to actually do woodworking during a live stream?

So believe it or not, Mooney, I've definitely seen several woodworking channels that do just that.

Oftentimes there'll be various segments where it's like, they do woodworking part of the time, they'll answer some questions, they do more woodworking.

But based on what I've seen, if that's what you wanna do for your content, there's definitely an audience that loves watching people do woodworking.

So totally viable if that's something you're interested in doing.

And yeah, it's cool to watch live, especially if you can kind of, you don't have to do this, but if you hook it up in a way where you're talking over it as well so they can hear you while you're also doing the woodworking, I think that's pretty cool.

Maybe a little harder to do with woodworking versus other stuff because the machines can be quite loud, depending what you're doing, obviously.

Chris says, hey guys, I have members that celebrated 6 months.

What should they see on their end to show their milestone in the chat?

So Chris, I'd have to look up on YouTube what the experience exactly looks like.

But I'm guessing YouTube has docs for it as well.

But this is something that we support on top of YouTube, right?

So the experience for your viewers is exactly the same experience they'd have if they were watching someone who wasn't even using StreamYard.

I'm not, off the top of my head, I'm not familiar with exactly what it looks like.

I always forget what it looks like too, but there's a button that they can click basically to do a milestone chat and they can do it once per month.

It just looks similar to when you're doing a super chat, essentially.

So I have it on hand exactly what it looks like.

But if you just search YouTube memberstone milestones, if YouTube has information about that, which I assume they do, it'll look exactly the same when you're using StreamYard.

Yeah, and someone in the chat might even know the exact wording that it has.

But yeah, on our end, we'll basically show it to you, obviously, and then you can highlight it on screen, and it looks very similar to a super chat.

Awesome, Eddie Bitty, it's great that you're starting.

Let's do 1 more here, and then talk a little bit more about the recording controls.

Claire says, I'd love to see in the future an option to further customize the size of the comments and banners when you pull them on screen and possibly have them be slightly transparent.

And that whole sort of realm of functionality is something we've been talking about in terms of, I've mentioned a few times in the past, as an extension to sort of what we've done with custom layouts, is giving you all more flexibility when it comes to going deeper and really having more control and customizability of the stream.

And stuff like that is definitely part of what we're hoping to solve.

I assume you're familiar with the themes and how we can make it look different just by changing the theme.

But obviously there's only 4 options right now, so there's only so much we can do.

We could just potentially add a few more of those as well.

But you will eventually be able to customize it more.

Or there will be an option probably closer to what you're looking for.

And 1 thing I did want to reiterate for those that missed it is, as we've already talked a little bit about in the chat, is the update last week, which was recording controls.

So everybody should have full access to recording controls.

And we'll play the video here in just a second, walking through exactly how it works.

Anything to add to it, Dan, before we play the video?

Or should we just let the video play and then answer any questions?

And this is already out as well, just so everyone knows.

I'm so excited to announce that we just launched recording controls.

Recording controls bring so much additional flexibility to the recording studio.

Instead of doing 1 long take that you might have to edit, you can now create clips by pausing, cancelling, and restarting the recording studio.

Recording controls will only work on recordings, You can't pause a live stream.

When you're in a recording studio, you'll see the new buttons up top, near the broadcast button.

You can pause, resume, restart, or cancel your recording.

Pausing allows you to put the recording on hold.

Useful if your doorbell rings and you need to answer it mid-show.

This is perfect if you want to take a break, think about what you want to say, and then resume.

You can cancel the recording, which will delete it.

Restart will delete your last take and resume recording.

If you have a destination connected to your studio, recording controls won't be available.

Recording controls also work with local recordings.

Once you're finished creating a recording, we'll merge all of your clips together into 1 recording.

You might not even need to edit, but if you do, we have an editor for that.

We're excited about this feature and we can't wait to see your recordings.

So yeah, hopefully that's a helpful walkthrough of exactly how recording controls work.

We did announce it last week, but there wasn't time to get to all the questions.

So if there's any other feedback you guys have, suggestions or questions that you'd like us to touch on, definitely let us know.

All right, let's start going through some of these.

Ace of Spades Podcast says, how do I remove my destinations from the selection page?

All I can do is select and deselect a destination on that page.

So, let me know if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing, well, okay, it depends what you're trying to do exactly, so I can answer in a few ways.

So, by remove your destinations, you mean you have a stream, and say you're streaming to 2 destinations, and you want to not stream to 1 of them.

So maybe you selected Facebook and Twitch and you decided I don't want to stream to Twitch.

When you're in the edit modal, which I think is what you're referring to here, you can unclick 1 and then it will say Do you want to remove this and you can remove it that will just remove it for that broadcast If you're trying to remove a destination permanently, so let's say you don't have a twitch account anymore You don't want to stream there.

That's an example on The dashboard on the left side.

You click that button you'll see all of your destinations listed there, and you can just click the little 3 dots icon for your destination Click to remove it and that will just completely remove it from stream yet.

So we're not connected to it at all anymore Hopefully that answers the question let me know if I missed it though Awesome

Faisal says any update coming for a musician for live music streaming?

I'm a musician facing the problem when I play guitar and sing on StreamYard, the sound of the guitar is not properly streamed.

So Faisal, you should be able to solve this with proper equipment.

If you go to also the StreamYard contact page and search the support docs, I think we might have some specific documentation that walks through some of the best practice setups.

But ideally, again, the best setup, it'll depend whether you have like an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar, But if you have a proper audio interface and a mixer and a proper setup to capture the various like your voice the guitar Anything else that's going on and get that into the audio interface and then into stream yard You should be able to have it sound great You just have to make sure that you have everything set up such that what's going in a StreamYard sounds how you want it to sound.

But yes, if you go to StreamYard.com slash contact and search just like musician streaming, it should come up.

If you can't find it, I would just use the live chat and they could probably help you find some resources.

And in terms of settings on stream yard the 2 I would make sure to Check basically is there's 1 called echo cancellation if you just by yourself you can turn that off as a musician It'll make your audio sound a bit better and then same thing with background noise removal I would just make sure that's also off because you don't want that if you're a musician.

NBA Sports says, does StreamYard give me the ability to stop a live stream midway on a platform like LinkedIn while still streaming on YouTube?

Yeah, it's not used very frequently, but you can absolutely do that on StreamYard.

1 way I've actually seen folks do that is sometimes to sort of help grow other channels, They'll maybe do the start of the stream on 1 particular channel, sort of grow some excitement around it and be like, hey, for the next segment, meet me over on YouTube.

But yeah, basically what you'll do is in the destination section on StreamRoute are fully dynamic, even if you're live, like whether you're not live, you're live.

So if you just remove a destination in the middle of the stream, but don't end the broadcast, it will stop sending it to that destination, but continue on the other destinations.

If you add a destination in the middle of the stream, it will start streaming there in the middle of the broadcast.

Felicia says, are we able to do a thumbnail with our lives or recordings?

How do we do the lower thirds with the banner?

So Felicia, the lower thirds with the banner, if you're in a studio, there's just this tab on the right called Banners, where you can type in any banner you want and show it dynamically.

When it comes to thumbnails, yes, absolutely.

So When you're doing a live stream, you'll have the option, if it's scheduled, to upload a thumbnail.

It's pretty cool to get posted to all the places that you're streaming to.

Depends what you want to use it for, I guess, on the recording side.

But if you're planning to, let's say you do a recording on StreamYard, and then you want to just share a link with someone so they can watch it or embed it on your website or something, you can upload a thumbnail specifically for that on StreamYard.

But obviously, if let's say you're planning to just download it and then upload it on YouTube or something, you could upload this on the old network.

Cool, your audio got a little bit weird for a second there.

I don't know if you're covering the mic or something.

It just sounded like you were maybe like far, like not talking into the mic or

Marianne says, with the recording option, can you keep the same broadcast link and just download the recorded video and not start a new broadcast again and again for a regular meetup?

So the recording controls we've already shipped with pausing, for example, doesn't let you do this right now.

Like, let's say you want to record every single week the exact same people over and over again.

That is something we're looking into to see If it's something we want to add, I think it will be something we want to add.

We just need to figure out the best way to do it.

But it is something we're actively exploring.

And the same thing for doing multiple takes.

So you enter the studio, you maybe record for a minute, stop, and then you want to download that 1 minute chunk, watch it, see if it's good, maybe do another take.

Kind of similar to pausing, but actually getting a separate video for each time.

That's also something we're open to adding.

Let's do a couple more questions here, and then we'll go ahead and do the giveaway.

Bowling with the Feff says, could be a broad question, but what's the best current way to utilize a stream deck with stream yard?

So we still don't have a direct integration with the stream deck yet, which we will likely add Eventually, so there are a few extra steps required to to use stream right with the the stream deck I'm not intimately familiar with The stream deck but the biggest change we did make that folks are using as a way to interface with the stream deck is we do have hotkeys now.

So basically on the stream deck folks will map StreamYard's individual hotkeys onto the stream deck so that they can use it during the stream, but the request that we do have is adding that direct integration to really unlock all the functionality there and making it a little bit more seamless.

Albert says, does the recording control allow 1 to capture timestamps for YouTube as an example?

So the recording control does not capture timestamps, at least not at this time.

It'll just like sort of pause, start, start over, et cetera.

I'd be curious to learn a little bit more Albert, in terms of like what you're hoping to get out of the timestamps.

Like 1 thing that we have heard requested, like we've heard requests for timestamps in various forms.

So if you could add a little bit more detail about like what you would like to see captured, it'd be helpful.

If you could shoot me an email about the problem you're having, it would be helpful, and in a little bit more detail about what exactly, like links to streams and what exactly is happening, it would be super helpful for me.

Dice Grinder says, am I able to have 2 separate StreamYard accounts?

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