- The StreamYard Live Town Hall episode 250 features Gage and Dan, the founders of StreamYard.
- They thank viewers for their support in reaching 100K subscribers.
- The purpose of the town hall is to connect with viewers, answer questions, and discuss the three pillars of StreamYard: ease of use, stability, and professional streams.
- They mention upcoming shows on StreamYard, including YouTube channel reviews and enhancing livestreams.
- Gage and Dan share their most interesting wildlife encounters.
- They answer viewer questions about using the StreamYard giveaway picker, processing delays on YouTube, using StreamYard on multiple YouTube channels, and uploading .MOV files.
- They address the possibility of having multiple guests enter the stream at the same time.
- They clarify that the backgrounds provided on the free plan are intentional and meant to offer cool options for streams.
- Gage and Dan confirm that the rooms behind them are real, not virtual.

- The speaker discusses the ability to post to different platforms while using the StreamYard studio, mentioning that some platforms do not allow posting to certain areas (e.g. Facebook groups or profiles).
- The speaker also mentions that the OnAir team is actively working on integrating popular CRMs with OnAir for webinar purposes.
- The new touch-up filter slider feature has been added to StreamYard, allowing users to choose the intensity of the touch-up effect.
- The StreamYard Guest iOS app has been launched, providing better audio quality and flexibility for iOS users.
- The speaker mentions that duplicating a banner folder is possible, but duplicating a brand is not currently an option.
- OnAir allows users to embed streaming on their websites and stream from their own website instead of social media platforms.
- Using a computer with a hardwire connection is still recommended for the best network connection.
- There are no current plans to integrate with booking platforms such as Calendly and TidyCal, but the speaker is interested in learning more about users' specific use cases.

- The speaker addresses some technical issues with Android users and suggests reaching out to support for assistance.
- A question is asked about streaming from a Raspberry Pi, and the speaker suggests that using StreamYard, a cloud-based solution, may be less resource-intensive.
- The possibility of .MOV overlays and Android users having the same features as iPhone users is discussed, with the speaker stating that these are being considered for future updates.
- Recent feature additions, such as gifted membership support and video backgrounds, are mentioned.
- The speaker discusses the ability to stream to Rumble using the RTMP option and mentions that Rumble is a new app.
- The process of embedding past event recordings on websites using StreamYard is explained.
- The speaker announces a giveaway for a StreamYard pillow and sweater.
- Questions about using StreamYard on multiple platforms simultaneously and reducing file size in Canva are addressed.

- The speaker suggests increasing the size of uploads on StreamYard, but not too much to avoid long upload times and optimization issues.
- They mention the option of compressing files using a compression tool if Canva provides a large uncompressed file.
- It is advised to check the resolution of the file and ensure it is not 4K, but ideally 720.
- The speaker expresses gratitude for the audience's participation and announces the next episode of the StreamRoute Live Town Hall.
- They also thank the viewers for helping them reach 100k subscribers on YouTube.

- StreamYard Live Town Hall episode 250 features Gage and Dan, the founders of StreamYard, thanking viewers for their support in reaching 100K subscribers.
- The town hall aims to connect with viewers, answer questions, and discuss the three pillars of StreamYard: ease of use, stability, and professional streams.
- Upcoming shows on StreamYard are mentioned, including YouTube channel reviews and enhancing livestreams.
- Gage and Dan share their interesting wildlife encounters.
- They address viewer questions about StreamYard features and functionality.
- The backgrounds provided on the free plan are intentional and not virtual.
- The ability to post to different platforms and integrate popular CRMs with OnAir for webinars is discussed.
- New features added to StreamYard include a touch-up filter slider and the StreamYard Guest iOS app.
- Users can embed streaming on their websites using OnAir.
- Using a computer with a hardwire connection is recommended for the best network connection.
- There are no current plans to integrate with booking platforms, but the speaker is interested in learning more about users' specific use cases.
- Technical issues with Android users are addressed, suggesting reaching out to support for assistance.
- Streaming from a Raspberry Pi and the possibility of .MOV overlays and Android users having the same features as iPhone users are discussed for future updates.
- Recent feature additions, such as gifted membership support and video backgrounds, are mentioned.
- The process of embedding past event recordings on websites using StreamYard is explained.
- A giveaway for a StreamYard pillow and sweater is announced.
- Questions about using StreamYard on multiple platforms simultaneously and reducing file size in Canva are addressed.
- It is advised to check the resolution of the file and ensure it is not 4K, but ideally 720.
- The audience's participation is appreciated, and the next episode of the StreamRoute Live Town Hall is announced.

Will we reach 100K by Sunday? Come hang out with our founders Geige & Dan — they'll answer your questions about StreamYard: a browser-based tool that lets you live stream, record videos & podcasts, and host webinars.

Welcome to episode 250 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall.

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

Appreciate all the congrats on the 100K subs in the chat.

Yeah, super exciting to finally hit that.

And again, thank you all enough for all the support to allow us to reach that number of subscribers.

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

We do these town halls every single Sunday at 6 PM Pacific.

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.

2 is to answer any of your questions, 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 and we'll do our best to get to as many questions as we possibly can.

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

So if you're about those 3 things, StreamYard is the tool for you.

See folks tuning in from all over the world tonight.

We have Christian from Florida, Lori from Chicago.

Before I forget, we have some awesome shows on StreamYard.

We have YouTube channel reviews with D and Daniel, the second Saturday of every month.

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

Both D and Daniel are pros when it comes to all things video and all things YouTube.

And it's a fun show where they give specific advice on individual channels, how to think about things like your analytics, your thumbnails, your community.

Really valuable if you're looking to start on YouTube or you're already on YouTube and looking to grow on YouTube.

And then we also have Enhance Your Livestreams, the last Tuesday of the month with Nick Nimmin, who again is a pro when it comes to all things video, but tune into that 1 for your specific live streaming questions.

Then 1 thing we've been doing at the start of these so that we get to know a little bit more about you and you get to know a little bit more about us is a fun fact.

And the fun fact we had for tonight is what's the most interesting wildlife encounter you've ever had?

You have a interesting wildlife encounter, Dan?

I've got a lot of interesting wildlife encounters.

I think, I don't know if I would use the word interesting, maybe the scariest wildlife encounter.

Well, I mean I've had a lot of encounters with bears just growing up in Canada on the west coast and working in the woods with a few jobs when I was in high school.

I think the most interesting 1 though is I remember, I wanna say I was in kindergarten, so 5 years old, walking to school and running into a bear.

And you know, my family was like, my mom I think was walking to school with me and a few friends, I think that was probably the scariest.

Because as a five-year-old, you're pretty intimidated by a massive bear.

I mean, at any age, you're intimidated, but especially at 5.

At first, I was like, I don't think I've had too many interesting wildlife encounters.

And then I thought of 1 that would be a fun 1 because it doesn't have anything to do with the Shreveport logo, but it does involve a duck.

So when I was young, there was actually, I think like there was a family of ducks that kind of got split up.

So there was like a stray baby duck that was just like in our, hanging out in our pond because it had gotten left from its mom or whatever and had an injured leg.

And My mom went to like take it to the pet store for them, or not the pet store, but like some area that sells duck feed that has a lot of ducks to take it.

And the person at that store actually convinced her that they had too many ducks and ducks do well with a friend.

So she actually came home with 2 ducks instead of 1 duck.

And we had a couple pet ducks for a couple years before they went back into the wild.

That would actually make a good story for the logo.

Yeah, not the logo, but it was a nice duck memory.

So let's get into some of these before talking a little bit about the update for tonight, as well as, I know there's tons of questions about some of the mobile stuff from last week.

So happy to get to more of those tonight as well.

Melnett says, when using the Streamr giveaway picker, if I stream to both YouTube and Facebook, will Facebook entries be counted too?

If you're streaming to YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, all platforms where we are able to pull comments in, the giveaway picker supports, right Dan?

Yep, basically if you see it in the studio, it will show up in the giveaway tool.

Just make sure you start the giveaway tool at the beginning of the stream if you wanna make sure you get all the comments.

Or start it before you ask for people to type in whatever the comment is, I should say.

Hours later, it still says processing, leaving me unable to market it, especially using other platforms.

So yeah, that's definitely surprising, Stan.

Generally, it should be immediately, assuming you're doing a live stream, it should be immediately available after the live stream is over.

If you go to streamr.com slash contact, there is a live chat support there, and they might be able to help troubleshoot with you what's going on.

My best guess is that it would be something having to do with YouTube, like if maybe there was something copyright in the video that's causing it to process longer or something like that.

But best thing to do would be to troubleshoot with support, but that is surprising.

JR White says, can you use your StreamYard account on more than 1 YouTube channel?

You can use StreamYard on any YouTube channel you like.

Oh, I was probably gonna say the same thing.

It's pretty common to stream to multiple as well.

So, you know, you could do like a stream where you just go to 1 YouTube channel and then a different stream where you go to a different 1.

Or as long as you're on 1 of the paid plans where you can multi-stream, you can just go to multiple YouTube channels at once, totally fine.

VMPO says, I have a question, why did you give me free backgrounds?

So on the free plan, we do have various sample backgrounds to use, right?

It's intentional, the MPO just wanted to give you guys some cool options to be able to use for your streams.

Paranormal Gateway says, when having multiple guests in studio and starting the stream to introduce them, is it possible to have a feature to have them come in at the same time?

Yeah, and I know Gage has talked about this in previous, so I have as well, but in previous Ask DreamYard shows.

So you may have already seen that, but it's 1 of the things we're trying to include as we think about how to add more customization in the studio.

So custom layouts obviously added a lot of customization, but there's still more stuff people wanna be able to do like this.

So some of the changes we'll be making relatively soon should address that, I believe.

It's going to address a whole bunch of stuff and add a lot more power while still obviously being really easy to use.

And I think that's 1 of the things we'll handle.

Let's do a couple more here before getting into the announcement for tonight.

Albert says inquiring minds want to know is that a real or virtual room behind you?

I assume you mean mine because mine has a little bit more going on than Dan's, but both of us have real, are both very much real rooms behind us.

But it would be pretty cool if mine was virtual.

David Burrow says, any chance of uploading .MOV files?

I often like to use SYNMobile as an iOS user.

Yes, David, it's definitely something we want to support.

1 thing that has stopped us from it in the past is making sure that it's supported across all devices.

But this is something we want to add and we're looking into, right, Dan?

Let's go so with Joanne says, if I type a comment in the studio, does it show up in both YouTube and Facebook stream?

So by default, it's generally set to all.

So if you type in a comment, it will go to both.

But if you wanted to just send it to 1 or the other, you could also do that.

But the default is gonna be if you type a comment, it will go out to both.

Like when you're in the studio in the bottom where you're typing in the comment, there's the little circle that lets you select where you want to post to.

And that's where gauge is referring to it saying all by default, when you're multi streaming, if you click into there though, you'll see Some of them don't allow you to post.

So for example, you can't actually post to a Facebook group or profile from the studio.

Facebook just doesn't allow that basically.

So it does kind of depend where you're streaming to, but most platforms, or A lot of platforms support it.

The most common ones support it, I should say.

I was actually do 1 last 1 from Intentional.

Question says, any update on if and when we will be able to integrate our CRM slash marketing platforms with OnAir.

So double opt-in and other automation works easily when people sign up?

Yeah, it's a great question, intentional.

And for anyone who isn't familiar with what OnAir is, OnAir is basically StreamYard's solution for if you want to do a webinar or potentially do a private live stream embedded on your own website, in addition to the other platforms that works directly alongside it.

And the answer is yes, we absolutely want to integrate with popular CRMs.

And it's something the OnAir team is actively working on.

We recently added stuff like custom registration.

So we do plan on continuing to add the sort of top requested stuff when it comes to what folks look for in things like a webinar product.

Always just curious which CRM you use or what you're most interested in us integrating with and we can definitely integrate with Zapier and you can kind of Use anything but maybe not the ideal flow So yeah Just cares which 1 you actually use and for anyone that wants this if you want to have a CRM to integrate with on air Which CRM do you want?

Cool Let's do a couple of the announcements before getting back to some of the questions we have here.

So the 1 for tonight, which was in the title, is the new touch-up filter slider.

So this was a top request after we launched the touch-up filter.

We definitely got a lot of feedback for some folks were like, you know, it's not doing enough touch-up in terms of like how much it's actually doing.

And then on the other side, you know, it's too much touch-up.

I just want to have it be a little bit less intense.

So now you have actually the option, I think Dan has a picture, the ability to choose, you know, how, oh, let me hide this, how, I believe what there's, you know, 4 or so settings or 5 settings there.

So you have more control in terms of like how dramatic you want the touch-up effect to be.

It definitely was coming up a lot in the chat.

If you have had a chance to try it, definitely let us know if it if it now sort of is, you know, customizable enough to meet your requirements when it comes to how, how much of a touch up effect you you want.

And yeah, Let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see different in the future with it.

There's quite a lot of variants, I would say.

On the low end, like Gage said, there's 5 settings.

The middle 1 is actually what we had before.

If you'd used it before, the third setting, The middle 1 is what is the same.

But then if you turn it all the way down, it's a lot more subtle and if you turn it up, it's quite a bit more intense.

A lot of variants in there and it should be enough options for everyone.

Just 1 thing that we also made some changes to make it more performing.

So it does just work better in general now and then we're still working on making it even more performing if we can.

Sounds like folks are excited about it in the chat.

The other 1 I wanted to touch on, which was a pretty big announcement last week, so just wanted to mention it again for anyone that missed it, is obviously the StreamYard Guest iOS app, which we're really excited about.

It's been something the team's been working on for a really long time.

The main reason we wanted to launch this is when it comes specifically to iOS, the support for sort of the tech that StreamYard uses has generally never been quite as good as what you have on stuff like Chrome.

But by launching an iOS app, we're able to address a lot of, essentially, all of those issues.

So by using the iOS app, you should be able to get much better audio quality and also have a lot more flexibility when it comes to things like being able to use external microphones.

So it basically just allows us to provide a much better experience when folks happen to be on iOS.

There is not a producer version of the app yet or a studio version of the app yet, but that is in our plans.

And that'll be an exciting 1 to add as well, because that additional flexibility that comes with having the native experience on iOS will allow us to do things like allowing screen sharing on mobile, which historically has just been limited to the desktop, along with things like the ability to have virtual backgrounds and whatnot.

So pretty excited to have that application live.

And if you have had a chance to try it or you get a chance to try it, definitely let us know.

The team is eager to iterate on it and improve on it.

But yeah, basically, it should be a more stable experience.

To be clear, this is just for iOS, and it's just for guests.

So if you have a guest that's joining on their iPhone or iPad, we would recommend using the app.

They can still use Safari on their phone but I would recommend the app.

For Android they'll still just use it in the browser it's just Chrome on Android is a lot more stable than Safari was and then also on desktop they just keep joining the browser like they always did.

So this is for guests on iPhones and iPads.

And then as Gage said, we will have a host version for iOS as well at some point.

We did have a couple other ones to quickly touch on, but I want to make sure we address all the questions.

So with Joanne says, so they can join from their iPhone and still have good quality.

And just to be clear, you can still join from the Safari browser on iPhone.

And that's something we'll continue to support and make it as good as possible.

It's just something that we've continued to bump into limitations in terms of like how much we can customize it and how good we can actually make it.

So we did wanna make the investment to make a full on native app for iPhone to give the best possible quality.

But yeah, the whole idea is that they should be able to get really good quality if they're joining from an iPhone, particularly if you're using the local recording feature as well.

Yep, yeah, and I would say like if your internet, or if your guest internet is really bad, it's still a problem.

stream and your guest internet is really bad, it's still a problem.

do a live stream and your guest internet is really bad, the app won't magically fix that.

Ideally, they have pretty good internet, but like I said, local recording will kind of work around that.

So if you are doing local recording, at least you'll have a high quality recording, but the stream will still kind of be degraded.

But in general, it will just work better.

Everything about it is better tuned than the Safari version is just because like Gage mentioned with the app, we can kind of control everything all the way down to the low level versus Safari.

Marianne says, question, can you copy what's in a brand so it saves you from having to add everything individually that you may be using for all brand names.

We do have the option to duplicate a brand, right Dan?

Yeah, you can't do it right now, unfortunately.

But yeah, definitely understand the need, Marianne.

And also just always curious, Marianne, what exactly you're trying to achieve?

Like why you're having, why you have another brand and you want to copy a bunch of stuff in the first place?

Like do you want to have, I don't think I can get that from your comment.

Having done everything individually that you may use for all brand news.

Why do you have multiple brands and different types of shows?

And if so, do they have mostly the same assets, but slightly different ones?

So you want to copy maybe some of the assets, delete some of them, and add some new ones?

Lenora says, so we can embed streaming on our website and stream from our website versus streaming from social media platforms.

Yes, OnAir absolutely allows you to do that.

And that's a very common way folks are using it is to promote sort of like an event or a webinar and embed that directly on their website, potentially behind sort of like a sign up form or something like that.

And you can also do it at the same time as social media.

So maybe you want to do something where you're going live to social as well as your own website.

You can do that as well and there's even like a you can even embed chat as well so folks can actually chat directly from your website using StreamYard.

Let's go so with Joanne says is computer with hard wire still the best option?

Yes when it comes to getting the best possible sort of network connection, let's go so with Joanne that's definitely recommended.

Obviously not an option on phones, but if you have a strong signal, it's totally fine as well.

Hardwire just eliminates a lot of potential risks when it comes to losing packets and stuff like that.

Joshua says, any plans to integrate with booking platforms such as Calendly and TidyCal?

It's definitely something we've chatted about in the past.

It hasn't come up as frequently as we would expect.

So we're always interested in learning more about your use cases.

Do you have a regular podcast where you want folks to be able to opt in?

And it would be great to know more details about how you'd like that integration to work, where it like, would it create an event, or create a stream on StreamGuard when someone booked in?

It would be good to know what you'd like to see when it comes to that type of integration.

I see your question there about the Android users and folks having some trouble joining.

There shouldn't be any issues with that, but if you had an error, I would definitely reach out to support, and they can hopefully help troubleshoot what might be going on there.

Awesome, Chris, that's so kind of you to say.

It's a pleasure getting feedback from all of you and getting the chance to support all of you.

Sebastian says, Any ideas on how to stream from a Raspberry Pi or something with little computer power which can stream at the resolution required But does not have enough compute power to do it in the browser.

That's a cool question Sebastian, so I've never actually tried using StreamYard from a Raspberry Pi but the whole idea with StreamYard is that it is a cloud-based solution, so it should be significantly less intense than having a streaming software that essentially is using your own computer resources versus the cloud.

So When it comes to the streaming tools out there, I would think you'd have the best shot of being able to do it using something.

I don't know if I can run a browser, but.

But yeah, if the Raspberry Pi can't even open a browser, I thought that I would think that it could.

Is that the only way I think I can describe it.

A lot of people use build electronics projects for the basically.

But yeah, I don't have any immediate ideas, Sebastian.

Maybe I'll try it on a stream right on and see if I can do it.

I mean, technically, another thing you could do is just like there are sort of low level capture tools.

But if you can't even open a browser, I don't know if you would be able to use something like FFmpeg, but maybe look into something like that as well.

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