 Hello, and welcome to this tutorial on how to livestream your lectures with the software Open Broadcaster software. Okay, so let's hop right into it. A few items that you'll need is, one, obviously your computer to stream out of. Two, get yourself, you don't need a professional mic like this, but a pair of headphones, right? The trick is to get whatever mic you have as close to your mouth as possible. And then number three, you can probably use the inbuilt webcam on your laptop computer. Okay, so I'm going to start with the software here. So we'll switch over to Chrome, and this is the software that you'll be looking at. So it's the Open Broadcaster software studio. And what the software does is it allows you to basically turn your computer into a broadcast studio. So if you've seen the news or something like that, where you can switch around to different screens, different tricks that you can do, and then also with your webcam as full screen like that. So just to be able to do these fluent transitions, essentially. And then what's also cool about the software is that it allows you to output directly into a streaming service like YouTube and others. Or with a special plugin, you can actually use this as a webcam source for your lectures or streams on Skype, on Zoom. So it'll just act like with this output a regular webcam, but with all the cool transitions. So that's the part about the software and what you need. So it's available for Windows, it's available for Mac OS, it's available for Linux. And today we won't get into the technical details of how exactly you stream or record. There's tutorials on the internet for that. In terms of the detailed settings, it could get a bit complicated. But today what I did want to show you is how I set up my interface. Okay, so let's go into the full screen here. I'm going to switch the screen capture. Nope, let's not do that. Okay, so this is the screen capture here. And as you can see, this now transitioned to a desktop with this little picture in the corner here. And you can move these things around, which is really cool. So they're just elements, right? So I'm moving the desktop around. I can move my face here around. So you'll see, whoa, right? And you can move other things and elements as you see fit. So what's actually cool about this as well is you can have different presets for your elements. So for example, the one I'm using right now is I'm using the preset called screen capture here. Okay? And that's a preset I want in case I want to pop into PowerPoint or show you exactly what's on my entire screen. There's a few other presets. For example, this one, I'll show you the intro to my ride cast, right? So you could have a neat little intro reel that you use to bring people into the live stream. Let's hop over and see what's in there. Pretty cool, huh? And then now I'm back into the webcam, which is a full screen view. I like to be able to show things on the internet, you know, as I'm doing my live stream. So I do a split screen with Chrome here as well. So this is just Chrome, but without the, you see, I can move this around, right? So this is the Chrome, but with the edges kind of cut off here. So you get a full screen experience. And then I also like to do a PDF, right? So sometimes I like to show, you know, for journal articles or something like that. So this is a PDF. I'm doing research on bicycle design manual. So that's something, you know, that I can pull up. Or if you have your presentation, for example, in PDF format, that's something that I have ready to go. And then I have a also a full screen version of Chrome. So I just put these white bars around here, right? So if you look at on your screen, I'll move these white bars around. And then I kind of cover up a part of it. It gives it a nice symmetrical look. And finally, what the viewer on before is the screen capture, right? So this will capture the entirety of your screen. And finally, I like to have a pause reel, right? So if you need to pause and go get a glass of water or something like that, right? You can just hop over here. And I'm showing some images of cycling, which my audience really enjoys viewing. So that's something that is good for me. But you can use anything. So you can pick any video file, preferably a file that's on your computer. And you can ask it to just keep playing in the background while you do your other things. And I can even turn on, let's say, the sound from this, right? And turn off the sound and such. So there you go. Let's pop back into the webcam. I'll kind of show you how to set all of this up, okay? So the intro reel here, it's just a... The intro reel is just a movie clip that's playing. So it'll be a video clip of something that you would like to play. And in this case, I use it for the YouTube livestream. I do a countdown timer, but basically here it's just a media source. And sorry, I just realized I can't actually switch between the different settings as I'm showing you this. So let me just take, in that case, let me just take one of these examples, which is the set. Scene preset we are on now. And just show you how you can add different elements, okay? So right now, for this set, I have my webcam, which is the Canon M50 here, which is the capture device. And then I have my display capture, which is the entirety of the screen, okay? So let's say we want to add something to this environment. Let's go ahead and click this plus button, and we have our different choices. Let's say we want to add a window capture is probably something that you would want. So a window capture captures a window that's currently open. And let's say I want a browser, right? So now I'm going to add existing and use Chrome, no cursor, so that you can choose when you add this, whether you want the mouse to actually show up. And boom, right? That's it. And then from here, you can actually do your resizing very well. So here, I can do resizes to half my screen. I can make my video a bit bigger here, right? And then this looks a lot similar to the, sorry about this. This looks a lot similar to the display that you were seeing before with the split screen, right? And you can move all these elements around. Something that I also find useful is being able to look at how we can use the audio interface. So let me take this away by, let's bring you over here. Okay, I'm going to show you how to take this away. You right click on the element and you just tell it to remove, right here. And I'll press delete on that. Are you sure? Yes. And boom. Oh, sorry. I did the wrong thing. Okay, let me get that back. Okay, going back into display capture. Exist, new. Okay, we are back, correct? Great. Actually, that's a good way to show. I just deleted the wrong one. So what I actually wanted to delete is a Chrome one here. Yes. Remove. Okay. And we are back. Perfect. So, and here you have the layering. So if you move the different elements to the top, then you have the camera now layered on top of the desktop view. If you move this element to the bottom, you then have your camera to the bottom, right? So let's, let's move this around here, right? So now your camera is covered up. If you move this up, then your camera reappears. And that's pretty much the main things that you would want to cover is the window capture and be at your PDF software, which is Adobe or your Chrome or Safari if you're a Mac user. Another thing that you'd want to do is to look at your audio, right? So the audio here, you have a few options. You have your, your desktop audio, which is probably you'll get is the sound that's coming out of any of your browser window. So any sound that's coming out of your computer. For example, if I play this YouTube video, right? Of, of me live streaming, you'll hear the sound like this vehicle. You have various dimensions and on or off, right? So now the YouTube video is gone and three meters wide. How do we design a road around these dimensions, right? And actually, and of course, if you want to mute yourself as you're talking, then you can always shut off your own microphone. I'm not talking and now I'm back. So if you got kids at home or, or some noise in the background, you can always do that. And I recommend that when you switch over to the pause screen, right? You also remember that either you can keep your mic running or you can make sure you turn it off when you get there. Okay. So that would just give you some privacy or some emergency out if something happens. Great. Great. Let us go back to the split with Chrome and I'll show you a few other things here. Okay. So with Chrome, with the web browser, you can show different things. Like I said, one option is like you can play a YouTube video, right? But you can also do, for example, articles. Actually, these work pretty well split screen. So if you really zoom in and then your, your students can actually read along with you. And for example, searches, scopus, if you want to look something up, especially if you're involved in the live chat situation. And let us demonstrate how you would go about showing a presentation, for example, right? So let's go back to the, I like to use the screen capture function to do a presentation, right? So now we're back to my screen. And what is cool about this is you can have your head here remaining. I'm going to shrink myself a bit. And then what you will see when you open up, let's say, here it is, like a PowerPoint, right? And when I turn this full screen, so when I go to presentation mode, my head will still stay in the corner, though all I will see is the full screen presentation. Okay, let's give this a go and turn this full screen. Great. And now you have a talking head with your presentation in the background. And for example, for I were to present a webinar, which this is very useful for, then you have full control over whether you want this view, which is the presentation view, or if you want to, for example, show your face full screen. And we can go to different slides here. And this is how you could bring something that your slide deck onto a online presentation. And when you exit, you can go back to a full screen of your webcam. Okay, so also if you want to do your window, for example, your PowerPoint on one corner, and you want to do your talking in another corner, you can always set up like this, which is what I like to do instead of the talking head in the corner. I think this is much more useful like this. But then you could just format your slides so that it's vertical or a square. You can do that in PowerPoint instead of a 16.9. So all these are quite interesting. And that was a brief introduction to using open broadcast software for your lectures. And to recap, what you need is your laptop headset with a mic built in. You don't want any feedback from your speakers. They're not sound really good. And then setting up this display the way you like it. So setting up the various scenes before you hit broadcast. And then if you're outputting to a stream, here's start streaming on the right. And if you're recording, there's also a option to record to stop and start recording directly to your computer. That way you can just save it and then upload it to a format such, sorry, one of your schools, software platforms, canvas and others so that only your students can see the lecture. So I hope this has been very helpful for you. And this has definitely been helpful for me. The origin of this software is actually from the PC gaming community. There's a lot of gamers who stream games and like to talk to each other and stuff. And this is something that we can definitely appropriate from other fields. This is completely open source, completely free for our own teaching purposes. And hopefully you will be taking your teaching to the next level. And leave me a comment or get in touch if you have any questions about this. Let me know if there's other details that you want to know about. As for the settings here, for example, if you go to file settings, there's a lot of different technical stuff, most of the stuff you don't need. But there's all sorts of YouTube tutorials probably way better than I can do on how to link it to YouTube, how to then use a plug-in to output it to Skype, and then what kind of recording quality you'd want to do and what kind of format you want to save it as. And those can then really, if you save it directly to the format that can be uploaded to your platform, then you can save a lot of time. So I'm recording this in the streaming software and uploading this for later. And what's magic about this, I can do this as many times as I want if I'm recording it. And there's no post-processing. So all the editing, all the cuts have already been done in the software. So let me sign off by showing you a bit more about Amsterdam. And hopefully this has been helpful and see you next time.