 In this video, I'll be talking about restream and how you can use it to stream to multiple platforms from Ecamm Live. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec, and I've actually made this video before. And we were talking about restream on my latest live stream, which ended just a few hours ago, but I had a follow-up question from Michael asking how to actually set this all up to stream to restream through Ecamm and what the whole sort of process is. So I was just about to go and grab an old video that I've made about it and send it over. However, I realized that they've changed one crucial thing in the interface, so I forget I should just remake it and go and delist the other video. So that's what we're doing today. So first of all, exactly what is restream? Well, it is a third-party service. And if you want to find out more, by the way, don't forget to use my link, takeonetech.io slash restream, and that'll take you over to the restream website where you can get a free trial. But in actual fact, you might find you can get by with the free version in any case because there is a version that is free for life. It's got some limitations, obviously, but we'll talk about those in a moment. So it's basically, though, a service that allows you to stream to multiple platforms. So I use it when I do my live streams. I do them all from Ecamm, obviously, but then they get streamed out from Ecamm to restream. And then restream deals with distributing it to lots of other different places. So in my case, I'm streaming to YouTube, to Facebook, to Twitch, and to, I'm laughing, I'll come back to that, and also to Twitter. So the reason why this whole thing came up on my live stream, in fact, was I was kind of debating whether I should be streaming to all of these places. And in particular, Twitch, because I've not been giving Twitch a lot of love. I started doing streaming to there when I first started my YouTube channel, however many days ago it was, about six months ago. And I figured that I'd stream my weekly live streams to there just to see about how the audience would grow on there. Well, the fact is, the audience hasn't grown there because I haven't actually been active on Twitch other than every week a live stream just pops there, but I'm not there engaging with anybody on the platform or anything like that. Definitely YouTube is more my home. So in terms of the course or video content. So it's no surprise, really. And I've just, I think I'm just gonna switch it off to be honest, and not bother streaming there. I do also stream to my Facebook page though, and that is something that I do want to grow in terms of the channel having my Take One Tech Facebook page. So if you're not already following me on that, then please buy all means, go ahead and do that. And I will be putting some other content at some point that's sort of relevant to what I'm doing on the channel that maybe just not sort of video content as well. So that will be the home for that. And then I'm also trying to work on being a little bit more active on Twitter as well. So I am still streaming to there. The ultimate question is though, should I actually be streaming to there or just using it for some other function related to the channel? This is a whole another debate which I'm having inside my head weekly. So I won't bore you with it, but in any case, that is what the restream does for me. It allows me to stream to those platforms. Why is this useful? Well, it means that you are actually streaming to multiple platforms, but you essentially have only got the bandwidth of one as the user or as the streamer, I should say, because you're just streaming to one location and it is then dealing with the issue of getting that out to other locations. The other thing that's good about it, if you are on board with streaming to multiple locations, is that restream will sort of collate all of the comments and things like that. And then they will come to you as one feed in Ecam and you'll see where they've come from. So they'll either have the little YouTube logo, Facebook logo or something like that. So you will be able to see as the streamer which particular platform they've come from. So in any case, that is in a nutshell sort of what it is and how I use it, but I should also point out that it is a streaming platform in its own right in that you can actually just stream directly through restream and we'll come onto that in a moment when we look at the interface. So let's get into it, shall we? And before I do, let me just touch on momentarily the actual pricing levels and things like that. So if you do follow my link, take one tech.io slash restream, then that will take you to this page or rather it will take you to a sign up page where you can sign up for a free trial but just to explain the levels, the free plan is free forever and it allows you to stream to two channels. So basically if you've got say Facebook and YouTube, a Facebook page, sorry, a Facebook profile I should say, then you can do that there or if you wanna go to Twitter and YouTube or something like that, then you can do that. So up to two channels. And then you've also got these other things, these programs that you can stream with. So you can stream with third party software, which is what I'm doing, obviously using Ecamm. So Ecamm is not listed here explicitly, but it does work obviously with a free version. But you will get a restream watermark if you're using their restream studio. So that's not something that we're gonna be doing if we're going through Ecamm and then you've got things like chat overlay and so on. The paid version, which is $16 a month, that allows you to stream to multiple channels, but crucially what it also unlocks is streaming to Facebook pages. So if you wanna stream to a Facebook page and your YouTube channel, even though it's only two channels, if you want to go to a Facebook page, you do need the paid version. So that's why I'm actually on this plan, this paid one here. And then there's also the professional where you can stream up to seven channels and you've got other different things like HD and studio. A lot of the differences are related to the studio actually, but that's something that using Ecamm, we're kind of just bypassing all of that in any case. So we'll come onto that in a moment, but basically it's either free or it's $16 a month or $41 a month. But yeah, you might be able to get by with the free version of two channels or maybe the 16 if you need to go to a Facebook page or have up to five channels. So that is the pricing. So let's have a little look at once you actually do get into the interface, once you've created an account and you actually go to the website, it's gonna bring you by default to your destinations here. And this is where you can, this will be blank when you first start this row here. And what you can do here is then just add a channel. And here you'll be able to see when I click on add a channel, you can see that there are all these different options for locations you can stream to. Personally, until I got restream, I had no idea there were so many streaming platforms. So I'm not quite sure what all of these are or what they are, you know, what their niche is or things like that. But in any case, you've got the top ones obviously right up here. So we've got Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and Twitter, then also LinkedIn live down here as well. And then yeah, you just basically select which one you want to stream to or which one you want to add in to your list of potential destinations to stream to. And then you're gonna go through the login process and so on to grant it permission. But just look at all these other different platforms. I've got no idea what a lot of these are. But in any case, yeah, so this is the one where these are the ones that you do need the paid version for. So this Facebook here is to a Facebook profile. And then here you've got groups and public pages. So if you want to go live to groups through restream and public pages, then this is where you'd need to have the paid version. And then you've got custom RTMP. So you can stream to just even other locations that aren't here. And these are some other paid ones. So that is basically how you add them in. So if I was to just click on this, then it would ask me to connect to Facebook and so on. And then you would go through that process when you're connecting any external app to your Facebook to your YouTube or things like that. I'm sure you're familiar with the process where it will prompt you to sort of log in and give it permission and so on. So that is how we basically added these different destinations. So as you can see, I've got my YouTube here with a little YouTube logo. I've got my Facebook. I've got my Twitter and I've got my Twitch down here. Now they are all toggled on at the moment. And that would mean that if I was to just go live straight away now from the studio, which you can do, then it would just immediately start going live to all of these. There is a title, so I can change the title on these streams. But to be honest with you, I'm not gonna even confuse you with that at the moment because I'm guessing that, well, I know in actual fact that the use case for this is to schedule a live stream that you're then gonna activate through Ecam Live. So this title would basically be the default if you were just gonna sort of stream live without any planning to restream.io. This is the default title that it would put in. So I'm actually gonna leave that one alone for the moment and not go into that. But that's how you could update that. What we're gonna be doing is we're actually gonna be scheduling a live stream and that's what we're talking about here. Now, if you look down the left-hand side, you've got the dashboard, which is where we are at the moment. You've also got here the live stream studio. Now, this is the built-in sort of live streaming platform on restream itself. So if I just click on that for a moment and we'll have a little look, this is loading up the streaming studio and as it says, stream professionally from your browser. I've never used this because I've always just done things through Ecam because, well, just because Ecam has got, I don't wanna allow that at the moment to my site. Let me just do this, don't wanna activate any of this. So here you can see, basically, you've got some sort of functionality to go live from within here. So you've got sort of different views, one up, two up, all these sorts of things and you can do similar sorts of things as you might be able to do in Ecam, in theory, different ways to set branding, stuff like that. You've got different ways to view your chat and captions and so on and so forth. This isn't a video about this because it's not something I use. So we're not really concentrating on the studio in this video, but you could change all these settings and then go live directly from there, having given access to your camera and your microphone to stream through restream. That's not what we're doing today though. So let me come back out of that for a moment. What we're gonna do is we're gonna come, one more down from the live studio, we're gonna come into events because this is where we are going to actually set our schedule. Now, what you can see here is you can see events and it says upcoming events and then you've got past events down here and I can hide those or show them and this is basically all of my previous live streams that I've done through restream. This is the one that I've just finished and so what we're gonna do is from here we're going to actually create a new event. Now, this is the bit that has changed since my last video because when I create an event previously, there was actually only two options here. One was creating event and another one was at a video file. So you can schedule a video to stream from restream. So you could upload the video and have it just stream out at a particular time. So that is something you can do if you, I don't know, I'm not quite sure why you would do that, where you want it to actually stream out for what I'm doing in any case, but it's there as an option, never used it myself. So there were two options of ways that you can basically create a scheduled event and you either choosing between this restream studio or this one, which is to go live from Zoom, OBS, VMIX, et cetera. Well, et cetera includes Ecam live. So when you are scheduling an event, this is the one that we want, the one with that little logo. God knows what that logo is. In any case, we'll click on this encoder like that and then we can create our event. So I'm gonna actually just go through the process of creating an event here and I've got a little title. So let's say I'm gonna plan my live stream for next week and I'm going to take this little bit of text here. Let's say I'm gonna give an update on my Zoom masterclass course creation process and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use my little text expander snippet where I type live d-e-s-c dot question, comma, comma and that expands out, as you'll see, to put in all of my other sort of show notes, not show notes, my description. So we've put that in. So now we're gonna choose a date. So I want to do this basically next Saturday morning for me and then the time I'm going to change to be 5 a.m., which is the time I stream at, where's it gone? There we go, 5 a.m. Then I'm gonna upload a thumbnail. So I'll click on here to upload a thumbnail and it's gonna ask me to pick one. So I'm gonna pick this one. There we go, that's my thumbnail. Now it brings it up in this square box, actually. So you presumably can have different shaped thumbnails for different platforms and things like that, but if you just add in your regular thumbnail, it sort of auto crops it. So you can see how I've got this little cropping box here. You can presumably upload any picture and then just crop it, but because I just make my thumbnails all the time the same, whether it's for a live stream or recorded video, then when I upload them like this, it automatically shows these cropping thing. And if I click on crop, then it will just be exactly the right size. So I'm just gonna double check. I've got the title right, I've got the description okay. The date is the 27th of November and the time is 5 a.m. And I've got my thumbnail in. So then I'm gonna click on next. Now that I've clicked on next, you can see that all of those four platforms that I have selected on the front page have come up. And so if I wanted to toggle any of these off, now would be the time. So I could toggle off my Twitch. Should I do it? Should I do it? Should I end my Twitch career? So I am gonna leave that one off this time and I'll probably just take it out all together. But in any case, I've left it off there. So now I'm gonna be streaming next week to take one tech on YouTube, on Facebook and on Twitter. And just again, I can check that there that that's all all right. And then if it is, you can add more channels if there's something that you've forgotten. But then I'm gonna just click on create event. So now I'm creating an event. Now there is this extra thing that's gonna pop up in a moment. And it's just sort of thinking about it. It's sending it out, doing all of its little bit of work here. It's always gonna take longer than usual when it's in the middle of being recorded, isn't it? I'm not quite sure why that's taking so long. There we go. Right, now here is a little extra feature that is part of the standard and the professional plan. And that is restream pairs. Now, if you've got somebody who's coming onto your channel and they've got their own restream account, and they've got a paid account as well, then you can copy this little link here. Now, so let's say you've got somebody coming on your show as an interview guest or something like that. And the content that you're doing is gonna be relevant to both channels. Then you can basically come here and you can take this little link and you can send it to anybody that you want to. And then basically if they click on that link, then this will prompt them to give permission to stream out to their platforms as well. And that will mean that when you go live through your restream account, it will also send it out to these other accounts as well. And I actually did that when I was on, it was on James Hicks show actually. So I went on his show and then it was also streamed directly to my audience as well. All of the comments do indeed go back to the primary host as well. So in that case, James was able to see all of the comments that were coming in from my channels. They were all coming in feeding into him centrally so he could still sort of address those comments and put them up on the screen and so on. So that's just a great little feature that has been added in the last two or three months ago, something like that. So yeah, great way to reach a wider audience as well if you're doing something like as a group as well, then just sort of sending out to all of your collective followers. So that is that. And that is basically it now. It's now set up as a scheduled event. So let's just go and have a look shall we in YouTube studio and I'll just show you that this has actually been scheduled as a live event. So if I come down here one second and then I'll go into my YouTube studio. So let me share this one. So here we are in YouTube studio. I'm gonna go into my content and then I'll go into my live and what you'll see in here is one second, it's not actually showing up. Hang on a minute, let me just refresh this. There we go, just needed refreshing. I was getting worried then that it wasn't gonna show up. But anyway, so there it is. You can see that this upcoming live stream now is showing up in there as exactly as we've just planned it. So this is my update on my Zoom course creation that we've just created in restream.io. Now I could actually go in there and edit it in YouTube as well. If I wanted to change anything specific for YouTube or I wanted to go into my Facebook one and change something specific to those platforms as well, then you can technically go in and do that. But when you go start streaming, it will go to all of those different platforms. So here's the thing in the same way. In fact, let me just bring up, this is sort of, oh, hang on a minute, where's that gone? That's all right, is it one second? Something's gone horribly wrong here. Hang on a minute. What I need to do, I've been a little bit silly here, hang on a minute. Let me just do something quite quickly. I need to change this to this one. This will all make sense in a moment. There we go. That looks a little bit better. Okay, now when I do this, what you'll see is that I have actually got the Ecam interface back upon the screen. I was a bit clever earlier and I set this all up, but then I changed the way that my scenes looked. So now you can see basically what I see when I'm looking at my Ecam screen, when I'm not actually recording or live or anything like that. And I've just been a little bit sneaky. I've just added these all on as a little overlay. Rather than show you in demo mode, I can't show you in demo mode what things look like in, like when you're going live to restream if I'm in recording mode, if that makes any sense. But in any case, so this is what the interface sort of will look like to you. So what you'll see is down in the bottom corner here where we've got the destination in the same way that we can choose Facebook, YouTube and all these other different destinations or you can have it set to record only, then we basically just select restream.io as the destination. If you have got a scheduled event, then you can click that, where it says go live now on the unscheduled, you can click that and you can actually select on a specific scheduled event, obviously like the one that we've just scheduled. And if you haven't got one scheduled and you just go live immediately, then what it will do is it will put in that default sort of title that we looked at earlier on that I said we won't really be using, then it would just go live using that particular title and everything like that. So the description that went with that as well. Now, when you are scheduling with YouTube and things like that through Ecum, then there's usually these buttons down in the bottom corner down this side that allows you to actually schedule the event from within Ecum. You can't actually do that with restream. What will happen if you click on that button just there is it will basically just take you through to the restream page rather than actually allow you to schedule it in Ecum. So that's just one thing to note. And then obviously once you have got your schedule and you're ready to go live, then just click the go live button as usual. Of course, you do have to actually link this to your restream account. So if you don't have the go live button here and you see something that says login, then basically you would just click that button first and then that would take you through to restream to prompt you to connect Ecum to restream and then you would be good to go. So I think that covers the process now for how to actually go live with restream from Ecum live. And if you found that useful, then as always don't forget to like and subscribe and turn on those notifications as well. By the way, click the little bell so that you do get notified. 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