 Hi I'm Cathy Vogan and I'm a media artist and producer for Two Old Hands, Sydney's Politics in the Pub which is a 32 year old live and now live to air weekly event and Consortium News founded in 1995 for which I'm the executive producer of CN Live. Previously until 2020 I also taught editing and visual effects at Sydney Film School and for 11 years I've been writing and making films related to wiki leaks and whistleblowing because I value accuracy in the historical record and I too think that if wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth. So I thought what I could do to be helpful here is how to session on media production, streaming to multiple platforms and generally blasting your message out. Someone once said it doesn't matter who's telling the truth it's who has the biggest megaphone and Caitlin Johnson more recently said he who controls the narrative controls the world. Truth needs a loud voice, wiki leaks understood that they promised the greatest impact for those who took the greatest risks and our role was to keep passing along those buckets to put out the fire. Let's be a tsunami and do great work together. Okay media production what I'd like to focus on is the kind of thing we're doing right now the streaming media to a live audience. Well actually I'm pre-recorded because I'll be busy during the event. One question that a lot of people ask is if online events are cost prohibitive well it depends they can be free or cheap or prohibitively expensive take soon everyone's using it depends what they sell you. On the left you've got your free account and then the first level pro account after that the price starts to go up quite high and so the question obviously arises how do you make the most out of this free account that's what I'd like to explore. Now I know some of you have been wondering if you should spend a bit of extra money or a lot of extra money to get those big numbers coming into your meetings if you know how to push your zoom content onto youtube for example there is no limit to the number of people that can attend on youtube too large audiences and attendees are unknown to the host and attendees can view listen and use the q and a that's what we want we're seeing there the suggestions of zoom but they are not necessarily what you need in fact you may not need webinars at all but whether you choose meetings or webinars for your events you should ask yourself if this is the only way you want to address the public zoom is a private platform isolated from the public by default in principle only the attendees see what's going on so if you want to publish on a public platform you need to be aware that your zoom meeting is only online during the meeting when you end the meeting it leaves no public record late arrivers can't rewind the link is dead when the meeting's over how can the public watch your event later it kind of disappears if you don't push it out somewhere or record it zoom does allow you to record on a free account but not to stream and it's in low raise you can then upload your material to youtube or facebook and that'll give you a permanent public link that you can share or embed in a website a bit of a delay but at least you've got a public record if you want zoom to stream your event to a public platform you've got to pay and the current price is $209.90 a year remarkably the capability is turned off by default and it isn't easy to find where to turn it on so i'll show you okay and we're talking about direct streaming of your zoom meeting to youtube or facebook this is something that you can do if you've got a pro zoom account you can also stream to multiple platforms by choosing the custom live streaming service option and sending your stream to restream io it also has an entry level free account that will give you a fair reach i recommend a tutorial on using restrain with zoom by youtube certified expert david walsh being able to stream you can schedule your event on youtube or elsewhere and get a link to share with your viewers in advance so that means you can promote your event it also means that many more than your zoom attendees can now attend rewind live chat and share it looks like you're limited to 100 participants though if you're on a free account because you're not allowed to stream but let's see if we can get around that i've been talking about how much you can do without paying anything actually it's a little bit more plunky if you don't have a pro account you can do zoom meetings you can record them and then you can upload them but there's a bit of a delay in that it's very slow and you're only going to upload to one channel at a time but there's recording then there's editing and all that and stuff that we want to do things quickly and sometimes if it's newsy there's plenty of reasons to want to go directly online stream online so i have something to stream for politics in the pub i'm just going to screen share so you can see what i'm doing this is going to be a direct stream online okay so what i'm actually looking at now is settings and then meeting and then scroll down have patience scroll down down down now of course if this is not turned on none of that is going to work there we go allow live streaming of meetings that needs to be turned on and you can just tick all four of those and that's it from then on you're going to be able to stream now what i've got to do for politics in the pub is schedule the next event which involves live streaming directly i do it differently for consortium news because we stream to multiple platforms but for politics in the pub we just stream directly to our youtube channel goes there and then it gets embedded in our website every week and that's the last one that you can see so what i have to do is i've prepared a few things in advance which is always a good idea if you're doing an event and you really want to grab people's attention is to do a feature image that can be seen when the window is not too large so if i were to shrink this a little bit even if it's a small window it can still be seen because you'll be uploading this to all the platforms that you're going to stream on and really it's the face of your event and it needs to be visible on all devices such as phones so i've prepared that in advance and i've saved this i've got a little template here in photoshop and so i just have to change the text every fortnight which is how often we do politics in the pub so now i'm going to schedule the event on our youtube channel and that'll give me a link which i have to give to zoom so that when i stream directly from zoom it knows where to go all right so let's go to the channel go up here to the top and click on go live and then i need to click on schedule stream and there's my last one so i'm just going to do create new and i'm going to call this labor leadership and grab the names of our speakers copy and then paste that across Tuesday May the 4th at 6 p.m and now i'm going to upload my thumbnail my politics in the pub folders no it's not for kids and create stream when you click create stream this window opens go to meetings personal room and live streaming and it's this information down here that you have to supply so that zoom knows where to spend your live stream and it's that link this link just here when you fill this stuff in the first time that's the stream URL and string key of course you're going to have to enter these details in but after that they don't change in fact the only thing that changes is the link now i need to get that link so i'm just going to the politics in the pub youtube channel i'm logged in here as politics in the pub i'm going to click on manage videos i need to go to live and there it is click on this icon to open it and then copy this link now i'm going back to my zoom online settings personal room and live streaming click edit and that's the only thing you have to update once you've scheduled your stream you just have to paste in the new URL and save that okay the other thing i'm going to do is update our website where i want to embed the stream we do this so our website is a window to the event a permanent window and it's always the same link for our audience to come and watch it a lot of them don't do social media or youtube and the same old politics in the pub dot org dot au every fort night is very easy for them to find so they don't miss a show online or a lot of them come to the pub let's see if that came through there we go so that's this week's politics in the pub scheduled when it's time to go live click on the more button in your zoom interface and choose your platform the one you want to stream to you'll be taken there and when you get the message that your stream is stable hit go live okay we've got about 20 minutes to go before politics in the pub starts so let's get them online good day Kathy unfortunately Stephen hasn't turned up but he's mobile so we'll just be me for now oh you know what you could come to the phone the camera yeah and make me a sign we'll just say one minute one minute one minute yeah and i'll start the stream then how does it work oh does franko can see him oh can you one more thing one more thing very important can you tell frank to look at the phone occasionally because that's where his online viewers all are so look at the camera the camera yeah look at the phone and address address the phone like an audience member yes okay that'd be fantastic hey we found a little technical problem with youtube should we switch this phone to just being a camera uh no no no it's fine um no don't stay on the line it's i think i may have fixed it nearly okay we're nearly ready here with the microphones you're free to start okay we're live deep question in any walk of life particularly in public life is whether you have the courage to stick up for universal human rights and the treatment of Julian Assange is a test case why in hell the Labour Party or any leading politicians in this country have never found the courage to reject the determination of America to to eliminate somebody who exposes the war crimes that may have been Iraq and Afghanistan and the Americans like we've not you don't need a zoom pro account to stream to multiple platforms and you can up your production values on the way if you get OBS open broadcasting system you can pass using windows through it using window capture and then onto the platform of your choice but if you choose restream.io as the destination for your OBS output then you can stream to multiple platforms on a free account OBS doesn't care whether your zoom account is free or pro and it's a vision mixer so you can really pimp up your production i recommend a tutorial on OBS by Justin Brown from Primal Video he's an Aussie and i really intended to give you a quick look at how i use OBS but we've run out of time here so i'll give you a whiz through what it's sort of what it looks like and i'll end with this thank you for watching and i hope you reach far and wide