 Hello, so this is me just before I go live on YouTube for the very first time I thought I ought to get the camera out and Show you the setup before it all goes however it goes I'm a bit nervous about this because I've never gone live on YouTube before I've got This is my setup. Hello. This is me in StreamYard. I'm using StreamYard to do this So I've gone into the studio. I've set up my caption I've got my guest. He's got a link. So I'm waiting for him to join the call and I've I'm also I've managed to get an old monitor out of the loft And it's great because it means that all of the screens that I want to share live on my live stream are Just somewhere else on another screen. So I'm not panicking and hitting. I don't know what buttons These are the choices here for what I can switch live There's that's me and when my guests I could be side-by-side or it could be box-in-box and Oh, we've got a guest appearing now and you can share screen anyway Let's see how it goes We are joined. Yeah, go on a bit of music be great. Thanks mark We are joined on the Great British youtubers podcast with Mark a right So I'm even pointing the right way with my mirrored camera and I'll show you how that works in a minute mark How are you? I'm very well, mr. Mossy This is an experiment to talk about going live on YouTube while going live on YouTube And it's part of a bigger live video that's going out right now But you're probably watching the recording and mark We've been talking a lot about the options open to you as a musician for streaming live And I'm doing on stream yard, which is why I've got a logo scorched into the corner of the screen It's stream yard something that you've looked into just before I showed show you around how it's working for me I have and the reason why I haven't pursued it is because it tends to Distort audio if you're playing guitar, so I don't know whether this is gonna do it to you now So it'd be interesting, but When I did a stream yard link with someone before and it was basically I was there as a guest for 20 minutes I'm like a two hour stream. I did some rock-and-roll and it sounded awful. So I think for speech. It's great for music I think that's something about how it processes the audio, but if you are interested in looking into stream yard Let's go live on my second camera. Hello. This is the happy hut. This is where the the magic happens and I've got the live link to mark a right down in the corner there So if you can see this mark, but this is the dashboard. This is the stream yard dashboard I've found it really easy to set up. You just get a stream yard login at Streamyard.com once you've logged in you can basically title your live Broadcast so I've put in a description and a title and hopefully that's the one that you can see when if you're watching live right now Well, it's bit of a sort of Bohemian rhapsody. Can't look there, isn't it? This is the dashboard in front of you everything is laid out so clearly so I've got my options here for the layout I can split the screen so I'm doing it on the screen there So that's a split screen or we can go box-in-box and I could go big and small and We can Screenshare and can screen share with both of us. I'm just working along the line here So let's isolate that again or I could punch up the the screen share Completely you can choose which Chrome tab or which window or which monitor even which display to Switch live. The other really nice thing with it is that on the right-hand side you have banners So if I turn that off it names us if I split the screen you can see us. Sorry Phil. I'm ignoring you I'm here And you can switch up any banner you like so I can put up this banner You can get as many as you like you can even change the color of them with the pro version The banner is taken off this stream yard logo is scorched in live You can take that off if you pay for the paid version I'm thinking of doing it. It feels so much more natural to do this as a lives and a recording so mark We've had two comments come in. Shall we see them? Yes, basically All you do is click on the comments button and it lays them out. It's noble newbie. Let's switch this out straight to air So I split the screen by clicking the split screen button. It would help if I switch to decaf I think my camera operating would definitely improve. So we have a selection of comments Let's switch noble newbie up live. Hi Neil. I'm taking a quick break from working That's your live stream. Hope all is going well. I think it's going okay No more newbie and I've been looking into stream yards. So really interesting to see behind the scenes of it being used Thank you. Well, that's really kind of you I hope this encourages you to dip your toe in because I was terrified of doing it and mark very kindly Offered to be on a live stream So to talk about live streaming on YouTube as a live YouTube stream is a very exciting moment for me I think is the perfect way of doing it actually just while we're here I've screwed the the camera to the wall on a monitor holder This is a tip from the the SLR shooter He showed how to do this but put this onto like a pole that you couldn't move around I screwed it to a wall and it's just it's just saved everything because the hardest part of Making a YouTube video was to just get the camera out and mount it on a on a tripod Right because if you're performing live, I guess you've got a date and a location You just got to do it But if you're making videos ad hoc just getting the equipment out is hard enough So that's just permanently set to go. And so, you know, all you need to do is pull out that Stand and then, you know, it's already for the angle that you want it to be that's great Totally, it's really easy to set up and you're just good to go And I've got a an old monitor out of the loft because you can get monitors in Charity shops in the UK for like 20 quid at the moment. So I've got your Facebook page here So you've got your equipment that's set up to go so you fire it up any time Do you find that has led to you being more creative because you're able to be more spontaneous making your YouTube clips because you haven't got to think about setting up Totally 100% it's a good question What I've been able to do is to just make tiny little improvements each time as I say that I can see that I've left the box up in the background, but generally it just means I can make little Incremental improvements. So with the lighting, I've not shown this actually I've got this from Lidl from the supermarket It's just a lighting panel, right if you were to get this as like pro Photographic gear would probably cost over a hundred dollars. This cost me about $30. That's something that you plug in or is it? Yeah, it's a plug-in lights and you know, even comes with remote controls. You can change the color You can change the intensity. I think lighting is so important actually with live broadcast So if you go if you can pull up my Facebook pay or my YouTube page, you'll see how I've lit my room Which is basically it's the same position. So when I am now I'm just in the corner of my room You can see what you can see what's going on in the background now. There's a big obvious sign That's my flat screen television And if you look at the background it lends itself to being lit and that just changes color gradually throughout each Performance and each song but it's about creating the atmosphere While still keeping the authenticity of where you are the amount of people that stream live and they do it in a kitchen And they put their angle I mean you must have seen this where so and they do it and it's like the phones like that They're like yeah, yeah, so what I'm doing is and I'm looking at school. Yeah, so what I reckon you seem like they're plates and like washing up Why would you show us that think about where you are? I consider this my studio. This is it everything I do is in this position. So even your thing. Oh, it's just kneel in his shed, but it's not just near in his shed It's not just cobbled together. You are lit. Yeah, cuz yeah, you're Cable pretty sure that your YouTube clips always look really good as you then lost picture Well, thanks, and it's just tiny tiny notches. So down here. That's a rootmaster bus cushion I've got an up lighter here. I've got my homemade YouTube play button For when I got 1,000 subscribers that my son made out of Hammer beads and these folders are actually they're real. I've got stuff in them You've realized that that area your working area is in effect your set. That's what you welcome people into It's what you use for work that you're also conscious of the fact that you know what there's some files in the background The lovely picture of the YouTube thousand subscribers None of this would really be noticeable to anyone watching but what it does do it invites you in Hello, thanks for watching click on the link in the description to see the full episode now and the great British youtubers Podcast is available on your nearest podcast app