How to stream yourself to YouTube Live
The following series of tutorials show the users how to stream themselves using live stream platforms. This first entry will explain how to stream yourself to YouTube Live.
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Getting started with how to stream yourself to YouTube Live
Live Streaming Platforms are tools that let users upload pre-recorded videos or broadcast live videos to their audience. This audience can be completely public or it can be restricted if needed.
During these times of Covid-19 pandemic, musicians, artists and bands from all over the world have shifted towards streaming their concerts, writing sessions and even rehearsals to their audiences in order to keep the social distancing and quarantine in an effort to reduce the infectious curve and still please their fans and followers.
These live streaming platforms can also be used by producers and audio engineers in order to teach production and engineering classes, demonstrate certain recording techniques, or even perform live recording, mixing and mastering for their clientele or followers.
On this blog, we are going to explain how to stream yourself to YouTube Live, the #1 platform for video hosting and live streaming.
In the past, when learning How to stream yourself to YouTube Live, you were required to download and use third-party streaming software which allowed you to stream to YouTube Live. With YouTube’s new software, which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/webcam, you can stream to YouTube Live using your web browser. But, learning How to stream yourself to YouTube Live can be tedious, if you’ve not done it before. Therefore, we’ve setup an easy step-by-step tutorial for you to use so you can learn How to stream yourself to YouTube Live.
Here are the steps to show you how to stream yourself to YouTube Live:
1. Make sure you have a Google account
If you do not have one, you can create it here: https://accounts.google.com/signup
2. Open the YouTube website:
Go to your browser and navigate to: www.youtube.com or www.youtube.com/webcam
3. Sign In on YouTube:
Click on the Sign In button from the top right corner as:
The following screen will open as:
Type your Google email and password in order to sign in.
Once signed in, the following screen will appear as:
4. Locate the top right buttons:
The last button on the right of that row will show the first letter of your name. Click there to open your YouTube account options as:
Click on “Create a Channel” (in case you do not have a channel already created). The following screen will appear:
Click on “Get Started”. The following screen will appear:
Click on the “Select” button from the left side of the window.
The following screen will appear:
On this screen, users can configure their channels.
Scroll down and click on “Set Up Later”:
Your main YouTube account window will open again as:
5. Click on the “Create a video or post” button:
The following options will appear:
6. Click on Go Live:
The following window will open as:
Here, you can configure the title of the Live stream, privacy settings and audience.
For the purpose of this tutorial we will set it as:
After hitting “next”, you may be prompted to “smile for a thumbnail”, or you can opt to upload your own thumbnail to represent your video in search on YouTube.
7. Press “Next” and the following screen will appear as:
Setting up your audio inputs for YouTube live streaming
Musicians obviously need to be able to send their audio inputs from an audio interface into a YouTube live stream, as simply playing or singing into a microphone on a webcam or laptop is not optimal audio quality. Therefore, it is important to use an audio interface to send audio into your live stream.
When you move onto this step of your live stream setup, you may be prompted at this time to allow YouTube to access your webcam and microphone:
Here, you may choose your audio interface under “Microphone to share”. If you do not choose an audio interface or microphone, you will not be able to send video and audio to YouTube.
Streaming audio on a live YouTube webstream generally only allows you to use two audio inputs on an audio interface at a time — in this case, we have a PreSonus Audiobox 44VSL, which is a 4-input audio interface. However, we’d only be able to select inputs 1/2 or 3/4 as our audio inputs — not all four inputs. This can be an issue for some folks. Unfortunately, YouTube’s built-in streaming software does not allow for multi-channel audio interfaces to easily send all audio inputs into your live stream. If you require all audio inputs on your audio interface, it may be more beneficial to utilize an adapter cable to send the headphone or sub-output of your audio interface’s stereo audio output into the stereo Microphone input on your computer or laptop, allowing you to use all four audio inputs, in this case, over simply using two.
However, if you can get by with two audio inputs, selecting your audio interface from this pulldown is a fine way to get two inputs into your audio stream, which for most creatives, will work very well.
8. Press the “Go Live” button:
The YouTube Live window will appear as:
You are now streaming live to YouTube.
9. Click on the “End Stream” button to stop streaming on YouTube Live:
The Live stream will end and the following statistics window will appear as:
Your stream will be saved to YouTube for future viewing. You may click “Edit in studio” to edit the name and other settings of the archived video.
At this point we have successfully explained how to stream yourself to YouTube Live.
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