Stream SchemeIf you're struggling to fix your laggy stream, then the first step is to understand what type of lag or stuttering is happening to your stream!
This video talks about how to figure out what is causing your laggy stream, and also how to fix dropped frames, lagged frames, and skipped frames! While also understanding what the best bitrate settings and best encoder settings are for your stream.
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 How To Fix Laggy Streams And BEST Settings To Stream In 2024 0:47 Sponsor Segment 1:30 How To Fix Laggy Streams 2:00 What Are Dropped, Skipped, And Lagged Frames? 2:24 How To Fix Dropped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 2:47 How To Fix Lagged Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 3:11 How To Fix Skipped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 4:04 Best Resolution And Framerate To Stream At In 2024 5:20 Should you use Simple Or Advanced Output Settings In OBS? 5:35 What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming In 2024 5:55 What Is Twitch's Bitrate Cap? 6:08 How To Test Your Upload Speed? 6:19 Best Bitrate For Streaming To YouTube 6:53 What Video Encoder To Use for Streaming In 2024? 7:10 When To Use Nvidia Nvenc Encoder For Streaming 7:27 When To Use x264 Encoder For Streaming 7:33 When To Use AV1 Encoder For Streaming 7:51 What Encoder Preset To Use For Streaming 8:10 What Advanced Settings In OBS Matter For Streaming? 8:20 What Rate Control Setting To Use For Streaming? 8:28 Should You Use The Twitch VoD Track? 8:45 How To Run A Test Stream To Twitch 9:18 How To Run A Test Stream To YouTube 9:35 How To Test Which Twitch Server Is Best For You 10:35 How to select specific Twitch servers 10:58 How to turn off Dynamic Bitrate In OBS and Streamlabs
What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?
The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.
The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
How To FIX Your Laggy Twitch Stream (Best Encoder, Bitrate Settings, And More)Stream Scheme2024-02-26 | If you're struggling to fix your laggy stream, then the first step is to understand what type of lag or stuttering is happening to your stream!
This video talks about how to figure out what is causing your laggy stream, and also how to fix dropped frames, lagged frames, and skipped frames! While also understanding what the best bitrate settings and best encoder settings are for your stream.
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 How To Fix Laggy Streams And BEST Settings To Stream In 2024 0:47 Sponsor Segment 1:30 How To Fix Laggy Streams 2:00 What Are Dropped, Skipped, And Lagged Frames? 2:24 How To Fix Dropped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 2:47 How To Fix Lagged Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 3:11 How To Fix Skipped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs 4:04 Best Resolution And Framerate To Stream At In 2024 5:20 Should you use Simple Or Advanced Output Settings In OBS? 5:35 What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming In 2024 5:55 What Is Twitch's Bitrate Cap? 6:08 How To Test Your Upload Speed? 6:19 Best Bitrate For Streaming To YouTube 6:53 What Video Encoder To Use for Streaming In 2024? 7:10 When To Use Nvidia Nvenc Encoder For Streaming 7:27 When To Use x264 Encoder For Streaming 7:33 When To Use AV1 Encoder For Streaming 7:51 What Encoder Preset To Use For Streaming 8:10 What Advanced Settings In OBS Matter For Streaming? 8:20 What Rate Control Setting To Use For Streaming? 8:28 Should You Use The Twitch VoD Track? 8:45 How To Run A Test Stream To Twitch 9:18 How To Run A Test Stream To YouTube 9:35 How To Test Which Twitch Server Is Best For You 10:35 How to select specific Twitch servers 10:58 How to turn off Dynamic Bitrate In OBS and Streamlabs
What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?
The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.
The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #streamer #guide51 FREE Tools EVERY Creator NEEDS To USE!Stream Scheme2025-09-30 | Growing as a Creator is expensive, and difficult, so today I am covering 51 Free tools that are just as good as the paid options pros use, if not better!
I’m covering free alternatives to the entire adobe suite, free organisation tools, free creative tools, free sound effects, music, free video, graphics, photos, and, of course, at the end, free YouTuber tools every pro is using that you should be as well.
0:00 51 FREE Tools For Creators 0:25 BEST FREE Video Editing Software - Davinci Resolve 1:11 BEST FREE Photo Editing Software - Photopea 1:48 Ulanzi UStudio 7 In 1 Controller - Sponsored 3:33 BEST FREE Mobile Vertical Editing Software - Capcut 4:03 Alternative FREE Photo Editing Software - Gimp 4:30 FREE Drawing Software - Krita 4:48 Alternative Photo Editing Software - Canva 4:58 BEST FREE Audio Editing Software - Audacity 5:15 FREE Organisational Tools 5:50 BEST FREE Organisational Tool - Notion 6:20 FREE Organisational Tool I Use - Trello 6:35 BEST FREE Notetaking and Reminder Tool - Discord 7:05 BEST FREE Habit Building Tool - Streaks 7:35 BEST FREE Focusing Tool - Focus Friend 8:08 BEST FREE Social Media Scheduling Tool - Buffer 8:35 BEST FREE Recording Software - OBS 9:02 BEST FREE Camera App - Blackmagic Camera App 9:22 BEST FREE Background Remover - Pixlr OR Remove.bg 9:53 BEST FREE Emote Making Software - MakeEmoji 10:16 BEST FREE Webm Converter - Nerdordie Webm Converter 11:33 FREE Effects Pack We Made 11:45 BEST PNG Finding Tool - PngWing OR ImgBin 12:11 BEST FREE Video Downloading Tool - Cobalt 12:33 Alternative FREE Video Downloading Tool - Stacher 12:52 FREE Noise Removal Tool - Lalal OR Adobe Podcast Enhancer 13:40 BEST FREE Effects Plugin For Adobe - Mister Horse 14:00 BEST FREE Safe To Use Music For Creators 15:18 BEST FREE Safe To Use Sound Effects For Creators 16:16 BEST FREE Safe To Use Video, Image, and Graphics For Creators 16:67 BEST FREE YouTuber Tool For Growth - VidIQ 17:40 BEST FREE YouTuber Tool For Analytics - ViewStats 18:10 BEST FREE Thumbnail Testing Tool - Thumbsup.tv 18:36 BEST FREE Tool For Screenshotting Videos 18:59 BEST FREE YouTuber Thumbnail Downloader 19:27 BEST FREE Streamer Overlays And Education Discord
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#creator #growth #guideYouTube Revealed MAJOR Changes You NEED!Stream Scheme2025-09-17 | Just days after our last video, YouTube has announced some of the biggest announcements of the platforms entire life, and they solve nearly every problem creators of all sizes have when trying to not just make the best videos they can, but get those videos seen by new viewers… and by the end of this video, you’ll know everything there is to know about the upcoming changes, specifically new Ask Studio, more A/B Testing, Better collabs that grow your channel, dozens of amazing live streaming features, and more tools for Shorts creators…
👑 Read the blog for Studio: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/live-updates/?utm_source=liveupdate&utm_medium=social
👑 Read the Blog for Live: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-studio-made-on-youtube-2025/?utm_source=madeonstudio&utm_medium=social
How To Increase Click-Through Rate For New YouTubers
Look, it comes across as a bit intense but it’s really important that new YouTubers hear that… You do not matter.
The sooner you understand how little you matter, the sooner you can actually start growing your channel… which is ironic because to be a YouTuber you need to be narcissistic enough to believe you’re worth watching
Let me explain… when your thumbnail and title appear on the homepage…. How many people actually recognize your face that you plastered in the thumbnail? Why would someone click on your vlog trip to the beach? Or episode 69 of your five nights at Freddie's playthrough?
So one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to separate your own personality and understanding of the content, and then instead put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea who you are, what your content is about, or anything.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 YouTube Announced Major Features and Updates 0:26 YouTube's New Ask Studio Analytics Tool 2:08 YouTube's New A/B Title Testing Tool 3:53 YouTube's New Collaboration Tool 4:35 YouTube's New Vertical And Horizontal Streaming Tool 5:45 YouTube's New Practice Mode Live Stream Tool 6:20 YouTube's New Members-Only Live Stream Tool 7:23 YouTube's New "Best Moments" Shorts and Clips Tool 8:17 YouTube's New Monetisation Features For Everyone
What Is The "Hype" Feature On YouTube?
Hype is a new feature designed to help smaller channels for free, it’s been rolled out for nearly every viewer and creator, and in short, it’s a new button alongside the Like button, that if your audience chooses to click, and hype your video enough as a collective, it will appear in a new Hype Leaderboard, the more hype you generate the higher you appear on the leaderboard, but also we’ve seen evidence that the engagement overall helps you be promoted in the general algorithm as well even if you don’t make it to the leaderboard.
While Hype is open to all channels between 500 and 500,000 subscribers in the partner program, what it does differently is depending on the size of the channel, 1 user clicking Hype generates a different amount of hype points.
YouTubes example of 500 subs getting 7500 hype per click, and 500,000 getting 50 per click.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and VidIQ in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Filmbooth and Nutty.
#youtube #growth #guideYouTubes NEW Feature Promotes Small Channels!Stream Scheme2025-09-12 | YouTube just announced amazing updates and changes that make it so every Small Creator has the chance to reach hundreds or even thousands of potential new viewers, with Hype!
👑 Read the blog: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/hype-global-expansion/
How To Increase Click-Through Rate For New YouTubers
Look, it comes across as a bit intense but it’s really important that new YouTubers hear that… You do not matter.
The sooner you understand how little you matter, the sooner you can actually start growing your channel… which is ironic because to be a YouTuber you need to be narcissistic enough to believe you’re worth watching
Let me explain… when your thumbnail and title appear on the homepage…. How many people actually recognize your face that you plastered in the thumbnail? Why would someone click on your vlog trip to the beach? Or episode 69 of your five nights at Freddie's playthrough?
So one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to separate your own personality and understanding of the content, and then instead put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea who you are, what your content is about, or anything.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 YouTube's New Update Promoting Small Streamers 0:45 How Does The New YouTube Hype Feature Work 1:30 How YouTube's Hype Feature Boosts Smaller Channels 2:30 How YouTube's New Hype Feature Also Boosted Browse Traffic 3:04 How To Hype A YouTube Video As A Viewer 4:17 How To Get More Hype As A Viewer 4:25 Will Hype change how users upload? 4:55 Is YouTube Hype Pay To Win? 5:30 Will Viewers actually start using hype? 6:00 How To Check Your Hype Analytics 6:17 How To Get Viewers To Hype Your YouTube Video 8:00 How To Boost Retention After A Video Is Uploaded
What Is The "Hype" Feature On YouTube?
Hype is a new feature designed to help smaller channels for free, it’s been rolled out for nearly every viewer and creator, and in short, it’s a new button alongside the Like button, that if your audience chooses to click, and hype your video enough as a collective, it will appear in a new Hype Leaderboard, the more hype you generate the higher you appear on the leaderboard, but also we’ve seen evidence that the engagement overall helps you be promoted in the general algorithm as well even if you don’t make it to the leaderboard.
While Hype is open to all channels between 500 and 500,000 subscribers in the partner program, what it does differently is depending on the size of the channel, 1 user clicking Hype generates a different amount of hype points.
YouTubes example of 500 subs getting 7500 hype per click, and 500,000 getting 50 per click.
How To Hype A YouTube Video as a Viewer
Every viewer can hype 3 times a week for free, either across 3 videos, or entirely on a single video, obviously if the channel meets the criteria mentioned earlier.
When they do, they’ll be told how many points it will generate, and how close to the top 100 that video is.
To see the hype button, other than the earlier criteria, the viewer also has to meet certain criteria:
Currently, you have to use the latest mobile app, because it is still being rolled out to desktop.
You can’t be a brand account, because otherwise people can spam “fake” accounts to boost hype.
And that’s it, if you have that, you can click hype, pump a video 3 times, and then you have to wait for it to reset… which interestingly the reset is the same time for everyone every week, Monday 12AM Local time.
How to see how much Hype my YouTube Video has?
Go to the new YouTube video, click analytics, engagement, and scroll down to see the Hype analytic. An important note is this analytic appears to be a full 24-48 hours behind.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and VidIQ in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Filmbooth and Nutty.
#youtube #growth #guideBEST Budget 4K Webcam YOU NEED To Buy!Stream Scheme2025-09-04 | Picking the right or best 4k webcam on a budget is a big decision, not just for the quality of your content, but also for your wallet, there are literally thousands of webcams to pick from, but I think that decision just became easy, this is the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K...
This tiny little box is a 4K webcam with crisp image quality, amazing colour accuracy, full HDR for dynamically lit scenes, a 1.8 Fstop for better depth of field, and insane low light performance, with amazing auto focus, optional face tuning filters, and gesture controlled automatic face or body tracking … you’d think it would cost hundreds, no thousands of dollars? but it only costs $100USD
To add our webcam to Streamlabs OBS or OBS, go-to sources, click add source, add a new video source, and select your webcam from the list, you have your webcam, now you need to change the settings.
We need to turn off all of the automatic settings. Right-click the camera source, properties, change the default to custom, now you can edit the resolution to be 1920 by 1080, OR 720. If you plan to crop in on your camera or zoom in like we want to do later in this video, 1080 is probably the resolution you want, but it is more intensive on your PC so I do recommend 720p for most people.
Next is FPS, I noticed some lag issues with I set this to highest but they went away if I set it to match the source, OR set it to 30.
Colour space you’ll want 709, and finally, the color range is set to full. This will give you your base webcam inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 Meet the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 0:26 Is The OBSBOT Meet 2 4K Good? 1:00 OBSBOT Meet 2 4K Specs 2:40 How is Lowlight performance for the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 3:35 Is the colour accuracy good for the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 4:18 Is the Autofocus good for the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 4:47 Is the HDR good on the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 5:37 Detailed Low Light Test For The OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 6:40 OBSBOT Meet 2 4K - Magnetic Mounting and Lens Cap 7:00 Is the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K Software good? 7:10 Face Tuning for the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 7:44 Auto-Tracking And Hand Gestures for the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 9:20 Is The Digital Zoom Bad On the OBSBOT Meet 2 4K 10:05 Unfiltered First Reactions To The OBSBOT Meet 2 4K
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
It’s why sometimes you are super orange or super pale, the webcam has gone “This looks about 3600 kelvin!” when in reality it might be 5500 kelvin but it thinks 3600 because it saw an orange poster and thought it was white. To adjust this manually, you’ll go into your webcam settings and find it here, make sure automatic is off, and drag it around till you find the right balance for you.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #growth #guideHow To Separate Game, Music, Discord Audio In OBS In 7 MinutesStream Scheme2025-08-21 | Setting up audio for new streamers is complicated, and confusing, but after hours of work, your mic sounds great, your game is clear, and music, well it’s amazing, you’ve done it!... except your viewers keep screaming at you to fix your audio.
Today, we’re going to be setting up OBS's new feature "Audio Application Capture" that allows you to capture individual applications on your PC and route those different audio sources carefully into different channels inside OBS, allowing you to have much better control over your audio. I am also going to show you how to set up your OBS recordings to have separate audio tracks for your game, music, discord, and microphone audio in OBS.
If you’re a beginner think of it like this, when you plug a microphone into your Computer, you get a Microphone Source that you can add to OBS, and if you plug a second Mic in, you get a second microphone source to add as well. Two different sources, two different mics.
Sonar creates new virtual audio sources on your computer, like adding a microphone, but rather than sending your voice to that source, you’re sending your computer programs that create audio, so your games, spotify, google chrome, you name it.
How To Add Global Audio Sources To OBS
Open OBS, Click Settings, go to Audio, and select your microphone.
I want you to remove your mic, and all your other captures, set them to disabled, and instead just add SteelSeries Sonar - Stream to Mic/Aux Audio 1, from there, click apply, and you’ll see this single audio level at the bottom.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Set Up OBS Global Sources 1:00 How To Edit OBS Audio Tracks In Advanced Audio Properties 1:30 How To Change Your Default Stream Audio Track 2:55 How To Add OBS Audio Application Capture Sources For Music 3:35 How To Add OBS Audio Application Capture Sources For Specific Games 4:20 How To Copy Audio Sources Between Scenes 4:40 How To Separate Alerts and OBS Sounds 5:10 How To Separate Game Capture Audio For ALL Games 6:00 How To Test You've Split Your Sources Correctly
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#obsstudio #audio #streamingTwitch Partners Expose Awful Streaming Myths!Stream Scheme2025-08-12 | I asked Twitch Partners what Streaming Myth they hate hearing, and I was blown away by the answers, not just because I didn't expect them, but how some of the myths are destroying small creators.
Why Is Twitch Discovery Not Good for Small Streamers
Twitch sorts their categories by most viewers, which means it is what we call a Kingmaker system, essentially when one Streamer gets lots of viewers, they rise to the top of the category or get more recommendations causing them to get more viewers who come browsing Twitch.
So beginners or small streamers often sit right down at the bottom of the categories and never get any clicks, because nobody scrolls down 20,000 streamers to find them, and nobody uses the filters over here to check by recommended or smallest despite what you might hope.
In reality, very few even check categories, most Viewers actually go straight to their Follower List or Favourite streamer meaning discovery on Twitch is relatively slow to start out.
Think about it, when you type twitch.tv into your bar, it usually auto-completes to your favourite streamers channel, not to a specific category or the homepage.
This kingmaker system has led to A LOT of outcry from smaller creators asking Twitch to do more for them and their discovery and in turn the same reason why educators such as myself or harris often push you guys to diversify across other platforms with algorithms such as TikTok or YouTube… even if you hate that advice with all your heart.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Why You SHOULD Stream Less To Grow! 0:33 STOP Making TikToks For Streaming 1:18 Why You NEED To Start BEFORE You Fail 2:00 NEVER Aim To Reach Twitch Partner 2:49 Why Subathons DESTROY Your Growth! 3:30 Why You NEED To Be REALISTIC With Yourself 4:04 Why Streaming Less Makes Your Streams BETTER 4:40 Why Twitch Partner ISN'T As Good As You Think 5:41 Why Making Money On Twitch Is AWFUL
What Is The New Twitch 2K Update?
After nearly a year of privately testing 2K or 1440p streaming, Twitch has announced they are ready to roll out the service to Partners and affiliates, starting right now. This is a landmark occasion, as Twitch has only supported a maximum of 1080p streaming for nearly a decade.
Twitch has said they'll be increasing the bitrate to support 1440p, use a newer HEVC codec, and the new Twitch enhanced broadcasting tools to allow stream quality to adjust automatically for viewers.
What Is The New Twitch Affiliate Update?
New Creators were required to reach 50 Followers, stream a minimum of 7 days, stream for a minimum of 8 hours, and reach an average viewership of 3… all within 30 days… this arguably monumental task kept many from being able to monetise their channels.
Now, New Streamers will only need 3 Average viewers, across 4 streams for 4 days, for 4 hours, and only 25 Followers before they can begin spamming their tiny audience with unskippable, painful repetitive Ads.
Twitch also explained that later this year, every streamer, affiliate or not, will be given access to monetisation and community features such as emotes, and channel points, essentially making none of this matter.
The only difference between a non-affiliate, and affiliate moving forward will simply be that any income earned by Non-affiliates must be spent on Twitch by the streamer on other streamers, and cannot be paid out.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideThis BUDGET Webcam Does 4K 60FPS, But Is It Good?Stream Scheme2025-07-29 | Picking the right webcam is a big decision, not just for the quality of your content, but also for your wallet, there are literally thousands of webcams to pick from, and it just got harder because this is the Elgato Facecam 4K which was released literally today, combining a 4K sensor, with 60FPS, Elgatos software, and coming in cheaper than their other webcams, we're testing to see if this is the new budget webcam for creators.
To add our webcam to Streamlabs OBS or OBS, go-to sources, click add source, add a new video source, and select your webcam from the list, you have your webcam, now you need to change the settings.
We need to turn off all of the automatic settings. Right-click the camera source, properties, change the default to custom, now you can edit the resolution to be 1920 by 1080, OR 720. If you plan to crop in on your camera or zoom in like we want to do later in this video, 1080 is probably the resolution you want, but it is more intensive on your PC so I do recommend 720p for most people.
Next is FPS, I noticed some lag issues with I set this to highest but they went away if I set it to match the source, OR set it to 30.
Colour space you’ll want 709, and finally, the color range is set to full. This will give you your base webcam inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 Elgato's Brand New 4K Webcam 0:26 Blind Image Samples - For YOU To Pick 0:55 What Makes A Good Webcam? 1:22 Is the Elgato Facecam 4K Image Quality Good? 2:16 Brief Elgato Noise Reduction Example 3:00 Does The Elgato Facecam 4K looks good zoomed in? 3:45 Does The Elgato Facecam 4K look good at 60FPS? 5:00 The Digital Noise Problem With The Elgato Facecam 4K 9:15 How Elgato's Software Is Designed To Get Around The Problems 11:00 How To Get Depth Of Field Out Of The Facecam 4K 12:00 Is The Elgato Facecam 4K Really Budget? 13:10 Why You Need GREAT Lighting With the Elgato Facecam 4K 13:35 Blind Image Samples Revealed 14:10 How My iPhone at 720p With Free Software Compares
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
It’s why sometimes you are super orange or super pale, the webcam has gone “This looks about 3600 kelvin!” when in reality it might be 5500 kelvin but it thinks 3600 because it saw an orange poster and thought it was white. To adjust this manually, you’ll go into your webcam settings and find it here, make sure automatic is off, and drag it around till you find the right balance for you.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #growth #guideBEST Budget Streamer Gear You NEED To Buy!Stream Scheme2025-07-06 | I've been asked A LOT recently what gear I have bought and NEVER regretted, so today I'm showing off some of the BEST Budget Streamer gear I've ever bought!
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Fifine K688
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 BEST Budget Microphone - Fifine K688 1:24 Disclaimer 1:38 BEST Purchase I've Made - Glidegear TMP100 Teleprompter 2:20 BEST Headphones I've Used - Yamaha HPH-MT8 2:55 BEST BUDGET Headphones - Audiotechnica ATH- M50x 3:42 Capture Card I Use For Consoles - Elgato HD60S+ 4:07 Capture Card For Mirrorless Cameras - Elgato Camlink Pro USB 4:46 BEST Lighting For Streaming/Creators - Neewer GL25B, GL1 Pro, GL1C RGB 5:50 Powerful Lighting For Cinematography - iFootage SL1 200BNA 6:16 BEST Budget Handheld Light I Use Daily - Smallrig Handheld LED Light
Why The Fifine K688 Is The Best Microphone for Streamers
Starting with the basics, the Fifine K688 is a Dynamic Mic, not a condenser microphone, essentially Dynamic microphones are less sensitive than Condenser microphones, which means sometimes they need to be closer and might require a bit more gain, but these aren’t bad things.
Dynamic mics are better in untreated or amateur rooms, like home offices, bedrooms, bathrooms aka your Stream rooms. They are also better at dealing with background noise.
Cardioid means it handles sound right out the front here, and doesn’t pick up sound from behind, or well under it, it still gets audio from the sides but not much. Not all mics are like this, one of the more popular Mics you all know like the Blue Yeti Snowball which can be omnidirectional, which, means it picks up audio from all around.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #gear #streamerWhy Small Streamers Arent REAL Streamers - Hot TakesStream Scheme2025-06-30 | Small Streamers are angry little gremlins bent on having some of the hottest takes about Content Creation, you've ever heard, so let's react to them!
Why Is Twitch Discovery Not Good for Small Streamers
Twitch sorts their categories by most viewers, which means it is what we call a Kingmaker system, essentially when one Streamer gets lots of viewers, they rise to the top of the category or get more recommendations causing them to get more viewers who come browsing Twitch.
So beginners or small streamers often sit right down at the bottom of the categories and never get any clicks, because nobody scrolls down 20,000 streamers to find them, and nobody uses the filters over here to check by recommended or smallest despite what you might hope.
In reality, very few even check categories, most Viewers actually go straight to their Follower List or Favourite streamer meaning discovery on Twitch is relatively slow to start out.
Think about it, when you type twitch.tv into your bar, it usually auto-completes to your favourite streamers channel, not to a specific category or the homepage.
This kingmaker system has led to A LOT of outcry from smaller creators asking Twitch to do more for them and their discovery and in turn the same reason why educators such as myself or harris often push you guys to diversify across other platforms with algorithms such as TikTok or YouTube… even if you hate that advice with all your heart.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 You're not Shadowbanned, just bad 1:00 Follower Only Chat Is Awesome 1:30 Stream Educators Are SCAMMERS 2:40 Small Streamers Would NEVER Watch Their Own Streams 3:20 Self Promotion Is A SCAM 4:07 Big Streamers Would NEVER Grow Today 4:50 Boring Creators GROW BETTER 5:20 There Are Too Many Videos To Succeed 6:06 Raids Are Overrated On Twitch 6:45 Twitch Is Going To Die 7:19 You Need To Love Creating To Grow 7:56 Big effects and tech make worse streams 8:29 If you're embarrassed to show your content, it probably sucks 9:10 Stop blaming the Algorithm 9:58 Tight Knit Stream Communities Make Worse Content 11:00 Nobody knows how to Google anymore 12:13 People Love SLOP! 12:36 Expensive Gear Isn't A Replacement For Your Boring Personality 13:20 It's easy to grow, you're just lazy 14:07 You can't grow from mass production 14:40 Bonus sponsorship drama
What Is The New Twitch 2K Update?
After nearly a year of privately testing 2K or 1440p streaming, Twitch has announced they are ready to roll out the service to Partners and affiliates, starting right now. This is a landmark occasion, as Twitch has only supported a maximum of 1080p streaming for nearly a decade.
Twitch has said they'll be increasing the bitrate to support 1440p, use a newer HEVC codec, and the new Twitch enhanced broadcasting tools to allow stream quality to adjust automatically for viewers.
What Is The New Twitch Affiliate Update?
New Creators were required to reach 50 Followers, stream a minimum of 7 days, stream for a minimum of 8 hours, and reach an average viewership of 3… all within 30 days… this arguably monumental task kept many from being able to monetise their channels.
Now, New Streamers will only need 3 Average viewers, across 4 streams for 4 days, for 4 hours, and only 25 Followers before they can begin spamming their tiny audience with unskippable, painful repetitive Ads.
Twitch also explained that later this year, every streamer, affiliate or not, will be given access to monetisation and community features such as emotes, and channel points, essentially making none of this matter.
The only difference between a non-affiliate, and affiliate moving forward will simply be that any income earned by Non-affiliates must be spent on Twitch by the streamer on other streamers, and cannot be paid out.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideMassive Twitch CHANGES You NEED To Know!Stream Scheme2025-06-03 | Twitch has just decided to completely change their platform, from affiliate changes, monetisation, resolutions, and more! Every Small Streamer is going to need to understand these moving forward, because Twitch did several updates that are going to heavily affect you and your streams!
Why Is Twitch Discovery Not Good for Small Streamers
Twitch sorts their categories by most viewers, which means it is what we call a Kingmaker system, essentially when one Streamer gets lots of viewers, they rise to the top of the category or get more recommendations causing them to get more viewers who come browsing Twitch.
So beginners or small streamers often sit right down at the bottom of the categories and never get any clicks, because nobody scrolls down 20,000 streamers to find them, and nobody uses the filters over here to check by recommended or smallest despite what you might hope.
In reality, very few even check categories, most Viewers actually go straight to their Follower List or Favourite streamer meaning discovery on Twitch is relatively slow to start out.
Think about it, when you type twitch.tv into your bar, it usually auto-completes to your favourite streamers channel, not to a specific category or the homepage.
This kingmaker system has led to A LOT of outcry from smaller creators asking Twitch to do more for them and their discovery and in turn the same reason why educators such as myself or harris often push you guys to diversify across other platforms with algorithms such as TikTok or YouTube… even if you hate that advice with all your heart.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Twitch Announced Several Major Updates At TwitchCon 2025 0:34 Twitch Announces 2K or 1440p Streaming 1:31 Twitch Announces Major Changes For Twitch Affiliate 3:17 Twitch Announces Watch Streaks Feature 4:07 Twitch Announces Major Updates For Clips 5:05 Twitch Announces The Clip Leaderboard Feature 5:30 Twitch Announces New Sub Promotion Feature 6:30 Twitch Announces Rewind Playback Feature 7:35 Twitch Announces Dual Format Streaming - Vertical and Horizontal Streaming
What Is The New Twitch 2K Update?
After nearly a year of privately testing 2K or 1440p streaming, Twitch has announced they are ready to roll out the service to Partners and affiliates, starting right now. This is a landmark occasion, as Twitch has only supported a maximum of 1080p streaming for nearly a decade.
Twitch has said they'll be increasing the bitrate to support 1440p, use a newer HEVC codec, and the new Twitch enhanced broadcasting tools to allow stream quality to adjust automatically for viewers.
What Is The New Twitch Affiliate Update?
New Creators were required to reach 50 Followers, stream a minimum of 7 days, stream for a minimum of 8 hours, and reach an average viewership of 3… all within 30 days… this arguably monumental task kept many from being able to monetise their channels.
Now, New Streamers will only need 3 Average viewers, across 4 streams for 4 days, for 4 hours, and only 25 Followers before they can begin spamming their tiny audience with unskippable, painful repetitive Ads.
Twitch also explained that later this year, every streamer, affiliate or not, will be given access to monetisation and community features such as emotes, and channel points, essentially making none of this matter.
The only difference between a non-affiliate, and affiliate moving forward will simply be that any income earned by Non-affiliates must be spent on Twitch by the streamer on other streamers, and cannot be paid out.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideBEST Budget Microphone YOU NEED To Buy! - Fifine K688Stream Scheme2025-05-09 | The Fifine K688 is probably one of the most affordable, well built Budget Microphones I've ever used, scratch that, this is the BEST Budget Microphone, and you need to buy it.
I honestly didn't expect it to be this solid, I'm blown away by the performance, the price, the quality, and have zero complaints, how did they pull this off?
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Fifine K688
Why The Fifine K688 Is The Best Microphone for Streamers
Starting with the basics, the Fifine K688 is a Dynamic Mic, not a condenser microphone, essentially Dynamic microphones are less sensitive than Condenser microphones, which means sometimes they need to be closer and might require a bit more gain, but these aren’t bad things.
Dynamic mics are better in untreated or amateur rooms, like home offices, bedrooms, bathrooms aka your Stream rooms. They are also better at dealing with background noise.
Cardioid means it handles sound right out the front here, and doesn’t pick up sound from behind, or well under it, it still gets audio from the sides but not much. Not all mics are like this, one of the more popular Mics you all know like the Blue Yeti Snowball which can be omnidirectional, which, means it picks up audio from all around.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #gear #streamerBEST Budget Microphone YOU NEED To Buy!Stream Scheme2025-05-08 | Fifine have had the K688 out for awhile, it is probably one of the most affordable but well built Budget Microphones I've ever used, I honestly didn't expect it to be this solid, I'm blown away by the performance, the price, the quality, and have zero complaints, how did they pull this off?
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Fifine K688
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How picking the wrong Microphone can cost you more than you know! 0:30 Blind Audio Challenge! 1:15 Fifine K688 Microphone Giveaway 1:30 What A Good Microphone NEEDS For You 2:49 How Much does the Fifine K688 Cost 3:15 Key Features for the Fifine K688 3:45 How does the Fifine K688 sound? 4:07 How does the Fifine K688 Handle background noise? 5:15 Audio Tests - Background Noise, Distance, and Rustles 6:39 Would I Recommend the Fifine K688? 7:50 Blind Audio Answers Revealed! 9:00 How To Win A Fifine K688
Why The Fifine K688 Is The Best Microphone for Streamers
Starting with the basics, the Fifine K688 is a Dynamic Mic, not a condenser microphone, essentially Dynamic microphones are less sensitive than Condenser microphones, which means sometimes they need to be closer and might require a bit more gain, but these aren’t bad things.
Dynamic mics are better in untreated or amateur rooms, like home offices, bedrooms, bathrooms aka your Stream rooms. They are also better at dealing with background noise.
Cardioid means it handles sound right out the front here, and doesn’t pick up sound from behind, or well under it, it still gets audio from the sides but not much. Not all mics are like this, one of the more popular Mics you all know like the Blue Yeti Snowball which can be omnidirectional, which, means it picks up audio from all around.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #gear #streamerBudget Streamer Gear - What You NEED To Buy In 2025?Stream Scheme2025-04-17 | Streamer gear doesn't have to be expensive, you can get amazing budget gear that will sound fantastic, look great, and let you create without stress or hassle.
Today I am covering the BEST streamer gear purchases you should be making and in what order to grow your stream… while sticking to a budget!
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Samson Q2u.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Small Streamers Waste So Much Money On Gear! 1:00 What Budget Microphone Is Best For Streamers? - Samson Q2u 3:17 What Budget webcam to buy for streaming? - Logitech C922 4:45 What Budget Lighting To Buy For Streaming? - Neewer GL25B 6:45 The Worst Light Streamers KEEP Buying - Elgato Keylight 8:30 What budget Mic Arm To Buy For Streaming? - Thronmax S6 9:07 What budget Audio Mixer To Buy For Streaming? - Roland Bridgecast
What Are The Best Webcams and Lights For Streamers?
Your lighting is really what is going to make or break your webcam or camera quality, you can get some cheap LED panels from Neewer such as the Neewer GL25B, or the Neewer GL1 Pro, Or GL1C Panels.
I use the Logitech C922 Pro, and then use these little LED light panels to light myself.
This little light is enough to light my face, and then I manually set my webcam settings which you really should be doing as well, slap a custom LUT I made for myself to make the colours look nice, and we’re good to go.
The lights behind me aren’t as bright so I stand out and they make the background look nice, which is important. You should try to make your background look nice or look at grabbing a cheap green screen.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #gear #streamerHow To Make Your Webcam Quality Look PRO For StreamingStream Scheme2025-04-07 | Webcams can be incredibly tricky to make look good as a streamer, you need to understand lighting, white balance, exposure, and so much more, so let's show you how to make your webcam quality look pro for streaming!
That is why this video covers everything you need to know from your webcam's base settings, all the way to the final stages of color correction and adding a LUT.
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To add our webcam to Streamlabs OBS or OBS, go-to sources, click add source, add a new video source, and select your webcam from the list, you have your webcam, now you need to change the settings.
We need to turn off all of the automatic settings. Right-click the camera source, properties, change the default to custom, now you can edit the resolution to be 1920 by 1080, OR 720. If you plan to crop in on your camera or zoom in like we want to do later in this video, 1080 is probably the resolution you want, but it is more intensive on your PC so I do recommend 720p for most people.
Next is FPS, I noticed some lag issues with I set this to highest but they went away if I set it to match the source, OR set it to 30.
Colour space you’ll want 709, and finally, the color range is set to full. This will give you your base webcam inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 Webcam Before and After 0:40 Thank you to members 0:55 How to add a webcam to OBS or Streamlabs 1:43 How to change Webcam settings in OBS 1:45 How to change Webcam resolution in OBS 2:17 How To change webcam frame rate or FPS in OBS 2:44 How To turn off Automatic Webcam Settings in OBS 2:55 How to change Webcam Exposure settings in OBS 3:51 Why ALL Cameras Look Terrible without lighting 4:44 Why changing settings with bad lighting make a worse image 5:00 How to light a webcam for Streaming 5:32 What Budget Lights Should You Buy As A Beginner? 6:00 Best Light placement for Streamers and Content Creators 7:00 How to set proper exposure for a webcam 7:50 How to set white balance on a webcam 9:00 Where to change White Balance Settings In OBS 9:05 How to frame your webcam properly 10:29 How to setup a nice background for Streaming 10:40 How to blur your background with a webcam 11:10 How to add depth from your background with light 12:17 How to deal with overexposed background lighting 13:14 Should you use Digital Blur through Software? 13:34 How to add Colour Correction to a webcam in OBS 14:40 How to add a LUT to your Webcam in OBS 15:28 How to use a Green Screen In OBS 16:10 What backgrounds should you use for Streaming in OBS
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
It’s why sometimes you are super orange or super pale, the webcam has gone “This looks about 3600 kelvin!” when in reality it might be 5500 kelvin but it thinks 3600 because it saw an orange poster and thought it was white. To adjust this manually, you’ll go into your webcam settings and find it here, make sure automatic is off, and drag it around till you find the right balance for you.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #growth #guideWhy My Return To Twitch Cost Me $10,000Stream Scheme2025-04-02 | This could happen to anyone, right? Super common, not at all my fault? It was just $10,000? Right?
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideWhy BAD Creators Grow Faster Than YouStream Scheme2025-03-12 | Every single streamer or creator I know at some point has looked at another Creator succeeding and thought, "This guy sucks? What is this?!" so today, let's break down why bad creators grow faster than you!
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Bad Creators Grow Faster Than Good 0:25 Sponsor Segment 0:58 Why Terrible Creators Are BETTER At Making Content 1:56 Why Bad Creators Are Oblivious, And That's Great 3:05 Why Bad Creators Are More Fun To Watch Than You 3:57 Are Bad Creators Actually Just Good Creators? 4:21 Why Bad Creators Are Selfish People 5:15 Why Being A Judgemental Creator Will Always Hold You Back
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideHow This Streamer Grew From ZERO To 100,000 Subs!Stream Scheme2025-02-28 | Starting a your content creation journey is incredibly difficult, but today we're sitting down to talk to Metalfear4 about how he has managed his career, being a father, with a Twitch stream and YouTube channel that has exploded thanks to careful consistent content!
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideSmall Streamers, STOP Making These MISTAKES!Stream Scheme2025-02-25 | Starting a Twitch channel essentially means you're going to be trying to grow from 0 viewers, and while this can be difficult, the truth is most Small Streamers are making the same mistakes that is actually holding them back!
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How Small Streamers keep making the same mistakes 0:34 Why Game Categories and Game Choice Don't Matter On Twitch 1:54 Why Streamers Are Tricked Into Uploading Garbage 3:55 Why Streamers Make Growth Impossible For Themselves 5:20 How Streamers Become Boring BY Streaming 5:45 Why Game Choice Matters More Than You Realise 7:26 How Streamers Make Themselves Forgettable 9:13 Why You Need To Be Unashamed To Stream 9:30 How Small Streamers Get Scammed By Brands 10:53 Why Streamers Waste Money They Don't Have
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideThis Streamer BLEW UP Using Just ONE Trick!Stream Scheme2025-02-21 | Starting a your content creation journey is incredibly difficult, but today we're sitting down to talk to BloodyDrongo about how he blew up his stream across several years, by focusing on just a few small key strategies!
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideThis Creator Went VIRAL, Then What Happened?Stream Scheme2025-02-07 | Starting a your content creation journey is incredibly difficult, you never know what could happen, and for this Creator, it was going Viral for one hyper niche game, what happened next? How did they build a career? Are they trapped in that niche? Let's find out today.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideTikTok Streamer Advice Is TerribleStream Scheme2025-02-03 | Growing on Twitch is hard enough, without everyone desperately fighting for your attention and telling you to waste time on stuff that genuinely doesn't matter.
You know how sometimes your internet isn’t perfect, and it has those little stutters and drop outs? Well, when that happens Twitch sometimes kicks the stream offline, and you need to kick it back online, which splits VoDs and is just a bad user experience…
But there is a solution, if you can’t solve the internet issues, you can at least stop being kicked off Twitch entirely with Disconnect protection, head to Stream Dashboard, Settings, Stream, and turn on Disconnect Protection. Now when you stutter, cut out, or drop out, you’ve got 90 seconds to reconnect, and the users will see a little screen that helps them know you’re coming back!
And bonus, right underneath is Latency mode which changes the delay between you and what your viewers see, if you can handle it internet-wise, low latency mode makes responding to chat much faster, more interactive, and it’s great for community engagement.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Video Start! 0:49 Never Trust TikToker Mic Settings 3:46 Never Aim For Quantity over Quality 4:55 How To ACTUALLY Talk More 5:40 You SHOULD make mistakes while live 6:55 Why Stream Coaches lie about their analytics 8:47 Streamers sharing their own journey is great 10:00 Never Trust TikToker OBS Settings 12:38 Why you should never stream to ZERO viewers 13:20 Why it's good to be anxious, upset, or annoyed on stream 14:12 Never Trust Streamer Twitter 15:57 Why your game category means absolutely nothing 18:00 Why I Regret Becoming A Streamer 18:46 Why "Networking" is terrible for Streamers 19:14 Why CaseOh is a fantastic Streamer 20:46 Why Streaming To A Schedule Is Terrible 22:54 Never Trust Big Streamer Advice On TikTok 24:30 THE WORST ADVICE IN THE ENTIRE VIDEO 29:00 The Most Uncomfortable TikTok In The Video 29:53 This TikTok Is Trying To Get You Banned 30:55 This TikToks Advice doesn't matter 31:45 How to actually find the best bitrate for Twitch 33:10 Never Trust TikTok Gear Advice 36:09 Actually, you can trust this TikTok Gear Advice
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideThis Unknown Streamer went from ZERO to Millions - (Live Interview)Stream Scheme2025-01-31 | Starting a Twitch channel essentially means you're going to be trying to grow from 0 viewers, and that is okay! It is incredibly difficult, but everyone starts somewhere! Today we're talking to a Streamer who went from zero to millions in just one year.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideDodgy Sponsorships Are Tricking Small StreamersStream Scheme2024-12-10 | Every Creator deserves to be paid a fair amount, but more importantly, the deals and offers should be transparent, clear, and not exaggerated to mislead Small Streamers into thinking they're about to earn life changing money. These dodgy sponsorships are tricking streamers.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How Small Streamers Are Being Taken Advantage Of 1:13 Own3d Pro Sponsored Segment 1:45 What is the difference between a Sponsorship, An Affiliate Deal, And a Performance Based Campaign? 2:41 How StreamElement Uses Deceitful Tactics To Trick Creators 5:07 Why StreamElements Goals Are Fairly Impossible 8:23 How StreamElements targets desperate small creators 11:15 Why StreamElements campaigns CAN be Positive but... 12:19 How StreamElements can fix their Campaigns 13:11 Why I love StreamElements and this sucks
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guide7 FREE Tools You NEED To Grow On Twitch!Stream Scheme2024-11-22 | Growing on Twitch is hard enough, but there are a lot of tools being added daily that you can use to make it easier! Today we're solving disconnections, protect our chat from trolls, using clips to engage viewers offline, AND improving collabs for our viewers.
You know how sometimes your internet isn’t perfect, and it has those little stutters and drop outs? Well, when that happens Twitch sometimes kicks the stream offline, and you need to kick it back online, which splits VoDs and is just a bad user experience…
But there is a solution, if you can’t solve the internet issues, you can at least stop being kicked off Twitch entirely with Disconnect protection, head to Stream Dashboard, Settings, Stream, and turn on Disconnect Protection. Now when you stutter, cut out, or drop out, you’ve got 90 seconds to reconnect, and the users will see a little screen that helps them know you’re coming back!
And bonus, right underneath is Latency mode which changes the delay between you and what your viewers see, if you can handle it internet-wise, low latency mode makes responding to chat much faster, more interactive, and it’s great for community engagement.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Protect Your Stream From Disconnecting 1:00 How To Protect Your Twitch Chat with Auto Mod 1:37 How to block all links in Twitch Chat With Auto Mod 1:53 How To Block Swears, Slurs, Or Other Words In Twitch Chat With Auto Mod 2:10 How To Set Who Can Chat or Follow Your Twitch Channel 2:45 How To Stop Banned Viewers Watching Your Stream 3:25 How To Use Sound Design To Make Better Content - Sponsor Segment 4:43 How To Use Twitch Clips To Create Stories And Grow Offline 6:18 Why You Should Let Viewers Upload Your Clips To Their Socials 7:55 How To Make Collaborations INCREDIBLE for Viewers
How To Turn on Twitch Auto-Moderation
Head to Stream Dashboard, Settings, and click Moderation, here you are going to find a massive set of tools to protect your stream, chat, and community,.
To start, you should block all hyperlinks, found if you scroll down, this prevents scammers from spamming links, and at the top of the Auto Mod tools, you'll find how to prevent certain phrases, or restrict types of spam, this is done by changing the strength of protection, and the category of protection, so if you’re okay with swearing you can leave that light, but make sure you raise slurs, aggression, racial comments, and more to be stricter.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideHow To Multistream To EVERY Platform For FREE In 2024Stream Scheme2024-10-19 | I just spent a few weeks Multistreaming, and what I learned is most services and tools, absolutely suck and setting them up is annoying, finicky, and painful, but by the end of this video, you’re going to go from having no idea how to multistream, to understanding everything!
What Is The Difference Between Direct and Relay Multistreaming?
Relay means you’re streaming from OBS, for example, to a service, like Restream, and then that service will stream to the platforms you link to it.
The pro of this is that you’re just encoding and streaming one stream, and letting the service handle the rest, this means no added stress on your PC or internet, another great pro is Restream will combine your platform chats for you, and even give you a browser source to put it on screen for viewers, granted it looks like ass but hey, better than nothing, now the cons though are for starters services like Restream tend to lock really important features behind paywalls, they tend to be horribly unstable constantly crashing one or multiple platforms, at least in my experience, but worst of all, they lock your streams quality to the lowest platform.
We get around this instead by doing the second type of Multistreaming, Direct.
Essentially, you’ll use a plugin, in today’s case Aitium, to create several streams that go out to different platforms. The major pro here is the ability to customise settings for each platform, but this also means more stress on your PC and Internet as you’re literally streaming to multiple places.
Another Con is that plugins only work with OBS, because Streamlabs locked plugin support behind paywalls to force streamers to pay them money, and use their terrible services… like their shitty multistreaming tool.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Setting up Multistreaming kinda sucks 0:22 Sponsor Segment 1:00 How to Multistream to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and more 3:00 How to Multistream to multiple platforms using ReStream 5:25 How to Multistream to multiple platforms using Aitium Vertical 7:00 How to edit Multistreaming settings inside Aitium Vertical 9:00 Do you need good internet to Multistream to Twitch and YouTube? 9:45 How to check if your Multistream is lagging 10:15 Why I don't Multistream to TikTok and YouTube Shorts
What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?
The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.
The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable
Dan Clancy the CEO of Twitch announced in the Opening of Twitch Con, how Twitch will now allow anyone to go live on any platform at the same time as Twitch.
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideNEW Twitch Feature You NEED To Use!Stream Scheme2024-09-19 | Growing on Twitch is difficult, but there is a new Twitch feature I think you need to use! In fact, there are a dozens of tools being added that you can use to make it easier, today we're talking about one of the greatest tools for collaborations I've ever used, Stream Together.
Today lets talk about why it's great, how to set it up, some of the major issues it has, and how to fix them!
Stream Together lets you collaborate with up to 5 other Streamers, and even Chatters while live and actually sort’ve offline as well, I used this a lot offline in testing. To get right into it, if you go to your Creator Dashboard, and click Stream Together, then click this Start button, it will open all your settings and controls, where you can invite people just as voice, or actually include their webcam as well, if they give permission and set it up like we will later.
Now the Streamer you invite, if they have Twitch open should receive a notification in the top right similar to a go live letting them accept, or if they don’t have it open, it will appear in their notification section next to messages.
0:00 Twitch's new features are amazing 0:33 Disclaimer 0:49 What Is Twitch Stream Together? 1:30 Why Is Stream Together so awesome? 2:50 What are Drop-Ins on Twitch? 4:00 Is This Different To Guest Star? 4:26 How do I turn off Stream Together and Drop Ins? 5:24 Does it turn my webcam on automatically? 5:46 Can I review guests before they appear on stream? 6:01 Can guests share their screen? 6:10 Can Stream Together be moderated? 6:22 Will I be banned for Guest behaviour on Stream Together? 6:30 How to setup Stream Together Audio? 8:50 How to setup Stream Together Camera? 8:58 How to create a virtual camera using OBS? 9:30 How to setup Stream Together Browser Source?
What are Drop Ins?
These are essentially impromptu on the fly collabs, while streaming, you can check your follower list, or even just drop by another creators stream, and if they are allowing you to offer a collab, you can click Knock, they’ll get a private notification, and if they accept, you’ll both instantly be dropped in a call with just audio, but if you added the browser source I mentioned earlier, you’ll also get video inside OBS, of course again, if you and the other creator approve that and have it setup..
This of course is also done in reverse, you can set this up so only people you approve can “knock” on your stream, and you the streamer will receive a private notification.
Head to Stream Manager Dashboard, click add Panel, add a collaborations panel, and here you can set permissions and pause settings
For myself, by default, the permissions were set to Channels I follow, but I turned that off, and just selected favourites, then using this add favourites button I added 4 of my friends, giving them permission to knock or “ask to collaborate”, If I select “Favorites Only” and I didn’t add anyone to favourites, it means NOBODY could knock. I do wish that when they rolled this out by default it was “favourites only” and I have passed this on directly to Twitch, but it’s a fairly quick fix at least.
Also, if I don’t want my favourites to knock, I can pause for an hour, or just this stream, I would love it if there was a “Pause Until I turn back on” and have requested that from Twitch.
Can you now Simulcast or Multistream on Twitch?
Dan Clancy the CEO of Twitch announced in the Opening of Twitch Con, how Twitch will now allow anyone to go live on any platform at the same time as Twitch.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideMultistreaming - The BEST Way To GROW In 2024?Stream Scheme2024-09-14 | Starting a Twitch channel essentially means you're going to be trying to grow from 0 viewers, and that is okay! It is incredibly difficult, but everyone starts somewhere! Today we're testing Multistreaming, and asking if this is the best way to grow in 2024?
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideWhy 95% Of Streamers NEVER Grow From ZERO!Stream Scheme2024-08-23 | Did you know if you reach 10 viewers on Twitch, you’re in the top 5% of Streamers? Crazy right? Except that’s not true, it’s pseudo motivational crap that if you keep listening to will keep you streaming to zero viewers.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 The Terrible Truth About Twitch Statistics 0:54 Why Are You Streaming? 1:12 Are you planning to fail before starting? 1:30 Are you Streaming for the sake of it? 2:00 How Streaming Is So MUCH MORE Than Just Gaming 3:45 Why Streamers Never Really Try 4:17 What is unique to your stream? 5:40 Epidemic Sound Sponsor Segment 6:59 Does having low viewers hold you back? 8:30 Why you'll quit streaming before you ever really start
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideWhy is EVERYONE Buying these BUDGET Mics?Stream Scheme2024-08-11 | Why is everyone buying these budget Mics? The Hyper X Solocast, it is the #1 best selling USB microphone on Amazon, and has been for years, this is the Blue Snowball iCE, and despite it being 9 years old, is somehow STILL in the top 5 best selling, and no, this isn’t a butt plug, it’s the Razer Sieren Mini, which, you guessed it, has consistently been in the top 10 to 15 best selling.
So, I have to ask, why are people buying these Microphones? Do they make you sound like barry white? Do women and men swoon at the sound of your voice with them? Or do these companies simply have the best marketing in the world?
Understanding audio is crucial to becoming a content creator on Twitch, or YouTube and it’s also one of the biggest barriers because people can’t tell when it is bad, or if they can they don’t know how to fix it.
Before I became an online Content Creator and Streamer, I was in the film industry for over six years, and audio was always something that stumped people despite it being really easy once you get the basics of it down.
Today I am going to help you get set up and sound like a pro on your stream.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 What are the BEST SELLING Budget Mics on Amazon? 1:02 Own3d Pro - Sponsored Segment 1:32 Key Facts About Each Microphone 3:32 Blind Audio Clip Example! 4:05 Sensitivity, Distance, and Noise Test 4:45 Distance and Noise Results 5:45 Background Noise Test - Keyboards and Fans 7:20 Background Noise Test Results 8:43 Revealing The Blind Test Results 9:05 Which Microphone I'd recommend?
To truly make your microphone sound amazing, you’re going to want to learn to use filters in your broadcast software. Now all three of these filters exist in slobs and obs, I’d recommend using them almost all the time, They are Noise Suppression, A limiter, and a Noise gate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitchtips #audio #streamingI Monetised A YouTube Channel In Just 45 DaysStream Scheme2024-07-18 | I monetised a brand new YouTube channel from 0 subscribers in just 6 long-form videos across 44 days. I ended month 1 with 17,000 views, month 2 totalled 158,000 views, and as of writing this right now, 4 months in, I have 725,000 Long-form views spread across 14 uploads.
I did all of this without telling a single person or pre-existing audience about the channel, completely faceless, and I did it entirely using Browse traffic, aka I got viewers from the YouTube homepage to click my video, which is the most powerful traffic source. Let's talk about how I did that today with my 7 rules.
How To Increase Click-Through Rate For New YouTubers
Look, it comes across as a bit intense but it’s really important that new YouTubers hear that… You do not matter.
The sooner you understand how little you matter, the sooner you can actually start growing your channel… which is ironic because to be a YouTuber you need to be narcissistic enough to believe you’re worth watching
Let me explain… when your thumbnail and title appear on the homepage…. How many people actually recognize your face that you plastered in the thumbnail? Why would someone click on your vlog trip to the beach? Or episode 69 of your five nights at Freddie's playthrough?
So one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to separate your own personality and understanding of the content, and then instead put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea who you are, what your content is about, or anything.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 I Monetised A NEW YouTube Channel In 6 Videos 0:54 Why I TELL NOBODY About A New YouTube Channel 3:20 Why Channel Idea Will MAKE or BREAK Your Success 5:14 Why EVERYBODY Is WRONG About Click-Through Rate 6:30 How To Make A Video Clickable To LARGE Audiences 9:37 Why Your INTRO Should PERFECTLY Connect With The Title 11:12 Why You NEED To Delete Half Your Video! 12:22 Why You NEED To Upload Weekly! 13:30 Why Viewers NEED To Feel Something, ANYTHING!
How To Grow Your YouTube Subs With Community Polls
A major secret when it comes to appealing to the masses, and beginning to grow the audience your content goes out to is actually the Community Posts tool on YouTube… specifically I am in love with the Community Poll tools.
I’ve been using Community Polls here on SSN for over 2.5 years now, I post polls to understand you, your interests, troubles, and it often helps me make content more targeted to your interests…
But it also builds huge impressions on the channel, and after snowballing years of polls back to back, you can go from getting 100 votes, 200 votes, all the way up to 6000 votes per poll… now before anyone says anything, you can scroll back I was using community polls BEFORE Spiffing Brit released his video on how broken and overpowered they are.
Once you have all those votes consistently, you can start adding in your videos that match the Poll topic to boost their views, because a lot of these polls don’t just go to subscribers but also non-subscribers who are interested in the topics the polls cover.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and VidIQ in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Filmbooth and Nutty.
#youtube #growth #guideHow To SAFELY Use MUSIC On Twitch In 2024Stream Scheme2024-06-18 | Tired of hearing the same royalty-free music on every stream? or worse joining a stream and hearing copyrighted music knowing that streamer is going to get banned? It's 2024 and that shouldn't be a problem anymore, so we're going to cover how to safely use music on Twitch.
Today I am going to solve all of your music-related problems on Twitch and hopefully stop you from getting banned while also making your stream sound unique!
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 What you risk if you use the wrong music 0:33 What Is DMCA? 1:10 Why "Copyright Free" Music Actually Isn't? 1:45 What Are Copyright Warnings On Twitch And YouTube? 2:08 What Are Copyright Takedowns On Twitch And YouTube? 2:22 What Are Copyright Strikes On Twitch And YouTube? 2:40 Who Issues Copyright Strikes On Twitch And YouTube? 3:05 How To Fight Copyright Strikes On Twitch And YouTube? 3:36 What Is Safe Harbour On Twitch And YouTube? 4:20 What Is Fair Use On Twitch And YouTube? 5:53 What Music Service Do I Use For Twitch And YouTube? - Sponsor Segment 8:17 How To Find FREE Safe To Use Music for Twitch And YouTube? 8:30 What Does It Mean To Credit Artists On Twitch And YouTube 9:13 What Type Of Artist Would I Avoid Using On Twitch And YouTube? 10:15 Why You NEED To Pick Music Carefully For Twitch And YouTube 10:40 Why Some Artists CAN'T Give You Permission To Use Their Music On Twitch And YouTube 11:30 Do Copyright Strikes Only Happen On Twitch VoDs?
What Is DMCA and Copyright?
DMCA and Copyright strikes are nothing new to the internet or content creation, and Youtube does have better ways to handle copyright and the striking process but Twitch isn’t the problem here, and complaining won’t help so let’s get into what even is copyright strikes and DMCA?
Well, without digging too deep into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is designed to stop people from broadcasting or using other people's copyright material without the appropriate rights.
This means you need to play the music that you have the appropriate rights to. Either you’ve purchased a license like some of the platforms we will cover today, or you will use one of the hundreds of royalty-free services also talked about today. And no, Youtube premium, Spotify premium, etc are not a license to broadcast music.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #DMCA #copyrightLet Twitch Chat CONTROL ANY Game For FREE!Stream Scheme2024-06-05 | Twitch Chat plays Pokemon is amazing, but what if you could do that with ANY game? Well, you can! Today I am showing you how to give your chat full control to play a game for you, or just partial control so they can troll you by throwing your tools in lava, jump off cliffs, and more!
This works with Twitch, or YouTube, you can either let chat type commands to control the game, or lock them behind channel points, paid subs, anything really… and most importantly, it is entirely FREE
You can do this with pretty much any game that uses a keyboard, but it does work better with simpler games, with simpler controls, especially those that don’t use the mouse to look around, so take Pokemon, this is incredibly easy because its A B up down left right start and select, that’s just 8 buttons for chat to use.
But, if you’re setting up Minecraft like we are today, well it has a lot of different keys, and you need to not just press but hold down certain keys as well.
So, be aware, you’ll get everything you need in this video to do more complex games, but if you’re a beginner, consider starting on a simple game.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Let Twitch Chat Control ANY Game For Free 0:23 Sponsor Segment 0:54 How To Download The Required Tools 1:33 How To Connect Twitch or YouTube To StreamerBot 2:00 How To Connect StreamerBot To OBS 2:55 What Games Work Better For Twitch Controls? 3:33 How To Setup Chat Commands For Twitch Chat Controlled Games 4:51 How To Link Chat Commands To Keyboard Controls 6:20 How To Test Chat Commands For Twitch Chat Controlled Games 7:16 How To Solve Two Major Issues With This Setup 8:00 How To Let Chat Hold Down Keys For Chat Controlled Games 10:26 How To Create Large Troll Commands - Drop All Items 11:10 How To Link Actions To Follows, Paid Subs, and More 11:35 How To Turn Off Chat Controls In StreamerBot
How To Setup Chat Commands To Control Games
If we go to the Commands section of StreamerBot, we can right click add, and here we can setup a new command,
Lets name this !Space and add it to the command box, now I want them to be able to put that command anywhere in the message, so over to the right and set the location to anywhere rather than being forced to have it at the start of the message, and then I can change the permissions, for this we want anyone so we don’t change it, but if we wanted only paying subscribers to be able to use a command, to say drop all your tools, you’d click subs and move them to this column.
Now, over on sources I will check Twitch message, and because I linked my twitch account that will mean only my twitch chat, but you can pick YouTube if you’re using YouTube as the test.
Below that I can set a global cooldown which is how long all users have to wait to use the command again, or if I just want it so one user can’t keep triggering it, I can set a user cooldown. Don’t set these too high or else people get bored waiting, but don’t set it too low, because then anyone can spam. If you only have a few viewers though some spams not too bad.
Once I’m happy, I click Ok.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #guide #streamingAnimate Your BORING Twitch Stream For FREEStream Scheme2024-05-08 | One of the ways I keep my stream engaging, especially for just chatting segments is through motion!
I animate camera zooms, both fast and slow, I animate sources like text, graphics, and even my webcam to swap sides, or sizes at the press of a button so I’m never blocking my game, or maybe you died and want to express sadness like a cheesy 80s film, or become a cinematic hero with one click, and finally make it so when you scream from fear you vanish.
How To Use Hotkeys In OBS To Trigger Sources, Scenes, and more
Head to your Settings and click Hot Keys, search up the source you want to show or hide, for example my CAMERA, you’ll see a SHOW HIDE for the OBS Source, we’re going to hotkey each to something we don’t touch often or by accident, so CTRL SHIFT 1 for show and hide, and click apply.
Now when we press CTRL SHIFT 1, OBS will show or hide that source because of the Filter. These hotkeys can be used to trigger scenes, music, sound effects, and even combine all these at once.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Animate EVERYTHING In OBS For Your Stream 0:38 Own3d Sponsor Segment 1:17 How To Download And Setup Move Plugin For OBS 2:08 How To Animate A Dramatic Zoom To OBS With Move Plugin 4:34 How To Setup Hotkeys To Control Zooms, and Motion 5:07 How To Animate Multiple Camera Moves In OBS - Slow Camera Zooms 6:15 How To Animate Your Webcam In OBS 7:15 How To Tie Together Several Animated Moves In OBS - Flip The Webcam 8:45 How To Add Multiple Animations All At Once - Dramatic Zoom 10:06 How To Animate Scene Transition With Motion 12:37 How To Make Yourself Vanish With A Scream!
How To Crop In On Your Camera In OBS
Let’s start with the easiest, but also one of the most effective ways to help add a bit more emphasis and engagement to whatever you are doing. I come from a Filmmaking background and one of the major techniques we use is shot size, we film wides, mediums, and close ups then cut between them to add emphasis or feeling to a statement.
To do this live, all you need to do is grab your camera, duplicate it, and layer it on top of the old camera. Zoom the camera in a bit, and then you can keybind it either in your settings to toggle the source on and off, as seen on screen now, go to Settings, Select Hotkeys, then find your scene you’re working in, find the layer, and then hotkey it to a button you don’t use such as your Numpad, or you can use an Elgato StreamDeck or StreamDeck alternative to do it very easily.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #OBSeffects #OBSPlugins7 Common Microphone Mistakes You Need To FixStream Scheme2024-04-24 | I've decided we are all overcomplicating our audio setups, and making far too many common mistakes, so today we're going to fix them in the easiest way possible. Today we are covering leveling your audio, microphone placement, using music, and most importantly how to add filters to your microphone inside OBS to make you sound perfect!
Understanding audio is crucial to becoming a content creator on Twitch, or YouTube and it’s also one of the biggest barriers because people can’t tell when it is bad, or if they can they don’t know how to fix it.
Before I became an online Content Creator and Streamer, I was in the film industry for over six years, and audio was always something that stumped people despite it being really easy once you get the basics of it down.
Today I am going to help you get set up and sound like a pro on your stream.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Common Audio Mistakes And How To Fix Them 0:22 Why Microphone Choice Is CRUCIAL 2:05 How To Fix Microphone Placement 3:25 How To Level A Microphone 4:00 How To Fix Background Noise In Your Room 4:33 How To Use Music To Hide Background Noise 4:57 Epidemic Sound - Sponsored Segment 5:55 Why You Need To Stop Using Audio Filters 6:15 How To Use A Noise Gate Filter In OBS 6:50 How To Use Noise Suppression Filters In OBS 7:20 How To Use Compressor or Limiter Filters In OBS 7:50 Why Nobody Ever Levels Their Microphone Properly
To truly make your microphone sound amazing, you’re going to want to learn to use filters in your broadcast software. Now all three of these filters exist in slobs and obs, I’d recommend using them almost all the time, They are Noise Suppression, A limiter, and a Noise gate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitchtips #audio #streamingOverhyped Streamer Gear I Regret Buying...Stream Scheme2024-04-16 | I have bought a lot of gear in my job as a filmmaker, content creator, and now as a Streamer… and a lot of it has gathered dust, or ended up being replaced... soooo lets talk overhyped streamer gear I regret buying...
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Samson Q2u.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Small Streamers Waste So Much Money On Gear! 0:44 Sponsor Segment 1:23 Why You Should Never Buy A Shure Sm7b And GoXLR 3:00 The Best Streaming Microphone Only Costs $99 3:27 What To Use Instead Of A GoXLR 4:38 Streamers DO NOT Need A StreamDeck 6:05 Why I Can't Recommend Elgato Products 6:22 Why You Should Buy The Thronmax S6 Microphone Arm 7:00 Why I NEVER Recommend Cheap Headphones 9:04 The Best And Strangest Streamer Gear I've Ever Bought
What Are The Best Webcams and Lights For Streamers?
Your lighting is really what is going to make or break your webcam or camera quality, you can get some cheap LED panels from Neewer 90W or the Dazznee D50's Panels are great as well.
I use the Logitech C922 Pro, and then use these little LED light panels to light myself.
This little light is enough to light my face, and then I manually set my webcam settings which you really should be doing as well, slap a custom LUT I made for myself to make the colours look nice, and we’re good to go.
The lights behind me aren’t as bright so I stand out and they make the background look nice, which is important. You should try to make your background look nice or look at grabbing a cheap green screen.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #gear #streamerHow To STOP Bots On Twitch - Auto-Mod, Followbots, And More!Stream Scheme2024-04-09 | Follow Bots and Bot Raids are INCREDIBLY easy to deal with, so take a breath because today I am going to cover how to protect yourself, how to prevent them, how to remove follow bots, and most importantly, I'll be covering my #1 tip to making sure you never get botted again!
❗Link To CommanderRoot For Removing Bot Follows And Blocking Bots: bit.ly/CommanderRoot
What Are Follow Bots, Hate Raids, And Bot Follows On Twitch?
A Follow Bot is usually when an individual sends dozens, sometimes thousands of fake followers to a Streamer while they are live to troll them or to trigger their alerts for the next few hours.
A Bot Raid is when an individual sends dozens, sometimes thousands of bot accounts to your chat to not only follow you, but also spam hateful comments, slurs, or sometimes a random string of numbers.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Stop SpamBots, Follow Bots, And Bot Raids On Twitch 0:13 Sponsor Segment 0:43 What Are FollowBots On Twitch 1:11 What Are Spam Bots On Twitch 1:30 What Are Bot Raids On Twitch 1:45 Can You Be Banned For Being Followbotted or Bot Raided? 2:23 How To Turn On Twitch Auto-Moderation 2:55 How To Edit Twitch Auto-Moderation Settings 3:20 How To Add Blocked Phrases To Twitch Chat 4:44 How To Add Permitted Phrases To Twitch Chat 4:55 How To Stop Banned Viewers Coming Back To Chat 5:07 How To Share Ban Info With Other Streamers On Twitch 5:16 How To Block Links and Hyperlinks In Twitch Chat 5:19 How To Add Chat Delay To Twitch 5:25 How To Stop Bots And Followbots With Twitch Channel Privileges 6:26 How To Setup Twitch Chat Rules 6:33 How To Turn on Unban Requests 6:40 How To Stop Banned Users From Viewer Your Twitch Stream 6:53 How To Use Follower Only And Sub Only Mode 7:07 Should I Use Follower Only Or Subscriber Only Mode 7:33 How To Setup Shield Mode On Twitch Chat 8:10 How To Turn On Shield Mode On Twitch 8:30 How To React To Trolls, Spambots, or Followbots On Twitch 9:03 How To Remove FollowBots From Twitch 9:36 How To Deal With Trolls, Bots, Bigots, and more on Twitch
How To Stop Bots On Twitch
While live I recommend everyone has the Stream Manager Dashboard open, this allows you access to a lot of quick action buttons that will make most of this safe, yours might not look like mine here on the right but you can add any Quick Action Buttons by clicking the +
So you’re hit with a Bot Raid, your alerts are going off and your chat is being spammed, the first thing you’re going to do is turn on Follower Only Mode meaning only users who follow can chat, this is literally the only time I will ever tell you to use Follower only by the way.
If you use the quick action it usually defaults that there is no cooldown between following and chatting, so I actually recommend turning Follower Only chat by going down below your chatbox, clicking the cog, selecting Follower Only, and selecting 10 minutes.
This should stop the bot messages for now.
Next, you’ll want to click the Clear Chat History Quick action button, this will wipe away all of the messages that were sent originally. I will show you how you can rally your community to also help in a second but first, you’ll also want to skip alerts.
In your broadcasting software, you’ll have a button to skip alerts, Streamlabs has it here, and Streamelements has it here if you are using their obs live plugin.
The final step is to mark the time In-Stream using a marker quick action so you can find the section later for reporting the accounts or removing the follows using CommanderRoot.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games, Devin Nash, and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideShould YOU Use Streamlabs Or OBS? (Best Streaming Software, Alerts, And More)Stream Scheme2024-03-07 | If you asked me 3 years ago, what streaming software you should use to go live, I probably would’ve said Streamlabs because of how easy it is to setup, but 2 years ago, I would’ve said OBS because it works with StreamElements, and is overall better.
Now in 2024, so much has changed again, there are so many options for streaming software and alert platforms, which all do wildly different things.
Today I want to break down four years' worth of streaming and content creation experience, to cover the major streaming software, their pros, and cons, whether they good for beginners, will other streamers bully you for using it, do they cause your game to lag, can they make you grow faster, what alert platforms go well with them, what drama have these brands gotten into, and which is the absolute best for you to use
Because I don’t think there is a simple answer anymore.
Streamlabs OBS is incredibly beginner-focused, you might look at the user interface and say it is confusing but I promise you this is so much simpler for a beginner to get set up, It comes with all the tools you’ll need to start streaming, literally built into it.
It comes with a Chatbox to monitor your chat, event queue to monitor followers, subs, etc. If you want to add alerts? Just add an Alert box widget, if you want to have your chat on screen? You can add a chat box widget easily! You do not need to install a single plugin to get up and running.
Streamlabs OBS is a fantastic program for beginners but due to its bloated nature, glitches, widget issues, and more, it can be frustrating for beginners to try fix issues that occur, and tends to use far more CPU resources which can cause Stream lagg.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 What Streaming Software Should You Use? 0:45 Own3d Pro Just Got A MASSIVE Upgrade 1:23 What Is The Difference Between Streamlabs and OBS 2:14 Why Should You Use Streamlabs 3:00 Why You SHOULDN'T Use Streamlabs 4:04 Is Streamlabs an Ethical Company? 5:02 Why You Should Use OBS For Streaming And Recording 5:25 Why You Shouldn't Use OBS 5:51 Should You Use Streamlabs Alerts 6:10 Should You Use StreamElements Alerts 6:30 Why You Shouldn't Use StreamElements 6:44 Why You Should Use Twitch Alerts For Stream Alerts 6:58 Why You Should Use StreamerBot For Alerts And More 7:38 What Streaming Software Should You Use To Go-Live?
Should I Use Streamlabs Or OBS For Streaming?
If you are a beginner or you aren’t looking to get incredibly technical with your streams, or you want to get up and running quickly with everything in the same place then install and use Streamlabs OBS OR use StreamElements OBS.live because both will get you set up instantly if you want to get custom and create advanced technical aspects to add to your stream go with OBS Studio because it is more customizable, it has more plugin support and is more stable.
How Do You Import .Overlay Files Into OBS? Studio
OBS also lacks an easy way to install overlays, BUT if you have a .overlay you can install that into Streamlabs OBS, and then open both programs.
From there, go to OBS, click Scene Collection, select import, OBS will either pull up all your overlays but IF IT DOESN’T, you can manually go to where SLOBs is default installing overlays, the default folder structure is below, once selected it will bring up all your overlays, and you can select which to import into OBS.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guide5 Twitch Myths That DESTROY Small ChannelsStream Scheme2024-02-11 | Streaming myths are getting out of hand, every day I see a tweet, or a TikTok from some stream coach who charges 50 bucks an hour to give you advice despite never growing their own audience, and the advice they’re spouting is often just outright wrong, or misleading.
I’ve been creating content as Eljay for 4 years now, and I wanted to cover five of the most common myths I see because it feels like they’re getting dangerous now, these are myths that can get you banned, stop your growth, but most importantly ruin you and your communities enjoyment.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Streaming Myths Are Ruining Your Content 0:28 How Twitch View Count Myths Are Ruining Your Content 1:22 Busting Twitch View Count Myths! 2:40 Why Your Twitch VoDs Aren't ACTUALLY Being Watched 3:37 How Low Energy Streamers Can Still Grow 4:38 Are Sounds And Songs Safe To Use Under 7 Seconds? 6:10 Why The Twitch VoD Track Will Get You Banned 7:42 What Safe Music Can You Use On Twitch And YouTube? - Sponsored 8:30 Are You More Likely To Be Banned On Twitch? 9:50 Why Growing As A Content Creator Isn't A Mystery Anymore
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guide5 Dumb YouTube Mistakes I Regret Making...Stream Scheme2024-02-04 | Everyone makes mistakes when they are new to things, and YouTubers are no different, their are 5 mistakes that are stopping your channel from growing the way you want it to, these affect almost every creator I meet, they’re things so obvious that people don’t really talk about them anymore because they expect you to know them, and will belittle you for not knowing,
And, even after growing two channels, one to 230,000 subs, another to 40,000, getting millions of long-form views, and over 25 million short-form views, these are mistakes I still make, they’re things I have to avoid every single upload, and I am pretty confident if you’re watching this, you’re making them right now… luckily, we can fix them today.
How To Increase Click-Through Rate For New YouTubers
Look, it comes across as a bit intense but it’s really important that new YouTubers hear that… You do not matter.
The sooner you understand how little you matter, the sooner you can actually start growing your channel… which is ironic because to be a YouTuber you need to be narcissistic enough to believe you’re worth watching
Let me explain… when your thumbnail and title appear on the homepage…. How many people actually recognize your face that you plastered in the thumbnail? Why would someone click on your vlog trip to the beach? Or episode 69 of your five nights at Freddie's playthrough?
So one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to separate your own personality and understanding of the content, and then instead put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea who you are, what your content is about, or anything.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 5 Dumb YouTube Mistakes I Regret Making 0:38 Why YouTubers Should NEVER Share Their Channel 3:07 Why Viewers Don't Click Your Videos 4:23 How To Get A Larger YouTube Audience 5:25 Why your YouTube Titles are uninteresting 6:43 How To Add Value To Your YouTube Titles 7:19 How I Used VidIQ To Make More Interesting Videos 7:58 How YouTubers Try To Cheat
How To Grow Your YouTube Subs With Community Polls
A major secret when it comes to appealing to the masses, and beginning to grow the audience your content goes out to is actually the Community Posts tool on YouTube… specifically I am in love with the Community Poll tools.
I’ve been using Community Polls here on SSN for over 2.5 years now, I post polls to understand you, your interests, troubles, and it often helps me make content more targeted to your interests…
But it also builds huge impressions on the channel, and after snowballing years of polls back to back, you can go from getting 100 votes, 200 votes, all the way up to 6000 votes per poll… now before anyone says anything, you can scroll back I was using community polls BEFORE Spiffing Brit released his video on how broken and overpowered they are.
Once you have all those votes consistently, you can start adding in your videos that match the Poll topic to boost their views, because a lot of these polls don’t just go to subscribers but also non-subscribers who are interested in the topics the polls cover.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and VidIQ in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Filmbooth and Nutty.
#youtube #growth #guideThis All-In-One Streaming Device Is PerfectStream Scheme2024-01-23 | The Bridgecast X solves Streamer Audio and Video, now you can capture two different HDMI inputs in full 4K and control them alongside your XLR microphone, discord, music, and more entirely with the fully programmable, customizable knobs.
In addition to the new, TouchPads, and extra virtual outputs, the BridgeCast X really is the last piece of streaming gear I'll ever need.
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Samson Q2u.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Why I Will NEVER Need Another Streaming Mixer 0:45 Does the BridgeCast X work with the Shure Sm7b? 0:53 Can I Separate My Audio Sources With The Bridgecast X? 1:12 Does The BridgeCast X have Compression, EQ, Noise Gates, and More? 1:26 How To EQ Your Game Source With the Bridgecast X 1:42 How To Clean Up Discord Audio For Stream 1:55 How To Use BridgeCast X Voice Effects 2:00 Size & Price Comparison To The GoXLR 2:27 Why You NEED To Sub-Mix With The Bridgecast X 3:10 Fully Customisable LED and Physical Audio Knobs 3:20 What Is Different Between The Bridgecast and the BridgeCast X 4:00 Why The BridgeCast X Works PERFECTLY With OBS Hotkeys 4:45 Virtual Surround Sound In The BridgeCast X 5:10 How The BridgeCast X Replaces Capture Cards 5:55 How To Capture Consoles And Cameras With The BridgeCast X 6:20 Why Mixers Capturing Consoles Is The Future
Why The Samson Q2u Is The Best Microphone for Streamers
Starting with the basics, the Samson Q2u is a Dynamic Mic, not a condenser microphone, essentially Dynamic microphones are less sensitive than Condenser microphones, which means sometimes they need to be closer and might require a bit more gain, but these aren’t bad things.
Dynamic mics are better in untreated or amateur rooms, like home offices, bedrooms, bathrooms aka your Stream rooms. They are also better at dealing with background noise.
Cardioid means it handles sound right out the front here, and doesn’t pick up sound from behind, or well under it, it still gets audio from the sides but not much. Not all mics are like this, one of the more popular Mics you all know like the Blue Yeti Snowball which can be omnidirectional, which, means it picks up audio from all around.
What Mixer Should New Streamers Buy?
This device has somehow snuck under everyones radar, despite it being made by a professional audio company, despite it being able to do EVERYTHING the GoXLR could, and despite it being half the price of the GoXLR, is the Roland Bridgecast.
The Bridgecast sells for $420 AUD, so about $250USD, making it REALLY competitive since its two main competitors are the GoXLR which the full size still costs roughly 800AUD, and the Rodecaster Pro II, which is anywhere between 900 - 1200AUD.
Now, you’d think this means the little device is going to lack a lot of what those two tools have, but it is actually the opposite, for example, It provides 75db of gain for your microphones, whereas the Rodecaster Pro ii and GoXLR do 76db and 72db respectively.
And, Much like the GoXLR, and Rodecaster, it has full voice effects, such as reverb, pitch shifting, etc. I’ll again, cover this more later.
The BridgeCast comes with EQ and mic adjustment tools are all the expected ones, compressors, noise reduction, de-essers, etc, and it is also a dual bus Mixer… this means two separate audio mixes, so one can be sent to you, and then a completely different mix to your stream individually.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #gear #streamer5 EASY OBS Tips EVERY Streamer NEEDS To Know!Stream Scheme2024-01-15 | If you want to grow on Twitch, you need to go above and beyond, your stream can’t just be gameplay and chatting anymore! Today I am going to give you five ways you can INSTANTLY UPGRADE your Twitch stream to make it more engaging for viewers, these are all done in OBS but will work for Streamlabs as well.
Every Streamer NEEDS to know these tips, they will help you grow your Twitch channel, increase your average viewers, and genuinely make more engaging content at the press of a button.
Let’s start with the easiest, but also one of the most effective ways to help add a bit more emphasis and engagement to whatever you are doing. I come from a Filmmaking background and one of the major techniques we use is shot size, we film wides, mediums, and close ups then cut between them to add emphasis or feeling to a statement.
To do this live, all you need to do is grab your camera, duplicate it, and layer it on top of the old camera. Zoom the camera in a bit, and then you can keybind it either in your settings to toggle the source on and off, as seen on screen now, go to Settings, Select Hotkeys, then find your scene you’re working in, find the layer, and then hotkey it to a button you don’t use such as your Numpad, or you can use an Elgato StreamDeck or StreamDeck alternative to do it very easily.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 OBS Tips To Upgrade Your Stream 0:28 Best Animated Twitch Overlays - Sponsor Segment 1:00 How To Organise OBS Like A Pro 2:10 How To Use Nested Scenes In OBS To Add Effects, And More 2:57 How To Change Camera Shot Size In OBS While Live 4:34 How To Use Hotkeys Inside OBS To Control Sources, Scenes, And More 6:02 How To Use OBS Hotkeys To Trigger Multiple Effects At Once 6:28 How To Use OBS Filters To Upgrade Your Stream! 7:08 How To Download FREE Effects For OBS 8:09 How To Add VFX To OBS 8:30 How To Use OBS Filters To Lower Opacity With Colour Correction 9:07 How To Use OBS Filters To Make Sources Black and White With Colour Correction 9:30 How To Trigger Effects and Music At The Same Time With One Hotkey 10:14 How To Use Hotkeys To Mute Music and Audio Sources In OBS
How To Use Hotkeys In OBS To Trigger Sources, Scenes, and more
Head to your Settings and click Hot Keys, search up the source you want to show or hide, for example my CAMERA, you’ll see a SHOW HIDE for the OBS Source, we’re going to hotkey each to something we don’t touch often or by accident, so CTRL SHIFT 1 for show and hide, and click apply.
Now when we press CTRL SHIFT 1, OBS will show or hide that source because of the Filter. These hotkeys can be used to trigger scenes, music, sound effects, and even combine all these at once.
Effects Credit: These effects were made for my stream 2 years ago, they were made using copyright-free material and edited.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideHow To Stream On Twitch In UNDER 5 MinutesStream Scheme2024-01-07 | Let’s show you how to go live on Twitch in under 5 minutes, you’ll learn what software to use, what settings, how to capture your game, desktop, and webcam, how to add a microphone, and of course how to go live to Twitch with all of it.
How to Set Video Resolution, Bitrate, and Settings To Stream On OBS
Go to the Video Tab, here you will set your resolution, Canvas is the resolution of this black box where you’ll put your game, Output is the resolution you transmit to viewers. The two most common are 1080p and 720p, if you have a decent PC you can use 1080p likely no problem so set both to that, but if not, set output to 720.
You have FPS here, higher doesn’t mean better, set this based on how much action and motion you’ll have, and how good your PC is, 60 for more action, 30 for less.
Now click Output, these are where we control the settings you will use for your stream, keep this in Simple mode.
Bitrate will determine most of your streams quality, there is a link in the description to an article by twitch to show you bitrate settings for different resolutions. Personally, if your doing fast action gameplay, I recommend 720p output, and between 4500 - 6000 bitrate, if the gameplay is slower and lacks lots of movement, 1080p and 6000 bitrate.
Twitch Bitrate is technically softcapped at 6000, and hard capped at 8000, 1000 bits is a 1mb, so you need an upload speed that can handle the bitrate you set plus wiggle room, so for 6000 bitrate around 10 - 12mb to stream at the soft cap safely.
If you have a newer Nvidia graphics card, you’ll select NVENC H264 here, if you can’t use Nvenc, you’ll use x264 which means CPU encoding.
Encoder Preset if your PC can handle it, you can set this to best quality, if not a nice starting point is Slow, and lower it if you notice issues.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 How To Stream On Twitch In UNDER 5 Minutes 0:26 How To Download OBS To Go Live On Twitch 0:44 How To Connect Twitch To OBS 0:51 How To Set Resolution and Frame Rate In OBS 1:18 How To Set Up Bitrate, Video Encode, Encoder Preset, and More To Stream On Twitch 1:52 How To Test Your Internet Speed To Stream To Twitch 2:20 How To Add A Microphone To OBS To Stream On Twitch 2:44 How To Set Monitoring Device In OBS 2:53 How To Adjust Microphone Volume in OBS 3:04 How To Capture A Game In OBS With Game Capture 3:20 How To Capture Your Desktop with Display Capture 3:33 How To Capture Games with Window Capture 3:42 How To Add A Webcam To OBS To Stream On Twitch 3:48 How To Adjust Webcam Size Inside OBS 3:52 How To Start Streaming On Twitch With OBS 3:58 How To Edit Title, Category, and Tags On Twitch Dashboard 4:15 How To Download Free Animated Overlays For Twitch Streaming
How To Connect Twitch To OBS
Open OBS, on the right-hand side, click settings, go to the stream tab, click the Service section, and then select Twitch in the drop down, below that click "Connect" and log in to your Twitch Account.
You can simply click Start Streaming and you will now stream directly to the linked Twitch Account.
How To Add Game Capture To OBS For Twitch Streams
Go to the sources panel in the bottom middle of OBS, and click the Plus to add a source, you’ll see 3 ways to capture your game, first is game capture, if you add that and then open it, it lets you either automatically capture games, or pick a specific window. Some games won’t work with game capture, in that case you’ll use either Display Capture or Window Capture.
Display capture, as the name explains, captures the entire desktop, so be careful not to show private documents with this capture.
Windowed capture is for capturing specific windows, the same as game capture but it does any window you want.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and VidIQ in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Gaming Careers and Nutty.
#Twitch #streaming #guideHow To Use A Phone As A Webcam In OBS For FREEStream Scheme2023-12-30 | Today you’ll learn not just how to use your phone as a webcam for free inside OBS and Streamlabs, without any downloads or installations but I’ll show you 3 different tools, how they work, even from your local park nowhere near your house, and most importantly, how to add ridiculous Snapchat filters with it, because who doesn’t want to look like an old man or a toddler live on the internet.
I genuinely don't know if there is real value to using your phone over a webcam, but I get asked this so often here is the answer.
How To Use A Phone As A Webcam In OBS & Streamlabs For FREE
The three options we’re using today are called VDO Ninja, Epoccam, and Epoccam Pro.
First, let’s cover VDO Ninja, this is an entirely web based tool, and it’s also entirely free.
To use it, you’re going to get your streaming PC, and your phone, then on your streaming PC, open a browser and go to VDO.Ninja, linked in the description.
You’re going to be met with a few options, for today, just click create a room. Type in a super secret room name, and password, then if you want a specific video codec pick that, or leave it on default.
Once that’s done, click join as Director, now you’re met with a few options, it says invite guest, capture group scene, it has guests down here, but we’re going to click Copy link on the invite guest, then message that to ourselves via email, or discord, or just something you can access from your phone.
Then open your phone, go to the message, copy the link, and paste it into your phones browser.
From there, you join room with camera, and can give it permission to use your camera, then click start, and it should appear on the website where guest 1 was.
Now to add this to your stream you’ll go to OBS, or if you’re using a different tool like streamlabs go there, and click add source, add browser source, copy the link from capture group scene into the browser source, set the resolution to 1920 by 1080, click refresh scene when active, control audio via OBS, and click save.
🕘Timestamps: 0:00 How To Use Your Phone As A Webcam For Streaming in OBS 0:40 Own3d Voucher Giveaway - Sponsor Segment 1:20 How To Use Your Phone As A Webcam For Streaming For Free, With No Installations or Downloads 2:55 How To Use Multiple Phones as Webcams for Streaming 3:03 How To Use Your Phone As A Webcam for IRL Streaming 3:20 How To Use Your Phone As A Webcam For Streaming For Free on Android OR Apple 4:00 How To increase the picture quality of your phone as a webcam 4:30 How to use EpocCam to make your phone a webcam for streaming 6:20 How To Control Your Phone Camera Settings As a Webcam for Streaming 8:59 How To Add Your Phone As A Webcam To OBS or Streamlabs 9:20 How To Use Snapchat Filters In OBS Using Your Phone As A Webcam 9:50 Why You SHOULDN'T Use Your Phone As A Webcam For Streaming
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideThe GoXLR Is Dead. Buy THIS Now.Stream Scheme2023-12-26 | The GoXLR is dead, the device that every single streamer wanting a professional XLR audio setup would buy for the past 4 years is now a ticking time bomb waiting for one windows update to make it a very expensive paperweight…
This means we need to find a new mixer that can do everything the GOXLR can do and more, it needs to handle demanding microphones like the Shure Sm7b, it needs powerful EQ for buttery crisp vocals, it needs silly voice effects, and multiple programmable tracks for perfect audio control, that was the journey I set out on…
But, little did I know this would mean months of research, experimenting with dozens of different software, microphones, mixers, and wasting hundreds of dollars, but now, I think I’ve found it, the device that will do EVERYTHING the GoXLR did, and more for half the price.
We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.
There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Samson Q2u.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Why The GoXLR Is "Dead" And What This Means 2:20 The Mixer That EVERY Streamer Needs - The Roland BridgeCast 2:40 How Much Is The BridgeCast 3:00 How Much Gain Does The Roland BridgeCast Supply 3:15 Does The BridgeCast Have Voice Effects 3:22 What Float Point Is The Roland BridgeCast 4:02 How Big Is The Roland BridgeCast 4:20 BridgeCast Knobs, Buttons, and More 4:47 Is The BridgeCast Software Easy and Powerful? 5:20 How To Use BridgeCast EQ, Compressors, And More 5:50 How BridgeCast Fixes Your Game Audio 6:20 How The BridgeCast Cleans Discord Audio 6:38 Why The BridgeCast Uses A Dual Bux Mixer 7:02 Why The BridgeCast Buttons, and Knobs Are Perfect 8:00 How The BridgeCast Routes Audio For Streamers 8:33 What Is Sub Mixing or Dual Bus Mixing?
Why The Samson Q2u Is The Best Microphone for Streamers
Starting with the basics, the Samson Q2u is a Dynamic Mic, not a condenser microphone, essentially Dynamic microphones are less sensitive than Condenser microphones, which means sometimes they need to be closer and might require a bit more gain, but these aren’t bad things.
Dynamic mics are better in untreated or amateur rooms, like home offices, bedrooms, bathrooms aka your Stream rooms. They are also better at dealing with background noise.
Cardioid means it handles sound right out the front here, and doesn’t pick up sound from behind, or well under it, it still gets audio from the sides but not much. Not all mics are like this, one of the more popular Mics you all know like the Blue Yeti Snowball which can be omnidirectional, which, means it picks up audio from all around.
What Mixer Should New Streamers Buy?
This device has somehow snuck under everyones radar, despite it being made by a professional audio company, despite it being able to do EVERYTHING the GoXLR could, and despite it being half the price of the GoXLR, is the Roland Bridgecast.
The Bridgecast sells for $420 AUD, so about $250USD, making it REALLY competitive since its two main competitors are the GoXLR which the full size still costs roughly 800AUD, and the Rodecaster Pro II, which is anywhere between 900 - 1200AUD.
Now, you’d think this means the little device is going to lack a lot of what those two tools have, but it is actually the opposite, for example, It provides 75db of gain for your microphones, whereas the Rodecaster Pro ii and GoXLR do 76db and 72db respectively.
And, Much like the GoXLR, and Rodecaster, it has full voice effects, such as reverb, pitch shifting, etc. I’ll again, cover this more later.
The BridgeCast comes with EQ and mic adjustment tools are all the expected ones, compressors, noise reduction, de-essers, etc, and it is also a dual bus Mixer… this means two separate audio mixes, so one can be sent to you, and then a completely different mix to your stream individually.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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#twitch #gear #streamerWhy Youll Quit Streaming And How To Avoid ItStream Scheme2023-12-19 | You’ll quit streaming, with hundreds of thousands of streamers going live every month, the odds are against you, but the number #1 reason most Streamers quit is actually completely preventable, as you’ll learn in this video.
It’s called the “Spotlight Effect” and it effects every single person on the planet, it stops you doing all of things you want to do not just in content creation, but in life.
The idea of the spotlight effect is simple, it’s the feeling like you’ve been pushed out onto a stage, the spotlight has hit you, and the entire audience is sat quietly judging every action you do, you’re breathing manually, aware of your tongue resting on your teeth, and you don’t know what to do with your hands.
I learned about this effect 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with an Acute Anxiety condition, all of the things I loved to do I couldn’t out of the intense fear of being judged, but 4 years later, some therapy, and a lot of effort every single day, I am now a full-time content creator.
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Why You'll Quit Streaming 0:55 How To Stop Hesitating And Start Growing Your Stream 2:50 How To Motivate Yourself To Work On Your Stream 4:20 How A Schedule Helps You Grow Your Stream 4:50 How An Hour Glass Helps You Grow Your Stream 5:37 How Simply Drinking The Same Drink Daily Helps you grow 6:35 Where to get amazing music for your streams and videos 7:40 How To Get Over Embarrassment And Grow 8:15 How Big Streamers Grew Their Stream 9:39 Why You Don't Matter At All And That's A Good Thing.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#twitch #growth #guideHow To Record Gameplay On PC With Streamlabs (Best Settings, Resolutions, and MORE)Stream Scheme2023-12-07 | Recording gameplay has never been easier, anyone can do it, but not many people can do it right…. Laggy footage, blurry footage, no sound at all!
We’re going to show you how to record game footage in OBS, all the settings to make the quality amazing, crisp, and clear, to make both your microphone and game sound perfect.
What Video Encoder to Use to Record Gameplay In Streamlabs
To make this straightforward, If you’re using any Nvidia card past the GTX 600, which was released in 2012, so likely any Nvidia card being used on a semi-new PC, you’re going to pick Nvenc H.264. This means you’re using a special chip on your graphics card to encode footage, this chip is separate and just used solely for encoding decoding, so it won’t affect your gameplay performance.
And, If you’re using a graphics card from before that, you’ll likely use x264 which will be using your CPU to encode or decode.
What Bitrate to use to Record Gameplay In Streamlabs
In the Encoder settings, you have Rate control, this will be CBR by default, which means you’re recording at the same bitrate all the time, and below that you set the bitrate of your choice, I found for 1080p 60fps that 16,000 - 18,000 gave me excellent quality for editing my gameplay footage later, but any higher was useless, but 8000 bitrate still gave me useable clean footage so if your PC is struggling, start there.
If you want to get a little more complicated in recordings, instead select CQP, which in short is smarter and will change the bitrate as needed so you’re not wasting data, this does mean rather than setting a bitrate you’re setting a CQ level, in short, low numbers here mean higher quality footage, high numbers mean lower quality, I found recording at 15 gave me footage that was perfect, and indistinguishable to viewers, but 20 will also give you totally useable footage, if your PC can’t handle 15, start at 20, and slowly lower it.
🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 How To Record Gameplay in Streamlabs 0:40 How To Install Streamlabs 1:09 Where to download Graphics and assets for Streamlabs 1:56 How To Set Base Canvas Resolution and Output Resolution In Streamlabs 2:20 How are Base Canvas and Output Resolution different in Streamlabs? 2:47 How To Set FPS In Streamlabs 3:09 The Best Streamlabs Settings for gameplay recording 3:24 How to change recording path in Streamlabs 3:36 How to change recording format in Streamlabs 4:01 What Video Encoder to use in Streamlabs for recording gameplay? 4:55 How to change Audio Tracks in Streamlabs Settings 5:03 Best Streamlabs Settings for recording Gameplay with NVENC Encoding 5:24 What Bitrate to use for recording gameplay in Streamlabs 5:52 What Bitrate to use to record 1080p Gameplay footage? 6:03 Why you should use CQP instead of CBR in Streamlabs 6:20 What CQ Level to use for recording gameplay in Streamlabs 6:40 Streamlabs Settings for Recording Gameplay - Preset, Tuning, Psycho-Visual Tuning, GPU, and B-Frames 7:05 Best Streamlabs Settings for recording Gameplay with x264 Encoding 7:33 How to fix bad footage in Streamlabs 7:44 How to use the Streamlabs Stats Panel 8:07 What are Dropped Frames In Streamlabs 8:15 What are Lagged Frames In Streamlabs 8:34 What are Skipped Frames In Streamlabs 8:50 How To Add Gameplay Audio In Streamlabs 9:19 How To Change Audio Volume in Streamlabs 9:50 How To Separate Audio Track Recording In Streamlabs 10:31 How To Use Game Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay 11:11 How To Use Window Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay 11:29 How To Use Display Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay 11:41 How To Add A Webcam Source to Streamlabs 12:00 How To Record Gameplay and Webcam In Streamlabs Separately 13:09 How To Record Gameplay In Streamlabs 13:24 How To Convert or Remux MKV files to Mp4 Files In OBS 14:00 How To Edit Dual Source Recordings In Post 14:46 How To Edit 6 Audio Tracks from Streamlabs In Post
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#Gameplay #OBS #GuideThis A.I. Edits Videos For You!Stream Scheme2023-11-29 | I have a 3-hour-long Q&A stream, that has over 43 individual questions that I want to turn into TikToks, but I have no time to edit them which means I can’t get more eyes on my content… if only there was a tool where I could drag my clip in, have it auto-transcribed, automatically cut my pauses, umms, ahhs, reframe it, automatically add subtitles, and even translate my voice, and subtitles to another language… wait.. It exists, and it’s called Podcast Editor.
Podcast Editor is what’s called a “text-based editor”, these are becoming more and more common in recent years because they are so fast, simple, and most importantly accessible to new Creators, it takes a long time to learn to edit after all, but what Podcast Editor does, is transcribes your entire clip, then you highlight segments, click delete… and just makes the edit to the video for you.
What Bitrate to use to Record Gameplay In Streamlabs
In the Encoder settings, you have Rate control, this will be CBR by default, which means you’re recording at the same bitrate all the time, and below that you set the bitrate of your choice, I found for 1080p 60fps that 16,000 - 18,000 gave me excellent quality for editing my gameplay footage later, but any higher was useless, but 8000 bitrate still gave me useable clean footage so if your PC is struggling, start there.
If you want to get a little more complicated in recordings, instead select CQP, which in short is smarter and will change the bitrate as needed so you’re not wasting data, this does mean rather than setting a bitrate you’re setting a CQ level, in short, low numbers here mean higher quality footage, high numbers mean lower quality, I found recording at 15 gave me footage that was perfect, and indistinguishable to viewers, but 20 will also give you totally useable footage, if your PC can’t handle 15, start at 20, and slowly lower it.
This video was paid for by Streamlabs and Logitech, however, they didn't see the script or video until it was finished, and scheduled for release, and had no say over my thoughts or feedback on the tool.
🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 How This A.I. Edits TikToks For You! 0:31 What Is A Text-Based Editor? 1:46 How I Used This Tool To Edit My Streams Into TikTok 2:41 How To Cut Pauses, and Filler Words Automatically 3:12 How To Convert Landscape Video To Vertical 3:20 How To Automatically Subtitle Videos With Podcast Editor 3:54 How To Add Audio, Video, Images, and more to Podcast Editor 5:03 How To Automatically Translate Your Videos With Podcast Editor 5:40 Differences Between Free And Paid Podcast Editor 6:13 What Could Be Improved With Podcast Editor
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
#Editing #Streamlabs #GuideFixing My Viewers YouTube Thumbnails in 15 Minutes!Stream Scheme2023-11-21 | One of the most important aspects to getting a Youtube video to rank in search or be suggested in the algorithm is your CTR or Click-through rate, this means you need a great thumbnail to make people click your videos!
Today we’re walking you through how to make your thumbnails MORE clickable to your audience, which means getting more views, and we’re going to be looking at YOUR thumbnails you submitted to us, and fixing them in under 15 minutes!
The most important thing you have to think about is your audience, or if you don’t have an audience yet, your key demographic and what is going to make them click on your thumbnail.
What intent do they have, and what can you do to match that intent and get the click.
First let’s ask the most important question, Who is your key demographic? What does your Key Demographic want? And How can you appeal to them as a creator? This is how you create Youtube thumbnails to get more views!
My actionable tip here is that you need to think about your key demographic and audience, then make a thumbnail that appeals to them, not just looks beautiful, most of my thumbnails from a graphic design standpoint kinda aren't great but they appeal to their audience so they do well.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 What Stops New YouTubers Getting Views 0:36 Fixing My Viewers Battle Royal YouTube Thumbnail 1:39 How To Make An Unknown Niche Topic Clickable For Views 4:00 Final Results For Thumbnail One 4:42 Fixing My Viewers Podcast YouTube Thumbnail 5:55 Why You Should NEVER Include Episode Numbers In Thumbnails 6:30 How To Simplify Your Thumbnails To Get Views 8:23 Final Results For Thumbnail Two 9:05 Why Your Ideas Are Holding You Back 10:13 Fixing My Viewers Pokemon YouTube Thumbnail 10:30 How To Make An Idea That's Been Done Before Clickable 12:35 Final Results For Thumbnail Three 13:14 Fixing My Viewers Speedrunning YouTube Thumbnail 13:34 How To Steal Thumbnail Ideas To Grow 14:24 Final Results For Thumbnail Four 14:47 Fixing My Viewers YouTube Shorts Thumbnail 15:24 Why Overcomplicated Your Thumbnails Is Awful 15:57 How To Tell A Story With A YouTube Thumbnail 16:38 Final Results For Thumbnail Five 16:55 Why Changing Thumbnails Can Save Bad Videos
How to Make a Thumbnail for YouTube Videos?
YouTube thumbnails are an incredibly important element of your video optimization. One of the most important aspects to getting a Youtube video to rank in search or be suggested in the algorithm is your CTR or Click-through rate, this means you need an amazing thumbnail to make people click your videos!
When it comes to making a good Youtube Thumbnail, it is important to remember to keep it simple, and that means it is so important to simplify them down as much as possible.
My three major rules of a good simple thumbnail.
1. A clear simple background 2. Only 3 major elements, such as Face, Visuals, and text. 3. Remove any visuals that don’t help tell the story of the video
Don't forget that Youtube Thumbnails end up much smaller when uploaded, so the larger and simpler you can make your Thumbnails the better they'll perform meaning a higher Click-through rate and more views in general.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Justin Brown - Primal Videos and Vanessa Lau.
#twitch #growth #guideHow To Record Gameplay On PC With OBS (Best Settings, Resolutions, and MORE)Stream Scheme2023-11-14 | Recording gameplay has never been easier, anyone can do it, but not many people can do it right…. Laggy footage, blurry footage, no sound at all! I probably simplify a lot of this, so tech heads I apologise, you'll hate it, but beginners will hopefully be able to start recording.
We’re going to show you how to record game footage in OBS, all the settings to make the quality amazing, crisp, and clear, to make both your microphone and game sound perfect, then I am going to show you the most important thing you will learn, something massive gaming YouTubers do for every recording, that is how to record both your gameplay, and a webcam at the same time, inside OBS without burning the Webcam over the top of your game.
This gives you clean footage, meaning you can focus on one of the other, edit either without issues, and make your edits more engaging.
What Video Encoder to Use to Record Gameplay In OBS
To make this straightforward, If you’re using any Nvidia card past the GTX 600, which was released in 2012, so likely any Nvidia card being used on a semi-new PC, you’re going to pick Nvenc H.264. This means you’re using a special chip on your graphics card to encode footage, this chip is separate and just used solely for encoding decoding, so it won’t affect your gameplay performance.
And, If you’re using a graphics card from before that, you’ll likely use x264 which will be using your CPU to encode or decode.
What Bitrate to use to Record Gameplay In OBS
In the Encoder settings, you have Rate control, this will be CBR by default, which means you’re recording at the same bitrate all the time, and below that you set the bitrate of your choice, I found for 1080p 60fps that 16,000 - 18,000 gave me excellent quality for editing my gameplay footage later, but any higher was useless, but 8000 bitrate still gave me useable clean footage so if your PC is struggling, start there.
If you want to get a little more complicated in recordings, instead select CQP, which in short is smarter and will change the bitrate as needed so you’re not wasting data, this does mean rather than setting a bitrate you’re setting a CQ level, in short, low numbers here mean higher quality footage, high numbers mean lower quality, I found recording at 15 gave me footage that was perfect, and indistinguishable to viewers, but 20 will also give you totally useable footage.
🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 How To Record Gameplay in OBS 0:43 How To Install OBS 1:09 Where to download Graphics and assets for OBS 1:40 How To Set Base Canvas Resolution and Output Resolution In OBS 2:23 How are Base Canvas and Output Resolution different in OBS? 2:50 How To Set FPS In OBS 3:15 The Best OBS Settings for Gameplay Recording 3:30 How to change recording path in OBS 3:39 How to change recording format in OBS 4:04 What Video Encoder to use in OBS for recording gameplay? 5:06 How to change Audio Tracks in OBS Settings 5:20 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with NVENC Encoding 5:24 What Bitrate to use for recording gameplay in OBS 5:58 What Bitrate to use to record 1080p Gameplay footage? 6:30 Why you should use CQP instead of CBR in OBS 6:53 What CQ Level to use for recording gameplay in OBS 7:18 OBS Settings for Recording Gameplay - Preset, Tuning, Multipass Mode, Psycho-Visual Tuning, GPU, and B-Frames 8:05 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with x264 Encoding 8:38 How to fix bad footage in OBS 8:50 How to use the OBS Stats Panel 9:07 What are Dropped Frames In OBS 9:20 What are Lagged Frames In OBS 9:32 What are Skipped Frames In OBS 9:45 How To Add Gameplay Audio In OBS 11:20 How To Separate Audio Track Recording In OBS 12:00 How To Use Game Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay 12:45 How To Use Window Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay 13:00 How To Use Display Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay 13:20 How To Add A Webcam Source to OBS 13:40 How To Record Gameplay and Webcam In OBS Separately 14:50 How To Convert or Remux MKV files to Mp4 Files In OBS 15:04 How To Edit Dual Source Recordings In Post 15:46 How To Edit 6 Audio Tracks from OBS In Post
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.