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You can stream your vCR Sessions on YouTube and Facebook for thousands of non interactive viewers. Follow the steps 1 to 4 carefully to get the live streaming for LEARN vCR. You may not be able to stream to both YouTube and Facebook at the same time using one computer, but you could do it using two computers. Use one computer to host the session while streaming to YouTube and the second one to join the session as guest to stream to Facebook.
NOTE: You may have to practice the steps a couple of times to be a master of live streaming. Trying this first time just before a real event may not be a good idea.
OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform for screencasting and streaming. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux distributions, and BSD. It may be also used for local recordings.
If you don't have OBS, you can download here and then install.
Start OBS Studio application. You will see the following screen.
Click Studio Mode button at the right bottom corner of the control panel. Then the screen will be divided in to two.
Preview: Scene — The scenes that you loading (entire desktop or a application window) into the OBS
Program: Scene — The scenes that you are going to live stream into the internet
Add a scene by click the + mark in the scenes tab at left bottom corner. Then it will ask for a name, give a suitable name to the scene and click ok
In Sources tab, click + Add Source. Add a Window Capture . Then property window will appear and you have to select the Window by clicking the drop-down list and click ok (selected window preview will appear on the property window).
On Mac OS, select macOS Screen Capture and then set the Method as Window Capture.
To get the LEARN vCR into the scene, select the browser tab on which your session is going to be viewed. The tab should not be the one your session started, but it should be a different tab you separately joined to the session. Two tabs; one to host your session and another to view and stream your session. Streaming the presenter/teacher (host) scene should not be a good idea as it is not the participants view.
In Preview: Scene , You have to adjust the scaling to the canvas by playing with tiny red squares. You can also drag the image here and there.
Under the Sources tab, click again the + to add an Audio Input Capture. Select device accordingly as you prefer or keep it as default.
Check the Audio Mixer progress bars to know whether audio input capturing works.
Click Transition, to get your Preview: Scene into Program: scene which is going to be streamed.
Finally you have to configure the YouTube/Facebook streaming key
Click on Settings
and then click on Stream to select the Service as Youtube-RTMPS or Facebook Live and then click on Use streaming key to paste the streaming key (see the Step 3). Click Ok.
Your OBS is now ready for streaming. You can click Start Streaming to go live after the next two steps completed.
Following will help you to know how you can schedule a YouTube Live event and get a shareable URL.
Login to your YouTube account and click on the Camera icon
to select Go live. You will now see the YouTube Studio.
Select Manage to schedule an event.
Then click on SCHEDULE STREAM and select CREATE NEW.
Enter a title and a description. Select broadcast type as Streaming software.
Scrol down to select No, it's not made for kids and then click on Next
Click Next again if you don't want to change any.
Then set the Visibility as Public and the date/time of the event.
Finally click on DONE.
You can now find the YouTube streaming Key at the middle of the screen. Click on COPY to get it copied.
Now you can use this key for the last part of the Step 2.
Shareable event URL can be found by clicking on the arrow as shown below.
Get the Video link copied.
You can share the URL over email or any other communication method.
Following will help you to know how you can schedule a Facebook Live event and get a shareable URL.
Login to your Facebook account
You will land on your Facebook Wall. Click on Live video
then click on Create event
Enter the Event name, date time and Privacy as Public. Then click on Next
Click on Create event, then click on Set up live video.
You can now see the Event URL. Get it copied to share with your audience.
Select the video source as Streaming software as shown on the above picture. You will then see the streaming key middle of the screen. Get it copied to use for the last task of the step 2.
When you reached the scheduled time, login to your YouTube Studio or Facebook Live to select your schedule event to press Go Live.
Login to LEARN vCR. Create/start your session.Now you have to open another browser window to join the session as a guest. This window is going to be streamed by OBS. The first window (the host window) should not be streamed.
In your OBS Studio, set the source as the second browser window and adjust the scene appearance as needed.
Now click Start Streaming. Your stream should appear on YouTube/Facebook.
You may have to press Go Live on your YouTube/Facebook to start broadcasting.
If you need further assistance, contact LEARN TAC