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A Primer on Twitch.tv presented by @digitalsurgeons

WHAT IS STREAMING?

Streaming is broadcasting

TWITCH PARTNER

CURRENT VIEWERS

VIEWERS ALL-TIME

FOLLOWERS

WHY SHOULD YOU BE STREAMING?

Why you should be streaming • Gives the your brand visibility and recognition in the space

• Increases your experience with the platforms for future client projects

• Broadcast designs are precursors for client broadcast projects

• Demonstrates your passion for games, and knowledge of streaming.

• Provides a test bed for marketing strategies that leverage streaming

• Allows you to share game experiences with others who share similar passions

• Its super fun!

HOW DOES IT WORK?

THE BASIC SETUPAn example of a common personal stream setup

XBOX PSCapture Card

PCOBS XSplit

TWITCH

STREAM MONSTERS

THE ADVANCED SETUPAn example of an advanced setup you might find at a local event

Console

PC

TWITCH

STREAM MONSTERSCommentators

HDMI SplitterMixer

Projector

Live Audience

For LiveEvents Only

THE PROFESSIONAL SETUPAn example of a professional setup you might find at a major gaming event production

HOW DO I START STREAMING?

PC Games Console Games

EQUIPMENT NEEDS

• PC • Broadcast Software (OBS or XSplit) • Headset • Webcam

• Console • Capture Card (Avermedia LGP) • PC or Mac • Broadcast Software (OBS or Split) • Headset • Webcam

Open Broadcaster SoftwareFree, open source software for live streaming and recording

Open Broadcaster SoftwareFree, open source software for live streaming and recording

It’s Multi-Platform.

SETTING UP OPEN BROADCASTER

Overview

1. The Preview

2. Scenes/Sources

3. Functions

The Interface

The Preview This big grey box is your preview area, you can see what your stream looks like going out.

This is not exactly what your viewers see though, that depends on your network connection

and quality settings. You can resize the OBS window and the preview will resize as well.

Scenes & Sources On the left we have a box for Scenes. These are how you lay out all your video sources, images,

text and whatever else you have. You'll set a name for each one and there is no hard limit on how

many you can have. For example, you might have one scene with a game filling the screen, and

another one that has the game smaller, with a background behind it and your webcam in the

corner. How you set up your scenes is up to you.

Sources are the actual things that are showed on the stream. You can add images, specific

windows, text, capture cards and more. Each one can be moved around and resized however you

like as well as other settings pertaining specifically to each type of source.

Important Functions

• Audio Levels

• The two bars are for setting how loud or quiet your mic & desktop audio is. Click the icons

themselves to mute or unmute.

• Settings

• Opens up the settings menu

• Start Streaming

• Starts your broadcast

More Important Functions

• Edit Scene

• When you are streaming live or just previewing your stream, clicking this will allow you move and resize.

• Preview Stream

• This shows your stream in the preview area so you can see how it looks before actually streaming and while you're

setting it up

• Global Sources

• Setting a source up as a global source means it is always active and doesn't need to 'turn on'. It's very useful to set

up webcams as global sources so there is no loading time when you switch scenes

1. The Preview

2. Scenes/Sources

3. Functions

The Interface Review

Adding a Source

Right-Click inside the sources panel and select your desired source type

Window Capture

• If you’re broadcasting a console game, this is likely hour you’ll add your game video as a source.

• If you’re capturing using an Avermedia LGP, select the RECentral window from the dropdown to capture your gameplay!

• Rarely used when streaming PC games

Game Capture• Very powerful capture method allowing direct capture of the

framebuffer of a game.

• Primary Source for streaming PC games

• Select the game or game window you’d like to capture and go!

• Applications that hook the framebuffer of a game can interfere with Game Capture.

TWITCH ADMIN PANEL

Profile

About The Profile• The profile displays information about the broadcaster (obviously)

• Past broadcasts (archives) and highlights appear on the profile

• Info panel for displaying things like a stream schedule, upcoming events and broadcasts, making announcements, pushing sponsor objectives, etc.

• Its important to keep this updated because its what visitors see when you’re offline.

Channel

About The Channel

• This is the main UI that your viewers see when you broadcast.

• Displays profile information below the player/chat

• Its where your viewers can chat with you, and other viewers, about whats going on in your broadcast.

Video Manager

About The Video Manager• Its where your past broadcasts show up.

• Allows you to create highlights of key moments in past broadcasts

• Allows you to archive and upload to YouTube.

• Where you manage your broadcast history (duh)

• Archives are auto-deleted after 7 days.

The Dashboard

About The Dashboard• The Dashboard is your command center

• Check on your stream quality, used for interacting with chat.

• Set your broadcast title, and what game you’re playing here.

• Controls to add new editors, view broadcast history, and view broadcast analytics.

• Get your stream key on this page.

• DO NOT KEEP THE DASHBOARD OPEN WHILE YOU STREAM

STREAMING TIPS

Twitch Chat Commands• /mod [user] to add a user as a moderator

• /host [channel] to host a channel

• /ignore [user] to ignore a user

• /timeout [user] [seconds] put a user on timeout

• /ban [user] ban a toxic user

• /subscribers to set chat to “subscribers only”

You probably need a chat bot… We suggest Moobot.

Broadcaster Tips• Set your broadcast title each time you stream or switch games/activities!

• Switch scenes from time to time to keep the broadcast interesting

• Interacting with chat is paramount. Do it, a lot!

• When twitch.tv/digitalsurgeons goes live, host the channel!

• Stream for a minimum of 2 hours at a time to allow viewers time to discover engage with your stream.

• Be Positive, Be Energetic, Be Yourself!

• Consistency is key. You NEED a stream schedule!

Check us out on Twitch: twitch.tv/digitalsurgeons

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