Set Up YouTube Live Streams Easily With Riverside (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: If you want to go live on YouTube, how do you actually get your camera feed onto your channel? Well, it's easier than you might think. I'm setting up a live stream for my own YouTube channel, so I'll walk you through it in Riverside. We'll connect my channel and schedule the stream together. Let's get started. First, open up YouTube and click Create and select Go Live. Activation for live streaming in YouTube can take up to 24 hours, so do this ahead of time. You'll also need a Riverside plan that includes live streaming. In Riverside, open up your studio's planner and create a new session. Set the date and time, check the time zone, and add a description. I'll also add a custom thumbnail that I designed. Next, turn on live stream destinations. I'll click Add Destination, choose YouTube, and sign in with the Google account that owns my channel. Back in Riverside, enable YouTube as a destination, check the visibility, and click Create Session. You'll see the stream in your planner. On the stream day, open the event in the planner and click Start Session. In the studio stream panel, check that YouTube is connected and that you see the title of the event you scheduled. Once I have my preset layouts all ready to go, and software-wise, my stream is ready, I'll go ahead and close anything that I don't want appearing on the screen. If you have a second monitor, it's handy for keeping Riverside open while you share footage from the other one. When you're ready, go ahead and go live. Give YouTube a few moments to catch up, but just know that you're live, so be ready. I usually like to pull up my stream on YouTube from a separate device, or from my other screen. While I'm live, I can use those preset layouts to switch between each other, add overlays, and bring viewer comments on screen. Which, by the way, you'll also be able to see everyone's comments live in Riverside, connected to all your streaming platforms, if you happen to be multi-streaming. Now, one thing I really like about streaming with Riverside is that it records the session while I'm live. When I end the stream, Riverside processes the recording and creates a magic episode that I can keep editing further. I can trim the time I spent waiting for people to join, and publish the full iPhone walkthrough as its own YouTube video. Riverside also finds highlights and turns them into magic clips for social media. Now, that's the appeal for me. I can teach the walkthrough once, and have something ready to share with people who missed it live. So, if you want to try live streaming with Riverside, you can use the link in the description to get started. And if you want to learn more about recording, editing, and creating better content with Riverside, I'll link a few more videos for you to watch right up here, and in the description down below. Be sure to like this video, subscribe for more content just like this, and if you have any questions about going live, feel free to leave them in the comments, and I'll be happy to answer them personally. Thank you so much for watching, and we can't wait to see what you create.