Speaker 1: So I just wanted to show you how we do the podcast live with OBS, and just show you my setup for it. It used to take two hours to record the episode, and then like, it could be four or five hours editing it each week. We got the recordings down to maybe an hour, hour and a half, but the edit was still... It's so hard, because you've got to listen to the whole thing, and the whole thing, and the whole thing, just to... And then listen back to it, and like make some tweaks, and do those things. So I wanted to move it over to a... just a live thing. Do it on Twitch, maybe get some interaction. And then just be able to save myself all of that editing time. It just means you've got to be a little bit more on it, and I'll show you the sort of technical setup of how that all works. And of course there's this blog post where, like, I sort of, you know, you can sort of see all the details of what the audio is. If you come over to this post, yeah, you can see, like, how I've got it all set up. I've written it all down, I've made some notes, I've shown what was going on, shown how the record works. And that's all on Squares.tv. I'll put it... squares.tv slash live podcast, I guess, we'll put it on there. I'll put this over, so you know where to go, but it'll also be linked. Sorry, I have not shaved, and I wasn't planning on doing a video today, but I'm doing one. So this is what it looks like in OBS. And I've got the function keys set up, so I can switch between each different thing. So we start off with a blank screen, and then we do a FaceTime. I fire up Audio Hijack. So there's my stuff coming through, and then Ivanka's will capture the application, and I sort of boost it a little bit, and then I also boost it so that what I hear in my headphones is a bit louder, because what I hear through the computer doesn't seem to be as loud, and then I overcompensate. So that's how that's all set up. And then if we look at OBS, so Ivanka will be on that side via... So I have this together scene, which is how I kind of lay this out. So it's got the overlay, we've got the FaceTime window capture, and we've got the webcam, and we've just got... The Audio Hijack sound comes into this scene so that when you can't see us, you can't hear us either. So rather than doing it under Settings and picking a general audio input, we use an audio thing here, and then that just means as soon as we do the intro, so if I press F1, so that will mute out us talking as well as everything else. So that's quite handy to do, and I didn't realize that straight away, but yeah, it's quite useful. So then I have the title graphics, and then we have this audio session where there's some music playing underneath, like the intro-outro music, and the way I've done that is just like... We have like the grand podcast intro music. If I just go to a silent thing there. So we've got the intro-outro clip with a little bit of space at the start, because otherwise it doesn't start in OBS properly because it sort of fades up. Yeah, in fact, there it is with padding. So there's a little bit at the start just to deal with the thing. And then this is like a quieter loop of audio that just can loop under while we're talking, because I just basically mirrored how I used to edit it, and now I've sort of recreated that in OBS. So F2, we've got the music under us, and then once we're ready to go, we've got a little transition period where I sort of press F3, and it sort of goes into the music swell, and then I press F10 straight away, and it shows this little episode title. And then we stay on this same thing so the music can continue, so it plays for a little bit, and then it's going to fade down again. And then I press F3, which brings us back, and I say, How are you doing, Ivanka? And then we start talking, and then this clip eventually fades out of the music, and then it's just us talking. So we talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. How's it going? We do a little intro where we talk to each other, and then I press. So I load up. You see, there's clip one, clip two, clip three, clip four. So I used to always cut in little audio, like little music breaks, and I thought for the video, why don't I bring in little video breaks with the music on them. So if I press F4 now, so we just sort of come to a segue in the podcast. So we've got this one. This is my favorite one. Let's look at F6. This is fun. So I just press F6, and it plays the music. Yeah. And once the clip finishes, I'm ready on F5. And then we just come back to talking. And OBS will always sort of fade in and out, but now we're talking again, and I've just got these little clips lined up. And there's me sitting in the novelty. I should have made this a bit bigger. What's going to happen? I got goosed, and then F5 takes us back to the episode body. These clips, like, so I have, like, I just on my phone every week, I try and record a few random little clips that are just going to work. So I just hold the camera still usually just on some scene so that it doesn't matter too much if it loops, or sometimes there'll be something like this. Or let's see what we've got. Here's a boat that's kind of capsized, but I accidentally, you can see my mask on the edge. I accidentally had my mask over the lens, but it's fine. Here's some stuff from Milan when we were away. But just like little kind of, you know, cutaways that are kind of cool to see. And so these were all, you know, here's Rome, you know, so we've just got all these. Just try and, like, record little slices of life, and that can be, you know, local. Sometimes I've already put music on them, but most of the time I'm in a studio. Studio loops. I just did all these little bits of music ages ago. I did one a day for a while, basically. So I've just got all these tracks that... I don't know if you can hear these, actually. And so what I'll do is I've got all those little snippets of music, and then I just, in clip one, I can actually pause this by going here. I've got the audio, which is like, which track, which song do I want? Yeah, okay, that's good. And then I've got, like, the clip source. And sometimes I'll leave the audio on the clip because it sort of feels nicer, but sometimes I'll just do that. But the music is usually set to loop. The clip source is usually set to loop. And then it just kind of, like, brightens it up. And then as we come, then as we sort of come towards the end of the episode, I've got, you see, this is intro, outro. So we'll sort of end on another title as well. I wish it didn't have the little gap, and I probably could, like, tighten up that little gap a tiny bit, and it would still be good. And then it's, like, the same thing again. So we play it to here. I play it up until it's going to fade out. And then I hit, and I go, thanks for listening to that episode of the podcast. If you like us, you can support us on Patreon, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And then I hit this one again, and we start going, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. And the music fades up, and then I hit F12, and it just shows that title card. And then finally, like, I'm ready on F9. Just as the music gets to the right point to just go. So I wait for this point and then hit F9, and it comes into my little kind of good-to-hear eye dent. And then I just let that play to the end. And then we literally hit stop stream. So I start streaming, like, on this blank page. Start streaming, wait for it to kind of get ready, then hit F1, and then go, boom, and it just comes in, right? So we don't even sort of do a preamble live on stream. And that's really the size of it. Like, the microphones, like, so it's interesting with the audio because it's quite hard to judge the levels because the Mac is doing weird stuff to the audio levels as well. And, like, FaceTime's, like, noise-reducing the audio, but, like, my side isn't. So if you listen to the... I'm going to link to a podcast episode that shows the whole thing. It's, like, quite a long episode. There's quite a lot of background noise in it because my side's a bit noisy, and especially, you can hear, there's, like, work going on outside the studio. It's not as quiet as it used to be. But on the other side, it's being noise-reduced, and the Mac's doing all this clever stuff. So it's sort of like there's a bit of asymmetry, but I think it, like, works well. And compared to how long I used to spend, like, I save so much time. And also, like, the by-product of doing it all in one go and releasing it all on the same day is, like, it's no longer, like... Because we record it on Friday, and then I'm thinking about it. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Like, Monday, I do an edit, and that seems to take, like, so long, most of my day on Monday. And then I've still, like, got to listen back to it and make notes, and then I've still got... So it's, like, month, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Like, it's just on my mind. But now I just do it all on the Friday. And then I have a checklist, which can I show you? Without doxing too much, this is my... So if I look at the podcast... This is basically what's involved in releasing it. So I just do this after I do it. So we download the full Twitch video. Dashboard, Twitch TV. So I download the whole video, and then literally just export it from QuickTime as the video... Well, I just rename it, and upload it to YouTube, and export it as audio, and upload that to the podcast platform. So on Twitch, it's literally in... This is annoying. In Content Video Producer, we've got... You know, I just download it, unpublish it straight away, and I just get a video file that I can just turn into the episode. I don't have to do any other... I don't touch it anymore. So it's just night and day. So if you're sort of feeling brave enough to try it, and don't get distracted by chat too much... Like, I try and sort of check in, but not, like... And sometimes I reply in chat by just typing if it's awkward to sort of, like, actually reply as part of the podcast, because Ivanka's not really looking at the chat. It's just me. But it's just night and day compared to how long it used to take me to do this podcast. And it also means, like, if we do a longer episode, like an hour, it's, like, not gonna be... You know, 20 minutes extra audio recording is like an hour extra editing. So, you know, it's just... It's sort of exponential as the episode gets longer, how much more work you've got to do. But so if you're sort of feeling brave, and you don't mind a few sort of... a dodgy start, or a few, like, trial runs then I would really recommend trying just streaming it and just doing it all in one go because it just takes up that entire editing thing. And the caveat is, like, the audio is not gonna be quite as perfect, and there may be some slack time here and there. It's not gonna be, like, quite as slick. So if you listen to our older episodes, they're a lot more polished. But I think for what the podcast is, which is us having a chat, I don't think it takes anything away to just maybe have a slight compromise on the audio, but just to be able to sort of, like, it not taking quite so much of my life and letting me do other things, like this platform, squares.tv, and make a video like this where I talk about it. So I think it all, I think it's all worth it. And then just going back to the checklist, I do write, like, the episode notes, I do those in notes. So you've got to be, as you're going, each link that we mention, I write it down in my notepad, which, yeah, like, I write the links down as I go, and I cross off which one of the, the clips that I've used already, just so that when it comes to doing the description, so now I do it in notes, so that, so it has this format, so I sort of copy and paste the previous week episode's description, do the title, bring all the links together, and then I copy that into the Patreon post, into the YouTube post, into the, I also upload it, like, to SoundCloud so that I can listen back to it on my podcast app, but it's like a secret SoundCloud post so that I can listen back to it and just see if it's okay. I used to use that to actually, like, note all the time codes that I wanted to do and edit, but now it's just like, make sure there's nothing, like, I haven't accidentally, you know, Ivanka hasn't, we haven't said something we shouldn't have on there. And then, yeah, that's, yeah, I've also got the website set up so that it does a link through to the thing, but you don't need to worry about that. So it's, oh, the artwork as well, I'll just show you the artwork quickly. So the artwork is, I do do a proper thumbnail. So we've got this, I just, like, go duplicate, like, pick a different color for the background, sort of find some image on YouTube, update the text, and then sort of just copy that through into a YouTube thumbnail as well. And then I use those as a thing so that then when you see it on the grandpodcast.com website, it looks, yeah, it's not out yet. It looks like, it looks good. I can format that. I actually have, like, a special script that it goes and gets the RSS feed of the podcast and turns that into a Firebase thing, so that, which is what drives this endpoint. So let me know if that's something you want to know more about. Like, I just literally have it as a new tab. This goes and downloads all of my stuff and uploads it into Firebase so that it also powers my website as well. Just, like, it just grabs everything off Instagram and YouTube and all those things. But we can talk about that another time. Cheers. I hope you find that helpful. ♪