on this channel we've told you guys that if you're a church that live streams you should consider putting an end to it but today we're actually going to talk about how you do live stream because I know there's a lot of churches including my own that still see it as a necessary option so we're going to be using OBS which is a program that's free and it's one of the most popular ways that churches stream out there let's get started now to be completely honest there's so many different ways that you can live stream and there's amazing tutorials out there that you can find on YouTube for whatever your specific situation is this video is going to be very general and it's going to assume that you have a camera a computer and you want to use OBS we're using that as a very basic setup so I'll show you guys how to use OBS I'll show you how to add at least two cameras assuming you want to switch camera angles while you're live streaming and I'll show you how to add a source for things like your Worship lyrics or your scripture references and stuff like that even though I don't have Pro Presenter right in front of me the principal will be the same thing also show you how to connect OBS to your YouTube channel so that it all integrates nicely when you're streaming to YouTube so this is a pretty General tutorial with a really basic setup but if you have specific questions on cameras that you're using or how to set something up specifically in OBS let me know in the comments down below I'll do my best to answer it but also know there are thousands of tutorials out there using OBS for people streaming all sorts of content and it's a great resource to just search YouTube and find more tutorials on so step one download and install OBS OBS stands for open broadcaster software it's completely free you want to download it directly from their website so make sure to install that and then we can move on from the tutorial I'll show you what it will look like from the beginning screen to end okay so when you first open OBS it will look something like this and it's important to note I am on PC OBS is compatible with Max but I feel like it's a little bit more limited on Macs today's tutorial is with PC I'm going to be showing you guys how to add different scenes that you can switch between while you're live streaming to switch camera angles and put different slides up and stuff like that but something important to note right off the bat is that if your church has a video switcher this becomes way way easier anything that you want to show to your live stream audience has to be fed into OBS so if you don't have a video switcher this means that every device you add has to be added individually every single camera that you're going going to use and if you have like five different cameras that's going to be difficult because they all need their own capture card which we'll get into if your church is like mine and you're using the same PC to run Worship lyrics and Pro Presenter in real life as you are streaming you have to add a separate source for that and the switching of camera angles and doing different things for your live stream audience specifically has to be done in OBS kind of manually or you set up hotkeys but it's a lot more difficult if you don't have a video switcher with a video switcher you can plug your sound board and all of your cameras into there and then you actually do all of your changes of the camera angles and putting up slides and everything from the video switcher itself and then you hook that up to your computer add it to OBS as it's one source and you're done now video switchers are very expensive there's also a learning curve with them so a lot of churches don't have that option so we're assuming you don't have a video switcher because if you did honestly this tutorial wouldn't be very long so the first thing you want to do in OBS whether you have a switcher or not is figure out what settings you should be using and OBS has has a very nice tool that I do recommend it's called the auto configuration wizard so you're going to go up to the very top toolbar click tools and then hit Auto configuration wizard as you can see it asks us what we want to be using OBS for in this case you would want to optimize for streaming and recording is just secondary so we'll click next and then it's going to ask you what do you want your base canvas to be and your FPS so your base canvas most of you guys are going to want to be using 1920x1080 or 1280x720 just figure out what resolution you want this to be at it's not actually the same resolution you'll be outputting your stream to but just figure this out and then match your output to that FPS stands for frames per second most of you guys don't need to go above 30 frames it is up to you if you want 60 frames it's kind of a style preference but understand that the more frames you have the more powerful your PC and Equipment kind of needs to be so I'll leave that choice once again up to you for today I'm going to go with 30 frames per second and then we'll click next next up is streaming information so you don't have to connect this to YouTube if that's not where you want to stream but the nice thing about OBS is it gives you an array of really popular options you can see twitch YouTube Facebook live restream or Twitter and if you don't use any of these or if you have a custom one you can pick that but OBS will give you your own stream key in any streaming platform that I can think of asks for a specific stream key so if you have one of the options that's not listed here it will still give you a stream key that you can enter there and it'll connect just fine but today we're going with YouTube I would leave these two boxes checked estimate bit rate that's something we could go over but essentially your bit rate is the rate of the data that you're sending to your live stream and how much you want to be doing that at what rate and so basically the higher that it is you're going to be sending a lot of data data and the quality will look really good but it might lag behind and have difficulty and you might have stuttering and buffering so it can cause issues if it's too low you won't have any stuttering or lag bag necessarily but it's going to look pixelated and have issues so how do you figure out the correct bit rate for your for your stream I would just let OBS tell you so if you leave this box checked it's going to estimate your bit rate based off of your internet speed and your system requirements of your computer so I would do this with the computer that you actually plan to stream from don't like set all this up from home just to test it and then go and expect it to be exactly the same on a different computer so we'll leave all of this checked and then I'm actually going to connect my account to YouTube to show you guys how this would work if you're doing it with your Church's YouTube channel now I didn't want to show my login information but the only thing that you missed is it asks for authorization so it brought up my church's Gmail account that the YouTube channel is associated with and all I had to do was click authorize and we can move forward now and as you can see it connected my account Chapel Valley that's my church we'll click next now it's going to be performing the rest of its Auto configuration Wizards so this is trying to figure out what settings you should be using and don't worry it won't lock you into these settings it's just trying to get you like up base ground to start with and you can actually manually tweak things if you don't agree with the suggestions that it has but this is going to help you with things like bitrate so here you go it gives you a report of everything that it suggests to do and then you can just hit apply settings if you agree with those and then if you don't honestly you can just go down here to settings and tweak everything but we'll get to that later now it automatically opened a YouTube chat window that's what this is about but it's going to get confusing if it sits there so I'm just going to close this window okay now we are finally ready to add our first scene so to add a scene what we're going to do is go down to this first box here on the bottom left where it says scenes and we're going to hit the little plus symbol at this point it will ask us what we want the scene to be titled in this case I'm going to call this the wide angle all I want on this scene is a wide shot of my pastor on the stage for example right and as you can tell I'm not in a church so we're gonna have to use our imagination as I'm just in my house but the principle is still the same so we need to add our camera as a source and OBS is going to be able to tell what you have available as a Source based on what you have hooked up to your computer so how do you get your camera hooked up to your computer so OBS knows what it is today our wide angle camera is going to be this DSLR it's a Canon 70D it's an old one but any camera that you're using probably has a video out of some sort this one has a mini HDMI out so we're going to plug that in here and then the other end is going to go into a capture card which you're going to need for your computer to get this video signal there's tons of capture cards out there I recommend the cam links they're really easy one end is a USB that plugs into your computer and the other end is where the HDMI to your camera comes from so you just plug that in and you plug this straight into your computer and it will recognize it which we'll see in just a second at the time of recording cam links are about 100 bucks a pop there are cheaper capture cards out there and the only difference I've seen from the cheaper ones is you do lose quality and color but if you really are just trying to get your live stream up and running and you don't care too much about the production value of it the cheaper capture cards should work just fine now if you have like four different cameras and each one has to be hooked up to your computer I wouldn't recommend getting a cam link for every single camera they do have internal capture cards that you can install into your PC and they have like four different inputs but be aware the more that you hook up to your live stream the more cameras you add to OBS the more powerful your machine is going to have to be or it might start having issues because that's you're asking it to do a lot of stuff again that's a pro of having a video switcher but I'm going to take this HDMI and plug it into my cam link which is going to go to my computer and then I'm going to plug the other end of this HDMI into my camera in the back of the room and we'll add it as our first camera in OBS all right I got my camera set up in the back and it's plugged into my computer let's add it as a source so all we have to do is go to the sources box which is the second box over here and we're going to hit the plus symbol and we want to add a video captured device from here we're going to call this our wide camera you can title It Whatever want whatever you want that makes sense and it will bring up this menu so the first thing you want to do is tell it what device you want it to be using now it's not going to detect what your actual camera name is it's going to detect the capture card that you plugged in to your computer so in this case that cam link is the one that we want and if I drop down this little Dropbox here we should see it somewhere there it is Cam link 4K and boom there it is it pops up now the rest of this menu you can mess with it if you want a specific resolution or FPS type if you know what you want to be streaming to so let's say I don't know 1920 by 1080 since that's our only option apparently and for FPS remember we want it at 30 frames in this case and 29.97 that will work for the rest of this I'm actually going to leave it at default for today's tutorial you can mess around with color space and color range if you know the specifics of your camera but default is going to be fine for our case today and I want to leave the rest of these settings completed as well I'll hit OK and look we have our first camera angle it's out of focus so let me switch the that and I'll also touch on something else we'll adjust it here that looks a little better that's much better and then I'll adjust the angle of it as well okay so I got it added it's a lot more in Focus now you guys can see me talking to you right now in this camera from back there which is pretty cool right and something I wanted to add is that you may have to kind of play with how it looks on your screen see how I have this black border around here so I actually am just going to grab this wide angle and I'm going to fill it to the full screen here just like that the other thing to note is a lot of you guys might have icons around the screen like your shutter speed your ISO your aperture things like that it depends on the camera obviously but most of them have the option to get rid of those icons on these canons all I have to do is hit the info button twice so now we have our wide angle camera set up with our wide angle scene and the only other thing to note is that every single device you add to OBS is going to give you the audio of that device so in this case I don't want this camera's audio to be picked up and put in the live stream it's not very good just being the microphone on the camera itself it's super far away from the pastor that's not the Audio I want I want my audio to come from the sound board so what I'm going to do is bring this all the way down so it's at zero or alternatively you could just mute it by clicking this little speaker icon now let's move on to adding our close-up shot of our pastor so now we're going to add another scene as our close-up camera okay and we're gonna call it like our zoomed in angle I guess or something like that so in order to do that we need to add a new scene and we're going to call this close up so this is a completely new scene and got rid of our wide angle as you can see and for this I'm going to add a video capture device just like I did before and we'll call this close-up camera [Music] so this will bring up the same menu we saw before and so we're going to go to device and this time I actually have to use one of my webcams for an example which is called the HD Pro webcam C920 it's the second one here and boom there I am sitting right in front of my computer and you can see our wide angle camera back there as well for the sake of this tutorial I'm going to leave all the settings except for one at default because all of your cameras are different and it would kind of be useless for me to spend time showing you how I make this specific webcam look good but it is important to note you do want your resolution to be matching whatever you're streaming at in my case 1920 by 1080 and there we go takes up the whole screen this is our close-up shot for our third scene we're going to be adding our presentation software which is things like Pro Presenter or easy worship or whatever you might be using after all we want our online audience to see when our pastor is referencing a specific scripture and for our worship we want them to see the lyrics right so if your church is like mine you're actually using the same computer that runs Pro Presenter as you are streaming from OBS so in order to add Pro Presenter we're going to add the display that we're sending propresenter to no matter what presentation software you use if you go into the preferences and you look at the displays it will probably tell you what display you are actually presenting on and that's the same display that you want to add in OBS now I don't have Pro Presenter specifically on this computer that I'm using for this tutorial but I am going to show you Worship lyrics and I am going to show you the same display capture that you would add anyways and the principle still applies so we'll go over to our third scene and once again we're going to hit the plus symbol and we'll call this presentation software again you can title these whatever you want so this is very similar to how you would add a camera but instead of adding a video capture device we're going to add a display capture so we'll go to this plus symbol under sources and add display capture and we'll call it Pro Presenter you can leave the capture method at automatic but you can see it's already detected the display I was going to use but this display Dropbox this is asking me what display or what monitor you can think of it that way you want to be using so this is going to capture the entire display so you're going to want to make sure that you're not having like Gmail open or moving your mouse around on that monitor because your online audience is going to see all that but this is the display I want to use for today's example this would be the same display that propresenter is displaying to so we'll click OK and boom this is going to be our example for Pro Presenter today so now I have my wide angle my close-up shot and my presentation software but the one thing we didn't add is our audio in order to get your audio into your live stream once again it has to be something that's plugged into your computer and most of you guys have like your worship team and your pastor's microphone and everything going through some type of sound board that you're adjusting right and it's coming through your house speakers and everything like that so you want to take the audio out that is on your soundboard and you want to plug it into one of two things the cheaper and not ideal option is a interface this is something that the audio out from your soundboard will plug into similar to these capture devices for the cameras and then that is going to plug into your computer and then you just tell OBS to add that as an audio device the second ideal but more expensive option is another soundboard again live streaming is such a complicated subject with so many different factors involved audio specifically I highly suggest this video that I'm showing right now to learn more about it but that's kind of the basis of how you add audio into your OBS you need either a interface or a soundboard or additional soundboard I should say so today I'm going to pretend that I have an audio interface and I'm going to go down to this plus symbol under sources and I would add audio input capture and we'll just title this our sound board for today this will bring up this menu and you just tell it what device you're picking and remember this is going to be either your soundboard or your interface I don't have either of those with me today so we're just going to pretend and I'm going to click one of my other webcams since it has a microphone on it and it will show us audio so you can see what it'll look like we'll click OK and now we have soundboard and it's showing us that it has its own Audio Level okay now no matter what our online audience is seeing I want them to be able to hear everything that's happening through our sound board because our sound guy is making sure to mute microphones or do audio Transitions and everything like that so I want our online audience to be able to hear anything happening on our soundboard just as our real life audience would hear that means that when I'm switching between camera angles and everything like that I want it to be consistent no matter what we're showing and you'll notice we added the sound board to our presentation software scene this means we also should add it to our close-up camera and our wide angle so no matter what we're switching between people will be able to hear our soundboard because it's on every single scene so I'm going to switch to close up camera angle and I'm going to go to add audio input capture once again but this time instead of creating a new one we can just switch to these add this add existing option and click soundboard and this will save all our settings and everything and it already knows the source that we're using and boom look at that it's already on the scene it even has the same level audio or the volume slider as the previous scene and now we need to add the soundboard to the wide angle scene so once again we'll switch to the wide angle scene we'll go to add audio input capture and then we're going to add existing soundboard and boom now the soundboard is on every single scene again make sure that every single scene only has audio in the audio mixer that you actually want coming through so like this close-up camera the volume is all the way up for that that's not what I want so I'm actually going to drag this all the way down and then I'm going to click mute just to be safe and if I check presentation software the soundboard is the only one but that's just a quick reminder to make sure that all the audio sources are muted other than the ones that you want to actually come through in your audio mixer section because again your live stream audience is going to hear anything that's showing here so now we have all of our camera angles set up and our soundboard and our presentation software so if we were to be streaming right now I could effortlessly just switch between these as I wanted to to switch camera angles as the pastor is talking just like this if this is our wide angle shot this is our close-up shot if this is our worship or our scripture references for example we could easily seamlessly between all of them and if you don't like this kind of dissolve effect that it does it does that little fade if you don't like that you can simply just go to scene transitions here and change that from Fade to cut and now it just instantly changes there's no dissolve or anything like that but I personally like the fade so I'm going to keep it if you don't see scene transitions as an options all you need to do is go up to docs here at the top on the toolbar and then just make sure that scene transitions is checked that will bring it up as a window and by the way you can move these windows around however you want so if you want scene transitions here sources over here whatever you want to do OBS lets you move things around very easily but I'm going to move these back and we're good to go there so we've got all of our scenes set our audio added we're good to go how do we actually stream well first of all I would advise you to actually record and do a practice session the nice thing about OBS is it's not just used for streaming it's used for screen recording as well so you can actually click start recording down here and record an entire session just do a practice service and see how it goes you might run into some issues that you never even thought about before and that way you can practice and get good one once you're good on that and you want to learn how to start streaming you can move on to this next step if you remember at the beginning we actually connected our YouTube account but if you skip that step or if you want to look at a couple more details related to streaming specifically you can go down to the settings window so let's open that up so if we click on output there's all sorts of things you can mess with here I highly suggest just immediately changing this to Advanced if your computer has an Nvidia graphics card you will see an option in this video encoder section here this Dropbox and it will be an Nvidia option I highly suggest if you have it to switch to Nvidia h.264 this will put all of the stress of streaming onto your graphics card rather than your processor and your processor kind of needs to be freed up in order to have a really easy stream if you don't you're probably going to have to leave this at H2 or I'm sorry x264 but again that configuration wizard that we did at the beginning it's also going to help with what it suggests as a video encoder and I would just go with its recommendation but if you didn't do the setup wizard or if you had issues with it the two options would either be an Nvidia option or an x264 but I'm going to leave it at this Nvidia h.264 option if you don't know what your bit rate should be just run an internet speed test which is free on Google just type internet speed test be the first thing that pops up you can run your speed test and then Google what should my bit rate be with this amount of speed and it'll actually give you a good range and just put it into the bitrate section here but again the configuration wizard will have a suggested bitrate that you can just keep it at if you want now this section also if you go up to recording this shows you where your recordings are going to go so how I said earlier that you should record a session for practice this recording path right here this is where you would change if you want that video to be done and then live somewhere in your computer you would change it here but that's everything we're going to touch in the output section now let's move on to video so we're going to click video and here I don't actually have to touch anything but just check the that your base canvas resolution is the same that you're outputting to just a personal recommendation some of you guys might find better results if you stream at 1280x720 not quite 1080 so that's up to you but I would only change the output here not the base resolution because most standard things that you're going to be putting into OBS do have 1920 by 1080 as the resolution and then the last thing we're going to do is go to stream as I said earlier it's already connected to my YouTube account so I don't have to do anything here but if you wanted to connect a different streaming service or anything like that you can do it in this screen and we should be good to go I'm going to click ok now so now I'm ready to stream and this could be an entire video in itself but if you are using YouTube I highly recommend setting up your broadcast or your stream ahead of time here I'm logged into YouTube and I'm just going to go up to this little camera icon and then I'm going to click go live this brings me to YouTube studio and you either won't have anything here in the little manage tab that I'm looking or you'll be on this stream tab so if I show you the stream tab it's going to be all sorts of confusing and look all kind of crazy but this is kind of YouTube side of your stream what I recommend doing is going back to this manage tab here and then scheduling a stream here in the top right from here you probably only have the option to create a new stream but you're going to hit create new you're going to title your message add a description tell YouTube when you actually want to stream set a date and time and everything like that and then click save so these are all scheduled streams that my church currently has ready to go now the reason that's important is because if you remember in OBS we linked our account so if we go back to OBS and we're ready to stream all we have to do now is go to manage broadcast here that will bring up this screen and it actually wants us to set up a new stream from scratch we're not going to do that we're going to go to select existing broadcast since it's already connected to our YouTube channel from here we can see all the same streams that I just showed you guys because our YouTube channel is connected to it and I would just click one and then from here all I would have to do is I can either select broadcast and kind of get it ready to go or if I'm like really ready to just stream right here you can hit select broadcast and start streaming but I usually just kind of arm it so we're going to select broadcast all right so now OBS is ready to go it knows exactly what stream to use and it's ready to start and you would be good to go all you would have to do is Click start streaming I'm not actually going to do that for this tutorial because my church is not streaming and I don't want to go live on our YouTube channel with just me sitting in my house I don't think that would be something that my pastor would be thrilled about but that really is the last step so again you guys this is a very general tutorial in a very basic setup but I do hope that it helped you grasp the concept at least how to get started in OBS with adding some devices and streaming to your church service with all the different equipment that churches use and all the different streaming platforms out there there are so many different ways that you can stream your live service so again if you have specific questions I'd love to hear them in the comments down below so I can do my best to at least answer them myself or point you in the correct direction but I do hope that you guys found this video helpful and if you did make sure to hit like And subscribe because we like to help churches out just like yours all the time with the content that we put out 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