Peter Katz - Online Streaming Audio Video Tutorial

0:00 Opening
1:24 Live stream examples
3:13 Overview
5:12 Signal chain
9:26 Zoom
15:40 Loopback
18:59 Audio/video sync explanation
21:15 ECAMM
26:51 Simulcasting
28:00 Checklist

Hi fellow musicians and speakers (and anyone trying to go live online). I’ve done a very deep dive over these past couple of months on how to have great audio/video for online concerts/ talks/broadcasts and wanted to share that knowledge. No strings attached, just want to share the knowledge and elevate the game for all of us. I’ve been helping a lot of friends 1 on 1 and just can’t keep up with the demand to help so I decided to self-record a video going through everything. It’s not a heavily edited video with tight cuts and background music. I just wanted to get it out there to you without any further delay, but hopefully it has the info you’re looking for. As a follow up, I’m hosting a FREE Zoom session next Tuesday night (June 2nd) at 7 pm where you can log in with your questions and I can give advice and support with your set-ups in real time. Just so I have a handle of numbers and can easily send you all the login info for the seminar, you can register for that at this Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/peter-kat... You won’t be added to any click funnels or mailing lists or anything, I’m just here to help.

LINKS TO SOFTWARE REFERENCED AND PRE-LIVESTREAM CHECKLIST (couldn't fit this all in the description): https://www.dropbox.com/s/rq2sywr3v5w...

Please feel free to share any of this to anyone who might benefit. Hopefully you can support each other too in the comments with community knowledge sharing (that’s really how I learned all this), and I’ll look forward to seeing you next Tuesday night if I can be of service in real time.

Big love, take care, P

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Caveat:
I’m not a total lighting/video expert yet, still learning a lot about that. The main focus is great audio, but I have some good knowledge on improving your visuals as well that will be worthwhile.

GENERAL TIPS

- Go live PRIVATELY on Facebook/Youtube to test your streams.
- Self-record on Zoom in order to ‘soundcheck’. Self record every possible sound configuration you’ll be using, and ideally, if you have a nice friend, once you’ve soundchecked a bunch, have them log in to do a final check to listen back in real time
- If you don’t have a mixer you can actually use Loopback to route to your DAW (Protools, Logic, garageband) to get reverb/compression/etc. I can show this during the live seminar or in a future video if that’s of interest
- Monitor on headphones/in-ears to avoid feedback loops!!

PRE- LIVESTREAM CHECKLIST

ZOOM
- Confirm that your “microphone” input is your audio interface and not just your laptop speakers
- Confirm that it says “Turn Off Original Sound” top left (which means original sound is ON which is what you want)
- Confirm that in your advance audio settings you have both “Suppress…” lines disabled (this shouldn’t change once you change it one time)
- Confirm that you don’t have ‘Automatically adjust volume’ checked (this also shouldn’t change once you change it one time)
- Confirm that your “speaker” (aka output) is set to your audio interface or headphones (you don’t want the audio coming out of your speakers which could lead to feedback loops)
- If you’re using a different camera, under the video column confirm that it’s reading the camera you want it to be reading

ECAMM
- Make sure in each scene that you have it reading your desired audio interface (I’ve had it reading my laptop audio, my camera audio, etc by mistake, so double check)
- Make sure your virtual camera and audio output are on (pro version only) and that your audio monitor is sending where you’re intending for it to send


GENERAL
- Turn on Do Not Disturb on your laptop (if you’re on a mac that’s in the notifications tab)
- If you’re using a phone for camera 2, you must put it in airplane mode, do not disturb AND manually (one by one, super annoying I know) turn off notifications for each individual thing that could possibly notify you during your broadcast. Remember that when you plug your phone in to your computer, it might start getting connectivity to the internet through the cable (using your computer’s wifi) so text messages etc might come in. I just disable anything that could possibly disrupt the broadcast
- Make sure you’re plugged in directly (not through a hub) for your laptop. ECAMM and other broadcasting software is a major power drain and could drain your laptop if you’re not plugged in directly (speaking from experience)

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