What's going on everybody welcome to the invizz channel let's talk streaming in today's video
We are going to be talking about how to make your stream go from average to professional with just a few simple steps again
I just want to preface that any of the tips that I give in any of my videos are
Purely my opinion.  I am no streaming professional I am no stream doctor
It's just things that I've noticed that I like when I go into streams or things that I notice in other streams
It's subtle things that you can do to make your stream look a little bit better more presentable and a little bit more professional
And overall it'll help the viewer experience and when the viewers are having a good time you're having a good time
Everyone's having a good time. It makes for a great stream. Let's hop into it! tip number one
It seems simple, but I see this too often is start your stream off with a stream starting page
You can find them online
Very easily if you need one or if you have Photoshop you can make it yourself if you have a friend
Who knows Photoshop you can have them make it for you?
If you don't have a friend with Photoshop or you don't have Photoshop yourself because it's too expensive. Trust me
I know you can use the free website canva with canva. You can go through and make your own picture
Go through type up something on here saying stream starting and go from there
The reason you want a stream starting page. Is it give something to welcome your viewers into your stream?
It gives them a chance to get to your stream after you post. You're going live tweet
It kind of gets your viewers amped up for your stream
You could have music playing you can have a little
countdown timer for them to look at so they know when you're gonna be starting and it gives them a few minutes and allows the
Viewer to not feel like they're missing out on something on top of allowing your viewers to get to your stream before you actually start
talking to your stream
I don't know about you guys
But I know I have started a stream and one of my video games had to update while I was streaming
So instead of just jumping right into the gameplay
Like most of us want to I had to sit through a five minute delay while my game
Started to update and I know I'm not the only one because I've watched it happen on multiple streams as well if you give yourself
A five-minute window with a stream starting page. It gives you a chance to update anything that needs to updating last minute
It gives you a chance to open up any windows that you need to and make sure that your stream is running smoothly
Before you actually start talking to your audience, like myself. I tend to use a stream starting overlay very similar to this
On my stream starting overlay I have my logo I have my stream schedule
I have my Twitter on there because I post
Constantly on it and I have a countdown to show when I'm gonna be starting my stream on top of that
I also have a recent follower and recent subscriber in case someone follows or subs
while we are on my stream starting page on top of just allowing your viewers to get there and
Allowing you to get prepped before you start talking to your stream. It just gives the overall
Stream a sense of professionalism because it shows that you are putting a little bit more effort into your stream and your viewers
experiences and that means a lot number two is sound matters before you go out and buy a fork a
Webcam or a logitech c920 you're gonna want to make sure that you get a quality mic
Even if it's something like myself a blue Yeti mic or the audio technica
At2020, which are both right around the same price range for beginner streamers priced at around 100 to 130 dollars
These mics make it so that your viewer experience
Even if you don't have a camera these mics make it easy for you to communicate with your stream at a reasonable price the top
Priority should always be
Communicate to your viewers and the best way to do that is with a quality mic without a quality mic you will sound like this
Now no one wants to hear the crackle a
very distant voice of a streamer now if that's all you have by all means
Use what you have, but if you have it in your budget go out and buy one of these mics
These are quality mics you can do a lot with them and they're plug-and-play
They're just USB mics
If you are just starting out you should not be buying anything in the three to seven hundred dollar range for mics
It's a waste of your money because using it towards more than maybe one or two viewers
So I always say upgrade your mic before you upgrade your camera when you're listening to someone play on a stream
You want to hear what they're saying?
You want the the voice to be crisp and clean and very clear a camera?
You can do a lot with
even if it's a cheap camera the camera that I use for a really long time was the one that's mounted on my laptop and
That is by no means a quality camera in the beginning. A lot of people will stay your quality of sound is
Clear enough for them. It shows up another sense of professionalism if you're trying to go that route
Let's say you did upgrade your camera to a 4k camera or the Logitech c920 but your audio
Still sounded like this
But no one is actually gonna take you seriously because their ears are bleeding
In boos from the future here
Well in this video I realized that during this part of the video. I sound like a complete jerk
When I write these videos up
It's just points and it's basically just things that I can talk about and while I was talking about it
I didn't realize that I sounded like a jerk when I was saying it so
Actually, what I was trying to say is if you have a great personality
No matter what your audience will stay if they vibe with you
They will stay no matter what what I was trying to get at is you have a better chance
To hold new viewers if your sound quality is higher versus what I was showing you with my past dreams
I by no means
Meant to say that nobody would ever want to be in your streams
If you don't have a good quality mic know if your personality is there and you show that you're actually trying
Then people will say no matter what I explained in depth about
Lighting and cameras if you want go ahead and take a look at it. It is super helpful
It's only about 7 minutes long
but it explains why lighting is so crucial to streaming and I'll touch on a few points here if and when
You get a camera you want to make sure that the quality of lighting is
set it want to make sure that you have a light on your face that separates you from your background and you want to make
Sure that the stuff in your background is clean and the lights don't distract too much very similar to what my stream setup looks like
right
Now the only reason I say that number three is good lighting
Versus a good camera is because you can get a cheap thirty or forty dollar
Camera and with the good lighting it can make your camera look very similar to what mine does just go out get a cheap
$15 lamp
From Walmart put a piece of parchment paper over it and there you have a start lighting can make that camera look ten times better
Than with setup that looks similar to this
Which was my old setup it kinda sucked
But it's what I had and it did its job and I don't want this video to come across as you need to spend all
this money to
get a quality stream use what you can as long as you can and when you feel like you have the funds to
Put it back into your stream then go out and get a new mic go out and purchase a few box lights if you want
To let's take it from the viewers perspective if you were to go into a stream and the stream looked like this
Would you want to stay in there personally, I would give it a couple of minutes when I go into a stream
I typically don't care what their
Camera looks like or their sound sounds like I judge it based off of the character that they portray on screen
Sure, the the mic and the nice camera and the lights are cool, but those are all
Frosting on the cake. So to say what you really look for is the taste of that cake
so the
personality of that person
So if you don't have a nice mic, or if you don't have a nice camera or anything like that
It's not the biggest deal
what you want to focus on is the
Personality that you portray on camera or in stream when you're talking to them number number four is using a BRB screen
Something like this
Welcome to the image
It makes the world of a difference
Instead of just getting up and doing something like this. Alright guys, I will be right back
When you use a BRB screen it gives you a chance to entertain your audience
While you're away from your stream with my BRB screen or my intermission screen have an old
Set of videos on rotate so that my audience has something to look at
That is me is my content
But if I have to get up to go to the bathroom or get something to drink
Or if I have to step away for a couple minutes
They are still entertained a handful of viewers there if there's new ones coming in
They see that you have something going on
And then when you come back you can introduce yourself again
And that way everyone stays happy and you're more likely to hold a set of viewers. It's subtle, but it's effective
I've had to get up for 20 plus minutes and I had to put them on an intermission screen and my videos held
80% of the viewers that I had in there at the time that I put them on intermission
So when I came back most of my viewers were still there
And I still had a great stream having an intermission screen with a video playing or music going or something of that genre
It one shows your viewers that you care about their
Experience and two it shows that you care about being there for your viewers
even when you're not
Technically there and an intermission screen doesn't have to be really fancy and flashy and have moving parts
It can literally just be a video of you with a little bit of text on the bottom saying
intermission that way if people were to see it
They know that this isn't live that if they chat to you and you don't respond. It's not that you're ignoring them
It's just that you're away from your computer at that time. It is subtle, but it does really help
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