How To Do A Video Setup For Twitch Streaming On Mac

Streaming: In either the Windows or Mac versions, click on “Start Streaming” to stream your configured sources on Twitch. While streaming, you can also click on “Start Recording” to produce a local copy of the same sources. In both cases, simply click on “Stop Streaming” or “Stop Recording” once either is started to stop each. Dec 20, 2017 - Streaming on Twitch is free, but if you're serious about it (or want to make. The main appeal of live streaming is that anyone can feel like a part of the. Deals from brands or set up Patreon accounts for fans to donate. We stream older games on a MacBook Pro and it works, but it's definitely working hard.

Not so long ago there was pretty much one way to interact with a video game: You sat down and played it. Maybe you watched an older friend or sibling play while pointing out all their mistakes, but gaming was never what you’d call a “spectator sport.” That’s changed in recent years thanks to YouTube gaming celebrities, the booming popularity of professional e-sports, and most importantly, the online game-streaming service Twitch. Firing up a stream and watching someone else play a thousand miles away is now a perfectly legitimate way to enjoy a game. Best of all, anyone is free to participate on either side of a Twitch stream—. If you want to be the one gaming in front of a live audience, you can start doing it today, for free.

Here’s how to stream your games on Twitch. PC requirements: The bare minimum This guide assumes that you have a PC with a discrete graphics card and processor powerful enough to stream games.

At least to start, you’ll be running your game and uploading video and audio at the same time. There are many Twitch pros who actually use two PCs to accomplish this—one for streaming and one for gaming—but that’s a complex setup that’s beyond this beginner’s guide. That your PC has at least an Intel Core i5-4670 or the AMD equivalent, and 8GB of RAM. Your graphics card isn’t as important a consideration for streaming, but Twitch says it should be at least DirectX 10 compatible. Though if you want to play a modern game, DirectX 11 or 12 is required.

(See our guide for the.) Keep in mind that these are the minimum recommended specs, and a more powerful PC will obviously perform better. Also don’t forget about your internet connection. Twitch’s says you’ll need to deliver about 4,500 to 6,000 kilobits per second to deliver 1080p at 60 frames per second, and 3,500kbps to 5,000kbps for 1080p at 30fps. Getting started with OBS Studio The GTX 1080 is good for high-resolution streaming. To start broadcasting to Twitch, you’ll need two additional things: desktop software that can record and stream footage from your gaming computer, and a Twitch account. We’ll start with the software.

Options abound for desktop streaming software. You can find debates over the relative merits online, but we recommend one broadcasting suite that’s free and easy to set up—plus it integrates nicely with Twitch. The program is called (frequently shortened to OBS Studio), which is the replacement for the classic OBS software. We’ll discuss the OBS Studio client for Windows, but Mac and Linux versions are also available.

Ian Paul/IDG The OBS Studio interface on its initial launch. (Click on any image in this post to enlarge it.) Once you’ve downloaded OBS Studio and run through the installer, the client will launch. Reduce pdf file size.

You’ll see a window with an empty letterbox screen, and a bank of options at the bottom. Here, you’ll set up the “scene” and sources for your broadcast. The scene in OBS Studio is the final product that you’ll show on Twitch, while the sources are all the various elements that make up your scene. Most Twitch gaming streams aren’t just a plain screencast of the game itself; they usually include multiple sources, such as a picture-in-picture webcam feed of the player, a watermark, and sometimes even animated screen overlays. Animations are beyond the scope of this tutorial for beginners. We’ll stick to the four basic sources: the game, the webcam, player audio, and the watermark. Source 1: How to set up the game stream We’ll start by adding the most important element to the scene: the game window.

Brad Chacos/IDG Before we do that, however, let’s rename our scene something more memorable. Below the letterbox, right-click Scene in the left-most panel at the bottom of the OBS window. Select Rename and then give it a better name.

In my example, I’m going to stream ($40 on ) so I’ll title my scene with the game’s name. Now let’s add the game feed. Start up your game, and once it’s running press Alt + Tab to navigate back to the OBS window. It doesn’t matter whether the game is in full-screen or windowed mode. TIP: Multi-monitor users should put OBS Studio in a secondary monitor during the setup process to more easily see what’s going on.