Set up scenes, chat, and alerts for a live stream
Switch scenes while live, lay out the screen, the camera, and the chat, count down to the start, take a break, and show tips and alerts on the stream.
01The Scenes column
With Go live or Both in Recording and streaming, the SCENES column lists Screen and camera, Screen and a column, Camera and chat, Camera only, Starting soon, Break, Hide my screen, and Ending. A click switches the stream to a scene, also while live. Scenes change only the stream: the recording keeps your screen. New scene adds one of your own, and the pencil, Edit the scene, opens the Scene window.
02Pick a layout
WHAT IT SHOWS has Screen and camera, Screen and a column (the screen beside a column with the camera on top, your name, and the chat), Camera and chat, Camera only, and Screen only, plus A card for a scene of your own. CAMERA sets the camera's size: As recorded, Small, Medium, or Large.
03What goes on the picture
ON THE PICTURE has Chat, in the column or a corner, Your name with A line under it, How many watch, A goal of followers, subscriptions, or tips and cheers with its target, The last follows, subscriptions and tips, and Alerts for follows, subscriptions and tips. Each scene keeps its own choices.
04Starting soon, a break, the end
Starting soon, Break, and Ending are cards: big words over A colour, A picture, or The stream blurred, set under ON THE CARD and BEHIND THE WORDS. Break silences the microphone in the stream and plays the break music you chose under Options in Where to stream; any scene can do the same under SOUND. Hide my screen covers your screen in the stream while you type a password, and it always cuts in at once.
05How a scene comes on
HOW IT COMES ON has Fade, Slide in, Through colour, and Cut. Between two scenes with a layout, a fade or a slide moves the screen and the camera to their new places.
06Timers and shortcuts
THEN BY ITSELF counts Starting soon down for 2, 5, or 10 minutes or to a time of day, and at zero goes to the scene you pick. Any scene can go to another after a while, and End the stream after that time ends the stream. SHORTCUT gives a scene its own key, which a Stream Deck can press with its Hotkey action.
07Chat and alerts from Twitch
Sign in with Twitch, on Twitch's page in Where to stream, takes your stream key and brings in the chat, follows, subscriptions, raids, and cheers. The right column then has a Streaming and Settings switch: Streaming shows Chat, where you can write too, Events, and About the stream with the title, category, tags, and language, saved on Twitch. Comes on during Twitch ad breaks, in the Scene window, shows a scene while Twitch plays an ad. While Twitch is one of your places, the picture shows only Twitch's chat and alerts, and tips, as Twitch's rules ask.
08Tips from StreamElements and Streamlabs
Tips and alerts, under the list in Where to stream, connects StreamElements or Streamlabs: Where to find the token, Paste the token, and Connect. Tips, merch, and charity donations then show as alerts on the stream and as events in the Streaming panel. They come directly between your computer and the service. Alert sound, under Options, plays ClipHearth's chimes or a sound of your own with each alert.
09While you are live
The preview shows what your viewers see, a moment behind. MOMENTS has Mark this moment and Clip the last 30 seconds, which saves the clip to Completed and, with Twitch signed in, makes a Twitch clip too. Hide my screen in the stream, Break in the stream, and Clip the last 30 seconds also have shortcuts in the Control tab under SHORTCUTS, and from 1.9.1 a shortcut can be one key such as F5 or Page Down. Each place has Open stream in the Streaming panel.
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