Go live to Twitch, YouTube, or your own server
Stream your screen, a window, a game, or your camera to several places at once, also upright for TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and save the recording as you go.
01Switch to Go live
Open Recording and streaming, under Create & edit in the sidebar (called Screen recording up to 1.9.0), or the Record the screen tile on Home. Pick what viewers see as for a recording: Screen, Window, Area, Game, or Camera only. A stream needs a picture, so Sound only is not for it. Under the tiles, the switch has Record, Go live, and Both. Go live only streams and saves no recording; Both streams and saves the recording as Record does.
02Choose where the stream goes
With Go live or Both, Set up streaming sits next to the switch and says Not set up yet until you add a place. It opens Where to stream. Add a place lists the services under Popular and More services: Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Rumble, Telegram, Restream, Steam, Vimeo, and more, and Find a service searches them. Your own server takes a SERVER ADDRESS and a STREAM KEY. Each place in Your places has a switch, so you can keep a place and leave it out of one stream.
03Paste the stream key
Each place has a page of its own. Where to find the key opens the service's page where your key is, and the key goes under OR PASTE THE STREAM KEY. Whoever has the key can stream on your channel, so keep it to yourself. Stream keys stay on your computer, encrypted, and go only to the service they belong to. On Twitch's page, Sign in with Twitch takes the key from your account and also brings in the chat and the alerts; the guide to scenes and alerts has the rest.
04Pick the quality and test
Quality, under the list, offers 720p 30, 1080p 30, and 1080p 60. Every place gets its own copy of the stream from your computer, so your upload has to carry all of them at once. Test the connection, at the bottom of Where to stream, sends Twitch eight seconds of test picture that nobody sees and says whether Twitch took it or the upload is too slow for this quality. Done keeps the setup, and the button then names your places and the quality.
05Upright for TikTok and YouTube Shorts
A place that takes the upright picture, such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Instagram, gets a 9:16 stream made from the same scenes, next to the wide one. Under Quality, Upright picture (9:16) has Whole picture, the wide picture across the width over a blurred copy of itself, and Middle cut out, a cut as tall as the picture. The chat and the alerts stay off the upright stream. The 32-bit ClipHearth does not offer it.
06Go live
The red Go live starts the stream. Pressed before a place is set up, it opens Where to stream and starts nothing. While live, the sidebar shows LIVE and the time in red next to Recording and streaming, and Set up streaming shows how each place is doing: Live with its rate, Connecting again…, or Key refused. A dropped connection comes back by itself, each place on its own, and with Both the recording goes on meanwhile. A stream has no pause, but muting the microphone and push-to-talk act on it at once. End the stream stops it.
07Delay, live captions, and sounds
Options, under the list in Where to stream, has Delay (None, 15 s, 30 s, or 60 s behind you), Live captions, Alert sound, and Break music. Live captions put what you say on the stream a moment after you say it, recognised on your computer by the speech model of AI subtitles: your voice is not sent anywhere to be recognised, and the captions go out only in the stream. They need a ClipHearth license on this computer, a speech model installed in Settings under AI subtitles, and the 64-bit ClipHearth.
08Only one app's sound
To stream a game without the voices of a call or the sound of notifications, switch on Record the computer's sound in the Sound tab, then Only one app's sound in the SYSTEM SOUND card, and choose the app. It needs Windows 10 version 2004 or later, macOS 13 or later, or pactl and parec on Linux (pulseaudio-utils), and it works for a recording too.
09What the stream leaves out
Highlighted clicks, the zoom where you click, the watermark, the time code, and the REC mark are drawn when a recording is finished, so they are not in the stream; with Both they are in the saved recording. On Windows and Linux the stream shows the camera without its background removed.
10Free for 3 minutes
A stream counts like a recording. The first 3 minutes are free, also without a license. Past 3:00 it takes one task of the trial, and without a license or a task left the stream ends at 3:00; with Both, the recording up to then is saved.
Didn't solve it? Write to us - attach a diagnostics log if you have one. Missing a feature? Tell us what you would use it for; several of the recent ones started as a suggestion.