Livestreaming

Each network has a thin bar at the top with its status and a ⚙ gear. The gear opens a dialog with two sections:

• Account: connect your account to get chat and events (gifts, follows, subs…). It's what the multichat, voice chat, Live Actions and widgets use.
• Emission (RTMP destination): the server and stream key to send the video. Press Save and turn the destination on with its switch: only destinations that are on go out when streaming.

Below the bar are that network's stream metrics.

TikTok only gives a stream key to accounts that meet its LIVE requirements (about 1,000 followers, quite a few more if you don't do gaming). That's why Studio's default route is Restream:

The title is, if you link your Restream account with Connect with Restream and pick which of your channels it is. It's optional: without linking you still stream, with the title Restream has set.

The category isn't: Restream's API only accepts title and description. Set it once on Restream and it stays saved on the channel.

• Make sure you're live on TikTok: it can only connect while the stream is open.
• Check that the username is spelled right, without @, exactly as it shows on your profile.
• Even if it says “connected”, the events connection can take a few seconds or a couple of minutes to set up; after that they arrive in real time.

On the Twitch tab, open the ⚙ gear and press Connect with Twitch: the browser opens, you authorize it and your stream key arrives by itself. If it doesn't, paste it yourself (Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream). Press Save and turn on the RTMP destination.

Title and category are sent automatically when you go live. If Studio asks you to reconnect your Twitch account, it's because a new permission was added (for example, to send the title).

Connect your Kick account in the ⚙ gear to get chat and events. You copy the stream key from Kick (Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream → Stream Key), paste it, press Save and turn on the RTMP destination.

On the YouTube tab, open the ⚙ gear:

• Copy the key from YouTube Studio → Go live and paste it in the RTMP destination; press Save and turn it on.
• Once your account can be connected, Connect with YouTube will give you chat and metrics, and Get key from YouTube will fill the key in for you (if you have several, it asks which one belongs to each stream).

The Dual stream (16:9 + 9:16) sends a horizontal stream and a vertical one for Shorts at the same time. Each needs its own key from YouTube Studio.

In YouTube Studio → Go live, set the vertical panel to “Encoder” and copy its “Key: Vertical” into Studio's vertical destination. Until both keys are right and both destinations are on, YouTube won't start the stream.

If you don't want to send the vertical, leave it on “Auto crop” on YouTube and turn the dual stream off in Studio.

YouTube takes a while to go from “Preparing stream” to “Live”, especially with the dual stream. Studio waits while you keep streaming and applies the title and settings as soon as YouTube allows it.

If you switch the vertical from “Auto crop” to “Encoder” with the stream already running, YouTube can get stuck on “Preparing stream”: cut the vertical destination with ■ and resume it with ▶.

In the Stream dialog, YouTube's ⚙ gear opens YouTube settings. They're applied to your stream every time you go live; anything left on “Don't change” stays as it is on YouTube:

• Description: saved on your computer and added to every stream.
• Thumbnail: JPG or PNG up to 2 MB, ideally 1280×720 (YouTube only allows it if your channel is verified).
• Privacy: public, unlisted (link only) or private.
• Language and tags (comma separated).
• Latency: normal (best quality), low or ultra low (chat almost instant).
• Rewind (DVR): allow rewinding or not.
• Add the stream to a playlist.
• End the YouTube stream when pressing “Stop”: otherwise YouTube waits a while without signal before ending it.

The title and category are set in the Stream dialog itself.

In YouTube settings → Schedule a stream:

In Livestreaming → Emission you choose the resolution, fps and bitrate of what you send to the platforms. There's no setting that's good for everyone: it depends on your upload speed, your computer and the game.

As a guide: 1080p at 60 fps needs about 6 Mbps of upload per network; 720p at 30 fps, about 3. With multistream, add up each network and leave some margin.

The metrics of your saved streams. Pick a date range and, on each network tab, you'll see the metrics and donors of the streams in that period instead of the live data. Back to live returns to the current data.

The multichat puts together the chat from TikTok, Twitch, Kick and YouTube. You open it in its own window with Studio's Multichat switch, or with the Multichat button in Livestreaming.

• Write in the chat: use the box at the bottom; it tells you which networks it'll be sent to. Those networks' accounts need to be connected.
• Highlight in scene: shows a comment big in your scene's Highlight box. If you highlight several, they wait in a queue.
• Save comment: puts it aside in the Saved tab to read later.
• Moderate (shield): delete the message, time out for 5 minutes, ban from chat or make moderator, depending on what each network allows.
• Overlay style: transparent, to put on top of a game. You can hide the header and change the font size.