Engage Studio Support

Engage Studio Support allows the user to use third party studios such as OBS, Watchnity, YoloBox amongst others. Through these integrations, the user can leverage what digital studios have to offer and in so create a more meaningful and engaging broadcast for its viewers. With Engage Studio support you can:

  1. Process, edit and mix your broadcast in real time
  2. Add effects, backgrounds, images, videos …etc
  3. Distribute your broadcast to different social media channels in parallel. For example on YouTube, Facebook Live and Twitch.
  4. Use chroma keys and green screens to layer two or more images or video streams together

Step-by-Step Guide

This article serves as a step by step guide to properly set-up Engage Studio Support with OBS studio.

1. First, make sure you have OBS downloaded on your desktop. You can download OBS here: https://obsproject.com/

2. As you open OBS for the first time click Cancel in the Auto-Configuration Wizard.

3. Once on the main page of OBS, you now need to configure receiving the stream coming from the Engage Whisbi App. To do so, click the + button to add an input source, and choose to add a Media source. We recommend you always name your sources so you can keep your broadcast production as organized as possible.

4. To be able to configure receiving the stream from the Engage Whisbi App, uncheck the Local File check box, and fill Inpunt and Input format in the respective OBS fields. Note here that upon request, the Input will be provided to you by your Whisbi Administrator to ensure a secure broadcast. The Input format is RTMP. Once filled in click OK.

5. Now that you have configured receiving the stream from the Engage Whisbi App, you need to configure sending the OBS stream back to your dedicated Whisbi Widget. To do so, click Settings in the Control bar and choose the Stream Menu. Here choose the Custom Service. Note here that you can also choose to stream on different social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook Live, Restream.io, Twitter, and Twitch.

6. Once in Custom Service inside the Stream Menu, you will need to fill the Server and Stream Key fields as well as check the Use Authentication check box. Note here that upon request, the Server and Stream Key along with a personal username and password will be provided to you by your Whisbi Admin. Once the fields filled out, click OK.

7. Now that you have configured both receiving the stream from the Whisbi Engage App on OBS, and sending the OBS stream back to your dedicated Widget, you can now log-on to your Whisbi Engage App with your credentials and select the Studio Channel in your Channels section before starting to broadcast. Once selected you can start your broadcast and the different configurational flows will be operational.

Stream to social media

Apart from Streaming to your dedicated Widget, you can also with OBS stream to different social media platforms. In this step-by-step guide, we detail how to stream from OBS to Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook Live.

Twitch

  1. In OBS, Click Settings in your Control bar and choose the Stream Menu. Change the Stream Service to Twitch.
  2. Click on the recommended option: Connect Account for the quickest setup and login to Twitch with your Username and Password and you are done.

If you prefer to instead use a Stream Key, you need to:

1. Go to your Twitch Dashboard, click Settings and then click on Stream and copy the Stream Key.

2. In OBS Studio, click on Use Stream Key and paste the Stream Key from your Twitch account and finally click OK.

YouTube

  1. In OBS, Click Settings in your Control bar and choose the Stream Menu. Change the Stream Service to YoutTube – RTMPS.
  2. Click on Connect Account for the quickest setup and login to YouTube with your Username and Password and you are done.

If you prefer to instead use a Stream Key, you need to:

1. Navigate to youtube.com and login

2. Click the Create button and copy the Stream Key

3. In OBS Studio, click on Use Stream Key and paste the Stream Key from YouTube and click OK. Note here that we recommend to click End Stream in YouTube when you want to finish the broadcast, otherwise it will take YouTube about a minute to stop showing the stream online.

Facebook

1. In OBS, Click Settings in your Control bar and choose the Stream Menu. Change the Stream Service to Facebook Live.

2. Login to facebook.com and Click on Live Video

3. Click on Create Live Video and choose the Streaming Software option. Here copy your Facebook Live Stream Key.

4. In OBS Studio, paste the Stream Key from Facebook Live and click OK.

5. Note here that after you have started streaming in OBS Studio and started the broadcast in the Whisbi Engage App, you will need to click Go live from Facebook.

Limitations

A few limitations to keep in mind when using Engage Studio Support.

  1. Engage Studio Support on OBS does not support Closed Captions. You can find plug-ins for OBS for closed captions. For example, here.
  2. When using OBS, you can only choose to stream your final broadcast to one destination. Meaning you can only stream to your dedicated Widget, or one social media platform. However, in order to stream to multiple outputs, you can use multiple desktops with OBS installed and follow the same procedure outline in this article to broadcast to multiple channels.