™New user cheat sheet
One page. Go live, take a shot, add a guest, record. Print it if you want.
Guides
Do the job. Then look up the rest.
These are the same first jobs StreamYard, OBS, Audition and Vegas document: get a picture up, go live, hear the comments, finish a file. Written for ProdHQ, in the order you actually press the buttons.
Go live on YouTube, Facebook or Twitch
Where the stream key comes from, what Profile / Page / Group means, and why the show title does not become the YouTube title.
Bring a guest on
Send a link, admit them, put them on Preview, press TAKE. Take them off the shot without dropping them.
See comments while you are live
Room questions start with the room. Twitch and YouTube need a channel name once. Facebook comments stay on Facebook.
Record a promo
Open a promo template, drop voice and a bed, mark intro and end, export a WideOrbit WAV.
Troubleshooting FAQ
Camera in use, SOURCE OFFLINE, a background that will not show, a stream that will not start, comments that never arrive.