[00:02] guys probably know those two terms just don't go together in the streaming and I'm going to be showing you guys how you can stream in great quality using a laptop that's under $300 but Midnight Man since the
[00:17] equipment is so cheap won't my quality be absolutely no if that were the case I with that being said let me show you guys how you can build a professional guys how you can build a professional stream setup all on a budget
[00:34] is of course going to be the laptop and I know you guys are itching for what computer could this possibly be well this is the Acer Aspire 3 this is the Acer Aspire 3 a315 Slim laptop it has an AMD ryzen 3
[00:48] quad core processor AMD radon Graphics which are integrated Graphics not dedicated and we'll see how that plays an effect with our setup later it also an effect with our setup later it also comes with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of
[01:01] solid state storage drive space now how much is this budget laptop going to set you back well it's going to set you back $280 which is not a bad price considering the specs that this laptop
[01:15] considering the specs that this laptop has unlike using a Mini PC you at least have your keyboard and screen already a part of the configuration so that you components the next thing we're going to add to the mix here is our PlayStation 5
[01:30] console along with our gaming monitor or TV of choice I'm using this pixio 27 in TV of choice I'm using this pixio 27 in 2K monitor that can output up to 120 HZ on the PlayStation 5 now I'm sure many of you guys already have your
[01:44] PlayStation in monitor or TV hooked up how you would normally play but now when we mix in the laptop there's going to be one critical device that needs to intersect between these two systems and that's going to be our capture card and
[01:57] that's going to be our capture card and this is the ribo Zen 4 K Ultra HD Capture card this device still holds as my favorite budget friendly capture card and I have two primary reasons for this number one you can capture up to 4K 30
[02:11] number one you can capture up to 4K 30 or 1080p60 in very solid quality the second reason is the fact that you can pass up to 1080p at pass up to 1080p at 120 htz using this capture card to set
[02:23] want to unplug the HDMI cable coming from the monitor from your PlayStation 5 you're then going to want to take the HDMI cable that came in the box with your capture card and plug that into the PlayStation 5 instead and the other end
[02:38] of that HDMI cable you're going to want to plug into the HDMI in slot of the capture card then you can take that other HDMI cable that was coming from the Monitor and plug that into the HDMI outs slaught of the device after that
[02:51] you just need to plug in the USB cable into the capture card and the other end laptop now if you guys want to pick up this capture card it's only going to set you back $30 which is an incredible deal I
[03:03] wouldn't recommend trying to find something cheaper especially something because you're either going to be getting a capture card that is just a splitter to actually make it work with streaming and recording from your
[03:18] capture card that only has the HDMI in and out slots along with the USB connector and it's going to be missing something very critical if you want to use it with an a chatlink cable this cost $20 to pick up but it will solve
[03:34] your audio problems by plugging the single connecting in into this capture card and then the Dual connecting side into the PlayStation controller you'll be pulling your audio from here the PlayStation 5 controller into the
[03:48] capture card now to listen to that audio back to you you can pick up a pair of headphones that you might have that are wired that can plug directly into the chat Link cable in the email connector the pair I have here is the H9 headset
[04:04] from fifine I got the ones in white they're pretty comfortable and there's they're pretty comfortable and there's also a microphone input right here which will flow back through the capture card into the PlayStation 5 controller so
[04:16] that you can be heard this gaming headset by the way is also budget friendly coming in at $35 so something important to note here is that that microphone on that headset will not deliver the commentary on audio to your
[04:30] stream that headset microphone is specifically for people on the PlayStation 5 in your party chat or game chat to be able to hear you if you want to get that commentary audio there's an additional device we're going to need to
[04:43] connect and that's a standalone USB microphone the one that you guys see here is from toner this is a cardioid condenser microphone that has a game control d a quick mute function if you don't want to stick with one style of
[04:56] RGB colors well you're in luck because this thing has has multiple RGB modes that you can choose from and you can even control how bright those colors get this microphone cost the very generous price of
[05:09] $25 you might be thinking oh boy the quality has got to be bad but we're going to mess around and we're going to find out the next part of this setup is having a way to show your face for those that want to show their face on their
[05:23] live stream here we have the EM 4K webcam just like the rest of the devices that I mentioned as a part of this video it is plug and play with the slim budget laptop it has the ability to autofocus on your face has 8 megapixels and with
[05:38] 4K in its name you can expect to capture up to 4K 30 and even 1080p 60 using this webcam as for the pricing of this webcam you can pick it up for $40 if you guys were looking at this and wondering what am I using to extend the number of ports
[05:53] with this laptop I'm using this USBC dongle from mochen they should still be selling these if not I will link a comparable alternative the important thing is just to pick up something so that you can plug in everything within
[06:06] this setup now before we test this whole setup out there's one very important item that we are missing in it and I want you guys to think about what it is right now I'll give you guys 2 seconds one two well if you guess lighting you
[06:20] would be correct this is a UB size 12in ring light that I got back in 2019 as my first piece of lighting equip because just like you guys I was making
[06:32] a stream setup on a budget and luckily I didn't have to spend too much on this thing about $35 to pick this up at this point guys we have our setup primed and ready to go what I did next is I went ahead and downloaded OBS Studio on this
[06:47] ahead and downloaded OBS Studio on this laptop now huge caveat with this laptop is that it does run in Windows 11s mode making it unable for you to download OBS studio so that we can set up all of the tech devices that we incorporated with
[07:02] this computer to do a live stream so instead we're going to see an option to switch out of S Mode once you do this you can't go back but we're going to do it anyways because we need OBS Studio I know that comes with some drawbacks
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[07:56] free to use my link in the description below and use code midnight for 10% off okay now that I have my OBS Studio installed and launched on this laptop the first thing I'm going to do is go to my scenes click on this scene and I'm
[08:11] going to rightclick rename it and we're just going to call this game play cuz this is going to be my game play scene from there I'm going to go to the right hand side where you see sources go down and select the plus button and we're
[08:25] going to add a video capture device we're going to call this capture card select okay and then from here we're going to see a device drop down that we can select and then we can choose the USB 3.0 video which is our capture card
[08:43] and when we do that we're going to see the gaml picture from the PlayStation 5 pop up on screen now if we want to we can scroll down here a little bit and mess with our resolution and FPS type I like to stick with the device default
[08:57] and and then I could choose my resolution manually let's go with 1080p which would be 1920x 1080 and then for our FPS value we can choose up to 60
[09:09] here everything else here is okay to remain as is and we can just go ahead and select okay the next Source I'm going to want to add is our face cam so I'm going to go back here to the plus button under sources we're going to add
[09:22] another video capture device we're going to call this FaceCam select okay let's select the device drop down again and instead of using the webcam that is on this laptop we can actually choose the webcam that's plugged into the computer
[09:36] which is this em smart cam c950 4K webcam and when we do that we're going to see it turn on right over here and same deal with this device I can manually adjust the resolution in fps type to custom if I would like and be
[09:50] type to custom if I would like and be able to choose the 4K 30 resolution here able to choose the 4K 30 resolution here or I can do 2K or 1080p at 6 FPS if i' these settings I'm going to go ahead and select okay and then I'm going to go
[10:05] ahead and grab the corners and just shrink this on down this is about where I'll be sitting when I'm gaming so we'll press the ALT key and bring in these sides just a smidge maybe blow it up just a little bit more I like the way
[10:18] that looks put it to the side here and we're looking peachy one other thing I want to add to this setup are my overlay alerts so to do that we're going to go to our Google Chrome here and what I did here is search up streamlabs dashboard
[10:32] we're going to log into streamlabs using my YouTube account and once I've accessed my dashboard if I go to the Le hand side under streaming Essentials I can go to alert box and from here I can go ahead and copy the widget URL by just
[10:47] clicking it and selecting copy and then if I go back into OBS under my sources I'm going to select that plus button and then this time we're going to add a browser source so we're going to select that that we'll call this alerts okay
[11:02] and then instead of the URL being the default OBS browser Source here we're going to paste in my streamlabs alerts widget URL link that we just copied from the streamlabs dashboard we can keep the width and the height the same here
[11:16] select okay and you're going to see this empty transparent Box come up here on screen we can place this wherever we'd like I'll put mine somewhere in the middle and what we'll do next is actually give this a little test so back
[11:29] streamlabs dashboard we're going to go to test we'll go with YouTube and we'll go with Super Chat and when we go back to our OBS project we're going to see that Kevin just donated $97 in Super Chat bro you are freaking falling
[11:45] obviously that's not real but that's what it'll look like when it really does to this OBS project is our microphone and game audio so to do that go to your settings go to audio and then for one of your mic auxiliary devices you're going
[11:59] to select that drop down and then you can choose the tonar TC 310 USB mic for mic auxiliary 2 we can choose the digital audio interface USB 3.0 which is
[12:11] the capture card and when we choose that we can select apply okay and then you'll see in the audio mixer our audio coming through by the way it is best to have these type of microphones as close to your mouth in phe as possible so you can
[12:25] while we're playing here one thing that it's important to take note of is your audio levels as you can see right now when I shoot my gun look how freaking loud that is bring this game audio on down so that it is more bearable to
[12:40] listen to so at this point guys we have successfully connected and set up all of the hardware components with our OBS project to be able to stream or record our gameplay the next big thing here is putting this budget laptop to the test
[12:53] to see how well it can hold up streaming or recording gameplay and make sure you guys stay in to the end as I'll show you the settings that I use to record the gameplay you're about to see all right I think my luck will be a
[13:06] little bit better on this m and I can sense it usually with call usually with Call of Duty you get one bad game and then you you you get it turned around suddenly the lead look at that good start start
[13:20] Destro oh I'm going to blow up I'm going to blow up I did not blow up somehow careful brother careful be patient
[13:41] me [ __ ] bro what are you saying what are you saying man what are you saying
[13:57] assit see what we got with this we've taken the lead stay on to brother uhoh got him I like this gun okay as
[14:13] promised for those of you who stay to the very end of the video so kindly I'm going to show you my streaming and recording settings that I use within OBS Studio to get that nice crisp quality that you all just saw using OBS Studio
[14:27] let's jump into our settings go to video and here you can see that my base and output canvas resolutions are set to 1920x 1080 at 60 FPS if we head over to the output tab you can see that we went with an output mode of just simple so
[14:43] nothing crazy here with a bit rate of 12,000 using the hardware AMD h.264 video encoder now that streaming bit rate would have been perfectly fine if I was streaming to YouTube for example but if we were streaming to
[14:57] Twitch or kick they don't allow you you to push a bit rate that high right now it's capped at 6,000 they don't want you to go higher than that but this example showcases that you can do well over 6,000 bit rate using this budget laptop
[15:11] additionally if we had used the software encoder on this laptop the CPU would have shot through the roof causing the quality to be bad so there you guys have it that is the complete budget laptop streaming setup definitely let me know
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