I need to send out a link for our services on Sunday Morning as soon as possible. I need to set up a new YouTube Live Stream, but I do not want to use vMix for this Live Stream.

We successfully connected vMix to YouTube and have done several Live Streaming tests, but we need different hardware. Now every time I try to create a new Live Stream on YouTube, YouTube wants me to connect my streaming software. I am assuming I need to do something in vMix to stop it from connecting to YouTube.

I had vMix disconnected from YouTube, but this morning it appears to have reconnected itself again. What do I need to do in vMix?

Do you know if YouTube will recognize this change instantaneously? Or does it take a few minutes or so for YouTube to disconnect and return to YouTube Studio?

Thank you,
Ed Podowski

I agree, but YouTube thinks I want to stream using an encoder. I cannot find any settings in YouTube Studio that would default to using encoder software, i.e. vMix. But this was not an issue before I used vMix to do a test live stream.

I think the program was defaulting to webcam and now it doesn't. I didn't remember selecting it, so when it defaulted to YouTube Live Stream and wanted to use encoder software, I thought it was vMix still connected to our YouTube Channel. It wasn't.

For now, we are only using a webcam, but we are planning to use cameras in the very near future. Thanks for your input, but I think my panic was not well-founded. Putting on a Live Stream is stressful, especially when you never really did this before. I run several Internet and IT-related companies, but live streaming is another whole skill set. I have learned a lot since the COVID-19 Crisis and the lockdown.

Until next time.