Streaming Goldcast To YouTube

Discover how to stream your Goldcast events live on YouTube.

Plan Availability Starter Pro Premium Enterprise

For customers with contracts starting March 2024 or later, feature availability is based on your pricing tier. If interested, contact your CSM or our Sales Team to discuss pricing options. 


This is a guide for streaming video of events on the Goldcast platform to YouTube via RTMP. 

First log in to YouTube and set up a stream that you want to use. 

Click on “Create” in the YouTube main menu, then click on “Go Live” in the dropdown menu.

After clicking on Go Live if you’re using YouTube Studio for the first time you will see a prompt with a few options, click Go in this sequence: Later date > Streaming software.

If you’ve never used YouTube Studio and you had to activate your account for it, you may have to wait 24 hours before you can even use it. Plan ahead to ensure you have time to make your videos ready!

Pro Tip! Have your videos ready to go at least a day before the event to ensure everything is set in place.

 

Once you log in, set up your stream.

(Pictured above: What the stream editing panel looks like.)

For RTMP streaming to YouTube, Goldcast can only link one external video session to one Goldcast session. Ensure that your RTMP is scheduled to start at the same time as your Goldcast session.

 

Once you are on the stream editing panel on YouTube, go back to Goldcast. 

  1. Log in to Goldcast Studio with your credentials, and select the Events tab to get a list of all your events
  2. From your Event list, click your preferred event
  3. Click Program in the menu on the left side of the screen and click the name of the session you’d like to stream out to YouTube
  4. Scroll down to the RTMP Out section and click the arrow next to it to expand it if necessary
  5. Enter the Stream URL and Stream Key into the YouTube section
  6. Click Save

Pictured above: Where to find the Stream URL and Stream Key information in YouTube. Copy and paste this info into the Goldcast fields that require it.

Pictured above: The scheduled time for a YouTube RTMP, which is highlighted. Schedule your RTMP to start at the same time that you want it to play in the Goldcast event.

  • There is a setting called Enable Auto-start; keep this turned off. Instead of relying upon it (it sometimes doesn’t work) to ensure your videos get played at the times that you want them to play there should be someone manually playing them by entering into the editing screen for a video and clicking the Go Live button to make it live for the event.
  • There is a 10-second lag between the actual stream and what is played on Goldcast.
  • For a person to easily navigate all the videos you plan to stream for your event, they can click the Manage button on the left-hand side of the screen. With that, one can see all the videos on that account and manage them manually by pressing Go Live for the video to be used at a given moment.

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