인터넷 방송의 초창기에는 어떻게든 방송을 켜놓기만 하면 시청자들이 줄곧 찾아와 방송인의 잡담을 들어주곤 했습니다. 이제는 더욱 체계적이며 시간표 대로 일정을 계획하고, SNS에 홍보를 하고 하이라이트 클립을 제작하거나 그 이상의 활동을 해도 부족할 나름입니다. 이러한 준비 과정들에 대해서 현재 시대의 인터넷 방송에서는 어떻게 시청자들이 꾸준히 내 방송을 보게 되는지 알아보도록 하겠습니다.
클립 만들기
현재 시대에 살면서 꾸준히 스마트폰에 기대며 살고 있다면 짧은 동영상들이 유행하고 있다는 것을 눈치 챘을겁니다. 대부분의 인기 동영상 플랫폼들이 짧은 동영상을 지원해주고 유행시키는 시스템을 구축하고 있습니다.
실질적으로 생각 해보자면 장기간 방송을 하게 되면 여러 구간에서 텐션이 없거나 아무것도 안하는 상황들이 많이 발생합니다. 이러한 부담으로 인해 SNS에 홍보를 막 해놨음에도 불구하고 시청자들이 방송에 들어오면 아무 흥미가 없는 장면만 나올 수 있기 때문에 이를 방지하려는 대책 중 하나로서 방송의 분위기나 주요 콘텐츠를 재대로 전달하기 위하여 짤막한 클립을 제작하게 되는 것 입니다.
생방송을 진행하고 있는 도중 실시간으로 ‘방금 전 상황’을 클립으로 구분 해놓는것은 쉬운일이 아닙니다. 만약 어느정도 기존 시청자층이 형성이 되면 일부 시청자들은 관리자 형태의 직책을 가지도록 설정할 수 있고 이들이 수동적으로 재미있던 상황을 클립으로 만들어 주는것도 가능합니다. 이렇게 만들어진 클립들을 모아서 실시간 방송 스케쥴이 끝난 뒤 원하는 SNS 플랫폼으로 공유하여 ‘오늘 있었던 일들’을 주제로 클립을 홍보할 수 있게 됩니다.
SNS 홍보하는 방법도 가지가지
SNS를 잘 활용하면 시청자들의 유입도 활발해집니다. 마냥 재미있던 클립을 여기저기 올리고 마는것이 절대 아닙니다. 각 플랫폼마다 분위기와 설정이 다르다 보니 해당 플랫폼에 적합한 규격의 클립이나 콘텐츠를 올리도록 어느정도 수고를 해야 합니다. 자극적인 썸네일이나 문구로 관심을 끄는것도 한계가 있습니다. 어느정도 스토리라인이 있도록 글귀를 작성하고 앞, 뒤 구분이 잘 맞도록 정성을 들여야 하는 작업입니다. 대부분의 SNS 포스팅은 스마트폰에서도 모두 활용할 수 있지만 컴퓨터에 앉아서 이 글을 읽고계시다면, 쉽고 빠르게 컴퓨터로도 이러한 짤막한 클립들을 제작 하는 방법을 알려드리겠습니다.
아래 엑스플릿에서 직접 제작한 세로 형식의 클립 만들기 영상을 참고해주세요.
일부 플랫폼은 일정량의 팔로워를 달성하면 추가 제작 도구를 해금할 수 있도록 되어있습니다. 활동을 많이 할수록 혜택을 받는 시스템이어서 지금이라도 키워드, 알고리즘, 해시태그 등등을 연구해보는 것도 결코 늦지 않았습니다.
앉아있지만 말고…
방송의 주제와 컨텐츠는 너무나도 다양합니다. 그렇다 하더라도 대부분 컴퓨터 앞에 앉아 오랫동안 앉아있는 사람들이 많습니다. 젊은 분들은 그닥 문제가 없을지라도 어느정도 연륜이 있으시다면 잠시동안 의자에서 일어나 스트레칭이나 가벼운 운동 정도는 일상에 곁들여주어야 건강에 큰 도움이 될 것입니다. 건강을 챙기는것을 컨텐츠로 녹여내는것이 아니라면 시청자 수 증가에는 큰 도움이 주지 않더라도, 자신의 건강을 유지해야만 이러한 작업들도 꾸준히 할 수 있다는 점을 배워야 합니다. 오랫동안 방송을 하다보면 이러한 기본적인 것들도 잊어버리게 되는게 일수라서 되도록 건강만큼은 챙기도록 기억해주세요.
알람을 맞춰놓거나 하면 쉽겠지만 방송 도중에 연출로 이를 승화시킬 수도 있습니다. 방송 프로그램에서 매크로를 만들어 놓으면 일정 시간마다 화면을 전환한다거나, 문구를 뜨게 하여 메시지나 특정 행동을 상기시켜 줄 수 있습니다. 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터에서 매크로를 활용하는 방법은 이곳을 참고해주세요.
채팅창의 시청자들과 함께 할 수 있는 활동이기도 합니다. 잠시 조깅을 하러 외출한다거나 방 안에서 할 수 있는 가벼운 운동을 꾸준히 해준다면 담당 의사선생님께서도 좋아하시리라 믿습니다.
인터넷 방송이 ‘게임’이라면, 이 게임의 목적은 ‘말을 잘 해야 한다’ 입니다. 만약 ‘말 안하는 방송’이 콘셉트라면 해당되지 않는 주제이지만 인터넷 방송에서 매력을 발산하려면 꾸준히 말을 해야한다는 겁니다. 내 자신을 가장 잘 표현해주고 홍보할 수 있는 수단인 ‘말주변’의 능력을 꾸준히 연습해야지만 시청자들이 더 유입될 가능성이 높습니다.
방송 시작 후 첫 30분동안, 나아가서 방송 전체 기간동안 말하는 것 자체가 힘들다면, 어느정도 준비를 하면 충당할 수 있는 작업입니다. 유행하는 커뮤니티 게시판이나 SNS등을 잠깐 조사해보면 말할 주제거리들이 많이 있으니 어느정도 참고하면 좋을 것입니다.
그리고 말을 너무 많이 하게되면 자연스럽게 목이 마를 수 있으니 항상 물병을 주변에 두시거나 수시로 수분을 섭취하시는 것을 권장합니다.
통계를 살펴보자
마지막으로 인터넷 방송을 꾸준하기 위해서 살펴볼 가장 중요하시만 평상시에는 무시하게되는 그것, 바로 통계 및 차트입니다. 트위치나 유튜브의 경우 방송 시간, 시청자수 등의 통계가 자세히 나와있습니다. 데이터를 분석한다기 보다는 어느정도 수준에 도달했는지만 인지해도 큰 도움이 됩니다.
예를들어 시청자의 유입 경로, 지역, 성별, 나이대 등등을 살펴본다면 이에 맞는 유행이나 인기 키워드를 가지고 다음 방송을 꾸려나가는데 도움이 될 수 있습니다. 내가 활동했던 SNS 포스팅에서 유입이 되었다면 이전에 제작한 클립들이 어느정도 보람있던 활동이라 여겨질 것입니다. 매일 통계를 살펴보지는 않더라도 매 주 한번씩은 보면서 어디 부분을 개선할지, 어디 부분을 유지할지 생각해준다면 큰 부담을 덜어줄 수 있을 것입니다.
이제 인터넷 방송은 마냥 스위치만 켜면 되는 것이 아닌 시대를 살고 있습니다. 이러한 추가작업들이 생소하거나 귀찮게 여겨질 수 있지만 이러한 일들이 모두 즐겁게 다가온다거나 취미로 한다고 생각하면 큰 어려움 없이 시청자들을 유입할 수 있을 것입니다.
As a streamer, you can easily fall into a trap of buying more and more gear. “I’ve got to stream with a high-end DSLR camera, right? Nobody will watch my stream if I don’t have a $1000 microphone, right?!” If you’ve seen any of our YouTube output lately you’ll know that I’ve got a fancy camera and a big microphone but to get streaming, did I need it? Did it make my streams any better? Spoilers, no, it did not. Let’s look at what you really need for a beginner streaming setup that isn’t going to cost you lots!
Do I need a PC?
You might think you 100% need a PC to get started streaming but honestly? You don’t have to. If you have a PlayStation or Xbox console you can get streaming from there to see if you enjoy it. It’s all built right into the system and if you have a headset already, you have a microphone. The PS5 even has a microphone built into the controller so if you’re one of the seven people who managed to get one, you’re already set!
The Xbox Series S|X lets you stream directly to Twitch using the Twitch app, you can even add overlays and alerts using Lightstream for a monthly fee directly from the console!
What a PC can bring to the party is getting more complicated with scenes, graphics, and easily adding upgrades to your camera, etc. So let’s say you have a fairly decent PC (we’ve got some minimum specs we recommend here), what do you need for a beginner streaming setup to get going?
If this is the first time you have ever streamed I’d recommend checking out Gamecaster, it’s an all-in-one app that lets you stream, make use of overlays, and other stuff for free with an insanely easy setup process. They even have a Discovery Platform that streamers and viewers alike can make use of to help grow their channel and find an audience.
When you’re looking to add more customization, XSplit Broadcaster, used to broadcast some of the world’s biggest gaming and esports events, is ready and waiting and you can try it all out for free! XSplit Broadcaster offers next-level features like multi-platform streaming, custom transitions, noise suppression, drag and drop media additions, high-end recording, and much more!
Camera
When it comes to cameras for content creation, something we’ve discussed before, you can spend a lot of money to achieve that perfect look. For a beginner streaming setup though? There are a few things you can look at. First of all, you could use a camera you probably already have, your smartphone camera!
With XSplit Connect: Webcam you can connect your iOS or Android smartphone easily to your PC via XSplit VCam and you’re good to go really! It also uses all the power of VCam to change, blur or completely remove your background! Smartphone cameras can be some of the easiest to use high-end cameras available so it’s worth checking out if you want a good shot with the equipment you may already have!
Or you could use a webcam, and everyone will tell you this but the first port of call should be the Logitech C922. There’s a reason this is the default camera for streamers, it’s relatively inexpensive and has great resolution options at 1080p or 60fps. Also, as a bonus, you’ll get a 3 Month XSplit Premium license!
Now, if you’re using the Logitech C922, the microphone built into it is honestly pretty good. You can see some examples of how this sounds in the video version of this article linked below!
However, if you’re using your smartphone or just want to get an external microphone a great piece of gear for the beginner streaming setup is the Blue Snowball. Blue Microphones make, in my opinion, some of the best USB Microphones, and the Snowball is relatively inexpensive and sounds great for what it is!
Another option is your gaming headset if you’re using one with your PC already. That’ll work just fine for chat and talking to your audience, plus you’re probably going to have a headset on to hear the game anyway, right? So, if it has a microphone built into it it’s worth trying out!
Honestly, that’s really all you need to get going, particularly if you’re streaming PC games. Now, if you’re planning to stream console games you’re going to need a capture card, I’d recommend the Elgato HD60s which can do full 1080p and 60fps. However, we do discuss a free alternative in another video on our YouTube channel.
You can invest in other things over time, but as far as beginner streaming gear goes? You really don’t need to. Start small, see if you enjoy it and only buy more expensive things if you want to, not because you feel you have to!
Remote work used to mean meetings away or having the odd day when you couldn’t reach the office. However, the coronavirus pandemic has forced many companies to embrace the idea of a digital office and reassess the need for physical office buildings. It has quickly become cliché to talk about the new normal, but that’s exactly what businesses are trying to come to terms with.
Those who grasp this new opportunity enthusiastically could stand to reap the rewards. Let’s look at how our new all-digital offices might operate, as well as the advantages that may come from this cultural shift.
Ways companies can fully embrace an all-digital office
Reuters has reported that several UK banks, including HSBC, Lloyds, and Metro Bank, plan to reduce office space by up to half as they seek to cut costs and embrace a bright digital future. But what else can they do to achieve this?
One way is to switch to cloud-based technology and infrastructure. How companies utilize cloud technology will largely depend on their industry and business activities, but, in general terms, it grants more freedom to access data remotely, while also removing the need for data stored on computers and hard drives.
Another way companies can embrace an all-digital office is to focus on their employees. Working from home means there’s no more commute, removing a point of stress for many employees while also giving them that extra time back.
However, proactive companies can go one step further and introduce added flexibility rather than sticking with the rigid norm of the 9 to 5 working day. Allowing employees this flexibility in their working day can help break up the day, making for higher satisfaction levels as they achieve a better work-life balance, and, in return, offer improved productivity. There’s evidence to support this even before the pandemic, with one survey suggesting that up to 77% of employees were more productive out of the office.
One of the greatest advantages of working in a digital office space is the ease of collaboration between teams and colleagues. The lack of a physical office means that people have found new and exciting ways of communicating, which are often quicker and more inclusive. For example, arranging a large meeting no longer involves booking travel or accommodation, but instead freeing up some time to simply go on Zoom or Teams. It also removes any perceived advantage that some colleagues may feel exists if they work in a certain office area or location.
Improved collaboration also applies to working on the same documents. People who embrace cloud computing can access documents and see who else is editing it in real-time, rather than accessing a file saved on a shared drive. This creates a greater sense of transparency between colleagues, helping keep everyone on the same page.
And of course, for companies, these improvements should also lead to a reduction in costs, and higher profits as a result. There will likely be increased costs at the outset when transitioning to an all-digital model, including cloud services and additional training, but these will be offset by reducing office costs, not only the physical space itself but supplies, furniture, and other utilities.
So how can businesses not just adapt to the new normal, but evolve from it? Digital platforms allow for easier integration of automation, removing the need to complete repetitive tasks so employees can focus on more important issues.
Companies can then take digital solutions they have adopted or created for their employees, and look to see if they can also use them for their customers. Can they automate forms, orders, and customer interactions to enhance the customer experience?
An all-digital office also allows companies to expand their horizons in terms of talent. Their pool of employees is no longer restricted to those within commuting distance of a physical office. The world is truly their oyster – or anywhere with a reliable internet connection, at least. This allows companies to attract top talent from around the globe and the improved work-life balance achieved by adopting a digital office should also see staff retention rates increase.
The digital evolution of workplace culture
One aspect that’s difficult to digitize is the culture of a workplace. With a digital office, there is no water cooler to gather around. Instead of trying to recreate that experience, embrace a new one and create a new employee experience.
Video call tools such as Zoom or Teams allow for private breakout rooms or the creation of smaller teams. Encourage employees to utilize these and organize non-work sessions where employees can drop in and out if they are free to have a leisurely conversation.
Take this idea to the next level and organize digital events for your employees to get involved in. This could be as simple as a quiz or bingo session, or something more involved like an exercise class or cooking class where you take your laptop or tablet into your kitchen to show off your culinary skills. You can also break away from work altogether and organize an online video game session or watch party where you watch the same film or TV show.
Running your own team-building tournament is something we’ve discussed on our YouTube channel!
Tools and tips for delivering an all-digital workspace
The coronavirus pandemic forced companies to find digital solutions and embrace new tools to keep their business connected. Zoom became a household brand overnight, while Microsoft was quick to build on its success with Teams and Office 365 integration. However, delivering a presentation on these tools can often mean simply sharing your screen.
For a more polished and professional presentation, you might want to take advantage of XSplit Presenter. It’s easily integrated with Zoom, Teams, and other video conference platforms, and allows you to mix PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations with videos from the internet or your own device. You can also add a virtual pointer and add annotations in real-time during your presentation!
The advanced personalization settings even mean you can combine your webcam with your presentation, removing the background so your captive audience can see everything you need them to. It also means you can share specific applications rather than your entire screen, keeping your desktop private so that no confidential emails suddenly pop up during your presentation.
The coronavirus pandemic has served as a wake-up call to companies and accelerated the adoption of all-digital offices. If you want to ensure that you or your employees are having the best experience working remotely, check out what work from home setup upgrades you need.
In the early days of streaming, it used to be enough to just get a stable stream up and running to attract viewers. Now you need to make a schedule, promote yourself on social media, create clips and highlights, and more. These are the things we want to talk about today, all those things you might be forgetting to do while you stream, things that could improve your viewership over time!
Creating clips
Unless you’ve been really disciplined with your phone, you know that everyone is gravitating towards short-form content these days. All the major streaming platforms have adopted a clipping or short clips type system. Why is this?
Well let’s be real, in any stream that is hours long, there’s a lot of dead air. So when you’re trying to improve your viewership, you probably don’t want to just tweet out the link and people come in when there’s nothing going on or you’re eating lunch, so it’s good to add clips to give people context about your stream.
Now clipping your stream while you are live is hard to do, but if you’ve grown an audience or have some good moderators, you can ask them to create clips of any moments they see. After the stream is over you can review these clips and make your own from the VOD. Some platforms will even let you download the clips so you can use them on your other social media accounts.
Get your social game right
Social media is a key to improving your viewership, and it’s not just posting the same clip across all the platforms and calling it a day. You need to be able to tailor your strategy to each platform and the various formats on the platforms. It’s not just a clickbaity tweet, but also making a story, fleet, or whatever form of content. Now while your phone makes this quick and easy to make, you can also use your streaming software to create this content.
We’ve made an assortment of videos for creating content for social media platforms, but the gist is, find out the resolution for the platform, set that up in your streaming software, and record some content to post on socials.
Some platforms unlock special tools when you reach a certain follower count, like being able to add links to Instagram stories, so be sure to take advantage of this as your reach grows. Take time to research how each platform’s discovery algorithm works, using things like hashtags, keywords, and descriptions to get those eyeballs you need in the beginning.
Get Up
Now depending on the kind of streaming, you’ll be doing, you may be sitting at your desk for hours on end. Now all the youngsters out there probably won’t worry about this too much, but for all us grown folk out there it’s important to get up and walk around for a few minutes every hour. This might not be something to improve your viewership, but, it’s certainly something you’re potentially forgetting to do while you’re streaming!
Now if you have a smartwatch it probably already reminds you to get up. But if not you can use macros to help remind you. Basically, all you need to do is set up a break scene that triggers every hour as a reminder to stand up and walk around. You can find out how to use Macros in XSplit Broadcasterhere.
It can be a fun activity to do with your chat. Get up and take a few IRL laps. Your doctor and back will appreciate it in the future.
Talking is the name of the game with streaming. Unless the content is actually watching paint dry, you always need to be talking about something even if no one is there. What you’re selling is you at the end of the day and the content will help improve your viewership.
If you’re having problems talking after the first 30 mins or so of the stream, then try to help yourself with a bit of prep work. Try to visit Reddit, forums, socials, or wherever you get your news and take note of whatever interests you. Copy the links or write the article headline in notepad and take a look at it when you are running out of things to talk about.
Also, keep a big jug of water nearby as it’s hard to keep the energy up when you’re dehydrated.
Check your analytics
One last tip I think a lot of people overlook when looking to improve your viewership is checking their analytics! Data is everything.
Now some platforms have more robust analytics than others, but you should be able to check at least where your viewership is coming from. Is it coming externally from your social media posts? From your followers? Does certain content perform better than others? Do you get more viewers at specific times? This is all useful data you can pull to help inform what direction you can point your content towards, so do try to take a look at it at least once a week.
As you can see, just streaming isn’t as simple as it used to be. This may seem overwhelming, but as long as you’re having fun creating stuff, it isn’t too bad! Let us know in the comments below what your pre and post-stream rituals are when it comes to improving your viewership!
인터넷 방송을 첫 시작할때나 지금까지도 인터넷 방송을 하시는 분들의 최종적인 공통점이 있다면 바로 안정적인 방송 품질을 유지하는 것 입니다. 인터넷 방송 품질의 기준점도 다양합니다. 일단 콘텐츠가 출중한지, 고급 연출을 사용하는지, 또는 뚜렷한 화면을 유지한다던지 등등이 존재합니다. 이 중에서도 가장 힘들게 유지하는 부분이 바로 깨끗하고 뚜렷한 화면을 유지하는 것 입니다. 만약 최상급 콘텐츠와 최신 기술을 동원한 연출을 준비했다 하더라도 모자이크 처럼 보이는 화면이라면 그 누구도 긍정적인 시청 경험이라 할 수 없을 것 입니다. 이러한 부분을 모니터링하고 문제가 생기면 바로 고칠 수 있도록 여러가지 방법에 대해 알려드리겠습니다.
인코딩
인코딩이란 무엇일까요? 쉽게 생각하자면 내가 원하는 방송 화면 구성을 컴퓨터가 신호를 받아서 인터넷을 통해 출력, 송출하는 것 입니다. 방송 신호를 관리하는 것은 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터 (XSplit Broadcaster)에서 다룰 수 있습니다. 프로그램 내에서 섬세한 설정을 통해서 내가 원하는 화면 품질로 데이터를 전송할 수 있습니다. 기본적으로 알아야 하는 부분은 인코더 설정에서 알맞는 인코더를 선택하는 것 인데 크게 두 가지로 나뉘게 됩니다. CPU를 활용하는 인코더는 x264 라는 소프트웨어 인코딩 기술을 활용하며 그래픽카드, 즉 GPU를 사용하는 인코더는 NVENC, VCE 또는 Quicksync 를 활용하는 하드웨어 인코딩이 있습니다.
오랫동안 x264 인코딩이 최상급 품질을 유지하는 인코더로 사용되어 왔습니다. 하지만 최근들어 NVIDIA RTX 그래픽 카드를 활용하는 NVENC 인코더도 비슷하거나 같은 품질의 방송 화면을 송출할 수 있게 되었습니다. 방송용 송출 컴퓨터를 주문 제작하려면 가격 대비 효율을 전제하에 CPU보다 조금 더 값이 저렴한 올바른 NVIDIA 그래픽 카드를 장착하는 것을 추천합니다.
해상도와 프레임율
그렇다면 무엇때문에 인코더들이 일을 열심히 하게 되는것일까요? 가장 큰 요소는 화면의 해상도와 프레임율에 있습니다. 해상도가 높거나 프레임율이 많을수록 더 많은 자원이 필요하게 됩니다. 1초당 특정 프레임 수가 높을수록, 게다가 각 프레임이 뚜렷한 고해상도 이미지를 프로세싱 하기 위해서는 그만큼 강력한 인코딩 자원이 필요하게 되는 것입니다.
x264 인코더는 품질 설정을 ‘속도’로 분별합니다. 대부분 Very fast, faster, fast, medium, slow 로 구분되어 있는데, 해상도와 프레임율이 높을수록 속도가 더 느린 프리셋을 선택하면 됩니다. 해당 설정을 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터에서 찾으시려면
방송 송출 메뉴 > 톱니바퀴 아이콘 (내가 저장한 방송 설정에서) > 방송 설정창 우측에 있는 톱니바퀴 아이콘 > 인코더 프리셋 (Encoder Preset)
문제는 여기서 발생합니다. 프리셋을 느리게 설정할수록 CPU의 자원, 즉 리소스를 많이 잡아먹게 됩니다. 만약 고해상도 게임을 동시에 플레이하면서 해당 게임 화면을 또다시 고해상도로 출력, 송출하려고 하면 왠만한 CPU가 아닌 경우 이 두가지 작업을 동시에 해내기 힘들어 할 것입니다. 이 경우에도 반드시 게임을 방송해야 한다면 게임용 컴퓨터가 따로 있어야 하거나 아예 저해상도 게임을 플레이 하는 수 밖에 없습니다.
또 다른 방법으로는 하드웨어 인코더를 사용하는 것 입니다. 특정 그래픽카드는 인코딩 전용 프로세서가 탑재되어 있어서 게임플레이에 지장을 주지 않도록 만들어진 제품도 존재합니다. 반드시 CPU로 인코딩을 해야한다면 코어 수가 최대한 많은 (최대 32코어) CPU를 추천합니다. 그래야지만 어느정도 1080p 해상도에 60fps 프레임율의 방송을 실현할 수 있을겁니다.
NVIDIA 계열 그래픽카드를 활요하는 인코더 NVENC를 사용하려면 일단 RTX 시리즈 그래픽 카드를 추천합니다. 대부분의 RTX 그래픽카드는 CPU 인코더 x264의 medium 프리셋과 동일한 품질의 성능을 보여줍니다. 특정 게임에 따라 이보다 더 높은 성능을 자랑할 수도 있습니다.
그 어떤 인코더를 선택하더라도 방송 송출에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 부분은 바로 비트레이트 입니다. 비트레이트는 즉 인터넷 업로드 속도와 환경을 기반으로 설정하는 부분입니다. 업로드 대역폭이 높을수록 문제가 발생할 확률이 낮아집니다. 내 업로드 속도와 대역폭이 넓을수록 높은 화질과 음질을 인터넷을 통해 전송할 수 있으니 막상 컴퓨터 사양만 좋아봤자 인터넷이 뒷받침을 해주지 않으면 무용지물이 될 수 있습니다. 오디오는 그닥 많은 대역폭을 필요로 하지만 가장 중요한 화면과 화질은 업로드 대역폭이 널럴해야만 가능한 부분입니다.
화면이 단색으로만 이루어져 있다면 또 그닥 큰 문제가 되지 않습니다. 단순할수록 인코더가 수월한 작업을 통하여 화면을 송출할 수 있고, 화면이 빨리 움직이거나 색상이 다양할수록 인코더가 더욱 열심히 힘을 발휘하여 이를 영상으로 압축 후 전송하게 되는 것입니다. 화면 전환이 빠른 FPS 게임이 주로 많은 비트레이트를 필요로 합니다. 이러한 이유로 시청자의 입장을 생각하여 지속적으로 빠른 움직임이 있는 콘텐츠는 해상도나 프레임율을 조금 낮춰서 설정해야만 안정적인 방송 환경을 적용할 수 있게 됩니다.
비트레이트를 설정하려면 두 가지 요소를 고려해야 합니다. 현재 나의 인터넷 속도, 그리고 내가 방송할 플랫폼에서 허용해주는 최소, 최대 비트레이트 수치 입니다. 트위치, 페이스북, 트위터는 대부분 6000kbps로 비트레이트를 설정하면 무난한 방송 품질이 적용됩니다. 왜 이러한 인기 플랫폼에서 일정한 비트레이트 수치를 요구하냐면, 이를 무제한으로 푸는 순간 그들이 내야하는 관리비가 늘어나기 때문이라나…
대역폭을 확인 하려면 인터넷 스피드 테스트등을 통해서 알아볼 수 있습니다. 물론 내가 선택한 인터넷 통신사의 사정에 따라 약간의 차이가 날 수 있지만 나에게 주어진 업로드 대역폭 중 70%이상을 넘는 수치의 비트레이트는 사용하지 않는것을 추천합니다. 만약 이 수치를 넘게되면 방송은 그렇다 쳐도 온라인으로 플레이하는 게임에 지장을 줄 수 있기 때문입니다. 그리고 최대한 안정적인 환경을 위해 방송 송출과 게임을 하는 컴퓨터 모두 이더넷 케이블을 사용한 인터넷 연결을 사용하심을 추천합니다. 와이파이는 편의성이 있다 하여도 안정적인 환경과는 거리가 멀 수 있습니다.
이렇게 기본적인 설정만 유지한다면 내 인터넷 속도와 방송 플랫폼의 비트레이트 수치의 타협점을 찾을 수 있습니다. 만약 낮은 대역폭의 인터넷 환경일 경우 비트레이트를 점점 줄여가며 안정적인 송출 설정이 될 때까지 시험을 거쳐서 알맞는 비트레이트를 찾아보시기 바랍니다.
렉 이라는 단어 자체는 참으로 여러가지 의미를 포용합니다. 여러가지 의미로 인터넷 방송에서도 비슷한 영향을 끼치곤 합니다. 인코딩이 진행되는 도중, 두 가지 종류의 렉이 발생할 수 있습니다. 첫 번째 렉은 시청자의 입장에서 보는 렉 입니다. 시청자들 모두 재각각 특정 스트리머의 화면을 볼 때마다 끊김 현상을 목격하거나 화면이 멈춰버릴 수 있습니다. 스트리머의 입장에서는 프레임드롭 현상이 일어날 수 있으며 방송 프로그램에 ‘특정 수치의 프레임이 손실 (Drop)되었습니다’라는 표기가 뜰 수 있습니다. 이러한 현상들을 설명하자면 다음과 같습니다.
1) 비트레이트 수치가 너무 높습니다. 이전에 말씀드린 것 처럼 내 대역폭보다 높은 비트레이트를 설정하면 이러한 현상을 겪을 수 있습니다. 비트레이트 값을 설정하기 전에 반드시 인터넷 스피드 테스트를 실행해보시기 바랍니다. 불특정한 시기에 인터넷 통신사에서 점검을 한다거나 물리적인 오류로 인해 인터넷 속도에 영향을 끼칠수도 있으니 내 컴퓨터나 모뎀의 설정을 변경하더라도 고쳐지지 않는다면 인터넷 통신사에게 문의하여 인터넷에 문제가 있는지 확인하는 것도 방법입니다.
2) 방송 플랫폼에 문제가 발생한 경우도 있습니다. 트위치 같은 경우에는 송출 신호를 받는 전용 서버가 있는데 이 서버에 접속된 사스트리머가 너무 많다거나 하면 끊김 현상이 종종 일어나곤 합니다. 이럴때는 굳이 내가 속해있는 지역이 아니더라도 조금더 안정적인 트위치 서버를 선택하는 것도 방법입니다.
트위치 서버는 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터 내의 방송 설정에서 조절할 수 있습니다.
방송 송출 메뉴 > 톱니바퀴 아이콘 (내가 저장한 방송 설정에서) > 트위치 아이디 아래에 있는 서버 목록 > 딜레이가 그나마 적고 Jitters가 적은 서버를 선택하는것을 권장
트위치의 경우 나와 가깝거나 최적화된 서버를 알아보려면 여기를 클릭해서 확인 해보시기 바랍니다.
다음 렉의 경우도 일부 시청자들이 볼 수 있지만 대부분 스트리머의 입장에서 더 일어날 수 있는 현상입니다. 게다가 게임을 하는 도중 목격할 경우가 많습니다. 이 현상은 인코더가 작업할 수 있는 해상도와 프레임율 이상의 작업을 컴퓨터에서 실행 할 경우 일어납니다. x264인코더를 사용한다고 할 때, 송출에 필요한 품질 설정과 게임에 필요한 품질 설정을 동시에 실행할 때 본인의 CPU가 이 두가지 작업을 수월하게 작업하지 못 할 경우, 송출도 게임도 둘 다 부정적인 경험을 초래할 수 있습니다. CPU하나의 자원을 가지고 방송과 게임이 서로 다툰다고 보면 됩니다.
이 경우에는 어느정도 수월하게 방송과 게임을 모두 실행하려면 인코더 프리셋 (Preset) 설정을 좀 더 빠른 속도로 지정하여 조절하면 됩니다. 프리셋 속도를 조절해도 큰 차이가 없다면 안타깝지만 방송의 해상도 또는 프레임율, 혹은 게임의 품질을 저하 시켜야만 두가지 작업을 수월하게 실행할 수 있을겁니다.
마치며, 어느정도 원활한 환경의 방송과 게임을 실행하려면 CPU 인코더 보다는 하드웨어 (그래픽카드) 인코더를 사용하는 것을 권장합니다. 내가 돈을 내며 사용하는 인터넷의 속도와 환경에 대해 조금 더 자세히 알아보고 컴퓨터의 사양와 필요한 주변기기에 조금 더 집중한다면 대략적으로 나만의 방송 설정을 조절하는데에 감이 잡히리라 믿습니다. 너무 무리하게 높은 고화질 설정만 고려하지 말고 어느정도 품질과 성능을 조절하면서 게임과 방송 모두 깨끗한 화질로 실행이 가능한 동시에 나와 내 시청자들의 경험을 저하하지 않는 조건으로 여러번의 실험을 거쳐 나만의 최적화된 방송 설정을 저장해보시기 바랍니다.
많은 사람들이 엑스플릿 로고를 보면 바로 알아보고 또 좋아해주었습니다. 말풍선을 닮은 아이콘은 엑스플릿의 아이콘이자 2014년 부터 저희와 함께 했었습니다. 그러게 왜 새로운 로고가 필요한지 물어보신다면 새로운 브랜딩을 위한 단순한 목적이 아니라 엑스플릿의 브랜드 가치와 존재감이 새로워졌기 때문입니다. 최근 2년 사이에 가장 큰 변화가 찾아왔으며 새로 업데이트된 기존 제품들과 새로 선보일 제품들을 준비하며 만들어진 로고 입니다.
한가지 재밌는 사실을 공유하자면, 엑스플릿은 당최 게이머들을 중점으로 만들려는 의도가 없었습니다. 첫 엑스플릿 제품이 2009년도에 출시 되었을때 일반 사용자들이 스크린샷과 동영상을 녹화하여 세계 여러 사람들과 공유할 수 있도록 간단한 취지를 가진 프로그램이었습니다.
짧게 설명하자면, 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터 (XSplit Broadcaster)는 빠른 시간 내에 게이머들 사이에서 인터넷 방송 및 영상 녹화 프로그램으로 알려져 왔습니다. 그 후 지금까지 저희가 달려왔고 이전 엑스플릿 로고 역시 엑스플릿의 역사적인 순간들과 함께 지내왔습니다.
최근까지 사용된 엑스플릿 로고는 작은 개선 외에는 크게 달라진것 없이 가장 오랬동안 사용되어 왔습니다. 엑스플릿의 제품군은 더 이상 오직 인터넷 방송만을 위한 프로그램이 아니었으며 시장의 흐름에 따라 게이밍 뿐만 아니라 전반적인 콘텐츠 제작에도 많은 기여를 해왔습니다. 작년엔 많은 사람들이 재택근무로 전환하는 시기에 엑스플릿 브이캠 (XSplit VCam)이 가장 인기있는 제품이었습니다. 동시에 엑스플릿 브로드캐스터를 사내 회의 및 온라인 강의에도 사용하기 시작했습니다.
거의 모든 범위에 도달하며 다시 원점으로 되돌아 왔습니다. 엑스플릿 제품군을 사용하여 생산적인 일을 하는곳에 큰 발전을 도왔고 일반 업무를 수행하기 위한 도구로써의 역할을 해내었습니다. 게이밍은 언제나 저희 가슴속에 깊은 교훈을 남겨주었고 엑스플릿의 아이덴티티로써 적합하지만 엑스플릿은 여기서 더 나아가 게이밍 뿐만 아니라, 학업, 사무, 회계, 교육 등의 분야로 펼쳐나갈 계획입니다. 저희는 이미 이러한 분야에 사용되어 왔었고 더 발전할 가능성을 실천하도록 노력할 것입니다!
이제 새로운 엑스플릿의 로고를 공개합니다! (뭐 이미 썸네일에서 보셨다면 못본 척 해주세요.)
새로 태어난 엑스플릿 로고!
이 로고는 저희 전속 디자이너 디아나 찬코 (Diana Chanco)가 직접 디자인 하였으며 엑스플릿의 현재와 미래의 제품군을 생각하며 제작되었습니다. 더 깔끔해지고 세련된 로고는 이제 표기 용도에 따라 보정된 상태에서도 뚜렷하고 알맞은 크기로 보여질 수 있다는 점이 가장 큰 장점입니다. 이전 로고는 특정 비율에서 약간 비효율 적이다는 지적 때문에 생각하게 된 부분입니다.
이 글을 쓰면서 로고 뿐만아니라 곧이어 웹사이트, 각자의 엑스플릿 프로그램들, 홍보물 및 소셜 미디어에서도 새로운 엑스플릿 로고를 찾아보실 수 있으실 것입니다.
Today, video conferencing is a fact of life – whether we are using it to work from home, attend school or keep in touch with family and friends. And its popularity will likely continue with the increasing numbers of remote jobs and home workers. So, what are the best video conference apps? The answer depends on what you will be using it for, so we’ve covered as many options as we can in this blog.
In the last year, Zoom has become almost ubiquitous with the term video conference apps, thanks to its fairly generous free plan (Zoom basic), dependability, and ease of use. The free version allows you to hold unlimited meetings for up to 100 people and offers streaming, screen sharing, session recording, and breakout rooms, among other features.
Its biggest downside (although some would argue this is also a positive) is the 40-minute limit on any meeting with three or more attendees. However, there are paid plans for companies that require longer meetings, live tech support, cloud storage, company branding, or having more than one person schedule meetings.
Microsoft Teams is another good choice for online meetings, and its full integration with Office 365 and dedicated conversation channels makes it very flexible for work teams.
When meeting up with family and friends, the emphasis is usually on ease of use rather than business-friendly features. Google Hangouts is great for this, and while the free version only allows online meetings of up to 10 people, it requires just a few clicks to set up a meeting and can be used either in a web browser or via the app.
If you want to spice up your get-togethers with more features, the free Jitsi Meet is a good video conference app choice. It requires no setup or account and boasts extras like in-meeting YouTube video playback and live-streaming. It even allows tech-minded users to download the source code and set up their own server.
Skype Meet Now is a popular choice for those who are already familiar with Skype. Its free tier offers video conferencing for up to 50 people, screen sharing options, and the ability to automatically blur backgrounds as well as adding live subtitles.
Provided as part of Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Google Hangouts’ premium brother, Google Meet, is geared more towards business. The free offering has a 100 person, 60-minute limit, with paid plans which offer the ability to host meetings for up to 250 people and 100,000 live-stream viewers, a large amount for a video conference app.
For those who need a more serious video conferencing tool, GoToMeeting has paid plans that will support up to 3,000 guests, and include automatic transcription, unlimited cloud recording, whiteboard capabilities, and 24/7 phone support. Hosts can even hand over control to another participant.
Another option is Bluejeans, a high-end video conferencing service that is both easy to use and to adapt to your needs. Hosts can create up to 20 breakout sessions and annotate the screen like a whiteboard. The service also supports directional audio for Dolby Sound-enabled rooms.
Cisco Webex Meetings, on the other hand, has a professional feel and allows free video meetings with up to 100 people, including private chat rooms. Paid plans offer the ability to make and store MP4 recordings of your meetings, customizable layouts, and a number of AI-powered features, such as a voice-activated digital assistant to automate common meeting tasks, real-time transcription, and closed-captioning.
Whether you’re organizing a D&D session for 10, a family birthday party, an online lesson, or a business conference for 1,000 participants – there’s a video conferencing service out there that will suit your needs. Find out how you can also add XSplit VCam to some of these apps easily here to remove, replace or just blur your webcam background! Something that’s vital for privacy but also great to add a bit of fun to a family call!
I think one of the main challenges people encounter when they start streaming is the endless pursuit of stream quality. Now, stream quality can mean a few things. The quality of the content, the production quality, or the quality of the streaming feed itself. While the first two are very important, people aren’t going to stick around your stream if the video is pixelated and or lags every few seconds. So today we’re going to talk about stream quality or actually how to properly encode your stream to improve the quality of your live stream.
Encoders
What are encoders? Encoders basically take whatever you’ve put together in your streaming software, (gameplay, face cam, audio), and compress it to send it out to the internet. This compression part is what takes most of the work for XSplit Broadcaster and it’s a big factor in improving live stream quality. It is either done by your CPU via X264 and is called software encoding or your GPU via NVENC, VCE or Quicksync and is called hardware encoding.
For a long time, X264 was the absolute best at this encoding process, but now NVENC has established itself on newer NVIDIA RTX (and some GTX) GPUs it is able to go toe to toe with it. This is why in the PC Building guide (below), I recommended buying a GPU for encoding rather than an expensive CPU until you know, crypto mining ruined everything.
Resolution and Frame Rate
So you’re probably wondering, what makes the encoder work so hard? Well, the answer is the resolution and frame rate. The higher the resolution and the faster the frame rate means the encoder has to process more images at larger sizes, something that makes a difference when it comes to improving your live stream quality.
With X.264, you need to slow down the preset in order to maintain the image quality for higher resolutions and frame rates. In XSplit Broadcaster you’ll find these presets, very fast, faster, fast, medium, and slow by heading to…
Broadcast > Clicking the cog next to your stream output > Clicking the cog in the Video Encoding section > Encoder Preset
The problem is when you use these presets, CPU usage rises exponentially which will affect your gameplay drastically unless you’re using a 2 PC streaming setup or aren’t streaming gameplay at all.
Alternatively, on hardware encoders, there tend to be chips dedicated only to encoding, which will limit the amount they’ll affect things like your games’ frame rate. If you have to use your CPU for encoding, it’s recommended that you get a CPU with as many cores as possible (up to 32 cores) to try to achieve the slow preset for 1080p 60fps streaming.
The equivalent would be an NVIDIA GPU with the latest NVENC encoder found in the RTX series of GPUs, which will match X264’s medium preset or even outperform it in some instances. You can also use the older NVENC, VCE, and Quicksync for streaming, but you won’t be able to match the performance of the current NVENC or X264…. yet.
No matter the encoder you choose, what has the biggest effect on improving your live stream quality is bitrate. Bitrate is basically the internet upload budget you set for the video and audio quality output. The higher the better. Thankfully audio doesn’t require too high of an audio bitrate, leaving most of your budget to video. Now, this is where motion comes into play.
The more motion on the screen, be it from the number of frames per second or just things happening on screen, like supers from a fighting game, or rapid movement from a first-person shooter, the more your video bitrate budget is spread thin. That’s why for games with a lot of motion it’s generally recommended to set your stream resolution and/or FPS lower.
Now your bitrate is determined by two factors, your available internet bandwidth, and the streaming platform. For streaming platforms like Twitch, Twitter, or Facebook they all limit the available bandwidth, usually around 6000 Kbps. Why do they do this? Well because the larger the amount of bandwidth used, the higher their bills are.
Your available bandwidth is determined by your internet connection. You can find this by doing a simple speed test. This can vary during high traffic periods, but generally when setting your bitrate try not to use more than 70% of your available bandwidth so that you won’t have issues with your online games. Also, be sure to connect your stream machine via a wired connection if you can as it can make a huge difference in improving your live stream quality!
The general rule is to set your bitrate as high as your internet connection and the streaming platform allows. If on a limited connection, try lowering your resolution and frame to accommodate for the lower bitrate.
Lag is an interesting term, especially when it comes to streaming, but generally, there are two types of lag that can happen with encoding. The first type of lag is experienced on the viewer’s end, this is where their stream stutters or lags, sometimes even go offline and back online as well. At your end as the streamer, you can see this problem as well as dropped frames. This usually happens for two reasons.
1) The bitrate was set too high. As mentioned before, do a speed check before setting your bitrate. Now you may have set this bitrate before and it was fine, but as I mentioned, sometimes ISPs have high traffic periods or there’s some network maintenance going on that will affect your overall bandwidth. The best solution is to lower the bandwidth of your stream. If this continues to be a problem, try getting in contact with your ISP.
2) The streaming server is having issues. Main sites like Twitch have dedicated streaming servers for different regions, but sometimes these have issues. The best solution is to go offline and change servers. If this is a recurring problem, do a bandwidth check to determine if the server you plan to stream to is stable before going live.
You can easily change servers on XSplit Broadcaster by going to…
Broadcast > Clicking the cog next to your stream output > under “Server” change Automatic (or whatever server you have selected) to the next closest server to your region.
For Twitch, for example, a good way to determine this is to check here which will list the servers closest to you in order.
The next type of lag can sometimes be seen by the viewers but is usually felt or seen by the streamer if they are playing games. This is generally known as overloading your stream encoder. Basically, you are trying to encode video in a manner that your encoder can’t handle and is very common when encoding with x264. Basically, your PC is fighting for resources from the CPU, which causes frames to drop on stream and performance to be affected on programs running on the PC.
The best way to resolve this is by lowering the encoding settings as we discussed above, the main culprit is usually setting the X264 preset to higher. If that doesn’t resolve it, then lower the resolution and or frame rate.
So to wrap up, for good stream quality in terms of proper encoding, try to use hardware encoders. Know your internet and platform limitations. Lower settings if you’re having problems. We hope this helps you out but if there are any other topics you’d like us to discuss here just drop us a comment on this post!
You’ve heard it before – to stay productive, you need to treat working remotely the same way as you would working from the office. But to really be efficient, the key is to work smarter not harder. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to increasing your productivity because we all have different lives and lifestyles – not to mention different jobs. But one universal is that the right tools can help you to do more when it comes to your productivity. In this blog, we’re going to take a look at some work from home apps that can help you achieve your goals.
Note-taking productivity apps for working from home
For many, being productive while working at home means staying focused and not getting side-tracked by an interesting podcast or Netflix show. For others, productivity is all about being able to find what you need quickly – from emails to meeting notes. For both types of home workers, there are work from home apps to help.
The Evernote note-taking app can help you organize everything from recipes to audio files. It allows you to capture notes through writing, audio, photos, pdfs, digital sketches – almost any way of recording information. Type in a word or key phrase and Evernote will search through all of your documents and images for that search term. You can also use it to share notes with others, and collaborate on creating and editing documents.
Microsoft OneNote is another note-taking app, designed to sync up with other Microsoft products. You can insert text, images, and other types of documents onto a page and then move them around – and it’s particularly useful for linking up with Microsoft OneDrive and Outlook. It also comes with a host of special features, like allowing you to sync up audio recordings of lectures with the notes you take.
If you’re more familiar with the Apple universe, you could use Apple Shortcuts instead. This app allows you to automate a series of actions, such as automatically putting your phone on silent when you reach the office, or when you have a meeting.
Is your ‘to-do’ list written on scraps of paper scattered all over your desk? If so, you may want to consider Todoist (pronounced to-do-ist, rather than rhyming with ‘moist’) which makes our best work from home apps. This electronic to-do app allows you to create joint lists with other people and can handle up to 80 projects. The paid plan includes reminders, labels, and the ability to add comments to tasks.
Organisation also extends to your computer desktop. While some people keep their desktop tidy, others struggle to maintain a carefully organized or hierarchical folder structure. X1 Search can help, with an app that allows you to quickly find anything on your computer. X1 will search through your desktop, email, calendars – everything – for that elusive file you could have sworn was right there.
Apps for creative collaboration
Workplace tools for collaboration and communication are transforming how teams get work done together. But there is more out there than Microsoft Teams and Slack. While those are great apps, they don’t always suit smaller teams.
If you are looking for a work from home app that can create diagrams and will also support collaboration, you could try Lucidchart. With very reasonably priced accounts for teams of three people, Lucidchart allows you to create and share diagrams, allowing more than one person to work on a diagram at the same time. It also comes with a huge template gallery.
Asana was one of the first workplace tools for collaboration and communication and it is still one of the best. It works a bit like a collaborative to-do list app with a host of features that will help your team stay on track and stay productive. Unlike apps that focus on projects, with defined start and end dates, Asana lets you keep track of ongoing work.
Tired of creating Powerpoint presentations and wishing you could do more? XSplit Presenter might be the work from home app you need to make your slideshows come alive. Our presentation app lets you give a professional presentation that keeps your audience engaged, entertained, and most importantly, informed!
XSplit Presenter lets you add personality and flair by easily adding yourself into the presentation and even includes a virtual green screen that removes your background giving your presentation room to breathe while immersing you as a part of it! It also works as a virtual camera in software like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet so you don’t need to worry about accidentally showing the entire meeting your desktop!
That’s not all though, you can annotate your presentations in real-time with a virtual pointer and drawing tools which can easily let the viewer focus on the right thing at the right time. It also lets you answer questions immediately and elaborate on what is already in your presentation. Which, speaking of your presentation, XSplit Presenter works with your existing presentation so if you’re using Google Slides or Microsoft Powerpoint you can easily add that, along with your presenter notes, into XSplit Presenter!
Are you finding your typing too slow to keep up with your thoughts? SwiftKey Keyboard could help. This is a custom keyboard that works with both Android and iOs operating systems and lets you type by swiping around the keypad, rather than pressing keys the old-fashioned way. It is particularly useful for emailing and writing documents while on the go.
If you are finding it difficult to adapt healthy WFH habits, RescueTime could help. This app is a time tracking tool that records the other apps you use, websites you visit, and even the time you spend away from the computer. You can also classify different sites based on their role in your productivity, and block sites during work hours that are distracting you from your work. This is a great app for those who find themselves just wanting to read that one more news item before getting back to work.
Today’s WFH world is no longer just about meeting deadlines, but juggling all of the demands in a way that suits your lifestyle. Whether that’s doing fewer rote tasks or spending more time with your family – there’s a productivity app for working from home that can help!
Everyone knows and loves the old logo, it’s iconic and has been with us since 2014 so why change it, you might be asking? Aside from naturally wanting aesthetic improvements, a lot has changed with XSplit since that time. Our overall focus has gradually shifted especially during the last couple of years with newly-released products and some upcoming ones.
Fun fact: Not many people know that XSplit wasn’t originally created with gamers in mind. When the first XSplit product was launched in 2009, it was more of a productivity suite aimed at helping people share content with others in the form of screenshots, short videos with annotations, etc.
Long story short, XSplit Broadcaster eventually became widely known as a live streaming and recording software that was embraced by gamers, and the rest was history. While the previous logos were not super explicit, they still communicated content creation and sharing throughout its evolution.
The last logo stayed for a while undergoing minor revisions. Our product portfolio began to grow to the point where XSplit was no longer just about Broadcaster. Our markets had expanded outside of gaming and content creation. Last year was the pinnacle when the interest in XSplit VCam skyrocketed as more and more people worked from home. Other people have started using XSplit Broadcaster as well for other purposes like online meetings and webinars.
We’ve come full circle, once again serving the productivity and the general workforce market. And while gaming will always continue to be ingrained in our identity, the need for tools and applications that will help people face the ‘new normal’ has been stronger than ever, and we know we can deliver!
At this point, we know there’s no delaying the inevitable, and the time is now to reveal our new logo (unless you’ve seen it at the top there, but hey, we like to build suspense).
The new XSplit
This new logo better encapsulates, thanks to the work of our designer Diana Chanco, what and where we are as a brand and slots in nicely with our existing and future products. More importantly, it looks more refined and flexible to scale easily in various applications which cannot be always said with our old logo.
In addition, we will be retiring SplitmediaLabs corporate website and consolidating all communications, updates, and job postings through the XSplit brand. Be sure to stay tuned for more updates in 2021! We hope you like it.
