Twitch has released today:
- Dual Format streaming, thats Vertical and Horizontal to all to EVERYONE
- 2k (1440p) Streaming to Affiliates and Partners
- Improved Server Side Transcodes for Enhanced to those that need it when capacity available
Pop over to Stream Settings on the Twitch Dashboard to see which of the features are available to you!
Heres the Tweet:
Getting Started
Assuming you meet the hardware requirements (this is for 1440p AND vertical together), which briefly is:
- OBS v32.0 or newer
- NVIDIA 2000 or newer, AMD 6000 or newer (check the help guides for in depth)
- The upstream internet to support this, either 9Mbps with Improved Server Side Transcode 20Mbps otherwise
Assuming you meet those requirements, to get Dual format going you just need to utilize a plugin for OBS and the easiest to get going is Aitum Vertical.
You can find that here or if you need the Zip for installing to portable OBS, or just don’t like installers, you can find Github Releases here. It works well with Aitum’s Multistream platform, to say, send Vertical to YouTube for example.
Once that plugins installed and active, it’s just a matter of in OBS do the following:
- Open Settings
- Visit Stream
- Check “Enable Enhanced Broadcasting”
- Leave the two “Maxium” fields set to Auto, should never need to touch those
- Under “Addtitional Canvas” select “Aitum Vertical”
Now all thats left to do is under docks enable if not already:
- Vertical
- Vertical Sources
- Vertical Scenes
Places those docks as needed, heres my layout for example:
Here I put my Vertical Scenes with Horizontal and Vertical Sources with Sources.
Scenes and Sources
Then all that is left to do is to Setup your Vertical scenes and sources, which you should be familar with, having done it horizontally already and Vertical will present your existing horizontal sources if needed!
Take time in vertical to consider the layout, generally on mobile the lower 1/3 will be where chat is (to viewers) so consider there when choosing you layout. And be aware viewers on mobile can resize chat to take up more/less space how they feel (from the bottom up)
Linking Scenes
Once you have made your Vertical Scenes and sources, make sure to LINK your Vertical and horizontal sources together, so that when horizontal changes scenes, vertical follows!
To do that, right click a vertical scene, go to linked scenes and select the matching horizontal scene. Here my vertical and horizontal are called the same so Vertical “Pause” is linked to Horizontal “PAUSE”.
Thats it, now when you go live on Twitch you’ll be sending both Horizontal and Vertical feeds. Viewers on mobile can easily switch between the two by JUST rotating their phone, and you can check your own Vertical feed in the dashboard stream manager!
Quality Check
Want to check your feed qualities? Pop over to the Twitch Inspector and check whats going on. Heres my last stream! Can easily see that I’m doing horizontal and vertial and the speeds that I’m sending!
I think that about covers it. Go forth and dual format and check out the help guides if needed!
BUT WAIT THERES MORE
Check out the LIVE demo of Mary Kish doing the Setup here on Today’s Patch notes (a successful live tech demo no less!)