#catcams

[pallass-cat]

Just a quick morning melodic house set to kick off the week. If you like please stop by the channel and give me a follow <3

HTTPS://www.twitch.tv/alpha_mike67

You also get to see Carnation!

[cappucosmico]

i told him to "get out my fucking face" then made the jerma freddy fazbear sound at him over the catcam

[iesuroo]

Abby is never on catcam when I stream. She prefers under the bed as soon as I go live, so I zoomed in and made Frogbert the star of catcam. He has his bowtie on and is very nervous

[mordantcassie]

streaming that Dragons Dogma today Will we wander and wander and climb the butt hairs of ogres? Will we do some story missions? Will we die and then die again? (Yes and Yes)

There will be pregame cat cuddles Possible mid game cat cuddles

Come hang out cause Wolves hunt in packs

[lululandd]

ghost looking at his catcam while he's at work

based on

[bobacupcake]

extra mint and basil monday video fresh of the catcam

[fakezircon]

hellooo zircon, for no particular reason (/silly) do you have any tips for beginner streamers? Your streams are always clean and well put together esp from a technical side imo so I trust your advice on this one :) - @helsex

This is gonna be long so get comfy.

#1 best tip: Get familiar with your streaming software of choice (most likely OBS) and don't be afraid to play with it. Your first streams are not gonna be a polished as you'd like no matter what you do. You don't need to know the software inside and out to use it well and familiarity will come with use. The best approach (in my opinion) is to figure out what you like in other streams and figure out how to do that for yourself, don't worry about learning absolutely everything right from the start.

Another good tip is to do some mic checks beforehand, if you just record instead of streaming you'll be able to see what your mic sounds like on stream, and there are tons of tutorials out there for figuring out mic settings (this is the one I followed I think, although with some differences just for my own preference).

Yet another helpful resource: this is a link to an obs plugin that will help manage audio sources so you can actually control what plays on stream, instead of it just playing your whole desktop audio. (I think OBS has a version of this going now? But I tried using it and didn't get far) You'll have to add an audio source individually for each application but the greater control is a godsend.

For overlays (things like chat on stream and alerts that play when people follow/subscribe/raid that sort of thing), there's a few routes you can go down. Twitch has their own alerts thing but personally I use streamelements (they also have a very popular chatbot which I don't use myself but may be worth looking into if that's something you want). Whichever service you end up using should give you some sort of link, which will be added to your obs as a Browser Source. (Also if you're using the obs plugin I linked, the browser source audio would be under the name "obs-browser-page.exe" after you set up the browser source)

My final bit of advice is that hotkeys are your friends! It is absolutely worth setting up a few hotkeys to make controlling your stream while in game easy. Personally I have hotkeys set up for toggle muting my my mic and discord audio, as well as for changing between my most common scenes (Also my catcam when my animals deign to show up). Typically if you are just using a regular keyboard you'll want to use key combinations as hotkeys to avoid accidentally activating one while trying to type in game (Something I have done many a time, but hey you never stop learning!).

Shoutout to @addaxbones for teaching me literally everything I know about streaming btw. He's the guy that got me into this mess and also the reason I met most of my friends today. (love that guy)

One last thing under the readmore to cover my shame /silly:

I am flattered you consider my streams "clean and well put together", and you can maybe take this as proof that on screen != behind the scenes, but here is my desktop from a few streams ago, not a tidy look I can tell you that.

It doesn't normally get this bad, but it's also not a whole lot better.

[comfymoth]

quackity’s stream rn feels like a catcam i’m just watching him run in circles and climb on the table

[digirainebow]

persi pic for the lack of catcam this month

[shrekyaoi]

Combine the streamer au with the cat au and have Makarov's chat go insane whenever his one of his weird cats shows up on screen

yuri can be seen destroying makarov’s sock drawer and roach’s favourite pasttime is jumping directly on top of either the keyboard or makarov’s lap while he’s in the middle of extremely intense gameplay. the chat loves it. they demand he set up a “catcam” livestream and he only relents when anatoly reminds him how much money he could make

[awesamforehead]

What if next time George goes live at the dteam house, he sets up the catcam again but this time its for Milo and Naomi looking around and sniffing his office. He barely even acknowledges hes streaming hes just watching the cats

[starchildange]

we're live playing some rags to riches in the sims 3! WITH CATCAM!

[pinkseas]

tubbo playing marbles on stream allowing the winner to request one thing of him so far we have

catcam (tubbo said he’ll post a pic)

benson. they literally just wanted to see him

“oh, i dont know you, i just like marbles. i wouldnt know what to request.“

“i dont really have a request i just wanna say i appreciate you streamer”

for tubblings the world

[cappucosmico]

it's thundering so dragon is cuddling me but i can see on the catcam orb is directly at the window falling asleep to the sound of it. duality of cat

[fishshapedcloud]

Catcam 🫡