Category Archives: Broadcasting

Successful webcam modeling starts with successful broadcasting! This section gives tips for setting up your room – on CAM4 and in real life.

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)

CAM4 is an official streaming platform on OBS! This means OBS will auto configure your exact setting needs for optimal streaming on CAM4.

Here’s how it works:

 

  1. Login to Cam4.com > Select Broadcast
  2. Select > External Encoder
  3. Select > Get Stream Key
  4. Highlight Stream Key and Copy key as it will be pasted into OBS
  5. Open > OBS
  6. Select > Tools. Then select > Auto Configuration Wizard
  7. Select > Optimize for streaming, recording is secondary
  8. Click > Next
  9. Base (Canvas) Resolution select: Use Current

** Base canvas = your primary monitor’s resolution**

  1. FPS: Select 30
  2. Click > Next
  3. Stream Type: Streaming Services
  4. Service: Cam4 (show all if Cam4 is not listed)
  5. Stream Key: (clear if populated; paste key previously copied from your Cam4 broadcast window)
  6. Estimate bitrate with bandwidth test: CHECKED
  7. Prefer Hardware Encoding (if an option): UNCHECKED
  8. Click > Next
  9. Stream Warning pop up box: Select YES and wait while settings are configured
  10. OBS then shows Final Results for your settings.

              Select Apply to use the new settings.

              Settings will not be applied if you select Cancel

Other Article to check out:

What Is External Encoding?

How Do I Improve My Broadcast Quality?

How To Use Lightstream Studio


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

Auto Pause after a Private or Group Show

Auto-Pause is designed to give you time to prepare to be in front of your regular viewers again after your Private or Group show ends.

Go grab some food or something to drink, clean up, use the washroom, or change your outfit. You have 5 minutes to do whatever you need to do before going live on cam for your viewers again.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Start your Private or Group show as you normally would.  At the end of the show, your stream will pause for a maximum of 5 minutes .

What YOU will see:


What your VIEWERS will see:

The stream is resumable at any time by clicking on the “Resume Stream” button. 

If you do not resume the stream during the first 5 minutes, the stream ends automatically. 

Private Show requests are not available while your show is paused. 

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Add a Lovense menu to improve your show!


LOVENSE SMARTCAM
is FREE software that will allow you to add a dynamic and interactive menu to your broadcast screen!

The Advantages:

– Your visitors can see how long the sextoy connected vibrates
– How intense the Vibration is
– Who activated the vibration
– Your current 3 best tippers
– Games activated (Roll the Dice, and Keno) by tipping the amount you have set

Important: For this to work, you must have a LOVENSE EXTENSION (version 23.0.5 minimum).

Click HERE for a how-to-guide so you can use this feature on your show.

Performer Release Form (2257)

Your Performer Release Form (or 2257) is a legal document that you electronically sign in when you are going through the approval process – take a closer look at what it means here.

Anyone aged 18+ can broadcast and accept tips on CAM4, but you have to upload your I.D. and sign your Performer Release Form in order to cash out your tokens.

 

What are you agreeing to when you sign your Performer Release Form?

  1. You are the sole owner and ‘producer’ of all content and you agree to not create any illegal content.
  2. You and any others on your cam are all 18 years of age or older.
  3. You are granting CAM4 the right to show or display your likeness on the site during your show.
  4. You have agreed to keep a copy of this form for your own records and you can produce that copy if needed.

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

How To Handle Tips & PM’s In Chat

Being successful in Public Chat is more than just getting naked, its about knowing how to react to your chatroom and what to do when you get tipped. Staying calm and making these small changes to your show will make a BIG difference!


1. Don’t Let TIPS Stop You…

Don’t send a PM to every viewer who sends you a tip! If you are in the middle of your show and someone tips you its because they like what you are doing! If you stop what you are doing to send them a PM, you will train your room to not tip you because you stop the action they are tipping you for.


2. Stay Cool And Tease.

When someone sends you a tip its nice to say thank you, but don’t rip all your clothes off and get too excited, make them work for it a bit and TEASE! Its also important to NOT jump all over your tippers when they com into your room. Jumping on your whales when they come in the room (or someone who contributed a lot to your last show) can alert others to the fact that that a generous viewer came in the room and could make them rely on this viewer to tip you. This can make generous viewers feel awkward and can open them up to messages from others asking for tips. Just stay cool and the tips will come.


3. Less Typing Means More Touching.

Keep your chatroom alive by making everyone chat with you in your public chat. It is VERY boring to watch you type during your show and having a bunch of private conversations kills the show an the chat. When they all ask to PM you simply say “Talk to me in here! If my hands are busy I can’t do a show!”


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

How to Use Lightstream Studio

Here at CAM4, we’re proud to welcome a new feature that will forever benefit performers and their streaming quality – Lightstream Studio! 

Lightstream Studio is a web-based broadcast studio that will give our performers the tools they need to create their most fun, or craziest, live shows! Lightstream Studio is similar to tools such as Split and OBS, but performers don’t need to download and install any software to use it! 

Features for Lightstream Studio include:

  • The ability to combine multiple cams into a single stream
  • Add graphic overlays into your videos
  • Pre-recorded video playback for review
  • 3rd party plugins are allowed

Performers on CAM4 will have to create an account on Lightstream Studio before they can use the feature on CAM4. 

NOTE: The only way you can create an account on Lightstream Studios is to link it to an existing FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, TWITCH OR MIXER account. Once you’re linked on Lightstream Studios, you can disable broadcasting on any of these platforms. Performers who want to stay anonymous are recommended to create a new YouTube or Twitch account to sign up.


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

 

Broadcast on CAM4 from your iPhone!

We’re excited to announce the launch of our official iOS Broadcaster! Now you can cam for your fans from the palm of your hand on your iPhone!

iPhone users, ever since we launched our Mobile Broadcasting Appfor Android, we know you wanted to join the fun! Well great news: we’ve officially released a mobile broadcasting solution for you to use too! Introducing the CAM4 IOS Broadcaster!

You’re the Appleof our eye, darling, and we can’t wait to see your gorgeous face on CAM4 from the comfort of your iPhone. You don’t even need to download an application! Just log in to CAM4 on your iphone, click broadcast, and you’re good to go. You can set a status message, a tip message and a tip goal when you sign on, and you can chat with your viewers while you cam.

Here at CAM4 we want you to Cam Without Limits. With the new CAM4 iOS Broadcaster, you can cut the cord and expand the reach of your cam life, taking your viewers places you never could before. We can’t wait to see what you show the world from your iPhone.

Android users can download the C4 Broadcaster App from the Play Store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heftlab.c4b&hl=en_CA

For more information, check out our FAQ Page!

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

List of toys you can connect to ‘Live Touch’

Ready to take your shows to the next level? Then it’s time to connect to you fans in a big way by connecting your toys to CAM4 using our ‘Live Touch’ feature. 

Find out how to use ‘Live Touch’

Lovense

  • Lush
  • Nora
  • Max
  • Hush

OhMyBod

  • Bluemotion NEX 1
  • Bluemotion NEX 2
  • Lightshow
  • Esca
  • Fuse

Kiiroo

  • Pearl
  • Pearl 2
  • Onyx
  • Onyx 2

Flesh Light

  • Launch

We-Vibe

  • Rave
  • Plus
  • Nova
  • Classic
  • Sync
  • Wish
  • Pivot
  • Verge
  • Jive
  • Gala

Vorse

  • A10

ImToy

  • Piu

 


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

How to set up your Lovense toys on CAM4

Lovense toys bring you and your audience even closer by allowing your viewers to control your toy through tipping.

The video guides below will walk you through the process of installing the Lovense extension into your Chrome (or Firefox) browsers. You’ll also need to download a Lovense app to either your IPad, IPhone, Tablet, or SmartPhone , or select your device here to download for your MAC or PC to complete the setup. This is a much better option than using the Lovense browser itself.

 To use these extensions on CAM4 you will need the Lovense Connect app.
 
 


Chrome Extension

 
 

Firefox Extension


DOWNLOAD FIREFOX EXTENSION


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

 

Mobile Broadcasting with C4 Broadcaster!

Stream from anywhere, accept private shows, and upload videos to your my shop using C4 Broadcaster!

On C4 Broadcaster you can:
• View a list of your top tippers.
• Earn tokens, gifts, and accept private show requests.
• Set your private show rates and your public show goals.
• Private message with your viewers and moderate your show.
•Record and upload your show directly to your my shop.
• Use fun face mask filters exclusive to C4 Broadcaster!

Download and start broadcasting now!
* C4 Broadcaster is for Android devices only.


During Your Broadcast

From the top row of your screen you can:
– Edit show details
– View top tippers
– List of viewers
– You can stop broadcasting anytime by pressing LIVE.

Chatting Live

– Tap on a chat message to start a private chat.
– Longpress on a chat message to bring up the moderation tools.
– Switch between private messages by simply tapping on them.
– Longpress on a private chat to remove it.

Upload Your Videos To My Shop

– Press ‘REC’ to start recording your show.
– Press the timer next to the live button to STOP recording.
– To upload go to settings, press Upload Video, enter your video details and press Upload.
*Access your settings by swiping left on your screen and the menu will appear.

Before getting started, read our rules on outdoor shows:  “What’s Allowed On Outdoor Cam Shows”.


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM