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ms.topic: quickstart
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ms.author: inhenkel
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author: IngridAtMicrosoft
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ms.date: 03/06/2020
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ms.date: 03/25/2020
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# Create a Azure Media Services Live stream with the portal and Wirecast
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## Setting up an Azure Media Services live stream
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1. Once you have navigated to the Azure Media Services account within the portal, select **Live streaming** from the Media Services listing.
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1. Click on **Add live event** to create a new live streaming event.
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1. Enter a name for your new event such as *TestLiveEvent* in the Live event **Name** field.
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1. Once you have navigated to the Azure Media Services account within the portal, select **Live streaming** from the Media Services listing.<br/>
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1. Click on **Add live event** to create a new live streaming event.<br/>
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1. Enter a name for your new event such as *TestLiveEvent* in the Live event **Name** field.<br/>
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1. Enter an optional description of the event in the **Description** field.
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1. Select the **Pass-through – no cloud encoding** radio button.
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1. Select the **RTMP** radio button.
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1. Select the **Pass-through – no cloud encoding** radio button.<br/>
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1. Select the **RTMP** radio button.
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1. Make sure that the **No** radio button is selected for Start live event, to prevent being billed for the live event before it is ready. (Billing will begin once the live event is started.)
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1. Click the **Review + create** button to review the settings.
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1. Click the **Create** button to create the live event. You will then be returned to the live event listing view.
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1. Click on the **link to the live event** you just created. Notice that your event is stopped.
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## Setting up a live stream with Wirecast Studio
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1. Assuming that you still have the Wirecast application open, select **Create Empty Document** from the main menu, then click **Continue**.
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1. Hover over the first layer in the Wirecast layers area. Click the **Add** icon that appears and select the video input you want to stream. The Master Layer 1 dialogue box will open.
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1. Select **Video capture** from the menu and then select the camera that you want to use. The view from the camera will appear in the Preview area.
1. Hover over the first layer in the Wirecast layers area. Click the **Add** icon that appears and select the video input you want to stream. The Master Layer 1 dialogue box will open.<br/>
1. Select **Video capture** from the menu and then select the camera that you want to use. If selecting a camera, the view from the camera will appear in the Preview area.
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1. Hover over the second layer in the Wirecast layers area. Click the **Add** icon that appears and select the audio input you want to stream. The Master Layer 2 dialogue box will open.
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1. Select **Audio capture** from the menu and then select the audio input that you want to use.
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1. Select **Audio capture** from the menu and then select the audio input that you want to use.
1. From the main menu, select **Output settings**. The Output dialog box will appear.
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1. Select **Azure Media Services** from the output dropdown. The output setting for Azure Media Services will auto populate *most* of the output settings.
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1. Select **Azure Media Services** from the output dropdown. The output setting for Azure Media Services will auto populate *most* of the output settings.<br/>
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1. Click on the **Create outputs** link below the Outputs video viewer.
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1. If you like, edit the name of the output in the **Name** field to something more user friendly so it is easy to find later.
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1. Leave all the rest of the fields alone for now.
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1. Click **Next** add streaming locator.
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1. Change the name of the locator to something more user friendly, if wanted.
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1. Leave everything else on this screen alone for now.
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1. Click **Create**.
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## Starting the broadcast
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1. In Wirecast, select **Output > Start / Stop broadcasting > Start Azure Media Services : Azure Media Services** from the main menu. When the stream has been sent to the live event, the Live window in Wirecast will be show up in the live event video player on the live event page in Azure Media Services.
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1. Click the **Go** button under the preview window to start broadcasting the video and audio you selected for the Wirecast layers.
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> If there is an error, try reloading the player by clicking the Reload player link above the player.
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> If there is an error, try reloading the player by clicking the Reload player link above the player.
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## Running the default streaming endpoint
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1. Make sure your streaming endpoint is running by selecting **Streaming endpoints** in the Media Services listing. You will be taken to the streaming endpoints page.
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1. Make sure your streaming endpoint is running by selecting **Streaming endpoints** in the Media Services listing. You will be taken to the streaming endpoints page.<br/>
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1. If the default streaming endpoint status is stopped, click on the **default** streaming endpoint. This will take you to the page for that endpoint.
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1. Click **Start**. This will start the streaming endpoint.
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1. Click **Start**. This will start the streaming endpoint.<br/>
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## Play the output broadcast with Azure Media Player
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1. Copy the **Streaming URL** under the Output video player.
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1. Copy the **Streaming URL** under the Output video player.
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1. In a web browser, open the demo Azure Media Player https://ampdemo.azureedge.net/azuremediaplayer.html
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1. Paste the **Streaming URL** into the URL field of the Azure Media Player.
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1. Click the **Update Player** button.
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## Clean up resources
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> Stop the services! Once you have completed the steps in this quickstart, be certain to stop the live event and the streaming endpoint or you will continue to be billed for the time they remain running. To stop the live event, see the Stopping the broadcast, steps 2 and 3 above.
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> Stop the services! Once you have completed the steps in this quickstart, be certain to stop the live event and the streaming endpoint or you will continue to be billed for the time they remain running. To stop the live event, see the Stopping the broadcast, steps 2 and 3 above.
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### Stopping the streaming endpoint
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1. From the Media Services listing, select **Streaming endpoints**.
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2. Click on the **default** streaming endpoint you started earlier. This will open the endpoint's page.
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3. Click on **Stop**. This will stop the streaming endpoint.
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>If you don't want to keep the assets from this event, be sure to delete them in order to prevent being billed for storage.
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>If you don't want to keep the assets from this event, be sure to delete them in order to prevent being billed for storage.
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