A quick way to add production value to your livestreamed videos is to add a countdown to the beginning of your stream. A inaugural will say something similar "Broadcast will begin in thirty ... 29 ..." etc. It makes your streams looks professional and besides gives viewers a chance to get settled before the testify starts.

Here is an case of a inaugural video intro we've used in Switcher's in-business firm livestreams:

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So let'due south wait at creating a countdown for your livestreams. I have added a couple of free download links to get you started.

Complimentary inaugural videos for your livestreams

The first is a simple video file with a 25-second countdown and the words "Going Live in [Number]." Considering this video is a transparent overlay, you tin can bring it into whatever video editor and add video files backside it and music on summit. This volition give you an intro much like ours above.

Download this simple inaugural timer overlay.

The second is the same 25-second inaugural, now on pinnacle of a generic groundwork. This ane is great if you don't desire to create your own countdown video. You can likewise add your own music to it.

Download this generic inaugural timer.

How to add a countdown timer to your live videos

Whether you've chosen one of these countdown timers or you lot've made one of your own, calculation a countdown to your livestream is easy with our live-editing app, Switcher Studio. Switcher lets you roll prerecorded videos (like countdowns, openers, credits, etc.) correct into a livestream in existent time, and it lets you lot stream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, Microsoft Stream, or almost anywhere else.

Our Assist Center has an in-depth commodity well-nigh bringing prerecorded videos into Switcher, but here's the short version.

Inserting your countdown timer into Switcher Studio

  1. If y'all don't already take a Switcher Studio account, starting time your gratis trial hither. And so download the Switcher app.
  2. Open the Switcher app on your master switching device, log in, and tap Use as Switcher.
  3. Tap the blue + button, which is located at the lesser of the Sources/Production panel.
  4. Tap Video.
  5. Tap the location where your video is stored (Photo Library, Switcher Cloud, etc.)
  6. Tap the video yous'd like to import.

Playing your inaugural timer video during your livestream

At present that your video is in Switcher Studio, you tin can add information technology to an agile livestream.

  1. When you are prepare to play your countdown, tap the countdown timer video asset that y'all added to the Sources/Production panel. The video will automatically start when you tap it (or when moved from Preview to Live if yous're using the Preview window).
  2. Picket the yellowish progress bar at the lesser of the video asset in the Sources console — it shows how much of the countdown timer video has already played.
  3. When the countdown timer video ends, tap a camera view or total-screen asset to motility on with the production.

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Yous are now ready to knock your adjacent livestream out of the park with a professional-looking countdown intro.

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