- This is "How to go live on Instagram like a pro."
I'm gonna cover everything you need to know
to create easy, amazing-looking Instagram live streams,
including some advanced options that will help you
level up your live streaming setup.
So I'm gonna cover off a few different options
for you starting out first
with just using the Instagram live app
on your mobile device.
So you wanna start out by opening up the Instagram live app
and then you can just swipe across to the right,
and down the bottom you can select live.
Hey, I'm on screen.
This is obviously where we're gonna go live.
Or if we back out of this now
and we come up the top to the little plus button,
and then we go down the bottom to live,
we can get to this same place here as well.
So to set up your livestream,
if we come to this button up here,
we can give our livestream a title.
Let's just call it test.
We can add any brand partners in here too
if we are partnering up with anyone.
From there, we'll come into the next one
which is your audience
and we can choose here who we wanna go live to.
So the default here is public,
or you've also got the option here to go live
as a practice run so it's not going out
to all your followers, all of your friends.
We can actually go live in a practice environment.
So that's what we're gonna select here
and then choose set audience.
And then if we wanna schedule our live stream out for later,
we can hit the little calendar button here
and choose when we're going to go live.
So we're gonna cancel back out of that one now.
Now down the bottom here, this is our go live button,
so we wanna go live, this is the button we press.
We'll get to that very, very soon,
but if we swipe across,
you've got access to a few other filters and things
if you want to add those to your stream too.
Okay, so let's go ahead and hit this go live button here.
Now we're going live in a private or a test environment here
so this isn't gonna go out to our friends and followers.
Now this is what you see when you're live.
Now obviously we're in this practice environment up here.
It also says we're in the practice environment
down here as well,
but we do have the ability to invite people individually
into this stream as well
so if we wanna do a private stream,
then we can do that through this practice mode.
Now, some ways that you can level up your live streams here
instead of just having as a talking head or presentation
like this is you can add in graphics and things
if you come up here to the add an image button
and you can see I've got some sample slides here as well.
So think of this as a presentation that we were doing.
I wanna bring something up on screen.
I have that ability here.
Now, obviously, with this sample text
that I've just brought up,
we wanna make sure that there's no text
underneath the graphic here,
but I can go ahead and tap that image button again
and I can swap these out, choose a different asset.
Let's go to sample slide number two.
And you can see that we have the ability to create
more than just a talking head video here.
Let's go choose a different asset sample slide number three.
So you can easily just run a very simple slide presentation
this way directly from the Instagram app.
But don't worry, for those of you looking for more,
there are some much more powerful options
coming up really, really soon.
So if we tap on that image,
we can stop the sharing and go back to full screen me.
If you need to mute your microphone at any time,
you've got your little microphone mute button there.
If you need to disable your camera and have it audio only,
that's what this next button does.
This button here will flip the camera around.
So right now I'm using the front-facing camera.
If I switch, then you'll see it is the rear camera
with my filming setup here.
And then for any filters and effects and things
that is the next button here.
So again, we tap on that
and then they all show up down the bottom.
Now while you're live, all the chat messages
and things are gonna show up down the bottom here
and you can interact with them.
You can also see here if someone has requested
to come and join you as a guest on your live stream.
So if you press on this button down here now,
this is where you can see all your join requests.
So if you wanna add someone in, if they've requested,
they will show up here
and you can add them onto your stream.
If we wanna invite people onto our stream,
that is the next button down here as well.
We can go ahead and search our Instagram account
to invite people on.
And the next one across is the Q&A section
so if you've got people that have posted a question,
then those can show up in this area
to make it easy for you to have the question
stand out instead of filtering through the whole chat.
Now one last quick tip for the Instagram app here,
if you want to lock down your exposure,
you wanna brighten up a dark area of your shot,
then you can just tap on the screen
for any dark or light areas
and it's gonna lock your exposure
or the brightness at that point
so this is normally where you would tap on, say, your face
and you'd get a little circle that appear.
It's going to automatically adjust the exposure for you
for that area of your shot and it's gonna leave it there.
So if you're moving around now,
your exposure isn't gonna go brighter or darker,
or if you do find there's too brighter or too dark,
then you can manually adjust
by tapping on different areas on your screen.
So you get some control over this stuff,
but it is nowhere near as professional
as the next two options I've got for you.
The next option is to use Instagram's new live producer mode
to go live from your desktop
using professional live streaming software
like Ecamm Live, OBS, vMix, Wirecast,
any of those tools that are gonna allow you
to create an RTMP stream.
Now, this is a feature that Instagram
is currently in the process of rolling out.
I haven't got access to it yet
so I asked a good friend of mine,
Tiffany Lee Bymaster, aka Coach Glitter,
to show us the walkthrough
on how you can get this set up and running.
So you need to go ahead and log into Instagram
on a desktop computer,
come down to the plus create button there,
and if you've got access to this feature,
then you'll see the option for live video.
We can again give our livestream a name
and we can choose our audience,
whether it is a public live stream
or we're going live in a practice environment,
and then you just need to hit next.
Next is gonna pop up with your live streaming information
that you need to copy and paste
into your live streaming application.
So you wanna copy that stream URL,
go ahead and open up your live streaming software,
which in this case Tiffany is using StreamYard.
So over on StreamYard, we're creating a new broadcast.
We're going to choose livestream,
we're going to add a new destination,
and we wanna come down the bottom here to custom RTMP.
And again, this process is very similar,
no matter which tool you're using here.
And then from there we just wanna paste in those details
that Instagram gave us.
So our stream URL, and we wanna come back
and copy over our stream key as well.
Then for StreamYard, we can name this here
as a preset for us to use later,
so always calling it Instagram.
Then we wanna hit add RTMP server to save that.
Once those details are in, we're gonna go create broadcast
and then for StreamYard here,
we're gonna go into our broadcast studio.
From here, you'd set up your live stream
as you normally would bring in your cameras, your graphics,
or anything like that, get it all set up and ready to go
and when you're ready to go live,
you hit that go live button in the top corner.
So at this point, we've got our app sending our live stream
through to Instagram,
but we're actually not live on Instagram yet,
so you need to go back to the Instagram Live Producer window
where you copied and pasted that information from,
and you'll now start to see your livestream preview appear.
Then when you're ready to actually go live on Instagram,
you wanna hit the go live button
up in the top right hand corner on that window
and you'll actually be live on Instagram.
Once you're live, you'll be able to view comments there
in that window and you'll also be able to respond
and add comments in there too,
but although livestream controls
are actually back over in your livestream platform,
so StreamYard, again, in this case,
so this is where you would normally switch back
to that program, switch cameras, bring on guests,
add fancy titles and graphics and animations
and all of that stuff, but any interacting
and viewing the comments is right now limited
to this live producer window.
You can't currently bring these into StreamYard
or any of the other programs.
Now, when it's time to end the livestream, again,
you wanna do it from this live producer panel
and hit end live video up in the top right corner.
Now, one thing I wanna point out from this example here
is that this is a widescreen livestream
that has been pushed to go out as vertical.
And at the time of filming this,
StreamYard doesn't have any preset templates
or anything yet to help you create a portrait live stream
so you can definitely still go live on Instagram
in widescreen format, but it's not gonna be full screen
and it's gonna be put towards the top of the screen there
as you can see in this example.
But right now, if you're using other tools like Ecamm Live
or like OBS, then you can create a portrait live stream
and actually push it through
as a portrait video from within those programs
and I'm sure this is something that StreamYard
and others will have very, very soon
as this rollout continues.
Now, if you are interested
in seeing a full StreamYard tutorial,
we do have one on the channel
which I will link down in the description box below,
or if you wanna see what our top recommended
live streaming apps are,
whether you're on Mac, PC, iOS or Android,
I'll have links to those in the description box as well.
But if you wanna know my go-to,
it's currently Ecamm live and I love
that it also does the portrait stuff really well too.
So that brings us to option number three,
which is using this device right here.
This is the YoloLiv Instream.
This is a portable broadcast solution,
specifically created to help you go live in portrait,
but using professional cameras.
Full disclosure, YoloLiv did send this product
out to me quite a few months ago.
We are under no obligation to create any videos
or do anything at all with it.
We don't do sponsored videos on our channel.
No money has changed hands.
I'll only mention a product when I think it is worthy
of mentioning to you guys
and I think this thing is pretty damn awesome,
especially if you're looking to go live
on Instagram professionally, given what is in here,
and they don't even know
that they get a mention in this video.
So while in option number two,
you can go live using professional broadcast tools,
allowing you to connect multiple cameras,
allowing you to bring in guests and all of those things.
This does it all without the need for a computer.
You've got USB and SD card input so you can get your files
and videos and everything that you wanna use
in your live streams all over onto this device.
For internet access, there is ethernet, there is wifi,
and there's also a SIM card slot
so you've really got your bases covered
and for audio input, you've got your HDMI port
or there's also two mic or line imports
and there's a headphone jack for monitoring it all too.
Now, while it does have a built-in touchscreen
for you to control everything from this,
you can also output the HDMI feed
from this to a larger screen as well,
but essentially what this thing is is a large Android device
that has the Instagram app, TikTok app, Zoom, Facebook,
and even CapCut for editing your videos down afterwards.
All of those apps come pre-installed in the latest version
of their software and you just open up the apps
and go live as you normally would from your phone.
But instead of using a phone's built-in camera,
you're able to connect professional cameras
or really any camera that has an HDMI feed.
Now, what I love about this is you get a lot
of the pro-level features like video switching,
bringing up titles and graphics and animations
and things that you would get
from running your stream through your desktop,
but you get access to all of those on here too.
And literally you're just tapping the buttons
on screen to switch between
and to bring things up while you're live.
Now, in terms of the actual live stream itself
and interacting with your viewers and responding
to comments and seeing it all, it's all in the one place.
You don't need to have another window
or another tab open with that Instagram live control panel.
It's all the same experience it would be
if you're just running the app on your phone.
So I think this is a great option for someone
who is looking to go live using more professional cameras,
creating more professional live streams,
adding titles and graphics and all of that stuff,
but someone looking to go live
away from their desktop computer or to go live
without the need for professional live streaming software,
this is a great option for you
that makes it really, really easy.
Now, in terms of pricing,
you can currently pick up the YoloLiv Instream for $1,299
so it's definitely not on the cheaper end of things,
but given what you're getting access to
in this small portable package,
it could be the best option for you.
And for those of you who don't currently have access
to Instagram Live Producer,
this will get you around all of that, 'cause again,
it's essentially thinking
that you're just running an Android phone.
So those are my top methods to help you go live
on Instagram like a pro.
Now, if you're interested
in leveling up your Instagram reels,
then check out the video linked on screen
and I'll see you in the next one.