- In this video,
I'm gonna show you how easy it is
to Facebook Live from Zoom.
It's a great solution
if you're looking to use some of Zoom's tools
like screen sharing,
but then have it show up on Facebook, all right?
Let's get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter,
yes, it rhymes with The Boy Wizard,
and by the end of this video,
you'll know how to stream to Facebook Live from Zoom,
as well as, I'm gonna share a couple of things
that are mistakes that many others have made,
so that you don't have to learn these things
the hard way, all right?
Let's dive in.
First thing to know, you do need a paid account for Zoom.
You cannot do this on the free level of Zoom.
The first thing we wanna do
is make sure streaming is turned on in the settings.
So log into your Zoom account on the Zoom website,
then I'm gonna click Account Management here on the left,
then Account Settings,
and you'll come to this massive page of settings.
Over here in the second column and from the left,
you wanna click In Meeting (Advanced),
that's gonna scroll way down here for us,
then find Allow live streaming, right here.
So you can see in here mine is turned off,
so I'm going to turn it on,
and then go ahead and click any of the services
that you wanna use it for.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and click 'em all,
and then hit Save.
So our settings are good,
let's dive into an actual Zoom call,
and I'll show you how to stream it to Facebook Live.
So I'm in a meeting on Zoom,
and down here on the bar across the bottom,
I'm gonna click More with the three dots above it,
and then here are my options to stream to different places,
so I'm gonna go ahead and choose stream Live on Facebook,
and it'll open a browser window to Facebook,
if you're not logged into Facebook,
you'll need to log in,
and then it says, choose where you wanna post
your live video.
So I can share on my timeline
which is my personal profile,
you can share on a friend's timeline,
a group, an event, or on a page you manage.
So I'm gonna choose a group here,
then it'll ask me to put in the group name,
I've got this testing group here,
then I'm gonna go ahead and hit Next.
Once it connects, you'll come to this screen here
and you should see a preview
of whatever you have showing in Zoom.
So I don't have my camera on or a screen share,
so it's just showing a black screen with my name.
But whatever you are streaming in Zoom
should be showing up here for you
before you go live on Facebook.
You can come up here and you can add a caption if you want,
and then when you're ready to go live,
you're gonna hit Go live down here
on the lower right hand corner,
another screen we gotta wait through,
now this is taking you to where your Facebook Live is going,
but over here in Zoom,
you're looking for this indication.
Here it says, meeting is now streaming live on Facebook.
So when you get that indication, you know you are live,
and you can go ahead and start talking to your audience,
and get going with whatever you're putting out there.
Now, when you're done streaming to Facebook Live,
if you just ended your Zoom meeting or webinar,
it'll automatically cut off the stream to Facebook Live,
but if for some reason you wanted to cut off Facebook Live,
but keep on the Zoom call,
you can again tap More,
and then just hit Stop Live Stream,
and that'll do it
Before we wrap up, a few really important things to know
so you don't make the same mistakes that others made,
and had to learn the hard way.
First of all, there's about a 20 second delay
between the time you do something on Zoom
and when it actually goes out over Facebook Live.
So if you ask a question on Zoom,
but you're waiting for people to respond
in the comments on Facebook Live,
it might take a little bit before they see it,
and then have the time to respond.
And because of the delay,
if you have Facebook Live open
in another tab on your computer,
make sure to mute it,
in the lower right hand corner of the video,
to make sure that you're not hearing yourself again,
20 seconds later as an echo.
If you have people watching on Facebook and on Zoom,
make sure you are monitoring both places,
because you might have people comment in the chat on Zoom,
and then other people comment in the comments
on your Facebook Live video,
and you wanna make sure nobody gets ignored.
And finally, you can stream
both the Facebook business pages and the Facebook groups.
But if you don't have the proper permission,
you might actually be able to see the page
when choosing pages to stream to,
but if you only have moderator access for example,
you won't actually be able to stream to it.
A little bit frustrating the way that that set up.
But if it's not working,
it may be that you don't have admin or editor access
on whatever channel you're trying to stream to.
I hope this works really well for you,
if it doesn't for some reason,
I've linked to Zoom's help guide for this
in the description of this video.
Also, if you're looking to stream on Facebook Live
with a guest who's in another location,
there's actually an easier way to do it
than connecting Zoom to Facebook Live,
where you do it all in one window,
and I've linked up to the tutorial on how that tool works,
you can find it here on the screen
or in the description of this video.
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