- Be.Live TV has made some major changes recently,
so in this video, we thought we'd dive
into a full Be.Live TV review
to help you decide if it's the best live stream software
for your next YouTube or Facebook livestream.
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So let's jump into it.
Be.Live TV had made some major changes
since our last review,
including some powerful new features
which can completely change the game
for your next Facebook Live or YouTube livestream.
So in this video, we're gonna look at our review
of the latest software, including all the pros and cons
and everything you need to know to decide
if this is the best option for you right now.
And as we're going through,
let me know down in the comments below
what is your go-to live streaming software
right now and why.
So Be.Live TV is one of the fastest and the easiest ways
to go live online.
Up until recently though, it only worked with Facebook Live,
but now it's working with YouTube, Twitch
and they also have RTMP support,
meaning that you can broadcast to so many more places too.
It's got a solid feature set of everything
that you would wanna be able to do while you're live,
but also it just runs in your web browser,
so Chrome or Safari.
So there's no software that you need to download
and install on your computer,
which means that this is cross platform.
You can run this on Mac or on PC
and get the same experience.
Now in regards to features and what you can do in there,
you cane easily add in things like titles,
just normal text onscreen,
someone's name or some important information
you might wanna bring up onscreen,
you can have scrolling titles,
which are going to scroll across your screen,
or you can even bring up what they call an Agenda.
So essentially this is a list or dot points
that you might wanna bring up,
maybe the overview of how your livestream is going
to go down and the different sections you're going to cover.
And all of these are things that you can set up
before you actually go live.
So when you're live, all you need to do is
to click on the titles that you want
and they will pop up onscreen.
While you're live, you can see all of your comments
and all of your interactions from the people
that are viewing your livestream,
and you can even feature those comments on the livestream,
so you can click on them,
they will appear on the live feed as a featured comment.
Now while this feature is something that
we're starting to see in a lot more applications these days,
it was really Be.Live that was one of the first companies
to make this so easy for you to add in your comments
and interactions into your livestream.
It supports multiple cameras or multiple webcams,
so if you do wanna have a couple of different angles,
then you can easily do that in here as well.
You can add in screen shares, you can bring guests in
and your guests can even share their screen
in your livestream as well.
You can actually have up to 10 guests in your live show,
but only four on stream at once,
so yourself plus three guests, totalling four.
So any other guests that you have in there
that aren't actually live with you at that time,
then they sit in what they call the greenroom
or the waiting room.
And from there, you can see all of those cameras
and all of those people listed down the bottom
and to bring them in, you just gotta click on them
and swap people in and out.
So you got a maximum of four onscreen at once, though.
But the entire process for getting guests in
and onto your stream is actually really, really simple.
All you need to do is once you've created your stream,
click the Add Guest button, it's gonna generate a link,
you can then copy and paste that
or share that with whoever you wanna have on there,
they click on that, share their webcam and their microphone,
and then they show up as a video source or as a guest
that you can bring into your livestream.
So while lots of other live streaming software now has
this guesting feature as well,
Be.Live is actually one of the easiest
to be able to get that running.
From both sides, as a guest and as the host.
Now there's also a heap of presets in there
to change up the layout and how everything looks
while you're live as well.
So if you are switching from having just yourself on,
you wanna bring in a guest or multiple guests,
you can literally just click and switch between
how you want that laid out,
whether you want three people side by side
or just two shown onscreen, or even your screen share
with yourself as a picture-in-picture on top of that.
There are presets that you literally just click on
and it will automatically move everything around
and adjust while you're live.
Now in the latest version of Be.Live,
you can now do so much more in regards to custom branding,
and to customize up all of your titles and graphics
and things so that they match your brand.
They've also got a mobile app,
so if you've got guests that wanna join into your livestream
from their phones or from their other devices,
they can do that through the app.
Or you as the host can actually control your stream
from your mobile device too.
Or you can assign it to someone else
and get them to control your stream for you
while you're live.
Some of the other new features that they've added,
one of them is around live shopping,
you can now link directly to where people can buy products
that will show up while you're live,
so if you're talking about a specific product,
or you wanna mention your own products,
then you can enable that through their support
and you'll be able to link to them
so people can purchase while you're live.
They're also about to unlock some new features
for gaming streams and they're adding
in a live polling feature so that you can creates polls
while you're live to add more interaction in,
to find out more information from your live viewers as well.
They've also added now the ability to download
your live streams after you've been live.
So if you wanna download a high-quality version
of your livestream, you no longer need to go off to Facebook
or to use some downloading app,
you can now just do it straight from within Be.Live.
They've also added the ability now to record a video
without necessarily going live.
So you could present your video as if it's live,
maybe do an interview with someone, bring in a guest,
or even just record yourself and your computer screen
or a presentation and be able to download
and save that video file without needing to go live,
so you've now got some more options with Be.Live as well.
And I also like now with the new version
that they've got a network or internet quality indicator
that shows up in the top left corner,
and it really just gives you an indication as to how good
or bad your internet is while you're live,
which you kinda wanna know,
if you were having internet issues.
Now in regards to the downsides or the things
that aren't that great in there yet.
The bandwidth usage or internet usage does still seem
to be pretty high,
this was something we mentioned in an earlier video,
that your requirement to be able
to create a steady livestream in Be.Live is still higher
than it is in most of the other live broadcasting programs.
I'm really not sure why this is,
but I'm sure it's something that
they can figure out and fix.
But if you are someone that has less than say,
three to five megabytes per second of upload speed,
then you may find that
you could have some issues using Be.Live.
The other things to be aware of with Be.Live is that
this is really aimed to be a nice, simple, easy-to-use way
to go live and to have it look good
and to have it look professional.
So it doesn't have an absolute ton of customizability,
things like setting the quality or the resolution
of your stream, the frame rates,
or just being able to pick things up
and move everything around to really dial in the look
and feel that you are after to make the stream really yours.
Again, definitely not a deal breaker,
but if you are someone who is looking
for some of that more advanced control
where you really wanna be able to customize things up,
then Be.Live probably isn't going
to be the solution for you.
But if you are someone who has no interest at all
in that stuff,
then Be.Live could be the perfect solution for you.
Now in regards to pricing, there's a few different plans.
They have a Basic plan, which is free,
this will allow you to create three live shows per month.
You do have some customization with the branding
but not a lot, and you can have up to two people onscreen
at once and you also don't have access to multiple cameras,
having your guests have the ability to share their screen,
or to be able to record your streams either,
or to be able to create an offline recording
where you're not going live, just doing a recording.
But still, for the price of free, that's pretty crazy.
But the next one up from that, the Standard plan
for $20 per month removes a lot of those restrictions.
That gives you unlimited shows,
it lets you add in your brand logo
to customize up your design,
to customize up your livestream
and you can have up to four people onscreen.
And above that, they are about
to release a Pro plan as well,
which obviously unlocks all of those features
and also unlocks some of the features
that are coming soon as well.
Now on the free plan, is a pretty compelling offer,
I would probably say that
most people will aiming be towards the Standard plan
for the $20 a month,
just given those extra features that it unlocks.
They're gonna take your live streams to the next level.
All right, so who would Be.Live be great for?
Well, it would be perfect for someone who wants to go live
not just with their webcam,
but to be able to add in titles and add in guests
to really be able to customize this up enough
to make it more on-brand, but again to have something
that is super simple to use.
And obviously, this is gonna work for someone
whether they're on Mac or PC as well.
But I would say that if you are someone
who is looking for more advanced control,
you wanna be able to really customize things up,
then this is where Be.Live is probably gonna fall short,
especially if you're comparing it
to something like Ecamm Live on Mac
or more advanced and more expensive livestream software
like Wirecast or vMix.
So if you are someone on the more advanced side of things,
then you should probably check out those ones.
So those are my thoughts on Be.Live TV.
Now if you're looking to make
your live streams look more professional,
then using a more professional camera could be
the answer for you.
Check out the video linked onscreen now
where we show you how you can use your DSLR
or mirrorless or point-and-shoot camera
as a webcam for live streaming,
and I'll see you in the next one.