- So here is our updated tutorial
on how to use Facebook Live with multiple presenters
with the best options
to do it right now.
From a simple stream just using the Facebook app
right up to some more professional options
using Facebook Livestream software
for cool effects and advanced features
that you can add in alongside your guests
in your very next Facebook Livestream.
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so let's jump into it.
So, Facebook Lives with multiple people.
Now there's a few different options out there
to allow you to do this,
but we're gonna start off first just using the Facebook app
because this is a feature
that they've recently reintroduced,
and then we're gonna look at some more advanced options
using some Facebook Livestreaming software
that will let you add things
like cool titles and effects
all to get more control over your stream,
and just a quick heads up.
Those more advanced options really aren't that difficult,
so if you're thinking that you're
just gonna check out the simple one and bail,
then I definitely suggest sticking around
because it really can be easy to take your livestream
to the next level with what I'll be showing you,
so the first method, Facebook Live, using your iOS
or Android device.
You do need to make sure
that you are running the latest version, the latest update
of the Facebook app
and likewise for your guests
or whoever you want to bring in,
they need to be running the latest version as well.
Okay, so to do this you need to open up the Facebook app.
Come up to the top where it says what's on your mind
and just press the little Live button underneath that,
and then you're gonna set up who you want this post
or this video to go out to.
In most cases I would imagine it's public,
but you can lock this down to either be public,
to go to your friends, friends except,
don't show some friends,
or in this case we're just gonna do a test live,
so I am just going to select a specific friend, Jenn,
or you can also choose down here
which group you'd like to go into as well,
so we're gonna get back out of this.
Now you will need to specify if you are going
to be going live in portrait like I am here now
or in landscape because this is something
that you can't change afterwards,
so I'll do a quick test here in portrait
and then I'll show you what landscape looks like,
but you can't switch between the two.
Then you can add in a quick video description.
Tap to add a description.
Let's go test, go done,
and down at the bottom here you get
to choose what type of live video you'd like to do.
Just a regular live video is the first one.
You can specify to bring in a friend, raise money,
or there's different filters
and those sorts of things you can do as well.
Now, you can still go live with a regular live video
and bring in a friend.
You don't have to specify before you go live
to bring in a friend,
but if you do select bring in a friend,
and we selected Jenn there,
then it says at the top they'll automatically be invited
to join once you go live,
so that's pretty cool that once they're on
they'll automatically receive an invitation from you.
Now, I'm gonna deselect that now just for this video
and I'm going to go start a live video here,
and we are now live on Facebook,
so down at the bottom here
you have a few different settings.
We have the invite button down at the bottom here,
so you wanna add someone in then you can do this,
so we can see now that Jenn has joined us live.
Now, if I had sent that invitation out before I went live
then she would automatically receive
an invitation to join and come straight onto the livestream,
or if you wanna add someone in randomly,
we can come up to the top right-hand corner.
See how there's a little icon there of Jenn's profile pic
and she has the little green camera next to the icon.
That means we can actually bring her on,
so if I tap on that it says bring Jenn on camera.
We can go add.
Jenn will then get a request from here
to come and join the livestream, and if she accepts,
then she will come onto the livestream here,
and one thing to note is that you will need
to adjust your framing when you bring someone on.
You can see it's now cropped off my massive head.
It's actually zoomed in a little bit on the shot as well,
but when we wanna get rid of Jenn,
see you Jen,
all we have to do is press the little X
in the corner here above Jenn's picture
and we can kick Jenn out,
so that's how easy it is to bring someone on
just using the Facebook Live app.
Now, we'll quickly show you what it looks like
if it's in portrait mode as well,
so I'm gonna hit finish now
and start a new one because we can't switch it
while we're actually live.
Okay, so now we're all set up again,
but before we go live
we do need to make sure that we have rotated our camera.
This isn't gonna look great.
Press go live, this big button over at the side here,
so once again we got Jenn
that's joining the livestream.
If I press up on her profile image,
we can then select bring Jenn onto camera.
Let's go add.
Cool, so it's actually, it hasn't repositioned me.
It's actually taken the center of the frame,
which is pretty cool,
but this is what it looks like
on a wide screen Facebook Live two-person livestream.
Okay, so that's how easy it is to do it
just from your iOS or Android device.
Now we're gonna jump across
and look at some more advanced livestreaming software
to let you add in things like multiple guests
or extra titles and to really customize up the look
and feel of your livestream,
so there's lots of options when it comes
to livestreaming software out there
that let's you bring guests into your stream.
My top two picks right now are Ecamm Live and Streamyard.
Ecamm is more on the advanced side of things.
There's lots more features and control
in everything that you can do
and customize up your livestream on the Ecamm side,
but it is Mac only,
whereas Streamyard, it runs in your web browser
so you can pretty much use it on any computer out there,
and the way that you actually bring in
and work with your guests
on Streamyard is actually a little bit easier
and a little bit more straightforward than on Ecamm,
but both of those are great options
and you're gonna get great results with either one of them.
So I'm gonna take you through the process in Streamyard
to show you how easy it is.
Okay, so we're over here on Streamyard now.
We're just gonna go to Create a Broadcast.
Then you're gonna select where you want this broadcast
to go out to,
a Facebook page, group, profile, LinkedIn, YouTube,
wherever you'd like it to go.
For this test I'm just gonna go skip and record only,
so you can actually use this just to record an interview
as well without necessarily going live.
Let's just call this here test,
and this process is exactly the same
as if you were going to go live as well,
so we're gonna create broadcast.
It's gonna pop up and let you do a little camera
and microphone check,
and then you can go into broadcast studio.
Now you can see straight away that you're actual livestream
or recording area here is blank
and it says down here that you're not part
of the stream yet.
Click to add your audio and video,
so if we click down here
then I'm now added to the stream.
Hey, how you doin',
so next we wanna bring in a guest.
Now down at the bottom here we've got the invite button,
and this is a unique URL
or unique link that we can use
to have up to six people on screen at once,
so we can copy this.
We can then send it out to our guests ahead of time
or while you're live as well,
but this is the link that they will need to use
to join us on the stream,
so I'm gonna send that one out now,
and when your guests arrive
and show up on your stream,
they appear down in the bottom here,
so Jenn currently isn't in our stream.
None of our viewers, if we were live now, would see her
but all I have to do is put my mouse over
and click the little plus button here,
and we have brought Jenn into the stream.
Welcome, how you doin'?
You good?
- Hello.
- That actually sounds really good,
so we've got a couple of options while we got Jenn
on the screen here.
You can see down at the bottom,
we can change the way that this looks,
just selecting these buttons down at the bottom
to customize up the livestream,
and yes, you can have up to six guests on live with you
while you're live.
Now if we wanna kick Jenn out of the stream
but still leave her in the green room
so I can bring her back on afterwards,
I just need to put my mouse over down at the bottom here
and just hit remove from stream,
and she's back in the green room,
so she's still there.
I can bring her back in when I want her back on screen.
If I actually want to kick her right out,
I can ban from studio
or I can kick her out from the studio at this point as well.
Just one more thing I will show you.
If we bring Jenn back in full screen,
let's say that Jenn's now gonna run the livestream,
and I'm gonna disappear,
then I can remove myself from the stream
and I'm gone.
Now it's the Jenn show.
- And now I'm in the stream.
- Oh, cool, so you can see there's so much flexibility
and customizability to make professional looking livestreams
really, really easily just using tools like Ecamm
and Streamyard.
Now in regards to pricing,
you can actually use Streamyard for free.
There is the Streamyard branding
that you saw in the top right-hand corner
of our livestream if you're on the free plan,
and there are also some streaming limits.
It says here you can stream up to 20 hours per month
for free on the free plan,
but if you do upgrade even to their basic plan,
it's gonna remove the Streamyard branding.
It's going to give you access to unlimited streaming,
also the ability to add logos, overlays, backgrounds,
and also recording and multistreaming capabilities as well,
so that's how easy it is to bring guests
into your Facebook Livestreams.
Now if you're wondering,
which is the best livestreaming software for you,
whether you're on Mac or PC,
check out our two videos that are linked
on the screen to help you do just that,
and I will see you in the next one.