would you like to know how to go Facebook live but in landscape mode
we'll stay tuned I've got you covered
hey it's Philip here the Curly Marketer you're very welcome to today's curly
marketer tip and social bite size tip now this is a strange video I yes I'm going
to be talking about how to go landscape in facebook but Covid 19 has really
just kind of exploded across the globe it's affecting everybody and businesses
you know and as a business owner myself you know I have my own fears and
thoughts but I am very much committed to trying to stay positive and optimistic
and most importantly I'm all about trying to support my fellow
entrepreneurs my clients business owners who want to try and use social media
during this very tough period to keep their businesses communicating with
their own audiences and I think Facebook live in particular using Facebook live
in landscape mode could be a fantastic tool and tactic to use to bring even
more authenticity to your brand but I suppose there's a lot of confusion when
it comes to Facebook live because generally you know when you go live on
Facebook a lot of people will hold their phone in their traditional portrait
manner they'll start our live video and then just kind of might think that they
can just turn their phone to landscape and the video will automatically go to
landscape and that is untrue unfortunately once you start a Facebook
live in portrait you are in portrait for the whole video now that may be fine if
you're just for example say you might be going for a piece of video where you
just want to talk to the camera and you're not trying to teach anything or
show anything in the background so that sort of portrait mode is perfectly fine
But in this period of maybe Covid 19 and maybe your client base
would benefit from maybe say you going through some particular solutions and
we want to show a whiteboard or a screen or maybe a flip chart and give maybe a
live training where you can show that information on screen that's where the
Facebook live landscape could be very powerful so if you're an iPhone user
this video is going to be very useful for you if you're an Android user I'm
sorry I haven't found a fix for this but if you use Android I would love to know
in the comments below if you have a fixed for it but if you're on iphone
watch this video this is how you can go landscape on Facebook life so stay tuned
okay so you'll want to be able to record your facebook live in landscape on
iphone here is how you do it click your settings go to display and
brightness and then go down to your display zoom make sure you have this as
standard most people have it as zoomed but you want to go to standard so once
you've got that set let's go into Facebook and there I am hello
now currently obviously I'm holding my phone in portrait if I went start live
video now my facebook life would be saved as portrait but because we changed
our display settings to standard if I now flip my phone to
landscape I now have the ability to go Facebook live landscape but the most
important thing is make sure that you put your phone in either landscape or
portrait mode before you hit start live because whatever orientation your phone
is in when you go like you cannot change it so I could not for example say
start my live video in landscape and then flip the phone around to portrait
it won't happen it will stay in landscape so once you
go and start your live video whatever way you have the phone
positioned that's the way your video is going to end up so that's the secret
make sure that in display settings use standard for the display
and then turn the phone to landscape to go landscape video so I hope you found
this curlymarketer tip social bite-size tip useful
I think definitely test out Facebook live and landscape if you have a very
engaged Facebook community and particularly you have a Facebook group
where you'd like to present some very specific sort of training to answer any
specific questions that might be have arisen from covid 19 and as I said my
main goal is very much I want to share my knowledge on my tips and try and help
entrepreneurs and people who want to use social media to continue to communicate
with their audience by social media I want to try and share my tips and my
tactics on my knowledge as best as I can obviously if you want to find out more
about me my website is the thecurlymarketer.com and I will see you again
soon what another curly marketer tip and social bite size tip and in the meantime
please stay healthy safe and I'll talk to you soon take care