From the course: Getting the Most out of Video on Facebook

Going live with 360˚ video on Facebook - Facebook Tutorial

From the course: Getting the Most out of Video on Facebook

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Going live with 360˚ video on Facebook

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- With many of the VR cameras that are out there, they do allow for live streaming, much like most other action cameras. However, it's going to stream 360 degree video. Because this has more bandwidth, most of these are going to prefer to use a tethered solution. So you can get cables of different length to connect right from the camera to your smart phone. In this case, what I'm doing is I have a simple cable going from the iPhone into the side of the camera here which works pretty well. Now what happens, is I can power on my camera and make sure that the status screen shows me that the camera's on. Now, I'll launch the dedicated app on my device and press the camera button. It should be able to find the camera as you see here in real time, we're looking around the studio. So that's pretty cool. And on the right here are the abilities to go live. So there's two options. I could tap one live button and then access my settings here and you see we could choose the frame rate. 30 is the recommended size for Facebook. So I'll stick with that. If I continue to look here, I see the ability to adjust what we're posting and the overall resolution. I'm going to stick with 1080p. And we can adjust other settings here by simply accessing and deciding if we want manual exposure control or auto. All right. Looks good. When I'll all set, I can simply choose where we're going to go. So I'll tap live and now I just need to tap the settings button and choose Facebook. I could decide where it's going to go, which Facebook account I use and if I'm targeting a particular page of mine. You see I can access any page that I have access to, groups that I have control over or just the public or my friends. Once I target that and I say I'm ready, I just say confirm and you'll see the Facebook icon there at the bottom. Now it's publishing a live stream to Facebook. The thing is, is that at home, the person who's watching has the ability to pan around and look. See? Now, there's a little delay but they can actually see the different content and they're in control of where they're looking. This is pretty cool and there are more robust solutions with multiple lenses and higher quality cameras but the fact of the matter is is that we now have the ability to take an immersive view. You could put one of these cameras at a religious service, a ceremony for graduation, a concert, and let people at home watch and look around the environment and look at what they're interested in. So it's really cool that Facebook supports this.

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