Your firewall, router and ISP all need to allow RTMP. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Thank you. I’ll check with the Wirecast team, but if you can’t edit the video from desktop to add the call to action, I don’t think this will be possible. Ian. Sorry about that. By using this site, you agree to this use. Hi Mike, That is very frustrating. 2. Instead of being stuck with a mobile experience in the standard Facebook square, you are now free to experiement with possibilities to create shows which use multiple cameras, titles, transitions and more! It certainly affected a few people yesterday. Although I’m still hoping to do this less expensively. You can use Android and iPhone cameras. The Notifications option is listed next to world icon on this … This website uses cookies to improve service and provide tailored ads. Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. In this you can create the post on Facebook directly and mention other profiles and pages. Glad I could fix it so quickly! So glad you’ve found this useful! The Facebook live setting is easier, but if the connection is interrupted it needs to start a whole new post/video. There are so many moving parts to live broadcasts, that’s always best to do a lot of testing and leave yourself a lot longer than you think to make sure everything is working! However, if you have a mixer, you’ll need another option. You go to https://www.facebook.com/live/create, press on the Create live stream, choose where do you want to get live, get your server url and streamkey, go to OBS, go to settings, stream, stream type, custom streaming server, enter the url and the stream key, add sources from where obs should broadcast from the main screen and press start streaming. Then SMILE because you are broadcasting LIVE on Facebook from your webcam! If it does not, you'll need to check your pop-up settings in your browser to allow pop-ups. I could never get to the bottom of it. I know this has happened to a number of people using OBS Studio and I am pretty sure the same can happen in Wirecast. Click Connect . one that won’t output any overlay information). Hi Ian: How do you set up wirecast to record for later playback on Facebook? Go to facebook.com/live/producer. Create an account or log into Facebook. [-4018]” error on Mac OS X, but when I go to my windows machine, on the same network, to the same facebook account, it works. I want to broadcast online on YouTube + Facebook. Hi James, do you get any error messages? © 2011-2020 Ian Anderson Gray. […], I can not transmit some help me do not load the program, Hy Lymm, you’ll need to give me much more information for me to help you. You can go live on Facebook from your personal profile, a group, an event or a Page. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Thanks! Can you check your upload speed? Ian. It’s like a tiny television studio is with you everywhere you go — what a world! There is a different way to stream to Facebook Live from Wirecast. Hi I have managed to set everything up to do a live video from my facebook page however when i go live it just shows the webcast grey preview page and doesnt broadcast me anything can you help? It will allow OBS to post your live video to the Facebook location of your choice. Hi Ian, how can i use my iphone 5 to steam live on Facebook through Wirecast? Thankfully they fixed after I submitted a bug report. Am I right in saying you can reduce the quality for Facebook Live in Wirecast if you select RTMP? It has! Now a situation arises me is that when I give to get the key transmission on facebook, let me in standby mode, there is a solution for that? The picture from my HD Webcams is just better and I prefer the experience to using the smaller iPhone and iPad screens. For more information, see our Cookie Policy. I don’t know whether Wirecast will ever integrate comments into the platform – it would be cool if they did. How do I stream a live sports stream on my smart tv or laptop to facebook live using my iphone 6? The very first thing that you would need to know is that you should install the OBS Studio software on your computer and not the previous version of the software named OBS Classic and if you do install the previous version, you won’t be able to perform up the task of live streaming Facebook because it isn’t supported. If you have someone else who can type the replies while you are speaking then that is great. If so, you just need to add the video as a media file in a scene and then stream that Facebook Live. And, if you need some help learning how to use it, I’m currently offering 40% off my Wirecast, […] For a step by step guide on how to broadcast to Facebook Live using Wirecast, check out my sister article – Click here to view. If you give me a bit more information I’ll be happy to help! But with the creation of new third-party tools, you may now broadcast live to Facebook from your desktop or laptop computer. You can see the comments come through while you broadcast. I’ve never come across that before. Hi Tammy, ah, that’s great – thanks for that. Cheers. Feel free to assign a title for your video and type in some video tags. Called OBS Studio, I consider it the poor man’s Wirecast. Screen shot: https://www.screencast.com/t/3IZRqEZf. These four broadcast methods offer a solution to fit any budget and get you up and running on Facebook Live in no time. Yes. When I go to end the broadcast I can’t click to post it. In a recent update, however, Wirecast allows you to broadcast live video to your Facebook groups as well as your pages and profile. However, on Wednesday Facebook announced that you can now use Facebook Live … Otherwise it will be subject to dropping or stopping. There's no question, this is the professional live streamer's tool. Then the Popup comes up. Or even better (if this is possible), use a Facebook messenger bot – and say that people can find out more about donating by using a trigger word. Here, click on “ Publishing Tools “. Check out my other article – https://iag.me/socialmedia/broadcast-computer-facebook-live/ , Ahhhhhhh…..great tip. Can you give a quick advice what i could do to make it work? You can see it here: https://youtu.be/1B8WxTUxrFQ Maybe their support can help? Have you tried contacting Wirecast support? thnks in advance. It is always a bit down stream. As for using your smartphone’s camera as your camera, it’s technically possible, but you need to install an IP camera app on your smartphone.