![]() ![]() You can position, resize, and crop them all easily. Items you can add to the canvas include images, cameras, screen or window captures, and text. You can add items to it as overlays, which display in a floating palette that’s analogous to the Layers window in Photoshop. Live’s main window is the live-stream canvas. (I realize that most video streamers want that feature, which is why Live initially implemented it that way-but I am a bit of a control enthusiast.) This allows me to place objects on the canvas any way I want without working around a big, primary source like a camera or a screen capture. The big breakthrough in Live was its addition of the concept of a scene with its source set to Blank. (I used Live for our first experimental Six Colors stream last month.) How it works I can’t see ever going back to another video-streaming app now. ![]() It turns out, if you build a sustainable business model-Live costs $16/month, or $32/month for a Pro tier-you can afford to steadily update your software! In two years, Live had addressed literally every frustration I had experienced with the 2020 version of the app. (These apps, all focused primarily on Windows, don’t properly take advantage of various Mac features, making them less efficient on macOS.) I had crashes, failures, and frustrations with interfaces that just weren’t made for me.Įarlier this year, I decided to check in on Live to see if it had made progress in the last two years. I gave up and went back to Wirecast, OBS, and Streamlabs, and spent a couple of years frustrated that not even an iMac Pro with eight Xeon cores had enough horsepower to stream videos smoothly on the Internet. It just couldn’t be done-Live had a very particular way of approaching a document with a single “source” dominating the screen and additional items being added on top of it. For example, I wanted to place video of two people side by side, with a small picture-in-picture overlay of a screen capture. I wanted control of the layout of the live display. Unfortunately, the app wasn’t flexible enough. In early 2020, I desperately hoped it could replicate my needs for streaming Total Party Kill (and, potentially, Six Colors). Unfortunately, my first attempt at embracing Live didn’t take. I wanted to use my Mac, if at all possible. But I really didn’t want to go down that path. Most of my friends who have dived into live streaming gave up and bought Windows PCs, dedicated to running that software. There aren’t many of those out there in any category, and this was a category that frustrated me with unreliable, slow cross-platform apps. Live is a rarity: it’s a relatively young (introduced in 2017), Mac-only app. Software that streams live to YouTube, Twitch, and other services is dominated by open-source projects like OBS and Streamlabs and expensive cross-platform apps like Wirecast. Register for my next Confident Live Show via Messenger → ()īringing in guests to your show used to be difficult.When I first tried Ecamm Network‘s live-streaming app Live, I didn’t like it. Back in 2016, you’d have to use Skype or Zoom and capture the screen and even use complicated audio routing software. Until recently, the only way to bring in guests to your show in Ecamm Live was via Skype.īut Skype can be buggy. And it sucks your computer’s processing power! You get the horrid Skype logo on the top right. So, it’s awesome news that Ecamm Live have released the beta version of a new interview mode. Get my Confidence Guide and get notified for next time -> () (opens in Messenger) Join me in this show as I walk you through how it works and why you should be excited about it too! This is on the Pro version, and allows you to bring in guests via a web link. ![]() Please Subscribe!Don’t miss an episode! You can subscribe on (Apple podcasts here) - or on (other podcast players). The Confident Live Marketing ShowThe Confident Live Marketing Show is a weekly live video show and podcast. It’s aimed at established entrepreneurs who want to level up their impact, authority and profits through the power of live video, webinars and podcasts. We’ll focus on knocking down the 3 main barriers these entrepreneurs face when creating live content - camera confidence/mindset, tech/gear and content marketing. He is the founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy and is the host of the Confident Live Marketing Podcast. He helps entrepreneurs to level up their impact, authority and profits by using live video confidently. ![]()
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