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Going live on Facebook from a computer

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Going live on Facebook from a computer

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- Let's talk about going live directly from a computer to Facebook Live. Now, there are several things to consider. But you generally have a couple of steps to walk through before you should engage the live stream. First step, I recommend you take a look at your screen resolution. Ideally, you want to be in a 16 by nine resolution. This is because most of the video players that are out there and most devices prefer this ratio. So this is going to be a resolution like 1280 by 720, or 1920 by 1080. This really became a standard back in 2010. Or you could consider 4K resolution for your screen. But you're not going to be able to actually stream that from Facebook Live. The reason why I recommend setting the screen resolution to 16 by nine is that this is important if you want to actually share your screen such as a SlideShare or a software demonstration. Now in order to do this, it's important that you actually change the resolution of your display, because typically computer displays…

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