Live stream your Riverside recording session to your Facebook Timeline profile to reach a broader audience. You can also live stream to your Facebook profile, Facebook page, or Facebook Live Video Event.
Who: Hosts and producers
Plan: All plans
Device: Computer browser
To live stream to a Facebook group, you must have:
- A Facebook account that is at least 60 days old.
- Access to go live in the Facebook group.
- At least 100 followers, if it's a professional account.
- See also: Technical specifications for live videos on Facebook
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Step by step
- Log in to Facebook.
- Go to the Facebook homepage.
- On your Facebook timeline, under What's on your mind?, click Live video.
- On the next page, under the 'Where to post' panel, click on the dropdown menu and select Post in group.
- In the dropdown, select a Group.
- Under the Create live video event panel, click Create event.
- On the next page, in the left panel, choose a cover photo and enter in the live stream details including: Event name, Date and Time.
- Click Next.
- Click Create Event.
- In the pop-up, click Set Up Live Video.
- On the next page, under Select a Video Source, click Streaming software.
- Under to Stream key, click Copy.
- Open the Custom RTMP live stream settings on Riverside.
- On Riverside, in the Stream Key field, paste the Stream Key.
- On Facebook, open the Advanced settings tab
- Under Server URL, click Copy.
- In Riverside, in the Stream URL field, paste the Server URL.
- Click Add in Riverside.
- Click Go live at the bottom of the Riverside studio
- Click Go Live on the bottom-left corner of the Facebook live stream page to start the live stream feed.
It may take around 30 seconds for the video to appear on Facebook.