 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We're talking about the YOLO live in stream Which is a really interesting device and it's one that I've kind of recommended quite a few people look into even though I'd never tried one myself until now and I should say right off the bat Thanks to YOLO live for sending me this for review and testing They actually reached out to ask if I wanted to test their new YOLO live pro or an updated firmware version of that And I said actually I'd be really interested to try out the in stream just because as I say I have recommended it to people so why have I recommended something that I've never tried Well, it's because it answers an issue that a lot of people have had which is When you want to stream to vertical platforms like Instagram and TikTok and Instagram in particular has got something in their terms of service Which means you can only stream to that platform Using the mobile app So if you're using something like e-cam and then technically you're not allowed to stream to Instagram from that platform unless You're one of the very select few who they've now sort of they're rolling out this thing where you can actually stream from a Desktop app. However, there are very few people who seem to have that or comparatively few a small minority of people and Yeah, as you say John I wish Instagram would just open up this this functionality to everyone But they are slow rolling this out now there are third-party services which allow you to do this I won't mention their names, but they are technically breaking the terms of service by basically spoofing the fact that you're streaming from a mobile device So there is up until has up until now been no way of getting high-quality studio cameras Into into Instagram and TikTok or as I say no were technically legal way Until that is the in-stream because what the in-stream is essentially is an Android device And so what that means is you're basically streaming to these platforms from the native Android Instagram app or TikTok app at Facebook They've added in zoom and are adding in other platforms as well With the exception of that you're not actually streaming from just a mobile device What you've actually got is this which has as you can see a Number of non-standard mobile connections on the on the side. So you've got two HDMI ports in There's also a USB and that can be used for a USB webcam could also be used for USB audio as well There's also an Ethernet port as well. So you can connect to you know reliable internet source There's Wi-Fi as well. There is also a 4g connectivity as well So if you've got a sim you can put the sim card in it and so then you've basically got three different ways to connect They've also just introduced in I think the latest firmware update Obviously as I say, this is very new to me So I'm not sure what the previous iteration was like, but they've just introduced network bonding as well So that means that you can have multiple connections and actually combine them all together for redundancy and also increased performance as well Still on that this side over here as well as those two HDMI inns and the USB in Then you've got the Ethernet, which is just kind of about here further up Then you've got an HDMI out which means that you can send the the output from here into Your computer or into an external monitor for monitoring and then there's finally just at the top there There is a USB-C which is for charging over on the other side down at the bottom is where you'll find the The sim card slot and then there's also an SD card slot for recording locally But then also for importing things like overlays and so on and that is really the other Point about this it is an all-in-one device So it's not like you've got to do all of this the design work outside of the device You can do it all on device and we'll have a look at how some of that works as well Then just up at the top. Where is it over here somewhere? There are two three point five mil jacks And those are for mic in but then also for line in and then there's another jack at the top Which is for headphone out so those are the different ports on it And so that means that you can have you know up to three different cameras connected And then do all of the different switching and so on on the device. So what I'm going to do today I literally received this just yesterday afternoon. It's 5 a.m. Here So I've had about an hour to play with it So I thought well, let's just go through together and take a look at some of the sort of setup and functionality Functionality of it in the box by the way, I should just mention this quickly. You do get a few extra little things So as well as the the device itself There is a screen protector obviously it's with a non-standard screen size So nice that you get that in there as well And then there is also a little sim ejection tool and then there is this which is a little mount because it does have I should have pointed that out on this side There is a quarter 20 screw thread on either side of the device as well So then they give you this so that you could mount it to a sort of cold shoe Attachment on your camera and then it is it can just sort of mount directly onto the camera If you want or to any other kind of mounting that you've you've got I'll talk about mounting a little bit later But that is the point of this it is a mobile device and I should say I mentioned it's got power in it does also have an internal battery as well So it is literally a complete mobile streaming solution that that doesn't need to be plugged in as well If I just come to my top-down shot, I'll talk you through the the interface of it So here I've got three cameras plugged in and so you can see that there are these three little cameras down here Let me just get some of this off the screen over this side You've got a series of settings panels. I'll go through those in a moment But this is where you're gonna do some of the setup down here is the different cameras that you've got connected And I'll talk about that there's different ways You can orientate that with different views and combine them and picture-in-picture and all of that kind of stuff And then up at the top here is kind of like the mobile portion of the of the device So I mentioned that it is based on Android and basically what that looks like is here We've got a screen and I say it's based on Android It's not you've not got the sort of full Android operating system It's a sort of pared-down version of it But what it does allow you to do is run dedicated apps on there And so the Facebook app the TikTok app Yolo's own live studio Which I'll talk about later is in there as well zoom cap cut and Instagram So you can use this for streaming obviously to Instagram Facebook and Zoom and TikTok But then you can also if you want to create content on it Then using something like cap cut they're built in to be able to send your your things to to that There is also this app store here And I haven't dug into that but what this allows you to do is I understand There is now an app in there that you can get that would allow you to do the live Sorry the multi-streaming to multiple platforms at the moment It is streaming to to just one platform at a time on this device on the Yolo box pro That has got sort of native multi-streaming built in But so yeah, you've just got this mobile device if I just swipe up slightly It brings up these commands here and if I was to go into Instagram Swipe up again. There is a maximise you can run Instagram full screen So he's just literally the mobile app So it's just the mobile interface for Instagram And so when you want to go you start a stream You're basically just starting the live stream from here if I go to live You're just basically starting the live stream from here But as you can see it's bringing in what what you know That the camera feed that you've got coming in So I'll just switch that off for the moment And if I just swipe up a little bit I can just minimise that So it goes back up into that top corner So let's talk about the cameras I literally just plugged in a USB cam and two HDMI cams By the way, I'm just using a camera splitter for my regular camera That I'm using that you're seeing that is also then being split off To come into here as well, same for my top down camera So I've got a couple of the same cameras that you can see from here But I've just splitting them off into the HDMI So obviously if I was using this purely as a vertical streaming device Or rather my camera then I would probably rotate the camera itself But given that I haven't all of the cameras are coming in Sort of sideways So what you can do is if you just tap on the settings You've got some things here So chroma keying you can do green screen directly within within here But then you've also got flip horizontal flip vertical or rotate So if I just rotate that till it's the right way around You can see now it's basically the right way around But because it's a horizontal format It's just kind of small in the center of the screen there You can adjust that though by clicking on cropping And then here you can see that we can sort of crop into a specific area We can also just tap this one which says zoom to fit or fit to screen I should say and then if I click on done Then what it's actually done here is now we've got a completely separate Camera which is just that vertical So it's basically cropped into that center We could do the same with the others So I've got this top down camera here So if I just rotate this one a couple of times So it's at least the right way around And then click on crop again or tap And then just click on fit to screen and then click done Now I've got another camera down here that is my vertical shot So just to show you in Instagram what I'm talking about Maybe it's a bit bigger if it's a bit easier if it is bigger If I go back over to live Then here you can see that it is now basically taking up all of that screen So that is going to look a little bit weird to you Because it's doing this sort of tunnel vision thing But now it's showing that sort of full screen So what you can also do though is you can create different If I click add video sources you can create different views So if I want to create one that's maybe all three of those cameras together So if I click on three views select the three cameras Now I'm going to select the actual cameras since they are going to be You know this sort of stacked on top of each other So I'll click this one, this one and this one And then click on done and now you can see that we've got this view That is basically three cameras all stacked on top of each other If you want to change the order of them You would have to come in and do that again So let me do it this way if I put this one at the top This one in the middle and then this one at the bottom Now that one's still the wrong way around But if I just click on done here I can always go in and adjust that So I'm going to turn that one to be the correct way around as well Rotate 90 degrees and now if I come back to this one You can see we've got those three cameras all stacked on top of each other Another option that you've got here is a picture in picture And then I'll just do one other though for the time being Which is this two sources together So maybe I might want to have say the top down camera And this one and then click on done That one looks a little bit small actually doesn't it So probably what I need to do is zoom into that first So I'll come back out of here And first of all we will select or maybe just select that other one Actually, I'll try that again Come over to this one and select this camera and this one So that's a bit better now I've got the front camera And then a larger portion for the top down camera just down below So I'll click on done for that So now then we've got those those different views So that's effectively like creating different scenes So I've got these ones that are just the camera But then I've got these ones which are zoomed in And then I've got this which is a sort of three panel set up like that So that is the sort of basics of the scenes If I go through these menu options on the side then The one at the top I haven't actually tried out this I understand that this is potentially an add-on service for the network bonding Might be might be wrong about that I've literally just not had time to dig into that But this is for connecting those different networks So whether you are on a ethernet Wi-Fi or potentially 4G as well Sort of bonding those all together So I'll get back to that in a full review But next we've got overlays and so in the overlay section You can add in image overlays, lower thirds, countdown timers, titles Or also web URL So if you're using something like UNO overlays, for example Then you can add those in or any other kind of widgets that you've got Essentially you can add those on So there is an SD card as I mentioned, which is in the side So any graphics that you want to get onto the device That is how you would sort of transfer them in However, they do have some that are built in So if I just tap on this again, sorry, click in lower thirds So they've created some already And then you just sort of select the one that you want So say I want to have a banner across the bottom or across the top Please enter text and then it's just a thing here So if I just type in Take one tech Like that And then I could put a URL or whatever But I'll just leave it like that for now So that is now an overlay that you can basically show and hide And you can see that as I just tap on that overlay It's appeared at the top You can click into any of these and when you tap on it There is an edit button So then you can sort of reposition that I can put it wherever I want Change the text color, change the background The colors are predefined So there's these range of colors No hex codes in there I was a bit surprised not to see the hex codes But there you go So you can choose from those Choose the background color in there as well And then the alignment and so on And then you can change the scaling of it So it's simply just tap it to make it appear Tap it to make it disappear And you can see over here that that's just showing and hiding it You can come back into here though and create another one If you want another lower third You could add on these different ones here So they've got different styles And once again, if you tap on this Then you can change things like the title and subtitle So these are kind of like predefined There's not a huge amount of adjustment Apart from obviously the size, the position and stuff like that But you can create your own using that image selection The image overlays You can also create countdown timers So they've got if you want to have a countdown timer for your live stream I've gone completely away from the concept of timers these days But I know a lot of people still do So you can change like the time there Change the type face Change the color Change the color of the ring that's circling around it To make it blue if you want or whatever And change those kind of parameters So there you can see that it's basically just put that over the top With a slightly faded background You can change the transparency as well So if you want to make it sort of dim it even more Maybe change the color of that ring as well You can see that that's now a lot darker And basically that timer, once it runs down Will just disappear off the screen And then you'll be ready to go with your live stream And again, just tapping it on and off like that Is how you show and hide those Then also you've got titles And then there is also down here The web URL So if you've got a URL for a some sort of web widget Or like those UNO overlays Then that is how you could add those in Incidentally, they do have their own Thing which is for building out web widgets Which is not just limited to YOLO live So if I come over to here Here's the website, by the way I'll just mention quickly the slight digression This is their range of products that they've got So here is the vertical in-stream The one that we're talking about right now But then here you've got the YOLO box pro And the YOLO box as well And then the YOLO mini Which is a sort of smaller version I think about the same size as the in-stream But just for horizontal format There's a few other differences in there as well They've also got this giant one Which is effectively like a TV screen It's 32 inch And that one's interesting Specifically for live sellers Let's just take a quick look at that Because it's called the YOLO MAX And it is, as you can see It's an actual TV size device That is specifically for, as I say, live selling on Amazon Live, Instagram and all of these platforms There is a huge market Specifically in Southeast Asia where I am It's a lot more prevalent This whole live selling on platforms And the platform that I tend to go to For if I'm buying any of my tech stuff Is something called Lazada Which is kind of like the Amazon Of Southeast Asia, if you like And yeah, there's constantly People with live video and stuff like that So it's a lot more prevalent over here And especially in China as well It's very prevalent there as well So this whole thing of having a dedicated TV size device Specifically for live selling Has come out of this existing Very, very popular market over in this area of the world And obviously Amazon live selling Is becoming more and more of a thing as well As it is on these other platforms So I feel like the rest of the world Is kind of catching up with that particular Aspect of streaming Anyway, so that is that device But I just wanted to show you Where is it here The YOLO live overlay lab And if you've seen Uno overlays Which allows you to create these Kind of on-screen graphics For scoreboards and things like that Then this is a very similar tool That is sort of built into YOLO live Platform as well And there's a whole range of them For scoring if you are covering sports Or things like that This service does work as well With other software So as you can see here It works with ECAM With Wirecasts with VMIX, OBS It is just another HTML overlay technology That allows you to add these things into your stream And so this YOLO live What do they call it Let me get the name right YOLO live overlay lab Allows you to create these And then you can They're basically running on the web But then you can bring them into your device So just going back over to the The in-stream then Where you add the overlays And you're adding a web URL For an overlay That is where you'd be adding those in And so they're then added onto the Onto the stream In exactly the same way That you're just toggling any of these off So you are basically Just sort of operating the stream from here There is no stream deck It is a stream deck in itself In essence You're just sort of tapping the things That you want to come up on screen When it comes to actually connecting To your Instagram accounts As I say, it is just a mobile Device So you just go through and connect in the usual way You're just using their regular app Coming down through these settings Though I'll just go through this in a bit more detail So that was the overlays section Then we've got the audio And you've obviously got HDMI inputs And so HDMI can transmit audio as well So you've actually got quite a lot of different Audio channels Because you've got one for each of the HDMI channels I mentioned that there is a mic in and a line in So you've got those two separated out as well You've also got USB which can transmit You can use for a USB mic So that would be down here Or if it's maybe passing over from a webcam That's got built-in audio as well And then there's also local video So as well as being able to play And I should have mentioned that actually These sources as well as adding a Camera source There is also local video files So you can add in up to two There is a limit on how many of these As you can create, as you can see You've obviously only got one HDMI HDMI, one HDMI 2 rather But only one source through each of those You've got the USB there as well Then you can add up to two local video sources You can add a picture-in-picture scene And then you've got this one with two views And another one with two views Three views, three views and so on So you've got three of the ones with three views Two of the one with two So that is the limit of the total number of scenes you can create So you couldn't create a hundred different scenes But probably more than enough But so those video sources, as I say Some have the audio associated with them as well And that's what all of these are for down here With each of those, you can toggle them on I've actually got just a little lav mic Plugged into this one at the moment just for testing So you can see the audio levels are bouncing up and down there If I was to just mute that Then you see that the audio stops going on and off Or bouncing So I'll switch the mic pack on And obviously you could plug an external mixer I could just plug the RO-CASTER directly into this as well If I wanted to Then you've got up at the top here the program audio And so this is just the sort of overall output There is this one here, which is AFV Which is auto follow video So if you had your audio coming in from multiple different cameras You may want it to be that the audio Follows whichever camera you have selected Because I'm just doing this here There's just me, I've just got a dedicated camera A dedicated mic rather And I don't want to have the audio coming through from the camera So I've actually specifically switched that off Because the audio coming through my cameras wouldn't be particularly good It's just the built-in mics But you could toggle those on and off there So you've got quite a lot of control over the audio You can also add in delay as well So the ones that are coming from the camera Don't have any delay because they're by definition sort of synced with the camera But if you are finding there's any lag sort of in your audio Or video I should say Then you can add in a mic delay For each of these individual audio sources So that is the audio settings Next is the recording If you've got an SD card plopped into the side there Then you can start recording here There's a thing for recording limits So I've not actually tried to do the recording yet As I say, just sort of an hour or so into this The video will be recorded and saved every 10 minutes 20 minutes, 30, 60 or continuously And it says here to prevent losing the complete recording Due to unexpected interruptions We suggest you choose the defaulted 10 minute option So I'm not sure if that means it saves it in like 10 minute chunks But it's still a continuous thing I'm guessing that that's what it means And it just means it's kind of writing it to the disc every 10 minutes I guess Anyway, then there is also storage settings So I mentioned the SD card You can actually connect over USB You can connect an external storage If you want to connect something larger or faster Then you can use the external storage If you've got one connected as well So that's the recording section Next we've got the things to do with switching cameras So there are a couple of things here If you want to have it sort of auto cycling Through your different scenes You can click on auto switch And so the first of all, you would select the video sources So if you remember, I'd set up a few sources That I don't necessarily want to use Like these ones where the camera is just sort of small in the middle Because it hasn't been cropped in So maybe I just want to switch between these two here That have been sort of zoomed in So far as to click on just those two for now Click back here, click start auto switch And you can set the time What you'll see here is we're on seven seconds When it gets down to zero This is just going to automatically switch over to the other camera angle So if you want to do something where you've got And there you see it's just switched over And then now it's counting down here And it's going to switch back So if you want to set up a whole series of scenes And have them rotating through them You can set the time on that switch Individually on a scene by scene basis And then loop, obviously, just looping through those scenes And then also the order If you want to make it sequential or random, I guess Let me just stop that scene switching Sequential or random with the options And then you can also select the main video source Which is, you know, your primary one So let me just put that as the HDMI one So that is the switching that you can do in there And then you've also got some other settings down here So video switching control Either you can have it to the way you tap and it switches Or if you are worried about accidentally pressing it You can make that double click So you have to double click it to tap it So you don't get sort of accidental taps on there Local video switching So that's if you're playing a video It's basically how that behaves You want it to continue playing when you switch So the video is still playing in the background Resume from the start of the video when you go back into it Or just pause the video So when you go back to it, it resumes where it was left off SD card management If you've got videos on here This is where you would just sort of manage all of those The content on the SD card that is And then the same with the portable storage If you've got an external storage connected video out setting So I mentioned that there is an HDMI out On the top here as well And that means that you can then take that out into your computer If you want to take it into that Or indeed something else Or maybe even just for a larger monitor to see what's going on And so you can control where that's going So the program out would send just the actual program itself Versus the whole screen, I think And then the USB out to send it out over USB And then obviously flipping horizontal is pretty self-explanatory Video source transition So at the moment when I'm tapping between these things You can see it's just basically changing from one to another You can add in some different transitions So here it's going to zoom in That was a bit scary across zoom Let's try this one And so that's more of a sort of zoom and fade And then they've got all of these different ones I'm personally always a bit old school I just prefer the plain one thing to the next Rather than some of these technically more fancy But I think they often look a little bit A little bit gimmicky A little bit less professional You don't really see on the news, for example The cube effect used much I know that all of these devices like this The 8M in keynote with slide transitions They all have these kind of things And I think some people think like Oh, it's going to add an element of professionalism But I always find that it tends to do quite the opposite So maybe the fade might be something Just sort of fading from one to the other That's about as adventurous as I would tend to get Likely I'll be just keeping with the good old cut From one to the other You can change the duration on that as well So if you want to get super, super slow You can do that and do a really slow across dissolve But as I say, I'll stick with the cut for now So that is the video transitions Where have we gone there? Video source transitions Encoding settings Default and recommended is what I'm going to be leaving this onto Actually, honestly, without going and looking this up I've got no idea what CQ versus VBR is or CBR So I'll probably leave that on the default You've got the bit rate and the frames per second there as well So just make sure that the frames per second is matching Your camera would always be a good thing there Which is 30 frames per second in my case These are just all the default settings I haven't touched anything I will go and figure out what these acronyms mean Because I do not know Next is noise reduction I don't actually know that I'll have to go and check up what exactly that is doing I would guess that that is video noise As opposed to audio background noise I would guess that is video Some sort of noise in the video quality But I don't know about that yet I'll have to look that one up So those are the settings So as you can see, it's pretty straightforward really I mean, it's one of these things I always judge something on how easy it is To just sort of take it out of the box Oh, start it up and then figure out how to use it Without actually looking at the instructions Then go back and always read the instructions after So you don't end up asking dumb questions And that's what I'll do to figure out What are some of these things too But generally, it's basically just open it up And it's working just fine So it was very easy and straightforward to go through And understand what all these things do Let's try to see how this works From an Instagram point of view then Because those are the settings And there's one other thing up here At the top I should probably mention You've got the record there So if you had gone into the recording setting And started recording Then that would just say There we go, start recording Now it's recording, I can see the little dot Is flashing there And then we've got the little time So now I know that this is recording So if I just stop the recording though And do I want these to stop? I'll click on done So now it's stopped recording Up at the top, just while we're still Talking about the last few bits of the interface I mentioned here that you've got the audio That's picking up from this love mic And then here you can see the upload and download And then you've got the time And then also the battery I'll do a test at some point With how long the battery lasts And do some mobile streaming with it But basically, in fact, let's just unplug it now Shall we and see how long it goes? I doubt it's going to run out It's got quite a big battery In fact, let's just take a quick look at the tech specs Before we do an actual demo of this So if we go to the in-stream And by the way, the size of the device If you want to get an idea of it I know that most people in the chat Are probably stream deck users It's the same size as a stream deck XL So the actual sort of width and height of it Is about the same size And if you think about how thick a stream deck XL is It's about the same thickness as well As the sort of thickest part So just to sort of put that into context If you want to visualize how big this is So here you can see the actual dimensions though Here are the ports that I mentioned The format of it So the live broadcast resolution at 1080p is the maximum So if you are using 4K cameras Then just know that it will be at 1080 that it's streaming at And if you're using a 4K camera in horizontal But then sort of upscaling it Then here, or rather, I should say the other way You're cropping into it Then what I'm saying is You'll sort of be preserving that resolution almost By cropping into a vertical To go from a 4K to 1080, not quite, but almost And then the frame rate up to 60 frames per second The video storage Network connection, Wi-Fi 4G CPU is Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Which doesn't really mean anything to me However, I will say That when you compare it to the YoloBox and the YoloBox Mini It does have the in-stream Does have the highest power of the processors So the CPU on the YoloBox Pro is a 660 versus the 845 So if you are up with Snapdragon processors Which I'm not, this does have a later version of that It's also got 8GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM So recording to that to then transfer to the SD card Versus 3GB and 32GB on the YoloBox Pro And the 600 nits screen brightness If that is of interest to you as well I mean, it's got a great screen To be honest, these days, everything's got a good screen on it though, hasn't it? They all have this sort of high-quality screen that we've become used to And this is the one I was looking for, though The battery is a 10,000 mAh And then obviously, if you're using this as a mobile device For mobile streaming, not plugged in Then you could always use a power bank to give it some extra juice But we'll see how I'll do some proper testing to see how long the battery actually lasts And by the way, when I say it is a sort of mobile device As I say, it comes with the little connector So that you can connect it to your... Literally on top of your camera if you want to stream that way The mounting points on it though, slightly oddly, are on the side So if I just come back to here And I'll put this one up It's a vertical device, but the Q20 are on either side I was a bit surprised that there wasn't one in the bottom actually Because it would have made sense to have your camera potentially And then this thing mounted vertically directly above it So you do have to... I've seen some of their images on their site Which have got kind of like an arm that comes up from the top of the camera And then a little right angle to take it into the in-stream So it's a bit surprised that it didn't have one actually on the bottom of the device However, I did think about this and go looking There is... Let me just take that down for a second There is somebody who's made a cage for this device And it's got a really nice feature as well So there is a cage for it I'll just drop that into the chat as well That as well as the cage to hold the device And obviously then you've got lots of mounting points It's got the mounting points on the back there And then as well it screws in itself into the side So it's actually connected into that screw thread that is on the side of the device But then obviously you've got various different mounting holes on the bottom there Just down at the bottom But what I thought was neat about this is Given that you've got HDMI cables It's got these built-in HDMI cable retainers So these things are adjustable on the side And then you can sort of slide them out once you put your HDMI cable in And it basically clamps it in So you're not going to get any sort of stress on the cable I thought that was a nice little touch there So if you are thinking about getting one of these And want some other way or more versatile way of mounting it Then this could be an option So let me just come into... I'll just say hello in the chat to Michael Hello, great to see you here Video transitions Yes The transitions are just like word art It rarely adds value in my view So yeah, Prism Live... So there's a few different things where you can stream on multiple different platforms The same with obviously restream There's StreamYard Yolo Live do have their own multi-streaming service And it's built so that obviously you can stream directly from devices from this You don't need to have any external... Any external... Oh, are you saying audio? Is that different? I'm not sure what you mean about that But anyway, you can stream via restream or things like that So Yolo have their own streaming service though Which allows you to do all that It's just another multi-streaming platform But also embed it on your website as well So if you want to stream from this or one of their other devices And then embed it on your website Then it allows you to do that They've got a sort of built-in thing And they've got built-in things in that for live selling And specifically for product selling and so on So I'll do a bit of a better review of that a little bit later Constant bit rate, constant quality variable bit rate Let me just take a look at the specs I haven't got that deep into it Let's have a look I'm not sure, actually, whether it's variable bit rate or not I'll have to dig into that in a bit more detail And I'll get back to you See, great for talking head videos Not sure whether you're talking about this or not I'm missing the point there But anyway, let's get on to taking a look at using this to stream to Instagram And by the way, I can't stream to TikTok just yet So I need a few more TikTok followers Apparently, you need 1,000 followers on TikTok And I've not really been that active on TikTok So I do intend to start posting more short-form videos To all of the short-form platforms I was just... Oh, Dina, thank you That's what those acronyms mean Perfect Okay, now I know Right So that was the acronyms in the settings in here Where was it? The video encoding settings There we go That's what it is Thank you very much, Dina That saved me a job later So the... Yeah, so TikTok, I can't stream on there at the moment I need 1,000 I think I'm on 300 or 600 or something like that Anyway, I don't meet that So if you fancy going and following me on TikTok You can find me at take1tech there But for the time being, I'll just demonstrate this on Instagram So I'll do this as a public broadcast And then we'll see how... So you can set the audience here This is just Facebook's own thing So let's try this out And I think I've got everything set up I've got my different scenes there I've got this set up So if I now just press Live Checking connection And then my mic's coming through So I'm just now doing a test on Instagram Live So if you head over to take1tech underscore Yes, somebody had take1tech already So take1tech underscore on Instagram And I am now streaming live to that So we'll see how that looks And we can just tap on this If you want to sort of maximize it to make it larger So if I swipe up on the screen Or maybe I might just switch over to a different view of this I'll perhaps switch over to this one That's going to look a little bit weird We've got that whole sort of tunnel vision effect Switch over to this one instead And then I'll just swipe up So just for those that have joined Hey, Chantel Hey, a few other people jumping on I'm testing out the YOLO instream device On Instagram at the moment So that is what I'm doing here If people are wondering Make that larger on the screen So now for those watching on YouTube As you can see, I've got this sort of three-up view I'm streaming to YouTube Sorry, to Instagram And then we've got the content comments coming in Hey, Val, how are you doing? And then you can obviously reply to that I don't know actually if you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to this This would be really handy if you could I'll just say hi and post that Because I'm not going to type on the keyboard But yeah, so if I just come back out of this view Then I can show you how we can sort of change those scenes So I can take it full screen like this Or we've got that other one Which is just the top down Showing the device itself So this is what I'm looking at They're going to get this sort of tunnel vision look But just for those watching on Instagram I've got all of my settings down this side I've got my different scenes over here And then this is the view from Instagram And I can switch over to various different scenes That I've just created Tap back into that one And then if I want to take this full screen again I can just click on that little button there Whoops, where's it gone? That one over there So now we're full screen again So and we've got all the people from YouTube are now in here So the audio by the way is Although I'm speaking into this mic The audio is actually coming from this little love mic I just put that in for the time being Rather than connecting up the roadcaster Although I could just take the audio out from the roadcaster From the sort of speaker out at the back And then take that into a 3.5mm jack And plug that into the in-stream Because we've got the obviously the line in over on the side And so I could get the audio from the roadcaster into that If I wanted I did try plugging in the RODE Streamer X Directly into the USB socket on the in-stream I was wondering if what it might do Is be able to use that as a camera input And also an audio input It didn't seem to register So maybe the Streamer X doesn't show up in there I was doing some testing with the Streamer X With the iPad mini Because in the latest version of the Beta software iOS 17 Beta is it You can now use external devices And guess what? You can plug in a Streamer X And get your mic and camera into the iPad mini So I thought that it might actually work in here And Rich is just saying that the IG is frozen Or restarting IG fixed it So yeah, not sure if that was that was anyone else Oh, and we've got Michael in there The full screen is a bit distorted Actually, yeah, you're right Chantel It's a bit distorted for me Hang on, that might be I wonder if that's me It's often the case of I've usually done something Let me try and I'll just come in here And I'll I'll go to a different scene I'll go to this one so you can see what I'm doing What I might try and do is just go back into the HDMI here And then let's try cropping that Maybe I screwed up the cropping So let's go fit to screen Have we got that one working now Actually, that one is better So I think that was me screwing up the cropping So if I take that back now Yes, my fat head is almost filling the screen So I think that that is working Working a bit better Yeah, I must have just screwed up the cropping on this one So what I can do is I can go into this scene here If I just show everyone else I'll switch over to this So you can see what I'm doing on Instagram And I've basically got that original source video Is down here And then I've got these two cropped versions of it This cropped version looks right as right as I do And then this one I can just delete it So I'll just delete that video from there To delete that source rather So now if I go back to that What you should be seeing on Instagram Is just the full screen And yeah, there we go My big fat head taking up almost the full width I need to move further back, I think So yeah, thanks for pointing that out, Michelle Let's have a look what we're doing Heaps better, thank you very much Yes, perfect is not quite the word But at least it looks realistic True to life My head proportions are correct So yeah, it's really interesting That we can just stream to this from this device And just for those on Instagram The whole point about this is it is a mobile device So I can plug in up to two HDMI cameras A USB camera And then obviously audio So you've got a mic in and a separate line in For audio as well And then we can now stream to Instagram From this device Because it is essentially just running Android And so Instagram It doesn't violate any terms of service We're just literally streaming Directly from Instagram's native app One of the other things that you can do for this Though is you can stream to TikTok and Vertical for Facebook as well In the latest version of the firmware Then it does open up the ability to stream with To do multi streaming on the device But I think that that is using a third party app And just for those on Instagram I've literally just had this for an hour So I'm just kind of figuring it out But they Nice melon Hey, now there is a way that I can add comments On to the screen as well I understand So let me think how to do that Because I haven't tried to do that yet So I can don't want to do this Remove from the screen Block bigger fish No, I definitely don't want to do that Pin comment I think these are all in here So there is a way that I can add in the comments Up onto the screen though So that might be in a separate part of the app Let me just try something here And I'll see if I can See if I can figure out how to do this There is definitely a way that I can add a comment From Instagram up onto the screen So let me figure out how to do that Live whilst we're watching Is it in overlays? Maybe it's in overlays In image overlays Lower thirds, titles No, it's not that I can still add on those little overlays like that I can add my name in Add a countdown if I want All of that stuff But yeah I'll have to figure out how to add in the comments That's one thing that I'm sure I can do But I can't quite figure it out Right, well with that said I'm going to actually just go ahead And end this stream on Instagram So if I just pull this up And click on the little button there Am I sure I want to end? So thank you Instagram folks I will be streaming more to Instagram As I start testing this all out I can do some mobile streams as well I'm quite interested to do that Take out the camera Have this stuck on top and get out of the studio See some of the environment a little bit But anyway, thank you for tuning in on Instagram Feel free to head over to YouTube I'm going to click on end And then that will end the video And if I click on share I can do all of that sort of stuff So share what do I want to do Remix for feed Do I want to do that? Probably not Let me try that again I'm just going to tap it like that There we go So as you can see That has ended the stream And I've now just got the regular Instagram App just up here So as far as I can make out This has also so far been very intuitive To sort of set up a news I'm testing a couple of other devices Out at the moment as well That are sort of hardware solutions So I will be doing some reviews Of some of these going forward as well Because I have had people asking me for Hardware solutions that they can use Instead of using a software on their computer So I've got a few of those that I'll be testing out In the coming weeks But so far my initial impressions Of the yellow live in stream Are good, interesting And I'm going to do a couple of full tutorial videos on this Once I figure it all out So I don't have to say I don't know what that does So I'll be making those in the next week or so And I'll do a deep dive sort of full tutorial On how to use all the features Although to be honest with you I've pretty much gone through them There's not a huge amount to learn And there's no real sort of major learning curve To it's all pretty intuitive And as I say I will be doing some more streaming To Instagram Maybe it's the motivation that I need To actually start doing a lot more On that platform too If anyone's got any questions Or anything though about this Then feel free to drop them in the Discord If not in here So you can always go ahead and join the Discord TakeoneTech.io slash family And I'll be happy to answer any specific questions If anyone's interested I should mention The pricing for this I just checked the current pricing on Where has it gone? Where was it? B&H So it's 998 on B&H As I say It's if you need to do this As part of your business Then it is the current solution That you have Short of waiting for Instagram To roll out their native streaming From platforms like Ecamm Or OBS Or whatever you're using And as I say The reason for me doing this stream Today was because I have I have kind of recommended Quite a few people go and check this device out When I've been on calls with them And they've said I really want to be streaming to Instagram It's where all my followers are They've got a massive following But they still have not got The ability to stream Other than from the phone And they want to do something where they're Sort of leveling up their production I didn't go into by the way All of the ways that you can bring in Different overlays and so on So I'll do that in the tutorial I'll sort of load some to the SD card Or an external drive And then I'll talk through How to actually load those in So you can do a lot more kind of like Branding things up And doing the sort of same kind of things That we do with Ecamm Thanks for tuning in though I will leave a link to some other Related content Over on the right hand side And as I say If you've got any questions Feel free to drop them in the Discord Or indeed in the comments Just down below Have a great day everyone I'll see you next time