Facebook Live video is still uncharted territory - it's difficult to point to what will make an engaging live broadcast on the platform.
Some are in favour of a raw, mobile video approach, but for the broadcasters who are looking to livestream video using more than just a phone camera, there are a number of ways to work around it.
Alaa Batayneh, analyst and software engineer, Al Jazeera, explained in a post on Medium "the quickest and easiest way to do a Facebook Live using a proper camera".
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