Mobile Live Streaming Enabled for the Lookner Channel
There is a new video on the Lookner channel on YouTube, entitled “Mobile Live Streaming ENABLED!".
This is the first major non-studio streaming video! Steve is filming from Boston, from a room in his parents’ house.
Somehow he started two streams, so he has to go into another room, to a computer there, to get rid of one of the streams. It looks like a studio with a green screen that he uses when he’s there in Boston. He alerts the viewers of the other stream about the actual one, and deletes the other stream.
He’s filming using his phone, since mobile live streaming had just been enabled. Once he’s back in Atlanta he says he’ll have to figure out the lighting situation.
Steve had made one video outside, but it wasn’t live, so this stream is the first one with live video from his phone. He thinks he’ll use the phone for streams indoors, but not in the studio. He checks the audio, because he’s using a microphone that works with his phone.
He says that he’s submitted the monetization application for his new Looker YouTube channel, but thinks that it might take a month before it’s approved.
A viewer, possibly joking, offers to donate an iPhone to Steve. He does say that he might upgrade his phone if he ends up doing a lot of streaming. One with a wide-angle lens could be useful, he suggests. Some of the viewers suggest a GoPro camera, but Steve isn’t sure if such a camera would be able to live stream to YouTube like his phone can.
Steve explains how he’s been busy with family stuff while in Boston. He visited his dad in a care facility, visited his brother and family, had dinner with his mom, and walked the dog. He also had a high school reunion, and he enjoyed it.
He gets some water, and it shows how flexible live streaming can be. He’s happy that live streaming is enabled, as he can now make a lot more videos once he’s back in Atlanta. Steve talks about how he doesn’t want to buy equipment prematurely. He’d rather try making some videos, to see what he actually needs. He says he has watched some videos about blogging equipment, and might get some small panel lights.
Steve goes downstairs in his parents’ house, as he has to move out of the room he had previously been using. He leaves briefly to check something upstairs about 30 minutes into the video, and points the camera at some window blinds for about 2-and-a-half minutes! So your stream probably isn’t broken, you just need to give it some time until he returns!
He answers a few questions from users, and shows off the external battery pack that he uses with his phone so he can use it longer while live streaming. He’s also using a small tripod to hold the phone. He thinks a wide-angle lens would be good to get, but doesn’t think he’ll get a stabilizer just yet, although he may get a small lavalier microphone. According to Steve, his phone is about 3 years old, but it was a high spec phone back then.
Steve talks briefly about notifications, asking the audience if and how they got notified. He also mentions that there’s a Discord channel that viewers can chat on.
He talks about the predicted snow storm, but doesn’t think that it will interfere with his flight back to Atlanta. Before heading back he’s hoping to do a live stream with the dog, but the dog is currently sleeping and Steve doesn’t want to wake him up.
Steve wraps up by thanking the moderators and viewers.
I found it unusual to be seeing Steve outside of the Agenda-Free TV studio setting where he’s been for so many of the other videos of his that I’ve watched. It is good that live streaming has been enabled, because I think it will give him a lot more freedom to create a much wider variety of content for his new Lookner channel. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he is able to create!
- Karl