Canon’s New App Lets You Live Stream From Multiple Cameras, Just Not Canon’s

Canon has announced a caller unrecorded streaming app that tin wirelessly nexus to, and move between, video feeds from 3 mobile devices. It’s presently constricted to iPhones and iPads moving astatine slightest iOS and iPad0S 16. Android isn’t supported, but an moreover alien omission is that Live Switcher Mobile isn’t compatible pinch immoderate of Canon’s integer cameras — that functionality will beryllium added “in nan future,” according to an FAQ.

The app is disposable for download now and tin beryllium utilized for free, but pinch immoderate limitations. Video worth maxes retired astatine 720p, nan output is watermarked, and nan app’s interface will occasionally beryllium cluttered pinch ads — but those aren’t presented to viewers. For $17.99 per play (which is complete $215 per year) output worth gets a bump to 1080p, while ads and nan watermark are removed. There’s nary action to summation nan video solution past HD.

One instrumentality moving nan app is designated arsenic nan large which provides nan switching interface and serves arsenic nan superior camera. Up to 2 further devices tin beryllium connected providing video feeds from alternate angles, aliases a unrecorded aboveground seizure of a video crippled being played.

Switching betwixt feeds tin beryllium done manually, but if you’d for illustration to debar poking a instrumentality that’s serving arsenic 1 of your cameras, nan app tin too beryllium group to automatically move betwixt sources astatine group intervals of 8 to 20 seconds. Multiple videos tin beryllium streamed simultaneously utilizing a picture-in-picture effect, while matter and image overlays tin beryllium added to personalize a livestream, adhd branding, aliases proviso captioning.

Canon says nan app supports unrecorded streaming to YouTube, Facebook, and different platforms that support RTMP, but its remark show usability is constricted to those first 2 platforms.

Although its functionality isn’t arsenic robust arsenic nan free OBS Studio app that too allows mobile devices to beryllium utilized arsenic video sources, Canon’s Live Switcher Mobile is perchance an easier replacement for aspiring influencers conscionable getting started pinch unrecorded streaming.

It whitethorn presently beryllium constricted to mobile devices, but nan institution has confirmed nan app “will support Canon’s integer camera narration successful nan future.” With that added functionality, and perchance a bump to 4K streaming capabilities, its steep worth tag could beryllium easier to warrant for those looking for a highly portable streaming solution.