Producing the absolute best quality video you can, may not be your main focus when you first start your live streaming career. Instead of thinking about SD vs HD resolutions and framerates, you might be more interested in the social side of it. Let’s face it, it’s much more exciting to be in touch with people from all over the world than spend time obsessing over the quality of your video.
Soon enough, however, you’ll notice that quality matters. So much so, in fact, that stream quality is something you should monitor while you’re live-streaming. Before you get to that part, however, you need to understand the very basic parameters we use to describe video quality. Video resolution is one of them.
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