LiveWebinar

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avriel

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Dec 4, 2021

Highly disappointed. Very passionate good team.

I am writing this for the purpose of helping other decision makers in future.
I had been looking to replace zoom meetings for almost 3 months, and decided to commit to livewebinar in hopes that I can go away from annual zoom fees.

Getting to the point...

Should you get LiveWebinar?
The answer depends on where you live and your standard of living, as well as expectation of a webinar/meeting platform.

LiveWebinar has good features that you will be able to use for casting votes, screen sharing, recording of your videos, and have questionnaires.

However, as someone who travels a lot, I have to prepare you to know that the quality of video you will expect from LiveWebinar is somewhat ok for most 3rd world economies. You can expect somewhat 360/720p quality pixelated videos in your stream and recording (even at their highest settings). In fact, one of the reasons why I will be refunding all my codes is because I was in a meeting and was looking at my partner being all pixelated like as though I was back in the 360p technological era.

I live in a country with one of the fastest internet, and as a business owner of multiple business (one of which is highly involved with online media and camera systems), so internet speed is not an issue in my tests.

During screen share, you can expect things on your screen to appear blurred and pixelated. After about 1-2 seconds, the words/images will start to become clearer until it looks a little fluffy on the sides of the words. This is the best standard you will be expecting.

Other features which are highly important cannot be found on livewebinar, making it impossible for me to port over to this platform:
1) Annotation of my client's screen - This is crucial because your student or other party may not be able to understand your explanation, or may not know what you are trying to ask them to click. Without annotation, you will not be able to draw or point out on their screens what you expect them to do.
2) Screen control - Similar to above, this is crucial. Most of the time, I use this on zoom because in this advanced era, many things are DFY (Do for you), and I want to show them through their own computer, how to get something done.
3) Screen sharing with audio from any website - Livewebinar only allows you to share videos from youtube/vimeo. If you intend to share videos with audio from another website, you will expect your viewers to see a jerky, laggy video. The video will look like it is pausing every second on their screen. Audio is not able to be heard on your viewer's side. (I used a variety of other programs to get this settled, but the video lag issue cannot be solved since it is a system limit within livewebinar).

All in all, this is a program that will work in less developed or developing countries where standards and expectations of your video and internet connection, lags etc are accepted as norm.

I would have given 0 tacos (but minimum is 1). 2 tacos because they have a good response team.

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