Direct the show while it’s going out.
One program, as many destinations as you want: YouTube, any RTMP host, an iframe on your own site, a watch page we host. Change the layout, the overlays and the ticker without anything restarting.
1080p at 30fps. Every destination included, none of them counted.
The host’s preview, the guests’ view and the outgoing broadcast shown as one identical picture.
How an hour on air actually goes
No scene collection to rebuild, no preview window to trust on faith.
- 1
Fifteen minutes out, the room fills
Guests arrive on their link and check camera, mic and speakers in the green room, off air. You set names and subtitles, load the title card and the ticker text, and nothing you do is visible anywhere yet.
- 2
Go Live, then tick the destinations
YouTube, any RTMP host, the embed on your own website, the public watch page. Tick as many as you want; the same program goes to all of them. The record toggle lives in the same dialog, so you always know whether a file is being written.
- 3
Open on the title card, then cut to people
Start on a title card over your background, drop it, and go to side-by-side. Switching layouts mid-show is a click. The stream doesn’t restart, and viewers see a cut rather than a reconnect.
- 4
Direct the middle
Spotlight whoever is talking. Put a banner up for the thing you want people to do. Run the ticker along the bottom with the links. Lift a comment out of the chat and stick it on screen while it’s still being answered.
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Bring the guest on, and off
Your guest was in the room the whole time, off screen. Change the layout to include them and they’re on. Change it back and they’re off, still in the room, still able to hear you. Or remove them entirely when their segment is done.
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End the broadcast
Every destination stops together. If you ticked record, the take is already there: the composed program plus a separate 1080p master for each person who was in the room.
Your own website is a destination, not an upgrade
Most live studios will happily push you to YouTube, then charge separately, sometimes many times over, for the ability to put the show on your own page, and cap how many people may watch it there.
Here the embed is a checkbox beside the stream key. Drop one iframe into your site and the show plays inside your own page, live, with your audience staying on your domain instead of being handed to a platform’s recommendation engine. Or send people to a hosted watch page with your cover image and start time.
- Several destinations at once. YouTube and RTMP hosts and your site, in one go-live
- Unlimited viewers on your embed. No attendee bands, no per-viewer charge
- Record while you broadcast. An explicit toggle in the same dialog, never automatic
Stream to the platform because it finds you an audience. Stream to your site because it keeps one.
The Go Live dialog with YouTube, a custom RTMP host, the website embed and the public watch page all toggled on.
Put the good comment on screen while it’s still good
The chat in the studio is private. Cues, links and “wrap it up” never reach the broadcast. But when someone says the thing that makes the point better than you did, you can lift that line out and feature it on screen, then clear it a few seconds later.
The same goes for everything else on the picture: five overlay types at nine positions in three sizes, plus a ticker along the bottom, scrolling or static at the speed you set. All of it is state you edit rather than a scene you rebuild, so the show never stops for the graphics.
- Featured comments. One line on screen, in your accent colour, gone when you say so
- Banners and title cards for the offer, the topic and the hand-off
- Media playback. Roll an intro clip, a b-roll cutaway or a sponsor card into the program
- A ticker with your links running underneath the whole segment
The studio chat beside the program, with one viewer comment promoted onto the broadcast.
The episode outlives the broadcast
A live show that only exists as a platform VOD is a show you’ve rented. If you ticked record when you went live, the broadcast is also a take: the composed program, plus a separate 1080p master for everyone who was on it, captured on their own machines rather than scraped off the stream.
So the show goes back onto your own page as a finished video, gets cut down from a speaker-labelled transcript, and turns into vertical clips for the week, all from the same session and without a second subscription.
- Separate tracks from the live show, downloadable as plain MP4s with no expiry
- Transcript and text-based cuts to trim the pre-roll and the dead air
- Clips at 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 with captions burned in
The show playing inside a page on the broadcaster’s own website.
Before you go live
Can I stream to more than one place at once?
Yes. YouTube, any number of RTMP destinations, your website embed and a hosted watch page, all from a single go-live. Destinations aren’t counted or charged for separately.
Does changing the layout mid-show interrupt the stream?
No. The program is state, so a layout change, a new overlay or an edited ticker reaches the broadcast and your guests in about a second with nothing restarting. Viewers see a cut, not a reconnect.
What does the embed need on my site?
One iframe. The player runs on your page, with unlimited viewers, and you can point people at a public watch page instead, or as well, if you’d rather not touch your own HTML.
Is the broadcast recorded automatically?
Never. Recording during a live show is a toggle you tick in the Go Live dialog, deliberately, each time. Nothing is captured because a room happened to be open.
What happens if a guest drops out mid-show?
Their video adapts down rather than freezing, and if they lose the connection entirely they reconnect and rejoin on their own, on the same devices. Reloading the tab puts them straight back on air, and the same goes for you.
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