Vidcast Studio allows creators to step up their production values by seamless control over the recording. Creators can add banners, branding, invite multiple collaborators and much more.
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Vidcast Studio is currently a beta feature available as a per request premium feature to eligible EA Suite customers.
Minimum requirements
If you're joining the Studio from a network secured with a firewall or web filter, you may need to add the Studio URLs to your allowlist. We strongly recommend you send the Webex Events domain allowlist article to your IT representative and ask them to add exceptions for all Webex Events Production Studio URLs.
For the best Studio experience, make sure you have the following:
A laptop or desktop computer with a webcam and a reliable microphone. You can also join the Studio as a speaker using your mobile device.
A second monitor is helpful when sharing your screen.
An up-to-date version of Chrome/Edge on your computer (Vidcast studio is not available in our Webex integration on Mac).
A strong internet connection with an upload speed of 10Mbps or higher is preferred. If possible, connect your computer to your router with an ethernet cable instead of using WiFi.
Wear earbuds or wired headphones to prevent audio echoes.
Make sure you don’t use a VPN during the recording.
Setting up Vidcast Studio
To enter Vidcast Studio, click on the arrow down button next to New video and select Studio recording.
Before entering the Studio itself, you will be prompted to confirm your camera and audio settings, adjust your name and add a tagline (it can be anything from your job title, to you pronouns!). This is just to get your started- you can always change those settings at any point. Once ready, click on Enter Studio.
Once you are in Vidcast Studio, you can start preparing the recording- selecting you branding, inviting speakers and uploading media files you will use for you video.
Vidcast Studio Interface
The largest video-preview box is stage, which is what is being recorded. By default it will be empty (or sport your brand colors), but will quickly fill up as you add more speakers to stage, include your, or someone else's shared screen and other media.
Below the stage you will find a selection of layouts for you stage. You can either set it up before the recording, or even switch between those layouts on the fly.
Below the stage, you will see a cards for each speaker and screen they are sharing. Hovering over each card will allow you to add their camera feed/ shared screen to stage.
Once you have added someone (or their screen) to the stage, their card will be highlighted. To remove someone from the stage, simply hover your mouse cursor over the card and click on Remove from stage button
Please note that both host and speakers are not visible or audible on the recording until they are added to the stage.
At the bottom of the screen you will find the network stability indicator, Mute button for your microphone, Start/ stop camera button and Share Screen button.
Recording of the desktop audio is available only when you share a specific browser tab via Vidcast Studio.
You are also able to invite up to 13 speakers to your Studio via Invite button, open a help chat with Studio team and exit Studio back to Vidcast.
And finally, the panel on the right hand side will allow you to chat with your speakers, change settings and further customize your recording.
Banners
Banners and tickers are a great way to display information you want to highlight during your live stream.
Add a 'Lower Third' type caption to the stream to show a static banner with additional context, quotes, or calls-to-action. Use a ticker for an eye-catching banner that moves across the bottom of the screen.Create these pre-stream and simply select them at the right moments, or create them during the stream as you need them.
You can create up to 50 banners, though only one can be active at the time. Banners have a 200 character limit, and tickers have a 1000 character limit. If a ticker is over 200 characters, you can't change it to a banner.
Media
The Media tab is separated into two collapsible sections — 'Image' and 'Video'. Images and videos always appear on top of everything else when added to the stream, so they're great for sponsor commercials, transitions, welcome and goodbye messages, countdowns, and much more!
Click the Add image/video button to open the library of default media plus any files your team previously uploaded. Simply click library items to select them, then click Add to add them to the Media tab of the Studio you're currently in.To upload new media, click the Upload image/video button and follow the prompts in the uploader. Follow the guidelines below when preparing files for upload to the Studio.
Please note that while uploaded video is on stage, all speakers are automatically muted.
Brands
In Brands tab, you can customize Brand color for your Studio, Theme of your banners, upload your logo and change or upload background image for your recording. You can also create multiple templates to have them ready for your next recording session!
Chat
Chat allows you to communicate with speakers in your Vidcast Studio, either via group chat, or through a direct message.
Settings
General - Use this tab to adjust recording quality, show or hide the attendee viewer count from speakers, display speaker names and taglines on speaker cards on stage, and determine how speaker cards appear relative to banners and the background.
Personal information - Edit your name and upload a profile image.
Camera - Adjust your video input device, camera resolution, and camera mirror settings. Please note that if you check the 'Mirror my video' box, your camera will only appear mirrored to you. The non-mirrored version of your video appears to attendees and people in the studio regardless of your selection.
Audio - Adjust your audio input and output devices, noise suppression, and echo cancellation settings.
Appearance - Select either light mode or dark mode for the current Studio's appearance.
Recording with Vidcast Studio
When everything is prepared, you can start recording! To do so, click on the Record button in the top right corner of Vidcast studio.
After a short countdown, we will start recording your stage.
Any speakers, banners, media etc. will be only recorded when on stage. We recommend testing your setup and getting familiar with Vidcast Studio before recording starts!
Once you recorded everything you need, click on Stop recording in the top right corner. This will save the recording to your Vidcast library, where you can edit and share as you would with regular Vidcast.
You will be prompted to open the recording in a new tab, or dismiss the pop-up, however you will still remain in the studio until you close it with the X button. This will allow you to debrief your speakers via chat, or start a new recording!
Questions? Start a chat with our support team or reach us at help@vidcast.io