Vivastream Studio overview
Vivastream Studio is the official control room for Vivastream events. You prepare your event’s picture and sound, broadcast it on Vivastream and run it live, all from a single window.
Studio relies on the OBS production engine. Vivastream provides the rest: your identity, your rights on the event, the audience and distribution. For an event, you never enter a server address, stream key, bitrate or encoder setting: Studio receives them from Vivastream when you go live.
Who Studio is for
- Operators of partner organizations broadcasting an approved event: concert, conference, show, sports.
- Producers used to video control rooms and OBS, who chain cameras, scenes, graphics and transitions.
- Hosts and moderators who follow the chat, pin a message or put a comment on screen.
Rights come from your partner account: Studio shows the organizations and events you can access, and Vivastream checks your authorization again before every critical action.
What you can do
| Step | In Studio |
|---|---|
| Access | Sign in with your Vivastream account, choose an organization and an approved event. |
| Prepare | Choose a camera and microphone, compose scenes and sources, check picture and sound. |
| Produce | Switch scenes with a transition, show live elements (lower third, timer, ticker, clock, QR code), run macros, follow a rundown. |
| Engage | Read the event chat, post an official message, pin a message, show a comment on screen. |
| Broadcast | Run the checks, start the live, follow stream health and audience, end the live. |
| Keep | Record the event on your computer and upload the file to Vivastream. |
| Stay safe | Switch to an emergency screen without ever stopping the live or the recording. |
Two views
- Simple: a step-by-step guide with camera, microphone, preview, checks and start. Preparations open in this view.
- Advanced: the full control room, with Preview and Program, scenes, sources, audio mixer, transitions, macros and control panels.
Switch at any time without losing your scenes and without interrupting a live or a recording. See Simple and Advanced views.
What Studio does not do
- A Vivastream event goes to Vivastream only: no external destination, no multistreaming. To stream elsewhere, Studio offers an accountless mode, separate from events, to one destination at a time. See Streaming without an account.
- Creator features (polls, Q&A, calls to action, goals, sponsors) are not part of Studio.
- Studio does not create or edit your events: creation, review and pricing happen in the partner portal.
- Studio never shows a measurement it does not actually receive: missing data is shown as missing, never replaced by a favorable value.
Vocabulary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Control room | Studio’s production space: Preview, Program, scenes, sources and controls. |
| Preview | The picture you are preparing, invisible to viewers. |
| Output or Program | The picture sent to viewers once the live has started, and recorded. |
| Scene | A picture composition (camera, video, image, text…) you put on air. |
| Source | An item of a scene: camera, microphone, video file, image, screen capture… |
| Transition | The animated switch from Preview to Program (fade, slide, cut…). |
| Live element | A graphic managed by Studio: lower third, timer, ticker, announcement, clock, QR code. |
| Macro | A sequence of actions triggered in one click. |
| Rundown | The ordered list of your event’s segments, with their scenes and durations. |
The full list is in the Glossary and FAQ.