The manual Chapter 10 8 min read

Running the show

The phone remote, hotkeys, presets, control surfaces and what to do when something goes wrong.

The phone remote

Scan the code on screen and a full control surface opens in the phone browser. No app, no account, nothing to install — which is exactly why it works with volunteers.

Switch sources, take graphics, start and stop recording, mark clips, and watch the programme output, from anywhere on your network.

Hand it to the presenter and they advance their own slides. Hand it to a second person and they run chat while you run cameras. Several devices can be connected at once.

Hotkeys and surfaces

Every switching action can be bound to a key. A Stream Deck gives you physical buttons. A MIDI surface works with learn — press the control, assign the action.

If you already have a digital audio desk, an X32 or M32 talks over OSC and an Allen & Heath SQ over USB.

Presets and workspaces

Anything you set up once can be saved. Colour grades, console snapshots, graphics, scenes, whole window layouts.

Save a workspace per operator or per show type. The person who runs the midweek event does not have to inherit the layout built for the weekend one.

When something goes wrong

If the application closes unexpectedly, it reopens where it was. Sources, scenes and settings are recovered, and any recording in progress is already playable.

If a destination drops, it reconnects on its own. If a phone camera drops, it rejoins on its own and its local recording is intact.

If everything goes wrong, the recording is still on disk. That is the real safety net, and it is why isolated recording is worth turning on even when you think you will not need it.

Per year

Everything above, for $99 a year

Or $19 a month. Affordable, and everything is in it — every update in the year included, nothing renews on its own. Max, with the heavy GPU features, is $599 a year or $79 a month.

Windows 10 & 11 macOS — Apple Silicon macOS — Intel, back to 2013