Recording your event to generate a replay is helpful if you want to allow your registrants to watch the event even though they couldn't attend on time or if you want to use it afterward for an on-demand event. You can record your entire event, the duration of which depends on your subscription. Livestorm allows you to do this in several ways.
In this article, we'll see how the automatic recording of your event works, but also how to disable this feature. Then, we'll show you the way to manually control recording in the room.
Regardless of the method you choose to record your event ( automatic or manual), you have to start your event in order to be able to record it.
The recording will automatically pause if there's no one on stage, no media/screen/pdf shared for 30 seconds. It's resumed right away as soon as someone is on stage again or a media/screen/pdf is shared.
Your replay is not necessarily what you recorded during the event. If you want to replace the original replay of your event, don't hesitate to look at our Event Replay article. 👀
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Automatically Record Your Event
Your event is recorded by default.
The recording starts automatically when you click on Start event in your event room. It ends when you click on End event if you don't pause the recording before.
The setting will apply to all the event sessions.
Make sure that the 'Automatically record upon event start' box is ticked in your event Settings > Recording & on-demand:
Now, let's have a look at how the automatic recording works in the room of your event. 👇
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- When you're in the room and the event is not started yet, you can see the Record button in the middle of your dock, which is disabled.
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- Click on the Start event button.
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- A window will open, asking you if you're ready to start your event. If you're ready, then click on the Start event button.
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- The automatic recording starts with the event. You can see a LIVE red sign with a REC one on the top left corner of your tab. The Recording button is red:
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- Click on End event to stop recording.
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- A window will open, asking you if you want to end your event. You can click on the End event button to end the event as well as the recording.
Recording doesn't work when you have an iframe video source.
Disable the Automatic Recording of Your Event
If you don't want to record the event automatically, untick the 'Automatically record upon event start' box. If you finally want to record the event, you can change the automatic recording setting later on by ticking the box again.
You have to change this setting before the beginning of the session.
If you do it after you start the session you want to record, you can manually record your event directly in the room when you're live.
Manually Control Recording in the Room
If you have disabled the automatic recording of your event, you can still decide to record it once you're in the room.
You will have to do it for each session you want to record.
Here is the process to follow:
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- When you're in the room and the event is not started yet, you can see the Record button in the middle of your dock, which is disabled.
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- Click on Start event.
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- A window will open, asking you if you're ready to start. You can click on Start event.
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- Now that the event has started, a red LIVE sign is displayed on the top of your screen. The Record button is now clickable. You can click on the Record button to start recording the session.
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- Once it's done, you'll see a red REC sign next to the LIVE one, and the Recording button will turn red. It means you're recording the event.
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- You can pause and resume the recording at any time from the room. You only have to click again on the Recording button and check whether the recording is on/off.
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- Your recording will stop if you manually end it and click on the End event button, or directly click on the End event button, just like for the automatic recording.
