Your first PaneLive session

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That’s it: your device is connected. Your OBS Studio, vMix or Streamlabs guide covers the details for your software. The topics below explain the tools you will use during a show. Jump to the one you need:

Some of PaneLive’s handiest features have no button of their own. Press and hold, and they appear. Here are the ones worth knowing:

Rotate between portrait and landscape. In landscape, the Dashboard keeps navigation beside the split content area. With PaneLive video in OBS Studio or vMix, tap the fullscreen icon to expand or collapse controls and meters, adjust the Studio Preview PiP, and turn on composition guides in preferences.

In the Recording deck’s scene solo view, pick a scene for Preview, then run a transition or a countdown. PaneLive confirms the Preview selection before taking it further. The audio solo view brings the track controls to the front.

Check the panel heading before you tap: Preview, Program and Monitored Scene each do something different. Picking in Preview sets up the next scene, picking in Program changes the live scene, and picking a monitored scene only changes what you see on this device.

Tap a source or layer’s visibility control to show or hide it, and wait for the new state to appear. With PaneLive Companion, production controls need the Operator role. Long-press a scene or source to see its screenshot without changing anything live. For a source, the same dialog lets you pick a color or hide it from your list.

Open a track’s controls, move the fader or mute it, and watch the result confirm. Solo, Master volume and monitoring mode appear when your production software offers them. The fader shows the level you set, while the meter shows the live signal. Live meters come from OBS Studio and vMix, and Streamlabs Desktop gives you faders and mute.

To listen along in PaneLive Pro, turn on monitoring in Audio settings, choose a comfortable local playback gain and use the headphone-only option if you like. Local gain only changes what this device hears, so the production mix stays as it is. If you hear nothing, check the producer’s monitor mix first.

Tap record or stream to start. With hold protection on, keep holding until it completes. Check that the output is running and the recording time is counting; pause and resume appear when they are available. At the end, stop the output and check that it has stopped. If a confirmation dialog appears, confirm the stop there.

With vMix, PaneLive can start and stop each stream target on its own. OBS Studio and Streamlabs Desktop use one stream button for all destinations, and Streamlabs Desktop shows each destination’s name for reference. Set up destinations and credentials on the production computer.

Open Hotkeys. PaneLive picks up the actions already assigned in your production software, and some connections let you add your own keys. Customize labels, icons, layout and long-tap protection. After you change assignments in your production software, refresh or reopen the deck.

OBS Studio offers its hotkeys, vMix offers Web Controller shortcuts and key commands, and Streamlabs Desktop offers its configured general actions. If the deck is empty, assign shortcuts in your production software first.

Take Preview to Program: in studio mode, long-press the Preview window or PiP, then choose Start in “Go to program in 10 seconds.” At GO, your device runs the default studio transition.

Start outputs: when recording is stopped, long-press Program. Select Recording, Streaming or both in “Start outputs in 10 seconds,” check your selection, then tap Start.

To cancel before GO, hold the running counter. Other devices paired with the same PaneLive Companion connection can see the countdown too, and holding it there just closes it on that device. After GO, check that the production has switched or started.

A scene tally lights up when its scene is in Program, even if it is in Preview at the same time. The label tells you what is happening: PROGRAM, RECORD, ON AIR, or REC + ON AIR when you record and stream at once. A scene that is only in Preview shows STANDBY. Door follows your outputs: RECORD while recording (RECORDING in the Flood style), ON AIR while streaming and REC + ON AIR for both. You can replace any label with your own. Bar can show a screenshot of the matching scene. If a scene or source goes missing or the connection drops, the tally tells you which one it is.

Choose your colors. By default, PaneLive uses its own scheme: Program glows orange while nothing is recording or streaming, and turns red the moment you record or stream. That way everyone can tell a rehearsal from the real thing at a glance. Prefer the broadcast standard? Turn on Professional tally convention at the top of the Tally Lights settings. Program is then always red and labeled PROGRAM, with recording and streaming shown separately. Preview is green in both schemes, and the switch applies to every tally light on the device.

In User Interface settings, choose your theme, haptics, monitor-only mode, scene and source layout, guides, fullscreen controls and what reopens at startup. In Video settings, choose the Program and Preview rates that suit your network.

The theme catalog includes Base, Stardust, Carbon/Platinum, Candy Licorice/Marshmallow, Studio Black/Champagne, Switcher and Mint, plus Prototype.