Stream a Webex Meeting to a Webcast Event
You can use Webex Meetings as a source for your Webcast event if you have enabled Support for Webex Meeting Live Streaming in Media Settings. When you select Webex Meetings as a source, you may then start and broadcast your Webcast directly from your Webex Meetings account if you choose. This means you can take advantage of Rev’s Webcast functionality and pair it with a Webex Meeting. Afterwards, you can save the recording and use Rev’s video settings and metadata.
Caution: This is a Rev Cloud only feature that requires Rev v7.31 or later and Webex Meetings WBS39.10 or later. |
To use this functionality:
●The Support for Webex Meeting Live Streaming setting in Media Settings must be enabled by your Account Admin.
●You must be logged in to a Webex Meeting account that matches an Event Host of the Webcast (or a Rev Account Admin account).
●If the Webex Meeting has not yet started and you start the Rev Webcast from within the Rev client, a message displaying “Waiting For Stream” will display to attendees until you select the Webcast from Webex Meetings.
To start and broadcast a Webcast event from the Webex Meetings client:1. Navigate to User > Events > Add Event.
2. Schedule the event as you normally would. See: Schedule a Webcast Event
3. Select Webex Meeting Stream as the Video Source in Video Source settings. If you do not see this tab, speak to your Account Admin about enabling Support for Webex Meeting Live Streaming.
4. Login to your Webex Meetings account when you are ready to stream to a Webcast Event in Rev. Start a meeting.
5. In the header navigation menu, click Meeting > Start Live Streaming. It is also available in the 3 dot menu featured at the bottom of the screen.
6. You will be prompted to login to Rev. As noted, you must login to an account that is listed as an Event Host on the Webcast (or an Account Admin account).
7. Select the Vbrick Rev function you want to initiate from the Webex Meeting; in this case Existing Webcast.
8. Each Webcast that you are authorized to stream to will appear in the Select an Event drop-down (i.e., those Webcasts where you are an Event Host or if you are an Account Admin, those Webcasts that are currently available and not streaming from another Webex Meeting).
9. Click Start Webcast. This will start the Webcast in Rev. Depending on the time-frames defined for the Webcast, you may have the following button options available:
○Pre-Production: Webcast automatically starts and broadcasts a Pre-Production Event. (Host a Webcast Event Dry Run)
○Overlaps: If a potential overlap period occurs where either run may be started, you will be presented with the option to select which type to stream.
10. Click the Start Streaming button to begin streaming your Webex Meeting to the Rev Webcast you selected. If you selected a Webcast event that has already been started in Rev, you will then begin streaming your Webex Meeting to that event. If it has not been started in Rev, Webex Meetings will automatically start it for you at this point and begin broadcasting.
11. Webex Meetings indicates that you are Live and Connected in the upper right corner of your meeting window.
12. If, for any reason, you stop the live stream in your Webex Meeting, attendees will see “The Webex Meeting Host is not currently live streaming”. You can stop and start the stream as many times as you need/desire. Rev handles the interruptions with a placeholder image that you can edit out.
13. Webex Meetings are automatically recorded. Upon ending the Rev Webcast, the Event Host will be asked to Save the recording with the option to discard it if requested.
14. A Webex Meeting Live Streaming event will automatically end when the scheduled end time is reached and when there is no longer an active live stream received from Webex Meeting. At that time, you will be given the option to save the recording of your Webcast to a VOD recording. You are encouraged to use Rev’s Video Settings to configure your saved video at that time.
Role(s): ●Event Admin ●Event Host ●Account Admin |