Going live

The streaming studio is where the show happens. You enter from your template, set up your camera and mic, then run the broadcast end-to-end without leaving the page.

This guide walks the studio top-to-bottom. To set up a template first, see setting up a stream.

Pre-join: camera, mic, and your name

The first thing the studio shows is the pre-join screen. This is where you confirm devices and tell the room who you are.

1. Allow camera and microphone access when your browser asks. The pre-join screen waits until permission is granted.
2. You'll see a live preview of your camera. If you have multiple cameras or microphones, click the dropdown arrow next to each device button to choose the one you want.
3. Use the camera and mic toggles to mute either input before joining.
4. Enter your Name — what your guests and audience see attached to your video.
5. Optionally enter a Title — shown as a smaller second tag under your name. Useful for "Host", "Guitar", "DJ", and so on.
6. Click Continue.

You can change your devices later from the controls bar. Your name and title are locked for the session once you join — leave and re-enter the studio to change them.

The studio at a glance

Once you're in, the studio is laid out like this:

• Top bar (header) — broadcast title, link-event button, channel picker, recording mode toggles, and the big Go Live button.
• Left rail (scenes) — your scene list. Click to switch.
• Centre (the stage) — the live preview of what your audience sees. Cameras, video files, banners, tickers, overlays, and backgrounds all render here.
• Below the stage — layout picker and the controls bar for your camera, mic, and screen share.
• Right rail (panels) — tabs for Participants, Audience, Design, Banners, Comments, and Private chat.

The controls bar

The controls bar sits below the stage. It controls your camera, microphone, and screen share — every other person in the room has their own.

• Microphone — Click to mute or unmute yourself. The dropdown arrow next to it switches input device.
• Camera — Click to turn your camera on or off. The dropdown arrow switches camera device.
• Screen share — Click to share a window, browser tab, or your whole screen. Click again to stop. (Available on desktop.)

When screen share is on, your screen also becomes a video track that you can pin into the scene from the Participants panel.

Video tiles

Each person on stage has a video tile in the layout you've chosen for the current scene. Inside the tile:

• The participant's name (and optional title, if they set one) appears as a small tag in the bottom-left.
• A pin button at the top-left lets you mark this video as the main one when you're in Solo layout — useful when multiple people are on stage but you want to focus on one for a moment.

If a participant turns off their camera, the tile shows a placeholder so layout doesn't jump around.

The Participants panel

Open the Participants tab on the right rail to see everyone connected to the studio — you, co-hosts, and any guests. For each participant you can:

• See whether their microphone is on.
• Toggle them into or out of the current scene. Adding them puts their video tile on stage; removing them keeps them in the room but off camera.
• For screen shares, separately toggle the screen share into the scene.
• Remove a participant from the room with the trash icon (you can't remove yourself).

Inviting someone to co-host

1. From the Participants tab, click the + icon at the top.
2. Choose Invite participant.
3. Enter the guest's Name. Optionally tick Send invite email and enter their Email so they receive the link directly.
4. Click Create invite.
5. Copy the invite link that appears and send it to your guest by whatever channel works best.

The guest opens the link in their own browser, lands on the same pre-join screen, and joins your studio. They see a slimmed-down version of the studio with their own controls — they can't change scenes, design, or end the stream.

Adding an external video source via RTMP

You can also pull in a feed from an external broadcaster (a phone with a streaming app, a hardware encoder, etc.) as if it were another participant.

1. From the Participants tab, click the + icon and choose Generate RTMP ingress.
2. TribeNest gives you an RTMP server URL and a stream key. Copy them into your encoder.
3. Once your encoder starts pushing, the feed shows up in Participants like any other camera. Toggle it into the scene the same way.

Use the Delete ingress button in that dialog when you're done — it tears the feed down on the server.

The Audience panel

Open the Audience tab to see everyone watching the broadcast on your TribeNest site. This panel only fills in once you're live.

For each viewer you'll see their name, email, the event they're attending (if the broadcast is linked to one), and the ticket type they bought. From here you can:

• Click Invite to stage to send that audience member an invite to join the studio as a participant.

This is how you bring fans up live during a Q&A or a feature spot.

Comments

The Comments tab is the unified inbox for messages from your live audience. Comments from your TribeNest site show up here in real time, alongside an icon showing where each one came from.

• Click any comment to push it onto the stage as an on-screen overlay. Click again to remove it from the stage.
• Click the pin icon on a comment to pin it to the top of the comments list — both for you and for fans watching on your site. Useful for highlighting an answer or a recurring rule.
• Type into the input at the bottom and press Enter to post a comment yourself, as the host.
• Click the refresh icon at the top to pull in any comments you might have missed.

When the broadcast is live and linked to a destination that supports comments, audience messages from supported destinations also flow into this panel.

Private chat (guest chat)

The Private chat tab is a back-channel just for the people in the studio — you and your co-hosts. The audience never sees it.

Use it to coordinate during the show — "wrap this up", "play the next clip", "your mic dropped". Type and press Enter to send.

Linking events to the broadcast

If you want to gate the broadcast so only ticket-holders can watch:

1. In the studio header, click Link events.
2. Search for and pick one or more events from your event list.
3. For each event, choose whether all tickets unlock the stream or only specific ticket types.
4. Save.

The linked events are shown across the top of the studio header. Use the pencil icon there to edit them at any time before you go live. See events for how to set events up.

Recording modes

The chevron next to the Go Live button opens a dropdown with options that change how the broadcast is recorded and delivered:

• Record only — Don't broadcast anywhere. Just record the session into a broadcast you can review later. Great for rehearsal, voice-over takes, or producing content without a live audience.
• Local recording — Also save a copy of your camera and microphone tracks directly to your computer's temporary memory. When the stream ends you'll be prompted to upload these high-quality local files to attach them to the broadcast.

These toggles are locked while you're live — set them before you hit Go Live.

Going live

When you're ready:

1. Confirm the broadcast title in the header is what you want.
2. Confirm the Channels count in the header reflects the destinations you want to push to.
3. Hit Go Live.

The studio takes a moment to open the streams to your selected channels. Once it's live, you'll see the LIVE indicator in the header and (if local recording is on) a pulsing red REC indicator next to it.

While you're live:

• Switch scenes from the left rail.
• Push banners, tickers, and comments onto the stage from the right rail.
• Bring guests up from Audience or Participants.
• Edit the per-channel title and description for each destination from the Channels picker.

Ending the broadcast

Hit End live in the header (the same button switches roles). TribeNest closes the streams to every destination, finalises the recording, and writes the broadcast to your Broadcasts list.

If you had Local recording enabled, an upload dialog opens automatically with previews of your local camera and audio takes. Let it finish uploading so the high-quality versions are attached to the broadcast — or click Download to computer to keep them locally instead.

Where to go next

• Make the stage look professional with overlays, scenes, and banners.
• After the show, head to managing broadcasts to watch the replay or download recordings.