Overlays and scenes

The studio gives you a full set of design tools so your stream looks like a show rather than a webcam call. This page walks every visual layer you can put on the stage.

All of it lives in the studio for the stream setup you're working on. Switching scenes in the left rail changes what you're decorating, because most of these choices are made per scene: different scenes can carry completely different looks.

Scenes

A scene is one full arrangement of what's on stage. Build several so you can switch between them as the show flows.

• Camera: a live camera scene. The default.
• Media: plays a video file you've uploaded as the main stage. Useful for intros, recap clips, or pre-recorded segments. Cameras can still sit over the video in Picture in picture layout.
• Countdown: a full-screen countdown timer. Perfect for a "starting in five minutes" screen before the show or during a break.

Add, rename, duplicate, and delete scenes from the left rail. See setting up a stream for the basics.

Layouts

Every scene has a layout, chosen from the thumbnails just above the controls bar:

• Solo: one camera fills the frame. Pin a specific person from their video tile to feature them.
• Grid: everyone on stage shares the screen in an even grid that adapts as people are added or removed.
• Picture in picture: one camera fills the stage with a second tucked into the corner.

Click a thumbnail to apply it to the current scene.

The Layers panel

Open the Layers panel on the right rail. This is where the overall look lives (font, colour, name tags) along with the per-scene logo, background, overlay image, and video source.

Font

Pick a Font from the dropdown. It applies to every piece of text on the stage: banners, tickers, comments, poll results, name tags, and the countdown timer.

Primary color

Pick a Primary Color. This is the accent used behind banners, the ticker strip, poll questions, and your participants' name tags. TribeNest picks a contrasting text colour automatically so labels stay readable. Click the field to open a colour picker, or type a hex value straight into it.

Show name tag

Toggle Show Name Tag to show or hide each participant's on-screen name label. Turn it off and no participant name appears on stage at all.

Logo

Open the Logo section to pin a small logo to the top-right of the current scene.

1. Click the + tile to upload a JPG or PNG.
2. Click an uploaded logo to apply it to the current scene. Click the same one again to remove it.

Logos are per scene, so different scenes can carry different marks, or none at all.

Background

Open the Background section to set a full-stage background image for the current scene. It fills the frame and sits behind everything else.

1. Click the + tile to upload a JPG or PNG.
2. Click an uploaded background to apply it. Click again to remove it.

With no background set, the scene falls back to a clean dark stage. Backgrounds are per scene.

Overlays

Overlays are images that sit on top of everything: frames, watermarks, branded borders, sponsor cards. They render above cameras, banners, and tickers.

1. Open the Overlays section.
2. Click the + tile to upload a JPG or PNG.
3. Click an overlay to apply it to the current scene. Click again to remove it.

Design overlays in the same shape as the broadcast (16:9), with transparent areas wherever you want the cameras to show through.

Videos

Open the Videos section to upload and assign a video file to the current scene. Assigning one switches the scene to Media and plays the video as the main stage source.

1. Click the + tile to upload an MP4, WebM, or MOV file.
2. Click an uploaded video to assign it to the current scene.
3. Use the playback controls below the stage to play, pause, scrub, change the volume, loop, or change the speed.

Removing the video turns the scene back into a Camera scene. The playback position is kept with the scene, so if you switch away and come back the video picks up where it was.

Banners and tickers

The Banners panel holds two on-screen text elements: banners (a title and subtitle card) and tickers (a scrolling line along the bottom).

Banners

A banner is a small card in the lower-left of the stage, with a Title and an optional Subtitle.

1. Open the Banners panel.
2. Click the + next to Banners.
3. Enter a Title and an optional Subtitle.
4. Click Create.

Click a banner in the list to animate it onto the current scene, and click it again to take it off. One banner shows at a time. Use the pencil to edit the text and the bin to delete one. You can't delete a banner that's currently on stage, so take it off first.

Tickers

A ticker is a scrolling strip pinned to the bottom of the stage. Use it for run-of-show notes, hashtags, song credits, or sponsor lines.

1. In the Banners panel, click the + next to Tickers.
2. Enter a Title.
3. Click Create.

Click a ticker to put it on stage, and click again to remove it. Edit and delete with the icons beside each one.

Countdown scenes

A Countdown scene shows a large timer counting down to zero. Ideal as a "starting soon" screen, or a "back in ten" screen during a break.

1. Add a scene and choose Countdown as the type.
2. Switch to it.
3. Hover over the timer on stage to reveal its control bar.
4. Set Duration (s) in seconds, anywhere from 1 to 3600.
5. Pick a Color for the digits.
6. Pick a Font.

The countdown restarts whenever you switch to the scene. At zero it stops and sits at 00:00, so switch to another scene whenever you're ready to start.

Things the studio draws for you

Two more elements land on the stage without you designing them, and both pick up your font and primary colour so they match everything else.

• Comments you push on screen. Click a comment in the Comments panel and it appears on stage as a card. Click it again to take it off.
• Live poll results. While a poll is running, the question and the running percentages are drawn in the top-right of the stage. That is what makes the outcome visible to people watching on an external channel, who have no way to vote. See polls and audience interaction.

What is saved, and when

Every change here is saved to your stream setup as you make it. There's no separate save button. Walk away, come back tomorrow, and the stage is exactly as you left it. You can redesign scenes while you're live too, and the audience sees each change as you make it.

Where to go next

• Bring it all together in going live.
• Get the room talking with polls and audience interaction.
• If the stage looks right but the broadcast doesn't, see diagnostics and troubleshooting.