An operator at the back of a conference hall, watching the live stream of the speaker on stage on a laptop

Speechbox / Live

Clips During Your Event

How we cut clips from your stage while the event is still running, and what we need from your crew.

Straight from the stage

Start here

What happens on the day

Your crew streams the stage to us. Our operator watches it live and marks every moment worth sharing. Those moments reach us while the event is still running, and become clips, quote cards and posts for you.

1

A stream from the stage

An unlisted YouTube Live stream, or a direct feed to our server.

Part one compares the two.

2

An operator who marks the moments

IN where a moment starts, OUT where it ends.

Part two shows how.

3

Nothing is lost

With a direct feed, the whole stream is also recorded on our server, so a moment we miss can still be cut afterwards.

Part one

Two ways to send us the stage

Your crew already streams. The only question is where to.

A production desk at the back of the hall: a camera on a tripod, a streaming encoder and a laptop showing the stage — The same production desk, the same camera. The only difference is where the stream goes.

	YouTube Live (unlisted)	Direct feed (SRT)
What your crew does	Streams unlisted to YouTube, usually from OBS	Streams to an address we give them, in H.264
Best for	Transcripts, articles, quote cards and widescreen clips the same day	All of that, plus vertical clips and speaker kits at full quality
A moment we missed	The start of a clip can be moved back, up to an hour	We go back through the full recording and cut it after the fact
Picture	YouTube compresses live video, and vertical crops show it most	The stream's original quality

Not sure which?

Tell us what your crew already uses, and we set it up with them before the event.

Part two

What our operator does

One person, one screen, for the whole event.

Over the shoulder of an operator: a finger about to press a key while the screen shows a speaker mid-gesture — The moment the speaker says the line everyone will quote. This is where IN goes.

01

Watches the stage

The operator watches the stream and hears what is said.

02

Marks the moment

Presses IN when a moment starts and OUT when it ends.

03

The clip is on its way

When the operator presses OUT, the clip is saved and goes to transcription and processing, right away or once we match it to its session. That is where the clips, quote cards and posts come from.

04

Look back

With a direct feed: missed the start? The operator goes back through the recording and cuts the moment after the fact.

Part three

Nothing is lost

With a direct feed, the whole stream is recorded on our server as a backup, and kept for 30 days.

A moment that was not marked live

Can still be cut from that recording later, exactly like a clip marked live. One more reason to choose a direct feed. Part one compares the two.

Part four

What we need from you

1

The stream details

What you agreed with your crew: YouTube Live or a direct feed.

2

A test stream during setup

A few minutes of streaming before the event starts, to confirm picture and sound arrive.

3

A wired connection at the stage

Worth confirming with the venue at contracting, not on setup day.

4

Sound from the desk

A line out from the sound desk into the stream.

5

The final agenda

With every speaker's full name, job title and company, spelled exactly as they should appear.

How to record the sessions is covered in The Capture Guide, and how to send files after the event in Sending Session Files.