👋 Getting Started

Hovercast Pro is a cloud based suite of tools designed to elevate your live stream broadcasts. To start using Hovercast Pro navigate to **** live.hovercast.com which will redirect you to your organization.

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Organizations

The organization is where you can manage users, broadcasts, landing pages, and upload assets used across all broadcast. The following pages are available within the organization.

• View and Manage Broadcasts
• Create a New Broadcast
• Manage Organization Media
• Create a Theme
• Add Custom Fonts
• Add Users and Manager their Permissions
• Create Landing Pages
• Manage Ticketing

Broadcasts

Within organizations are Broadcasts which are individual shows or episodes. Within a broadcast you can access the following pages:

• Preview Page - View and manage scenes using the scene panel on the left, along with giving you access to output URLs.
• ****Editor Page - Create and manage graphics in the form of widgets.
• ****Library Page - Manage variables and interchangeable text blocks for widgets like the lower third and poll.
• ****Audience Page - View, moderate, search, and tag chats.
• ****Host Page - Create views for host or talent to see interactive widgets or control room prompts.
• ****Settings Page - Manage broadcast information, add platforms, add content filters and more.

Broadcast Components

Each broadcast also contains show specific content such as:

• ****Widgets - Elements with properties that can be customized into stylized graphics and display interactive content.
• Scenes - A layer comprised of widgets that can outputted to an encoder like OBS or vMix using a browser input.
• ****Platforms - Connect external website such as YouTube, Twitter, Stripe and ActBlue to ingest their chats and donations data.
• ****Chats - Individual messages generated by connected platforms which can be featured within widgets.
• ****Polls - Have audience members vote on an option or answer a trivia question where they can score points.
• ****Lower Thirds **** - Interchangeable text blocks that can be used to display names and titles or segment information. ****
• ****Variables - Custom data that can be updated via a webhook or manually.
• ****Scoreboards - Objects that attribute scores or donation data to viewers.
• and more..