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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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
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.
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..