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Adding Commentary to your Broadcasts
Adding Commentary to your Broadcasts

Learn how to enhance your broadcast by adding commentary and controlling the arena sound.

Updated over 2 months ago

Requirements for Commentary

To provide commentary on your broadcast, you will need the following:

  • A network connection of at least 15mbps

  • An input device that is available in your device's audio settings

  • Your devices times settings set to automatic:

On a laptop or tablet - Open the System Preferences and go to Date & Time settings. We suggest enabling: Set date and time automatically as shown on the image below.

If you do not have your time set to automatic, your commentary will be out of sync


Managing Commentary On Site

To start commentary:

  1. Choose your input source. This can be any audio input option on your device

  2. OPTIONAL: Mute arena sound if you don't wish for the ambient audio from the camera microphone to be used on the broadcast

  3. Press to start commentary


See your audio coming through with the audio waves feedback and press again to mute commentary


Managing commentary Off Site

To start commentary:

  1. Choose your input source. This can be any audio input option on your device

  2. OPTIONAL: Mute arena sound if you don't wish for the ambient audio from the camera microphone to be used on the broadcast

  3. Press to start commentary


See your audio coming through with the audio waves feedback and press again to mute commentary


Dual Commentators and Audio Mixers

Commentary can only be started on one device (iPad or computer) during any given broadcast. To have multiple commentators, they must be local to each other and use an audio mixer (Physical or Virtual).

For audio mixers into CloudStudio:

  • Setup your mixer with both commentators microphones into the mixer

  • Combine these as you wish into one audio input

  • Select that input in CloudStudio as your microphone

We only record single channel audio for commentary in CloudStudio. This is why you commentary may sound different in CloudStudio compared to other playback methods


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