4. Custom Overlays

Using Custom Fields and Custom Overlays in combination can help identify guests on screen, enhance your branding, and bring an extra element of professionalism to how your broadcast looks. A typical use for these is to create name labels to appear on each participant's video feed. In broadcast terminology these are frequently known as 'Lower Thirds' (L3rds). 

There are a many options that you may wish to experiment with to fit your broadcast.

Below we will show you how to create a commonly used L3rd that displays a Name and Job Title.

In your Room Settings, select the Branding tab.

Scroll down to Custom Overlay Settings,

then toggle Enable custom overlays to On.

A Custom Overlay can have up to two lines of information. By default, Line 1 will contain the guest's display name as entered in the form when they joined the call, or if you have set that information in the Pre-defined Guest List. We will leave this how it is for now. 

To add a line that displays a job title, choose Text Box in the custom fields drop-down menu and click on Add Field.

Some boxes will appear for you to define what the field should contain. This will affect the form that guests need to fill out when they join the room.

In a text box field-type, the guest can write anything they want. You can set a character limit or a default value if required.

Type 'Job Title' in the Field Name. Add a maximum length if you wish (you may want to try a long job title to see how it appears on screen, if your organisation is one of those that have long job titles).

Add a default value if it is relevant to your organisation.

Tick the Required checkbox to make sure a guest cannot leave the box empty.

• Under Overlay Style, choose Double Line from the dropdown menu.

• Under Overlay Fields you will now see two lines of drop-down options. Change Line 2 to Job Title. The large preview image will now show you how it will appear on screen. 
• Use the other options to customise the Overlay to look how you wish.

Remember to click Save Changes on the top right to keep any changes you have made.