3c: Configure your room - Branding

1. On the Rooms tab of your workspace, click on the settings icon of the room you wish to configure  

2. There are three submenus: Info, Security and Branding.

Click on the Branding bar to go to branding settings.

Branding

There are a number of ways you can customise the look of your room to match your style. Where you choose not to upload your own image, it will remain default black. 

To upload your own image, click on the relevant box. A finder/folder window will open where you can search for the image you want. Most regular image file-types are supported (eg: .PNG, .JPG).

Select the image you wish to use and click Open. A preview of that image will appear in the relevant box when it has successfully uploaded.. (Size limit: 4mb)

Room Logo - will appear on the top left of the guest page.

Room Theme Colour - Select if you would like a custom colour for the guest page.

Output Video Border - Toggle on/off to give every input a border on the Live Feed page.

Video Border Colour - If you have toggled Output Video Border to On, you can choose it's colour here.

Output Background Image - A background for the Live Feed. This will appear if no inputs are being sent live.

Placeholder Image - This will appear if the number of inputs does not entirely fill the screen. It will also appear in the place of any input sent live that has their camera/video turned off (eg: A guest who is joining as an audio participant only).

Example of a Live Stream with three participants, a placeholder Image 🦞, and Output Border set to Aqua colour.:

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

Custom Fields and Custom Overlays

Custom Fields can be added to the information required from a guest when they join your Room. 

Display Name is included by default. You can also add:

Text Box - Use this to enable a guest to enter alpha-numerical information. Freedom. 

Drop-down List - You can define a list of possible options.

Checkbox - A simple box they can tick, or not. If you have selected Required in this option, the box must be ticked before the guest can enter.

Text Area - Like a text box, but with a lot more space.

Country Drop-down - Pre-populated with all the countries of the world, but you can decide to have a default country if you wish.

Radio Buttons - A list of options with check-boxes, for a single choice.

Where you select Required in the Field Type options, this information will need to be entered before the guest can move forward.

Below is a demonstration of the different field-types, then how they would appear when a guest joins the room:

If you are utilising the pre-defined guest list, and have sent individual links to each guest, the information they enter will populate the Guest List found in the Security settings, and can be downloaded as a .CSV file.

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

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.

• Firstly, enable Custom Overlays by clicking on the toggle. If they are enabled, you will see some options below, and a large preview image.

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 shows 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.

• 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.