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How evmux works: scenes, layers, destinations, recording, guests and the ideas behind the studio. 56 articles.

Account Settings (Dashboard) - The Account Settings page in the Dashboard provides user account management including profile information, billing, password, and email changes.
AI Production Assistant - What the AI assistant built into the evmux studio does: it answers questions, explains features and shows you where controls are, without changing your setup.
Audio Management - Evmux provides comprehensive audio management including sound effects, background music, per-layer volume controls, and audio device configuration.
Background Music - Background Music allows you to play audio tracks during your broadcast for ambiance, transitions, or entertainment.
Backstage Chat (Messenger) - The Backstage Chat system enables private communication between editors, speakers, and guests during broadcasts. Messages are not visible to viewers.
Banners and Graphics - Evmux provides powerful tools for adding professional graphics, lower-thirds, tickers, and visual overlays to your broadcast.
Broadcasting - Broadcasting is the process of sending your live video stream to one or more platforms where viewers can watch.
Browser Support - See which browsers can open the evmux studio on desktop, phone, and tablet, and which features are unavailable on iPhone and iPad.
Collaborators Management - Learn how collaborator seats work on each plan and how project owners invite, manage, and remove team members from the Dashboard.
Comments and Chat - Evmux provides tools for managing live comments from streaming platforms and internal chat between producers and speakers.
Content: keeping it inside evmux, protecting it, and what is not allowed - Learn how streaming to the evmux Player keeps your content inside evmux, what protection that does and does not give, and what is not allowed.
Dashboard Overview - An overview of the evmux Dashboard, where you manage projects, sessions, speakers, collaborators, recordings, and your account outside the studio.
Developer Center — building your own evmux app - Learn how to get access to the Developer Center, what it takes to build your own evmux app, and how apps are reviewed and published.
Dual Streaming (Landscape + Portrait Simultaneous) - Dual Streaming lets one broadcast send landscape and portrait outputs at the same time; learn how to enable it and where each feed goes.
Dynamic Captions (Lower Thirds) - Dynamic Captions are animated lower thirds that show a speaker’s name and title with configurable animation styles, timing, and position.
Evmux Overview - Evmux is a browser-based live streaming studio. Learn what it does, the key concepts of scenes and layers, user roles, and how to get started.
Exclusive Talk - Exclusive Talk gives one speaker the floor by temporarily muting all other participants; learn when to use it and how to turn it on and off.
Generate Image (AI) - Generate Image uses AI to create graphics, overlays, and virtual backgrounds from a text description; learn how to write prompts and use the results.
Guests and Speakers - Learn how guests and speakers join your studio, the 12 on-screen and 20 connected feed limits, invite links, and how to edit participant details.
Header Notifications - The notifications bell in the studio header shows system messages and alerts, with a badge that counts the ones you have not read yet.
Image Cropper - The Image Cropper provides interactive image cropping functionality for logos and other image assets before upload.
Layer Frames (Participant Frames) - Layer frames are decorative image or video borders you can put around participant layers, either for the whole session or per layer.
Layers - Layers are the individual visual elements that make up a scene. They are stacked on top of each other, with elements higher in the stack appearing in front.
Live Labels - Learn which status labels evmux shows over the scene while you broadcast, what each one means, and where to find your broadcast time limit.
Local Recording Status (ISO) - Check that every participant is recording locally and that their files finish uploading, using the cloud indicator in the studio header.
Local Recording System (ISO Recording) - Learn how ISO recording captures each participant’s own feed in their browser, uploads it in the background, and what to watch for.
Logo Layer - The Logo Layer displays branding logos (image or video) in the scene editor, typically positioned in the top-right corner.
Media Management - Evmux provides comprehensive media asset management for images, videos, audio files, and documents used in your broadcasts.
Media Share - Media Share lets a participant play a video file or an image from their own computer straight into the broadcast, with playback controls.
Multicam - Multicam allows users to add up to 2 additional camera sources (Camera 2 and Camera 3) beyond their primary camera, enabling multi-angle broadcasts.
Logging in on more than one device — the studio opens on only one - Both halves of this matter, and answering with only the first half is wrong.
Presets and Layouts - Learn how the Dynamic Scene’s preset layouts arrange participants automatically, and how to switch, adjust and spotlight them during a show.
Project Management - Projects (also called Events) group your sessions, speakers and collaborators; learn how to create one, set its logo and timezone, and edit it.
Push to Talk (PTT) - Push to Talk lets an editor speak privately to one speaker or guest during a live show without the audio ever reaching the broadcast.
Recording - evmux offers two recording methods: local ISO recording of each participant’s feed at full quality, and cloud recording of the final mixed output.
Recordings Management - The Recordings Management feature in the Dashboard allows users to access, download, and manage recordings from their broadcast sessions.
Rich Text Editor - The Rich Text Editor provides WYSIWYG text editing capabilities for creating formatted text content in banners, dynamic captions, and user app integrations.
Scene Types: Dynamic Scene vs Pro Scene - Learn the difference between the auto-arranging Dynamic Scene and fully manual Pro Scenes, when to use each, and how the Dynamic Grid combines them.
Scenes - Scenes are the layouts you switch between during a broadcast; learn the two scene types, how to create and organise scenes, and how to put one on air.
Screen Share - Screen Share allows participants (speakers, editors, guests) to share their screen content during broadcasts. Shared screens appear as layers in the scene.
Session Management - Sessions are the individual broadcasts inside a project; learn the session types, how destinations decide streaming or recording, and pre-recorded video.
Session Switcher - The Session Switcher component displays the current session name in the header and allows users to switch between multiple sessions within the same project.
Settings - Evmux provides comprehensive settings for configuring your camera, audio, virtual background, and user preferences.
Slideshows - Slideshows allow you to display a sequence of images or PDF pages within your broadcast, with automatic or manual navigation.
Social Share — Publish a Recording to Social Platforms - Publish a finished evmux recording straight to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or TikTok from the Recordings page, and learn the limits that apply.
Sound Effects - Sound effects are short audio clips you trigger with a button or keyboard shortcut during a broadcast, for applause, alerts, transitions and more.
Speakers Management - The Speakers Management feature in the Dashboard allows project owners and collaborators to manage speakers who participate in broadcast sessions.
Stingers and Transitions - Learn how stingers and transitions work when you switch scenes, how to set one per scene, and the file limits for custom stinger videos.
AI Noise Reduction (Studio Sound) - AI noise reduction cleans up your microphone before anyone hears it; learn what it does, how to turn it on, and which audio settings conflict with it.
Text Layer - Text Layers display customizable text overlays on the broadcast scene with full typography control.
User Apps & Plugins - User Apps are add-ons from the evmux App Market that you place on a scene as a layer to add overlays, integrations and interactive features.
Video Trimmer - The Video Trimmer allows you to set start and end points for video and audio layers, controlling which portion of the media plays during your broadcast.
Virtual Background - Virtual Background lets you blur or replace your camera background with AI, or key out a physical green screen, without any extra software.
Watermark - The evmux watermark appears on Free plan broadcasts; learn where it shows, how to remove it, and why it can linger after you upgrade.
Web Source Layer - Web Source layers allow you to embed web content, custom HTML, or external widgets directly into your broadcast via an iframe.
What’s New in evmux - The What’s New popup shows you recent evmux feature announcements; learn when it opens on its own and how to browse it from the user menu.