While our livestreaming feature is designed to work with live video streams, you can absolutely use a pre-recorded video if you wish.
Read below to better understand how to prepare your Events page to stream an existing video during your event.
Step 1: Decide how you'd like to share the recorded video during your event.
There are two ways to share an existing video - either by showing the video instead of utilizing a livestream, or by playing the pre-recorded video within a livestream so it takes on all of the qualities that a livestream would have.
The major difference between the two options has to do with the “synchronicity” of the video – or the ability for all of your event guests to watch and follow along with the video at the same time.
As an example, let’s use Joe Smith.
Let’s say Joe is running a tad late, and he sits down to watch your event half an hour after you have set your Events page to “live,” and started your video.
If you are utilizing a livestream, and Joe presses “play” on your video, then he’ll be brought to the thirty-minute mark, essentially “catching up” to where the event (and livestream) currently are in real-time. It would be just like if he walked in the door thirty minutes late to an in-person event.
However, if you’re utilizing a pre-recorded video, and Joe presses “play,” he’ll start from the very beginning of that video, and he won’t necessarily be “synchronized” with other viewers, who started the video at the designated event start time.
Bottom line: if you want everyone to be watching your event at the exact same time, a livestreaming component is going to best for your event. If your event doesn’t require everyone to watch the video at the same time, using pre-recorded content might work just as well for you!
Step 2: Add the video's link according to the option you chose above.
If you're planning on showing the video instead of utilizing a livestream, you can simply add the URL of the video directly in the "Details" section while building your Events page.
If you're going to play the pre-recorded video within the livestream, you can add that video and proceed as if it were a true livestream - just be sure to press "play" once your event begins!
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