Broadcast Center User Guide

BROADCAST CENTER

Admin main menu

BROADCAST CENTER

Go to the broadcast center to operate your PlaySight facilities. Go live or schedule streams and recordings of your matches, games and practices.

FACILITY VIDEOS

Facility videos is where you will find your recorded sessions. You can download, edit highlights and share videos.

LIVE & ON-DEMAND

Click Live and on-demand to watch live streams and on-demand content from PlaySight courts, fields, gyms and rinks around the world.

ADMIN SETTINGS

Admin Settings: This is where you manage your groups and coaches. Apply monetization settings, and control court access for your users.

Video Manager: This is where you manage your storage and on demand archive preferences. Use the camera control center to customize camera names and order.

PUBLIC PROFILE & ACCOUNTS

Click your logo or facility name to edit your public profile or to sign out of your account. If you have more than 1 sport account, all of your accounts will be listed here, and you can switch between them.

Pro Tip: This menu is only available once you log in with you facility admin account.

Starting a new session

To start a new session, go the BROADCAST CENTER from the main menu.
Your courts list (1) will appear under SmartCourts (2) on the left side menu.

Click on the button (3) of the court you would like to start.

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To start multiple courts at once, select the check boxes for the courts you would like to start and then click the START SELECTED button.

Session settings

When you click START on the courts list, you will get your session settings wizard, which includes 3 simple steps.

STEP 1:

Title: This optional field will be the name of your session. You can leave this blank for a default session name or name it yourself.

Duration: Select the duration of your session. When the session reaches its duration, the recording / stream will stop.

Continuous (loop): If you wish to record consecutive sessions or you need a recording which is longer than the max duration allowed, you can tick this box. This will start a new session right after the first recording ends. This loop will continue all day long. This option will create individual sessions with the same setting on the scheduled session list. You can modify or remove each one of those sessions individually.

Read more about continuous sessions here

Description: This optional field allows you to add a note or a description that will appear on your session summary info.

STEP 2:

Mode: Select the right mode of your session. This will help you to filter recording types in your activities feed.

Live streaming: If you want to live stream your session, tick the box next to LIVE STREAMING option. If your SmartCourt is connected to our monetization platform, you will have the option to select between FREE live streaming and PREMIUM.

Save to cloud: If you want to save your recording and upload it to the cloud, tick the box next to SAVE TO CLOUD option. If your SmartCourt is connected to PlaySight’s monetization platform, You will have the option to select between FREE, PREMIUM and UNLISTED – the FREE option will upload the video to the on demand platform and allows users to add this content to their account for free. PREMIUM option will allow users to purchase the content and add it to their account. UNLISTED option will record the content to your account only and it will not be available on the on demand platform.

STEP 3:

Review your settings and click START if you are ready (or go back to make any necessary changes).

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You can edit your session name, duration and description even when the session is running so if you want to quick start your session you can skip those fields while setting up the recording and edit them by clicking the cog wheel icon after your session has started. Your settings for session type and streaming / cloud modes cannot be changed while the session is running.

NOTE

When you click start you will notice the court goes into initializing mode. This is the process of preparing the court for the session, syncing between all cameras and applying your settings. This process may take up to a couple of minutes. When creating a continuous session this process will occur between recordings so you may expect your actual session duration to be up to a couple of minutes less than the one defined.

Schedule a new session

If you do not wish to start your session right away, you can schedule your sessions in advance. To do so simply click on the calendar icon

of the selected court on your courts list.

You can schedule multiple sessions on multiple courts by ticking the boxes on the courts list and clicking on the SCHEDULE SELECTED button above the courts list.

STEP 1

Date: Select the date and the start time of your session.

Title, duration and description as described above in the session settings section.

STEP 2

Select session type and streaming / recording modes as described above in the session settings section.

STEP 3

Review your scheduled session summary and save or modify as required.

NOTE

You cannot schedule 2 different sessions on the same court at the same time. trying to do so will prompt a conflict notification. To solve the conflict you need to either change the current session you are trying to schedule or go to the scheduled sessions list and remove the conflicting session.

Scheduled sessions list

Your scheduled sessions appears under the Scheduled section of the broadcast center (1)

You can filter the list by date range and by courts (2).

Use the editing tools to modify or remove your session.

Edit session settings

Session summary info

Delete session

Continuous session (loop)

A continuous session allows you to record or stream multiple consecutive sessions. This can be applied to a scheduled session or to an immediate session.

When setting up a new session you can select the continuous option if you wish to record / stream more than one session. This may assist you in managing a tournament day with multiple games or any day long activity.

When selecting this option, all sessions within the loop will appear on the scheduled sessions list (except from a currently running session if there is one). From the scheduled sessions list you can modify each one of the sessions individually – including duration or to rename or remove unnecessary slots.

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Avoid using this feature when it is not required, as day long sessions may result in taking unnecessary storage.

NOTE

Continuous sessions will only continue to loop until the end of the same day of the first session in the loop. This means that the last session of the loop my have a shorter duration than the ones before.

The number of sessions on the continuous loop depends on the session duration and the time of the first session.