For Administrators

This page is for organisation administrators. It covers the two things you do to set up commentary with Studio:

1. Give a user access to Studio.
2. Assign that user as the studio operator for the games they will commentate.

Studio is available to organisations that have the Livestream addon.

Give a user access to Studio

A user needs the Studio permission for your organisation before they can open Studio or be assigned to a game. This is set per user, the same way as the other feature permissions.

1. In Organization Settings, open Users.

2. Invite the user with INVITE and enter their email, or edit an existing user with the edit icon.

3. Under User Permissions, enable Studio.

4. Save.

See User Management for the full invite and permissions flow.

Assign a studio operator to a game

The studio operator is the user who commentates a specific game. You assign them in the game’s streaming settings.

When you create or edit a game with a Full livestream, a Studio Operator field appears in the streaming settings (see Schedule Your First Game). Select the user who will commentate. The list contains the users in your organisation who have the Studio permission.

Note

The field appears only for Full livestreams. It is not shown for Lite livestreams or record-only events. Each game has one studio operator.

The assigned user then sees that game in their Studio games list and can commentate it once it goes live (see Commentating a Game).

Change the operator on a running stream

You can change the studio operator at any time before and during the stream by editing the game, for example to hand a game over to a different studio operator. The new operator picks up the game from their own Studio games list.

While a stream is live it must keep an operator: you can switch to a different user, but you cannot leave the field empty. Once a stream has ended, the operator can no longer be changed.