End an event and publish the replay
Understand what happens when an event ends, then review and publish the on-demand replay the platform builds for you.
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You don’t press a stop button on an event. When its end time passes, the platform retires it and starts building the replay: an on-demand title that carries the event’s details and recordings. Your job is to check the replay and, for some events, publish it.
What happens when an event ends
| Moment | What the platform does |
|---|---|
| The end time passes | Within a few minutes the event is set to Inactive and leaves the public lists. Its homepage slide and guide listing come down, and any destinations it was pushing to are stopped. |
| Viewers are still watching | Anyone already watching keeps playing until the stream stops or they reload. A reload shows “Event ended”, then returns them to the event page. On an AI Camera event the player stops at the end time by itself. |
| An Automatic or CamScheduler recording arrives | An on-demand title is created from the event and published automatically as soon as its first recording is attached. |
| A Manual event ends | An on-demand title is created from the event’s details with no video in it yet, and saved as Inactive. If a recording of the event arrives later, it’s attached and the title publishes automatically; otherwise add the video yourself, then publish. |
| More recordings of the same event arrive | They’re added to the same title as Part 1, Part 2 and so on, in the order they were recorded. |
The replay copies the event’s title, descriptions, artwork, category, genres, cast & crew, access and SEO fields, except that a ticketed event’s replay becomes subscribers-only. Staff with on-demand access get a notification: “Recording imported”, saying either that the title is now LIVE or that it’s saved as INACTIVE for review.
Review and publish the replay
- 1Watch for the notification
Open the bell and click the “Recording imported” notification for your event.
- 2Find the title
Or go to Studio → Content → On-Demand and search for the event’s title.
- 3Check the parts
Play each part and confirm the order. Rename a part if “Part 2” should say something like “Second half”.
- 4Check access and artwork
Decide whether the replay should be subscribers-only or free — tickets don’t unlock replays. Replace the artwork if the generated poster isn’t right for a replay.
- 5Publish
For a title saved as Inactive, set it to Active and save. It appears in your catalogue straight away.
Broadcasts recorded in several takes
If the encoder dropped and reconnected, or you broke for halftime, each recording becomes its own part inside one replay, numbered by when it was recorded. A replay with a single recording shows no part label at all. Nobody needs to upload or join anything.