Video Calls

Bring people from your room onto camera in Studio, keep them in the green room until they go on stage, choose what they see and hear, and send each person out on their own NDI source.

A Video Call input puts a person on camera in your Studio. They join from your room on a phone, tablet or computer, their camera and microphone become an input, and you switch them like any camera. Each person gets a return feed you choose and hears the show without their own voice.

The Studio window on macOS with a presenter asking to join the call in the status bar, with Decline and Accept — A presenter asks to join, on macOS.

What you need

Studio open, signed in.
A plan that includes Callers, NDI source mixer: Studio HD and up, and the Free trial. See Plans and limits.
A guest with a camera and microphone. See Calling in for what they see.

Invite someone

Open Add Input and choose Video Call.
Under Invite a Presenter, pick a person in your room. A presenter without a name shows as Presenter. With nobody in the room the list reads "No presenters in the room".
For someone not in the room yet, choose Copy Room Link and send them the link. On macOS a note confirms "Room link copied: callers join from it". On macOS the item is also in the Dock menu.
The guest accepts and a new input appears.

If a call cannot be set up, Studio shows Caller Not Connected.

When a presenter asks to join

A presenter can ask to join from their own device. Answer in any of these places:

The status bar reads " asks to join the call" with Decline and Accept. With more asks waiting it adds a count such as "+2". On macOS in Basic mode the line floats at the bottom of the Studio window.
The Callers button. On macOS the toolbar button reads, for example, "Callers 1, 1 asking". On Windows the top bar's Callers flyout lists the ask.
The presenter's row shows a bell: "Asks to join the call. Open Callers to answer."
A notification, Asks to Join the Call. On macOS it shows while the Studio window is not in front. On Windows the taskbar button shows how many are asking, and the notification goes away once you answer.

The Studio status bar on macOS with a presenter asking to join the call, and Decline and Accept buttons — The ask in the status bar on macOS.

The Studio status bar on Windows with Maya Hart asking to join the call, Decline and Accept buttons, the show name, the room code, the presenter count, the Studio 8K plan and the caption credits left — The ask in the status bar on Windows.

The Classic layout on Windows with a presenter row showing the bell of a request to join — A presenter asking to join, in the Classic layout on Windows.

On Stage and Talkback

Control	What it does
On Stage (Windows: On stage)	On: the caller is in the show. Off: in the green room.
Talkback	Your microphone to this caller only, never to Program.
Talkback All (Windows: Talkback all)	Your microphone to every caller, never to Program.
Name callers automatically	Every caller who joins gets a name lower third. On Windows pick its look in Name title style.

On macOS Talkback All and the Callers button sit in the Studio toolbar; Callers opens the callers and chat window. On Windows the top bar's Callers flyout lists each caller with the link state and switches for NDI, On stage and Talkback, plus Message. With nobody on a call it reads "No callers connected. Callers join from the room link."

The Callers flyout on Windows with Name callers automatically, the name style buttons and one connected caller, Maya, with NDI, On stage and Talkback switches — The Callers flyout on Windows.

What the guest sees and hears

On macOS select the caller's input and open the Caller section of the inspector. On Windows use the input's menu, Caller return.

Setting	Choices	What it does
Link	Read only	Connected, connecting, disconnected, failed or closed.
Return video	None, Program, Preview or another input	What the guest sees.
Quality (Windows: Return quality)	Low, Medium, High, Full	The return's bitrate ceiling: 500 kbit/s, 1.2 Mbit/s, 2.5 Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s. Medium is the default.
Return audio	Your buses	The mix the guest hears.
Return limiter	Button	Opens the limiter of the bus the return carries.
Own NDI output	On or off	Sends this person on their own NDI source.
Message...	Button	Opens the chat with this person.
Hang Up (Windows: Hang up)	Button	Ends the call.

The Caller section of a connected video caller's inspector on macOS: Link, Return video, Quality, Return audio, Return limiter, Own NDI output, On Stage, Talkback, Message and Hang Up — The Caller section of the inspector on macOS.

Return audio is mix-minus. The guest hears the mix without their own microphone, so there is no echo, for every guest at once.

The caller chat on macOS with Ana Costa: her question about her picture and sound, the host's replies, and Tom Ellis waiting in the callers list — Callers and chat on macOS.

When a caller leaves

The input stays when a caller hangs up or drops, and shows "Waiting for caller" until someone fills it. Change Source in the input's menu puts another caller from the room into it.

Each person on NDI

Turn on Own NDI output (macOS) or the caller's NDI switch (Windows). The source is named Cliqer Caller - <name> <last 4 characters of their id>, so another switcher can take each person alone with their own audio. See Outputs.

Limits

Each video call counts against your plan's callers and Studio sources. When one is reached the invite is refused with a plan notice. See Plans and limits.

Quitting with a guest connected asks first: "Quitting ends your share and disconnects every caller."

Calling in

What the guest does and sees.

Audio mixer

Buses, limiters and each caller's strip.

Multiview and Layouts

Watch every input at once in Multiview, show Program, Preview or Multiview on a display, and arrange, save and lock the Studio window.

תוכניות ומגבלות

אילו תכונות ומגבלות של Studio כלולות בכל תוכנית, איך Cliqer בודקת אותן, מה מוצג כשהתוכנית לא מאפשרת פעולה, ואילו פעולות דורשות איזו תכונה.