Studio

• Preview: what's going out live. With the dual canvas there are two, the 16:9 and the vertical 9:16.
• Scenes: your scenes as cards to switch with one click, the eye to hide the preview, the dual canvas and Edit (which opens the Scenes screen).
• Multistream: which networks you'll stream to, with their status, and the Start streaming, Save clip, Virtual camera and Multichat buttons.
• Encoding and recording: the capture status, the recording quality (⚙ gear) and Start recording.
• Audio mixer: the mic and speaker channels with their volume.

With the Dual canvas every scene has two layouts at once: a horizontal 16:9 one (for Twitch, Kick and YouTube) and a vertical 9:16 one (for TikTok and YouTube Shorts). Each platform gets its own in the same stream.

Turn it on with the Dual canvas button on the Scenes card. If you only stream in one orientation, leave it off: it uses half the computer.

With the eye on the Scenes card you hide the preview to save resources while streaming. The stream and the recording stay the same.

The Studio and Scenes preview lowers its own quality so it doesn't use more than needed, so you don't see the real fps: what you record and stream goes out at full quality.

Press the scene's card in the Scenes block: it switches instantly on every network. If you have many, group them into projects with the dropdown at the top (for example “Games”, “Just chatting”).

You can also switch them from your phone with the Stream Deck.

Once your destinations are ready in Livestreaming:

Yes. While you're live, each network in the Multistream block has its own ■ button to cut it alone: the others stay live. To stream to it again, press ▶.

On YouTube with the dual stream, cutting the vertical can make YouTube switch to “Auto crop”: Studio warns you before confirming.

Press ◼ Stop streaming (it shows how long you've been live). Every network stops at once.

On YouTube, if you turned on End the YouTube stream when pressing “Stop”, the YouTube stream also ends; otherwise YouTube ends it by itself once it stops getting signal.

Press Save clip in the Multistream block: it saves the last few seconds to Recordings, without stopping anything. It works while the capture is running.

How many seconds are saved is set in Settings → Preferences → Clip duration. The cut can end up about 2 seconds longer because it starts at the nearest keyframe.

It turns your scene into one more webcam on the computer. Press Virtual camera, turn it on and in the other app pick “StreamPack Studio Camera” as the camera. It has no audio.

You can send the 16:9 canvas, the vertical one or both at once: they show up as two cameras, “StreamPack Studio Camera” (16:9) and “StreamPack Studio Camera (vertical)” (9:16).

• Compatible method (recommended): seen by Zoom, Discord, Meet, Teams, OBS and almost any app.
• Windows 11 native: Windows 11's own; seen by the Camera app, Edge and OBS, but Zoom or Discord might not see it.
• Fps and size: Zoom, Meet, Discord and Teams use 30 fps at most; 60 only helps with apps like OBS and costs twice as much. 720p uses less.

Turn on the Multichat switch in the Multistream block: a window of its own opens with the chat of all your networks together. You can move it, resize it and put it over the game, and it keeps working with Studio minimized.

Lock lets clicks go through the window so you can use what's behind it (for example, playing with the chat on top). Unlock makes it clickable again.

How to reply and moderate: see Multichat.

• Capture: whether Studio is capturing the scene (it has to be active to record or stream).
• Canvas: the scene's resolution and fps.
• Bitrate: the megabits per second the recording uses.
• Audio: the sound format (AAC) and its quality.

The ⚙ gear opens the recording quality and the folder button opens where recordings are saved. See Recordings.

Each channel (mic, speaker…) has its meter, its volume, Mute, its Settings and Remove. With + Add channel you add another device, and with Monitoring you choose whether you hear yourself.

Outputs (speakers, headphones) are captured in loopback: you hear whatever plays through them without the game noticing.

Yes. When you hover over a block a pill appears at the top centre: drag it to move the block. To widen it, pull its bottom corners. The height adjusts to the content by itself (and previews keep their proportions).

It only changes how you see Studio: what goes out live isn't touched. It stays saved on your computer.

To go back to the usual layout: Settings → Preferences → Studio layout → Reset to the default layout.