Standalone VGA Grid User Guide
Create a custom channel
There are a lot of creative things you can do next with your channel, including creating more layouts and
editing this layout to add images and more sources. See
Create a custom channel
Standalone VGA Grid has two styles of channels.
1. Simple channels with a single source that fits the full screen, as discussed in
2. Custom channels with one or more layouts, sources, background matte color and images.
Both types of channels are created using the same interface. In fact, custom channels are the same thing as
simple channels, but they're called out separately in this manual because they are more complex. We call a
channel a custom channel (or custom layout channel) when it has multiple sources, image elements, multiple
layouts or any combination of those items.
So the only distinction between simple channels and custom channels is whether you choose to add any extra
elements to the channel.
When making simple channels, your source takes up the whole screen, but with custom channels, you can
organize sources, pictures and text overlays in different locations on your screen. We call these layouts, and
each custom channel you create can have multiple layouts.
If you want to change the way things appear in your stream while streaming (aka video switching or video
mixing), you'll need to create one layout for each of the views you want for your stream. Later, while you are
streaming, you can switch live between the layouts using the web UI.
If you're planning to do live switching with your channel, we recommend you set the frame size to
a fixed size instead of using the default automatic detection of source frame size. Setting the
frame size to a fixed value ensures you don't experience any stream interruptions if the source
frame size changes due to layouts that contain a single source that has a different frame size than
those in other layouts.
As you saw when creating a simple channel, the first thing you need to do is create your (first) layout. Before
getting started with custom channel layouts we recommend you review the
. Then use the remaining topics in this section to help
you create and configure your perfect custom channel layout(s)!
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