Standalone VGA Grid User Guide
3-4 Customize your channel
To remove metadata from a channel
1. Connect to the admin interface using your preferred connection mechanism. See
Connect to the Admin
Interface
.
2. Login as admin.
3. From the web interface, select a channel; the menu expands.
4. Click the
Branding
menu option; the Branding configuration page opens.
5. Scroll to the Content metadata section.
6. Click the Author, Copyright or Comments field.
7. Highlight the text and press delete on the keyboard. The field is empty.
8. Click
Apply
.
Add a time stamp or text overlay to your channel
Adding the date and time, channel name or custom text as an overlay on your video is an easy way to
customize your stream.
To add a text label or timestamp your video:
1. Connect to the admin interface using your preferred connection mechanism. See
Connect to the Admin
Interface
.
2. Login as admin.
3. From the web interface, select a channel; the menu expands.
4. Click
Encoding
; the channel's Encoding page opens.
5. Scroll to
Text overlay label
.
6. Choose one of the following (or both):
a. Type text in the field; and/or
b. Click
Show substitutions
; a list of options appears. From the list choose the elements you watn
to add or intersperse with your text. The table below this procedure describes the values.
For example
: Use this string:
%A %B %d, %G. Live streaming channel %c.
to obtain these results (
Thursday February 26, 2015. Live streaming channel Auto A.
):
107
