If a camera isn't found
- Check it's powered on and on the same Wi-Fi
- Run discovery again — cameras can be slow to wake up
- Still hiding? Settings → Add Source lets you add it by address. The app pre-fills what it can.
User Guide
The whole app, in the order the game happens.
You've got cameras in a bag and warm-ups already started. This is the walkthrough — setup, going live, replay, and sharing the highlights — with just enough detail to get you there.
Quick start
Five steps. The rest of this page is optional.
- 1Same Wi-Fi. Get the iPad and your cameras on one network. That's the only networking you have to think about.
- 2Discover your cameras. Tap + → Discover Cameras. The app scans the network, finds what's out there, and walks you through adding each one. Name them something you'll recognize at a glance — "Home Plate" beats an IP address.
- 3Add a destination. Settings → Destinations. Sign in to YouTube or Facebook once, and the app remembers. GameChanger, SidelineHD, and custom servers work too.
- 4Go Live. The app runs a quick health check first — network, cameras, settings — and offers one-tap fixes for anything it finds. Then you're on the air.
- 5Tap to switch. Tap any camera tile and that's what your viewers see. When it's over, tap End Stream.
Setup
Adding cameras: the app does the hunting.
Discover Camerasscans your network and finds cameras from most major brands automatically. Pick one from the list, give it a name, choose a stream type if it offers more than one, and its preview shows up in your camera list. For the brands the app knows, it also figures out what it's talking to and unlocks the right controls — no model numbers, no manuals.
Reading the badges
- Connected — good to go
- Reconnecting — the app is on it; it never gives up on a camera
- Failed— check power and Wi-Fi, then choose Reconnect from the camera's menu to retry
A word about resolution
The app takes whatever your cameras send — 1080p, 4K, anything in between — and every pixel costs the iPad some work. The broadcast itself goes out at 1080p, so a camera set to 1080p already looks as good as your viewers will ever see it. Where 4K earns its keep is Virtual Cameras: the extra pixels are what keep a cropped shot sharp. How many cameras, and at what resolution, comes down to your iPad — newer and faster handles more. So be thoughtful: match each camera's resolution to the job, and if the iPad ever feels pushed, stepping a camera or two down to 1080p is the first thing to try.
The main screen
Your control room. Everything is here.
The big picture is what your viewers see. The tiles down the side are your cameras. Tap a tile, the broadcast cuts to it. That's the whole tutorial — everything else on this screen exists to make that one tap smarter.
Favorites
Drag your go-to cameras and media clips into the favorites bar under the preview. Tap a favorite camera to cut to it, tap a favorite clip to play it. Your most-used shots, one tap away — no scrolling while the play develops.
Field of View
The cure for a long camera list. It's a top-down map of your field with each camera's coverage drawn on it. Set it up once, then during the game just tap where the ball went — the cameras that can see that spot bubble to the top of your list. More below.
Media
The Media tab holds your clips — player profiles, bumpers, sponsor spots, ads, anything from your Photos library. Tap one to put it on the broadcast, fullscreen or as an overlay. More below.
Audio & health
The mixer slides out from the bottom bar — a volume fader, mute, and level meter for every source that carries sound, plus a master. Next to it, the status strip shows each destination's health as a simple green, yellow, or red dot. Green means stop worrying.
Instant replay
The play everyone wants to see again, on demand.
While you stream, every camera quietly keeps the recent past — even the angles that weren't on air. Something happens, you tap Replay, and it's all there waiting.
Find the moment
- Tap Replay to freeze time — privately. Your viewers keep watching the live camera while you line up the shot.
- Scrub the timeline back to the play
- Switch angles mid-replay — the moment holds
- Nothing goes out until you say so
Take it to air
- One tap makes your replay live on the broadcast — your REPLAY bumper and bug can come on automatically
- The replay controller appears
- What you see is what they see once it's live
Drive it live
- Once you're on air, your fingers are the broadcast — scrub, slow down, or freeze the frame that settles the argument
- One tap cuts back to live
- Every replay you air is saved as a highlight — automatically
That last one matters. If you thought a play was worth replaying, it was worth keeping. The app agrees, and creates a highlight of it for you.
Virtual cameras
One camera. Several shots.
A virtual camera is a part of a real one. Put a high-resolution camera on a wide view of the field, then carve extra shots out of it — a tight shot on the pitcher, a wide on the infield, a corner on the dugout. Each one shows up as its own tile and switches like any other camera. A two-camera rig that cuts like six.
- Create one — select a camera, tap Add Virtual Camera, then pinch to zoom and drag to frame the shot
- Quality light— green means the crop is sharp; if it turns red you've zoomed to the point the stream will be degraded
- First-class citizen — favorite it, put it on the Field of View map, replay from it
- Reframe anytime — tap the virtual camera to adjust its shot mid-game
Field of View
Tap where the ball went.
Field of View is a top-down diagram of your field. Before the game, place each camera on the map and drag out the slice of the field it covers. During the game, forget camera names entirely: tap the spot on the field where the action is, and every camera that can see it bubbles to the top of your list — pick the angle you want and cut.
Baseball diamond, basketball court, or soccer pitch — pick your layout and it's drawn for you. Virtual cameras ride along with their parent camera on the map.
Media
Your clips are part of the show.
The Media tab is a library of video clips you bring in from Photos — and playing one on the broadcast is a single tap. Fullscreen takes over the whole picture; overlay floats it on top of the live camera, sized and positioned wherever you like.
Player profiles
A short clip per kid — name, number, a good swing. Play it when they come up to bat and suddenly it's a real broadcast.
Bumpers & sponsors
Intro clips, between-innings spots, a thank-you to the local pizza place. Your replay in/out bumpers live here too and play themselves when you enter and exit replay mode.
Stay organized
Group clips into sections you name — Profiles, Bumpers, Hype — and drag the ones you'll need tonight into Favorites so they're one tap away.
Camera controls
Dial in the picture from the bleachers.
Tap into any camera and the app shows the controls that camera actually supports. Depending on the camera, that can include:
- Zoom — a smooth slider, plus saved positions you can jump back to
- Picture — exposure, white balance, brightness, color — fix the washed-out afternoon sun without walking to the camera
- Quality— resolution, frame rate, and exactly how much bandwidth (Mbps) each camera's encoder uses
- Stream choice — cameras with multiple feeds let you pick, and switch, without re-adding anything
And when a camera gets moody: Restart and Reconnect are one tap, right there in its panel.
Going live
The app checks your homework before you turn it in.
Tap Go Live and the app runs a pre-flight check: is the internet connection strong enough, are the cameras healthy, do the settings all agree with each other. Anything it flags comes with a one-tap fix where possible — or you can wave it off and go anyway. You're the director, and it's better to know before you have issues.
While you're live
- The status strip tracks every destination — green dot, all good
- If the network dips, the app adjusts quality on its own and recovers when it clears — most hiccups fix themselves
- Alerts only show up when there's something worth knowing, and they tell you what to do about it
Stream management
- Rough internet is the app's problem, not your viewers'. When the connection pushes back, the app eases off the quality just enough to keep the stream flowing instead of freezing.
- Nothing gets thrown away. Frames that got held up are sent slightly faster than real time once the connection recovers — viewers can't perceive it, the stream just quietly catches back up to live.
- If things get really rough, it trades smoothness for the story — fewer frames per second, but you can still follow the play.
- And it's honest about it: a brief on-screen note tells viewers the stream is riding out a rough connection — a heads-up instead of a spinning wheel of death.
Wrapping up
- Tap End Stream and everything shuts down cleanly
- If you aired replays, the Highlights sheet appears on its own
- YouTube says you're already live somewhere? The app finds the stuck stream and ends it for you
Highlights
You already made the highlight reel. You just didn't notice.
Every replay you put on air gets bookmarked with its exact spot in the broadcast. When you end the stream, the app hands you a list of links — each one jumps straight to that moment in the YouTube or Facebook video. No scrubbing through two hours of game to find the diving catch.
- Name them— "Maya's triple" travels better than a timestamp
- Tag them — tag highlights by player, attach family email addresses to tags once, and reuse them all season
- Send them — one tap drafts an email with every tagged moment, links included
- Revisit them — past streams and their highlights live in Settings, shareable any time
Heads up: YouTube and Facebook need a few minutes after the stream to process the video. The app waits with you and lights the links up when they're ready.
When things get weird
Quick answers for game time.
A camera won't show up in discovery
Same Wi-Fi, powered on, then scan again — some cameras take a minute to wake up. Still nothing? Add it by address under Settings → Add Source.
A camera keeps saying "Reconnecting"
The app never stops retrying, so usually it sorts itself out. If it drags on, check the camera's power and Wi-Fi signal — or tap Restart in its control panel.
The stream looks softer than usual for a bit
That's the app riding out a dip in your internet connection instead of freezing or dropping the stream. It sharpens back up on its own when the connection recovers.
My highlight links don't play yet
The platform is still processing the video — normal, and usually just a few minutes. The Highlights sheet checks for you and enables the links when the video is ready.
Free gets you switching. Pro gets you a production.
Instant Replay, Virtual Cameras, Field of View, Highlights, and more live in the paid plans — with a free trial to see if the bleachers notice. (They will.)