Turn on/off productions

About: In order to use productions to ingest, preview, and distribute live signals, productions need to be turned on. Turning on a production starts required engines. Depending on your contract, starting engines may create additional costs. When and what kind of engines have been started can be analyzed in the system usage section.

Not sure where to start?

→ Learn about productions.

→ Learn how to create inputs.

→ Learn how to create outputs.

Hint: Starting a production with assigned inputs and outputs is necessary to use Live Video Cloud's core capabilities as a live video router.

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Turn on productions

To turn on a production:

1. Go to productions.
   
2. Select the production you want to turn on.
   
3. Click on "Turn on" in the inspector on the right.
   

Turning on a production initiates starts all assigned inputs, outputs, and multiview engines. Inputs will become ready to receive a signal and record ingested signals. Outputs will become ready to process and distribute routed signals. The starting process takes several minutes but should not take longer than 15-20 minutes.

Hint: You can turn on and off inputs and outputs after having started a production by simply editing the production and adding or removing the input or output. For example, if you accidentally forgot to add an input or output to your production configuration.

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Turn off productions

To turn off a production:

1. Go to productions.
   
2. Select the running production you want to turn off.
   
3. Click on "Turn off" in the inspector on the right.
   

Turning off a production immediately stops all input, output, and multiview engines. Ingest and distribution connections will break, recordings will stop, and multiview preview will stop being available.

How to continue?

→ Learn how to turn on/off inputs.

→ Learn how to turn on/off outputs.