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Multistreaming to Liveheats video studio with an existing production

If you or a contracted production company are already streaming your events live to YouTube, Facebook, or another platform, you can also stream to Liveheats at the same time to unlock our Video studio features.

Better yet, Liveheats also allows you to hide the live stream from your public event page, so if you're streaming exclusively to another platform, you can still stream via Liveheats to unlock our awesome Video studio features for athletes and supporters.

Why should we stream to Liveheats, if we already stream to Youtube?

Streaming to Liveheats allows you to level up your video-on-demand experience. We do this with innovative tech that combines your stream with the schedule, heats, and scores, unlocking:

Automatic heat replays, generated and published as soon as each heat finishes:
Streaming integrated with live results/draws for a 'one-screen' experience
AI-generated clips for athletes of each wave/run (coming soon)

How to multi-stream to Liveheats with an existing production

If using an external production company to deliver your stream, consider adding them as a Director and sending them this article, so they can do the below.

Running multiple streams from your venue means your encoder has to upload the same video feed several times simultaneously, which can quickly eat into your available bandwidth and cause buffering or dropped frames. The solution is server-side multistreaming: you send one stream offsite to a cloud service, and it handles distribution to all your destinations from its own infrastructure.

We recommend Restream for this. It supports custom RTMP destinations (how you'll add Liveheats), is widely used by event broadcasters, and plans start from around $19/month. Castr and Videolinq are also solid options if you already use either.

How to create RTMP details for the stream on Liveheats

If your event runs across multiple days, you only need to create one RTMP stream in Liveheats. There's no need to create more than one unless you want two separate streams running simultaneously.

On the event, logged as a Director, click Video studio and Add a stream:
Select Liveheats stream:
Copy the RTMP URL and key and add as a destination in Restream, or your chosen re-streaming tech
Go live and your stream will be visible on your public event on Liveheats.com, and heat replays will be automatically generated

Updated on: 02/06/2026

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