r/broadcastengineering • • 9h ago

3-minute tutorial: play clips from an S3 bucket and record your show back to it (open source, browser-based)

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We made a short walkthrough of two features in Open Live, an open source live production system that runs in the browser: https://youtu.be/4KRzUsQ6RFI?si=j0Cj49S3E2TV0CRM

The idea is one bucket that works both ways. You connect any S3-compatible storage once, clips come in from it, and the recording goes back out to it. No playout server, and no copying files off a recorder after the show.

The video shows three steps:

  1. Connect the bucket with an endpoint, keys and a role (clips, recordings or both), then test the connection.
  2. Play a clip. Browse the bucket and add the clip as a mixer input. Cue it, press play on preview, then take it to air already running. Taking the clip to air doesn’t start it, so you choose when it rolls.
  3. Record the show. Add a recording output. Each production gets its own folder in the bucket, and the finished recording can be reused as a clip.

Try it: https://openlive.apps.osaas.io/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=s3-clips-recordings