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Secondary Video Feed

The Secondary Video Feed is an overlay widget that adds a second live video source into your recording and program output as a picture-in-picture (PiP). Use it for a conductor cam, a night-vision shot, a relay feed, or a media server output dropped into the corner of the frame.

It is not a second recording. It's one extra view baked into the same take alongside your program video.

Adding it​

Add it from the layout editor (Preferences → Custom Layouts). It's palette-only. It isn't in the default layout, so drag it in from the widget palette and position it where you want it.

You can add several Secondary Video Feeds at once, for example, the program on one NDI source while a PiP shows another.

Choosing a source​

Each feed picks its own source, independent of the program feed, from a single list of every connected camera and NDI source:

  • A camera. Any USB/Thunderbolt camera macOS recognises.
  • An NDI source. Any NDI sender on the network (a media server output, a relay, another machine).

Controls​

Per widget:

  • Crop. Fill or Fit
  • Zoom
  • Edge crop. Trim the left/right edges
  • Flip. Horizontal / vertical
  • Opacity
  • Border. On/off

Where it appears​

The Secondary Video Feed is baked into the recording and the program output (RTMP / NDI-out).

It is not sent to the Stage Display LAN stream. That stream always carries clean raw camera, regardless of overlays.

note

Because it's baked into the take, a Secondary Video Feed is permanent in that recording. The PiP is a monitor view. It may be a fraction of a second out of step with the main image, so treat it as a thumbnail, not for frame-exact comparison.