Producing on show day

On show day the job changes: nothing is being planned any more, things are being run. iveo has a dedicated mode for this: the same data, a different surface. Nobody retypes names into a graphics tool, because the names are already there.

Sample data from a demo event.

Produce mode

Produce mode is a separate area you switch into while the event is running. It does not show the planning tool but what matters now: what is on, what comes next, who is on which stage and when.

Content there is read-only. That is deliberate: while the show is running, nobody should accidentally rebuild a programme. The only things you can change there concern the broadcast itself: taking a stage live and starting or ending the YouTube livestream.

Taking a stage live

A switch sets a stage to “live”. The effect carries straight through: the public event website and every running full-screen graphic follow within a fraction of a second, without anyone reloading anything.

For guests that means the website shows what is genuinely happening at that moment, not what was planned three weeks earlier.

Starting the YouTube livestream

Once the event’s YouTube channel is connected and the livestream is switched on for the programme item (see Programme and Calendar), you start it straight from Produce. The “YouTube” chip in the preview, or the y key, opens the YouTube control. There, each language has its own tile with signal, stream key and the buttons “Start preview”, “Take English live” and “End English”; “End all” and two further bulk buttons switch every language at once. Ending asks you to confirm first.

Each tile shows the picture from YouTube, delayed by 5 to 30 seconds. The signal, not the picture, decides whether to start. Sound is off; “Sound English” turns it on for exactly one tile, so you can check each interpretation track on its own. YouTube only loads the picture while the window is open. The top of the window shows how much of the daily YouTube quota has been used. While a stream is running, the header shows “YouTube live · 2 of 3” in red, separate from the stage’s live marker.

Producers, Directors and Operators can control it. Moderators see the YouTube control read-only.

The control-room view

The control room sees the running order as a live list: the sequence of speakers with photo, role and allotted speaking time, the agenda points of the current session, and the internal notes your team left during planning.

All of it comes from the programme you maintained anyway. If something changes at short notice, the change is in the control-room view immediately, not in a printout from yesterday. If not all planning boxes of a programme item are marked as done yet, the live view names the open ones.

The cockpit header shows a second clock next to the event’s time, set to Berlin by default. Clicking it opens a search for a city or time zone; “Berlin (default)” restores the default and “Hide” removes the clock. The choice applies only to you on this device: whoever works remotely sees their own time, the control room on site sees theirs.

Graphics for stage, foyer and stream

Three outputs can be put full-screen onto a projector, a foyer screen or into streaming software such as OBS:

• “Now live” per stage: title, time and speakers of the programme item the director has taken live; without a live switch, the stage’s day plan.
• Programme timeline: what is running today, live.
• Lower thirds: name overlays for whoever is speaking.

All three are simply web addresses. You set them up once and leave them running; you drive the content from iveo, not from the device. How to feed on-site screens with them is in the chapter Screens at the venue.

Who works here

Produce mode is reserved for the roles that genuinely run the show: Producer, Director, Operator and Moderator. Organisers and Editors deliberately have no access: they plan, they do not run a show.

Who gets which role is covered in Roles and permissions.