How to use Live Poll with Wirecast

Written by Alex

Updated 2 weeks ago

We're excited to share that we've developed a new Live Poll Plugin, which you can use in Wirecast Software. Here is a step-by-step guide on utilizing the new plugin:

1. Once you created or customized a poll, open your project Settings. Connect and select the account (social channel) on which you plan to go live. Only after that will you see the Plugin Mode option available. Make a tick on the following box, and copy the generated link.

Poll activate Wirecast plugin mode

2. Open your Wirecast Studio, click on + icon in the bottom

Poll Wirecast Studio add new layer

3. Click Network > Web Page

Poll Wirecast Studio webpage source selection

4. Paste the copied URL, and fill out the width and height fields (1280 x 720). Afterwards, the layer with a game will be invisible, and the game won't start until you launch it in LiveReacting Studio.

Make sure that the layer with the Live Poll (Web Page 1) runs over the background layer. Also, make a tick on Transparent background.

Wirecast Studio paste poll plugin url

5. Now, you just launch your stream via Wirecast, go back to your Live Poll project in the LiveReacting Studio, and click on Start.

To ensure that the poll fills the entire screen without being cut off, adjust the tab with the poll to make it narrower until the proportions are 16:9. This way, you will not have white bars in the stream, and the poll will take up more space.

Poll project click Start

Now your Live Poll must be visible to everyone. When the game is over, you can easily remove the screen with Live Poll by going back to the Studio, and clicking on End Stream button.

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