QuickLink StudioEdge now supports Zoom Webinars, enabling seamless integration of large-scale broadcast events into your production workflow.
Zoom Webinars allow you to deliver professional presentations to large, view-only audiences of up to 1 million attendees, depending on your license capacity. Webinar licenses begin at 500 attendees and scale to meet the needs of larger events.
During a webinar, hosts and panelists can share screen content, video, and audio in real time, maintaining full control of the broadcast environment. Although attendees join in view-only mode, they can actively participate through integrated chat and Q&A features, ensuring an engaging and interactive experience.
Zoom Webinars also provide flexible access and scheduling options. Hosts can require pre-registration with fully customizable registration forms, or disable registration entirely and allow attendees to join directly via a webinar link. Events can be scheduled as a single session, a recurring series, or offered at multiple times to accommodate different audiences.
Requirements for getting started with Zoom Webinars
- A Licensed user with the Webinar Add-on
- Zoom desktop app for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
- Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher
- Zoom Rooms for macOS, Windows, or Appliances: Global minimum version or higher
Notes:
- Windows Zoom Rooms and CRC (H.323 and SIP) devices can join a webinar and be a panelist, but they cannot be the host of the webinar.
- For attendees to view the webinar in 720p or 1080p quality, contact Zoom Support to enable the respective quality. All other requirements for 720p or 1080p Group HD must be met as well.
Please refer to the following for more in-depth info on getting started: Getting Started with Zoom Webinars
How to Set up a Webinar with StudioEdge
Log in to your Zoom account, once logged in head over to the webinars section on the left-hand side
On the right-hand side of the page, select Schedule a Webinar.
Configure your Webinar meeting details.
Review your configuration and click Schedule to create the webinar.
Once created you will then be presented with the meeting details. Here you can get a copy of the Invite Link to be used within StudioEdge.
Once the Webinar has been started. Open the StudioEdge portal. paste the link into the Zoom URL box within the StudioEdge portal. For detailed info on setting up the Zoom Caller please refer to this article: Introducing-a-Zoom-Caller-in-StudioEdge
Click Join
The StudioEdge will then join the call. The host may need to set them as a panellist from within the Zoom Call. You will also need to approve this on the StudioEdge iteself.
The host will also be prompted to start the recording for StudioEdge. This step is essential and must be approved; otherwise, StudioEdge will not be able to capture video or audio from the call.
After the connection is established:
View the list of available Panellists and Attendees inside StudioEdge portal.
Select the guest you would like to bring into your production.
Click Add Caller.
Confirm the connection by checking the guest’s video preview and audio level indicators are visible in the portal and on your output.
You have now successfully connected to a Webinar and brought a guest into the StudioEdge solution.