See where everything is going with Pipeline Flow
A live map of every source, the program and every screen: what's on air, what's cued, and which display each output is on. Click any card to change it.
On this page
When several things are happening at once (a song on the main screen, lyrics with chords on the stage, a countdown in the lobby), it helps to see it all in one place. Pipeline Flow draws your whole setup as a map, live.
| # | Column | What's in it |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sources | Each pipeline that has something loaded: Song, Bible, the slide lanes, Video and so on, with what's in it and which slide it's on. |
| 2 | Program | The source that's on air. Choose a different source from its list, or click Cut to black. |
| 3 | Outputs | Each screen, with a live thumbnail, its display, and what it's showing. |
The lines show the routing. Along the bottom, the key explains them: On Air (red), Standby (amber), Preview (blue), a solid line for an Active route and a dashed one for Cued. Across the top, the summary counts what's on air, what's cued and how many screens are routed.
Sources
- To Program makes that source the program, so it goes to the projector. It appears on a source that's on the live bus but isn't the program.
- Drop takes the source off the live bus.
- Previews, at the top left, shows or hides the thumbnails. The idle lanes button shows pipelines with nothing loaded.
Outputs
Each screen has its own card. The switch on the card opens or closes the screen's window on its display, and the menu next to it chooses the display. A screen that has no display yet shows Choose screen.
Click a card to open its settings on the right:
- Signal → Source: what the screen shows. The Main Screen always mirrors the program.
- Output → Open on …: puts the screen fullscreen on its display. Nothing appears until you press it, or until Open at startup does it for you.
- Display: the display it's attached to, and Detach display.
- Geometry: resolution, scaling, rotation and mirroring.
- Open in workspace jumps to the screen's full settings.
Add another screen
New screens are added in the Venue, on the Screen Map, and appear here as soon as they exist. A lobby TV, an overflow room, a confidence monitor for the speaker: each is just another output. See Map your space and Add more screens.
Picture and Sound
The switch at the top left changes the map. Picture is where the slides go. Sound shows every sound on the left and every place sound can go on the right, with a cable for each connection: drag a sound onto an output to connect it, and click a cable's knob for its level. Sound routing comes with the plans that include Direct Live and NDI.
Copy summary
Copy summary, at the bottom right, copies a plain-text description of the current routing. It's handy to paste into a message when you're asking for help.
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More in Going live
- Preview, Feed and Go LiveHow content travels from your private Preview to the screens, and the difference between Feed, Feed & Go Live, Play and Drop.
- Run several pipelines at onceSongs, scripture, slides and video each have their own pipeline. Keep several live, switch which one is on the screens, and control one while another stays on air.
- Black out, clear the text, or stop the outputFour ways to take something off the screens, and when to use each: Black, clear the screen, Stop and Drop.
- Show a message across the screensRun a scrolling message over whatever is on screen, such as a nursery call or a parking notice, without stopping the song or the sermon.