Pre-Recorded Live Events
Note
Pre-recorded Live events are only available on Advanced and Premium plans.
After creating a Live event, you can schedule a video to automatically start the event. From your event’s Overview page, click the “Pre-recorded event” toggle or "Choose Video."
Alert
Pre-recorded events will end automatically after approximately 5 minutes if there are no audience members attending your webinar or participants (i.e., hosts or panelists) in the event room. At least one person must join the event as a host, panelist, or audience member to ensure the selected media plays in full.
Alert
Pre-recorded events cannot be embedded at this time.
You will then be prompted to select a video you’d like to use for your live event. You can navigate and search all of the content in your Wistia account. Select your desired video and then click to add it to the event.
Note
Your selected video must be at least one minute long and cannot have Turnstiles or password protection enabled.
Once your video is added, "Pre-recorded event" will be toggled to “on.”
If you’ve changed your mind or accidentally selected the wrong video, click “Replace Video” to select a new one.
Note
Be sure to re-add your video to your event after editing or replacing it in Wistia.
A pre-recorded event will begin streaming at the scheduled time with the video you’ve selected.
A limited version of chat, Q&A, and polls will be available throughout the event. Hosts will be able to use Private Chat, Audience Chat, ask and respond to questions, and launch polls. Audience members will be able to chat, ask and respond to questions, and respond to polls.
However, other event room features will be disabled. These include:
Selecting another video to present
Layout changes
Bringing people on/off stage
Bringing comments, polls and Q&A on stage
Uploading and bringing slides on stage
At the end of the video, the event will automatically end on its own.
Note
In the case of an emergency, any host can end the event early.
If you’d like to run a partially simulated event or begin an event with a video, you can run a normal event and use our “Present Media” feature to display videos at their highest quality on stage at your desired timing!
Note
Pre-recorded Live events were previously called "autostarted events".