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Teams Live Events: Adding shared screen content to queue not possible?
Hi all,
I'm currently testing the Live Events in team and it seems that screen content that is shared by presenters cannot be added to the queue by the producer.
Instead once a shared screen is live and another presenter starts sharing his screen this immediately replaces the active screen sharing content from the current presenter. The producer has no option to intervene or control what screen sharing content is sent live to the attendees.
Is this a known issue or might this be a bug? I would normally assume that the producer is the one who decides what content is sent out live!
Thanks
Michael
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layer9de This is a huge flaw! We were trying to do a dry run today for an upcoming webcast and realized that it's not working as it did during our last webcast. The role of the producer, the way it's set up now, is that he/she does it all. Previously, you could have presenters share their content and it would not take over the active Live event...you could queue it up and then send it live when ready. Today, anytime a presenter hit the share button, it instantly put them in the live screen. This happened even before we actually hit the start button to go live, as well as during the live testing phase.
Additionally, my team needs to be able to poll the audience in the Live Event. This still seems to not be an option without using a 3rd party.
Why has this issue not been addressed? This is a glaring issue. Producers have no control of shared content. A Presenter can just crash the live presentation, unknowingly.
Loren have you found a solution to this problem or have you spoken to anyone at Microsoft? This is a glaring problem and takes all control away from the producer.
Loren We noticed the same problem today while doing a test run for a webinar tomorrow! Last week, we held a Teams Live Event where we had three presenters plus myself as a producer, and the presenters were all able to share presentations into the share tray at the bottom of the screen, where I could pick them and insert them into the live event queue.
Today, however, the only option the presenters had was to share their screen - like in a regular Teams meeting - which overrides any content that the producer has set up. Something has obviously changed within the past six days, since last Tuesday everything worked fine. If anyone has any idea what has happened, please let me know! Our next event is coming up in 24 hours and now it turns out that we apparently can't run it like the previous ones.
Same issue for me? Have you discovered a resolution without adding other software?
I have exactly the same question.
Same issue here. Looks like it is not a feature (yet). A working work-around is to use a 2nd device as Camera input (via HDMI to USB3 converter) and so have more than one Video Source combined into one.
Here you can use any Calling solution from Skype - to Teams or 3rd parties.
Overall it would be a real great feature to have multi Speakers combined in Events.
thx
ThomasHi Thomas_Laggner ,
thanks. Do you mean you're outputting the content from your desktop via HDMI and then connect the HDMI to an USB camera device and use that as source? So that the content from the desktop is also available from a camera source in Teams? I guess this can be done with some tech savvy users but for most of them this would not be an option to be hones.
By the way I am also missing the option to mute the audio from Producers and Moderators for all attendees so that presenters can talk to each other without having the audience listen!
Thanks
Michael- You can use OBS and download Virtual Cam and have a scene in OBS for camera. And one for Desktop. And you switch scenes and what OBS shows goes to your teams camera.
But as you say does take some steps. I have a couple webinars where I’ve done this to an extent if you want to see them I can link but it’s def. not something the masses will easily figure out. But if it’s a small set of users that need to do it might not be that bad.
