Setting up a live stream of the ceremony

Live streaming the ceremony is included in Pro. You stream from your phone or laptop, guests watch in the gallery, and Capture Club saves the recording as a VOD automatically. Here's how to set it up.

Requires Pro plan or Founding membership. On Starter or Free, the Go Live button is hidden.

What you'll need

• Pro account on Capture Club
• An event created with guests already using the gallery (or about to)
• Option A: your phone + a free streaming app, Larix Broadcaster (iOS/Android) is the easiest
• Option B: a laptop with OBS Studio, more flexibility, camera + screens + overlays

Start the stream

1. Open your event page on Capture Club
2. Click Go Live in the toolbar (Pro-gated, you'll see it only if you're on Pro or Founding)
3. A modal pops up with:
   • RTMP URL (looks like rtmps://global-live.mux.com:443/app)
   • Stream key (long obscured string, click the eye to reveal, be careful not to share publicly)
   • Preview URL: where guests will watch

Copy the RTMP URL and stream key. Keep the preview URL handy for testing.

Option A: Phone streaming with Larix

1. Download Larix Broadcaster (free, iOS App Store or Google Play)
2. Open Larix, tap the gear icon → Connections → + New connection
3. Name: "Capture Club"
4. URL: paste the full RTMP URL, then append / and your stream key (e.g. rtmps://global-live.mux.com:443/app/YOUR_STREAM_KEY)
5. Save. Go back to the main Larix screen.
6. Point your phone at the ceremony. Tap the red Go button.
7. Within 5-10 seconds your stream appears in the gallery's Watch Live button

Settings to check:

• Resolution: 1080p landscape (guests don't want vertical for ceremonies)
• Bitrate: 3 Mbps for 1080p, 6 Mbps for 4K, higher if venue Wi-Fi is great
• Framerate: 30fps

Option B: OBS Studio on a laptop

1. Download OBS Studio (free, open-source)
2. Settings → Stream → Service: Custom
3. Server: the RTMP URL from Capture Club
4. Stream Key: your stream key
5. Add a video capture source (your webcam, or a capture card if you're going fancy)
6. Click Start Streaming
7. In 5-10 seconds, the gallery shows the Watch Live button

OBS is best if you want:

• Multiple camera angles with switch
• A title card or overlay
• Screen sharing (e.g., show the processional order)
• A professional bitrate on a wired connection

What guests see

As soon as the stream goes live, the gallery page gets a big red Watch Live button at the top. Guests tap it, full-screen Mux player opens, they watch. Multiple guests can watch simultaneously, no cap we've ever hit.

Guests who join late see the live stream, not the beginning. If they want the full ceremony, direct them to the VOD (recording) after.

Stopping the stream

On phone (Larix): tap the red Go button again (it'll be red while streaming).

On OBS: click Stop Streaming.

When you stop, Capture Club:

1. Takes down the live player in the gallery (no more Watch Live button)
2. Processes the recording into a VOD, takes a few minutes depending on length
3. Drops the VOD into your gallery as a regular video upload

The VOD is downloadable (on paid tiers), searchable, shareable, and in your permanent archive.

Tips from weddings where this has worked well

• Test the day before. Do a 2-minute test stream the morning of the rehearsal dinner. Verify the guest page actually shows the player. Nothing ruins the live-stream-of-the-vows moment like a dead feed.
• Put the phone on a tripod. Handheld streaming looks amateur. A $20 tripod + phone clip makes everything feel professional.
• Mic matters more than camera. A $30 Lavalier mic clipped on the officiant beats any phone mic at any distance. Guests watching at home mostly care about hearing the vows.
• Expect 5-second delay. Mux stream ingestion is 3-10 seconds delayed by design (for reliability). Tell grandma she's watching 5 seconds later than real time.
• Don't stream the entire reception. Most families don't want 4 hours of video of their reception in the permanent archive. Stream the ceremony (20 min) + toasts (10 min). Skip the dance floor.

Common live-stream questions

Can I stream to Facebook / YouTube at the same time? Sort of, OBS can multi-stream via a plugin. You'd configure a second output to your FB/YT stream key. Capture Club doesn't care, it just takes one input.

Max stream length? 12 hours. We've never seen a single ceremony get close.

Cost? Included in Pro. Mux (our provider) charges us per minute of delivered video. For a typical ceremony (20 min live + 50 guests watching + 90 min VOD retention) we eat less than $1 per event. Plenty of margin.

Can I password-protect the stream? Yes, set a Viewing Room password in Pro Settings. Guests need both the gallery URL and the password to access. Good for private ceremonies.

Can guests re-watch afterward? Yes, once the VOD is processed, it's permanent in the gallery. Guests can play + download forever (on paid tiers with downloads enabled).

If the stream doesn't work

1. Check the gallery page on a second device, does the Watch Live button appear?
2. If not, check your streaming software, is the bitrate realistic for your upload speed? (Do a speed test at speedtest.net, upload speed must be ≥ bitrate + 50% buffer)
3. Stop and restart the stream. Sometimes the ingest server glitches on first connect.
4. If it still fails, contact support. Include your event name and the approximate time you tried to stream.

On Founding / Pro, you get priority support, tickets from Pro users get answered within hours, not days.