Trim the start of your replay

“Replay trim” appears in the “Stream” part of your event's edit page, under the “Live stream” box. It shows only after the event has ended and the replay is ready, which the replay badge in the “Live stream” box shows as “Wired · ticketed”. Until then there is nothing to trim. Owners, admins and managers can use it.

You can set where the replay starts. There is no setting for where it ends.

1. Press “Edit” beside your event and find “Replay trim”.
2. Play the recording in the preview, or drag along it, until you reach the first moment you want viewers to see. The preview always shows the full, untrimmed recording, with your position and its total length beneath it.
3. Press “Set start here”. The panel says the replay now starts at that time for every viewer, and shows “Current start:” and the running time that is left.
4. To undo it, press “Clear”. The replay goes back to starting at the top of the recording.

The start is saved in whole seconds and can land a few seconds early, so pick a point a little after the holding screen ends rather than right on the edge. A start that would leave less than a minute of video is refused.

Viewers who open the replay after you set the start see it begin there, and they cannot scrub back to anything earlier. Nothing is cut from the recording, so you can move the start or clear it at any time.

The start setting does not change “Prepare download”. Until you finalize a clip, that file is still the whole recording, holding screen included.

Once a start is set, “Finalize as a real clip” cuts a new video from that point and makes it your replay. You are asked to confirm first.

• The cut happens on AVP.Live's video service. Nothing is downloaded to your computer.
• Until the clip is ready, viewers keep getting the trimmed original. When it is ready it replaces the replay on its own, and the start setting clears because the clip itself begins there.
• Your original recording is not deleted. After the switch the dashboard works with the clip, so “Prepare download” will download the clip, not the original.
• If the clip fails to render, the replay keeps playing the trimmed original.

Treat finalizing as permanent. If you only want to skip a holding screen, the start setting on its own is usually enough, because you can change it later.

• Replays and your recording