Recording Your Live Sessions: Which Plans Include It and How It Works
How stream recording works on playout.video: saving live sessions to your media library, pausing mid-show, record-only mode, and which plans include recording.
What Recording Does
With recording enabled, what the studio puts on air is saved to your media library as it happens: from going live until you end the live show or stop the stream. Long shows are saved as several files. Only the studio is recorded, whether in Live Studio, a Live Input slot or the studio over your Live Channel; playlist and calendar videos are not. When the session ends, the recording is ready alongside your uploaded videos: reusable in playlists, on the timeline, or as a download for editing into clips and shorts.
That closes the loop that makes a channel compound: stream live once, then let the recording feed your 24/7 loop, your highlight playlists, and your short-form pipeline. See How to Repurpose Your Live Show into TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
Which Plans Include It
Recording is included on Creator and above. The Free plan streams without recording.
Plan | Recording to library |
|---|---|
Free | Not included |
Creator | Included |
Channel | Included |
Business | Included |
Enterprise | Included |
Recordings count toward your workspace storage (100GB on Creator, 150GB on Channel, 250GB on Business, expandable with the storage add-on), so long shows are one more reason the storage ladder climbs with the tiers.
How to Record
Open your stream or Live Studio session.
Turn on Record to library in the stream's Settings. If the stream is already running, it applies from the next start.
Stream as usual. You can pause and resume the recording mid-session, so breaks, pre-show waiting screens, and off-record segments never make it into the file (see Pausing and Resuming Recording While Live).
End the session. The recording is processed and appears in your media library.
Record-Only Mode
You can also record without going live at all. Record-only mode runs a full Live Studio session (guests, layouts, overlays) but sends the output to your library instead of any platform. It's the way to produce podcast episodes, pre-recorded shows for your calendar, and interview content on the same rails as your live production. Details: Record-Only Mode.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the watermark on my recordings? Recording requires a paid plan, and paid plans stream unbranded, so recordings are clean.
Do recordings capture overlays and layouts? Yes. The recording is the produced output: everything your viewers would see.
How long can a recording be? As long as the session itself. Live Studio stays on air up to 24 hours at a time on Creator and Channel, with no limit on Business; keep an eye on storage for very long shows.
Why can't I turn recording on? Check your plan. On Free workspaces, the recording toggle points you to the upgrade dialog; Creator is the first tier that includes it.