Hosting your Event should be as seamless as possible. This guide will prepare you to use OBS to deliver a high-quality experience for your audience.
Why OBS?
While Metafy Events can be browser-only, we recommend using OBS for streaming. OBS ensures a more professional presentation, whether you’re sharing gameplay, slides, or your webcam. Let’s dive in!
Key Benefits of Metafy Events
• Automatic recording
Every event is recorded, and attendees get access afterward. You can find recordings under My Stuff > Recordings.
• Resale potential
Want to keep earning from your event? You can sell the recording separately. Replays appear on your Metafy page and in Discovery for resale.
• Fully customizable
Update details anytime — from learning points to start times — right in your Dashboard > Events.
• Integrated features
Keep things interactive with built-in chat, and mark questions as answered during the event.
Preparing for Your Event
Pre-Event Checklist:
Ensure OBS is downloaded and installed. Download OBS here.
Optimize OBS settings for streaming:
Base & Output Resolution: 1920x1080
Rate Control: CBR (Constant Bit Rate)
Bitrate: 3,000–6,000 kbps
Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
CPU Usage Preset: "Veryfast"
Tune: Zerolatency
Familiarize yourself with Metafy’s Event Stage:
• Early Access: Attendees can join up to 15 minutes before the event, on desktop or mobile.
• Chat Features: Messages can be labeled as Questions or Tips so the chat stays organized and easy to follow.
• Backstage for Creators: You’ll get access to a backstage area 15 minutes early to test your setup and make sure everything’s good to go.
Setting Up OBS for Metafy
Inputting Metafy as an OBS Source
Open up OBS
Go to File → Settings
Go down to Stream
Change Source to be Custom
At this point, you’d be ready to return to Metafy and grab the needed
Server nameandStream Key.On the day of your Event, your Event Stage will be
accessible 15 minutes beforethe listed Start time. Get your OBS setup to this point, and open up Metafy and navigate to your Event page.
Connect OBS to Metafy
Navigate to your Metafy Events page:
Profile Picture > Studio > My Events > Event Live Page > Enter the Classroom.
Enable OBS streaming:
Toggle the “Use OBS” switch.
Copy the Server name and then Stream Key one at a time, from your Metafy Event Stage, and return to OBS → Source and paste them into their respective fields.
Start the Event
Go ahead and Click
Start Eventwithin MetafyThen click
Go Livewithin OBS
You’re LIVE: Running your Live Event
If you haven’t already, use Chat to put up an announcement, agenda, link to your slides, or encourage people to say hi and engage!
During your Event, don’t feel pressured to focus on chat, if you have a plan to run your materials first, then Q&A, inform people about this and leverage the chat filters during Q&A periods.
In the top right corner you’ll see how much time you’ve been running your event in relation to when it’ll end. You do have the ability to go ‘Overtime’ yet after 120 minutes your Event will automatically end.
Example:
Scheduled time: 2pm
Duration: 1 hour
Start time: 1:52pm
Automatic end time: 3:52pm
‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️
You have to go live on Metafy within 30 minutes past the scheduled time of your Event or it will auto-cancel and refund all your attendees. If the Event is not run on Metafy, we will not be able to provide any post-Event support.