Breakcastr docs

Breakcastr makes every break look broadcast-grade. You get professional overlays, celebration animations, and a control panel that runs the whole show, all from one person and one browser source. These docs take you from a fresh account to a live break on stream, then go deep on designing your look and running the broadcast.

If you can add a source in OBS, you can do this. You do not need to be technical.

New here? Start with these

• Quickstart brings you from signup to your first live break in one pass.
• OBS setup wires the overlay and control panel into OBS. You do this once.
• Before you sign up answers the questions breakers ask first.

How Breakcastr fits together

Breakcastr is the visual layer on top of your break. It does not run the sale or assign teams. It makes the stream look like a broadcast and gives you one place to run it from. A few terms show up throughout the docs, so here is the map:

• Channel. Your account and your stable on-stream identity: display name, logo, and socials. You set it up once, and every break you run belongs to it.
• Overlay. The vertical (9:16) canvas your viewers see over your camera. You design it by placing widgets on a grid, and OBS renders the same design on stream as a transparent browser source. One word, one thing: what you build in the editor is exactly what goes on air.
• Widget. A single element you place on the overlay: the fill board, a live scoreboard, your name plate, socials, an image, or text. See the widget catalog.
• Controls. The on-air panel you fire the show from: the effects and sounds you trigger live and how your buttons are laid out. It lives in your studio, which you can open on any device you are signed into, so you can run the break from an iPad or laptop instead of inside OBS.
• Break template. A saved bundle of an overlay plus its controls, so you build your look once and reuse it every stream. You need at least one template to go live.
• Break. One live selling event. It holds your live spot inventory (which teams are sold) and everything the audience sees while you are on air.

What you actually do

1. Channel setup. Name, logo, socials. Once.
2. Build a break template. Design your overlay on the grid, pick your effects and sounds, and save the bundle as a template.
3. Set up OBS. Add one browser source. Run your controls inside OBS or from any other device signed into your account. Once.
4. Go live. Pick a template, set tonight’s break details and your spots, and hit Start break. Then mark spots sold and fire celebration moments as the hits land.

Everything you change in the control panel updates the overlay in real time, and it heals itself if OBS ever reloads. One person can run a polished broadcast solo.