The choices you will be asked, in the order you will be asked them — what each one changes, and what your sport does differently.
Recording is what most people want. You film a match, the scoreboard is burned into the picture as you score it, and you finish with a finished MP4 on your own disk — ready for YouTube, TikTok, a club page, or an editor. Nothing is uploaded to us and there is nothing to download afterwards.
Going live is for streaming as it happens — to Facebook or YouTube, or through OBS or Streamlabs if you already run a production. You get an address you can hand to that software as a browser source.
You are not locked in. The scoreboard, the styling and the controls are identical either way.
Landscape (16:9) — the normal television shape. YouTube, a laptop, a TV, and what OBS expects. Choose this if the camera is on a tripod across the table.
Portrait (9:16) — the phone shape. Reels, TikTok, Shorts. Choose this if the phone is upright in a bracket over the table.
This is worth getting right first, because the scoreboard is laid out differently for each — it is not the same design squashed. Changing later means re-checking your positions.
Six disciplines, and the choice does more than change a title. It changes what the control panel gives you, because the sports are scored in genuinely different ways.
If you chose snooker you get a points game: a ball-potting deck that scores automatically as you tap, a current break that builds and clears, points remaining on the table, foul penalties on a button, and an optional referee voice that calls each pot aloud — in the room and in the recording.
If you chose any pool discipline you get a frames game: frame scores with a race-to, a ball tray to track what has gone down, colour sets for who is on what, and a match clock and shot clock. Snooker has no match clock, and pool has no break counter — each sport gets what it actually uses.
Two names, two flags, and a race-to. Thirty seconds, and it is the only part you genuinely have to do before you can record something worth keeping.
Playing on your own? Switch to 1 Player mode and the second player disappears from the scoreboard entirely — not blanked, removed. Practice runs, drills and solo challenges get a clean layout instead of an empty half.
Colours, fonts, sizes, positions, backgrounds and your own logo. Everything you change appears in the match window immediately, so you are always looking at exactly what will be recorded.
Start from a template and adjust. You do not have to design anything to record a match — the defaults are broadcast-ready. And nothing here is locked once you start: change a colour mid-frame if you want, the recording picks it up.
Sign in and your design is saved against your account, so the next match starts where this one finished. Scores and clocks are never carried over — only the look.
Your phone is the best camera most people already own. Scan the QR code on the control panel with the phone's ordinary camera app, tap Start Camera & Connect, and choose front or rear. Put it in a bracket over the table and leave it alone.
A webcam or a capture card plugged into the computer — pick it from the list and confirm. If you have a camcorder and a capture card, we take it as an ordinary camera.
A video you already filmed — upload an MP4 and put a live-scored overlay over footage from last week.
There is no rush and no wrong order. The code stays valid for as long as the window is open, so build your scoreboard first if you like. If the connection behind it drops while you are busy it re-establishes itself, and the same code keeps working — nothing to rescan.
You do not have to stand at the computer. Open Remote Control on the control panel, scan that second QR code with a different phone or tablet, and it becomes a scoreboard you can carry.
It has to be a different device from the one filming — that one is in a bracket pointed at the table. Your camera is not affected either way, and the two can be used together or you can switch between them mid-match.
On Chrome and Edge you name the file and choose its folder before recording starts, and the video is written straight into it as you play. Nothing is held in the browser waiting for the end, so the length is limited by your disk rather than by memory — and an interruption costs you the last few seconds instead of the whole match.
Then score as you go. Press stop, and the file is closed properly and it is yours.
If you are on an iPad, iPhone, or a laptop running on battery, turn auto-lock off first. A frame can run ten minutes without you touching anything, and most devices lock their screen after two — which on Apple stops the recording. It is Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. Put it back afterwards.
And leave both windows open. The control panel is where you score; the match window is what gets recorded. If you do lose the control panel mid-match the recording carries on and you can bring it straight back — but the match window is the one to leave alone.
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