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Using Panopto to stream live Zoom Meetings and Webinars

Using Panopto Webcasting as an alternative to Zoom Webinars 

For cases where your Zoom audience may exceed the participant limits of your Zoom account, Zoom allows for external streaming of meeting video to external livestreaming platforms. Like Zoom Webinars, attendees joining from these external streams will not be able to share camera and microphone, but they will still be able to join in the live session. 

Panopto is our recommended external streaming platform for Zoom, as you can: 

  • Leverage Panopto’s discussion features so stream viewers can still interact using moderated comments/questions. 
  • Customize your viewing permissions of the external streams to specific groups or people, which is not possible with YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook Live. 

Setting up the Webcast in Panopto Links to an external site. 

When setting up a livestream, we recommend opening Notepad or another text editor as you will need to copy and paste a few lines of text from Panopto to Zoom. 

  1. In the Panopto portal Links to an external site., navigate to the folder in which you would like to place the livestream and recording.  By default, the webcast will create a recording in that folder, but you can still use Zoom Cloud Recordings with or without the Panopto Integration
  2. Click +Create and select Webcast 
  3. Name the webcast session and confirm by clicking Create 
  4. Click the Manage tab on the left 
  5. Under Webcast Type, select RTMP Source.  
  6. Copy and paste the Server URL and Stream Keys and Types to your text editor  

 

Setting up the Custom Livestream in Zoom Links to an external site.  

First you will need to enable the Custom Livestream option on your account. 

  1. Go to your Profile Settings Links to an external site.
  2. Using the settings search, search for “Stream” and enable Allow Livestreaming of Meetings
  3. Check the box for Custom Live Streaming service 

 Image of the Allow livestreaming of meetings setting enabled in Zoom personal settings

 

Once you have enabled Livestreaming, you can now link any meeting or webinar to the Panopto Webcast.  

  1. Go to your Meetings Links to an external site. or Webinar Links to an external site. page in the Zoom portal and click on the name of the meeting or webinar you want to stream.
  2. Click on the Live Streaming tab
  3. Click Configure Custom Streaming Service 

 An arrow designating the Livestreaming Tab and Configure Custom Streaming button in the details of a Zoom meeting

 

Here is where you will add the information copied from the Panopto Webcast. 

  1. Copy the Server URL to the Stream URL in Zoom
  2. Copy the Stream keys and types to the Stream Key in Zoom
  3. Copy the Share link of the Panopto session to the Live Streaming Page URL and click Save 

 A comparison showing the lines of text that will need to be copied from the Panopto Webcast settings to the Zoom livestream settings

 

Your livestream to Panopto from Zoom is now configured. The Panopto webcast will begin as soon as your Zoom meeting or webinar goes live. 

You can now share the Live Streaming page URL with any attendees that are not able to join a full meeting, or you can use this link for all attendees to replicate a Webinar experience.