Use Focus view in the studio

Keep your attention on the person you’re talking to by hiding the studio controls and shrinking your own video while you record.

Who: Hosts and guests
Plan: All plans
Device: Computer browser

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Step by step

Focus view turns on automatically when a recording starts, unless the host turned it off. You can also turn Focus view on and off before or during a recording.

  1. Join a studio as a host or guest.
  2. In the bottom right corner of the studio, click Focus view.
    The person you’re talking to fills your screen. If there’s more than one other participant, they all show in a grid.
    The studio controls hide after a few seconds. To see them again, move your mouse.
  3. Change where and how your tile appears:
    • To move your tile, click and drag it to any corner of the screen.
    • To minimize your tile, hover over it and click the Minimize icon. 
      Your camera and mic controls stay available in the minimized bar.
    • To show your tile again, click the Expand icon.
    • To show your tile next to everyone else’s, hover over it and click the Show in a tile icon.
    • To put your tile in the corner again, hover over it and click the Move to corner icon.
  4. To leave Focus view, in the bottom right corner of the studio, click Studio view.
    If you leave Focus view during a recording, it stays off until the next recording starts.

Turn off Focus view on Record (hosts)

By default, Focus view turns on for hosts and guests when a recording starts.

To keep everyone in Studio view when you start recording, turn this setting off:

  1. Join a studio as a host.
  2. In the side bar on the right, click Settings.
  3. Next to Focus view on Record, toggle off  toggle-off-grey_36x24.svg.
    When the next recording starts, everyone stays in Studio view. Participants already in the studio are only affected after they rejoin or reload the page.
    Each participant can still click Focus view to open it for themselves before or during a recording.

Icon.svg Good to know

  • Focus view only changes your own screen. Your recording, the layout, and what others see stay the same.
  • Producers and guests who are backstage don’t have Focus view.
  • While someone shares their screen, or presents, Focus view turns off and the Focus view button is unavailable. It turns back on when the screen share ends.

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