Proof of concept in progress, Q4 2026.
Go live with time to act.
Delaycast is a browser-based live production tool for one operator. One encoder at the venue sends an SRT stream to the cloud. Delaycast holds it in a delay you create at Take, and you edit the delayed program on a frame-accurate timeline: cut, trim, insert slates, clips and music. It is encoded once and pushed to any number of RTMP or SRT destinations, YouTube included. Anyone you invite can watch read-only.
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delay 12:40 minimum 6:00 live edge 19:42:08
How the delay works
The delay is created at Take, not configured.
Cuts shrink it. Inserts grow it. A per-event minimum is enforced, so the buffer can never run out. The timeline above is the whole idea: live edge on the right, playhead behind it, and the gap between them is yours to edit.
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Start Event
The cloud engine launches, connects to the venue encoder and starts recording. Destinations receive the pre-show playlist on loop. Nothing live is airing yet.
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Pre-show
The loop plays for as long as you like. This is where the cushion comes from. Meanwhile the program is being captured in full.
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Take
Scrub the recording, pick the first frame viewers should see and press Take. The screen shows the delay you will go live with before you press. Delay is live edge minus in-point.
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Edit window
The live edge grows on the right. The playhead follows behind. Everything between them can be cut, trimmed, reordered, or have clips, slates and music inserted. Every edit shows the delay it will leave.
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End Event
End on a slate or a final cut. The as-broadcast recording, the edit log and a health report are saved. The engine shuts down.
Breaks rebuild cushion. Inserting a two-minute intermission slate pushes the playhead two minutes further from live. That is the normal way to grow the delay mid-stream. An edit that would leave less than the event minimum is refused, with the projected number shown.
What the operator gains
One person at the controls, with room to be careful.
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Time to act
The program airs behind live by whatever cushion you chose. Anything that should not go out is cut before it does.
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Frame-accurate editing
Cut, trim, reorder and insert on a timeline, down to the single frame, while the stream is running. Undo, redo and a full edit history.
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Own content
Pre-show loops, intros, intermission slates, standby cards and music sit in a clip library and drop straight onto the timeline.
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One feed, many outputs
Encode once. Deliver to YouTube and any RTMP or SRT destination at the same time, each monitored on its own.
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Record now, air later
Capture an event in full, edit it afterward from a lightweight proxy, and schedule playout for a later slot or another time zone.
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Stream health in view
Resolution, frame rate, color, bit depth, bitrate, loudness and link quality are measured from the stream itself, with alarms you set.
Built for
Teams that put a live feed in front of people.
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Webcast teams
Daily or weekly streams run by a small crew, often in a different city from the venue.
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Houses of worship
Services that reach a wide audience, where one wrong moment should not.
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Event producers
Conferences, ceremonies and performances that need a clean program rather than a raw feed.
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Broadcasters needing a compliance delay
A profanity or safety delay with an operator at the controls instead of a fixed buffer.
How it runs
Nothing at the venue but an encoder.
- One encoder at the venue. Any SRT-capable encoder works.
- One cloud engine per event, started when the event starts and stopped when it ends.
- Nothing to install. The operator and every viewer work from a browser.
- Encoded once in the cloud, so destinations do not depend on the venue upload link.
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