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This article describes how to edit a DIY live webcast session.

DIY live webcasts give you the ability to broadcast/webcast a Kaltura live session directly from a Kaltura Studio room. Simply create a DIY live webcast session, then navigate to the Studio room and begin broadcasting. 

Access session editing capabilities

There are two ways to reach session editing capabilities: 

• On the Event Overview page, in the Agenda at a glance section, hover over the session you would like to edit, then click the blue pencil (edit) icon.
  
• On the Event Agenda page, click the name of the session, or the three blue dots to the right of the session and choose Edit.
  

The Edit session page displays with the Basics tab open by default. 

Create with AI

Enrich and repurpose your content into engaging, snackable experiences with Kaltura's AI-powered post-production assistant. Click to access Content Lab functionality. This button will be active and enabled only on sessions with applicable media uploaded. See Create highlight clips with AI and Create a summary and chapters with AI for more information.

Basics tab

Configure the core details of your event, like title, description, and tags. Launch the studio, access a direct link to the session page, manage recordings, and much more. 

• Launch Kaltura Studio room and copy studio link to share
• Visit session page and copy session page link to share
• Edit session details 
• Manage recordings

Captions tab

Manage captions and translations for your session. Order, upload, edit, download, delete, and set default captions, and much more. 

• Order live captions
• Order live translation
• Order captions for session recording or video source 
• Upload captions for session recording or video source
• Set as default, edit, download, and delete captions for a session recording

Attachments tab

Provide your audience a greater immersive experience and more value by enriching your session with downloadable content. Manage content like documents, spreadsheets, presentations, audio/video files, and images on the Attachments tab. 

Supported file types consist of the following: 

Media files - *.mts;*.MTS;*.qt;*.QT;*.mov;*.MOV;*.mpeg;*.MPEG; *.avi;*.AVI;*.mp4; *.MP4; *.vob;*.VOB;*.flv; *.FLV; *.f4v; *.F4V; *.asf;*.ASF; *.wmv;*.WMV;*.m4v;*.M4V;*.3gp;*.3GP; *.mkv;*.MKV;*.arf;*.ARF; *.webm;*.WEBM; *.mxf;*.MXF

Document files  - 'doc', 'docx', 'docm', 'dotx', 'dotm',  'xls', 'xlsx', 'xlsm', 'xltx', 'xltm', 'xlsb', 'xlam',  'ppt', 'pptx', 'pptm', 'potx', 'potm', 'ppam', 'ppsm',  'odb', 'odc', 'odf', 'odg', 'odi', 'odm', 'odp', 'ods', 'odt',  'otc', 'otf', 'otg', 'oth', 'oti', 'otp', 'ots', 'ott', 'oxt','swf','pdf'

Image files - 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'bmp', 'png', 'gif', 'tif', 'tiff'

• Upload attachments
• Edit attachments
• Download attachments
• Get information on attachments
• Delete attachments

Share & Embed tab

When using Kaltura's Live Broadcasting services, you can choose to share (re-stream) your scheduled live event to any RTMP based live broadcasting service. When re-stream is set, Kaltura will take care of replicating your live stream and concurrently stream it to additional live broadcasting services such as social media live streaming.

• Embed the player on an external site
• Share (restream) your session on social media channel 
• Edit an existing stream 
• Delete an existing stream