The Grabyo Live control room combines sophisticated production features in a simple, user-friendly package. Understanding its layout and general navigation is the fastest way to get the most out of it during a live production.
This guide walks through the interface from top to bottom: monitoring windows and audio monitoring, the take-live commands, production layers, the right-rail menus, and the navigation and action controls along the top of the screen.
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Monitoring windows and audio controls
The monitoring windows sit at the very top of the interface. By default two windows are shown, so you can look at your preview and clean output at the same time.
The windows are highly configurable. You can show or hide them to focus on a single source, or use them to monitor any of your video mixes alongside the preview.
An audio monitoring tool is integrated into the same space, opened from the headphones icon. Use it to adjust your monitoring level or mute monitoring completely.
✅ Tip: Audio monitoring affects only what you hear locally. Muting it does not change the audio your production is actually outputting.
Take live commands
Directly beneath the monitoring windows are the take live commands. From here you can:
Select a transition type
Enter an editable duration for that transition
Activate the transition to take your preview live
Managing layers and layouts
Below the monitoring windows sit the production layers. Layers can be resized, and both their colours and their layout can be fully customised to suit the way your team works.
Layers function as overlays with a vertical priority system, in the same way layers work in Photoshop or most non-linear editors. A layer positioned at the top of the list always appears over the layers underneath it.
Situation | What you see on output |
Active sources in both a camera layer and a guest layer | Only the top layer is visible |
The top source is cleared | The source beneath it is revealed immediately |
Sources resized across multiple layers | Both remain visible — the basis of a picture-in-picture effect |
✅ Tip: Resizing sources across layers is the quickest way to build picture-in-picture without a separate composition step.
Menus and the right rail
Specific configurations are opened from the menus on the right rail.
A dedicated pop-out button expands the rail to show a clear text description for each menu
Clicking a menu opens it; clicking it a second time closes it again
To maximise the production workspace, a button in the top right corner clears away the left-hand rail icons
Notifications, session time and action buttons
The top right of the control room holds a notification space showing which users are currently accessing the platform. It also includes a countdown indicator for the remaining time on the current control room session, which alerts you when time is running low.
Next to the notifications are action buttons that let you:
Open multi-viewer configurations
Select a key bindings profile, or jump directly to the key bindings page
Access general settings
Switching between areas of the platform
The top left section of the interface is your primary navigation hub. The interface defaults to the vision mixing page within the control room home, and from here you can jump quickly to other production areas.
Area | What it is for |
Vision mixing | The control room home and interface default — monitoring, layers and take live |
Audio mixer | Audio operations for the production |
Replay | The full-screen replay window |