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How to reuse settings for live events

This feature requires an Advanced or Premium plan, or an Enterprise plan with the Events feature added.

This article explains how to efficiently reuse established configurations for new live streams. You can streamline your live event creation process by leveraging settings from past events.

In this article: 

How to copy event settings to a new event

To reuse settings from a previous event: 

  1. When creating a new event, select the Reuse Settings option. The live event setup screen showing three options: 'Set up from scratch,' 'Choose event type,' and 'Reuse settings.' The 'Reuse settings' option is highlighted.
  2. Select the event to reuse the settings from. The 'Select event to reuse settings' screen. On the left, an 'Untitled Event' created on May 22, 2025, is selected from a list. On the right, a preview of its settings shows 'Stream from your browser' as the event type, 'Standard' latency, and that the 'Chat' and 'Automatic closed captions' features are turned on.

Read more about creating a new live event at How to create a live event on Vimeo  

Which settings can be copied over

The following settings can be copied over to create new events: 

  • State of the Auto CC toggle
    • Auto CC Keywords
    • AutoCC Language
  • State of the Chat toggle
  • Content Rating settings
  • State of the DVR toggle
  • Embed Player settings
  • InteractionToolsSettings (Status of Polls/Q&A)
  • Event latency settings
  • Parent Folder
  • Thumbnail
  • Preferred Streaming Method
  • State of the RTMP Preview toggle
  • Event Description
  • Event Title

How to stream to the same destination

You may or may not wish to stream to the same simulcast destinations they streamed to, in case they are copying the settings from them.

Select the 'Reuse destinations' toggle to copy the streaming destination settings from the previous stream.

A toggle switch for the 'Reuse destinations' setting, which is currently turned off.

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