After an Epiphan device is registered and assigned to a Room, administrators configure the Room's recording Profiles to define how the device's Epiphan channels map to EchoVideo input channels. This article covers the Room-level Profile configuration process.

For an overview of Profiles, how they work, and institution-level settings, see: Recording Profiles for Epiphan Devices

Prerequisites

Before configuring the Room in EchoVideo:

The Epiphan device must be registered and assigned to the Room. See: Epiphan Device Registration
The device's physical inputs and Epiphan channels must be configured in the Epiphan Admin panel. See the Epiphan User Guides for your device model linked in the Epiphan Integration Overview
Confirm which Institution Settings are enabled for your tenant - these control whether Additional Profiles are available and what Device Defaults may have already been applied. See: Recording Profiles for Epiphan Devices

Understanding What You Are Configuring

When you open the Room configuration for an Epiphan device, you are working with two layers within each Profile:

Epiphan channels - These are configured on the Epiphan device through the Epiphan Admin panel. Each channel can be a single physical input (e.g., HDMI-A) or a composited layout combining multiple inputs (e.g., a picture-in-picture view). EchoVideo pulls the list of available channels directly from the device.
EchoVideo input channels - These are the 'slots' within a Profile that you map Epiphan channels to. The number of available input channels depends on whether QuadraVision is enabled:
- QuadraVision OFF: Up to 2 input channels per Profile
- QuadraVision ON: Up to 4 input channels per Profile

A Profile is the saved mapping between these two layers, along with the audio and VOD/Live settings for each channel.

Understanding Default Profiles

Every Room starts with Default Profile(s) that have been automatically applied from your Institution Settings when the device was registered.

How the defaults are structured depends on the Additional Profiles Institution Setting:

Additional Profiles OFF: The Room has two separate default Profiles - one for VOD and one for Live. These can be kept in sync or configured independently.
Additional Profiles ON: The Room has a single default Profile enabled for both VOD and Live. You can then create additional Profiles and designate any one as the default for VOD, Live, or both.

Accessing Room Configuration

Navigate to the Rooms page in EchoVideo.
Locate the Room card for the Epiphan device.
Click Configure on the Room card.

The Room configuration modal opens, showing the device's current Profile(s).

Configuring a Profile

For each Profile, you configure the following:

Channel Mapping

Map each EchoVideo input channel to an Epiphan channel on the device. The available Epiphan channels are pulled directly from the device and listed by the names configured in the Epiphan Admin panel (e.g., HDMI-A, Camera PiP, Screen Capture).

Each EchoVideo input channel maps to exactly one Epiphan channel.
Not all EchoVideo input channels need to be used - you can leave channels unmapped if your Profile does not require them.

Primary Audio

Exactly one channel in each Profile must be designated as the Primary Audio source. This is the audio track that EchoVideo uses for:

Media playback - all other channels are synchronized to this channel
Automated captioning
Transcription services

Choose the channel that includes the video feed with the primary speaker(s), as all other channels will sync to this one during playback. If a different channel is chosen for Primary Audio, you may experience lip sync issues.

VOD and Live Default

If Additional Profiles are enabled, every Profile can be configured to be either the Live default, the VOD default, or both.

When Additional Profiles is enabled, you can also assign entirely separate Profiles for VOD and Live. See Using Different Profiles for Live and VOD for configuration options and use cases.

If Additional Profiles are disabled, there are always two separate profiles - one for Live and one for VOD. When making changes or updates to these profiles, you have the option to keep the profiles in sync or apply only to that profile.

Creating Additional Profiles

If the Additional Profiles institution setting is enabled, you can create up to 5 Additional Profiles per Room (for a maximum of 6 saved Profiles).

In the Room configuration modal, click + Add Profile.
Give the Profile a descriptive name that reflects its use case (e.g., "Lecture - Camera + Screen", "Seminar - Camera Only", "Lab - Overhead + Closeup").
Configure the channel mapping and Primary Audio selection as described above.
Optionally, designate the new Profile as the default for VOD, Live, or both.

When to Create Additional Profiles

Additional Profiles are useful when a Room is used for different types of events that require different input configurations. For example:

A lecture hall or training room that hosts both standard presentations (camera + screen capture) and panel discussions (multiple camera angles, no screen capture).
A flexible classroom or multipurpose space that alternates between instructor-led or presenter-led sessions (camera + document camera) and participant presentations (screen capture only).
A lab or demonstration space where some sessions need overhead and closeup equipment feeds, while others need only a single wide-angle camera.
A boardroom or executive briefing center that switches between all-hands meetings (wide-angle room camera) and client presentations (camera + screen share + document feed).

Rather than reconfiguring the Room each time, administrators create a Profile for each scenario. Instructors or schedulers then select the appropriate Profile when scheduling or starting a capture.

Custom Profiles

If the Custom Profiles institution setting is enabled (for ad hoc captures, scheduled captures, or both), users can create a one-time Profile directly from the capture dialog without modifying the Room's saved Profiles.

Custom Profiles are useful for one-off situations - for example, a guest lecture that requires a unique input combination that does not warrant a permanent saved Profile.

A Custom Profile is not saved to the Room. It applies only to the single capture it was created for.

Device Settings

Device Settings control which of the Epiphan device's channels are available within EchoVideo and how audio priority is handled when configuring Profiles. These are Room-specific settings - changes here affect all Profiles for this Room.

To access Device Settings, click Device Settings at the bottom of the Room configuration modal.

Channel Availability

The Device Settings page lists every channel configured on the Epiphan device. Each channel has a toggle that controls whether it is available for use and selection within EchoVideo across that Room's Profiles and for Custom Profiles:

Enabled (toggle on): The channel appears as an option when mapping EchoVideo input channels within any Profile for this Room.
Disabled (toggle off): The channel is hidden from Profile configuration and cannot be mapped to an EchoVideo input channel.

Use this to filter out channels that are not relevant to EchoVideo captures. For example, if your Epiphan device has 6 configured channels but only 4 are used for EchoVideo recordings, you can disable the other 2 to keep Profile configuration easy and reduce the chance of selecting the wrong channel.

Disabling a channel here does not affect the channel on the Epiphan device itself - it only controls visibility within EchoVideo.

Audio Priority

Each enabled channel has an Audio Priority setting, represented as a numbered ranking. This determines which channel is auto-selected as the Primary Audio source when creating or configuring a new Profile.

The channel with the lowest number (highest priority) is automatically selected as the Primary Audio default for new Profiles.
If the highest-priority channel is not included in a particular Profile, the next highest-priority channel in that Profile is selected instead.
You can always override the auto-selected Primary Audio when configuring an individual Profile - the priority setting simply controls the default suggestion.

Set the audio priority to reflect which channels have the most reliable, highest-quality audio sources. For example, if Channel-A is connected to a dedicated room microphone and HDMI4K-A is a camera with an embedded mic, you would typically give Channel-A a higher priority (lower number) than HDMI4K-A.

When to Adjust Device Settings

Device Settings are typically configured once during initial Room setup and rarely need to change afterward. Common reasons to revisit them:

New channels added on the Epiphan device - Enable them here to make them available in Profiles.
Channels decommissioned or repurposed - Disable them to prevent accidental selection.
Audio source changes - If the room's microphone setup changes (e.g., a new ceiling mic replaces a camera-embedded mic), update the audio priority to reflect the new preferred source.

After Configuration

Once the Room's Profiles are configured and saved:

The Room appears as Idle on the Rooms tab, ready for scheduling.
Scheduled and ad hoc captures will use the Room's default Profile unless a different Profile is selected.
The Room can be scheduled and monitored exactly like any other Room in your EchoVideo tenant.

For details on scheduling captures, see: Creating Captures and Capture Schedules
For details on ad hoc captures, see: Ad Hoc Captures

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