BigMarker News & Updates Spotlight and Pin Cameras

Put the right speaker center stage

November 25, 2025
Pin presenters to keep their cameras larger, or spotlight one speaker to fill the stage. Everyone watching sees the change at once.
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When several presenters share the stage, every camera gets the same small square, even when one of them is doing all the talking. With Spotlight and Pin, you decide whose camera takes center stage in the live studio: pin one or more presenters so their cameras stay larger, or spotlight a single speaker so their camera fills the stage. When you share your screen, pinned cameras stay right beside it. Everyone watching sees each change at once, and one click puts it back.

One click, for everyone

Pin and Spotlight work on the presenter cameras in your live studio. Whatever you choose goes out to everyone in the session at once, so your whole audience sees the speaker you meant them to.

Undoing it is just as quick: one click puts the cameras back.

Three presenter cameras in the live studio; clicking Turn On Spotlight on one of them puts that camera center stage, with the other two beneath it.
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Pin a presenter in three clicks

Pinned cameras move up and stay larger, for everyone watching.

1
Open the menu on their videoClick the three dots at the bottom right of the presenter's camera.
2
Go to Manage CameraPoint at Manage Camera to open its options.
3
Choose Pin for everyoneTheir camera moves up above the others. Pin a second presenter and the two of them share the top row.
The menu on a presenter's camera, open on Manage Camera, with Request Control, Hide Camera from Attendees, Pin for everyone and Block Camera.
Presenter View with two presenters pinned, Hiroshi Tanaka and Marcus Johnson, sharing the top row; the third presenter beneath.
The pin icon next to Marcus Johnson's name.

To unpin someone, click the pin next to their name.

Spotlight one speaker

When one person has the floor, click the spotlight icon in the top-left corner of their video. Its tooltip reads Turn On Spotlight.

Presenter View with Priya Natarajan in the spotlight: her camera fills the stage, the other two presenters beneath.

Their camera fills the stage and the other cameras wait beneath it. Pinned cameras step aside while the spotlight is on and come back as soon as you turn it off. To turn it off, click the icon again.

Pins beside your content

Share your screen (the plus next to Camera, then Share Screen) and your pinned cameras stay right beside it, so the speakers stay in view next to your slides.

A shared slide on stage with the two pinned cameras beside it and the third presenter beneath.

By default, only pinned cameras appear beside shared content, in the live room, the recording and the webcast. To keep every camera on screen alongside it, turn off Show only pinned cameras next to content under Presenters → Permissions.

Pin or spotlight?

Pin for everyoneSpotlight
WhereThe menu on their video, then Manage CameraThe spotlight icon on their video
How manyOne or more presentersOne presenter at a time
Everyone seesPinned cameras larger, above the restThat camera filling the stage
With content sharedPinned cameras sit beside itThat camera sits beside it
To undoClick the pin next to their nameClick the icon again
Pin your panel, spotlight the answer

Pins come back when the spotlight is off, so you can pin your panelists once and spotlight whoever is answering a question.

Give the floor to the right speaker
Find it on any presenter camera in your live studio.
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