Broadcast Academy
Practical guides to producing an iRacing broadcast: your first OBS scene, overlays, cameras and replays, league crews, multiclass and endurance timing, and commentary.
Written by the team that builds EDR Broadcast. Most of the advice works whatever tools you use. Where a step is specific to EDR Broadcast, the guide says so, and names the plan it needs once.
20 guides in English3 in German, Spanish and Portuguese
Learning paths
Stream and OBS
Your first show, in order: capture iRacing in OBS, add the overlays, send it to your platform, then decide on one PC or two.
Read in order
Step 1: How to broadcast an iRacing race with OBS
Set up OBS, overlays, cameras and replays for an iRacing race, then rehearse the whole show before race night.
Step 2: OBS browser source overlays for iRacing
How browser sources put live iRacing graphics into OBS, and how to size, layer, test and fix them before race night.
Step 3: How to stream iRacing to Kick, YouTube or Twitch with OBS
Get your race picture, timing graphics and commentary from the broadcast PC to viewers, with a setup you can rehearse before race day.
Step 4: One PC or two for an iRacing broadcast?
Start with one capable PC, and add a second only when a recorded rehearsal shows real pressure or the separation is worth it.
Overlays and themes
What the graphics should show, and how live iRacing data reaches them.
Choosing iRacing broadcast overlays for a league
What league viewers need from iRacing overlays, how the main tools differ, and how to test a package before race night.
How iRacing SDK data becomes a live broadcast overlay
How live iRacing session data is read, processed and turned into the timing, driver, flag and map graphics your viewers see.
Auto-Director and replays
Cameras, incidents and replays, and how to keep one operator in control of them.
What is an auto-director in iRacing broadcasting?
How automatic camera direction covers an iRacing race, when to take the cameras yourself, and how it pairs with incidents and replays.
How to find and replay incidents in an iRacing broadcast
A workflow for catching iRacing incidents across the whole field, logging them and choosing the right moment to show the replay.
iRacing broadcasting has an operator problem, not an overlay problem
Where iRacing broadcast workload builds up, and why cameras, incidents, replay and crew roles matter more than another overlay.
Leagues and crews
A repeatable league show: the brief, the run sheet and a crew that can work remotely.
How to run a professional iRacing league broadcast
A recovery-first OBS scene, clear camera, replay and race-control roles, a run sheet and a full rehearsal: the process behind a reliable league show.
iRacing broadcast software: the EDR Broadcast production workflow
Why EDR Broadcast puts overlays, cameras, incidents, replay and race control in one Windows app, and how it compares with other iRacing tools.
How to run an iRacing broadcast with a remote crew
Keep iRacing and OBS on one host, split remote work by role, scope every control and rehearse disconnection before race night.
Multiclass, endurance and oval
Formats that need their own graphics, camera priorities and handovers.
How to broadcast an iRacing multiclass race
Treat each class as its own race: fixed class colours, class-first positions, pit-cycle context and camera rules for traffic.
iRacing endurance broadcast setup for 6, 12 and 24 hour races
Plan a long iRacing broadcast around stable scenes, crew shifts, remote help and PC headroom so the show lasts 6, 12 or 24 hours.
How to build an iRacing oval broadcast around a scoring pylon
Build an oval show around a scoring pylon, stage state, a caution count and restart graphics, with race procedure driving every graphic.
Timing and commentary
Live timing for each role, and what commentators need in front of them.
iRacing live timing for league broadcasts
What iRacing live timing should show viewers, commentators, producers and stewards, and how a public timing page differs from an on-air leaderboard.
What an iRacing commentator needs on screen
Give commentators the program feed, class and overall timing, incident cues and a private crew channel, ranked by what they need next.
Choosing a tool
How EDR Broadcast compares with other iRacing broadcast tools. Written by the EDR Broadcast team, dated, with links to each product’s official site.
iRacing broadcast software comparison
How EDR Broadcast, ATVO, SDK Gaming and other iRacing tools differ, which job each one fits, and how to test them on the same session.
Looking for an ATVO alternative for iRacing broadcasting?
How ATVO and EDR Broadcast differ on graphics, OBS output, cameras, incidents and replay, and how to test a switch without risking race night.
Is EDR Broadcast a good SDK Gaming alternative?
How SDK Gaming and EDR Broadcast differ on live timing, driver HUDs, cameras, incidents and replay, and how to decide in one practice session.
In other languages
The OBS guide in German, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil). EDR Broadcast itself runs in all four languages.
How these guides are written
- Useful without buying anything. Each guide solves a race-night problem whether or not you use EDR Broadcast.
- Upfront about who wrote it. We build EDR Broadcast. The comparison guides say so, carry the date they were checked and link to each product’s official site.
- No invented numbers. Performance and accuracy figures need a real test. Where the answer depends on your PC, the guide gives you the test to run.
- Rehearse first. Remote access, replay and race control get a rehearsal, a fallback scene and a human who can take over.
Run your own show.
EDR Broadcast is free to start on Windows. Try every Pro feature for 14 days from inside the app: no card, no automatic charge.