DIRECTOR

What DIRECTOR does

DIRECTOR handles the production of your race broadcast. It selects the car shown by the simulator camera, builds your OBS broadcast without manually managing sources and, for competition organisers, collects each driver's camera and microphone.

• Camera cuts. In AUTOMÁTICO (AUTOMATIC), DIRECTOR watches the race and cuts to the action: contact, spins, close battles, overtakes, the leader… In MANUAL you choose the car and the camera stays there.
• OBS. It provides ready-made screens (templates) and adds them to OBS with one button. It also sends graphics (driver card, standings, captions), saves instant replays and switches scenes and sources.
• Replay. Controls iRacing replay: pause, speed, incident jumps and instant replays.
• Driver cameras. Create a room with a code; each driver joins through Soy piloto (I am a driver) and shares their face and voice; you choose who appears.

Requirements

• The Push & Lift engine reads the simulator. Opening DIRECTOR does not start it: if the engine indicator on the Push & Lift bar is grey or red, click it to start it. Without the engine, DIRECTOR cannot see the race.
• iRacing in a session to provide cars, camera cuts and replay.
• OBS Studio with its WebSocket server enabled for everything sent to OBS (OBS → Ajustes → Avanzado → WebSocket → Activar servidor WebSocket: Settings → Advanced → WebSocket → Enable WebSocket server). To use the addresses with COPIAR (COPY) you do not need WebSocket: paste them into OBS yourself.
• Camera rooms need the Push & Lift gateway (DIRECTOR connects automatically when opened from the Suite). Creating a room also needs the clave de organizador (organiser key).

Opening it from the Suite

1. Open the Push & Lift screen from the logo on the bar.
2. In the left menu, group PIT, click DIRECTOR.
3. DIRECTOR takes a few seconds to start (the Suite waits up to 45 seconds). Its window then opens, named PL DIRECTOR, with its own button on the Windows taskbar. The window fills the screen and maximises the first time you click it.

On the Push & Lift screen, with DIRECTOR selected, you have:

• TRAER AL FRENTE (BRING TO FRONT): brings the DIRECTOR window in front of the others.
• CERRARLA (CLOSE IT): closes DIRECTOR. Closing it also hides the Push & Lift screen.
• The text «identidad puesta en su ventana: PushAndLift.Director» means the window has its own taskbar button.

These buttons are shared by all PIT apps and explained in the SUITE manual.

In the Suite's AJUSTES (Settings), the Emitir en OBS (Broadcast in OBS) section shows a DIRECTOR address with Copiar (Copy) while DIRECTOR is open. That address opens the Templates for OBS.

Getting started

On opening, DIRECTOR shows the En directo (Live) screen and starts in MANUAL: it does not cut until you ask it to.

The window has three areas:

• On the left, the menu column: DIRECTOR screens, the large Soy piloto and Crear sala (Create room) buttons, and two status lights (engine and video).
• In the centre, the current broadcast.
• On the right, cut reasons, upcoming events and your quick cameras.

Other menu screens (Preparar, OBS, Gráficos…) use the centre and right areas together.

Your first broadcast in five steps

1. Check that the Push & Lift engine is on (green indicator on the bar). Open iRacing and join the session. Open OBS Studio with WebSocket enabled.
2. Click Preparar (Prepare) and check what is missing. Fix anything shown in red and click VOLVER A COMPROBAR (CHECK AGAIN).
3. Click Plantillas OBS (OBS templates), choose a screen and click PONER EN OBS (PUT IN OBS).
4. Return to En directo and click AUTOMÁTICO. DIRECTOR starts making automatic cuts.
5. To show a specific car, enter its number and click IR (GO). Automatic control resumes after 15 seconds.

Every screen explained

4.1 The left column

4.2 Live

Each time you choose a car (IR, Cortar or a quick camera), that cut takes priority. In AUTOMÁTICO it remains for 15 seconds («Un clic aquí manda 15 s y luego vuelve el automático solo.»). Change this duration in El clic manda (s) (Click priority (s)). In MANUAL the camera stays on that car.

4.3 Prepare

Checks the components needed for broadcasting and tells you what to do next.

4.4 OBS

Control OBS from DIRECTOR. OBS must be open with its WebSocket server enabled. Otherwise the top reads «OBS no contesta» (OBS not responding).

4.5 Graphics

Broadcast overlays: driver card, standings and caption. They appear in OBS after adding the graphics source (button AÑADIR A OBS (ADD TO OBS)).

4.6 Replay

Controls iRacing replay. Without the simulator, the top label says «No llego a la repetición del simulador: ¿está abierto iRacing?» (cannot access replay: is iRacing open?) and disables PAUSA (PAUSE), SEGUIR (RESUME), IR and RECORRER (SCAN).

4.7 Director settings

Values used by automatic control to decide where to cut. Type each value into its field. All are explained in 5. Settings.

Changes are saved on your PC and retained next time you open DIRECTOR. Decimal values accept either a comma or a point.

4.8 After the broadcast

4.9 Cameras and room

Opens in another window: the director's panel for driver cameras in a room. If you have already created a room, it opens that room directly.

4.10 OBS templates

Opens in another window: ready-made OBS screens with camera, standings, map and flags already positioned.

Qué monta en OBS (What it builds in OBS) (PONER EN OBS, MONTAR EN OBS): adds a game capture named «PL DIRECTOR · iRacing», targeting the iRacing window and fitted to the canvas, plus a 1920×1080 browser source named «PL DIRECTOR» with the template, to the active OBS scene (or creates «PL» if none exists). If they already exist, only the address changes. Templates with a camera slot (Clásico, Completo, Minimalista, El Relativo…) also add your webcam as «PL DIRECTOR · Cámara».

In OBS, use a 1920×1080 browser source («Fuente de navegador») for each source. Leave «Apagar la fuente cuando no está visible» (shut down source when not visible) and «Refrescar el navegador cuando se active la escena» (refresh browser when scene becomes active) unchecked: enabling them interrupts the picture on scene changes.

4.11 Notices

Opens another window with a transparent background. A bar appears at the bottom whenever DIRECTOR detects an event (contact, overtake, flag…) and disappears after 7 seconds. «ASRI» appears on the right. Uncertain events are labelled «sin confirmar» (unconfirmed). With no events, the window is empty. Use it in OBS as a browser source.

4.12 Competition mode

Competition broadcast: drivers share their cameras and you manage them all.

4.13 I am a driver

Opens «Tu cámara» (your camera) in another window. Each driver uses it to broadcast their face and voice. Opening it turns on your camera and microphone for the preview.

Conectar remains disabled until DIRECTOR knows your identity and car number, even if Estado says «Listo» (ready). iRacing must be open («Necesito que iRacing esté abierto: de ahí saco quién eres.») and you must join the session with your car so it can read your number («… todavía no sé tu dorsal. Entra en la sesión con tu coche y esto se pone solo.»).

4.14 Create the room

Appears when you click Crear sala. Fill it in, click the button and share the code on Discord.

Settings, option by option

All these settings are in Ajustes del director. Times are in seconds.

5.1 General

Numbers greater than 0 and up to 86400.

5.2 Priorities

Importance of each event. 1 is most urgent; higher numbers mean lower importance. Enter integers from 0 to 99. An event not listed has priority 9.

Three fields at the end of this group give extra importance to action near the front. They are subtracted from the event priority, with a minimum result of 1:

5.3 Durations

Shot duration for each event. Enter two numbers separated by a comma: mínimo,máximo (minimum,maximum). The shot lasts at least the minimum, then continues while the event is active, up to the maximum. A blank maximum means no upper limit («mínimo,máximo — el máximo vacío es sin máximo»); for example 4, keeps the shot while the event lasts. Maximum cannot be lower than minimum.

5.4 Battle

When two cars count as battling, based on their time gap.

5.5 Variety

For the default shot, when there is no event to show.

Use whole numbers.

5.6 Camera by event

Which iRacing camera each event uses. Values: actual (current) (the current camera), abordo (onboard), tv, persecucion (chase) and aerea (aerial). You can enter several separated by commas. The on-screen hint only lists «actual, abordo o tv», but DIRECTOR accepts all five.

In total, Ajustes del director contains 99 fields.

Typical tasks, step by step

Broadcast your race with automatic cuts

1. Open iRacing and join the session. Open OBS with WebSocket enabled.
2. In DIRECTOR, Plantillas OBS → choose one → PONER EN OBS.
3. Preparar → VOLVER A COMPROBAR until LISTO PARA EMITIR appears.
4. En directo → AUTOMÁTICO.
5. Watch Por qué corta aquí and Lo que viene. To choose another car, use Cortar or IR.

Control the camera yourself

1. Click MANUAL.
2. Use Líder, Pelea, Tu coche, the car number + IR, or Cortar in Lo que viene.
3. The camera stays on that car until you choose another.

Show a driver card or caption

1. Once only: Gráficos → AÑADIR A OBS.
2. Enter the car number and click MOSTRAR FICHA, or enter text and click ENVIAR RÓTULO.
3. To remove it, select it in the list and click OCULTAR.

Create a room for driver cameras

1. Click Crear sala. Enter race name, duration, data limit and your organiser key.
2. Click Crear. Cámaras y sala opens with the large room code.
3. Send the code to the drivers through Discord.
4. Each driver opens DIRECTOR, clicks Soy piloto, enters the code and clicks Conectar.
5. In Cámaras y sala, click a row in La carrera to show that driver. For OBS, use SALIDA OBS.
6. When finished, CERRAR SALA.

Appear as a driver in someone else's broadcast

1. Open iRacing and join the session with your car.
2. In DIRECTOR, click Soy piloto. Check your mirror preview and select camera and microphone.
3. Enter the code you received and click Conectar. When «ESTÁS EN EL AIRE» appears, people can see and hear you.
4. To leave, Cortar.

Review a completed race

1. Open the race replay in iRacing.
2. In DIRECTOR, Repetición. Enter from/to times (or leave them empty) and click RECORRER.
3. DIRECTOR jumps from incident to incident. To stop it, PARAR.

Restore a setting's factory value

Enter the factory value shown in the tables in 5 and click GUARDAR.

Common problems and solutions