Pop-out floating window

The pop-out button in the Video Reference panel opens the video preview in a separate small window that stays on top of other windows. This lets you place the reference monitor over other software — such as a lighting console or a media server — while LTCast's main window sits elsewhere.

Opening the floating window

Click the pop-out button at the right of the Video Reference panel header (the button with an arrow leaving a window; tooltip: Pop out as a floating window). The video opens in a new always-on-top window, 400 × 320 pixels at first, near the top-right corner of the main display. The panel in the main window keeps showing its own preview as well; hide that one with the chevron if you do not want two (see Hide / show preview).

Always-on-top behavior

The floating window stays above other windows. On macOS it is also visible on every desktop (Space) and above full-screen apps. Windows has no equivalent of that setting, so there the window stays on top but belongs to the virtual desktop you opened it on. It does not appear in the taskbar.

Moving, zooming and scaling

The window has no standard title bar: drag it by its thin dark bar (the one with the grip dots and the title VIDEO REFERENCE) to reposition it anywhere on screen or on a connected external display. Inside the window:

Scroll the mouse wheel over the picture to zoom the video image from 1× to 4×, drag the picture to pan when it is zoomed, and double-click it or click Fit to reset. The −, + buttons and slider do the same. Keystone opens vertical and horizontal sliders that skew the picture for a projector at an angle.
Hold Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) and scroll to scale the whole window's contents, from 0.6× to 3×.

The zoom you set in the floating window applies to that window only, and the main panel keeps its own. The floating window is always silent: the Both and Solo sound options (see Importing a video) play from the preview in the main window.

Closing the floating window

Click the × at the right of the window's bar to close it. Alternatively, click the pop-out button in the main panel again — it acts as a toggle.

On a two-monitor setup, pop the video out to the second monitor and leave LTCast's main interface on your primary monitor. The always-on-top behavior keeps the reference visible even if another application takes focus on that display.

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