The gathering ends and the recordings exist. Someone who came to the retreat wants to watch the afternoon workshop they missed while they were at the sound healing session down the hall. Someone who could not make the trip at all would still pay to watch the keynote from home, if only there were a way to buy in.
Session recordings on BrightStar attach video to the sessions of an event and let you control who is allowed to play it back. Access follows what someone actually bought — a ticket, a pass, a recordings-only purchase — rather than a link that can be copied and passed along. That distinction is what keeps a recording connected to the pass that paid for it, instead of drifting away the first time someone forwards an email.
Access follows the pass
You decide which passes unlock which recordings, session by session. A weekend ticket might open only the talks that happened on the days it covered. A separate recordings pass, sold to people who were never at the gathering at all, might open the entire library instead.
This matters because a recording without that control is just a file. Once a viewing link circulates, there is no way to know who is actually watching, and no way to charge the next person who wants in. Tying access to the pass instead of the link means the video keeps behaving like a ticketed session even after the room has emptied out — you can still say who gets in, and you can still charge for the privilege.
Why sell recordings after the event
A festival's teaching does not end when the tent comes down. The talks, the kirtan sets, the guided sittings — the material has a life well past the weekend it was recorded in.
Selling access to it does three things at once. It gives the people who attended a reason to stay engaged with what they paid for, instead of the event closing the moment they drive home. It gives people who could not travel a way to buy in anyway, turning a one-time gathering into something with a second audience. And it gives you revenue from work you have already done — the session happened, the camera was already running, and the only remaining step is deciding who gets to watch it.
What ticket holders see when they open the catalogue
Ticket holders find their unlocked sessions in one catalogue for the event. Whatever they have access to, they can play right there.
Sessions they do not have access to are not hidden. They show up in the same catalogue as something that exists but is locked, rather than disappearing from view entirely. That single choice changes what the catalogue is. A locked session that is visible is an offer — a ticket holder can see exactly what they are missing and what buying the recordings pass would get them. A locked session that is invisible would just be a dead end, with no reason for anyone to come back and buy anything at all.
Does this work for a single-day gathering
Recordings attach to the sessions of an event, so they suit a programme built from distinct talks, workshops or classes rather than one continuous gathering with no internal structure. A day of back-to-back kirtan sets, breathwork sessions, or workshop blocks works exactly the way a multi-day retreat does — each session gets its own recording and its own access rule.
If your event already has a session schedule set up on BrightStar, the recordings hang directly off that schedule. There is no separate structure to build; the sessions you already created are the same sessions the recordings attach to.