# How to Control Live Visuals with an Elgato Stream Deck

> Visibox 5 turns your Elgato Stream Deck into a live control surface for your visuals. Trigger clips, jump between songs, and run playback from keys that preview exactly what they fire.

[Video: Stream Deck Visuals With Visibox 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0TkBgtcrg)

**Visibox 5 turns your Elgato Stream Deck into a real control surface for live visuals.** Your clips, songs, and playback controls sit right on the keys, next to the buttons you already use for your other apps.

Every key can show a live preview of what it triggers — videos, images, audio-reactive visualizers, even a rolling preview of your camera. You always know what you're about to fire before you hit it. No more guessing mid-set.

In this walkthrough I set it up from scratch on a Stream Deck XL and go through every button type, from triggering clips to system controls.

**What you'll learn:**

- Which Stream Decks work — the original 15-key, the 6-key Mini, the XL, and the Stream Deck + with knobs
- Installing the Visibox plugin and profiles from Visibox settings, and granting the connection permission
- Triggering clips with live thumbnail previews right on the keys
- The Trigger Clip button — clip number and the song-offset trick for laying a whole song across a row of keys
- Thumbnail and icon options for your buttons
- Selecting songs by song number, program ID, or song ID
- Playback controls: play, pause, stop, resume, and toggles
- Navigation: next and previous clip and song
- Output level — which pairs perfectly with the knobs on the Stream Deck +
- System controls: a panic button to reset your windows mid-set, and a fullscreen toggle

**The song-offset trick** is the one to watch for. Lay a whole song across a row of keys, then use the offset to put the previous song on the row above and the next song on the row below — so your entire set is laid out spatially and you can jump anywhere with a single press.

Prefer Visibox's built-in Stream Deck mode? That's still there too. Just leave the plugin unchecked in the Devices settings.

Questions about Stream Deck setup, or anything else in Visibox? There's a contact form [on our site](https://spaceage.tv) and inside the app — we're happy to help.