# Starting and stopping a channel
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## Starting and stopping one channel
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On the Conductor Live main menu, choose **Channels**. Then choose the green **Start **button to the right of the channel that you want to start.

To stop a channel, choose the **Stop** button for that channel. When you stop a channel, it is displayed at the point at which it was stopped on the Conductor Live web interface. When the channel stops on the Conductor Live web interface, it also stops and is archived on the AWS Elemental Live web interface.

## Starting or stopping several channels at one time
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### Step A. Create the task
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You can use the Tasks feature to start or stop several channels at once.

1. On the Conductor Live main menu, choose **Channels**.

1. On the **Channels** page, choose **Tasks**, then choose **Start Channels** or **Stop Channels**.

1. Select the channels for the action. On the **Start Channels** page, only channels that are currently not running appear in the list. On the **Stop Channels** page, only channels that are currently running appear.

1. On the final page, choose **Process Now** or **Save for Later**.

   **Process Now**: Conductor Live applies the change. The **Channels** page reappears, showing the change.

   **Save for Later**: This option lets you queue up several tasks and then perform them in one pass.
**Warning**  
**Save for Later **is intended to queue for a short time.  
Don't use **Save for Later** and then delay process the task in a few hours. Doing so might create undesired consequences.

### Step B. Monitor the status of the task
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When you choose **Process Now** to run the task, you can monitor the status of each stop or start in the task.

1. On the Conductor Live main menu, choose **Status**, then choose **Task Reports**. The **Task Reports** page appears, with a list of tasks in the panel on the left. Newer tasks appear first.

1. Select a task from the list. The details for the task appear. A line appears for each action in the task. Each line shows the current status of the action: Pending, Success, or an explanation of why the task failed.

   As the status of an action changes, the page automatically refreshes to display the latest information.