Guide
How to Use SCAPTION with vMix: Live Captions in 5 Steps
Live captions on top of your vMix program, in the language your audience needs. For a live event with microphones, a stream, a meeting, or a video you play. No special hardware. Five steps, about ten minutes.
Also in: Español · Français · Deutsch · Português · Italiano
Tested by the SCAPTION team with vMix.
- 1Choose your plan
- 2Set up SCAPTION
- 3Add SCAPTION as an input in vMix
- 4Put the captions over your program
- 5Send it to the screen in the room
Choose your plan
To translate (for example French speech into English captions) you need the Event Pro plan. Buy it as a single-event pass for one event, or as a monthly plan if you caption regularly. The Accessibility plan gives you the same NDI output but transcribes only, with translation switched off.
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Set up SCAPTION
- Open SCAPTION on your computer.
- In the Audio card, choose what to listen to: a microphone for a speaker in the room, or This computer's audio for a video, a stream, Zoom, Teams or Meet.
- In Languages, set the Spoken language, and in The venue screen shows pick the caption language, for example French to English.
- In Output, switch on NDI Alpha Output.
Add SCAPTION as an input in vMix
- In vMix, click Add Input and open NDI / Desktop Capture.
- Pick the SCAPTION source from the list (your computer's name appears before it) and click OK.
Put the captions over your program
- Under the SCAPTION input, click an Overlay number (1 to 4).
- The captions appear over your program and the background stays transparent.
- Click the same number again to take them off.
Send it to the screen in the room
- Send your program out the way you already do: Fullscreen, External or your capture card.
- Pick the monitor or projector in the room.
After the event: an AI summary
When the event ends, you can ask for an AI summary of the day. You can open it for 30 days. After that it is deleted automatically.
Before the event
- Nothing shows over the program? Check that the Overlay number is lit and that NDI Alpha Output is on in SCAPTION.
- vMix does not list the source? Both computers must be on the same network. In SCAPTION you can also add the address by hand.
- Do a test with real speech or a video, a few minutes before you start.
- Need help? Write to [email protected] and we answer with the highest urgency.