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Studio systems

The signer goes in like any other web graphic. Each system below takes the overlay link as a browser or HTML source; the steps are the same idea everywhere.

Before you start

Create an overlay and keep its link (https://www.usesigna.org/overlay/…#ovt_…). Size every source to your output, 1920 × 1080 for HD, then scale and place it where you want the signer.

vMix

  1. Add Input → Web Browser.
  2. Paste the overlay link; set the size to 1920 × 1080.
  3. Put the input on an overlay channel (1–4) and turn it on, or use it in a Multi View layer.
  4. Position and zoom it in the input's Position settings. The background is already see-through.

OBS Studio and Streamlabs

  1. Sources → + → Browser.
  2. Paste the overlay link; width 1920, height 1080.
  3. Turn off "Shutdown source when not visible", so the signer stays connected between scenes.
  4. Drag the source into place; it is transparent already.

CasparCG

  1. Play the link as an HTML producer on a layer above the programme:
  2. PLAY 1-20 [HTML] "https://www.usesigna.org/overlay/…#ovt_…"
  3. Move and scale it with MIXER 1-20 FILL 0.62 0.3 0.36 0.68, and take it off with STOP 1-20.

Vizrt, Ross XPression, Chyron PRIME

  1. Add the system's web/HTML element (Viz Engine's web page texture, XPression's HTML5 object, PRIME's HTML element) to a template.
  2. Set its address to the overlay link and its size to the output.
  3. Take the template on air on a layer above the programme, as you would a name strap.

Wirecast, TriCaster, Blackmagic ATEM

SystemHow
WirecastAdd Shot → Web Page, with the overlay link.
TriCasterUse the link as a browser source (LiveGraphics or a browser input), keyed above the programme.
ATEMATEM switchers don't show web pages: show the link full screen on a graphics computer (or a vMix/OBS machine) going into the switcher, with ?bg=00ff00, and key out the green with an upstream chroma key.

Recorded programmes and editors

In Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, use videos on a track above the programme, cut to the timing of your subtitles.

If your system can't show web pages

Any computer can: open the overlay link full screen in a browser with ?bg=00ff00 and bring that computer's output into your mixer, keyed. A direct video feed (NDI or SRT) for systems that need one is planned; tell us if you need it.

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