You can display Wordly content on an exterior monitor for your attendee's viewing. Wordly can be displayed full-screen or can be overlaid on top of video to provide open subtitles for viewing.
You set this up in the Subtitle app – part of the Wordly Display product (https://display.wordly.ai/subtitle).
To customize your subtitle display:
- Set up the transcription/translation frame that displays the subtitles. This feature makes it simple to add video subtitles directly into your production workflow.
- (Optional) Edit the Wordly frame in video software.
- (Optional) Advanced Display options.
Prerequisites
- Session ID and passcode. Read Creating a session for information on how to obtain a session ID.
To customize a subtitle display
- Go to https://display.wordly.ai/subtitle.
- Enter the Session ID and Attendee passcode (if required) and click Start.
- Choose how the subtitles display with the following options:
- Position: Choose whether the subtitles display at the top or at the bottom of the screen.
- Number of Lines: Choose how many lines to display at a time: 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- Text Size: Choose the text size of the subtitle: small, medium, and large.
- Display Type: Choose how the subtitle displays. You can choose the following:
- High contrast: Displays yellow text on a black background. If you have strict accessibility concerns, choose High contrast mode.
- Luma key: Displays white text onto a dark background, so you can remove the dark background in luma key and overlay the subtitles onto another video or image.
- Chroma key: Displays text onto a green background, so you can remove the background and replace the background with another video or image.
- High contrast: Displays yellow text on a black background. If you have strict accessibility concerns, choose High contrast mode.
- Language 1: Choose the language in which the subtitles display.
- Language 2: (Optional) You can add a second language in which to display the subtitles. The second subtitle language displays to the right of the first subtitle.
- (Optional) Click COPY LINK to share the Subtitles settings options.
- Import the Wordly subtitles into your video editing software. Depending upon how your software operates, you'll bring the Wordly frame in as a video source (such as a camera) or via a browser.
- View the Wordly frame in the monitor that you plan to use. The frame may appear different, based on your computer's resolution, your monitor's resolution, and your computer's operating system text scaling.
- Adjust the size of the frame and the text size until the Wordly frame displays the way you'd like.
To edit the subtitle frame
Once you've set how you want your Wordly subtitle frame to display, you can display it on your monitor or with a projector. Or you can edit the subtitle frame in third-party software.
To edit the subtitle frame, bring the Wordly subtitle frame into the production video switcher or video software that you're using.
You can remove the Displaying Subtitle panel from the Wordly subtitle frame by cropping it within your video production system.
Advanced Display options
If you want to specify certain aspects of the subtitles, such as font color or background color, you will need to create the subtitle frame in the main Wordly Display feature (https://display.wordly.ai). For more information, read Display Wordly Captions on Screen.