Skip to main content

Using CaptionKit in FreeShow

Add captions to your FreeShow setup using CaptionKit displays.

James Hunt avatar
Written by James Hunt
Updated over a week ago

Set up a display and get the link

First choose between the 2 display types for showing captions in FreeShow:

Perfect for dedicated captions or translations monitors, where scrolling captions will take up the whole screen. Use the link to help put together your full screen display link.

Single-line captions with flexible styling options, perfect for lower thirds or subtitle style. Once you set up one of these displays, copy the link for the next step.

Add the display to FreeShow

CaptionKit uses FreeShow's Website item type, to display the live caption webpage within a presentation. This setup is quick and easy to configure and ensures that minimal changes are needed to your FreeShow presentation.

There are 2 popular options for adding CaptionKit to FreeShow:

Using FreeShow Overlays (recommended)

Overlays allow your captions to persist across multiple slides and can be loaded / cleared separately.

  • In FreeShow, create a new overlay and give it a label e.g. "Captions"

  • Right click the prop and select Edit, then click the Items tab near the top right of the edit page

  • Add a Website item, then grab the corner and resize the block to fit the full size of the slide.

  • In the right hand sidebar, paste the display link you copied earlier into the URL field, inside the Website tab. After a moment, your caption display will load.

  • Load captions onto your current presentation by clicking the "Captions" overlay

Adding to a single slide

  • In your FreeShow presentation, create a new slide or select an existing slide to add captions to, then right click and select Edit slide

  • Right click the prop and select Edit, then click the Items tab near the top right of the edit page

  • Add a Website item, then grab the corner and resize the block to fit the full size of the slide.

  • In the right hand sidebar, paste the display link you copied earlier into the URL field, inside the Website tab. After a moment, your caption display will load.

A couple of last notes

To test a display with example test, add ?text=Your example text to the end of your display URL. This will ensure you always have test on screen to test with.

Once you're done testing, just remove everything after the ? to ensure your display shows only live caption text.

Did this answer your question?