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Live video communication. Redefined.

The Captivate family of products delivers cost-effective broadcast-quality graphics, live camera switching, and streaming for television stations, sporting events, businesses, classrooms, event production studios, religious gatherings, town halls, virtual/hybrid meetings, and many more. Invigorate your meetings and presentations with visually appealing data and information. Create stunning graphics in minutes with Captivate Present.

Live graphics and data visualization for the boardroom, classroom, and more.

Captivate Present delivers affordable, broadcast-quality graphics and video overlays for businesses, classrooms, event production studios, religious gatherings, town halls, virtual meetings, and more.

+ Corporate Communications

Improve your communication and engage your audience with a broadcast-quality live production. With Captivate, you won’t have to be a TV network to broadcast high-end, professional graphics to your employees, clients, or advisory board. Now anyone, in any organization, can create beautiful, compelling graphics with the Captivate family of products. learning curve—all at an affordable price.

+ Education

Capture your students’ attention with Captivate, the budget friendly live solution for the classroom, on-campus studio, or athletic department. Whether you’re teaching live graphics creation or producing an educational or athletic live stream for your school, Captivate meets all your presentation needs.

+ Worship

Inspire and invigorate your congregation with polished video graphics. With Captivate, you can easily integrate into ProPresenter or Easy Worship and deliver lyrics, scripture, announcements, and sermon notes as animated graphics right on the screen. Captivate allows you to be creative and engaging without a steep learning curve—all at an affordable price.

+ Government

Engage and inform your constituents with live video outreach, essential for today’s government. With Captivate, government agencies at all levels—federal, state, county, and municipal—can produce professional live broadcasts with a minimum of expense or effort. Captivate fits into all government budgets and provides an easy way to accomplish your live broadcast needs quickly and affordably.

+ Live Events

Enthrall the crowd with a high-end network feel—without breaking the bank. With Captivate, you’ll elevate your production value with live graphics, dynamic data inputs, and social media integration. Whether your event is in-person or virtual, Captivate brings broadcast graphics to every live production suite.

Save time and look great doing it.

Cut production time and beat the learning curve with Captivare Present. Easily prepare and queue your lower thirds, crawls, and more by connecting to Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, RSS feeds, clocks, and more.

+ Deliver dynamic graphics.

Leverage 3D animated graphics for corporate events, presentations, lectures, house of worship services, or other live events using one channel of NDI or SDI key/fill.

+ Connect to your data.

Quickly connect your graphics to Google Sheets and Slides, Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, RSS feeds, clocks, and more to simplify your pre-show preparation and cut your production time.

+ Access ready-to-use designs.

Customize a full suite of lower thirds, crawls, main titles, motion bugs, and more. Even import your own graphics from Adobe Photoshop.

+ Integrate with leading solutions.

Easily work with leading streaming solutions including Wirecast, NewTek, Broadcast Pix, EVS, Lumantek, vMix, Blackmagic Design, Roland, Panasonic, and more.

+ Control with a Stream Deck.

Connects directly with the Elgato Stream Deck and displays your title graphics directly on the keys for fast visual graphics control.

+ Create multiple graphics from just one.

Build numerous custom iterations of the same graphic with a built-in spreadsheet interface. Customize unlimited sets of text, images, and colors for a single graphic with a simplified workflow that rids the need to duplicate and re-edit your existing graphics.

+ Automated graphic scaling.

Create flexible graphics that resize intelligently to text length. Additionally, design accents and other visual elements can be set to reposition automatically so that the style of your graphic is never compromised.

+ Deliver slideshows through your broadcast.

Incorporate slide deck presentations into your broadcast using NewBlue’s Google Drive integration. Operate your presentation as a live graphic with access to playback controls for all your slides.

What’s new

Zoom and Teams production workflow.

Deliver engaging and professional virtual or hybrid experiences for guests and minimize the apps you need to use by hosting meetings and webinars directly from Captivate.
Automatically bring your meeting participant’s live video and name into fully dynamic Picture-in-Picture graphics.
Display in stunning picture-in-picture graphics, overlays, or full-screen layouts.

New Live Chat, Comment, and QA Controller.

Drive all your chat sources in one place with the intuitive Chat controller.
Along with Zoom or Teams messages and QA, incorporate Facebook comments, YouTube Live comments, and X posts into your on-air graphics, enhancing audience engagement and interaction.

Virtual live video.

Effortlessly control multiple live video and audio sources from Zoom, webcams, PTZ cameras, and more for easy switching and mixing.
Gain unprecedented control of media playback by using imported video clips as a switcher source, shot layout element, or mapping to PiP graphics. This feature adds versatility to your live production capabilities.

ATEM enhancements.

Our streamlined package export/import setting now includes AE projects, MOGRTs, images, video, audio, and more, ensuring reliability and ease when transferring or sharing projects.

Support for Bitfocus Companion 3+.

Perform multiple actions in Captivate, in parallel with other tools, with the push of a button (updated to support latest Companion version).
Set, increment or toggle values for any variables in Captivate graphics with the push of a button.

Reliable project transfers.

Our streamlined package export/import setting now includes AE projects, MOGRTs, images, video, audio, and more, ensuring reliability and ease when transferring or sharing projects.

New Global Account management.

Streamline integrated third-party workflows by managing internet accounts and storing/sharing credentials across data controllers in one centralized panel.

Captivate: A new and improved Titler Live.

Titler Live 5 has been renamed Captivate to better reflect what it can do for you today. Like Titler Live, Captivate provides sophisticated data-driven graphics, overlays, and layouts that works beautifully with today’s leading video production and streaming tools. But Captivate also offers a cohesive one stop workflow for building beautiful productions on its own. Now you can have it both ways.

Step through complex productions with ease.

By combining multiple graphics with a video switching choice into a single Shot Layout to make complex production an effortless reality. Transition between multi layer Shot Layout configurations with just a mouse click or a StreamDeck button push.

Video switching and audio mixing.

Effortlessly control multiple live video and audio sources from Zoom, webcams, PTZ cameras, and more for easy switching and mixing. Energize your production with NewBlue’s extensive library of Transition FX.

Transition effects and stingers.

Unleash the power of the NewBlue TotalFX suite to infuse your content with a vast array of effect transitions or use our customizable graphics templates as stinger transitions.

RTMP and additional platform streaming.

Quickly stream your content to a diverse range of services or leverage the versatility of the generic RTMP protocol.

Zoom and Microsoft Teams integration.

Harness the power of our new Zoom and Microsoft Teams integration. Automatically bring your meeting participant’s live video and name into fully dynamic Picture-in-Picture graphics. Connect to Zoom chat and Q&A in real-time to engage with fully dynamic graphics.

Streamline Your Workflows

Captivate Present delivers new workflows and controls to help you get started quickly and easily make changes on the fly. Flexibly design, set up, and play out your graphics in one complete solution.

Design. – Drag and drop included design templates onto your playlist or import your own designs from Adobe® Photoshop®. Flexibly edit text, color and images right in the Edit/Preview window.
Connect. – Easily connect data to your graphics to streamline your set up. Drag and drop data inputs or variables onto any part of a design to repurpose it as you need. Even connect multiple inputs to a design.
Go live. – Quickly make animated updates to your graphics on the fly. Deliver one live graphic on a single channel.

Bring your data to life.

Captivate Present lets you easily connect to data to create dynamic visuals for any stream or broadcast.

Connect spreadsheets, RSS, and more.

Connect to Google Slides and Sheets, Excel spreadsheets and tables, RSS feeds, clocks, and more.
Leverage spreadsheet autoplay mode to run-through your lower thirds and crawls.

Integrate with social media.

Engage your audience with comments, tweets, and Facebook comment and reaction polling.
Combine your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube feeds into one to easily manage your show.
Quickly queue your most relevant comments and posts into a custom social playlist.

Integrate with ProPresenter and EasyWorship

Transpose your ProPresenter playlists to fully animated and beautifully designed slides and lower thirds. Captivate reads all your scripture, lyrics, and sermon data to provides an easy-to-use workflow that displays all your data as real-time on-air graphics

Quickly select different slides from your ProPresenter project to be paired with graphics from Captivate.
Combine the ProPresenter integration with live video Picture-in-Picture graphics to display live video along with any scripture readings lyrics, and more.
Leverage a volunteer friendly interface that requires little setup and easy to use playout controls for all your graphics.

WeatherCast Add-On

WeatherCast offers real-time, location-specific weather forecast graphics.
Ideal for live broadcasts, WeatherCast seamlessly integrates into Captivate, offering customizable hourly or daily weather updates from around the world in over 50 languages.

It’s included with any Captivate Broadcast Subscription or Perpetual License with an active Maintenance Plan, or as an add on for Present or Sport.

More info on WeatherCast can be found on the Captivate Broadcast product page.

Learn more about WeatherCast

Features and specifications

Control

Real-time playout
Live animated updates per layer
Spreadsheet and crawl autoplay mode
Hotkey functionality

Outputs

1 channel
15 total layers
3 simultaneous live layers
NDI
SDI key/fill (Blackmagic and AJA)
HDMI
OBS

Inputs

Google Sheets and Slides NEW
Excel spreadsheets
CSV spreadsheets
Text files
RSS feeds
Clocks
Facebook Live comments

Design

3D animated graphics
Animations, effects & transitions
Adobe Photoshop import
Title Designer interface
Lower thirds
Crawls
Main titles
Motion bugs

Which version of Captivate is right for you?

	Captivate Present	Captivate Sport	Captivate Broadcast
Simultaneous live layers	3	3	Unlimited
Real-time playout interface
3D Animated graphic design interface
Map Live Video onto graphics
Shot layouts.
Video switching and transitions.
Audio Mixing.
Output to Zoom.
Direct After Effects integration.
Instant Replay.
Downstream keying.
LIVE SOURCES
Live audio/video inputs(USB, HDMI,NDI, etc.)	No SDI/Decklink	No SDI/Decklink	All
Image, video, audio clip playback
Built-in PTZ controls
Zoom/Teams video and audio in.
Simultaneous on-air Zoom/Teams sources.	1	1	Unlimited
DATA CONTROLLERS - GENERAL
Custom clock/system clock.
Excel(Cloud)/Google Sheets
Spreadsheets(Local XLSX/CSV.
Zoom/Teams data(chat, participants).
RSS Feeds.
Easy Worship/ProPresenter Controllers.
JSON & XML Readers.
Tables from Spreadsheets(Block Mode).
WeatherCast Controller.
Custom API to support additional data sources.
DATA CONTROLLERS - SPORT
Built-in Scoreboard Control Interface.
Scorebird integration.
Daktronics/DataLink scoreboards integration.
StatCrew scoreboards/stats integration.
Sportzcast scoreboards integration.
Direct serial hardware integration(Daktronics).
DATA CONTROLLERS - CHAT
Zoom/Teams Chat, Zoom Q&A.
Facebook live comments.
X posts.
YouTube live chat.
DESIGN
Fully customizable graphic templates.	500+	500+	950+
3D animated graphics.
Over 500 animations, effects, transitions.
EPS vector importer.
Crawls
Rolling Credits.
Automated graphic scaling.
Adobe Photoshop importer.
Adobe After Effects Importer.
UHD 4K resolution.
CONTENT.
Main title templates.
Lower third templates.
Motion bug templates.
Social media and polling templates.
Table templates.
Picture-in-picture templates.
Sports and scoreboard graphic templates.
Corporate graphic templates.

Software

macOS 10.15 and later
M1 Mac supported via Rosetta
Windows 10

Hardware

2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD)
4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM or greater recommended for HD)
1.82 GB drive space for installation

GPU

2015 or later
1GB VRAM (2GB+ recommended)
902Mhz base clock (1506Mhz+ recommended)

Inputs

Any switcher with NDI inputs
Any keying switcher with HDMI inputs
Any switcher with SDI key/fill inputs (Blackmagic Design and AJA cards)

What’s new in Captivate December 2024

Media Sequencer

This dedicated tool simplifies complex workflows and maximizes creative potential with features such as:

Set In/Out Points: Adjust media clips with pinpoint accuracy.
Customizable Transitions: Add transitions with tailored timing for polished results.
Dynamic Playback Sequences: Build and randomize sequences for unique visual storytelling.
PiP Integration: Map media clips and sequences directly to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) graphics for a cohesive presentation.

Expanded Media Clip Support

Broader Format Compatibility: Effortlessly import and play a wider variety of media clips.
Alpha Channel Support: Add advanced transparency options to video clips, enabling stunning overlays and transitions.

Graphics Optimizer

automatically enhances the performance of custom-built graphics. This ensures smoother playback and a professional finish, even in the most demanding live production environments.

Shot-Centric Workflow

Toggle between shot-centric and project-centric modes

Improved Integration for Seamless Collaboration

Enhanced integrations with popular platforms make Captivate 2024 a robust solution for modern media production:

Zoom Enhancements:
- Mute Zoom call audio directly within Captivate Monitor.
- A simplified interface by removing unnecessary meeting hosting and monitoring functions.
Teams Integration:
- Streamlined meeting joining for an improved user experience.

These updates make it easier than ever to incorporate virtual meetings into your productions, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free workflow.

Refined Stability and Performance

NewBlue Captivate December 2024 addresses over 30 stability and performance issues, delivering a more reliable platform for creators. Key improvements include:

Enhanced media file support and playback reliability.
Fixed issues with inconsistent media looping and blank frames.
Improved SDI and ATEM workflows for live production.
Resolved sluggish drag-and-drop operations in the Designer.
Faster and more reliable Google Sheets reconnections and XML/JSON updates.