Captivate has the ability to bring in multiple sources of audio or audio/video into your broadcast and adjust within our Audio Mixer panel. There are also additional controls within the Shot Layout Properties panel which includes the option to override your Audio Mixer controls when necessary.
Setting up Your Audio Sources
Captivate will automatically recognize any audio sources that are plugged in to your device and turned on. These will populate in your Audio Mixer panel.
- You can also choose the Master Audio device you would prefer to be monitoring by right-clicking on the headphones or left-clicking the arrow.
- Add any additional audio sources into your project by right-clicking in the Project List > New > Live Audio/Video > Audio > and choose your source.
- Or go to Settings > Audio Monitor and select from the available sources.
- Repeat for all live audio sources you would like included in your broadcast.
- Mute any of your audio sources by press the headphone button or right-click.
When the headphones dim, audio is now muted. - Use the sliding arrow next to each source to set the desired level during your broadcast.
Mute Audio in Monitor
Utilize this option if you want to mute local audio in the monitor while still sending to the regular mixer. Each live audio source has an option in its properties to choose the behavior:
Check the box for audio to still be adjusted in the Audio Mixer panel, but muted in the local audio monitor.
Audio Follows Video
Pair an audio source with a specific video source, so the audio only plays with the video is live. This makes it easy to automate situations where there are a lot of audio sources paired with video sources and the desire is to only mix the audio in when the associated video is live.
The Audio Follows option in the properties addresses this. Click on the button to see your options:
This shows all available live video sources along with the “Always On” option.
You can:
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Always leave the audio on and mix it directly in the audio mixer.
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Only have it on when the selected video source is also live in the mixer.
Note that if you set up audio mixing using the automated mixing in shot layouts, it always overrides the audio following functionality.
HDMI Audio device
Now a specific audio output device can be assigned for the HDMI output.
In many cases, this means simply sending the audio to the same device that the video goes out, ensuring the audio is sent to that device via HDMI.
This is set in the Program Out menu setup for HDMI. Go to Program Out > HDMI > Audio > choose your HDMI audio source output:
Or you can select the audio output from within the HDMI settings window: