Open Captions typeface size is highly variable

[dopeghoti]

I am looking into this plugin and it looks quite potentially useful, but I am leaning toward open, rather than closed captions. However, there is something of a distracting effect on the GDI Text source the caption plugin feeds, whereby the first few words spoken will appear quite large in the text source in the scene, thus: and only eventually look more normally-sized as more words are transcribed:

Is this a shortcoming of the plugin that can be worked around, or am I missing something that I should have already seen in the settings of the Text Source in the Scene I am using to test Open Captions?

[willlllllio]

I can't really reproduce that on my side, the text is always the same size for me regardless of the amount of words for a default GDI Text source. Do you have some bounds scaling set in the transform settings or something like that, that's the only way I can get that behavior?

[dopeghoti]

Nothing too outlandish that I can think of on the Text Capture source: No special Filters on the Source either.

[basketdog]

Hi, just wanted to state that I was having the same issue with text scaling, but think I know what was happening. I'm on OBS version 29.1.2.

What I did to solve: -Add video source to be captioned (just a recording of a past livestream, something with text) -Setup closed captions as usual. Formatted how I prefer them. -Created GDI Text source. For whatever reason, the default seems to be 1px wide and I have no idea how many pixels tall. I tried manually rescaling the width and dragging up the text source, but I gave up before reaching the bottom. This is what led me to transform the source with 'fit to screen' in the first place, and the scaling/transforming of this source is what is causing these issues. -Right clicked Text source -> transform -> fit to screen -Set Open Captions destination as my text source. At this point, I was seeing the font alteration issue. -Right clicked text source -> transform -> reset transformation -At this point, the size of the source should be dictated by the font size. It was overly large for my surface (1920x1080), but was actually manageable to rescale by dragging a corner point, but best practice is still probably choosing a proper font size for your line length and output resolution. -No more text rescaling!

Once you see that the source itself is dynamically scaling, it becomes super obvious why constraining the text box in any way was causing the issue.

[seascape]

Thanks @basketdog! Beautifully explained and completely solved that same issue for me.

I, too, was like "why is the text source the size of a quantum dot?" when I first created it, and tried to reset the transform to be something more sensible. The correct procedure was counterintuitive.