KeyfillBroadcast graphics and playout, in one app
Design animated lower thirds, scoreboards and full screens, run them live from your rundown, and send fill and key to your switcher, over SDI or NDI®.
Works withBlackmagic DeckLinkUltraStudioNDIATEM switchersvMix · OBSStream Deck · CompanionCSV and JSON feeds
Keyfill · Sunday Night Gridiron
How it reaches air
Every graphic leaves as a fill and a key
That's where the name comes from. The fill is the graphic in colour. The key is its shape in white on black, and tells your switcher which parts to lay over the camera. It's how broadcast graphics have always gone to air, and Keyfill sends both over SDI at your show's frame rate. Over NDI the two travel as one picture with its see-through, for vMix, OBS or any NDI switcher to key.
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Walt Brannigan
Head coach · Harbor City AdmiralsKey SDI 1
A card, NDI or a browser
Fill and key over SDI to your switcher's keyer, the same outputs over NDI with who's watching them, or a browser source for OBS and vMix.
Design
Build your show's graphics
A 1920 × 1080 canvas, a timeline, and the parts that change on air marked as fields. Build it once, then fill in the names on air.
166 templates
Lower thirds, score bugs, tickers, full screens and stingers to start from, in your show's theme.
Animation that looks broadcast
In, Out and Loop timelines, motion presets, motion blur and a graph editor for the moves that need it.
Graphics that fit
Bars that stretch to the name you type, clocks that run, crawls that scroll, and Photoshop and Lottie files brought straight in.
Every move on a graph
Key a layer on its In, Out and Loop, then shape how each move eases on its curve.
Gradients you can see
Each colour is a marker on a strip: drag it to give it more of the bar, or move a diamond to change where two meet.
A show in folders
Every graphic as a picture, sorted by kind on its own, and folders for Pregame, Halftime or whatever your show needs.
Playout
Run it from the rundown
The producer's running order down the left, what's next beside what's on air, and one button between them. Check it, then press Space.
See it before it goes out
Whatever you pick waits in Next, drawn exactly as it will air, with the name it's showing and how long it stays up. Take puts it on air; Delete takes it off.
- Bugs on switches that stay on through the show
- A clip waiting for the director on its own gold line
- Faults said in words, like No fill, never just a red light
A rundown you can build in minutes
Type a graphic's name into a line and it's a cue. Paste the producer's sheet straight from a spreadsheet. Number cues the way your show does, and type a number on air to jump to it.
- Segments, notes and timed follow-ons (“2 s after 205 ends”)
- Print it for the director’s desk
- Open it on a second screen
Scores and clocks in one place
The score, the game clock and the down live in Variables. Press +6 and every graphic showing the score changes at once, the scoring play logged with it.
- A game clock that runs on its own
- Live CSV and JSON feeds for stats
- Open it on another computer for a stats operator
Source
Packages on their own output
Clips play on a separate Source output for the switcher to cut to, with the time left big enough to read from across the room.
Roll or cue
Roll a clip now, or hold it on its first frame so it plays the moment the director cuts to it.
Playlists
Through, looping, or waiting at each clip. Trim in place, or make clips from a long recording.
Loudness, handled
Every clip is measured as it comes in and brought to −24 LKFS with one click.
Specifications
What you need, and what it does
- Mac
- macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon
- Video output
- Blackmagic DeckLink and UltraStudio over SDI, and NDI over the network
- Outputs
- Fill and key, Source with its sound, and Preview, on SDI, over NDI, or both at once
- Formats
- 1080p at 60, 59.94, 50, 30, 29.97 and 25; 720p at 59.94 and 50.
- Switchers
- Blackmagic ATEM, over the network (optional)
- Control
- Keyboard, Stream Deck through Bitfocus Companion
- Imports
- Photoshop (.psd), Lottie, images, video, fonts
- Data
- Typed tables, CSV and JSON feeds, live variables
- Without a card
- Send over NDI, add Keyfill to OBS or vMix as a browser source, or open each output in a window
Questions
Frequently asked
Is it really free?
Yes. Keyfill is free to download and use for any show, with no account, no watermark and no subscription.
Do I need a video card?
No. Keyfill sends its graphics over NDI, with their see-through, to vMix, OBS, a TriCaster or any NDI receiver on your network, and OBS and vMix can also take it as a browser source. You'll need a DeckLink or UltraStudio to send fill and key over SDI to a switcher such as an ATEM.
Which switchers does it work with?
Any switcher with a keyer takes Keyfill's fill and key over SDI. With a Blackmagic ATEM on the network, Keyfill can also cut to its clips, turn the graphics key on, and name the multiview inputs.
Can I bring in graphics I've already made?
Photoshop files come in with their layers, Lottie animations play as they are, and images, videos and fonts drop straight onto the canvas.
Where are my shows kept?
On your computer. Export a show as a single .keyfill file to move it to another machine or keep a copy.
How do updates work?
Keyfill checks for new versions and installs them when you quit, never while something is on air.
Download
Get Keyfill 0.31
It opens on an example show, so you can put a graphic on air in your first minute. Free under the Keyfill licence.