Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on a desktop application called DJ HTML Creator that lets you visually design and animate HTML templates for CasparCG (also works with vMix and OBS).
Instead of hand-coding HTML/CSS/JS, you get a familiar motion graphics workflow — think After Effects-style timeline with keyframe animation, but everything exports as a single self-contained HTML file ready for CasparCG.
Key features:
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Visual timeline editor with keyframe animation (position, scale, rotation, opacity) and easing curves (ease in/out, bezier)
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Text layers with full styling (fonts, colors, outlines, shadows, gradients, letter spacing, background), including Fit Width — automatically scales long text to fit a defined area, perfect for dynamic name supers
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Dynamic text & images via CasparCG
update()— just name your layers and update them live from your playout system -
Crawl / ticker text with adjustable speed and direction
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Shape layers (rectangles, circles, pen tool paths with bezier curves)
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Mask system with feathering, animation, and invert — great for reveal animations and shaped cutouts
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Effects — blur, drop shadow, sepia, brightness, contrast, hue rotate, grayscale, and more
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Nested compositions — build reusable components and nest them inside other compositions
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PSD import — import Photoshop files as separate layers or merged
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Video layers — MP4 and MOV (ProRes 4444 with alpha channel)
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Image sequences, atlas/sprite sheets support
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Single HTML file export — everything embedded, just drop it into CasparCG and go
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Text animation presets — pre-built character-by-character animations you can apply with one click
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Intro/outro support — set a STOP marker to define where the template holds, then trigger outro on
stop()
Export is optimized for CasparCG’s CEF renderer — frame-accurate playback with full play() / stop() / update() control.
I’ve already used this application to create broadcast graphics for international sports productions, so most of the features have been tested and refined in real-world, on-air environments. That said, the application is still actively in development — there are certainly things that need to be polished and improved, and new features are being added regularly.
I’d love to hear your suggestions on what functionality would be most useful for your broadcast workflows. Your feedback will directly help shape the direction of development!
Download: https://djhtmlcreator.com
Free 7-day trial included so you can test everything before purchasing.
The app runs on Windows and the exported templates work in CasparCG Server 2.x, vMix, and OBS Browser Source.
Looking forward to your feedback!
