How to connect Vimeo to Inwista

Vimeo is where your videos live — Inwista is where the subtitles get made. Connect the two and you can publish finished subtitles straight onto your Vimeo videos as text tracks, and start new Inwista projects from videos already in your library, without downloading or re-uploading anything. One connection covers both directions.

Before you start

Connecting integrations requires a workspace administrator role and an active subscription (any paid Inwista plan). On the Vimeo side, importing videos requires a paid Vimeo plan — Vimeo's free plan doesn't provide access to the source files. Publishing subtitles works on every Vimeo plan, free included.

1. Connect your Vimeo account

Head to My workspace → Integrations, find the Vimeo card and click Connect. A Vimeo window opens: sign in if needed and approve the requested permission — it lets Inwista list your videos and manage their subtitle tracks, and nothing else. There are no API keys to copy; once you approve, the card shows Connected.

Inwista never sees your Vimeo password, and you can withdraw the permission at any time — either from the card in Inwista or from your Vimeo account's connected-apps settings.

2. Start projects from your library

In the new-project dialog, choose Vimeo under Or import from. Your videos are listed with their durations so you can pick the right one at a glance. Select a video and Inwista pulls it straight from Vimeo on the server side — nothing is downloaded to your device, and the project starts transcribing like any other upload.

If your Vimeo plan doesn't include file access, the picker will tell you — publishing subtitles to your videos still works as normal.

3. Publish subtitles to a video

When your subtitles are done, open the project and click Export. On the Transcript tab, tick Vimeo — subtitles in the Save to selector, pick the target video, and publish. The subtitles appear on the video as a text track in the project's language — and if you've translated the project, the language selected in the export dialog decides which track is published.

Made changes after publishing? Just publish again: Inwista replaces the existing track for that language, so the video always carries your latest version. Publish each translated language separately to build up multi-language subtitles on the same video.

Viewers can switch the subtitles on from the player's CC menu, and you can review the track in your video's settings on Vimeo under Distribution → Subtitles.

Disconnecting

Open Manage on the Vimeo card and click Disconnect — imports and publishing stop right away, while all subtitle tracks already published stay on your videos. You can also revoke Inwista's access from your Vimeo account at any time under Settings → Apps.