Is there a way with Zoom integration - or any plans to include - a way to bring in the muxed audio from the meeting in order to hear people in the meeting who are not pinned? You may not need to include that audio in the program, but you often need to hear non-participant staff during pre/post show. Or sometimes someone dials in with audio that is separate from their video so they are not sending an ISO audio feed, so utilizing the muxed audio is the only way to hear them.


Thanks,

Greg

Kross,

Just to refine what you said, zoom Business and Enterprise accounts have had HD and FHD available for the past few years and are not limited to 360p. As such, my group uses 1080p regularly. It is my understanding that some Pro licenses are having HD (720p) enabled these days.

There are ways to get 1080 - or at least 720 - enabled on your account without that type of investment. I suggest you start with an email to Zoom support making your case on why you are worthy of receiving it. Zoom also recently announced that you can get 1080 on a basic webinar license.

That said- and I could be wrong - but the video pins via the SDK may be 1080 capable regardless of your license.

The biggest downer of 1080 Zoom access is realizing how few Zoom callers have 1080 capable cameras.

Greg

Ok I got clarification on this. Max resolution is tied to the owner of the account hosting the meeting. So resolution does depend on your Zoom account type. Or your clients. Whomever is hosting.

vMix 27.0.0.44 Beta Released!

https://cdn.vmix.com/download/vmix27preview.exe
https://www.vmix.com/zoomplugindownload

Changes

* Fixed issue with Zoom audio when buses C-G are enabled.
* %/db tooltip now activates when using shortcuts on faders in addition to the mouse.

Audio Experiments

We thought we might enable some new audio features we have been tinkering with to get your feedback:

* Audio Bus Manager -> Found in the hamburger menu. Allow setting buses on/off for all inputs in one place.
* Bus Mixer -> Control Input volumes for each Bus independently
* PFL Mode -> Enable PFL mode on inputs to change Solo to monitor prior to the fader being applied.

Further information is available in the documentation.
https://www.vmix.com/help27/

I understand, and the only reason I clarified and added some other options is because you said

"...but unless I'm mistaken, the only way to get HD video into Zoom currently is with a Zoom Rooms license."

Thanks for adding these. I was in much need of them,

Zoom audio routing definitely fixed. No issues getting audio in with Bus C enabled. Music also sounds great. No echo cancellation on it.

Still need a way to hear other audio in the meeting besides just the ISO pins. For a stand-alone app, you really need to be able to hear all of the participants in a meeting without having to pin them as an input, so there needs to be a way to create an input of the full muxed audio from the meeting. Otherwise you still have to run another Zoom instance somewhere else.

greg

Yes the Bus Mix feature is SUPER useful! As is the Audio Bus Manager tool. Thank you!

The vMix Social integration with Zoom is also working very well.

As mentioned previously, in order for Social to truly be useful, we need the ability to log Social into a different meeting than the one pinned speakers are participating in. Most of us using a Zoom workflow stage the speakers separately from the audience, then broadcast a vMix packaged feed into a different meeting or webinar where the audience resides. The number one pushback on a vMix-type production into Zoom is that the speakers have no direct access to the audience chat and QA and we have to incorporate clunky work arounds to provide this information.

I understand there is a limitation with the SDK in that you may not be able to have two instances of it running...and if that's the case I am wondering if the Social app could be modified so that you could run it on a second vMix instance that is connected to the audience session, but send the data it gathers to the primary instance where it can be incorporated into the production? Or perhaps Social could become a stand-alone app that runs by itself on another machine, and the data it gathers can be shared by other vMix instances.

I would happily pay extra for a stand-alone social app that can gather this kind of data and distribute to one or multiple vMix instances.

Thanks for listening.

Greg