Today we tried to realize a couple of novel ideas for doing live sign interpretation. The basic setup, adding a sign interpreter with chroma key, was just a breeze (with some trimming help from Martin, thanks!)

But switching between interpreting live video and pre-recorded material posed a little challenge regarding audio. We managed to fix a workaround, but that was very inflexible and cumbersome to setup. This motivates the first feature request below.

My second request is not really motivated by similar issues, but I believe it is related in terms of design and implementation.


AUTOMIX AUDIO SOURCE

It would be nice if the audio settings for each input module offered a way to define from which of the input modules audio should be taken when audio is automatically mixed. Currently (v12) vMix takes the audio from what is in program, and if that is an input with multiview, that means no/wrong audio. If possible to implement, I think the best place to put this feature is as "Automix audio source" (dropdown) behind the module's "Audio settings" button.


SELECTABLE AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE

Today the only way to mix audio from multiple input modules is by using vMix's internal mixer. It's nice, but difficult to manage with a mouse, uses (a lot of) screen estate, and has limited functionality (although v13 is promised to offer improvements). So, many of us use external mixers. This works, but not always well for audio sources who's audio is not individually available outside vMix (i.e. Video, FLASH/RTMP, and Streams).

Therefore I would like to be able to define in the input module if audio should be forward to vMix audio, or any other available audio output device. For example implemented as "Audio output" (dropdown) behind the module's "Audio settings" button.

I also support this idea of having a kind of audio matrix. This basic idea is core of many other entries here in the forum, they all deal with the problem of selecting the "fitting" audio to the video input (or output).

Our main problem is to select correct audio for the video delay of a live camera. For our highlight clips we need the atmosphere of the stadium but there is no way to save the audio of the main camera within the delay clip. The idea of having a dropdown-box here seems to be a very good solution for this purpose as well.

Regards
Karsten

I know and I already tested new preview release (13.0.0.99), but there is still no possibility to have any audio source for a video delay. The new engine is a step forward and there are some useful features (especially for our live-streaming project). But the most important function for us is to record at least the audio of the camera source the video delay is related to.

If you are not in sports business you may have no interest or do not see the advantages of this point. We have a lot of customers in professional sports and they all use our solution (based on vMix) for their stadiums. They all bother about this missing possibility because it would ease the pain of doing a quick rough-cut of all highlights after the game. The highlight clips are produced during the game for Stadium-TV but there is no audio (atmosphere) available. For internal use at halftime show it is no problem (comes up with music then). But for transmission to tv-stations you can not use these clips. This means double work and extra effort because audio has to be cut from original sources in additional programs (like Final Cut or Premiere).

I really hope that this little step could be done soon.

Regards
Karsten