I have a virtual set with three main inputs, a presenter plus guest one and two.

I would like to feature two talking heads on a split screen, i.e. select two areas of the virtual set and put them together on multiview. This is proving harder than you might expect.

I’ve tried creating two virtual inputs from the main set, each one a close-up of the respective talking head I need, and combining them into a new blank “colour” input via multiview.

However, Position controls on the new input apply to the *entire set*, not just to the isolated area. You can’t combine two selected areas of a virtual set in this way. Nor can you crop.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Yes a visual would be helpful as often with vMix there is more than one way to skin a ....

OK, here with pictures...

1. Full set
2. Desired result, i.e. multiview of presenter and one guest.
3. Two virtual inputs created from main virtual set, the first showing the presenter, the second showing guest.
4. When virtual inputs above are combined into a new input, it is impossible to crop either of them. They will zoom to the full set but not crop, which makes the desired effect impossible.

Thanks for any help!

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1. Full set


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2. Desired result, i.e. multiview of presenter and one guest.


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3. Two virtual inputs created from main virtual set, the first showing the presenter, the second showing guest.


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4. When virtual inputs above are combined into a new input, it is impossible to crop either of them. They will zoom to the full set but not crop, which makes the desired effect impossible.

This was just a quick mock-up not even using all layers or combine them hence for example didn't make them overlap . If you combine the right layers etc you can achieve exactly what you want

While this is of course all down to personal opinion , i for one do not like what you try to achieve visually

@ AgentPete

You will need to do your "cropping" on each layer of the "source" set as you cannot crop layers from another MultiView in a MultiView (as per my instructions above).


Ice

Hello. I came to this bug too. To be clear dont know if it is a bug or not a feature. But after 4 years and vmix 27 is out, this unfortunatelly not fixed. So the only solution if we work with a vrtual set and we need to do traditional way layer like this is impossible and need to do, a lot of workaround? Is there a new way to do this? test video1.png (106kb) downloaded 0 time(s).