One thing that would be great to have is a way to disable the vmix video and output to Zoom similar to the "Mute Camera" and "mute mic" features in the actual zoom app. Being able to simply capture a zoom without sending anything is important to our workflow.

Thanks much!!

Very much appreciate your feedback. And you're correct. I could have been more thorough. I guess I thought there might be others that might have a similar request, especially with this version being so new. But, point taken.

I head up engineering and operations for a legislative television entity. We need to be able to capture zoom meetings as part of legislative hearings and have multiple vmix users of varying skill level. We need to not be a participant in the meetings, simply a "fly on the wall." While a black input and silent audio bus does work, it isn't ideal for a couple of reasons. 1) Having the camera and mic "muted" uses less bandwidth within a potentially crowded zoom meeting, 2) It looks "different" to the actual participants of the meeting than what they are used to seeing when a camera is turned off and, 3) There is not an easy way to confirm that we are NOT sending audio/video down the zoom. Simpily disabling or "muting" as in the actual Zoom software would be a nice feature. A great way to implement this might be within the right-click menu on the zoom input: "disable audio send" and "disable video send" or something of the sort.

Definitely an option...although sometimes the host has a hard time just getting the zoom meeting to work :-/

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We have mute/unmute, but no video toggle.

A number of Zoom press conferences expect media to have their cameras disabled within Zoom so less sophisticated/savvy users can simply select "Hide non-video participants" within the Zoom client, rather than figuring out spotlighting for their screen capture.

In that context, sending a blank screen is no different than sending a video, as Zoom considers anything with a camera on to be a video participant, even when the "video" is nothing.

The meeting hosts will generally set the meeting to default to cameras off, but sometimes they don't, and it becomes an issue that we can't do it ourselves, especially since there's an expectation that we have the functionality of the native Zoom client & trying to explain that there's no camera icon we can click doesn't really help when they don't understand the difference between Zoom the service and Zoom the application.