Hi all,

I'm just wondering how viable it would be for me to send 3 external outputs through a Decklink Duo 2 in an external PCI-e thunderbolt enclosure, plugged into my Asus Tuf 16 FX608JPR Laptop.

The three outputs are for the following:
- Main Stream with English overlays, environmental audio, and commentators
- Clean feed with English overlays and environmental audio only
- Clean feed with French overlays and environmental audio only

Firstly, I'm curious to know how well my machine will handle all of these outputs, and whether it's even an option to run 3 externals with this setup.

Secondly, I'm interested to know if anyone could suggest the best and most stable way to set this up. My idea was just to selectively use audio busses and overlay visibility in the external output settings, while using my Streamdeck XL to overlay French and English graphics at the same time (on different overlay layers).

Thanks!

Hi,

it would be great to have some more feedback how well external enclosures work for PCI.

For your second question: I like to use seperate Mix inputs to prepare the output signals. There you can overlay things and control them from the Streamdeck. In outputs, you assign the input number of the submix to the output. Because you can remote control this, you could even have more mix inputs which you send dynamically to the outputs. (ie Sports Game Setup and post game interview setup).

Audio busses can be assigned dynamically to the outputs as well.

Take some time to look into the Telestrator function of vMix. There you can build some sort of "submix control" web page with touch sensitive multiviewer and shortcut buttons. Complex to set up, but great tool to outsource some control tasks to another operator.

Good luck, let us know how you proceed please.

Chris