Hey Everyone,

Thought it would be great for people to post a photo and/or description of your vMix hardware/production setup. I know how we set our systems up but thought it would be nice to see how everyone else is using vMix in their environment.

Here are some photos of our production booth at our church. We normally have 2-3 people in the production booth as well as a camera man and sound engineer in the sanctuary. Our booth is completely separate from the sanctuary with a large window into the sanctuary.

We are using desktop capture for our projection computer feed and 2 DeckLink Mini Recorders and an Intensity Pro for our camera capture. We also periodically use Ableton Live to synchronize our music to our camera cuts using Midi-Keystroke converter to trigger vMix. We also use Ableton live to trigger our lights.

Computer: i7-4770k (3.9ghz)
Camera 1: Sony HDR-CX900
Camera 2: GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition (Drum Camera)
Camera 3: Canon HF-R20
Projection Software: EasyWorship
Audio Processing: Behringer x32 (32 channel multitrack live Pro Tools 11 session)
HDMI Splitter: OREI HD-108

Typical "run & gun" streaming project for us....Citgo wanted to stream Dr. Robert Ballard http://www.nautiluslive.org/ giving a lecture in their Houston center on Earth Day, so their offices and refineries around the world could watch. Fascinating and inspirational talk!

Today's rig was a custom Shuttle i7 box with Blackmagic and Avermedia capture cards, streaming out to Netbroadcasting.tv (CDN) via the Adobe Flash encoder at 1.4Mbps in SD (for re-projection). Audio and video was fed by their in-house AV team. Additional capture was off the in-house projection system; we're piggybacked through an Atlona anything to HDMI capture/scan converter box.

Playback confidence through the laptop. MP4 recording was made for backup, too.

I debating posting this in the Showcase. However I found it to be more about a hardware/configuration setup more than a production showcase. It can be moved if needed :)

-Seth

How could you use the GoPro Hero to stream directly to a PC?

Hi Nick, Look forward to some photos of your setup.
I am curious, Do you use a video hub to get video into pc1 and pc2 at the same time?

Also, Why use PC when you could take recording from pc 1, drag files into premiere and you're away or am I missing something?

Sounds like a very impressive setup though :)

Cheers
Bryan

Here is our configuration at my church:

3 Sony HXR-NX5U Cameras
2 BMD ATEM TVS (one for video mixing and the other is for our IMAG)
1 Vmix PC (C2Q 6600 overclocked, BMD Decklink Mini Recorder)
1 ATEM control PC
1 IMAG/ATEM PC
1 Soundcraft Spirit Live 24 mixer board receiving house feed and a few other feeds including a couple rafter mics (Dream is to sometime duplicate all mic channels and do a separate audio mix for video)

So we use the ATEM's for running all the camera switching and IMAG control. One primary reason for using an ATEM for IMAG was smooth fade in/out. Also have several channels to switch between so it provides a way to seamlessly transition. We went with an ATEM instead of Vmix for actual camera switching out of the fear of depending on a single PC to never hiccup or worse during a broadcast as well as keeping latency to a minimum for IMAG (we have perhaps only a frame or 2 of latency out of the projectors with the video going from cameras to ATEM1 to ATEM2 to projectors, its very good). The ATEMs seem to be rock solid and even if the control computer goes down, another is available to keep things running (for those unaware, the ATEMs don't need a computer to run, just need something to send them the commands, generally a computer).

Vmix comes in as our streaming and recording controller. We put titles on in Vmix, run recorded programming to fill gaps in the live program, record the service for DVD distribution/archive as well as web archive accessible on our site, and stream the service live, all out of Vmix. It is the perfect solution for this use and we are more than happy with it. If IMAG isn't a concern I think Vmix is superior in value and straight up superior all around to everything else on the market that is anywhere near it in price. So many fantastic bells and whistles that work well and a defined changelog to see what changes have been made as updates roll out (as opposed to BMD's infamously vague changelogs... "Many bugfixes and enhancements".