Very excited about the the advancements in this area!

We currently broadcast live auto racing.

We run 3 PCs, 1-vMix 4K for switching, 1-vMIx 4K for replay and the third captures the program output directly into adobe premier for on the fly edits.

The system is working GREAT! Some thoughts:

1. Support for replay Jog Wheel, something similar to http://www.bhphotovideo....amp;is=REG&A=details

2. Automatically synced clips for replay

3. We DO NOT like the idea of this being a sperate product like vMix Replay. Please keep it part of the whole product. This is because we have our 2nd. PC ready to act as a back up switcher in the event of a PC1 failure. Having this redundancy is wonderful and should be considered by all serious broadcasters.

4. Ability to mark IN and OUT points on the fly to tell vMix where a Replay would begin and end. Then vMix would only save the footage marked but it would instantly be available from all camera angles.

5. We would NOT want the current video Delay feature to go away. It is working good enough and I can easily throw 8 HD sources at it. We have a boat load of RAM (64GB) in each PC but it is working very good!

6. Need a more intuitive way of telling vMix where and on what hard drives to save the clips.

7. "WARNING - OFF THE WALL IDEA" what if the replay interface looked similar to a timeline you'd see in adobe premier or other NLE. You'd keep your finger over the MARK IN POINT key and tap it every couple seconds to set the start capture point. Once something happened, you'd wait till the action stops, tap the OUT POINT MARKER and the NLE looking interface would show the clips stacked just like adobe premiere would when you're editing. You could use the job wheel or drag the CTI over the clips to scrub through the replay and hit the space bar to start playing or use J K L like you would in most NLEs. Then upon play back you use shortcut keys to switch the camera angle. Overall, I like the idea of making things work similar to popular NLE's like premier. Seems like many replay operators are also editors and this may make things much more intuitive for them. We chose vMix over vid blaster because it look familiar to what we were comfortable with.

8. Sounds like you are moving more towards a replay system not so dependent on RAM. If this is true, will we run into issues with write speed on a single HDD or SSD? Would we have to go back to having 8 drives in each PC? Also, if the replay records the whole event, this will suck up a ridiculous amount of space with 8 cameras during a 4 hour broadcast.

9. I also love the idea of easily sharing a replay clip on FB, Twitter etc! This could be very valuable.

Overall, we are SO THANKFUL we've found vMix! This product is amazing.

Have you tried vMix 14 Preview?
http://forums.vmix.com.a....aspx?g=posts&t=2656

A lot of work was put into providing better interlaced support.

hi martin,

what about a replay playlist where could be possible add extracts from all inputs based on specific seconds? (ex. camera1 - 30:25 to 30:35 , camera 2 - 30:25 to 30:35, program - 30:25 to 30:35) it would be very nice to see diferent angles of a single shot.

regards,

melody
www.espiritosanto.cc

There should be some kind of short cut so that if a particular clip is selected and showing in the "Preview Window" that I could assign a shortcut key to rename that clip. That way I could bring the clip up in the preview window, hit F12, type my new name and hit enter.

That way when the announcers ask for a certain clip I can easily find it by name and que it up.

I am concerned that if you try to please everyone* with the new Replay, it will be a fiasco. I think it will be impossible to please the one-man operator who wants a quick & easy replay, AND to please the professional who expects it to be a dedicated staff position due to the complexity and sheer CPU/HDD power needed.

Of course, you could do both... as two separate and distinct features/products. I would be willing to pay extra for the Professional Replay, but might expect that an easy one-man operated replay might be included in the base price of the version.


* everyone - novice broadcasters on one end to experienced broadcasters who are experts in professional instant replay systems.

That sounds really great Martin!

I think it would be really useful to have the option to detach the instant replay "module" from the main UI and put it on another monitor (just like the audio mixer).

In that case the one person operator wouldn't have to change the tabs and could handle things way faster.
And it would also make it possible to let 2 people work on the same machine, if your replay system actually works with a replay controller/jog wheel kinda thing.

I think that would be the best scenario to work with.

Btw: How many 1080p recordings would be possible at the same time with a single SSD? I mean speed-wise, not capacity-wise.

Keep up the good work!

Hi Martin,

Is there a chance to have the new Instant Replay add-on ready by end of the year?

Will you have some kind of way to automatise the entire process of replaying (normal speed and slow motion)and saving the instant replays from several live inputs? Everything based only on one click (Mark Out).

Thanks and waiting your reply.

Regards,

Emil.

Hi Martin,

Just curious. When will you be starting work on this new exciting replay version?
Thanks so much. Really enjoying my recent upgrade to vMix 4K :)

Regards Bryan

RJ,
When you add the Video Delay input you can change the delay time up to 2 minutes (120 seconds). I would not think this is affecting performance even though it is increasing the file buffer size. The video delays work really nice once you get the hang of how to use it. We do constant instant replays during the sporting events but it took me a little bit to get the hang of it. I am now trying to save any "great" Instant replay clips and that is where I am running into a little bit of an issue. I am running SSD drives with a 20 second replay buffer. It still takes longer than I would have thought to save the clip and I can miss recording another replay.

We are running 2 cameras for actual sport footage. One generally stays zoomed out for complete field coverage and the other is zoomed in following the ball to capture good replay footage. I will stop recording as soon as a good play happens, bring it to preview, que it up to the correct starting point and switch it to live.

What would be AWESOME is if the "starting point" of the replay was kept when it moves to live so that if I want it to loop back and play one more time, it would go back the correct starting point. As it is you either have to manually move the slider back (which the viewers are seeing) or go back to preview, que it, then back to live one more time for a second viewing.

If it is a good clip that you want to save, you have to click the SAVE button but you can not start recording again until the save is complete. This is another problem because the time to record could keep you from recording another great play while it is saving.

I suppose a possible workaround is to bring in to "delayed video" windows of the same camera view. If I stop one to que up the replay, the other "delayed video input" is still recording to capture yet another good replay action. I will try that this Friday and see how that goes :)

Tim

Emil,
You can only capture a source once for "delay" or "instant replay" (You can have multiple "delay inputs", each one is just from a different source). However, the vMix OUTPUT is one of the sources. So, if the video delay is of camera 1 and you are saving it, you can still capture the current camera one by using the Delay Capture of "vmix output". If Camera 1 is the "live camera" (also the vMix output), then it can still be captured thru the "vMix Output Source". For High School football I think this is adequate.

I am building a new PC that will be out main vMix console. I also upgraded to the Multicorder. After I get it built then we will do more testing on what can be done with recording and replays. I will most likely use the existing PC for recording multiple cameras (at least 2) if it will work ok. I purchased the vMix Telestrator from Njastad (a user here on the forum) but I have no idea how it works or how well it works. It was only $15 so nothing lost if it does not work well. My goal is to start letting the commentators run their own "instant replays" so they can que it up, telestrate on it, and then play it. That replay handled on the "commentator vMxi" would become another input for the "streaming vMix".

Oviously I will have to do some real world testing to see how and if it will really work well. With replays, commercials, and multiple cameras, and player overlays, it is already difficult to keep it error free :) Take care.

Tim