Martin, I don't know what is going on here but when I go to download the latest version of vMix 14.0.0.93 I am getting a McAfee warning see below:

Wow that was quick, thanks Martin.

Buy the way have you herd that Mark and Vance at StudioTech TV are closing down for a while, they cannot carry on as they are due to lack of money to keep the show going each week so they are thinking of re-hashing the show to maybe once a month.

Hi Martin,

Curious about the way that vMix now sets deinterlace automatically.
We generally set to 'Bob' - it seems to give us the best results.
However - it doesn't (seem to) appear - even as an option anymore, or have I missed it somewhere ?

Am happy to consider alternative solutions to achieve the same result - as it is, we just reverted to ver 13.

Thanks,

Pete

Hi Pete,

It's all automatic now in vMix 14, so you don't have to worry about it.
If you set the output frame rate in vMix to 50p or 59.94p as you did before and add a camera with 59.94i etc it will use bob deinterlacing.

Regards,

Martin
vMix

I think I have found a bug (14.00.86) that is related to the number of Displays that can be used (edition related). This causes a minor problem for me, as has been discussed in Fullscreen sort of disables Windows 8.1 taskbar (if hidden).

The trial version of vMix offers two Displays (Settings/Display). If a setting is made in the trial version, the .config somehow remembers that even when vMix is changed to paid to an edition that only allows one Display. True, the Settings/Display then only offer a setting for one Display. But the Fullscreen drop down button somehow thinks there are two.

My problem is that if I setup for one Display, and configures a monitor for it, clicking on Fullscreen sort of turn two Displays on, of which one is hidden behind vMix - and disables mouse-over the Windows taskbar.

Of course I can set settings to Default, and recreate all settings. (A tedious task on all of our machines). I've tried to look in the .config if i could manually change something, but have not found what.

In any case, I believe the current behavior might cause problems for others too. Given that trying with the trial first, and then purchase is a common behavior.

A few minor issues on WMV streaming.

My client wants to have a live-stream out (Internet) AND a separate internal stream (intranet). So I want to use the WMV streaming option.

This works great but I have encountered some minor annoying issues - bugs:

1. when changing a setting in WMV streaming box for a second time - you get a warning that this can not be done. To solve it you have to go to one of the other recording settings change and save something and go back to WMV streaming settings: then you can change settings again.

2. the settings under WMV and WMV streaming are the same: if you change one the other will change as well.

3. when stopping a WMV stream and starting again a message comes up that the port is already occupied. But it is not! You have to restart VMIX to be able to start streaming again. Very annoying...

4. I ran into some latency issues using higher resolution and stream rates. Maybe something to do with a buffer running full. Now testing on 720p 2Mbps WMV1 and this seems OK and acceptable quality.

5. the incoming audio was dropped a few times, maybe also to do with the buffer / latency issue...

PS wmv streaming is great in venues where it can be used to stream to a green room or other location where there is access to the same network.
Stefan

A small update to vMix 14 (14.0.0.97) has been uploaded to the web site

Changes:

* Fixed Fullscreen 2 issue when downgrading back to vMix HD
* AVI codecs now sorted alphabetically
* Added support for Grass Valley HQX codec which is now free to download:
http://www.grassvalley.com/products/hqx_codec

HQX is a good alternative to CineForm now that the free codec can no longer be used for encoding.

Martin,
In the release notes for v14 you wrote "Updated folder browse dialog for inputs such as Photos". This is for sure nice, but I desperately (well, sort of) would like to have something that made it easier to manage multiple vMix productions.

I guess that many vMix users work in a studio, or at some facility (eg a church) to produce one production. But we, and probably many more, do all kinds of different productions for various customers. In other words, we are project based. And each project needs to be prepared, executed, and archived.

While preparing we can typically build from an old project. For example, always having an Input with an image (eg start.png) which is simply replaced with a different image for the new customer. Or, a title Input that just needs a different xaml (and related background graphic).

Afterwards we need to archive all the settings, files, recordings, etc used. Sometimes to be used for another project with the same customer. Sometimes to fix something that went wrong, very rarely ;)

One big obstacle for us is that we cannot just simply copy and old project folder and replace the various file content, because vMix uses absolute file addressing. I just tried to edit a
"c:\vmix projects\project01\test.vmix" file and replace for example "c:\vMix projects\project01\images\start.png" with "images\start.png". Did not work. If it had, I could just copy the content of the project01 folder to a project02 folder and replace the content of the files used.

True, in theory it is possible to Change the Input and point to the new file. Actually, that is how we currently do it. But trust me, in practice it is a tedious process and errors easily happen. Like when everyting looks good in vMix during preparation. But, someone forgot to actually Change from an old image file to the new one. And, on the day of the production all the graphic files are missing. Simply because the original project folder has been moved to an archive.

Some of us have discussed this, and similar issues (eg Relative path for inputs, or a Working directory).

If possible, please share your thoughts on this matter.

Thanks.

Hi Richard,

The relative paths request is noted, the implementation side of things is a bit tricky so it isn't high on the list at the moment.
It might be rolled into some advanced preset options such as saving the global settings files with the preset etc.

Regards,

Martin
vMix

Hi Martin, the problem almost back again....
it disables the deinterlace processing of magewell HDMI quad card, once again.... :(
you have to manualy activate it and save new preset.
the preset opens correctly , this time the deinterlace on the Magewell card is still on.

another problem:
Was streaming live with the internal FFMPEG encoder... had ISP problems... crashed Vmix.....
lost the recording avi file.... will try to recover it....

Please fix it on 14.0.0.102 version :)

Best regards,

PFBM