we have some connection issues with a firewire camera, it has a wonky connection and sometimes disconnects. Not a big problem, but when it disconnects, the shortcuts also change.

We made a shortcut on the numpad 4 for this cam, and when it disconnects, the shortcut numpad 4 selects the next input, which is the audio. If we then accidently press numpad 4 without noticing the cam got disconnected, the audio stops.

Is there a way to lock these shortcuts to 1 device only?

Hi,

In vMix 13/14 if you load a preset and the camera cannot be found, it will be added as an offline input
to make sure the shortcuts are all correctly preserved.

Can you describe how the input is being removed then perhaps I can see what solution might be available?

Regards,

Martin
vMix

It happens indeed when i remove the input. It's the only way for me to reset the connection. Often when this cam disconnects we are a bit in a rush to fix this, which was also the case yesterday. In this rush we didn't check the sound that was off because the shortcuts changed destination.

Right now the shortcuts seems to be tied to the spot the inputs have: the first on the left is nr1, the second nr2, the third nr 3, etc...

What would be cool, is that you could also lock a shortcut to a certain device. This way you can also move the input to another spot, without losing the shortcut to it, that would seem far more logical to me.