Hi Martin,

I am so so impressed by this replay system. This is going to be fantastic on final release.
Have been testing this morning now that I can see the new display windows in separate replay view.

It has occurred to me that the new quad live views for each camera are just far too small to watch for replay action. We really need to see a larger view.

My suggestion is use the live button! Let me explain.

Start session by starting recoding.
Then hit the live button. This will bring the current selected camera angle to output A large window (top left).
As i'm the operator, I can now see a larger window of the live picture from that camera (say camera 1 high shot of soccer game)

When a goal happens, I set the replay as normal (say using -20 sec button)
I do a single click on the new goal event
Output A changes to show the new event and has gone away from being live
I cue up the replay ready for director to switch to replay and presto. Director now switches to relay in slow mo

When all action is finished from that goal. I hit live again and Output A goes back to viewing live action in large view waiting for next event to be marked.

We should also have the option to select any camera angle once we hit the live button.

Hope this makes sense.
Bryan

You can drag down the monitors window to increase the size of the previews. At its largest size on a 1920x1080 monitor
the input previews are actually larger than the default input preview size in vMix.

I think switching around the monitors based on live etc is going to be too complicated to manage.
At least for me it is disorienting to have things move around constantly.

Regards,

Martin
vMix

I would also appreciate a ReplayJumpLive shortcut or something like that, because I'd rather watch the live game (almost live game...I know there is a delay of about 1.5 seconds) in the same window/video source I operate, rewind and create events.

I kind of agree with Bryan and Rinsky that it would be nice if the play head could jump to live or at least STOP once the Replay event has finished playing.
I find it very distracting and confusing that the play head continues playing at the set speed from the last played mark out point.
(I tried setting up a trigger to accomplish this but it hasn't worked for me yet)

As a side note, I almost feel out of place making comments or suggestions since I am not very familiar with current "broadcast" replay systems and workflows.
I really like the thought and effort that Martin has put into this which seems to be along the same lines as NewTek's 3play with A and B screens, however, I am somewhat more drawn to the workflow and interface that Zeplay presents with it's input and output screens (just seems a lot more intuitive to me):

Now granted, we are talking about systems costing 10's of thousands of $ compared to vMix but it's pretty amazing what Martin has done so far.


Ice

I might be missing something, but you can do everything that was demonstrated in those videos
already.

The key difference is the vMix Instant Replay is incorporated into an existing live production system.
So you have other inputs and previews in vMix you can use to see live video, including a dedicated MultiView
on a second or third monitor.

Basically you have all of the other features in vMix at your disposal to set things up however you like.
For example for a large preview of all four live cameras, setup a blank Input with a quad MultiView and assign this to the fullscreen output.

Regards,

Martin
vMix

Ok, so just to confirm you would prefer the first two monitors monitors in the replay controller
to show whatever is live when the Live button is red? And switch to replay footage when Live is off?

Can I get a consensus from anybody else that this is how you would prefer the monitors to work?

Thanks,

Martin
vMix