Hi,

If I'm right accroding your manual you say:
for Input settings - position:
Each of these options can also be changed for one of the four overlays through the dropdown menu.

so If I understand right It means I select the dorpdown menu, select Overlay, choose some Crop X1 and X2 and I must have a different cropped picture if I sselect the same camera as main or as Overlay 1 . But in my experience I can choose what ever I want in the Overlay1 selection, nothing changed in the output if I use camera as an overlay. I have the same view .

I want to use a crop and zoom picture if I go in pic in Pic (so default overlay1), but I cannot find how. Only work around now is to create a virtual Input with different zoom and crop and use the virtual input as overlay instead of the real input.

I'm using Vmix 15..


Is something wrong I did I misunderstood the settings Input-position - Overlay ?

Thank for answer

Dominique

Hi,

thx for prompt reply, the way you give is ok to put an input on an pic&pic overlay, but I want to use the API controlled by our application to put for example as main view a screen capturing and control the camera switches over the API and insert in the pic i pic Overlay. This is why I'm trying to use the overlay 1 as an overlay position for the PiciPic and not a virtual set as you describe.

In fact I have 4 cam input in the oinput 1 to 4 and I want to overlay as PiciPic the camera talking on the main view showing a screen capturing. So I toggle in fact the overlay 1 layer according the person talking on the main screen.

My idea was to have 4 cameras input for all 4 persons , and a cropped view much closer used in the overlay1 section when I have a PiciPic view. But I can solve it by creating a virtual input from any of the cameras and use this virtual view when I stay in PiciPic.

Using the virtual set as you say, will not work as I expect.

Ok thanks anyway.. just wondering what this option in the input- position-overlay is used for !

Dominique

@Ice

thx to your explanation I found out what the input-position is used for .. This is only to specify the zoom, pos and crop of the overlay in the multiview, not the generic size and zoom for the input when they are used as a "real" overlay.

So controlled by the API it's much easier to toggle input as overlay on and off, I have no other control to select an input in the multiview in the API.

In this case I'll create virtual input from main input with a different crop zone.

Your Idea to create Multiview for each pair of camera and screen capture is ok, but cannot be used if I have 3 or 4 screen captured, this will be too much to handle in all possible pairs of multiview.

But thx for help.

Dominique

@ Dominique

I think I understand your dilemma, the "Global" overlay settings do not allow for 'Crop', in which case you will have to set-up virtual inputs and then set up those inputs as Overlay 1 via API.


Ice

you could be right , but the Pb on API switching is that as param of the input I can only use the input number, so as soon as 1 input is not on the right position all is wrong, so handling many input is really trickly .

With all video, multiview and audio input I'm handling actually 30 to 40 inputs, and all must be on right position, I cannot use any label on the input to control them over the http API.
If I do ot want to use the input Number I can use the GUID. Thi is not really user firendly,
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Input

Specify an input by its number starting from 1.

0 can be used for Preview and -1 for Active.

A GUID can be used to specify an Input instead of a number.
For example:

http://127.0.0.1:8088/API/?Function=Fade&Duration=1000&Input=877bb3e7-58bd-46a1-85ce-0d673aec6bf5
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you're right If I could use the label given on the input that would be really helpfull, but so far I saw it's not the case

Or perhaps in version 15 I dismiss something !!!