Having just completed a 7 day festival using vMix for up to 5 shows a day, there are things I began to wish I had. #1 was more and better monitor real estate. I built my system fully rack mounted including the monitor, which is a 19". This is great for working on the PC, but crappy for working with vMix. I can't really see if camera's are focused, nor can I see all of the inputs and have to scroll. If the best output on vMix is the second video card output, then is it possible to use a three headed video card and output to a larger monitor for mixing? How about using a large screen TV via HDMI? What are others using?

One of the reasons I went with the Blackmagic Quad, was to get away from HDMI which is a crappy non-locking interconnect. I wanted to go fully HD-SDI, but could not due to the delay on the SDI outputs of the Quad. 68 ms to be exact. So I used a HDMI over Cat5e to send signal. It worked, but is not how I would like to operate. I use my system live on different sites. This is not an installation, thus I'm moving around all the time. Any suggestions?

My projector has HDBaseT. Some high end ones do, look out for the port on the back looks like a Cat5.

It's low latency and runs over CAT5. Never drops out @ 80m cable runs.

So I had to buy a HDMI --> HDBaseT converter for the computer.

Then straight into the projector.

HDBaseT is a step up from most Cat5 extenders in my experience.

I've had plenty of failures on regular HDMI via Cat5e extenders and seen much more artifacts and signs of compression.

We always use dual monitors, one with the full screen output, the other with vmix.

For the least delay: videocard output (make sure to hide the cursor on the full screen output). Wireless hdmi can be a huge timesaver here if the signal needs to travel far. We use a amimon connex unit for that.