Gig last night almost failed due to wishing to use a three monitor setup. What I wanted was two monitors for vMix - bigger surface to work on, less scrolling, larger preview panes etc..seemed like a good idea at the time. I am using an AMD R9 200 graphics card, DVI out to each monitor, then I added a Club-3D Displayport hub with 4 outputs and a displayport to HDMI adapter using the displayport output on the card, and tried to use this output for my projectors.

I was dismayed to find that there is no way to route the main output. No matter what, the main output defaulted to the second monitor and I could find no way to get this working. I tried the Catalyst software to define a multi-screen output, but never got it right.

In the end, I disconnected the displayport and second monitor, and got things working...sigh..

Is it possible to do what I am asking, to use vMix in a multi-output environment? If so, what did I do wrong? Would it be feasible to actually be able to define an output - select a monitor that acts as the main output?

Signed.....weary and confused.....

Any help most appreciated.

I think the issue he is having is that VMix does not allow routing of the external output. It is a shortcoming of VMix itself, all you can route are the 2 fullscreen outputs.

I hope this gets worked on in vmix 17 as there are multiple feature requests to expand the output capabilities.

@ mikekay
For now all you can do is give up one of the two full screen outputs vmix has and use that as the main out by selecting output as the source.

If if you could combine two displays into on output using software or a device like Matrox DualHead2Go, the layout of the preview output screens are fixed so you wont actually gain any additional outputs, another shortcoming that I hope is rectified in future versions of VMix and I have posted about somere here: http://forums.vmix.com/d...aspx?g=posts&t=5789.

Just post it over in the feature request forum, its more likely to happen once there are some supporting posts behind it than just directly contacting them directly.

Yea technically it does support 4 outputs I believe, but only the "Fullscreen" windows seem to be routable to different GPU monitors. The actual "Output" outputs that you would assume are for recorders or local live feeds are not routable, IE you cannot choose destination monitor, so I'm not even sure what use these are and I've myself never even used them. Really not sure what is up with the seemingly arbitrary limiting of outputs and routing as WPF is very efficient with many many media displays and VMix seems to show no impact on my GPU or CPU when running the maximum 2 outputs loaded with shots.

Example, I have a external recorder that I use as well as a program monitor and talent monitor, VMix does not allow for all these and I have to ditch using 2 full screen displays on my workstation and use the actual application for my preview program then use my first full screen output for all my input previews. My final of 2 allowed fullscreen outputs goes through my recorder and the passthrough to the program and talent monitors.

Its a pain lol.

get a 40 inch or 32 inch 4k monitor run scale at 100% and you will have plenty of room for stuff. there cheep now, ebay dream seller, ive been useing for over a year, it is really nice. get rid of that AMD card, NVIDIA 980ti will keep you in the game for a few years.

I am sort of on Ice's line of understanding the original question.

We use a 21:9 monitor to get more estate for vMix's main window, see first post in a related topic.

I caught a cold and have been out of the loop for a bit. Support sent me some information that states what I want to do MAY be possible. For clarity, it is the FULLSCREEN output that seems to be the problem. Not external output. On external output I am getting up to 32 ms latency - this is useless for live use - but could be used for a feed for secondary recording or broadcast. Fullscreen is giving me around 4 ms latency, which I can deal with.

I do not want to use a large screen TV for monitoring. I use this as a portable rig, taking it to gigs all over the city. Will post pics later when I get to my storage facility so you can see what's up. Because of the latency on external output, I am using the displayport output with a 4X Club 3D diplayport hub then one output going into a displayport to HDMI adapter, then out to my projectors. This port appears as a monitor output, but again, the FULLSCREEN output does not seen routable. If available only on 4K, this does not seem fair, and hopefully upgrade fixable. I would eventually like to use muiltiple outputs from the Club 3D to send my signals to multiple projectors.

I have to review all the posts here. Thanks to everybody for the input. I really love vMix as a program, and support on both the forum and tech support has been fantastic.

Bottom line - I will get there whatever it takes.

The Club 3D is the best display port adapter on the market and it works. Under Windows, the output shows up as a third monitor. It is a powered adapter - the displayport to HDMI adapter is passive. This works because the Club 3D is powered. So this is not the issue at this point. The issue is being able to define the FULLSCREEN output.