It's time again to look at next version of vMix!

vMix 2010 V9 will primarily focus on performance and reliability, but there is room for a few small feature additions if anyone would like to post a suggestion.

At the moment the following features will be included:

* Automatically cut up a file recording in 1, 5, 10, 20, 30 and 60 minute intervals.
* Drag and drop video clips directly to the vMix Inputs area from Windows.

Please post any other suggestions or bug fixes here.

Thanks,

Martin
vMix

How big is the audio delay?
Note that "Render Time" is in milliseconds and is unrelated to any audio delay you may be hearing.

You can set the audio delay in Settings under External Output which changes the delay in the Flash encoder automatically.
(Though you won't see the result until you look at the live stream or recording)

What I meant was the "Render Time" is not related to the video delay at all.
The standard video delay in vMix is approx 3 frames or 99ms, plus factoring in the HDV delay of between 300-500ms, if you put into the delay field in External Output 400ms or so the end result from flash media live encoder should be ok.

hi martin,

talking about the delay on vmix... NO MORE... don`t worry about that, my fault. no delay on output, sorry.

vmix is working very well. thks martin for this wonderfull software.

This thread is for very small changes for the next version, so please keep the suggestions to simple feature additions and/or changes.

Replay features may be implemented eventually but it would be limited to a Professional version of vMix that would cost around $800 due to the complexity involved.

I have suggestions for vMix V9

1. Drag and drop video clips directly to the vMix inputs area - formats: wmv, mpg, flv, mov, etc.
2. Cut up a file recording - allow to choose AUTO / NON-AUTO and manual setup time intervals.
3. VMIX VIRTUAL CAPTURE - Can we have a little icon to click on at anytime to select only audio or video or both audio and video. If VMIX gets crashed, restart vMix and vMix will reinitialize the virtual port again? This will help whatever program which uses VMIX VIRTUAL CAPTURE to be restarted again!
4. Is there a little box in inputs to quickly set the range of the BLACK color to be transparent (alpha). At this time we must click on "I" icon and move the RGB bars. It is OK, but for me I don't know how much RGB to move to have it in the range of 0-16. Can we have a input to put in the number like 16 and all the bars will move to whatever positions.
5. SLOW MOTION BUTTON - this is very good ideas... By clicking on it to have the output instantly slow down... and continue clicking on it will even slow down more...
6. At this time the fade bar must be held down to move, how about just mouse click the bar will move to the left or right respectively

If these features and their parameters can be instantly on like the fade bar effect. How's about a window with these parameters to be instantly adjusted live (dynamically)?

Thank you.

msburg,

In regards to 1 and 2, they will already be in vMix.
As for 4, you can use the "Auto Colour Key" feature in v8 to set the transparent colour by clicking on a still image.

For 6, there are automatic fade buttons available Fade x1 and Fade x2. You can also use the buttons 1 to 6 on the keyboard. See Help for a full listing.

First I want to say that I am impressed with the software. I found it after several days af searching for a software video mixer. Thanks for going public :-)

My suggestion is inspired by the xaml input feature.

I suggest you offer a plugin framework for inputs. It should'nt be that hard to implement. Let me explain how I imagine it implemented:

Being a professional .NET developer, I would love the option to create a .net UserControl (similar to the xaml feature) that consists of e.g. a transparent canvas with 'some things' on but compiled it into an assembly and put it in a 'plugin' folder. The UserControl implements an interface, that you specify. When vMix launches, it scans the 'plugin' folder for assemblies containing classes that implements your interface. The available plugins are then selectable from the 'Add input' dialog.

This way it will be possible to implement active plugins that offer count-down timers, Time-of-day, ticker-tape, animated logos, easy scripture display, name of speaker/journalist etc. You name it.

The plugin should be able to display a 'settings' window or a toolbox/palette, where it is possible to configure or update text, select scripture reference, initialise count-down timer etc.

I know it may easily be possible to create plugins that affect performance, but that should be blamed on the plugin - not vMix.

If you want to run with this idea, I would be happy to develop a few plugins for you to bundle with vMix :-)

Oh, and vMix must be able to support more than one overlay :-)

/Daniel

That might not even be neccessary. When you instantiate my UserControl, I can open the configuration window in the constructor or something.

Another perhaps more important issue. Maybe the constructor should take a Size object as parameter (or two int) providing the UserControl with the width and height of the output stream.

I'm looking forward to v9 :-)

/Daniel