Hi!

Still looking for solutions for multicam color matching, a new idea came to my mind... Meanwhile there is a real professional solution integrated into vMix, it'd be great if we could already control color correction in realtime via the API. As the case may be, we could design our own applications of what I call a "vision module".

Step 1 : Add existing controls to the API. This concerns Martin mostly

Add missing API commands for everything that concerns input processing:
- RGB, Saturation, B&W stretching.
- White Balance would be great too, but I don't know if it's possible (due to the need to click in the popup image)
- More ? I checked but maybe I forgot something here...

Step 2 : Design "Vision Modules" for color matching. This concerns vMix (potentially) and all of us (via third-party solutions).

When we have the ability to control all aspects of input processing via the API, we are in a position where we can start building/designing solutions for realtime correction.
For instance :
- we could use a Midi Controller with knobs to adjust the settings per input
- I have already started to design a vMix UTC project for the same purpose (based on existing API commands)
- Vmix could add a new tab in the WebController for this
- Developers could create new apps on all sorts of devices for this.

Though it would be quite basic for a start, it would be great already to be able to adjust color settings in a dedicated interface where inputs would be presented next to each other with direct access to all available parameters (like an audio mixer or a real CCU) and see the changes at once without having to do several clicks in the vMix GUI. This would allow aswell to have a dedicated operator (let's call him a vision engineer) doing this on a remote computer (like it is usually done in broadcast workflows).

Step 3 : Add full Saturation/Hue/Luminance controls in vMix and the API. For Martin again

Hue and Luminance are very important for color matching in video production.
Others controls like contrast or whatever could be added too. Make suggestions if you have ideas.

Step 4 : Even better ?

As discussed in another Feature Request I initiated (see: https://forums.vmix.com/....aspx?g=posts&t=8662 ), the integration of X-Rite or even LUTS into vMix is still imho a hot topic. Maybe some of you have better ideas?

Thanks
Guillaume

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Just exposing the existing controls via API would be huge in itself.

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I'd take just exposing the controls to the API in Step 1, but would love to see this progress through the whole list.

Joe

+1 + 1 +1 +1 :)

Color correction is the only feature still needed to deliver true professional results with Vmix in my opinion. When I first started using it, pro audio and external output options were the big issues, but they are all solved. I support every request that could lead to some kind of 'shading' in vmix. This week we were asked to work for a National broadcaster, and had to ensure our colors would stay in balance during the entire broadcast, which will happen during the golden hour. I know already my only task during this hour will be to continuously run from cam to cam to adjust the colors in the menus.

@DWAM: I'm not a programmer, but would it be hard to write some kind of program that uses the capture card input, allows changes, and sends a virtual camera out? A bit like those virtual webcam programs, that allow you to use your webcam in multiple softwares at once. I've also been checking out graphedit, and i think it could be possible to create a 'brdige' program with graphedit between the capture cards and vmix. I noticed there are many virtualdub filters available for free, and they can be loaded by grapheditplus : http://www.infognition.c...rs/color_correction.html Perhaps a programmer could integrate something like this into some sort of bridge app?

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Having finer control of RGB levels would make them more useful.
Then a colour wheel interface, easier to relate to, then some user presets.

Luminance gamma too.

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I was thinking of one machine downstream of vMix, but then everything including supers would be graded.

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I understand what Martin has said in the past, who would know how to use 'advanced color correction' properly.
I agree with him I wouldn't, the cool thing is others would.
Those others would create tutorials and teach us Noob Hack Idiots how to do it.

Then we all grow as a community both because we have a complicated feature we all need to figure out together, and because our system does something others software can 'sorta' do 'kinda' but not 'really'.
This community and this software are an amazing ecosystem that other software companies dream about.

Thanks for this suggestion even if I don't completely understand the underlying tech, I understand making all cameras look the same = 'professional'.

Rich Shumaker

1000% agree Karsten. I feel the exact same way

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