+1. I never understood the reason why the FTB fade to black doesn’t fade to black on the program monitor, Is there some reason for that?

I can’t think of any advantage for FTB not to display on Program. I only see potentially disastrous disadvantages — such as experienced by Argo.

Best,
...Rowby.

It's not, broadcast FTB always fades the main output window.

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Hi guys - you can fade to a black colour input?? or a black jpeg with your logo on it

Steve,
You are making a good point, but the problem that face many of us persists. We too often miss the red blinking light.

Being a swede, for which consensus is da thing, I suggest a compromise...

...How about making FTB behavior an option in Settings, where default is as has been (for backwards compatibility)?

Just adding to the chorus.

- FTB needs to take down the program window to black.

I too, have been caught out there missing that flashing RED button during intense situations. Its usually the dead master audio meter which alerts me to a problem, as I can still hear audio in the monitoring headphones. Worse case was a phone call to alert me that the live stream was up but they saw nothing but a black screen. I have trained myself to always check that indicator and the audio meter now so it really doesn't happen anymore. But really, shouldn't the "Program" window show you exactly what is going out (or not going out) to recording and live stream?

- FTB needs a duration setting. The current duration is so fast its like a soft/slow cut to black! I would prefer a variable setting as there have been times I would have liked to bring down video and audio over the course of a several seconds (as opposed to .5 seconds.)

Thanks

PS. I just discovered that in the multi-view display, FTB DOES take down the program window. Go figure! It takes down the program display in multiview and not on the main application screen??

For us, many times we stop streaming and FTB, but we continue to send the live screen to various parts of our campus. If the live screen was to FTB that would not work for us. It has on occasion been forgotten that FTB was on, but we have "learned" to watch for the flashing red button.

Dave

+1. An option to black out the live window or not, similar to the choice to show the GPU\CPU alert notifications, would be perfect.

+1. I have done similar mistakes... Talking about compromises: To fulfill the needs if someone needs to have content in the program window visible during FTB, why not have a flashing header of the program window? Or introduce a red flashing border around the program window? Or place a big red cross (static or flashing) as an overlay over the program window...? Any of these suggestions or similar would get better attention rather than just the small flashing FTB-button. Thx :)

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I really like the "compromise" idea - let the the user decide which FTB behavior.

Thanks.