I am in agreement to paying additional $$$$ for a enhanced instant replay system I would love to have 2 or 3 camera angles synced and be able to replay a soccer goal from angle 1 then angle 2 then angle 3. I film for a small pro soccer team and its a pretty small budget I have to work with but this type of feature would definitely place their video production in the big leagues

Yep, replay system is definitely nothing i can implement here...

I'm going to work on the scheduler tonight, any urgent wishes?

Add/Remove should work now, but only in the way that seamless schedule-changes are implemented. Meaning: when you change the schedule, the controller app will detect if the currently playing clip has to be changed, and if so it will load the new clip, then transition to it.

Adding adds and other stuff "inbetween" a clip will be supported in a very basic way: a clip can be split into pieces, and between the pieces other clips can be placed. For any seekable media you will be able to set in- and/or out-times, thus you could e.g. stop a movie at "the end" and before credits roll.

These changes will still take some time, and will probably be the end of my involvement - i have to take on additional responsibilities at my job in september, and i don't yet know how this will work out for me. Not quite the "step up" i feared, but a drastic rearrangement of "who does what".

macjaeger great work, thanks dude :)

I try to understand your intention. You want to schedule presenting a live input like other kinds of input, right? I think this could be done, but it may involve some preparation from your side, e.g. setup the input the way you want it and give it a unique name, then scheduling that input to be presented... I'll look into it.

As far as i know (i haven't gone through all new api options yet) it is not possible to create all kinds of inputs through the web-api; and even if it was possible, it would mean a tremendous amount of extra gui in my application to support it all. The far easier way to do this kind of stuff is an additional kind of "media element" besides video, audio, etc.: a generic "named input" element that you can schedule like all other elements, and when it's scheduled time arrives the controller app will search for an input with the specified name and activate that.

E.g: you configure your live stream any way you need and call it "cnn news"; then you schedule the named input "cnn news" for 20:00 to 20:10 in vMixManager, and at 20:00 vMixController will switch to that very input (if it is still in the list). vMixController won't recreate the input if it was closed by then, and it can't change any settings, but just switching to this input - similar to switching to the "manual" mode - is easy.

So, would this help?

Awwww! i can't fault you, you have to do what you have to do... but i think it will be nice if you can try to see what you can do to improve the software maybe 1-2hrs in a month until its perfected... you started it, i believed you only can take it to that imaginable height just like what vMix is achieving at the moment.

In all good luck and thank you once more for all your efforts in making vMix a better software

You know that software never can reach perfection... Of course i'll see what i can do to improve it, but i won't add complex new features, as this takes some continuos time to implement. I won't have "no time at all" in the future, but i fear it will be hard to find a whole evening anytime soon.

Here we go:

I've just uploaded vMixScheduler Alpha 06 to my server, for you to try out.

Changes:

All media elements now have a property called "InPoint"; you can use this to skip to a different starting point. Imagine you schedule a movie-trailer and want to skip the first 20 seconds (the ugly green image telling you that the following trailer is approved for children above 6 years), then you just set the InPoint to 00:00:20 (Duration will be reduced accordingly).
InPoint and Duration now have a set of buttons next to them that can set duration to or increase inpoint by 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2 of the media duration. This may be usefull if you want to split a movie and insert advertising: just schedule the movie, set duration to "1/2", then duplicate the entry and increase inpoint by "+1/2".
Just play with the settings, i guess you'll get the drift.

There's a new media-type simply called "input". This is a placeholder for any pre-defined input you added to vMix yourself. E.g. add a camera-input in vMix, call the input "MyCamera". Then you can schedule the live-image of the camera through vMixScheduler by adding "input" and naming the entry "MyCamera" as well (enter exactly the same name as in vMix!). I know it's not very sophisticated, but i guess it might solve some of the requested features... Beware: If the named input is not found, vMix will switch to whatever input is in the preview screen at the time (that's not my decision, it's standard vMix behavior if you try to transition to a unknown input).

vMixController now expects vMix 10.0.0.59 or above, it won't work with older versions anymore - sorry. But it should now be a lot more stable and not remove the wrong input by accident. Also you should be able to change the schedule at any time, vMixController should smoothly switch to the new schedule.

Please take some time and test drive the applications, any glitches you find in the next couple days might still get ironed out.

I have actually tried it and I am still on it as I type this...

I can only say that i am more than impressed with what i have seen so far...

But for just one more thing... ASPECT RATIO.

Is there a way to set that in the vMixManager and make whatever ratio chosen universal for the scheduler?
e.g. Widescreen, Anamorphic, Normal or in this format 4:3, 16:9 etc.