Can we have a pop-up window to confirm that we want to close an input, or move the "close" button to the upper right corner as a "normal window would be to close? I have multiple times closed an input on accident when trying to select the "#1" and no way of quickly bringing back without restarting vmix

+1

Hello Everybody,

Even with the “restore” feature, it would be better to have a confirmation Popup , such as Church_Livestream suggests — to prevent accidental closing of inputs in the first place.

During a live stream, you don’t want to accidentally close an input. It could immediately cause chaos in a live production — and I am sure it very often does.

Even if Church_Livestream was aware of the “restore” feature, his/her request for a confirmation Popup is a legitimate feature request. It makes sense and that is what user interface designers look for. They look for common issues with a program and keep tweaking it so it is more intuitive and less prone for accidental mistakes exactly like this.

For example, In many vMix productions you might have volunteers helping out, who could very easily accidentally close an input. It is much too easy to do that.

You can’t expect everyone, especially volunteers, who help out in a vMix production to read all of the documentation.

Have you read every documentation page of your video editing/ PowerPoint/ Microsoft Word software? Do you know every single one of their features?

Even experienced vMix users are not aware of its many features. You kinda learn much of vMix as you go along. Certainly Newbies using vMix for the first few productions are going to try the program out before they read every single page of the documentation and become experts in every single command and function.

I’m great at Illustrator but I certainly don’t know all of its features. Do you?

I would say that 90 percent of vMix users have no idea that this restore feature exists.

So Bravo to Church_Livestream for making this excellent suggestion. It is a serious flaw and it can easily be fixed with a confirmation Popup.

Best,
Rowby

Hi BETeach

Your suggestion for a net message box is better than my popup suggestion.

To further explain the necessity to prevent accidental closings of inputs....

Often times we may have no idea that an input has been accidentally closed. We may not be aware of it until another day — and we reopen vMix and get ready to go live — and an input has disappeared.

Restore is not going to help in this situation.

Rebuilding an input can be a major task. Rebuilding and repositioning a multiview,for example, is a major headache.

A missing input can completely screw up shortcuts, xkeys etc. etc etc.

And you have to go live in 60 seconds!!!


Rowby

+1 (noting this has been requested many times before)
and I agree with rowby's remarks - sorry DWAM ;)

While i also hate reminder popups and am one to say that one needs to pay attention and focus guess what happend last production
I turned off a title overlay and a while later i wanted to turn the overlay back on, only to find out it wasn't there anymore. was aware of the restore button and used it but it was not a fun moment. While this was the first time it happened , it did happen ...never say never ;-)

I like the idea of a close button moved to upper right for example (less critical spot)

righy-click option is equally dangerous as many Inputs has other right-click options where the same "too close to other stuff" applies.

And as has been pointed to earlier, the requested "pop-up" should be dis/en-enabled in the Settings.

vmix22-close.png (470kb) downloaded 2 time(s).

On 2nd thought, I realize now there is ALREADY a LOCK button in bottom right corner that does EXACTLY what is needed : preventing the close button to be operant !!!

+1 for an 'hiding close buttons' option in settings.

The close buttons have already caused a lot of panic in our church.
Some of our volunteers won't work with vMix anymore and are asking for a hardware mixer.

Also, the word “Close” is a bad title for that button.

It should be “Delete”. Because it is deleting the input, not merely “closing” it — whatever that is supposed to mean. The word “Close” has no logical relation to the resulting action.

That is certainly one reason why this innocent-looking button is so disaster prone.

In the spirit of making vMix even better,

Rowby