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#1 Posted : Monday, January 6, 2014 4:26:27 PM(UTC)
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Greetings, all. I’ve just started using a trial of vMix and have run into a problem.

I’m going to be webcasting from a curling club in Seattle, WA, USA. It’s the stones-on-ice Olympic sport. We have 5 “sheets” of ice, with a set of scoring rings at both ends of each sheet. There is an overhead camera for every set of rings, which means 10 cameras. There are also a few “long view” cameras that can be aimed at a scoreboard, a player that’s sliding with a stone, etc.

I’ve been using Xsplit for a couple months, and have had some success with it. But I’ve recently become aware of vMix, and started using the trial today. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to accomplish what I need. In a SINGLE output view, I need to include:

- Black background (or possibly a JPG image)
- Up to 14 cameras, input via RTSP
- Up to 5 screen capture regions, from a second screen on the same PC that’s running vMix

I’ve figured out how to get 4 cameras into a single output view, but I can’t seem to get more than that. Perhaps there’s an overlay solution that I’m just not understanding? Is it possible to do what I want using vMix?

Thanks!

Chris






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#2 Posted : Monday, January 6, 2014 6:09:23 PM(UTC)
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I'm making some progress on a solution, although it was non-obvious. vMix appears to have a limit of 5 overlays for any single input, so I:

- Created a separate input for each of the 10 cameras
- Created an input for a "green screen" JPG image
- Created a virtual input ("A") from the "green screen" input, then added five overlays to it for the first 5 cameras
- Created a second virtual input ("B") from the "green screen" input, then added five overlays to it for the next 5 cameras
- Created a third virtual input from the "green screen" input, then added two overlays to it for the "A" and "B" inputs

After adjusting the chroma key, I've got all 10 cameras in a single output.
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