As a sports broadcaster who has watched the YouTube demo of vMix, I'm excited to try it out. However, there seems to be a limitation that another user pointed out with respect to hockey scoreboards that I wanted to see if there is another valid workaround.

Specifically, I plan on using an SD shot of a basketball or American football scoreboard. For each, the intent is to create a score strip that does not require me to constantly update the clock, score, and other variables. For basketball, I'd want to place into the strip the live:

1) Visitor's Score;
2) Home Team's Score;
3) Time Remaining.

For American football, I'd want to place into the strip:

1) Visitor's Score;
2) Home Team's Score;
3) Time Remaining;
4) Down & Distance Remaining;
5) (If Possible) Quarter.

We normally do not have access to the actual scoreboard operation device, making the camera shot (using something like P-in-P or overlays) the only option generally. Is there a way inside or outside vMix to accomplish this? We are on a very tight budget broadcasting Division III College sporting events, so please keep this in mind. I appreciate any insight you can all provide. I hope there is a solution because vMix seems very powerful for our purpose.

- Frank

Interesting idea. I'll likely be starting my trial once my Netstor Thunderbolt box arrives. The intent here for me is to use 2 or 3 720p (30fps) inputs for live action (all 2 or 3 cards being in the Netstor box), probably 2 video delay modules, the scoreboard SD camera discussed above, streaming the final product to Ustream. How badly would this all run on a MacBook Pro under Windows 7 (Bootcamp) with 2.0ghz i7 (Haswell), 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD and 480gb External SSD? Am I risking bottlenecking horribly in this setup, even with just 2 HD inputs?

Thanks for the idea, and if anyone has another idea, please feel free to include it. I know this is a challenge with my current setup, so critique away.

- Frank

This option also works with vMix:

http://sportzcast.net/

Check out CGStatLink Lite- Football. Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but it works with vMix and, when the host site is using StatCrew, you can automate a lot of the status elements and just control the clock manually. The clock can get data from Sportzcast or ScoreOCR, too.

http://www.cgstatlink.com