Hi Guys

With the launch of vmix Max, vmix is now open to be used by many who could not justify paying for the Pro version.

Myself for example, I shoot community sports for free for my local community, so I don't have any funds to buy the software outright. However, $50 a month is still not cheap (with all the other costs we have for cell networks, cameras, etc), its a lot out of your own pocket.

I (and many others in community sports) want a solution that costs about $25 - $30 a month max, but with 1 replay (as most of the time its just the one camera being used), i.e. we want the 4K version.

$30 a month for vmix 4K?, I would pay that out of my own pocket to shoot the community sports for parents and families in my own community.

Whats your thoughts? Please Like if you agree.

Thanks

Or not, depending on culture (I've been doing this for years), but thanks for the feedback

I run a non-profit free service which I pay for myself as people just don't donate. Personally I think it's expensive, lets say you pay for the subscription and over two years you could have paid for the software and own it, but instead you keep paying for the subscription which means you're paying more.

I think they should have done a payment plain instead (you can rent Microsoft Office for only 7.99 a month!), besides I would only use the 4k version myself.

I think that the pricing for the whole suit of vMix editions is extremely good. There is a wide selection of options, and what we get for the money is outstanding! I do also appreciate that you "buy" a package, which can be upgraded (in a very logical fashion), and also sometime pay for a new version (at an affordable cost).

Their introduction of vMix Max is in my view a nice step, and I will probably use it sometimes.

I suggest that you who are interested in the motivation and price for vMix Max listen to vMix Fun time love show for June. There Martin explains why the Pro edition, its price, and the possibility of other subscription ideas.

/richard

I understand your comments and the reason behind it, I still think $50 is a lot of money for those who can't afford it (and yes I did watch the live fun time). Yet again I understand it's a small team and vMix has my support for now.

Highly agree Babbit, richardgatarski and MartLeib. We are all spoiled rotten for choice today, and insanely, the new normal is free. DaVinci Resolve is one of the top two editing software suites on the market and its free. But Blackmagic Design is a huge company compared to vMix so they can afford to give away excellent software to sell hardware like their cameras. vMix is a software company with only one product to date and vMix doesn't sell hardware so there is nothing to subsidize lowering the cost.

Our live streaming company has bought five Pro seats of vMix, paying $6,000.00 and for the feature set, innovation, support, and constant updates and innovative new features, we honestly felt like we were getting away with something illicit in only paying $1,200 per seat. If pro level live streaming and vMix was a larger market, vMix Pro would easily be fetching $2k-$3.5k to buy or at least $100-$200 per month subscription. There is literally not another competitor for live streaming that is even in the same league. Newtek is in the sort of in the same league at least if you want to spend $30k plus for an Elite 2. Everything else is cloud based which isn't reliable or very well supported or there are regular video switchers, which when you compare those to what vMix can do, makes the switcher and encoder workflow seem positively archaic.

We were initially spooked by the announcement of vMix Max but after hearing Martin and Tim talk about why they came out with it, we have no problem with it as they seem pretty convicted that they will keep the perpetual licenses. So anything that makes them more money is a good thing in my mind, it means that vMix can grow and prosper and continue to innovate and Martin and Tim can be better compensated for their hard work.

I personally don't believe they should drop the cost for subscriptions at all, but if you watch the June show, I think they are just waiting to see how it goes before they decide if they will create other subscription tiers or possibly even stop with the subscriptions. At this point, it's a business experiment for them. It really is amazing though that people think $50.00 per month is too much for the capability and feature set built into vMix.

I agree, for a business its a no-brainer, great price and tool. For a non-profit sports club that is always trying to do the best with very little, its aspirational, just trying to get the best results possible with as little as possible.

I get it, but what does OBS lack that you must use vMix? If you take away instant replay (OBS does have 1 camera replay) they are basically the same.. I may get flamed by saying this but it is true, most of the regular live streams can be done using OBS in the same quality as it can be done in vMix, you can use community plugins to have even more functionality.

As I run my own business I know I have to spend money as it is mine since I earned it as well. Let's say that you have a 30$ subscription for vMix 4K per month, which makes it 12 x 30$ = 720$ per year - if the budget is tight, I would take any day 720$ per year/season and invest it to better gear or anything else than software which I can get by without.

They do not intend to fully go subscription based !

You can take a monthly subscription for as long as you want, then revert to 4K by re-applying your key.