@ GeoffB

Awesome stuff!
What was the biggest challenge you faced and how did you overcome it?



Ice

The biggest issue was problems associated with too many NDI sources. We really had to get creative to limit the number of sources into and out of any one machine. Examples of how we adapted:

• We had all the players' cameras and consoles landing in one vMix machine. Instead of sharing them all over NDI, we used outputs 3, 4, and 5 of that machine for home player, away player, and console, respectively. A vMix Panel builder worked as a "router" to send the correct players to the other machines. This had the benefit of automatically populating the PIPs correctly, limiting the number of faders needed in audio, etc.

• We would "audio only" casters' NDI sources during their off matches.

Another big issue was insufficient audio busses. Again, we got creative to economize busses:
• We made one mix minus for all the players, then added back in the opposite player in the vMix where their call landed.
• We did as many calls as possible in the vMix that was doing the master audio mix, so that we could take advantage of the automatic mix minus that vMix generates.