One of the thing that endlessly frustrates me with vMix are the TERRIBLE photo slideshow animations.

For instance, the overlay FADE animations are very nice. One input fades out, one fades in. Very smooth.

But on a photo slideshow, one fades out and the next slide JERKS in VERY SUDDENLY. It's just awful and ruins the look.

WHY WHY WHY have you written the slideshow animations completely differently than the overlay animations?

Either fix this terrible coding or give us a way to.

Thanks.

Why do I need a recording? Anyone who has used the photo slideshow feature on vMix knows that this is the case. Photos animation and Overlay animations are COMPLETELY different. Why not just make Photos animations as smooth as overlay animations? They have intentionally made them different and worse.

I'm sorry. You must be using the FREE version of vMix. Mine was actually quite expensive and I expect it to work. I also expect staff from the company to answer my technical questions and not some random person with easily hurt feelings.

WHERE THE HELL IS VMIX TECH SUPPORT I PAID FOR???!!!

Damn, Miami must be hot at this time of the year.

I use photo slideshow, I have no problems.

I'll post an example.
https://drive.google.com...qA9Fi2A/view?usp=sharing

Excuse the white band on the video. I don't have a release and need to respect privacy, but I think you'll still see the problem clearly.
The photo lingers on the end of some of the fades and then drops off like a cut. And as you'll see it's not all of them. Some are completely clear. This happens to me a lot and I'd love to get it resolved.

It shouldn't be due to a lack of resources.
I'm running vMix Pro from an i9-9900K, with GeForce RTX2060 Gfx Card, and 64GB of RAM.
All media is running on M.2 based SSDs.
These photos are HD resolution or less.
I also just updated to the newest version of vMix (24.0.0.62).
I also tried converting all photos to PNG before import, no affect.
Then, I also tried resizing all photos to 1920x1080 as base resolution before importing, no affect.

Thoughts?

i can see the problem , and it’s a simple fix.

i’m not going to tell you the fix because i prefer not to reward rudeness , but if you carefully view the video you posted, the answer is in plain sight.

so the issue is that vMix respects the alpha channel , which means that if the current still image is smaller than the previous one, as soon as the fade is finished, the outgoing image is removed. so it pops off .

the solution is to run a batch process on all the slides in the image folder which scales the image and puts it on a solid black background. then resaves the images. this means that all stills are “full screen” even though some of the screen may be/ can be/ will be solid black.

photoshop does this sort of batch processing as do several free image processing programs , it takes less than a second per image to load it, apply the background and re-save . So although it sounds daunting , but it’s automated so it’s dead easy, and very fast.

as with all these things, preparation is the key. So getting the source files in a nice unified shape, size, format etc. is the key to having smooth slideshows. and it will reduce the load on vMix.

i hope this is helpful.

Change the Master Frame Rate to 60i or something else to get smoother fade transitions