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Apple makes its own Chips which makes it not dependant on 3rd parties with supply chain issues.
Apple Silicon and MAC OS are made together which makes a stable computer for professional productions.
Apple MAX Chips have Video encoders built-in which for more resources for vmix to take advantage of.
Every Current Mac has PCI expansion VIA Thunderbolt4.
It is On-Brand for VMIX to be on MAC.
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vMix leverages media handling functions that are core to Windows. As such, it's a non-trivial task to port to OSX. vMix is written to take best advantage of nVidea GPUs. Apple has preferred AMD GPUs in the past, now has their own GPU. Further, Apple sells just 15% of the computers sold at the best of times. That makes the PC world simply larger and more competitive. https://www.statista.com...pc-shipment-share-apple/If you want to run vMix. You should do so on a suitable Windows system. If you want to run OSX you can always use OBS or Wirecast. Some people prefer the Wirecast UI to vMix. I ran Wirecast for Windows, until I discovered vMix. Wirecast is bloated. vMix can do more on the same hardware.
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Yeah 15% market share means Apple sells the most computers of any other company. This thread is for supporters of VMIX coming to macOS
There are not any graphics cards available. And the ones that show up are to expensive. I would save money by running VMIX on a Mac which possibly might event run VMIX more effectively/efficient.
Right now win PCs are over 13 years behind Apple Silicone. It’s why Nvidia is/was trying to purchase ARM.
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VMIX on the Mac is insuring the future of VMIX. There isn’t any GPU pci cards.
supply chains and blockchains are killing PCs for gamers and lower budget video productions.
Pci GPUs are over priced, use way more electricity, and not available for purchase.
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Excuse me, but HP and Dell both outsell Apple. Consider just laptops, since that's the largest segment. https://www.statista.com...rship-by-brand-in-the-ushttps://www.statista.com...cs-united-states-vendor/Your assertion illustrates that you have little or no experience in software development. Nor much knowledge about vMix as a company. It's not large dev team. Migration to OSX, or Linux for that matter, is a massive undertaking. Both have been asked for and rejected multiple times over the years. Yes, GPUs are hard to get. Costs are higher that anyone would like. That situation is more likely to improve much faster any effort to migrate to a new OS. But then you'd be completely beholden to Apple. They haven't been very good to the people who bough Mac Pro's. The Trash Can Mac users were basically abandoned for years. Only to be shown a new Mac Pro that costs $6K delivered in a barely-powers-on state. Go ahead, run vMix in Parallels. Or Boot Camp. Or Wirecast, where at least you can get support for OSX.
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i love cross platform.... its the best way .... but it costs a lot to do it.... unless.... vmix re-written ....
but it costs a lot of resources.....
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Originally Posted by: PFBM  i love cross platform.... its the best way .... but it costs a lot to do it.... unless.... vmix re-written ....
but it costs a lot of resources.....
It's really difficult since the platforms all have very different built-in media capabilities. You basically have to build a different rendering engine for each OS, abstracted from the UI. Lotta extra code. Different dev toolsets even. Usually different dev teams working each platform. We know from past experience with Wirecast, the various versions will never behave exactly the same. Also, none will deliver optimal results for the host platform. Best result comes from optimization for a target platform.
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I think we will see world peace and the end of pollution before vMix for OSX...in the meantime I'm totally OK with the version that exists.
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