vMix 26 Preview (26.0.0.18 Beta) is here!

Disclaimer: This is a preview release for those who like to live on the edge! There will still be some bugs, so it should not be used in productions.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated, please report any bugs or issues in this thread.

Updates: If you purchased vMix prior to 1 January 2021, an additional purchase is required to use this beta or a new Trial may be possible if you have only used the Trial once in the past. Finally, an edition upgrade (say from HD to 4K) will also include 12 months of free updates.
https://account.vmix.com/order/?Upgrade=1

Note: New features should not be submitted here, please use the Feature Requests forum instead.

Download Links

vMix
https://cdn.vmix.com/download/vmix26preview.exe

New Features and Changes


* Input Effects
New Gaussian Blur effect for inputs
New LUT effect for inputs. Supports PNG (OBS style) and CUBE files (Davinci Resolve etc)

* Stream Delay
New Stream Delay option in Quality settings for streams. See help file for more information.

* New Vertical Production tools
Vertical HD preset (1920p)
Vertical GT Templates
90 degree rotate button in Position tab, will zoom to fit new rotated source
Automatic detection of rotation in MP4 files recorded using smart phones

* NDI 5.5
vMix 26 now includes built-in support for the latest NDI 5.5.
Note, many new NDI features are in the free NDI Tools NDI.tv so check that out for more information.

* 15 Mix inputs total in 4K, Pro and Max
Also now support Output Only Mode on Mix Inputs, which hides the preview and preview/output controls for a more compact input.

* SRT Multi-Track Audio Support for Input and Output
In addition to the existing multi-channel audio in a single track, vMix now supports the ability to receive multiple tracks of audio which will be combined automatically and made available to the input's channel matrix and mixer.
On the output side, support added to split the single multi-channel track into multiple stereo audio tracks instead.

* Web Browser Input Updated
Chromium Version 103 for compatibility with newer web sites

* PTZ support for Insta360 Link with MF (Media Foundation) driver for better performance.
* Bluefish444 Key+Fill support on selected cards
* SRT support for Instant Replay. To use an SRT input as a replay source, first untick Use Hardware Decoder when adding the SRT input.
* New Audio Matrix presets to allow easy select of a stereo pair to Master
* Added support for 1440p productions and replay
* GT Line Spacing added
* TopRight align option added for GT Images
* Workaround for limited D3D9 support issue on newer Intel Graphics (ARC and 12th Gen laptop graphics)
* New Replay shortcuts: ReplayMarkInOutLiveFuture, ReplaySetChannelAToBTimecode, ReplaySetChannelBToATimecode, ReplaySetTimecode
* New Facebook Stream Key destination for manual streams
* All old XAML title templates have been moved to Legacy tab.
* Input names now appear in Input Settings - Position dropdown

Documentation

https://help.vmix.com/26/

Regards,

Martin
vMix

Canceling (not selecting from the filebrowser) a different LUT gives an "invalid LUT filename" error

It has never been transparent by default, you will need to go to Add Input - Colour and select Transparent there.

I just found a couple of things while playing with SRT replay.

If you have hardware acceleration on for an SRT input and you try to configure instant replay you get a Video Source Not Ready (Replay_ConfigureWindow.Replay.Validate) error. I know this shouldn't work but, since this feels like it's going to be a common stumbling block with people using SRT in replay, an error that points to HWacc might save you, and users, some time. If you try to start replay recording with an input configured like that - say you set it up with HWacc off but had later changed it to on to try to improve performance - you get a similar error.

I also found this odd case that may or may not be new in vMix26 but might be hit a bit more with people using SRT in replay or multi channel audio over SRT where you can end up with video delayed on a SRT input but audio not delayed.
To recreate...
Set up Output 1 for SRT. Audio MABC, Listener, Port 10000, Latency 200, Do not split stereo pairs.
Add a video clip as an input
Add a colour bars input
Add an SRT input to 127.0.0.1, Port 10000, Latency 200, HW decoder enabled
Cut between the video and colour bars on Output and the SRT input updates slightly behind as expected
Then go into the SRT input and change it to disable the HW decoder
Cut between the video and colour bars on Output again and the audio switches as before but the video is delayed by a few seconds

This seems to only happen when sending multiple audio channels and only when they aren't split, though I haven't tried all combinations. From some more testing it isn't connected to turning HW decode on or off, going in to change the input and leaving the settings the same has the same result. Each time you edit the input video is delayed by about 4 more seconds.

While writing this out I had the SRT input drift so the video was 2 minutes behind what was showing on output, and I didn't edit the input that many times. I can't recreate that drift at the moment.

Rich,

Replay only works with raw sources, much like MultiCorder.
This is by design, and performance would be severely reduced if it didn't do things this way.

So this is by design and to be expected, if you need blur effects on a source, you would have to use one of the 4 outputs.
(And even then you will reach GPU bottlenecks must quicker than using an input directly)

This is also why it is not possible to use Mix inputs with replay, and won't be possible in the future.

Regards,

Martin
vMix

vMix 26 looking good. The gaussian blur is not useable on my newest laptop (a lot of freezed frames), while on the 2019 model it's really good.

The one that is not has a RTX3060 processor.

Videocards are not my expertise. The is a Nvidia control panel application

Thanks
Petra

hi admin, great job on this release.

is there any possibility to implement rtmp server as input? making reference to this request https://forums.vmix.com/...9400-vMix-as-RTMP-Server

sorry to spam it, but this simple feature can be easily implemented through ffmpeg (it has listen mode which is great) and can be another BIG step ahead on live video production, i realy dont know about related software with this feature.

thanks in advance, have a great week.

melody

It is important that you do not place custom titles (or virtual sets etc) into the vMix installation directory.
vMix manages these folders and the installer may delete or modify any it does not recognise during installation.

Regardless, you should not be modifying the vMix installation directory at all.
vMix has special code for reading those folders based on various title formats, it is not a 1:1 relationship between the tabs shown in vMix
and the title folders.

Therefore please place your folders elsewhere and browser to them as needed, as it is not supported to setup your own folders in the vMix install folder.

Hi Martin,
playing with the new Mix Inputs I just found two things:

1. name changes are not updated in the mix inputs list
(update works only after press cut or fade)
rename.JPG (27kb) downloaded 1 time(s).





2. after switch to "Show Output only" the Mix Input don't hides the preview and preview/output controls for a more compact input.

Screenshot1:
look at Mix9

Mix_0001.JPG (40kb) downloaded 5 time(s).



Screenshot2:
-or maybe it's the other way: after switch back from "Show Output only" the Mix Input Window shows only the Output picture

Mix_0003.JPG (23kb) downloaded 1 time(s).

unfortunately I could't reproduce that
(for a moment i thought it had something to do with the Input Categories, but it wasn't)