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mct  
#1 Posted : Sunday, January 28, 2024 12:39:24 PM(UTC)
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When using Zoom, the active speaker doesn't work. The participant source stays on the host camera when set to default, regardless of who is speaking.

No pin or spotlight is set. Anyone in the zoom app or zoom web sees the cameras changing as per the usual active speaker, but not in vmix.

We tried with both an HD licence and a Pro licence.
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#2 Posted : Sunday, January 28, 2024 12:49:17 PM(UTC)
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Hi,

This is expected behaviour.
To explain why, vMix only has access to raw audio/feeds of participants that need to be selected manually.
There is no "active speaker" feed available.

So default is the first participant in the meeting.

It is not possible to dynamically change this, as this would require multiple recordings to be started and stopped, sometimes many a second
that would become unreliable and offer poor performance.

As a result, you will need to manually assign participants to separate Zoom inputs in vMix.

Regards,

Martin
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#3 Posted : Sunday, January 28, 2024 1:20:26 PM(UTC)
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Thank you Martin,

That explains it!
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#4 Posted : Sunday, January 28, 2024 6:16:57 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: mct Go to Quoted Post
When using Zoom, the active speaker doesn't work. The participant source stays on the host camera when set to default, regardless of who is speaking.

No pin or spotlight is set. Anyone in the zoom app or zoom web sees the cameras changing as per the usual active speaker, but not in vmix.

We tried with both an HD licence and a Pro licence.


You can simulate Active Speaker with the new triggers - set a trigger for "when this person is speaking on Zoom, cut this source to output".
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mvoccola  
#5 Posted : Thursday, October 10, 2024 1:13:39 AM(UTC)
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ZoomISO figured this out...
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#6 Posted : Thursday, October 10, 2024 7:44:01 AM(UTC)
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ZoomISO figured this out...


So did vMix, as was pointed out in the comment you're replying to.
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