Background (computer Nvidea 3060 ti, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores 3.50 GHz, 64gb Ram, 12gb vram)

vMix has many amazing features. Among them, the Zoom direct ability. I have set my production to record each individual Zoom input to its own track for easier editing. However, when recording using vMix AVI (one of the supported all audio bus recording formats), I need to convert the footage to .mov just to get the recording imported to Adobe Premiere. After a long import time, I can see the footage, but audio is choppy and will drop out even though I can see the waveforms. It is unusable for any editing purposes. AVI is also equally as unusable.

The alternative, record as an mp4 with a separate wav file, which breaks itself up even without checking the "separate every however many minutes" box. It's not pro res, and I get multiple audio files after the fact. It works, but not preferable either.

We need an editable pro res format that has all audio busses included.

If I'm missing something I'm happy to be taught.

Thank you!

From the help:
Editing recordings on other computers
vMix AVI files recorded using the vMix Video Codec can be edited on any Windows PC in most video editors including Adobe Premiere and Magix Vegas Pro.
Simply install a copy of vMix on any system used for editing. vMix does not need a license on these computers and does not need to be activated, but does need to be installed.

Converting vMix AVI files to ProRes MOV
vMix includes a program called vMix Media Converter that can transcode multiple vMix AVI files to ProRes MOV files.
This program can be located in the Windows Start Menu.

Hope that helps.

Well, yeah. They're gigantic ProRes files. That's exactly why I use Handbrake to shrink them before working with them.




As I said, I completely remove the audio when I use Handbrake. The resulting files have no audio tracks. None.




Every recording format in vMix offers the ability to record the selected bus(es) to a WAV file.

You don't need audio on the video files when you have audio in an audio file that accurately timecode aligns with the video file in a NLE.

As I said, that's exactly what I do.

Your post explicitly said that you were open to being told what you were missing. I replied by giving you a workflow that I use to achieve the exact same thing you're looking to achieve.

You can either take it or wait to see if vMix eventually implements your suggestion.

I will tell you that the features I see implemented that I recognize from suggestions on this forum generally take about 3-5 years from the first mention on this forum to implementation.

So I'd suggest taking my advice on an alternative workflow, but that's up to you.

Again, every option, including vMix AVI, offers the ability to get a WAV file record.

If you have no issues with the picture quality of the vMix AVI files, there's no reason to keep using MP4, when you have an issue with how it processes longer files.

The vMix AVI files I get for a ~30 minute recording are over 100GB.

The ProRes files are 2-3x that.

I am not remotely surprised that they're sluggish.

Which is why I substantially compress them to make them not sluggish.

The audio that's attached to them is irrelevant because I have a WAV audio file. So what Handbrake does or doesn't do to the audio does not matter. Telling Handbrake to remove the audio all together just makes the file sizes even smaller without losing anything you actually need.

As I said, with longer files, you may notice sync drift after running through the vMix Media Converter and Handbrake. I do not know if you will or not.

But I'm not sure why you're acting like I'm telling you the only option is to keep using MP4 recordings.