I'm moving our Journalsim production system here at the University from Tricaster 2 Elite to vMix - The whole system runs completely using NDI I/O for video and Dante I/O for audio. Both NDI and Dante are on thier own sepaerate VLAN.

History:

Adding Dante Virtual Sound Card to the Tricaster was straight forward - I had to assign two dante channels per TC2 device or inputs - that gave me 4 x DDRs (2 channels), 4 x LiveU (2 channels) That looks very simple on the dante controller and simple to assign those outputs into the SQ5 Dante i/o. The output of the SQ5 is converted from Dante to analogue L&R through a Glensound box going back into the Tricaster as the main mix.

Other external inputs such as the 4 x radio mics from the Studio are going over the dante network into the SQ5.

Now:

So my task is to configure the outputs of the vMix 6 x playlist (as variable pairs for the Cuez Automation) 2 x LiveU outputs for mixing and then return them back to the vMix to embed into the final video output.

The vMix has a bus structure.... unlike the Tricaster which just outputs the audio for each device.

My confusion is it appears I have to assign everything through individual busses(?) to the dante streams as opposed to just assigning device outputs directly to dante streams.

Is this how ir works with vMix - you have to go via the buss assignment.

Big Thank you for this - I'll need to rationalise my sources out of vMix and only route the play lists and feeds that will need fader and EQ control, such as SOT, OOVs and LiveU feeds. The bumpers, titles and stings I can route directly to the master output as the levels are fixed. I can see the logic of including buss routing in vMix - but it would also be useful to have direct outs.