Hi everyone,
Full disclosure: I'm the developer. I've been doing conference AV for years and kept running into the same problem – switching between speakers' PowerPoint files without the audience ever
seeing the desktop, an edit window or the wrong slide. So I built a tool for it and I'd love feedback from people who run shows with vMix.
What it does:
- Run of show: drop a folder of presentations, PDFs, videos, images and web pages (Google Slides, Kahoot, Slido) – each becomes a cue.
- PREVIEW / PROGRAM with TAKE, like a vision mixer. Clicking a cue only prepares it, the audience sees nothing until you press TAKE.
- Decks are preloaded in the background, so the cut is instant.
- FREEZE, BLACK, logo bug and a break slate on top of the output.
- Presenter view on a separate monitor (current/next slide, notes, timer, messages from the operator).
- Clickers: each speaker remote is recognised separately and can be mapped.
- Native Elgato Stream Deck support and an HTTP/WebSocket API for remote control.
- Backup machine mode: a second computer follows the main one and shows whether it's in sync before you need it.
- Preflight check of files: missing fonts, embedded video, resolution.
How it fits with vMix: the program output goes to a dedicated monitor/HDMI output, so you take it into vMix as a capture input.
Windows 10/11 and macOS. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
powerpoint-switch.com Looking for help: I'd like to make a proper Bitfocus Companion integration. If you have experience writing Companion modules (or use Companion daily and know what a good module should feel
like), I'd be glad to hear from you – reply here or send me a private message.
I'm also interested in:
- what you use today for speaker switching and what annoys you about it,
- whether direct NDI output would be useful for your workflow.
Happy to answer any questions here.