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wwdv  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:43:36 AM(UTC)
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Regularly I want to freeze a desktop capture input to preserve a beamer message for broadcasting while the beamer operator already shows another message for the screen in the church hall.
Most hardware video mixers have this option.
In vMix this could be achieved with a right-click option on the concerning input window.
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:14:05 PM(UTC)
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+1.... Freeze option is good. And - freeze last picture from input before drop signal - is very good (Not black screen in programm output)
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:47:20 AM(UTC)
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+1, or rather as an extended Snapshot functionality.

Ideallt the Snapshot shortcut would allow what to snap, for backwards compatibility default to Output.
But we would really find it useful if any Input could be used instead.
In addition it would be nice if a right-click on the footer bar's Snapshot icon allowed the operator to select what should be snapped in a similar way. Again default to Output, but also to alternatively select any Input.
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, February 3, 2016 2:31:25 AM(UTC)
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+1 for simple quick freeze input button.

In my case good to freeze a PowerPoint computer input so I can edit the PPT then unfreeze when it is updated.
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#5 Posted : Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:27:52 AM(UTC)
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+1 for simple quick freeze for live camera too
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#6 Posted : Friday, December 1, 2017 3:32:42 AM(UTC)
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+1 Systems like PDS oder Image Pro have this option. As a example, we loop the presentation thru the Barco PDS and ingest it with 1080p50 in the vMix system. The live stream will start mostly 30 minutes before the event start. In mostly all cases want the customer to switch between the slides until 5 minutes before event-start. In this case would be a freeze option very welcome.

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#7 Posted : Saturday, December 2, 2017 1:00:53 PM(UTC)
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+1

Right click on an input and create a virtual froozen input is also an option.
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#8 Posted : Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:22:51 PM(UTC)
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+1 Right-click option to freeze input, right-click same item to unfreeze
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#9 Posted : Tuesday, March 27, 2018 7:19:13 PM(UTC)
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+1 freeze the output too
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#10 Posted : Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:56:13 AM(UTC)
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+1 for inputs and outputs
Not the first request: https://forums.vmix.com/....aspx?g=posts&t=6181
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#11 Posted : Saturday, March 31, 2018 4:06:08 PM(UTC)
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+1

Make from a frozen input a new virtual input like a PTZ camera preset image
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#12 Posted : Friday, July 20, 2018 5:28:08 AM(UTC)
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+ 1 for input freeze

usmedia wrote:
+1 Systems like PDS oder Image Pro have this option. As a example, we loop the presentation thru the Barco PDS and ingest it with 1080p50 in the vMix system. The live stream will start mostly 30 minutes before the event start. In mostly all cases want the customer to switch between the slides until 5 minutes before event-start. In this case would be a freeze option very welcome.



We are in a similar situation with a powerpoint laptop next to VMix (captured as HDMI input). Most of the time people are still checking or changing slides until right before the start of the event.
The powerpoint presentation is part of several multiviews and therefore making a snapshot of that input would still require replacing the real input with the still image in all of the multiviews.

Another case would be the need to quickly change powerpoint presentations or fix a mistake in a presentation while keeping the slides visible to the viewer along side a camera image for example.
Then you could just freeze the input from the powerpoint laptop and use the laptop to do what needs to be done and still continue to use the normal multiviews and preset that are used during the normal show.
I hope my examples where easy to understand and showed why a snapshot capture from the input might not always work, since I dont want to replace the whole output with a still image.
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#13 Posted : Saturday, July 28, 2018 2:27:11 AM(UTC)
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#14 Posted : Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:04:10 PM(UTC)
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+1 for input freeze
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#15 Posted : Wednesday, August 8, 2018 7:45:26 AM(UTC)
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One work-around if you're using NDI-based screen capture (or any other NDI source that you want to freeze) is to route it via the Zen RTx (re-transmit) app, which includes a Freeze function.
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#16 Posted : Saturday, August 18, 2018 9:04:39 PM(UTC)
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+1. Having this as an option would free up GPU processing power if a production has cameras that are only used for parts of a broadcast. Adding shortcuts\triggers to this feature would allow for camera inputs to be enabled\disabled via scripts\activators with segment intros and outros.
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#17 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2018 4:11:25 AM(UTC)
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Need this option again and again.
I've made a virtual input from the NDI projector PC input and can do anything with it like zoom in etc.
But can't freeze it. So when the next slide is presented my edited picture is gone.

Vmix really should have this basic feature!

These kind of things are needed on the fly so a work-around is no option.
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#18 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2018 6:47:51 PM(UTC)
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Snapshots on any input is announced as a new feature for vMix 22

Guillaume
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#19 Posted : Tuesday, October 30, 2018 12:44:30 AM(UTC)
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#20 Posted : Tuesday, October 30, 2018 3:54:40 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: DWAM Go to Quoted Post
Snapshots on any input is announced as a new feature for vMix 22

Guillaume

We don't need snapshots. We need freeze function for inputs and outputs.
And yes, we know there are workarounds... ;-)
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