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I am building a system using vMix to update our church video system.
Core i7-6700K
16Gb RAM
GTX 960 Video Card
SC542N4 SDI capture card
I would welcome any feedback on what I picked (not purchased yet) but my question is about the display. I am looking at a 28" 4K monitor but I am wondering if this is overkill. Or worse yet, will this slow down my system? I would hate for my display to cause a performance hit.
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Is vMix optimized for a 4k display?
Would this be overkill?
What is the best size display for a vMix PC?
What is the best resolution to run vMix software at?
What size display do you use for vMix?
Any feedback here would be greatly appreciated!
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What about a 21:9 ultrawide? Would this be helpful as a vMix display? What are your thoughts?
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Nobody is chiming in so I answered some of my own questions. I found a computer with a 4K monitor and installed the demo of vMix. Not very impressed. At 100% The buttons are too small. At 150% everything is a good size but the buttons are blurry. From my quick experiment it does not look like vMix is not optimized for a 4k display. It works just fine but why make your video card drive all those pixels and not gain anything from it?
As far as an ultrawide 21:9 display I don't have access to one but it does not look like vMix will let me utilize the extra width so I am not doing that either.
I think I will go with a 27" 1920X1080 display and call it a day.
Please do sound off if you have any other insights on this. Thanks.
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If you use a 4k monitor, you can split the screen into 4 1080p screens with Display Fusion.. https://www.displayfusion.com/That would be my reason for using a 4k monitor instead of 4 monitors... This is my current setup... 2 x 32" tv/monitors 2 x 24" tv/monitors all running from a single geforce 750ti.. But soon to be going to an geforce 1080 at 4k with a 4k tv/monitor running Display Fusion in a 2 x 2 grid at 1080p per display...
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Looks about like this 34" LG 21:9 Screen Speegs attached the following image(s):  21by9.jpg (172kb) downloaded 46 time(s).You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register.
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So the inputs on the bottom are great to use. Lots more space. Program and Preview has unused space you can't utilize.
I would rather have the option of a program and preview and just bigger inputs all on the left screen, program out on the right screen. I use a hardware based encoder and recorder too, so always need program out on it's own screen to be fair.
You can't disable preview and program on your primary screen as far as I know.
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The mixer is often hidden when I use Vmix as I mostly use 1 input for sound with the sound engineer with a nice big mixing desk to the left :) It's the type of events I do, mixing the audio is important enough to have one person in control before it even hits vmix. Vmix could die and the onsite audience wouldn't know.
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If I'm using 21:9, I would unlock audio, replay and maybe streaming status window and put it on the right, next tu main vMix window.
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All these posts are making me see how flexible vMix can be with a little creativity. Thanks guys!
I have now purchased my rig now but there are some great ideas here that have me thinking...
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BETech wrote:Actual vMix system. Using an ASUS 500 FlipBook series 15.6” TouchScreen laptop and one LG E2210 (22”, 1680x1050) displayed in Portrait mode. The ASUS 500 FlipBook series 500 is the control surface for vMix, with vMix running on the same laptop and 1GB SSD for recording/playback/titles/graphics. Bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Compact, and fits in a small overnight bag.  @BETech For the other users out there, what control software are you using on the laptop screen???
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Underlying software is Emulator Pro (Mac & PC). Interface design and Midi coding for vMix, 3Play & TriCaster by BETech. Midi control data can either be local (as per photo) or via network using Apple Bonjour and rtpMidi software. This interface is programmed to be hot switchable between Vision Mixer (2 versions), Audio Mixer, Slow Motion Replay, Score Graphics/Titles controller and the standard PC desktop. The software requires a license. I have posted other articles/comments for Emulator Pro on the vMix forum. Hope this helps.
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@Btech,
Emulator Pro doesn't seem to be available for Windows 10? Is that correct?
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