Hey vMixers!

vMix UTC is a donationware 3rd party application created by Elgarf ( http://forums.vmix.com/d...spx?g=profile&u=2957 ). Making a donation is a way to support the project and its creator for the common good of all.

UTC stands for "Universal Title Controller". Its main purpose is to build personalized UI (User Interface) for handling XAML titles in vMix, but it also allows to operate most vMix functions remotely. It is somehow an alternative to vMix Web Controller (which it shares features with), but it has more powerful features.

vMix UTC is built upon vMix API commands which are defined in "functions.xml". So it allows not only to manage titles, but also to switch inputs, to start/stop recordings and streaming for example. Besides it allows to use XML datasource and to monitor vMix inputs and outputs via NDI.

It's important to understand that vMixUTC is not a substitution tool for creating XAML files which still require the use of vMix Title Designer (or MS Expression Blend i.e.). vMix UTC will be useful for managing the content of your XAML titles, for controlling their use in your production and it allows to use dynamic features in titles.

Due to the lack of documentation, I decided to provide information and examples aiming at helping vMix users to get started with vMix UTC. But help is welcome, feel free to share your tips here!

To get started

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- download last version of vMix UTC here : http://forums.vmix.com/d....aspx?g=posts&t=6468

- extract files to a folder on your vMix computer or any other computer, create a desktop icon if desired and start vMixController.exe

- first thing to do is to indicate the IP address of the vMix host that Vmix UTC will be used to control
> if you installed vMix UTC on the same computer, indicate 127.0.0.1 in IP address field at bottom
> otherwise, give the IP address and port as indicated in vMix Settings > Web Controller Tab

- once correctly configured, vMix UTC will show a green indicator with "Online" mention.

VMix UTC User Interface and Menus

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- "File" menu is standard. It allows to create new projects, to open previously saved ones and to save your work.
vMix UTC generates ".vmc" files

- "Create" is the most important menu. It allows to select "Widgets" which are objects we can work with to build a VMC project.
All widgets can also be chosen by right-clicking the black workspace.

- "Lock" will "freeze" your project to prevent from messing things around. We use this when the project is over.
Note: it is also to possible to "lock" each widget individually.

- "Update State" is to be used when your vMix project has changed, so that vMixUTC can update its internal state when necessary. For example when you add an input in vMix, vMix UTC won't know about it until you "Update State"

vMix UTC Widgets

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There are 9 widget types: buttons, labels, texts, lists, scores, timers, external data, containers and multi states.

- Labels are meant to name areas in your project so that you can group widgets depending on their use. It's only for visual confort.
- Text fields are widgets you can write into to update your titles on the fly. They need to be mapped to a field in your XAML titles.
- List widgets are useful to make a "list" of values that you can select quickly in a dropdown menu to fill your XAML title.
- Score widget is an optimized solution for managing scoreboards.
- Timer widget can be either a duration or a countdown timer.
- Buttons are the more important widgets as they can contain many commands either for controlling vMix but also for controlling other widgets in the project.
- ExternalData allows to use XML files into your projects. It's very powerful to build highly dynamic titles (like sport live stats for example)
- Container widget allows to build complex VMC projects out of other VMC files. It's a way to import a VMC file into a VMC file.
- Multi State widget allows to control simultaneously several vMix instances over the network. It syncs all commands.

vMix UTC Functions

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Button Widgets provide a "script" area where you can use "functions". Most of these functions are based on vMix API.
Check vMix Developper API information and vMix Shortcut Function Reference for more information:
http://www.vmix.com/help18/DeveloperAPI.html
http://www.vmix.com/help...utFunctionReference.html

But some functions are specific to vMix UTC. These are internal functions.
Here they are:

- ExecLink: it allows to trigger other widgets behaviour.
- Timer: it pauses a script execution for a period of time (like a "sleep" or "wait" command)
- UpdateState: it allows to force a state check
- GoTo: it is used to make a loop inside buttons script

More information about these internal functions will be given through examples later on.

It's time to get started!

Howto use List Widget in vMix UTC

This video will mainly show you how to use:
- List Widget to feed a lower-third title with speakers for example,
- List Widget to feed multiple xaml titles from a single list,
- List Widget as an internal Datasource to feed other widgets,
- List Widget features to save/load data to/from a file,
- Score Widget
- Timer Widget

vMix titles "NewsHD.xaml", "TextHD.xaml" and "ScoreBoardHD2.xaml" are used for the demo.

>>> Watch the video:

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Notes:

List widget works pretty much the same way as vMix Title Editor where you can define several field values for a title.
The most common example is a speakers list where you have a field for the name and another one for the occupation in a lower-third title.

You can type your values directly in the widget, but vMixUTC also supports TXT files to import values from.
The values are separated by the | symbol like this:
speaker1|occupation
speaker2|occupation
speaker3|occupation
By clicking the "table" option, your List Widget will act as a spreadsheet or a database with rows and columns.

Unlike vMix Title Editor, vMix UTC List Widget is able to spread/split the values across multiple xaml titles. This is very convenient when you have many different titles which need to be "synced".
For example with a list like this - column1|column2|column3 - you can do this:
- column1 mapped to title1.xaml
- column2 mapped to title2.xaml
- column3 mapped to title3.xaml

** Tip:
If you need a column value to be mapped to 2 xaml different titles, you must copy this column twice. For example:
- column1 (name) mapped to title1.xaml
- column2 (occupation) mapped to title2.xaml
- column3 (misc) mapped to title3.xaml
- column4 (name) mapped to title2.xaml
Here columns 1 & 4 are the same data sent to different titles.

As shown in the video, vMix UTC List Widget can also act as a "datasource" inside a VMC project to feed other widgets.
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Hi

there is no such thing as "automatic titles" in vMix. And you should have asked your question in the "general" section of the forum. Not here, this is not relevant to this topic.

There are 2 ways to do it.
- you can create images (same resolution as your vMix project) with your +12 +16 +18 mentions
- you can also create a xaml title with Title Designer.

In both cases, you will use an "overlay" to show this "over" your video.

BTW do not reply here if needed and check the documentation and the forum to learn how to make a title. Thank you.

Howto use vMix UTC as a Remote and Independent Switcher for External2

Use case:
Sometimes in a live production, it is required to use vMix External2 (physical or NDI) Output to feed a beamer or some monitors with a different content than Program Output. vMix UTC can help for this by allowing the creation of a graphic interface for a second operator on a second computer to switch inputs without altering main director's switching. Besides, vMix UTC also features NDI support which gives us the opportunity to integrate a Monitoring Widget in the interface.

Though vMix UTC was initially created to be a Title Controller, it became a versatile and powerful companion to vMix. Nowadays, it can be used for many purposes like this one (where no title is concerned at all) or to empower vMix features by creating a specific and dedicated User Interface for many use cases as shown in my previous video demonstrating how to control a dynamic multiview input (see previous post).

This video will mainly show you how to use:
- ExternalData Widget to include and view a NDI source directly in vMix UTC,
- Button Widget with SetOutputExternal2 function to create input switches

>>> Watch the video:

Notes:
This video is very explicite. Nothing more to explain in details.
Basically you create a NDI Monitor for External2, then you create as many buttons as you need according to your inputs and finally you can also create a button to "auto-follow" PROGRAM OUT which can be useful if, by moments, External2 and Program Outs need to be the same.

** For this video I used pre-recorded video files. When you use camera inputs, you have the possibility to create a NDI Monitor for each camera, therefore to create a dedicated Multiview in vMix UTC. For this to work, make sure to activate NDI for camera inputs in vMix Settings.

Hope you'll like it. Do not hesitate to ask questions if you want more information. And you're also welcome to share your vMix UTC tips and use cases in this topic.
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Howto use vMixUTC for triggering vMix shortcuts from remote computers

Context:
When we have a lot of shortcuts in vMix, it might be convenient to be able to use them from multiple computers with several operators. vMixUTC can do this very easily. It basically allows vMix shortcuts to be executed from remote computers over the network.

Here's an example how you can do this:

- Let's say you have a shortcut in vMix which is associated to letter K on your keyboard.
- In vMix UTC, create a new Button Widget, give it a name
- Click the + symbol next to "script" and select "KeyPress" in the "Command" dropdown menu
- When done, the fourth field updates and now shows "Key" as a name, simply indicate the letter K (as in vMix) in this field
- Click OK. That's it! When you press this button, the letter K is sent to vMix as if it was local keypress.

If you want, you can also trigger this button from the keyboard on the computer running vMixUTC:

- Click the "Properties" icon for your button
- Tick the "Execute" box and select the letter K in the "Key" dropdown.
- Click OK. You're done!

Now when you press the K key on this computer's keyboard, your shortcut is executed on the vMix host.

If you need more shortcuts to be set, simply click the "Copy Widget" icon in your first button and modify the name and the shortcut trigger according to your vMix setup.

Hope you like it!

PS: Because vMixUTC runs on windows tablets, you can also use this to control vMix with a touch screen!
PS2 : vMixUTC also supports Midi controllers like Akai APC Mini through the Midi Widget.

This is hands down the best program for vMix to do sports! My question, and I've tried to look for answers in your guides, but say I want a timer to take its source from one of two timers depending on game situation, is there a way to make say Timer C take its time from Timer A or B and make which source it is selectable? I hope that made sense. Basically I envision a button saying where to take the time from depending on the game situation.

My scenario is: in hockey, say at 19:00 team "A" gets a penalty.....and at 18:00 team "B" gets a penalty, the resulting 4 on 4 is for 1 minute, or the remaining time from the penalty in Team "A". I have 3 timers, one for each team's powerplay, and one for 4 on 4. So I want the 4 on 4 timer to either represent the time remaining in team A, or B's penalty.

@ spencerm24

I am not sure of your graphical representation of the different penalty situations, but essentially, the 4 on 4 time remaining is the time on the first penalty so what I did/do is simply change/update the subtitle from "penalty or Powerplay to 4 on 4" rather than start a new clock.


Ice

@bh1054010, UTC doesn't catch system-wide shortcuts, so you need to keep UTC window active. BTW, you can try to use [Multi State] widget (though I completely forgot how it works).

It should repeat all commands, sended by UTC to address, setted to Multi State Widget.