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May

vMix 21 is now available for download.

vMix 21 has launched!

Today sees the release of the latest version of vMix- vMix 21! The award winning production software has been upgraded to add even more professional features for your live video production.

Check out the information below to find out more information or watch our vMix 21 video!

Picture perfect

vMix 21 includes professional 3-way colour correction with lift, gamma and gain control which makes adjusting and matching your cameras easy and convenient. The in-built vectorscope and waveform monitors will allow vMix users to create the best picture possible for their inputs or their program output. By setting cameras to the best picture settings, vMix users will see a consistent image profile across the entire production and provide the best viewing experience for their audience. All done in real time and GPU accelerated, this kind of colour correction is something that has never been seen before in live video production software!

Customise your MultiView

Now you’re able to customise your vMix MultiView output by selecting what displays in each box. You can choose to display based on the input number or you can choose a specific order number. For example you could choose to show your first 4 cameras, regardless of where they are in your vMix interface.

Independent streaming control

A much requested feature has been the ability to stop and start streams independently, and now this is available in vMix 21! You can create up to 3 streams with different streaming qualities, resolutions and aspect ratios. Start and stop any of the three streams via the streaming settings in vMix.

This means you can choose to stream certain parts of your content to specific platforms which is great for funneling viewers to your desired location. This feature can also be used to do short “shout out streams” to encourage viewers to head over to your main stream.

Hip to be square or going vertical?

Some streaming platforms allow for square or vertical streams and now you can stream with these aspect ratios with vMix 21. In the streaming settings you can set your aspect ratio to 1:1 or 9:16 and you can view your streaming area with the new safe areas. Keep in mind that every platform handles these aspect ratios differently and may not be viewed the same from app to app or website. Don’t forget the 3 rules of streaming…Test, Test and Test some more!

vMix 21 square streaming

Key and fill

Ever wanted to have Key/Fill for your Blackmagic Design products? Well want no more! If the device supports Key/Fill then a new Alpha Channel dropdown will be available in the External Output settings, allowing you to easily send your graphics out! You can easily use vMix graphics for titling, vMix Social and more, directly into products that support key and fill such as the ATEM.

Count it down

vMix 21 has added a trigger to the countdown clock that allows you to perform a function with the timer finishes. This is great for timed segments in your show or for live sporting event that’s linked to a game clock.

Update says no

To combat rogue Windows updates from bringing your live productions to a screeching halt, vMix 21 now has an option to turn off Windows Updates when vMix is running.

Want to upgrade or try?

Just head to vMix.com to download vMix 21. If you’re new to vMix, you can sign up for a free 60-day unwatermarked trial when you install.

If you want to upgrade to vMix 21 you can see if you’re eligible by going here and entering your key!

And now for the full list of vMix 21 updates!

Colour Correction

Professional colour correction on every input
Lift/Gamma/Gain/Hue/Saturation controls with industry standard colour wheels and bars
Import/export colour correction presets to use in other productions

Monitoring Tools

New Waveform and Vectorscope monitors in Preview and Input settings windows
Select the RGB icon to select from the various display options
Choose from Waveform RGB, Waveform Y, Parade RGB, Vectorscope and split (side by side) layout options

Streaming

Independent streaming control support for all three destinations
Select a different audio bus for each stream to facilitate multilingual productions
New Square (1:1) and Vertical (9:16) streaming options will automatically crop the sides of the video to fit
To assist with these new aspect ratios, additional Safe Area presets are available
Added recommended streaming quality presets for Facebook

Display

New Display Engine for Windows 10, improves performance (reduces render time) and smoothness on Fullscreen outputs
Also improves compatibility with NVIDIA Optimus laptops running the latest Windows Updates and no longer requires the “Optimus Compatibility Mode”

Outputs

MultiView Output now supports custom input layouts in addition to the default 1-8
Can also be used to assign monitors based on input type, for example to show the first 4 cameras in the first row regardless of location in the inputs
Added support for SSL (RTMPS) streaming. This can be used with Facebook on networks that block or filter port 80 traffic
Key/Fill output support for compatible Blackmagic devices
If device supports Key/Fill a new Alpha Channel dropdown will appear in settings -> External Output

NDI

Configure a custom Audio Channel (bus) on each NDI output
Configure Alpha Channel mode on NDI outputs (Premultiplied and Straight)
Configure downscaling on NDI outputs (such as HD to SD)
NewBlue NDI integration now supports 10 command layers, up from 5

Shortcuts

SetVolumeFade
SetOutput2,3,4
ColourCorrectionAuto
ColourCorrectionRset
SetCCX shortcuts to adjust Lift/Gamma/Gain/Hue/Saturation with MIDI support
Start/StopStreaming functions support an optional value to select the stream index (0-2)
InputPreviewShowHide: Show and hide the large input preview window
ReplaySelectedEventSingleCameraOn
ReplaySelectedEventCameraOn
ReplaySelectedEventCameraOff
ReplayLastEventSingleCameraOn
ReplayLastEventCameraOn
ReplayLastEventCameraOff
ReplaySetSelectedEventTextCamera
ReplaySetLastEventTextCamera

Triggers

New OnCountdownCompleted trigger for titles

Devices

Support for AJA Io 4K Plus and new Kona HDMI models
X-Keys T-Bar/Jog/Shuttle controller support added
PTZ Optics ZCAM zoom control supported in PTZ controls

Other

Windows Update is disabled automatically while vMix is running
ASUS Sonic Suite 2 will be disabled if it is installed on the system as it can substantially reduce performance
New Performance Alerts – If CPU or GPU exceed a certain threshold, an alert will appear in the status bar at the bottom of vMix
New Activators support in TCP API
Improved German translation
Fixed focus/zoom issues with Sony VISCA over IP provider
New repeat checkbox in vMix Social. When unchecked vMix Social will only display new posts once.
Dragging and dropping content into vMix will now be added to the recent items to make them easy to find in the future
Improved JSON support in Data Sources
All dropdown input lists now include input number first to make it easy to find inputs in large productions
Inputs.Find in Scripting API now supports numbers in addition to input names
Fixed a couple of memory leak issues, including with titles after extended periods of time

Apr

vMix NAB Show Recap 2018

Big unveiling of the vMix 21 beta!

This year at NAB show in Las Vegas we decided to unveil a new vMix release for the very first time. Usually we have the new vMix version already available prior to NAB, meaning that everyone has already seen the new features. In order to have the first hands-on experience with vMix 21 you needed to be at NAB 2018! It was great to be able to show everyone all of the new features in person, instead of through a video or press release.

A feature for every occasion

Each year we like to emphasise different ways that you can use vMix. We have to let people know that it’s just 1 piece of software that allows you to do so many different things. This year we included a Social Media Production station to show off the social engagement features of vMix Social. vMix Social has been available for many years but it seems as though people are JUST starting to engage with their users! 🙂

Best of NAB Award from Streaming Media Magazine

Best of NAB- Streamin Media

vMix was awarded Best of NAB 2018 from Streaming Media Magazine! This was a honour and a great surprise! We were able to receive the award in 2017 also, which again was a great surprise for us. To be able to win it 2 years in a row is a shock but something that we are very thankful for.

vMix all around NAB

This year was a very busy year at the booth so we didn’t have a lot of time to get out and see vMix in action in all the different halls. I had a quick walk through the North Hall and saw vMix on display in multiple booth and that was without even looking for it! Again, there were plenty of our partners with vMix running including X-keys, PTZ Optics, Production Bot, AIDA, BirdDog, plus more. There were quite a few live shows being streamed directly from the floor and vMix was involved in a lot of those too! We even had people using LiveU products to stream from the show floor back to a producer in another state who was using vMix to switch and stream!

vMix-Cube

We had a lot of our partners products in our booth this year too! We had a Yuan 4K Capture Card, a BirdDog Studio, X-keys controllers, Panasonic 4K camera, JL Cooper Instant Replay controller, AIDA 4K Camera, New Blue Titler and probably some we can’t remember! Big thanks to all of the companies that help complete our booth each year.

NAB 2019?!

If you’re thinking about coming to Las Vegas for NAB Show, start getting ready now. You’ve probably already seen a lot of videos, blogs, pictures and live streams for the show and if you don’t want to miss out…start your planning! We managed to have 500 mousepads taken this year, so we may need to double that for next year. NAB is a good place to catch up with all of the latest in live production but more importantly it’s a time to meet up with fellow enthusiasts and connect with people to share information.

Thanks to everyone from all around the world that stopped by the booth to ask about vMix and to tell us your stories.

vMix Swag

Feb

What to do at NAB Show 2018…

NAB 2018

vMix will be back again to NAB for its 6th year! You can find us in the South Lower Hall- SL 4620. Just take a right at EVS and you’ll see us! What are we excited to see at NAB this year? Well I think we are hoping for more NDI hardware options, especially with cameras. We haven’t officially heard anything but it would be great if there were more products to choose from. I’m sure there will be a lot more exciting stuff announced the closer we get to the show.

NAB is a great place to see all of the new equipment and get some hands-on experience with it. There will be a few live shows scattered around the trade show floor too, so take a look and maybe get some pointers. Doing a live show at one of the busiest trade shows in the world is no easy feat!

vMix will have a tonne of compatible companies at NAB this year, so we’d thought we’d let everyone know where they were so you could chat. We really need to work out some kind of deal where if you mention vMix you get a massive discount on your next purchase or at least a free stubby cooler. Speaking of free stuff, be sure to drop by and collect an official NAB 2018 limited edition vMix mousepad!

vMix Partners and Friends!

Feb

A look at our NDI® Live Studio! Pt. 2

All NDI All The Time!

In our last post we discussed how far NDI had come and how we now have access hardware based NDI solutions! We were super eager to get access to NDI based hardware so that we could start implementing it into our vMix HQ studio. Having hardware products really cements the functionality of the standard in a working studio environment. People have seen NDI as a cool way to transfer some titles or video but cameras and converters show people its full potential! NDI hardware lessens the equipment footprint of a production and makes each element of a production accessible to everyone on the same network, which is great for small and large productions alike.

Piecing together the vMix NDI studio.

I was sitting in the office in December and thought…

Hey! I think we could just about put together an entirely NDI show! Let’s send some emails and see if we can do it!

After some correspondence we were able to secure the NewTek™ Spark Connect, NewTek PTZ1 camera, and the PTZOptics NDI|HX upgrade! Along with our existing BirdDog Studio, we we able to use 4 NDI sources in our production! One major upgrade to our studio that we did need was a PoE+ switch to run all of our new PoE NDI devices! We bought a Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 24-

vMix NDI Ubiquiti

Feb

A look at our NDI® Live Studio! Pt. 1

The NDI journey with vMix…so far.

Back in 2014 when we first heard about NDI, we were pretty excited about the possibilities. Being able to create live video productions using video sources on the local network sounded almost too good to be true. At first I remember being a little skeptical as my only contact with IP video was with cheap IP cameras that were unreliable and had extreme latency. As we begun developing vMix for use with NDI I can remember having a moment thinking…hey this could actually work! It’s great quality, low latency video that can be delivered over the local network without any hassles! When NDI officially launched in 2015 we were excited to be apart of a new live video revolution. We were ALL IN with NDI and wanted full integration so we made it possible to both send and receive video sources including individual cameras!

With the development of NDI you could see that it had been created to not only make IP video more accessible but to help bring more live video elements together. Most systems for live video production in the past,both software and hardware, were fairly closed ecosystems. Developers would need to go out of their way, sign exclusivity agreements and only work on certain platforms. Now with NDI, each product has the ability to connect with most live video systems on the market. This has really opened the opportunity for more and more professional production through high-end CG graphics, real-time playout, and source sharing…all over a local network. Instead of needing huge hardware surfaces in a giant room to produce events, many functions can now be performed by a computer or laptop in the same room…or anywhere really, as long as they’re on the same network!

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