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April 1, 2025

vMix and AI: Presenting AIffirmatron, The Future of Social Stream Interaction

As a content creator, there’s nothing worse than going live and hearing the sound of silence. It’s disheartening when you’re putting all your effort into a stream, only to find that your audience isn’t engaging as you hoped. Enter AIffirmatron, the ultimate solution to this common live streaming dilemma!

What is AIffirmatron?

AIffirmatron is a revolutionary new tool that uses AI-generated comments to boost engagement during your live streams. It’s the perfect way to make sure your stream never feels lonely again. Whether you’re streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or another platform, AIffirmatron generates positive comments to create an active, lively atmosphere that attracts real viewers to join in on the fun.

How Does AIffirmatron Work?

AIffirmatron integrates seamlessly with vMix Social, providing an easy way to kickstart the interaction during your live broadcasts. The tool offers thousands of AI-generated comments, and you can choose to curate a steady flow or let them roll in continuously. These comments are designed to create the impression that you have an engaged, buzzing audience—encouraging others to comment and join the conversation.

While the comments are mostly positive, the best part about AIffirmatron is its variety. Not only does it include well-crafted, friendly comments, but it also features quirky, unhinged personas for a touch of unpredictability! After all, variety is the spice of life, and AIffirmatron delivers just the right balance of fun and engagement to keep your stream interesting.

Why Should You Use AIffirmatron?

Instant Engagement: Never deal with silence again! AIffirmatron helps create an active, engaging environment from the start.
Curated Comments: Easily manage the comments coming in with a customizable queue. Choose when and how the comments show up to fit your stream’s vibe.
Realistic AI Personas: These aren’t generic bots. AIffirmatron uses intelligent AI personas to keep things real and lively.
Seamless Integration: Fully compatible with vMix Social, making it simple to add to your existing setup.

Is AIffirmatron Right for You?

Whether you’re a professional streamer or just starting, AIffirmatron is the perfect tool to increase your engagement and create a more dynamic live stream. Don’t let your streams fall flat—let AIffirmatron bring the energy and interaction you’ve been craving.

Ready to see your engagement soar? Try AIffirmatron today and watch your live stream transform!

January 28, 2025

vMix 28 is available now!

vMix 28 is now available for download via the vMix.com download page! If you’re a vMix Max user or purchased vMix from January 2023 then you can update right now for free. Prior to this date, it’s a $60 fee for 12 months of updates if you’d like to experience the new vMix 28 features! For a quick overview of vMix 28, check out this 2-3 minute video brought to you by current vMix CEO, Martin ‘McStreamy’ Sinclair.

Telestrator

A Telestrator has been added to the vMix Web Controller! Easily add illustrations, shapes, and images to a production from any modern web browser. The Web Controller will provide a new low latency video feed that can used to telestrate on! Just add a Telestrator as an overlay or layer on your production for excellent success!

10 shortcuts can also be added to the Telestrator screen so the talent can not only telestrate but control the production as well!!

5 streaming destinations and encoder statistics!

Now that you can use 8 hardware encodes with an NVIDIA GeForce card, vMix has opened up the number of streaming destinations to 5! This leaves another 3 free for other encodes like records! Having trouble keeping up with how many hardware encoders you’re doing? Well vMix now has an Encoder tab in the Statistics section, where you can manage the number of encoders you’re currently using.

New playback triggers!

vMix 28 now features 2 triggers for inputs that have a playback time. For example someone could now perform a function at a particular time during a video playout.

OnPlaybackTime
OnPlaybackTimeRemaining

New MultiView Options!

MultiView2 has been added to vMix, alongside some additional configuration options. This will include the ability to remove preview/output, choose the preview/output mix, select the audio being displayed and the ability to click on the MultiView to move an input to Preview.

November 26, 2024

vMix Bluesky!

We’ve decided to start a Bluesky account. It’s going to be mainly for posting AI images of bananas and pygmy hippos doing things, but also for announcements and the like. If you’d like to follow us you can find our profile here- vMix on Bluesky.

November 15, 2024

vMix Laptops 2024-2025

What a year! Things took a bit of a left turn this year with the new Intel Core Ultras and AMD Ryzen AI CPUs. These have taken a heavy focus on AI and power consumption, which don’t really impact vMix. Instead of buying 4 new laptops for testing, we’ve stuck with the 14th Gen Intel Core laptops. In particular the i9 14900HX, which is a little different from the previous recommendations of the i7s. We bought an i7 but noticed some lacklustre performance at low load.

Here’s what we went for-

ASUS 16″ Republic of Gamers Strix G614JVR-ES94

Intel i9 14900HX processor
RTX 4060 GPU
16GB DDR5 Ram
Thunderbolt 4
1TB SSD
Advanced Optimus

What about other laptops??

You can purchase a different brand of laptop but just make sure that it has similar specs. Here’s what we’d recommend if you were in the market for a new laptop in 2024/2025.

Intel i9 14900HX processor or better
RTX 4060 or better
16GB DDR5 Ram or more
Advertises that it has Advanced Optimus or a MUX switch
1TB SSD
Thunderbolt 4 if you need it!

Do I need to update?

Not really. If you can buy a 12th Gen or 13th Gen i7 like the 12700H or 13700H, you’ll save a bit of money and get good results. These might come with a GeForce RTX 3060 which will have Resizable BAR but not AV1 encoding. If you want AV1 encoding you’ll need a GeForce RTX 4060 or better.

See our Sapphire Reference System page for the latest vMix Laptop news!

Laptop best practices!

Check out our Knowledge Base article about getting the most out of your laptop with vMix- https://www.vmix.com/knowledgebase/article.aspx/264/laptop-best-practices

January 22, 2024

vMix 27 is here!

vMix 27 is now available for download via the vMix.com download page! If you’re a vMix Max user or purchased vMix from January 2022 then you can update right now for free. Prior to this date, it’s a $60 fee for 12 months of updates if you’d like to experience the new vMix 27 features! For a quick overview of vMix 27, check out this 2 1/2 minute video brought to you by vMix CEO, Martin ‘De Wielrenner’ Sinclair.

Zoom Integration

vMix 27 will allow users to connect directly to Zoom meetings! vMix will manage all of your audio and video, so there’s no more need to have 5 laptops just for Zoom participants. Zoom integration makes it really easy to add remote guests to your production, using a tool that most people are already familiar with! There are tons of features at your disposal with this new update so check out the quick start guide to get up and running or the in-depth video to know EVERYTHING!

Audio Upgrades- Audio Bus Manager, Bus Mixer, PFL

New audio updates in vMix will help take your audio workflows to the next level! A new Audio Bus Manager allows for quick and seamless routing of your inputs to audio buses. Just open it up from the hamburger menu and assign buses in seconds! The Audio Bus Mixer enables you to change the audio levels of an input within a bus. This can be done from your input’s audio settings and also where you’ll find the new PFL option!

AV1 and HEVC streaming to YouTube

vMix 27 enables AV1 and HEVC streaming to YouTube via the Quality Settings streaming menu. You’ll just need to make sure that you have a GPU that supports either HEVC or AV1. We’re excited about these options as you’ll be able to stream with great quality but with much less bandwidth!