Category: vMix 17

See vMix at IBC 2016 in Amsterdam

IBC 2016

This year at IBC, vMix will be exhibiting for the first time. The International Broadcasting Convention held each year in Amsterdam is Europe’s answer to NAB show in Las Vegas. It’s where the broadcast industry in Europe comes together to meet, display new products and talk about the the industry. There are over 1600 companies exhibiting with 55,000 attendees to view their products and services.

As this will be our first year testing the waters in Europe we have a relatively small presence but we be there to demo vMix 17 with a few cameras and talk about live production. We have a booth in the back of hall 11, for an interactive map click here.

IBC-Floormap-vMix

Come see us!

We’ll be talking about Newtek NDI, Facebook Live integration and all the exciting features available in vMix 17. There will also be a giveaway or two, so make sure that you’re following us on Twitter and Facebook!

August 16, 2016

Connecting Adobe Premiere to vMix with Newtek NDI!

Connecting your devices to vMix over the network with NDI

Newtek NDI vMix

Newtek’s NDI (Network Device Interface) has opened up a huge number of possibilities in live production. Being able to easily send video and audio sources over the network is nothing short of amazing. The interactivity between hardware devices and software has allowed users to adopt new ways of creating content and bettering their production.

The Newtek NDI for Creative Cloud Plugin is yet another way to bring in content to your production via NDI. This plugin lets users of Adobe products such as Premiere to playback video projects directly via NDI into live productions. You don’t need to render the entire video, just playback the video LIVE in your workspace and it will be sent via NDI.

Using Adobe Premiere and vMix in live video production.

Basically you can fire up Adobe Premiere, create an animated title and then play that back through vMix via NDI. Need to change the title? Just go back to Premiere, change the title and play again. This means you have the ability to create animated lower thirds on the fly. You don’t need to generate 10 lower thirds before-hand you can just do it all live.

You can even just use Premiere and Adobe After Effects to bring in full scale videos too. Cutting it fine and don’t have time to render, then just play out directly through NDI to vMix.

To set it up you’ll need to install the Newtek NDI for Adobe CC plugin. The plugin has now been made free and is available via the Newtek Website- http://pages.newtek.com/NDI-Tools-Pack-Download.html. Then you need to enable playout through NDI via the Preferences. You’re then set to go. Just create your project, add it as an NDI source in vMix and you’ve got your new live content.

For more information, check out our YouTube video-

Minimum System Requirements:

64-bit Microsoft^® Windows 7 operating system (OS) or better
Intel i5 Sandy Bridge CPU or better
2GB system memory
Adobe Creative Cloud membership (compatible applications include Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC, Adobe Prelude® CC, and Adobe SpeedGrade® CC)
Gigabit connection or better

July 17, 2016

vMix continues to add new updates…for free!

Over the past few weeks there have been a lot of incremental updates to make vMix even better! Your favourite live production software now has a whole lot more to love about it!

vMix 17.0.0.100

Starting at 17.0.0.100, vMix added Instagram support for vMix Social. Instagram support for live production software in not the industry standard, so vMix is out leading the way yet again! Instagram support will allow users to include content from 1/2 a billion active users! If you were looking for social content input, you’ve just found another avenue!

vMix 17.0.0.103

vMix 17.0.0.103 brought in Audio Only NDI sources to help reduce CPU usage. This update also added NDI output support for Webcams that use RGB32 format. vMix is always adapting especially to new technologies. NDI is so new that vMix is evolving with it. We’re looking to make NDI as accessible and functional as possible to all users!

vMix 17.0.0.105

We’ve had plenty of requests for a total CPU usage meter and vMix has heard those requests. vMix 17.0.0.105 now includes a total CPU meter! This is based on the CPU reporting in the Windows “Performance Monitor” metrics and may differ from the numbers reported in Task Manager.

Follow us!

vMix continues to improve and give users a great live streaming experience. If you want to stay in touch with all the newest updates, check out changelog.vmix.com. For all of the latest updates, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and now Instagram. Use vMix Social 2.0 to include all of our Instagram posts to your live production. 🙂

Update today from within vMix or download from our website. If you’ve purchased in the last year you can update for free!

July 8, 2016

Use your Facebook comments in your Facebook Live stream with vMix!

Facebook Live comments in your live streaming production.

Someone asked a question yesterday about whether you could bring in live Facebook comments while you were live streaming with Facebook Live. To be honest, it wasn’t something that we’d even considered as we’ve been recently working hard on Instagram support. That led us to testing out the possibilities of real time Facebook comments on a real time stream!

Well, the answer is yes!

Once you’ve created the Facebook Live stream and started it in vMix then you’ll be able to see that as a Post in vMix Social. Then it all works the same as it does for normal Facebook comments. You just open up vMix Social, log into Facebook and then click Find Posts. From the Posts drop-down menu you’ll see your Stream name in the list. You just need to select your Stream post to start receiving comments. Click OK, then turn on Facebook and you’ll be able to start seeing real-time comments in your vMix Social Browser! You can then send those comments to your vMix production and include them on your live stream. It’s a great way to have a conversation with your watchers and include their input. If you are conducting a Question session, you’ll be able to answer them AND display their question.

We’ve tested it out this morning and it works well. Now you can stream reactions and comments to your Facebook Live stream ON your Facebook Live stream!

Will Emojis work in vMix Social?

Maybe! You can bring in Emojis using a Windows system font- Segoe UI Emoji. In order to see Emojis, you’ll just need to right click the input window and go to the Title Editor.

vMix Social Facebook Live

Then select the message section and change the font to Segoe UI Emoji! Now keep in mind that Emoji libraries change all of the time, but your Windows Fonts don’t. So there is a high chance that new Emojis won’t work.

vMix Facebook Live Emoji