With vMix 18 you’re now able to stream to Hitbox directly through the vMix streaming menu. Is it easy? It sure is.
All you need to do is log into Hitbox with vMix and select the stream you want to stream to. That’s it! I wish it were harder, because that means I could pad out this blog article a little more. You’ll be able to have your vMix production up and streaming on Hitbox in no time.
vMix 18 is available to download now via the vMix website.
That’s right! Newtek have remove the $10 cost for the Adobe Cloud plugin and it’s now free! You can now download it via the NDI Tools Pack on their website- http://pages.newtek.com/NDI-Tools-Pack-Download.html
Here’s our previous blog post with all the information about the Newtek NDI App-
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.
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. 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-
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Looking for an affordable 4K input OR output? Well the Blackmagic Design Mini Monitor Recorder 4K or Mini Monitor 4K might be for you!
You can input a 4K source into your vMix video production for under $200 US! The Blackmagic Design DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K is a low profile PCIe capture card, featuring 6G-SDI and the latest HDMI 2.0a connections so you can input formats up to 2160p30 on your live video production!
The DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K allows you to output your vMix production through the External output feature in vMix. Both cards retail for $195 US.
To view the full list of vMix Supported Hardware including other Blackmagic Design products, head over to our Supported Hardware page. vMix allows you to produce, record and stream all from the 1 PC! If you’d like to trial vMix for 60 days head you can download it from our site.
You can find out more information about the cards via the Blackmagic Design website.
Movember is here. Yes, Movember. That month of the year dedicated to growing a moustache, well not quite. It’s not just an excuse to pretend you’re ironically growing a moustache… there’s a greater cause at hand. 
In 2003, 30 Aussies thought it would be a good idea to grow moustaches in the month of November. By the next year they formalized the idea and decided to use the month to raise money for men’s health. They just so happened to raise $54,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and just like that Movember was born! By 2005 they had raised $1.2 Million in Australia for men’s health. Since 2003 Movember has raised $770 Million! 5,232,635 people have participated in that time and it’s now a world-wide event. It has funded 1200 Men’s Health Projects and brought a huge amount of awareness to Men’s health issues.
Why are we doing Movember? Our loved ones have been affected by some of the serious health issues that Movember are tackling- prostate cancer, testicular cancer and depression. With more research, awareness and education we’re hoping that these issues will affect less and less men moving forward. They’re also a fiscally responsible organisation that ensures the donated money goes to the right place.
vMix will be donating a percentage of all software sales for the month of November to Movember. I have removed the terrible beard and will be replacing it with an equally terrible moustache. Remember to look after yourself and don’t be afraid to speak to someone if you need to!
Our Movember page can be found here- http://moteam.co/vmix
The latest vMix Fun Time Live Show video was produced live in 4K. Everything was produced on our studio PC and then the recording and streaming were sent via NDI to one of our other testing PCs. This PC then streamed the show to YouTube in HD whilst recording a 4K copy to be uploaded later.
Typically our productions are done all on the one vMix PC. We produce record and stream via our studio PC with 4 HD cameras. As we decided to take our production up to 4K we took the opportunity to test out the possibility of sending the 4K output to another computer, all using NDI! We have both computers set up on the local gigabit network and vMix is installed on both machines. As vMix is able to send and receive NDI video, the computers were then set up to send and receive the production output via NDI. We then set up a shortcut on the 2nd vMix computer to start streaming and recording when the production started. This second computer was set up to accept the NDI output from the vMix Studio PC and then to stream in 1080p to YouTube AND record in 4K. The second machine was an i7 6700K with a NVIDIA GTX1060 and handled it all with ease.
The results were great. We were able to stream flawlessly to YouTube in Full HD (1920×1080) and also record the show as a 4K Mp4 at 25mbit. This was then uploaded to YouTube so that viewers could watch the show in it’s full 4K glory.
NDI allowed us to send and receive 4K over the local network and break up some of our production requirements. It really shows the versatility of NDI and the ways in which it can be used to enhance live video production!
See Martin talk about how we used NDI on the latest show-
