Review: vMix Go Portable Live Production Solution

If you have Microsoft Office installed on the GO system, you can import PowerPoint files directly into the program and page through them slide by slide, a great feature for those producing with PowerPoint. You can also input streaming files into your productions, but not files from an iDevice on the same LAN a useful feature supported by several other software mixers.

You can create a duplicate, virtual input from any input. 在我的测试中, I configured the single camera in full screen mode for viewing full screen (top content line on the extreme left of 图2), and then cropped out a headshot to use in a picture-in-picture webinar configuration (second and third tiles from the left on the top content line). You can also easily adjust the color and positioning of any input.

All inputs are stored individually on the lower left of the interface; there’s no need to group content within a specified number of DVRs, 图形输入, 或者虚拟输入. You can freely move content around within the input area, and use color codes to hide and reveal groups of content.

vMix has the de rigueur virtual sets with GUI-based greenscreen, 哪一个 is eye-candy that most producers never use. 其中一个虚拟集是空白的, and you can use this to create a composition from up to five inputs in the project. This is how I created the webinar-like composition shown in the preview window in 图2，使用中显示的控件 图3(下面). 除了这个特性, 您可以将任何输入添加到任何其他输入, making it very simple to create multiple picture-in-picture effects, or unique compositions with your different inputs. This flexibility is one of the strengths of the programs.

图3. Creating a webinar composition with PowerPoint, background. 而且,皮普. 单击图像以查看其全尺寸.

标题和社交媒体

vMix has an integrated titler with a useful assortment of templates, including scoreboards that are compatible with Sportzcast input, 一个模板创建器. If your event is not supported by Sportzcast, you can have one person updating the title in real time on a computer or tablet using vMix’s web interface while the main producers mixes the event on the GO box itself. This HTML interface enables two people or more people to work on the same production—a useful feature typically found only on very high-end systems. 如果你在制作体育赛事, you’ll also appreciate vMix’s instant replay feature, 在接口中称为视频延迟, 哪一个 saves short bits of content that you can later play back in slow, 快, 或者正常运动.

你也可以将标题链接到Twitter, 脸谱网, and IRC Chat accounts to have feeds from these accounts automatically appear and update in your productions. 然而, while you can ingest this content from your social media accounts, there’s no way within the program to push images or videos out to social media, 哪一个 is a nice way to keep your viewers (and non-viewers you’re hoping to convert to viewers) engaged.