Everything in the box, screen by screen.
Show timing, scripting, a teleprompter and the control of your hardware and software, in one running order that one person runs. Every item on this page is in the version that ships today. What is not built yet is listed at the bottom, in the same words we use in every release note.
The whole show, on the vMix PC.
The screen the operator works from. Opens by itself on the vMix PC.
- Running order
- Numbered rows, a TAKE button per row, the current row and the one up next marked in words, drag to reorder, mark rows and move them as a block, section headers in five typefaces and fourteen colours.
- Transport
- TAKE, NEXT, Pause and Resume, Restart, two Master Takes for "back to the studio" that do not move the running order. Take mode full screen or picture-in-picture. At media end: hold or auto-advance.
- Linear or at will
- "Up next" on: the show follows the list and one key moves it forward. "Up next" off: nothing is armed after a take, every row is a button taken in any order, and the running order works as a switcher panel of prepared actions. Changed per running order, on air.
- Stacked cues
- A row carries its own cue plus any number of attached ones: lower thirds, vMix actions, ATEM commands, scripts, the prompter text. One TAKE fires the row first, then the attachments in order. The most complex action in your show is one press.
- Transitions
- Cut, Fade, Merge, Wipe, Slide, Zoom, two Stingers, each with a length, only offered where vMix can really do one. A take during a fade waits for it.
- Hot keys
- Space takes, the arrows select, P pauses, R restarts; Master Take, input, overlay and prompter keys per running order or per device, all changeable. New in 0.3.11: an optional key listener keeps the keys working while vMix is the window in front.
- Media library
- Folders, thumbnails with length and size, search, sort, upload with a progress bar, a watched media folder that can sit on OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive.
- Keeping track
- History: the last 30 versions of every running order. Trash: 30 days. Activity log: who took what, when, 90 days.
- Settings
- An optional studio passcode in front of every screen, a fixed address with QR codes for the other screens, backup, hot keys, the ATEM, the cloud link.
The same running order on the presenter's desk.
Any iPad or laptop on the studio network. Open the studio's address and the screen is there; nothing to install.
- Can
- TAKE and transport, edit the show on air, drag media in, add a prompter text or a note to a row.
- Cannot
- Change the library, add camera, overlay, script or command cues, or reach the logs, history and trash. A presenter cannot break the show by accident.
- Full screen
- Folds the header to a narrow strip so an iPad shows as many rows as possible.
The Talent screen on an iPad on the presenter's desk, mid-show.
The presenter's script stand.
Scripts only. It follows the running order by itself, forwards and backwards.
- Follows the show
- The next script stands ready before its cue. Taking a camera or a clip never takes the text away from a presenter who is still reading.
- One roll, every screen
- An iPad and a desktop stand on the same word, whatever their size or speed. Reading line with STANDBY, ROLLING and PAUSED.
- Per screen
- Mirror for prompter glass, flip for a hood, text size, width, position, full screen. Speed from 30 to 600 words a minute.
- Writing
- A script can be written in a tab that looks exactly like the prompter, so what you see while writing is what the presenter sees.
- Now and next
- A small box with the current and next row and the clip countdown, amber in the last ten seconds.
The Prompter screen in front of a camera, with the reading line visible.
Clocks on the wall. Nothing on it can take.
A page of tiles for a wall screen or a desk: local time, time on air, time on this cue, the clip countdown like vMix's own, now and next, recording, streaming and MultiCorder lights, free text.
- Arrange it
- Move, resize and remove tiles; the layout is kept per device.
- One clock
- Every time on it is Show Composer's own, so all screens agree to the second.
- Read-only
- Nothing on this page can take, pause or change anything. Safe for a screen anyone can reach.
The Time page on a wall screen in the studio.
Build next week's show without touching what is on air.
The full editor for shows that are not on air: every cue kind, the library, history and trash. A running order that is on air is read-only in the Editor, and it says so in a banner. With Studio Pro the same Editor is hosted at your own address, so the crew works from home.
Cues for everything your show does.
One TAKE fires the row's own cue first, then whatever is attached to it, in order.
- Media
- Clips, pictures and sound, dragged from the library. Length and "no sound" shown on the row; a missing file is named.
- Source
- Cut to a camera or any vMix input.
- Overlay
- A lower third or a picture-in-picture, in and out, on overlay channels 1 to 8.
- vMix command
- Recording, sound, titles and about fifty other everyday vMix commands in plain words, up to twenty per cue, or any command typed by hand.
- ATEM command
- Cut, fade, keys, picture-in-picture, audio, macros, record and stream on a Blackmagic ATEM, up to twenty per cue, fired before the vMix take by default. The row warns in words when a command would stop the ATEM's stream.
- Script
- A sequence of vMix actions: overlay, set a text, set a picture, transition, fade the audio.
- Text / Prompter
- The presenter's script, one per row.
- Note
- A section header that cannot be taken.
Backups, health and help, built in.
Backup and restore
A backup of all shows and running orders once a day by itself, the last fourteen kept, plus ten by hand. Restore shows a preview first, and what you have now is saved before anything changes. A bundle packs the backup and every media file into one zip. Restore is refused while on air.
Health check
One page that checks the program, the shows, the media folder, free disk space, vMix and its events, the ATEM, the cloud link and the update. Three headlines: "All good", "Working, with a caveat", "Something needs fixing". Every problem has a "what to do" box.
Help, with three doors
In the header of every screen. "I have a question" is answered by a person. "Something is not working" and "I have a suggestion" get a standard reply at once, and every answer stays on your report. A number on the button shows when an answer is waiting.
Updates in one click
A studio linked to the cloud sees "a new version is ready" at the foot of the Director. Install is offered only when nothing is on air, takes about twenty seconds, and the old folder stays as the way back. Never automatic, never at start-up.
Your vMix stays yours
One playlist input per show, removed when the show goes off air. Show Composer never loads presets, never sends keystrokes, never changes streaming keys; those commands are refused outright.
Everything explained
Every error is a sentence, not a code. A part that fails restarts itself and tells you it did. The Health page has a "copy this report" button for when you write to us.
What we do not have, in the same words as our release notes.
- A separate layout for an iPad held in portrait.
- Master Take to an ATEM input, or a second ATEM.
- A planned length per row, with a show clock showing over or under.
- Speed control for the presenter from a clicker, a foot pedal or a phone.
- Bitfocus Companion support.
- When auto-advance lands on a prompter row with an overlay or script attached, the attached cue does not fire. A TAKE by hand does.
- About one start in seventy, the part that talks to vMix stops right after starting and restarts itself a second later. Nothing is cut; we are still looking for the cause.
Missing something your show needs?
Tell us. The list above moves every release, and the next item is often what a studio asked for.
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