Multiview-Overlay

Update Custom Multiview Overlays

Allow one to select the corresponding page of a multi-camera multiview and update its preview/program overlays.

Problem

The vMix Multiview facility is rather limited, as it neither allows multiple multiviews nor fully custom multiview layouts. For a usual greenscreen-based setup with N physical cameras and M virtual views/angles, one usually want N multiviews and each one should show M views/angles.

Solution

As as long the number of views/angles M is lower than 8, create N multiview-like inputs, each with M views/angles on layers the layers 1-M and on two additional layers place two Title type inputs. Each Nx2 Title type inputs then should have M transitions "PageX", corresponding to the view/angle input to be on preview/program. Then use this script to track changes on preview/program and select the corresponding transition "Pagex" on the Title inputs.

Usage

Suppose we have the following setup:

• 4 cameras and 7 views/angles and the view/angle inputs are named VPTZ - CAMX-Y where X is 1-4 and Y is C-L (closeup-left), C-C (closeup-center), C-R (closeup-right), F-L (figure-left), F-C (figure-center), F-R (figure-right), and W-C (wide-center).

• Title inputs named MULTIVIEW-OV-PREVIEW - CAMX and MULTIVIEW-OV-PROGRAM - CAMX per camera, each holding M overlays for preview/program.

• 4 custom multiview inputs named MULTIVIEW - CAMX corresponding to the 4 cameras and each showing the 7 views/angles.

• 1 Mix type input #3 (1-3 for the custom mixers, 0 is the main mixer) which is assigned for the fullscreen output under Settings/Outputs .../Fullscreen which receives the 4 custom multiview inputs.

Then configure the multiview-overlay script with:

`` ` dim numberOfCams as Integer = 4 dim angleInputPrefix as String = "VPTZ - CAM" dim angleInputPostfixes as String() = { "C-L", "C-C", "C-R", "F-L", "F-C", "F-R", "W-C" } dim titlePreviewInputPrefix as String = "MULTIVIEW-OV-PREVIEW - CAM" dim titleProgramInputPrefix as String = "MULTIVIEW-OV-PROGRAM - CAM" dim multiviewInputPrefix as String = "MULTIVIEW - CAM" dim multiviewOutputId as String = "3" dim timeSlice as Integer = 50 dim debug as Boolean = true