QUESTION · TUESDAY FOCUS

I've heard that you use vMix in your sports broadcasts. Would you please show us how you use it?

ASKED BY · Cindy Drozda · ERIE, COLORADO · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:46:31

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He described his vMix layout with multi-view monitors showing program feed, replay interface, graphics, and audio mixer (Behringer XR18); he uses a Stream Deck XL Plus for replay control with in/out buttons and rotation adjustments, allowing him to set replay points five seconds before events.

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46:15about $27,000, right? So like that is most of the budget. It's just the cameras. Three grand for everything else. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, that's that. Well, we've all, most of us have been there at some point or another. Let's go to the next question. And this one's kind of a follow-up on that last one from me, Cindy Droza in Erie, Colorado. I've heard that you use vMix in your sports broadcasts.

46:39Would you please show us how you use it? Oh, you want to do a little demo? Are you set up for that? I can't do a demo because I turn off all my monitors when I leave. And so I can't remote into them. But I can kind of maybe zoom in a little bit. And this is my this is my general setup, my vMix setup, where the top right is where I have the primary vMix program.

47:04I'll also have my I have an XR18 as my audio mixer. And so the XR edit software will be in that top right screen. On the bottom right is the replay interface. And then the two left screens are my multi-views where the bottom one is my primary. That's kind of what I'm looking at. It's my preview program, my four cameras in the middle.

47:26And then we have a booth camera. And then on that sixth slot is a live look in. So what I like to do is if we've got other games going on in the conference, I like to bring in those games. And so like when we come in and out of commercials, we can I'll show a quad view of the you can see it there are our game.

47:51Fancy. Yeah, our game is the one that has their this because this is before. So the other games hadn't started yet. But those other those those three boxes and that little quad view down there would be three other games going on. And so we can kind of see what's happening in the conference and the top. That's great. Yeah. The top screen is that's more kind of informational type stuff that you can see all the graphics.

48:14And that's just so I can quickly look up and verify like, yeah, that graphic is getting the correct data. That graphic looks right. The the the black screen in the corner there, that top quad is our data processor. processor. And so I can quickly look up and make sure that that is actually running. That's getting the right data from the right place. It's still operational. And then the other video feed

48:41in that one is my replay. And so because I am the TD and the replay operator. You're the replay operator. Hey, talk us a little bit about that. How do you store and how far back do you store and how do you call up a replay? Yeah. So with vMix, it's a continuous recording. And so So I can always go back and find a shot if I need to.

49:02We're capturing four channels of replay. I am using, I originally, I had bought a contour shuttle. Okay, the control ball kind of thing. With the intention of using that. But I also bought the Stream Deck XL Plus. and when I started tinkering with this I was like this is actually I think this is actually going to be better and so what I use for this and you can you might be able to see on on my

49:37on the far right of my little screens there there's an in and out yeah and so basically when I push the knob below in that sets my in point when I push the knob below out that sets That's my out point. And if I rotate, it adjusts the in and the out. And so for football, in most of our sports, when I'm doing replay,

50:00it is I'm hitting a budding and capturing a replay that ends when I hit that button. So basically, like I've hit the button. I want the replay to start five seconds before I hit that button. And so I'm capturing the replay at the end and going back. And that's mostly play-based so that you're doing it right as the play starts in case you have to replay it?

50:21Well, for other sports, it is because it's ongoing, right? Like during a basketball, I don't know when a play's going to start. That's right, yeah. Right? And if you have a replay operator, Turnovers, but outside of that, yeah. Yeah, if you have an actual replay operator, they can just be like in, in, in, in, in, in, oh, here we go, and make some adjustments.

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