Participate in the BoinxTV 2 Beta

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The BoinxTV 2 Beta phase is in full swing and you can take part. Please sign up for the beta program at http://boinx.com/survey/boinxtv2beta/

Please note that it might take a while to be added to the beta program.

What’s new in 2.0?

Here are just the highlights of the many things new in BoinxTV 2:

  • Built in live streaming to any RTMP-based streaming service (including Wowza, YouTube, Twitch.tv and more)
  • Integrate with your workflow using SDI playout including an alpha channel
  • Direct manipulation in layers, to directly adjust all visual elements
  • Frosted glass effects in many layers
  • Modern 64-Bit architecture, so BoinxTV can now use all the RAM available
  • All new user interface
  • Powered by unicorns.

Known Issues

  • Movie playback doesn’t work yet, we’ll add this in an upcoming beta.
  • Audio sources were disabled for the moment, please use a video source that contains no camera and only an audio device as a replacement for now.
  • Audio-only layers were disabled for the moment, please use a placer layer with the before mentioned ‘Audio only video source’.
  • Blackmagic Design devices don’t support audio input yet.
  • Filtering sources (including chroma keying), doesn’t work yet.
  • There is a lot of unpolished UI. You have been warned.
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Yeah!!!

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Hello,

it would be nice to have a feature that record separate video and audio sources
and can be then used for postproduction.

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Can you specify what you mean exactly?

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Bastian…fairly prolific with the original BOINXTV. Trying to do a newscrawl now and I get the background bar but no text. Even when I set background to NONE, there is no text. Tried URL and TEXT.

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The newscrawl doesn’t work in the current beta. It will be fixed in b2.

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Hi Bastian
Can use Blackmagic ultra studio mini monitor for keying on SDI? i can see it in the playback tab but these no preset.

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What signal do you want to key? What are you trying to achieve?

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Hi bastian
I would like to know if i can use boinx signal on sdi ouput as downstream key alpha channel ? like a CG and apply on my switcher.
(Excuse my bad english)

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Yes, you can. If you have e.g. an ultrastudio 4K or 4K Extreme you can output both a Fill and a Key Signal using two SDI Channels. Then these can be used in a downstream keyer.

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Thank you Bastian i’ll try this

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Following up on the previous question: Would it be possible to use two Black Magic UltraStudio Mini Monitors to output one Fill and one Key signal? (instead of a “big/expensive” ultrastudio 4K/extreme).

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@evero No. For this we need synchronized clocks. Two monitors cant be synced on a frame basis. This could (and likely will) end up in the key signal being off one or two frames compared to the fill signal. This then results in black borders. A Ultrastudio 4K has two SDI outs that are synced over the same clock.

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Is anybody else finding that BoinxTV 2.0 is crashing quite often? It usually happens when I am changing the settings in a layer. It also happened when I was shutting off the autorecord options.

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@fromtheabbey What version were you running? We get all the crash logs. This is the reason why we are running this beta program.

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I know @Bastian - I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t just something in my setup. I’m running 2.0b4(19429).

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I’ve been testing the 2.0b4 & noticed it’s not eating up near the resources the previous version does. I’ve had a dropped frame issue for awhile. same sources & layers in the beta, really smooth. My (now aging) 17" Unibody MacBook Pro barely breaks a sweat. Very nice job thus far.

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Sweet, wait for the next beta :slight_smile: engineering found more ways to reduce rendering times.

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Good stuff, Bastian! As a stress test, I set up two 1080p sources (one 30p, other 60p) via two Blackmagic cards, a 1920x1080p30 document, the built in iSight camera, USB sound device & put the clock layer in too. I did see some dropped frames but I was still impressed it got that far.

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We saw dropped frames as well and figured out why it happened. Stay tunes for the next beta.