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Off topic but on VMix/similar - any thoughts on how to get 11 remote speakers into a stream? VMix call does up to 8. Wirecast does 7. Callers are consecutive, not concurrent, last up to 2 mins each with a cut back to local camera for 1-2 mins where a host introduces the next remote caller.
I could juggle I guess - cue up 7 callers on WireCast and when the first 4 are done start to bring the next 4 in but it'd potentially be uncomfortable.
Could I get 2 x wirecast / VMix licenses with half calls on each and NDI one into the other? Bleurgh.
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Ha, I had a similar conundrum recently; virtual studio with the need to have 10 callers within the virtual set simultaneously.
Didn’t trust VMix Call after experimenting with it, so I expensively rented 3x Quicklink boxes which turned out to be even more clunky.
In the end, I had to set up a table with ten individual Macs running Microsoft Teams piped through OBS and out via NDI into Unreal Engine.
It looked fucking ridiculous but worked flawlessly. Obviously needed an extra pair of hands to manage the callers.
In your case, I’d say get a couple of extra machines and use them as glorified NDI scan converters for your favourite flavour of videocall ingest.
ectoplasmosis
I think your only hope in the near-term is running VMix on Intel Minis in Bootcamp.
Windows via Parallels on ARM is likely to mean the half-baked Win10 ARM build running natively in a VM, with VMix running within that via the built-in Windows x86 emulation layer. I wouldn't trust that in anything approaching a production environment.
Having used and been abused by VMix for a while, I'd expect their developers to entertain the prospect of an ARM macOS rewrite in precisely never.