Directors Plan for vMix

Directors Plan adds what vMix itself does not have: a visual rundown/timeline.

The app connects live to a running vMix instance and pulls in its inputs with thumbnails — including every item of a Video List with its own thumbnail and duration. A show is planned as a visual rundown — rows with transitions, timings, overlays, replay segments and audio group levels. On show day, one person presses Play: the rundown runs fully automated, and the operator can take manual control at any moment and hand it back to automation just as easily. That makes it a good fit for volunteer teams (churches, schools, community TV) where the person planning the show and the person running it are not the same.

Live red/green tally straight from vMix shows what is on program and preview — on the timeline, in the input list, in the Web Controller and on the Stream Deck. Several operators can work on one vMix at the same time, each on their own device, and every one of them sees what is live.

Beyond automation, Directors Plan exports printable call sheets with thumbnails for everyone on the crew, and generates complete Stream Deck and Bitfocus Companion configurations — including button thumbnails, live tally and level meters — directly from the plan.

The built-in Web Controller serves a live touch control surface to any tablet or phone on the production network: cues, replay rows, overlay toggles and a full mixer with master, buses, groups and inputs, live faders and level meters with peak hold, plus REC/STREAM and output sources — generated straight from the open plan with no export step. Connect by scanning a QR code.

Input thumbnails come from the free, open-source DP Thumbnail Server (built in when Directors Plan runs on the vMix machine). Updates install from inside the app with one click.

Runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux. $49 one-time purchase, 30-day full trial with all features, no subscription.