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Zoom Breakout Rooms in vMix

In order to use Breakout Rooms in Zoom within vMix, the following requirements must be met:

1. The Zoom meeting needs to be hosted from the separate Zoom Workspace app to manage the meeting and breakout rooms.
It is not possible to create or manage breakout rooms from within vMix directly.

To allow vMix to automatically join a breakout room, make sure the Automatically move all assigned participants into breakout rooms is selected as noted in the Options for breakout rooms
section of the guide below:
https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0062540

2. Make sure the latest Zoom Plugin for vMix is installed. This is listed under the heading (Latest) at the following page:
https://www.vmix.com/zoomplugindownload/

2. Once the meeting is started, connect to the meeting from vMix with the Capture Mode set to Recording.
(Streaming will not work with Breakout Rooms)

3. Make sure video and audio is working in both directions prior to setting up or joining Breakout Rooms.

Check the Zoom Troubleshooting guide for a checklist if this does not work:
https://www.vmix.com/help29/ZoomTroubleshooting.html

4. From the Zoom Workspace app, create the breakout rooms and assign the vMix participant to the room.

After sometime vMix will join the breakout room. If not, double check the setting noted in step 1 above and try again.
It may take 20-30 seconds for the video/audio to re-establish again once in the breakout room and at least one other participant has joined in addition to vMix.


Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2026 8:46:05 PM