ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2
Blackmagic Design
Category Streaming
ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 ($2,195 US) is an advanced second generation ATEM Mini live production switcher, featuring an expanded professional style control panel, eight HDMI inputs, three HDMI outputs, multiview, built-in streaming engine, CFexpress and Thunderbolt for record/playback. There is also 10G Ethernet for fast network storage access, XLR audio inputs, USB webcam, DVE, chroma key, media player and ISO recording of all eight video inputs.
ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 makes it easy to create professional multi-camera productions for live streaming to YouTube and business presentations using Zoom or Teams. When ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 is connected, users can switch live up to eight high-quality video camera inputs, PowerPoint slides or gaming consoles for dramatically better quality images. The built-in DVE allows for exciting picture-in-picture effects, perfect for commentary. ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 is also loaded with video effects and secret broadcast features that users can use to produce high-end work.
Live production is the fastest way for you to complete a finished program, which you can also simultaneously stream via YouTube to a live global audience. ATEM Mini has a built-in hardware streaming engine that works with both RTMP and SRT streaming protocols, so you can live stream to all popular social media platforms and without any extra streaming software required. ATEM Mini’s built-in hardware streaming engine live streams via its Ethernet connections without the need for a computer. That means you can live stream to YouTube, Facebook and Twitch in better quality, without dropped frames and with simpler settings. Just select the streaming service and enter the streaming key. There are palettes in ATEM Software Control for streaming setup, plus the streaming status is also displayed in the multi-view. Streaming status is easy to understand as the data rate indicator shows the internet speed required for the video format you're using. If you're technically minded, you can update the streaming profiles in an XML settings file to load new services.
ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 is ideal for building a high-end broadcast studio as it offers all the ATEM Mini features plus extra professional features. It has a professional-style control panel with amazing input buttons. It has three independent video outputs that can be routed. The built-in Thunderbolt offers live video capture and playback, enabling real-time effects software or DaVinci Resolve for live action replay. The CFexpress card can also be accessed over a user’s network via 10G Ethernet. For audio, it has balanced XLR in, MADI in and a Fairlight status display with menus. There's also a headphone socket for audio monitoring. Users even get 200 frames of animation in the media pool.
With Thunderbolt on the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2, users get fill and key playback, capture, Ethernet access to the CFexpress card and trickle power all with a single computer connection. This means users can use DaVinci Resolve as a full live-action replay system. DaVinci Resolve can show a live video input of the switcher, and when users press the Point of Interest (POI) button, DaVinci will switch to playing all eight ISO files so users can select cameras and run replays. Users can then pre-roll and sequence multiple cameras in the same replay, with optical flow speed changes, then load their replay into the timeline and upload it to social media. No traditional replay system can do that.
The ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 is a combined switcher and control panel, so it's the most portable professional switcher available. It’s not just a switcher; it's also a shared network disk using the 10G Ethernet port to the internal CFexpress memory card or external USB disk. CFexpress cards are extremely fast so they can keep up with recording multiple ISO video files while external network users all work on separate computers for editing, color correction, VFX and audio post production. The internal network storage is extremely easy to set up, and users can even sync to Blackmagic Cloud so they can distribute the recorded media files between editors and designers anywhere in the world. That means the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 is only part of a much bigger global post-production workflow.
