Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I know that there are better production switchers, but for the money, but you can't beat the ATEM. It has a bunch of extras that are used and appreciated. I used it for a higher end local variety show. I liked being able to see all of the cameras that I was using and I could live switch so that audience in the back or with an obstructed view could see the live action on the venue's TV system. I have only recently purchased the ATEM, but I let it run for hours on the days before the shoot and I had not problems. You do have to send matching signals because it doesn't scale the video. I did not use the record feature to give me a h.264 file, only because everything else was working so well, I did not want to jinx it.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

One serious flaw with the unit is that it does NOT process VANC data. As a result, the unit will NOT pass closed caption information, which is mandated by the FCC for all broadcasters. After reading all of the over 120 pages in the manual, nowhere is closed caption mentioned, so I emailed (and later called) tech support regarding this issue. Their official response is that engineering is "considering" addressing the issue, but there is no firm committment by the manufacturer to produce an upgrade to pass closed caption information. Therefore, until this issue is resolved, I really cannot recommend this unit in a broadcast environment.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Great multiviewer, great picture. Could use scaling capabilities, but that's becoming less necessary in this digital age.

One important detail: It operates in the YUV colorspace. So if you're planning on converting the HDMI output to DVI, it will not display colors correctly as DVI is RGB.

Also, it has limitations on customizing the multiviewer. You can change the names of inputs, but you cannot rearrange their order of display. You can change the layout to be vertical or horizontal, but that's all.

It also gets very hot, but so far that hasn't seemed to cause any problems. Overall, I like it. Fantastic capabilites packed into an incredibly small piece of hardware.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I use the ATEM television studio to Green Screen Singer and produce a local TV show.. B&H knew everything I ask with regards to pre-sales questions... and Very Fast delivery.... Great Place to get your gear...

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Excellent product but for the audio source it's a good edea to use one camera for the digital audio input. It's not necessary to use the problematic digital audio input because it's not analogue audio.The audio from HDMI and SDI it's work ok.I use 50' HDMI cable lenght for the preview and 15' for the camera HDMI.It' limited at 15' only

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I have been in video for over 20 years and it just blows my mind what you can get for under a $1 . The product works out of the box as advertised and was easy to use. Also I needed to call the manufacture for some help and the tech support was amazing, very patient and very knowledgeable.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Generally speaking my needs were modest. I just wanted something like an HDMI switcher that didn't cause a need to resync the HDMI signal when I switched.

I was already using an Avermedia Gamer Live HD to do my live broadcasts online, and you should consider this PCI card if you're also looking at H.264 encoder hardware separately. This little gem will also do the H.264 encoding, but I really just needed the switching part and was happy with my encoder, so I'm not reviewing the part that takes the output and broadcasts it over the internet, but you can do that with this hardware with more effort possibly. I generally recommend that if you're going to do that, you make that simple and get another $200 solution to do that, but I believe you can get this device to do both switching and streaming at the same time if you're a hacker, but out-of-the-box I like my Avermedia solution for that since it can take in a 1080p60 signal and broadcast 1080p30.

The one limitation on this device is that you have to have all of your HDMI signals coming in at the same format. For me, I chose 1080i60. I needed the resolution, and this was the common denominator for all my sources.

It would be awesome if this device provided a 1080p60 output and allowed me to switch between some 1080p60 and some 1080i60 inputs, but it doesn't. This probably won't matter to plenty of people, but if you were doing a live performance to record on one of the new Sony consumer camcorders coming out that takes HDMI input and records it, that would be a great feature to support the older devices and also allow for higher bandwidth content at the same full HD resolution.

I also purchased one HDMI to SDI converter for another $300 because I wanted to hook up 5 devices, but there are some reports that the GoPro Hero3 on some of the black magic devices needs this to work due to some problem. Since I ran out of HDMI's anyway, I just went ahead and got the HDMI to SDI converter. I plan to hook up one more device later that has SDI (a Sony NEX FS700U).

The devices I successfully connected and got working are:

Sony XR550V camcorder
MacBook Pro retina
Nikon D5100
JVC GC-PX10US
Casio EX-ZR1000

My uses for this are to do live broadcasts with consumer HDMI-output cameras including some playing back of events live from various camera sources in slow motion. So I use the built-in consumer camera features to show things in slow motion. For this to work, it requires a couple of people operating a couple of computers and cameras, but the goal is to get an interactive show performing slow motion recording and playback of stuff .. mostly just for fun.

In general, this is a great little toy that is inexpensive enough to give a kid who might have an ambition to get into the television industry or who might want to have his own online show. And the performance and feature set of the software are full-blown including downstream keying and chroma-key and all the advanced topics. So it's priced like a toy and performs like a pro. It just has some technical limitations on being stuck in a single input and output format (EG: 1080i60/720p60). If you need to mix standard definition inputs, or output both standard and high definition, you are going to have to spend more money. But a great little tool for anyone to play with.

One more thing is that I use my own audio mixer, but I believe that if you need to audio mixing with their software that will work too.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

This is one of those pieces of equipment that only comes along once in a blue moon. It's claims are true, it's not too good to be true.Things I wish it could do, but weren't deal breakers: -Accept different scaling options -Record individual camera feeds to use in post production edit. But really what did I expect for the price. To get those things you are going to pay at least 3 times as much.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

We use it in our church, in our webcast ministry. The small form factor is great.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

love this product.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

First of all you get everything a $14,000 switcher can do and do it effortlessly. If your used to big time tv switchers you will love this set up. You can straight cut or mix and wipe to your hearts content without a stutter or Freeze frame of video.It lacks DVE effects that bigger units have but for me I just need to switch multiple cams and graphics down to one file live in the field and then take it back for finishing and duplication. It can do basic chroma keying and titling but won't be able to run multiple tracks of video simultaneously.I feed audio to my cameras and this is fed to mixer that comes in the software for the unit. You can then make the mix setup right in the switcher and create to your finished mix.You need to get an HDMI TV so you can view the output of the ATEM's multicamera screen. I got a 17" LCD tv from a local retailer worked great I also was able to use my windows xp and vista laptops to control the unit. This switcher besides outputing 1920 x 1080 and 720P uncompressed 422 video can also encode to an H.264 stream as either 1080i or 720p and you can capture it right to the laptop you are switching from. Video quality looks great. If you want to do uncompressed video you'll need to pull it off the HDMI port, or from the HD-SDI output port on the unit. Blackmagic makes a recorder for this, besides uncompressed (I think you get 20 minutes on a 240 gig SSD drive) you can also record apple prores422 on the unit and you will get about 2 hours of video on a 240 gig SSD drive. The quality is out standing.I connected the HDMI out of the blackmagic recorder to the switcher input 1 so I could monitor my audio and picture very cool almost like confidence heads.The hardest part of setting this up is understanding ip addresses and how they work and how the unit connects to your laptop. The unit will do SD SDI but you can't mix HD and SD signals but then again who would want to. I would highly recommend this to anyone needing HDsdi switching capabilities.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

In general the idea is there. It works very well, is smooth, and if you've ever been in a studio before and understand the concept, you should be up and running in no time. I did add the Behringer piece as recommended, however, if you're working with an SDI camera that has XLR inputs, it seems you can bypass the Behringer and still have audio that is in sync. The software could use some work, but the hardware is rock solid.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The fact that this device costs less than $ is amazing. That it costs less than $ is almost unbelievable.Frame synchronizers on every input, Genlock on the outputs, a great Multi-view Output (in HDMI and SDI), flexible setup, and a really useful H.264 recorder make this very useful for small event work or as a satellite for a larger production switcher.The audio mixer allows any source to be mixed into the output signal. You can use your SDI and HDMI cameras and the digital audio inputs. Mixing is independent or audio can follow video on a channel by channel basis.Add two down stream keyers, a chroma keyer, two still store channels, etc., etc. I've read some reviews that noted setup was difficult. It was very straightforward and very quick. If you know how to set your computer's IP address, you're done with the basic setup. If you need to integrate it into a network it's only slightly more complex. You'll need a USB cable and an Ethernet cable since they are not included.I own several devices made by Black Magic Designs. They are all solidly built and very reliable. The ATEM Television Studio exceeds all my expectations.It's not a replacement for your $ switcher. It's not intended to be but it does an awful lot for very little money.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Overall, we are extremely pleased with this switcher.Does it have all the features that a $40,000 switcher has? Clearly not, but it has 90% of the features that you would use, and is considerably cheaper.The ability to switch between multiple cameras, key - both upstream & downstream and live stream the output to the internet (using an Intensity card) should make this a serious consideration for anyone looking at the higher end switchers.That $ in your pocket can go a long way towards other kit.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I'm using this ATEM TVS as live event switcher, in an academic environment.

First thing - doesn't support 60hz video. This means if you want to use a scaler that converts a computer signal to a video signal then it won't work. It used to work for me with the 3.1 software using a Gefen DVI to HD scaler at 720i60, but tech support told me that with 3.3 (which allows you to include audio from a camera source - good) it had to be "more restrictive" with what the switcher would accept. My scaler that once worked is now not compatible because of their software update (-bad). In my line of work we need to have the computer screen's image be a part of the event and I haven't found anything that works with ATEM TVS yet.

All cameras or sources need to be the same resolution - so there's no mixing and matching of older SD cameras with HD and a DVI or VGA computer source via an adapter. That was something that I didn't realize, but their manual explains this. So, download the manual before you buy.

Blackmagic Tech Support only recommend 10 foot runs with HDMI cables. The most I could get was 14 ft length. I have 50foot cables that can connect to my monitor directly but not to this switcher. Their HDMI length restriction is too short for my needs.

Their tech support recommends their HDMI to SDI converters which are pricey. Add up the price of all extra conversion per camera and it's a budget breaker. My vendor for streaming media wrongly recommended HDMI. That's my fault, but no where is an HDMI 10ft restriction listed publicly from Blackmagic... I had to call to find out. So, if you are buying cameras for this, stick with SDI out and also make sure your camera and SDI cables are compatible as not all are.

You cannot monitor the audio via headphones with the computer that runs the switcher software. You have to have something that accepts the program out HDMI and can give you a headphone port.

If you have a mixer for multiple analog audio inputs, remember that you need a digital converter to AES/EBU. Behringer makes one. Once again more extra purchases puts buying the ATEM TVS into question when you could buy competitors, or even the other ATEM products.

If you are using a laptop like a macbook pro remember that your ethernet will need to be used to control the switcher, therefore eliminating the port for hard-wired internet use. They say you can control it via network, but my locked down network environment restricts this. I need that hard-wired ethernet for my internet which allows streaming stability.

If I try to connect my laptop via wireless it cuts my connection to the switcher. Too bad the ATEM TVS is not controlled another way.

In short, it shows promise but the restrictions make it impossible to recommend. So I won't be recommending it campus-wide at this time.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I bought this after using an SD switcher,and the quality as expected is great!!
simple to use, and working only in HD,had to work around certain details,but
for the quality buying this, is a no brainer,it is awesome!!!

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I spent many hours researching custom rack case set ups and came up with one that works just right for me. Depending on your personal needs, this is an outstanding product at an outstanding price.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The ATEM is a fantastic piece of equipment that performs above expectations. Unfortunately, my product arrived wit a dead HDMI 1 port. Im sure this is not the norm, however, it is a problem.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Great device, Only complaint is that it wasnt clear to me that I need to purchase a seperate audio converter as the TVS only accepts AES/EBU digital audio.
Suppose I should have read the fine print.
And cant cross-convert between different sources

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The ATEM TS is everything I expected and more! I especially love the Photoshop plug-in, and the ability to start and stop recording right from the switcher control panel. The keyboard shortcuts are logically laid out, for example: space bar for cut, Enter for fade, number keys 1 - 6 represents inputs 1 - 6.
The key is to do a lot of research on this product before you buy it, and you won't be disappointed.

Instead of getting the Ultramatch Pro to convert audio, consider the TV One 1T-AP-216 Analog to Digital Audio Converter.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I know that there are better production switchers, but for the money, but you can't beat the ATEM. It has a bunch of extras that are used and appreciated. I used it for a higher end local variety show. I liked being able to see all of the cameras that I was using and I could live switch so that audience in the back or with an obstructed view could see the live action on the venue's TV system. I have only recently purchased the ATEM, but I let it run for hours on the days before the shoot and I had not problems. You do have to send matching signals because it doesn't scale the video. I did not use the record feature to give me a h.264 file, only because everything else was working so well, I did not want to jinx it.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

One serious flaw with the unit is that it does NOT process VANC data. As a result, the unit will NOT pass closed caption information, which is mandated by the FCC for all broadcasters. After reading all of the over 120 pages in the manual, nowhere is closed caption mentioned, so I emailed (and later called) tech support regarding this issue. Their official response is that engineering is "considering" addressing the issue, but there is no firm committment by the manufacturer to produce an upgrade to pass closed caption information. Therefore, until this issue is resolved, I really cannot recommend this unit in a broadcast environment.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Great multiviewer, great picture. Could use scaling capabilities, but that's becoming less necessary in this digital age.

One important detail: It operates in the YUV colorspace. So if you're planning on converting the HDMI output to DVI, it will not display colors correctly as DVI is RGB.

Also, it has limitations on customizing the multiviewer. You can change the names of inputs, but you cannot rearrange their order of display. You can change the layout to be vertical or horizontal, but that's all.

It also gets very hot, but so far that hasn't seemed to cause any problems. Overall, I like it. Fantastic capabilites packed into an incredibly small piece of hardware.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I use the ATEM television studio to Green Screen Singer and produce a local TV show.. B&H knew everything I ask with regards to pre-sales questions... and Very Fast delivery.... Great Place to get your gear...

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Excellent product but for the audio source it's a good edea to use one camera for the digital audio input. It's not necessary to use the problematic digital audio input because it's not analogue audio.The audio from HDMI and SDI it's work ok.I use 50' HDMI cable lenght for the preview and 15' for the camera HDMI.It' limited at 15' only

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I have been in video for over 20 years and it just blows my mind what you can get for under a $1 . The product works out of the box as advertised and was easy to use. Also I needed to call the manufacture for some help and the tech support was amazing, very patient and very knowledgeable.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Generally speaking my needs were modest. I just wanted something like an HDMI switcher that didn't cause a need to resync the HDMI signal when I switched.

I was already using an Avermedia Gamer Live HD to do my live broadcasts online, and you should consider this PCI card if you're also looking at H.264 encoder hardware separately. This little gem will also do the H.264 encoding, but I really just needed the switching part and was happy with my encoder, so I'm not reviewing the part that takes the output and broadcasts it over the internet, but you can do that with this hardware with more effort possibly. I generally recommend that if you're going to do that, you make that simple and get another $200 solution to do that, but I believe you can get this device to do both switching and streaming at the same time if you're a hacker, but out-of-the-box I like my Avermedia solution for that since it can take in a 1080p60 signal and broadcast 1080p30.

The one limitation on this device is that you have to have all of your HDMI signals coming in at the same format. For me, I chose 1080i60. I needed the resolution, and this was the common denominator for all my sources.

It would be awesome if this device provided a 1080p60 output and allowed me to switch between some 1080p60 and some 1080i60 inputs, but it doesn't. This probably won't matter to plenty of people, but if you were doing a live performance to record on one of the new Sony consumer camcorders coming out that takes HDMI input and records it, that would be a great feature to support the older devices and also allow for higher bandwidth content at the same full HD resolution.

I also purchased one HDMI to SDI converter for another $300 because I wanted to hook up 5 devices, but there are some reports that the GoPro Hero3 on some of the black magic devices needs this to work due to some problem. Since I ran out of HDMI's anyway, I just went ahead and got the HDMI to SDI converter. I plan to hook up one more device later that has SDI (a Sony NEX FS700U).

The devices I successfully connected and got working are:

Sony XR550V camcorder
MacBook Pro retina
Nikon D5100
JVC GC-PX10US
Casio EX-ZR1000

My uses for this are to do live broadcasts with consumer HDMI-output cameras including some playing back of events live from various camera sources in slow motion. So I use the built-in consumer camera features to show things in slow motion. For this to work, it requires a couple of people operating a couple of computers and cameras, but the goal is to get an interactive show performing slow motion recording and playback of stuff .. mostly just for fun.

In general, this is a great little toy that is inexpensive enough to give a kid who might have an ambition to get into the television industry or who might want to have his own online show. And the performance and feature set of the software are full-blown including downstream keying and chroma-key and all the advanced topics. So it's priced like a toy and performs like a pro. It just has some technical limitations on being stuck in a single input and output format (EG: 1080i60/720p60). If you need to mix standard definition inputs, or output both standard and high definition, you are going to have to spend more money. But a great little tool for anyone to play with.

One more thing is that I use my own audio mixer, but I believe that if you need to audio mixing with their software that will work too.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

This is one of those pieces of equipment that only comes along once in a blue moon. It's claims are true, it's not too good to be true.Things I wish it could do, but weren't deal breakers: -Accept different scaling options -Record individual camera feeds to use in post production edit. But really what did I expect for the price. To get those things you are going to pay at least 3 times as much.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

We use it in our church, in our webcast ministry. The small form factor is great.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

love this product.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

First of all you get everything a $14,000 switcher can do and do it effortlessly. If your used to big time tv switchers you will love this set up. You can straight cut or mix and wipe to your hearts content without a stutter or Freeze frame of video.It lacks DVE effects that bigger units have but for me I just need to switch multiple cams and graphics down to one file live in the field and then take it back for finishing and duplication. It can do basic chroma keying and titling but won't be able to run multiple tracks of video simultaneously.I feed audio to my cameras and this is fed to mixer that comes in the software for the unit. You can then make the mix setup right in the switcher and create to your finished mix.You need to get an HDMI TV so you can view the output of the ATEM's multicamera screen. I got a 17" LCD tv from a local retailer worked great I also was able to use my windows xp and vista laptops to control the unit. This switcher besides outputing 1920 x 1080 and 720P uncompressed 422 video can also encode to an H.264 stream as either 1080i or 720p and you can capture it right to the laptop you are switching from. Video quality looks great. If you want to do uncompressed video you'll need to pull it off the HDMI port, or from the HD-SDI output port on the unit. Blackmagic makes a recorder for this, besides uncompressed (I think you get 20 minutes on a 240 gig SSD drive) you can also record apple prores422 on the unit and you will get about 2 hours of video on a 240 gig SSD drive. The quality is out standing.I connected the HDMI out of the blackmagic recorder to the switcher input 1 so I could monitor my audio and picture very cool almost like confidence heads.The hardest part of setting this up is understanding ip addresses and how they work and how the unit connects to your laptop. The unit will do SD SDI but you can't mix HD and SD signals but then again who would want to. I would highly recommend this to anyone needing HDsdi switching capabilities.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

In general the idea is there. It works very well, is smooth, and if you've ever been in a studio before and understand the concept, you should be up and running in no time. I did add the Behringer piece as recommended, however, if you're working with an SDI camera that has XLR inputs, it seems you can bypass the Behringer and still have audio that is in sync. The software could use some work, but the hardware is rock solid.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The fact that this device costs less than $ is amazing. That it costs less than $ is almost unbelievable.Frame synchronizers on every input, Genlock on the outputs, a great Multi-view Output (in HDMI and SDI), flexible setup, and a really useful H.264 recorder make this very useful for small event work or as a satellite for a larger production switcher.The audio mixer allows any source to be mixed into the output signal. You can use your SDI and HDMI cameras and the digital audio inputs. Mixing is independent or audio can follow video on a channel by channel basis.Add two down stream keyers, a chroma keyer, two still store channels, etc., etc. I've read some reviews that noted setup was difficult. It was very straightforward and very quick. If you know how to set your computer's IP address, you're done with the basic setup. If you need to integrate it into a network it's only slightly more complex. You'll need a USB cable and an Ethernet cable since they are not included.I own several devices made by Black Magic Designs. They are all solidly built and very reliable. The ATEM Television Studio exceeds all my expectations.It's not a replacement for your $ switcher. It's not intended to be but it does an awful lot for very little money.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Overall, we are extremely pleased with this switcher.Does it have all the features that a $40,000 switcher has? Clearly not, but it has 90% of the features that you would use, and is considerably cheaper.The ability to switch between multiple cameras, key - both upstream & downstream and live stream the output to the internet (using an Intensity card) should make this a serious consideration for anyone looking at the higher end switchers.That $ in your pocket can go a long way towards other kit.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I'm using this ATEM TVS as live event switcher, in an academic environment.

First thing - doesn't support 60hz video. This means if you want to use a scaler that converts a computer signal to a video signal then it won't work. It used to work for me with the 3.1 software using a Gefen DVI to HD scaler at 720i60, but tech support told me that with 3.3 (which allows you to include audio from a camera source - good) it had to be "more restrictive" with what the switcher would accept. My scaler that once worked is now not compatible because of their software update (-bad). In my line of work we need to have the computer screen's image be a part of the event and I haven't found anything that works with ATEM TVS yet.

All cameras or sources need to be the same resolution - so there's no mixing and matching of older SD cameras with HD and a DVI or VGA computer source via an adapter. That was something that I didn't realize, but their manual explains this. So, download the manual before you buy.

Blackmagic Tech Support only recommend 10 foot runs with HDMI cables. The most I could get was 14 ft length. I have 50foot cables that can connect to my monitor directly but not to this switcher. Their HDMI length restriction is too short for my needs.

Their tech support recommends their HDMI to SDI converters which are pricey. Add up the price of all extra conversion per camera and it's a budget breaker. My vendor for streaming media wrongly recommended HDMI. That's my fault, but no where is an HDMI 10ft restriction listed publicly from Blackmagic... I had to call to find out. So, if you are buying cameras for this, stick with SDI out and also make sure your camera and SDI cables are compatible as not all are.

You cannot monitor the audio via headphones with the computer that runs the switcher software. You have to have something that accepts the program out HDMI and can give you a headphone port.

If you have a mixer for multiple analog audio inputs, remember that you need a digital converter to AES/EBU. Behringer makes one. Once again more extra purchases puts buying the ATEM TVS into question when you could buy competitors, or even the other ATEM products.

If you are using a laptop like a macbook pro remember that your ethernet will need to be used to control the switcher, therefore eliminating the port for hard-wired internet use. They say you can control it via network, but my locked down network environment restricts this. I need that hard-wired ethernet for my internet which allows streaming stability.

If I try to connect my laptop via wireless it cuts my connection to the switcher. Too bad the ATEM TVS is not controlled another way.

In short, it shows promise but the restrictions make it impossible to recommend. So I won't be recommending it campus-wide at this time.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I bought this after using an SD switcher,and the quality as expected is great!!
simple to use, and working only in HD,had to work around certain details,but
for the quality buying this, is a no brainer,it is awesome!!!

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

I spent many hours researching custom rack case set ups and came up with one that works just right for me. Depending on your personal needs, this is an outstanding product at an outstanding price.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The ATEM is a fantastic piece of equipment that performs above expectations. Unfortunately, my product arrived wit a dead HDMI 1 port. Im sure this is not the norm, however, it is a problem.

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

Great device, Only complaint is that it wasnt clear to me that I need to purchase a seperate audio converter as the TVS only accepts AES/EBU digital audio.
Suppose I should have read the fine print.
And cant cross-convert between different sources

Comments about Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Production Switcher:

The ATEM TS is everything I expected and more! I especially love the Photoshop plug-in, and the ability to start and stop recording right from the switcher control panel. The keyboard shortcuts are logically laid out, for example: space bar for cut, Enter for fade, number keys 1 - 6 represents inputs 1 - 6.
The key is to do a lot of research on this product before you buy it, and you won't be disappointed.

Instead of getting the Ultramatch Pro to convert audio, consider the TV One 1T-AP-216 Analog to Digital Audio Converter.