Blackmagic Design surprised us out of nowhere with a brand new ATEM Mini Pro. yes
that's right -- a pro version of the ATEM Mini. It sounds like they were listening
to us and actually added a whole bunch of features we knew we wanted and some
we didn't know we wanted. In this video I'm gonna talk about my favorite things
I'm looking forward to in the brand new ATEM Mini Pro.
If you thought the ATEM Mini was an extremely powerful device,
you're not wrong. And it just got like 10 times more powerful.
I don't even know how they're able to pack everything into
this little box but it is just incredible now. So the ATEM Mini P ro is
exactly the same form factor same ports as the ATEM Mini so that means
it's got 4 HDMI inputs 2 audio inputs USB-C out Ethernet and HDMI out.
The biggest change on the ATEM Mini Pro is what these outputs can do. So on the
ATEM Mini you have to ways to output video: HDMI out or over the USB-C which will show up
as a webcam into a computer. On the ATEM Mini Pro there is a totally
new way of outputting video which is at the pro can actually live stream
directly over Ethernet. yes that's right that means they've essentially made a
whole bunch of these dedicated encoder devices obsolete by cramming that into
the ATEM Mini. I used to have to use a dedicated hardware encoder like the
Webcaster x2 in order to actually get that HDMI output onto the internet. also
that means it would take up the HDMI out on the ATEM Mini. Now that the ATEM Mini can
live stream over Ethernet that means I can actually use the HDMI output for
other things. Another huge change to the ATEM Mini Pro
is that can actually record to USB drives itself.
So instead of plugging the USB-C into a laptop if instead you plug a USB drive
into the ATEM Mini, it can actually write files to that drive itself. That is
extremely powerful. That means you can make a backup recording locally of
whatever your live streaming or you just use it as a recorder itself. And again
without this I would have had to use a dedicated HDMI recorder and the HDMI
output from ATEM Mini in order to capture that locally. Another huge change
which I'm sure everybody is excited about is that the HDMI output can now
actually do proper multi-view. That means you'll actually see all four of your
cameras program preview and there's four slots
left over they actually filled up these other slots on the multi-view with
useful info so it shows the media player it also shows you a little audio mixer
of all your audio inputs it'll also show you the status of recording and
streaming including the bitrate so you can actually monitor your livestream
status by looking at the multi view output. And now because there's two other
ways to get video out either over the USB or over Ethernet streaming you can
actually now use the HDMI for the multi view and not worry about taking up that
output. So this thing just got like ten times more powerful it is combining a
dedicated recorder and a live stream encoder into this device itself so I
have to carry far fewer devices now and fewer cables and fewer power supplies and
as you saw from one of my previous videos once you actually start putting
all these devices on a table and connecting them there's a lot of wires
and power cords and it gets really messy so I'm just over-the-top excited about
how many fewer devices I need to carry in order to do the same thing. Let's talk
a little more about streaming. So it's often the case of these hardware
encoders will hard code a list of streaming services they support.
The Webcaster X2 falls into this as well. The webcaster x2 does support a
wide variety of streaming services but it does not support custom rtmp
endpoints which is really unfortunate so I was really worried that the ATEM Mini
would do the same thing especially since it's targeted at a much more consumer
level market and in the video where they announced this there were some services
defined in a drop-down list so later we got to see that you can customize it by
editing the XML file so that means as long as you're willing to go in and hand
edit XML you can define custom rtmp endpoints so you can stream wherever you
want. I am so glad they did that because that just makes this thing so much more
customizable and powerful. There is also a new feature in the ATEM Mini Pro that
they're also back porting to the ATEM Mini and that is that the ATEM Mini and
the Pro can now control Blackmagic Cinema cameras the 4K and the 6K which
is frankly incredible because the ATEM Mini does not have SDI and that's typically
how you have to control these cameras they were actually able to use a data
channel in the HDMI cable to have the ATEM Mini send signals back up to the
camera so if you have a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K or 6K you can actually
now use it with the ATEM Mini and you get to use the software control app on
your computer to control the camera settings that is extremely impressive
and I'm also impressed that they were able to put that
software back into the original ATEM Mini so if you have one of those you can
actually control your pocket 4K and 6K just make sure you update the
firmware on both of the devices. So they were able to cram all this functionality
into the same package it is the same size as the ATEM Mini there's just a new
row of buttons on the side to control the recording and the streaming and the
new HDMI output so now you can actually control your HDMI output between
multi-view program or one of the camera angles from the buttons on the ATEM Mini Pro
itself. So I am just over-the-top excited about getting my hands on this
they did not announce a ship date yet they did say they are beginning
manufacturing so no idea how long that's gonna take given the current
circumstances but they did say they're working on it. They also announced the
price which is $595 now that is twice as much as the ATEM Mini they are also still
going to sell the ATEM Mini, that one's not going away, so if you are happy with
the features of ATEM Mini, you don't need to upgrade because it is the same device
otherwise. But if you want the built-in streaming or being able to record to
hard drives, the ATEM Mini Pro is absolutely worth it at $595. Once you try
to find a dedicated hardware encoder that can live stream on the Internet
you're gonna be spending probably about $300 dollars. The Webcaster X2 was $300
and that was pretty much the cheapest you could find of a dedicated hardware
encoder. So that is why I'm so impressed they were able to cram all the
functionality into it and have it still be only $595 that is an unbelievably good
price for this thing. I am sure this thing is gonna sell like hotcakes again
they have been out of stock of the ATEM Minis everybody just bought them all up
as soon as everybody started working from home, so as soon as I can get my
hands on one I will be buying one. I've already placed my own pre-order at the
DVE store this video is not sponsored by them but they have had the best stock of
to the ATEM Minis so I am confident that they will do the same with the Pros once
they actually start shipping. so I'll leave a link to their store in the
description below so you can go and pre-order there as well. You may have
noticed that I'm not in my previous studio so I will hopefully also be doing
a studio tour of this setup here as well soon. Thank you so much for watching
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