Black Magic has built the Atem Mini exactly like most people want it. The non-professional usually has camera's with hdmi out. Black magic made a non-profesional series with the atem mini. To all the comments ranting about the atem series. No doubt they will release a new model again soon with the features of the extreme in a 1u rack with sdi I/O and we will all buy yet another new switcher off them again!! They could have used SDI for everything, or given the extreme 4sdi and 4 hdmi, but they didn’t. Which results in lots of disappointment in their users as people have to discover that the hdmi cameras and switchers that BMD make cannot be linked with regular cables and BMD don’t even offer any suggestions of approved cables to use. You can use fibre hdmi, but you need it to have copper lines in too for the return data / tally to work. It would have been a better choice as most people have their cameras too far away for regular HDMI cables to work. They could have put SDI I/O on the cameras and switchers.

Just because BMD put it on their cameras doesn’t mean it’s a sensible choice. I run all my Pockets on very long glassfiber HDMI cables from Amazon, works perfect.HDMI IS STUPID. I think it’s the quality of your HDMI cables. BennoZ wrote:HDMI is not stupid, it carry’s tally’s and fully remote of the BMPCC’s.

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