You are amazing! I have been recruited to do live-streaming at my church and had no idea how to put together a really aesthetic experience for our online viewers. Watching your videos have helped me so much! We even purchased the Mars 400 S transmitters because of a video I watched of you talking about them! I appreciate what you do for people like me, needing help with these things. Thank you so much!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I have build a Raspberry Pi for the same purpose, playing video files, and for transitions on my ATEM Mini Pro. I use the OMXPlayer, from a command line. Playback is controlled via Companion, and a Stream Deck, and will also do the switching inputs automatically 😀 It’s a bit more advanced to setup, but once it is done, you have a very compact, and stable solution. The same Raspberry Pi is also used as a Streaming Brigde (like the Blacmagic version), so other ATEMs can stream to my device. Thanks for this great video 👍
@@AlexPettitt I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 4 Gb I have used the install process below github.com/sosedoff/omxremote I use Companion, to send the commands to control playback, as well as switching input. I use Stream Deck as well. If I have a video with graphics and a green background, I can key it out with the ATEM. 1080P playback with 0 dropped frames 😀 You can send me an email for further details if you like thomas@fechtenburg.net
M P he did mention it . He said use streamdeck or iPad . It would be great he does tutorial , but instead he is offering a guide if you email him . For a revenue I am guessing
This was fantastic and very informative. I am a one man band and I am trying to get my more autonomous church streaming off the ground. I learned lots by just watching your video. Thank you.
So frustrating when ppl skip steps assuming we know.....The ATEM has settings that you can set up??? where??? I'm only 1 minute in and already lost....lol
great video I see so may videos using video switchers but no one explains how to use it all in OBS thank you so much for providing this information.....
Why would I buy an ATEM Mini and use OBS with it? OBS does exactly what the ATEM Mini does, but FOR FREE with an HDMI-USB adapter. Buy 4 of those and a usb hub and that's it! 350$ cheaper
Thanks! Your videos have not only saved me hours of time, but made things possible that I would've otherwise given up on out of frustration. This technique in particular frees up my Shuttle HD to record, while allowing me a lot more flexibility in the kinds of media I can play. (The Shuttle HD is notoriously difficult when you try to mix videos recorded with different frame rates, audio settings, codecs, etc.). Using your technique I can queue up openings and other clips with a lot more freedom.
Thanks again for the support Joe, massively appreciated. And yes agree with what you've said about the Hyperdecks...they like to have everything set to the same framerate etc to be able to be visible for playback. Glad to hear that using OBS as a playout system is working well for you :)
@@AlexPettitt I tested the workflow you described on the ATEM Mini Pro ISO in my office that I use for Zooms to confirm the workflow and it works flawlessly, thanks to you, Alex. I'll repeat the steps with my studio setup using the Extreme ISO and then re-think using the Shuttle for clips because as I mentioned in another comment, it doesn't seem possible to use one Shuttle HD for both playback and recording and I really need to have a backup in case it freezes again. I picked up a new SanDisk Extreme Pro that claims to have 2000 MB/s read/write speeds and this time I'm going to use exFAT to see if that prevents the problem. Either way I'll also split my final output so I can capture the program on my Atomos. Lastly, I'm re-thinking my primary cameras so I can have even more backups for the individual cameras. I know my 90D can't record to SD while exporting clean HDMI, but my Lumix G85 should be able to do this, so perhaps I'll either get another one, or a BM Pocket 4K. You can never have too many backups. :)
You can setup recording of the last x seconds and with one button it can start a new scene with that recorded replay. I used when I stream the field hockey match. When scored, I press record and then it keeps the last 10 secs since I pressed. The I pres replay and with a plugin I automatically after 10 sec switch to a different stream that plays out that short piece of video at 50% speed. Viewers love it.... 🙂
This may be a really beginner question, but what are the advantages of having OBS feed into ATEM rather than have ATEM as an input to OBS with OBS controlling the feed?
Because you can’t get different tracks via the ATEM to OBS, essentially, the ATEM becomes a webcam. In effect, ATEM gets 3 inputs, mixes all of the tracks and goes to OBS.
@7:00 One tip to save clicks when setting all your sources/VTs to 'Monitor and Output' - Instead of opening each source separately, uncheck "Active Sources Only" in the lower left corner of Advanced Audio Properties to show all the sources in your scene collection
I've seen this before, but for some reason youtube offered me again this video today. I still can't get over just how much work is being done in OBS just to get a video to play. There are SO many better solutions out there than all that faf. Free software and even paying the small price for resolume. I just don't get it.
Great Thank you, the only thing is when having the second monitor in full screen, the controls and screen of OBS disappears, anyone a tip to resolve this?
The solution was simple, I'm using a Mac and in the Mission control, the option 'Screen have seperate spaces shoud' be ON. And don't forgot to restart or Re-Log in.
⚠️ I do everything you show on this video all on OBS, including switching, no Atem needed. But I recently purchased an Atem mini Pro to integrate things. Unfortunately, Atem has no control over the sources size. My cameras are different, and they generate images inside a frame. How to make atem mini pro fit correctly the cameras images into the place ? I need to crop, resize, zoom the source, but looks like Atem has no these useful tools. 😮😮😮
I tried this solution but had some frame rate issues, but maybe it was due to my paricular setup, or the frame rate of the videos themselves. Also, I wanted to use the DownStreamKey on the ATEM, so I tried combining h2r graphics with a window capture in OBS, projecting over itself the Program of OBS. It somewhat worked, but was laggy and less clean than the « native » output of H2R graphics. I’d love to see Blackmagic update their more powerful ATEM’s with the feature of the Mini’s. With 2 cameras + videos/slides + Key&fill, I’m quickly out of available ports on the Mini. 😅
Hey Enregistreur, Window Capture always seems to throw up some frame rate issues for some reason, try and give Desktop Capture instead (it seems to be a more stable method in OBS). And I totally agree with you, would love to see some of the features in ATEM Mini brought to their professional switchers.
Great Stuff Alex, thank you! And yes, I totally agree that a media player on the ATEM is really the only thing it's missing. Why would you choose doing this and stream with the MiniPro vs streaming with OBS?
I have used OBS a tiny bit, so I understood most of that. I don’t have an ATEM, so I didn’t get how it fit in, exactly. I could understand the computer running OBS having an HDMI output to the ATEM. What was it/should it be connected to? What else is connected to the ATEM? Would you be operating OBS in addition to the ATEM? And, I gather the iPad topic was separate? I really can’t tell whether you did a good job or not. I did already have you on my subscriber list and will look around your sight.
Everybody, please be aware that OBS 26.0.2 (and earlier versions) DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY with macOS Big Sur. OBS will crash, windows will not display correctly; it is extremely frustrating. There are some workarounds available on the web, but in the end, none of them worked well enough for me to be confident I could run a session without hitting serious issues. I gave up and reformatted the disk and reinstalled macOS Catalina. Life is good again.
Hey Gadgetguydk, yep you absolutely use this with the ATEM keyers if you wanted. You would just need to set a green / black background depending on if you wanted to use chroma or luma key.
Hi, on Lower 3rds check OBS plugin from NoeAL... He has a real nice plugin obsproject.com/forum/resources/animated-lower-thirds-with-control-panel.922/
Thanks for the video ! The only problem I see and I would like to solve is that every time you add a video source you must go in the advanced audio proprieties to enable monitoring for each individual source. Once I had a session where I had to work with a lot of videos. I received some of them at the very last minute and forgot to enable monitoring. I had to troubleshoot the audio problem during the live stream... I am considering switching to vMix as a media player for that reason.
Enjoyed the video tutorial. Great job. Though, the iPad app that was the one-button video transition, I'm assuming that's Bluetooth to your laptop and communicating to the OBS? Or is it communicating to the ATEM mini? What is that App?
Brilliant tutorial, thanks very much. So I could really avoid adding a Hyperdeck to my setup, correct. having my logo, client logo and multiple client video assets available via a push of a button... So, is there a reason I would need a Hyperdeck or Web presenter if I can do this? And the ability to have all this set up in advance with the ability to test everything before going live. Just what I needed.
Hey Brad, yep you’ve got it. Although I always say advocate hardware over software for broadcast, I wanted to record this video to show people that there are other options for playing videos into the ATEM than a Hyperdeck.
Hows it working out for you on Zoom. Thats my use case too. I am a one man show, Can I do all this do all this from One PC for example setting up scenes in OBS, outputting to Atem, then bringig it all back into Zoom as a webcam? Or would I run the zoom meeting on one pc and do all the OBS stuff on a 2nd machine? Thanks
So technically I can..... -also add more inputs through to the atem mini through OBS and other capture cards connected to OBS -Pre-switch a single input of the atem mini with OBS -For example if I have two capture cards plus the Atem Mini, I can add the two capture cards to OBS, then add OBS to the Atem mini through an hdmi input. -Great vid, thanks
on OSX, qlab is probably a better bit of software for playout, it also supports external device control a million ways (though you would have to pay for a licence), and be controlled by a streamdeck using companion. VLC will also do 'pause on the last frame' and push video to an external display
My ATEM mini is not being recognized by Camtasia 2020 or OBS. the screen looks blank The webcam and Blackmagic show up as options. The 920E works fine, but eh aTem Mimi is blank. I have called Blackmagic they say call OBS or Camtasia Camera Sony Handycam cx455 Nikon D750. Any suggestions?
1) Make sure no other program is running that might be trying to access the BM. 2) Restart everything :) Its likely something is running in the background that is requesting access to the BM and blocking other apps from using it at the same time.
I don't own an ATEM, but I use OBS in combination with a capture card, StreamDeck and a GoXLR. And I wonder, what is the advantage of using an ATEM? To me currently it looks somewhat redundant to the possibilities of OBS.
Hello, I discovered with interest your video published on RUclips 3 years ago about "How To Play Videos On ATEM Mini | OBS Setup + Tips". I am part of a small association in France. We have the following materials: - 3 Panasonic GH5 DSLRs and 1 Sony FX1000 camera - 1 Atem mini Extreme ISO - 2 DELL laptops and 1 desktop PC - 1 Streamdeck XL - 1 TP-Link Mini router where the computers and the Atem are connected We installed on a computer: - Atem Software Control - Bitfocus Companion - Streamdeck software - OBS - VLC Media Player software Our problem : We try to play a short video (for example a short report) or a Powerpoint file stored on the computer, from OBS to Atem Mini Extreme, but we can't really do it. We try to exploit also SuperSource and Multi-view, but we can’t do it. Do you have any advice to give us to try to find a solution to our problem? Best regards from France.
Hey man ! Im just gonna ask here because i cant find dumbed enough down info for what i need, Basically im running the ATEM mini pro, with the intention of using it as a capture card to take some of the load of my PC. The atem has HDMI from pc and USB-C and then HDMI out to a monitor. No internet on it however. My question is this: When i start streaming from my Streamlabs obs software, and i want to use the mini as a capture card. Is it correctly understood that all i have to do, is add the ATEM mini "webcam" source in streamlabs, and press stream IN STREAMLABS? Do i not have press "REC" or "ON AIR" on the atem ?
Hey Frede, yes this is correct. Just connect the ATEM Mini via USB to your computer and at it as a capture card source in streamlabs. Then thats it, just hit stream in streamlabs and no need to do anything on the atem mini :) Hope this helps
Hey, unfortunately it's not possible as the ATEM Mini has one USB-C port and can only write to one disk at a time. You could come out of the HDMI Port to a HDMI based recorder if you need a second recording
I am a one man show, Can I do all this do all this from One PC for example setting up scenes in OBS, outputting to Atem, then bringig it all back into Zoom as a webcam? Or would I run the zoom meeting on one pc and do all the OBS stuff on a 2nd machine? Thanks
5:11 can you please make a video explaining how to switch to multiple screens/windows on PC/Mac using the Atem Mini? Please. How did you do that with a simple botom?
Thanks Alex for your great work. I have been trying to play videos with OBS but it works only with one video. If I want to switch between more it is not working right. I tried it so many times, starting the computer again, waiting a day and trying it again - no chance. It doesn´t work and I do have the latest version.
Just to check that you are clicking “Full screen projector preview” and not selecting it for just that scene. Doing it for one scene only will only play that 1 video on the scene. Hope this helps
Thanks Alex - this was really useful. You mentioned that you can set videos to play in OBS. Which command in Bitfocus Companion makes a video play in OBS? In the OBS presets there are presets for scene to programme which will switch to the correct program, but if the scene has a media source then how can you make it start playing. Even if in properties when you have "Restart playback when source becomes active" selected, it does not start playing when you switch to the scene using Companion (PS. I also want to find a command to set fullscreen projector to BDMI to ensure that my ATEM Mini Extreme picks up the video when it plays - but that's another thing).
9:53. Thanks for all. Do I get this correctly that when you want to start the VT Networking you have to A) click on the scene in OBS whilst you B) you selectat the same time, manually, the camera that has the HDMI from the laptop on the ATEM ?
Hi there! Thanks for making great CLEAR videos! I have a question: is there a way to work the opposite way? So OBS would take care of the streaming side and as well of all multimedia sources and sending a clean hdmi feed from the atem without loosing the multiview? The atem has only one hdmi output...hope it make sense!
Hi Alex! Great tutorial. I was able to follow along, setup VT's to play after I press my computer source video on the atem and select the video in OBS. Where I'm stuck is at 8:48, I'm trying to understand how you played the video in the atem mini program feed as a clean looking video and it's not showing the obs controls like you have on your background? I don't understand what I might have missed ?? I even went back to the 5:00 mark, but my windows doesn't drag over like yours and even then I'm not sure how you could have started the video so cleanly and not displaying the obs control screen?? How?? lol.. :-/
Hey J’Mel, it sounds to me like when you connected your ATEM Mini to your computer, your computer is in MIRROR mode, instead or EXTENDED DISPLAY. Try setting to extended display in widows display settings and all should work fine. Any trouble, just give me another shout here in the comments :)
@@AlexPettitt Thank you so much !! I did have my computer in mirror mode. There is no way I would have figured that out! I didn’t even know the atem mini can serve as an extended display. I’m not sure if this is the way you did it particularly in your example, but once I moved my full screen projector window over to the mini, I put OBS into studio mode, and I was able see how you can queue other videos to preview and then cut them to the program side smoothly. These are such powerful little tools with so many possibilities! I appreciate you taking the time to help me out and thank you for teaching!
@@jmelgraves Thanks, I had this question too. I'm still not sure I understand what you dragged the window over to and need to go back to where I work to try it.
@@younken24films You're welcome! And I'll try my best to help you. I'll tell you my setup and hopefully that will help. I have my macbook pro on hdmi 4 of my atem mini (you can use hdmi 1-4). On my macbook, I have my airplay set to "use as a separate display". The hdmi out on my atem mini is going into a camlink 4k into the usb of my imac. When I'm using zoom or a quicktime movie recording.. and I press hdmi 4 on my atem mini, I'm viewing the extended display of my macbook. When I drag any window on my macbook to the far far right over to my extended screen, that is what I will see when I'm presenting in zoom (or quicktime) when I press hdmi 4. What I was sharing about OBS .. I open OBS on my macbook and I put it in "Studio Mode". I go to the program window (the right side), right-click, and select either "full screen projector (program) and select bmd hdmi" and that will automatically play whatever I'm playing in obs as the program. Or if I choose "Windowed Projector (program)" and if I move that to my extended display, whatever I play in OBS that is what will show when I'm on hdmi 4. There are multiple ways to achieve the same thing depending on your setup, but hopefully this helps you with the concept.
This is BRILLIANT! I was going to create a fake Hyperdeck on the Raspberry Pi using PlayoutBee, which I still might do, but I literally just set this up in OBS with 3 videos and used Companion to control the scenes from my phone and it was completely setup in less than 10 minutes and worked perfectly. SO AWESOME.
@@kamenwaticlients It's free software that gives you hooks in to various software and hardware that allows you to control them with programmable buttons. You can then use these buttons on your phone or computer or with physical buttons on a Stream Deck. bitfocus.io/companion/
@@erich93063 Companion is great! I used it to mostly automate a presentation where I also had to be on air (I'm not on air talent lol) and with Iris Countdown Timer added, it helped immensely. But, how does one port the buttons over to a[n] [Android] phone?
So this works but I stream from OBS and use Atem as a capture. This setup creates a weird loop but if I had a separate Laptop with OBS and this is gold
I followed your video above and it works fine except from the issue that i see the hole laptop screen on the preview screen and not only the "program". What du I do wrong?
Computer won't show the atem. Any suggestions? Also, connected with type c to the hdmi input at the switcher. Would I be able to preview my computer with the atem?
Wait. Why not just have the video file itself playing in full screen and have the computers "speaker" be the atem mini with the same HDMI setup? Why include OBS at all?
Hi Alex: I think I remember you saying somewhere that you shoot your videos at 60fps. Am I mistaken? Most recommend 30 or less. But, your image looks amazing.Is there a reason you do this?
Alex is your primary platform Mac or Windows? At the end of this video you mentioned that you do one-on-one consulting and I am looking for someone to do that with who has high-level OBS expertise on the Mac platform, especially as it pertains to performance. Please advise.
Hi, great video.. One week before I set up all and it works.. But now, the sound doesnt work in my video and I dont know where could be the problem.. I set up all like you show in video but I dont have in my stream sound from my pre recorded video.. Dont you know where could be problem? Thank you so much
Hello Alex, I love your contents and am learning a lot. I have a question though. I do drum cover stuff on my channel and planning to do live streaming using atem mini all by myself. What i was thinking was to program all the scene change and camera positions and record them into one macro. I just hit that macro to run all the scene change while I am playing. That way i do not need to touch anything. But the problem is, how do i line up or sync up all these scene change I programed and the audio that I play along with? I was hoping to find some tip from this video but it was not quite what I was looking for. Do you think there is any way?
Is there a way to stream from ATEM to a "Scheduled" RUclips stream? On Air always wants to create a new one but I need it to latch onto a Scheduled one. Thanks!
@David Lovrien - yes, of course. 2 ways: 1) You need to check RTMP server address and streaming key of your YT scheduled stream (in YT Live Control Room) and input those in your Atem Software Control [and now you can stream directly from ATEM MINI PRO connected to ethernet] 2) You can use ATEM as USB webcam and stream directly from YT Live Control Room with atem connected via usb.
@@AlexPettitt very useful for pure streaming or content creation, but I have a very mixed use with content plus zoom or google meet and it actually introduces some daily use complexity. I would love to see how you would approach the setup.
Hi Alex, thanks a lot for your tutorials. They're a big help for me. I use two cameras, is there a way to add a LUT into Atem Mini? I know I can add a LUT in OBS but if I would add a third input (presentation for example) I would like to use the LUTs on the cameras and not over all inputs (if I add that LUT in OBS) do oyu have a solution for that?
Will this OBS work with a computer that has a display port out (used with a display port to HDMI cable) and will that work with a convertor that then goes from HDMI to SDI? (I have the MINI Extreme Iso SDI version.)
With OBS the memory utilization goes above 85% (critical zone) in 2018 MacBook Pro!! I wish they add this feature in Atem software along with Audio file to loop.. most of the audience need multi camera switching but with a background music on loop of their choice
Easier way: Play the video file(s) on another computer that is plugged into the ATEM Mini. Now you have full control of all functions; audio, video, playback, etc., with no OBS needed. The playback functions just like another ATEM camera input. Your way is unnecessarily complex.
hello how are you all, good box is quite good, now I have an ATEM blackmagie STUDIO that does not work the multiviwe that can help me to repair it I am from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, if you know I can send the equipment for its repair, I will be grateful from all of you, I repeat my BLACKMAGIE ATEM STUDIO ITS MULTIVIWE OUTPUT IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY THANK YOU ALL
Hi, hope you can help me. the BMDI HDMI button isn't showing in OBS when clicking Fullscreen/Windowed projector (Preview). HDMI is plugged in from the computer (iMac BigSur) to the ATM mini Pro (Input 4). What could be the possible problem? Thanks
When I switch scenes I have to re enable full screen projection so it will playback full screen on my multiview each time. In other words full screen projection is not holding with the scenes. Very frustrating.Why is that?
I can’t think why this would be happening. Make sure you are right clicking on the preview windows and selecting full screen output. It sounds like you might be clicking on the individual source rather than the OBS Preview. Hope this helps
Thank you very much for explaining playing video with OBS and ATEM mini. I am using ATM Mini Pro. I followed your instructions to play Video for live streaming on RUclips(On Air) except I am not able to hear my desktop sound. If I just use OBS for live streaming I can hear my desk top sound. Please help.
Hello, could you explain me one thing about ATEM mini pro… I will record a video from all the camers to a usb-c hard disk. Can I download these files on my computer directly from ATEM, if I use only the ethernet connection with ATEM mini pro?
Hope you find this video useful! On a side note, what do we think of the long hair... keep or get rid? 😅
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KEEP IT! I wish I still had hair!
Hi Alex. I am an avid follower of your ATEM videos. How do I get to learn how to automatically start and stop the videos using OBS and ATEM? Thanks
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You are amazing! I have been recruited to do live-streaming at my church and had no idea how to put together a really aesthetic experience for our online viewers. Watching your videos have helped me so much! We even purchased the Mars 400 S transmitters because of a video I watched of you talking about them! I appreciate what you do for people like me, needing help with these things. Thank you so much!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I have build a Raspberry Pi for the same purpose, playing video files, and for transitions on my ATEM Mini Pro.
I use the OMXPlayer, from a command line.
Playback is controlled via Companion, and a Stream Deck, and will also do the switching inputs automatically 😀
It’s a bit more advanced to setup, but once it is done, you have a very compact, and stable solution.
The same Raspberry Pi is also used as a Streaming Brigde (like the Blacmagic version), so other ATEMs can stream to my device.
Thanks for this great video 👍
This is awesome Thomas! What raspberry pi are you using for it, a 4? And have you ever had any playback / frame rate issues using the Pi?
OMG a tutorial on this would be amazing!
@@AlexPettitt I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 4 Gb
I have used the install process below
github.com/sosedoff/omxremote
I use Companion, to send the commands to control playback, as well as switching input. I use Stream Deck as well.
If I have a video with graphics and a green background, I can key it out with the ATEM.
1080P playback with 0 dropped frames 😀
You can send me an email for further details if you like thomas@fechtenburg.net
yes ! the button stuff -deserves audience
"Streamdeck" in Software? Please more info on that one! Thank you!
M P he did mention it . He said use streamdeck or iPad . It would be great he does tutorial , but instead he is offering a guide if you email him . For a revenue I am guessing
This was fantastic and very informative. I am a one man band and I am trying to get my more autonomous church streaming off the ground. I learned lots by just watching your video. Thank you.
So frustrating when ppl skip steps assuming we know.....The ATEM has settings that you can set up??? where??? I'm only 1 minute in and already lost....lol
Would love to see a video of the advanced one button press on the switcher to play the scenes as you mentioned. That would be awesome!
I would also!
great video I see so may videos using video switchers but no one explains how to use it all in OBS thank you so much for providing this information.....
Great video. Fixed my problem for my TV station.
Why would I buy an ATEM Mini and use OBS with it? OBS does exactly what the ATEM Mini does, but FOR FREE with an HDMI-USB adapter. Buy 4 of those and a usb hub and that's it! 350$ cheaper
Thanks! Your videos have not only saved me hours of time, but made things possible that I would've otherwise given up on out of frustration. This technique in particular frees up my Shuttle HD to record, while allowing me a lot more flexibility in the kinds of media I can play. (The Shuttle HD is notoriously difficult when you try to mix videos recorded with different frame rates, audio settings, codecs, etc.). Using your technique I can queue up openings and other clips with a lot more freedom.
Thanks again for the support Joe, massively appreciated. And yes agree with what you've said about the Hyperdecks...they like to have everything set to the same framerate etc to be able to be visible for playback. Glad to hear that using OBS as a playout system is working well for you :)
@@AlexPettitt I tested the workflow you described on the ATEM Mini Pro ISO in my office that I use for Zooms to confirm the workflow and it works flawlessly, thanks to you, Alex. I'll repeat the steps with my studio setup using the Extreme ISO and then re-think using the Shuttle for clips because as I mentioned in another comment, it doesn't seem possible to use one Shuttle HD for both playback and recording and I really need to have a backup in case it freezes again. I picked up a new SanDisk Extreme Pro that claims to have 2000 MB/s read/write speeds and this time I'm going to use exFAT to see if that prevents the problem. Either way I'll also split my final output so I can capture the program on my Atomos. Lastly, I'm re-thinking my primary cameras so I can have even more backups for the individual cameras. I know my 90D can't record to SD while exporting clean HDMI, but my Lumix G85 should be able to do this, so perhaps I'll either get another one, or a BM Pocket 4K. You can never have too many backups. :)
Would like to see more on ATEM+OBS this was really cool. I'd also be interested to see how you could do action replay.
You can setup recording of the last x seconds and with one button it can start a new scene with that recorded replay. I used when I stream the field hockey match. When scored, I press record and then it keeps the last 10 secs since I pressed. The I pres replay and with a plugin I automatically after 10 sec switch to a different stream that plays out that short piece of video at 50% speed. Viewers love it.... 🙂
@@FrankMulderVideo you need to make a video tutorial with that :D
This may be a really beginner question, but what are the advantages of having OBS feed into ATEM rather than have ATEM as an input to OBS with OBS controlling the feed?
Because you can’t get different tracks via the ATEM to OBS, essentially, the ATEM becomes a webcam. In effect, ATEM gets 3 inputs, mixes all of the tracks and goes to OBS.
when you have ISO you can record OBS output as isolated track directly from Atem Mini iso
@7:00 One tip to save clicks when setting all your sources/VTs to 'Monitor and Output' -
Instead of opening each source separately, uncheck "Active Sources Only" in the lower left corner of Advanced Audio Properties to show all the sources in your scene collection
Sweet.
What program are you using on the iPad? Great video.
please i would love to know, thank you
Streamdeck app for Trigger the controls.
I'm using Touch portal for iOS. Isn't the same as in the video but it works!
You have by far the clearest and best tutorials for the Atems, thank you!
Swweeeeettttt!!!! Thanks for doing this man. Awesome Sauce!🔥🔥🔥
I've seen this before, but for some reason youtube offered me again this video today. I still can't get over just how much work is being done in OBS just to get a video to play. There are SO many better solutions out there than all that faf. Free software and even paying the small price for resolume. I just don't get it.
Great Thank you, the only thing is when having the second monitor in full screen, the controls and screen of OBS disappears, anyone a tip to resolve this?
The solution was simple, I'm using a Mac and in the Mission control, the option 'Screen have seperate spaces shoud' be ON. And don't forgot to restart or Re-Log in.
What is the software you were using on the iPad?
⚠️ I do everything you show on this video all on OBS, including switching, no Atem needed. But I recently purchased an Atem mini Pro to integrate things. Unfortunately, Atem has no control over the sources size. My cameras are different, and they generate images inside a frame. How to make atem mini pro fit correctly the cameras images into the place ? I need to crop, resize, zoom the source, but looks like Atem has no these useful tools. 😮😮😮
I tried this solution but had some frame rate issues, but maybe it was due to my paricular setup, or the frame rate of the videos themselves.
Also, I wanted to use the DownStreamKey on the ATEM, so I tried combining h2r graphics with a window capture in OBS, projecting over itself the Program of OBS.
It somewhat worked, but was laggy and less clean than the « native » output of H2R graphics.
I’d love to see Blackmagic update their more powerful ATEM’s with the feature of the Mini’s. With 2 cameras + videos/slides + Key&fill, I’m quickly out of available ports on the Mini. 😅
Hey Enregistreur, Window Capture always seems to throw up some frame rate issues for some reason, try and give Desktop Capture instead (it seems to be a more stable method in OBS). And I totally agree with you, would love to see some of the features in ATEM Mini brought to their professional switchers.
Great Stuff Alex, thank you! And yes, I totally agree that a media player on the ATEM is really the only thing it's missing. Why would you choose doing this and stream with the MiniPro vs streaming with OBS?
I have used OBS a tiny bit, so I understood most of that. I don’t have an ATEM, so I didn’t get how it fit in, exactly. I could understand the computer running OBS having an HDMI output to the ATEM. What was it/should it be connected to? What else is connected to the ATEM? Would you be operating OBS in addition to the ATEM? And, I gather the iPad topic was separate? I really can’t tell whether you did a good job or not. I did already have you on my subscriber list and will look around your sight.
many thanks for the tips and advice
Everybody, please be aware that OBS 26.0.2 (and earlier versions) DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY with macOS Big Sur. OBS will crash, windows will not display correctly; it is extremely frustrating. There are some workarounds available on the web, but in the end, none of them worked well enough for me to be confident I could run a session without hitting serious issues. I gave up and reformatted the disk and reinstalled macOS Catalina. Life is good again.
Amazing video. You just saved me $700. No need to get a hyper deck.
Brilliant! Could this be used with keying to create live banners, animated logos or similar, keyed in on top of the normal view?
Not 100% sure, but I think the ATEM has a lower thirds feature that could be used for banners. Any GFX with an alpha channel will overlay.
Hey Gadgetguydk, yep you absolutely use this with the ATEM keyers if you wanted. You would just need to set a green / black background depending on if you wanted to use chroma or luma key.
You might want to check out heretorecord.com/graphics/
Hi, on Lower 3rds check OBS plugin from NoeAL... He has a real nice plugin obsproject.com/forum/resources/animated-lower-thirds-with-control-panel.922/
@@AlexPettitt One great thing playing out like this is that you don't need to use an ATEM keyer. OBS reads the alpha channel.
Keep the hair and keep producing great videos
Nice workaround, but I believe it’s much easier with Qlab.
I haven’t really played around with QLab, will have to give it a go. Thanks for the suggestion Jurgen
Thanks for the tip. Does Qlab support the Blackmagicdesign ATEM API?
very helpful thank you very much
Great Video Alex! Which App are you using on the iPad?
Thanks for the video ! The only problem I see and I would like to solve is that every time you add a video source you must go in the advanced audio proprieties to enable monitoring for each individual source. Once I had a session where I had to work with a lot of videos. I received some of them at the very last minute and forgot to enable monitoring. I had to troubleshoot the audio problem during the live stream... I am considering switching to vMix as a media player for that reason.
Enjoyed the video tutorial. Great job. Though, the iPad app that was the one-button video transition, I'm assuming that's Bluetooth to your laptop and communicating to the OBS? Or is it communicating to the ATEM mini? What is that App?
Thank you!!
Brilliant tutorial, thanks very much. So I could really avoid adding a Hyperdeck to my setup, correct. having my logo, client logo and multiple client video assets available via a push of a button... So, is there a reason I would need a Hyperdeck or Web presenter if I can do this? And the ability to have all this set up in advance with the ability to test everything before going live. Just what I needed.
Hey Brad, yep you’ve got it. Although I always say advocate hardware over software for broadcast, I wanted to record this video to show people that there are other options for playing videos into the ATEM than a Hyperdeck.
Thanks for this, am i currently testing this setup on zoom
Hows it working out for you on Zoom. Thats my use case too. I am a one man show, Can I do all this do all this from One PC for example setting up scenes in OBS, outputting to Atem, then bringig it all back into Zoom as a webcam? Or would I run the zoom meeting on one pc and do all the OBS stuff on a 2nd machine? Thanks
Great video, thanks!
Why would you go to the extra step of OBS when you can play videos from your laptop with Quicktime player?
So technically I can.....
-also add more inputs through to the atem mini through OBS and other capture cards connected to OBS
-Pre-switch a single input of the atem mini with OBS
-For example if I have two capture cards plus the Atem Mini, I can add the two capture cards to OBS, then add OBS to the Atem mini through an hdmi input.
-Great vid, thanks
Question. Does the Atem Mini Pro heat up after prolonged operation. Thanks
on OSX, qlab is probably a better bit of software for playout, it also supports external device control a million ways (though you would have to pay for a licence), and be controlled by a streamdeck using companion. VLC will also do 'pause on the last frame' and push video to an external display
Thanks For The video Alex. Can I add stream alerts and laptop cam with this method?
My ATEM mini is not being recognized by Camtasia 2020 or OBS. the screen looks blank
The webcam and Blackmagic show up as options.
The 920E works fine, but eh aTem Mimi is blank.
I have called Blackmagic they say call OBS or Camtasia
Camera
Sony
Handycam cx455
Nikon D750.
Any suggestions?
1) Make sure no other program is running that might be trying to access the BM.
2) Restart everything :)
Its likely something is running in the background that is requesting access to the BM and blocking other apps from using it at the same time.
I don't own an ATEM, but I use OBS in combination with a capture card, StreamDeck and a GoXLR. And I wonder, what is the advantage of using an ATEM? To me currently it looks somewhat redundant to the possibilities of OBS.
Great video!
Instead of videos for b-roll can I use an NDI camera source?
Hello,
I discovered with interest your video published on RUclips 3 years ago about
"How To Play Videos On ATEM Mini | OBS Setup + Tips".
I am part of a small association in France.
We have the following materials:
- 3 Panasonic GH5 DSLRs and 1 Sony FX1000 camera
- 1 Atem mini Extreme ISO
- 2 DELL laptops and 1 desktop PC
- 1 Streamdeck XL
- 1 TP-Link Mini router where the computers and the Atem are connected
We installed on a computer:
- Atem Software Control
- Bitfocus Companion
- Streamdeck software
- OBS
- VLC Media Player software
Our problem :
We try to play a short video (for example a short report) or a Powerpoint file stored on the computer, from OBS to Atem Mini Extreme, but we can't really do it.
We try to exploit also SuperSource and Multi-view, but we can’t do it.
Do you have any advice to give us to try to find a solution to our problem?
Best regards from France.
Hey man ! Im just gonna ask here because i cant find dumbed enough down info for what i need,
Basically im running the ATEM mini pro, with the intention of using it as a capture card to take some of the load of my PC. The atem has HDMI from pc and USB-C and then HDMI out to a monitor. No internet on it however. My question is this: When i start streaming from my Streamlabs obs software, and i want to use the mini as a capture card. Is it correctly understood that all i have to do, is add the ATEM mini "webcam" source in streamlabs, and press stream IN STREAMLABS? Do i not have press "REC" or "ON AIR" on the atem ?
Hey Frede, yes this is correct. Just connect the ATEM Mini via USB to your computer and at it as a capture card source in streamlabs. Then thats it, just hit stream in streamlabs and no need to do anything on the atem mini :) Hope this helps
U r a genius bro
I don’t have an ATEM but am using an AVMaatrix. I would think that most of the basic settings would apply?
Thanks for the video, very good! Are there any advantages to using OBS rather than using say keynote or playback Pro ?
Great video
Hello Alex - how to write on two disks at the same time using Atem Mini Pro ISO? Thanks
Hey, unfortunately it's not possible as the ATEM Mini has one USB-C port and can only write to one disk at a time. You could come out of the HDMI Port to a HDMI based recorder if you need a second recording
@@AlexPettitt thank you!
I am a one man show, Can I do all this do all this from One PC for example setting up scenes in OBS, outputting to Atem, then bringig it all back into Zoom as a webcam? Or would I run the zoom meeting on one pc and do all the OBS stuff on a 2nd machine? Thanks
5:11 can you please make a video explaining how to switch to multiple screens/windows on PC/Mac using the Atem Mini? Please. How did you do that with a simple botom?
Thanks Alex for your great work. I have been trying to play videos with OBS but it works only with one video. If I want to switch between more it is not working right. I tried it so many times, starting the computer again, waiting a day and trying it again - no chance. It doesn´t work and I do have the latest version.
Just to check that you are clicking “Full screen projector preview” and not selecting it for just that scene. Doing it for one scene only will only play that 1 video on the scene. Hope this helps
is it automatically play when you switch on ATEM or do u have first play on OBS and then make a cut on ATEM?
Thanks Alex - this was really useful. You mentioned that you can set videos to play in OBS. Which command in Bitfocus Companion makes a video play in OBS? In the OBS presets there are presets for scene to programme which will switch to the correct program, but if the scene has a media source then how can you make it start playing. Even if in properties when you have "Restart playback when source becomes active" selected, it does not start playing when you switch to the scene using Companion (PS. I also want to find a command to set fullscreen projector to BDMI to ensure that my ATEM Mini Extreme picks up the video when it plays - but that's another thing).
9:53. Thanks for all. Do I get this correctly that when you want to start the VT Networking you have to A) click on the scene in OBS whilst you B) you selectat the same time, manually, the camera that has the HDMI from the laptop on the ATEM ?
Hi there! Thanks for making great CLEAR videos!
I have a question: is there a way to work the opposite way? So OBS would take care of the streaming side and as well of all multimedia sources and sending a clean hdmi feed from the atem without loosing the multiview? The atem has only one hdmi output...hope it make sense!
Hi Alex! Great tutorial. I was able to follow along, setup VT's to play after I press my computer source video on the atem and select the video in OBS. Where I'm stuck is at 8:48, I'm trying to understand how you played the video in the atem mini program feed as a clean looking video and it's not showing the obs controls like you have on your background? I don't understand what I might have missed ?? I even went back to the 5:00 mark, but my windows doesn't drag over like yours and even then I'm not sure how you could have started the video so cleanly and not displaying the obs control screen?? How?? lol.. :-/
Hey J’Mel, it sounds to me like when you connected your ATEM Mini to your computer, your computer is in MIRROR mode, instead or EXTENDED DISPLAY. Try setting to extended display in widows display settings and all should work fine. Any trouble, just give me another shout here in the comments :)
@@AlexPettitt Thank you so much !! I did have my computer in mirror mode. There is no way I would have figured that out! I didn’t even know the atem mini can serve as an extended display. I’m not sure if this is the way you did it particularly in your example, but once I moved my full screen projector window over to the mini, I put OBS into studio mode, and I was able see how you can queue other videos to preview and then cut them to the program side smoothly. These are such powerful little tools with so many possibilities! I appreciate you taking the time to help me out and thank you for teaching!
@@jmelgraves Thanks, I had this question too. I'm still not sure I understand what you dragged the window over to and need to go back to where I work to try it.
@@younken24films You're welcome! And I'll try my best to help you. I'll tell you my setup and hopefully that will help. I have my macbook pro on hdmi 4 of my atem mini (you can use hdmi 1-4). On my macbook, I have my airplay set to "use as a separate display". The hdmi out on my atem mini is going into a camlink 4k into the usb of my imac. When I'm using zoom or a quicktime movie recording.. and I press hdmi 4 on my atem mini, I'm viewing the extended display of my macbook. When I drag any window on my macbook to the far far right over to my extended screen, that is what I will see when I'm presenting in zoom (or quicktime) when I press hdmi 4. What I was sharing about OBS .. I open OBS on my macbook and I put it in "Studio Mode". I go to the program window (the right side), right-click, and select either "full screen projector (program) and select bmd hdmi" and that will automatically play whatever I'm playing in obs as the program. Or if I choose "Windowed Projector (program)" and if I move that to my extended display, whatever I play in OBS that is what will show when I'm on hdmi 4. There are multiple ways to achieve the same thing depending on your setup, but hopefully this helps you with the concept.
@@jmelgraves Thank you! Will try that today.
Excellent.-s-- I will reach out when iget mine
Thats great. i need to get my ipad to talk t my atem. been having issues
This is BRILLIANT! I was going to create a fake Hyperdeck on the Raspberry Pi using PlayoutBee, which I still might do, but I literally just set this up in OBS with 3 videos and used Companion to control the scenes from my phone and it was completely setup in less than 10 minutes and worked perfectly. SO AWESOME.
If you don't mind me asking, what is Companion?
@@kamenwaticlients It's free software that gives you hooks in to various software and hardware that allows you to control them with programmable buttons. You can then use these buttons on your phone or computer or with physical buttons on a Stream Deck. bitfocus.io/companion/
Hey Erich, so glad to hear this helped! Let me know if you still end up creating that Pi version...would love to know how you get on with it!
@@AlexPettitt hey Alex i am the creator of Playoutbee if you want i can send you a Copy of it to try yourself :)
@@erich93063 Companion is great! I used it to mostly automate a presentation where I also had to be on air (I'm not on air talent lol) and with Iris Countdown Timer added, it helped immensely. But, how does one port the buttons over to a[n] [Android] phone?
So this works but I stream from OBS and use Atem as a capture. This setup creates a weird loop but if I had a separate Laptop with OBS and this is gold
I followed your video above and it works fine except from the issue that i see the hole laptop screen on the preview screen and not only the "program". What du I do wrong?
Computer won't show the atem. Any suggestions?
Also, connected with type c to the hdmi input at the switcher.
Would I be able to preview my computer with the atem?
Wait. Why not just have the video file itself playing in full screen and have the computers "speaker" be the atem mini with the same HDMI setup? Why include OBS at all?
Hi Alex: I think I remember you saying somewhere that you shoot your videos at 60fps. Am I mistaken? Most recommend 30 or less. But, your image looks amazing.Is there a reason you do this?
Alex is your primary platform Mac or Windows? At the end of this video you mentioned that you do one-on-one consulting and I am looking for someone to do that with who has high-level OBS expertise on the Mac platform, especially as it pertains to performance. Please advise.
Hi, great video.. One week before I set up all and it works.. But now, the sound doesnt work in my video and I dont know where could be the problem.. I set up all like you show in video but I dont have in my stream sound from my pre recorded video.. Dont you know where could be problem? Thank you so much
What's the iPad app?
Can this be achieved with just one monitor?
Hello Alex,
I love your contents and am learning a lot. I have a question though. I do drum cover stuff on my channel and planning to do live streaming using atem mini all by myself. What i was thinking was to program all the scene change and camera positions and record them into one macro. I just hit that macro to run all the scene change while I am playing. That way i do not need to touch anything. But the problem is, how do i line up or sync up all these scene change I programed and the audio that I play along with? I was hoping to find some tip from this video but it was not quite what I was looking for. Do you think there is any way?
Is there a way to stream from ATEM to a "Scheduled" RUclips stream? On Air always wants to create a new one but I need it to latch onto a Scheduled one. Thanks!
@David Lovrien - yes, of course. 2 ways: 1) You need to check RTMP server address and streaming key of your YT scheduled stream (in YT Live Control Room) and input those in your Atem Software Control [and now you can stream directly from ATEM MINI PRO connected to ethernet] 2) You can use ATEM as USB webcam and stream directly from YT Live Control Room with atem connected via usb.
Great video! Have you considered using Rodecaster pro in your setup?
I have thought about it yes... what do you think?
@@AlexPettitt very useful for pure streaming or content creation, but I have a very mixed use with content plus zoom or google meet and it actually introduces some daily use complexity. I would love to see how you would approach the setup.
Hi Alex! If all my 4 inputs on the Atem mini is occupied with cameras then how to connect my Mac mini?
adding media files does not work for me so I use my laptops hdmi out or my shuttle
Alex can you share if possible how to obtain the OBS NETWORK plugin to connect companion thanks....
What is a better streaming platform ? RUclips codec's tend to make the video compressed & laggy for live event. Got a good alternative ?
Hi Alex, thanks a lot for your tutorials. They're a big help for me. I use two cameras, is there a way to add a LUT into Atem Mini? I know I can add a LUT in OBS but if I would add a third input (presentation for example) I would like to use the LUTs on the cameras and not over all inputs (if I add that LUT in OBS) do oyu have a solution for that?
Thanks for that very usefull
Why not use Touch Portal with your old mobile/tablet?
Hi Alex. Is this video more for live streaming?
Easiest budget option for recording of ATEM Mini (Not Pro) ???
Sorry to be obtuse, but couldn't you just hook a laptop to one of the HDMI inputs and push the button to switch.
Hello, can i connect two ATEM on my PC and hanve one scene per ATEM mini in OBS ? Thanks
Will this OBS work with a computer that has a display port out (used with a display port to HDMI cable) and will that work with a convertor that then goes from HDMI to SDI? (I have the MINI Extreme Iso SDI version.)
With OBS the memory utilization goes above 85% (critical zone) in 2018 MacBook Pro!! I wish they add this feature in Atem software along with Audio file to loop.. most of the audience need multi camera switching but with a background music on loop of their choice
Easier way: Play the video file(s) on another computer that is plugged into the ATEM Mini. Now you have full control of all functions; audio, video, playback, etc., with no OBS needed. The playback functions just like another ATEM camera input. Your way is unnecessarily complex.
Which app you use on the iPad???
Can you connect two cameras on atem mini and make it as different sources on OBS?
I am looking for a video about Atem Mini to OBS. Aside from usb, is it possible to send video via Network?
hello how are you all, good box is quite good, now I have an ATEM blackmagie STUDIO that does not work the multiviwe that can help me to repair it I am from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, if you know I can send the equipment for its repair, I will be grateful from all of you, I repeat my BLACKMAGIE ATEM STUDIO ITS MULTIVIWE OUTPUT IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY THANK YOU ALL
Apply the HI pass filter in the atem mini please
Hi, hope you can help me. the BMDI HDMI button isn't showing in OBS when clicking Fullscreen/Windowed projector (Preview). HDMI is plugged in from the computer (iMac BigSur) to the ATM mini Pro (Input 4). What could be the possible problem? Thanks
When I switch scenes I have to re enable full screen projection so it will playback full screen on my multiview each time. In other words full screen projection is not holding with the scenes. Very frustrating.Why is that?
I can’t think why this would be happening. Make sure you are right clicking on the preview windows and selecting full screen output. It sounds like you might be clicking on the individual source rather than the OBS Preview. Hope this helps
Thank you very much for explaining playing video with OBS and ATEM mini. I am using ATM Mini Pro. I followed your instructions to play Video for live streaming on RUclips(On Air) except I am not able to hear my desktop sound. If I just use OBS for live streaming I can hear my desk top sound. Please help.
Hello, could you explain me one thing about ATEM mini pro… I will record a video from all the camers to a usb-c hard disk.
Can I download these files on my computer directly from ATEM, if I use only the ethernet connection with ATEM mini pro?
Hey! I followed step by step but the audio isn't passing thru to the ATEM. :(