Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro 5-stars Reviews

Fantastic - useful for esports productions

Love BMD and this follows suit. Useful for small live productions, especially in esports of which it gets used in the most. Ticks the box and then some for a multi-camera setup, and keeps it simple yet with slight headroom for innovation and creativity without forking out for a larger vision mixer combo.

ATEM MINI PRO

Wir haben uns diese kleine Box gekauft und haben gute Ergebnisse mit der Live-Übertragung von Youtube erzielt. Einfaches Umschalten zwischen Videokameras und Audioeingängen. Man kann alles gut bearbeiten und alle Parameter mit dem Computer anpassen. Sie können den Schallpegel der Audioeingänge sehen.

Es gibt einige Nachteile: Wenn der Mikrofonton nicht eingeschaltet ist, kommt der Ton von der Kamera mit dem eingebauten Mikrofon und Sie müssen sicherstellen, von welcher Quelle der Ton kommt. Und Sie müssen einen D-Box-Separator zwischen Mischpult und ATEM platzieren, damit es keine Geräusche und Störungen durch den ATEM-Lüfter gibt

Does what it needs to do

That's my 'daily' driver. It's not perfect but does the job done and that's what really matters for small gigs.

Helped me create an audience

When the pandemic broke in 2020 I found opporutnity to perform livestream shows. I experiemented with some software solutions which were of mixed quality. The Atem Mini Pro brought my production to a new level and when I discovered that it could be made work with MIDI+OSC my game was raised.

A small box wiht big features

Using this ATEM mini pro some time now and it never disappointed me: good built, easy to use, almost plug and play. Created an OCS tool on my iPad to control it wireless in the studio.

Price - quality 100%

If there is a "con" - the unit produces some noise which can be heard in a studio environment. Personally no problem since I record without microphone - althpught I think the noise isn't that loud a microphone would pick it up.

Very good

Works fine. Multiview are great. The only drawback are the lack of headphone jack.

Wow

One word - wow!

Amazing piece of kit just what we needed!

Small but powerful, and at an amazing price

I won't go through what this device can do as the tech specs on the product listing should be sufficient there.

What I will say is that this is remarkably powerful yet extremely easy to use - just connect in all the devices you need and it just.... works.

The basic functionality on the board is more than sufficient to run even complicated Zoom calls/webinars (I teach university workshops online) and is also capable of handling on-the-fly editing when creating pre-recorded content.

The ATEM Software Control application gives additional functionality and control (particularly over audio - which is lacking on the board), and allows you to control the device over your network (i.e. without requiring a USB connection to your machine).

But it is the macros where this device shines - allowing you even greater configurability than offered by the board or the Software Centre. For example, many users complain about the small size of the Picture-in-Picture box. With macros you can change this to the size - and *shape* - that you want. I even have macros which changes which HDMI input is used for the PiP. And while you are not able to override the function of buttons on the board with your macros, this pairs nicely with the Elgato Stream Deck to give you physical buttons to cue up complex combinations of macros.

I really do like this device. And its absolutely amazing what it does for the price.

Versatile and reliable

This is really an amazing breakthrough in live streaming equipment, it packs more features than the more expensive Blackmagic switchers. This is so many products in one i.e switcher, scaler, capture card etc. Been using for my church for over 6 months and very happy with the purchase

Best bang for your buck!

This truly has been the game-changer for 2020. We use this from zoom calls, to live streaming productions, weddings etc.. during this pandemic. With built-in scalers this means it accepts any sort of signal and converts it! Highly recommend to have it in your toolbag!

There is one con... it doesn't have a headphone jack. You need to monitor through the video monitor (via HDMI).

Quality Kit!

Only just started using my ATEM Mini Pro but loving it already. It feels like a solid well made bit of kit. Early days yet, but haven't found any negatives so far.

Fantastic Product

Everybody is still in a euphoric state of mind about this Atem Mini Pro. I must admit that it includes me. However I can think of a few minors. I bought the Atem to reduce my editing time by changing to more 'live editing' during the broadcast or recording and to be able to live switch camera's without problems. I mainly record or live-stream smaller (sports)events.

Plusses besides the normal specs:

- Buttons feel great and weight of unit is enough

- (wireless) control via Atem software and other apps works perfect

- Recording and streaming in different compressions/quality is great

- Atem software functions offer a lot of possibilities

- Lots of youtubers posted lots of great explaining tutorials

Minors:

- Only hdmi input1 is forgiving with a little weaker signal strength, the other inputs require high strength hdmi signal. (You need the best cables and I am taking no risk and am converting all longer then 5 meter distances to SDI connections with converters. (not tested yet)

- Hdmi ports are always fragile. Use good connectors and make sure cables don't pull.

- Recording and streaming in different qualities at the same time is impossible.

Fantastic Piece Of Kit

Lots of features for the an amazing price. The Pro version is definitely worth the extra money for the built in live streaming capabilities and multi-view. It is very easy to operate but also very configurable via the ATEM software control enabling still images to be loaded in, audio delay added and streaming setup.

The only main downsides are a lack of separate HDMI out that isn't shared with the multview output and a lack of headphone port for monitoring live audio.