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The ATEM Mini Extreme is here — but you don't want to spend $1,000 to buy one!
If you already have any ATEM Mini, I'll show you how to add three more inputs for just $100 each — and how to control them all together!

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https://geni.us/StreamDeck
https://geni.us/StreamDeckXL

Bitfocus Companion; the software that ties this all together: https://bitfocus.io

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00:00 Introductions
00:23 Do you need the ATEM Mini Extreme?
00:55 How to add three more ATEM HDMI inputs!
01:17 It’s more than just the hardware…
02:08 Why you can’t do this with ATEM macros
02:32 Introducing Bitfocus Companion
02:58 Downloading Companion
03:32 Adding the ATEM hardware to Companion
03:56 Find your ATEM’s IP address
05:11 Set up the first button
05:48 Renaming your ATEM buttons
07:07 Testing button 1
07:25 Making buttons 2 and 3
07:52 Making buttons 4 through 7 (controlling dual ATEM's!)
09:06 Testing buttons 2 through 7
09:40 Accessing the Companion buttons on a web or mobile interface
10:26 Adding ATEM status lights to Companion


The ATEM Mini is an incredible switcher, and with four HDMI inputs, it's a serious bargain way to get FOUR cameras or other HDMI sources into your computer to act as a webcam, whether you're on a Zoom call, hosting a webinar, gaming, or just chatting with friends.

But sometimes you want more!! People have asked me dozens of times if you can simply plug one ATEM into another to give it more ports. The simple answer is YES, you can!

However, there's a significant issue with switching when you do it this way. First of all, know that you'll be getting 7 HDMI inputs, not eight. But 4+4=8, right?
In this case… no!
Because you have to plug the output of one ATEM into the input on another, which means that you are losing one of those inputs for a camera. You end up with three cameraavailable inputs on one device and four on the other. OK, that's fine, so you have seven inputs!
But the real problem is CONTROL. Inputs ONE, TWO, and THREE are all normal. But now, to switch to camera FOUR, you have to switch the first ATEM (in my case, an ATEM Mini Pro ISO) to input FOUR and simultaneously switch the second ATEM (in my case, a $295 ATEM Mini) to input ONE. That gives you "camera 4". Then, "camera 5" inputs FOUR plus TWO, and "camera 6" inputs FOUR plus THREE, and finally, "camera 7" inputs FOUR plus FOUR.

As you switch around, to go from camera 2 to camera 4 to camera 1 to camera 6 can require tapping the input buttons on both ATEM Minis simultaneously — and that's a terrible idea! It puts you at a huge risk of getting the switching out of sync, or even worse, switching to the wrong camera angle. This is where the opensource, FREE software, "Bitfocus Companion," saves the day. With some effortless setup, you can make a single button switch multiple inputs on both ATEM devices at once, giving you a onetouch button to change to any camera angle!

Finally, if you want to move the switching interface off of your computer, you can run Companion from a tablet like an iPad, or even an iPhone or Android device, or if you want to spend a little money and go with a hardware interface, the El Gato Stream Deck and Stream Deck XL make fantastic physical interfaces with LED buttons that you can push! It's even possible to provide RED feedback on the buttons, so you know which camera angle you have loaded. Wow!! Learn all this and more in this detailed video tutorial.

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