Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio 4K8
The Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio 4K8 is a switcher for live production that comes with a broadcast control panel, making it highly portable and suitable for use in small venues that lack access to equipment racks or broadcast vans. The switcher offers 8x standards converted 12G-SDI inputs, 10x 12G-SDI aux outputs, 4x chroma keyers, 2x downstream keyers, SuperSource, 2x media players, and numerous transitions. It also includes various features such as hardware streaming, recording, audio mixer, talkback, multiview, and optional internal network shared storage.
The integrated control panel includes buttons for selecting sources, triggering transitions, and setting up video effects, which are of the same high-end type found on expensive broadcast switchers. There is even an innovative audio mixer control area with live metering on a dedicated LCD. The switcher lets customers connect multiple cameras for different views of the performance, and all video sources will re-sync to the switcher, even if they operate at different video standards.
The Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio 4K8 offers a range of professional built-in video effects, including SMPTE wipes and DVE effects that slide or squeeze the image off screen when transitioning between video sources. The joystick can be used to transition video effects and position the DVE for custom picture-in-picture effects. Customers can also store broadcast quality graphics and animations in the built-in media pool, which supports RGB colorspace with alpha channel for transparency and layering.
ATEM Television Studio 4K8 is perfect for news and on-set presentation work because it features 4 ATEM Advanced Chroma Keyers for green screen keying effects. The chroma keyers include features such as a color picker to sample background colors for automatic generation of the key parameters, and a foreground color corrector so customers can match the foreground and background layers for seamless compositions. The keyer can also be used for pattern and DVE keying.
In addition to the DVE, the ATEM Television Studio 4K8 has a powerful SuperSource multi-layer processor, which gives customers 4 extra DVE layers plus a background layer, all layered together as an additional input source. SuperSource is perfect for doing multiple picture-in-picture displays with people being interviewed.
The ATEM Television Studio 4K8 has 8x 12G-SDI inputs, each with a dedicated standards converter so any 720 HD, 1080 HD, or 2160 Ultra HD input source will be converted to the standard of the switcher. It also includes up to nine SDI program outputs, dedicated aux outputs for driving stage monitors and master recorders, and a dedicated 3G-SDI and HDMI output for the multiview.
With a built-in Fairlight audio mixer, ATEM Television Studio makes it possible to do complex live sound mixing, with channels for all SDI inputs, as well as extra channels for the XLR, RCA, and MADI inputs. The audio mixer is highly customizable and can be adjusted from the front panel using the dedicated audio mixer controls and LCD.