Blackmagic Design video switching equipment is a joy to use in any church, venue, or boardroom. We have been fortunate enough to implement live church (House of Worship) streaming systems with Blackmagic; we installed them in boardrooms for complicated MS Teams and PC presentations, created a video recording studio based on the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro, and have handled large conference venues using the easy and intuitive switching capabilities of the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro. Everything in the Blackmagic range screams professionalism.
Our first project with Blackmagic was very simple: a Dutch Reformed Church looking to stream their live services via two full-HD cameras (with mini-HDMI output) to Facebook Live, sometimes switching to the song lyrics generated by a standard Windows PC on HDMI output. One 2-meter HDMI cable, two Canon XA60B cameras on their stands, and two Blackmagic SDI-HDMI, HDMI-SDI converter sets, and the solution was ready to stream. YouTube, Facebook, or local recording to OBS software.
A more complex project came in the form of a university looking to create content for their online courses. We accomplished this with a 68” MERCER interactive screen running Windows 10, another Canon XA60B front-facing camera, an AVER document camera, and the local PC input for net content. All inputs were on HDMI cables, switched by the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro, and output to either their YouTube channel or OBS recordings, accessible from their website.
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Another solution where the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro and the Blackmagic 3G/18G HDMI to SDI/SDI to HDMI converters became our cornerstone is probably one of the most politicized venues in the Free State, South Africa: the Mangaung Metro Municipality’s conference chambers. We interlinked the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro with the legendary Taiden HCS camera tracking system and 77 conference microphones, all playing their roles to facilitate either one of two external HDMI inputs for presentation, a Windows-driven Teams package, or the standard camera tracking by the installed Taiden conferencing system. These are all distributed via matrix to three 65” monitors in a spillover venue, one program/control monitor, and one large monitor for the delegates to see. This is where we trust Blackmagic the most. If anything were to go wrong in this venue, we would be blamed for being biased toward one party or the other—logic and politics are not necessarily the same thing.
Contact us today to discuss the Blackmagic range and how we can solve your video switching, distribution, and mixing needs. Visit us at www.productionwise.co.za or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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