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Blackmagic Media Express
Capturing Video and Audio Files
Select your ATEM Switcher from the Device menu.
Selecting Your ATEM Switcher
If you have more than one Blackmagic Design capture product installed or connected to your computer, go
to the Device menu in Media Express and select your ATEM switcher. In the example pictured on this page,
a DeckLink card and an ATEM Television Studio are both installed in the same computer. Selecting your
ATEM switcher will allow you to choose suitable video settings for your project.
Setting Up a Project
Before capturing any clips in Media Express, you will need to select the settings for your project. Go
to Media Express>Preferences on Mac OS X or Edit>Preferences on Windows. Any settings which are
grayed out are only used with other Blackmagic Design capture products and are not required by your
ATEM switcher.
With ATEM 1 M/E and 2 M/E production switchers, select whether the Aux 1 output is HD1080i, HD720p,
NTSC or PAL and also set the frame rate. Select from a range of professional compressed and uncompressed
capture file formats or even a DPX image sequence. Video will be captured in the chosen format and saved
to an AVI file.
With ATEM Television Studio ,the Project Video Format defines the frame size of the current H.264 project.
Choose “Native (Progressive)” for full resolution encoding of the Program Output or select from a number
of popular device presets including iPad and YouTube. ATEM Television Studio automatically detects the
frame rate of your Program Output. Video will be encoded in the H.264 format and saved to an MP4 file.
Set the storage location for your captured video and audio and choose whether to stop capture or playback
if dropped frames are detected.
Standard definition projects are set to the 4:3 aspect ratio unless you enable the Anamorphic SD 16:9
checkbox.
Usually video applications stop playing video if you send them to the background. If you want Media Express
to keep playing video, even if you open another application in the foreground, enable the checkbox to
"Continue playback when in the background".
The final options are not used by ATEM switcher as they relate to tape decks with RS-422 deck control.