User's Manual

Using Camera Control
Clicking on the 'camera' button in ATEM Software Control opens the camera control feature that
lets you control Blackmagic Studio Cameras, Micro Studio Cameras, URSA Mini or
URSA Broadcast from your ATEM switcher. Blackmagic camera settings such as iris, gain, focus,
detail and zoom control are easily adjusted using compatible lenses, plus you can color balance
cameras and create unique looks using the DaVinci Resolve primary color corrector that’s built
into the camera.
When controlling cameras, the ATEM switcher control works by broadcasting camera control
packets via all the non down converted SDI outputs of your ATEM switcher. So this means you
can connect an SDI output of your ATEM switcher to the camera’s video inputs and the camera
will detect the control packets in the SDI link and allow you to control features in the camera
itself. You can control cameras via both regular SDI or optical fiber SDI connections when an
optional SFP module is installed in a Blackmagic Studio Camera.
ATEM Camera Control.
Connecting via SDI
1 Connect your Blackmagic camera’s SDI output to any SDI input on your ATEM switcher.
2 Connect each of the camera SDI outputs from the switcher to the program input on
each respective camera.
NOTE SDI inputs and outputs on ATEM Television Studio switchers are
configured for inputs 5 to 8. For example, if you are connecting two cameras,
the first available SDI inputs on ATEM Television Studio HD Pro are inputs
5and 6. Therefore, it is also important to make sure their respective outputs
from the switcher are returned to the corresponding cameras with their
camera numbers set to 5 and 6. This so tally will be correct for each camera.
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