User's Manual

Gain The gain adjustment electronically modifies the angle between on and off
thereby softening the edges of the key. Adjust the gain value until the edge
softness is desirable but the background video luminance, or brightness, is
not affected.
Invert Key Inverts the key signal.
Mask Allows you to mask out sections of the key. For example, if you need to select
only a specific section of a graphic, you can use the mask setting to select
only the area of the graphic you want to use. To return the mask to the default
settings, select ‘reset mask’ and press the set button.
Using Adobe Photoshop with ATEM
Installing the ATEM software on your computer also installs a Photoshop plug-in that lets you
download Photoshop graphics direct to the ATEM media pool.
This means you can accept graphics from designers in the application that 100% of the world’s
designers use, Adobe Photoshop! You can even use the layers in a Photoshop image to keep
variations of graphics, such as different titles in a graphic, and then select the layers in
Photoshop you want, and then simply download them at the press of a button. When
downloading the layers are automatically flattened in real time before download. This happens
in the background and your document in Photoshop is unchanged by the export.
The ATEM export plug-in requires Adobe Photoshop CS5 or later. Install or reinstall the
ATEMsoftware after Photoshop is installed, to ensure the ATEM export plug-in is installed.
ATEM export plug-in
Setting up Plug-in Switcher Location
The first time the Photoshop export plug-in is run, it will ask you to select your switcher location.
This is the IP address of the switcher so the plug-in can find the switcher to communicate with.
By default, the IP is set to 192.168.10.240, which is what the switcher IP address is originally set
to when first sold. If you want to export several versions of the same Photoshop file, you can
use the export plug-in window to name each exported file and also choose whether to set the
files to a media player after export.
145Using Adobe Photoshop with ATEM