User's Manual

You have just recorded a macro using an ATEM Advanced Panel. The macro will appear as a
macro button named ‘Macro 6’ because it is located in macro slot 6. You can name your macro
and add notes by clicking on the ‘edit macro’ button in ATEM Software Control.
To run the macro, press the macro button to set your panel’s source select row to macro mode.
The buttons will illuminate blue when in macro mode. Now press the macro 6 button. You can
easily see when a macro is running because the macro button will flash green and an orange
border appears around the LCD menu.
If your macro was successful, you should see your ATEM switcher mix from color bars to color 1
using a 3 second mix transition, pause for 2 seconds, then perform another 3 second mix
transition to black, all by pressing one button on your ATEM Advanced Panel. If you want the
macro to loop so it keeps running, press the ‘loop’ soft button to enable loop. Press again to
disable loop.
NOTE If the macro you just recorded using the example is set to loop, it will fail at the
end. That is because there is not a pause set between the final mix transition to black,
and the loop back to the start of the macro. To make the macro work looped, you will
need to record a final pause of 3 seconds so your switcher knows to wait for the last
3second transition to complete before looping back to the first action.
It’s worth frequently testing your macros using different switcher settings to make sure the
macro performs all the specific functions you intended, doesn’t miss any instructions,
orproduce something unexpected.
Press the ‘record’ soft button to
start recording your macro
While recording, a red border will
appear around the LCD
If you want to record over a previously recorded
macro, or if you made a mistake and want to start
recording the macro again, press the record button
and confirm the overwrite when prompted
156Using Macros