User's Manual

Fade to Black
When you start or finish a program, you want to be able to fade to black without worrying about
leaving a logo on the screen by accident. Your ATEM switcher has a lot of powerful features and
lots of layers that you can enable for transitions. What this means is you could have a complex
setup on the switcher with many layers but you really just want a single button to start your
program. This is what the FTB or fade to black button does.
If you press the FTB button, the whole program output of the switcher will fade to black.
Thebutton will flash to indicate to you that it’s active. You can set the duration for the fade
to black transition in the LCD menu or on a software or hardware control panel.
Press the fade to black or FTB button to perform a fade to black on the whole
program output, including any graphics or keyers that may be in use
Front Panel Aux Switching
If you want to live switch the aux output of the switcher then press the AUX button to go into
aux mode. Once in aux mode you will notice that the source buttons have now changed to
white and the aux button is illuminated white also. This means that any source button you select
will send that output to the aux SDI output of the switcher. While in aux mode, you won’t be
controlling the switcher anymore and you are only changing the aux output, not the program
output. To go back to normal switcher operation, just select the aux button again.
If you select aux and you don’t see any front panel buttons illuminated, then it could be that
there is a source selected to the aux output that does not have a button on the front panel.
Forexample if you had color bars selected to the aux output, when you go into aux mode,
noneof the front panel buttons would be illuminated.
You can change aux sources in the LCD menus or on a software or hardware control panel.
There are more options for aux sources than available on the buttons on the front panel and
please check out the LCD menus for all the options.
Press the auxiliary or aux button to go into aux mode and press an input button to select it on the auxiliary output
87Using the ATEM Television Studio HD Front Panel