CONNECT YOUR ATEM MINI TO A NETWORK | How to do it & why you should!

in today's video I'm going to show you the two main methods for connecting and controlling your 8m mini or 8m mini Pro the first is the direct USBC connection the second is how to connect the device up to a network which is great for the ATM mini Pro users because you can use that one Ethernet connection for both control and to provide it an internet connection for live-streaming before we get started you're going to need the latest version of the black magic ATM software control installed onto your device so if you haven't yet go to the black magic website and download that now the first method the direct USBC connection on the back of the device there's a USB C port labeled webcam out this is for both the ATM mini and the ATM mini Pro and if you plug a USB C cable into that and it can be depending on what device you're wanting to plug into it a USB C to USBC cable if you're on a newer macbook or something like that but also if you're on an older device that only has USB CA just get yourself a USB C a USB C to USB a cable that will be work fine as well I saw some other questions from people saying if you're wanting to use a macbook does it need to be a Thunderbolt 3 cable because they're more expensive no a normal USB see a USBC cable will work perfectly fine grab yourself that cable depending on what device you've got and then it is what it says on the tin black magic have made it so easy all you have to do is connect the two ends so connect one up to your Blackmagic 810 mini and the other to your computer once both devices are connected just open up the black magic ATM software control and as you can see here on the screen it automatically finds the device I don't have to do any sort of configuration it is as simple as it can be black magic it made it so easy just plug in open it up and you're ready to go now let's talk about the setup for if you want to connect your ATM mini or ATM any pro to a network for this you're going to use the Ethernet port on the back of the device itself and you're also obviously going to need some Ethernet cables too I'm using just standard cat 6 I'm going to draw a little diagram to help explain what's happening here so we've got our a 10 mini Pro in the middle here and the two things that we need to provide it are an internet connection and then a device that will also act as the ATM controller or be able to control the a-10 mini pro using the ATM so I'm gonna draw my macbook pro here on the right and on the left I'm gonna draw my home broadband router which is going to act as my internet connection now most home broadband rooters have I think usually four Ethernet ports on the back so one way of doing this is using the Ethernet ports on the back of the router and you just connect up your 8m mini Pro to one port on the back of your router and then your device whether it be a laptop or a desktop to the other port then they're both on the same network and they'll be able to see each other what I've done and what may be beneficial to you is I've added a network switch into the equation because I essentially just wanted to run one cable to my desk and give all the devices on my desk a hard wired Ethernet connection so to show you what this looks like on the diagram I've just added in the Ethernet switch here and so what I do is I take one Ethernet cable to the network switch for my internet access and then I distribute using that network switch to the ATM mini Pro to my MacBook Pro also to all my other hard wired devices things like my other macbook my Teradek video for example so everything can see each other it's all on the same network now and here's what that looks like in real life so I've got my 8m Mini Pro on the desk here it's connected up to an Ethernet cable as is my macbook pro and if i go under the desk here you can see that i've tried my best with cable management but that is where my small Netgear networks which is housed just under the table now the last thing that you need to do is just get the AM software control to see the 8m mini or the ATM mini Pro on the network and to do that you're going to open up the ATM software control and if it doesn't automatically find your device on the network you'll only have to set it up once and what you do for that is you go up to software control in the top corner click on connection and you'll see you've got two options you can manually type in the IP address of the blackmagic ATM or ATM any pro that you're trying to connect or blackmagic am now enabled discovery on the network so we can actually see it listed here so if I just click on this and then click connect we'll see straight away the a 10 mini pro is found on the network and I can connect to it using any device that is also on the same network so if I wanted to I can have my main map book in the ATM software control controlling the video aspect or let's say controlling the media pool and then I've got another device here that I could use for switching or could use for monitoring audio I've got another device a mobile device I could download a various number of apps and do and make or do things to the ATM in deeper on there so there's switching apps available and you can do that via Wi-Fi so I really do advise connecting the ATM mini in the ATM any pro up to a network rather than the direct connection because it gives you a lot more flexibility in what you can do not just for those pro users in terms of being able to livestream but also just for regular ATM mini users it gives you flexibility in terms of what devices you use to control it controlling over Wi-Fi and things like that so I hope you found this video useful I'll try to make it as quick and concise as possible so if you have give it a like let me know let me know in the comments what sort of future tutorials and videos you'd like to see on this channel as well and if you're new here welcome I try and produce as much content as possible around these fantastic broadcasting devices so if you are new hit the subscribe button join us and let me know what videos you want to see on the channel in the future but for now guys thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next one let's address the elephant in the room then the lockdown locks it's not a toupee as someone put in the chat it is just the fact that hairdressers aren't open

Channel: Alex Pettitt

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Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020