MixEffect Tutorial - SuperSource, Macros, Switcher Pages, Video Follows Audio, and More!

hello my name is adam tau i'm the developer of mix effect and i'm here to give you a tutorial on the application first off what is mix effect mix effect is an application for ios ipad os and max running on apple silicon to control black magic design atem switchers i assume by the fact that you're watching this video you know exactly what an a10 switcher is so let's get started right away with the demo because we have a lot to go over here's a screen of the ipad that i'm running right here that's controlling my atem extreme iso which is right down there and we can take a look at the switcher interface so when you connect to your atem switcher you'll have a bunch of options on the left hand side these are your switcher sections and on the right hand side is the section that you're currently looking at so right now we're looking at the switcher section and you can see i have program preview i have super source i have my upstream keyers my transition styles my downstream keyers my output as you can see in red here that i'm currently recording this and you see red up here in the title bar that's also red we have a list of my macros with buttons that show the index as well as the name we have a select bus and my outputs that's the switcher and you can see other other views here so for instance we have the audio you can see my audio channels here i'm currently outputting to mic one we have macros we have media that lists all of our media images and stills and clips if your atem switcher supports them we can look over all our transition change the settings we're there we can see the status of all our upstream keyers on the a10 mini xtreme iso there are four of them so we can cycle through all four of them right here we have our downstream keyers two of them on the a10 mini extreme iso we have supersource which is one of the most popular features of mix effect i'll be covering that later in this video we have color generators so we can change our default colors real time you can see it if you happen to have the atem software control application running on your mac or windows computer you can actually move these sliders and see it change in real time vice versa you can also change the settings in atem software control and you can see the sliders move without your hands camera control i have a black magic pocket cinema behind me and let's just go quickly switch over to that input and swap cameras and i'll make box one go to camera three so you can see in front of me and behind me i'm actually going to swap that and make camera one go to camera two we go back to camera control uh i'm on camera three and i'll just hit auto focus on and you can see the camera behind me focusing in the big box right there we have some auxiliary outputs so you can change what your multi-view and your other second auxiliary output goes to right now we have it set to multi-view and aux 2 there's nothing plugged in right now so we have that set to multi-view as well output you can see that i'm recording right now it's been 3 minutes and 20 seconds i have 11 hours left on my ssd disk i'm not recording all iso inputs and i show the recording indicator here at the top but if you're doing a live stream you'd also see all the information about your stream here i'm not streaming at the moment one thing to keep in mind is that when you do do a record it takes the quality setting that you set in the live stream so make sure it's set to a high value to get the best quality record finally we have a bevy of switcher settings here some people like to use the cut bus so i offer that option there you can change the video mode right now i think i'm set to 1080p 23.98 you can configure your multi-view so we have this wonderful interface for changing your multi-view layout you just tap the kind of layout that you want your multi-view changes over there on the side and you can change your uh what each little square goes to so let's see let's go back to that and i like this one that's the one i like best so let's come back to the switcher and what we're going to do now is we're going to change the switcher interface first off i'm going to go back to my camera inputs here and i'll bring camera let's see box two back to the ipad and box one i'll bring this back to to me so going back to the switcher um we have a fully customizable interface here so if you tap the button in the upper right you can access the switcher pages and here you can see you know all the panels that have been loaded up here but if you don't like these panels you can change them so for instance if you don't like separate program in preview you can add a panel that is that is a combined program preview so let's just do that and we'll reposition this up there and let's say you want to change your media so add a media player thing there and for output let's add something for flying key that's a good one to add so now you see at the top here we have the program preview it's been combined so i can do all the switching here and if you could see my multi-view to my right you would see it changing there in real time down below next transition we have the media player 1 and meteor player 2 you see that i have a still set for media player 1. and if i brought that on air which i can do by pushing this button here it will run a shortcut another feature of mix effect there's full automation within the application to control it from within ios shortcuts you see i brought it a dynamically generated lower third uh down there in the bottom left-hand corner so just kind of push that out of the way and we will now take a look at macros so one thing about macros and atem software control is that you basically have like five pages of macros each with like maybe like 20 each for a total of 100 macros what's really hard is that you can't filter on the macros and they're all just a little string of text so what mix effect does is it allows you to see all your macros right now i only have nine macros but what's great is that you can change the macro to have colors who doesn't love colors so this will be and i'll give it a car icon here so not only can you have your macros in color and have an icon you can sort them in variety of different ways you can sort them by index so here we have them in one to nine you can sort them by name if you do a search and you have say you want to search for every macro that has word six in it there's only one macro there you can filter your things based on name it also searches the description field you can also sort by icon or by color if you just tap and press you can re-record a macro just like that and we're recording right now we see a recording panel pop up right here i can go to the switcher and i can run auto it will auto do an auto transition right there and let's just say that's all i want in this particular macro i'll stop that i can go down to the macro panel down here and i can run it and i'll just do the auto transition that i had if i don't like it i can just long press and delete the macro boom you're done so that's macros let's take a look at media so i'm going to bring in my lower third while i do a transition over to the media section you see all the media that's been uploaded to this device this a10 mini xtreme iso can support uh 20 still images if you have a switcher that supports clips and audios you'll see a tab down at the bottom where you can change those things what's great about mix effect is that you can actually upload images from your photos library so all you have to do is tap the plus find the album that you want to upload to let's go to this one let's upload this one select where you want to upload it to we will go to let's say 15 and we'll see that 15 has just been uploaded right there and if i wanted to set this to say media player 2 which is the background of this super source that you see here there i just changed the background okay we're going to change it back just pop that right up there there you go so that's media in mix effect let's take a look at some transitions so if we go to the transition section here we see a list of all the transitions that we can control and change all the settings there let's move this over here so move this back out so we have mix dip wipe and dve and if you have an atm switcher that supports stingers you would see that option here as well so if we go back to the switcher we see we have these exact same things right here so if i wanted to do a mix and do an autumn transition it would do that if i wanted to dip which does a dip to a color it goes to the color that we defined earlier in the color color generator if we want to do a wipe just actually long press to kind of get controls for the wipe and let's take a look at the wipe settings so we have a diamond we do an auto we see it does that see we do it from the corner here like that and if we set a width we can also sell a fill source so the same thing with the diamond you'll see that kind of teal color as a little border around there finally we have the dve so if we take a look at the dve uh we are going to choose a push right we actually have to set the dve here by tapping this now we go back to db then you see a push right and squeeze right you know you can even use a graphic logo which uses a fill source so let's just say media player let's go back to that media player 2 which is our background image for the super source you'll see you'll do an animation based on that using the media player too so let's take a look at the upstream keyers so upstream keyers we currently have the transitions lower thirds up right now but the upstream keyer is powering that through a chroma key if we take a look actually at what media player two looks like let's go back to the switcher and i'll bring in media player two actually media player one so you see this is the automatically generated chroma key title that i generated using my shortcut and we'll actually show it running in action here let's go back to our super source let's actually turn back to a mix transition so if we're running our shortcut let's actually do it like this let's see if i type in upstream gears it's taking the text that i wrote it's creating this chroma key transition and then replacing it within media player one and then you see it happen right there because i had the the key or up already you saw the brief flash that wouldn't happen if you're doing it running it through the stream deck that i have down here so that's the upstream keyer section we have four upstream keyers on the a10 mini extreme so you can change set each of them one to be a pattern another one to be a chroma key one being a luma key maybe one you have a dve so for instance say upstream cure one you want to do a dve and you want to bring in camera three you pop there it is what's great about mix effect is that you can have uh you can control it by moving your finger so i'm just using my finger to touch the blue square or rectangle and repositioning on sides i could also you know pinch to expand or pinch to shrink and move it around exactly to where i want it so let's just put it right there you can also use these controls these preset controls to kind of reposition very quickly before supersource people use the upstream keyer to do picture-in-picture but i find that the super source is much more powerful which we'll see later in this video so let's turn off the down the upstream here and let's go take a look at the downstream here so downstream keyer is usually used to display some type of bug actually turn off my lower thirds there so one thing that i found with the a10 mini xtreme is that it has two media players which is great it really needs four to make this worthwhile because there's only two downstream gears and if you're using one media player for your lower thirds titles and another media player for your background image and your super source you're all out of media players so if we take a look at this let's say we have the mix effect logo here i'm going to set this to media player 1 and i'm going to turn on the downstream keyer i'm going to turn off pre-multiplied and i'm going to bring it on air you'll see the lower third just appeared in the bottom left hand corner actually not the lower thirds my little bug but if i wanted to do a lower thirds i have to use media player one as well so you know blackmagic come out with the atem mini extreme iso plus that has four media players please so we'll go back to our media and set the title back to media player one now let's take a look at super source probably the most popular feature and most powerful feature that i have in mix effect what does this do so everyone knows the a10 mini extreme has super source as a way to bring in four inputs onto one screen and a lot of times or at least an atem software control there's basically four presets that you have access to you have access to and i'll show them real quick you have access to the four grid which looks like actually let's go to grid mode here you have access to four grid they have the four grid alternate look they have let's see i believe it is the diagonal look which is this one and they have another one which is like the three left crop which looks like this basically this the app is fend for yourself to make any other super source layout so a lot of people have created macros that create super source layouts some of which include animations but what mix effect does is it gives you a visual interface for creating supersource in a very nice and elegant manner and the bonus thing is that it offers transitions between your layouts so just take a look at this i'm not doing anything this is all happening in real time in mix effect pretty cool huh you can also do things in mixed effects such as highlight so for instance if i just hit command 1 you see that box number 1 just got bigger and the other ones got smaller so imagine you're doing a show and you want to highlight person who's speaking in box two actually let's go to this one so you have four people in a vertical orientation and say highlight number one highlight number two highlight number three highlight number four and then boom go back let's say they want to you go back to the foreground you have this beautiful animation now what's cool about this is that you can just tap this unlock button and then you can start moving your screens around your boxes around let's say you want one four up there and one there okay users of mix effect right now might be wondering you know what are these extra buttons i have here at the bottom this is actually a pre-release version of version 1.03 that's coming out later this week that gives you a grid to better align your your boxes it allows you to constrain movement so you can only move it left and right or up and down or we just make it freeform we have a box selector which works on the next two commands so this is a resizer so let's say i want all my boxes to be 0.35 in size boom right there let's bring it back up to 0.5 that's a little too big maybe 0.45 and then let's say all of our images we want or all of our boxes we want them to be in a 2x3 format boom right there and then we can just quickly rearrange them how we want and let's actually make a layout that looks like this and say we like this layout all i have to do is hit save and it will update the four grid layout that i had here or i can hit command n and create a brand new layout so i can call this four vertical let's say offset right there what's great about supersource presets in mix effect is that you can actually share these so let's say you create a whole uh suite of presets that are that go far beyond the presets that i've given you here i have like over 40 presets you can export them and share them with other people you can also reset your presets which i'm going to do right now and i'll reset your presets back to the defaults so we'll go back to the four grid right there and let's actually go to the pip this one right here there's box controls so you can you know if you want to dicker with your controls directly you can just move the sliders here and there this is box one i'm just gonna move it like this you know you can do fine controls by tapping these little stepper buttons if you want to quickly change the input you can say oh i want to go to box box 1 camera 3 right there so if you're doing a show you can just be living in super source and switching between layouts you can also use keyboard commands to switch to autos and cuts command return doesn't auto looks like the upstream key is showing or media player 1 is showing in my preview or you can do command shift return to do a quick cut there's plenty of keyboard shortcuts to control all of mix effect page take a look at the documentation at mix effect dot app slash docs for complete information on how to control the app new in mix effect 1.02 is osc support so osc support allows you to control mix effect using companion and a stream deck so if we take a look again at our supersource i'm gonna switch to a page that has in my um on my stream deck that allows me to kind of like reposition just by pushing buttons like this and just as you can see in the screen i'm just moving this window up and down i can do i can do things such as change to different switchers say i want to go to the audio i just tap the button for audio tap the button for macros media transitions i can actually change super source presets so if i want to go to the 4 grid like that or the 4 grid like that we'll probably want to change the source for camera 1 since we had it on camera three actually box one there we go so i'm just pushing these presets and they're changing in real time if i want to highlight one i just push the button on the stream deck two three four so if you're familiar with the stream deck you know you don't want to mess with the ipad interface you can easily do everything from the stream deck it's great as you can also see down in the bottom right corner there's actually the iphone my iphone 11 pro max is running mix effect and it's basically the exact same interface that you see on the ipad except that's been optimized for the iphone interface so we see media player 1 has been selected i'm going to switch back to camera 1. i'm going to do an auto transition straight from the phone you can have this wonderful haptic feedback when you move the fader bar so you can feel each frame that's moving go back like that as you can see you know there's no columns multiple columns on the iphone interface is basically just one big column but again you have full control over what you want to display in the switcher page by just tapping edit this page and you can see all the different options that you can add to your column here close that so a few more things before we close things out um over here in mix of x settings you have a lot of tweaks for the interface so things like differentiating your supersource boxes with colors you have a sticky preset option so you can always see your this is coming up in mixed effect 1.03 you can always see your the currently selected preset here on the left hand side is kind of like docked there you can change how quickly your presets run so let's say you want like an instant change you can just do this boom and there's no animation when switching between super source presets or you can add like an extra slow one if you want to kind of emphasize a transition you can do like that okay i like the fast one personally i've touched briefly about automations one of the other cool automations that i have is this feature called video follows audio so what that is is that you can turn this on and you can first let's configure it and you can say things like when a certain audio level for say a microphone one goes above a certain threshold change the super source preset to say standard one so make sure it's on super source one i'll save that and say when the audio dips below a certain level like minus 45 decibels we will go to let's say the four horizontal crop this one here okay so i'm going to turn on video follows audio and you're going to see what happens so if i start talking in mic 1 it's going to trigger the fact that i'm above 20 db and it's gonna go and actually i need to talk about 20 db so let's raise the volume right there so if i talk at 20 db it's going to trigger that and it's going to switch to standard one preset but now if i stop talking and after a small brief period of time it's going to trigger the video follows audio for that and go back to the four horizontal crop i'm going to lower the thing here so you can see how if you configure your audio settings your video follows audio settings correctly you can have your atm switcher switching automatically as people are talking as people are not talking the switching happens automatically you don't have to do anything you can focus on other stuff you know no hands it's great so i'm going to turn off actually video falls audio so it doesn't do this automatic switching during this demonstration and i'm going to go back to let's say this the screen here so let's actually go to this one here so that's in a pinch what mix effect does if you have an ipad or an iphone and you want complete control over your atem switcher this is the app to get and i don't say this just because i wrote it i say this because you know there's a lot of people who are using it and they seem to really love it from the super source to the macros to the custom switcher pages it uh i think it's great and they do too so i encourage you to download mix effect from the ios app store it's a free download for you to try and it comes with a 30-day trial of mix effect pro which you see basically all the things i demoed here come with mix effect pro if you just want to use the free version you have access to basic switcher controls you can change your program in preview you can change your transition styles you can play with the fader bar and you can do cut and auto and that's basically it but if you want more if you want video follows audio if you want shortcut integration you want to see and interact with your macros if you want access to super source you need to get mix effect pro which is currently at an introductory price of fifty dollars so get it now before the price might go up who knows i hope you've enjoyed this quick tutorial on mix effect and let me know what you think about the app wherever you are whether it's a facebook user group there's a mix effect user group or one of the many blackmagic a10 user groups that are out there i'm i contribute there there's twitter at mix effect app you can go join our slack community we have a slack me on mix effect so if you just go to mix effect dot app slash community you can see all the links on the places where i'm contributing to and participating in so i will meet you where you are thank you for watching and i will be back in the future with another in-depth tutorial on mix effect

Channel: Adam Tow

Views: 33,752

Keywords: MixEffect, SuperSource, ATEM switcher, Blackmagic Design

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Length: 27min 13sec (1633 seconds)

Published: Mon May 17 2021