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- Real Name: Jon K Williams
As the ATEM Mini and Mini Pro are both looking for HD inputs rather than 4K or 6K, which the two compatible BMPCC cameras are capable of, I assume the HDMI output of either of those cameras has to be set, in the camera, to a maximum of 1920x1080.
I'm wondering, though, if I'd have the ability to crop into the BMPCC's 4K or 6K image to isolate a smaller 16:9 portion of what its sensor is "seeing." I haven't read anything in the ATEM Mini/Pro literature suggesting I can do that in the ATEM itself so I assume, at the moment, it would have to be done either in the camera settings or somewhere between the camera and the ATEM.
What I would like to see available, through a software update to the ATEM and its software control panel, is the ability to virtually "zoom" the camera's lens for a tighter shot on my subject. I would want that zoomed image, of course, to still be in full 1920x1080 resolution, as the 4K and 6K resolutions of the cameras ought to be able to give me. The only alternative right now, it seems, is to use an actual zoom lens.
If the ATEM could, itself, electronically crop and recenter an image from a 4K or 6K camera (any, I guess, not just the BMPCC line), then you could conceivably split the 4/6K HDMI output from one camera and run two HDMI lines into separate ATEM inputs, recropping/recentering for two distinct shots from the same camera; full frame, host and guest, for instance, and tight on guest. Or complete stage and tighter on podium.
Any way to do this already, or in the works? Is there another switcher a step up that does this?
I'm wondering, though, if I'd have the ability to crop into the BMPCC's 4K or 6K image to isolate a smaller 16:9 portion of what its sensor is "seeing." I haven't read anything in the ATEM Mini/Pro literature suggesting I can do that in the ATEM itself so I assume, at the moment, it would have to be done either in the camera settings or somewhere between the camera and the ATEM.
What I would like to see available, through a software update to the ATEM and its software control panel, is the ability to virtually "zoom" the camera's lens for a tighter shot on my subject. I would want that zoomed image, of course, to still be in full 1920x1080 resolution, as the 4K and 6K resolutions of the cameras ought to be able to give me. The only alternative right now, it seems, is to use an actual zoom lens.
If the ATEM could, itself, electronically crop and recenter an image from a 4K or 6K camera (any, I guess, not just the BMPCC line), then you could conceivably split the 4/6K HDMI output from one camera and run two HDMI lines into separate ATEM inputs, recropping/recentering for two distinct shots from the same camera; full frame, host and guest, for instance, and tight on guest. Or complete stage and tighter on podium.
Any way to do this already, or in the works? Is there another switcher a step up that does this?