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- Real Name: Ed Denison
Hello, first post so sorry if I'm doing anything wrong.
My car got broken into a couple of days ago and all my production gear got stolen. Luckily, I do streams for a community choir that's banded together to get me back to where I was but I now have to make a decision about how to replace my ATEM Mini.
Now, I preordered the ATEM Mini when it was first announced so I never got the chance to think about the Pro and ISO (and I'm pretty salty that they exist in all honesty) which means I now need to work out if either of those is the way to go. I realise the ISO is much more expensive but I had often considered buying HDMI recorders separately so maybe that makes sense.
More importantly though is, do the Pro or ISO fix any of the problems that the original mini had? The big issues for me were the inconsistent latency and only being able to picture in picture from source 1. I mostly stream concerts and rehearsals for my choir so not being able to have a reliable latency means the sound can be dramatically off at times and if one source has a different latency to the others then that source is kinda useless to me. In fact, the last time I used it, there were times when the switching was lagging so much that there would be seconds between me pressing the button and the scene actually changing (though my computer was having a rough time that day for some reason so I'm willing to chalk it up to that).
My other option is a camlink pro in an enclosure where I'd have far more control over what happens to my feeds but if I can get an atem mini that doesn't have the issues then that would make life much easier for me.
Any thoughts?
My car got broken into a couple of days ago and all my production gear got stolen. Luckily, I do streams for a community choir that's banded together to get me back to where I was but I now have to make a decision about how to replace my ATEM Mini.
Now, I preordered the ATEM Mini when it was first announced so I never got the chance to think about the Pro and ISO (and I'm pretty salty that they exist in all honesty) which means I now need to work out if either of those is the way to go. I realise the ISO is much more expensive but I had often considered buying HDMI recorders separately so maybe that makes sense.
More importantly though is, do the Pro or ISO fix any of the problems that the original mini had? The big issues for me were the inconsistent latency and only being able to picture in picture from source 1. I mostly stream concerts and rehearsals for my choir so not being able to have a reliable latency means the sound can be dramatically off at times and if one source has a different latency to the others then that source is kinda useless to me. In fact, the last time I used it, there were times when the switching was lagging so much that there would be seconds between me pressing the button and the scene actually changing (though my computer was having a rough time that day for some reason so I'm willing to chalk it up to that).
My other option is a camlink pro in an enclosure where I'd have far more control over what happens to my feeds but if I can get an atem mini that doesn't have the issues then that would make life much easier for me.
Any thoughts?