scotmacman wrote:David_Anderson wrote:I agree with you that the new ATEM Mini Pro will help with the encoding part however the original question referred to gear he already had with (9) SDI inputs. The ATEM Mini will not be the correct solution.
scotmacman wrote:From the Blackmagic Design product range, the new ATEM Mini Pro will help you here. It's technically a switcher too, like your 1 M/E, but it has an h,264 encoder and live streaming engine built it and can stream direct to the streaming service provider of your choice.
There are other hardware products that also do this, but the ATEM Mini Pro is very competitively priced for this facility.
I think we all agree that the OP will certainly need another piece of kit to achieve their aim of live-streaming from their ATEM 1 M/E 4K. However, the ATEM Mini Pro still remains a viable solution to their problem. The ATEM 1M/E 4K offers an HDMI PGM OUT, which can be connected to the ATEM Mini Pro (as its sole input) and the ATEM Mini Pro will then encode and stream that signal out to the world. In this respect, we ignore its function as a Switcher, and merely use it as an encoder/streamer. It is competitively priced (and indeed, more flexible in some regards) compared to the Teradek Vidiu, Matrox Monarch, Datavideo NVS-30 et. al. There are, of course, also software-based solutions when paired with a capture card — but that's two pieces of kit to acquire then!
A few other considerations in regards to stream encoder would include encoding transport (SRT, RTMP, RTMPS, other), encoding format (H.264, HEVC/ H.265, other), and bit rate capabilities, not to mention resolution (720p vs 1080 vs 4k). BM, while offering some streaming options via the Web Presenter and new ATEM Mini Pro, doesn’t have the widest range of streaming options and support out there, so you may need to consider alternate encoding solutions, either software-based (which, of course, would required one to have a computer as well as a video card to get your program feed into it) or hardware-based, such as the Teradek Cube, LiveU Solo, Wowza Clearcaster, Haivision Makito X, and many others (several of which have been mentioned in other posts).
In short, there are a lot of options for leveraging your 1 M/E for live streaming, all of which simply require sending your program feed to an external stream encoder.
PS: As a personal aside, I prefer hardware encoders as in my experience, they have been more reliable than software encoders and you don’t have the threat of having some other software application on your computer interfering with your streaming software, either by taking up system resources or starting an unwanted and untimely network process.