John Thorborg wrote:I found some sort of a solution for now by using a BM Micro HDMI to SDI 3G adapter and an old UltraStudio Express.
Finally I get the right video levels within Zoom, OBS, and also BM Media Express.
If I go straight from Atem's HDMI out to UltraStudio HDMI in I get also the clipped blacks.
Disadvantage, you will loose the preview out this way, hopefully BM will find a solution for a proper USB-C camera out.
Hey, John.
Appreciate the info.
That's strange about the clipped blacks. I'm sitting in the studio as we speak testing with the ATEM HDMI out plugged directly into a dedicated computer monitor (i.e. not attached to anything but the ATEM), and the USB-C output coming up on my computer's main monitor in Windows' Camera app. The contrast problem is displayed in the USB-C output but the direct HDMI out shows a normal image, the same as I see on my Sony's viewfinder.
I don't have any experience with industry standard levels, so I can't speak intelligently about the legal safe limit stuff that the ATEM is putting out via the USB-C as mentioned by others, but I wonder if your UltraStudio in is also somehow at odds with the standard that the ATEM is putting out, hence the crushed blacks?
The ATEM's primary mission is to get my Sony into the computer as a webcam, a task at which it fails in embarrassing magnitude given the normal pro quality of BMD gear. It makes me wonder if the engineers are so immersed in pro video standards that they just don't take something like the consumer level nature of computer webcams seriously enough to implement properly, i.e. "if it isn't pro, it's not important enough to worry about."
I'm trying very hard to keep the ATEM as there's so much to like, so I'm considering piping the HDMI out of the ATEM into a capture card if that'll get the camera quality into the webcam. In fact, I was in the process of ordering an ATEM Mini Pro to get the four up preview before I discovered the webcam output problem.
If I use the HDMI out instead of the USB-C on the Pro, do I lose the preview?