Trib wrote:You have to do what you can afford. But the original message was talking about how the decision was easy because the ATEM does more. While I'll bit the first to agree the ATEM is cheaper, there is no way it does more. Either that guy didn't look enough into what a TriCaster can do or he got a really bad demo of one.
I agree. I had to work on a flight kit recently for a similar budget (we already had cameras though, JVC GY-HM790s). I looked at products from BMD, Ross Video, and NewTek. I found that the TriCaster 455 did more than what we needed, for less than I had to pay to make the BMD stuff work as seamlessly and automatically (i.e. automatically play DDRs when switched to without glue hardware, and built in CG that doesn't need an additional PC with Photoshop). The 455 can also record four streams at once, such as main program and 3 iso.
Now the TriCaster 460 is a 4 M/E mixer (up from 1 M/E on the 455). We were lucky enough to buy our 455 just before the 460 was announced so got a free upgrade (same hardware). I'm very impressed with what it can do with the price.
BTW, I don't intend to recommend a competitor's product on this forum, but I felt I needed to correct some misinformation.
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