Button Mapping; Controlling Two Atem Switchers - Blackmagicdesign ATEM Television Studio Installation And Operation Manual

Using the ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Panel
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Button Mapping

Selected Button Selected Input
Button 1 Input 1
Camera 1
ATEM Broadcast Panel button mapping
Button Mapping
ATEM software and hardware control panels support button mapping so you can assign your most
important sources, especially cameras, to the most accessible buttons in the program and preview rows.
Occasional sources can be assigned to less prominent buttons. Button mapping is set independently for
each control panel so button mapping set on a software control panel will not affect the button mapping
set on a hardware control panel.
ATEM Broadcast Panel Button Mapping and Button Brightness Level
Button Mapping on ATEM Broadcast Panels is easy. On the ATEM Broadcast Panel, go to the System
Control block and press PANEL SETUP followed by BUTTON MAP. Once in the button map menu, you
will notice the System Control window shows a Button number and an Input number. Turn the knob under
Selected Button to select the desired button which you want to associate with an input. You can do the
same thing by selecting the desired button in the Select row. The buttons in the Select row correspond to
the buttons directly below them in the Preview and Program rows. Next, turn the knob under Selected Input
to set an input for the selected button. Choose another button you wish to map and repeat until all the
buttons are mapped with desired inputs.
If you want to change the brightness of the buttons, press the BUTTON LEVEL button and rotate the knob
under Brightness until the desired brightness level is seen.
Once you have configured all the button settings, press the SAVE button to save the new button map and
brightness level, or REVERT to discard changes.

Controlling Two ATEM Switchers

The ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Panel can be used to control any dual combination of the following ATEM
switchers simultaneously: ATEM 1 M/E Production Switcher, ATEM Television Studio and ATEM Production
Studio 4K models.
The M/E 1 block is the main control block and has a few more settings that can be useful for an ATEM 1
M/E Production Switcher, or ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K. To use these additional settings assign an
ATEM Production Studio 4K or 1 M/E Production Switcher to the lower block of your ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast
Panel. If both of your switchers are of the same model, it doesn't matter which one you assign to the M/E 1
and M/E 2 blocks
However if you need quick access to switch auxiliary outputs using the panel buttons, we suggest assigning
System Control M/E 2 to the ATEM Production Studio 4K models or 1 M/E Production Switcher. This will let
you take advantage of the Aux buttons which only appear in the 2 M/E block. The ATEM Television Studio
does not have Aux outputs and so doesn't use Aux buttons.