Capturing Video And Audio Files - Blackmagicdesign ATEM Television Studio Installation And Operation Manual

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Select ATEM Television Studio from the Device menu.
Video formats are provided for popular devices as well as full
resolution, Native (Progressive) video.

Capturing Video and Audio Files

Selecting ATEM Television Studio
If you have more than one Blackmagic Design capture product installed or connected to your computer,
go to the Device menu in Media Express and select ATEM Television Studio. In the example pictured on
this page, a DeckLink card and a ATEM Television Studio are both installed in the same computer. Selecting
ATEM Television Studio will allow you to choose suitable H.264 settings for your project.
Setting Up a Project
Before capturing any clips in Media Express, you will need to select the settings for your project. Go to
Media Express>Preferences on Mac OS X or Edit>Preferences on Windows. Any settings which are grayed
out are only used with other Blackmagic Design capture products and are not required by ATEM Television
Studio.
The Project Video Format defines the frame size of the current H.264 project. Choose "Native (Progressive)"
for full resolution encoding of your video or select from a number of popular device presets including iPad
and YouTube. ATEM Television Studio automatically detects the frame rate of your video.
The Capture File Format always sets the video codec to H.264, and the file format to MP4, when using
ATEM Television Studio. Other choices appear in this menu when using other Blackmagic Design capture
products.
The Quality button provides access to the H.264 encoding settings and is only available when ATEM
Television Studio has detected a valid video input signal. We recommend leaving the maximum bit rate
unchanged from the default setting.
Set the storage location for your captured video and audio and choose whether to stop capture or playback
if dropped frames are detected.
Standard definition projects are set to the 4:3 aspect ratio unless you enable the Anamorphic SD 16:9
checkbox.
Usually video applications stop playing video if you send them to the background. If you want Media Express
to keep playing video, even if you open another application in the foreground, enable the checkbox to
"Continue playback when in the background".
The final options are not used by ATEM Television Studio as they relate to tape decks with RS-422 deck
control.