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What cameras do you use for the theater shows?

@@AmazeStudios 2 SONY FS5M2s, SONY A7C, and a Canon Vixia

The SD8 just came out literally months ago...

Tough to say. The last time Blackmagic did a sale (several years ago) they didn't replace any of the products any time soon after the sale was over.

Dear God let them upgrade the audio i/o please

I love Sweetwater! They're so good to work with. I'll see if they'll accept me as an affiliate.

I post behind-the-scenes videos for my RU-vid Members and Patreon supporters whenever I can.

Can you explain in a little more detail what you want to accomplish?

Back in the day, I used a Video distributor amplifier to send main program feeds to several tv monitors for sporting events, beauty pageants, projectors, large LED displays, track and field etc…basically just to run multiple program feeds throughout the event….I would like that capability within a rack unit also. Thanks for your suggestions in advance. 👍🏾

We still have video distribution amplifiers today, but they can take a different form than they used to. Since the output of your ATEM Mini is HDMI, and HDMI itself doesn't work over long distances, you'll want to use another signal type for distribution. You could go SDI -- just convert HDMI to SDI then use an SDI distribution amplifier to send that to those displays and convert back to HDMI at the display. That does require that each cable run be separate (you can't really just "split" an SDI signal, though you could regenerate it at each display). But it results in basically zero latency and a perfect signal. There are options to distribute HDMI over CAT-5 cables, or even IP networks. Though those do tend to add a lot of latency and those based on IP often reduce the signal quality quite a lot. I haven't found one of those that I like very much. Another option is to take the HDMI output of your switcher and use an ATSC encoder/modulator to distribute it over a cable TV-style coax system. This used to be really expensive, but it isn't so much any longer. This will result in pretty significant latency, though, so carefully consider whether that matters to you.

Thank you for the advice and suggestions. What brand/ products would recommend if I go the SDI route (your first suggestion)?

You can just get some Blackmagic Design converters. The Micro Converter 3G products will work just fine for that. djp.li/microh2s3g and djp.li/micros2h3g and djp.li/bidi3g

What happens when you click it? I just verified that it's working from here

@@djp_video I see your redirect page and when clicking the Adorama button, I get a Page doesn't exist error. Perhaps it's a DNS problém on my side?

Most of us just handle audio completely separate of the video, not even bothering with embedded audio. The lack of a proper control surface means that the built-in audio functions of the ATEMs are kind of worthless to many of us.

@@djp_video In our case, shooting a street car race, taking audio locally from each camera points and using SDI to transport it to the switcher was a good simple way to do it. But I agree, that most of the time, audio is handled completely separate, so it is not as bad of an issue. But my second point is, that implementing the AES10 / MADI (sorry for confusing with AES3id, that is only 2channel, my mistake) so simple, it should have been done on all ATEMs since the beginning. They already de-embed the audio from all inputs and a AES10 encoder shall be very trivial to do, at almost no cost extra. Already more then enough FPGA horsepower and requiring just to add a coax cable driver with a BNC.