How To Play Videos On ATEM Mini | OBS Setup + Tips

Easy method for playing recorded videos into the Blackmagic ATEM Mini (Pro) by using OBS Studio (v26). Use it to bring images, videos, and more into your ATEM switcher for your live streams.

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[AlexPettitt]

Hope you find this video useful! On a side note, what do we think of the long hair... keep or get rid? 😅

[poisonallenphotography]

You are amazing! I have been recruited to do live-streaming at my church and had no idea how to put together a really aesthetic experience for our online viewers. Watching your videos have helped me so much! We even purchased the Mars 400 S transmitters because of a video I watched of you talking about them! I appreciate what you do for people like me, needing help with these things. Thank you so 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[jiveaces]

You have by far the clearest and best tutorials for the Atems, thank you!

[tfechtenburg]

I have build a Raspberry Pi for the same purpose, playing video files, and for transitions on my ATEM Mini Pro.

I use the OMXPlayer, from a command line.

Playback is controlled via Companion, and a Stream Deck, and will also do the switching inputs automatically 😀

It’s a bit more advanced to setup, but once it is done, you have a very compact, and stable solution.

The same Raspberry Pi is also used as a Streaming Brigde (like the Blacmagic version), so other ATEMs can stream to my device.

Thanks for this great video 👍

[landonfriesen]

@7:00 One tip to save clicks when setting all your sources/VTs to 'Monitor and Output' -
Instead of opening each source separately, uncheck "Active Sources Only" in the lower left corner of Advanced Audio Properties to show all the sources in your scene collection

[erich]

This is BRILLIANT! I was going to create a fake Hyperdeck on the Raspberry Pi using PlayoutBee, which I still might do, but I literally just set this up in OBS with 3 videos and used Companion to control the scenes from my phone and it was completely setup in less than 10 minutes and worked perfectly. SO AWESOME.

[stowgood]

Would like to see more on ATEM+OBS this was really cool. I'd also be interested to see how you could do action replay.

[ceciliahuston]

Just wanted you to know that we struggled for many hours with getting our church service audio to come through on live stream until we went through OBS first. The mixer went into the ATEM Mini, then to the laptop, and the audio was baaaddd. The voice audio wasn't as bad, but the organ music was terrible. Our tech guy that set it all up (hired in) was pulling his hair out, since in person everything sounded great. Even tried adjusting the audio in the ATEM, that didn't help. But when we ran the live stream through the OBS first, the sound was fixed! Thanks for your great videos!

[filmtrek]

Alex, you made it so easy to understand, and actually make videos that solve the problem in a clear concise fashion....ty

[jbocaneg]

This was fantastic and very informative. I am a one man band and I am trying to get my more autonomous church streaming off the ground. I learned lots by just watching your video. Thank you.

[tooshmart]

So technically I
-also add more inputs through to the atem mini through OBS and other capture cards connected to OBS
-Pre-switch a single input of the atem mini with OBS
-For example if I have two capture cards plus the Atem Mini, I can add the two capture cards to OBS, then add OBS to the Atem mini through an hdmi input.
-Great vid, thanks

[ctrlartdel]

You are the man! Hope youre doing well! I subscribed about two or three years ago when I got my first atem and 6kpro and binge watched you! About to do it again. I want to use way too much stuff../.
I have a ATem pro iso, a. Mini pro, and Elgato Stream Deck card, and all kinds of stream decks. I want this to be my profession. I may need some personal consulting soon. This/Streaming/recording has always been the last step! Thank you so much! You are a great teacher!

[QuicksilverSG]

On the Mac, there's a video server app called Mitti, which can be configured to emulate a HyperDeck Studio player. That gives you the unique ability to launch video playback from the ATEM Software Control app, or via a macro button programmed on an ATEM Mini. The main drawback to Mitti is the licensing fee, but it's worth it for those who prefer to use hardware controllers rather than a mouse.

[kjvisual]

Wow thank you! I just started using OBS this week. The audio routing didn't make sense. Your advice to exit OBS after changing the a sources audio to mon/out w changes everything.

This video is encouraging. Now I am considering using another copy of OBS on another computer exclusively for media playback via NDI. I want to see alpha channel over NDI in action.

Keep making helpful videos.

[joshkleine]

Would love to see a video of the advanced one button press on the switcher to play the scenes as you mentioned. That would be awesome!

[joehannigan]

This is fantastic; what a great help this video was for me, just getting started with playing videos via our ATEM mini pro. Just signed up to subscribe for more videos, keep them coming, great job!

[davidzwisohn]

Hi Alex …
I truly appreciate your videos as they’re clear and helpful!

I’m an online music teacher, and over the past few years, I’ve had inconsistencies and some difficulties live streaming videos of my students’ seasonal performances.

I’d like to NOW stream directly (via Ethernet) into a platform that’s accessible by ANYONE (ie NOT Facebook LIVE), but without a subscription service, as I’ve used before (with mixed results)

If possible, could you verify if the following livestream “signal path” seems correct:

1. OBS (on a MacBook) accesses video file(s) that reside on the same MacBook
2. Video and Audio (configured as you described) are sent out of OBS, via HDMI to the ATEM mini
3. ATEM mini is connected via Ethernet to a router (ATEM webcam out is disconnected from the desktop Mac I use for interactive classes)
4. Streaming platform of choice then accesses the ATEM mini, ie video files, live cameras, live audio

I suppose that monitoring the livestream broadcast should be from another device (not the same MacBook)

THANKS!

[FAMEAcademyNY]

This was an awesome class! Thanks. I was struggling and fumbling when playing multiple videos back to back... This helped a lot... I need to learn ALL the things OBS is good for!

[iSpike]

Well done mate 👍🏻 I’ve just purchased the ATEM Mini (currently waiting for it to arrive). Great tips/tricks thank You for sharing 👌🏻😎

[Calvarydima]

yes ! the button stuff -deserves audience