Re: Interface the ATEM Camera Converter to an RTS System

The ATEM Camera Converter has a built-in intercom system, so an RTS (or Clearcom, et.al.) are not needed at the camera end(s).

However, if you want to interconnect the ATEM system to the rest of the production team, you need the kind of interface Mr. Pullen is asking about.

The ATEM system appears to use a digital stream like AES3 (or SPDIF?) for each direction of the intercom system (judging by the recommended interconnection diagrams.) However, it doesn't seem terribly likely that it is a conventional/compatible AES or SPDIF data format since it is only one channel (and perhaps lower bit-rate as well since it is only intercom and not program audio).

It would appear that a digital-to-analog conversion for the outgoing audio and analog-to-digital conversion for incoming audio would be required. Unless somebody reverse-engineers the intercom digital data stream, it seems to me that it would be easiest to simply use an additional Camera Converter and interface the headset signals into a corresponding RTS (or Clearcom) unit. Of course, that would mean dedicating an ATEM Camera Converter and an intercom station to the task of interconnection.