Re: Interface the ATEM Camera Converter to an RTS System

I found this thread very entertaining. Do you know why people want to buy the ATEM Camera Converter? - BECAUSE IT DOESNT COST A LOT OF MONEY. So you are offering wonderful solutions to this issue (I have a perfectly working older wired RTS system, and I don't want to keep spending all that money, so we are looking at the ATEM Camera Converter), and you guys are offering solutions from Telecast and Studio-Tech that cost a fortune.

So the real answer is NO, there is no way to quickly, and cheaply get your RTS system to work with the ATEM Camera Converter. Because as Mark just posted in his last paragraph, if function was the only concern here, you would just buy the Telecast Commlink, and be done with it.

I just did another ATEM switcher install for a big company, and spec'ed out a ClearCom intercom (wired) for their small studio, and they almost passed out when they saw the prices for the base station, beltpacks, and IFB's that they needed. Blackmagic is changing the perspective of how much things cost - and when you put in something - like a full featured intercom system - people are ready to pass out. Who knows, maybe Blackmagic will buy Telex in 2013, and we will have an 8 station intercom, compatible with the ATEM Camera converter for $1500 bucks.

Bob Zelin