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laid-out LDC display at your fingertips. The jog/shuttle knob serves triple duty. A second press on the Jog button will put the knob in shuttle mode. The knob also is used to scroll through the logically-built menu hierarchy. What it does lack are fast- forward and rewind controls that are on the larger HyperDecks, but in the world of file-based recording and playback, those controls are becoming a bit passé. Like its larger siblings, it's designed to be a self-sufficient, standalone device, as either a playback source or the box that you're going to trust to capture your day's work. That being said, An RS-422 connector provides the option of traditional serial remote control while the PoE+ Ethernet connector is all you need to integrate the Studio Mini into a Blackmagic ATEM production system. The same network port now supports FTP file transfers of up to 110 Megabytes/second, thanks to the 7.1 update. With its diverse recording formats, you can go straight from the Mini to popular streaming services as well as your post production setup. The compact size comes from the fact that it uses two, vertically-mounted SD cards rather than the full-size HyperDeck's. Though you'll want to make sure to find cards that qualify for the Studio Mini's needed read and write speeds (depending on record and playback format), it's still a lot less expensive than maintaining a stable of