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Rachel Gray

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control surface than you normally see. But box is pretty much the whole deal. Attach a laptop, a display and that’s it. There are no fly-packs of rack mounted black boxes to haul out of trucks. Before tackling the complex mosaic of controls on the top, you can get a good introduction by looking at the Mini Extreme from an engineer’s perspective: the rear panel. Magically Simple Setup From this angle, you’ll learn that your cabling setups are going to be gloriously simple. On the far left is a pure stroke of genius: a threaded power connector. (Anyone who’s been doing this for a while will immediately see the value in that. If not, you’ll find out someday.) Beside that is an RJ-45 socket to attach the Mini Extreme to any other Blackmagic components that are part of your kit. Nearly all of Blackmagic Design’s production equipment uses standard TCP/IP ethernet for communications and control, the Mini Pro series goes a step further with direct hardware streaming to the internet. There are two, very versatile USB-C ports that can connect to other streaming devices, including smart phones and tablets, and will look like a simple webcam output to any computer or laptop. That means, you can add live-switched, multi-camera production values to your humble Zoom meeting. The first two of the ten HDMI connectors on the back are outputs. What goes into these is selectable, but generally one will be your program output and the other will be the Multiview display. After that are the eight HDMI inputs for whatever sources you have on hand. Finally, there are two 1/8” mic jacks and a stereo headphone jack for monitoring.

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