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change key fills and sources while you’re live. Along with the keys and DVEs, there’s a picture-in-picture panel just below, for another set of six inserts you can use without tying up your DVEs. Beside those are controls for a set of basic wipes and digital push and slide transitions. As with the huge panels in ESPN’s trucks, if you want to make the most of virtually any ATEM, it helps to master macros, the little command strings you can pre-program to do amazing things with a button-press. To be fair, it can take a bit of time to learn the ins and outs and there are still no tools beyond editing XML to fix and fine-tune them. We find that building them with pencil and paper first helps. Expanded Multiview With all the Mini Extreme can do, it seems like you would need a truck-size wall of displays to keep an eye on things. To help with that, the Mini Extreme has expanded the Multiview display to 16 panels. This not only gives you room for all of your inputs and outputs, it can include graphic sources, digital VU meters, effects previews and the new performance and data monitoring for the built-in streaming hardware. The accompanying software gives you full, video-wall-like control over the display layout and labeling. That software also, of course, lets you save your switcher setup, Media Pool graphics, and macros to your computer.