Projection Product Of The Year, Video Switcher: Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio

Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio is a live production switcher that includes a broadcast-quality H.264 encoder. That boils down to having multi-camera production and broadcast encoding for the Internet all-in-one, simultaneously, and in realtime, for what one of our judges calls “a paradigm-busting price.” The judges praised the ATEM Television Studio for giving a leg up to productions and events that can’t handle the costs of a professional multi-camera production. “With a buy-in at under a $1,000 for the base model and wonderful scalability and options for tactile surface control, it’s made appearances on some huge gigs already this year as an accessory to the server signal switch side in broadcast,” says another judge.