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Courtney, can you kindly take us on a tour of the inputs and outputs of your Rodecaster Video S and ATEM and show how they interconnect?

ASKED BY · Paul Walhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 16 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:39:47

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Compares the RODECaster Video S (three HDMI, two USB inputs) and ATEM Mini Pro (four HDMI inputs); notes USB-C incompatibility between units and describes audio capabilities, output configurations, and limitations with multi-view display on new Go-C model.

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39:26it shows you that Elon knows how to land something. Well, I mean, we saw the chopsticks. Well, yeah, but there's not going to be any chopsticks on the moon when they go and land on the moon. But if they want to go to the moon in a Roadster, we know how to land it. Next question. I wouldn't mind having one of those for my community to work

39:47because the amount of times I'm stuck in gridlock, man, that would just be awesome. Awesome. Paul Valhus in Austin, Texas asks, Courtney, can you kindly take us on a tour of the inputs and outputs of your Rodecaster Video S and ATEM and show how they interconnect? It's Courtney's corner. Courtney. No. I don't have a camera. I don't have a camera set up, but here's what I will do.

40:12I'll show you the AI comparison of the inputs between the two. Here is the Rodecaster Video S. here on the left and the ATEM Mini Pro on the right. The RODECaster Video S, which I'm coming to you now on, has only three HDMI inputs to the four HDMI inputs on the Mini Pro. It has two USB inputs, and that's important because it says for webcams or USB-C sources,

40:38which only has one output, and it has no USB inputs on the ATEM. So I have my ATEM plugged into the RODECaster Video S, but I was disappointed thinking I would be able to take the USB-C output out of the Blackmagic ATEM and plug it into the USB-C input on the webcam input on the RODECaster. But lo and behold, it is kind of picky on the RODECaster input.

41:08And it doesn't – thank you for that, Sunil. It doesn't support the ATEM input. So I'm having to take up one of my three precious HDMI inputs to feed in the output of the ATEM Mini Pro. So bear that in mind. The USB output of the ATEM Mini won't work currently into the Rodecaster Video S. Maybe they'll fix that in the future.

41:32Of course, audio inputs are a lot better on the Rodecaster than it is. It has a good, quiet XLR inputs, which provide, you know, phantom power. So I've got my mic plugged directly into the RODECaster. Has all those great AFX processing that I never use. And this one has two HDMI outputs, and this one only has one HDMI output. So there's a quick tour of the comparison between the ATEM and the RODECaster Pro.

42:00And the Go-C, we'll go about that later. You do have to, one thing I don't like about the new Go-C is it has an HDMI multi-view output that is fixed. you know one of your HDMI outputs is set to multi-view and you can't change it you have to really see the multi-view to work with the menus because there's no LCD on the go V they go V video wherever it is there's the box there's no there's

42:27no LCD screen on it so to change anything on the menus you need there have to run the software that connects to it or you have to have the multi-view up because that's where the menus appear only in the multi-view so you can't you You have to have a monitor hooked up to it to change the settings. Next question. All right. Matt Halvorsen in Brookings, South Dakota is asking,

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