The EASIEST and CHEAPEST Way to Control Your ATEM Switcher and Livestream | Companion & Stream Deck

In this video, I show you how to use Bitfocus Companion and a Stream Deck as a budget control surface for your ATEM switcher, and other devices in your church production.
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[@palmerkunkel]

Josh!! Awesome. I've watched serveral vids on Companion and Stream Deck. I get the concept but putting it all together is certainly different. I really appreciate your very eloquent communication. Very helpful. Thank you so much

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Happy to help! Let me know if you need any more specific help on anything!

[@MauriceBurke]

Man you just made that description super simple, and I won't lie, my techy brain started figuring things out. Where was this video just Saturday night? Sunday morning was... well it's over now lol

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Thanks man! Sorry it came too late 😂

[@joemonteithcinematography7477]

Love these videos man!

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Thank you! Glad they've been helpful to you!

[@Clujulmeu]

Thnak you for this tutorial! This is my passion too 🤗

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@BenReese]

Streamdeck is extremely handy and a worthy investment, but not the cheapest option. Touchportal will run on any Android or Apple device. So an old phone or tablet, or a $60 Fire tablet works great! Touchportal will control OBS, ATEM, PowerPoint, OpenLP... It's a budget-friendly Steamdeck substitute.

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Nice!

[@Magnum69]

great video! in general I don't recommend using the web buttons if your device needs access to multiple pages, as the paginator does not work (as of 3.0.1) I suggest just creating an emulator under Surfaces, and using that on your phone/tablet! That works great, but be aware that that emulator is shared between all devices using that emulator, so if you f.a. change to page 3 on one, every device using that same emulator will also go to page 3. If you don't want that behavior, just create a new emulator per device! I am using this amazing tool as a replacement for a streamdeck to control my OBS and Spotify in an online-only home production setup for basic esports events. And as I don't have a streamdeck, my phone is perfectly fine using the emulator! I just add the web page to homescreen so I can open it up as if it's an app!

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

That's good to know! Good tips!

[@CherHasan]

Thanks for the video. One question. Can you create a folder button by using companion (similar to folder button icon when using SD software) ?

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

I don't believe you can make folders, but you can create all sorts of different pages, and have buttons that jump to specific ones. So effectively the same!

[@CherHasan]

Thank you.

[@computerjantje]

I owned the atem mini pro, then the pro iso, and now the extreme pro iso. I tried the companion & stream deck and it connected well. BUT during some playing with it to get used to the stream deck, actually my atem crashed and got stuck. I had to take power off it to get it working again. That had never happened before and that is the most important thing I like to prevent. I record theatre plays and the atem recording without trouble is more important then any side equipment. So I sold my stream deck right away and ditched compagnon from the software controlling computer. No more stream deck remote control by me :) I would not advice companion connecting to the Atem if reliability is your number one priority.

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

That's definitely a bummer! Not sure why companion would have caused that though 🤔 I've had nothing but success with it! Weird!

[@milesmellenger689]

Where can I join this slack channel?

[@LikeThisReview]

Don’t you want to upgrade to Companion v2.4 or 3.0.0 stable version?

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

Honestly I didn't realize until I made this video that I needed to upgrade! Like I said, we've been using it a while and it's been rock solid, so I hadn't realized haha it's on my to-do list though!

[@joshcapatch4368]

Can you do a Raspberry Pi tutorial?

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

There's not a whole lot to what we do with it, what are you hoping to see?

[@joshcapatch4368]

@@budget-church-livestreaming the process from buying to running companion. I’ve never heard of these until your video, so I’m curious how to set it up!

[@budget-church-livestreaming]

@@joshcapatch4368 oh okay! I can definitely add that to my list of video topics, thanks for the idea!