Atomos Shogun 7 Switching Demo
By Adam Noyes
Atomos CEO Jeromy Young shows you all the features of the new Asynchronous switching and multi-channel recording upgrade for the Atomos Shogun 7 production monitor/recorder/switcher.
AtomOS 10.4 for Shogun 7 turns it into the simplest way to record and switch multi-camera events, being intuitive, extremely portable and highly cost-effective.
Up to five 1080p60 streams can be recorded simultaneously – four separate ISOs and the program out to the same SSD drive in Apple ProRes or Avid DNx formats. This can now be done without the need to synchronize the cameras together using genlock. The channels can be switched in real-time at the touch of the screen and the resulting switched output recorded to the separate fifth channel, as well as output on either HDMI or HD-SDI. Each switch also signals a metadata cut/edit point that the Sumo 19 writes to the disk as a Final Cut XML file. The ISOs can subsequently be brought directly into your Final Cut Pro X timeline with the edits already in place, all ready for fine-tuning or re-editing. You can even configure the touchscreen to respond differently to single and double taps, giving the choice between a hard cut or a dissolve being written into the XML file. This will, in turn, tell the NLE which transition type it should use.