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news | March 12, 2026

My Blackmagic Atem Mini Extreme wont go on air

I recently got the new wonderful Atem Mini Extreme, however when I try to go live on Vimeo i just get a flashing on-air button. Eventually the cache fills up and I'm still not on air.

Help what can I do, I've checked network connectivity, my connection to Vimeo, it was working yesterday.

1 Answer

It turns out this is to do with the order in which you plug things in.

The Atem can connect over USB or LAN and sometime you can have both plugged in like now when I wand to do a zoom call and stream to vimeo. If you plug in the Ethernet cable first it will work fine.

To fix.

  • Unplug Atem
  • Unplug Usb C
  • Plug in Ethernet cable
  • Plug in Power
  • Plug in UsbC

Should work fine now.

Ps. I found this question on Blackmagic Design forum and I tried to answer it, but you need a degree in computer mastery to even register for an account, so I gave up and went to superuser instead.

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