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If your camera has HDMI and your atem mini pro is HDMI then you will need a converter on each end.
One way to do that is to have the following:
hdmi to sdi converter: You plug your camera into the HDMI input and then you plug an SDI cable into the output of this converter. Then you run your SDI cable back to wherever your switcher is.
Then you use an sdi to hdmi converter and plug the SDI cable into the input of the converter and an HDMI cable into the output of the converter. That HDMI cable goes into your atem mini pro input.
With that said, a few things to keep in mind:
1. Each converter requires power
2. SDI is limited based on what kind of signal you are running. While it's way better than HDMI for longer runs, there is still a limit. The limit is based on what cable you buy. If you buy a Belden 1505a cable, that can go about 300 feet with a 1080i or 720p signal. But only about 200 feet with a 1080p signal.
3. Blackmagic also just came out with some IP 2110 converters which use Cat6 cables. The converters are more expensive but the cable would be less expensive.
While blackmagic has some really inexpensive converters that will do the trick, there may be reasons why you would want a more expensive converter. For example, if you have a signal that isn't playing nicely with the atem mini pro, a Decimator generally can fix most of those types of problems...but for some people a decimator has a bit of a learning curve (it's not hard, but it's easy for people to get confused with it's menu)
Do you have other questions about your signal path?