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Kodiak vs ProVideoPlayer 3
Both are Mac-native, perpetual tools that can put fill and key on Blackmagic SDI. Kodiak is built around one program feed through an ATEM keyer, with an editor, tally automation, output monitoring, media checks, and automatic hot backup. ProVideoPlayer 3 is strongest when the job is driving many screens at once.
Updated July 2026.
Choose for the job you run
Choose Kodiak if
A native macOS editor and broadcast playout deck in one app, fill and key over dual SDI with deep ATEM automation. $200 once, perpetual, two computers.
- The show is one keyed program feed through an ATEM
- You want a backup Mac that takes air on its own
- You want the editor inside the playout deck, not a second product
- $200 for two computers beats $999 per machine
Choose ProVideoPlayer 3 if
Renewed Vision's multi-screen media server, the sibling of ProPresenter, with external fill and key on select Blackmagic devices per their chart. Mac-native and perpetual, $999 per license, one machine at a time.
- The job is many screens at once: video walls and projection mapping
- You need edge blending and mask and blend screen design
- Renewed Vision's support organization and learn library matter to you
- Time-boxed rentals fit your show-by-show work
What Kodiak adds on show night
Five safeguards built around one keyed program feed.
A live backup that takes over on its own
- Import on the primary and the backup has it
- Edit a slide or move a timer and both machines match
- The whole show stays mirrored cue for cue, media and all
- If the primary dies, the backup cuts itself to program on the ATEM within seconds
- Mid-show, the backup is already current and ready to take over
ATEM automation through the whole cue
- Tally can trigger the take
- Kodiak watches the downstream key state
- Cue end can cut the key automatically
- A dropped switcher link reconnects on its own
A full editor in the same app
- The layered slide is built and aired in one app
- The app already on program takes the edit
- No second product and no second license
Bad media caught before it airs
- Every file gets a structural check on import
- Each video is decode-scanned while the rig is idle
- Corruption is badged on the cue, off the air path
The output watched, licensing that never darks it
- A stalled SDI raises the alarm within seconds
- No license state has a path to the output
- Never-block-go-live is structural
Kodiak, up close
The parts that matter, shown instead of listed.
The editor and the deck, one app
The fix two minutes before doors happens in the same app that airs it.
Kodiak builds the layered slide and takes it from the same run sheet.
The fix goes straight from the run sheet to the SDI output.
Fluent ATEM
Tally cues the take, the downstream key is watched, and Kodiak cuts on cue end.
A dropped link reconnects on its own, mid show.
The switcher stays in the loop from take through cue end.
Live sync, then takeover
The whole show mirrored one to one, cue for cue, media and all.
If the primary dies, the backup cuts itself to air on its own.
The backup is already current when it needs to take over.
Fill and key, by the book
External keying only, and Kodiak verifies the device can key before the show.
Fill and key stay in the same playout path as the switcher automation.
The device is verified before it becomes part of the show.
NDI on a slide
Drop a network source onto a slide and it plays like any other layer.
Sources on the network show up on their own.
Network sources stay in the same run sheet as every other cue.
Built to keep the switched show on air
Kodiak is built around one keyed program feed. It edits the graphic and airs it in one app, listens to the ATEM's tally, verifies media before air, watches SDI while the show runs, and keeps a synchronized backup ready to take over. At $200 once for two computers, it brings the run sheet and its safeguards into one native Mac app. If those are the risks your room needs covered, choose Kodiak.
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One feed, done right
The trial is the full app for 21 days. No account, no card. When it ends, Kodiak keeps running free, everything but NDI, the ATEM link, and hot-backup sync.
Try Kodiak freeCompetitor capabilities verified July 2026. Check each vendor for current details.
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