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A bit more info here from the Newsshooter feature about it. https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/05/07/use-your-shuttlexpress-controller-with-lumafusion/

In screen settings in the setup menu, go into PREVIEW EXP./WB IN MANUAL MODE and you can switch the exposure preview off.

I'm now wondering whether the sensor cleaning frenzy I went on a few weeks ago was actually just out of focus birds in the images

Professional sports events are heavily rights restricted so the use of images is limited strictly to genuine editorial use only.

Most of Panasonic's 4K cameras even the consumer ones also have a pretty neat live crop mode to fake zoom and movement. The downside is that they are done in only two preset time periods so extending that out to a joystick control for manual operation would be a great option or even just making the time period fully adjustable would probably make it far more usable.

The implementation costs are virtually free compared to even a couple of years ago and the possibilities with the flexibility it offers are amazing for low cost broadcasting. Even things like the app versions that turn your smartphone into an NDI camera could be a game changer for on the spot remote reporting. What it can do inside something like vMix is incredible particularly when you consider you can have this sort of capability on a laptop. When you consider the extent of the patchbays, switches and interfacing you'd need just to handle the input and output source routing that he has at his disposal in this video it is pretty mind blowing to old gits like us! Then when you add in a Vset3D system, which also uses NDI for its inputs and outputs, on the same network you can be integrating a realtime virtual set system for the price of another gaming computer and the $350 price of the software.

As NDI is a compressed format, its role for most people on here will primarily be for wireless monitoring. The purpose of NDI is a low loss, low latency method of distributing signals within a network infrastructure and it can handle anything up to 4K60p with latency of 1 frame. Once you have encoded the signal (and standalone Newtek HDMI>NDI converters are around $450) and it is inside your network it can be displayed and/or processed by any device on the network capable of reading it as though it was a physical connection. For our monitoring application that means that we can display it on a mobile device, a laptop or a dedicated monitor in the case of the Ninja V or multiple combinations. The distance over which we can monitor the signal from our camera is only limited by our network infrastructure. That this can also extend to cloud based NDI solutions means that that reach can as easily be global as it is local. The real power of NDI is for live production where you can cheaply and easily create multi camera and multi source productions without the need for big hardware switchers and complex infrastructure for bringing in cameras and remote sources. For example, software switcher/production systems such as vMix (which people typically run on gaming laptops for portability) have plug-ins that see and use any NDI source on the network it is attached to as though it was a physical input so now you aren't limited to how many cameras you can use by the physical USB/Lightning ports you can attach converters to. You also aren't limited by how you have to use those inputs either in terms of cable length as once you have converted the camera signal into NDI at the camera end then you can run the signal without loss to the other side of the world if you want to. And this capability is being used with cloud NDI to remotely produce multi camera events from hundreds of miles away without huge trucks in the stadium car park or satellite links. NDI can also be used as an output format for computers so that these can be used as sources for graphics etc without having to use scan converters and again can be brought in from anywhere in the world in broadcast quality with minimal latency. NDI can also be used as an input/output format for Skype so remote guests can be brought into shows directly. So, whilst wireless monitoring is one application of NDI, it really is the tip of the iceberg of what it can do A bit more of a primer here from Epiphan who incorporate it into their producta. https://www.epiphan.com/blog/ndi-ndihx-network-video-production

I'll do a post about it next week. There is a version of it for the Pocket 4K and one for Panasonic.

As he's using electronic lenses on it, what he really needs is a wireless controller that does fine and coarse focus control, stores and transitions between focus points, controls the aperture as well as Record Start/Stop and mounts on one of the rails. I've been using one for a couple of days now and its quite good.

Highlight controls can be, the histogram is part of the cyclic Disp button press sequence. Its a bit less cluttered than that one, which I'm guessing is a Panasonic one.

It has histogram and zebras in video mode

I suppose it depends on the individual. For me personally, having the controller under the right hand for transport control, clip marking and inserting is far more natural than dragging on a screen. The frame advance with the jog wheel and the jump to next/previous clips are a big win as are the shuttle and play/pause controls because nything that stops me accidentally touching the wrong part of the screen and dragging a clip instead of moving round the timeline counts as a big win! You can see from the reaction to the new BM keyboard (if you ignore the price ) combined with the new Clip page that a combination of tactile surface and simplified interface can be a productivity win and I kind of see this with LumaFusion as being in the same vein. As an FYI, here is the actual prototype unit with its default key map, although this will be user definable in the production version. I have finally run out of the electric blue filament for my 3D printer so I was able to print this one in black!

From what I understand it will be somewhere roughly halfway between those two figures. My point really isn't about the VLOG but the audio interface, as when someone has paid £300 for that to improve their audio I think that it would be appropriate to include the uncompressed audio upgrade in with that too. It seems a bit odd that the premium audio accessory for a camera should then still have to rely on a picture related upgrade to actually realise its potential. As the camera can detect that the DMW XLR1 is attached then it could easily act as a dongle just to enable the uncompressed audio. Maybe it does? Has anyone got and S1 and DMW XLR1 that they can verify that with?

I'd have thought it more logical, though no less forgivable, if Panasonic would've done the snide unlock the uncompressed audio bullshit if you use the DMW-XLR1 adapter rather than bundling it with VLOG. I think I'd be pissed off to have sprung £300 to improve the audio on the way in to the camera to discover that its still being nobbled inside unless I buy an upgrade for the picture profile.

And is if by magic, a mobile NDI viewing app shows up the very next day ! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ndi-monitor/id1196221514?ls=1&mt=8

Canon : "Hold my beer...."

Thanks both. There is certainly an aspect of it seeming counter intuitive to have hardware control of a touch designed product ! What I'm seeing is more and more people, like myself for the most part actually, using LumaFusion as not just their favoured editor for on the road but also when they're not so this is very much a nod at that. I think with version 2.0, this will actually increase too with people using it as their main editor for a lot of work and with xml export even using it as a starting point for cuts editing for bigger projects. I'm also seeing LumaFusion appearing more frequently in press rooms at events I'm covering with most people, like myself, using keyboards so I suppose thats a hybrid portable studio use case. Having said that, the shuttle controller is actually reasonably small and all bias aside I find it a very intuitive combo combined with the touch control. I actually used it to edit the little video above so I can confirm it does last a project without crashing or deleting your files

Based on the backlash I've seen this week, I would find out which one they were using on Game Of Thrones and then not buy that one

As a by-product of the JSC-1 interface that I have just completed for using with LumaFusion, it is also supported inside 3C to enable wireless lens and aperture control from a ShuttleXpress. The JSC-1 takes the USB from the ShuttleXpress and passes it wirelessly to 3C using Bluetooth LE. The inner wheel controls fine focus and the outer wheel coarse focus. The two outer buttons control aperture, the next two in control transition/snap focus to Memory Position A and B respectively and the centre button activates the one shot AF. The left outer button acts as a shift control to enable the writing of focus Memory Position A and B when used with the inner two buttons and as a Rec/Stop control with the centre button. It can be used handheld as here if on a tripod or being used by an assistant but we will be making a mount to mount it and the interface for rails as per a standard follow focus. Here is the interface in use with LumaFusion and I'll put something together with the Pocket4K if anyone is interested.

Thanks for the feedback. Here is a sneak peek at what I've just finished developing. It is an interface that you plug the Contour Shuttle devices into which then enables you to use them via Bluetooth LE in LumaFusion to control it.

It can actually control the Panasonic. And the Pocket 4K. Unless Apple drop bluetooth support from the next generation of iPads then it is pretty safe from being obsolete for a while. Which keyboard shortcuts are you using in LumaFusion ?

It has actually featured on here before a couple of months ago as it was featured on Newsshooter IIRC. The interest is in adding it to cameras that have no integral wifi transmission capability to an app (i.e. the Pocket4K) or for the Fuji cameras where you can have 4K and you can have wifi transmission to an app just not at the same time. I'm interested in it for both really but primarily the Pocket4K so I can integrate it into 3C as the latency looks better than current bulkier ones I've been developing with. Not to divert the thread but I think the real future for this stuff is NDI to be honest though and the new Newtek versions are far more compact than the original spark and can do 4K. Atomos having the cheap NDI module for the Ninja V is a big deal as you can record/monitor from the HDMI port and have the NDI version streamed directly onward from there. Panasonic have integrated NDI into one of their new compact pro camcorders (CX350) and it is going to be the first of many. What it currently lacks is a viewer app for mobile devices (although Newtek do an app that turns your device into an NDI camera which is actually pretty good) which will no doubt come over time but, again, this is where the Ninja V comes into it as of course it can also be used as an NDI viewer.

The first is do you use keyboard shortcuts. The second is which ones. The third is would you like a bluetooth jog/shuttle controller for it........

Deep Trench Isolation sounds like some sort of PTSD from the First World War. I believe Ebrahim used a Pyramid Surface Diffractor to collect his money from Western Union without ID.

I doubt they will too for some time at least. This is all about Sigma going after the T/TL/TL2/CL owners as that is a big pool that have thus far not exactly been well furnished with affordable lenses. By which I mean, there haven't been any at all. As these will be newly released L mount lens then my understanding is that it won't be locked out (as the Panasonic L mount lenses work now on Leica) so Leica have to play the game but it is, currently at least, the adapter that is the line in the sand for them as that enables non-alliance lenses such as Canon etc to be used.