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I just import off the SD card direct onto the iPad. Edit in LumaFusion and ftp it to the agency or export direct to YouTube depending on who the end client is. Its really fast editing on it and it has enough tricks (like LUTs) if you need them.

We should probably clear town before the posse arrives but, yeah, I agree with that assessment! Here's my tongue in cheek prediction about these cameras.... There'll be a wave of young filmmakers who pick up cameras like these from the bargain bins and just get out there and make stuff with them. Great stuff. New stuff. With a new aesthetic. Completely uninhibited by sensor size, bit depth and all the other hooha that ties everyone else up in knots. It will be exactly like it was with music when kids picked up the discarded analogue synths and drum machines that everyone had written off while they chased the new digital dragons and they made a whole new type of music with it. And in 10 years time we'll all be on eBay trying to buy back Panasonic LX100s at £2K a pop

That was a staged scene I hope rather than an unfortunate incident in those woods! The Panasonic is quite a few hundred cheaper here. I picked one up for €720 in Germany a few months ago. I use it for shooting fast turnaround pre-match build up films outside the stadiums (edited on iPad using the wildly good LumaFusion by the way) and its just a great shot getter in those circumstances with absolutely zero dicking around. The issue with the 80D is that you fall down the rabbit hole again of lens selection, ND, no ibis and blah blah blah. Their XF400/405 would give you the best of both worlds with the camcorder ease of use and DPAF but the price is, well, you know....its Canon isn't it? At the risk of being flamed though.....I will say that this is an interesting little side by side and when you start adding prices up of lenses and so on...well, it makes you think really. OK, there are things that it won't ever be able to do that the other one can but, for a lot of bread and butter things that can make you some money.....mmmm

The locks are available as add ons rather than buying an entire cage and the epoxy was on the cable to the adapter, not the camera, to make it permanent at that end. Just offering a £50 SDI output option to be honest But, yes, if the output is limited to HD only then I'd have preferred to see SDI (especially for the remote control element) and convert at the monitor end if necessary if I only had HDMI but can understand they'd get more moans that way round. Probably people would be citing a conspiracy to sell more Video Assists!

Just go and re-buy that FZ2500 and get on with it. Hell of a camera for that sort of work and - truth be told - a lot of other stuff too.

I think the $145 is per month rather than per day in Jon's area.

If you are recording internally it only outputs 1080p on the HDMI port unless I misread it? That being the case if you really need SDI out purely for monitoring (or recording the 4:2:2 HD signal externally) then one of BM's micro converters will do the job for you for about £35.00 As per the BMCC etc there will be cages that will trap the HDMI in place to the camera and at £35 it won't be that much of a hardship to epoxy the other end of the HDMI cable into the converter permanently. BM cameras can be remotely controlled through SDI (they even make an SDI Arduino shield specifically for people to create their own controllers for the cameras and their ATEM switchers) but I doubt that it will be doable via the converter unfortunately so that would've been a good use for having a native SDI port for me. But, as I say, for purely monitoring purposes then the solution is there and inexpensive.

FWIW I do frequently see Amiras being used in that same NFL role at larger football (the real type ) events here in Europe. Its always single operator with assistant very much in the role of general helper (though his exact beverage dispensing duties remains unclear) and shooting what you would probably describe as cinematic ENG for want of a better description. CinENG as I'll now call it!

There are plenty of ways to get HDMI out to a wireless viewable form on a tablet or phone. BM also provide full documentation to enable developers to create their own apps for remote control. So, with this camera at least, these aren't issues.

Most Tascams are covered because they use the same remote port but I was just wondering if anyone has either of their wifi controlled models?

Yeah, at least I don't have to waste any time on Roland it would seem ! Most of the Tascam ones can be controlled by the RC10 remote so thats all covered now, the SoundDevices stuff is too and the Zoom just seems to be done through voltage change so that won't be too much of a hardship. On the camera side its going to be LANC for Sony, Canon C series and BM, wifi for Panasonic, Bluetooth for new BM and probably some sort of simplistic shutter release type for Fuji, Nikon and Canon DSLRS. I just need to make it a bit smaller than the current prototype that you see me working on here.

Unless its Cersei. No one is going to have the balls to tell Cersei to get off Snapchat

I'd have no trepidation saying I was using such a fine piece of equipment ! It uses the same USB keyboard protocol as the MixPres so it would be able to be remotely started and stopped in sync with the BM camera.

I have to say I was rooting for you for it being on the Atomos side as I'd imagine you'd get a better response time for a fix. I think Atomos is the currently the only game in town for recording DCI 4K60p as well so its not like you can switch to another recorder. Finger crossed they get back to you.

Yes, thats right. Don't worry, its absolutely completely ON topic as finding the magic numbers that start and stop recording on the Marantz is exactly what I need as I don't have access to one

Try something like this then to speed things up. Will step the voltage up every second. Change it if its too slow ________________________________________ // Zoom RC discovery using a PWM pin int PWMpin = 10; // Change this if using different pin void setup() { Serial.begin(19200); } void loop() { for (int i=0; i <= 255; i++){ analogWrite(PWMpin, i); delay(1000); //Vary this for faster stepping Serial.println(i); } }

Excellent. I don't suppose you have an arduino do you?

The Zoom F4/8 per chance?

Thanks for this. Something caught my eye from an Amazon review of the remote regarding additional functionality which I suspect might give you a clue as to why you can get it to record and pause a recording but not do a full stop. If you add a potentiometer to your circuit you will probably be able to find that missing function

Simulating the Marantz RC600 remote would be in order then. Did you use a regular 3 pole 3.5mm plug or a 4 pole as from what I can gather the RC600 uses a 4 pole ?

This was with the non responsive to Canon C100 trigger thing in mind. And the non GH4/GH5 Lumix cameras that aren't listed on their compatibility list. I don't see any BMD cameras on there either, I don't suppose you'd happen to know if they work and are just not there because they haven't officially tested them?

No problem, I can add support for the MicroBot button pusher. No, seriously, its an actual real thing!

Quality of the mic pre-amps, more channels, dual level recording, compressors and all the other reasons you'd use an external recorder? The control box is attached to the recorder and speaks to the camera wirelessly (wifi on Panasonics and Bluetooth on the Pocket 2) so keeps you cable free if you have a dedicated sound recordist or the camera is on a gimbal and you want to keep the recorder off it. Yeah, the DR70 could do with a grown ups mode where phantom power can be switched on without it reacting like you want to put a toaster in the bathtub.

That uses the RC10 remote so you are in luck and I can let you sync record/stop with your Pocket 2 when you get it. Not that us old fellas would ever need such a safety measure as we'd never forget to put the audio recorder into record would we <cough> Yep, that uses RC10 as well so it can be synced to the GX80 recording. The Saramonic is a maybe as something could be done via its headphone splitter.

And if you have "Other" please let me know here in the thread Thanks