Video monitoring and T2i

[Pete Burger]

When an HDMI cable is attached, the camera switches off the lcd-screen on the cam but will record video to the card.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Is there to view on both? So the camera-op can see the T2i LCD and the director and producer can view on a TV or video village.

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Pete Burger]

To my knowledge, there’s no way of convincing the camera not to shut off the LCD, when plugging in an HDMI cable.

[Shane Ross]

What Peter said. There is no way to do both. Further evidence that if you want a fully featured video camera, you need to get a fully featured video camera.

Shane

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[Brent Dunn]

These are still cameras that happen to shoot video. They don’t have video mirroring, which is what you want. It also crops the image and puts up your camera info around the image.

I do have an external monitor which helps for focusing.

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut Studio

HP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite

[Rusty Shackleford]

I have seen a few ways but it just adds on equipment.
I think it was hdmi out to a small black magic box that did SDI out to a tiny LCD mounted on camera for operator and another SDI out to video village. But that also needs external battery power for black magic box.

I was hoping an adapter or magic lantern would work and save money and weight.

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Dan Johnson]

I’ve read the with the HDMI to monitor set up the quality of the video on the monitor looks terrible once you hit the record button. Is that true?

[Shane Ross]

That is true. Because the HD signal then switches to a low res SD signal.

Shane

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[Ganesan Gopal]

Magic Lantern on T2i can give clean 1080i output to record to Black magic hyperdeck shuttle for instance and shuttle can mirror the input on another hdmi out (through)