[George Dean]

Hi Travis,

My GH4 retains zebra when either awakening from sleep mode, or when turning off and back on. Do you have the latest firmware installed?

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

….see my reply in your other thread.

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

HI Travis,

Unless I’m missing something in your question……”M” is your friend.

Set your ISO to something other than ‘A’ (auto), such as ‘200’.

Set your dial to ‘M’ (manual).

Now you can set the shutter speed and f stop to obtain the exposure you seek.

On the dial, ‘P’ is auto exposure, the camera will set the aperture and shutter speed for proper exposure. ‘A’ is aperture priority, allowing you to set the f stop for depth of field and the shutter will automatically adjust for proper exposure. ‘S’ is shutter priority, allowing you to set a specific shutter speed to stop action and the aperture will automatically adjust for proper exposure. ‘M’ allows you to manipulate both the shutter and aperture (f stop) to set the exposure of your choice (provided you take the ISO setting off ‘Auto’.

Hope this helps…..

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Hi Farhan,

Here are a few photos of my current GH4 rig. Sorry for the background, just wasn’t enough time to setup a backdrop and the table top is being used for another project, so some of the detail may be lost.

This is an Axler Cage specifically designed for the GH4. It comes with the 15mm rails. Everything to the camera is accessible including all the camera buttons, wheels, etc, as well as, battery, card and lens. I had to make the ‘L’ grip brackets, as well as, attach a couple shoe mounts, one for the Atomos Ninja Flame 4K recorder/monitor and the other for the shotgun mic. I don’t use barn doors, although the 15mm rail would allow for that, as well as, a follow focus. In a few months I may be working on a shoulder mount. The position of the side grips comes close enough to balance so handling off the tripod isn’t difficult. Rubber bands hold the remote start/stop although I don’t really need it as the top/front camera exposure button will start/stop recording and is reachable with my right index finger. Either triggers the Atomos recorder.

Of course, at least for me, this rig is far from perfect. Although the Axler cage is designed for the GH4, it will not accommodate the extended battery grip. Also, there is not enough room inside the cage to accommodate a quick release, and this is a poor design making setting up the rig a pain. If I was to leave the camera mounted in the cage (my thought when I purchased it), the lack of a quick release would not be that big of a deal. But, I find I usually keep the camera alone along with lens, etc. in a small camera bag and carry it often with me as I’m out and about. The cage, recorder, mic, tripod, ladder dolly, etc are carried in separate cases when I head for a specific shoot.

Hope this helps a little for ideas as to how you will setup your rig.

Best Regards…….George

[George Dean]

Hi Farhan,

Sorry I’m a bit late on responding. I’m in the middle of a non-photography related project (aviation), but in a few days I will post a photo of my rig and perhaps that will give you a few ideas along with the rig you posted.

Best Regards….George

[George Dean]

Hi Farhan,

I’m not familiar with your 750D or the rig you link to. However these are just some of the items I would consider when selecting a rig for your criteria…..

– Have full access to all the camera controls, as well as, able to swap batteries, and memory cards without removing the camera. Also how easy is it to swap lens, considering that will most likely mean removing (or moving out of the way) the barn doors and follow focus.

– Proper balance (both for and aft, as well as one handed) of the rig with and without everything you may or may not have attached for certain situations.

– How rigid are the attachments and easy is it to make adjustments on the fly, such as the monitor position and angle, adjusting the barn doors for certain lens, etc.

– Does the rig allow for using the swing out camera display. If using just a monitor, this might not seem important, but if using a recorder/monitor such as the Atomos Ninja Flame, the camera display will still be necessary to make menu adjustments.

– Total weight of the rig when fully configured. And, again balance of the rig is important here as well.

– When handheld will the rig sit unattended without falling over.

– How quick and easy is it to take off and put on equipment on the fly.

The rig you link appears to be extremely front heavy. In the rig you posted the photo of, there is a rear counter balance weight, as well as, the aux battery to counter the forward weight of the camera, follow focus, handles, cage, barn doors, etc. I would assume some additional attachment or DIY’ing necessary to configure this counter balance.

Considering all the gismo’s included in the rig you link, for the price, I would be suspect of the overall quality. There is an email in one of the reviews, which may be helpful to ask specific questions, if in fact this is an actual user of the rig. On the other hand there is also a review stating they sent it back. Although I take any of the reviews, good or bad, with a grain of salt.

From my experience, I have never had a rig that will do well on a tripod, handheld or run-n-gun. That may be because I just haven’t found one as yet, so I tend to DIY some of the attachments to suit my needs. Hopefully a member here that actually has one of the rigs you linked, will respond with their first hand opinion. I’m certainly not saying this rig is bad, I’m just skeptical of the quality and usefulness of the design.

Best Regards…….George

[George Dean]

The only way I know of to save the lower part of the Project Settings, is to start a new project, set the project settings you want as default, then save that as something like ‘Default Project’ to your desktop. Then whenever you start a new project load Vegas by clicking on the ‘Default Project.veg’ desktop icon, or after loading Vegas, open the ‘Default Project.veg’, then immediately save this project with an appropriate name of your project in the your projects folder, so you do not inadvertently save over the ‘Default Project’.

Maybe someone else knows a trick I don’t. If so I would also like to know.

Best Regards…..George

[George Dean]

Hi Christopher,

@ “Am I troubleshooting in the correct direction here?”

…well, I think so! My 1st thought was that your source was variable frame rate, rather than constant. As you probably know NLE’s don’t like variable frame rate, although some users do not have problems with it, or at least if they do, what they are doing with it doesn’t bother them.

I’m not familiar OBS or Bandicam, but I have read many problems user have had until they got things configured to work. Hopefully, a member here familiar with OBS will be able to determine if the OBS recording settings can be changed to reflect a more friendly format for Vegas/Movie Studio.

Best Regards…..George

[George Dean]

Hi Hessu,

Glad to hear of was of some help. Sometimes garbage gets in a projects for various reasons that Vegas doesn’t like and it hangs on until either the cached application data is deleted, or we find that one or more clips are the cause. Sometimes deleting them and adding again doesn’t fix the problem, I have had this happen once, it was just for what ever reason bad, and in this situation it was something I could re-shoot. Anyway, good to hear your project is on track again.

Best Regards…….George

[George Dean]

Hi Christopher,

It may be helpful if you posted the specifics of your source media from OBS. If you don’t have Mediainfo, it is a free program that does a good job of displaying the specifics of a video/audio file such as fps, bit rate, etc. Put Mediainfo in ‘text’ mode and post the results so members may be able to futher help. You of course, may also find something of value from the Mediainfo report that would be helpful.

Best Regards……George