John Frey
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Wow, that is a very real, powerful and persuasive answer, Joseph. Your experience with this should be expanded into a full blown article for web and/or print. Thanks for hanging out at this forum.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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The HDMI output works great for monitoring. You can turn all screen overlays off. In addition, there is a long thread on another forum describing how to process the files captured from this port with additional software. The jury is still out on that one, though. The common thought throughout the GH2 user community is – if the high bitrate hack ends up producing an even better picture quality and is also stable, do most users really even want to capture uncompressed from the HDMI port. Of course, if the hack does end up allowing for full uncompressed 1080p with no problems, then…
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Don’t know yet, but speaking of on-board recorders, this new one popped up today in a B&H email. Very interesting, indeed!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Here is a link to a great resource for DSLR folks. This will guide you to a few choices.
https://cheesycam.com/?s=lcd+monitors
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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I fully agree, Jason. My GH2’s are considerably better in all respects when compared to my old GH1’s. With an excellent EVF, live HDMI out, clean ETC crop mode, audio input settings, view-meters and the ‘tack sharp’ 14-140 and 1.7 20mm pancake lenses, all is good!
I think many early Canon buyers, with a lot of money invested in lenses, will stand on their principles and stick with Canon. Too bad, as they are missing out on a great camera.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Vegas 10d and Premiere 5.03 and 5.5 handle footage from the GH1 and GH2 just fine.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Steve, I had a similar experience. After using Keylight in AE for all of my greenscreen projects over the past 2 years, I tried some problematic footage in the newly included Ultra Key in Premiere and, voila – problem solved!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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We have 2 Panasonic HDC TM700 small format HD cameras that shoot 1080p at 60 fps. These little units have exceptional image quality and are usually on our home-built rigs along with a Panasonic GH1 DSLR shooting 720p at 60 fps (can only shoot 1080p at 24 fps). The 60 fps files play very well on both Vegas 10c and Adobe CS5. We output to a variety of disc and web-based file formats. Here is a link to the rig set for 2 cam – TM 700 for remote power zoom tracking shots and the GH1 set to wide-angle.
https://www.digitalwestvideo.com/content/field-production
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Nice video, Peter. Which lens were you using?
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Or you can build your own out of aluminum alloy stock. I built two of these for “two cameras – one operator”. DSLR gets wide shot, Panasonic TM 700 gets great 1080p for action sports. The Zooom, Pan GH1 and TM700 all have their start/stop controls on the right-hand grip. Quick release on each camera and on the bottom of the rig give maximum flexibility and quick access to a tripod mount. All for a fraction of the cost of most of the commercial “big rigs”
Here is the link: https://www.digitalwestvideo.com/content/field-production
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore