Xtreemtec wrote:Or forget about the whole HDMI control as it is limited to the Mini's only!! And get a TVS HD and Micro studio cameras which are even cheaper then the Pocket 4K. And also do 4K SDI OUTPUT instead of HD only..
Please don't make assumptions about out recording situation.
Budget is close to 0. All crew are unpaid volunteers. However we do have time for software and hardware development as long as it's interesting.
I already, privately own the Pocket 4K and a GH5 and some Atomos recorders. Others will chip in with multiple GH5, GH4R and a Micro Cinema Camera.
I'll privately rent a Pocket 6K.
We do a stage setup with rented cables installed by the stage rental company.
(HDMI Fiber is not a rentable option and our multiview as well as the matrix switch are SDI anyway)
We have human camera operators (talkback via the 3rd generation of our self developed interkoms).
Nobody offers Micro Studio for rental. They would also make no sense to own privately as they can't be used outside the yearly event.
Apart from doing our own offline 6K/4K BM-Raw and UHD ProRes422HQ recording
we also provide our 1080p25 signals to the a live video crew that uses an SDI ATEM.
It would have been great to integrate better and match black levels+exposure+WB for the signals we provide to them. At least for the Blackmagic cameras. (Since our recordings are camera-internal, they are nearly uneffected.)
If the ATEMs would provide the camera control commands in their Ethernet protocoll,
I could develop something that translates that to BLE commands for the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and 6K. But as far as I could find out, they do not and the protocol implementation is very fragile. Often crashing the ATEM due to missing input checks instead of ignoring a command when people develop their own surfaces.