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Attaching a monitor with HDMI or SDI

Attaching a monitor with HDMI or SDI

From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Attaching a monitor with HDMI or SDI

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- In order to better judge the picture quality of what you're recording, you may want to use an external monitor. Now, this is far more common when you're in a controlled production environment. Maybe you're shooting tabletops or you are in a studio or in the field doing interviews but with a producer and crew. Well, everybody hunched around the viewfinder or the back of the camera gets a little awkward, and all of the Blackmagic cameras have the ability to monitor externally. Now, how you do it is going to vary depending upon the particular camera. For example, on the smaller micro cameras, it's really important that you take advantage of the monitoring option available via HDMI. You can actually get that on the side of the camera there and be able to easily pull out a signal. And it's pretty important because with a camera like this, there is no viewfinder. You have nothing to actually look at. So if you don't plug in a monitor, you don't know if you're properly exposed, framed up…

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