About a device that can generate custom frame guides

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deftmar

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Hello,

I would like to know if there is a device that can give custom frame guides. I shoot with my Sony a7sIII and nowadays mostly for social media content. However, my camera doesn't have this new frame guides: 1:1, 9:16, 4:5.

I wanted to buy two monitors (12-15 inches) with this feature. However the least expensive is the Atomos Sumo SE which is too much for my needs. I just really need the frame guides for viewing. I have on camera a Smallhd that has those frame guides.

Do you know a device that can give me that feature?

Thanks.
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Strips of tape could be a device.

using input and output of a smallHD it even portkeys as an intermediate monitor might be cheap?
 
A white grease pencil used to work great before I had cameras that could generate a custom box. Any art supply store will have them.
 
Before you start drawing on your monitor make sure that it has a glass screen, not all of them do!

if using tape, we use "chart tape" for this purpose which is super skinny.

If you happened to have a Blackmagic ATEM mini, you could build a graphic with appropriate framelines, load into the frame store and use the downstream keyer to lay over incoming video and then feed out the monitors. Clunky, but on the more affordable side.
 
Doug Jensen said:
A white grease pencil used to work great before I had cameras that could generate a custom box. Any art supply store will have them.
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+1. Ah yes. The "Chinagraaph" grease pencils. The film editor's essential tool of choice. Still use them on manual lenses if I need to mark two or three predetermined focus points. Have also used clear Acetate overlays with fine felt tip frame marks.

Chris Young
 
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Hello.
Sorry for my late response. Some family issues kept me away from here.
I really appreciate all your solutions. I had started with the strips of tape and grease pencil. I will try the other suggestions: Atem Mini and the Odyssey monitor.
Thank you again.
Marco.
 
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