Really useful tip for FX3/30 with external monitor

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stewhem

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Just had to pass on this simple tip to any FX3/30 users who use an external monitor.

I just bought an FX3 as a B cam and a Shinobi as the camera LCD screen is too small to be useful. (For some situations I prefer a monitor to an EVF.) Great, except you can’t see both the LCD and the external monitor at the same time. Which, along with a couple of other irritations, means you lose the ability to select a tracking point. Or so I thought…

Turns out you can get both on at the same time. I stumbled over this setting by chance on Jeremy E. Grayson’s YT video and it’s made my use of the FX3 so much better. To be fair it’s also in the manual but I (and probably quite a few others) missed it.

The setting is: Setup/external output/HDMI/info display/OFF. And that’s it. Bingo. Camera’s LCD is on with all its info, plus tracking, and you have a nice clean monitor screen showing just the scene you’re recording.

This is confirmed in the manual: “Does not display the shooting information on the TV. Only the recorded image is displayed on the TV, while the recorded image and shooting information are displayed on the camera’s monitor.”

Thanks Jeremy.
 
This is actually called a "clean" output and at one point was a very desired feature but almost all cameras now have had it by default in the last 3-4-5 years, def very useful, especially for composition.
 
Yes, I was thrown as with my FX6 and 9 you don't have to find an obscure setting to get this setup. And maybe it's unfair to call it an obscure setting? Maybe I should just grow a little more patience and check my manuals more thoroughly.
 
stewhem said:
Just had to pass on this simple tip to any FX3/30 users who use an external monitor.

The setting is: Setup/external output/HDMI/info display/OFF. And that's it. Bingo. The camera's LCD is on with all its info, plus tracking, and you have a nice clean monitor screen showing just the scene you are recording.
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Yes, we discovered this a while back. This also appears to be the same on all the current A7 series cams. Useful. We also discovered how to get continuous playback of a series of clips one after the other with a clean output. As it was a pain having to select and playback one clip at a time when feeding footage back to the network over a LiveU. Sony reckoned it couldn't be done, but it can. It's not documented. Maybe the same with the FX3/30s.

Chris Young
 
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