FS5: Shooting DNG RAW in 4k. Can I get a director's monitor feed out of the FS5 still?

[Kobe24Life]

I heard this isn't possible, I need to confirm. Shooting a short film in a few months.

Thank you!

 

[patrickbaldwin]

As it stands an FS5 in 4K cannot feed it's EVF and an external monitor. I know that using an Atomos feeding it the raw output from the FS5 gets round this because I've seen it. So presumably you could take a feed from the Atomos to a directors monitor. Maybe one of their Sumo displays could cover both things for you? Allowing the feed and being the directors monitor.

 

[Nate Haustein]

Actually you can. The HDMI on the FS5 works when recording via the SDI RAW output. When you’re shooting RAW it doesn’t “count” as video output. Note that the HDMI output will be S-Log2 so you need a monitor with LUT capability.