Sneak Peek: Odyssey7Q Wireless Director's Monitor Mounting Solution

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Mitch Gross

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We have a new accesory for the Odyssey7Q that enables a killer new use. Multi-Stream Viewing is included at no added cost on the Oyssey7Q. Mount on a pair of Teradek Bolt wireless video receivers and you have a two-camera Director's Monitor in the palm of your hand.

Shot a quick video on my phone while setting up for our event today at B&H Photo in NYC. Excuse the rough quality. A proper video to come soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3J01HFun8
 
Very cool! I just bought a teradek clip to work on my steadicam flyer. It's $600, and you can receive on your iPad or iPhone with their app. Limited to single cast and hdmi. as their bolt set is about $2.5k sdi

You can get a bolt receiver only for $1k, and the clip can talk to that. Since I'm about to buy the fs700 codec for my 7q, can't justify it right now, but thought I'd try and get around it for now.

got a $50 apple lightning to hdmi adapter. Clip > iPhone/ipad > adapter > oddessy hdmi in. Then I get waveform and the rest of monitoring goodness ! Even maybe record a lower qual reference track.

did it work? No. Close. Works to a normal monitor/tv but not the odessey. I can only assume it might be the iPhone is requiring hdcp. Maybe the oddessy can't display hdcp?

The video source works fine direct to hdmi without the iPhone in the middle. So I'm guessing it's just not a wrong mode.

Mitch? Hdcp?

So close to a $600 wireless solution instead of a $2.5k solution.
 
I really like that Double L Series mount for the batteries. Are there plans to make it for just the monitor or is it out already?
 
I've been doing a quad-split on the director's monitor for the past four years or so, although we feed the quad signal through a single transmitter: currently using a Decimator Quad from DIT out via Paralinx to 9" Ikan with handles, prior to that a Modulus to Camos via which was delightfully light since it had built in tuner. For a run-and-gun situation where there is no other monitors or engineering station it is more logical to do it the way the 7Q does it, but I would imagine that's a pretty significant weight for a director to handhold (I'm sure there will be a subsequent handle setup with strap), and of course the images are rather small. Myself, I would probably spec two 5.6" monitors into a dual-tuner setup for a significantly larger image--while it would be a wider rig, it would weigh the same if properly configured with a shared battery for all components. I've never really loved the wasted screen real estate of two images into a quad. Spent a lot of time thinking about rotating the monitor sideways and somehow doing the same to the images, but it turns out mathematically to not be worth it (given a display that was for example 16"x9", you'd have two side by side 8" images in a quad setup or two 9" images in the sideways configuration, plus whatever imaginary software it would take to rotate and place said images).

Regardless of all that, it's nice to have the flexibility of a two- or four-up capability built into a monitor.
 
Chris Langer said:
I really like that Double L Series mount for the batteries. Are there plans to make it for just the monitor or is it out already?
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You could always use our bracket and not put any Teradek Bolts in there. Or you can get the solutions from Ocean Video or Nebtek which offer double battery mounts as well.
 
CharlesPapert said:
I've been doing a quad-split on the director's monitor for the past four years or so, although we feed the quad signal through a single transmitter: currently using a Decimator Quad from DIT out via Paralinx to 9" Ikan with handles, prior to that a Modulus to Camos via which was delightfully light since it had built in tuner. For a run-and-gun situation where there is no other monitors or engineering station it is more logical to do it the way the 7Q does it, but I would imagine that's a pretty significant weight for a director to handhold (I'm sure there will be a subsequent handle setup with strap), and of course the images are rather small. Myself, I would probably spec two 5.6" monitors into a dual-tuner setup for a significantly larger image--while it would be a wider rig, it would weigh the same if properly configured with a shared battery for all components. I've never really loved the wasted screen real estate of two images into a quad. Spent a lot of time thinking about rotating the monitor sideways and somehow doing the same to the images, but it turns out mathematically to not be worth it (given a display that was for example 16"x9", you'd have two side by side 8" images in a quad setup or two 9" images in the sideways configuration, plus whatever imaginary software it would take to rotate and place said images).

Regardless of all that, it's nice to have the flexibility of a two- or four-up capability built into a monitor.
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Of course a crucial different here is the ability to go full screen with one image at the tap of a finger. Very convenient.
 
Mitch Gross said:
Of course a crucial different here is the ability to go full screen with one image at the tap of a finger. Very convenient.
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True, although I rarely see directors want to go to a single full frame image unless it's a one-camera-only shot (we do the same thing remotely with the wireless feed by changing router inputs in that instance). Of course some are button crazy and may well dig this. And maybe want to record takes for playback as well, for which the 7Q is obviously well-suited.

I just returned from shooting a commercial in N. Carolina and my DIT was using the 7Q for this very purpose at his station, switching inputs to his 24" reference monitor as required. He seemed quite pleased with it.
 
Using the teradek clip with the 7q. Makes sense it's lack of hdcp preventing it working. I can't see a need outside of jimmying this up anyone would ever need it. It's going to be your own content. Not some device in line injecting hdcp in its output. (Unless you ever want to plug an iPhone app in and have it display on the bigger display.
can anyone think of a use?

i tried plugging an xbox360 to the 7q to test a DVD. Xbox menu displayed beautifully. As soon as I played the DVD I got a message about no hdcp compatible link found.
No display from an appletv either, just black screen.

I have a hd fury iii, hdmi to component/VGA device people often use to let their appletv's to distribute video around their component video distribution systems in their houses. This effectively removes hdcp (which was hacked eons ago). This would work. I'd just need a component or VGA to hdmi converter in the chain.

So probably would work, but will just use the iPad and save up for a bolt receiver on the other side of the clip transmission.
 
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