Buying New Gear & Using it Right Away

I love it when I can put new gear to the test right away!
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[@davidmorefield]

We all know Tommy can’t resist a networking event. 😂 Congrats on the client and new lens. Like the other guy said ^ using the HDMI out of your smallhd into your ninja is a way to bypass the illogical sdi/hdmi limit with the fs7. Makes no sense! And I’ve used that Kondor Blue monitor mount for a few months now. Happy to report it is still holding tension. Looking forward to hear about the new venture with the guy conducting the testimonials.

[@Tommy_Beal]

😂😂 thx man yeahhhhh i dunno why. but the pass through works great! thats good to hear about the knodor blue mount, the folding in feature is awesome!! appreciate you bro 🙏🏻

[@DarkWaterCreatives]

Instead of trying to get 2 feeds from the camera, most monitors have an inout and and output. The output is often used for wireless, but in this case you should be able to daisey chain the feed from your small hd to the atomos moniter. SDI out of camer > SDI In to small hd > video out of small hd > video into atomos. Give it a try...on most set ups it will work.

[@Tommy_Beal]

Okay, I just tried this... and it worked perfectly!! Thank you man!!!

[@DarkWaterCreatives]

@@Tommy_Beal Yay!

[@johnwapioke5162]

Just watched and was going to suggest this.

[@Tommy_Beal]

@@johnwapioke5162 good thinking, cuz it worked!

[@ocimaging]

Allot of times the solution to our problems are fairly simple but because the idea we had to begin with is what we hoped would work; we are sometimes blind to the easy solution. Glad to hear you found a resolution.

[@Frantzis.g]

I just click in this video to watch 3 sec and then get out I ended up watching the full video !!! super fun love the way you express your pov and everything u see !!! I am subscribing !

[@Tommy_Beal]

haha thx man! love hearing that! Great to have you here bro! are you in the film industry too?

[@rivvidproductions]

Love the hustle and the hard work, Tommy! Keep showing up and inspiring! That small sandbag is clutch - can’t always throw down gaff tape on set, so I may be picking one or two of those up!

[@Tommy_Beal]

thank you andrew 🙏🏻🙏🏻 appreciate you bro. Yeahhhh it really is clutch!!

[@rafalcwiok]

Fantastic stuff dude! Love seeing this content and watching you build yourself 🤘🏻

[@Tommy_Beal]

thank you rafal 🙏🏻 appreciate you bro

[@videopromike]

Love it when Maggie steals the show. All the shots looked great! I wonder if your Small HD monitor has an output. Perhaps you can run the out to the extra monitor. I didn’t notice that your main monitor is SDI, though, that might hinder the loop out process.

[@Tommy_Beal]

hehe i love it too! thank you mike! you know, it does have hdmi out and sdi out, that would totally work! great idea!!

[@andyspacey]

great job. well done.

[@Tommy_Beal]

thank you andy 🙏🏻 appreciate you man!

[@iamnotapoet]

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[@Tommy_Beal]

haha i love that! it’s simple and non-aggressive, just giving them something else to think about, and easily add on!

[@teolopez]

A spot called filmtools in socal sells a glow in the dark marker. I used to use my keys before find out those existed.

[@Tommy_Beal]

oh really? that’s really cool! I needa look that company up! Sounds like they sell some dope products!

[@luker1ng]

LOVE! The director monitor! -- Commented to fast. Bummer it didnt work out.. But love the idea!

[@Tommy_Beal]

haha yeahhhh me too! actually this other guy in the comments "DarkWaterCreatives" helped me find a solution that works!! So this is an option now!!

[@TallyLightProductions]

I ran into the same issue with the FS7 trying to do both sdi and hdmi outputs. Without doing a whole wireless set up; the only thing I could find is if you were recording in 1080 that you can output in both sdi out and hdmi out. Kinda weird but sadly can’t work with all work flows

[@Tommy_Beal]

ahhhh okay. that is kinda weird, but it also doesn't surprise me lol

[@Osiris__Productions]

That good it all about networking

[@Tommy_Beal]

yeahhhhh no kidding! i wasn’t expecting that to happen at the end of the day lol

[@SkoopVisions]

you gotta change the output setting to output both if im not mistaken

[@Tommy_Beal]

it won’t allow you to select that unless you switch to a 1080p, then you can select it and switch between hdmi and sdi, but it still won’t let you use them both at the same time, weirdly enough 😜

[@EightyFivePhame]

Where did you purchase the used lenses from ?

[@Tommy_Beal]

Ebay! I’ve boughten 3 used lenses through Ebay now, and they’ve all worked out great!!

[@colemowery]

We use SDI and HDMI on the fs7 at work all the time. Your OSD may be the issue 🤷🏼‍♂

[@Tommy_Beal]

oooooo okay. do you have a clean feed going to your SDI and OSD details going to the little view finder?

[@colemowery]

@@Tommy_Beal Yea, we use the included VF monitor, an HDMI onboard director's monitor, and SDI out to a client display

[@Tommy_Beal]

@@colemowery ahhhh okay, maybe that’s what makes it easier on the camera. Clean feed to SDI and HDMI. That sounds like a cool setup!

[@ROBERTPOKONSKI]

Did you tell your boss that hired u on that job u where on about getting a new clienet. To me n for me what u did was a no no

[@Tommy_Beal]

How is it a no no to stay late at an event and network with people?

[@ROBERTPOKONSKI]

U r there cause of your boss that hired you. u should promote your boss comany not yourself did u share this job with him like he did 4 u. Do your job n leave. I would an have fired my guys if there stay late and network It like stealing a customer. Not a good look

[@Tommy_Beal]

@@ROBERTPOKONSKI interesting mindset you have there. The guy who hired me for this event was a freelancer and the guy I met at the event wanted a service that the other freelancer does not offer. So it would have been impossible to refer that Business to the other freelancer. The other freelancer knows about this gig I landed, he’s happy for me, and we are planning to do more projects together in the future.