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HDMI output on the G7

Started Jun 26, 2015 | Questions thread
RickPick
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Re: HDMI output on the G7

Zxen wrote:

I am setting up my permanent green screen studio at home. I will be using a combination of lapel and shotgun mics on boom tripods, which will all be plugged into the mic input of my Lumix G7. I have a 4K 55 inch TV, which I was HOPING to watch live from the green screen, as I will be the only person who ever visits this room, but now I will have to simply trust that I'm in focus and framed as well as I can squint to see the tiny flip out screen during live filming. No external filming monitor capability?!!!

Let's assume that there's no live external monitoring possible. I'm about to buy a micro HDMI to HDMI cable to plug my camera into my 4K TV. Obviously to watch playback in 4K I will need an HDMI 2.0 cable rather than an old HDMI 1.4 cable. Now please tell me: That micro HDMI output on the side of the camera IS, in fact, HDMI 2.0 right? Otherwise I'll smash the cheap POS against the wall as hard as I can right now. How else could I record onto a Hard Drive if I wanted to bypass a little 29 minute SD card?!

As for audio, the audio that's recorded into my camera is surely going to be played back via the TV, right? I mean the POS camera I just bought has absolutely ZERO headphone outputs, which basically makes it useless as a video camera, but we're all trying to save a bit of money here, right?

Please tell me that the micro HDMI cable is version 2.0 an sends sound signals and can at least send 4K video onto a recording Hard Drive in real time...

Well, I never bought the G7 so I can't tell you whether it gives you live output over HDMI or not. Other responders to this old thread seem to think so, so why not try it? But I'm pretty sure that the playback will work fine into your 4K TV. It will of course include the sound signal since that is what HDMI does.

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