topic Re: 70d hdmi out in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

70d hdmi out

peleg — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:52:17 GMT

On my 70d can I change a setting to clean up the hdmi out, I want to remove the gray box and black letter box so that the image fills the full screen.

Re: 70d hdmi out

hsbn — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 03:36:10 GMT

when you play back video on TV right ? Press the DISP button to hide/show various option. And use the "zoom" function on your TV to fit the video.

Re: 70d hdmi out

MikeSowsun — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:04:03 GMT

Sometimes I have the same problem with the additional info being displayed on the screen while hooked up to an HDMI TV. Pressing the DISP button didn't seem to work.

I found that if I disconnected the HDMI cable and then pressed the DISP button to clear the info, it would then be Okay once I hooked it up again.

There is probably a simpler way to do it, but that works for me.

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:54:46 GMT

hsbn and MikeSowsun:

I was able to get all the extra info off by hitting the display button, the issue is the letter box. Using teh zoom fucntion on the TV should solve that problem for the TV, but I was hoping that I coudl remove the letter box from the feed because what I really want to do is read the feed into wirecast (via a black magic ultrastudio mini recorder) and use it for a live streaming broadcast.

It doesn;t see like there is a way to turn off the letter boxing in the camera, or is there???

Re: 70d hdmi out

MikeSowsun — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:44:34 GMT

I don't know what you mean by "letter box". When I hook up my 5D3 or SL1 to my 60" Samsung TV, and play back a video, I get a full screen display with no text, or anything else.

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:25:29 GMT

the 70d has a letterbox the images doesn;t fill the whole screen it is framed in a gray box inside a black letterbox- I knew the 5d3 gives a clean feed, it's good to know the SL1 also does.

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:28:54 GMT

it looks like this (only without the time stamp)

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:31:04 GMT

Here's another screen shot:

the image should fill all the black- no gray line, no letter box. At least that;s what I want.

Re: 70d hdmi out

MikeSowsun — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:43:28 GMT

I think I see what you mean....

With my SL1 I see a gray box and blacked out area when hooked up and recording video. My 5D3 doesn't do this....

On playback they are both full screen.

Is that what you mean?

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:43:42 GMT

yes thats what i mean—if I can remove that letter box I can make my 70d a low cost very hi quality studio camera for a webcast.

Re: 70d hdmi out

peleg — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:44:57 GMT

I believe Magic Latern can remove it, but ML doesn't work on the 70d and it be nicer to do it directly.

Re: 70d hdmi out

MikeSowsun — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:45:35 GMT

Sorry, I don't know how to fix this.

Re: 70d hdmi out

canontechstudio — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:59:37 GMT

If you are usuing the 70D you wont be able to get rid of the lines becuase the 70D does not offer a Clean HDMI signal output.

And the guy with the 5DMIII has no issues becuase his camer has a CLEAN UNCOMPRESSED HDMI Output..

thats why it works for him and not for you

you wont be able to do what you want to do with your live stream without the viewers seeing the camera info on the screen

Re: 70d hdmi out

Benjaminwt — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:50:27 GMT

I do this all the time, in wirecast the second tab across you can choose the scale of the shot, just zoom it in till you can't see the frames anymore. This works up to 720p from a 70d as the resolution of the hdmi out is exactly the same as the back lcd screen. So it doesn't get any better than that.

Happy to help