topic Re: C70 remote recording monitor? in Professional Video

C70 remote recording monitor?

CharityB — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:34:44 GMT

Hey- I am hoping to use my macpro laptop as a remote recording monitor for the Canon C70. Is this possible? (and if so, How?)

Alternately are there remote recording monitors for the C70 ... and below $900 ??

Thanks!

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

kvbarkley — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:09:25 GMT

What do you mean by "remote"? A long HDMI cable could be considered "remote".

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

AtticusLake — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:24:30 GMT

Let's assume that "remote" means wireless. So, what do you mean by "recording monitor"?

If picture quality and smoothness isn't super-important, then the C70's Browser Remote feature might be what you want. You need to find a WiFi dongle which is compatible with the camera, and that's hard, because the dongle has to match the drivers in the camera, and that means it needs to match EXACTLY.

But once past that, Browser Remote isn't too hard to set up, and it will let you see what the camera is recording, albeit a bit jerkily. And it doesn't support LUTs, so log shooting is a problem.

But it DOES work in any decent modern web browser. I haven't actually tested Mac, but I have tested it with Chrome, Edge and Opera on Windows and Android, and it's fine. It also works in Firefox except for tap-to-focus. So I would guess a mac should work.

But it does not itself record. If you want to monitor and record wirelessly, then I think you're out of luck. A wireless HDMI streamer will come close, but as I understand it the quality isn't up to recording standards.

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

CharityB — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:49:56 GMT

By remote I only mean not on top of or attached to the camera itself. I will have the camera behind me with a macro lens and keeping focus is proving to be beyond the scope of a tape measure. So yes a long HDMI cable would be fine. I don't need the external monitor to record anything, only to tell me what the camera sees/is recording.

Thank you!

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

CharityB — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:52:56 GMT

Hi Atticus, I think I used the wrong terminology. I don't mind long cables... and I don't need the external monitor itself to record anything. I need to see what the camera sees while it is recording. The camera will be behind me and I am having trouble keeping the framing and focus accurate.

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

AtticusLake — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:37:13 GMT

Ah, then a long HDMI cable will certainly be an easy option -- though that does mean buying a monitor, as opposed to using your laptop.

Browser remote will be more fiddly to set up -- getting a compatible WiFi dongle is the hard part -- but once it's going, you can use your existing laptop, or phone or tablet, for monitoring. And of course you wouldn't have the cable getting snagged on things.

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

kvbarkley — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:43:49 GMT

There are any number of HDMI capture devices that would be able to display on the laptop.

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

CharityB — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:16:06 GMT

Ah. Thank you.

Can you recommend or name a few to point me in the right direction?

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

CharityB — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:18:38 GMT

Hi Atticus,

Thank you again for your response. By monitor do you mean like a basic hdmi ready computer or television monitor?

And for the wifi dongle, is/are there one/s specific for use with Canon C70?

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

AtticusLake — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:20:13 GMT

Oh, good point.

Re: C70 remote recording monitor?

AtticusLake — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:36:52 GMT

I meant a monitor... a computer monitor would work, but there are any number of monitors made for filmmakers, from 5 inches up. I use a little Swit 5 inch monitor that's fairly good, and cheap. There are many others from companies like SmallHD, Atomos (some are also recorders), PortKeys, etc. Then again, as kvbarkley said, an HDMI capture device may well let you use your laptop, and even record on it. I haven't done that myself.

If you're going to be outdoors, you may want to look into a high brightness monitor.

And for WiFi on the C70, Canon have a list in their support site, FAQ section. If you don't already know where that is, you should find out. I would post a link but this forum doesn't allow it (even to a Canon support site???). In any case a little searching should find it for you.

But for WiFi dongles, it's honestly a bit of a lottery. You have to have a dongle which EXACTLY matches one of the ones that Canon support, including the version of the chip inside the dongle, and they don't tell you what that is when you buy one.

For example, they say that they're compatible with the D-Link DWA-182 (C1). C1 is the version, but when you buy this online, the version isn't shown. I bought one and it turned out to be the D1 version, which doesn't work.

The one I'm using is the ASUS USB-AC56. Just bear in mind if you buy one there's no guarantee that it will be the same version I have.