newfoundmass

It's a never ending battle ?

Yeah, I mean, when you're shooting in gymnasiums like that, with awful lighting, you need all the help you can get and if upping the audio game helps I'm all for it. 
In a prefect world I'd have enough lights to light the ring myself, but I'm not experienced so much in lighting venues like that and I imagine it'd be pretty expensive! I did just build 4 sets of bank lights to try and see if it helps, in hopes of being about to kill some of the house lights. 

Folks here sharing experiences with all sorts of recording gear...
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If your camera has dual XLR inputs you could try the Senal MC5-MS or Sony ECM MS 2

Nice shot by the way. Both the sounds and the action are equally important in wrestling.

In a prefect world I'd have the crowd, the ring and under the ring mic'd up, but that's just not feasible for a variety of reasons. I'm not looking for the best, given the circumstances and the budget, but hopefully something that gives fuller and richer sound than the camera mics. 
What I have now is the announcers going into a recorder and, sometimes, a Zoom H1 recorder I'll put under the ring to make the "bumps" sound more impressive. 
Ideally the stereo mics on the hard camera and my ringside camera would get better sound than I currently am getting. In terms of sound I'm already ahead of most of the people in my niche field, but I'd love to improve it more. 
I'm definitely not concerned with DR, especially in the venues we run! 

Definitely Sennheiser MKH 440.
It is my cheap stereo mic that I use all the time. Directional Stereo is the way to go for cheap.
This is a great buy also.
https://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/5c9c0e5adaceb659/index.html

I've used a Tascam TM-2X on several Pana G-series cameras and been very happy with it. Note it needs 'plug-in power' on the mic socket to work.
https://tascam.com/us/product/tm-2x/top
(the plastic extension arm is optional - I've never used it, the basic mic is relatively small)

Frankly if they didn't ban him after finding out his past, what does it take to be banned on DPR? No community should be welcoming of someone like that. 

Frankly if they didn't ban him after finding out his past, what does it take to be banned on DPR? No community should be welcoming of someone like that. 

Has anyone tried the pan/tilt head shown in the CheezyCam video?
Or any other remote controlled pan/tilt/rotate head?
I am actually wanting one now, oh, and of course, the giant monster tripod also...

I've been playing with the new Speed Warp slow-motion function in Resolve 16 and did a couple of torture tests on some not-well-shot footage from the other weekends rodeo outing.
It's not magical, but it's pretty impressive nonetheless.  It's not a HFR replacement quite yet, but for some situations it might be good enough now.
First video is comparing the new Speed Warp to the best previous available mode:
and this is Speed Warp used on 4k50 footage to simulate 100/200/400 and 800fps:
This is really a torture test for an algorithm like this because the shutter was at about 360degrees, there's heaps of motion blur, there are hard edges in front and behind the items moving, and the footage is noisy and not well focused giving edge detection for objects a really difficult time.  If you shoot an unobscured subject on a defocused background with a high shutter speed I think it might be almost flawless at whatever frame rate you like.
 
I've also made a little bracket to shift the Rode mic forwards so I can get full access to the viewfinder.
Source products (via ebay):

Modified bracket (cut and hole drilled):

Mounted on GH5:

With mic (note that the mic cable is now level with the body):

If true, sort of sounds like suicide unless they have some groundbreaking tech no one has even thought of. It just seems to be a...GoPro knockoff. We already have all kinds of those now.

Fusion continues to baffle me. I'm quite competent in After Effects in that I'm pretty advanced, don't rely on templates, etc. But I have trouble doing even the most basic things in Fusion that would take me 5 minutes in After Effects.
People tell me that Fusion is more powerful than AE, which is great, but that doesn't help me if the learning curve is too hard for me to wrap my head around!

What's that saying?  "We Have Done So Much with So Little for So Long, that Now We Can Do Anything with Nothing"..  it's from the military apparently, but in the face of having to get the job done under difficult situations with less and less resources without compromising the output, I think there are parallels that can be drawn  

We did live streaming, we usually only had regular cable internet connections because everything was so low budget/DIY. So there were times when a stream would crap out due to internet issues at the venue. 
I've live streamed a 6 hour wrestling event using a 4G hot spot before! ? Money is in short demand, expectations are high though. I kinda mastered getting the most out of little! 

Couldn't help myself, so I just bought a Sun Zoom 70-210mm f3.8.   I figured that it's probably not too bad, and even if it is it wasn't expensive, so no harm no foul.
I also had a re-think about camera inserts and came up with a new plan for getting more lenses into my bag  
The edit is coming together, despite my comedy of errors in planning, packing, and shooting!

Our monitors literally are inches away from us though..
For me, the big difference is the HDR, not so much the resolution. I think OLED makes such a huge difference to all that; human eyes can adapt to darkness (except GOT!) but they can not stand too much brightness, so the absolute black is more valuable to higher brightness technology.
Also, have you people noticed how bad the 80s and 90s and even early 00s, series look right now? They are almost difficult to follow, while the 60s and 70s remastered from film look stunning!

I have a 55 inch 4K TV. When I'm within 2 or 3 feet of it I see a difference between 1080p and 4K. Sitting a normal distance away the difference is almost negligible and I think has as much to do with the higher bit rate than higher resolution. 
4K is still nice in post. I do think it results in better 1080p. I just think, in order to really appreciate 4K on a television or monitor, without being inches away from the screen, you have to have a giant television most of us don't have and can't afford. 

I have a 55 inch 4K TV. When I'm within 2 or 3 feet of it I see a difference between 1080p and 4K. Sitting a normal distance away the difference is almost negligible and I think has as much to do with the higher bit rate than higher resolution. 
4K is still nice in post. I do think it results in better 1080p. I just think, in order to really appreciate 4K on a television or monitor, without being inches away from the screen, you have to have a giant television most of us don't have and can't afford. 

I don't think the argument ought to be 1080p versus 4K, it ought to be how sharp is the output of the final product. It is like the difference between a Canon C100 1080p, and say a Canon 5D mk II, or even a 80D. Heck the C100 looks like 4K because it is automatically downsampled from 4K. Night and day difference in 1080p. The A7s versus the A6300 is another good example.
Sharpness is what determines resolution nearly as much as the resolution its self. I know it is more complicated than that, but you get my point... I hope lol. ? Heck even brigtness determines it a lot. Look a that latest Game of Thrones thing. Hell it is so dark it could have been 12K and it would not have made a crap. You can't see resolution when you can't even see the output.

Professional sports events are heavily rights restricted so the use of images is limited strictly to genuine editorial use only.
 

All of my most recent work is behind pay walls or pay per download / DVD. I'll ask my clients if they mind me posting something though! 
I've thought about that for my tripod but honestly it's not worth it. My hope is to soon buy one of those 12 foot tripods as seen here:
Height is important when you're shooting above crowds
I've done tons of live switching in the past and am doing multicam edits right now. My old company, for live switching, used PXW-X70's because of the SDI out. I haven't done any live streams since parting ways with them (long story, it's a legal matter now) but I'm actually looking into doing it with my GH5 & G85's once I'm in a position to do so. We used a custom PC rig with Vmix, though I've always preferred hardware switchers in the past since I've found they're more reliable. 
 

I shoot a lot of sports with the GH5 and G85, mostly handheld and up close to the action:
My go to lens for handheld is the Panasonic 12-35mm f/ 2.8. I use single point auto focus and it works really well. I find it to be very reliable, and the f/2.8 handles the less than ideal lighting conditions I'm usually shooting in pretty well. 
I use a cage with top handle and wooden grip. With dual IS I don't need a monopod or any other support, it's wonderful. I'm literally running around a wrestling ring and I'm still blown away at how stable my shots are. 
My "hard camera" shot is a G85 with kit lens. I'm saving up to get another 12-35 and the 35-100 f/2.8 to match. After next month I should be in a place to get both.  For a tripod I use the Magnus VT-350; it's cheap and far from the best tripod BUT it goes up to 82" which gives it considerably more height than most tripods. I just wish that you could replace the tripod head. 
For audio I use the Rode Video Micro on the GH5, but it's mostly for scratch audio and crowd noise since commentary is being recorded live into a Zoom recorder that is also feeding audio into the G85. I also usually put a Zoom H1 under the ring to make the moves sound better. 
For me external monitors aren't ideal for sports. The lag for HDMI ones, though slight, is still enough to cause issues. 
I should note that I also shoot events from start to finish as opposed to clips, since I'm editing the entire event to be streamed online or on DVD/Blu Ray (yes that still is a thing!) So shooting slow motion, etc normally isn't in the cards. 
For your use I'd consider maybe a B4 lens with a x2 extender as a zoom option? Those can get great reach. 

Most consumers don't know anything about sensor size, etc. It's really only in this prosumer/professional bubble that people are obsessed with full frame cameras. 
Meanwhile I'm happy over here with my M43 and next month is set to be my most profitable month ever!