This $50 Gadget TRANSFORMED My Blackmagic Studio Camera

the Blackmagic Studio cameras come with these super short power supplies and it almost always means that you need to carry plenty of these around with you to power your camera or do you because in this video I'm going to show you how to power your Blackmagic Studio camera with an ethernet cable look that's the only thing plugged in and powering my camera right now and this method doesn't use Blackmagic $955 Studio converter in fact all you need is this which cost me just $50 and this a cat or Cat 5 cable to power your cameras at distances of up to 320 ft or 100 m and this opens up a world of possibilities in terms of where you can place your cameras and what you can do with them not to mention completely simplifying all of your cable runs so let me show you how it's done to give some context to the method that I'm about to show you in a second let's first talk about the Blackmagic Studio converter cuz this thing is actually pretty awesome and I realize there will be some people watching this video that have never heard or seen of it before but it really could transform your setup now my method provides power to the camera over ethernet but the studio converter is a unit that provides everything to and from the camera over a single ethernet cable it's designed to be like a simpy fiber workflow you would find a much bigger broadcast environment but utilizing much cheaper and more readily available copper cat 6 cabling and the way it works is you connect up your camera to the converter via a cat 6 cable and then on the back of the converter itself you've got all of the inputs and outputs that you need to connect it up to your ATM external monitors and the rest of your broadcast infrastructure so over one ethernet cable you get power to the camera video output to be able to send your video feed to a switcher for example or external monitors two return feed so that you can send the program output back to the camera operator as an example time code in and out reference in and out TalkBack tally and of course black Magic's camera control so that you can do all the shading and the color calibration of the cameras as well all down a single ethernet cable it's seriously impressive and for individuals and Studios that can afford it it's 100% the way to go because it keeps everything neat and simple with a one cable workflow but there are two things about it that I think can make it even more accessible so that more people can utilize and benefit from this type of workflow firstly the cost not everyone is going to be able to afford this at $955 per camera cuz you do need one for each camera secondly these are very much designed for a professional SDI based workflow there's no HDMI inputs or outputs on here so these are not going to be easy to use with something like an A10 mini workflow and so I think there's a huge untapped consumer prosumer Market here for black magic if they created a studio converter HD Mini something the size of their regular mini converters or in this case an ATM streaming bridge but they stripped it back to the Bare Basics so on one side it just has the the DC power in and a 10g ethernet port which would run to the camera and then on the other side an HDMI out or an SDI out to be able to go to your switcher and then they pric this at let's say $200 I know I'd be picking them up for every Studio build that I do that uses HDMI workflows with an A10 mini I know loads of others that would be I think this would fly off the shelves let me know what you think in the comments would you buy one for your workflow if Blackmagic did make an HDMI based Studio converter so that you could have a one cable solution for all of your cameras anyway the reason I brought up the studio converter is because that is what got me thinking if that device can power the camera over ethernet surely there's other devices out there that can too and after doing some research I found that the studio converters ethernet port provides what's called Type 4 Poe power over ethernet which gives up to 100 wats of power to the device plugged into it so I went on the hump for another device that could do the same and that's when I found this it's a PTZ link 9 Poe Plus+ injector and it costs just $50 on Amazon I'll leave a link down in the description below to it if you want to check these out yourself so how does it work well firstly you plug this thing into Power wherever you've got your vision mixer or rack set up then you run an ethernet cable from the poe port on the injector to your studio camera then when you turn on your camera you've got power and as I said before this will give you power for distances of up to 300 ft or 100 m all with a single ethernet cable now if you wanted to you could pair that ethernet cable with let's say a 300t fiber HDMI cable wrap it in some cable braiding so it's a single core and then you've got a super clean super simple longdistance camera connection finally you can get rid 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Blackmagic Studio camera 4K Pro g2s or the Blackmagic Studio camera 6K you can now power and stream directly from the camera all via that single ethernet cable imagine this with an ATM television Studio HDA ISO workflow that has the ATM streaming bridges built in you can now power your camera and stream your feed back to the A10 for it to be then used and mixed into a bigger production all over a single cable there's so many possibilities for this type of stuff in the future and I actually feel like we're going to see more of these network type products from Blackmagic in the near future possibly even NAB which is coming up in April so uh keep your eyes peeled on my channel to see if I'm right about that I guess if you enjoyed this video and found it useful please do give it a thumbs up if you're new here and want to see more tutorial type videos like this hit the Subscribe button and turn on the notification Bell if you've got a comment or question about the video get it down in the comment section below I read through all of them and will'll reply to as many of them as possible and if you need help with your setup my email address is on screen now pop me an email and we can sort out a onetoone Consulting session to get all of your questions answered and once you're' done all that guys I will see you on the next video

Channel: Alex Pettitt

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 17 2024