Wireless mic with GH2
 

Has anyone used a wireless mic with a GH2? I just hooked up mine and the peak level goes into the red on the monitor in the GH2. The output level of my wireless receiver is not too high. I even set the level in the camera to zero in the menu with no change. It is just fine on my EX1R. Am I missing something? The manual has nothing to say about this.

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What model wireless?

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Sony UWP-V1

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Hey Jim...completely off topic (I would have PM'd you but I can't find a way on this forum)

I was looking for an earlier post of yours on downconverting HD to SD for DVD authoring.
I use Edius 6 and can export to uncompressed AVI. I have been using Procoder 3 but I am still getting some jaggies.
What is your process again?

Jim

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Jim, One of the easiest ways to do this is to use TMPEGEnc. Just render out to Canopus HQ and then open in TMPEGEnc and resize. Procoder is a great encoder so you may want to just resize in TMPEGEnc and then render your MPEG with Procoder.

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Jim, I've used the Sony with good results, can't understand your issue, sounds very problematic, wish I had a solution.

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I've been using a Sennheiser EV100 G2 system. On the camera side, it's as low as it goes. On the receiver side, I adjust AF OUT to about -24 to -30 to get good levels. That same receiver setting on my Z1U or HVX is far too low (typically use -12). Must simply be a lot of internal pre-amp going on.

In testing, I've noticed that the level meters in the camera hit the first red mark right around -6, and the second around -2... as tested by droning into the mic until that level was just barely reached (super scientific n all).

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Yeah I am using TMPGEGEnc 5 now and still not too happy. What size did you resize? I was impressed with what you did with the cat video.
Seems that getting HD to look good in SD on a DVD is quest for most of us. Maybe I should start a new thread for this since this is about wireless.

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Jim, I suspect the jaggies you are referring to are interlace artifacts. HD link which is part Cineform NEO HD does a great job of deinterlacing._

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Thanks Kevin, I suspected that. I will try your suggestion later today. I can't find any information about the audio recording in the GH2. Does anyone know where I can find more info?

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If you don't get satisfactory results lowering the receiver output, a quick/cheap/dirty method is to purchase an in-line headphone volume attenuator (Radio Shack sells these on the cheap). They are 1/8" stereo input/output...so I'm not sure if it's compatible with the GH2.

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Thanks, -30db out of the wireless receiver did the trick. I think I will pick up a couple of the Radio Shack Attenuators. It would be nice to keep the wireless receiver to the -12db setting that I use on my other cameras.