 Hey, what is up? My name is Rebedium. Today, we are looking at the Cinegears Ghost Eye 600m Wireless Transmission Kit. So when you're your own cinematographer, director, producer, you get to see what you're shooting by looking through the camera that's on the tripod or on your shoulder. As soon as you start going up to another level and having different people operating the cameras than you, you need to see what they're shooting. And for the first, you know, 10 years of my career, that meant looking over the shoulder of the camera person or running a cable from the camera to a monitor. Very soon you move out of that space. It no longer becomes convenient. Maybe because you have other people on set like a client that needs to see your, see what you're shooting or just other people in the crew that need to be across what's going on like the cinematographer or you're in a position where only the camera person can be near talent for whatever reason. And even the focus puller needs to be on a wireless monitor to do this in the past. I rented tear deck units. Now the two or 300 meter versions are about a hundred bucks a day to buy. They're like three or four thousand dollars. I've done a couple of reviews on other systems that I've used that are a couple of hundred dollars to buy. But the issue with them is that they have latency. They're not instantaneous. You can't pull focus on a video that's happening a couple of seconds after it really happened because you're going to miss the moment. You need something that is instantaneous. I've typically hired tear deck units and they have worked fine. But the issue with them is the ones that you rent tend to go out a lot, meaning they get rented a lot. They get banged around. They're not always in the greatest condition. And what ends up happening is they lose signal or they become untethered to one another and everyone just ends up standing around while someone or everyone tries to troubleshoot why the wireless isn't working, why it's not connecting. And a lot of the time, I've just, you know, thrown up my hands and gone and stood next to the camera so I could see what's being shot while people tried to work that out. It's really frustrating. It holds up your day. So recently I decided to invest in my own wireless transmission units that are instantaneous. So a step up from the hundred and two hundred dollar versions that I've used before. These are purpose built cinema camera wireless transmission units. They're made by a company called Cinegears not to be confused with Cinegear, the expo that happens in LA once a year. So far, I love them. They're really awesome. The signal is super strong. I mean, I don't think I'm ever going to be 600 meters away from where I'm shooting, but I wanted some excess capacity. I went with the Cinegear ghost eyes unit because I'd heard really good things, but they're not as expensive as the Teradex. They still have awesome build quality. They still have awesome electronics that come with a three warranty. One thing that I like about this unit is there's a couple of different power options. You can power them from a V mount battery, but they also come with a built in and P mount battery. So for small shoots where you're only going to be out in the field for an hour or two, you can just run off a couple of small and P batteries without having to go full cinema and read the whole camera out with a V mount. This one streams in 10 bit 422, 1080p. So the quality of the signal is really high and it's less than a frame latency. So it's almost instantaneous. It's a two part system. One part, the transmitter sits on top of the camera and you can connect it to via SDI or HDMI and you can also run an SDI system through it. So you, if your camera like the C 200 only has one SDI out, you can go SDI into the transmitter and then go SDI out of the transmitter into a monitor that your operator is using. On the other end, you then have a receiver that picks up the signal from up to 600 meters away. But what I like about this is it has two outputs. So it has an SDI that can go straight to a director's monitor and then it has a second SDI that if you wanted to, you could run with cable to a video village somewhere else. This unit starts 1800 and depending on the options that you get, like you can get one with the biggest with a LCD screen. You can get one with more aerials. So for me, it's the equivalent of renting a Teradeck for two weeks and you know, so far it's worked for me really well. I've not only saved the money that I would have been spending on rentals, but I've also saved the time going back and forth to the rental house. I almost always have trouble on set on every shoot with either setting up or keeping a link between the camera and the monitors. And since I've been using these units, I haven't had a single issue. The one I got came with a really awesome hard case that has custom cut foam. It comes with four SDI cables. It comes with two power to D tap cables. So you can power both units of female batteries or gold mount batteries. It comes with two different options for the aerials, these little kind of UFO bongal aerials as well as the full size antennas. These aren't the smallest units. The transmitter especially is twice the size of a pack of cards and there's a fan in the receiver that would be too loud to have that close to camera. It's sort of the same volume as someone kind of breathing out loudly, but the whole point of this is to get the monitor away from the camera so there's not going to interfere with the shot. So I don't see that as a liability at all. All of the video transmitter kits always talk about how many meters away you can be from them, but the real challenge for these is walls. They use radio frequency sort of like Wi-Fi. So when you're direct line of sight to the transmitter is blocked, you tend to lose signal pretty easily. You can also get these in 100 meter, 200 meter, 1,000 meter kits, I believe if you're doing something specialized like shooting between cars on the freeway, you can go with 1,000 meter kit. If you just plan on doing something within the same room or in a couple of rooms away, you can go with a 200 meter kit. I thought the 600 while still being pretty cheap is a good compromise that's going to cover me for most of the scenarios that I work with. So that's a little look at the Cinegears Ghost Eye 600 meter wireless transmission set. Check them out in the links below. Leave your questions in the comments and thanks very much for watching and I will see you next time.