Good to see you making videos again! I’ve been reaching a burnout point myself lately. I’m glad you posted this one to clarify the issues and solutions with the mII.
Thank you - definitely take a break if you need. I needed some time away to deal with my own stuff. Was the best thing for me and feel excited to be back making videos again - which I wasn’t sure would ever be the case.
Thanks, because of you I found the record mode. Even If I sell this cameras, but we don't have streaming customers xD. Now my 3-4 Camera setup should work fine!
Knew Dave Maze would love these colors.....they do look nice, but then again I am a Sony fanboy so of course any other cameras colors would look better than mine 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I also had my camera set to 4k and was trying to use a 1080 capture card and came to the same conclusion that I had to drop the camera output to 1080 to match the capture card. Olympus has a webcam driver so you don't even need the capture card... just connect the Olympus camera to your PC via the USB. I didn't play with that option very much because the webcam driver was released after I already had a capture card solution. I don't have any problems with the audio hiss. You could have a ground loop. A ground loop occurs when you have more than one connection to ground and there is a slight voltage difference that will drive a current to flow to the lower (of the two) ground reference thus pushing the current through your audio cable which you will hear as hiss or buzzing. If your laptop is on AC and your camera is on AC then you have two ground references where the cabling between your camera and PC will become the conductor for the ground loop and hence the noise. Running everything on batteries can remove the references to ground.
The explanation for the audio problem: The camera can disable the microphone preamps and the associated, really crappy noise suppression and sound enhancing stuff. You forgot to mention that you still need to activate the Plug-In power setting in the Movie settings section. The elegant thing: The 3,5mm microphone input jack works with small dynamic capsules without an additional preamp. It comes at a fixed setting, but the sound quality is good enough that I now use those small capsules as ambience addition to mix into professional microphones that I synchronize separately. Also, I call this my "Quick&Dirty" set up for making on the fly recordings with an excellent camera and uncompressed 48kHz PCM audio. Basically it's now a Line-In input with additional 3V phantom power for dynamic microphones. No other cameras other than Olympus have this feature, which for me as a musician was a game changer. ua-cam.com/video/xmjYcAbUlts/v-deo.html No postprocessing whatsoever.
Thank you. Kid you not, i have the same HDMI issue. I just wanna use it as a zoom webcam 😂 After discovering that the mark 1 has no video feed at all, 'no connection' appearing on my mark 2 was 🤯. Yay! Will try again tomorrow!
it's working but now i have two more issue, everytime i have to plug out and plug in mic to take a green ready dot, even if i go to change the resolution, mic make a standby orange dot. and 2nd case the sound is without hiss but it's a low level sound, when i put it to premiere pro and make gain to -5db hiss has come back, any advice?
Turns out that my audio hiss got better doing this but never went away sadly. I use external audio to record as it just hisses all the time when I turn it up in Premiere or FCPX.
You keep saying "ProRes 422" but you actually mean just "422" which is a colour format that can be sent over HDMI. ProRes is a proprietary Apple video codec.
unfortunately even if I set my video settings to 1080p, I still get "no connection" error in recording mode. In monitor mode the connection works well even with video setting set to 4k. Do you have any other idea what can be wrong?
UPDATE: I think I figured it out finally. It seems that the EM1II does not accept any frame rate but only 60p. I tried it initially with 24/25/30p (and also with 50p) but none of them was working. With 60p it accepts and recognizes the connection to the capture device. I also thought that this might be the limitation with the capture device itself, but the same is working with my BMMCC set to 25p so I am quite sure this is a limitation in Olympus.
@@broaf Thank you!!! That was driving me nuts! So glad to get past this, albeit with yet another limiting factor. My Sony and my Nikon had no fps limitations with the capture card, so that possible limitation never occurred to me. 5 months later and your comment really helped somebody out. Thank you again.
Hola Justin double check your audio cables sometimes something really basic can improve the audio like cleaning the plugs ends with "isopropyl alcohol" (its special for electronics components, chips and PCB boards and very cheap) that's a thing you must have in your studio, sometimes cables can be jammed inside and you won't notice and will produce that kind noise maybe is a false lose connection, old cables can be a problem too when you did move your camera I heard a clipping funny noise too, anyways passing to another thing check Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III it can be a better surprise for a option I can speak two languages that gives me a little advantage to watch some others guys and european channels too like Eric Gibaud very honest and wise guy to do interviews ua-cam.com/video/7PoDOtILTUI/v-deo.html so far I know he has a english version. Robin Wong cool guy too. anyways good luck.
Hey Justin! Same here with the hiss issue on my EM1 Mkii - I'm using a Rode videomicro and tried that 'Inoperative' trick, but since the micro doesn't have any gain controls - you get no sound whatsoever! So annoying. What you reckon i should do? Buy something like Videomic NTG to replace it, or buy an external preamp (not like zoom recorder, cba to sync in post haha) to boost the signal? This and the ability to only record 60fps at 720p are the things that let this great camera down :((
So my EM-1 Mk II does 1080p/60fps - are you sure yours is limited to 720p? As for the mic, if you're at home, I'd definitely recommend a little recorder. My $100 Zoom H1 is actually really, really clean for audio when you plug a mic into it. If you're going to be vlogging or out and about, having a battery-powered mic is going to help a lot.
@@JustinReves My bad, i’d left it on all-intra 🤣 Ok I’ll have a look into that route! However for talking head stuff, I’ve gone for my sm57 with shure’s windscreen into my studio interface - then run a cable from the headphone out of the interface into the em1 mark ii’s mic jack. Very clean full bodied audio!!
Good to see you making videos again! I’ve been reaching a burnout point myself lately. I’m glad you posted this one to clarify the issues and solutions with the mII.
Thank you - definitely take a break if you need. I needed some time away to deal with my own stuff. Was the best thing for me and feel excited to be back making videos again - which I wasn’t sure would ever be the case.
Thanks, because of you I found the record mode. Even If I sell this cameras, but we don't have streaming customers xD. Now my 3-4 Camera setup should work fine!
Incredible video! Send you a text about the hdmi output thing. Your colors have never looked better :) Olympus has wonderful colors.
😘😘😘
Knew Dave Maze would love these colors.....they do look nice, but then again I am a Sony fanboy so of course any other cameras colors would look better than mine 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@PaulFeinberg hahaha
I also had my camera set to 4k and was trying to use a 1080 capture card and came to the same conclusion that I had to drop the camera output to 1080 to match the capture card. Olympus has a webcam driver so you don't even need the capture card... just connect the Olympus camera to your PC via the USB. I didn't play with that option very much because the webcam driver was released after I already had a capture card solution.
I don't have any problems with the audio hiss. You could have a ground loop. A ground loop occurs when you have more than one connection to ground and there is a slight voltage difference that will drive a current to flow to the lower (of the two) ground reference thus pushing the current through your audio cable which you will hear as hiss or buzzing. If your laptop is on AC and your camera is on AC then you have two ground references where the cabling between your camera and PC will become the conductor for the ground loop and hence the noise. Running everything on batteries can remove the references to ground.
The explanation for the audio problem: The camera can disable the microphone preamps and the associated, really crappy noise suppression and sound enhancing stuff. You forgot to mention that you still need to activate the Plug-In power setting in the Movie settings section. The elegant thing: The 3,5mm microphone input jack works with small dynamic capsules without an additional preamp. It comes at a fixed setting, but the sound quality is good enough that I now use those small capsules as ambience addition to mix into professional microphones that I synchronize separately.
Also, I call this my "Quick&Dirty" set up for making on the fly recordings with an excellent camera and uncompressed 48kHz PCM audio. Basically it's now a Line-In input with additional 3V phantom power for dynamic microphones. No other cameras other than Olympus have this feature, which for me as a musician was a game changer.
ua-cam.com/video/xmjYcAbUlts/v-deo.html No postprocessing whatsoever.
Thank you. Kid you not, i have the same HDMI issue. I just wanna use it as a zoom webcam 😂 After discovering that the mark 1 has no video feed at all, 'no connection' appearing on my mark 2 was 🤯. Yay! Will try again tomorrow!
Did it work?
Yes! Finally got to it yesterday.
it's working but now i have two more issue, everytime i have to plug out and plug in mic to take a green ready dot, even if i go to change the resolution, mic make a standby orange dot. and 2nd case the sound is without hiss but it's a low level sound, when i put it to premiere pro and make gain to -5db hiss has come back, any advice?
Turns out that my audio hiss got better doing this but never went away sadly. I use external audio to record as it just hisses all the time when I turn it up in Premiere or FCPX.
This was really handy. Thanks for making this.
Do you livestream at all with your Olympus? If so do you have or recommend an AC Adapter to keep the camera on straight for long periods of time?
So Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark II can streamm with YUV with 4k and 1080p thru HDMI, right? Can do 1080p with Olympus EM-1 Mark I(one)?
Wow. How useful.
You keep saying "ProRes 422" but you actually mean just "422" which is a colour format that can be sent over HDMI. ProRes is a proprietary Apple video codec.
Ah yes, thanks!
Just wondering if you tried to turn the headphone volume all the way down/off..
unfortunately even if I set my video settings to 1080p, I still get "no connection" error in recording mode. In monitor mode the connection works well even with video setting set to 4k. Do you have any other idea what can be wrong?
UPDATE: I think I figured it out finally. It seems that the EM1II does not accept any frame rate but only 60p. I tried it initially with 24/25/30p (and also with 50p) but none of them was working. With 60p it accepts and recognizes the connection to the capture device. I also thought that this might be the limitation with the capture device itself, but the same is working with my BMMCC set to 25p so I am quite sure this is a limitation in Olympus.
@@broaf Thank you!!! That was driving me nuts! So glad to get past this, albeit with yet another limiting factor. My Sony and my Nikon had no fps limitations with the capture card, so that possible limitation never occurred to me. 5 months later and your comment really helped somebody out. Thank you again.
Interestingly, my EM1 M2 gives clean HDMI output in 4K, but in 1080p it shows an error. So I left it at 4K.
Hola Justin double check your audio cables sometimes something really basic can improve the audio like cleaning the plugs ends with "isopropyl alcohol" (its special for electronics components, chips and PCB boards and very cheap) that's a thing you must have in your studio, sometimes cables can be jammed inside and you won't notice and will produce that kind noise maybe is a false lose connection, old cables can be a problem too when you did move your camera I heard a clipping funny noise too, anyways passing to another thing check Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III it can be a better surprise for a option I can speak two languages that gives me a little advantage to watch some others guys and european channels too like Eric Gibaud very honest and wise guy to do interviews ua-cam.com/video/7PoDOtILTUI/v-deo.html so far I know he has a english version. Robin Wong cool guy too. anyways good luck.
How to use external mic for OMD EM-10 Mk III?
Hey Justin! Same here with the hiss issue on my EM1 Mkii - I'm using a Rode videomicro and tried that 'Inoperative' trick, but since the micro doesn't have any gain controls - you get no sound whatsoever! So annoying.
What you reckon i should do? Buy something like Videomic NTG to replace it, or buy an external preamp (not like zoom recorder, cba to sync in post haha) to boost the signal?
This and the ability to only record 60fps at 720p are the things that let this great camera down :((
So my EM-1 Mk II does 1080p/60fps - are you sure yours is limited to 720p? As for the mic, if you're at home, I'd definitely recommend a little recorder. My $100 Zoom H1 is actually really, really clean for audio when you plug a mic into it. If you're going to be vlogging or out and about, having a battery-powered mic is going to help a lot.
@@JustinReves My bad, i’d left it on all-intra 🤣 Ok I’ll have a look into that route!
However for talking head stuff, I’ve gone for my sm57 with shure’s windscreen into my studio interface - then run a cable from the headphone out of the interface into the em1 mark ii’s mic jack.
Very clean full bodied audio!!
HDMI Still not connecting to 4k monitor or computer with video converter.
I finally bought an actual video monitor and it works perfect with that. Even a cheap one. Desview R5II is what I got and it’s awesome.
I have problem with this camera! The speaker of this cámara es noise! Horrible! I have 25 days wiith this cámera 🤦🏻♂️ em5 markIII
you ntalk to much just give the solution thanks