Hey you guys!
I'm going into production for a low budget indie feature this fall, and I was looking up ways to monitor my footage wirelessly. I'm pretty settled on using the Nyrius Aries Pro that's in every tutorial on low-budget wireless monitoring out there. (par exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6ijYBmRs4)
I do own a Lilliput FA-1011 which I could send the signal from my FS100 to. However, I was thinking about getting a bigger screen than 10 inches, and since field monitors runs pretty expensive, I was thinking of maybe getting a bigger tv instead, like ASUS VS228H-P for 130 bucks (http://www.amazon.com/MB168B-15-6-Inch-Screen-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B00H0FK2A6) and using that instead with a portable battery.
I figured this would be a pretty common practice in lower budget filmmaking, but I can't really find much on the internet, which makes me wonder if I'm onto something totally impossible / stupid, or if there are any other issues with a set up like that.
Would anyone have any experience with doing something of the sort. Also, if this does strike you guys as doable, would anyone have any suggestions for battery packs? I don't want to be tied down based on where outlets are, and I know that there's 120V battery packs that are on amazon for like 100-150 bucks, but I can't seem to / don't know how to do any calculations with power, and whether they can power the TV and if they can, then for how long.
I'll owe you guys a kidney for any advice / suggestions you might be able to dish out. It just seems like if it works, you could put together a 21-inch battery-powered monitor for some 250 dollars, which is pretty much what another 10.1 lilliput with batteries would cost me.
I'm going into production for a low budget indie feature this fall, and I was looking up ways to monitor my footage wirelessly. I'm pretty settled on using the Nyrius Aries Pro that's in every tutorial on low-budget wireless monitoring out there. (par exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6ijYBmRs4)
I do own a Lilliput FA-1011 which I could send the signal from my FS100 to. However, I was thinking about getting a bigger screen than 10 inches, and since field monitors runs pretty expensive, I was thinking of maybe getting a bigger tv instead, like ASUS VS228H-P for 130 bucks (http://www.amazon.com/MB168B-15-6-Inch-Screen-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B00H0FK2A6) and using that instead with a portable battery.
I figured this would be a pretty common practice in lower budget filmmaking, but I can't really find much on the internet, which makes me wonder if I'm onto something totally impossible / stupid, or if there are any other issues with a set up like that.
Would anyone have any experience with doing something of the sort. Also, if this does strike you guys as doable, would anyone have any suggestions for battery packs? I don't want to be tied down based on where outlets are, and I know that there's 120V battery packs that are on amazon for like 100-150 bucks, but I can't seem to / don't know how to do any calculations with power, and whether they can power the TV and if they can, then for how long.
I'll owe you guys a kidney for any advice / suggestions you might be able to dish out. It just seems like if it works, you could put together a 21-inch battery-powered monitor for some 250 dollars, which is pretty much what another 10.1 lilliput with batteries would cost me.
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