tethered production

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I'm newer than newbie. I'm gathering information at this point. Any help much appreciated.

I'm an experienced (retired) programmer and still photographer trying to get started in video production.

I have no useable Windows. Have older MacBook Pro and a licensed legal copy of Final Cut Pro. But my ancient MacBook Pro has only (and can only have) 4gig memory, which is now slow just to run because of ill-advised operating system upgrades. I may have to buy a new and faster Mac.

As a retired server side programmer I prefer and mostly use Linux. I do have a hotrod linux box with lots of memory.

I want to shoot some how-to-do-it instructional videos with my Nikon D7000 dslr and tether it to a monitor, so I can watch what I'm recording in real time, with the incoming stream split so it also saves to the desktop hard drive. For Mac if I have to but best of all Linux, how do I do that?

What software?

[october262]

Here are linux video tools - https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/linux-video-tools

[pittendrigh]

The above list of links is a remarkable resource. Thank you. It will take months to digest.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I have a Nikon D7000. Someday I'll upgrade, perhaps to a real video camera instead of a hotrod DSLR. I can now record video to the camera's onboard memory chip. I'm learning how to edit with OpenShot.

What I'd like to do is tether to a large desktop display and split the stream somehow, so it can be simultaneously saved to my desktop hard drive, instead of the camera's memory chip. Live video with simultaneous save to hard disk may not be (easily) possible with Nikon. I think it is possible with Canon.

I wonder if there is a Linux oriented gstreamer script that can mount a USB video stream and split it, in order to have simultaneous save and display?

I love open source software but I buy software too. I want something that works.

[Cornucopia]

I suggest, alternately, that you look at getting an Atomos Ninja2 or similar. This will do multiple things for you: Bypass the h264 compression limits & filesize limitations, use a high quality, low compression ratio, edit-friendly codec such as dnxhd or prores, give you a truly portable & rugged field monitor, make it quicker to ingest, all while NOT requiring you be tethered to a full laptop/desktop nor be tied to a partiicular OS for editing.

Scott

[pittendrigh]

Wow. Yes. That looks like just what I want. Ignorance is misery. Information is bliss. Thank you!