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HCTV Behind the Scenes - Setting up CAMERA
Hastings Public SchoolsFriday, November 21, 2025
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[0:05] All right. Uh, I am Ian. I'm one of the
[0:07] camera guys and I help Hunter a lot on
[0:10] these shoots. Um, and today we're going
[0:12] to be getting this.
[0:15] Thank you, Hunter. First up, we got to
[0:18] get the tripod set up. So, generally I
[0:21] kind of like to start just extending the
[0:23] legs all the way and then I adjust it
[0:27] down to a point that is comfortable. And
[0:29] of course the other camera operators can
[0:31] change this later to whatever their
[0:34] height needs are. We have some really
[0:36] tall camera operators, let me tell you.
[0:38] Yeah, that looks about good.
[0:41] Once that's all stable, I kind of make
[0:43] sure it stays in place. Get the legs all
[0:46] tightened up and locked. And then from
[0:49] here, you also have to make sure that
[0:50] the head up here is nice and balanced.
[0:53] There's a bubble in the center. might
[0:56] have a little bit of trouble seeing it
[0:57] just because it's right underneath
[0:58] there. I'll try to lift it up so you
[1:00] can. But once that's nice and centered.
[1:03] Pretty sure that is. Yep. That is when
[1:06] we can come down here
[1:09] and grab gold camera.
[1:12] And uh yes, it does have the plate on.
[1:14] That's very important cuz that is what
[1:15] is going to allow us to Oh, power cable
[1:18] tied in there. That's what's going to
[1:20] allow us to put it on the tripod.
[1:24] So, I pressed that button in there to
[1:26] make sure that it would let it on there.
[1:28] And then I tighten that. And that camera
[1:32] is not going anywhere. So, from here,
[1:36] we get that trusty power cable I was
[1:37] just talking about. We have a trusty
[1:40] extension cable right here running from
[1:43] a power source. Plug that in there.
[1:47] And then we come over here and that
[1:49] should give us enough length to plug in
[1:52] the camera.
[1:54] There we go. Perfect. That's what you'd
[1:56] like to see. So, you'll see now uh it's
[1:58] a little bit bright and the memory card
[2:01] is full. So, we'll have to get that
[2:02] fixed. But from here, it's pretty
[2:05] straightforward. We just got to get
[2:06] those sparks that Hunter was talking
[2:08] about earlier on. So, if you want to
[2:11] come with me, we have a spark right
[2:13] here. This is the HDMI spark. So, we'll
[2:16] have to go a little bit further.
[2:22] All right. So, um, what Hunter did is he
[2:26] has totally bamboozled me and sidelined
[2:30] me, telling me I'm going to be using
[2:31] this thing today. Um, it works basically
[2:35] the same way. It sends data over the
[2:38] Ethernet cables. Um, but this one is not
[2:42] going to be able to mount onto the
[2:45] camera. So, I'm actually going to need a
[2:47] decently sized HDMI cable for this.
[2:50] Hopefully, this will be long enough, but
[2:52] uh one thing of note that you always
[2:54] want to make sure is that you're putting
[2:55] it into the right port here. So, this is
[2:57] where our Ethernet goes in. And then
[2:59] HDMI out is the wrong one. You want to
[3:01] make sure it's on the in port because
[3:03] we're sending the signal into the bird
[3:05] dog to send over to Hunter. So,
[3:10] once you have that plugged in there, we
[3:12] plug it into the camera as well. And we
[3:15] take our Ethernet down here,
[3:18] plug that into there.
[3:22] We can go ahead and just rest it on the
[3:24] camera bag. And that should be sending
[3:26] signal over to Hunter. And as far as
[3:28] that goes, aside from, as I said,
[3:30] getting some more settings, more precise
[3:32] stuff tweaked so that it looks good on
[3:34] stream, that's setting up camera.