The Sony Xperia Pro is a device that has been designed to facilitate the uploading of high-quality images and videos via FTP, with the goal of bridging the gap between professional applications and portability.

so what you can do is you can actually set up ftp as you're shooting to be uploading those individually now if you don't have any way of doing that in the field there are some devices that have been available for this but be able to do this with your phone particularly the xperia pro is pretty amazing and so you can actually use push ftp through the phone now one of the frustrations that i had back then with what the a9 was able to do is that it supports ftp with stills only well now with the a7 s3 we can do stills and video via ftp and as long as the camera's powered up the phone's powered up you can throw it in your backpack and it's constantly uploading in the background so if you're working with an editor or somebody that can retrieve it on the other end

one thing to clarify is that you're not going to use xperia pro as a recorder so you're not going to put an hdmi signal into that and then record onto the phone main reason being is the size of the data you've got a much higher quality camera at this point and so storage is going to be clearly an issue on something like a phone but you can use xperia pro as a monitor via hdmi you can also plug the camera in via usbc

you're going to record natively inside the camera and then you can have that ftp push going and that will upload it somewhere the most popular use for xperia pro is going to be live streaming now xperia pro has the same camera system as the xperia 1 mark ii it's one of my favorite camera systems of any smartphone and i think it is just absolutely outstanding

however this does give you the option because we have that hdmi signal now to take an input from a much fancier camera with a much better quality and bigger lenses and you're able to use that for live streaming and so the way it's going to work is that most streaming services such as instagram or facebook are built to use the cameras that are built into the phone and in some cases i'm thinking instagram

they really only use the main camera so this is interesting because there are some workarounds so youtube will natively support xperia pro and if you're using an external camera to do this another way to do this that'll serve as a workaround to things like facebook or instagram is to use a third-party app like streamyard or streamlabs that will essentially access services that use an rtmp server

so this includes things like vimeo twitch facebook youtube so on so forth and what you're gonna do is when you open it up it essentially sees the hdmi connection as a fifth camera in this case and so you can select that as your camera you're good to go and you're up to stream let's talk about speed and upload for a second

so with a 5g connection sony you're saying you're going to get a maximum of 131 megabits per second now this is probably not consistent your average is going to be more like 115 which is still pretty impressive especially when you compare that to 4g so your maximum on 4g is going to be 37 megabits per second the average being around 30

so it's a considerable speed bump if you've got good connection with 5g as i mentioned earlier there are some devices out there that do facilitate taking an hdmi signal and being able to upload so things like live use solo or even teradek

there is a considerable cost difference in both of these things you also don't have the advantage of the screen and having a phone that you're doing it with and they're hd only and they only support 4g so xperia pro is letting you do this with a phone with much better specs than anything that's out there currently

one thing i have not talked about yet is the price point so xperia pro comes in at 2500 u.s this is not cheap for a smartphone this is very expensive however when you consider that what it's doing is it's bridging professional application with connectivity with portability and with the size of what you're able to get out of a phone

and when you consider the alternatives out there that we've used in the past for doing this type of thing it's actually very affordable i would love to know what you guys think so so drop me a comment below i'll see you guys in the next video until then later

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay this is cool so this down here is my sony a7s iii i've got it in a small rig cage up on the top is the brand new sony xperia pro i have covered several xperia phones on this show the most recent being the sony xperia 1 mark ii this is a phone but it's very different this is a smartphone that's capable of 5g it also has an hdmi input on it so what i can do is i can take a signal from the camera i can feed that into the phone the hdmi signal will support up to 4k at 60p and you're able to do a lot with that so i'm going to give you some use cases i'm gonna show you why this is probably the most unusual smartphone i have ever seen this is going to take things to a whole new level in terms of content creation what you're able to do but first let's break down the phone and let's talk about the xperia pro i did a review on the xperia one mark ii when that came out a few months ago in fact that was one of my favorite phones of 2020. the other two being the iphone 12 pro max as well as the samsung note 20 ultra xperia 1 mark ii was a really unique smartphone and my favorite feature of it was the cameras i think it had the best lenses and the best autofocus system of any of the cameras and they introduced raw support so you get a lot with the xperia one too so the sony xperia pro is going to bring a lot of features and functionality of the xperia one mark ii over in fact on the surface they look very similar you're going to see that it has the same camera system in it has all the same specs there's a few differences the first one you're going to notice is on the outside it's almost like it's built into a case this is a more heavy duty phone and we're going to get into why because if you're going to be pairing this up with cameras and using it in the field for production purposes you're going to want something a little more rugged another addition to xperia pro is we now have a button that is dedicated to being a custom app launcher so if you're in the field you don't want to dig through the touch interface and find things you can assign that to something so if i just want to pull up the network visualizer or want to pull up the monitoring app i can just do it with one press plus we also have an hdmi port which is essential because this is how we're going to connect it up with a proper camera this is also a 5g phone we've got a snapdragon 865 chipset we also have a boost in ram you get 12 gigabytes of ram and now the storage has been raised to 512 gigabytes the obvious reasons is if you're going to be doing production types of stuff you're going to need more memory to facilitate that and probably more storage in the phone 5g has been impressively integrated into this phone so one of the unique things about this is there is actually a four-way antenna design in addition to that we also have an app that runs native in the phone called network visualizer when you open this up this is going to give you a visualization of how the antennas are receiving throughput it gives you sort of a histogram if you will if you're concerned about your signal strength or your reception at all you can open up the visualizer and actually see it and obviously if you're in an area that doesn't support 5g the phone will default back to 4g signal and anyway if you've ever been in a remote area and you're trying to get something uploaded you're doing a lot of this or going to the back of the room well you don't have to anymore you can actually see where the signal is coming from which is a really nice addition let's talk for a second about context and xperia pro and why i think that this is such a game-changing device for a phone so when you look at the last 10 years or so mobile technology has changed the way that we not only consume content but the way that we create content so for instance from a consumption level we can watch youtube we can watch netflix we can do it from our phone we can do it while traveling we can do it on the go because we have connectivity and a really good screen and the processing power to make that all happen it's also changed the way that we create content and people who don't really consider themselves content creators probably are everyone if you have an instagram account a facebook account or even just texting people you have the ability to be in the moment to capture images and capture video from your phone that are pretty good quality and be able to upload them to the web or even live stream and share that in a very immediate context now what xperia pro is going to do for us is it gives us the ability to use the hdmi signal to hook up a camera and not only for video but also for stills this opens up an enormous amount of possibilities now these examples are all from a consumer standpoint but also consider this in a professional context if you're a photographer who shoots sports for instance when you have the game-winning shot and you work for a media outlet and it has to be on the website in a matter of seconds there has to be a way for that to happen and right now there is there's devices there's boxes you can do but the integration into something as simple and as compact and small as a phone with 5g connectivity is a big game changer a few weeks ago there was an article on petapixel where someone had spotted someone using a gimbal and an a7r4 shooting a football game this was really interesting because it gives you a different camera angle a different style and a different way of producing what the game looks like and if you've ever watched an nfl game you realize that those are very highly produced events and this gives you another tool to get something out of that another flavor that you can see and so combining that now with a device like this once again it's small it's relatively affordable considering the devices that we have available currently for something like this that don't even support 5g but to be able to shoot video and have that beaming back to the broadcast truck and used in the editing process or the broadcast of what you're viewing that's pretty amazing let's look at some use cases of what you can actually do with xperia pro so first of all you can use it as a monitor so this would be something like using it like you would in ninja 5 there are others but this is a 5g phone so it's going to bring us to those broadcast possibilities that i talked about before and you can't do that with just an external monitor when i reviewed the xperia 1 mark ii one of the things that's really impressive on that phone is the screen the xperia pro has the same screen so you can use this in a variety of applications so for instance just as a monitor you can pinch to zoom so if you're shooting stills and you want to be able to have critical focus you're in a situation where you don't want to look through the viewfinder maybe you're working with a model or maybe you're working on still life from a low angle something like that you can pinch to zoom in and do critical focus you can also do this in video as well and so it works great as a monitor but because we have 5g connectivity there's a number of things that we can do in both stills and video from this standpoint as well and you can also be connected to the phone via usbc for tethering applications last year i did a video on the sony a92 specifically on connecting that via ethernet to an ftp server and what you can do in studio to do that now one of the downsides with the sony a9 is it does stills only so i can be in the studio i can be shooting stills it's essentially tethering over to lightroom or whatever application i want it to be tethering to because it's able to just push those functionalities via ftp so one of the things that's really cool about this is this gives you a remote application let's say that you're back in that sports example you're shooting stills of a game and that game-winning shot or game-winning goal has to be up on the internet what you can do is you can actually set up ftp as you're shooting to be uploading those individually now if you don't have any way of doing that in the field there are some devices that have been available for this but be able to do this with your phone particularly the xperia pro is pretty amazing and so you can actually use push ftp through the phone now one of the frustrations that i had back then with what the a9 was able to do is that it supports ftp with stills only well now with the a7 s3 we can do stills and video via ftp and as long as the camera's powered up the phone's powered up you can throw it in your backpack and it's constantly uploading in the background so if you're working with an editor or somebody that can retrieve it on the other end one thing to clarify is that you're not going to use xperia pro as a recorder so you're not going to put an hdmi signal into that and then record onto the phone main reason being is the size of the data you've got a much higher quality camera at this point and so storage is going to be clearly an issue on something like a phone but you can use xperia pro as a monitor via hdmi you can also plug the camera in via usbc you're going to record natively inside the camera and then you can have that ftp push going and that will upload it somewhere the most popular use for xperia pro is going to be live streaming now xperia pro has the same camera system as the xperia 1 mark ii it's one of my favorite camera systems of any smartphone and i think it is just absolutely outstanding however this does give you the option because we have that hdmi signal now to take an input from a much fancier camera with a much better quality and bigger lenses and you're able to use that for live streaming and so the way it's going to work is that most streaming services such as instagram or facebook are built to use the cameras that are built into the phone and in some cases i'm thinking instagram they really only use the main camera so this is interesting because there are some workarounds so youtube will natively support xperia pro and if you're using an external camera to do this another way to do this that'll serve as a workaround to things like facebook or instagram is to use a third-party app like streamyard or streamlabs that will essentially access services that use an rtmp server so this includes things like vimeo twitch facebook youtube so on so forth and what you're gonna do is when you open it up it essentially sees the hdmi connection as a fifth camera in this case and so you can select that as your camera you're good to go and you're up to stream let's talk about speed and upload for a second so with a 5g connection sony you're saying you're going to get a maximum of 131 megabits per second now this is probably not consistent your average is going to be more like 115 which is still pretty impressive especially when you compare that to 4g so your maximum on 4g is going to be 37 megabits per second the average being around 30. so it's a considerable speed bump if you've got good connection with 5g as i mentioned earlier there are some devices out there that do facilitate taking an hdmi signal and being able to upload so things like live use solo or even teradek there is a considerable cost difference in both of these things you also don't have the advantage of the screen and having a phone that you're doing it with and they're hd only and they only support 4g so xperia pro is letting you do this with a phone with much better specs than anything that's out there currently one thing i have not talked about yet is the price point so xperia pro comes in at 2500 u.s this is not cheap for a smartphone this is very expensive however when you consider that what it's doing is it's bridging professional application with connectivity with portability and with the size of what you're able to get out of a phone and when you consider the alternatives out there that we've used in the past for doing this type of thing it's actually very affordable it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out this is the most unique phone that i have ever seen and i think that the possibilities that it opens for live broadcast especially but also ftp is outstanding i would love to know what you guys think so so drop me a comment below i'll see you guys in the next video until then later\n"