Testing Clean HDMI Output with the Sony A5000 Camera and 15-Dollar Capture Card

The process of testing clean HDMI output on the Sony A5000 camera with a 15-dollar capture card is relatively straightforward. To begin, it's essential to ensure that the HDMI port is enabled on the camera. This can be done by using a command in Putty, which allows for remote access and control over the camera. The specific command used to check if the HDMI port is working is `putty -load [camera name]`, which will return a 0-0 code indicating that the HDMI port is enabled.

To confirm that the HDMI port is functioning correctly, it's necessary to power down the camera and then turn it back on. This will allow the user to see if the camera is producing clean HDMI output or not. The camera should be set to movie mode, which can be achieved by switching to this mode in the camera settings menu.

Using a 15-dollar capture card can be an affordable way to obtain clean HDMI output from the Sony A5000 camera. To connect the capture card, simply plug it into the camera and follow the manufacturer's instructions for setting up the connection.

After connecting the capture card, power on the device and confirm that the HDMI output is working correctly. The user should see a clear image with no overlays or distortion. Adjusting settings such as sharpness can also be used to fine-tune the quality of the video.

To test if the camera's HDMI output will work when turned off and then back on, power down the device, insert a memory card (if using), turn it back on, and press the shutter button. The user should not see any overlays or distortion on screen.

The Sony A5000 camera is a capable device that can produce high-quality video with clean HDMI output. When used in conjunction with a 15-dollar capture card, it becomes an even more affordable option for streaming and recording video content.

Using the Sony A5000 camera's full manual mode allows for precise control over settings such as exposure, focus, and ISO. This level of control is particularly useful when working with a capture card to ensure that the video quality meets expectations.

One notable feature of the Sony A5000 lens is its ability to produce a shallow depth of field. With an aperture of f/2.8, it can create a pleasing bokeh effect in the background, which can be useful for creating visually appealing content.

The author experimented with leaving the memory card in place while turning the camera on and off, which allowed them to test if the HDMI output would work even when the device was turned off and then back on. This process revealed that there may be a few extra steps involved, but it is still a viable option for users who want clean HDMI output.

The author also mentions streaming setup makeovers, pc builds for gaming and streaming, which can be found in other videos linked in the description section of this video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis mirrorless camera can be had for cheaper than some expensive webcams and i'm going to show you how to make it work with a computer to be used like a webcam but on steroids my name is chris this is coalition gaming and today i'll be your stream technician in my last video i talked about how this camera the sony a5000 can be the most affordable mirrorless camera that you can get to be used as a webcam on your computer for streaming zoom calls discord or whatever i did mention that there's a hack when doing it like that though and all you have to do is a quick hack to the software of the camera and then you're pretty much good to go but in this video i'm going to show you exactly the steps that you need to take in order to get that hack done it's really easy just follow along also i'll have the written instructions down in the description below and if you guys have any questions drop a comment down below and i'll see what i can do to help you guys out anyways let's get to that tutorial okay so here we are at the desktop and it's time to do the hack to get this camera to work better as a stream cam with clean hdmi out and i guess it unlimited record limit but you know i guess that's to make sure that it just stays on and doesn't shut off while using it as a stream camera so i have the steps outlined right here these steps will be down in the description below as well so you'll be able to refer to them and all links to download the stuff is also going to be down there so one of those things that we've downloaded was the pmca gui app which i have right here and then also putty because we'll need to telnet putty is a free sort of command prompt looking thing it's a terminal is what it's called and the installer will also be linked down below you install it then you get putty okay so going along with the steps i'm going to take the camera and i'm going to plug it in because i already downloaded the pmca gui app or gui some people say i just like saying gui and now it says click get camera info to the ensure computer choose your camera i guess we have to open the pmc gui pmc anyway so let's double click that open it up so the step 3 says click get camera info let's do that and uh no device is found let's turn the camera on so pretty important thing i guess to be aware of is have the camera turned on while you're going through this process now i'm going to click get camera info again and now found it firmware version 1.1.0 i think we'll be okay here and now it says to go to the install tab and there is a menu below with the list of apps that can be installed open memories tweak should be the first one so open memories tweak let's find that list there it is open memories tweak so that we select the open memories tweak button and then you click the install selected app button camera's doing a thing right now don't touch the camera you don't want to wiggle the uh the cable while it's doing any of this let's wait for it to finish okay i've waited for the installation to complete i'm going to come back to this tab and hit get camera info and make sure that it's still recognized there now the camera still says application download connecting vsp to change the usb connection mode disconnect the usb usb cable from the computer reconnect the steps say to remove the usb cable and step seven there so let's go ahead and unplug the cable now on the camera after unplugging it after going through those steps it says to find the apps tab and then we're gonna click the open memories tweaks i'm going to click menu and there's application which is right there you can see it'll be in the bottom what is the bottom left right there i'm pointing right at it here and we're going to click that and open memories tweak should be in here under application list i do that and open memories tweak is right there so i'm just selecting it and then going through i'm going to click into open memories tweak and uh at least in this one says in the video tab disable record limit okay let's do that and so i just push the button on the right of the spinning thing here to go to the video tab and then i wheel it down and i see that disable video recording limit is highlighted i'm going to press that and now that is check marked now it says to go over to the developer tab so i'm going to go over there and we're going to enable wi-fi we're also going to be enabling uh telnet enable adb is also an option there this is just not something that i think we need to do now i'm going to continue down to wi-fi settings on the camera and right here in wi-fi settings now i'm going to do access point set because i'm going to make it scan for my wifi and put it on you're going to want to do the same for you guys and so i've inputted my wifi information it is now saying that it's connecting and let's just make sure that it connects bam connected now it shows an ip address right there so it'll show an ip address for you and that's where the next part of this uh that's where that's going to come in handy and now this is where i have to open putty because that's where we're going to do the telnet thing that i mentioned earlier we're going to go here right where it opens to basically and uh hosting that let's see so host name or ip address is where you put that ip address that it shows on there let me go ahead and put this one it also tells you what port to put here so you you can see there it says port right next to it i'm going to put port and in this case it's 23. it is going to go through telnet and i'm going to click open and you get this terminal that opens up i made a quick mistake when actually connecting with putty under connection type after typing the ip address and the port that it shows on the camera right there where a connection type is you do there's ssh there's serial and then there's other and then that's when you mark telnet specifically that's what we want to use so now the ip address and port are there and you've clicked other and mark telnet we're going to click open and now it's ready so basically the trick here is turning the overlays that make it clean hdmi off and on zero is i believe going to be off in this case and one is on and so we gotta input the commands which will be down in the description below so you want to copy paste them and so you don't get them wrong so i'm just gonna take it from here so it says here in the the instructions we're going to type this command and if we type this command and press enter then we should get a one which means overlays are on so i'm going to paste that there it is and we get a 0 1 just like the instructions say so now we're going to do this other command below it and now it reported a 0 0. okay so now let's double check because now that we've done zero zero that means the overlays out of hdmi have been turned off so let's check again by copying that first command that's just the check for that and in this case in putty i'm actually right clicking to paste i'm not doing like control v or something it really seems to think right click is paste i'm not that familiar with putty i haven't used it since my early programming days so yeah press enter now this is returning a 0-0 just like the instructions say and that's how you know you're good to go for clean hdmi out so from here it says to power down the camera and then power it back on and you should be able to see right on the screen that it's whether it's going to have overlays or not so let's do that now it says switch to movie mode and the instructions to see the output without any overlays and uh well movie mode on this camera is a button that just starts recording maybe there's something in the menu to actually turn it into like actual movie mode yes it is so you go into the menu you go into shoot mode and then you go to movie and when selected uh we're going to go with full manual because we need full manual control if it's going to be more stream related and um i still have overlays but with all that done i have a 15 cheap capture card so let's get this hooked up and see how it actually looks so i actually have it connected now you can see it right here in front of me on a little tripod on the desk and moment of truth bam and i made a few adjustments mostly just adding a little bit of sharpness which is something i like to do with any camera through a capture card because i just like that clinically sharp look um and as you can see this looks pretty good and now this 100 and well i ended up paying 120 dollars for this a5000 with not even like a few minutes worth of work here we are clean hdmi out i gotta say though so far it's looking good and it's definitely worthwhile if you can find an a5000 for cheap to do this with especially with this lens which is nice and cheap as well 100 bucks 16 millimeter f 2.8 you get a nice little bit of background blur not too much you know some people like to show off what's in the background but you also want it to have a little bit of separation this kind of accomplishes that so fantastic lens used to be my mainland as a matter of fact and well yeah quick little note i wanted to see how the camera would behave if i turn it off and then back on to see if it go right back to this since i'm leaving it in movie mode because that's how it works with my a5100 but let me show you what happens so camera goes off i'm going to turn it back on and it's going to say no memory card and there you see that i'm push the shutter button and then it's you can see me again but oh no there's a there's a box on me now well i'm going to push the menu button and then i'm going to go to camera settings shoot mode movie and then push the shutter button again and we're back no more overlays so maybe a few more extra steps but that's fine that's a good trade-off just for a few extra steps if you ask me and then for the sake of completeness i put a memory card in let's turn it back off and then we're gonna turn it back on so the camera went right into the preview window i'm going to push the shutter button and actually that works better so i guess leave the memory card in there and then you just got to push the shutter button and we're back to clean hdmi glad i tried that and there you have it if you're seeing this video now and you're not sure which video i'm referencing it'll be linked right up here or um on the side somewhere or down the description below so make sure you check that out the free the previous video that i had goes more in depth on testing this especially versus like a regular webcam and pricing and all that sort of stuff like what lens to go with and all that so make sure you check that video out as well if you like this video you know what to do hit that subscribe button and that bell so you don't miss a single upload also i stream to twitch every friday at 8pm pacific at twitch.tv coalition gaming crew so feel free to stop by drop a follow and let's talk tech my friends speaking of tech and streaming we've got more videos linked right over there full stream setup makeovers pc builds for gaming and streaming all that stuff check one of those out and i'll see you in the comments section in one of those videos yeah all right see you guysthis mirrorless camera can be had for cheaper than some expensive webcams and i'm going to show you how to make it work with a computer to be used like a webcam but on steroids my name is chris this is coalition gaming and today i'll be your stream technician in my last video i talked about how this camera the sony a5000 can be the most affordable mirrorless camera that you can get to be used as a webcam on your computer for streaming zoom calls discord or whatever i did mention that there's a hack when doing it like that though and all you have to do is a quick hack to the software of the camera and then you're pretty much good to go but in this video i'm going to show you exactly the steps that you need to take in order to get that hack done it's really easy just follow along also i'll have the written instructions down in the description below and if you guys have any questions drop a comment down below and i'll see what i can do to help you guys out anyways let's get to that tutorial okay so here we are at the desktop and it's time to do the hack to get this camera to work better as a stream cam with clean hdmi out and i guess it unlimited record limit but you know i guess that's to make sure that it just stays on and doesn't shut off while using it as a stream camera so i have the steps outlined right here these steps will be down in the description below as well so you'll be able to refer to them and all links to download the stuff is also going to be down there so one of those things that we've downloaded was the pmca gui app which i have right here and then also putty because we'll need to telnet putty is a free sort of command prompt looking thing it's a terminal is what it's called and the installer will also be linked down below you install it then you get putty okay so going along with the steps i'm going to take the camera and i'm going to plug it in because i already downloaded the pmca gui app or gui some people say i just like saying gui and now it says click get camera info to the ensure computer choose your camera i guess we have to open the pmc gui pmc anyway so let's double click that open it up so the step 3 says click get camera info let's do that and uh no device is found let's turn the camera on so pretty important thing i guess to be aware of is have the camera turned on while you're going through this process now i'm going to click get camera info again and now found it firmware version 1.1.0 i think we'll be okay here and now it says to go to the install tab and there is a menu below with the list of apps that can be installed open memories tweak should be the first one so open memories tweak let's find that list there it is open memories tweak so that we select the open memories tweak button and then you click the install selected app button camera's doing a thing right now don't touch the camera you don't want to wiggle the uh the cable while it's doing any of this let's wait for it to finish okay i've waited for the installation to complete i'm going to come back to this tab and hit get camera info and make sure that it's still recognized there now the camera still says application download connecting vsp to change the usb connection mode disconnect the usb usb cable from the computer reconnect the steps say to remove the usb cable and step seven there so let's go ahead and unplug the cable now on the camera after unplugging it after going through those steps it says to find the apps tab and then we're gonna click the open memories tweaks i'm going to click menu and there's application which is right there you can see it'll be in the bottom what is the bottom left right there i'm pointing right at it here and we're going to click that and open memories tweak should be in here under application list i do that and open memories tweak is right there so i'm just selecting it and then going through i'm going to click into open memories tweak and uh at least in this one says in the video tab disable record limit okay let's do that and so i just push the button on the right of the spinning thing here to go to the video tab and then i wheel it down and i see that disable video recording limit is highlighted i'm going to press that and now that is check marked now it says to go over to the developer tab so i'm going to go over there and we're going to enable wi-fi we're also going to be enabling uh telnet enable adb is also an option there this is just not something that i think we need to do now i'm going to continue down to wi-fi settings on the camera and right here in wi-fi settings now i'm going to do access point set because i'm going to make it scan for my wifi and put it on you're going to want to do the same for you guys and so i've inputted my wifi information it is now saying that it's connecting and let's just make sure that it connects bam connected now it shows an ip address right there so it'll show an ip address for you and that's where the next part of this uh that's where that's going to come in handy and now this is where i have to open putty because that's where we're going to do the telnet thing that i mentioned earlier we're going to go here right where it opens to basically and uh hosting that let's see so host name or ip address is where you put that ip address that it shows on there let me go ahead and put this one it also tells you what port to put here so you you can see there it says port right next to it i'm going to put port and in this case it's 23. it is going to go through telnet and i'm going to click open and you get this terminal that opens up i made a quick mistake when actually connecting with putty under connection type after typing the ip address and the port that it shows on the camera right there where a connection type is you do there's ssh there's serial and then there's other and then that's when you mark telnet specifically that's what we want to use so now the ip address and port are there and you've clicked other and mark telnet we're going to click open and now it's ready so basically the trick here is turning the overlays that make it clean hdmi off and on zero is i believe going to be off in this case and one is on and so we gotta input the commands which will be down in the description below so you want to copy paste them and so you don't get them wrong so i'm just gonna take it from here so it says here in the the instructions we're going to type this command and if we type this command and press enter then we should get a one which means overlays are on so i'm going to paste that there it is and we get a 0 1 just like the instructions say so now we're going to do this other command below it and now it reported a 0 0. okay so now let's double check because now that we've done zero zero that means the overlays out of hdmi have been turned off so let's check again by copying that first command that's just the check for that and in this case in putty i'm actually right clicking to paste i'm not doing like control v or something it really seems to think right click is paste i'm not that familiar with putty i haven't used it since my early programming days so yeah press enter now this is returning a 0-0 just like the instructions say and that's how you know you're good to go for clean hdmi out so from here it says to power down the camera and then power it back on and you should be able to see right on the screen that it's whether it's going to have overlays or not so let's do that now it says switch to movie mode and the instructions to see the output without any overlays and uh well movie mode on this camera is a button that just starts recording maybe there's something in the menu to actually turn it into like actual movie mode yes it is so you go into the menu you go into shoot mode and then you go to movie and when selected uh we're going to go with full manual because we need full manual control if it's going to be more stream related and um i still have overlays but with all that done i have a 15 cheap capture card so let's get this hooked up and see how it actually looks so i actually have it connected now you can see it right here in front of me on a little tripod on the desk and moment of truth bam and i made a few adjustments mostly just adding a little bit of sharpness which is something i like to do with any camera through a capture card because i just like that clinically sharp look um and as you can see this looks pretty good and now this 100 and well i ended up paying 120 dollars for this a5000 with not even like a few minutes worth of work here we are clean hdmi out i gotta say though so far it's looking good and it's definitely worthwhile if you can find an a5000 for cheap to do this with especially with this lens which is nice and cheap as well 100 bucks 16 millimeter f 2.8 you get a nice little bit of background blur not too much you know some people like to show off what's in the background but you also want it to have a little bit of separation this kind of accomplishes that so fantastic lens used to be my mainland as a matter of fact and well yeah quick little note i wanted to see how the camera would behave if i turn it off and then back on to see if it go right back to this since i'm leaving it in movie mode because that's how it works with my a5100 but let me show you what happens so camera goes off i'm going to turn it back on and it's going to say no memory card and there you see that i'm push the shutter button and then it's you can see me again but oh no there's a there's a box on me now well i'm going to push the menu button and then i'm going to go to camera settings shoot mode movie and then push the shutter button again and we're back no more overlays so maybe a few more extra steps but that's fine that's a good trade-off just for a few extra steps if you ask me and then for the sake of completeness i put a memory card in let's turn it back off and then we're gonna turn it back on so the camera went right into the preview window i'm going to push the shutter button and actually that works better so i guess leave the memory card in there and then you just got to push the shutter button and we're back to clean hdmi glad i tried that and there you have it if you're seeing this video now and you're not sure which video i'm referencing it'll be linked right up here or um on the side somewhere or down the description below so make sure you check that out the free the previous video that i had goes more in depth on testing this especially versus like a regular webcam and pricing and all that sort of stuff like what lens to go with and all that so make sure you check that video out as well if you like this video you know what to do hit that subscribe button and that bell so you don't miss a single upload also i stream to twitch every friday at 8pm pacific at twitch.tv coalition gaming crew so feel free to stop by drop a follow and let's talk tech my friends speaking of tech and streaming we've got more videos linked right over there full stream setup makeovers pc builds for gaming and streaming all that stuff check one of those out and i'll see you in the comments section in one of those videos yeah all right see you guys\n"