Arri and SmallHD have announced a collaboration on lens-data monitor overlays that are available through a new expansion license for Arri’s Hi-5 and Hi-5 SX hand units.
The SmallHD Monitor Overlay License displays focus and iris scales and other lens data in personalized layouts that help focus pullers keep track of their marks without losing sight of the live image. The solution is available from Arri’s online license shop.
With the license, Hi-5 users can see focus scales, iris values, focal length, FocusBug CineRT data and lens information on a supported SmallHD monitor by connecting to it via USB-C or the Hi-5’s four-pin Serial connector. The overlays offer adjustable opacity, positioning, size, on/off visibility control, persistent settings after power loss, light/dark overlay themes and up to three individually customizable pages with savable layouts. Touchscreen monitors allow overlay elements to be dragged and dropped to any position on the display.
These monitors are confirmed to work with the overlay license: SmallHD Cine 5, Cine 7, Cine 13, Ultra 5, Ultra 7, Ultra 10, 703 Ultrabright and 1303 HDR, and Arri CCM-1. Other SmallHD monitors running PageOS 6 may also be supported but have not been tested by Arri.
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