@driftwood
Have you looked at the Brite-View AirSyncHD:
http://www.brite-view.com/air_synchd.php

It's a little more expensive than some of the other WHDI wireless transmitters, but claims a little bit better range. Still probably be tough to get 50m range, but you might be able to do 30m. The nice thing about it is it's uncompressed and very low latency compared to say Teradek's H.264 wireless stuff.

I think there may have been some discussion about it on the RED Camera forums, as some of the users there were experimenting with it.

I am working on a professional solution now. might be too late to get it from California to England...

OK, Someone tell me what to buy - I need a a sdi in box to laptop that will connect the gigawave RF receiver (SDi out) to either a sony vaio or apple mac pro. What should I buy/hire?

The Matrox Mini doesn't have SDI input. You would need the Matrox MX02 LE or the MX02 to get SDI inputs. You'd also need to go with it either the ExpressCard/34 adapter and a laptop with an open ExpressCard slot or the Thunderbolt adapter and a Thunderbolt enabled laptop.

The other option I'm aware of is the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio SDI:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/ultrastudiosdi/
This requires a laptop with a USB 3.0 port. You also need to be a little bit careful here, as some of the early USB 3.0 laptops didn't have enough internal bandwidth to the USB controller to handle the bitrates of uncompressed video. With newer laptop motherboard chipsets, I believe this is less of an issue.

The other thing you need to check if you're planning on streaming the SDI feed to the internet, is that whatever software you're using to do the streaming has support for whatever hardware you're going to use. FMLE, Wirecast and some of the other streaming software has had various issues over time working with certain video input hardware. Some of this may have been resolved with driver updates, but at the very least you'd like to know that other people have had success with the same hardware-software combination you're considering.

I believe Matrox has two versions of all their MX02 devices, one that includes their H.264 encoder (which they call Matrox MAX) and one that doesn't.

However ... my understanding is that Wirecast doesn't currently support the Matrox MAX hardware H.264 encoding so even if you had a Matrox device that supported this, you'd have to disable it to get it to work with Wirecast. See:
http://forum.telestream.net/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=45&threadid=8044

If you're streaming to the internet in less than 1080 (which is fairly common, as HD resolutions require a fair bit of bandwidth), then the Matrox devices can do the downscaling so that the software doesn't have to. The video would be coming in uncompressed and H.264 encoding would happen in software (using the CPU or GPU). Often this isn't a problem, but it would depend on the resolution of the video stream and your computer as to whether it can keep up without dropping frames.

@HillTop1 I have two Oktokopters.
You can see my work at www.helivideo.rs

LIVE roaming cam was my 'ol faithful Sony EX3 with SDI out to Gigawave Transmitter Antennae to Receiver SDI out to Matrox MX02LE SDI IN, SDI Out to MacBook Pro to Wirecast to LiveStream with two GH2's shooting recorded footage. 720p all the way apart from the GH2s on INTRA!!! :-)

I finally got my GH2 (haven't hacked it yet) and need to do this EXACT same thing this Sunday but
can't afford those ridiculous teracubes.

2 questions... #1 vitali, after the hack is th gh2 HDMI out stable, and then

Would THIS box work if I don't need to move around much but just want to GH2 as a live source
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/686585-REG/Blackmagic_Design_BINTSSHU_Intensity_Shuttle.html

Well... I am not going to hack it yet.. I'll just try it as is and see what happens, but you are saying definately hook it all up, and hit record on the camera then hope blackmagic card is recognized by procaster and if it is there is a deinterlace button. Then when I get more of a firm grip on the latest hacks I'll hack it. I was getting some stunning results on my friends GH2 at about 75mbit avchd with sharpness turned all the way down to avoid the aliasing and better match my gh13

Ok, well, I am here next to B&H and the good news is, the laptop is accepting the blackmagic device nd saying I have a fast enough usb 3.0 and computer, so I have it connected, I am about to connect the mini hdmi to hdmi in on the black magic shuttle. What I need to know is, do I set the camera to any certain mode first, or does it not matter for hdmi out? Do I set it to cinema 24p, (23.97) or 60p (59.94) or 1080i 59.94....?

If you can guide me through the menus that would help as I am sooooo used to the GH13 I am having a little learning curve on this.

I am going to try it out and see if I can go live with it on http://blackout.com as soon as I figure it out

@Blackout The GH2 outputs HDMI only thru 1080i so you may as well use 1080i setting on gh2. Setup the blackmagic card to utilise 1080i and give it a whirl. I know the Matrox 02LE works well.

Hi all, just seen this thread which goes over exactly what I am trying to do - use my new 2013 macbook pro to show live video, and images if possible that are being recorded/photographed live from my GH2.

This thread is obviously a couple of years old now, so, I'm hoping that over the last 2 years, the tech options have moved on too. My macbook has thunderbolt, which, from experience connecting macbook to tv, works well with hdmi, but haven't tried it the other way.... although as thunderbolt connectivity can be used to transfer data from a hard drive back and forth, it must be a 2 way connection.

I am relatively new to this and am trying to gather information, as this forum has been so informative in the past, I wanted to ask you guys what you would do in my situation? I would appreciate cheaper options if possible, and, wireless as well as wired options.

Can you help?

Thanks, Rob