- I'll tell you what I use on a day-to-day basis
to make these vlogs.
Coffee?
It's the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions.
I have not a whole lot of race prep
left to do for the long swim.
Morning Trainiacs.
Last work day before the long swim.
That means I'm resting, I'm not working out.
I'm driving in to work, which is really strange
because in Winnipeg this is actually Bike-To-Work Day.
And I'm missing out on pancake stops because of it.
Update because I know we've got a lot new Trainiacs
to the channel.
I'm swimming two days from now, well, as you see this
it'll be tomorrow, so a few hours from now.
37 kilometers in the Red River in Winnipeg,
marathon swim, one day, we're stopping every half hour.
I've been resting for the last few weeks
and I am ready.
Mmm, oh and if you're a new Trainiac, welcome, thanks.
All right, Trainiacs, got everything packed up here
for the long swim.
We're gonna be vlogging on Sunday.
So, I thought considering I was packing up
like 80% of what I use on a day-to-day basis,
I'll tell you what I use on a day-to-day basis
to make these vlogs.
All right, let's start here.
This is a Midori M5 Notebook paired
with a Uniball pen.
I use this for writing down a lot of vlog ideas.
This is like my go to stockpile of writing materials.
The pairing of the paper in this,
the Japanese paper in this,
and the pen tipping the, oh man,
it makes a really nice writing experience.
These are Bose QC35 noise canceling headphones
that we use in the office because Mel and I work
right next to each other.
And, when I edit early in the morning
and Kim's still asleep, these make it really easy
to tune in to the audio quality and still focus.
This is a bike mount.
I've never really found a bike mount for a GoPro
that I really like.
I've gone through a few but that's what I'm on right now.
Coffee?
It's the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions.
This here, if you ever see a time lapse
that's going like this, like (clicks),
that over a long period of time, the camera's moving
from side to side, that's done with this.
You take this and it's like an egg timer
and you place it somewhere and then it spins around for you.
Here, go through a lot of batteries.
We use GH4 cameras which are actually really good
for battery power, so we don't tend to use
more than one a day.
I'll usually have one in the camera
and then one in my backpack.
But, because on Sunday, we'll be going through
just hours and hours of footage,
I'm gonna pack up, I think, four.
Down here we have the OG, the original GoPro.
This is the original vlogging camera
paired with the Joby,
I think it's a Joby Active something
with a GoPro Hero 5.
Way better than the GoPro Hero 4s for vlogging
because you got the nice touchscreen and then starting
and stopping is super simple.
We've got this Cold Shoe mounted to a top
with basically a putty and that paired
with this microphone that went on top.
This is, but you know what, like, a GoPro is good
for GoPro things.
It's not good for vlogging.
Down here we've got a LavMic kit.
So, most of the time I use some sort of Shotgun mic
on top of the camera, but that works, basically,
if you're right in front of where it's pointing.
When you're in a situation like I'm in right now,
where I'm in behind the camera,
I use a LavMic so that I can go that way,
I can go that way, I can go in behind the camera.
And, the audio quality sounds the same.
So, occasionally we'll use this,
typically when I'm doing product shots
and I'm in behind the camera, like we're having
arts and crafts time.
The microphone that we use most of the time
is actually this one.
This is the RODE VideoMicro and this fuzzy thing
is a Dead Cat, so that cuts down on the wind factor
that when I'm on the bike or I'm walking around outside,
you don't here a big (air whooshing) in the wind.
But, this isn't really powerful.
So, when we're on the boat this weekend
and people are 20, 30, 50 yards, half a mile away,
I wanna be able to pick up more audio
so we'll use the RODE VideoMic Pro on top of this.
But, that is my go to vlogging rig.
Here, we've got, this is a Manfrotto tripod
with a fluid head.
I use this for, say, just stationary shots in here
set up on that couch when the camera is pointing
at me typically.
Or if I'm doing arts and crafts time,
this head goes up and down and all the way around.
I can put it horizontal and point straight down.
So, that is what I use for those.
Here, this is a Glyph Atom RAID SSD external hard drive.
This is about the fastest hard drive
that you can possibly have.
And, when you're editing videos so frequently,
you wanna reduce as many steps as possible.
So, we download all the footage every single day
to this and then edit right off of it
instead of downloading the footage to our laptop
and then moving it from the laptop to this.
We're just eliminating that step.
Most external hard drives you can't do that with.
Over here, the drone.
Really been into getting into droning lately.
This is the DJI Mavic Pro.
The controller for it.
And, I use an old Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
that's plugged into the controller here.
So, I got a nice, bright screen.
Galaxys have about the best screens that you can get
even with fingerprints.
My go to phone is the iPhone 7 Plus.
I use this over Android.
I actually like Android better,
but running a social media ad agency
you wanna see what consumers see on social platforms
so I've got this because 30% of people in North America
are on iOS.
And, while more people are actually on Android,
the way Android looks across devices is different,
so it's not consistent.
Here it's consistent.
Here, we've got a monopod.
So, this is like a tripod, but it's just one leg, basically.
This is what I'd use for footage where I'm on the go
and I'm moving around and I've gotta be really mobile
and I just need a stationary platform to put a camera on.
This is like what I use for the Birds Hill Race
that I did of Pat a couple weeks ago.
Lenses.
For GH4s their main lens is a 12 to 34.
That's what I'm shooting on right now.
You can see that it's got a little bit
of a shallow depth of field so the background
is kinda blurry, but not extremely blurry.
This is like a go to lens, but the angle isn't that wide
so I don't use that all the time.
This is a telephoto lens.
You can see why I'm not the most massive fan
of this camera because the autofocus sucks.
This is a telephoto lens that we'll be using a lot
during the long swim because anything longer
than, I don't know, about 30 meters away,
you wanna be able to zoom in a long way.
So, we'll use that.
But, the main rig that I've got all the time here is
a GH4 with a wide angle
seven to 14 millimeter lens on it.
You can see that it's kinda round there.
That's a wide angle so it gets you that nice immersive feel
that you can get in really close to me
and see a lot of the surroundings that I'm in.
And, then on it, we've got an edelkrone little adapter
and that allows me to take this off and move this camera
really easily from the Joby GorillaPod
to that tripod or that monopod or anything like,
instead of unscrewing things, you basically just go pop
and then pop it back on to everything else.
I'll show you the difference between this main lens
and that right now and you'll see why I go with that.
All right, you see this lens now?
This is the main vlogging setup.
And, if I were to point the camera down
just like I did the other camera,
you know how we were like right in on everything,
this is basically holding it the exact same spot
that I was holding everything else.
You just see so much more.
So, here you go Trainiacs.
That there is the entire vlogging setup.
I'll probably use, I don't know,
like one or two of the pieces every single day.
But, I'm not using all of them every single day.
Over the course of probably two weeks
I go through everything here.
I got no workout, I have not a whole lot of race prep
left to do for the long swim.
Kinda just have to rest up and chill out with these guys.
What are you doing down there, Grace?
What are you doing?
Playing dead?
You're doing a good job.
All right, Trainiacs, that's all I got today.
Have a good one. See you tomorrow.