Hey guys, in this video I'm going to be showing you footage from the DJI Pocket 2.
So this video isn't going to go into loads of technical specs and details like that
it's more so for me to do a test to see what the footage looks like straight from the camera in
Normal color profile and then also graded using the log-like profile it's called D-Cinelike
and to also hear what the audio sounds like in different environments, so yeah that's really
what this video is it's going to be. A test of the footage and the audio, let's get to it.
The Pocket 2 also shoots 4k at 60p the only problem is it does drop
the quality down to Battery Saver so it's not high quality footage
so it'd be really interesting to see what the footage looks like. One of the
reasons I would want to use 60p is so that I could just do a little bit of slow-mo
but there is a slow-mo feature in the Pocket 2, again I think that also drops
it down to a lower quality but it'll be one to check out and see how it looks.
So i'm going to talk a little bit about audio now and it's a little bit windy so it'll be really
interesting to see how the audio sounds with gusts of wind that are about 33 mph
hopefully it doesn't cut the audio out too much, but one of the most important things for
me when I was looking to get a smaller camera that I could take around with me
was having something that I could record the audio directly into and so I needed something that the
audio was going to be of good quality what. I have found is that if I'm recording inside and
I'm using the pocket too inside, the audio sounds more muffled from the microphones that are
directly built into the Pocket 2, whereas if I'm outdoors it does sound a lot better
but it's not too much of a problem because if I did shoot indoors which is going to be very rare
I'd be able to edit the audio in something like Adobe Audition.
so one of the reasons I really wanted to get the Creator Combo was because I wanted
to get the Do-It-All Handle and the reason for that was because the Creator Combo also comes
with the wireless microphone transmitter and you need to Do-It-All Handle for it to work but
the wireless microphone transmitter is not just a transmitter but also the microphone
so if I switch it on... just find it in my pocket... if I switch it on it should pair directly
to the Pocket 2 straight away and then the audio should... the audio should switch over, cool okay
so it switched over and this is the audio that is coming directly from the wireless transmitter, so
again still really windy with gusts that are quite heavy so it'll be interesting to see
how it sounds with the wireless transmitter. The other thing that you can do with this is
plug your lav mic in but I have tried it and for some reason my lav mic doesn't work so
I don't know if that's just because the connection isn't correct, it's the lav mic from
the Rode link so I don't know if that differs a little bit from the smart lav, the Rode smartlav
it probably does so maybe that's something that I'll get and I can try it out with the transmitter
but for now I'm gonna switch it over to plugging the wireless... the, my lav mic directly into the
Pocket 2 so you can see how that sounds as well. So I'm just gonna switch this off and go
back to the Pocket 2 audio and now I'm going to put my lav mic directly into the Pocket 2,
this is now from the lav mic that's on my chest
and this is how the audio sounds for this and so for the rest of the video
I'm probably just going to use this setup or the in-built microphone from the Pocket 2.
One of the first things that I did when I got the Pocket 2 was set it to Pro mode because I
wanted to have access to the manual settings even though shooting in Normal color profile with auto
settings looks really decent, I just wanted to be able to have that natural motion blur that you
that you have when you use the 180-degree rule so I wanted to be able to set all my settings
manually and be able to achieve that, the only thing is if you do have manual settings
then you're going to need ND filters but that's something I'll talk about in another video
the other advantage to setting the dji pocket 2 to pro mode is that you get access to a color
profile called D-Cinelike which is a log-like profile so if you want to color grade your footage
or color correct your footage then you have the option to do that with a little bit more freedom
rather than using the Normal color profile. It's also great if you're shooting with
another camera and you want to try and match the footage then you just have that bit of extra
capacity in order to do that with d-cinelike.
The Pocket 2 also has a zoom feature, 2x zoom
it's not optical it is digital but this is what it looks like.
The Pocket 2 Creator Combo comes with a 15mm wide...
The Pocket 2 Creator Combo
comes with a 15mm wide-angle lens, which I don't think I'll end up using that
much because I'm definitely going to be using ND filters but I'll let you see what it looks
like and it'll be interesting to see what it looks like anyway so this is what the footage
looks like with it and without.
So this is with the wide-angle lens off, and this is with it on
and off
and on.
So I'm not necessarily going to be using the Pocket 2 in low-light situations but I did
want to see what the quality of the footage looks like if I did need to shoot indoors at any point
and the quality of the light was really low. So I'm in a room at the moment
where I haven't switched the lights on I've just got natural light coming from this big window
here to my right and then this small window behind me and this is what the footage looks like.
I'm currently shooting in Auto not Manual, so yeah this is what the footage looks like in low-light.
I also wanted to do a quick test of me running with the Pocket 2 to see
how stable it was going to be so here we go.
be interesting to see what the footage looks like.
I'm so out of shape.
So that's the Pocket 2. I think it's a great little camera and one that I'm definitely
gonna take around with me wherever I go. If you found this video useful consider giving
it a thumbs up if you're new to my channel welcome and I hope you subscribe so that you
can see more videos like this but yeah thanks for watching and I'll see you guys on the next video.
The case for the Pocket 2 is great but
even though you can fit all your accessories in here I find that they fall out every now and then
so I've just dropped my smartphone adapter somewhere here which I'm now trying to find