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we did it guys we landed in vegas we're here for nab and all the amazing coverage we just hit
50 000 subscribers yesterday it's a good day this is my favorite backpack of all time this is the
nomadic peter mckinnon the larger one not the everyday pack and i pack so much stuff including
my whole pocket set up one of the coolest things is it actually has this compartment that turns
into the secondary backpack and that is what i'm actually going to bring to the show i'm trying
to back light i know a lot of people pack lighter than me this is kind of the setup we're actually
going with is pocket 6k pro got the battery grip got the viewfinder and got my sennheiser mke 440
but rather than lugging around the tripod and the large backpack basically i took out all the
essentials and put them in the secondary bag that kind of folds out we got the air pods max
we have the canon eos r i'm still a huge fan of this zion tech crane m3 this is like my
favorite gimbal right now and the eos r balances just fine on it and here we have a bunch of
accessories hard drives cables all the loose stuff rather than just throwing it in there we have my
m1 macbook pro 13-inch inside of a laptop sleeve ipad 12.9 inch pro currently watching afterlife
i cry so much during the show but it's great and then this compartment actually opens up in the
bottom to reveal the other iris cine lens my 45 we're going to be testing the battery grip and
kind of my battery anxiety with this whole setup so i currently have three batteries in the camera
i have another set of three batteries and then my favorite little extra battery pack is this guy
which actually came with my zion crane 3s pro so what i can do with that is if i'm taking a break
or i bring out the laptop to edit some of the footage then i can plug the camera in
and it's going to charge all three batteries internally i should be good for like six to
eight hours which should be plenty let's see if i get any battery anxiety with the 6k pro
focus boom filming these remote things is always difficult for me because i'm used
to my whole setup so literally a day before i leave this channel hit 50 000 subscribers [Music]
and i just want to take a quick second to
thank each and every one of you for hitting that red button it's cliche that every creator makes
one of these videos and says thank you and it all all seems meaningless until you do something like
this you don't really know the impact of what a simple click like that can do for a creator i'm
gonna follow it up with another cliche by saying it's not really about the number but it's what
that number represents it represents validation that i'm making things and growing to make things
that people actually want to see means that i'm actually starting to build a community
where people can talk and share like-minded opinions and ideas it means opportunity that
i can support my family doing what i love which is being what most people's dream is wow never
thought i'd actually start to tear up on camera been a long road to get here and uh it's exciting
to hit a milestone and it's also exciting because it feels like just the beginning so
thank you each and every one of you a little bit of advice for any creators who are just
starting out or have been doing it for years and struggling to find growth been doing youtube now
for inconsistently about five years consistently where i've really put a focus on it about two
and one of my most ugly traits was that i was constantly comparing myself to other creators
we all remember when peter mckinnon was growing like a hundred thousand subscribers a month then
again you have people like mr beast who were making like minecraft videos for six years
before he really started creating the entertaining content that he's making now i've made a lot more
mistakes on youtube than i have had successes but the best thing i can do with each failure is to
fail forward make a video that flops and you're going to everyone says just move on and that's
that's technically accurate but make sure you pause and analyze why that video flops sometimes
it's really hard to find a reason but that reason is there there's a lot of advice out there on how
to grow on youtube tik tok instagram wherever and in my personal opinion don't put too much weight
to the whole hack thing if anyone's giving advice about posting time hashtags keywords i'm not
saying don't listen to that but don't put too much weight to those because in the end they're not
going to make or break your channel what is going to make or break your channel is your ability to
tell a story doesn't mean everything needs to be this narrative storyline skit with actors and
emotion and all that stuff but literally look at any creator mr beast marquez peter mckinnon logan
and jake paul if you really analyze their stuff they're telling stories they hook you there's
stakes there's a climax there's an ending it's all there no matter what the context of the content is
but anyway enough with that uh this is kind of the introduction to the nab weekend i am
so excited to be here and i just want to give a quick shout out to the sponsor of this entire trip
and my coverage of nab and that is going to be beastgrip i'm going to be talking about
them a short bit in each video that i produce if you're new around here and you have no idea who
beastgrip is they're one of the top brands making mobile filmmaking gear from lights to microphones
to these insane awesome like full metal cages and we're going to talk about all their products this
coming weekend but in this video i just want to give a special thank you to them because
they were actually the first company to take a chance on me and this channel and started
sponsoring a couple videos last year as a creator they are a dream brand to work with they never
see the videos beforehand they don't ask me to include or not include certain you know pros and
cons of their products they accept feedback openly and again they make amazing stuff so thank you
beastgrip for sponsoring my coverage of the nab 2022 show if you guys are interested in learning
more about them and their products all their links are going to be down in the description i'm going
to be sharing a lot of content this weekend so make sure your notifications are on so you
don't miss out on anything please let me know down in the comments below i know most of you
aren't able to come to nab so if you hear about a new product or a brand may be releasing something
let me know down in the comments below i'll make my way over to their booths and if i see
cool stuff i'm gonna make a video about it if something isn't uh full youtube video worthy
but i still find cool definitely follow me on tiktok and instagram and twitter at initialfocus
everywhere because i'll be doing live updates and kind of more quick uh content stuff over
on those platforms thanks again to all 50 plus thousand of you here's to the next 50 000. see ya