This is the cleanest one terabyte iPhone 15 Pro Max SSD setup that I've
been able to come up with but before I show you how to make it yourself I want
to run through a couple different setups that you've been asking me to test out.
I'll leave everything linked In the description below however the video I uploaded yesterday
found out that this beloved cable that I've had for probably six years now is discontinued but I
will link a very similar cable down there and they're all like six to ten dollars so it's a
nice budget friendly video you know once you buy the expensive iPhone all right so the first setup
that you guys asked me is can you hook up a USBC dongle so that you can do multiple things with
the iPhone's USBC port at once you just have this USBC dongle which does have two USB type-c ports
one is a 10 gigabits per second data transfer port and the other one is power delivery PDN
stand for power delivery or power and data yeah we'll see all right let's grab our iPhone here by
the way if you're interested in the wallpaper we put it on the website for two bucks attach
our dongle first good old battery Bank power delivery to the phone cool phone is charging
so now can we take a SSD plug it in 10 gig Port we will open up our camera and we see USBC at
the bottom so it's confirmed you could just you know carry around this and record amazing video
launch camera promotion videos are probably the most deceiving marketing tools out there
they're shot in amazing places by professional cinematographers and it can be incredibly
depressing when you get that camera and wonder why your footage doesn't look the same it's no
different than when phone companies Market their cameras the truth is is you don't need to travel
to extravagant places or be a professional cinematographer in order to get images that
you're happy with out of your phone whether you're new to iPhone or just want to level up your photos
and videos that you take on it I put together the ultimate iPhone filmmaking guide we'll go through
all the basics and advanced level techniques that I've learned over the years about what settings to
change what accessories are worth it native app reverse third party walkthroughs on everything
and I truly want to help you take your photos and videos that look like this to something like this
now currently I have it set at an insane deal because I'm still adding videos in it currently
but we've just put up some awesome new videos and now that I have the new iPhone in hand a lot more
coming in the next couple days mobile filmmaking has been something I've been passionate about
for years and I'm so excited to put this guy together for you thanks to everyone who have
joined link is in the description to learn more I just realized I'm wearing my B script shirt
I just wanted to wear a white shirt and we're talking about B script stuff I swear this is not
sponsored uh by B script but they are cool and products will be in the description but right
before we get to the cleanest setup I want to go over my beefiest clean setup so this is the setup
where if you want to attach lenses microphones multiple accessories too you want something like
this so the basic setup of this one is we have the Beast for a pro I just have a single little
mini magic arm and a extending phone holder right there but you can use whatever SSD attachment you
have so I'm going to throw in my iPhone now if you aren't using any lenses you can sort of take
this off or like me I just put it down far enough to where it's below the lenses and so I can have
access to all through my lenses without them being covered up if I normally want to connect
a lens and make sure it fits nice in that slot and our phone is nicely seated in there what I
was testing out the other day it was just simply plugging in the USBC cable or take my drive I'm
gonna sit it on top there kind of goes my grip and it interferes with the cable I'm worried
about breaking it I'm just so worried about that component snapping so we're gonna grab the other
right angle the flat right angle one here and so now our usb-c Port is aiming up and so it's just
so much cleaner to just have cable right there and now our right grip is completely unaffected
also for those curious who either have a bunch of b-script lenses like me they'll all be compatible
and test really nicely with the iPhone 15 Series yeah that looks sharp so if you're like me and
you don't like using the ultra wide lens as much because it's just a lot less quality than your
main sensor but you want something a little wider than your main sensor all right so now we are done
with the beefy clean setup and now is the time that you guys have been waiting for let's get
the cleanest setup something that I can actually imagine keeping in my pocket throughout the day so
for this we are going to take this little adapter this is a male to male USB type c if you look at
something outside of the ones I have listed that they don't just support charging this one for
example is actually a USB 4.0 so it supports up to 40 gigabits per second and the second one we'll be
using is actually just 10 gigabits per second but that's more than enough for recording and this is
a male to female and the reason I needed both of these is because I'm going to be using this little
beautiful drive the angel bird pocket to go this is a one terabyte drive they come in other options
and the thing that I love most about this drive is it has a kind of receded connector plug-in to
drive if I take my T3 drive here plug this in you have a big point of failure because that's like a
big stress right there right so their drives recede in quite a bit so first I'm going to
attach this to the bottom of the phone and now we instantly have like an inverted USBC so now we're
aiming back towards the phone it's much smaller form sticking out the bottom I think the one I
linked is even skinnier and smaller profile than this obviously this setup is probably not going
to work with cases at least most cases this is truly the cleanest and most minimal as in no
cases unfortunately the connector is so receded that I need a little bit more of an extension so
what I did was is connect this to that in this to this so it's essentially a really long USB C port
and so now this will fit inside there it's got a little bit extra length and so now we have an SSD
that is connected it's flush to the back of the phone basically the same thickness as the phone
when I hold it honestly it feels the same way my 14 did in a case with my back wallet so it's
still very low profile from phone usage there's only one really issue that I'm trying to solve
here and that is the fact that it's a little Wiggly because it's not extremely tight the
adapter into the phone is not perfectly flush and so it does wiggle a little bit right there
and then this is just a decent amount of weight and strain is I'm going to take this off I'm
actually going to glue these two pieces together because that has a little bit of play in it as
well ideally I'd like to use very small Crazy Glue thankfully you did not do a very minimalist job
and set that off to the side for a minute well that one's drying I'll show you the
most important bit which of course is the fact that does it actually work does it have dropped
frames because a lot of people again using that really small SanDisk USB I saw someone
tweet that it was dropping frames and so the write speeds I guess weren't fast enough and
if I launch my camera app we can see USB C at the bottom I recorded like five minute Clips in 4k 60
prores and I had zero drop frames it never stopped recording so these adapters definitely have the
right speeds capable of handling this footage which is great and in a way this is kind of
like a two terabyte iPhone because if I go into my files app I can see one terabyte Angel bird
here's all of my footage that I just shot that I can put files on here I could put whatever I want
I need to do one thing temporarily I'm gonna see if just a little bit of Gaff tape put the tape on
the back could just go word to my phone makes it a little better I think double-sided tape would
definitely be the way to go Gaff tape is uh not very sticky but it works and I know a lot of you
will be asking what drives would support this sort of thing even if you don't want the recessed Drive
the T3 is definitely too thick but I believe a regular t7 would work I only have the t7 rugged
which is way too thick now one thing that I will definitely fix this is I believe there's going
to be tons of case companies that come out with SSD holder cases and grips and all that stuff so
I imagine a couple months from now this isn't even going to be a problem at all but for now
the reason that I like this setup is because so many people pointed out the problems of like
this is cool but I'm not going to carry around all these dongles I'm not going to carry around
something like this with an SSD attached on top but this is honestly a setup that I would throw
in my pocket or I would just disconnect throw it in our like diaper bag with the kids or something
and then when we go out if I notice that like hey I want to shoot a lot of stuff if we're in a cool
place and just take this out of the bag throw it on there and now I can go around and still have a
very small form factor you know you want to film a concert or something you know you're not really
going to have an issue bringing this in but do you guys have any thoughts to improving this
let me know down in the comments below again if you're interested in learning how to take
your iPhone filmmaking to the next level check out my guide and all these different products
in the link in the description it's truly one of the only Reasons I'm able to continue to
make videos like this for you guys thanks so much for watching I'll see you guys in the next video