- Today we're talking about the DJI Osmo Pocket
and how this little tiny camera can make you some money.
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If you're new here to this channel, my name is Jeven Dovey,
I like to do camera reviews, filmmaking tutorials,
and I like to travel and go on adventures
and take you along with me for the ride.
One thing before we get started,
I'm doing a giveaway for a DJI Osmo Pocket
as part of my 200K giveaway on this channel
so make sure you head down in the description
so you can enter for your chance to win
one of these awesome cameras.
So today we're talking about the DJI Osmo Pocket
and I've had this camera for a little while now.
I got a chance to work
with a pre-release version of this camera
and then this one came as soon as they were released
so I've had this camera for a little while now
and I've been using it in a lot of different scenarios.
Earlier in this week I put out a vlog
that was all shot completely on the DJI Osmo Pocket.
So I'll make sure to link that down
in the description down below
so you can see how this camera performs
when put in a vlog-like setting.
But this video is not just a review about this camera,
this video is going to teach you some ways
in which that you can make money using this little guy
because the DJI Osmo Pocket
is a very powerful camera when it's used right.
It has a clean image and it shoots 4K60.
And obviously the best part about it
is that it legitimately fits in your pocket.
Now everywhere that I've been going recently,
I always take my DJI Osmo Pocket with me
and I stick it in my pocket.
It's the first camera that's called a pocket camera
that actually fits in your pocket.
Now obviously like your GoPro will fit in your pocket
but your GoPro is a little bit different
than a DJI Osmo Pocket, I feel like they're in
kind of two different classes of cameras.
A GoPro or any camera like that is an action camera
and the DJI Osmo Pocket is not an action camera
and if you watch my vlog from earlier in this week,
you'll see that it does not perform very well
in an action camera setting,
that's what an action camera is for.
This is a gimbal so it needs to be used like a gimbal.
Now obviously being so small,
people want to compare this to a GoPro HERO7
in terms of stability and everything else that comes with it
but I honestly think that they're two different cameras
and I've been using the DJI Osmo Pocket very differently
than I've been using the GoPro HERO7
and I think that if you need a camera for both situations
that it's better just to have both cameras
rather than having to pick between one or the other.
Now before we get into some settings
and some things that I've discovered about this camera,
let's talk about how you can actually make money
using your DJI Osmo Pocket.
And to do that we're gonna go up in the mountains
'cause we're gonna show you some footage
as I was climbing one of the peaks around Los Angeles.
Okay so I've warmed up a little bit,
let's talk about how you can make money
using your DJI Osmo Pocket
and this is like the perfect camera to take with me
when I'm out doing these kind of adventures
because you can get really stable shots
that you can sell as stock footage
and that's the whole game plan here.
Stock footage is a very awesome way
to be able to make money using basically any camera
and the Osmo Pocket is definitely optimized
to sell stock footage because you could sell
4K at 60 frames a second.
So that means that you could shoot 60 frames a second
and out of that footage,
you could sell a 30 frames per second clip,
24 frames per second clip, 60 frames per second clip,
so you got not only real time footage
but you have slow mo footage all at 4K.
And as you sell shots, you start making more and more money.
I mean it's a great way to make money using your camera
and the Osmo Pocket is a great option for it.
So first let's dive in to some settings
and some different things you need to do
with your Osmo Pocket
to be able to optimize it for stock footage.
One thing that has really helped
in terms of getting better footage
is getting little ND filters
and ND filters with a polarizer.
So I just got a new set of these filters,
you can see them, look how small they are
and this is a new set of ND filters with a polarizer
that work with the DJI Osmo Pocket.
Now the beauty of these little filters
is that they're completely magnetic
so you're not taking anything off the lens,
you are just snapping it right on the lens.
For the most part I've been using the ND 32
with the polarizer on it
and this one I'll just keep attached
and I put it right in the case and it doesn't fall off,
it actually works very well.
Now there's different strengths of ND filters
and the Freewell package comes with all of them.
Not only do they come with the polarizer
but it comes without the polarizer.
And the reason that you want to use an ND filter
just in general, I have a whole video all about ND filters
but the shortened version is that it allows you
to control your shutter speed.
So if you don't use an ND filter,
what happens is that your camera has to compensate
by boosting your shutter speed
and when you boost your shutter speed super high,
say like 1/2,000 of a second,
you get this kind of mechanical jitter look to your footage
and the reason for that is there's no motion blur.
So when you're shooting at high shutter speeds,
it cuts out all the motion blur
and what makes something cinematic
is that it has a little bit of motion blur.
So the standard for Hollywood is 180 degrees shutter
and what that means in terms of shutter speed
is double that of your frame rate.
And I'm not gonna go into all the details about it
but basically when you get your shutter speed down
to double that of your frame rate,
so here I'm shooting 30 frames a second
and when I put it at 1/60, you get that motion blur
and that motion blur just makes your footage more cinematic,
it's just a style that was adopted by cinema
and it's been the norm for standard footage.
Now when you shoot at higher shutter speeds,
you get this kind of mechanical look,
your footage might not sell as stock footage as well
because people want footage that looks good in the edit.
So if somebody is shooting a project
and all of their project is shot
in the standard 180 degree shutter rule
and then they go and buy one of your shots
that has really high shutter speed,
it's gonna look out of place.
So that's the reason why you want to get ND filters
especially when you're selling stock footage
because you want to put yourself in the best place possible
to be able to get your footage sold.
The DJI Osmo Pocket is a great camera
just to get B-roll shots, it's clean,
it doesn't have any distortion going on in the image
and you can integrate it
into whatever project you're working on.
Now there's a few limitations you have to think about.
First the footage does get noisy
especially when you start getting into low-light.
So this is definitely a daylight camera
or a camera that you use
when you have lots of light available.
As soon as you start getting low-light,
it's not the best camera
just because it has a lot of noise in the footage.
Now in terms of best settings
that I've found to make this camera work,
you wanna shoot in the slow follow mode
so when you go to your menu system,
you can see that there's a fast or slow,
when you put it in the fast mode, it whips around too much
and it just doesn't have a natural feel to it.
When you put it in the slow mode,
it has some nice feathering and so you can get nice shots
where it's moving slowly in and out
and it doesn't have any jolty motion.
Now in terms of the different settings,
I like to use the follow mode or the tilt lock mode.
If you use the FPV mode, it kind of is all over the place
and it actually doesn't really look
like you're using a gimbal,
it's shaky and it just doesn't work very well
like this camera is made to be used as a gimbal
so use as a gimbal.
I don't think there's really a need for first-person mode,
I haven't found a need for it yet
and actually when I use it,
the footage doesn't look that good.
So one thing that you need to think about
is that this camera doesn't have access to the pro settings
when you're just using it as the camera
so right now I just I'm holding it up
and I don't have access to the pro settings,
you actually have to have your phone connected.
So that's one of the major limitations with this camera
is that every time you need to change your pro settings,
you have to connect your phone
but what's good about it is once you set those settings,
you pull out your phone
and the camera will retain those settings.
Now you can turn them off and flip back to auto mode
but there's no way to access your pro mode
and set things up unless you attach your phone.
Now the most important things you need to pay attention to
when you're using pro mode is one, the manual settings.
So when you're in pro mode,
you get access to all your manual settings
which gives you complete control over your image.
Now the second thing and this is something
that I think is really important for shooting stock footage
is that you have access to your zebras.
It basically tells you when your footage is overexposing
and when you're shooting stock footage,
one of the key things you wanna do
is avoid overexposed footage.
So having your zebras on your screen allows you to see
when your footage is overexposing
and then you're gonna be able to bring your exposure down
so that you can get properly exposed footage.
Now one thing that has come out recently,
I actually don't have one yet but it's the wireless module.
This is gonna be a game changer for gimbals specifically
because one of the biggest problems that people have
is figuring out a way to wirelessly transmit your video
from your camera on a gimbal to a monitor
so you can put your gimbal on big objects like a pole.
So if you wanna do like a sweeping shot kind of like a jib
but you wanna do it on the go, it's hard to do with gimbals
because you can't really monitor the footage very well.
There obviously is wireless video transmission systems
but they're expensive, they're heavy,
it's not something you always wanna carry
just for those times
when you want to put your gimbal on a long pole.
The awesome thing about the DJI Osmo Pocket
is you're gonna have this wireless module
and it just connects to your phone
which then you can stick on the end of the pole
and you can do these kind of big jib shots
or you can mount this gimbal to different places
that you can't necessarily be next to
and be monitoring and actually control the gimbal.
This is gonna open up a lot of doors
of creative potential with this camera.
For example, if you wanted to shoot a shot
over like a crowd, you could stick this up on a pole,
you have your phone in your hand
and you could do movements from your phone
and be able to get some really interesting shots.
Like I was saying, you can integrate this footage
into your other productions
so always having a DJI Osmo Pocket on you
to do these different kind of creative shots
that other gimbals won't allow you to do
makes this gimbal very enticing
and it makes it so that this gimbal has a place
in a lot of different productions.
Now if you want a more step-by-step approach
on how to sell your footage as stock footage
I have made an entire course all about it,
it takes you through everything that you need to know
to sell stock footage and I take you
through from not only shooting stock footage
but editing, uploading and making money with stock.
So guys, I'll put a link down below in the description
if that is something you're interested in,
however, if you just wanna go for it,
what you can do is start shooting stock footage,
go over to a site like VideoBlocks or Shutterstock,
start uploading content
and start seeing what kind of footage sells.
And with the beauty of this little camera shooting 4K60
basically gives you the ability to sell your footage
at the highest price possible.
So sites will range anywhere from $100 to $200
for a 4K shot which is pretty incredible
because you obviously retain all the rights to your footage
however you're just licensing the footage
for someone else to use
and putting 4K60 frames per second footage up there
gives you the best opportunity to make sales
so you can make more money with your footage.
It's super easy once you get started
and once you know how to do each steps in the process
and it's just something
that you can always be doing on the back burner.
I always just continually contribute
more and more footage into my stock libraries
and over time it's grown and grown
and I'll get more sales each month
which turn into more money each month
and it just slowly builds.
If you have more time and you really want to dedicate
your time into shooting stock,
you can make a lot of money much quicker.
But overall, stock footage is a long game
so it's something that you put a little time in now
and down the road as your library builds,
you're gonna start seeing more shots sold per month
and your average income is gonna go up per month.
Once it's up there, you don't have to do anything.
Basically your shot could sell over and over.
I've had shots that sold 30, 40 times
which is pretty amazing
'cause I did a little bit of work on the front end,
I cut it, color graded it, put it up,
it took me a little bit of time to get it up there
but now it just makes sales
and I don't really have to do anything.
And that's the definition of making money while you sleep.
This is why I think that creators need to wrap their head
around selling stock footage
because it is something that is not going away.
This video industry, this video culture is here to stay,
more and more footage is needed everyday,
there's more and more productions out there,
there's more and more places
where people are streaming videos
where they need additional clips
to make their projects work.
I buy stock footage all the time
when I'm working on different projects
because I don't necessarily want to go out there
and always shoot different shots, it's easier and cheaper
when I'm working on my bigger productions
to just go to a stock library and pick out a shot
that fills in a gap rather than flying somewhere
and getting like an exterior shot of a mountain range,
I could just pay a small fee
and I can have a shot instantly.
So that's why stock footage is so powerful.
Like I said guys, if you wanna check out my course,
I'll put a link down below
and also I'll put a special discount code
for those of you who are watching this video.
So in terms of like creators and YouTubers
and just anyone who's creating online video content,
there is a lot of need for you to film yourself
and this camera is obviously very stable,
you can do vertical mode or you can do horizontal mode
and I think that it's set up perfectly for those times
when you need to talk to camera.
There's definitely use out of this camera
but if this is like the only camera
that you wanna get for vlogging,
I would steer away from it and go get another camera.
This is more along the lines of people who want to do videos
where you're talking directly to your audience
and you just wanna pull it out of your pocket
and get a quick shot of you talking to camera.
This is where I've really used this camera
in terms of my YouTube so like I said,
I keep throwing this in my pocket,
I bring it with me wherever I go
and if I have like a burst of inspiration
and I just wanna shoot a quick video,
this makes it very easy to capture decent audio
and a good picture and then get a video
without having to pull out a bunch of gear.
Also what I've been doing like my product reviews,
I'll take it along with me
and then if I have a moment that I wanna capture,
I just have a thought, it's easy for me to pull this out
and do a quick talking bit about what it is that I'm doing
and not have to worry about microphones
and all these other things.
Originally, I thought that this was not gonna be the best
because the microphone jack is on the bottom,
however, I haven't even been using
a microphone attached to this
and I still think the audio is decent
and it's good enough especially when there's no wind.
As soon as you have some sort of breeze,
a little wind in here, the audio is not that good.
(wind blowing)
So if you're someone
who wants to get into selling stock footage
or if you're someone who needs to have a camera
to grab quick B-roll shots,
I think the DJI Osmo Pocket is definitely a no-brainer,
it's a great camera for those scenarios.
If you're someone who does a lot
of just talking to camera videos, consider getting this,
it makes it really easy to get that content.
Now if you're someone who does that style video
and also wants to vlog
then I would say have multiple cameras
so you could have this like I've been doing
just as a second camera that you could pull out
for quick things and then have your bigger camera,
have your GH5, have your Canon M50,
whatever it is that you use to vlog
and that is your bigger camera that you use
for the main parts of your vlog.
I still think that there is a place for this
and this is definitely a camera
that I take with me all the time,
it's set up perfectly for creators
and for people who need to just get quick B-roll shots
and make it really easy.
Like I said earlier, I would highly suggest
getting some ND filters
'cause that's gonna make your footage look that much better,
it's gonna get rid of a lot of that super high
shutter speed look,
I'll put a link down below in the description
to the set of ND filters that I picked up,
they're from Freewell, they have two types of filters in it,
you have straight ND filters,
this is just for when you need to cut out light
and just bring a shutter speed down
and then they also have the ND filters with the polarizer
and so what the polarizer does is
it helps reduce reflections
so it increases your contrast in your footage,
it helps sprite sunlight on like water or like snow
and it really just helps curb all those reflections
and just makes your footage look much better.
Now the set also comes with just a straight polarizer
so if your light is lower
and you don't wanna put an ND filter on,
you can just throw your polarizer on for those situations
when you have water or snow,
anything that's reflective in your shot.
Alright guys and that is it,
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That's also where you can find my stock footage course
and guys that's it, I will see you on the next one.