(snow crunches)
- I get asked this question all the time,
"How do you back up your files?"
And there's definitely several different ways I do it,
but what I find more interesting about that question is,
how do you back up your files when you're
somewhere like this?
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(funky music)
I've been asked this on Twitter, on Instagram.
I've been emailed, the YouTube comments,
literally, Facebook.
What else have I...
Flickr. (buzzer)
Who still uses Flickr?
Anyway, I've been asked this so much.
It's obviously a point of concern for a lot of people,
and let's be honest, the more shooting that you do,
you start having more and more footage.
You've got drone footage, you've got A camera,
B camera, GoPro cameras, different DSLRs,
and you need to back all that stuff up into one shoot,
and then where do you put those files?
And what kind of drives do you use?
And how does all that work?
Now, I'm gonna go into how to do all that in studio so
that you can have a very reliable system in place
for all of that.
But, something that I think is very important
that not enough people talk about
is how to actually backup, store and organize,
and do all of those things in the field
when you're actually shooting,
before you even get home to archive and do all that stuff,
which we'll talk about later.
So let's say you're on an icecap.
You're in the middle of the mountains,
in the middle of nowhere, and a helicopter just drops you
and you're on your own for a little bit.
What do you do?
Hypothetical?
Let's say you've got footage from that whole day,
you were shooting the whole way over,
but that helicopter left and your laptop was on it.
But, you're running out of card space.
You've only got a couple gigs left,
what are you gonna do?
Are you gonna drop down to small jpeg instead of RAW?
You gonna shoot, you know, 480p, maybe 720?
720, remember the days when that was like ah!
Like honestly, you're not gonna try and cripple
your own media so that you can fit more onto a card,
because then what's the point of even shooting it?
You need to back that footage up.
Typically you would put a new card in,
but maybe you don't have a new card.
Maybe you only have one, or maybe
that second card is also full,
and the third card you just forgot in the hotel room
transferring footage to your laptop.
Who knows?
There's so many circumstances that could happen.
You need a system where you can dump that card,
organize it, back it up, and then get
back to shooting right away.
Now the problem is, all the methods to do this
require a laptop or having something with you
in the field, but let's say for instance,
we are on this glacier.
That happened, and I needed to dump my footage.
The helicopter left me there, and my laptop was on it.
So, I have this.
Gotta back up right now.
Dump this footage.
This Johnny right here.
So this is called the GNARBOX, and there's a bunch
of ports on it so you can plug in USB3,
card readers, hard drives, micro SD, compact flash,
CFast, readers into it to read different cards,
basically everything's in here.
And the best part about this,
waterproof, shock proof, I gotta go find it, but...
It's all organized into a nice visual
really, really clean workflow so that you can find
your files no problem.
If you plug this into your computer after
as a hard drive, all the footage that you've been
backing up on the go when you're out here
in the middle of nowhere, it's all organized
and sorted by date already so that I just take
those files and dump them into an offsite drive
and that's where they're stored forever.
But this is my workflow pretty much from start to finish
when I'm out in places like this and I need
to dump footage.
I don't wanna bring my laptop.
My bag's heavy enough, I don't wanna bring my laptop,
I don't wanna bring the charger for it,
I don't wanna plug it into a generator.
All I gotta do is just take this,
open up these ports, oh look at that they're dry.
Why?
'Cause it's waterproof.
Turn it on, connect my phone, good to go.
Now the guys at GNARBOX sent me this months ago.
I've had it for quite a while,
and I've held back on doing a review
because I wanted to actually use it a bunch of times,
I wanted to see if it would come in handy
and if it was something that I could get behind,
and if it was something that would solve the issue
that I was having.
And I'm happy to say, it most definitely does.
So months after using this, I've actually had
several units, I can tell you,
oh, this is now a key component in my kit.
I don't go anywhere without it.
It's been to Africa, it's been to Switzerland,
it's been to BC, it's been to the highest mountain,
the lowest point of a lake, it's literally been
everywhere and I can say that it's got me out of
several jams and just given me that piece of mind.
I'm not limited by anything.
I'm not limited by a memory card.
I can shoot however much I wanna shoot,
and I can post it whenever I wanna post it,
and it's gonna be backed up and safe and stored
right here.
Now one of the cool features of this thing,
which I think is super helpful is,
let's say you're in the field shooting,
but you wanna update your whole community
and your fan base with an Instagram story.
You wanna post something to the internet,
but you don't have that laptop,
so typically you'd have to go back
and dump the card, and then open up Premiere,
and then format everything and color grade it
and add your music and then air drop.
It's a big process.
Now we do it, because that's what we love to do,
and if it's fun.
But when you're in the middle of the mountains,
or you're sitting on a speedboat
in the middle of a lake and you don't have
your computer with you, what do you do?
So this actually comes with an app.
Now that app has editing capabilities,
you can color grade on this app, you can add music,
you can transfer all the footage from your camera
to the GNARBOX, then you connect to the GNARBOX
via wifi, dump, save, and organize all your footage,
and then from there, you can actually bring it
into their editor and cut a small little
sequence, a piece, a full video if you want,
a highlight reel, and then you can share it right
from there all without having to need
a laptop with you.
So when I heard all of this, I was like,
yeah, okay. (laughs)
Send me one, I'll play with it.
They sent me one, and since then I've been like,
Ah!
It's rugged though, it's taken a beating.
Took the dust of Africa, took water from the lake,
it's been frozen on a glacier.
I wasn't easy on this thing right?
Like if this was something that I was gonna keep
in my camera bag and use and depend on
to back up my files for this vlog and this channel
and the projects that people are paying me to do,
this thing needs to work.
The product page will only say enough,
you have to actually get out there and see if it
works for you and if it's something that's gonna
actually benefit you as a filmmaker and make
your life easier.
Now this is a small team of guys.
Just a small team of guys out in California
who made this because they were suffering
from the same thing.
Goin' up to the mountains, snowboard trip,
bringin' their laptops, sitting in the truck
on the way back with a million wires
and dongles and hard drives and everything
connected just to upload an Instagram story
or upload a video, and they were like this,
we can't be the only ones out here
that are having this issue.
And they're not, because I was also one of those people.
So when they sent it to me and we had some calls
and chats, what is really cool to know
that they are super open to user feedback.
So they've already taken tons of feedback
they've had from a bunch of pro photographers
and filmmakers and have already implemented
new changes and updates that are constantly
being rolled out for both iOS and Android.
So it's nice to know that the company
that makes this are standing behind their product,
but they're listening to the people that are using it
and if they think they have a good idea
or it's something that makes sense,
they're rolling that into an update constantly
to just make this thing more and more practical.
And that's something that's supercool.
And this has 128 gigabyte hard drive built into it,
and there's an Intel chip inside it.
Now if you need more than 128 gigs, no worries,
all you have to do is just plug a hard drive
into this, because it has the USB ports
that you need for that.
Just plug it in, and then you have the expansion
of whatever you want.
It's limitless.
So I've got one of these.
This is a terabyte.
This little thing.
Like I could legitimately eat this.
This is a terabyte.
So I just plug this into this, and I'm all set.
There's nothing that I could be shooting
during the day that's gonna make me need
more than this right here.
If you have like a modern smartphone these days,
the screens are huge.
So you're able to just sit there and look through
some of the shots, or look through the photos
on a large screen and be like, ah, I missed focus.
I wanna do that again, or you know what?
That's perfect, show everybody, it looks great,
amazing, you're done.
It organizes everything by dates.
When you plug this into your computer, the date is there,
you know, July 20th, boom, all the files are right there.
You just drag that into the cloud or archive it later
on a bigger drive for storage purposes.
Now if you fly a lot of drones, it's the same thing.
You can land that drone, stick the SD card right
in the micro SD card slot, preview the drone footage,
back it up, clear that card, and send the drone
back up into the air.
So as a vlogger, a cinematographer, a photographer,
someone that just shoots for fun, that shoots for a living,
I can say with the utmost certainty
that the GNARBOX is something I would highly recommend
to anybody that wants to have a solution
to backup in the field, organize their shots,
and even the ability to edit on the go
without having to bring a laptop.
It's a small footprint, it's a really, really
great product made by super cool people
that's constantly being refreshed and updated.
Now we're also gonna give some away.
We're gonna give away five actually,
so comment below, your chances on this
are even better than they've been in past giveaways.
They've agreed to take care of the shipping
and everything like that, so it doesn't matter
where you're from.
If you want a GNARBOX, comment something below.
So hit that like button, smash it if you so desire.
Subscribe if you aren't already,
and like I said, drop a comment,
we're gonna choose five winners.
We'll probably announce them in a week from now,
and it doesn't matter where you live,
we'll ship anywhere in the world.
So thanks again for watching, and,
and, I'll see you guys in the next video.
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You could stick one of those red whips on this,
just go jogging with it.
Just in case you're on a jog and you film something
and you wanna backup your footage.
Don't mind that, I mean that doesn't,
you get used to it right?
You could do it, you could do it!