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- In this video I'm gonna talk a little bit
about the five things that I saw on day two
of NAB 2017 in Las Vegas that were some of my favorites.
And I know this is a little late.
Other people have already made their NAB videos,
but I'm just getting around to mine.
So these are the top five things I saw
on the second day of NAB.
If you haven't seen the first video
where I talk about the five things I saw on day one,
definitely go check that out.
That'll be up here or up here,
wherever the little "i" thing is.
So, first thing I saw that I really liked
was the DJI Ronin 2, and this kinda goes
with the second thing that I saw that was really cool:
the Freefly MoVI Pro.
As I get bigger camera rigs and I'm looking into ways
to stabilize some of these bigger cameras, and lenses,
and matte boxes, and follow focuses,
and all these things, as I want to move into these bigger,
more produced projects with more of a crew,
more of a cinematic look, less of a video feel,
more of, like, a film or a cinema feel.
I'm looking at these gimbals, these different sized gimbals,
these different, bigger systems,
bigger ways to hold the camera.
So I checked out the DJI Ronin 2, which looks pretty cool.
It looks pretty heavy, definitely,
as you put more stuff on it.
So you'd probably want an Easyrig
or some sort of way to attach it above you
so that you could actually maneuver it well
without having to be super, super strong
and be able to carry it out in front of you for a while,
and then the MoVI Pro as well.
I'm looking at both of those options
Maybe six to 12 months down the line
or renting them for specific projects.
Both of those were pretty cool.
The third thing would be the Sony a9.
I stopped by the Sony booth with my friend
and Sony artisan, Paul Gero.
He knew a Sony rep. there that had one of the a9s in person.
This was pretty quick after they announced it.
I think within a week or so of announcing the a9
they had a few of them at NAB.
And that thing is just insane.
If that would've been out last year
when we were trying to switch from Canon to Sony,
I probably would've pushed a little harder
to get my wife and her photography stuff using the a9.
Because some of the things that held me back
from the a7 series was, you know, dual memory card slots--
when you're shooting weddings
or events that are one time things it's kind of a necessity.
The a9 also is a little bit bigger, I would say,
like kind of more of a DSLR feel to it than the a7 series,
and the auto focus is incredible.
The 20 frames of photos in a second is just insane
for sports and any kind of moment you're trying
to capture the exact thing.
So, I think that's pretty much the camera to beat right now,
out there on the market.
The next thing I saw at NAB day two
that was one of my favorites was
I went to the LaCie and Seagate booth
where they had a lot of hard drives
and different kind of network attached storage options.
And as I have more projects that I'm working on and filming
that are over multiple days, you know,
tons of footage, lot of terabytes,
I'm always looking for better solutions for work flow,
backing up stuff, using RAIDS and stuff like that.
So, I checked out their new 2big Dock for Thunderbolt 3.
They have multiple hard drives in there,
they have card readers built right in,
like an SD card, a compact flash,
the ability to daisy chain other drives off it.
You can have it power your Macbook Pro with the touch bar.
So, pretty great drive.
I hope to test that out
and check out some of the re-write speeds
as well as some of the functionality,
but that might be the drive that I end up buying
or using to travel with because I can just take that,
throw it in the car directly into that
without needing the little USB-C SD card dongle
that I end up using.
And backing up my footage, having it automatically back up
in kind of a RAID style, that would be something
I'll probably have on site while filming
or when I'm traveling to film, as well.
They also partnered with DJI on a little drive
that you can take the card right out of your Mavic Pro drone
and plug that little micro or mini SD,
I don't know, I think it's micro, right into the drive
and offload on there, so you don't need
to have another attachment or something like that,
another SD card converter or something to that effect.
That looks really slick too,
so, I might have one of those for when I'm just
flying my drone, out in the field,
I just want something small alongside it
so I can back up my footage.
And the last thing was, seeing my buddy Levi Allen
place second in the ShotOver contest.
I know he worked real hard to get the votes
for that contest and then his work
was the thing that got him into the top five.
And then, to get second place, just amazing.
Super proud of you, Levi.
If you guys aren't subscribed to his YouTube channel,
definitely go check that out,
I'll link to that as well, but
he makes some amazing adventure films
and I'm proud to call him a friend of mine,
and it was great to hang out with him at NAB.
I'm in his vlog a little bit too, I think,
but it was just super great to see him
not just place second, but to have people I look up to,
people he looks up to, in the film making world
to be able to, like, talk with them,
and for them to say things to him
about his work was just really great.
I know you wish you would have got that red camera,
but, you know, you still get some time with the Shot Over
and super proud of him for placing
and for continuing to push harder
to make his adventure films, so, good on you, Levi.
So, if you've never been to NAB before,
I do recommend going, not just for the gear,
not just for the equipment, and the show floor and stuff.
I go specifically to, not just meet people,
but to, like, get to know them a little bit.
I try not to just do flybys of people
that I've watched all their stuff online,
and I really want to meet them and introduce myself.
I try to just have conversations
and go when people have talks,
and stick around and try to, like,
introduce myself and things, um,
but, it's just great to see different YouTubers there,
like Matt Workman of Cinematography Database,
Devin Graham, Devin Supertramp,
I met Curtis Judd for the first time.
Seeing, like, Dave Dugdale there,
and, who else did I meet?
I have a little list here.
Jim Scofield, good to see him.
It was great to meet the Aperture team as well.
People from Film Convert, as well as
Justin and the team over at Story and Heart.
Ran into Austin Evans, another tech YouTuber
and people from LensPro To Go like Greg.
It's just great to be around these people,
that you, like, watch online all the time
it makes you feel a little more connected to the world
and not just, like, people you know are just on the internet
So, that's why I go.
If you go sometime, definitely just send me a tweet
or reply on my YouTube video or something like that
and we can meet up in person sometime.
But the next couple conferences I'll be going to are:
CineGear in L.A. that is, I believe, at the very beginning
of June, like, June 2nd or 3rd
And I'm going to go to WistiaFest.
I'm leading a workshop there, as well
in Boston later in June.
So, those events coming up I'm working towards going to
and I hope to see you guys at one of those, maybe
or just at a future video conference
So, I think that's it
I'm Caleb Wojcik, DIY Video Guy
Subscribe to my channel, go to NAB
See all the gear, stay for the people.
And, uh, don't get too crazy in Vegas.
Just, just avoid all the weird stuff,
it's fine, just avoid it.