Hi my name is John Tisbury and today I'm going to talk you through my vlogging
setup. The setup I use when I'm out and about sort of doing running gun style
shooting where I want something light and easy to use. So see you after the
intro and I'll chatted you through the details.
So we're gonna chat through the vlogging setup that I use and talk about
some of the advantages of it and also some of the disadvantages. Some of the
things I found out whilst I've been actually using it. Some of the things
I've had to fix along the way to make it work better for me. It's a fairly
straightforward setup I'm going to put links for all the products down below in
the description section, so have a look down there for all of that detail.
The mainframe is a metal frame. I wanted something that was sturdy and you just
took the knocks and what-have-you but also because it's got lots of threaded
holes in there, I wanted something that was sturdy and wasn't going to cross thread.
and have a limited lifespan.
The camera, I've got a GoPro Hero6 on here.
It's fitted through a normal GoPro mount. There's a screw fixing at the bottom there.
So it gives a nice sturdy fixing onto the frame. Also on the frame I've got mounted
a microphone as you can see. This is the Rode one with a little dead cat it's
more of a kitten really size wise, dead kitten. And the audio quality out of the
GoPros, as most people are aware, isn't particularly good. The built-in
microphone is often very poor quality in terms of the sound. And that's made
even worse when you're outside where you've got wind noise. So this is a really good
addition to the setup and I'll show you the difference. Or you can hear
the difference between the on-camera mic and then also them the Rode mic as well.
The Rode mic has got a nice little rubber mount there. So taking the
vibrations and stop any noise handheld noises going through to them the
microphone being picked up by the audio. And that runs through to this little
adapter here which is the GoPro adapter to allow you to change the socket which
generally most of them come with a 3.5mm jack into the GoPro
USB C fitting goes in the side there.
The the actually adapter is fairly expensive for what it is, but it's one of those things unfortunately you're sort
of bought into so you have to get if you want to do this kind of setup.
The nice thing about it though is it does have an additional power input so you can power
the whole device if you've got like a power bank or something like that and
plug in there and it will then power the camera whilst you're using it.
The microphone takes the power from the camera as well so if you're running
video and audio it can take a bit of a toll on the battery so it's nice to have
that additional feature. I've mounted the microphone on this post this is an
adapter post from my studio actually for studio lighting. And I did that because I
found that when it was mounted directly to the frame with the clip that's
supplied. It was when I was using the dead cat it was appearing in the top corner
of the frame on video. 4k specifically on on the wide and super wide views so it
wasn't ideal. The actual microphone mount comes with like a hot-shoe adapter so
you can fit it up to the top here onto this bracket but even then I found it
was in shot. So I then moved it down to the side here to this hole here, still in
shot. So I then found this extension post to be able to move it higher, away from
the frame. And that's certainly fixed the problem.
On the other side I have an LED light.
Fairly straightforward, click on and off and powerable power on the side there, and
dimmable. It also has a diffuser. You can use it as a bare light or with one of the diffusers.
It also comes with second one which is a 3200 Kelvin.
You've got both of those. And that can be powered by normal
batteries I'm running on AAs just for this example. But it will take Sony
batteries ,Panasonic batteries and a whole raft. There are so many of this
type of product on the market now which is great to have that flexibility and
that choice. And if I don't need this it easily comes off it's got a little thumb
screw on the side there and I can just undo that and take it off.
So I'll show you now, or demonstrate the audio on these so you can see the difference
in quality between the microphone and without the microphone. So I'm just gonna
run some video.
So that's now running in video.
So I'm just going to turn it round to me with the microphone facing me and do a few lines
to camera, as it were, or lines to microphone, so you can hear what that
sounds like with the the Rode mic and this is obviously ideal indoors because
there's no wind can also put that the dead cat on.
So it's now got the the dead cat on there and that works really well
outside I was using it the weekend when it's really really windy and that did a
good job of combating the the wind noise. Just take that off again and then I'm
going to drop out the mic completely so I'm just removing this plug. And you
should now hear quite a difference in audio is we're now running from the
GoPro's own internal microphone which is a little bit hidden by this case that
it's enclosed in. So yeah not great. Let's just pop it back in.
Better audio.
So there you go.
So that's my setup that I use for running and gunning, vlogging that kind of thing.
It's very robust, it's nice and easy to hold. It doesn't matter which hand you do it you can
easily do point-to-camera stuff, and then away from you and do two-handed grip for
much steadier footage. So all in all I really do think it's a really useful
frame and provides a lot of flexibility in terms of how you mount things and
position things on it, which is always good. It's also nice and flat as you can
see here so you can just sit it on the table and record that way as well.
So it gives you lots of flexibility I guess. So let me know your thoughts, drop some comments
down below. You know what sort of things do you use what are your products that
you go to and work for you. Because I'm always interested to hear what other people are
using and why they find it beneficial or not beneficial as the case
may be. And if you find this video useful then
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Alright, take care. Bye.