- This is how super producty videos are made.
There's our model,
there's our product shot,
there's our camera,
and there's the slider.
So this is what the camera's doing.
Look off into nothing,
and act like there's something there that amuses you.
And action!
Don't look at me, look at nothingness!
That's very funny.
(Kari laughs)
How's my hair look?
Beautiful? Good.
Ouch!
This looks natural right? - (Kari laughs) Yeah.
- Okay as soon as that camera starts moving,
we're gonna laugh,
and look off into the beautiful sunset!
And it's about to go,
and action!
- Okay, where are you looking?
- I'm looking off that way,
you look off in that sunset. - That way.
- There's a sunset over there,
and there's a sunset over there.
So we're gonna tag-team the sunsets.
I'm gonna put some crappy stock music to this,
and it's gonna look wonderful.
Okay, ready?
(stock music)
Okay, I think we've had just about enough
mediocre, royalty-free music.
Keep in mind, Rhino did send this to me for free,
but they are not paying me to review this
or anything like that.
So I'm allowed to talk as much trash as I want.
As usual, my opinions cannot be purchased,
for anything under 20 bucks.
Now the time-lapse feature is awesome,
and you can even do long-exposures with this app.
So you can literally take your phone
and do a long-exposure motion time-lapse.
I mean, that's awesome!
I honestly didn't even know
if a phone could do long-exposure,
so this is sweet!
We're in Washington D.C. now,
we're gonna go look at the White House and stuff.
Steve's gonna go look at some plaques.
That's his favorite thing in the world,
is to look at plaques on buildings.
- [Steve] Gene
- Alright, we're gonna try to do a time-lapse
of Abe Lincoln.
This is gonna take about 6 minutes to get a 5 second clip.
I brought the ISO way down to 50,
and the shutter speed is at 2 seconds per shot.
So that should give us some good motion-blur
between the people walking around and all that.
So let's see how it looks.
Super dark here,
and we can't actually get very close to the White House.
It's way over there.
This is as close as we can get, so
- Rov sliders were designed to work
with mobile phones, specifically iPhones and,
I believe, Android support coming very soon.
Yeah, iPhones are great cameras, but me personally,
I don't really shoot on them very often,
simply because I usually have a DSLR with me,
and I'd rather just shoot on that when I can.
And plus I wanna keep my gear package
as minimal as possible,
I don't wanna own that much stuff.
Now this is the Rov Pro, which means you can pop this off,
throw this guy on here,
and make this compatible with a DSLR.
Now we're talking.
So Rhino basically calls this the slider
you'll actually take with you everywhere,
which is awesome because it's super light-weight.
Look how streamline that is,
and there's no, like, cables hangin' out.
You got these feet that stick out,
so no matter what kinda terrain or surface you're on,
these can be planted on it.
And look how nicely these thing tucks away.
I mean, the design of this thing is absolutely beautiful.
Now they come in two different sizes.
This is the Rov Pro Everyday,
which is the more compact version.
They're coming out with a traveler,
which is an extended runway.
They also offer this bag which is nice and tiny,
and contains your accessories you might wanna carry with it
and your slider.
Pretty solid feet on it.
Micro-USB charger right here, and power right here.
And battery built in.
These are supposed to to last all day,
so, that is sick.
Turn on the app, turn on the slider,
and boom, they connect immediately,
so I love that.
No messing around with WiFi and passwords
and all this stuff, it just connects.
I love the user interface of this app.
It's very simple and straight forward.
If you don't know much about cameras you can pick it up
and figure it out.
But if you wanna dial in settings,
you have full control of your shutter speed,
your ISO, your white balance, all that stuff.
And you can quickly adjust between different frame rates,
which is a huge plus.
I think the iPhone app needs to have that just like
built in, to be able to switch between
24, 30, 60 right in the app, but
Rov slider does, so I like that.
I remember the first time looking at electronic sliders,
I was like that looks kinda complicated to set up,
like how do you tell it where to position
and how fast to go and all that stuff,
it's super simple.
With this app, all you have is literally just your positions
and then you pick your speed,
you have slow, medium, and fast.
Lets do fast and I like to do it on a loop,
hit record and boom,
it starts moving on its own and could not be simpler.
The app itslef is very, very easy to use so,
I love that and just the right amount of features.
And now we're just gonna tell the app that
we are now using a DSLR.
Instead of slow, medium, fast,
you control the duration of you move.
So, lets say if we were to do it at nine seconds,
then its gonna move nice and quickly
and I have the ramp set up high
so it doesn't just like jerk really fast.
I kind of, accelerates at a nice smooth pace.
Very, very simple to use.
Turn it on, play with it for like two minutes,
and you'll be very comfortable with this app,
I guarantee it.
My main complaint is probably
how noisy this thing is.
I mean its not loud, its running at full speed right now,
but you can still kind of hear it but,
this is as loud as it gets.
If sound is really an issue for you then
unfortunately, your gonna have to slow that down.
Lets do a 20 second move
and at this speed, its gonna be much, much quieter.
At the beginning of the video you might have heard
the sound of the motor a little bit
- Ha Ha, camping. - (Kari laughs)
- This is natural, right? - Yeah.
- (laughs)
- And that was with this thing on top of here.
So even with this,
if your running it at full speed on loop,
you're still gonna hear it in your camera's audio.
One complaint I have is you have to have your phone
to operate this thing.
This entire thing only has one button
which is just turn it on and off.
And the rest of it you control through the app.
So, if your phone dies,
then this basically becomes dead weight.
I really wish there was another button on here
where it was kinda just like one button activation.
For example with Go Pros,
my favorite firmware update they have ever had
is the one button activation.
You just press the button and you can set it
so that it turns on and starts
recording at the setting you want.
I wish this had something similar where
you just press one button and then it just
automatically turns on and starts doing like
a loop motion or something like that.
Because while I was filming my into sequence,
I found that I just like to turn it onto a loop
so its just sliding back and forth,
so I would plant it somewhere, get a shot,
and I would literally jus pick this thing up
move it to a different spot
and get a different angle while its moving.
They say in the manual, explicitly,
not to pick this thing up while its in motion
because you could like pinch you fingers.
But if you're a hard core, bad ass,
rebel risk taker then, heh,
I'm gonna pick this up cause, you know
I'm that hard core.
So I wish I could just set this wherever I want
and press one button and have it do the motion
without me fiddling with an app.
I did notice when this thing was off
you could still push it around a little bit
and get some pretty smooth shots
but I asked them if it was okay to do that
and they said its not recommended,
which basically means you breaking your (beep).
- Great, I just finished this video
and its only at seven minutes.
How am I gonna get this video to ten minutes
without everyone realizing I'm just
trying to stretch this video out?
(sighs)
I guess we could talk about stuff.
My lips have been like crazy chapped
the last couple days.
I tested out like five different types of Chapstick
and I ve been applying it like every five minutes
but its been so dry and cracky, ow.
I don't know is this a good one?
It says medicated
and that's what people told me to get.
So, I don't know,
do you guys have any recommendations on lip balm?
Uh, what else?
We've gotten hundreds of requests for
RED verses Arri Alexa, that coming out next week.
So, you know, look forward to that.
Make sure your subscribed and
ball notifications and stuff.
October the 11th, it will be live.
Okay,
Still not even close to ten minutes yet,
lets go read some comments.
I always feel kinda bad.
I get a lot of DMs and emails that I
don't have time to respond to so,
lets just start doing this at the end of every video.
I'm going to read these comments, respond,
what was the top comment from the last video?
Tom Callaway says,
"You look like the kid fro the movie UP."
that was the same top comment from the last video.
You guys just keep repeating this as
the top comment, you guys,
pick up something new, gosh.
I'm gonna like that. Like gets a heart.
Ha ha ha ha this comment should become a ritual
in all Potato Jet videos.
No, please don't make this a ritual.
I wanna respond to like other things,
not the fact that I look like
that Up guy all the time, okay.
- Its me, Russel.
- Should I be that guy for Holloween? I don't know.
I wouldn't even have to do anything,
that'd be great.
- You going to South America, Mr Fredrickson?
- Don't touch that!
- Not everyone could afford a nice camera,
shoots wit a $1200 smart phone.
I did do that, huh? I'm a douche!
I watched this video while sitting down.
Crap, yes.Thats right guys.
If you haven seen that last video,
watch it because I talk about
standing and sitting tables and,
well, you, you guys can't see it but,
hold on let me bring it back up.
Watch my last video to see it more in action.
You can't see the whole table, that's weird.
So you see this little microphone like, beep,
okay that's strange.
Why aint ya got 10 million subs?
You are so funny in your videos and you talk sense.
Damn straight I do, Ben Taylor.
I'm funny,
Like a lot.
Once you slap that sigma on, what a difference.
Yeah that's right, I'm shooting on a
Sigma lens right now.
Looks quite a bit better when I am on that.
See, I can zoom it in and look at that depth of field.
Yeah. Okay back to normal.
Doug's Promo says Id smoke you for breakfast.
Yeah, I don't know what that means.
I wounder why this nnn,
oh, I'm not allowed to say that word.
Its weird, I've always wondered if
Asians are allowed to say that word.
I mean, I've definitely seen some Asian guys,
usually they have like hats on backwards,
baggy pants,
they have a lot of swag,
and they say it all the time and nobody like,
tries to correct them.
They're like, oh that's fine.
Well that's not me though I can't say it.
If I were to say that then I'd get
shut down very quickly. Heh heh.
Uh, 15 more seconds.
Aw come on, I'm so close to doing this.
This is the only video for this week.
I'm trying to post at least two videos a week,
but its been tough this week.
I just got back from Washington D.C. for a shoot.
Its been crazy and on Friday,
I'm shooting a video for a Latin
artist named Pepe Aguilar.
He's super popular in a lot of latin countries,
so maybe some of you guys know him.
Um, I am going to do a behind the scenes of that video
so, that will be coming.
Uh, okay. Now I have definitely passed ten minutes.
Whoo hoo hoo!
I gotta admit, I always feel weird
putting on Chapstick.
I feel like it looks to much like
putting on lipstick, right?
Like I would go like hide in the corner and put it on
so no one sees me putting it on.
And now all you guys are watching so.
Uh, this is not good. I'm gonna put this away.