hi everyone I'm prick Caramella with Gregor mellow calm and today we're going
to talk about extension brackets for the Osmo pocket external microphone why you
need it and which one is the best one all in the video coming up all right Kay
so this video is an extension of the video I just made about external
microphones for the Osmo pocket which is the best one and you can watch that
video right up here I didn't want to make that video so long
it was already long enough so that's why I'm making this video now about
extension brackets for the external microphone the reason you need an
extension bracket is because part of this microphone the dead-cat
actually gets in the field of view during active track and when it moves
around if you just keep it looking straight at you when I'm filming if I
just film straight at me this microphone doesn't get it in the
way but when the Osmo camera when the pocket camera moves around like when I'm
doing active track or something like this and follow mode sometimes this cat
gets in the way alright and that can be a problem so that's why we have the
extension bracket and that's what we're gonna talk about today so we're gonna
keep this video quick skip the unboxing and go right to the testing to see which
is the best one alright guys so I'm pressing the record button right now and
I'm just filming myself and as you can see the Asamoah pocket got the wind cat
right here this is the mobile rx10 this is the microphone that I liked the most
from the previous video right now it's not in the shot as you can see I'm
filming myself and it's not in the shot at all but if I move it to the side just
a little bit alright you can see it creep into the shot okay so that's a
problem so that's why we're gonna use the extension another little trick that
you could do if you're getting that in your shot you can actually just move it
over I'm gonna move the camera slightly over when I move around right here and
I'm just talking it's I'm still in the frame that's a little trick you can do
but it's still kind of an inconvenience so we're gonna add the extension
brackets to see how that looks so this is the newer triple xu v bracket so the
nice thing about this is you can mount it up here
or you can mount it up here so if you had a microphone you could put the
microphone on any one of these three spots you could also add a light and an
external monitor if you wanted to those are all options but you have three
different places I put the microphone over here because I
wanted it closest to the camera because when you're talking into the microphone
it's more directional so that's why I wanted it closest to the camera because
when I'm talking I want to get the best audio possible all right so now I'm
gonna start recording and when I press record I can move this around and no
matter where it moves the microphone is not coming into play
all right so even if I move it up see I have to move it all the way up all the
way up there which is kind of ridiculous yeah when I moved it all the way up like
that which you're not gonna do in most situations okay you're gonna keep it
right here I can move it side to side I can move up and down pretty much can't
go up too too far but I can move it side to side right now
now it's following my face so when it's following my face I'm moving around the
pockets moving only when I move it over towards the middle you can see the V
mount right there but that's really the only position other than going straight
up that you're really gonna be obstructed yeah as you can see it's not
gonna be in the shot all right so I like this position right here I don't think
I'm gonna move it in any other position I like it right here it makes it kind of
look big it looks kind of funny but I got plenty of room on the back
with this chord and this is a good option so this one was pretty good this
is only about like 14 15 dollars and so far I like this alright so the next up
is the mobo DSD for what I can do is I can set it up and I can move it back
keep in mind these all have a lot of different ways that you can use them
also I can move it forward if I wanted to
this one is nice because I have the microphone all the way move back so it's
moved so far back that it's really not going to come into play unless you turn
the camera when you turn the camera all the way to the side yeah you might see
this okay and you might see the wind muff right here no problem moving it
across I go all the way across yeah at the far
end now that starts creeping into the shot and then if I start going all the
way up if I go too far up and to the side yeah that's a problem but if I go
just straight up in the air basically nothing so this one is another good good
option same thing like 12 to 15 dollars all
these guys are this thing is a little annoying I don't like the fact that it
goes like in this direction maybe you could find a way to rig the cable in a
different way so far this one's working great too
alright it's not perfect obviously if you go in that direction all the way
there but for most vlogging situations you're just moving in across it's
following you around it's not gonna come into play it's not gonna see the wind
luff so I like this extension bracket as well the only downside of this one is
it's hard to add another light maybe you could add extension here or to the side
you can do all sorts of creative stuff with these extension brackets but this
one isn't quite as versatile as this one right here the newer one or however you
pronounce it alright so this last one chrome lives extension bar chrome lives
extension bar however you pronounce it is nice because it has these different
holes right here it's got like one two three then you can put it over here so
you have like four different options where you can mount the microphone so
having all these different options is really nice I think this one is pretty
versatile you can move it over to it's not super long but it you can't put you
know something right here like light and you can move this this also unscrews
right here so when you unscrew it you can put it in different directions
depending on which way you want the light or the microphone to face so this
one you can play around and do all sorts of creative stuff I'm gonna set it up
like I just did before and see how that works so I set it up like this it seems
to be pretty good puts the microphone really far back filming myself you know
I'm moving all around and the microphone is not really coming into play at all
when I move it up nope this one's nice wow it's in the shot a little bit when
it's in the extreme going in the extreme direction like extremely pointing
towards here up and in that direction which you
almost never shoe and it's only like a little piece of the wind ma take that
back going all the way across you do get a little bit of this okay so other than
this you only get you could even brush this a little bit the wind muff only a
little bit shows up other than that this one is probably think like the best in
terms of not really showing anything seems very versatile I like this one
they're all made of metal they all seem very well built but as you can see the
wind muff is very far back eating that it's very far back it's not gonna come
into the shot as much but these are all good options alright so in conclusion I
think you need one of these I don't think you need to get all three I think
you can just get one pick one whichever one you think will work best it's
basically which one you want they all do I think a good job I think
if you just use the microphone I think this one the chrome lives or chrome
lives one is gonna be the best I think if you use a microphone and then you
also use a light I think this one is going to be the best because it keeps
them separated and they're both in good positions that you could do it so I
would choose this one and that's all I got for today so I hope you enjoyed this
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