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- Now me personally
my favorite type of shooting is the spontaneous.
Just grab the camera and let's (beep) go.
Oh sorry, I forgot this video is sponsored by DJI.
So I'm supposed to keep this professional.
I'm not supposed to say stuff like (beep) or (beep).
If you wanna see my unsponsored video on this camera,
link right there.
But in today's video,
we're gonna be looking at some of this footage,
how I grade, how I edit,
and also answering some questions that you had asked us
in that previous video.
But like I was saying,
this footage here didn't come from like
a produced shoot with a schedule,
and a crew, and all that stuff.
It was just Angel giving me a call and saying,
"Hey, I'm gonna go do some crazy stuff
on the motorcycle tonight.
You feel like coming by?"
I'm like, "Sure I'll be there in half an hour."
So the thing that excites me the most,
is how much you can get out of this camera,
as a solo operator.
And this spot right here that we were filming,
was about a mile away from our parking lot.
So I just had this in one hand,
batteries and lenses in my backpack,
and Onewheel under my feet,
and that's all I needed.
To get similar results in the past,
used to be a lot more effort
and a lot more gears.
So I probably would've just been like,
you know what, I'm just gonna shoot this handheld.
Now I wanted to see what this camera was capable of.
So I shot this all in 6K ProRes RAW.
And keep in mind that
if you wanna use RAW and use a full sensor,
you have to shoot 6K.
So just be prepared for some massive file sizes.
Although ProRes RAW
is not that much bigger than ProRes 422HQ,
so if you're gonna be shooting 6K anyways,
might as well get that extra flexibility by shooting Raw.
I went ahead and cut this on my 16 inch MacBook Pro,
and it's pretty fluid.
And this isn't the M1X chip yet.
I'm waiting for that one to come in.
Can't wait for it.
But I have it set to quarter resolution,
and I could skip around pretty easily.
I got the adjustment layer on there as well.
So it's also processing that.
Now in this short window of filming,
I did almost fill up a half terabyte of footage.
So something to be prepared for now,
if you wanna go into 4K or 2K,
you can always do that while maintaining that full sensor,
if you're shooting 422HQ in ProRes or H.264,
that way it'll downscale it in the camera.
But again if you wanna shoot Raw,
you have to keep it at 6K to use that full sensor.
Also a huge shout out to Angel and her friends
for coming out and riding, letting me film.
Instagram handles down there in the description.
And then, there's one guy in there that was really,
especially tall.
Oh, there he is.
Yeah. Oh wait, is that me?
May not look like it.
But I am doing all the balancing,
and it's a lot of hard work and practice I did.
I am just kidding.
I actually thought I was gonna die.
So, I'm happy I'm still here.
It's good to be alive.
Now we all know that filming during golden hour is awesome,
but it does also require a pretty solid camera
to get a good image
because of the amount of dynamic range required.
And right now this is BT 709.
You can see the sky has totally blown out there.
But let's go ahead and throw it into D-Gamut.
Instead of the whole sky being blown out,
the sun is nicely contained right there.
And then from here I can go ahead and apply
a D-Log light right there,
and then make some adjustments to bring up the exposure
in the shadow.
I can even bring down the sky a little bit.
And add a little bit of saturation if I want to.
And then you get to end up with a much more natural image.
So if you're using this camera,
pretty easy to just shoot it flat,
and then throw on that D-Log light,
and then grade it from there.
Now of course a lot of color grading
comes down to personal taste.
But just to give you some examples,
here's some footage that's just shot in D-Log.
And I made no adjustments except for,
with the D-Log lut on there.
So you can see what a direct application looks like
with no other tweaks.
Another thing is when it comes to 6K,
you don't always need 6K.
A lot of times it's overkill,
but since I shot it in 6K,
I took advantage of it.
I added some digital zoom outs.
I mean, it's kind of a funky effect
that I thought kind of fit with the music.
Like this shot here,
I start off at 211% scale and zoom out from there.
I had to do that because I was pretty rusty
with that joystick there.
If you look at the original shot,
you can see I way misframed them.
Like this shot here,
he starts off way in the distance.
And he finally gets right up to the camera
right around there.
But if I wanted to track him a little bit more
for the first half of the shot,
I'll drop some key frames there.
And let's go kind of crazy. Let's go 250%.
And now we get to ride out with him in a closer shot.
So pretty cool to have those options if you want it.
Only other thing I noticed was that
the DJI 24 mil does have a little bit of distortion.
So you can kinda see that it kinda bows a little bit.
So I just applied a lens distortion.
I just adjust that curvature to a minus 11.
But you know, depending on what kind of lens you have,
you can just straighten out those lines.
Easy fixing from here.
Now filming with a camera that has a head deck
and turn in different directions,
it's a whole other experience in itself.
For example, this shot, I was riding the one wheel forward,
so I had to keep my eyes in front of me,
and I had the camera and screen in front of me.
But then I had the camera turned behind me.
Kind of like how you would operate a steady cam in Don Juan,
where you're moving forward, but the camera's behind you.
Now this feature was really helpful
on one of the jobs I took it on.
And unfortunately I can't share any of the footage
for at least another few months,
but I can do a little recreation
of some of the shots we had to get.
We were filming in a really tight mock up cockpit,
of a helicopter.
And I had to get all these shots
like an over the shoulder shot of a tablet.
I had to get the camera right up against the ceiling.
I think about how hard this shot would be
with a lot of other longer bodied cameras.
I also had to do a shot where I was tracking somebody
and then pivot off to the side.
And I go in through the front window.
And instead of having to take the whole camera
and turning it,
I just stuck the lens through, and turn just the head.
And that was very convenient.
Another shot that was tough
was having two pilots sit next to each other.
And I had to basically pan back and forth between the two.
And if that was a bigger camera on a tripod,
I would've just whacked them in the face with lenses
every time I swung back and forth.
But here I just used the joystick to look back and forth.
But also I had this on a tripod,
so I could actually use the tripod
to position the camera slightly further away.
So if I look at somebody, I'm not right there in their face.
We also had a little bit of fun
and rented out a Polaris Slingshot.
That's right, we had a little bit of budget.
Thanks to the sponsorship.
Whats up.
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Now the Slingshot is pretty fun to film out of.
You get that nice low angle.
You get some good speed out of it.
And it's street legal.
So you can drive around.
I'm still in my seatbelt.
I just have this camera kinda hanging out the side.
So when you drive by a cop,
they're not gonna pull you over.
Unfortunately, you have to be on the passenger side
because the driver of course is Dylan.
He's focused on driving.
So I'm just sticking this camera out the side of this door.
But again my favorite part of all this
is that it didn't require all this rigging, or crew,
or anything like that.
It's just sticking a camera out the side of the vehicle,
and then you ride into a dark place,
there's no problem.
Just pull off some NDS,
which only takes like five seconds and then keep going.
And at the end of the day,
we still get to come home to some pretty epic footage.
But anyways,
let's go ahead and see what kinda questions you guys have
about this camera.
Let's go to the outside world.
"How is this camera for vlogging?"
It actually might be kinda useful in some cases.
I'm vlogging myself right here.
I'm controlling the camera with this remote right here.
And actually, if you look to the left,
the camera's just right there in the car itself.
Also check this out.
I have a microphone mounted onto here,
which is sending a signal to the Rode Wireless Go II.
Which is sending a signal to the camera.
So I can step away from the camera,
and still get pretty clear audio.
I'm right next to a road right here.
And there's all kinds of cars.
So there may be some road noise from cars there.
But how is this image looking?
I'm also recording in 4K H.264.
Because I don't want to explode my hard drives
with ProRes if I'm vlogging.
Also this is in D-Log.
So I'm not sure if the codec is strong enough
to be able to handle the D-Log.
So maybe I should be filming in HLG,
for something like this.
But this looks decent and there's not too much bending.
And the details still seem okay.
I'd be pretty happy with this.
It's looking pretty good.
And the dynamic range is really good.
And I'm able to monitor my hair.
This part is always the part that's like (indistinct),
so I can see when that's happening.
But also have you guys heard
that DJI is putting out their own microphone?
Apparently it's not gonna be available
for another few months.
But I'm very curious to test that
against the Rode Wireless Go II.
So I kinda wanna test out this 4K.
So here's me here on a 50 mil.
And if we crop into 200%, this is how I look.
How's the details?
Again, it's 4K in H.264.
So it might not look so good.
But here's 400.
800, a thousand and the bitrate is this many.
I don't know right now.
So that's why I'm pointing to the sky.
And I'm gonna rely on myself,
in post to put that information in there.
Alright, let's go ahead and pull up some comments.
The New Travel says,
"We're living in the golden age of camera tech."
Yeah, I can't deny that.
I mean think about how far cameras have gone
in the last 10 years.
Authentic says, "That LIDAR focus system is kinda nutty."
It kind of is.
I mean, that's what I'm using right now.
And it works really well.
As long as you're within that 10 meter range of it.
And it's especially crazy when you have some manual lenses
that shouldn't have auto focus,
but all of a sudden does now.
That's pretty cool.
Also check it out.
If you look back that way to the cargo ships,
that's where all the backup is happening.
So if you're wondering why
you're a premium life-sized barbie play set,
is three months back ordered,
it's probably on one of those ships out there.
Chris Brown says,
"How many features do you want in this camera? DGI Yes."
(chuckling) I'm supposed to be answering questions.
"How heavy is it and how comfortable is it to use
from an ergonomics point of view?"
Well, it feels pretty good
because you've got your two grips right here.
And a lot of times you could just press that battery
up against your chest for that third point of contact.
Here's the weight right here.
And if you're planning on doing some really long takes,
it's probably worth getting an Easyrig,
and just hooking it up to that top handle.
"How about battery life?"
I'd say it's pretty decent.
Let's go ahead and cut to a test.
"Can the grips be swapped out for left-handers?"
Well, you kinda use both hands.
So the left is the joystick to control that camera,
and the right hand is for focus.
So even if you're left-handed,
you probably can still use the same setup.
Alright lemme go ahead and just scoot over a few feet here.
So it seems like I set up a different shot
for each one of these and put in some effort.
"I wonder how fussy the LIDAR is in terms of positioning.
I see that you can slide the LIDAR forward and backwards.
Do you have to recalibrate it?
Is the focus a bit off
if you slide that LIDAR thing too far or near?"
No actually you just slide it forward and back to remove it.
But there's a spot where it locks into place
at the very front.
"Epic, I wonder if they will make a smaller
little brother version of this also."
That's one of the first things I said to DJI
after I saw this is like,
"Can we get like a APS-C version of these,
that I can use to vlog with?"
So I'm not doing this crazy thing.
You know, it's actually kinda crazy
how many different looks you can get
out of just the camera being in one spot
this whole time on a 50 mil.
"The biggest question I have is,
is it using Hasselblad tech for the sensors and lenses?
It'd be amazing if we could get some of the pedigree
in an affordable cinema camera,
considering all these features it has."
Honestly, I don't know.
But I wouldn't be too surprised.
I mean, this image looks pretty good. Right?
And Hasselblad has been around forever.
And for those of you don't know,
Hasselblad was acquired by DJI.
Not completely, but I think they're majority shareholder.
I think in 2017 or something like that.
So you know, I wouldn't be surprised
if we're getting Hasselblad tech in here,
but nothing official.
Check it out.
Another wide shot.
I mean, come on.
This has got to be like one of the most cinematic,
vlog comment reads ever.
- Hey Potato Jet. - Hey, what's going on?
Check it out.
I'm actually filming a video right now, you wanna see?
So that's us right now, we're recording.
And I'm actually sending this wireless microphone
over to the van.
- Ah, okay I got you. - Which is for the cameras.
And I can control the camera.
Yeah. - Awesome.
I like it.
- Pretty cool, huh? - Yeah.
Nice to meet you.
- All right Nice to meet you too.
- I like your channel.
- Appreciate it. Thanks (chuckling).
All right. Justin says,
"Kinda wanna see if DJI comes out
with a more compact version of this."
Yeah. DJI, I hope you're listening.
Well actually they're definitely listening.
'Cause they're sponsoring this episode,
and they're gonna watch through it
to make sure that I don't say anything too stupid,
or too unprofessional.
And have my pants on the whole time.
I think that that's one of the requirements in the contract
is like, I gotta keep my pants on.
All right now let's go ahead and jump up
in our ISO to ISO 5,000.
Which is the next base
for that higher dual native sensitivity.
And how is this looking?
We're still in H.264.
And honestly, at first I thought that H.264
was gonna be kinda useless on a camera like this,
but you know, it's looking pretty decent so far.
Right now we're at ISO 12,800
to see what this looks like.
And check this out,
not only is this my monitor, as well as my joystick,
as well as my microphone.
It's also my face light, huh?
Versatility.
What's up.
Might as well read a few more comments while we're here.
"Imagine when they bring out a mini version like this
for portable, lightweight filmmaking."
Yes absolutely.
That's what I'm waiting for now.
Like now that I know that this is possible,
I want like a smaller version of this.
You know that'd be so sick.
"Where is that grassy hilly location?
I'd love to get a sunrise sunset shot there."
Yeah, that was a nice spot.
That was Chino Hills State Park.
You can actually drive right up to that spot.
You can actually see it on Google Maps street view.
I think you look out this way,
and yeah look at that view.
"Honest question, how long have you had the camera?
Everyone released their videos in the last 24 hours."
Now the first time I ever saw it
was right after we filmed that DJI Q&A video.
Which was I think about six months ago.
They came over to my house and they showed it to me,
and they put a gun up to my face and said,
"If you tell anyone about this,
we'll smother your unborn child."
I don't know if that's what they said.
My memory is kind of fuzzy.
And then end of July is when they first gave me
like a prototype to start testing out.
So we've had it for a few months.
But there's an embargo.
Which means we're just not allowed to talk about it
for the time we have it until a certain day.
And as soon as the embargo lifts,
that's when everyone goes (indistinct),
and throws it all on YouTube.
So that's why you see all of these videos.
Just get dumped on the platform all at once.
Alright guys, after years,
I finally found the perfect vlog set up right here.
Kari I need your help real quick.
Can you film this camera set up so I could show them?
Got the camera,
and got the microphone mounted off to the side.
How do you do this with long hair?
Does it always just go in your mouth?
Happy Halloween by the way,
which would explain why I'm wearing this ridiculous wig.
But I just always have this in my shelf.
I bought it for a shoot a long time ago.
And whenever Halloween comes around,
I just pull it out and put it on and go,
"Look see I'm part of the Halloween spirit."
Well, I realized by the time I upload this,
it's probably gonna be, you know,
Thanksgiving or Christmas, or something like that.
If I actually tilt down,
I could actually see the camera itself.
I took off that top handle.
So I'm just shooting straight over the top now.
But how does it look?
My arms feel like it's about to fall off.
But it probably looks pretty good.
Oh my God, I gotta take this off.
It's so uncomfortable.
Long hair.
It's stuck on my head now.
(groaning)
Can you help me please?
I need both my hands for this vlog camera (chuckling).
I'm also doing a giveaway with my Ronin RS2.
Details down there in the comments.
Whoa. Hey, don't tell my girlfriend
that I'm hanging out with you. All right?
Anyways, Happy Halloween,
even though it's already over by the time you see this,
so happy Thanksgiving.
And Merry Christmas and New Year.
And all that stuff.
It's a fun time of year. It's coming up.
(laughing) Mozzarella, you look so beautiful. Wow.