Hey Welcome to another Flarecorp Media video gear thing. I'm Jason and today i want to show you my
ultimate portable video recording setup. Now normally when I'm in the studio or out in the
field recording something I care about, I use my Fuji cameras. Now here I have my Fuji XT-3
with a SmallRig cage with a Rode video microphone on it and some portable lighting and this is
something that I might take when I want to go out in the field and do some recording. However,
you can see it's pretty bulky. It's not as bulky as some setups that other people have but it
definitely requires taking a bigger bag and being more concerned about set up time and making sure
everything's packed away safely. I've been wanting to figure out a way to take this which gives you
Log recording, it gives you microphone in so you're not relying on the camera's microphone,
It gives you a shoe for lighting. I want to take all this and shrink it down into something
that is one handable carrying when you're packing it and i think i finally found the ultimate
solution. It required getting this package here from SmallRig that I've been waiting for for about
10 weeks, but before we get into my ultimate small setup I want to tell you that this is an
experiment video for a different video I'm currently recording. I am currently filming
with a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and the reason for that is because i wanted to see if
it was possible to use only the Note 20 Ultra from start to finish to create a YouTube video. So if
you want to see the results of that test, I'm going to have that video linked right up here.
But now let's get back into my ultimate setup. So the first thing is this is a GoPro 9
box that came with my GoPro 9. It's actually... I love that they got away from the non-recyclable
packaging and gave you something that's actually useful when they ship it. So I've got that and in
here you can see I've got a handful of things and the key to this for me anyway is the Sony ZV-1.
This is a little point-and-shoot camera that's specifically focused on Vloggers so the video
quality of this is excellent. It's got good microphones if you don't want to use a portable
microphone. It has a little windsock that you can put up here and help block the wind from
the built-in microphones. It's got a fully articulating screen. It has microphone in
as well as HDMI out and you can charge it for a little while at least while it is running so
you can get some excellent run times out of it, not to mention the batteries are nice and small.
There's four of them right there. It doesn't give you a whole lot of run time, but they're cheap
and easy to carry around. So on top of that then it does have one hot shoe mount allowing you to
put a light on it which is also necessary for this setup. So this is the Luma Cube Panel Mini.
I did a review about this before. I love this little thing. It's nice
to carry with me and that can just go right there in the hot shoe mount and there you go, however,
now I've taken away that hot shoe mount so if I want good microphone quality and it's windy I can
no longer put the windsock on because that slips into the hot shoe mount so you're relying on now,
you know, a lavaliere mic or something like that. So i have the rode
wireless go so you clip one to your lapel this one would then clip
nowhere. You don't want it just dangling off, imagine there's a tripod here, something
dangling off because you know that can cause the plug to come loose and then your audio recording
is bad. So I was stuck at that juncture for quite a while. How do I take this into this and finally
small rig came up with what I hope is the solution. I've been waiting for this for 10
weeks at least if not more. I ordered it the moment i saw that it was available. They were
advertising it long before it was available. So I put myself on the watch list and waited
and then finally i ordered and then it was back ordered for five weeks and then it had
to go through customs because it came from China. So this is a cage specifically for the Sony ZV-1
and the reason I care about that is the fact that it has another, let's see,
it has another cold shoe mount on the bottom so you can attach the microphone down there. Of
course you might run into some clearance with your tripod so what you can end up actually
doing is... I have a couple spares of these these cold shoe mounts. They just screw in
and you can screw it on right here and have multiple cold shoe mounts
on this little setup right there. It just slips on. It uses compression to lock onto the phone.
It's got that ring right here that I'll show you again.
It's just got a ring that slides onto the camera right there and then we'll tighten that down.
Okay so that seems pretty secure. It's beautiful because it still gives you access to all of the
doors over here. It does also, yes, give you access to the battery and the SD card slot.
Big plus. Of course once you put maybe a tripod mount on here...
I suppose maybe you could line one up here and that way the door is still open because that's
another problem. The built-in tripod screw, if you have a, you know a quick release,
like this, onto that built-in screw, it covers up the battery door and you can't open the door
without taking this off. So yeah, so you can put this right here still access that
cold shoe and still open your doors. This is going to be
wonderful. I'm going to strip one of these from here for now. Whoops.
Just going to put it over here, down here on the bottom. All right, let's put this on
and then the light and then the microphone can now go
hopefully right here with still access to the microphone port.
Yes!
There we go.
And then this would sit on my tripods which I'm currently using. So with this, I feel, I've
created the ultimate portable video product video recording setup. This is more or less equivalent
to this. Obviously you're going to get a lot more features, a lot more recording capability,
interchangeable lenses. Like I said, the whole point is to... I now have squeezed all of this
into a box this size.
Just to prove it, I'll tear it down real fast and fast forward.
Done.
So this is a quick little fun video. I just wanted to show you what's capable
with the SmallRig and the Sony ZV-1 and that Panel Mini Cube. That's going to do it for this episode.
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