- Guys, look how fancy we are.
We're on a boat.
Here, you want me to tell your future?
- Yeah.
Hold your hand out.
[Shouts]
[Laughter]
- You clearly didn't see where I was going right there.
Oh shoot!
Burnt the crap out of my hand!
Droning from a boat is always the best, huh?
- Have a good shots!
- All the shots coming out.
- It's pretty cool.
It's lookin pretty good.
[Squealing]
- Derrick's gonna try to fly through the boat.
Jonathan, just try to put your head down
and slightly to the right.
[Laughter]
[All Exclaiming]
That was crazy!
[Laughter]
- I told you to keep your heads down.
- That was like, this far away from my face.
- That's the first time I've tried that.
- Dude, you committed to that.
That was nuts.
- Good job, Derrick
- [Derrick] Thank you.
- I'm so glad we didn't lose $700.
- Let's, let's watch that.
- Honestly?
I didn't have that much faith in you.
[Laughter]
- On the approach, I'm like, this is,
this is a 50/50 shot and
- This is dumb.
This is dumb.
- We went for it.
- I sank so far into this chair, I was like.
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Last time I came out on a boat like this
I forgot my memory card.
So, the whole ride I was so bummed, I couldn't record.
So, real good habit to get into,
is every single time you pick up a camera,
before you take it out for a day,
or put it in your bag,
just check the battery and memory card.
No matter what camera it is, you just need
those two things and, at least, you can record.
There's, obviously, a bunch of other stuff
you might need like ND filters, microphone,
all this stuff, but, at least, if you have
those two thing, you can at least, capture something.
Now speaking of memory, if you don't have
yourself one of these SSDs, Bro, you are missing out.
So, this is a Samsung portable SSD T5
and Samsung is sponsoring this video, so, shout out to them.
They did give this one for free,
but I did buy this one couple of months back,
before the partnership, and I've been lovin this thing.
And, of course, we didn't forget about you guys.
We got three, one terabyte drives to give away to you guys.
So, all you gotta do, for a chance to win,
drop a comment down below.
In the first 24 hours of this video goin live,
and three lucky winners, will get one of these.
Having a drive this small, is useful
not just because it's easier to pack and transport around,
but, if you're anything like me, you find yourself needing
to edit in like random spots, in a plane or a car,
or any sort of moving vehicle, you know the struggles
of trying to edit it with the external hard drive
connected and just praying the whole time
that it doesn't come undone, but here it's just,
so much easier because of how little this thing is.
It just dangles.
This is definitely never recommended by anybody but,
come on, if this was a traditional external hard drive,
you would've lost that thing so fast.
Another reason why this is awesome,
is because these are wicked fast.
So, camera companies like Black Magic is making it
so you can write straight onto this hard drive.
So, this is actually a very cost effective alternative
to some of the expensive memory cards out there.
So, this camera has a bracket specifically for the T5.
So, there, now I'm recording 6K raw,
straight into this hard drive.
The beauty of this is now I can just take this
off of here, stick it straight into my computer,
and, literally, just start editing off of this hard drive.
And remember, it's an SSD.
So, no spinning disc in here which is why you can mount
it on a camera and still move it around like this.
You would never do that with a traditional hard drive.
They actually say this is shock proof up to two meters.
Should we test it?
Yo, Sam, so how much is two meters?
It's like, in feet?
- Two meters is 6.56 feet.
- Six and a half feet.
So, what's- how-
how tall is six and a half feet?
- Well, I'm 5'10.
- So, you're 5'10.
We just need to add about another eight inches?
We have very scientifically measured two meters.
So, here we go.
I'm gonna drop this.
I should probably do it on the dirt.
That would definitely survive.
- [Sam] No, no, no.
Brick is best.
- Ugh!
[Clatters]
- Ugh!
Okay, it's got a couple of scrapes.
So, let's plug it in and see if it will-
Whoa!
Everything's still good.
All the files we shot with the Black Magic are still good.
Maybe we didn't drop it from high enough.
Oh, look at all these leaves, how I beg.
- [Sam] There is no way that's gonna survive.
- Oh gosh.
Oh, this is painful.
[Clatters]
Oh!
It definitely took some damage.
You can see how it got chipped there and there,
but, uh, let's see if the data's still there.
Is it data or data?
- [Sam] I say data.
- Data.
Data.
It still works so, moral of this story, is
that these are durable.
Let's see if I still have some juggling skills.
Oh yeah!
Hey!
[Laughter]
That actually wasn't bad, right?
I kinda impressed myself.
Of course, you gotta have yourself a nice, solid back bag.
This one's the Peter McKinnon Nomadic Backpack.
It's the one I brought on this trip.
And this thing's pretty cool,
here this is a little mini blanket by Matador.
I picked this up at REI, but if I can find it
on Amazon or something, I'll link it down below.
But it's really cool, especially, when you go out
into snow, dirt, mud, or whatever,
it packs nice and small, and it's light.
Ah!
It's kinda like the size of a big beach towel.
But definitely recommend it if you plan on going to
a random spot and unpacking stuff like your lens
and cameras and all that stuff
that you wanna keep as clean as possible.
Now this is something I keep
inside of my bags at all times.
It's a little pouch with all the basic cables
that you commonly use.
So, you got your lightning, your USB-C,
and your micro-USB, your mini-USB.
And it's awesome having a dedicated set for you camera bag.
So, whenever you're packing stuff up,
you never have to think about USB cables.
You can bring out your GoPro or whatever you want,
and you know you have the cables for it.
Just kinda helps cut out some of
those tedious steps, ya know?
Another thing I hate doing is carrying around
a bunch of little batteries for a bunch
of little devices, right?
So, lately what I've been doing is just carrying around
one big battery to kind of plug into all my GoPros
and all their cameras to charge those up.
This one's called the Powerbase Edge.
And what I like about it is that it's a V-mount
battery for those kind of cameras,
but also, you can plug two P-Taps in and USBs.
So, you got your battery and these cables
and you can pretty much charge anything,
and I also like carrying around this little aperture light.
This one's awesome because it's very small,
lightweight, and also it's full RGB.
So, you can get pretty much any color out of it you want.
So, this is pretty cool.
How do you like this lighting?
Too blue?
No problem.
How bout this?
Oh, purple?
It doesn't look like it's doing much right now,
but that's because it's so bright out,
but after the sun sets, if you're camping at night
or whatever, this thing throws out a lot of light,
and it charges with USB-C.
So, what a coincidence.
And there you go.
It's charging.
And this is actually kind of handy.
It's a power inverter by Kondor Blue.
So, it takes a P-Tap or a D-Tap and it converts it
into a standard outlet, and also give you some USB ports.
A lot of professional batteries already come with P-Taps.
So, you might already have one.
You just plug it in,
and you can charge pretty much anything.
You know what I like about this Powerbased Edge
is that it's very lightweight.
It's 47 watts hours.
So, it's perfect for charging a GoPro a bunch of times
or your mirrorless camera a dozen times,
but when you start needing to charge bigger things,
like your drone or your laptop,
I would definitely suggest a bigger battery.
Like this battery is 100 90 watt hours.
So, it's got a lot of juice in there,
but it is bigger and heavier.
But this is what I would suggest if you're trying
to charge up some of the things
that require more juice like a laptop or a drone.
I guess I just prefer to bring one big battery
opposed to a bunch of little batteries
for a bunch of different cameras.
All right, playtime's over.
Back to L.A.
And we're back, and one final tip is to try
to organize and edit your footage
as soon as you can after you shoot it.
I feel like it actually make a pretty big difference.
If I can edit a screen, within and hour or two
of shooting it, it goes so fast.
Cause it's so fresh in my head,
I don't even have to look at all the footage, I just-
Poof, poof, cut, cut.
I basically spend no time reviewing the footage
cause I already know exactly what I want,
so I just cut, cut, cut, and I'll be done
with a scene in like 20 minutes.
Opposed to even waiting just a day or two,
actually makes a pretty big difference.
A scene that would've taken me 20 minutes to edit
is now taking me, like, an hour to edit.
Just because of all the little things
of having to re-review the footage
and trying to re-find where all the shots I want are,
and in the head, it doesn't sound
like a day or two would make a difference, but it does.
That is exactly what I did not do on this trip.
I just let all the footage build up
and I regret it now cause I have
almost a terabyte of footage in here.
But at least the whole media management process
is gonna be smoother that we have this Samsung SSD.
The transfer speed on this is 540 megabytes per second.
And just to clarify, 540 megabytes, not megabits,
and that's something that can confuse a lot of people
because this is how 540 megabytes per second,
which most of us are familiar with, right?
Like about 1000 megabytes makes up a gigabyte, right?
And then there's megabits, which has a lower case b,
and people think that's megabytes but that's megabits
which is about an eight of a megabyte.
So, definitely something to keep in mind
when you're looking at transfer speeds and stuff
because, if that b is lower case,
then it is an eight of a full megabyte.
And, yes, this is 540 megabytes a second
which is insanely fast when you have giant files
from all your 6K videos and 4K videos,
you need as much file transfer speed as you can get.
And also, if you edit off an external hard drive,
like we always do, I've said this before
in other videos, definitely edit off an SSD.
You do not want your hard drive
to be bottleneck of your project.
And the reason why we ended up buying one a while back
is because Sam was complaining that his computer
was really slow, and I knew for a fact
that his computer's pretty fast,
but all the Premier Projects were
running really slow and choppy.
Turns out it was just the hard drives
that were too slow to keep up
with all that 4K and 6K footage.
So now he's been editing off of a T5
for the last few months,
and everything's just been so much smoother.
Hi, Sam.
- Hello.
[Laughter]
- Yo, so, what you think of that of that hard drive?
- It's pretty dope.
- What was it like editing on a slower hard drive?
- It was just made everything so slow.
Like, I had a quarter of resolution,
it would just skip frames, and it would just take me
forever to get something done.
- So, now you notice a difference with the new SSD?
- Ah, yeah, Dude, I could edit on this
on full resolution, with no problem.
- So, you give it a thumb's up?
- Two thumbs up.
[Laughter]
- And, yeah, they come in different capacities.
This one is a one terabyte,
and they go up to a two terabytes,
and they're all the same size.
When I say sizes, I mean, physically they're the same size,
but capacity-wise, this one's a one terabyte,
but they go up to two terabytes.
So, yeah, I highly recommend getting yourself
one of these if you don't have one already.
And, thanks again, Samsung, for sponsoring this video,
hooking us up with some give-a-way units,
and, also, making that epic weekend in Big Bear possible.
You know we have to close this off.
Let's see what you guys are saying in the comments.
Potato says, can we please cut it with the mustache jokes?
Everyone, he mustache had enough of jokes then.
Oh, I hate you.
Me, watching Potato Jet, showing us new gear.
My wallet, aww [Bleep], here we go again.
Every time I watch Potato Jets videos,
my list of things I need gets longer.
What?
You mean like this?
Should I try to juggle these?
I mean, they're not mine.
They're your guys'.
They're the give away ones.
[Clattering]
Good thing they're solid state.
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