I just wanted to make some videos for interesting topics I like. Maybe some tech videos for work. I probably don't need to drop the $$$ on a light to be honest considering I can probably get away with using practical lighting and my Elgato Key Lights TBH.
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I just wanted to make some videos for interesting topics I like. Maybe some tech videos for work. I probably don't need to drop the $$$ on a light to be honest considering I can probably get away with using practical lighting and my Elgato Key Lights TBH.
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What kind of gimbal do you use, if any? I currently have the Crane 2 but I want to upgrade. I really hate how Sony doesn't support 99% of them though
I have a crane 2 and a crane 3.
I hardly use either one these days. I used to shoot 80% of my content on a gimbal.
Now, it's pretty much all hand held and tripod.
I'll only break out the gimbal if we have a pre-planned shot that requires a gimbal.
That being the case look into LumbeCube
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I would only go the Nanlite or Aputure route if you were doing paid gigs.
If you're going to light yourself for your content, go with 3 (at the very least 2) lights.
One key light, one fill light, and one backlight. If you can do that, regardless of the camera, your content is immediately going to look better than 90% of the stuff you see online from anyone that isn't a seasoned youtuber or professional content creator / videographer / photographer.
I've had $300 cameras and now use 2 $10k rigs on a daily basis.
Proper lighting is your absolute number 1 priority.
It's similar to the audio world which is what I started in.
I would regularly get people to ask me for microphone and DAW recommendations.
My recommendation was and still is to spend money properly acoustically treating your room first. A $8,000 mic and plug ins isn't going to fix a room that sounds like a bathroom or a hallway.
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How do you like the Crane 3 regardless of you using it. Is it much better than the 2?
I'm more of a vacation photographer. So I'm walking, doing tours, filming from my pov. Handheld is simply not going to work. shyt looks like I'm Michael J Fox.
I personally wouldn't take the crane 3 on a trip.
It's significantly larger than the crane 2.
It's built for carrying larger camera bodies and when rigged all the way up, it's heavy as hell.
Even with nothing on it the crane 3 is noticeably heavier than the crane 2.
In your situation, I would highly recommend the DJI RS2 which I've used quite a bit.
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They have knobs on the plate that make micro adjustments to the balance a breeze.
Having used both, I prefer the RS2 but since I don't use gimbals often anymore I've just settle for the Crane 3 which does the job, it's just heavy as hell.
For travel the RS2 is perfect because it also breaks down to an incredibly small size vs the crane that doesn't break down at all.
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DJI is undefeated... I should have known already. I'll be switching over soon enough. I think they are even compatible with the A7's tooI personally wouldn't take the crane 3 on a trip.
It's significantly larger than the crane 2.
It's built for carrying larger camera bodies and when rigged all the way up, it's heavy as hell.
Even with nothing on it the crane 3 is noticeably heavier than the crane 2.
In your situation, I would highly recommend the DJI RS2 which I've used quite a bit.
It's VERY light, has excellent stabilization and balancing your camera is very easy.DJI RS 2 Gimbal Stabilizer Pro Combo
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They have knobs on the plate that make micro adjustments to the balance a breeze.
Having used both, I prefer the RS2 but since I don't use gimbals often anymore I've just settle for the Crane 3 which does the job, it's just heavy as hell.
For travel the RS2 is perfect because it also breaks down to an incredibly small size vs the crane that doesn't break down at all.
Thanks homie
Yal used that Adobe Podcast AI before?
Had a client send me some footage that they shot that had trash camera audio, I threw the audio from it into the site and it cleaned it up within seconds.
Don't sleep.
Had a client send me some footage that they shot that had trash camera audio, I threw the audio from it into the site and it cleaned it up within seconds.
Don't sleep.
Any time my man
That and the audio denoise in DaVinci Resolve is magical as well.Yal used that Adobe Podcast AI before?
Had a client send me some footage that they shot that had trash camera audio, I threw the audio from it into the site and it cleaned it up within seconds.
Don't sleep.
Sony with another one 
might have to find some money somewhere.
might have to find some money somewhere.
Just watched all the new Sony A6700 videos. Even influencers seem bored as hell now discussing these new latest and greatest cameras every other month.
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yeah so many overlapping cameras from Sony.Just watched all the new Sony A6700 videos. Even influencers seem bored as hell now discussing these new latest and greatest cameras every other month.
They literally came out with the ZV-E1 and now they drop this one ..
Ordered the Mac Studio M2 Max of the strength of how well the Mac mini M2 pro has been running.
Now whenever I have people come into the office to edit they can use the Mac mini M2 pro and my own work computer will be the Mac Studio M2 max.
I had to do some tweaking to the export settings in DaVinci Resolve because with the default settings my exports were getting color and gamma shifts. I have it much better now. Very close to perfect.
Now whenever I have people come into the office to edit they can use the Mac mini M2 pro and my own work computer will be the Mac Studio M2 max.
I had to do some tweaking to the export settings in DaVinci Resolve because with the default settings my exports were getting color and gamma shifts. I have it much better now. Very close to perfect.
I've read that Resolve's exports for MP4s and .movs aren't the best for image quality and color grading. I started exporting out of Resolve in DNXhr then bringing it into Handbrake and converting that into an MP4. It also brings the file sizes down a lot.
There are some threads about it on their forums, it takes longer, but I was noticing the videos coming out cleaner quality wise.