DJI OP3, M3 MBA, & EDC | 286

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3, the Macbook Air M3, and how they've got me thinking about a lighter EverDay Carry.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hamburger. Sorry, let me get rid of the echo there.
I'm trying something a little bit, a little bit new today.
I am recording this podcast straight into my sixteen inch
M one pro MacBook Pro, and I am recording directly
into Da Vinci Resolve. I am sitting in my car

(00:31):
in the parking lot in the parking garage of the
museum of my job, and we'll see if I have
better luck recording on the go like this, I'm recording
directly into my podcast template in Da Vinci Resolve. I
have all but fully moved this podcast operation production wise

(00:53):
into Da Vinci Resolve. I have a project called I
think it's just called audio podcast, which doesn't make any sense. Wait, no, no,
maybe it says podcast. What does this say on the top. Yeah,
the name of this templates called audio podcast A bit redundant,
but that's what I named this project months ago. So
I figure maybe if I'm recording directly into Da Vinci Resolve,

(01:16):
into the template, then it will be much easier just
to hit stop on recording and then hit export on
the MP three and the wave version to whom it
may concern. I always export the MP three at three
hundred and twenty maximum bitrate allowable by an MP three
forty eight killer Herts. It's just the maximum quality allowed
by MP three. But I also export a twenty four

(01:39):
bit forty eight killer Hertz wave file. Mainly that's just
for archive reasons, because I cannot upload twenty four bit
waves too into Spreaker. Into the back end here for
geek therapy radio. That is purely a limitation on Spreaker.
I think it's you can only upload audio files up
to two hundred megabits at a time. So these podcasts,

(02:04):
these you know, thirty minute long podcasts or whatever, even
if they're fifteen minutes long, at twenty four bit forty AK,
they are larger than the size limit of speaker, but
the MP three is not. So I try to upload
the highest quality MP three possible. Lord knows what Spreaker
does to it at the end, I need to go back.
I think that I make these episodes downloadable. I think

(02:28):
that if you listen through Spreaker. Don't quote me on this,
but I think I technically have these downloadable. And my
theory at the time was, you know, maybe somebody is
listening to this in a part of the world where
maybe their infrastructure doesn't have Wi Fi everywhere. I'm not
assuming how my listeners live, but there are times even

(02:48):
here in the United States where you just you won't
have access to data. I won't have internet access. Maybe
you're driving way out in the desert somewhere and you
just don't have any any signal. So I was like,
you know, I don't know where people's living can do
are what they've got going on infrastructure wise, or what
their life is currently. Maybe they're currently on a hike
or something. I want them to have the ability to
download the actual audio and then take it with them

(03:11):
on their personal audio players. I know that in most
apps you can pre download content, like in Netflix for instance,
Disney Plus a movie or video on demand platforms, you
can download a bunch of episodes within the app itself.

(03:32):
But I seem to believe I've made Geek Therapy Radio
downloadable as a file you can store locally on your
computer and then upload to whatever device you want. I
think that's still the case. Don't quote me on that
as of recording right now, I'm not checking it. But anyways,
I'm recording into my macwip right into DaVinci Resolve right here.

(03:53):
So what I wanted to talk about real quick because
I am in my work parking lot, I do have
to go up in a few minutes. Something that's also
been on my mind computer wise. I have been let
me set the stage a little bit. I have been
trying to lighten my everyday carry load, my EEDC. I've
tried so what I bring into the museum, what I

(04:16):
bring into work every day, instead of having a big, heavy,
fifty pound backpack on me just wreaking havoc on my back,
I've been trying to see how I can reduce and
lighten that load. For instance, one thing I asked for
for Christmas, which my wife got me, was a carbon
fiber video tripod. Carbon fiber camera tripod. It's not any
of the one of these like twelve one hundred dollars

(04:38):
man fro To deals. It's a I think it's a
small rig. It might not even be a small rig.
It was like one hundred. It's like ninety dollars on sale.
I was like, that's what I want for Christmas. I
just want to I lightweight carbon fiber tripod because I'm
on this quest to lighten my load. One of the
things that I got to lighten this load. I got
it two weeks ago, right before the snowst here in Texas.

(05:02):
I got the dgi Osmo Pocket three. I had been
hearing rave reviews about it for a year. I've never
been able to think, you know, how it would fit
into my gear list. But after all the hype and
it was so hard to get, it was available on
Amazon at a good price, and I say, with all

(05:23):
the rave reviews from content creators, I said, you know what,
I'll go ahead and give it a try and keep
the receipt Metaphorically speaking, you don't keep receipts on Amazon.
It's all digital in there. But I'll use it and
I'll see how it fits into my workflow. And if
it's all it's cracked up to be by content creators,

(05:43):
and if it doesn't meet my expectations or my nees
or fit into my workflow, then I'll just return it.
No questions asked to Amazon. I've been using the dj
Osmo Pocket three. It is out standing for what it is.
It's got a one in sensor, it does really great
and low light. It records ten bit. You can record

(06:05):
in a flat log like DGI log am or whatever
color profile. It looks awesome, The footage looks awesome. You
can even get some natural background bler, some natural boca bouquet,
whatever you want to call it. Because it is a
one HD sensor, it's not going to look like a
full frame, you know, one point eight fifty milimeters or

(06:25):
anything like that, but it is. It's kind of cool
to see that you can get some separation of the
subject in the background with such a small, pocketable camera.
The the best part, sorry I was trying to form
what I wanted to say, or the best part of
the Osmo Pocket three is the gimbal. I mean the
camera that the fact that the video quality is so

(06:47):
good is one thing, but the gimbal is really where
it stands out. I didn't I couldn't, like imagine, I
didn't expect that the gimbal would be so a huge
thing to me, and I think that's where a lot
of content creators have rested on this. It's not just
that the image quality is great, especially over the Osmo

(07:10):
Pocket to the previous generation. It's that your phone, your
smartphone My S twenty four your Apple sixteen seventeen, whatever.
The latest and greatest phone is the Galaxy S twenty five.
As great as those cameras are and as great as
the stabilization is for a smartphone, nothing beats a physical

(07:33):
gimbal in the shots they First of all, the camera
is better than any of the cameras in your smartphone,
And the stabilization is not even comparable to what you
get in in a smartphone. The stabilization in an Osmo
Pocket three using an actual three axis gimbal, it's not

(07:54):
comparable to a phone. It is a game changer compared
to just using your phone for content. First of all,
your phone. I haven't found a phone, not a not
a not a popular flagship. So yeah, I think you
can definitely record pro res with with high end iPhones.
I know that's for sure. I have not deep dive

(08:15):
deep dove deep dived deep dove in into how many
phones can record ten bit. You know, report can record
in a flat profile ten bit to let you color
grade later. You can color grade anything in color grading
pro res out of an iPhone. I guarantee you is
an amazing experience for content coming from an iPhone, especially

(08:35):
if you pair it externally to an external hard drive. Like,
it's really cool. There's I'm not throwing shade on iPhones
or smartphones in general, but having a dedicated camera the
Osmo Pocket three with a gimbal that you don't have
to put it into another gimbal and fiddle around with
that stuff just out of your pocket. Flip open the
screen you're recording, you're recording in a flat profile ten bit,
you're on a physical gimble. You got a awesome active

(08:59):
track on there. So for instance, I can be at
the museum, I can lock on active track to like
a t rex's foot or a t rex's toe or whatever,
and then I can get these awesome shots just kind
of walking around the fossil mount and have the foot
framed exactly where I want it. It's really cool. There's

(09:19):
really cool tools and features. And to get back to
my point of light lightening my EDC load, it means
that I can leave my big bulky Lumix S five
X two what Like, I've got the current flagship of
Lumix S five it's the XLYMX two x whatever it's
it's it's a baller full frame Panasonic Elemount. Obviously you've

(09:42):
seen it, if you've watched the Geek Therapy YouTube channel
or whatever, if you watch any of the museum videos,
you've seen what that S five can do. But it's heavy.
It's a big full frame camera. It's kind of heavy.
So I said, if this can reduce how much I
need to bring that big full frame camera, then that's
that's a winner in my book, and it has checked

(10:03):
all the boxes. I one hundred percent understand now why
content creators across the world raved about the Osmo Pocket three.
There's no link to buy. If you're listening to this
podcast or whatever, there's no link to buy the Osmo Pocket.
I'm not making any money by telling you this. I'm
just telling you me trying to lighten my my everyday
carry load. Osmo Pocket three weighs a fraction of how

(10:26):
much the S five Lumix AS five does. So I'm
very happy that I found that I have not brought
my LUMIXS five to work today, which means I also
didn't bring my Giant, uh not Giant, but my carbon
fiber video tripod that's also staying at home. I have
left a few tripods at home, not in my backpack.
I've got some very lightweight, extendable tripods that aren't the

(10:49):
sturdiest as far as you know. The uh it's extendable
and it's plastic, so it kind of leans one way.
You know, it might lean ten degrees to the right
or left, whatever, But with the gimbal on the Osmo
Pocket doesn't matter. It's always a perfectly level shot. So
that means I don't have to bring my nice sturdy tripod.
I can use my extendable collapsible mounts or whatever you

(11:13):
call it, and use it that way and know that
I'm getting a great image. Ozma Pocket three is a
twenty milimeter equivalent. You can put a ultra wide on
the front of it and get fourteen milimeter. I have
those accessories coming, the ND filters, which are magnetic, which
is really cool. Just pop them on and off. Just awesome.

(11:36):
I haven't used any of the end filters or any
of the lens adapters on there yet, but they are
available and I'll actually get them in the middle tomorrow.
So I've already been able to light my load, get
rid of some tripods, get rid of the Lumixcess five.
I don't mean get rid of they're still on my
shelf at home. But as far as my DC, the

(11:56):
other part of my DC that I am looking to address,
and I actually have been looking to address over the
past couple of months, is the computer I bring with
me right now. I bring this MacBook Pro sixteen inch
MacBook Pro. It's not light. I mean, it's not a big, heavy,

(12:17):
bulky giant you know, gaming Windows PC. But it's also
it's not I would not classify it as a light device.
I'm holding it in my hand here so I can
speak into the left speaker girl, which is where the
main microphone is in a sixteen inch MacBook Pro and
a fourteen inch for that matter. Yes, as an array
of microphones, but the main microphone is underneath the left

(12:39):
speaker grill. There's a little tidbit for you. Hopefully I'm
not popping it too much because I'm not using a
pop filter. Maybe I am, Maybe I'm not. Anyways, it's
not a light device. I would not classify a sixteen
inch Macbopro as a light device. A MacBook Air, however,
a thirteen inch MacBook Air is like thirteen point six
inches thirteen I think it's thirteen point six now, like
an M two or an M three. MacBook Air with

(12:59):
six stingingabytes is lightweight by any stretch of the imagination.
I think it's two point two pounds. It's just over
a kilogram. It's it's compared to a MacBook Pro sixteen inch,
it's a nine day difference. It's smaller, it's lighter. So
I'm not gonna get rid of my sixteen inch MacBook Pro.

(13:22):
But I have been returning returning at least one laptop
that I got from Amazon. I was still within the
return Windows. So I've got a box up and I'm
returning it. It's an ass vv O book. It doesn't
have enough RAM. The chip inside there is amazing. The
in the vv O book fourteen O lead it. What

(13:42):
I have is like the until nine one eight five
h like it's a ball or twenty core processor. But
it just and even the when the graphics Intel Z
or g graphics in there, it's it's got a great
little built in GPU. It just doesn't have enough RAM

(14:03):
for what I need on a PC. On a Windows PC,
you need more RAM to do video editing than you
do on the MacBook side of things. You can video edits.
You can even do light four K editing on an
old Mac M one MacBook Pro with just eight gigabytes
of RAM. You can do it. On a MacBook Air
with just eight gigabytes of RAM. You can do it.

(14:24):
It's not gonna be obviously as powerful as like an
M one Max Chipper and an M four Max whatever,
but you can get it done with a gigabytes On
the Apple Silicon side of thing, Now that MacBook Airs
comes standard with sixteen gigabytes of RAM. Game changer. So
I'm returning the Vivo Book because it's just not enough

(14:45):
specs to meet my needs. It's light enough, you know,
it's light enough. But I am looking at returning it
and just getting a thirteen inch MacBook Air with sixteen
gigabytes RAM. It doesn't matter if it's an M one,
M two, M three, whatever, the cheapest MacBook Air used, refurbished,
whatever I can get that has sixteen gigabytes a RAM
that I can use in my eaties, in my everyday carry,

(15:09):
that I can go on a trip, I can do
whatever I need to do and travel light, but still
have a laptop that is that is more than capable
of editing video including four K video. Yes, if you
start loading it up with a bunch of fusion nodes
and things like that, and eventually resolve it. You'll start
to hit the bottleneck. But that is not mostly what

(15:29):
I do. Mostly what I do is kind of on
the lighter, shorter sides of things usually, and I have
more than enough horsepower at home and in the sixteen
inch MacBook Pro to use that if I really need to.
But ninety percent of the time I'm doing kind of
lighter video editing work. I'm editing YouTube shorts most of
the time, or if I'm doing a long form four

(15:51):
K project, it's like it's a podcast for the museum,
and it's not a whole bunch of heavy edits. And
I do some fancy foot work for some parts, but
it's not a big giant, you know, thirty two track
monster video edit. It's three or four tracks maximum, a
couple of title tracks. I have an adjustment filter on

(16:14):
one of the tracks. It's kind of lightweight in a
MacBook Pro. In a MacBook Air with sixteen gigs, a
ram will more than chew through that workload, or at
least not make me want to pull my fleeting hairline
out in frustration waiting for things to waiting for things
to render, waiting for the cash to build up. So

(16:36):
it's all in this pursuit of lightening my everyday carry load.
So Osmo Pocket iie check that has officially replaced in
many ways my Lumix S five, So that has lightened
my load by a couple of by at least a
pound right there, going from an ADC MacBook Pro sixteen

(16:58):
inch to an EDC MacBook Air. That's gonna take away
a pound and a half easy, just right there. So
that is my quest, and I'm curious if those are
if there, if some of y'all listening do have DC
like you, if you content create or even dabble in
content creation, and you have kind of what you carry
with you every day to do kind of more serious

(17:19):
content work because everybody's carrying their smartphone, and the smartphone
is more than capable of taking care of a ton
of content creation needs. Obviously, I use my S twenty
four as a as a BCAM. The Osmo Pocket three
is so good that I can use another one of
my lightweight tripods or whatever to just put the clip

(17:39):
in my S twenty four and have a BCAM for
an interview. So it's all the name of lightning the load.
If you are listening to this and you have an
EDC that involves cameras and microphones and things, I'm curious
to know what you have, what you're rocking. You can
email me Johnny at geek Therapy radio dot com, j
oh N n Y atk Theapy Radio dot com. Anderson,

(18:03):
you sent me an email a couple of weeks ago
with your situation. I'm not gonna tell the whole world
about it right now, but and I see y'all's emails.
I am so bad about responding to them because what
I do Anderson, in your case specifically, I read it
and I think, Man, I want to respond to this thoughtfully.

(18:24):
I don't have the time right the second because I'm
usually like sitting on the couch and watching my nine
month old and four year old and it's just there.
That is not a time I can sit down and
concentrate and write out or response email. So I appreciate
you that you reach out to me. I always say,
I got to get back to that email. I got
to respond to And I see email, and I see

(18:46):
all of y'all who who send me emails. I'm so
you know that I respond sometimes. I think that's if
I'm honest with myself at this point in my life,
I can say I respond sometimes. I always feel bad
about someone sending me like a long email and then
me responding with one or two sentences. So I want
to give y'all more than that. But at the same time,

(19:09):
as like, any response is better than no response, So
maybe I should just reply with a couple of lines.
Maybe maybe that's better than nothing. So this is all
the stuff that goes on in the back of my
head as a as a podcast host with an audience
who is so awesome such as y'all are I just
appreciate y'all so much. Email me what y'all y'all's EDC

(19:29):
is what I just want to like to know what
your gear, what gear you're using in general. But that's
a wrap on this episode. It is I got to
get upstairs for my ten am meeting, so I will
talk to y'all next time. You are worthy of love,
you're worthy of giving love, you're worthy of receiving love,
and you're worthy of your own self respect. Thank you
so much for listening to Geek Therapy Radio. Peace