(upbeat music)
Okay, let's do this guys,
today I'm gonna be
sharing with you 10 things
you need to know about
travel and filmmaking.
This is not gonna be your standard video
of just listing off
things you already knew.
No I am not gonna say that
you need (snaps fingers)
a drone for travel
photography and videography,
because we already know that.
And no, I'm not gonna tell you
that you need (snaps
fingers) a Polaroid camera,
because that is next
week's video, stay tuned.
Today's video is gonna be abstract things
that you didn't know about that are
gonna be very helpful for you.
They're things that I've learned
over the past four years of making films.
Some of them are even things that I only
learned about within the past month.
From software to
hardware, these are things
that are extremely relevant here in 2019,
so let's get right to it.
Number one is a solid solution
to keeping your files safe
while traveling on the
road, and that is an app
by the name of Hedge.
Now if you haven't heard of it before,
essentially what it is is it is a way
to make sure that every
single little megabit,
every tiny little pixel of your photos,
of your videos that you're transferring
from your memory cards
onto your hard drives,
or from a hard drive to another hard drive
is successfully being transferred.
I don't know if you've ever
experienced this before,
because I have a handful of times,
using finder on my MacBook,
I have dragged files from
one place to another,
and basically just walked
away from the computer,
and when I got back nobody's telling me
that everything made it over okay,
but I'm usually just
going off the assumption
that it all made it fine.
A couple times that has been
like shooting myself in
the foot when I realized
that either the transfer
failed halfway through,
or some of the files
corrupted during transfer.
This is where Hedge is
incredibly valuable,
but in my opinion that is the secondary
thing that's important here.
The most important thing
that it can do is this.
One second, there you are.
Scenario number one, you're
done shooting for the day,
so what I normally do, and
what most people will do
is they will immediately
be putting that footage
onto an external hard drive.
But what happens if
this hard drive breaks?
What happens if it
corrupts or you drop it?
You've basically lost all of your files,
all your eggs were in one basket.
What Hedge allows you to
do is you can now plug in
two hard drives to your
laptop at the very same time,
and with the click of one button
you can quickly send over
those files to two hard drives,
now meaning you have two copies in hand,
which means if one breaks,
one drops, one gets lost,
at least you still have a
backup, and that is so important.
I'm so lucky to be here today,
because I started my YouTube
career with one hard drive,
putting up all eight months
of travel on one drive.
I used to accidentally drop the drive,
I would pull it out
without safely ejecting it.
I don't know how I didn't
lose all those files,
but if I had, I would
not be sitting here today
doing the job that I love the most.
Start the good habits right now.
And I will say that all
software and hardware
I mention here in this video
will be linked down below.
Okay guys, so this is a really cool one,
I've been using it for about a year now,
it's called MyAirBridge.com,
and basically what it is,
it's kinda like Dropbox.
You could easily send
files to your friends,
you can go right to the website,
and you can send up to two gigabytes
without even creating a profile.
You can just drag and drop your clips
into MyAirBridge, and send
a link to your friend,
so that they can download it.
It'll be available for
a fixed amount of days,
but if you get on their paid plans,
you can go as much as like 100 gigabytes
on a single transfer,
and that's actually how
I've been sending my files
to my remote editors when
I've been working with them.
They have different tiers of plans,
and they're extremely affordable.
The one I was doing was
more of an enterprise level,
and it allowed me to
send up to 100 gigabytes
in a single transfer,
and they'd be available on the download
for about 30 days, so I love MyAirBridge,
I'm a huge believer in it.
And a great thing that
you can is if you're
midway transferring, and
let's say you have to leave,
you're not completed the transfer,
or the WiFi crashes, you can pause it
and resume it in another
place at another time,
as long as you do it within three days
that midway transfer
will still be available,
so that's extremely handy,
especially when you're traveling
to places like the Philippines.
So this one right here is
kind of an interesting story,
because who would've ever
thought that an ad on YouTube
would actually lead me to
something that I really needed?
So there was this one ad that I probably
hit skip ad about 10
times, maybe even 15 times,
but on that 16th time I decided
to find out what it was about,
and that is where I came across an app
by the name of Frame.io.
Now if you're not familiar with it,
basically what it allows you to do
is it gives you an incredible way
to get feedback from your clients,
or to collaborate with teams
when you're working within
Final Cut or Premiere Pro.
It's an unbelievable resource, invaluable
if you're working with a team,
just like I'm now starting to do.
Scenario one, you have a client,
you're working with a hotel,
or maybe it's a paid campaign,
and somebody's hired you
to make them a video.
Now most of the time you
send them the final video,
and they have to be like, okay,
at 59 seconds in the
video I want this removed,
at 1:28 I want this moved
a little bit to the left,
or 1:15 remove that part entirely.
Now that gets really challenging
when there's a ton of
feedback from the client.
Now what Frame does is it allows you
to upload your final video into a platform
that allows them to give
you extremely detailed
feedback within Frame.io
and you can actually
import those feedback notes directly back
into the software, meaning
that you spend way less time
being like, oh, was it at
:59, oh, was it at 1:28,
and not to mention, if
you're working with clients,
what better way to look professional
than to have a software that literally
makes their lives easier.
Instead of them having to go
between the YouTube unlisted video
and back to the text messages
to text you what went
wrong with the video,
now they can do it all in one place,
and they can even use
tools to highlight things,
draw on things, and again,
you just directly re-import
that into Final Cut,
Premiere, whatever you're working with,
it's (kissing loudly) so excited about it.
I'm so happy this came into my life.
Scenario number two is
my scenario at the moment
where I'm working with a team now.
So imagine my remote editor gets to
what he believes to be
the end of the edit,
from there he can hit the
upload button to Frame,
from there I can easily put some feedback,
it can quickly be sent right back to him,
and again, he imports
it back into Final Cut,
completes the edit, and right there
we've probably saved about
an hour with every video.
That is an incredible saving,
and it's definitely not to be overlooked
when you're trying to look
professional with brands.
Number four, the next
thing I wanna recommend
is something I can't really grab right now
because it's plugged
in, but get a power bar
for travel film-making,
because when you check
into a lot of guest houses,
sometimes the budget ones
will only have a single plug,
and so if you need to
charge your drone batteries,
if you need to charge your camera,
I highly recommend having that
because it allows you to
have up to five of them
on a single little bar that's
easily slipped into your pack,
and also I really recommend putting
a universal adapter on the end of it,
so no matter where you travel to
you have up to those five to be plugging
in your devices for fast charging.
Number five is a little thing
by the name of the Cloud.
Now you've probably heard of it before,
but I wanted to talk about it,
because every single day
it's becoming more relevant.
Basically what this is is it's the ability
to store your footage, your
videos, your documents,
basically everything and anything
saved to your computer, your phone,
it can now be stored in very
safe and secured servers
that are owned by Amazon or Google,
and that are actually
scattered all around the world.
The amazing thing about
it is they have systems
where if one of their servers dies,
you don't lose your footage.
It's actually stored in several places.
There's redundancies so
that if they lose a drive,
or a server, or an entire gigaserver,
I don't really know how it works,
but it will still theoretically be there.
So it's ultra secure, it's easy to set up,
you can just go to the website
and start dragging and
dropping your files,
your videos, whatever you need,
and as long as you have
good enough upload speeds
or download speeds, you can fairly easily
be accessing those files from the cloud.
Now they're actually quite affordable,
you kinda pay for what you need,
and there's even some providers
that offer unlimited.
Now I will say unlimited in quotations,
because if you're like me and you have
upwards of 30 terabytes, 40 terabytes,
and quickly growing, it's
not gonna be a good idea
to be downloading those files.
Yes, maybe theoretically you
can stretch their unlimited
and get all 30 terabytes up there,
but I'm reading of some people that are
experiencing crazy throttling,
where they basically can't get their files
back quickly enough to ever operate it
in a commercially viable way.
That was a mouthful.
So what I'm really saying
is it's not for everyone,
it doesn't fix every need.
A lot of people think the cloud
is the answer to everything.
What they don't realize
is if I were to use
Amazon's cloud or something like that,
which isn't technically unlimited,
but allows you to operate it commercially,
I would be paying like 10s
of thousands of dollars,
if I was continuously uploading
and downloading from it.
And so when you start running into those
10s of thousands of dollars,
it starts making sense
to look at other options.
And so that's gonna lead
us to point number six.
What is point number six, Christian?
Let me tell you since you're already here,
unless of course you've left the video,
but if you've left the video
you're not hearing this.
If you've left the video, you're
not part of team get Lost.
So if you're somebody that
started to get in a situation
where you're beginning
to fill up these drives,
it means you're obviously
shooting enough footage
that you're probably gonna start
to be considering an option
like the one I've developed.
Now you might not be
quite at this level yet,
because well, frankly,
I never thought I'd get to this level.
But there are steps to get there.
So basically what we're gonna be
talking about today is a NAS.
It is called a network attached storage,
it's something I never
really wanted to learn about,
but found myself needing to learn about,
because it is the way
to operate my business,
to grow it, to scale it, to
be able to access my files
from anywhere around the world,
and basically have my
own personal drop box.
This guy right here is an
eight bay Synology DS1819+ NAS,
and the guy on top of
it is an expansion pack,
allowing me to have another five.
I also have one more Synology
that they sent me there.
This is not a sponsored video by them,
but they did give me the equipment.
I pretty much knocked their doors down,
I was so excited about their product,
and I'm really glad they
wanted to work with me on this,
'cause I've done my research,
I had to do my research,
and I think this is the
solution for so many people.
Now most people won't
need to have five drives,
let alone the abilities
of 18 like I can here,
but you might need two drives.
You can have it so that
if one of the drives dies,
you still have all your footage.
It's what's called a redundancy,
it's a great way to store your files
to have peace of mind.
And the great thing is
it's not that expensive
to get a two bay Synology NAS.
Yes, you're gonna have
to buy some hard drives,
which can range anywhere
from four terabytes
upwards of 14 terabytes.
I put 14 terabytes in each and every
single one of these bays
here of my eight bay.
That was expensive, that cost me about
$4,500 for those drives,
but again enterprise level solutions,
I wanna build the foundations
that allow my team
to be able to access these files,
and so what the Synology case does,
basically what these cases do,
they give these hard drives a brain
and an ability to connect to the internet.
And so now all of the things
that are stored in there
can be accessed by my remote editors.
I can actually set permission levels
where some folders are only viewable
by certain team members,
where some folders can only be downloaded
but not uploaded, or vice versa.
I have all the control in the world.
Now the other amazing thing
is that unlike using an unlimited plan
with Google or DropBox where you're
gonna experience serious throttling
if you start to try to
access those files too often.
This is not gonna
experience any throttling.
Your only bottleneck is going
to be your internet speeds.
If I get myself a gigabit
internet speed here back at home,
I can be accessing these basically
as quickly as I could if I was taking it
right off a hard drive in person.
That is an incredible feature to have,
to be able to safely store files
wherever I have my NAS,
to be able to have an editor
all the way in Zimbabwe.
Scenario number one,
your NAS is in Canada,
you're traveling on the road
and you're in Hong Kong,
and your client is in Egypt.
Your client says, hey Christian,
I wanna pay you $10,000
for all of the footage
from your trip to the Philippines.
Now I can be all the way
in, where the heck was I?
Now you can be all the way
in Hong Kong on mediocre internet,
you can access your NAS and
use the high speed internet
back in Canada to send those files
all the way to your client in Egypt.
It's like having a supersonic hard drive
at the disposal of your fingertips
that you can control from
anywhere in the world.
Let's take the client out of the equation,
let's just say you wanna
send a file to yourself.
Well, you could be on the opposite
side of the world from your NAS
and still accomplish that.
Go into the Synology app, and from there
you can directly download
whatever's saved on the NAS
on the opposite side of the world
as if it was right there
in your living room.
The bottlenecks will of
course be the internet
speeds that you're dealing with,
but it is an incredible solution,
and I couldn't be more stoked on it.
Number seven (speaking
in a foreign language)
is going to be a completely free software
if you're using it for personal use,
it's called TeamViewer.
Now TeamViewer is
something I've been using
to do what's called a RAS.
I can have my computer in Canada
and I can be in Taiwan,
and using a laptop in Taiwan
I can actually control the actual mouse,
the cursor that you see on the screen
on this computer here in Canada.
You'll just need to download the software
on the two computers
you plan to use it with.
But let's say I have a home
computer here in Canada
and I'm gonna be traveling
on a family vacation
for the next two months.
Well, what happens if I find
out that while I'm on the road
I forgot a photo, I forgot an application,
I forgot something that
was saved on that computer?
Well, now I can use the RAS as long
as the home computer's turned on,
and I can take full
control over that computer,
and again, I could
actually send myself files
using something like MyAirBridge.
That was actually my old
system of sending myself files.
Now I will say that it is definitely
a bit of a rough experience.
You have a bit of a lag time
when you're dragging the cursor around,
but if you need to get files
and you're in a bit of a pinch,
it's an amazing option and it's free.
This one right here took me
about a half day to set up,
but I'm so glad that I did.
It is called 1Password.
I got it under the
recommendation of a close friend
who's really savvy on internet security,
and honestly, he got me realizing
how exposed I was to hackers,
to having my password stolen.
1Password is an incredible software
that basically gives you the ability
to have all of your
passwords saved in one place.
That probably sounds a
little sketchy, right?
Well, let me explain why it's not.
Right now I'm kind of guessing
that your password looks a little bit
something like your family's name,
your pet's name, your favorite sport,
followed by your birth year,
or something like that.
It's personalized, it's predictable,
and you probably use the same password
across several different logins,
from Instagram, Facebook, your email,
you probably repeat your passwords a lot,
but what if you had a password
that was such a unrelatable unrememberable
string of letters and numbers
that you could never remember it,
and it was different
from every single login.
Well, that's basically
what 1Password offers
is it actually has a scrambling software
that creates unique
passwords for every login,
and with the click of one button
you're able to just press that button
and it'll actually go in from your iPhone
or from Safari, or Chrome,
whatever you're using,
and it'll just input your username
and your login information,
and boom bada-bing you're logged in.
Now how do you authorize it?
Well, that's where you need
to remember one password,
ideally a rather sophisticated,
a longer password that is super safe.
Now what happens if somebody
ever found out that password?
Whether you typed it in
on a corrupted device,
whether your internet was hacked
and somebody was able to spy on you,
again, this stuff exists,
and that's why it's important you do this.
The good thing about it is the only way
somebody will ever be able
to get into your 1Password
is if they have your password,
and if they have one of
your authorized devices.
So at the starting phase,
you basically choose
which devices are gonna be authorized,
and from that point moving forward
the only way for anyone to
get in with your password
is if they also have
the authorization key.
So getting the authorization key
is basically next to impossible.
Never write it down, they give
it to you on a security key,
you basically just print that,
hide it somewhere in your house,
put it somewhere on a USB that
you hide under a mattress,
somewhere that basically nobody
would ever know what that
code meant on it's own,
and they still need to
have both of these things,
so for them to have those two things
is extremely unlikely, and
that's why there's basically
no better internet security solution
for the average consumer.
If you're a travel filmmaker,
if you've got an Instagram
account, an email,
or even if you're not, save
everything with 1Password
and your odds of ever
getting into some serious
cyber security problems
are gonna go way down, dog.
I'm so tired.
I have a flight in like
five hours, help me.
The next one is actually two,
so that's a serious value package,
but that's what you got here
on the Lost Leblanc channel,
so don't forget to subscribe
if you're not already.
I'm gonna give you two really cool apps
that are great for travel filmmaking
to allow you to do some
work from your mobile phone.
The first one is actually called Splice,
and Splice is actually owned by GoPro.
I'm pretty sure they acquired it.
And what it allows you to do is do some
minor edits within your phone.
So basically what you have
in Premiere Pro on Final Cut,
take it and dumb it down, and make it
like the most simplified version of that,
and that is what Splice is.
My favorite use of it is
filming with my cellphone
and then after being
able to go into my music
and actually putting
the clip with the music.
So then I can take cellphone video
with a favorite song of
mine, combine them together,
and upload them to Instagram.
Now another app that you've probably seen
without knowing what it's
called is called Unfold.
What Unfold is is it's a really cool way
to make Instagram
stories more interesting.
You can do collage effects,
you can do these kind of
like ripped page effects
and combine different images together.
It's a very aesthetically
well thought out design app
that allows you to take
your Instagram stories
to a whole nother level.
Number 10, (speaking
in a foreign language)
guys, this right here is an app
that will simplify your
life if you're a traveler.
Now how many times have you
logged out of your Instagram
or your Gmail account,
your Google account,
and when you tried to log back in
it's like, hey, we need to
do two step verification,
we've sent a text message
to your mobile number?
Well, guess what?
I'm no longer in Canada,
or I'm no longer in Bali,
so the number you tried to contact,
I'm not getting text messages to anymore,
which by the way if you
don't have two-step turned on
you're just asking to be hacked.
Turn on two-step verification.
In order to be able to
prevent that situation
where you can't receive text messages,
download the app called Google Generator.
Basically what it is is it's a replacement
for having to receive text messages.
Instead of receiving a text,
you have a Google code that is generated
like every six seconds it
gives you a brand new one,
and so if you have to go
through a two-step verification,
instead of putting in the six digit code
that you get from a text message,
you actually put in that Google code
that was generated the most recently,
and that will allow you
to get in with two-step.
And now the only way somebody
can get into that account
is if they have the
password to the account
and of course, they have the device
that generates the new
code every six seconds.
(record spinning)
Bonus round, (speaking
in a foreign language),
beautiful Paris.
I wanted to give you guys two more here,
because I'm unpredictable.
This top 10 can't hold me.
Now the first one is a service
I use every single video,
and it has been for the
past like two years,
Epidemic Sound is the biggest game changer
that basically ever came
into my YouTube career.
It's where I get all of
my copyright free music,
meaning I don't have to worry
about copyright strikes,
I don't have to worry about
any claims on my videos.
I can use incredible music that doesn't
compromise my videos
and have peace of mind
knowing I can monetize that video.
It is the biggest must have in
all of the YouTube services,
so if you wanna check it
out the link is down below,
and they give me small kickback.
It's honestly one of my
favorite revenue streams,
'cause I get paid for something I love.
Now a second service that I
started using more recently
that is honestly becoming one
of my favorites as well is Storyblocks.
Now Storyblocks is one of the ways
that I've been using footage,
everything from like the
cloud storage animations
to the shots of Egypt,
because I've actually
never been there before,
but it gives me so much versatility,
and again, I can still commercialize,
I can still monetize my videos
without worrying about copyright claims
or anything of that sort.
Just like Epidemic, it's a
subscription based model,
and if you guys are curious about it,
the link is down below.
So guys, that right there is 10 things
that I hope you didn't know about,
because I wanna provide
value with every video,
and not just beat a dead horse,
'cause I'm all about animal rights here.
So guys, if you like animals
and you like cool stuff
that I just talked about,
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