How to make a video on the road?

[JMo (& piglet)]

Originally Posted by chilswelluk

I suppose everyone has a different perspective, but I do like the flexibility and quality of my multiple lens DSLR setup and would be reluctant to compromise. Over the years I have tried a number of compacts, but have been disappointed with the results. earlier in the year I was given a Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II as a present, but ended up selling it, as I was not happy with the results. But I do remain open minded, so if anyone has any other suggestions I will look at them.

As for the ipad suggestion, I did look into that, but it's just too restrictive for me. It seems Apple really locks you down and restricts pretty much everything. There is no native root access (without stupid hacks) and it does not even support basic things like usb drives (only a few proprietary solutions which are quite restrictive) . I know you can get wireless hard drives for travel, but again you have to use some stupid app, or rely on cloud solutions. call me old fashioned but I like to just plug a drive into a device and get instant / fast read and write capabilities for any file I choose! I hate to have everything sandboxed. Also I know you can get the ipad camera connection kit, but again it restricts you on what files you can work with. At the moment I am using a MSI GS65 Stealth, and it runs everything I throw at it (Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, Blender, Fusion, Maya) It has a 6 core cpu with a GTX 1070 graphics card. It runs windows and Linux and does everything I want. Since getting it I have opened it up and applied liquid metal and it runs lovely and cool. In my opinion it is head and shoulders above an ipad, but I do appreciate everyone will have a different perspective.

Those are all good points chilswelluk - certainly interfacing extra storage with any of the iOS products is frustrating, but as you say - there are workarounds with bluetooth etc.

However, my suggestion is coming from a 'regular-blogging-from-the-road' perspective... which most people want to do these days.

Certainly if you're planning on making a feature-length broadcast-quality movie - then you're typically going to have lug more gear around (which is why I never understood the criticism of the Long-Way-Round crew - of course they needed all that gear back then), and make that process the focus of the trip.

I still wouldn't bother using all that high-end editing gear while on the road though... bank all your footage and wait until the trip is over and focus on the edit/assembly then with the proper gear?

Jx