To create videos in your photography or video/YouTube studio, you need light. And a lot of it. Aaron reviews the Limostudio 5-light bulb head for you. He’ll show how it works, what the advantages are, how much it weighs, and why it’s worth considering.
There is a new battery charger that can charge 8 batteries independently and give you real capacity. You can see exactly how much life is left in your AA/AAA batteries. No more guesswork for your critical work.
It is now possible to use only an iPhone to copy or backup an SD card to a HDD (hard disk drive) through a USB hub without using a laptop. This is huge for travelers, backpackers, adventurers, and filmmakers. Having all of your footage on a single SD card is scary. Losing or having the card fail can be catastrophic. Often it’s not possible to have a laptop while backpacking or traveling. Aaron shows how to use a powered USB hub to run access a portable hard drive using an iPhone Xs. You can also use this technique to copy from on SD card to another.
Aaron shows the process of using IOS 13’s File app for connecting, copying, back up, pasting, creating folders, navigation, and ejecting devices. This is great for photographers, videographers, drone operators, filmmakers, adventurers, travelers, and the like.
This technique works for SD, CF, Compact Flash, QXD, and any other card you can think of. You can even copy your USB mass storage camera/camcorder to a HDD/SDD using your iPhone or iPad.
**** UPDATE ****
I changed the Amazon USB cable link below. This may dramatically improve your file transfer speed. It appears the bottleneck is using USB 2 cables and the Apple Lightning to USB 3 adapter.
**** END OF UPDATE ****
0:13 SD to HDD and thumb drives overview
2:04 Files on iOS 12 and iOS 13
2:24 Hardware overview
2:39 Powered USB hub options
3:17 Required iPhone adapter
3:29 Wall power for phone
3:41 SD card to phone
3:58 How the iPhone handles non-standard file formats like Canon camcorders or Sony RX100
4:29 How to connect everything
5:41 Inserting & Detecting SD card
6:40 Connecting HDD to iPhone
7:11 How to copy a folder of the SD card
7:33 Creating and naming a folder on the HDD using iPhone
7:59 How to paste file from SD to HDD – special trick
8:13 Beginning paste from SD to HDD
10:28 Finished copy from SD to HDD
11:05 Why use a powered hub with HDD
11:15 Viewing files on HDD
11:42 Overview of ejecting all devices, risks, indicators
12:30 Eject SD card
12:54 Eject HDD (portable laptop hard drive)
13:22 Why SD backups matter (saved $10,000 shoot)
15:08 Other iOS 13 features
15:08 Plug in 64GB Sandisk SD chip
15:14 How to copy any camcorder or other folder
16:19 Future How To SD to SD video plan
16:56 Device eject issues and indication
17:08 HDD drive light indicator
17:14 SD card reader access light indicator
Aaron unboxes and reviews the Sandisk 2TB Extreme Portable External SSD (solid state drive). He tries it in the following ways:
With the USB-C cable plugged directly into the iMac
Using a USB-C to USB-3.0 converter with a USB-C hub
Using a USB-C to USB-3.0 converter with a USB-3.0 hub
Copying to and from the Sandisk Drive
He tests with Black Magic but also REAL-WORLD tests with 4.7GB and 16GB folders back and forth from the Sandisk to the iMac SSD. This way you don’t see just a test anyway can do but with real-world folders transferred back and forth like you would do.
1:09 Portable USB C and 3.0 hub options
1:46 Unboxing
3:10 Size vs iPhone Xs
4:06 Real world dimensions
4:54 How drive initially powers up on iMac with built-in files
6:48 Black magic theoretical performance
8:29 USB-C 3.0 connector options and performance
13:59 USB 3.0 powered hub performance
16:34 Initial failure test
17:22 Real-world file copy discussion
17:47 Real-world 4.7GB folder copy to SSD from iMac SSD
18:27 Real-world 16GB folder copy to SSD from iMac SSD
19:34 Copy 4.7GB from Sandisk to iMac SSD
20:36 Copy 16GB from Sandisk to iMac SSD