Episode 120
FCG120 - Million Dollar Tesla Trip (feat. Steve Sasman)
20,000 in 4 months. In an ELECTRIC CAR!!! Steve Sasman may be a bit crazy but what is even MORE crazy is that until I cornered the guy on Meerkat, he was going to cut all of his video blogs during the “Million Dollar Tesla Trip” in Screenflow. I talked Steve into meeting me on Skype on a Sunday afternoon so we could discuss somethings that would help him get thru the VIDEO portion of his trip. As for the driving and dealing with Charging the car up, I am NO help.
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- Chris Fenwick
- Steve Sasman - milliondollarteslatrip.com - @stevesasman
Transcription
00:00.160: Ah, my mic is drooping.
00:00.160: once or twice.
00:00.160: You have to make sure that you're told it to use it.
00:00.160: But for the people that haven't been listening on Meerkat, why don't you explain what you're going to do this summer?
00:00.160: Well, can I just bring in my own video files?
00:00.160: And that Avie Foundation is the replacement and most of the people listen to the show have heard me talk about this is the replacement for what is commonly referred to as the quick time architecture, which is
00:00.160: Philip DeFranco on YouTube.
00:00.160: I'll be purchasing kind of the go-to stuff here shortly.
00:00.160: I don't you know, I I think the current one now is the is the um four.
00:00.160: Video, whether it's with an interview or me just talking into the camera, right?
00:00.160: Equipment sent to me, you know, on the road.
00:00.160: to the newer Teslas, not the one that you actually drive.
00:00.160: You can be sitting Indian style, you know, in your seat if you wanted to, nothing touching the pedals, and then you could not be touching the steering wheel as well.
00:00.160: There there's a big debate about that, of course, right?
00:00.160: So click on the word beginner, and there's a couple of podcasts where I talk about the library structure and how to get started and things like that.
00:00.160: 150426, I might go hyphen Tallahassee diner.
00:00.160: In the parking lot of the Apple store.
00:00.160: you know, be involved in something.
00:00.160: So why wonder about it?
00:00.160: certain afterpark aftermarket products, like there's one called Shot Put Pro.
00:00.160: So you have one copy, you have two copies of your media, you have one on a backup drive, and it's just the raw media.
00:00.160: you know, I was gathering my thoughts, I didn't bother stopping the note.
00:00.160: And I'm just going to real quickly keyword all that stuff, scenery.
00:00.160: On a clip.
00:00.160: Statement that you really don't want to throw media away, you just don't.
00:00.160: Pick the spot out like within that 10-minute video, yeah.
00:00.160: But you're going to take this clip and you're going to scan through it, and you're going to go, Oh, this is a great sequence where I go through this S curve in the mountains.
00:00.160: Because I think that's obviously there's no way in hell you could do this thing without buying some hard drives.
00:00.160: Correspond to how quickly it pulls the data off the cards, or is that something different?
00:00.240: And I find this guy and we start and he's his ta he's talking about this thing called the Million Dollar Tesla Challenge or a Chi Tesla trip.
00:00.240: I'm like, what is this?
00:00.240: Music in some of the videos that he's going to be generating on his road trip.
00:00.240: I appreciate the fact that it doesn't fight my primary content and it sits nice underneath the main thing that I'm doing.
00:00.240: So, this is kind of a long interview.
00:00.240: it came out that you were you know that you you were sitting at your computer and you were waiting for some process to happen.
00:00.240: You know, I'm not exactly sure what was taking you so long, but it came out that you have been doing some editing in ScreenFlow.
00:00.240: Hey, so Steve, uh I've been on uh MirCat here for the last fifteen minutes and uh uh I I I've been doing this lately.
00:00.240: I'm going to be doing the whole trip for free, at least in terms of fuel.
00:00.240: free or cheap food.
00:00.240: And to the best of my knowledge, ScreenFlow was the very first application, commercially available application, that actually capitalized on the power of ScreenFlow.
00:00.240: And so when you bring media in and you overlay graphics or you do a dissolve between two things, you're doing that stuff in real time.
00:00.240: Quite literally, it should probably be a team of people doing all your video work for you.
00:00.240: It's always good to understand what the end result is.
00:00.240: Pretty well defined what we're going to end up with.
00:00.240: He also built a little bit of an empire, the Philip DeFranco Enterprises, or I don't know what he calls it.
00:00.240: Comedians in cars drink getting coffee.
00:00.240: But I will say that much of the hardware you very much do have access to.
00:00.240: But that's another issue that we should probably figure out production wise.
00:00.240: You know, GoPros.
00:00.240: anything about Samsung, but at least in the Macintosh world, there is actually an application that you can use to start, stop, check framing, and adjust all of the settings on the GoPro.
00:00.240: Yeah, yeah.
00:00.240: So what do I need, like the three?
00:00.240: And the thing is to you are dealing with a car situation, so there's going to be background noise regardless.
00:00.240: Between the phone was much better than the GoPros.
00:00.240: is I would use any one of a number of multi-track recor audio recorders
00:00.240: not the least of which would be like the H4N or maybe the H5.
00:00.240: And what you'll get is, you'll get a nice big knob for each microphone.
00:00.240: As a funnel, so to speak, a mixer to mix it down to the audio in your Samsung note, if that is going to be your primary camera.
00:00.240: I can kind of help you with.
00:00.240: But now what you're going to have to think about, and this is where designing a powerful workflow or a functional workflow is very important
00:00.240: So as you travel around the you know the North America, we'll say, you're going to be generating media
00:00.240: whatever Kizmo they want to send you.
00:00.240: Three interviews in one day, and then there might be a stretch of three days where I just don't do anything, I don't travel.
00:00.240: But the Smart Lav also, I believe, goes into an iPod Touch, which might be an interesting solution for an audio recording device.
00:00.240: And it goes into an iOS device.
00:00.240: What I would do is, I would find something that you can purchase like at an Apple store, because more than likely, despite your best intentions and best math, whatever you decide to purchase.
00:00.240: I'm like kind of turned and turned the direction of my guest, and we're having a conversation as you see the trees go by in the background, and we're just chilling in the car.
00:00.240: you know, your average driver, me included.
00:00.240: you know, when you're on the highway and rush hour traffic, I mean, I don't want to have to put my attention toward that.
00:00.240: And actually, you know, I will just put this out to the listeners of this show.
00:00.240: But of course it would be amazing and super helpful to have anything like that that
00:00.240: Part of TripAdvisor, like you just mentioned, to see if one of those would like to be my exclusive
00:00.240: And one of the things that Final Cut 10 is going to be able to do for you, Steve, is to help you keep track of that stuff.
00:00.240: And the library structure is it's a combination of an accounting, if you will, of all of the editorial work that you've done, both
00:00.240: in the past.
00:00.240: The zebra diner in Tallahassee is toward the beginning of your trip.
00:00.240: Six weeks, and he's wondering what the hell he's gotten himself into.
00:00.240: I've already got that one scheduled, Chris, because that's a daily morning event.
00:00.240: So, you do your video blog and you start and stop it, and maybe you even do it with both cameras.
00:00.240: And this is Sam's first time in a Tesla, sitting down, slamming the door.
00:00.240: You know, majestic view, but it's still interesting.
00:00.240: You know, there's going to be some people that follow this thing on a regular basis.
00:00.240: Outbuy it just because of some of the legality and the potential problem with it in the future in terms of doing it commercially.
00:00.240: a particularly scenic area.
00:00.240: Get in contact.
00:00.240: So why live with the anticipation or the wonder of, oh, gee, when am I going to lose my data?
00:00.240: on hard drives is probably enough.
00:00.240: And then you're going to have another copy on your work drive along with your library file.
00:00.240: But, see, here's the thing now.
00:00.240: And you type a bunch of paragraphs, any word in that text document is searchable.
00:00.240: You search for the word scenery, and all of those ranges of that bit are going to pop up.
00:00.240: Video blog, you can just highlight the paragraph where you're talking about the beautiful scenery and then apply a keyword just to that range.
00:00.240: So you can just highlight a section of it, the scenery paragraph, so to speak.
00:00.240: Move on.
00:00.240: I think that might work.
00:00.240: Scrubbing through tons of B-roll.
00:00.240: Now, I've been doing this a long time.
00:00.240: It's very simple to do, right?
00:00.240: That once I sit down with the actual program, I'm sure I'll have a lot more.
00:00.240: you're going to want to have all that footage somewhere, right?
00:00.240: on the right channel of the audio file.
00:00.240: But because of the delay in Skype, you didn't actually hear it.
00:00.240: Or maybe you're more comfortable speaking at road-level noises, and they think, you know, ah, I'm in a really loud car, so I'm going to talk really loud.
00:00.240: and maybe a ta you know, have it sit in my cup holder or something so it was right at arm's length while I was driving down the road.
00:00.240: And it might it might mean sponsorship.
00:00.240: I think you're going to realize you're going to go through drives a lot faster than you thought.
00:00.240: production when somebody brings me like four different types of hard drives.
00:00.240: And they don't have a fan.
00:00.240: to the point where you actually have to unplug it and let it cool down for twenty minutes before you can even get your data off of it.
00:00.240: So I would feel horrible if that were the case.
00:00.240: The faster they spin, the faster you can get the data on and off.
00:00.240: I also know that there are listeners of this podcast literally all over the country and world, and in Canadia, up there in our attic, America's little attic upstairs.
00:00.240: As you get ready to take off, and I wish you the best of luck.
00:00.240: And I think we were able to point him in the right direction to at least thinking about some things before he gets swallowed up by a sea of ones and zeros.
00:00.240: Honestly, Steve would really benefit from something like that.
00:00.240: sponsorship or nailing down all of the sponsoring sponsorship.
00:00.240: Well due.
00:00.320: and then four of the Canadian provinces as well.
00:00.320: any other things that I end up using along the way, of course.
00:00.320: is extremely robust and very, very, very modern.
00:00.320: And what I'd like to do is explain to you some of the features of Final Cat X and sort of inspire you to kind of say, yeah, Screenflow is probably not the right tool.
00:00.320: It is that workflow and designing your workflow is probably one of the most important things
00:00.320: to define that allows you to define a video or film production as a success or a failure because workflow can kill a job.
00:00.320: Absolutely.
00:00.320: Produced look, you know, multiple camera shots and more B-roll and things like that, which will make it just more entertaining and interesting to look at as well as hear the message that's being told.
00:00.320: city, I might be in the middle of nowhere, but I might have some thoughts that I want to you know put on video.
00:00.320: And that's kind of the stuff I've done in the past.
00:00.320: It looks, I mean, it's it's a no-brainer, really.
00:00.320: He's been he's he has stood by his game plan for a long time.
00:00.320: and making blogs about his life.
00:00.320: That's a good thing.
00:00.320: is just GoPros.
00:00.320: tool to use in terms of capturing the video images.
00:00.320: What I have is a uh my cell phone, which is a a Samsung Note.
00:00.320: with the Samsung.
00:00.320: what I would do is uh maybe I know that your demo video, the one that has like sixty thousand hits now, um
00:00.320: Probably into your Samsung.
00:00.320: And what I would imagine I would do is I would have, you know, some sort of a a gizmo.
00:00.320: Is a little low budget, a little daring, but in all honesty, you might be able to get Samsung to pimp the show for you also.
00:00.320: Well, I'm just taking the SD card and plopping it into the side of the computer.
00:00.320: as you bring in all this media.
00:00.320: Out on the road.
00:00.320: Right.
00:00.320: Ahead of time, and what you think you're going to use over the course of the four months, you'll probably come up short, and you're going to want to buy something else.
00:00.320: Yeah, I mean this trip's going to be enough of a logistical nightmare without trying to coordinate shipping as I'm rolling down the road, you know
00:00.320: with the hardware built into the cars that enables them to be able to be self-driven or whatever, so that you can basically have, you know
00:00.320: If I do get somebody in an interview situation where I am not I don't have my hands on the wheel looking down the road, I've got my arms crossed
00:00.320: you know, do social media updates, connect with, you know, just do all the logistical stuff that I need to do on a two hour trip between cities.
00:00.320: Get in the back seat and take a nap.
00:00.320: Yeah.
00:00.320: To be honest with you, I don't think I would do that.
00:00.320: I so today being April 26th that they're recording this, today would be 150426.
00:00.320: And so as you put all of those alphabetically in a folder or in a library in Final Five Ten, they will flow very logically.
00:00.320: Wow.
00:00.320: Maybe somehow miraculously scheduled to meet up somebody at a local park, or maybe in the Apple store where you're buying more hard drives.
00:00.320: And that's probably a good look for your video blog.
00:00.320: So, Sam, what's it like being a botanist?
00:00.320: You know, driving shots and whatnot.
00:00.320: Just because I follow the industry, that there are a lot of people around the country that are getting into drone photography.
00:00.320: But I would imagine that if we said, Hey, if you're really into drum photography and you want to get some beauty shots of Steve's
00:00.320: Might be interesting.
00:00.320: Okay, so back to our example.
00:00.320: The first thing I would do is I would look at all the footage that I shot that day.
00:00.320: Or Bob, or whatever I said his name was.
00:00.320: You're going to be like, oh, you're going to be swimming in a pool of ones and zeros.
00:00.320: Place where you're going to be sorting and editing your pieces.
00:00.320: Yes, you're going to have to learn some editorial stuff.
00:00.320: I never put the word video in the name of a video.
00:00.320: You know, and so so again, get your naming convention down to maybe like you know
00:00.320: Or different things.
00:00.320: And in the Mac OS, at least, in Spotlight, I could search for a word that's embedded inside a document.
00:00.320: That goes along with the content of what you are saying at any given time.
00:00.320: Really?
00:00.320: data inside a a soundbite, you can also then say, oh, here's Camera three, my older GoPro that I use for mounting on outside of the car.
00:00.320: Now, you just have a half a dozen short little favorites from that one clip.
00:00.320: So there's tons of ways to kind of recap what we've been talking about here.
00:00.320: A way to plug two lavaliers into the one jack on your Samsung.
00:00.320: Arrive at your audio recording device at the same levels.
00:00.320: Yeah.
00:00.320: But um yeah, I mean, at the very least, you don't want to delete everything.
00:00.320: Absolutely.
00:00.320: get somebody involved, maybe even somebody like BH in New York, they might be able to allow you to quote unquote test a couple of small cameras
00:00.320: Just because those are those are kind of big too in terms of where you're going to put it and mount it and all that good stuff inside of a car
00:00.320: What would I buy?
00:00.320: It very much is.
00:00.320: they will not endorse something in particular because who knows, maybe the guys at G Tech are having a you know, the the main assembly line guy is having a fight with his wife and every drive he makes in the next month that you're about to purchase is made poorly.
00:00.320: So, I'm going to put a link to those in the show notes.
00:00.320: And I think that's going to be the number one thing that's going to help you keep track of all this data because all that stuff is searchable.
00:00.320: just to, you know, give the go for a ride in the Tesla and meet a fellow production guy who's out there in the trenches.
00:00.320: So I I gotta say I envy him.
00:00.320: But hopefully, we open Steve's eyes there.
00:00.320: You know, it's so funny.
00:00.400: The show where the mic stand becomes a star.
00:00.400: along the way and that's kind of part of the kind of the back story of the of the trip is it's it's in it it's in a Tesla and
00:00.400: road trip from you know one end of the country to the other.
00:00.400: a portion of the Mac OS.
00:00.400: Especially for the length and duration of your trip, twenty thousand miles, four months, all these charging stations, and the fact that you're working by yourself and you don't have like a dedicated
00:00.400: Not even an option to try and do this with something like that at this point.
00:00.400: Some people call it a vlog.
00:00.400: And uh frankly, uh Philip is one of my favorite YouTubers just because um
00:00.400: Well, this has been my setup so far, and I'm in the beginning process here, and I'm in the testing phase just to kind of work things out right now.
00:00.400: thing to and the the nice thing about that is is you know when I I shoot it I can see exactly you know what it's capturing
00:00.400: That is a good question.
00:00.400: Moving a microphone one inch closer makes a really big difference.
00:00.400: And that's why I sound the way I do.
00:00.400: I think it is Zoom, that has a a a relatively inexpensive lavalier microphone that you could just reach over and pin onto your guests in the passenger seat.
00:00.400: And then pin one on yourself.
00:00.400: I'll just tell you, from a post production standpoint, you never want to throw you never want to throw a piece of media into a trash can.
00:00.400: Exactly.
00:00.400: This would be perfect for me as I'm in the middle of nowhere and to be able to
00:00.400: Doing it.
00:00.400: So hopefully, you've solved all of this logistical stuff.
00:00.400: into a GoPro that goes through its USB port.
00:00.400: And so we've already done this for an hour with Frederick, and I would recommend that anybody who's interested at your level go and listen to that episode.
00:00.400: A typical day.
00:00.400: plains and you know, deserts and Texas, you know, I I notice I give Texas its own category.
00:00.400: You know, today's date, you know, again, 1504-26, and maybe, you know, Oklahoma.
00:00.400: And all your card data goes into there first.
00:00.400: Ten minute clip, two minute comment about the beautiful scenery, all you have to do is highlight the portion that you want to apply the keyword to.
00:00.400: On the contrary, you get to apply multiple keywords to it, so that ten-minute clip can be in the scenery keyword.
00:00.400: It can be in the exhaustion keyword, or it can be associated with the exhaustion keyword, and it can be associated with whatever the third thing I
00:00.400: I wanted to say.
00:00.400: Here's a great thing where you know some I stop at a crosswalk and some people walk in front of me, you know, range-based selection, F.
00:00.400: Benefit to the end user because as you are first shuttling through your footage, you can go, oh, that's a nice shot.
00:00.400: You know, there's going to be the video that I'm going to be pumping out on a daily basis for this.
00:00.400: Ideally, like you would do what basically I'm doing here, I'm recording my voice on the right on the left channel of my audio file, and I'm recording your voice
00:00.400: making this easy to do and something that I can maintain throughout the trip, but at the same time, hopefully having the highest production value.
00:00.400: You know, obviously, you know, you're kind of hamstringing yourself by choosing to record the video on a Samsung note.
00:00.400: But I think that production a good production person, they're going to look at this and go, Oh, yeah, dude, you're not even thinking about this, you know?
00:00.400: I think that that's a and again, you know, a lot of people will not use
00:00.400: It's the Million Dollar Tesla Trip.
00:00.400: Yeah, that'd be fantastic.
00:00.480: Good, good.
00:00.480: So I came up with an idea to go on a road trip and it's going to be a little more involved than your typical
00:00.480: I'm definitely going to because I just checked out a couple of quick videos on Final Cut Pro and how the editing process works and realized, oh my God.
00:00.480: Sure.
00:00.480: based on a couple different factors.
00:00.480: Took a big road trip across country with his girlfriend.
00:00.480: I know that was produced by a friend of yours with a production company, and I would solicit his help to say, hey, help me build the Gonzo cool little setup.
00:00.480: you know twenty five fifty dollars um you could or actually there's another there's a company called
00:00.480: A l often, probably daily, if not very close, right?
00:00.480: You're going to generate a lot of media, and you're going to want to have a system for your hard drives.
00:00.480: Despite what you might be thinking, well, I've already done that interview, I've already posted it, I don't need all of the raw media that generated it.
00:00.480: Yeah, oh no, that that kind of that kind of stuff would be amazing.
00:00.480: You know, people that help people find hotel rooms and stuff.
00:00.480: 26, 2015.
00:00.480: would be at the bottom of the list.
00:00.480: So you have Sam's footage.
00:00.480: Final Cut, you're going to get a really great opportunity to capitalize on the keywording and metadata benefits of Final Cut.
00:00.480: Because you're going to generate in roughly 120 days on the road, I'm going to imagine you're going to generate 80 to 100 videos.
00:00.480: Blog like, you know, exhausted or you know, a short name for it, you know, that reminds you, oh, yeah, this is the one where I'm talking about how I haven't had enough sleep in the last two months.
00:00.480: It's going to let me find that.
00:00.480: Then you just hit the letter F for favorite.
00:00.480: So now you can go and say, show me all of my stuff from camera three, your scenery camera.
00:00.480: And so if you get into the habit of going, oh, that's really nice.
00:00.480: like I think you mentioned before, I mean, there's stuff that I wasn't even thinking about that now I'm going to I do need to consider, such as the external storage and whatnot.
00:00.480: I go through and take out awkward, awkward, you know, things where I'm being a wise ass and jumping in on top of somebody.
00:00.480: Now, I mean, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.
00:00.480: A brief search here on the Apple store.
00:00.480: What is this one?
00:00.480: G Drive E V.
00:00.480: Whoops.
00:00.480: I'm trying to wrangle all those guys onto one one Google Hangout.
00:00.560: Is workflow and how to go about it smart, how to go about it so it doesn't get inundated.
00:00.560: There's no product code.
00:00.560: And you told me what kind of computer you had, and I was like, okay, that's a good computer.
00:00.560: Yeah.
00:00.560: Correct.
00:00.560: And my admonition to you when I heard that you were using ScreenFlow was to consider
00:00.560: And so and now he lives in Santa Monica, where a bunch of other YouTubers live, and he draws upon that creative community.
00:00.560: So that makes it a lot easier than a GoPro where you're kind of guessing what what what's being captured there.
00:00.560: Because you have to be able to take over in certain situations.
00:00.560: Yeah, I d I don't I'm I don't know anything about that, but yeah, I I'm sure you're right.
00:00.560: Doing logistics for you.
00:00.560: editing of time lines and organization of footage.
00:00.560: Philosophy came from because I had a crash course.
00:00.560: Oh, yeah, at least.
00:00.560: Today's date, V for a video blog, and then maybe the theme of that
00:00.560: Wow, that's cool.
00:00.560: I couldn't name that clip scenery, but that's a 10-minute clip where I talk about, you know, three different main themes.
00:00.560: Right?
00:00.560: Just now you ask the computer, just show me the favorites.
00:00.560: I'm very, very excited about the possibilities of what this can do and how much time it can save me.
00:00.560: And as often as I do, and as much as people complain that I do it all the time, Fenwick, why don't you just shut up and let the guy talk?
00:00.560: The Le C hard drives are made of plastic.
00:00.560: I almost hit him up.
00:00.640: Chris.
00:00.640: You know, I was listening to you earlier on Meerkat and I was just thinking, wow, this is like a big deal.
00:00.640: Let's take a look at how I can actually pull this off.
00:00.640: Right.
00:00.640: So, I don't really have all the answers to that, but I do know the questions to ask.
00:00.640: I would say contact Steve.
00:00.640: Well, you know, interestingly, I mean, I'm actually in the vacation rental business myself.
00:00.640: Oh, no, I totally agree.
00:00.640: Tesla out in Texas or Arizona or the Plain States or Chicago or, you know, whatever.
00:00.640: Copy it to your working drive.
00:00.640: And then you're going to be making markers that say, you know, I'm exhaust, you know, exhaustion.
00:00.640: Of my exhaustion over the last four months.
00:00.640: And scenery.
00:00.640: So when you're dealing with media in Final Cut 10, you are not limited to putting it in a single folder.
00:00.640: And now just show me my favorites.
00:00.640: If you have more than one microphone, you probably need a mixer.
00:00.640: And again, what I would do is I would build a little, maybe like a felt covered table.
00:00.640: So you're going to have multiple drives.
00:00.720: What's interesting about ScreenFlow is, and I'm not 100% certain of this, but to the best of my knowledge, ScreenFlow is the first
00:00.720: Very much like light.
00:00.720: Okay.
00:00.720: how it comes out.
00:00.720: That makes sense.
00:00.720: Lodging partner.
00:00.720: The events will automatically be generated by the date it wa or when you generate an event, it will automatically be named the date that it was
00:00.720: You know, you might be reusing that one, that title.
00:00.720: But I don't know that that solution exists.
00:00.720: Right, right.
00:00.720: If there is intentions of using this thing long term, you might wanna, you know
00:00.720: Yeah.
00:00.720: But definitely, there's some time to do some experimenting.
00:00.720: Relationships with.
00:00.720: Cool.
00:00.800: You're not forced to sift through a bunch of bad music.
00:00.800: I introduced him to Screenflow in early 2010 and I showed him what you could do with it and he was like
00:00.800: And those will have a certain look to them.
00:00.800: I'm I'm somebody will correct me.
00:00.800: I want to be able to drive when it's my choice, but when there is an opportunity, when you're in the middle of
00:00.800: So that might be something else very cool.
00:00.800: That's going to be at the bottom of your list.
00:00.800: points in your discussion.
00:00.800: So you're going to bring at the end of that day, you're going to have your video blog entry, and you might have, let's say, you went for a drive with a guy named Sam or something.
00:00.800: And then you're going to bring all that stuff into a folder mark today's date.
00:00.800: That is part of Funnel Cut 10.
00:00.800: And maybe I've seen some of the most beautiful scenery I've seen.
00:00.800: Because I realize I've been talking a lot.
00:00.800: But but you're you what you need to be able to do is to record your two microphones in a way that you know, like you might be louder than the guest.
00:00.800: You know, so it's an audio mixer is really just a it's a complex volume knob prior to actually recording the stuff.
00:00.800: And I think I've been able to show that to you just with the whole thing about the keywording and being able to do the range-based keywording.
00:00.800: You don't I'm going to tell you why you don't want those.
00:00.800: G Tech mobile Thunderbolt drives.
00:00.800: Thanks again, Chris.
00:00.880: Their site and their music because you heard it here.
00:00.880: with a little intro and outro type of thing.
00:00.880: And I think that I think if we were to take a look at the production budget on that, we'd realize that there's a whole lot of people that you don't have access to, a whole lot of budget that you don't have access to.
00:00.880: Now I figured we'll put that on the front bumper.
00:00.880: Yeah, well, and that obviously, I know that I need to get an external mic or a you know some other setup for better audio.
00:00.880: Excuse me, I could um have access to the knobs that I need, and then I could adjust that, and then what I would do and and it doesn't have to be it's not like, you know, a thousand dollar microphone, but I mean, for like literally for
00:00.880: Because you are doing something out of the ordinary.
00:00.880: And actually, if you go to Digital Cinema Cafe in the lower right hand corner, there is a place it they call it a tag cloud, but I've barely tagged anything on our website.
00:00.880: created, which is very easy to rename.
00:00.880: Naming convention that the Japanese use, where they narrow down from larger to smaller.
00:00.880: Yeah.
00:00.880: And then maybe getting Sam situated in the car, and then there's a switch over to the point where the actual interview starts.
00:00.880: H you know, uh GoPro One on the outside of the car often.
00:00.880: I hate saying it out loud.
00:00.880: So you're going to mount that thing, you're going to drive for an hour.
00:00.880: And then I've got the social media things hooked up with that as well.
00:00.960: Yep, that's the one.
00:00.960: I mean, hey, if Tesla's listening and they want to pitch in, you know, hey, I'm all ears.
00:00.960: a kind of walkthrough of what you were going to talk about.
00:00.960: where I I'm actually taking a feed from my audio mixer.
00:00.960: But actually, a single camera might be better and make more sense because the video blog really should be kind of like eye to eye.
00:00.960: When you're not actually looking at the road.
00:00.960: I'm just going to say it again out loud one more time, like vlog, because it makes sense and it's short and it's unique.
00:00.960: Yeah, wow.
00:01.040: And his four-month road trip.
00:01.040: Macintosh-based application that took full advantage of what is called AV Foundation.
00:01.040: Well, and you know what?
00:01.040: Well, actually, right currently, right now, I only have one GoPro.
00:01.040: Right.
00:01.040: Perfect.
00:01.040: You know, the zebra diner in Tallahassee.
00:01.040: And I do mirror casts from my car all the time.
00:01.040: 150426, you touch down on three different themes.
00:01.040: You don't even know what you don't know.
00:01.040: I think you'd be surprised how many of those you go through.
00:01.120: Well, there's going to be a mix of varieties and styles, I would imagine.
00:01.120: In addition to that, I'm also going to have some simpler stuff like for example, me just driving.
00:01.120: Because the GoPro actually generates its own WiFi hotspot, believe it or not, that little tiny thing.
00:01.120: I'm getting some feedback from Meerkat.
00:01.120: I want to see that thing work for a few years before I hop in the car with you.
00:01.120: Another feedback coming in from the Meerkat, Harley Carr, the FCPX rookie, says that there is an adapter cable that you can plug in external audio.
00:01.120: You also, what I would do as an editor, I would recommend that you roll video as you walk up to Sam.
00:01.120: So when you search for scenery, all that's going to pop up is that two and a half minute section where you were talking about the beautiful scenery.
00:01.120: And that's probably going to, at the very least, involve some sort of a mixer.
00:01.200: So and you're right, that will be a simpler thing, probably less content cutting.
00:01.200: That's a good sort of measuring stick to do.
00:01.200: Exactly.
00:01.200: Wow, blanking.
00:01.200: An item called an event.
00:01.200: Say, hey, I'd be willing to take some B-roll of you driving your car in this area.
00:01.200: That's a challenge as well.
00:01.200: Offer: If you get stuck on the road, feel free to hit me up on Twitter.
00:01.280: Right.
00:01.280: Revision three.
00:01.280: And then the second camera is a would be a GoPro.
00:01.280: Yeah, that's a good point.
00:01.280: Shoot, no.
00:01.280: Here's the address.
00:01.280: No, that's a huge point.
00:01.280: An additional that you have a drive that where all your media goes, and it's just labeled
00:01.280: So, those are the best ways to do it.
00:01.360: Are you a Skyping professional?
00:01.360: Yeah, yeah.
00:01.360: Yeah, I I I have a Canon uh T4, whatever that is, um but I don't know uh
00:01.360: Let's see.
00:01.360: And the G Tech one terabyte G drive mobile, it has a fast connector and it spins at seventy two hundred RPM.
00:01.360: And so it's very likely you might hear from some of the listeners of this over the summer.
00:01.360: Okay, I mentioned it in the intro.
00:01.440: And very quickly I realized oh, he's doing some video editing while he's on Meerkat.
00:01.440: Yeah, I'm happy to do that.
00:01.440: And that's actually a feature you can turn on and off, which is kind of nice.
00:01.440: So, yeah, you can do some very cool compilation videos that way, too.
00:01.440: Okay.
00:01.440: Again, you can use your key, you can use your range-based selection.
00:01.440: And again, and again, I would consult with the production company that helped you do your demo reel, your promo video, and say, hey, what can you do to help me out doing this?
00:01.440: I have people give me a hard time 'cause I drive a Prius all the time.
00:01.520: I would assume it seems like most of that stuff is, but our beloved Meerkat is only an IOS app at this moment.
00:01.520: So it's a triple threat against y your data to put important data on those LAC drives.
00:01.600: Yeah, and I always tell people touch the, you're on a little boom mic, right?
00:01.600: Now, I want to tell you, you're in good company.
00:01.600: And so I would pick something that you can pick up, like at an Apple store or a Best Buy, something that's sort of ubiquitous and all over the place.
00:01.600: At some level, and probably as the beginning of your name, I actually use a truncated version of the date in the same
00:01.600: 'Cause this is a grand scale.
00:01.600: I said, dude, do yourself a favor.
00:01.680: Yeah, hey, I would love that.
00:01.680: We bring in all this media.
00:01.680: Some ways to get some low-end lavaliers into your primary recording device.
00:01.680: Now, are there different rates?
00:01.760: I'm 53 years old.
00:01.760: Okay, that's cool.
00:01.760: Yeah, you could do something like, so I met up with Sam at the parking lot of the Apple Store after a bought more hard drives.
00:01.760: I guess I do have one question.
00:01.760: I'd love that.
00:01.840: And so I've seen in your videos you have GoPros hanging from about inside your car.
00:01.840: Yeah, I do think it's interesting, but there's there's nothing nothing better than yet having somebody being able to do a job and really dedicate to it.
00:01.840: Now Sam's footage is going to be two angles, and you're going to have um you're going to have one angle from the s the Samsung, one from the GoPro.
00:01.840: So now, and this gets back to the keywording.
00:01.840: So yeah, and like I said, I actually own some of these G Drive mobiles, and it's a good little drive.
00:01.920: The good news is, Chris, I have already, in between the time we've met a couple of hours ago and right now.
00:01.920: Either some USB 3 drives or maybe some Thunderbolt drives.
00:01.920: Those are your keywords.
00:01.920: Okay.
00:01.920: No, this has been a huge eye opener and wow.
00:02.000: A lot of times people think they're especially with Skype, it has a different uh audio subsystem, so you have to choose
00:02.000: So you've seen Final Cut.
00:02.000: Like, hey, it's Sam, and you know, little maybe close-ups of shaking hands, or, you know, make it very loose and crazy.
00:02.000: Vlog.
00:02.000: Because at the end of the video, what you might want to do is say, I'm going to do a cut-down reel.
00:02.000: But here's the thing: you don't get to do that with video because it's just pops and buzzes and noise that isn't necessarily searchable.
00:02.000: That being said, again, looking at the Apple store, I do like the little one terabyte
00:02.080: No, luckily th that well, that's going to be the only thing that will be free because obviously the lodging is not going to be free
00:02.080: Create one interview a day for the next week and see how much data you generate.
00:02.080: Again, another huge reason why Final Hat 10 is going to give you an enormous leg up on other things because it
00:02.080: How many times have I said, Ah, where's that damn shot?
00:02.160: And he lives his life very transparently, and most of us don't want to do that, but um it's actually served him quite well.
00:02.160: And also, too, the GoPro that I happen to have is the like one of the original Hero ones.
00:02.160: I know right now for my Meerkat stream, I have a $6 audio adapter that I have a link for on the Digital Cinema Cafe website.
00:02.160: That's a great idea.
00:02.160: And so think about things like do I want to use the I'll give you one that drives me nuts, Steve.
00:02.160: It's been a pleasure, and I look forward to getting Final Cut Pro here.
00:02.240: Real briefly, let's take a side tour.
00:02.240: His contact information will be in the show notes.
00:02.240: In actuality, this brings up another idea for a potential sponsor you might want to hit up.
00:02.240: Frederick Van Johnson.
00:02.240: And let's say that typical day is going to be: you know, Steve hops in the car, he's been on the road for
00:02.240: And then the guy gets credited.
00:02.320: And that's why until now, ScreenFlow has worked for me.
00:02.320: And I understand you're a Samsung guy.
00:02.320: Yeah, it's a massive range-based keywording and range-based favoriting is a massive
00:02.320: So you go through, you go through, you go, oh, wow, yeah, I'm going to have some great stuff to edit here.
00:02.320: The G drive.
00:02.400: Tell me about that because that kind of freaks me out.
00:02.400: Well, no, it's not that.
00:02.400: You know, where are you?
00:02.400: And that's the thing that you double-click at the beginning of every edit.
00:02.400: So I'm definitely give you a a heads up warning about that.
00:02.480: So I don't know.
00:02.480: I think for posterity's sake and just being smart, you do not want to get into the habit of deleting media.
00:02.480: Of course, yeah.
00:02.480: That'd be great.
00:02.480: Okay?
00:02.480: So I'm going to go storage maybe?
00:02.480: I will tell you, Steve, that I actually do have the G Drive mobile Thunderbolt.
00:02.560: I'm not going to talk much about it here.
00:02.560: Because Screenflow is normally known as a capture utility.
00:02.560: I mean, that being said, I mean, you can like Amazon Prime it.
00:02.560: We won't go through every click and thing about that.
00:02.560: They might come up with a solution.
00:02.560: They don't dissipate heat.
00:02.640: You know, you get it lit get the new one, whatever it is.
00:02.640: Like, I'm going to be in X City on this date.
00:02.640: Yeah.
00:02.720: Yeah, I went in and did that.
00:02.720: No, I don't think that is uh an accurate uh hope for anyone to have.
00:02.720: One, there's going to be the actual quote unquote show, which is called the Supercharged Show, where I'm interviewing a specific guest as we're riding down the road in the car.
00:02.720: Yep.
00:02.720: So you're going to want to make two copies of your card data, both the card from your Samsung and out of your GoPros, and potentially an audio recorder as well.
00:02.720: You're going to have to deal with you're going to have to give some of the audio some thought.
00:02.720: I mean, this is going to sound like a dumb question, but what does a mixer even mean?
00:02.720: And what that affords me is the ability to you know, I'm famous for cutting people off and interrupting people.
00:02.720: It might mean breaking out the the American Express and buying a couple of quote unquote real cameras
00:02.720: You're going to go through a lot of drives.
00:02.800: So, it really is.
00:02.800: You were talking about doing social media, being able to do some logistical planning while the car drives you to the next city.
00:02.800: And you're going to, oh crap, I'm not going to want all of this later.
00:02.800: Cool.
00:02.880: I can't bring myself to say that word out loud, so I'm going to call it a video blog.
00:02.880: And then your audio mixer will not only record it separately, which is something we'll get to, but you can also use it as a
00:02.880: So that's really important.
00:02.880: All right.
00:02.880: One thing, and I tell this to people all the time, a lot of people run out and they buy these LACI one terabyte rugged hard drives.
00:02.960: It's not like I make any money directly off of your sales.
00:02.960: Oh, God.
00:02.960: I in the post recording interview interview, but just you know, as I stopped the recording
00:03.040: Excuse me.
00:03.040: I'll let him talk about the details.
00:03.040: Absolutely, and I love it.
00:03.040: That's that might be a thing.
00:03.040: The audio recorder I mentioned earlier is made by Rode.
00:03.040: And as from what I understand, certain states already have laws on the book of books about autonomous cars.
00:03.040: So, you're going to do a little video blog about, oh my god, what have I got myself into?
00:03.040: This is a big deal.
00:03.040: I've been doing this for 30 years, you don't want to throw media away.
00:03.120: Basically it's going to be about twenty thousand miles in total, and it's going to go all around the United States, so all forty eight states in the in the lower part.
00:03.120: Ended up going back to Los Angeles and saying that you know, California is the place you want to be.
00:03.120: So the Philip DeFranco Enterprises have have gone through enormous growth.
00:03.120: Yeah, so that'll be really good.
00:03.120: Right?
00:03.120: I do a lot of stuff with my phone in my car where I mount it on the center console with a little clamp thing.
00:03.120: Trip.
00:03.200: Now, I will be the first to admit that in the type of work that I do, I tend to have a single event per library.
00:03.200: You know, you know, here's another opportunity for somebody who might want to get involved, might want to attach their name to this.
00:03.280: And that's a great idea.
00:03.360: Now we still call QuickTime QuickTime, but the foundation that it's actually built upon is what's called AV Foundation.
00:03.360: And frankly, maybe they'll throw in a couple more of them for you to mount about inside your car, and so you don't have to go to GoPro.
00:03.360: So that brings us to the editorial process.
00:03.360: I just think that that additional footage would be really powerful.
00:03.360: Ni, you said something about the 7200 RPM.
00:03.360: This thing did go a little bit long, and you know my predilection for not editing, and as an editor, that's kind of goes contradictory to what I'm about.
00:03.440: Hey, this is episode 120 with Steve Sassman.
00:03.440: And that's easy to find that.
00:03.440: So now at the end of your thing, if you just want to do like a little music video montage of all the beautiful scenery that you've shot,
00:03.440: So, whereas you used to have a one-hour clip in your bin or in your browser.
00:03.440: Yeah, you're probably going to need to look into some various types of mounts, you know, to get all that stuff in.
00:03.520: Yeah, no, because I think that's going to be interesting too, as, you know, because
00:03.520: There was no chance for some interaction.
00:03.520: Steve, good luck to you.
00:03.600: I've heard of him.
00:03.600: So you're going to want to be very careful to retain creation dates at.
00:03.600: So now it's going to be with all the A's, right?
00:03.600: So now, when you say, okay, forget the one-hour clips, I don't want to look at that again because I've already sifted through it.
00:03.600: They're wrapped in rubber.
00:03.600: Oh, that's only USB three and a slow spindle speed.
00:03.600: Okay.
00:03.680: Right.
00:03.680: So the timing of this actually is fantastic.
00:03.680: January twenty fifth, twenty sixth would be further down the list, even though chronologically it happened earlier.
00:03.680: And part of the allure of this is like they want to see what different parts of the country look like.
00:03.680: You know, it's like, hey, you know, Bob's drone photography and I was on this Tesla thing.
00:03.680: Yeah.
00:03.760: That sounds great.
00:03.760: So I've got I have this seven hundred dollar microphone feeding into my iPhone to send this Meerkat stream.
00:03.760: I don't need to convince you about that.
00:03.760: The example I gave earlier.
00:03.760: The biggest fear, the biggest problem that you have with hard drives is heat.
00:03.840: All right, so now we're getting into the area, and I'm not really a production guy.
00:03.840: Okay, then here's the next bit.
00:03.840: Let's take a quick look.
00:03.840: So who knows?
00:03.920: So so you don't want to lead anybody to believe that if you choose to drive twenty thousand miles in your Tesla, that the Tesla Motor Corporation is actually going to pay for your motels and food?
00:03.920: So it's like, oh, yeah, there's the diner.
00:03.920: You might want to think of the sort of three quarter angle, so it shows that you're moving forward.
00:03.920: Okay?
00:03.920: How do they learn more about the trip and you?
00:04.000: Now I am.
00:04.000: But nothing really edited per se, other than maybe slapping something on the front and the back of it.
00:04.000: So, so yeah, you're definitely not going to have to convince me anymore.
00:04.000: And so that's really important.
00:04.000: There's actually two workflow modes, and I'm not going to go into too much detail in this broadcast because I know I've discussed it.
00:04.000: And I uh on this show have talked many times about my my BMW juggernaut that I did a few years ago, uh where a lot of my mobile editing
00:04.000: That means it is all searchable later.
00:04.000: Because what you're doing, so you open up a clip, and you can, and you know, you can look at the audio waveform, and you go, Okay, I'm talking here, and I took a break.
00:04.000: Done.
00:04.000: I actually use those.
00:04.000: So we're we're going to be doing that soon, hopefully.
00:04.080: That'll help me.
00:04.080: And just even down to how are you going to name this stuff?
00:04.080: Well, I you know, that's the thing.
00:04.080: Hire me to go on the road with you for the first month or two weeks just to get you going in the right direction.
00:04.080: So how do people learn more about the million dollar Tesla?
00:04.160: Yeah.
00:04.160: At your current rate, you'll be there in 90 minutes.
00:04.160: And I have a story to tell you about that.
00:04.160: So you need a mic, and your guest needs a mic.
00:04.160: No, that's 100% true.
00:04.160: That looks a little overly insulated.
00:04.240: Now you may not like the genre that you've stumbled into, but you're not going to get bad music.
00:04.240: It it falls off, I believe, logarithmically as you get further and further from the light or the microphone.
00:04.240: Well, no, obviously you have an iPhone because you're talking to me on an iPhone earlier through Miracle, or actually an iPad.
00:04.240: I would find the bits that are just for my video blog, right?
00:04.240: And keep in mind, in Final Khaten, you can do what's called a range-based keyword.
00:04.240: fifty four hundred RPM drives are a bozo no no when it comes to video.
00:04.320: But I'd like to hear what type of videos you would like to produce on this epic road trip.
00:04.320: So Philip's been doing vlogging, I said it, video blogs for many years.
00:04.320: And revision three has since been bought up by, I believe, CNN or C-SPAN, CNN.
00:04.320: Now, how have you been doing audio in the cars so far?
00:04.320: How's the drive?
00:04.320: Yeah, really great friend.
00:04.320: And I will say that my workflow was very good.
00:04.320: You bring that clip in and you keyword that vlog.
00:04.320: Now, because it's keyworded, that stuff is searchable.
00:04.320: But I also might want to go through and just highlight, you know, you could do what's called a favorite.
00:04.320: I mean, one of the things that is going to be paramount here is finding the right mix of
00:04.320: And again, I say this about Final Cut 10 all the time.
00:04.400: You know, I try to be a little more prepared than I was for my podcasting debut.
00:04.400: Because I really do think that with anything, and this comes up time and time and time again on this show.
00:04.400: You know, pretty much every single day.
00:04.400: Um but uh the way I look at it is this.
00:04.400: And it's not as popular as the one I have going on right now with you, but sometimes they're interesting conversations.
00:04.400: I don't know what his budget is.
00:04.400: I think he's got a giant task ahead of him, but I also think that Final Katen is going to be the solution to a lot of those problems that he hasn't necessarily come across yet.
00:04.400: People P you guys really hate Prius drivers, don't you?
00:04.480: And then of course video, that stuff is going to be there's going to be some expense there, just in terms of uploading, downloading and
00:04.480: Much of what I do professionally, you know, our end product is
00:04.480: And I and before you go spend that money, I would double check that you can actually uh do what I'm saying uh with the um
00:04.480: That if you think this is something that you'd like to get involved with at any level
00:04.560: And basically, I'm going to hit almost every single Tesla supercharger.
00:04.560: Well, let's talk a little bit more about what your intentions is.
00:04.560: And I believe that a lot of the driving about stuff
00:04.560: We'll use that for exteriors, beauty shots as you're driving through the plains.
00:04.560: And I know you're going out to do this fairly shortly by the time this gets out.
00:04.560: And I've seen you do stuff where you put the phone somewhere in front of you in the car and the note rather.
00:04.560: Okay?
00:04.560: And the library file is the one, it looks almost like a purple Windows logo.
00:04.560: You're going to use your range-based keywords.
00:04.640: So once you get into understanding the library structure, inside each library you have
00:04.640: Then you scan forward and you go, oh, here's a great thing where I pass a truck.
00:04.640: So you're going to need to change the levels of those so that when you do a test recording and play it back, you go, Yeah, I can hear both of these guys well.
00:04.720: My good friend Frederick Van Johnson, and he hosts a podcast called This Week in Photo.
00:04.720: In stark contrast, you have the QuickTime Foundation, which was used in Final Cut one through seven or what we commonly refer to as Final Cut Classic.
00:04.720: At the end of the night, you're going to want to take all the media off your cards.
00:04.720: Range-based selection, favorite.
00:04.720: And I would not shy away from asking advice from various production people that you already have.
00:04.720: And again, you know, I'm not trying to show for Apple.
00:04.720: I'd I'd mu I just my my life feels better when they're all the same thing.
00:04.800: And there's a lot of people that will tell you Fenwick is an idiot, that's not how you do it.
00:04.800: You know, this is my driving video.
00:04.880: We cover all the bases.
00:04.880: Yeah, so there's your measuring stick for your driving around interviews, you know.
00:04.880: So yeah, I mean, I actually, you know, I look forward to it when that happens.
00:04.880: And turns out Sam is a botanist.
00:04.880: So definitely hopefully.
00:04.960: Before we get into that, Steve might be wanting to check in with our buddies at premiumbeat.
00:04.960: So it sounds like what we're gonna apply some terminology.
00:04.960: I want to get back to the Tesla thing.
00:04.960: I'm just going to do a little brief
00:04.960: Maybe there's something that could be done.
00:05.040: That's awesome.
00:05.040: It's not that.
00:05.040: But again, from a workflow standpoint, you're going to want to think about this.
00:05.040: Exactly.
00:05.040: They that's an that actually is an insulator.
00:05.120: Ah, need a new mic stand.
00:05.120: Premium Beat is a curated collection of music, meaning it's the good stuff.
00:05.120: You know, he he started vlogging out of it.
00:05.120: But you can also send a signal out
00:05.120: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:05.120: Clearly, I'm kidding.
00:05.120: And the next step is to say, I want to actually record this in as good a quality as I can afford.
00:05.200: And of course, I get sucked in.
00:05.200: So just touch the boom.
00:05.200: So, in a two-camera situation, your primary camera is actually your Samsung Note?
00:05.200: The GoPros have horrible audio.
00:05.200: You know, I'm you know, I'm planning on the fact that I won't have that
00:05.200: So you should shoot, you know, mountains and
00:05.200: That's what it will open up your library.
00:05.200: Apply keyword, Command K, start to type S C E O.
00:05.200: Now you just have the good stuff.
00:05.280: I just had.
00:05.280: So in Final Cut 10, you have what's called a library structure
00:05.280: I know, that one's going to be worn out.
00:05.280: Okay, I was talking about, you know, um, logi logistical problems of meeting up with people at the nearest Apple store.
00:05.280: I know you're going to be really busy this coming month.
00:05.360: Well, you know, in all seriousness, in all seriousness, that's a little bit what we're talking about here: about how to get this done.
00:05.360: So at that point, Steve, how do you currently get your video file off of your note into your computer box?
00:05.360: Well, that might be another sponsor for you.
00:05.360: It gives you a little eighth inch audio jack input, which is probably similar to what your note is going to have.
00:05.360: In addition, it can be the place where all of your media goes.
00:05.360: Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.
00:05.440: I think it's a four or whatever.
00:05.440: These are all built by Zoom.
00:05.440: And it's important to remember that in a 10-minute
00:05.440: I can't find it again.
00:05.440: But yeah, I know
00:05.440: So I just sound like a total ass.
00:05.520: Anyway, PremiumBeat.
00:05.520: Correct.
00:05.520: Oh, my God.
00:05.520: Again, it's metal.
00:05.600: And I would like for those, more specifically, to have a more
00:05.600: And and because he contacted me when he decided that he was going to make the change from cutting his videos in Screenflow to cutting in Final Cut 10.
00:05.600: They're about two hundred bucks for a terabyte.
00:05.680: You sound like you have the right microphone on.
00:05.680: Will you please drop ship it there?
00:05.680: You should probably be staying at this motel tonight.
00:05.680: And then actually, before I recap, are there any specific questions that you have?
00:05.680: So that it definitely works.
00:05.760: And as you get closer, it makes an enormous difference.
00:05.760: Well, there you go.
00:05.760: Yeah.
00:05.760: Feel free to contact me if you have any troubles
00:05.840: So I go year, month, day.
00:05.840: Now 'cause you're 'cause people will tell you all the time, if you don't have media in two locations, you may as well just throw it away.
00:05.840: So you hit the letter R for range, you drag across the cool curves.
00:05.840: But additionally, I mean, who knows?
00:05.840: Excellent.
00:05.920: That was an easy sell for you in the two hours since we last spoke.
00:05.920: And you're probably going to end up
00:05.920: Now, if you rename it Zebra Diner and you sort by if you sort it alphabetically,
00:05.920: I think definitely work in the social media aspect in terms of being able to find people that might want to.
00:05.920: But in the coming weeks and, in your case, months.
00:05.920: But again, the smart thing is going to be able to have a naming convention.
00:05.920: You're better off buying another hard drive.
00:06.000: So the new the newest Teslas are all rolling off the production line
00:06.000: I hope people realize that.
00:06.000: Maybe you spend an extra hour one day doing a few passes back and forth.
00:06.000: It's like a thousand pound gorilla overkill for what you need to do.
00:06.000: That being said, you might be able to find somebody to build you that audio cable.
00:06.080: I was going to say, until you brought up the Tesla, I was like, wow, it sounds like you're going to spend a lot of money on gas.
00:06.080: Now, the driving around doing interviews, have you ever seen Jerry Seinfeld?
00:06.080: Correct.
00:06.080: Maybe it's atta it attaches to a cup holder in my center console where I would have my audio recorder where I could see the the the meters.
00:06.080: Yeah.
00:06.080: Yeah, you know what?
00:06.080: Well, maybe you do, but let's say
00:06.080: But more importantly, it has that date.
00:06.080: Right.
00:06.080: I guarantee you that.
00:06.080: Indirectly.
00:06.160: And those are important ones that you want to source through.
00:06.160: You have to be in the driver's seat.
00:06.240: Yeah, brilliant.
00:06.240: It's just absolutely impossible.
00:06.240: You might be able to.
00:06.240: I know he's in the process of finding his
00:06.320: Right.
00:06.320: Oh, cool.
00:06.320: Okay, so that's you're going to generate a lot of media.
00:06.320: Right.
00:06.320: So you might record that first on your way to a scheduled meetup where you've
00:06.320: Yeah.
00:06.400: Now, not that I don't want to get into a whole let's learn our computer thing here, but it's good to know some background.
00:06.400: I mean, you know, it's going to vary.
00:06.400: It's eighty bucks.
00:06.400: At that point,
00:06.480: You capture your screens and then you can do some pretty amazing stuff.
00:06.480: You were telling me earlier on the phone that sometime this summer there's going to be a major quote unquote firmware I'll call it a firmware upgrade.
00:06.480: Now, wait, did you say that it could?
00:06.560: I, you know, it's going to be a but yeah, on average, I'm probably going to be doing some type of
00:06.560: At that point, what you're going to want to do is
00:06.560: Final Cut 10 solves problems for editors they don't know they have.
00:06.560: And then on Twitter, it's just at Steve Sassmann, which is my name.
00:06.640: Just tap it.
00:06.640: So those are probably going to be a little simpler and it might just be a video dump into
00:06.640: But yeah, as I look at this, it's not even
00:06.640: And of course, you're going to have the old
00:06.640: Just throw it away now.
00:06.640: It's not everything that you've done with the media, but it's the raw media.
00:06.640: Range-based selection, favorite.
00:06.640: That's great.
00:06.720: But I'll tell you, tweet it.
00:06.720: So, let's get to this epic road trip with Steve Sassman.
00:06.720: And then what you do is you hotspot into it with your IOS device.
00:06.720: And I say drives plurals because you're going to have multiple drives by the end of this thing.
00:06.720: There's so much that's spinning in my head.
00:06.720: Does that?
00:06.800: Okay.
00:06.800: So I didn't realize that the the note actually has a card unlike any Apple device.
00:06.800: The funny thing is.
00:06.800: You know, think about it.
00:06.880: com, it's my number one place where I go for music all the time, and you should be too, frankly.
00:06.880: You're copying some files or importing something, whatever.
00:06.880: Yeah.
00:06.880: And I have done things where I've had to have.
00:06.880: But so anyway, yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it
00:06.880: So yeah, I'm going to actually hit up Airbnb, Home Away and FlipKey, which is
00:06.880: I personally would.
00:06.880: But again, go back to my earlier
00:06.880: Because you didn't actually start editing, you were just glancing at it, right?
00:06.960: I recommended that you take a look at something like Final Cut 10.
00:06.960: Today, at the end of your first day, you're only going to have one video blog and you're going to have one interview with a guy named Sam.
00:06.960: Where was that?
00:06.960: Ah, okay.
00:06.960: Yeah, they can go to that exact URL, million dollar TeslaTrip.
00:06.960: But I envy the guy four months on the road, even if it is a Tesla.
00:07.040: I'm sure you've discovered that the audio on a GoPro is kind of crap.
00:07.040: But I definitely know it can be improved over and I did notice definitely a big difference.
00:07.040: I think what I would do, and this is getting a little techie nerdy, and
00:07.040: Right, right.
00:07.120: But essentially, you're going to find a story here about Steve.
00:07.120: You're going to save it, and you're going to find a way to save it.
00:07.120: Because at the very least, I think it would be great just to have a production coordinator back home.
00:07.120: I don't even have to have the document open.
00:07.120: Okay, so you have exhaustion, miles
00:07.120: And again, you're going to probably want to look for
00:07.120: It would be awesome if you could.
00:07.120: I'd put my little Zoom audio recorder/slash mixer
00:07.120: That's not a threat just to data.
00:07.200: So it's not a Wi-Fi one.
00:07.200: Are you trying to save me time here, Chris?
00:07.200: G-Tech also makes
00:07.200: It refers to how literally how fast this the platters in the hard drive are spinning.
00:07.280: Hey, welcome to another episode of Final Cut Grills.
00:07.280: And uh that's been kind of my my main
00:07.280: Okay, now I don't know if you realize this, and frankly, I apologize because I don't know
00:07.280: Hit up somebody like TripAdvisor.
00:07.280: And then as you bring it into
00:07.280: I don't think you will find
00:07.280: What's a big size drive?
00:07.280: Yep, storage on the Apple Store.
00:07.280: But we'll be back next time with another episode of The Grill.
00:07.360: And then
00:07.360: But I the I believe the three plus or something had was the first with the hotspot.
00:07.360: I just as an editor, I think some of that little behind the scenes sort of stuff is actually kind of interesting, even if you don't use the audio for it.
00:07.360: And
00:07.360: And then that way, because it's keyworded with the keyword
00:07.360: And that and in all honesty, that might be something that you want to rethink.
00:07.360: And if you're actually going to try and edit off of them in your hotel room, I've actually watched those things seize up in the middle of the night.
00:07.440: Um so that's been kind of the one that I've done most of the stuff with, and then the the second and third shots would have been from the
00:07.440: And what you could do is not only can you record the audio locally
00:07.440: Yeah, okay.
00:07.440: Your reservation is done.
00:07.440: It's the evergreen.
00:07.440: I'm exhausted.
00:07.440: I'm just trying to find something because I tell you, I get crazy at the end of a
00:07.520: You're going to have a bunch of hard drives.
00:07.520: But let's say, for example, we take a typical
00:07.520: I really, really appreciate it.
00:07.600: So I won't go into a whole lot of details, but this is an episode where the main thing we're talking about
00:07.600: And that's not a horrible
00:07.600: So one of them was with my friend Eric
00:07.600: I'm a little sketched
00:07.600: It's like, that's like six wasted characters if you include the space.
00:07.600: Because anything that you can do to help this out is going to make it easy because you're going to be doing this for a long time.
00:07.600: When you're shopping for hard drives, you're going to want to buy something that has a seventy two hundred rpm spindle speed.
00:07.600: I'm going to throw that one out.
00:07.680: So as you guys know, I've been playing on Meerkat for the last month or so, and I'm flipping through the channels, so to speak.
00:07.680: I would recommend for yourself looking at a guy named
00:07.680: It's called a Smart Lav.
00:07.680: But November 15th.
00:07.680: Get it over with.
00:07.680: You're going to be generating stuff.
00:07.680: So I go in and I delete those things.
00:07.680: Anyway, that's it for this episode of the of the Grill.
00:07.760: Yeah.
00:07.760: I love it.
00:07.760: I believe it's episode 99 or 101.
00:07.760: Now, after I called it
00:07.760: Let's talk to Sam now.
00:07.760: It's just going to completely inundate you, okay?
00:07.760: And now, all of a sudden, I have all the bits where you know, you will have all the bits where you're talking about the scenery.
00:07.760: Wow.
00:07.840: And he was about two years ago bought up by
00:07.840: And you're going to meet up with that person.
00:07.840: So, to borrow a story from my past, a good friend of mine.
00:07.840: And who knows, maybe you can get a guest editor on one of your one of your episodes, somebody who would come down and
00:07.920: Maybe this could be a documentary of some sort or whatever.
00:07.920: So, anyway, you'll be storing your media on multiple hard drives.
00:08.000: I'm already sold, but I definitely would love to hear.
00:08.000: And the kid he just recently got married and he's got a kid.
00:08.000: Now, Final Cut 10 will also, as you bring media in, will allow you to sort by date.
00:08.080: So one of the things that you're actually very accustomed to is the ability to do a lot of amazing things in real time.
00:08.080: I said it again.
00:08.080: Is it Tesla Challenge or Tesla Drive?
00:08.160: Well, it's so, yeah, I think one of the things to keep in mind: sound.
00:08.160: I mean, I've done it in the past.
00:08.160: Heat is the biggest enemy of a hard drive
00:08.160: I'll be glad to answer any questions.
00:08.160: I'm going to get it tonight and start playing with it.
00:08.240: I'm sitting two inches from a $700 Neumann microphone.
00:08.320: And I'll pick it up at the front desk.
00:08.320: I mean, I would uh I would trust uh you know, the car as much as I would trust
00:08.320: Thanks, Chris.
00:08.320: But you know, you sh you should have a lot of footage uh to draw from in terms of like
00:08.320: Range-based selection F.
00:08.400: I mean, there's going to be times when I may have
00:08.400: Because you will lose it.
00:08.400: Now, that's just keywording
00:08.400: Yeah.
00:08.480: And that's your
00:08.480: We can always draw from.
00:08.480: Now, if you think about when you make a Word document.
00:08.480: And also realizing
00:08.480: They just they're not good.
00:08.560: I don't believe in making up words like that.
00:08.560: Right here.
00:08.640: Download the final cat.
00:08.640: Oh, yeah.
00:08.640: And then you could be glancing over at the note to make specific poignant
00:08.640: It could be a little better.
00:08.640: They would encourage you to use
00:08.720: And part of the reason why you're doing it is that the AV Foundation framework
00:08.720: Perfect.
00:08.720: That's why it's called range-based keywording.
00:08.720: Well, and the other thing is, too, I mean
00:08.800: And I think that when it comes to designing a workflow
00:08.800: I personally have not had any trouble with them.
00:08.880: A lot of what people would call what you just said, your simpler stuff.
00:08.880: He started doing the the blogs out of his parents' house in Atlanta.
00:08.960: So that's one thing uh your your video blogs um
00:08.960: So I would want to look into that.
00:09.040: So if you haven't checked out Premium Beat, please go do that for me.
00:09.040: I I like patch it into my recording system and I and I start and I I explain to people what's going on.
00:09.040: So, now we're going to get into the part that I actually understand that hopefully
00:09.040: Oh, yeah.
00:09.040: That's a threat to humanity.
00:09.120: So, say in your video blog for
00:09.120: I have hundreds of miles to drive today.
00:09.120: I'm trying to save you some time here, Steve.
00:09.200: The stuff is high quality.
00:09.200: Sure, absolutely.
00:09.200: And this is only on the highways, so this isn't urban city driving.
00:09.200: And I would select it and I would apply a keyword
00:09.200: You'd be surprised how many times.
00:09.200: There's another drive called the G Tech
00:09.280: Throw that out.
00:09.280: I love it.
00:09.280: Like, so do I want to call this event
00:09.280: Yeah.
00:09.360: I mean, I would challenge you.
00:09.360: That looks a little too plasticky.
00:09.440: You're going to do one of your little driving interviews.
00:09.440: You're looking at somebody in the eye, so you should be actually looking at the lens.
00:09.520: You're going to be capturing media every evening.
00:09.600: Exactly.
00:09.600: And no, but think about this, though, from a video perspective.
00:09.600: So by creating keywords
00:09.600: I have a few of those and have had very good luck with them.
00:09.680: Let the people at Premium Beat know that you checked out
00:09.680: And I know it's kind of one of the kind of things
00:09.760: Now so this happens all the time when you're dealing with
00:09.840: We're going to have to upgrade here, baby.
00:09.840: You're going to want to double check it.
00:09.920: Yeah.
00:09.920: When you go and search for it, only that portion of that clip will pop up.
00:09.920: Steve, I'll also give you this one last
00:09.920: What do you call it?
00:10.000: He also has a show that he calls the Philip DeFranco Show.
00:10.000: And I think what I would do
00:10.000: But
00:10.000: I can't remember.
00:10.000: And that's why I was kind of looking forward to chatting with you.
00:10.080: No bueno.
00:10.160: No, I haven't done that just yet.
00:10.240: I think the best way to do that is with some good either
00:10.240: I think being safe with your media
00:10.240: It sees scenery is one of my keywords.
00:10.320: It's designed to loop as an editor.
00:10.320: At any rate, again, we're getting into post now.
00:10.320: Later, later.
00:10.400: You know?
00:10.400: We'll be back next time.
00:10.480: I gotta tell you, Steve, there's no chance in hell I'm getting in the car when that thing's
00:10.480: So I think to sort of summarize then,
00:10.560: com because I bet you he would like to have some.
00:10.560: I might be two hours from a major
00:10.560: S-A-S-M-A-N?
00:10.640: I know that you leave in approximately a month from today.
00:10.640: Right.
00:10.720: And that's really what caused this conversation to come about.
00:10.800: And or even think about this.
00:10.800: You know, even if it's an urban setting, it may not be like some.
00:10.800: Because I think that
00:10.880: Boom!
00:10.960: And I mean, he's living the life.
00:10.960: Do does anything like that exist in Samsung World?
00:10.960: It is.
00:11.120: I'll make up my own words, but not that one.
00:11.120: I happen to know.
00:11.120: Now, what I would recommend doing is that you have
00:11.200: I've already found my little favorite bits.
00:11.200: Those two microphones probably don't want to.
00:11.360: You're saying, no, this is all shot on the Samsung.
00:11.520: So that's something that you might want to look into.
00:11.520: Right.
00:11.520: Another customer.
00:11.600: As opposed to saying April
00:11.680: So then you're just recording audio directly into the note?
00:11.680: Because I think.
00:11.680: And again, you know, I am trying to do the music video show.
00:12.000: Not a problem.
00:12.000: Not just yet.
00:12.000: So those will be simple and easy.
00:12.000: You absolutely will lose it eventually.
00:12.000: That's the smart thing to do.
00:12.080: And then the third thing is just the scenery.
00:12.240: com.
00:12.400: How cool would this be?
00:12.400: Yes, select it.
00:12.480: He's living the life because of YouTube.
00:12.480: I mean
00:12.480: And then potentially.
00:12.480: Correct.
00:12.560: We'll call that a video blog.
00:12.560: All right.
00:12.640: But
00:12.880: How cool would this be?
00:12.880: So for example,
00:12.880: There we go.
00:13.040: But
00:13.040: 'Cause you're gonna lose it eventually anyway.
00:13.280: Yes, apply it.
00:13.280: Perfect.
00:13.440: So
00:13.440: Take care.
00:14.000: All right.
00:14.080: So
00:14.320: Bye.