Do you ever feel like your Android phone is listening to you? You're chatting in the car about a something, and later that day, ads for it show up on your feeds. It's a little creepy. While our phones are constantly tracking our activity, they don't have to listen in on our conversations. There are three simple settings you can turn off right now to get your phone working for you, not against you. In this video, I'm sharing how I disable personalization, stop usage and diagnostics, and turn off those super creepy ads that are spying on you.
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We all know our Android phones are spying on us. You mention something in passing while chatting in the car, then that night there's a YouTube video or an advert that is exactly all about what you were talking about. It's what it does. Constantly tracking your activity, monitoring which apps you use and what you search for on the internet. But listening into conversations feels like a step too far. There are tracking features which are switched on by default on our Android phones. Plus, they're slowing them down and draining the battery. But there are three settings which we can turn off right now to stop our phone spying on us. Let's do this right now. This is my phone up on screen here. And I'm going to do this in real time as we do this so you can follow along with me. The first thing we're going to do is disable personalization. My phone shares my data with lots of apps, which feels like spying. All that activity is logged and recorded to send me advertising and recommendations that are targeted at my brain. My brain can't take it anymore. Plus, it's my data. Also, it's using my phone's resources, which slows it down and runs down the battery. So, let's shut this down. Go into your phone's settings, which is the cog icon, and look for Google on this long menu. We'll click on this, and there are two buttons on the top, recommended and all services. We need all services. It's almost like it wants to be hidden. Let's click on all services. There are different sections in this menu. Scroll down to this section, privacy and security. And we want this option, personalize using shared data. Click on that. That opens up this list of apps which have access to my data. I don't know why clock is on there. I can't look at that myself. But maps and Chrome are pretty much everything I do on my phone. And device contacts down here is pretty sinister. I'm turning off all the apps on this list. And I hope this will free up some system resources on my phone. Next, I'm stopping Google constantly tracking how I used my phone, which apps I use, how long I use them. It means my phone is always running background processes to send this data. Oh, and it's using my data and power to do this, which doesn't exactly help my battery life. I'm turning it off. In the phone settings, click on the Google section. And then we'll go back to the privacy and security section again. And down here is usage and diagnostics. It's just a single toggle switch. Click on it to turn it off. My phone didn't blow up. And now it isn't sending continuous news about my phone to Google. I'm sure they'll be okay. I can get my phone working for me now. This next one I think is my favorite. It stops those super creepy ads from spying on me. This happened the other week in the car. My son asked me, "How does the clutch work?" That night, I start getting YouTube recommendations explaining how a car's clutch and engine works. It wasn't a coincidence. My phone uses my microphone and other data to send me recommendations and targeted advertising. I'm singing like a canary, spilling out keywords and topics like there's no tomorrow or or billionaire shareholders to feed. I never knew I was that interesting. But let's end this right now. In the phone settings, we'll then go into the Google settings and we'll click on this one more time. All services. Click on that at the top and under the privacy and security right at the top here because they are the most important thing on my phone. We will click on ads. Manage the info used to show you ads and measure ad performance. There are three options here when we scroll down. Ads privacy, reset advertising ID and delete advertising ID. Let's click on ads privacy. And I I'm just going to turn off all of these. I think we have three options here. Add topics, app suggested ads, and ad measurements. I don't like the sound of any of these. There's an explanation on screen now. I just don't think I need any of these. So, I'm going to turn off allow ad topics and go back. App suggested ads. I'm going to turn off allow app suggested ads. And then the final one, add measurement. Why Why would I use this? Let's turn it off. If you know why I'd want these, put it in the comments. But I I feel quite comfortable turning these off. I feel slightly ill because it's so obvious, but I truly don't think I need any of this. Now we'll click back to the ads menu and the next option is reset advertising ID to remove all the tracking data associated with my device. I get a warning message. Of course, this replaces the devices advertising ID with a new random number. Apps can still show you ads, but for a while they may not be as relevant or interesting to you. Yeah, because ads are interesting. I think I'll confirm and turn that off. So, I've reset my ID. The next option down is to delete advertising ID. Apps can no longer use this advertising ID to show me personalized ads. If I click on delete advertising ID, I get another what seems like a warning message. This deletes your current advertising ID. Apps can still show you ads, but they may not be as relevant or interesting. I think I will hit delete advertising ID. There's no confirmation button to press. It just does it. Now, it does offer me this option to get a new advertising ID, but I I don't think I'll do that. I'm good. And that's it. When my wife made these changes, the videos on offer on YouTube suddenly became a little weird at first, but they seem to have got back to normal now. I am calling this a Dad Delivers success. If this video helps you feel a little bit more secure or like your phone is working slightly less against you, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here is what YouTube thinks you might want to be watching next.
I check into the Premier Inn Euston Road to give it the full luxury vlogger style review (inspired by Hannah Ricketts ) to see if the £189 top-floor corner room is worth it. After trying to check in to the completely wrong hotel. Once I find the right brutalist concrete location, I give a full Premier Inn Euston room tour, including the amazing view, the clean bathroom (with surprise body wash), and an unexpected dust test. I also cover the lack of air conditioning, the price, the noise levels, and whether the £12.99 unlimited breakfast is a must-buy.
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I'm in London's lovely King's Cross. Or is it St. Pancras? Actually, it's neither. It's further up. It's up there up Euston Road. I am checking into the Premier Inn Euston, and it's a... it's a building that I've walked past, driven past about four decades, and I'm finally having a look inside to see what it's like to stay in the Premier Inn, Euston. I'm a bit worried because obviously I grew up around here. So I know how rough this area is even now. Um so to go to a hotel that's taken quite a battering I... I'd imagine in my head is going to be quite a thrill. Also I'm a huge fan of Hannah Ricketts who makes all these wonderful videos about five-star hotels. I think she has stayed in the St. Pancras Hotel and uh she said that she might be doing one there, but my Premier Inn is in the concrete block that's two blocks along. Let's see if I can film myself checking in and not get run over. I paid £189 for this room. I ordered... I ordered it. I booked it uh about 3 weeks ago. Premier Inn have these three tiers of booking. So, you either pay extra, about £50 extra to be able to cancel right up to the 1:00 p.m. on the same day. Another tier where I think you can amend your booking. And then this last tier, which is you got to you got to use it. And if you don't use it, you can change the the date up until 1:00 p.m. But thankfully, my trip is still on. So, let's see if I can film myself checking in. So, this is me checking into the Premier Inn what I think is the Premier Inn Euston. And it's a little impersonal, but there's a stack of key cards for the room and four terminals. And I just need to scan in the QR code to then program one of these key cards for my room. But it won't scan my QR code. But that's okay. I can just type in my booking reference number. Except... Except I can't I can't type it in because I am in completely the wrong hotel. I'll try to explain it to camera now, but the sound on this clip isn't very good. So, I have come to completely the wrong hotel. That's maybe the hub. Do you know what though? There were about four people behind me in that self-check-in queue that had also come to the wrong hotel. So, we got to go further up Euston Road to the other Premier Inn the one that's actually closer to Euston station. And it's only one block up the road. I think that last one was a Premier Inn hub, but this this is the Premier Inn Euston Road Hotel that we want. It's almost opposite Euston station. It's a easy mistake to make, but the exterior of this hotel is a little more 1960s Soviet brutalist concrete, less wackaging and funky neon signs. But there was a much better welcome here from the staff. Just behind the camera is a really nice hotel worker guiding me through the self check-in. I... I thought the service from the staff I met was really friendly and welcoming, which you absolutely need in this monstrosity of a building. Really lovely smiles and welcomes. It was very much appreciated. The self check-in machine spat out a receipt saying I was in room 111 and I couldn't face being on the first floor, so I very gently asked if there was anything higher in the hotel. He kindly manually issued me a new key card for room 547 which is on the corner of the top floor. Completely brilliant service. Thank you. Welcome to my room. Now, curse of the travel vlogger is that you have to film the room as quickly as possible before you trash it. So, this is how it looks as I as I walk in. You can get the full uh arrival effect here.
And this is the view. And this is the these are the rooftops of Euston. Uh this is much better than I thought it would be. I think Euston Road is running down that way. And these are the back streets around uh Euston. I do not expect to get a view with a... with a Premier Inn anywhere, but I'm... I'm pretty happy with this. This is pretty good. Hey, does this... this window doesn't open, does it? Oh my goodness. The window opens. Fresh air. Oh my goodness. You don't get opening windows with a five-star hotel. Look at me. I'm just happy at the smallest things. Let's open up the the other window. Oh my goodness. This is phenomenal. How fantastic that there's fresh air, though. The only downer, and I'm sure they would fix it instantly if I if I asked, but there's the... that light bulb's out. So, it is a bit... it's a bit dark in here rather than uh mood lighting. So, I've I've turned all the lights on. This isn't like a Hannah Ricketts five-star hotel, is it? And I've got that pointing at my face so you can see me. It is very dark in here, but that's okay. And I'm sure if I phone down, uh they're very, very helpful. Lovely greeting at reception. Uh unlike the other place which I think might be more of a hub and it's a lot busier, but uh here I couldn't really film the check-in because I was being guided through the screens by a very... very helpful uh member of staff and is a... is a little tricky. You have to check in with your booking and then you get your key card. There's like a stack of key cards and you you basically charge your your key card. you tap it against the like the... the contactless reader and it... it programs the... the number for you and then you get a print out saying which room number you're in. I don't know why, but I got room 111 and I just thought I don't want to be on the first floor. I don't I wonder if and I just asked is there any chance and very kindly they've put me up here the very top floor corner room on the top floor. Ah, this is this is the life at this price point. This is the life. Let's do a tour of the room. I'll give you a 360 of the room. I've put my wide-angled lens on to get as much uh in as possible. It is... It's snug. It's not tiny. It's just the right size. You know, someone had worked out an algorithm for what is the exact number of cm we can uh squeeze in here. And it's it's got this kind of I'd say 60s chic to it with the with the brown and the ceiling tiles. Not a fan of ceiling tiles, but you know, it... it's okay. It's a very um How can I show you? I'm 5' 10 and I can comfortably touch the entrance ceiling in the the hallway, the lobby, and oh, I could just about stretch to touch the ceiling tiles at the top. So, it's it's literally they've made a box that is human size. Let's go in the bathroom. Now, I have no idea how Hannah Ricketts makes her videos last 31 minutes and makes them really entertaining. So, I... I will try and give you the full... the full tour. So, we've got a sign here. Please keep this door closed when in use as steam can set off the fire alarms. So, we have like a a lino floor. The hotel room, the sleeping area is carpet. It's... It seems on first glance very clean. Also, I just got to say, sorry, know I should be doing a bathroom tour, but usually the furniture is beaten up, but it is absolutely pristine. Again, in the five-star hotels, you have some really sort of battered furniture cuz my expectations were very low. There's three coat hooks by the door and the a tea making area with a bin and a sign saying please don't use the bin if you have to... if you don't have to. Anyway, back to the bathroom. Hello. Here I am. No ceiling tiles in here thankfully. Just a single light and uh a fan. Very clean shower curtain. Look at that. We've got a towel, a bath mat. Oh no, that's the bath mat. That's a little towel. I'm going to stick that behind the door handle after all those warning videos that I've seen online about protecting yourself in a hotel room. How to secure a hotel room. I thought I'd need that here cuz we're in central London and we are I mean it's it's I grew up around here. As I said, it is crime central out there. So, I'm hoping that the door security will be is pretty good. They seem really diligent on saying hi to everyone coming in... in a very friendly way. Here we have a shower. I know some of you are like my wife are shower experts. This is a Hansgroer. It's a hands grower, not a shower. And look, it's got a rainfall, what do you call it? Shower head. Words are failing me. Should I turn it? I've got to turn that on to give you the the full effect. All you need to do is set the tap running and then pull this button. Hope it doesn't hit the camera. Up. Away it goes. That is a nice shower. It's good pressure, nice temperature. Absolutely lovely. And we have some Baylis & Harding uh shower gel which is full and it's white tea and neroli. Very nice cuz oh my goodness when I was in Manchester at Premier Inn, you know those dispensers like you have in public toilets to dispense the the shower gel. So having a little bottle holder there is really nice touch I think. Let's take a look at the toilet. And that is clean and very utilitarian seat. Can you imagine the absolute pounding? Oh, it's more uh white tea and neroli. This is luxury hand wash. And over here, this is luxury hair and body wash. So, you have the two... two Baylis & Harding bottles. Really nice touch there cuz you I was just expecting one of those public restroom style dispensers and the... the tap. Really nice. Super duper clean as well. I... I just could not be more happy with how this is working out. But can you imagine the absolute pounding, the absolute hammering this room must get? Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's used by travelers who are just here for a couple of hours before they get there on the Eurostar just over at St Pancras. Maybe it's very one and done and maybe it has very light use because just travellers using this location do not want to stay here very long. If you are thinking of staying here for an extended stay or for this to be your base in London, this is absolutely phenomenal location it is so well connected. You can get to anywhere from anywhere from here. You can get to anywhere from here. Pretty much all tube lines. You can walk into the West End. It's a really nice 10, 15 minute walk and you have the three station terminae. You've also got Marylebone up the road. So for £189 with the nervousness that if I had to cancel I'd lose that. But it seemed like a good gamble. Let me show you the hallway. Another thing that Hannah Ricketts does on her channel is to show you where the room is in relation to the fire escapes and the other rooms. And there isn't there isn't a plan. Maybe it's... maybe it's in the hallway. But so now all my horror videos that I've been watching on YouTube are kicking in where one of the pieces of advice is to check out your emergency escape route. Can I make it out the window? I don't think I can. No, this is quite high up. Oh, better lock the the window there. And it doesn't have one of those things where you make the electricity happen with your room key. I thought it was, but it is actually a defunct air conditioning control. I got one email every day for about 3 weeks telling me that there is no air conditioning in this hotel. I don't know if it's broken or if there just isn't one and they're just reminding you a lot. I got the impression from the emails that it was uh more of a... a maintenance thing. It is really warm in here. It's October, so I'm very grateful for the warmth. I'm just going to check that the heating isn't on. Right. So, we've got heating... cooling. So, I'm going to switch it to cooling even though there's nothing happening there. I don't know if you can see this if it's showing up on the camera, but it's 21° in here, which is toasty. Now, my wife and family would love this. This is the absolutely perfect temperature for them. It's 3° too hot for me. I came completely buyer aware because of these warning emails just saying... just repeating over and over again. I'd imagine they'd have a lot of complaints. I can't imagine how warm this would be in the heat of the summer, especially on the top floor as well. So, just bear that in mind that at time of recording, there is no air con. Let me show you the desk area. So, having an... I didn't even notice this, but having an electric fan is probably a sign that there hasn't been air con here for a long time. I can feel I... so I've switched that to cooling. I can absolutely feel a lovely breeze coming in. Oh, that's nice. Oh my goodness. That's good. So, it's not air conditioning, but there is some kind of central fan here. Should I see if this works? Don't think it does. No, it's just all kinds of flashing. What if I press the chilly button? There are three speeds. So, I've got it up to the third speed. Oo, I just felt that. So, these ceiling tiles do something. There's something about ceiling tiles though that... Oh, I don't know. It just What's up there? What is up there? What have previous guests put up there? So, the ceiling tiles are a little bit ick, but I'm sure that everything is completely safe. So, I've been in here probably an hour now, and it's getting it's getting really warm in here. It's still saying 21°, though, so maybe it's just a psychological thing. I really want to show you the bed. The bed was super clean, presented in a really lovely way. Give you a nice swoop around the bed. Underneath seems really clean. There's nothing under there. All the nooks and crannies seem really super clean. Oh, I know what we haven't done. We haven't done the the dust test. Let's do the dust test. This is Hannah Ricketts copying that TV programme that does it. So, here we go.
No, it's clean. It's absolutely clean. The... the shelves I can already see are clean. Let's try on top of the bed. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And there are five-star hotels. I can point out the window. There are 5 star hotels over there with dust and this doesn't have one. Clean. Do you know what? It's probably... It's probably people doing the dust test that are dusting all of these rooms. The only stain I found is just over there. It's just a little bit of brick dust. Probably from where whatever was done to that electrical thing. A little bit of brick dust, but every everywhere else is completely stain free. It's a really... my tripod again. It's really, really clean carpet. It feels really clean in here. And this, look, no dust on the fan. Hey, we're over by the table. The lighting conditions in here are very challenging. So, uh, thank you for going along with the moodiness of the the lighting of the room. So, we have some promotional literature here. Shall we find out how much stuff costs? Uh, so we got a drinks menu. Let's see how much a... a can of Coke costs. The menus are clean, which is which is nice. Got some cocktails. 2 for £14 every day 5 till 7. Midnight woo woo, classic mojito. What do you fancy? A bottle of Coke is £3.85. Red Bull is £4.35. Why you would want a Red Bull in a hotel, I do not know. I would have thought that might counteract the blackout curtains over there. Spirits £7.70. And I guess these are in the the bar downstairs. I don't know. Oh, hot drinks. Latte £3.20. Come on, that's cheaper than A Costa. And they owned by the same brand, I think. So, anyway, drinks menu and then food menu. Right. So, breakfast. I might give this a try. The unlimited cooked breakfast. £12.99. Come on. What's not to like? eggs, hash browns, bacon back rashers, pork sausages, bon bon bon bon bons, vegan sausage, baked beans, black pudding, grilled tomato, mushrooms. So, unlimited cooked and continental breakfast, and unlimited drinks, £12.99. Yeah, I... I think I've got to do it. There's some foreshadowing. And the other option is an unlimited continental £10.99. So that's unlimited continental breakfast and unlimited drinks. Amazing. So this is the continental breakfast. My hand is shaking with absolute desire for all of these things. And you've got hot drinks and cold drinks, apple juice, cranberry, orange. There's more. There's the TV. I haven't even turned the TV on. The remote control is obscenely clean. Who knows what has touched that, but I'm... I'm not feeling squeamish. I will sanitize my hands afterwards, but it does look and feel very clean. Should we turn the TV on? A nice welcoming splash page there. Premier Inn. Okay, let's turn this down because there's something about BBC1 daytime shows. They really clobber you with copyright strikes. These are all the channels. They're all free view channels. All the regular channels you'd get off an aerial. And it's got the ones that they're on Freeview, but you can't see them. And it also has all of the radio stations as well, which is really handy. So, you've got a radio in your room. Let's go to the kettle station. And very clean. Oh, just up above here. So, a dust test. No dust at all. Amazing. Kettle station. Check in here. So, it's a... a Russell Hobbs kettle. And it doesn't look like it's been used cuz it's still got the the sticker that you get when it's brand new. Let's open it up. You just pull the lid off. Absolutely spotless inside. Two glasses. Now, my wife says, "Do not use glasses in hotel rooms because they... the temptation to use the towel to clean them." I'm sure they don't. I'm sure these are steam cleaned and absolutely sterile, but I don't touch hotel room glasses. Oh, this is nice. It's an acrylic box presentation. That's very stylish. You get two PG Tips tea bags, collective noun of milks, and we get some sugar and sweet and low in there if you want a cup of tea in your room in the nice glasses there. And underneath the kettle station, we have a holster that holds a hair dryer that looks like it's been Yeah. screwed to the wall. And it is a purple one. Wow, that looks funky. I think that is a... a... obviously that's an on brand Premier Inn hair dryer and something obviously that is a... a big... I really look for in a hotel room. Morning. Uh so I made it back in one piece. Uh it was very loud event that I went to. So I uh uh I'm... I'm... my speaking is not quite as good as it usually is. This is the view from the window this morning. Uh, early morning, North London, looking out to the east. I had a great night's sleep. The bed, the mattress is perfect. The duvet was not up to... like is it... It was good. It was... It... It was good and great. Usually I'd really associate this with Premier Inn, you know, the sort of the corridor door going clunk clunk in the night, but didn't have any of that. In terms of noise for me, it was it was silent. Had a really good quiet night. So, uh, very happy. I'm... I'm just going to have one more look out the window cuz I'm absolutely a gog. I can actually have fresh air in my hotel room. That is just Oh, so good. I can breathe sweet, sweet NW1 air from this window. Got some stickers there saying don't jump. I have to stand this side round because it's the only place in the room where I get any light. And I'm looking out onto that lovely that lovely vista of a really nice bit of Camden. If this video... is this video helpful, is this the kind of thing? Is this what you wanted from a Premier Inn room tour? Leave me a comment down below and say hi if you've made it to this point in the video. And thank you for... Oh, there's my phone. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really, really does help me to keep this channel going. So, I really appreciate it. Thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
How long does it take the DJI Osmo Nano camera to overheat when filming at 4K 50p (50 frames per second). I run the camera on a 1 hour bus journey to see if I can film the entire length of London's route 139 bus with the DJI Nano - will the overheating problem stop the camera, or will the battery run out first. If you want to know how long the Osmo Nano battery lasts or how long before it overheats, this test could be for you. Plus loads of 4K sample footage on Rocksteady stabilization.
PS I finally worked out that I lost audio on the Nano because I taped over the logo!
The internal mic is (deliberately?!) next to the DJI logo...
*I paid for the DJI Osmo Nano camera myself and I'm not sponsored!*
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Hello. This seems to be something challenging a lot of people and that is how long does a battery last on one of these DJI Osmo Nano and there are quite a few videos out at the moment complaining that it shuts down because of overheating or that the battery doesn't last very long. I'm going to take this little camera on a big journey through London. Right, this is Waterloo. Now, the trouble for me with all the complaints online is that I... for me... this is an action camera. So, it just seems slightly odd to me as a vlogger why you would want to put a action camera on 50 frames or 60 frames per second at 4K and run it for 2 hours. For me, I'd just use this in quick bursts, probably 10 minutes at the most. Oh, it's all kicking off here. Or the task that I'm going to try and set myself today, which is to start a bus journey from over here, the 139, one of my favorite bus routes in London, and see how far North I can get. Can I get this camera all the way to Golders Green on 4K 50 frames per second? I don't think it's going to make West Hampstead. Now, I'm going to be measuring the battery level and and also let you know if it conks out through overheating along the way. I can't believe it. I've just missed the bus I've been waiting for for 15 minutes. Okay, so we'll get the next one. But it's okay because the next one's in 4 minutes. I can't believe I missed that. And it gives me a chance to admire these two new Bakerloop buses. That was originally the bus I was going to get today, but I... I'm from Camden. I don't feel safe south of the river, so I'm... I'm going to head north for this test. And to get on the bus, I'm wearing the DJI Osmo Nano. I won't be wearing the screen. I'm just using that to top up the battery to make sure I'm at 100%. And I've taped over the DJI logo just to make it a bit less ostentatious.
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So, I've put the camera at the front of the bus. It's running now. And I've got the multivision dock here.
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Now, there is all sorts wrong with this test because so much can affect it. So, the first thing is I don't have the screen attached. Uh, I don't know if that makes it warmer to have it charging up while it goes or whether this dissipates the energy. Also, I've left the protective case on the DJI Nano. I think the protective case dissipates the heat. I did think of taking it off cuz I thought that would keep it cooler. It might act as some kind of jacket, but I think the case cools it down. The battery at the moment... we are coming up to 10 minutes in. So 10 minutes in, we are at 80%. That's a really easy figure there. So 10 minutes. 80%. Um I'm still charging up the the screen. I know it's cheating slightly, but I want this to be 100% when it starts charging. It's not burning. It's just slightly warm after 10 minutes. So we're at 80%. Let's see if we can keep going. Um, I think I'll put the vision dock on when we hit something like 20%. So that it can charge it up and get a full charge. So this is more about I think the overheating than the charging, but I'll let you know how the charging the battery goes as we go.
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Here's what happens next. The camera, I mean, look at it. It worked beautifully uh running away at 4K 50 frames per second for about 38 minutes and I... I've just put on screen that how the battery level drops... it seemed pretty uniform all the way and then when it hits around 17% on the camera battery I thought I better fit the multi-functional vision dock. So, I attached the screen and it... that seemed to cause a big problem. The... the battery was going down very quickly after after about 20%. As soon as I attached the vision dock, obviously that's a charger and that seemed to add heat and it suddenly said that the camera had stopped charging because it was overheating, but it was still recording. And then quite soon after that, within a minute, it just stopped recording altogether. So, I got 38 minutes at 4K 50 frames per second. I think that's incredible. By the way, I bought this with my own money. I'm not sponsored by DJI. I'm uh probably a little bit of a fanboy judging by how many DJI products I have, but I've got no skin in this game. I think running a camera, any camera for 38 minutes at 4K 50 is incredible. So then I decided to take the camera off the vision dock and try to cool it down. I cooled it down in my hands. So I... I took it out of the protective case and I was just... it was... it was hot. It was very hot. Uh, so I took it out the case and I was literally cooling the camera down with my hands only for about a minute and it seemed to work again. What seems clear to me is that the protective case that DJI very kindly give to us, I think it's there to stop our hands burning, I don't think it's there to dissipate heat, and it seemed to really cool down much more quickly with the cover off. But obviously, it's heating up to a point where you can burn yourself. So, I was okay with that cuz I wanted... I really wanted the shot. I really wanted the bus to get to Golders Green Station. So, then I ran it again. I can see from the footage, you're seeing it as a time lapse, but it actually ran in real time for 10 minutes 45 seconds where it it powered off again overheating. What was interesting was that the overheating happened before the battery depletion. So, if you're wondering what's going to come first, overheating or running out of battery, it's definitely going to overheat at 4K 50 frames per second. So, I... I think maybe I shouldn't have been trying to charge it up quite as much as I did, but it did really need to seem the charge cuz it it seemed to stay at 11% from here on in. And then it went for another 12 minutes 39 seconds and it overheated. And unfortunately overheated in I think one of my favorite places of London, West Hampstead. Absolutely loved this. I really wanted to capture it and that was when it... it... it failed. And then I ran it again, this time for another 6 minutes 40 seconds. Between each overheat, I'd cradle it in my hands to just try and cool it down, blow on it, blow on my hands, put it on again, and it ran for 5 minutes 54 seconds. I actually stopped it myself cuz we were stopped at traffic lights. That wasn't an overheat, but then another 2 minutes it did overheat again. So, I got about 7 minutes on the next burst.
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But guess what?
I managed to get to Golders Green with the DJI Osmo Nano from Waterloo at 4K and 50 frames per second. I hope some of these figures uh are useful to you. But what I have learned from this is that if I wanted to run it for a long time, I would definitely take off the protective cover. You know, this plastic protective cover that comes with the DJI Nano. I think it's there to stop you burning yourself. Also, having the camera disconnected from the vision dock so that is it isn't charging. I think that keeps it cooler. I think having the multifunctional vision dock heats it up and maybe you need to do that to... to charge the battery up, but the more it was disconnected, I think the better the battery life and definitely it stopped it heating quite so quickly. For me, it's... it's not that bad. I think it's really good. I don't think I can ever see myself in a scenario where I want to run the camera for an hour at 4K 50 frames per second. But obviously your case needs may vary. It did cool down quite quickly to get another burst. And when it started again, it would go for about 7 minutes each time. When I see videos on YouTube complaining of the overheating, they seem to just leave the camera static in a room and uh just run it for however long. And that's that's very useful. It's great benchmarking, but it isn't real vlogging. So to to all of you out there, if you are creating a channel where you need 50 frames per second, maybe you're a runner, or maybe you are a transport nerd like me, uh I can completely understand. uh your frustration at not being able to go over 40 minutes, but I just won't use it that way. And I hope that some of the figures of the the battery going down and of the timings for the overheating, I hope they help gauge whether or not you want to have this camera. And if you have reached this point of the video, thank you so much for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really means a lot to me. It helps me keep this channel going and helps me to keep you making more videos for YouTube. And right here are all my other DJI Osmo Nano videos.
Deep dive into my YouTube Studio analytics at 50000 subscribers!
How much does YouTube pay for a 2.5M video though???
I just hit 50,000 subscribers! To celebrate, I'm opening up my YouTube Studio app in real-time to show you all of my analytics for the last month... including the numbers you really want to see: the revenue.
We'll look at what I earn for 300K views and break down the daily earnings. Then, I dive deep into the performance of my top-earning video (the Google Photos fix!), which is responsible for over half my subscribers.
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Welcome back to the channel. This video is uh it's originally for members uh but I'll release it to everyone on the channel because I've made it if I move my face next to my face here. I've just hit 50,000 subscribers. So, I thought, well, why not celebrate that by showing you all of my channel analytics? I'm going to try and show you everything. I'm recording this in a park uh in London on a sunny Friday afternoon, but it means that it's really noisy behind us. So, thank you for uh uh bearing with it. But I thought it'd be worth it just to just to show you uh my analytics. I love watching videos like this because I I like to compare uh how I'm doing and how what I could be doing differently. I hope I hope you take it on that level and I hope this is helpful in some way. So, I'll get rid of my face and scroll down. So, these are my analytics for the last month, the last 28 days. It's I find it frustrating that it doesn't do it by calendar month. Completely understand why, but uh it I sometimes forget that a monthly total is a bit more than this. This is the YouTube Studio app. You can get that on an iPhone and an Android. And I know you just want me to scroll down here to show you the the revenue. So, this is how much money I earned for 50,000 subscribers, even though it's not linked as subscribers. There you go. $1,100 US for nearly 300K views. If I... I'll click in the revenue first because I think that's what you're going to want to see first. But I'll just scroll down. I released a video yesterday on the new feature on YouTube. It's AB testing for titles, which I've been waiting for for about 10 years. So, I put a video out yesterday. Interestingly for me, I didn't release it to subscribers. So, I unchecked the box that says, "Do you want your subscribers to be notified?" I didn't just to see what would happen. These views then haven't come from notifications. They've come from um people seeing the thumbnail. and I get 54 views, which is pretty much how things are when I release something on YouTube. Uh, I'm a I'm a grower, not a shower. And I... I don't know. I mean, I it is... it's a bit dispiriting when uh uh when you get 50... 50 views. But I'm very grateful for them. And each of those views have watched for a minute and a half for a video that's probably I think only a few minutes long. Uh so that's doing quite good for me I think. I have some other stellar performers here which I hope to show you. But let's go into the revenue and we can see some details here.
If I click on the revenue button that's what I had done. Here we go. So yesterday, for instance, my channel here earned $46.41
and I'm sort of bumping along that level at the moment on this channel. I have two channels and I'll share the other channel on another video. I have the Dad Delivers vlog which does about half of this. Well, not even half. It gets about $20 a day. So, I am really pleased with with how this is going. Uh, I'd love to get it up to $100 a day. In a month for this channel, I get $1,188
and and that's missing a day at the moment. So, I'm a day even a day extra in delay from the day delay. And this is how much I earn for my top earning videos. So, I've just shown you a video that I've just released that had 52 views. This video has had 2.5 million views, which is 140,000 watch hours since it was released. I think it Yeah, 3 years ago, thousand days. And if I scroll down, I'll show you how much uh 2.5 million view video gets. How much do you think it's going to be along the top here? Look, I've got a pen. I could show you. We've got different tabs. Um, so I'm going to show you this tab over here, the revenue. I'll slide across and then we can see. Oh, look. I could change color. Um, I don't know how I clear it though. Just undo. Undo. I'll scroll across. Oh, let's turn the pen off.
This is the reach. It's had 22 million impressions for my 2.5 million views and the clickthrough rate. So, bubbles between 7 and 14% over time. Let's scroll across.
These still in reach. Yeah. Now, we go over to engagement. It's a nice long video. So, the average view duration is three minutes for this. And I I don't like the look of hype. I don't know if you've tried hype where you basically pay your way to views. I'm never going to do that, I think, on YouTube. I much prefer the organic growth. The audience for this 5.2 million view video?
It's gained me 26,000 subscribers. So, if I've hit 50... 50,000 subs, this one video is responsible for more than half my subscribers. If you're watching this and you're a subscriber, chances are you might have subscribed on my Google Photos video. I'm worried about that obviously because this video is about uh being a creator on YouTube and uh it's not about fixing your photos on Google. Mostly male audience for this video. Let's go to the revenue for this 2.5 million view video. It has gained me over three years $13,000. Oh my goodness. Just incredible. If I go into this statistic, I can show you how that looks over the year. By the way, I... I do dislike how YouTube Studios throws you to the middle of the page rather than the graph at the top. I'll just keep scrolling up each time. So, this is what my Google Photos video does over a year. It takes a dip during the summer. Sorry about the traffic noise. Uh, just makes it more enigmatic. I guess the the revenue does drop during the summer and then there's that big chunk. Can you see over here in September to December? I can't scroll down to get it all in. I'll just keep bouncing up and down. So, this time last year, this video was getting me between $17 and $26. If I just get a date for that. Yeah, end of November. $26 for one video for one day. It's absolutely incredible. I get about $50 a day for this channel. I'm trying to speak a lot now because there's copyright music coming from it from a car window, but of the $52, I get 26 of that from this one video. I'm starting to diversify. I have other videos that are doing well. We we'll have a quick look at those. But that is what a 2.5 million view video gets over time. Uh, I could show you all of 2025.
This is how it performs. It seems to be doing better recently. I think that's because people are now, you know, it's getting darker. It's getting colder. People now want to fix their Google Photos. And the last 28 days, you just see it even more clearly. It gains me $380 a month roughly. So, I'm getting something more like between $15 and $20 a day for this one video.
Full unboxing review of the gorgeous white DJI Mic Mini wireless microphone. I put this tiny mic to the test in a challenging environment (my garden!) to check the audio quality and answer the critical question: is it too small? Complete step-by-step guide for beginners on how to pair the DJI Mic Mini with DJI Osmo Nano and DJI Pocket 3 cameras plus via Bluetooth to an Android Phone. Also lots of comparison audio samples with built-in microphones. Is this the perfect wireless microphone for your YouTube videos?
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This is the DJI Mic Mini wireless microphone. Oh my goodness, this thing is absolutely gorgeous. And you can hear that I'm recording in a challenging audio environment. We've got planes, we've got drilling going on in the background. So, will this microphone hold up? Is it worth buying? And more crucially, how do I feel about buying it in white? It's my first ever white microphone. Is it something that's going to bring joy? This is how the DJI Mic Mini arrives. And I'll give you a quick tour of the box. So, you can read the packaging in your own time. You just hit pause on the video. Everything seems to arrive in this pouch. Let's open this up. A nice fabric bag. I didn't quite know how this would look. This is great. You know, I might use this as a bag for my DJI Osmo Nano camera. Nice touch with the logo on the zipper. This is the white DJI Mic Mini transmitter and it is absolutely gorgeous. This is like a really nice brooch. The white finish is matte and it has a silver DJI logo on the back. It's a silver coloured clip. Let's take the magnet off. I'll show you that closer in a moment, but it has a a clip so you can clip the Mic Mini to your clothing or cap or whatever you want to clip it to. And on the magnet, we have a DJI logo that is on one side only. It works the other way round if you wanted to not display the logo in all your videos. On the top is the the microphone itself. On its right hand side, there's a LED display of a single LED and we have a a link button that can pair this with a phone, DJI cameras, and DJI receivers and a power button there. I'll hit that in a moment. And then there are some connection pins on the bottom. Nothing on the other side, but just to give you an idea of size. That's how it is in my hand. So, should I hit the power button? I've got to hit the power button, haven't I? Just to see it light up. There we go. Flashing green. And I'll be pairing this up with uh a camera and a phone in a moment. Few other accessories. This is the transmitter charging dock. And it has... it looks like two pins there and a socket for a USB-C cable. It comes with a non-logo'ed USB-C to USB-A cable. That's interesting. I thought it would be USB C to USB C and that is about 50 cm long. And the nicest touch, it comes with two windshields, a light grey wind muff windshield. What do you call it? Deadcat. Deadkitten. Some people I got complaints on my channel for calling these deadkittens. This is a white one. But it's slightly off-white. It's very, very, very light grey. And this is very dark. And if I hold it up against the microphone before I put it on, it is not bright white, which I kind of like. Kind of looks like a Rod Stewart haircut circa 1976. I'm going to push this underneath. Can you see there's a grille and two buttons? And they clip onto here. So, I guess it's this way round with the clips behind. And uh it's a furry gonk again from 1976. I love this. I absolutely love it as you take it off. Maybe it doesn't come off. There you go. You just need to use brute force to take it off. But obviously I don't want to do that. I don't want to snap the two pins in there. Let's put another another hairdo onto the mic mini. There we go. I have a power bank with a USB-C port, you know, the big USB plug. And then I'll plug it into the transmitter charging dock like that. It clicks into place. You just place the DJI Mic Mini transmitter into the dock. It's magnetic. I tried to say the word magnet and magnetic at the same time. Let me show you closer. If I let go, it just snaps into place. And it's held at a jaunty angle there. I'm not sure you can see this in the sunshine, but it flashes green. It gives three pulses green while it's charging. So, I've just discovered the best way to take off the windshield is to get your nail underneath one of those legs at the back and flip it up. I'll connect up this microphone to a couple of cameras and a phone. But I first wanted to show you how it compares in size with the other DJI mics. If I take the windshield off, this is my DJI Mic 2. And I'll just show you my two microphones just to show you how big they are next to each other. Like big and little brothers, aren't they? Forgive my benign essential tremor and the drilling in the background. But uh it wouldn't be a mic test without people drilling in the background, would it? So that's how it compares. Let's go side on. And I might as well show you the microphone I'm using now, which is the DJI Mic. This was the very first microphone in the wireless mic range from DJI. But you can see the evolution of it. I think we should pair this up now on camera just to see how easy it is to link the DJI Mic Mini with the DJI Nano camera. I've also got the Pocket 3. I'll show you that. I've also got my phone. So, we'll see if we can link the microphone to that as a plane starts to fly over. Honestly, it's not usually that busy here in the garden... suddenly become the major flight path in the UK all of a sudden. To connect the DJI Mini Mic to a DJI Osmo Nano camera, I'll turn on the Osmo camera. Hello, I'm here. I'm not just a disembodied voice. We will swipe down from the top into settings. And on the Nano, we have a dedicated wireless mic button. So, I'll click on that. And we have two options. We can either connect the mic mini to the TX1 input or the TX2 input. TX stands for transmitter. Let's choose TX1. And the menu screen here says power on Osmo Audio and pair. There's also a linking guide to guide you through how to connect with the Mic Mini. On the DJI Mic Mini, we will hold down the linking button. It looks like a a chain. And can you see it's blinking off and on, blue and green. I'll let go of the link button. It will carry on flashing on those two colours. Oh, now here it says "Osmo Audio not found". Now I think the reason that has happened is because I had my mic 2 connected to this. So I'm going to hit the reconnect button and it says power on Osmo Audio and pair. So I'll hold down the link button and it's flashing blue and green alternatively again. And on the camera, it now says Osmo battery level 40% Osmo Audio connected. And we have a solid blue light on the microphone. Here beneath this display on the DJI Nano, we have transmitter one settings. So, we can change settings in the microphone from the camera. I won't go through all of them because they will change over time. You can have a play with those yourself, but the one I use a lot is the LED button. So, I can just toggle this LED switch on and off. And I haven't turned the microphone off. I've just turned the LED light on and off because sometimes it's distracting when you're filming. I've now connected the DJI Mic Mini to my Osmo Nano. And this is how the DJI Mic Mini transmitter wireless microphone sounds on my DJI Osmo Nano camera. This is how the the microphone sounds. What's interesting and while we're talking about small cameras with a small microphone, what I found is that it's really easy because it's so small, it's really easy to set it on its side because it's just the the square shape there. So, this microphone's pointing in the other direction. And if I keep talking, hopefully you won't hear too much of a difference, but this is the difference between the microphone pointing out to the side and the microphone oriented towards my voice. I don't know if you can hear a difference there. I'm just saying it's really easy to have this pointing in all kinds of directions because it's so small. It's fantastic. To pair the DJI Mic Mini with the DJI Pocket 3 camera, going to turn on the Pocket 3 and then I'm going to swipe down to bring up the settings menu and then I'm going to go into settings. Our first option on the menu here is "wireless mic". So I'll click on that and you see there are two ports available, TX1 and TX2. TX stands for transmitter 1 and transmitter 2. So you can choose which TX number you want to put it on. I'll put it on TX1. And I have a message here saying power on DJI Osmo Audio and pair. Back on the DJI Mic Mini. Can you see there's like a chain icon on this button here? That's the link button above the power button. I'm going to hold down the link button for 3 seconds. And I don't know if you can see that, but it's flashing alternately blue and green. And then it's finally ended on a solid blue color here. And if I hold up the Pocket 3, we can see that DJI Osmo Audio connected. So the microphone is now connected with the Pocket 3. I'll hit confirm. And you can see that it's taken this slot, the TX1 slot. If you scroll down, you have all these other options where you can control the microphone transmitter from the Pocket 3 camera. So, if I hit the LED button, toggle that off, it's turned the LED light off. So, if you want to turn the light off on your DJI Mic Mini because it's distracting sometimes, especially if you're in the dark, and we can turn it on and off just by pressing the switch on and off. I'll leave it back on. Now, if you want to disconnect or unpair the DJI Mic Mini from the Pocket 3, maybe you want to connect it to something else, or you want a different microphone to be connected to the Pocket 3. I'll click on the TX1 button, and we have two options. We have disconnect and reconnect. If I hit reconnect, I get this warning message. "Connecting to another transmitter will disconnect transmitter 1". So, the reconnect button means you can change this microphone to say another microphone, which could be another mic mini... Mini or my DJI Mic 2. But to unpair it and disconnect it, I'm just going to hit the disconnect button on the left hand side here. And it gives a warning. "Transmitter 1 will no longer be connected automatically". So, I'll hit confirm. And you can see that the microphone is disconnected. And if I click the button to swing the camera around, this is how the DJI Mic Mini sounds on the DJI Pocket 3 camera. What do you think? Is this... How's this sounding to you? I... I'll do a little comparison with the DJI Mic Mini and the onboard microphone with the DJI Pocket 3. So, this is how the DJI Mic Mini sounds on the Pocket 3. And this is how the onboard microphone, the built-in microphone on the DJI Pocket 3 camera sounds. You should be able to hear quite a difference between the internal microphone on the Pocket 3 when compared with... Thank you for some drilling the background. When compared with the DJI Mic Mini wireless microphone, I'm... I'm just trying to give you as much as many sounds as possible. I'm trying to talk as much as possible so you can hear that difference between this, which is the DJI Mic Mini, and the built-in internal microphone that's uh that's actually inside the Pocket 3 camera. There's quite a difference, isn't there? Something I wasn't expecting was quite how small this thing is. I mean, obviously, it's called Mini for a reason, but it is so easy to drop it. At least with my other DJI microphones, they have a bit of heft to them, a bit of size. This I mean... I mean you could just lose it down the side of the sofa or somewhere. I'm really glad that I have the carry pouch. I... I could really easily lose this, I think. How do you pair a DJI Mic Mini wireless microphone with a phone? In this case, it's an Android phone, but you'll get the the gist if you have a different kind of phone. First, I'm going to swipe down from the top to turn on Bluetooth. And I'm going to go into the Bluetooth settings. And then on the side of the DJI Mic Mini, we have the two buttons. The other button is the linking button. It has a chain icon on the side. I'm going to hold this down for a few seconds, and you should be able to see that the LED light is flashing alternately blue and green. And if I let go of the button, that flashing green and blue continues. Over on my phone, if I scroll down to available devices, you should be able to see this DJI Mic Mini and then a sequence of numbers. I'm going to click on that and it says pairing Bluetooth pairing request pair with DJI Mic Mini. So, I'm going to hit pair. And now we can see that the DJI Mic Mini is successfully paired with my phone. It tells me connected for calls and 40% battery remaining. And there's a solid blue light showing on the DJI Mic Mini transmitter. If I open my phone's camera and I'm going to go to Pro Video, you can see an option for the microphone and you might need to select the microphone from these options here. I'm going to choose BT for Bluetooth. And if I tap on the mic, you should be able to see the levels going up and down here. I've only been able to confirm this on video pro mode. This is how the DJI Mic Mini sounds recording on my phone. So, this is an Android phone. It's a Samsung Galaxy S20. And this is how the DJI Mic Mini sounds being sent by Bluetooth. Now, I have been told that the connection between a DJI mic over Bluetooth isn't quite as good as sending it to either a DJI receiver or a DJI camera. So, I'm recording as much audio as possible with some drilling in the background. Thank you. Just so you can hear the difference between this microphone being sent by Bluetooth to a phone. And this is how the onboard microphone sounds on my phone. just to give you a comparison between the DJI Mic Mini and the phone's onboard internal microphone. Now, this could be really useful if you are a YouTuber or you're a content creator for Instagram or Tik Tok because it means that you can use this microphone to shoot on your phone. And hopefully the quality of this will sound much better than the onboard microphone on your phone, whatever phone you're using. So, what do you think? Is the DJI Mic Mini a wireless microphone that you might use for your recording? I was really surprised by quite how easily it can pair with just a regular phone. And I think I might actually use this with my phone. You know, sometimes I have to get the phone out to take some shots. Being able to pair this microphone with my regular phone is actually going to be even more useful than using it with a camera, I think. And I have never bought a microphone that's white before. But that it used to be that they cost so much more. The one I bought was exactly the same price as the DJI Mic Mini in black. If you've reached this point in the video, thank you for saying hi in the comments. This channel is... is my attempt to help you make more videos on YouTube. So, thank you for hitting the thumbs up. They're still drilling next door. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It... it really... it really does help me do this. So, thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching.
DJI Osmo Nano camera is great outdoors, but does low light footage have a noticeable stabilization shudder? I put the camera through the ultimate indoor test by comparing every major setting, including RockSteady vs Horizon Balancing, high vs standard bit rate, 1080p VS 4K, and frame rates from 25fps to 60fps to see if we can smooth out the footage.
There's also a direct DJI Osmo Nano vs Pocket 3 low light comparison to show you what's possible. Full sample footage from these grueling kitchen tests and choose the best settings for your DJI Nano camera when shooting indoors.
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I'm trying to share as much footage as possible from the DJI Osmo Nano camera uh just so you can see for yourself if this is something that might be right for your YouTube channel or maybe even Instagram or TikTok videos. I really wanted this camera because I do vlog on other channels where I wear a camera either while I'm traveling or or riding a bike. The the footage in this video is really dull though because I've noticed and you've told me in the comments that low light footage isn't as uh overwhelmingly good as you'd hoped it would be. Oh, by the way, it's raining. So, sorry about the pitter patter on my DJI Mic 2 that I've got attached here. But with the low light footage, and I noticed this when I was vlogging yesterday, uh when you go into say a store situation, this is me in IKEA, you notice there are shutters where the stabilization doesn't quite cope, doesn't quite catch up with the movements in lower light situations. But this is just indoors. It's brightly lit. The shudders were slightly irritating. Now, it's a bit unfair really because it is an action camera and every action camera I've ever had has done this kind of thing indoors and I've bought this camera with my own money. So, I I'm not being sponsored by DJI, I wish. And I' I've paid good money for this thing. So, I've got no skin in the game. But actually, I think the footage from indoors on the DJI Nano has been better than any action camera I've had. But, is there a way we can improve it? Can I somehow mitigate those shutters? I just don't want it to shudder. That's all. I just want it to be smooth footage. So, I tried some tests this morning in my kitchen. This is really, really super boring footage. But if you want to see how the DJI Osmo Nano looks indoors with the curtains closed, so it's not nighttime. It's a fairly ordinary indoor situation, but you'll see the shutters as I walk around the the kitchen counter. So, I've got to do a lens wipe. Now, I thought I'd present to you all of my tests. I was shooting them for 1 minute, and that was to measure the file sizes. That's on another video. You'll see that down in the description to see how much file storage the DJI Nano camera takes. But this is my crushingly dull walk around my kitchen indoors to see if I can improve the footage. So, I guess I ought to introduce each of these clips like Alfred Hitchcock. It's like a little uh movie festival, a little film festival of my kitchen on a Sunday morning. So, the first footage you will see in its entirety is shot at 1080p rock steady at 25 frames per second at the standard bit rate. And I'll explain that in a moment. See exactly how much uh gigabytes. Let's record for a minute at 1080 at the lower bit rate.
I did some lights jogging
off.
So this next clip is exactly the same. So it's 1080p rocksteady stabilization dewarp field of view. But for this one, I went into the menu and I chose the high bit rate just to see if that would improve how much data the camera records per second at that higher bit rate. Does that mean we get any better quality footage or does it make the shutter happen less? Remove the curtains. Let's adjust the hat clip. We're going to run around.
See how the stabilization copes. This is rock steady dewarp and this is the higher bit rate at 1080p.
We're going to step up now to 4K. So this is standard bit rate. 4K 25 frames per second rocksteady dewarp. And this is at the standard bit rate. So, this is at the lower bit rate. Give me a little jog around the kitchen.
Let's go into the dark room. And uh I'll turn the light on. 25 seconds.
Just going for a jog around the kitchen.
And just for the fun of it, this is 4K at the higher bit rate. And I'll let it run for a minute because then I will know how it, you know, how much storage it takes. Uh this with the light off. Turn the light on.
Am I getting any those hurry blurry jumping up and down?
I'm just going to walk around like I'm walking around an IKEA. Sometimes my house actually feels like an IKEA showroom. So, that was all shot at rock steady stabilization. The next sequence of videos, the next four videos, 4 minutes of utter delight, seat of your pants action. This is shot in horizon balancing stabilization. So, horizon balancing 1080p 25 frames per second at a standard bit rate. But Casper is wondering what's going on. Why am I getting a walk and not him? So, this is 1080 horizon balancing standard bit rates. Do another bit of jogging. I'm bouncing up and down, deliberately bouncing the camera, and I can see the monitor glitching. This would be the setting that I would hope would give me the most uh stable footage. So, this is the high bit rate at 1080p with horizon balancing. I'm going to jump up and down. I'm turning the camera. I'm swinging it so that the horizon is thrown. Uh, it's looking pretty solid on the monitor. Let's go into the dark room. Turn the light on. Give you the pan of a completely dark room. Turn on the light. Have a look around. Casper's biscuits. Hey, maybe I should give him one. I'll give him one on the next on the next test. Now it's 4K at standard bit rates. This is horizon balancing. I'll do some jogging with me in vision. I'm really shaking the camera. a rising balancing 4K standard bit rate. Let's clip you on and give you the tour of the kitchen one final time. I'll jog and dark room. Turn the light on. These are all the gadgets that we're not using in our kitchen. Back into the kitchen now. It's 4K at horizon balancing at 25 frames per second. And this is the I can't remember which bit rate this is. I'm lost. I think this is the higher bit rate. And then we'll go into the dark room, turn the light on, give you a pan, and I'll jog around the kitchen. I'm really shaking this. Make sure the lanyard's straight. I hope those four clips were useful. Then I thought, well, I can make four more clips. This will be at double the frame rate. So all of those clips that you've seen up until now have been shot at 25 frames per second. I'm now going to shoot at 50 frames per second. I use 25 and 50 because I'm in the UK and uh it's so that I help avoid flicker with the electrical lights. In our country, we're at 50 Hz. So that's why I use 25 frames per second. But for these clips, they're at double that, 50 frames per second. Enjoy. This is 1080p higher bit rate. I'm really shaking the camera up and down and jogging up and down. Let's put you on the the lanyard. I'm going to jog around the kitchen. So, this is higher bit rates. had to hope that this would look better than the last video, but it's at 50 frames per second. Uh, let's go into a dark room with no light on. And then I'll turn the light on. Now, I have the um I have the microphone on as well, just to see if that changes anything. Uh, this is a DJI Mic 2, and it means that I can't see my monitor, so I have no idea what this footage looks like. Really, really bouncing it around. 50 frames per second. Doing lots of swoops. Uh, this is standard bit rate. Rock steady. Do some jogging around the kitchen. Am I getting that shutter? I need to find a name for the shudder. It kind of goes a little bit blurry when uh when you bounce when you kind of overwhelm the stabilizations. That's uh with a light on. Okay. I hope I hope this these videos are helping. It does feel slightly ridiculous just walking around my kitchen, uh, bouncing a camera up and down. So, I'm really giving it a shake here. So, this is 4K at 50 frames per second and this is at the higher bit rate. And then I give you a side pan of our counter. It's a Sunday morning, so basically the aftermath of a Saturday night. Don't judge me. We're here to judge the footage, not me. There's a there's tiny bit of warmth on the camera. It's not going hot though. And then for completion, I know that you are not in the UK, so you are probably shooting at 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second. This video you're seeing now is being presented to you at 4K and 50 frames per second. But I'll just shoot it at 4K 60 frames per second so you can see what it's like. Let's put you on my chest and I'll go into the dark room. Turn the light on and just look around. And then we have a point of view shot doing some jogging and bouncing around. So this is the high bit rate 4K 60 frames per second. Now it's difficult, isn't it? Judging whether or not your action camera is behaving itself. Is it the best it could be? So let's compare it now with a completely different camera. This isn't an action camera. This is the DJI Pocket 3 camera. In the same situation, 25 frames per second. I think it's standard bit rate. This is what the minute would look like with DJI Pocket 3 camera. Light on.
I got the zoom on. Hang on. Let's tilt down.
So, this is what it looks like on the DJI Pocket 3. I'll jump up and down. I'm really uh waving it around with my hand now. So, what do you think? If you've reached this point of of the video, my goodness, you really want to know about this camera. So, thank you. I really appreciate it. And thanks for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. I hope something here is of use. I hope if you're, you know, you're looking at footage to see if this is for you. All action cameras aren't great indoors. For me, for the few that I've had, this has definitely been the best so far. But, uh, what do you think? Say hi in the comments below. And over here are even more footage samples and tips and tricks and other experiences I've had with the DJI Osmo Nano camera.
How much memory does the DJI Osmo Nano camera actually use? I took the time to measure the file sizes for every combination of resolution (1080p/4K), frame rate (25/50/60fps), and bit rate (Standard/High). I'm sharing the full data revealing exactly how many minutes per gigabyte you can expect from your vlogging camera footage.
See the data and decide if you'll shoot 1080p or 4K?
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How much file storage does a DJI Osmo Nano camera use when it when you're out filming? How much file storage does those video files take? How much memory do you need to buy? How many gigabytes per minute does the Nano use? Or how many minutes can you get per gigabyte? I'm going to show you everything in this table here. I've had a really fun morning. By the way, this is the very first time I'm out filming with the with the DJI Osmo Nano in the rain. Uh such is climate change that uh it's it's been a few days since we've had some rain and I'm out taking my cocker spaniel dog Casper out for a walk, but I wanted to share with you how big are the video files on the DJI Nano. And I know it's something that's unavoidable, but it is useful to know how how much storage these video files take because I it really affects me as a vlogger. It does influence whether or not I shoot in 1080p or 4K. I'm actually shooting this video in 4K at 50 frames per second. I'm on rock steady stabilization and I'm on standard dewarp field of view. Just in case you might be watching these videos trying to decide whether or not you want to buy this camera. I'm trying I'm talking a lot so you get lots of footage as well. I will get to these file sizes. I'll put them on screen. So to measure how big the file sizes are on the DJI Osmo Nano camera. I made some really boring videos this morning in my kitchen. I was actually shooting some low low light tests just to see if I could improve the the shutter or the wobble in the footage, but I realized that if I shot for 1 minute, then I'd know how. So, I'm out of breath and I've just only walked from over there. I thought if I shot these one minute videos, I'd know exactly how big the file sizes are for one minute and then I could work out how many minutes you'd get per gigabyte or how many gigabytes the nano takes per minute. So, this is the actual folder from the videos that I took this morning, but I've I've got AI to put them into a nice table that are on screen now. Let's take a look at them. And the rain is getting worse. Sorry if the uh the rain hitting my jacket is uh making the the audio crunchy. Uh by the way, I'm using my DJI Mic 2 for this. So, the first videos I took were at 25 frames per second. That's because I live in the UK and we're on an electrical standard. So, if you're on 25 frames per second, your footage should flicker less or 50 frames per second, which is what I'm shooting in now, even though there's no electrical lights here. I am in the middle of a field. So, look, this is the information we wanted. So, shooting bog standard, this is what I'd usually shoot at. 1080p with the standard rate bit rate, which is the default standard in the camera. I'll explain that in a moment. But shooting for 1 minute took 193 MB, which means that 1 GB of storage gives me 5 minutes 20 seconds. Now, your your mileage might vary, but these are just ballpark figures just to give you an idea of how big the video file sizes are when you're shooting with a DJI Nano. Then, I tried to improve the low light situation by setting the bit rate to high. the camera will use more memory to encode hopefully more information. And I wondered if that would help with the shutter in the kitchen. I've got a whole other video. I'll put that in the description about trying to improve the low light footage on the DJI Nano. But anyway, at high bit rate, it was 226 MB for 1 minute of footage. And that translates to 4 1/2 minutes per GB at 1080 high bit rate 25 frames per second. So then I thought, well, would 4K improve the low light situation? I've been advised it wouldn't because the camera would then trying to be cope with a bigger video file while also stabilizing as well. So I don't think it would improve the uh the low light situation. But this is the the footage. Gauge it for yourself. The file size at 4K for a 1 minute video is 384 MB, which means that I get 2 minutes 40 seconds per gigabyte at 4K at 25 frames pers. And then finally, I set it into high bit rate uh just to see if there was an improvement in the quality. And that came out that one minute of footage took 660 megabytes. And if you translate that the other way round, it means I get basically one and a half minutes per gigabyte at 4K. And then I thought, what if I were to shoot at 50 frames per second like I'm shooting now? This footage now. I might have some rain on the lens there. Forgive me. So, let's take a look at at these file sizes. for 1 minute of footage at 1080p at the standard bit rate at 50 frames per second. The file size is 260 mb. So that means it's nearly 4 minutes per gigabyte. At the high bit rate, I'll show you some footage here. This is at 1080 at 50 frames pers. That 1 minute of footage takes up 368 MB, which equates to 2 minutes 47 seconds per gigabyte. So that's at 50 frames per second at the higher bit rate. It's a lot of lot figures to work through, but I'm hoping the footage gives you some kind of context for it, even though it's just me wandering around a dark kitchen. At 4K, shooting at standard bit rate, 1 minute of footage on the DJI Osmo Nano camera takes 486 MB. So that is roughly 2 minutes or 2 minutes 7 seconds per gigabyte. And at the very top end, so we're now at 4K at the high bit rate at 50 frames per second. That is a whopping 810 megabytes for one minute of footage on the DJI Nano, which means that we get 1 minute 16 seconds per gigabyte at 4K 50 frames per second. Now, I I know you're not watching this in the UK and you're going to be, uh, but what about 60 frames per second? We need to know. Well, I did it. I... I shot 1 minute at 4K at 60 frames per second at the high bit rate. And I'll put on screen here how many megabytes that 1 minute took and how many minutes per gigabyte that means at 60 frames per second at the high bit rate. So, it's quite interesting for me the the the change from 25 frames per second to 50 frames pers. The recording time dropped from 5 minutes 19 seconds to 3 minutes 57. So it didn't double the file size, but it certainly made it bigger. And at 4K high rate at the high bit rate, the recording time dropped from 1 minute 34 seconds per GB to 1 minute 16 seconds. Doubling the frame rate to 50 frames per second needs roughly 25% to 35% more storage per minute. I'm just reading this off. I've not done those sums. Is this is this useful? Is this what you wanted to know? When when I am interested in a new camera, I want to devour as much information as possible and see as much footage as possible. So that's why I'm just vlogging in a field in the rain just to show you what the Nano is like. Hang. I've got to do a lens wipe. The footage for me looks absolutely wonderful in sunny weather. This is really overcast today and we've got light drizzle. Casper's really enjoying it though. But how's it for you? This was quite interesting for me. I think if anything it makes me feel better shooting things at 4K. It's something I tend to avoid because I think, oh, these files are huge. But I've got a system to dump it off the camera onto a onto a hard drive and to archive it on a hard drive. So maybe shooting at uh 4K high bit rate at 50 frames per second or 60 frames per second is something I might feel more comfortable with knowing these figures and I'll leave them on screen so you can uh digest them yourself. I am making lots of videos on my DJI Osmo Nano camera. I'm really enjoying it. I don't really use action cameras that much, but it's been a lot of fun using this. So thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button to see more of those videos. And right here are all of my DJI Osmo Nano tips and tricks and accessories and other videos where I shoot lots of footage, sometimes not of kitchens and sometimes when it's sunny.
And how and where do you fit the Micro SD card in the DJI Nano?
What is the absolute best Micro SD card for the DJI Osmo Nano? I'm sharing the exact card I use: SanDisk Extreme Pro Micro SDXC... and walking through the crucial features you need to look for.
Explaining the U3 and V30 speed class, and what the mysterious A2 rating means.
PLUS step-by-step guide on where and how to insert the SD card into the DJI Osmo Nano's multi-functional vision dock slot correctly.
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So, what is the best micro SD card for the DJI Osmo Nano camera? I think this is my favourite one. It's It's the one I'm using. So, I thought I'd share why I've chosen this card over the others and what features to look for as well as how to put it into the camera. I've gone for the SanDisk Extreme Pro Micro SDXC and these are the features that I've looked for. I'll go through these very quickly. So U3, you can see a U3 logo. This is the most crucial feature for 4K video. Uh it guarantees a minimum continuous right speed of 30MB/s. And it's basically your guarantee for smooth 4K video. Without it, we do risk our video stuttering or stopping altogether. And then on the back here, can you see this says video speed class V30? This is another way of indicating the same minimum continuous write speed of 30 megabytes per second. That's the speed that data is written onto the card. It's an industry standard symbol that means the card's made for high quality video. Now, you might see class 10 on the listing on Amazon, wherever you're buying your card. It's basically a speed badge, but for 4K, we really need the the U3 or the V30 signs. Also on here is A2. I didn't know what A2 means. And this rating is important if we want to use the card with the DJI Mimo app. It shows the card's ability to handle random read and write operations quickly, which makes running apps and handling small files much more efficient. And here it says write speed up to 140 megabytes per second. Apparently that's about peak performance, not sustained recording. So again, the U3 or V30 ratings are the real guarantee. Let's cut this open. Now, I like this one cuz it comes with an adapter. I can put it into my laptop. So, that's what the card looks like. But where in the camera do you put it? On the side of the DJI Nano, we have a flap, and you just push it up with your finger, make it click. The way it goes in is to have these pins facing towards the the back of the multi-functional vision dock or the monitor. And I'll just sit that into the slot. And I'm going to push it in with my fingernail. You can use a actually my nail isn't long enough. You can use the end of a bro or look here's the end of a of a knife. You push it in to bounce it out. So, if I push it in
until it clicks, and I'll just show you how to get it out. Again, you just push the card down with your fingernail or pen lid and then it bounces out. You have to be really careful when you're out and about. I've been on some professional shoots with really experienced film crews and they have popped those things out in cable cars and lost them forever. And then to make this area waterproof again, water resistant. You can see there's the rubber ring around the edge. I'm just going to push that down until it clicks. Now, what happens when I turn it on? Let's turn on the DJI Nano. So, it's connecting. So, that is how to fit a micro SD card to your DJI Osmo Nano. I hope this video has helped. If it has, thanks for saying hi down in the comments. I really appreciate it. And if you hit the subscribe button, you might be able to see all my other tips more easily for the DJI Osmo Nano. It's great to meet you. I make lots of videos about how to make videos here on YouTube. And right here are all my DJI Osmo Nano videos, tips, tricks, and accessories.
When I buy a new camera for my YouTube channels, I make an unboxing video and first impressions review where I try to go through everything. And when I do that, I shoot lots of footage of the camera out and about and in use. This is the DJI Osmo Nano camera. I use these shots as B-roll in my videos, but I also use them as stock footage for other videos that might reference the camera. I thought, why not share my entire library of beauty shots with you? If you are looking to buy the DJI Osmo Nano, maybe you want to see it from different angles and in different situations before you commit.
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When I buy a new camera for my YouTube channels, I make an unboxing video and first impressions review where I try to go through everything. And when I do that, I shoot lots of footage of the camera out and about and in use. I use these shots as B-roll in the videos, but I also use them as stock footage for other videos that might reference the camera. And I usually build up quite a stock of footage of the camera. This is the DJI Osmo Nano camera. And this is my beauty footage, the beauty shots that I take to use in my videos. And I usually compile a little library of video footage that I can use in any video where I mention the DJI Osmo Nano. And I thought, well, why not share that with you? if you're looking to buy the DJI Osmo Nano camera. Maybe you want to see it from different angles and in different situations. So, here it is. This is my entire stock of footage of my DJI Nano when it's new. There are quite a lot of clips in this video. So, I've listed in the description. I've broken down into chapters if you want to jump to any particular scene featuring the DJI Nano. And of course, if you actually want to see the actual videos that these shots appear in, that can be found on my DJI Nano tips and tricks, sample footage, and accessories playlist. That's on screen now, and there's a link to it in the description. [Music]
Has your DJI Osmo Nano suddenly stopped working even though it's after a firmware update, showing a "No SD installed" error when the internal memory is full? If your vlogging camera is completely bricked, you're not alone. I walk you through the specifics of potential bug which I learned about from a very kind subscriber - and share potential workarounds to save your footage. Then, what is the secret hard reset button combination that will get your DJI Nano working again? This sledgehammer fix comes at a cost, but it might be the only way to recover your camera!
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Has your DJI Osmo Nano camera bricked? If you're looking up this video for how to hard reset the DJI Nano camera, I'm so sorry that you have to look this up. I got a comment from someone very kindly explained that their Osmo Nano had bricked after a firmware update. I'll go through the specific details of it, but basically it's the camera storage was full and when it's completely full, the camera didn't seem to recognize the SD card in the multi-functional vision dock. So, I'm going to go through just a couple of things to check just in case it might get around this and then I'll show you how to hard reset this camera. The problem with a hard reset is that it seems to completely wipe all of the files, all of the video files from your DJI Osmo Nano. So, it's a bit of a a brutal sledgehammer to get your camera working again. Uh, so here are the two things to check first, just in case. The first is that the DJI Osmo Nano seems to be really particular about having the camera the right way round on the vision dock before it will transfer files from the SD card to your computer. So, one thing to check, even though it's not the same problem, one thing to check might be to just try the camera the other way round on the multifunctional vision dock. The other thing to check obviously is can you access the video files via the DJI Mimo app or is it Mimo app. It might be worth connecting your camera to your phone through the app just to see if it can see any video files that way. Maybe you could temporarily transfer them to your phone just to have some kind of backup before you try doing a hard reset of the camera. Let me talk you through this very kind comment that I got that alerted me to this. Ironically, it was on my how to update the Nano firmware video. And I hope I wasn't the cause of this, but in that video, I'm saying update your firmware. It makes the camera better. Here's uh here's the comments. They've given me permission to read this comment out very kindly. Thank you. I updated my Osmo Nano last night. This morning it's bricked itself when the camera inbuilt memory became full. It would automatically restart every time I shut it down. It showed the micro SD card but kept displaying a message saying no SD installed if I tried to transfer the files. It wouldn't show up on my computer when the camera said it was connected. I searched online and found a couple of others having the same issue with their nanos, but no solutions. I performed a factory reset and got no improvement. After about 2 hours of frustration, I started trying to hard reset it by holding down first each shutter button. So that's the one on the top and the one on the side. And eventually both. I managed to recover it by holding down both the camera and the display pod shutter buttons for around 10 seconds and then releasing the camera shutter button. That's this top one while continuing to press the display pod one. Lo and behold, it resets and return to normal. All the videos that were on the camera inbuilt memory had vanished, but it seemed to be a small price to pay. I hope that will help if it happens to you or any of your subscribers. So, thank you so much for alerting me to this, but also showing me how to hard reset the DJI Osmo Nano camera. If this has affected you, please say hi in the comments and let me know if you find a workaround, obviously. And thank you so much for contacting me if your DJI Osmo Nano has bricked. It'll be really interesting to see how we can get the camera working again. If you've reached this point of the video, it's a bit of a short and sweet one, but thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button because it really helps others to find this video and it really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here are all of my other DJI Osmo Nano camera videos, tips and tricks, accessories, and sample footage.
