Where can I hear the new Harry Potter series of books?
These are the full cast edition Harry Potters with an all star cast, so we actually get to hear all of the characters coming to life in each chapter.
They're released in Dolby Atmos.
There's a cast of hundreds of characters, and the sound design on this totally immersive audio series is absolutely stunning. These are the Harry Potter books like we've never experienced before.
Sharing exactly why I am turning off YouTube Memberships on my channel, and walking you through the entire disable process in real time! This video is essential if you are monetized, interested in recurring income, or considering YouTube memberships. I have 3 big problems with the feature, focusing on the split call-to-action (Subscribe vs Join button), hiding my best videos behind a paywall, and poor user experience of member-only videos in your feed. Full step-by-step tutorial on how to safely disable memberships and why I choose subscriber growth over recurring membership income. Is this a good move?
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I am turning off my YouTube memberships on my channel, but I'm also sharing with you why I'm ending YouTube memberships. And I'm doing that in real time so you can follow along. Because if you're not monetized and interested in how you can earn money here on YouTube, or maybe you have memberships and are thinking about this too, for many creators, memberships work brilliantly. It's a way to make a paid exclusive community with reliable recurring income. For me, memberships are a great space to make less formal and quick to make videos, the more experimental stuff, but there's just something that's not working for me. There are many problems that I have with the membership feature, and this is why I'm turning it off now. So, the first problem and probably the biggest right now, if you look at my channel page or videos where you'd usually see the single subscribe button, I was shocked that instead you see a big fat join button. For me, this is a split call to action, which means a new viewer is being asked to do more than one thing. I think my number one priority right now is hitting 100,000 subscribers. It's purely a vanity metric, I know, but it's important to me. The join button, no matter how great the perks are, and we'll get on to that problem in a minute, the join button, I think, pulls focus from what I want the viewer to do and from growing my free subscriber base. And it turns out that is quite important to me. The second problem is hiding my best work behind a pay wall. The whole purpose of this channel, my whole reason for doing it is to encourage as many people as possible, you to make more videos here on YouTube. When I turned YouTube memberships on, I suddenly realized that all the videos I'm making for members only are all videos I actually want as many people as possible to see. By making the videos exclusive, I'm stopping them from doing the work that I want them to do out in the world. I don't want my videos hidden. I think I want them out there helping people. Which brings us on to problem number three, which is how members only videos are presented in viewers feeds. My members only videos and posts appear in your YouTube feed. You might see a great thumbnail if I've, you know, managed to put some effort into it and you click on it and then you're hit with a pay to see screen. For me, I think that's a frustrating user experience. Even worse, that's one impression, one thumbnail that could have been used instead to promote the videos that I want to be seen. All of this works really well for other creators, but having to build up a whole library of videos that no one's watching in the hope that one day it might equal what I would have earned with Google AdSense is a big ask for me. I'm already working for nothing on this. So then to do that again from scratch with no upside for potentially a lot of work, it it just felt like one push too far. I know, I get it. You've got to speculate to accumulate, but I can only make so many videos per month. To then make even more videos or make fewer that instantly pay so I can make the members only videos, it's just too much for me. Your experience may vary and you may have a channel with hundreds of people wanting to pay you directly every month. I just don't think my channel is there yet. Which means let's turn off the YouTube memberships right now. I'm in YouTube studio on a desktop and we are going to click on the earn tab on the left hand side here. These are all the features that I have switched on for my monetized channel. If I click on memberships, and this has been enabled for about five or 6 months now, you can see the hundreds of dollars I'm earning from the thousands of members I've managed to attract to my channel. I did have lots of videos and posts up. I've been slowly removing them from the from the memberships. To end YouTube memberships for your channel, at time of recording, the option is slightly hidden. I'll put a link to the YouTube help article in the description for the latest guidance. All we have to do is click on these three dots next to your memberships offer. Then click on disable channel memberships. This brings up a warning. If you do, you will lose all of your members and any future revenue that you might receive from channel memberships. This action can't be undone. I will tick the box to say I understand and want to turn off memberships for all my fans, all my thousands of fans there. Then we will click on the turn off button. Oh, it's thinking about it. There you go. So, it's reset itself to the splash page that we had before we started memberships. Grow your community and earn monthly. And if you want to restart memberships, I think yeah, you could just go through the process again. I have a video down in the description that walks you through the entire memberships setup process. YouTube will automatically refund members for their last month's payment if their billing cycle isn't complete. I'm really excited about this because it means I can finally release these hidden videos and get those views and watch time and revenue, but it also helps me feel okay about doing more experimental quick turnaround videos in future. Are YouTube memberships something that work for you? Let me know down in the comments below or to just say hi and thank you for hitting the thumbs up button or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going and means far more to me than a monthly subscription. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
How do I link my YouTube Short to another video on YouTube?
If you want a link on your YouTube Shorts to take viewers to other videos, I walk you through the whole process.
YouTube Shorts are amazing for views, but they are a pain for getting viewers to watch your other content. This is a complete step-by-step guide for creators on how to use the Related Video feature to link your Short directly to another video on your channel! This is a game-changer for growing your watch time, as it puts a clickable link right under your Short's title. I show you how to find the edit settings on your phone, select any of your public or unlisted videos (Short or long-form), and implement this strategy for getting free extra views and turning Shorts viewers into loyal subscribers.
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If you are a YouTube creator, you already know that YouTube shorts are good for getting new views and subscribers. But they can be a real pain for getting viewers to watch your other videos. You can get thousands of views on a short, but how can you get those people to see another one of your YouTube videos? This is a feature that allows you to link your short directly to another one of your videos. It puts a clickable link right in the shorts player under your video while it's playing. So your viewers can go straight to another video without searching for it. This is a gamechanger for growing your channel because it's effectively free extra additional views. We can do this in a few clicks. You can follow along with me on my phone now. First, open the YouTube app on your phone. In the bottom right hand corner, you will see your profile picture or avatar. Click on it. This takes you to your profile. Now, scroll down to the section labelled your videos. Right at the top, you'll see these buttons. We want to click on shorts to see all of our shorts. Now, find the shorts that you want to link to another video. I want this one. Next to the title of the short, you'll see these three dots. They're easily missed. We'll click on here to bring up this menu. On here, select edit. This takes us to the video details page with all these different options. We need the section labelled related video. Click on related video and that brings up a list of your latest public and unlisted videos. Find the video that you want it to link to and select it. It can be another YouTube short or a long- form video. Click on the save button at the top right hand corner of the screen. Congratulations. When someone watches your shorts, they will now see a clickable link to your other video right under your channel name and above the title of the video. This is the fastest and easiest way to help a viewer from the shorts feed see your other videos and maybe turn them into a subscriber. If this video is helping your YouTube shorts, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. And if you subscribe by clicking on my face, I have lots of other videos about how I'm earning thousands of dollars from the videos on my two YouTube channels. Good luck with your YouTube shorts.
Welcome to the DJI Osmo Nano SuperNight mode test! I put this specific setting through a rigorous indoor challenge to see how it handles low light footage and the notorious stabilization shudder. I compare every combination of settings: 1080p vs 4K, and Standard vs High bit rate, all while using RockSteady stabilization. Watch the full sample footage from these chest-mounted walks to see if the SuperNight mode really improves the DJI Nano's performance and which bit rate gives you the cleanest output for your vlogging or indoor scenes...
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Welcome to my kitchen. This is supernight mode and uh I'm using the internal microphone. It's rocksteady stabilization 25 frames per second and this is on a standard bit rate. So I've not changed the bit rate in the menu settings to high. This is standard bit rate. And I'm... I'm indoors in my kitchen with curtains closed and it's an overcast day outside. So, we've got some windows, but this is just uh to give you a sense of indoors footage using the DJI Osmo Nano camera. I'm going to stick it to my chest and I'm going to walk around and I'm I'm watching it on my on my viewer. So, this is standard Dewarp field of view. I don't know if you're getting the shudders. I'm jumping up and down. I'm really wobbling this camera. Let's go into a dark room. Turn the light on. That's 1 minute.
We are now using a exactly the same settings, supernight mode, but this is at um a high bit rate. So, I've gone into the menu and changed the bit rate to high to see if the footage is any better. Now, I'm shaking the camera. I forgot to say in the last video, it's 1080p. This is 1080p, 25 frames per second. Super night mode, rocksteady. Uh, I'm going to wear it now again. So, clip it to the magnetic lanyard. And I'm still on the internal mic. Can I point it down? It's looking like it's pointing up a bit. There we go. So, I'm going to jog up and down. I'm hoping this will be a good I think I'm hoping this will be the the least suddery. Let's go into the dark room. I didn't quite make it in in under a minute last time. Turn the light on. I'll show you Casper's things. This is Sunday morning in our house. Bit of Aftermath from Saturday night. Now it's 4K. It's still supernight mode. Uh but this is standard bit rate, 25 frames per second, supernight mode. And this is what it looks like indoors in... in our kitchen after a particularly busy Saturday night. You can probably hear my son having a shower next door with his speaker full blown. So, it's a little test of the internal microphone here. If you hear any copyright music, it's uh him to thank for that. But, let's chest mount this now and walk around. Really give it a wobble and I'll pan quickly and we'll go into the utility room. I could have said a pan into the pantry, but we don't call it a pantry. Anyways, Casper's dog biscuits. So, supernight mode 4K standard bit rate.
Now, I am on 4K. So, exactly the same settings as uh as the other videos other than it's rocksteady. It's 25 frames per second, supernight mode, but this is at the high bitrate. So, this is a high bit rate. I'm jogging up and down. Let's go into the utility room, dark room. Turn the light on. Uh do a quick pan. This is all chest mount on the magnetic lanyard. And I'm going to walk around, give it another jog. So, supernight mode. Really um wobbling the camera on my chest. It's the camera that's wobbling, not my chest for a change. And I'm going to let this run for a minute just to just to give you an idea of what this is like indoors moving around. Welcome to our home. It's uh 4K. Can you please help my dad get to 1 million subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks. Bye. Can we have dinner now?
Want to hide an Instagram post or video without deleting it forever? Or set an Instagram post, picture or reel to private? Maybe it's an old embarrassing picture, or a photo you're not sure you want on your profile anymore. While there's no private post button or setting, there's a simple, free workaround: the Archive feature.
I'll show you how to quickly archive a post so it disappears from your public profile but stays safe in a private folder that only you can see. Plus, I'll show you how to unhide a post if you ever change your mind.
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Do you want to hide a post on your Instagram account without deleting it forever? Maybe it's an old embarrassing picture or a photo you're not quite sure you should be posting. You've probably looked for a private post button, but we won't find one. At the moment, Instagram doesn't have a way to make a single post private. When your account is public, all of your posts are public. But there is a simple and effective workaround. It's called the archive feature. And this could be a huge help. Archiving a post removes it from your profile so your followers and the public can't see it. But it doesn't delete it. It's like putting it in a secure private folder that only you can access. We can do this in just a few clicks. Plus, I'll also show you how to get it back if you change your mind. I've got my phone on screen now. Step one, go to your Instagram profile. Scroll down and find the post that you want to hide.
Click on the post to open it. Then, look for these three dots in the top right hand corner. We'll tap on the three dots and a menu pops up. You'll see an option that says archive. Click on that. The post is immediately removed from your profile grid and it's no longer visible to anyone but you. It's that simple. But where did it go? To find your archive posts, go back to your profile page. Look in the top right hand corner for the hamburger menu with the three horizontal lines.
Click on that and this menu slides out. Select archive. Make sure you're in the posts archive section and you'll see all the posts you've ever archived. If you ever change your mind and want to unhide a post, it's just as easy. From your posts archive, find the post that you want to bring back. Click on it to open it. Look for the three dots again in the top right hand corner. We'll click there. Now we can see this new option, show on profile. Click on that and the post will reappear on your profile in its original chronological spot with all its likes and comments back on there. It's a great way to keep your feed clean and up to date without ever having to permanently delete anything. If this video helps clean up your Instagram account, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. It really helps me get to 100,000 subscribers. So, thanks very much for your help. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
You've found that amazing YouTube Short only to lose it to the algorithm...
This is the complete step-by-step guide for beginners on how to save YouTube Shorts to a playlist so you NEVER lose them again. I show how to add Shorts to an existing playlist, create a new playlist, and manage crucial privacy settings (Public, Unlisted, Private). Also how to set up a collaborative playlist so friends can add their own videos, and show you the simple steps to find or delete your playlists later. Start organizing your favorite Shorts instantly!
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You know when you're scrolling through YouTube shorts and find an amazing video, but then you lose it forever. You try to scroll back to find it, but it's gone. Swallowed up by the algorithm. You can only find it again through your YouTube history. But we can add YouTube shorts to a playlist, which is probably why you're looking this up. As you know, playlists let us save and organize all our favourite shorts. So, we can find them again instantly. And we can also group them by topic or give them any title we like, making it easy to find our favourites later. Plus, even share these videos with a friend or the whole wide world. I've got my phone on screen here. So, let's do this. First, open the YouTube app and find the shorts that you want to save. Once you're on the short, look at the right hand side of the screen. You'll see a series of icons. In the top right hand corner, you'll see three dots. Click on the three dots and a menu will pop up. From this menu, select the option that says save to playlist. A list of all your existing playlists will now appear. You can simply click on the check box next to the playlist you want to add the shorts to. Then click on the bottom here. Done. But what if you don't have a playlist for this topic yet or you want to create a new one? At the top of the playlist list, you'll see a button that says add new playlist. Click on that. Now you can give your new playlist a name. My best air fryer recipes. Below the name, you can set the privacy of your playlist. The options are public. Anyone can see your playlist, which is perfect for sharing your favourites with friends. Unlisted, only people with the link can see it. And private, which means that only you can see the playlist, which is great for personal collections. There's also this toggle switch that says collaborate. If you turn this on, YouTube will give you a special link that you can send to other people. Anyone with this link can then add their own videos to your playlist. It's a perfect way to create a shared playlist with friends for things like a movie night, a road trip, or a collaborative project. Once you have your name and privacy setting, tap create. The short is now saved to your new playlist. To find your YouTube playlist, click on your avatar picture icon in the bottom right hand corner. Scroll to playlists. By the way, there's a plus button here where you can also create a new playlist. But if you click on the button next to that, view all, that brings up all your playlists. To delete your playlist, either click on the three dots on the right hand side of the playlist and choose delete or inside the playlist, click on the three dots in the top right hand corner and choose delete playlist. If this video is helping your YouTube shorts, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. And if you subscribe by clicking on my face, you'll see my other videos all about how I'm earning thousands of dollars from my two YouTube channels.
Need to connect your DJI Mic Mini to your DJI Osmo Nano camera for better audio? This is a full, step-by-step pairing guide for beginners! I show exactly how to access the dedicated wireless mic settings, use the transmitter's link button, and troubleshoot the common "Osmo Audio not found" error (which is likely due to a previously connected mic). And include a sample audio test to see if the microphone's orientation affects the quality. Get better audio for your vlogging instantly!
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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 colors. 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.
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. 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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!*
THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!
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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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.
