LAST MINUTE Gift Ideas for Filmmakers (2024)

if you're looking for gift ideas for the upcoming holiday season for the filmmaker or creator person in your life I've got 10 things that a filmmaker would love that are under a 100 bucks DJI Mike mini DJI just came out with this mic and it's really fantastic and amazing for Content creators and filmmakers who are shooting on the-go content and you just need some sort of audio recording and one of my favorite things about mics that have smaller Footprints is that it doesn't drag down on your clothing if you take a look at one of the mics that I have also from DJI this is their mic version one if I clip it onto my shirt right here magnetically you see how it like drags down onto my shirt right there sometimes if you're wearing a button-up shirt and you clip it onto the side of the shirt it kind of like Falls over it doesn't look the best and you probably won't capture the best audio anyways but with the mic mini you don't really have to worry about that at all because it's so lightweight you can record straight onto your phone or your camera so that you can edit your footage right away without having to sync up audio and post small Rak multi-tool a multi-tool is always going to be a great thing for filmmakers because we're always attaching things to our camera tightening stuff up loosening things switching things around and when we shoot we just need something that can do everything the small rig multitool has 10 tools for the most commonly used nuts screws and bolts that we will encounter with any type of equipment it's compact light and high quality so you don't have to worry about it breaking one of my favorite features is that you can lock it at a 90 or 180° angle I have a really generic multi-tool here and as you can see it only locks at 180 if I tried to lock it at 90° it just won't it still Wiggles it doesn't lock in but with a 90° angle you get a lot lot more torque and you can loosen up those pesky little bolts that are just tightened way too tight sometimes DJI osmo mobile 6 this gimbal is great for people who are shooting on your phone and you just need a good way to stabilize your footage whenever you shoot handheld on any camera you're going to always introduce some sort of shake whether that's from your hands from holding the camera or from your feet when you're walking around for example if you're a real estate agent and you're doing a walkthrough tour of the entire house just to show the space utilizing a gimbal will give you a better end result small rig gimbal strap now if you have a bigger gimbal for mirrorless cameras or for Cinema cameras you'll know that if you're shooting a long period of time like for 8 hours on a wedding shoot you know that your arms your chest and your back are going to be so tired by the end of the day so thankfully smari has come out with a weight reducing strap that just fits right over your shoulder you put it on just like this and attaches to two points on the gimbal right here on the top and then on the bottom and you're just going to put it over your shoulder like this the biggest reason why we get so tired from shooting and holding this all day is not actually because we're shooting all the time it's because most of the time we're actually not shooting um and when we're not shooting we still have to hold on to the gimbal we try to find some way to relieve some of the weight off of our arms and off our chest but it really doesn't usually work out because it's not like we can set our gimbal down because for those of us who are shooting weddings you know that just a simple Act of us bending down picking the gimbal up and then starting to hit record will lead us to miss a lot of really important moments so therefore we want to have our gear ready at all times but with a strap like this you don't have to constantly be holding on to the gimbal at all times you can actually let it rest and you can use your shoulder your traps your back muscles in order to offset some of that weight ever since it's release I've been using this really simple piece of gear that has absolutely improved my experience when I'm shooting for long periods of time on weddings and also Live Events Apple Air tags air tags are just an amazing way to track your gear unfortunately though it's only available for iPhone users I really wish that you can use it for Android it you can't it doesn't have the same functionality which sucks that's a different topic for another video but if you have an iPhone this is a great way to know exactly where your gear is at all times just in case you're traveling it's underneath the plane and you just you know you lose your luggage sometimes you know you don't know where it wents you can track it open up your phone you can see exactly where your luggage is does it help that it's on the other side of the world no but at least you kind of know where it is I have one in my Pelican case and also in my backpack so that in the very unfortunate chance that I I get my gear stolen I know exactly where it is and hopefully potentially I can track it down aperture MC LED light the aperture MC light not this one this one is a very old version of the LED light the aperture MC light though however is an RGB light which is really nice because you can literally set it to any color that you want it's very small it fits inside your pocket the back of it is also magnetic you can attach it to any metal surface that you want it's got 1/ qu in threading at the bottom here so that you can mount it on top of your camera or onto any sort of like magic arm or any place that accepts a/4 in thread despite being a small little light it actually does output a ton of light it's great for small spaces like for example if you're doing again a walkthrough tour of a house and you just need a little bit of room because the room is a little bit dark it's not facing the sunlight it's not great in there light this up turn it up to 100% you can definitely light up the entire room makes your videos look a lot better so if you're not looking for any fancy lights with the wires you need to plug it into the wall you just need something simple than this little pocket light well I mean not this one but the apture MC light is going to be the best solution for on the-go shooting Lexar SD cards now when it comes to Modern cameras every single one of them can shoot 4K and probably Beyond so having a solid memory card that can keep up with those 4K 6K 8K files is really important because the last thing that you want is to start shooting and then not even halfway through it just a few minutes into it your car tells you oh I can't do it anymore I can't capture anything else cuz it's just too much it's too much you don't want to have that happen so getting one of these Lexar SD cards is is the way to go I've been using these for the past year now so for the past year I've been shooting 4K footage onto these memory cards and they've been perfectly fine they've been working amazing they handle everything that I am shooting on highly recommend getting one of these SD cards Samsung t7 external SSD speaking of 4K footage you're going to need something to store on something that is light something that is compact something that doesn't get in the way of you actually editing your footage portable ssds are my favorite way of editing projects I know a lot of people use it for travel because it's so light and Compact and small you basically store it anywhere but I usually use it when I'm at home my wife and I have separate workspaces and she's the one doing all the editing for our projects and I'm the one doing all the color grading for all of our projects which means that we need an efficient way to move projects back and forth between our two computers storing our projects and our footage on the Samsung t7 this one's a T5 by the way not not this one but storing it onto an SS like this is great because it can handle 4K footage it edits fast there's no lag and it just allows us to move back and forth seamlessly between our two computer comp anchor 633 power bank power banks are just so clutch when your phone is about to die you just need a little bit of juice to get you through the rest of the day not only is the anchor 633 perfect for charging your phone you can also charge your camera or your drone batteries it's perfect for those situations where you need to just charge a couple batteries just to get through the end of the shoot day but you don't have access to a wall outlet so you can plug in your wall charger for your batteries you can utilize the usba A and also the USBC port in order to get through the rest of the day I always charge mine to 100% And then throw it into my my Pelican case and keep it there at all times Peak design sling bag all right last on the list is the peak design sling bag this thing is so cool when I was doing research for this video I stumbled upon this this is a great little bag there are three colors black white and maroon and also two sizes a big and a small and it looks like a great way to store camera accessories or even personal items it's waterproof water resistant and there's a foam pocket with a magnetic clasp so you know it's secure in there I can definitely see myself using this on a wedding shoe and just storing my phone my wallet uh some batteries in there some snacks maybe the aperture MC LED light or you can just simply use it for hiking or biking or just commuting around the city all day did I just convince myself to get this bag that's crazy all right those are the 10 gift ideas that I have for filmmakers and creators I hope that helps with the shopping good luck um and if you like this video hit the like button make sure to subscribe um until next one my name is Alex sh to see you later bye [Music] w