Dave Maze

Incredible interview @Andrew Reid!! Thank you for coming on!

Hey guys! I’m about to interview our very own @Andrew Reidon my podcast Golden Hour! 
 

Reply with any questions you have for him and I’ll try to get them in the show!

On 9/23/2020 at 3:11 PM, Hangs4Fun said:

Got my email from B&H this morning and saw FedEx pick it up before lunch, I will have my A7S Mark III Friday 🙂   (of course, Friday is already taken with kids stuff, as is a good bit of this weekend, but I should be able to do something Friday and Sat just by cutting out sleep, ha; that camera can shoot in the dark anyway right, lol)...

Also, have version 10.54 firmware locked and loaded on my Ninja V.  ready to go.  I'm most interested to see the 16bit RAW linear to 12bit ProRes RAW results compared to the best internal codec.  I'm REALLY hoping that magenta cast is gone in the RAW.  I am terrible at removing magenta without affecting skin tones, so I usually can't touch it much.  Also curious to see if the SSD's I've got will handle the sustained write speed.  From my calculations it will, but we shall see.

Can't wait to see how that reduced rolling shutter looks on my motion controllers (I have Edelkrone's JibONE, SliderONE, Dual HeadONE, and SliderPLUS v5 Long).  

let me know your thoughts! i found after making the vid that the magenta issues are more or less solved if you shoot slog2 instead

go ahead... tell me how stupid i look in this thumbnail. 

I still have an em1mkiii and the three Pro prime lenses. It’s a buggy camera and I’ve had issues with it locking up on me. I’ve stopped using it for that reason. Hopefully firmware will solve those issues. I think Panasonic made a bad move going to full frame. They should have just embraced m43 and dominated the space and that in turn would help boost Olympus. With cameras like the XT3 being only $999 now I don’t see a point in the Oly anymore. The ibis and colors are great but low light is bad and video features are lackluster. Maybe we will see some firmware updates that will add more video features... but for the price... I don’t see why anyone would go for the EM1 anymore. Not to mention the EM1X. That camera is way too expensive. 

I don’t know... just my thoughts. Loved Olympus for a while. Still love them... but it’s starting to seem a little outdated at this point. 

All the Oly Pro primes are amazing. I recommend the 17,25, and 45

I have had about a week with the camera and seriously LOVE it! Totally sold on it. The footage out of this thing is incredible. 

3 hours ago, FranciscoB said:

Don't want to sound like a dick but what's with the picture covers on youtube? Everybody does the same thing. Funny face and the product smashed in front of it. Is there an agreement on this or just an established trend?

lol no offense taken. I understand. I’ve texted this myself and statistically I get higher click through rate when my face is on the thumbnail as well as when there is a more intense expression. It doesnt translate well here because the image is so large... but on a youtube home feed it can help make your video stand out. 

2 hours ago, scotchtape said:

It works.  I hate it and I refuse to click on baity videos, I can't stand it.

 

I'll have to check this mic out, sounds interesting.  I love my ride video micro, sounds so good for what it is.

Correct it works. I’m sorry you hate it. YouTube is filled with a bunch of adhd tweens who just click on the first shiny thing they see. 

1 hour ago, Thpriest said:

Nice idea. Was just about to buy a Rode Videomicro but this looks an even better option for 30€ more.

Ya it really is. It gives you a lot of extra flexibility for a marginal difference in price. 

I actually helped develop this mic over a year ago when I had a meeting with Andrew from Deity. I was sharing how I really hated how muffled audio sounded when talking behind camera for vlogs. I wanted a solution and they delivered. Not only does the mic have two mics on it... but you get an input that allows for a lav or other audio source to feed into your camera or recorder. The Rode Wireless GO is perfect for it and can clip right onto the Rycote mount. 

Just wanted to share these vids with you guys. Jeven and I are the only people who have posted hands on reviews so far... IDK if we are the only ones who got them or what... but this $89 mic is well worth the $$ in my opinion. 

I'm so stoked to see these hit the wild! I wanna get one asap! Gotta come up with $7k tho

well dangit @Andrew Reid ... guess we won't be able to drink sake all night this year then. 

On 2/13/2020 at 10:44 PM, rdouthit said:

Interesting that Dave makes so little relative to his channel size. My channel brought in close to $60k in straight ad revenue last year and I just broke 100,000 subscribers. I have a broadcast syndication agent, whom I’ve worked with for years (any viewers from the Ignition network in S. Africa here? Lol.) But I wouldn’t even consider one for brand deals.

Edit: looked at Kinotika’s (Dave’s) stats and it probably comes down to watch time. I had about 50,000,000 minutes of watch time in 2019. Based on his public numbers his channel watch time was probably a lot lower. (Reminder: subscribers are only one metric, and aren’t the only gauge of a channels reach.)

ya exactly. watch time. 

On 2/14/2020 at 1:04 AM, IronFilm said:

I'd take a wild guess and bet his agent has a few other guys on his books as well? So his costs are even lower

yup. my agent goes to square space and says: “i got 10 guys who all will work with you for $X” and then he splits that money up to all of us depending on our size 

I still don’t have clarity... does the EM1 mkiii output 10bit 4:2:2 out of the HDMI? 

I would imagine that if they are saying it in the official “brochure” from Olympus it is true no? 

I literally haven't heard the 10bit 4:2:2 spec anywhere! That is a big deal!! 

i'm gonna upgrade to it from my em1 mkii for that joy stick lol. i love the camera. its just a good tool that i enjoy...especially for family photos and videos. 

HOWEVER... i am SOOO dissapointed here. Was hoping to at least see 4k 60fps!!! idk whats going on. so stupid. nobody will buy this except olympus enthusiasts. it should really be called the EM1 mk2.5

6 hours ago, IronFilm said:

If you didn't have an agent, how much do you think that would impact the brand deals you could land yourself?
 

Wow, that is almost nothing!
(for a channel as good/big as yours that is)

ya if i didn’t have an agent by now i’d be looking for one. almost everyone has one at higher levels. 

i share an agent with kai w, jarad poland, gerald undone, and jeven dovey for example. 

On 2/9/2020 at 10:52 PM, newfoundmass said:

I personally know people with over 2 million subs and they're definitely not rich or anywhere close to being rich. 

There are a lot more variables at play. The type of content you make, who watches it, etc. plays a huge role. My friends that have hundreds of thousands of subscribers but deal with pro wrestling content don't get much at all since YouTube allowed advertisers more control over what videos they advertise on and most passed on advertising on wrestling related content. 

absolutely. running a youtube channel isn’t about the channel itself. it’s about the other streams of income you make to pay for everything else. again... brand deals are where it’s at. i only make around $900 a month off ad revenue for example. the rest of my money is from all the other things like affiliate and brand deals 

On 2/9/2020 at 7:09 PM, kaylee said:

true or false: regardless of ones subscriber count, this is all predicated on ppl posting videos constantly, ever day or close to it

yes?

@DaveAltizer...?

it’s a combination of subs, views, comments, audience engagement that led to getting an agent who lands the brand deals. that’s the majority of my income. half of it is through sponsorships. the rest is all related to ad rev and affiliate

I was lucky enough to break six figures last year with 73,000 subs. I’ve never enjoyed my work more and i’ve never made more in my life. I highly recommend it if you’re thinking of starting a youtube channel. 

neither. save your money for RED Komodo. May have decent AF and r3d is the best 👌

Really dig this adapter. Fixes the EOS R in my book. Here is my video test first look

Mine is coming in tomorrow! Gonna make a first look video for you guys. What do you want to see? 

2 hours ago, EthanAlexander said:

Trust me I'm no fan of RED the company but a phase-detect, global shutter, reasonably priced, compressed raw, non-proprietary storage, compact camera that with the metabones is FF equivalent? Yes please! Obviously it's early and we don't know the full story but this has me interested. And the EOS R could at least be a reasonable idea now... JK ? but I can't wait to see this on the RED.

https://metabones.com/article/of/Introduces_Canon_EF_to_EOS_R_SpeedBooster

And for some reason it's the cheapest speed booster (at least compared to the popular EF-E and EF-MFT versions).

Ordered! Can't believe they did it! Incredible. .