**Mobile Creative Workflow: A Game-Changer for Drone Pilots and Photographers**

As a drone pilot and photographer, I've always been on the lookout for ways to streamline my workflow and make editing easier. That's why I'm excited to share with you my mobile creative workflow, which has revolutionized the way I edit my footage.

**The DJI App: A Game-Changer in Backup and Editing**

One of the first tools that caught my attention was the DJI app, which comes bundled with many drone cameras. This app allows me to backup my footage on an SD card using a dedicated backup drive. What I love about this is that it gives me complete control over my files, and I can easily transfer them to my iPad for editing. The backup process is lightning-fast, and the app takes care of creating folders with dates and timestamps, making it easy to organize my footage.

**Wired Connection: A Major Advantage**

One of the biggest advantages of this setup is the wired connection to my iPad. While Wi-Fi connections can be slow and unreliable, especially when dealing with large files like 4K video, a wired connection ensures that my transfers are quick and seamless. This has been a major game-changer for me, allowing me to work on my footage without interruption.

**Luma Fusion: The Perfect Editing Software**

When it comes to editing my footage, I rely heavily on Luma Fusion. This software is incredibly powerful and user-friendly, making it easy to get started even if you're new to video editing. One of the cool things about Luma Fusion is that it has a folder structure within its app, which allows me to easily import files from my backup drive. This makes it a breeze to work with footage shot in various locations, as I can simply drag and drop files into the software.

**Color Correction and Title Creation**

One of the standout features of Luma Fusion is its color correction capabilities. With a few taps on the screen, I can adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation to create a visually stunning effect. I also love how easy it is to add titles and text overlays to my footage, which adds an extra layer of creativity to my editing process.

**Rendering Speed: A Key Factor in Mobile Video Editing**

When it comes to video editing, rendering speed is crucial. Luma Fusion's ability to render quickly has been a major factor in my productivity as a mobile videographer. I can easily scrub through my footage and make adjustments on the fly, without having to wait for what feels like an eternity.

**The Future of Mobile Video Editing**

As technology continues to advance, I'm excited to see how mobile video editing will continue to evolve. With apps like Luma Fusion leading the way, it's clear that the future is bright for creators who want to work on their footage anywhere, anytime. While I don't plan to retire my laptop just yet, I do love the idea of exploring new workflows and tools that make editing more accessible and efficient.

**Conclusion**

My mobile creative workflow has been a game-changer in my drone piloting and photography business. From backup and editing to color correction and title creation, this setup has allowed me to work on my footage with ease and efficiency. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, I encourage you to explore the world of mobile video editing – it's an exciting space that's rapidly evolving.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso it's probably at least fair to say that over the last year too I've had a lot of jokes at apples expense steeper pixels deeper pixels deeper pixels hmm that's a lot of magnets moving around in a very small space I mean come on when you tell me your cell phone has a camera with deeper pixels though I'm gonna run with that one but seriously I feel slightly bad about that because my phone was really old it was falling apart the screen was spidered and I replaced it right before the holidays and oh my god my desktop computer is a 2014 iMac this phone is actually faster than what that computer will do so in this video I want to talk about using mobile devices for photography and video production but before we get into that I want to give a quick shout out to our sponsors today who are the awesome folks over at squarespace.com if you need a website Squarespace have you covered with an all-in-one solution for building beautiful websites portfolios or even an online store head over to their website start with a free trial you pick a template you customize it till your heart's content and before you know it you were up and running and if you think Squarespace is right for you I can save you an additional ten percent off of your order by using offer code AOP on checkout once again that offer code is a opie and I want to give a special shout out and thanks to the folks at Squarespace for sponsoring another episode of the art of photography so this year I have a dilemma can I actually use my phone and my iPad to replace a lot of the media work that I do on a desktop computer so over the holidays I actually had some downtime to start piecing some of these things together and believe it or not I also was able to watch some YouTube videos which is something that I just don't normally have time for because I'm constantly filming your concept in your scripting or posting or whatever it is that I'm doing all the time and I just don't have a lot of time to enjoy other youtubers but I want to give a shout out to somebody in particular who really helped me with this need to go check out my man Haney the business he is a music producer and he's got a wonderful YouTube channel he does a lot of videos obviously on music production but also on video production and photography and he does some really cool stuff over there and what I love about Henny is that he has transferred his entire workflow over to the iPad so he is working mobile so he has a lot of resources in various videos over in his channel and this really helped me a lot in putting this together so shout out and thanks to Hany he is the man I also want to note that this is not the first time that I've tried to incorporate a workflow I've done it several times in the past with various phones I even had the very first iPad I ordered like the day it was announced there were three things that made me revisit this the first thing is Adobe Lightroom and Adobe over the last couple years have had these tremendous project that they've been working on trying to get this cohesive design using the cloud that works between mobile devices and your desktop computer and everything syncs in between the second thing is Apple's Hardware implementation and this is really interesting because with the a 11 and the a 12 processors if you go look up the benchmarks on these they're actually rivaling if not beating some desktop computers and that really got me thinking what could I do with video compression is it ready for that which brings me to my third reason for giving this another go and it's an app called luma fusion and if you're not familiar with it luma fusion is a nonlinear editor so it's like Final Cut Pro or maybe Adobe Premiere it's not nearly as full-featured it's a much younger app but for a $20 app I decide well it's worth doing some testing with so I started doing a bunch of testing and has impressed that I was with the performance of luma fusion and how Lightroom was working it's incredible but there is one major Achilles heel to working on iPhone / iPad and unfortunately it's the OS iOS needs to be completely redesigned for the iPad and I think it needs to have some considerations change for the phone as well the iPad for example is something that should really seriously be competing with Microsoft Surface units in terms of people who actually work on tablets and I understand that it's not a laptop but iOS was designed primarily for the iPhone when it came out and in many ways it really is a good OS for phones but when you get into the tablet space yeah it's not a desktop it's not a laptop it's also not the phone it's somewhere in between and it really needs a dedicated OS to go with it for instance you need a file system you need a way to dock peripheral devices into the iPad for some reason the Lightning connector should work with external devices and now with the new iPads they've moved to USB see it doesn't and this is where it becomes a huge bottleneck and a huge slowdown so what I want to do is I want to step you through some of the things that I've used to work around there's two things you need to remember that if you're really serious about working on mobile devices for a serious part of your workflow first of all don't approach mobile like you would a desktop computer or a laptop it's a whole different experience and because you have this layer of a touchscreen involved the way that you do things ends up being a lot different so for instance in luma fusion you have keyboard shortcuts if you have the optional keyboard attached and while that works I found that I can actually edit a lot faster if I start using gestures and touch with the screen and I'm actually interacting with it and actually that made the experience more attractive to me because it's more organic I feel like I'm moving things anyway it's very hard to explain but that's my first advice is don't approach it like you would a laptop the second thing I would say is learn the software because like I said there's gestures there's multi-touch stuff and if you really approach the software and learn it on its own terms I think you're gonna be very happy so you've got some images and some video that you've taken on your camera and you want to get this over to the iPad for editing welcome to the grand challenge the first thing that you might think to do is I'll just download the app that my camera makes to the iPad and I'll use the wireless transfer that way well the problem with that is that I have found that the quality varies drastically from camera manufacturer to camera manufacturer so that could work for you but for instance Sony presents an interesting set of challenges in that it won't move certain video files and it also won't move RAW files so this was not an option so I needed some way around this so I head over to the Apple Store and pay entirely too much for a small cable and this one essentially is an SD card reader that has a lightning connection on the end they also make one with a USB C connection if you have that on your iPad basically what this does is you stick the SD card in and it pulls everything off automatically onto the camera roll that is ok but I don't really want all my files especially if I have a lot of raw image files on the camera roll I kind of want to put them somewhere else but there's no real mature file system within the iPad so this is what you've got to do then this presented another problem Thank You Sony where the Sony video files live in a different file folder structure than they do on other cameras and so the iPad just doesn't see video files so this led me to another cable equally overpriced is this which is a lightning to USB cable and essentially what you do is you turn your camera on you have to go in and configure all the FTP settings and you basically plug that into a USB cable the USB cable goes into here you're definitely in cable ville at this point and then this goes into the iPad and then this sort of works because it will find the video files but then there's another weird problem is that Apple says it doesn't support X a VCS files and then it gets even weirder than that because I did some tests when I started with this workflow and I'd used a bunch of little 20-second video clips 30-second video clips and they came in just fine 4k whole nine yards then as soon as I went into production and I had clips that were like 5 to 10 minutes in length it was a whole different story and what it does is the Apple will import these into the iPad and it's a slow process it's not super fast and then once it's there it gives you this emergency thing and says hey we don't support this file type well you did when the files were shorter but now they're longer anyway and then game over if I was gone so that was very frustrating too so I needed something else other than these little cables this device is pretty much a life changer for me this is a hard drive that is co-branded by lasse and DJI and don't let the drone affiliation fool you this is the lasse DJI copilot boss whatever that stands for and the idea is that if you're flying your drone you don't have to bring a laptop you can backup your footage well this works with any camera and so basically what I love about this is you push the button in on the side and it has a user interface layer that will tell you how much storage space you have left on this drive and it also gives you the battery life remaining and what you're going to do is let's say you're out in the field and you're shooting images or you're making videos or whatever and you've got an SD card you want to back it up you just pop it into the slot you tell it to back up the contents of the card and that's exactly what it does it takes all of the files all the folder structure it puts it any backups folder and it puts it in its own dedicated folder with the time and date of the import so you can get to it later this is a huge lifesaver then you pull this out everything's backed up you're good to go what I love about this is as you are putting your backups on here you're actually one step closer to being able to transfer your files on to the iPad and so what you do is you pull out this little cable and it provides a wired connection to the iPad now there are some other devices that work similarly to this most of them are Wi-Fi based the problem I have with Wi-Fi is even on a fast connection it's still Wi-Fi and if you've got enough images or enough 4k video it's just big files and it takes forever to transfer so this gives you a wired connection do this with and I absolutely love this it also includes some other cables if you have depending on the device you've got USB C is the standard USB and then also it has the lightning cable as well and what I love about this is when you put it onto the iPad it automatically launches the software that you download and the software is incredibly well-written it gives you a status of your transfer so you know how far along you are it also gives you the transfer speed which is very handy too so you can see if something may be wrong or something or why it's taking so long you can see the speed and the status of the transfer so what you're able to do with this app is download these into the app all of your files on here and then I can move them around and one of the cool things is for luma fusion for instance it has a folder structure within the files app and that's where it pulls its data from so if you want to get your files into luma fusion you just need to go put them in the user folder and I can do that from the DJI app there they are they're ready to go so when I launch limo fusion I am ready to edit editing video in luma fusion has been an incredible experience for me in fact every video except I think one this year that I've done has been done in luma fusion so this is like the last seven videos that I've made and it's really amazing and the cool thing is is that once you import and start editing your footage I'm working with 4k footage here and I'm putting Luntz on it I'm putting titles over it and I'm doing color correction and there's really no rendering that's visibly being done like you would find in Final Cut or even something like Adobe Premiere and I'm able to just scrub through the files everything's super easy when I'm ready to export this is the amazing part is it's actually exporting a little bit faster than real time and so it actually not only enables me to make videos on the road or in another location and go to a coffee shop I can go sit in my living room I'm not chained to my desk I'm more productive that way and then the best part is when it's time to upload something my exports are really quick and so this has made me really more productive so that is my mobile creative workflow and it's already working really well for me I'd love to hear from you guys as well I put something on Twitter too the other day that had a lot of response to it and I know a lot of people are starting to edit in mobile applications now it's gotten to a point where we've seen the software and the hardware mature to a point where it's really possible to get a creative workflow going now does that mean that I'm going to retire this absolutely not but I do want to hear from you guys I want to hear what you guys are doing if you'd like to see more video this something like a video on Lightroom or luma fusion and how I'm syncing all this up more specifically let me know in the comments and until the next video I will see you guys then laterso it's probably at least fair to say that over the last year too I've had a lot of jokes at apples expense steeper pixels deeper pixels deeper pixels hmm that's a lot of magnets moving around in a very small space I mean come on when you tell me your cell phone has a camera with deeper pixels though I'm gonna run with that one but seriously I feel slightly bad about that because my phone was really old it was falling apart the screen was spidered and I replaced it right before the holidays and oh my god my desktop computer is a 2014 iMac this phone is actually faster than what that computer will do so in this video I want to talk about using mobile devices for photography and video production but before we get into that I want to give a quick shout out to our sponsors today who are the awesome folks over at squarespace.com if you need a website Squarespace have you covered with an all-in-one solution for building beautiful websites portfolios or even an online store head over to their website start with a free trial you pick a template you customize it till your heart's content and before you know it you were up and running and if you think Squarespace is right for you I can save you an additional ten percent off of your order by using offer code AOP on checkout once again that offer code is a opie and I want to give a special shout out and thanks to the folks at Squarespace for sponsoring another episode of the art of photography so this year I have a dilemma can I actually use my phone and my iPad to replace a lot of the media work that I do on a desktop computer so over the holidays I actually had some downtime to start piecing some of these things together and believe it or not I also was able to watch some YouTube videos which is something that I just don't normally have time for because I'm constantly filming your concept in your scripting or posting or whatever it is that I'm doing all the time and I just don't have a lot of time to enjoy other youtubers but I want to give a shout out to somebody in particular who really helped me with this need to go check out my man Haney the business he is a music producer and he's got a wonderful YouTube channel he does a lot of videos obviously on music production but also on video production and photography and he does some really cool stuff over there and what I love about Henny is that he has transferred his entire workflow over to the iPad so he is working mobile so he has a lot of resources in various videos over in his channel and this really helped me a lot in putting this together so shout out and thanks to Hany he is the man I also want to note that this is not the first time that I've tried to incorporate a workflow I've done it several times in the past with various phones I even had the very first iPad I ordered like the day it was announced there were three things that made me revisit this the first thing is Adobe Lightroom and Adobe over the last couple years have had these tremendous project that they've been working on trying to get this cohesive design using the cloud that works between mobile devices and your desktop computer and everything syncs in between the second thing is Apple's Hardware implementation and this is really interesting because with the a 11 and the a 12 processors if you go look up the benchmarks on these they're actually rivaling if not beating some desktop computers and that really got me thinking what could I do with video compression is it ready for that which brings me to my third reason for giving this another go and it's an app called luma fusion and if you're not familiar with it luma fusion is a nonlinear editor so it's like Final Cut Pro or maybe Adobe Premiere it's not nearly as full-featured it's a much younger app but for a $20 app I decide well it's worth doing some testing with so I started doing a bunch of testing and has impressed that I was with the performance of luma fusion and how Lightroom was working it's incredible but there is one major Achilles heel to working on iPhone / iPad and unfortunately it's the OS iOS needs to be completely redesigned for the iPad and I think it needs to have some considerations change for the phone as well the iPad for example is something that should really seriously be competing with Microsoft Surface units in terms of people who actually work on tablets and I understand that it's not a laptop but iOS was designed primarily for the iPhone when it came out and in many ways it really is a good OS for phones but when you get into the tablet space yeah it's not a desktop it's not a laptop it's also not the phone it's somewhere in between and it really needs a dedicated OS to go with it for instance you need a file system you need a way to dock peripheral devices into the iPad for some reason the Lightning connector should work with external devices and now with the new iPads they've moved to USB see it doesn't and this is where it becomes a huge bottleneck and a huge slowdown so what I want to do is I want to step you through some of the things that I've used to work around there's two things you need to remember that if you're really serious about working on mobile devices for a serious part of your workflow first of all don't approach mobile like you would a desktop computer or a laptop it's a whole different experience and because you have this layer of a touchscreen involved the way that you do things ends up being a lot different so for instance in luma fusion you have keyboard shortcuts if you have the optional keyboard attached and while that works I found that I can actually edit a lot faster if I start using gestures and touch with the screen and I'm actually interacting with it and actually that made the experience more attractive to me because it's more organic I feel like I'm moving things anyway it's very hard to explain but that's my first advice is don't approach it like you would a laptop the second thing I would say is learn the software because like I said there's gestures there's multi-touch stuff and if you really approach the software and learn it on its own terms I think you're gonna be very happy so you've got some images and some video that you've taken on your camera and you want to get this over to the iPad for editing welcome to the grand challenge the first thing that you might think to do is I'll just download the app that my camera makes to the iPad and I'll use the wireless transfer that way well the problem with that is that I have found that the quality varies drastically from camera manufacturer to camera manufacturer so that could work for you but for instance Sony presents an interesting set of challenges in that it won't move certain video files and it also won't move RAW files so this was not an option so I needed some way around this so I head over to the Apple Store and pay entirely too much for a small cable and this one essentially is an SD card reader that has a lightning connection on the end they also make one with a USB C connection if you have that on your iPad basically what this does is you stick the SD card in and it pulls everything off automatically onto the camera roll that is ok but I don't really want all my files especially if I have a lot of raw image files on the camera roll I kind of want to put them somewhere else but there's no real mature file system within the iPad so this is what you've got to do then this presented another problem Thank You Sony where the Sony video files live in a different file folder structure than they do on other cameras and so the iPad just doesn't see video files so this led me to another cable equally overpriced is this which is a lightning to USB cable and essentially what you do is you turn your camera on you have to go in and configure all the FTP settings and you basically plug that into a USB cable the USB cable goes into here you're definitely in cable ville at this point and then this goes into the iPad and then this sort of works because it will find the video files but then there's another weird problem is that Apple says it doesn't support X a VCS files and then it gets even weirder than that because I did some tests when I started with this workflow and I'd used a bunch of little 20-second video clips 30-second video clips and they came in just fine 4k whole nine yards then as soon as I went into production and I had clips that were like 5 to 10 minutes in length it was a whole different story and what it does is the Apple will import these into the iPad and it's a slow process it's not super fast and then once it's there it gives you this emergency thing and says hey we don't support this file type well you did when the files were shorter but now they're longer anyway and then game over if I was gone so that was very frustrating too so I needed something else other than these little cables this device is pretty much a life changer for me this is a hard drive that is co-branded by lasse and DJI and don't let the drone affiliation fool you this is the lasse DJI copilot boss whatever that stands for and the idea is that if you're flying your drone you don't have to bring a laptop you can backup your footage well this works with any camera and so basically what I love about this is you push the button in on the side and it has a user interface layer that will tell you how much storage space you have left on this drive and it also gives you the battery life remaining and what you're going to do is let's say you're out in the field and you're shooting images or you're making videos or whatever and you've got an SD card you want to back it up you just pop it into the slot you tell it to back up the contents of the card and that's exactly what it does it takes all of the files all the folder structure it puts it any backups folder and it puts it in its own dedicated folder with the time and date of the import so you can get to it later this is a huge lifesaver then you pull this out everything's backed up you're good to go what I love about this is as you are putting your backups on here you're actually one step closer to being able to transfer your files on to the iPad and so what you do is you pull out this little cable and it provides a wired connection to the iPad now there are some other devices that work similarly to this most of them are Wi-Fi based the problem I have with Wi-Fi is even on a fast connection it's still Wi-Fi and if you've got enough images or enough 4k video it's just big files and it takes forever to transfer so this gives you a wired connection do this with and I absolutely love this it also includes some other cables if you have depending on the device you've got USB C is the standard USB and then also it has the lightning cable as well and what I love about this is when you put it onto the iPad it automatically launches the software that you download and the software is incredibly well-written it gives you a status of your transfer so you know how far along you are it also gives you the transfer speed which is very handy too so you can see if something may be wrong or something or why it's taking so long you can see the speed and the status of the transfer so what you're able to do with this app is download these into the app all of your files on here and then I can move them around and one of the cool things is for luma fusion for instance it has a folder structure within the files app and that's where it pulls its data from so if you want to get your files into luma fusion you just need to go put them in the user folder and I can do that from the DJI app there they are they're ready to go so when I launch limo fusion I am ready to edit editing video in luma fusion has been an incredible experience for me in fact every video except I think one this year that I've done has been done in luma fusion so this is like the last seven videos that I've made and it's really amazing and the cool thing is is that once you import and start editing your footage I'm working with 4k footage here and I'm putting Luntz on it I'm putting titles over it and I'm doing color correction and there's really no rendering that's visibly being done like you would find in Final Cut or even something like Adobe Premiere and I'm able to just scrub through the files everything's super easy when I'm ready to export this is the amazing part is it's actually exporting a little bit faster than real time and so it actually not only enables me to make videos on the road or in another location and go to a coffee shop I can go sit in my living room I'm not chained to my desk I'm more productive that way and then the best part is when it's time to upload something my exports are really quick and so this has made me really more productive so that is my mobile creative workflow and it's already working really well for me I'd love to hear from you guys as well I put something on Twitter too the other day that had a lot of response to it and I know a lot of people are starting to edit in mobile applications now it's gotten to a point where we've seen the software and the hardware mature to a point where it's really possible to get a creative workflow going now does that mean that I'm going to retire this absolutely not but I do want to hear from you guys I want to hear what you guys are doing if you'd like to see more video this something like a video on Lightroom or luma fusion and how I'm syncing all this up more specifically let me know in the comments and until the next video I will see you guys then later\n"