I opened the laptop with the express intent of paying my credit card bill, but the banking app is on maintenance so I couldn't access my statement. So that brings me here.
January went by so quickly.
The first week we were still on a holidaze. I was editing vlogs nonstop. My phone storage couldn't keep up with the happenings. I had to transfer footage to my laptop. It was so busy. We were out a lot. Meeting family. Meeting friends. It was exhausting.
Then I got back to working onsite after being on temporary WFH setup because of my knee surgery.
I noticed my Weekly Monotony vlogs are getting more views when I put a face on the thumbnail. And so I changed the way I design my thumbnails and now I'm getting 5x more views. Which is cool. 5x seems a lot but on average I get only 10 views per vlog, and now I get 50 hehe. Just by changing the way my thumbnails look. It does look cuter now.
I promised myself not to buy anything new this year. And so far I've been successful. It wasn't easy though, cos I was itching to get the Osmo Pocket 3. So instead, I rented it for a week. Just in time for our La Union trip.
It was awesome. But I couldn't quite get the hang of daily vlogging with it. For a bunch of reasons:
- It's kinda fragile. I'm a grab and go type of vlogger and my phone has been extremely handy for that purpose. With the pocket 3 I always need to pull it out from its case, and put it back as well to secure it because of the gimbal.
- It's an added weight to my bag. If I wanted it to be more handy and still safe I need to change my bag into something with a separate compartment solely for the pocket 3.
- The footage doesn't sort well in my video editor. When I transfer the files from the mimo app to my phone, it can be sorted by date from the gallery, but not on my editor. In VLLO when I try to sort, it creates date groups that are sorted differently. It's been difficult trying to arrange the clips chronologically.
- So for the most part, if not all, I edit my osmo vlogs on my laptop, using DaVinci Resolve.
- Also because I don't have enough storage on my phone haha.
If I do decide to get the pocket 3, I also need to upgrade my phone so I can continue editing on it, also get more storage. Not anytime soon.
All that adjustment and I'm still leaning towards getting it in the future. Why? Because the quality is superb. These two vlogs are such a delight to watch, at least for me, because I can really tell the difference in quality.
Anyway. My favorite day in January goes to that one day when I had pho, a manipedi, a foot massage, and iced mocha in one day. Such a great day.