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My Filming Kit
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items My whole honest kit for filming, editing, and figuring out the whole content creator thing. Nothing here is fancy for fancy's sake; it's just what works when the crew is one person in a dress.
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Gear
Made for vloggers and it shows with its flip screen, forgiving autofocus, and small enough to never talk you out of filming. The camera you'll actually carry beats the camera you left at home.
Sony ZV-1F: The Little Vlogging Camera That Could
From walking shoots to solo filming, this little gadget is how everything floats beautifully. It turns a phone into a camera crew of one which, as a solo creator, is exactly the crew I have.
DJI Gimbal: No Shaky Footage Here
Clipped on and forgotten, making this the highest compliment a mic can get. My voiceovers and on-camera sound come from this tiny thing, and it's the single biggest quality jump I've made for the money.
DJI Mini Mic 2: The Voice of Every Video
From camera to iPhone, this filter has created some totally dreamy shots. It's not essential but, it certainly adds an ethereal quality to any cinematic works I create.
Prism Filter: My Dreamiest Shots, Explained
The least glamorous thing I own and the one I'd replace first if it broke. Solo filming is impossible without a steady, patient tripod holding the frame while you go be the subject.
Tripod: The Third Hand
Your light source is so important! For the days the sun doesn't cooperate with the filming schedule. Soft, warm, and honest, good lighting shouldn't look like lighting at all.
Lighting: Borrowed Sunshine
Nothing ends a filming day faster than a dead phone at golden hour. One of these lives in my bag permanently. It's the least exciting purchase that has saved the most footage
Anker Portable Battery: The Day Saver
Where all the footage sleeps safely. As a solo creator, losing files isn't an inconvenience. It's a project gone forever, so this drive is non-negotiable insurance. Plug-and-play simple, quietly essential. Learn the easy way instead of the hard way.
Seagate One Touch External Hard Drive | Seagate US
Software
The majority of my videos are cut when I'm on the go. CapCut is free, phone-friendly, and more capable than it has any right to be. Proof you don't need a fancy editing suite to make something that feels like you.
CapCut: Where On the Go Editing Brings It All Together
The coach in my corner. Stanley knows the Instagram algorithm so I don't have to, and it finally made these weird things called analytics make sense. Heads-up: it's a subscription, but it replaced my guessing entirely.
Stanley AI: My Instagram Coach
The newest tool on this list and already indispensable: I edit long-form video the way I edit writing: as text. Delete a sentence from the transcript & it's gone from the video. CapCut still handles my on-the-go cuts; this is where the big projec...
Descript | Video & Podcast Editing