 Hey, what is up? My name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at what all men crave power Specifically V-mount batteries for the Canon C200 and other digital cinema cameras So when you buy your camera you get sweet little 45 watt-hour battery that gives you about 180 minutes, I think maybe 200 minutes and When you're shooting you've always got to keep your eye on that little Little number in the bottom right hand corner of the monitor to be like oh, I've got 90 minutes left Oh, I've got 45 minutes left. Oh, should I change the battery now? Should I change it later? One more take To say nothing of powering all the other accessories that you might have on your camera like lights like your monitor like EVF Like a wireless system to send HDMI or STI to the director's monitor so people started coming up with Ways to have an external battery pack that powered the camera and everything else in one pack so the way they work is You have a battery plate like this which can attach to the 15 millimeter rails You have your batteries that slide on like this and then on the battery plate itself and on the batteries there are D-tap or p-tap It's complicated. They're essentially the same thing There was different patterns at different times For what that was called, but essentially the the same little divide to prong device That then you get cables that run out of this powering by the battery that power everything else on the camera We're gonna look at three different kind of styles of the V mount now All of these come also come in gold mount which again is just like a beta VHS sort of thing V-mountain gold mount. It's just this little clip on the back that holds the Battery to the plate or to the camera. So the battery that comes with the Camera in this case the C200B Is a 45 watt out battery if you want to buy another one It'll cost you $270 us plus tax where you can go and buy a block battery like this This one's from IndiePro that has 95 watt hours for about the same price I think these are $300 so for $25 more you're getting twice the capacity This one has it's pretty basic this is sort of where V-Mount battery start It's sort of large Inform factor it's 14 volts has a little button on the side that tells you how many Powers left because it doesn't send that information through to your camera. Your camera is no longer gonna know How much battery life is left? But the good thing is that when you're shooting with V-mounts you can also leave the camera battery in so the this will burn through The power in this and then it'll go on to the hundred and sixty minutes on your Canon battery so you've always got it won't power the accessories and you'll know because they'll cut out I leave one battery One LP six in the director's viewfinder and I leave the battery in the cannon so that I don't even look at this While I'm shooting and then once the power starts counting down on both of those I know I have to change my V-Mounts the next more advanced type of battery is this mini battery As you can see it's about It's two-thirds the size or three-quarters the size Same capacity so it's just more compact and you're paying probably an extra 50 to 100 dollars For the smaller size. It's much more compact. It also has a USB tap on it So that means that if you have a htmi transmitter like I do you don't have to get a D tapped htmi to USB You can now power just direct USB to USB which you probably already have they're both by indipro From New York you might wonder why this one's 95 and this one's 98 So they're just keeping it under a hundred watt hours The reason is that you can't fly with over a hundred watt hour lithium ion batteries The FAA deems that this is over a hundred is too much of a risk That it could if it caught fire it could cause serious damage. So Only under a hundred watt hours considered safe. This beast is made by shape the same people that make my camera rig They've just got into the battery game This one is 270 watt hours. So this will power It's significantly heavier than the 95 watt hour 98 watt hour This will power your camera your monitor your transmitter a light second monitor and EVF pretty much all day, right so it's It's almost three times the capacity of this which has already double the capacity of the one in your camera So this is like if you were shooting so much that you went through six normal Canon batteries you would still be on a single Single 271 hour battery. Great thing is about this is it's also very compact One of the reasons I love shooting with it With such a large battery is it puts much more weight at the back of my shoulder rig when I'm shooting handheld? The advantage of that is you don't have to you know back in the DSLR days We had this tiny little camera at the front and then you would actually be putting more weight with like lead on your on your shoulder to try to try and Keep the the rig weighted so that it wasn't constantly falling forward Something like this you can have the camera and a heavy lens on it and still have the rig So nicely balanced that you can take your hands off it or hold it with one finger and it'll sit nicely on your shoulder So so they're the batteries. How do you charge them? Well, you have single you have dual chargers like this one So you can charge the batteries two at a time The other advantage is that this has DC out. So if you have a light or Something else, but all I can think of now is a light There's a four pin DC out here. You can essentially use these two 14 volt batteries as a much larger battery to power light. So it's essentially one big battery So this one you can put four huge V-mount batteries on it and use this to charge to power a really powerful light Like my Lupo Day led 2k for a really long time I was watching one of Shane Hilbert's Instagram stories and he I think he works the company called blue shape But he has hundreds and hundreds of their batteries. It's just like a whole wall of batteries he had on charge, which I thought was crazy, but Obviously if you're working on a large scale and you have Three or four or five cameras all of which Need to have a battery to run everything a second battery ready and a third battery charging then you have five cameras You need 15 batteries if you have lights as well. You could have that many again So there is there is a foreseeable Scenario under which you'd have like 30 or more V-matter batteries on set But the huge advantage to filmmaking is that it just gives you flexibility. It means you can take really bright lights A long way from power not have to run a generator that kills your sound not have to run cables and With all these new great led fixtures out there you can do double-duty with the Batteries that you have using the power of the camera using the power lights It's just a great system to have that's super flexible and just frees us from the limitations that Filmmaking used to have thanks very much for watching guys Leave the questions in the comments, and I will see you next time