Gadgetory

this is the nard box what you may ask well it's a portable backup and editing system for content creators on the go you can create edit and share your photos and videos without the need for a computer that's really interesting because content creators including myself relies heavily on a computer to edit and share their videos it can be their desktop workstations or it could be their laptops when they're on the go so you may be also wondering why would you ever take a look at a product like this instead of reviewing some gaming accessory or some other gaming keyboards you know the drill but the simple answer to that is we are trying to explore in your gadgets and this is one of them so let's find out what it is and how it works right after message from our sponsor Coolermaster is hosting an exciting overwatch tournament with a $40,000 prize pool that will go towards one High School Robotics team you can watch live on Twitch or visit the eSports arena downtown Santa Ana for free more info at Coolermaster Invitational comm okay before I share my thoughts on the non box I wanted to set a baseline or point of reference as to where I'm coming from you see I'm a content creator and I do get the opportunity to travel around for events covering products and whatnot and a lot of that includes filming and if I find something interesting I would want to share with the team in high quality resolution so the only way to do that is to pop out the SD card for my camera pull it into my computer open a premiere take a frame grab and then export it and send it via email to my team members and to myself so that I can share it on Instagram or Twitter that's a complicated process this is something where the non box comes into play because it eliminates the need for a computer to share your content or your pictures or a videos so what exactly is it well it's a pocket-sized device that comes with an SSD a processor wireless capabilities a built in battery and a card reader an all-in-one package which looks pretty awesome so how does this work well picture this you're traveling with your DSLR or mirrorless camera shooting stills and videos or videos and you're looking to share something quickly so you wanted to pull out the raw file that you shot and you wanted to share it to Instagram or Twitter or any somewhere else that you like to or you want to so what you would do is you would pop out the SD card from your cam and insert it on the NAR box then you'd power on the unit which by the way creates its own wireless hotspot for your smartphone to connect to and by the way I do have to mention that the NAR box functions with the help of a smartphones once you complete the pairing process to the unit via the hotspot you can fire up the nar box app which is available for download on both the Google Play Store for Android and the Apple Store or the App Store for iOS as you can see under the devices tab the nar box recognizes the SD card for some reason my card showed up as no-name although I did format my card to Canon since I shoot on scene 100 speaking of the c100 the nar box officially does not support dot mts files which is an ABC HD codec that the camera shoots with so for the purpose of this video of using dimitris g h5 mp4 files because that is officially supported by the nar box it also supports MOV JPEG PNG and Roth file formats from cameras like Sony Canon Nikon Panasonic Fuji film and Olympus you see the c100 is a professional video camera and I don't think using an R box with cameras of this caliber would make any sense especially if you're shooting on a red or a black magic or even high-end Sony cameras because those cameras shoot on different codecs and I don't think the NAR box would be efficient enough to transcode and process those high resolution videos anyways coming back to the UI the user has the option to select the required footage to backup to the 128 gigabyte internal SSD the transfer speeds are approximately 60 to 70 megabytes per second which isn't too bad but there are also different ways to transfer media to the NAR box as you can see there's a microSD card slot USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports along with a USB 3.0 micro B port if you happen to use a cephas card you can plug in your desired card reader of choice and transfer files that way the NAR box can even host external hard drives like the Samsung t3 SSD in my case I had about 10 RAW files shot on my t1 I and they were backed up on this Drive so it was nice to see support external storage solutions that semi-professionals use on a regular basis then our box also comes with a charging cord which is obviously a short one it's a USB 3.0 cable so you can plug it into your computer and charge it that way or it's a battery bank with a USB 2.0 port would be sufficient hardware wise there's an Intel quad core atom I processor two gigs of RAM along with Intel HD graphics to process photos and videos so when you're editing them the changes happen in real time within the now box and not the phone it's also shockproof and water-resistant so that's nice to have for photographers on the go let's hop into a quick demo so you guys are aware of how the app works with respect to the device so I've powered on in our box and my phone is connected to the wireless hotspot give it about a minute or two for the gnar box or your phone to search for non wireless network because the nut box takes about a minute or two to initialize that process but once you're connected you can just go ahead and fire in our Box app and as you can see we're greeted with the home screen and you can see that there the media is organized by date so we have two new trees a jh5 footage over here on July the fifth and the photos that I took before that were organized which is over here these are the dot mts clouds from fc100 unfortunately in our box doesn't support that we have as we scroll down you can see that I have my older photos so in terms of organization it's actually pretty cool this is interesting that's not right honestly so media organization within the app is not that great as you can see it literally organizes it randomly or I guess in my case I took this photo way before October the 16th or way after or after October the 16th so that seems a little odd here so this was taken this year but this was taken last year and yeah it organizes it the other way around which is weird the other glitch is that when when I want to click on this particular folder so the motherboard shot it opens the organization way from the beginning so it doesn't actually go to that particular portion where the photos are which again is another glitch there are some stock videos and stock photos that in our box includes within the app but let's go ahead and edit a photo let's do that first so let's pick a photo I'm going to pick this photo over here is the Samsung Galaxy s8 thumbnail that I created or that I shot for the video so this is a dot cr2 file directly shot raw from the t1 hi let's go ahead and edit this and as you can see the editing tab very straightforward you have controls for exposure contrast highlights shadows white white balance or temperatures intensity there isn't sharpness for summaries no no why they don't have been included I was also expecting to see filters on this timeline or this tab but it's not here on the Android phone which is odd because on their website I did I do see a filters option but on Android app it's not they're really weird but let's go ahead and tune this image alright I just did a little bit of tuning and I think I like that image but you when you tap again it shows the edited version when you unwrap it that's the raw version but I like how this turns out quick turned out but that's pretty cool you can also reset the entire thing if you want to all the way over there that just resets the whole changes that you made you can also undo the recent change that you made you can also crop photos so if you want to crop photos you can do that let's go ahead and export this so here the option to export it to the NAR Box directly or you can export it to the gallery within your phone so I'm going to go ahead and export it to the gallery on my phone so give it some time so the wheel tab is where you can actually pitch together and you know stitch together a video if you want to so let's go ahead so I made this wheel for about a minute I think it's a minute long but I just put put in I put in random jh5 clips I also put in a song so let's go ahead and watch that first oh wait okay that didn't turn out that well did it but let me walk you through what exactly went wrong with that video first up there was no way to import footage directly to the timeline and then trim them accordingly I had to go through every shot within the device and then trim them one by one and then send them to the real timeline next up video effects or transitions there is absolutely nothing built into the app which is disappointing I mean how hard is it to include simple fade in and fade out transitions or even audio transitions there was no way for me to fade in audio and then fade out the audio at the end of the video which is really bad gnar bucks officially claims that you could color corrected footage within the editing tab and I was pretty excited to try that but I wasn't able to find any adjustments within the app even basic controls like brightness contrast and saturation we're missing the virtual app overview on their website clearly shows editing options at the bottom and that also includes the App Store for iOS devices but switching to Google Play for Android reveals the lack of those adjustment options so there are a few things that we could take away from this either naar box is providing us with some BS marketing features to increase their sales or this advanced color correcting option is iOS friendly I'll be I did test the app on my android phone and I didn't get a chance to test it on an iOS device because I don't own one but the fact that they claimed that it can be edited on their app alone itself raises a lot of questions so that I found it to be a little odd oh and did I forget to mention its price $300 guys that's what you'll be paying for a half-baked product and it only comes with a 128 gigabyte SSD which isn't that large to store raw photos and 4k videos and unfortunately that's the only model they sell the naar box also gets hot during idle and load operations like rendering videos I almost burn my fingers when trying to turn this off after rendering that 4k video so that's my experience with the knob box to be honest with you I was really excited to try this out when unboxing this thing but I'm not going to be happy when putting this back inside the box because I don't see a use of this because the app itself is completely horrible at least for my Android phone so yeah I don't think I'll be using this any time soon so what do you guys think of the gnar box it's obviously not a perfect product but I want to hear your thoughts about it about the design is it a flip or flop let us know in the comments down below I'm Eva with Haruka next thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one