WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by switchtitle 1 00:00:13.291 --> 00:00:14.875 This is Self-Directed Research. 2 00:00:15.375 --> 00:00:17.375 Our hosts, James and Amos, host weekly 3 00:00:17.375 --> 00:00:19.125 hyper-focused technical deep dives. 4 00:00:19.666 --> 00:00:21.791 In this episode, Amos gives us a tour of 5 00:00:21.791 --> 00:00:23.416 their entire recording setup with 6 00:00:23.666 --> 00:00:25.333 "All you need is three iPhones." 7 00:00:26.041 --> 00:00:27.375 Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe 8 00:00:27.375 --> 00:00:28.750 wherever you find us and visit 9 00:00:28.750 --> 00:00:31.375 sdr-podcast.com/episodes for all 10 00:00:31.375 --> 00:00:32.583 the presentations, videos, 11 00:00:32.916 --> 00:00:33.958 show notes, and transcripts. 12 00:00:34.541 --> 00:00:36.375 And as usual, stay tuned to the end to 13 00:00:36.375 --> 00:00:37.625 hear more about Depot, the 14 00:00:37.625 --> 00:00:38.708 sponsor of this episode. 15 00:00:43.458 --> 00:00:45.208 I'm hoping to finally 16 00:00:45.208 --> 00:00:46.958 fucking do a short one. 17 00:00:49.125 --> 00:00:51.041 I'm apologetic in advance. 18 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:54.166 I know people who use content blockers to 19 00:00:54.166 --> 00:00:56.125 prevent them from visiting certain 20 00:00:56.125 --> 00:00:58.083 websites, like social media or whatever. 21 00:00:58.458 --> 00:00:59.708 I'm the owner of my 22 00:00:59.708 --> 00:01:01.375 computer, that does not work on me. 23 00:01:01.375 --> 00:01:02.791 I know how to disable it. 24 00:01:03.041 --> 00:01:04.208 I need to grow a spine 25 00:01:04.208 --> 00:01:05.916 or a will, I don't know. 26 00:01:06.666 --> 00:01:08.708 I sent a link to what my homepage is and 27 00:01:08.708 --> 00:01:09.750 yeah, I can tell you 28 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:10.750 that doesn't work for me. 29 00:01:11.125 --> 00:01:13.875 Exactly, all the "get back 30 00:01:13.875 --> 00:01:15.416 to work" things don't work. 31 00:01:15.875 --> 00:01:17.458 Oh yeah, that one. 32 00:01:17.916 --> 00:01:19.250 So James, what do I have for you today? 33 00:01:19.583 --> 00:01:20.541 What do you have for me? 34 00:01:20.791 --> 00:01:22.875 You have to explain the original title of 35 00:01:22.875 --> 00:01:23.958 this because now it 36 00:01:23.958 --> 00:01:24.875 doesn't quite make sense. 37 00:01:24.875 --> 00:01:25.541 No, I do not. 38 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:28.458 The original title for this episode was 39 00:01:28.458 --> 00:01:31.166 "Shooting Yourself: but not in the foot." 40 00:01:31.333 --> 00:01:33.250 Oh yeah, the title is still here. 41 00:01:33.250 --> 00:01:34.333 That's what I mean. 42 00:01:34.375 --> 00:01:35.458 This doesn't make 43 00:01:35.458 --> 00:01:36.791 sense but it did before. 44 00:01:37.125 --> 00:01:38.416 No, I think it's great. 45 00:01:38.916 --> 00:01:40.791 I think we should leave in with no 46 00:01:40.791 --> 00:01:42.041 explanations whatsoever. 47 00:01:42.750 --> 00:01:44.083 "All you need is three 48 00:01:44.083 --> 00:01:45.958 iPhones: but not in the foot." 49 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:47.000 I thought it was like 50 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.250 that, just give it 50 amps. 51 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:49.208 You certainly will not 52 00:01:49.208 --> 00:01:50.416 regret giving it 50 amps. 53 00:01:50.416 --> 00:01:50.916 Exactly. 54 00:01:50.958 --> 00:01:52.166 All at once, no circuit breaker. 55 00:01:52.625 --> 00:01:54.000 Exactly, I think even just 56 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.333 one iPhone in the foot is probably too 57 00:01:55.333 --> 00:01:56.541 much, if I'm being honest. 58 00:01:58.541 --> 00:01:59.916 Anyways, I'm leaving now, bye. 59 00:02:00.083 --> 00:02:01.166 Bye Amanda. 60 00:02:01.791 --> 00:02:03.666 So James, I don't know if you recall, I 61 00:02:03.666 --> 00:02:04.750 don't know if you were conscious when you 62 00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:06.166 said that, but you said you would be 63 00:02:06.166 --> 00:02:08.541 interested in walking through my shooting 64 00:02:08.541 --> 00:02:10.958 setup, my studio, home studio, camera 65 00:02:10.958 --> 00:02:11.875 setup for my videos. 66 00:02:12.125 --> 00:02:12.791 Does that ring a bell? 67 00:02:12.791 --> 00:02:13.416 I'm intrigued about 68 00:02:13.416 --> 00:02:14.166 how you do everything. 69 00:02:14.375 --> 00:02:15.958 I think I was asking about your editing 70 00:02:15.958 --> 00:02:18.208 workflow, which I saw some shorts on, 71 00:02:18.208 --> 00:02:19.250 which looks super cool. 72 00:02:19.583 --> 00:02:20.458 But I would also love to 73 00:02:20.458 --> 00:02:22.166 know how you do filming as well. 74 00:02:22.708 --> 00:02:24.000 Well, okay, yeah, because if you don't 75 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:25.125 remember, if you're not interested, then 76 00:02:25.125 --> 00:02:26.083 I just spent three hours 77 00:02:26.083 --> 00:02:27.000 making slides for naught. 78 00:02:27.250 --> 00:02:28.250 So I hope you're 79 00:02:28.250 --> 00:02:29.166 actually interested in this. 80 00:02:29.166 --> 00:02:30.208 I am interested. 81 00:02:30.625 --> 00:02:31.458 Thank you, Amanda. 82 00:02:31.666 --> 00:02:32.083 There we go. 83 00:02:32.125 --> 00:02:33.541 Thank you for your support and for 84 00:02:33.541 --> 00:02:34.333 talking me out of the 85 00:02:34.333 --> 00:02:35.583 original title for this presentation. 86 00:02:35.833 --> 00:02:37.375 This presentation is now named "All You 87 00:02:37.375 --> 00:02:37.875 Need is Three 88 00:02:37.875 --> 00:02:39.541 iPhones, but not in the foot." 89 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:43.458 I started doing videos as a bit in 2019 90 00:02:43.458 --> 00:02:45.250 because someone said, "Wouldn't it be- can 91 00:02:45.250 --> 00:02:47.250 you imagine Amos being a YouTuber?" and I 92 00:02:47.250 --> 00:02:49.083 was like, "Ha ha, yeah... can you?" 93 00:02:49.916 --> 00:02:51.250 And then I made "The 94 00:02:51.250 --> 00:02:52.833 thing inside the thing." 95 00:02:52.833 --> 00:02:53.791 I don't know if you saw that one. 96 00:02:54.125 --> 00:02:56.250 Is there a name for the process of doing 97 00:02:56.250 --> 00:02:58.250 something ironically and then it becomes 98 00:02:58.250 --> 00:03:00.291 just like an endemic part of yourself? 99 00:03:00.583 --> 00:03:01.833 Because I feel like everyone who does 100 00:03:01.833 --> 00:03:04.208 things like say 'bro' ironically, it just 101 00:03:04.208 --> 00:03:05.208 becomes who they are. 102 00:03:05.458 --> 00:03:07.250 I don't love the comparison there, James. 103 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:08.250 I'm not going to lie. 104 00:03:08.541 --> 00:03:09.750 But yeah, I see what you mean. 105 00:03:10.625 --> 00:03:11.458 Bro, please. 106 00:03:11.916 --> 00:03:13.958 My first video that I made seriously on 107 00:03:13.958 --> 00:03:15.541 YouTube other than like-- because, okay, 108 00:03:15.541 --> 00:03:16.916 because I had my gamedev phase where I 109 00:03:16.916 --> 00:03:18.291 was like, look at my game prototype that 110 00:03:18.291 --> 00:03:19.583 nobody's going to download or buy. 111 00:03:20.416 --> 00:03:22.083 Some people bought games that I made. 112 00:03:22.125 --> 00:03:23.750 I owe them money because I was like, 113 00:03:23.750 --> 00:03:24.875 "Yeah, yeah, there's going to be updates." 114 00:03:24.875 --> 00:03:25.625 There never were updates. 115 00:03:25.666 --> 00:03:26.750 There was a Christmas update. 116 00:03:26.750 --> 00:03:27.916 It's pretty bad. 117 00:03:27.916 --> 00:03:29.833 If you bought Lestac, just hit me up. 118 00:03:29.833 --> 00:03:31.166 I'll refund the seven dollars. 119 00:03:31.541 --> 00:03:32.666 I know it's been eight years. 120 00:03:33.208 --> 00:03:33.500 That's okay. 121 00:03:34.083 --> 00:03:35.500 So I made a first video called "The Thing 122 00:03:35.500 --> 00:03:36.791 Inside the Thing" because I really like 123 00:03:36.791 --> 00:03:38.875 the idea of when you boot up a computer, 124 00:03:39.291 --> 00:03:40.916 it shows something on the screen, even 125 00:03:40.916 --> 00:03:41.916 though it's not booted 126 00:03:41.916 --> 00:03:43.291 into an operating system yet, right. 127 00:03:43.291 --> 00:03:45.333 It always broke my brain that on Windows 128 00:03:45.333 --> 00:03:46.791 you have to install drivers for Nvidia, 129 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.583 but it can already show some things even 130 00:03:48.583 --> 00:03:49.958 before you install the drivers and even 131 00:03:49.958 --> 00:03:51.083 before Windows boot up. 132 00:03:51.125 --> 00:03:52.083 So there's already a 133 00:03:52.083 --> 00:03:52.833 computer inside your computer. 134 00:03:53.083 --> 00:03:54.041 So that was very fun. 135 00:03:54.333 --> 00:03:56.000 And I was shooting that with webcams 136 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.416 because I had a Logitech C920, which you 137 00:03:58.416 --> 00:03:59.166 can see on the slides. 138 00:03:59.166 --> 00:04:00.916 If you go to sdr-podcast/ 139 00:04:00.916 --> 00:04:03.125 episodes, you can get that. 140 00:04:03.125 --> 00:04:04.166 You can't see me, but that 141 00:04:04.166 --> 00:04:05.916 is, I believe, the exact camera. 142 00:04:05.916 --> 00:04:07.083 I think I might have a different revision 143 00:04:07.083 --> 00:04:08.541 because mine doesn't look exactly like 144 00:04:08.541 --> 00:04:09.916 that, but I'm pretty sure it's a C920. 145 00:04:10.125 --> 00:04:12.041 You have the C922, but... 146 00:04:12.333 --> 00:04:13.833 Very common cameras. 147 00:04:14.125 --> 00:04:17.083 Logitech is headquartered in Lausanne, I 148 00:04:17.083 --> 00:04:19.458 think, next to where I studied at EPFL. 149 00:04:19.875 --> 00:04:22.333 And they make stuff that's 150 00:04:22.333 --> 00:04:23.625 sometimes good and sometimes not. 151 00:04:23.916 --> 00:04:27.583 My naive line of thought was it's 1080p, 152 00:04:27.583 --> 00:04:28.583 so it's going to be good. 153 00:04:29.166 --> 00:04:30.000 It was-- chat: 154 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:30.875 It was not good. 155 00:04:30.875 --> 00:04:33.541 It is decent for video calls, 156 00:04:35.041 --> 00:04:37.166 but it's not really suited for YouTube. 157 00:04:37.458 --> 00:04:38.750 Given enough lighting and 158 00:04:38.750 --> 00:04:40.125 given enough constraint. 159 00:04:40.708 --> 00:04:42.083 I discovered so late that you need light. 160 00:04:42.125 --> 00:04:43.625 Anyway, at some point 161 00:04:43.625 --> 00:04:44.958 I wanted to upgrade. 162 00:04:44.958 --> 00:04:45.958 I was like, oh, I'm going to get a 163 00:04:45.958 --> 00:04:48.500 Logitech Brio, which this one does 4K 164 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:50.625 30fps, but it still has 165 00:04:50.625 --> 00:04:52.541 this tiny, tiny little lens. 166 00:04:53.166 --> 00:04:55.708 And it says 4K, but like if you plug it 167 00:04:55.708 --> 00:04:58.083 in wrong, it'll silently downgrade the 168 00:04:58.083 --> 00:05:00.250 quality to some heavily compressed stuff. 169 00:05:00.666 --> 00:05:02.041 And it's just not great. 170 00:05:02.666 --> 00:05:05.000 And back then I was using OBS, which is 171 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:06.625 which is what I don't know everybody 172 00:05:06.625 --> 00:05:07.666 streaming on Twitch does. 173 00:05:08.125 --> 00:05:10.083 They use OBS Studio or a fork thereof. 174 00:05:10.333 --> 00:05:12.666 There's... I forget the name, but there's 175 00:05:12.666 --> 00:05:14.458 like the green logo thingy where they 176 00:05:14.458 --> 00:05:15.291 have integration with 177 00:05:15.291 --> 00:05:17.166 their own marketplace. 178 00:05:17.166 --> 00:05:19.833 It's just all forks of OBS and OBS itself 179 00:05:19.833 --> 00:05:22.250 is I hear a pretty dirty code base when 180 00:05:22.250 --> 00:05:23.416 it comes to audio and stuff. 181 00:05:23.416 --> 00:05:25.000 They recently had an article that was 182 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.833 like, "Oh, whoops, for those two codecs, 183 00:05:26.833 --> 00:05:28.166 there has been a hundred 184 00:05:28.166 --> 00:05:30.250 millisecond delay for 15 years. 185 00:05:30.250 --> 00:05:32.250 We just never found out about it." 186 00:05:32.250 --> 00:05:32.958 And it's fun. 187 00:05:32.958 --> 00:05:34.208 It's a project that needs more 188 00:05:34.208 --> 00:05:35.416 contributors that know 189 00:05:35.416 --> 00:05:36.291 actually what they're doing. 190 00:05:37.458 --> 00:05:37.791 No shade. 191 00:05:37.791 --> 00:05:39.000 It's a very useful tool. 192 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:39.708 It's foundational. 193 00:05:39.958 --> 00:05:40.875 I would say I use OBS. 194 00:05:41.291 --> 00:05:42.541 Anything that I've ever done on YouTube 195 00:05:42.541 --> 00:05:44.250 or Twitch has been through OBS. 196 00:05:44.500 --> 00:05:45.583 So I stopped using OBS when 197 00:05:45.583 --> 00:05:46.791 I started using CleanShot. 198 00:05:47.375 --> 00:05:48.583 This is going to be a series of things 199 00:05:48.583 --> 00:05:49.375 where you say, "This is what 200 00:05:49.375 --> 00:05:50.541 I used to do and it's bad." 201 00:05:50.541 --> 00:05:51.625 And I go, "That's cool. 202 00:05:51.875 --> 00:05:53.250 That's what I used to do." 203 00:05:53.250 --> 00:05:53.916 But you still do. 204 00:05:54.125 --> 00:05:54.583 Yeah, I know. 205 00:05:54.833 --> 00:05:55.250 No, no, no. 206 00:05:55.250 --> 00:05:56.041 OBS is great. 207 00:05:56.041 --> 00:05:57.125 I just got tired of setting up-- 208 00:05:57.125 --> 00:05:58.875 It's bad for me to capture just a little 209 00:05:58.875 --> 00:05:59.958 bit of one interaction 210 00:05:59.958 --> 00:06:01.541 when I show like this button. 211 00:06:01.541 --> 00:06:02.625 You drag that over here. 212 00:06:02.833 --> 00:06:03.875 CleanShot is so good at that because 213 00:06:03.875 --> 00:06:04.833 it's good for 214 00:06:04.833 --> 00:06:06.083 screenshots, but also for screencast. 215 00:06:06.125 --> 00:06:07.625 So you just drag around the 216 00:06:07.625 --> 00:06:08.833 area you want to record, it-- 217 00:06:08.833 --> 00:06:09.833 This is not an ad for 218 00:06:09.833 --> 00:06:11.250 CleanShot, but God damn it. 219 00:06:11.250 --> 00:06:12.416 They should sponsor me! 220 00:06:12.750 --> 00:06:13.708 I already emailed them 221 00:06:13.708 --> 00:06:15.083 like, "Let me pick the codec." 222 00:06:15.458 --> 00:06:17.083 Are CleanShot and Cleanfeed related 223 00:06:17.083 --> 00:06:18.541 in any way, or do you just have an affinity 224 00:06:18.541 --> 00:06:20.000 for tools that start with 'clean'? 225 00:06:20.625 --> 00:06:21.250 I do. 226 00:06:21.625 --> 00:06:23.125 I-- it's a complete coincidence. 227 00:06:23.333 --> 00:06:25.166 Cleanfeed is done by audio nerds and 228 00:06:25.166 --> 00:06:27.250 CleanShot is done by, I don't know, one 229 00:06:27.250 --> 00:06:29.291 of the many people who-- we've talked about 230 00:06:29.291 --> 00:06:30.958 before, have that product sensibility 231 00:06:30.958 --> 00:06:32.833 because they use macOS and just like 232 00:06:32.833 --> 00:06:33.958 neatly packaged things. 233 00:06:34.125 --> 00:06:35.958 Just like making you pay 15 bucks a month 234 00:06:35.958 --> 00:06:37.125 for some open source code. 235 00:06:38.458 --> 00:06:40.375 That's what the Mac apps are. 236 00:06:40.375 --> 00:06:43.833 So I was using OBS and after that I 237 00:06:43.833 --> 00:06:45.708 discovered, hey, people use real cameras. 238 00:06:45.708 --> 00:06:46.708 Let's buy a real camera. 239 00:06:46.708 --> 00:06:50.250 I already had a Canon something, but it 240 00:06:50.250 --> 00:06:51.958 didn't have clean HDMI out. 241 00:06:51.958 --> 00:06:55.541 So I bought a Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5. 242 00:06:55.875 --> 00:06:57.041 Why do things have two brand 243 00:06:57.041 --> 00:06:58.583 names and three model names? 244 00:06:58.583 --> 00:06:59.041 I don't know. 245 00:06:59.375 --> 00:07:01.333 Welcome to AV and a 246 00:07:01.333 --> 00:07:02.083 capture card that goes with it. 247 00:07:02.125 --> 00:07:04.208 There's a bunch of cheap 248 00:07:04.208 --> 00:07:07.083 HDMI to USB little USB dongles. 249 00:07:07.875 --> 00:07:10.125 You can find those on AliExpress for, I 250 00:07:10.125 --> 00:07:10.958 don't know, 10 bucks. 251 00:07:11.750 --> 00:07:14.541 Most of them are completely crap. 252 00:07:14.541 --> 00:07:17.291 They only do 1080p something and they're 253 00:07:17.291 --> 00:07:18.500 going to drop out and the 254 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:19.458 call is going to be terrible. 255 00:07:19.458 --> 00:07:20.083 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 256 00:07:20.333 --> 00:07:21.291 That thing on the screen 257 00:07:21.291 --> 00:07:23.125 is on the opposite end. 258 00:07:23.125 --> 00:07:24.625 It's probably too expensive for it. 259 00:07:24.625 --> 00:07:25.375 I didn't need that. 260 00:07:25.666 --> 00:07:26.416 Nobody needed that. 261 00:07:26.416 --> 00:07:27.000 I just got obsessed 262 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:28.375 with the idea of 4K 60 FPS. 263 00:07:28.625 --> 00:07:29.625 I made a whole video about it. 264 00:07:29.625 --> 00:07:31.083 It got 12 views and then I don't know. 265 00:07:31.125 --> 00:07:32.083 I moved on. 266 00:07:32.375 --> 00:07:34.625 So wait, what this on the screen that you're 267 00:07:34.625 --> 00:07:36.625 talking about is a PCI express card. 268 00:07:36.625 --> 00:07:38.208 I'm guessing that's an Elgato 4K 269 00:07:38.208 --> 00:07:41.708 60 Pro MK.2 and you 270 00:07:41.708 --> 00:07:42.791 cannot use it with OBS. 271 00:07:42.791 --> 00:07:44.750 Well, you can, but if you use it with OBS 272 00:07:44.750 --> 00:07:46.791 you're limited resolution and frame rate, 273 00:07:46.791 --> 00:07:48.958 you have to use the Elgato 4K Capture 274 00:07:48.958 --> 00:07:52.416 Utility, which I hate with a passion 275 00:07:52.416 --> 00:07:54.666 because it sometimes silently fails. 276 00:07:55.208 --> 00:07:57.041 I have somewhere a list of all the 277 00:07:57.041 --> 00:07:58.875 reasons why I lost footage 278 00:07:58.875 --> 00:08:00.083 and ummm... 279 00:08:00.125 --> 00:08:02.375 It's definitely on that list. 280 00:08:02.916 --> 00:08:04.333 By the way, the screenshot I found 281 00:08:04.333 --> 00:08:07.000 randomly on the Internet of that tool is 282 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.125 a bunch of memory corruption. 283 00:08:09.541 --> 00:08:11.000 Yeah, just terrible visual artifacts. 284 00:08:11.416 --> 00:08:13.708 Like you said that you kept a list and 285 00:08:13.708 --> 00:08:15.416 all I'm thinking is like Game of Thrones, 286 00:08:15.416 --> 00:08:18.125 like Arya Stark, like listing the people 287 00:08:18.125 --> 00:08:19.458 that have caused her pain. 288 00:08:19.458 --> 00:08:20.583 And that's you with like 289 00:08:20.583 --> 00:08:22.791 dropped frames and lost shots. 290 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.000 Yeah, but it's not people. 291 00:08:24.291 --> 00:08:26.666 It's just like forgot to turn on the-- 292 00:08:26.666 --> 00:08:28.541 because like when you record sound and 293 00:08:28.541 --> 00:08:30.375 image separately, you're bound to forget 294 00:08:30.375 --> 00:08:31.291 to turn on one of them. 295 00:08:31.541 --> 00:08:32.000 I don't know. 296 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:32.958 There's always something. 297 00:08:33.041 --> 00:08:34.458 Moving on to mics. 298 00:08:34.458 --> 00:08:35.125 What did I use? 299 00:08:35.125 --> 00:08:37.208 I never used the mic from the webcam 300 00:08:37.208 --> 00:08:40.458 because it was always in a room that's 301 00:08:40.458 --> 00:08:43.333 untreated and has rough, well, not rough, 302 00:08:43.333 --> 00:08:44.625 but like solid walls. 303 00:08:44.625 --> 00:08:45.708 There's a lot of refractions. 304 00:08:46.416 --> 00:08:47.458 So just going to talk about 305 00:08:47.458 --> 00:08:48.833 a bunch of mics for a bit. 306 00:08:49.333 --> 00:08:51.250 And the first thing you need to know 307 00:08:51.250 --> 00:08:53.333 about mics is they have polar patterns, 308 00:08:53.333 --> 00:08:56.333 which define which direction they're 309 00:08:56.333 --> 00:08:57.541 capturing sound from. 310 00:08:58.125 --> 00:08:59.666 And all the mics we're going to see 311 00:08:59.666 --> 00:09:00.791 today, well, most of the mics we're going 312 00:09:00.791 --> 00:09:01.708 to see today have a 313 00:09:01.708 --> 00:09:03.291 cardioid polar pattern. 314 00:09:03.875 --> 00:09:05.625 And for those of you who are not looking 315 00:09:05.625 --> 00:09:06.583 at the slide right now, 316 00:09:06.583 --> 00:09:07.875 how can we describe that? 317 00:09:08.125 --> 00:09:10.208 They mostly pick up sound from the front 318 00:09:10.208 --> 00:09:12.375 and try to reject sound from the back. 319 00:09:12.375 --> 00:09:14.583 It's an upside down figure eight where 320 00:09:14.583 --> 00:09:16.458 the bottom of the eight is, or in this 321 00:09:16.458 --> 00:09:17.083 case, the top of the 322 00:09:17.083 --> 00:09:17.916 eight is much bigger. 323 00:09:18.208 --> 00:09:20.041 I see a butt, but... 324 00:09:20.041 --> 00:09:21.000 Yeah, it's fair. It's a very lumpy butt. 325 00:09:21.500 --> 00:09:22.833 Well, no, I guess the cardioid pattern. 326 00:09:23.125 --> 00:09:23.625 Yeah, it's a butt. 327 00:09:23.625 --> 00:09:24.291 I was looking at the super 328 00:09:24.291 --> 00:09:26.083 cardioid and the hyper cardioid. 329 00:09:26.208 --> 00:09:28.291 Yeah, the first mic I used is a mic I 330 00:09:28.291 --> 00:09:29.791 bought to record music. 331 00:09:30.125 --> 00:09:31.416 It's the RØDE NT1-A. 332 00:09:31.750 --> 00:09:33.083 Do NOT buy this mic. 333 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:33.875 First of all, because 334 00:09:33.875 --> 00:09:34.708 that's not what it is anymore. 335 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:36.541 But second of all, because they released 336 00:09:36.541 --> 00:09:38.750 the RØDE NT1 without the A. 337 00:09:39.083 --> 00:09:41.375 I don't know how it works at RØDE. 338 00:09:41.375 --> 00:09:42.666 Fun fact, you don't say Röde. 339 00:09:42.916 --> 00:09:45.125 I just watched a short by some French 340 00:09:45.125 --> 00:09:46.708 guy, the Audiofanzine channel, and they 341 00:09:46.708 --> 00:09:48.666 say the founder of RØDE. 342 00:09:49.083 --> 00:09:50.416 Like because RØDE is like 343 00:09:50.416 --> 00:09:51.875 Rode with the O stricken. 344 00:09:52.375 --> 00:09:53.916 So you think it's from some Nordic 345 00:09:53.916 --> 00:09:54.708 language or whatever. 346 00:09:55.125 --> 00:09:56.625 No, you say it 'Röde' instead of Rode-- 347 00:09:56.875 --> 00:09:57.750 They just did the slash 348 00:09:57.750 --> 00:09:58.833 for stylistic reasons. 349 00:09:59.125 --> 00:10:00.583 This isn't like when we put cool umlauts 350 00:10:00.583 --> 00:10:02.750 on every vowel just for comedic effect. 351 00:10:02.750 --> 00:10:04.125 No, it's not an umlaut, it's the thing. 352 00:10:04.291 --> 00:10:06.125 If it was, then yeah, it would be a Röde! 353 00:10:06.250 --> 00:10:07.791 But it's just a slash and it's not even 354 00:10:07.791 --> 00:10:08.916 from Sweden or whatever. 355 00:10:09.125 --> 00:10:10.291 You know where they are from? 356 00:10:10.541 --> 00:10:12.458 This was a question on a pub quiz from 357 00:10:12.458 --> 00:10:14.000 last week and I got it correct. 358 00:10:14.625 --> 00:10:17.375 I just looked it up earlier today. 359 00:10:17.375 --> 00:10:18.000 They're from Australia? 360 00:10:18.416 --> 00:10:19.291 New Zealand, I think. 361 00:10:19.583 --> 00:10:19.875 Pff same... 362 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:21.208 Same!? 363 00:10:21.708 --> 00:10:22.083 Oh, God. 364 00:10:22.125 --> 00:10:24.250 Oh, you just upset like four people who 365 00:10:24.250 --> 00:10:25.833 are very far away from us. 366 00:10:25.833 --> 00:10:27.000 I have seven more 367 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:28.541 letters to write by hand. 368 00:10:28.791 --> 00:10:29.416 I'm so sorry. 369 00:10:30.375 --> 00:10:31.875 Anyway, it's fun fact from me. 370 00:10:31.875 --> 00:10:32.125 You're welcome. 371 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:33.916 Beautiful fact, beautiful factory. 372 00:10:33.916 --> 00:10:34.250 Beautiful 373 00:10:34.666 --> 00:10:36.541 landscapes, things trying to kill you. 374 00:10:36.541 --> 00:10:36.875 I don't know. 375 00:10:36.875 --> 00:10:37.208 Same thing. 376 00:10:38.041 --> 00:10:39.958 So don't buy the RØDE NT1-A because they 377 00:10:39.958 --> 00:10:42.916 came out with the RØDE NT1, which has a 378 00:10:42.916 --> 00:10:44.416 built-in USB audio 379 00:10:44.416 --> 00:10:47.291 interface and a floating point. 380 00:10:47.583 --> 00:10:49.958 Yeah, 32-bit floating point support. 381 00:10:50.541 --> 00:10:51.083 And it's just nicer. 382 00:10:51.125 --> 00:10:54.291 Anyway, this is a studio condenser mic. 383 00:10:55.166 --> 00:10:57.000 It has a cardioid polar pattern. 384 00:10:57.166 --> 00:10:57.833 And the acoustic 385 00:10:57.833 --> 00:10:59.333 principle is pressure gradient. 386 00:10:59.875 --> 00:11:01.083 James, do you want to see a nice little 387 00:11:01.083 --> 00:11:02.083 diagram of how that works? 388 00:11:02.541 --> 00:11:03.333 I would love to see a nice 389 00:11:03.333 --> 00:11:04.666 little diagram of how that works. 390 00:11:04.666 --> 00:11:05.375 Oh, wow. 391 00:11:05.375 --> 00:11:06.250 Here we go. 392 00:11:06.250 --> 00:11:07.708 Can you describe it for me, please? 393 00:11:07.708 --> 00:11:10.416 I see some greens that are coming in. 394 00:11:10.416 --> 00:11:10.875 They're hitting a 395 00:11:10.875 --> 00:11:12.750 membrane and what looks like a... 396 00:11:13.041 --> 00:11:14.458 It says bias, I guess that... 397 00:11:14.750 --> 00:11:17.083 Well, it looks like either a cell or a 398 00:11:17.083 --> 00:11:19.333 capacitor pattern going into an 399 00:11:19.333 --> 00:11:20.083 operational amplifier. 400 00:11:20.125 --> 00:11:21.541 That is just marked 401 00:11:21.541 --> 00:11:23.166 gain and signal processing. 402 00:11:23.166 --> 00:11:24.250 I know some of those words. 403 00:11:24.250 --> 00:11:25.833 So yeah, it looks like sound comes in, 404 00:11:25.833 --> 00:11:27.375 crushes the box, and then there's a 405 00:11:27.375 --> 00:11:28.333 little equalization 406 00:11:28.333 --> 00:11:29.333 vent that takes it out. 407 00:11:30.166 --> 00:11:31.583 Okay, so there is a membrane. 408 00:11:31.666 --> 00:11:33.125 It's the important part, I think. 409 00:11:33.458 --> 00:11:35.125 And when sound indeed comes in, it makes 410 00:11:35.125 --> 00:11:36.333 the membrane vibrate. 411 00:11:36.333 --> 00:11:38.791 And that membrane is charged with an 412 00:11:38.791 --> 00:11:40.083 electrical voltage, which 413 00:11:40.083 --> 00:11:42.041 means you need phantom power. 414 00:11:42.041 --> 00:11:43.041 So I'm going to go to the 415 00:11:43.041 --> 00:11:43.958 next slide for a little bit. 416 00:11:43.958 --> 00:11:46.416 You know that 48 volts little button that 417 00:11:46.416 --> 00:11:48.500 you have on the Scarlett 418 00:11:48.500 --> 00:11:49.083 Solo that I made you buy? 419 00:11:49.125 --> 00:11:50.250 Yep. 420 00:11:50.750 --> 00:11:51.958 And I had to look up whether I needed it 421 00:11:51.958 --> 00:11:53.958 for my mic, and my mic does not need it. 422 00:11:53.958 --> 00:11:54.041 And do you? 423 00:11:54.041 --> 00:11:54.875 No, I do not. 424 00:11:55.166 --> 00:11:57.041 Because your mic is not a condenser mic. 425 00:11:57.041 --> 00:11:59.458 Your mic is a dynamic mic. 426 00:11:59.458 --> 00:11:59.666 Yes. 427 00:12:00.250 --> 00:12:01.666 Like the SM7B and you 428 00:12:01.666 --> 00:12:03.250 have an SM57, I think? 429 00:12:03.541 --> 00:12:05.833 It's the... whatever the round one... 430 00:12:05.833 --> 00:12:07.833 I always get the 58 and the 57 confused, 431 00:12:07.833 --> 00:12:09.375 but it's the round one, not the flat one. 432 00:12:09.625 --> 00:12:10.708 I don't know. 433 00:12:11.791 --> 00:12:12.833 It's the one for singing, 434 00:12:12.833 --> 00:12:14.125 not for miking up drums. 435 00:12:14.458 --> 00:12:15.125 I see. 436 00:12:15.208 --> 00:12:16.083 I have an SM7B. 437 00:12:16.083 --> 00:12:19.125 They have... It's just more expensive than the one you 438 00:12:19.125 --> 00:12:21.208 have, but for no good reason, because you 439 00:12:21.208 --> 00:12:23.250 can EQ your way from one to the other, 440 00:12:23.250 --> 00:12:24.333 which I learned too late. 441 00:12:24.708 --> 00:12:25.875 I spent useless money. 442 00:12:25.875 --> 00:12:27.416 Oh, this whole presentation is like, I 443 00:12:27.416 --> 00:12:28.958 regret spending money on things, but at 444 00:12:28.958 --> 00:12:30.041 least I learned a lesson. 445 00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:31.375 Anyway, I started with the 446 00:12:31.375 --> 00:12:33.125 NT1-A, which is a condenser mic. 447 00:12:33.125 --> 00:12:34.458 The problem with condenser mics is that 448 00:12:34.458 --> 00:12:39.500 they tend to capture a lot of room tone, 449 00:12:39.833 --> 00:12:42.083 like a lot of ambient noise, which is 450 00:12:42.083 --> 00:12:44.041 great if you are in a 451 00:12:44.041 --> 00:12:45.083 studio that sounds great. 452 00:12:45.125 --> 00:12:48.375 Like, you're on a soundstage or whatever. 453 00:12:48.375 --> 00:12:50.333 The space you're in is designed to 454 00:12:50.333 --> 00:12:51.416 perform music, and then 455 00:12:51.416 --> 00:12:52.375 you bring one of those in. 456 00:12:52.375 --> 00:12:52.875 It's going to capture 457 00:12:52.875 --> 00:12:53.791 exactly what you hear. 458 00:12:54.291 --> 00:12:57.458 But if you're like me in a very large, 459 00:12:57.458 --> 00:13:00.125 weird-ass living room slash kitchen slash 460 00:13:00.125 --> 00:13:02.750 TV room, whatever, it's very bad and you 461 00:13:02.750 --> 00:13:05.083 want something a lot more focused, like 462 00:13:05.083 --> 00:13:07.208 the RØDE PodMic, which is completely 463 00:13:07.208 --> 00:13:09.125 acceptable to start with. 464 00:13:09.125 --> 00:13:10.083 I think I would recommend it. 465 00:13:10.125 --> 00:13:11.125 It's under a 100. 466 00:13:11.708 --> 00:13:14.000 Or the SM7B, which is what you see 467 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.791 everywhere on every podcast, and it's too 468 00:13:16.791 --> 00:13:18.708 expensive for what it is. 469 00:13:18.708 --> 00:13:19.916 But I just got tired of 470 00:13:19.916 --> 00:13:20.916 messing around with sound. 471 00:13:20.916 --> 00:13:21.583 I was like, I'll just 472 00:13:21.583 --> 00:13:22.875 get what everyone has. 473 00:13:23.416 --> 00:13:25.166 You do need the rest of the things that 474 00:13:25.166 --> 00:13:25.833 go with it, like an 475 00:13:25.833 --> 00:13:26.833 external audio interface. 476 00:13:27.250 --> 00:13:30.000 Sometimes you need a FetHead or a Cloudlifter 477 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.416 to add some gain. 478 00:13:31.666 --> 00:13:32.833 I used to use them, but actually the 479 00:13:32.833 --> 00:13:33.833 Scarlett Solo, if you just max out 480 00:13:33.833 --> 00:13:35.208 the gain, it's actually okay. 481 00:13:35.625 --> 00:13:36.083 It's just... 482 00:13:36.125 --> 00:13:38.958 They have the exact same pattern, but 483 00:13:38.958 --> 00:13:43.166 both the SM7B and the RØDE PodMic are 484 00:13:43.166 --> 00:13:45.291 designed to try to only 485 00:13:45.291 --> 00:13:47.000 let in sound from the front. 486 00:13:47.125 --> 00:13:50.125 There's physical designs inside of them 487 00:13:50.125 --> 00:13:52.166 and the principle that does it so that 488 00:13:52.166 --> 00:13:54.125 it's more focused on 489 00:13:54.125 --> 00:13:55.208 what's close to it directly. 490 00:13:55.666 --> 00:13:56.208 What's really fun is 491 00:13:56.208 --> 00:13:57.833 these gain pattern diagrams. 492 00:13:58.166 --> 00:13:59.666 The only other place that I've seen them 493 00:13:59.666 --> 00:14:02.791 is for radio stuff, 494 00:14:03.041 --> 00:14:04.083 including Wi-Fi access points. 495 00:14:04.125 --> 00:14:06.416 If you go to the Ubiquiti website and go 496 00:14:06.416 --> 00:14:07.708 and look at any of their Wi-Fi access 497 00:14:07.708 --> 00:14:10.000 points, they'll have emission pattern 498 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.833 diagrams like this that show you what 499 00:14:12.833 --> 00:14:14.208 direction they have the 500 00:14:14.208 --> 00:14:16.625 strongest radio signal in. 501 00:14:16.625 --> 00:14:17.583 You can figure out whether you should 502 00:14:17.583 --> 00:14:19.750 mount it flat on the wall or on the 503 00:14:19.750 --> 00:14:20.708 ceiling, depending on 504 00:14:20.708 --> 00:14:21.916 where you are oriented to them. 505 00:14:22.166 --> 00:14:23.000 Because they're exactly that. 506 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.916 They're the gain either on transmission 507 00:14:25.916 --> 00:14:29.583 or reception of some energy source, 508 00:14:29.583 --> 00:14:31.083 whether that's a pressure wave for sound 509 00:14:31.083 --> 00:14:32.375 or a radio wave for 510 00:14:32.375 --> 00:14:33.083 Wi-Fi or any of these. 511 00:14:33.125 --> 00:14:36.208 You'll see these polar emission pattern 512 00:14:36.208 --> 00:14:38.083 diagrams in a bunch of different places. 513 00:14:38.083 --> 00:14:39.291 Yes, it's waved all the way down. 514 00:14:39.541 --> 00:14:41.458 I also have a nice little diagram for 515 00:14:41.458 --> 00:14:43.416 those dynamic microphones. 516 00:14:44.125 --> 00:14:47.208 The way they work is you also have what 517 00:14:47.208 --> 00:14:48.625 is also called a diaphragm. 518 00:14:48.875 --> 00:14:50.750 No, it's not a membrane this time. 519 00:14:50.750 --> 00:14:51.750 It's a diaphragm that 520 00:14:51.750 --> 00:14:53.333 is attached to a coil. 521 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.833 When the diaphragm vibrates in response 522 00:14:55.833 --> 00:14:58.125 to sound, it makes the coil move around 523 00:14:58.125 --> 00:14:59.833 the magnetic core and that generates 524 00:14:59.833 --> 00:15:02.083 electromagnetic flux. 525 00:15:03.208 --> 00:15:07.125 Which then is, yeah, then you have signal 526 00:15:07.125 --> 00:15:09.083 as voltage, I would imagine. 527 00:15:09.541 --> 00:15:11.125 I know so little about these things. 528 00:15:11.125 --> 00:15:12.291 I started learning about them. 529 00:15:12.291 --> 00:15:13.166 I got bad grades. 530 00:15:13.375 --> 00:15:15.541 I moved to computer science and I haven't 531 00:15:15.541 --> 00:15:16.416 gotten back to it yet. 532 00:15:16.875 --> 00:15:17.333 Hell yeah. 533 00:15:17.333 --> 00:15:19.916 I just did a deep dive on sound itself, 534 00:15:19.916 --> 00:15:21.083 but not this part of sound. 535 00:15:21.083 --> 00:15:22.291 I thought it might be a fun project to 536 00:15:22.291 --> 00:15:23.125 make your own mic, 537 00:15:23.625 --> 00:15:24.958 like your own shitty mic. 538 00:15:25.083 --> 00:15:25.833 That'd be very fun. 539 00:15:25.916 --> 00:15:27.250 I have no idea what it takes though, but 540 00:15:27.250 --> 00:15:28.708 apparently not much looking at this. 541 00:15:29.125 --> 00:15:30.750 So I like that the title of this was "You 542 00:15:30.750 --> 00:15:31.666 Need Three iPhones." 543 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:32.875 We're on slide 12. 544 00:15:33.125 --> 00:15:34.916 And now we've gotten into the physical 545 00:15:34.916 --> 00:15:36.291 theory of microphones. 546 00:15:36.291 --> 00:15:37.041 We haven't, yeah. 547 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:38.625 And we're about to look at lights. 548 00:15:39.083 --> 00:15:40.916 And a professional mic and some lights. 549 00:15:41.166 --> 00:15:42.625 Yeah, yeah, let's talk about lights. 550 00:15:42.708 --> 00:15:44.875 So those mics, okay, so this light is 551 00:15:44.875 --> 00:15:46.583 there to explain that I was doing 552 00:15:46.583 --> 00:15:47.833 everything from my desk. 553 00:15:47.833 --> 00:15:49.500 Because at first I used a webcam. 554 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:51.625 The webcam sits atop the display. 555 00:15:51.625 --> 00:15:53.416 And then you just kind of add the mic on 556 00:15:53.416 --> 00:15:56.291 the side with a mechanical arm like the 557 00:15:56.291 --> 00:15:58.125 RØDE PSA1, which is the thing everyone 558 00:15:58.125 --> 00:16:00.250 has, or the PSA1+, which is the same with 559 00:16:00.250 --> 00:16:01.041 a little sleeve that 560 00:16:01.041 --> 00:16:02.583 hides the metal arms. 561 00:16:03.208 --> 00:16:04.708 And then if you're an idiot like me, you 562 00:16:04.708 --> 00:16:06.041 realize, "Oh, I need light!" 563 00:16:06.291 --> 00:16:07.958 The thing that goes in the camera that 564 00:16:07.958 --> 00:16:09.583 produces the image is light. 565 00:16:09.583 --> 00:16:10.291 I need light. 566 00:16:10.666 --> 00:16:13.208 And the shitty IKEA light bulb I have at 567 00:16:13.208 --> 00:16:15.291 the ceiling is not really enough. 568 00:16:15.541 --> 00:16:18.041 So you get a set of softboxes. 569 00:16:18.333 --> 00:16:20.083 If you're an idiot like me, you get some 570 00:16:20.083 --> 00:16:24.166 LED ones that do RGB, but also have this 571 00:16:24.166 --> 00:16:26.083 little very annoying cooling system. 572 00:16:26.166 --> 00:16:29.125 So you get the "Eeee!" 573 00:16:29.666 --> 00:16:31.333 The background of all your recordings. 574 00:16:31.541 --> 00:16:33.458 And then you get one like the one I 575 00:16:33.458 --> 00:16:36.000 showed on the slide, an Interfit F5. 576 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:36.916 Don't buy it because 577 00:16:36.916 --> 00:16:38.041 you can't buy it anymore. 578 00:16:38.041 --> 00:16:39.083 They stop making it. 579 00:16:39.083 --> 00:16:40.083 I don't know why. 580 00:16:40.250 --> 00:16:42.583 It's just five CFL bulbs in 581 00:16:42.583 --> 00:16:44.000 a trench coat-- in a softbox. 582 00:16:44.458 --> 00:16:47.083 And softboxes are just really black 583 00:16:47.083 --> 00:16:49.916 fabric with something reflective inside. 584 00:16:50.458 --> 00:16:52.125 And then in the direction in which you 585 00:16:52.125 --> 00:16:53.333 want the light, you have two different 586 00:16:53.333 --> 00:16:54.083 layers of white fabric. 587 00:16:54.125 --> 00:16:56.583 So it really diffuses the light a lot. 588 00:16:56.583 --> 00:16:57.666 You don't get any sharp edges. 589 00:16:57.666 --> 00:16:59.041 You get a soft light. 590 00:16:59.375 --> 00:17:00.375 For everyone I've talked to who does 591 00:17:00.375 --> 00:17:02.208 video, they say that lighting is... 592 00:17:02.625 --> 00:17:04.666 A lot of people focus on cameras and 593 00:17:04.666 --> 00:17:05.208 other things like 594 00:17:05.208 --> 00:17:06.291 that when they start off. 595 00:17:06.291 --> 00:17:07.416 And that lighting is like... 596 00:17:07.416 --> 00:17:08.833 When you're learning how to cook, it's 597 00:17:08.833 --> 00:17:10.291 like adding the right amount of salt. 598 00:17:10.666 --> 00:17:12.541 Like everything else: your chopping 599 00:17:12.541 --> 00:17:14.708 technique, how you cut things all come 600 00:17:14.708 --> 00:17:16.208 second to just figuring 601 00:17:16.208 --> 00:17:17.333 out the right amount of salt. 602 00:17:17.541 --> 00:17:19.250 And that video is all figuring out the 603 00:17:19.250 --> 00:17:20.750 right amount of light for your setup. 604 00:17:21.583 --> 00:17:22.833 As you can imagine, having two... 605 00:17:23.041 --> 00:17:24.125 Those are actually pretty big. 606 00:17:24.333 --> 00:17:25.791 Those are like as big as me. 607 00:17:25.791 --> 00:17:27.666 They're like over two meters. 608 00:17:27.708 --> 00:17:29.583 Having those set up around your desk 609 00:17:29.583 --> 00:17:30.875 means that your desk is taking 610 00:17:30.875 --> 00:17:32.875 the space of like four desks. 611 00:17:32.958 --> 00:17:34.041 Because you need to now pull 612 00:17:34.041 --> 00:17:35.458 your desk away from the wall. 613 00:17:35.458 --> 00:17:37.250 Because you need space behind the desk to 614 00:17:37.250 --> 00:17:39.083 put those at a distance so that they 615 00:17:39.083 --> 00:17:40.041 light you up correctly. 616 00:17:40.250 --> 00:17:41.791 So what I used to do is I used to set 617 00:17:41.791 --> 00:17:43.750 everything up and tear everything down. 618 00:17:43.750 --> 00:17:45.041 And it took a lot of time. 619 00:17:45.333 --> 00:17:47.166 And you get some hacks like this slide 620 00:17:47.166 --> 00:17:48.291 shows a collapsible 621 00:17:48.291 --> 00:17:49.375 green screen from Elgato. 622 00:17:49.375 --> 00:17:50.083 I actually like this one. 623 00:17:50.125 --> 00:17:51.708 The only problem with that one is that 624 00:17:51.708 --> 00:17:52.916 it's too small, but 625 00:17:52.916 --> 00:17:53.916 they have an XL version. 626 00:17:54.541 --> 00:17:55.000 Which I didn't know 627 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.000 existed when I bought this one. 628 00:17:56.541 --> 00:17:58.625 And also shown on this slide are some 629 00:17:58.625 --> 00:18:01.041 Elgato key lights, which are much smaller 630 00:18:01.041 --> 00:18:03.291 than the soft boxes I saw earlier. 631 00:18:03.916 --> 00:18:06.708 And obviously not as soft, but for... 632 00:18:07.250 --> 00:18:08.583 I don't know, for a webcam if you have 633 00:18:08.583 --> 00:18:09.375 one or two of these, 634 00:18:09.375 --> 00:18:10.125 you're in a good place. 635 00:18:10.750 --> 00:18:14.208 So after a lot of times of just shooting 636 00:18:14.208 --> 00:18:16.958 in my living room around my desk, having 637 00:18:16.958 --> 00:18:18.916 to deal with getting rid of the fridge 638 00:18:18.916 --> 00:18:20.708 sound or the cats fighting or whatever. 639 00:18:21.041 --> 00:18:23.333 I decided I would just use my guest 640 00:18:23.333 --> 00:18:26.333 bedroom to set up an actual studio. 641 00:18:26.708 --> 00:18:29.333 So that I can shoot, stop doing something 642 00:18:29.333 --> 00:18:31.541 else, come back days later. 643 00:18:31.541 --> 00:18:32.708 And it's exactly the same setup, it's 644 00:18:32.708 --> 00:18:33.708 exactly the same lighting and everything. 645 00:18:34.041 --> 00:18:35.250 It's kind of treated for 646 00:18:35.250 --> 00:18:36.500 sound a little bit, not really. 647 00:18:36.958 --> 00:18:38.625 And so this is what I came up with. 648 00:18:38.916 --> 00:18:40.291 Question one, what do I look at? 649 00:18:40.291 --> 00:18:40.833 When you're on a 650 00:18:40.833 --> 00:18:41.791 desk, you have a computer. 651 00:18:42.041 --> 00:18:43.083 So you can look at the computer screen. 652 00:18:43.125 --> 00:18:45.083 It's not great to do that. 653 00:18:45.458 --> 00:18:47.416 If you look at my first videos, you can 654 00:18:47.416 --> 00:18:48.416 see that I'm looking at the computer 655 00:18:48.416 --> 00:18:49.875 screen and the camera is up here. 656 00:18:50.291 --> 00:18:51.000 So you can see that I'm 657 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:51.833 not looking at the camera. 658 00:18:51.833 --> 00:18:54.041 You're always looking like 10 degrees 659 00:18:54.041 --> 00:18:55.208 down from where you 660 00:18:55.208 --> 00:18:56.416 really want to be looking. 661 00:18:57.208 --> 00:18:59.333 So the fix for that is the teleprompter, 662 00:18:59.333 --> 00:19:00.708 which is really just a 663 00:19:00.708 --> 00:19:02.291 pane of glass, 45 degrees. 664 00:19:02.583 --> 00:19:05.833 And then you can read what's on a little 665 00:19:05.833 --> 00:19:08.333 tablet or phone, which lays 666 00:19:08.333 --> 00:19:10.083 horizontally on a little holder. 667 00:19:10.125 --> 00:19:12.125 And then you have the 668 00:19:12.125 --> 00:19:13.416 45 degree pane of glass. 669 00:19:13.416 --> 00:19:14.875 And then behind the pane of glass, you're 670 00:19:14.875 --> 00:19:16.625 looking into the camera 671 00:19:16.625 --> 00:19:17.666 that's looking back at you. 672 00:19:17.916 --> 00:19:18.583 And that's the first 673 00:19:18.583 --> 00:19:19.666 teleprompter I bought. 674 00:19:19.916 --> 00:19:23.541 It's a Glide Gear TMP 100 or TMP 50. 675 00:19:23.541 --> 00:19:24.375 I forget which one. 676 00:19:24.625 --> 00:19:25.291 And I bought a cheap 677 00:19:25.291 --> 00:19:26.625 Android tablet just for that. 678 00:19:26.625 --> 00:19:29.375 You can do like $100 bucks, just so it's 679 00:19:29.375 --> 00:19:30.333 big enough to serve it. 680 00:19:30.333 --> 00:19:31.750 But you don't need the fancy screen, it's 681 00:19:31.750 --> 00:19:34.041 just scrolling white on black text. 682 00:19:34.375 --> 00:19:35.958 And I got one of those little remote 683 00:19:35.958 --> 00:19:37.083 pads, which act as a Bluetooth controller. 684 00:19:37.125 --> 00:19:39.125 So I can hold something in my hand and 685 00:19:39.125 --> 00:19:41.125 like scroll the script and it comes with 686 00:19:41.125 --> 00:19:42.583 its own shitty little app. 687 00:19:42.583 --> 00:19:44.458 It's not very good, but it did the job. 688 00:19:44.875 --> 00:19:47.625 What I actually use today, I gave up on 689 00:19:47.625 --> 00:19:49.375 the little Android tablet that's sitting 690 00:19:49.375 --> 00:19:50.083 in a drawer somewhere. 691 00:19:50.291 --> 00:19:52.958 I just use an iPhone XR, which I'll have 692 00:19:52.958 --> 00:19:54.291 a list of prices 693 00:19:54.291 --> 00:19:56.041 later on in my last slide. 694 00:19:56.041 --> 00:19:57.166 But it's not that expensive. 695 00:19:57.375 --> 00:19:58.541 And I have the little, 696 00:19:58.541 --> 00:19:59.458 what are they called? 697 00:19:59.583 --> 00:20:01.958 Bluetooth pedal page turner thingies that 698 00:20:01.958 --> 00:20:04.333 professional musicians use to turn pages 699 00:20:04.333 --> 00:20:05.208 because they have both 700 00:20:05.250 --> 00:20:06.125 hands on their instruments. 701 00:20:06.291 --> 00:20:07.500 And this is our first iPhone. 702 00:20:07.500 --> 00:20:09.791 So we've now reached the first of three. 703 00:20:09.791 --> 00:20:11.750 So this is the ones that are in cahoots. 704 00:20:11.750 --> 00:20:12.625 This is the first one. 705 00:20:12.625 --> 00:20:14.541 This is the one that is showing us text 706 00:20:14.541 --> 00:20:17.583 and listening to a Bluetooth page turner 707 00:20:17.583 --> 00:20:19.625 and sitting behind the teleprompter. 708 00:20:19.958 --> 00:20:22.666 Yes, not behind. It's... 709 00:20:22.666 --> 00:20:24.250 ... underneath, I guess. Yeah. 710 00:20:24.291 --> 00:20:25.208 I see it. 711 00:20:25.250 --> 00:20:27.000 I'll show you a shot. 712 00:20:27.041 --> 00:20:28.750 Also importantly, I've given up on 713 00:20:28.750 --> 00:20:31.333 teleprompter apps because essentially 714 00:20:31.333 --> 00:20:33.375 what they do is they just mirror text the 715 00:20:33.375 --> 00:20:34.083 right way so that when you look at it in 716 00:20:34.083 --> 00:20:35.333 the mirror, it looks 717 00:20:35.333 --> 00:20:36.458 the right way around. 718 00:20:36.750 --> 00:20:38.333 But you can do that with CSS. 719 00:20:38.375 --> 00:20:40.208 And I really like writing content in my 720 00:20:40.208 --> 00:20:41.250 blog, as you've noticed. 721 00:20:41.291 --> 00:20:42.333 So I just use my blog. 722 00:20:42.875 --> 00:20:44.666 Here's a little Easter egg. 723 00:20:44.666 --> 00:20:46.666 If you go on my website, any article, and 724 00:20:46.666 --> 00:20:49.291 you tap the 'estimated reading time' five 725 00:20:49.291 --> 00:20:50.916 times, it's going to switch to 726 00:20:50.916 --> 00:20:52.708 presentation mode, which forces dark 727 00:20:52.708 --> 00:20:53.875 mode, does the mirroring 728 00:20:53.875 --> 00:20:56.000 thing, makes fonts larger. 729 00:20:56.041 --> 00:20:57.708 Amanda and James are both trying it out. 730 00:20:57.708 --> 00:20:59.291 Yeah, I'm sitting quietly because I'm now, 731 00:20:59.291 --> 00:21:01.083 I'm now-- I have to go test this out. 732 00:21:01.125 --> 00:21:02.208 Okay, so hold on. 733 00:21:02.208 --> 00:21:03.500 Let's go to the most recent article. 734 00:21:04.875 --> 00:21:05.791 And then what is it? 735 00:21:05.875 --> 00:21:07.750 The reading time 12345. 736 00:21:08.166 --> 00:21:08.708 Oh, wow. 737 00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:09.208 Look at that! 738 00:21:09.250 --> 00:21:11.000 Although mine's not black and white. 739 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.625 It is reverse though, but I 740 00:21:12.625 --> 00:21:14.416 still get full color reverse. 741 00:21:14.875 --> 00:21:16.208 Yeah, no, no, it's not black and white. 742 00:21:16.208 --> 00:21:17.375 It's forcing dark mode. 743 00:21:18.541 --> 00:21:19.791 I guess I'm always in dark mode. 744 00:21:20.166 --> 00:21:21.375 I'm also always in dark mode. 745 00:21:21.750 --> 00:21:22.833 This is crazy. 746 00:21:22.916 --> 00:21:24.000 Wait, how do we undo it now? 747 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.000 Although pressing it five 748 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:26.291 times does not bring it back. 749 00:21:26.666 --> 00:21:28.375 No, no, no, you have to reload the page. 750 00:21:28.916 --> 00:21:30.041 Oh, okay. Thank you! 751 00:21:30.125 --> 00:21:31.625 So this slide now shows 752 00:21:31.625 --> 00:21:32.916 what I'm actually looking at. 753 00:21:33.541 --> 00:21:35.583 You can see it is this little tablet. 754 00:21:35.791 --> 00:21:36.833 I don't know, a 755 00:21:36.833 --> 00:21:38.000 little drawer or whatever. 756 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:38.958 And it's just sitting on top. 757 00:21:39.166 --> 00:21:41.208 When I look straight at the camera, it is 758 00:21:41.208 --> 00:21:43.166 right side up or like whatever. 759 00:21:43.166 --> 00:21:43.541 It's flipped. 760 00:21:43.791 --> 00:21:44.833 It's readable. 761 00:21:44.916 --> 00:21:46.708 And yeah, and the pedal doesn't actually 762 00:21:46.708 --> 00:21:48.875 go next page, previous page. 763 00:21:48.875 --> 00:21:49.791 It just gently scrolls. 764 00:21:50.291 --> 00:21:53.708 So I'm usually standing with my big toes 765 00:21:53.708 --> 00:21:55.875 standing on either pedal so I can just 766 00:21:55.875 --> 00:21:57.041 move them a little bit. 767 00:21:57.125 --> 00:21:58.583 And when I have shoots of like an hour, 768 00:21:58.583 --> 00:22:00.250 two hours, it's just really bad. 769 00:22:00.250 --> 00:22:00.958 Your big toe is supposed to 770 00:22:00.958 --> 00:22:01.916 be in contact with the floor. 771 00:22:02.125 --> 00:22:02.916 Say how's your ankle? 772 00:22:03.416 --> 00:22:04.708 Like how's your ankles doing? 773 00:22:04.833 --> 00:22:05.250 Really bad! 774 00:22:05.291 --> 00:22:07.000 Yeah, your shins probably burn. 775 00:22:07.208 --> 00:22:07.791 You're going to have like 776 00:22:07.791 --> 00:22:10.416 very defined shins after that. 777 00:22:10.416 --> 00:22:11.416 I have to take breaks. 778 00:22:11.416 --> 00:22:12.375 I have to stretch. 779 00:22:12.375 --> 00:22:13.375 It's terrible. 780 00:22:14.291 --> 00:22:15.416 Okay, next up, how I'm mic'd. 781 00:22:15.666 --> 00:22:16.791 This one's a fun one. 782 00:22:17.041 --> 00:22:18.541 I went crazy over the years 783 00:22:18.541 --> 00:22:19.541 trying to get something to work. 784 00:22:19.791 --> 00:22:21.625 So there are shotgun mics that are 785 00:22:21.625 --> 00:22:23.083 designed to go directly on your camera. 786 00:22:23.125 --> 00:22:24.791 So when I use the camera, 787 00:22:25.125 --> 00:22:26.500 I bought a RØDE VideoMic. 788 00:22:26.791 --> 00:22:27.916 It didn't work for me. 789 00:22:27.916 --> 00:22:29.375 So, Amos, what is a shotgun mic and how 790 00:22:29.375 --> 00:22:30.208 is it different than the 791 00:22:30.208 --> 00:22:31.375 other mics that we talked about? 792 00:22:31.458 --> 00:22:33.083 We'll see the pick up pattern later. 793 00:22:33.166 --> 00:22:34.625 Well, it also tries to pick up something 794 00:22:34.625 --> 00:22:35.666 from the front and 795 00:22:35.666 --> 00:22:36.875 tries to reject the sides. 796 00:22:37.125 --> 00:22:38.833 But it's really designed so you can aim 797 00:22:38.833 --> 00:22:40.416 somewhere far enough 798 00:22:40.416 --> 00:22:42.125 and like get that sound. 799 00:22:42.416 --> 00:22:43.958 It's the sniper rifle of mics. 800 00:22:43.958 --> 00:22:44.333 Yeah. 801 00:22:44.333 --> 00:22:46.250 In some movies, you can 802 00:22:46.250 --> 00:22:47.958 actually see them using a sniper. 803 00:22:47.958 --> 00:22:48.541 They're like, "What are 804 00:22:48.541 --> 00:22:49.541 they saying in that window?" 805 00:22:49.541 --> 00:22:51.166 They just aim the thing in the window. 806 00:22:51.166 --> 00:22:52.625 I have no idea if that's accurate or not. 807 00:22:52.833 --> 00:22:53.208 I don't know. 808 00:22:53.208 --> 00:22:55.083 Maybe I just wasn't good with EQs back 809 00:22:55.083 --> 00:22:56.750 then or something, but I didn't have a 810 00:22:56.750 --> 00:22:57.583 very good experience. 811 00:22:57.583 --> 00:22:59.250 I think this would be great at a wedding. 812 00:22:59.291 --> 00:23:01.166 Just going around, aiming at people and 813 00:23:01.166 --> 00:23:02.625 then you would get mostly what they say 814 00:23:02.625 --> 00:23:04.375 with a bit of what everyone also says. 815 00:23:04.375 --> 00:23:05.750 You get the ambience, but you can still 816 00:23:05.750 --> 00:23:07.000 make out what people are saying. 817 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:08.250 If you do have the time, it's better to 818 00:23:08.250 --> 00:23:11.541 mic people up with a lav, a lavalier mic 819 00:23:11.541 --> 00:23:14.916 that you clip yay high... about a chest level. 820 00:23:14.958 --> 00:23:17.166 Not up on the collar, but like lower. 821 00:23:17.166 --> 00:23:18.125 So you get some some 822 00:23:18.125 --> 00:23:19.333 resonance from the chest. 823 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:20.833 You can do it underneath the clothing, 824 00:23:20.833 --> 00:23:23.041 but that's going to muffle sound a bit. 825 00:23:23.041 --> 00:23:23.750 So you're going to have to 826 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:24.666 compensate for that and EQ. 827 00:23:24.708 --> 00:23:25.500 There's a bunch of ways. 828 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:26.291 There's very good 829 00:23:26.291 --> 00:23:27.708 videos on how to mic up people. 830 00:23:27.958 --> 00:23:28.500 Problem. 831 00:23:28.500 --> 00:23:30.000 It's not great to do that 832 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:32.708 inside and also like good lav mics-- 833 00:23:32.750 --> 00:23:34.458 So the bit that actually looks like a mic 834 00:23:34.458 --> 00:23:35.208 has a cable and everything 835 00:23:35.208 --> 00:23:37.000 on that slide are expensive. 836 00:23:37.041 --> 00:23:39.750 The Wireless Go 2 kit that you can see 837 00:23:39.750 --> 00:23:40.916 here with two transmitters and one 838 00:23:40.916 --> 00:23:43.958 receiver is expensive ish, but it's so 839 00:23:43.958 --> 00:23:44.625 good and comes with 840 00:23:44.625 --> 00:23:45.666 built in mics and everything. 841 00:23:45.666 --> 00:23:46.541 I really love that. 842 00:23:46.541 --> 00:23:47.333 There's so many so many 843 00:23:47.333 --> 00:23:48.750 good features on that thing. 844 00:23:48.750 --> 00:23:50.625 But the actual mic part, the tiny tiny 845 00:23:50.625 --> 00:23:51.708 tiny bit like it's very 846 00:23:51.708 --> 00:23:52.750 expensive to get a good one. 847 00:23:52.750 --> 00:23:53.541 And I think the ones that I 848 00:23:53.541 --> 00:23:54.791 had are just not very good. 849 00:23:54.833 --> 00:23:56.375 But you can see people using 850 00:23:56.375 --> 00:23:57.458 them all the time on YouTube. 851 00:23:57.708 --> 00:23:59.333 If you've ever seen someone with a kind 852 00:23:59.333 --> 00:24:02.125 of little square box hanging off of their 853 00:24:02.125 --> 00:24:04.291 clothes or a collar or something, that's 854 00:24:04.291 --> 00:24:07.583 usually either a RØDE Wireless Go 855 00:24:07.583 --> 00:24:09.708 RØDE has one or like DJI 856 00:24:09.708 --> 00:24:11.708 has the other like pill shaped one. 857 00:24:11.708 --> 00:24:13.166 RØDE Wireless Pro or DJI. 858 00:24:13.166 --> 00:24:14.916 Yeah DJI, DJI actually... 859 00:24:14.916 --> 00:24:15.916 I think they make better ones. 860 00:24:15.916 --> 00:24:17.583 I think I bought the wrong brand. 861 00:24:17.666 --> 00:24:18.291 We went we went with 862 00:24:18.291 --> 00:24:19.375 the RØDE Wireless Pro. 863 00:24:19.375 --> 00:24:20.291 So like the exact ones you 864 00:24:20.291 --> 00:24:21.208 have on your screen right now. 865 00:24:21.208 --> 00:24:23.208 So there's like one at the conference 866 00:24:23.208 --> 00:24:26.000 episode of Chats with James. 867 00:24:26.041 --> 00:24:28.291 And that's what we use to record that. 868 00:24:28.333 --> 00:24:30.208 Yeah, what I discovered when I did my 869 00:24:30.208 --> 00:24:32.250 shoots is that when I mic'd myself up 870 00:24:32.250 --> 00:24:34.208 with the lav mic, I got worse sound than 871 00:24:34.208 --> 00:24:35.291 just using the built in 872 00:24:35.291 --> 00:24:36.208 mic on the transmitter. 873 00:24:36.625 --> 00:24:38.583 So that's why you see people with the 874 00:24:38.583 --> 00:24:39.958 visible transmitter hanging out. 875 00:24:40.291 --> 00:24:42.208 The thing I have on the slide is a short 876 00:24:42.208 --> 00:24:45.708 from Roman Doduik, is a French comedian. 877 00:24:45.750 --> 00:24:47.708 And yeah, you see those everywhere and 878 00:24:47.708 --> 00:24:50.041 you see them in one of my videos as well. 879 00:24:50.041 --> 00:24:50.750 I don't actually know if 880 00:24:50.750 --> 00:24:51.958 this one's released or not. 881 00:24:51.958 --> 00:24:55.375 I forget. But yeah, you can see not only my 882 00:24:55.375 --> 00:24:58.625 Wireless Go II transmitter, but also a 883 00:24:58.625 --> 00:25:01.375 little old bonnet, a little wind shield 884 00:25:01.375 --> 00:25:02.458 protection going on. 885 00:25:02.500 --> 00:25:03.666 I have two of those on this slide. 886 00:25:03.958 --> 00:25:05.000 James, do you know what they're called? 887 00:25:05.250 --> 00:25:07.041 The big one is called a dead cat and the 888 00:25:07.041 --> 00:25:08.416 little one is called a dead kitten. 889 00:25:08.958 --> 00:25:09.708 Exactly. 890 00:25:10.500 --> 00:25:12.375 Yeah, I learned this when we bought this. 891 00:25:12.375 --> 00:25:14.666 They're like the wind protector things 892 00:25:14.666 --> 00:25:16.541 and they're very lovingly called. 893 00:25:16.541 --> 00:25:18.916 I'm sure there's a nicer term for them, but... 894 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.083 I don't know. 895 00:25:20.083 --> 00:25:20.916 The dead kitten thing 896 00:25:20.916 --> 00:25:22.916 makes me laugh every time. 897 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.333 They're fake for don't don't be scared. 898 00:25:25.333 --> 00:25:27.833 I even have one for my portable recorder. 899 00:25:27.833 --> 00:25:29.083 We'll actually get to it. 900 00:25:29.083 --> 00:25:30.125 Moving on. 901 00:25:30.166 --> 00:25:32.791 I essentially I got tired of having to 902 00:25:32.791 --> 00:25:34.000 record sounds separately. 903 00:25:34.250 --> 00:25:35.791 I got tired of having something that I 904 00:25:35.791 --> 00:25:37.750 can accidentally put my hands in front of 905 00:25:37.750 --> 00:25:39.125 or like tap with my hands because I'd 906 00:25:39.125 --> 00:25:40.250 like to move around a lot. 907 00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:41.250 I got tired of having 908 00:25:41.250 --> 00:25:42.583 friction against my clothing. 909 00:25:42.583 --> 00:25:44.791 You can hear that very, very much with a 910 00:25:44.791 --> 00:25:46.666 lav mic. And it just didn't sound very 911 00:25:46.666 --> 00:25:49.541 good compared to a nice 912 00:25:49.541 --> 00:25:51.083 dynamic mic like the SM7B. 913 00:25:51.083 --> 00:25:53.000 You get this when I do voiceover, I get 914 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:54.791 this nice full voice deep voice. 915 00:25:54.833 --> 00:25:56.625 And then when I moved to the mic, it 916 00:25:56.625 --> 00:25:59.208 sounds like baby's first YouTube video. 917 00:25:59.250 --> 00:26:00.083 So... 918 00:26:00.125 --> 00:26:00.958 Oh! I learned the name for this. 919 00:26:00.958 --> 00:26:03.333 It's the proximity effect in that when 920 00:26:03.333 --> 00:26:05.250 you are so close, the pressure wave 921 00:26:05.250 --> 00:26:06.666 actually gives a lot 922 00:26:06.666 --> 00:26:08.208 more bass into the mic. 923 00:26:08.291 --> 00:26:09.791 Where if you're further away and you 924 00:26:09.791 --> 00:26:11.833 don't get the actual like pressure impact 925 00:26:11.833 --> 00:26:13.666 that you would from direct proximity, 926 00:26:14.250 --> 00:26:15.625 then you have to EQ it 927 00:26:15.625 --> 00:26:16.708 to almost match that. 928 00:26:16.708 --> 00:26:17.875 But that's why a lot of these like 929 00:26:17.875 --> 00:26:19.791 cardioid mics and things like that sound 930 00:26:19.791 --> 00:26:21.666 so like full and bassy when you're close 931 00:26:21.666 --> 00:26:23.416 to them, because you're actually like 932 00:26:23.416 --> 00:26:25.125 you're close enough that you're pushing 933 00:26:25.125 --> 00:26:26.875 enough pressure on them. 934 00:26:27.166 --> 00:26:30.041 Yeah, the waves of different frequency 935 00:26:30.041 --> 00:26:31.500 don't travel exactly the same way or 936 00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.458 react to the same way 937 00:26:32.458 --> 00:26:33.708 to the room and whatnot. 938 00:26:33.750 --> 00:26:36.375 So I eventually bought-- well, actually, I 939 00:26:36.375 --> 00:26:38.291 bought it a while ago when I tried it 940 00:26:38.291 --> 00:26:40.250 once and it didn't sound good. 941 00:26:40.250 --> 00:26:42.125 So I gave up and it gets sat in the 942 00:26:42.125 --> 00:26:43.000 drawer for two years. 943 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.458 But then I brought it back recently. 944 00:26:44.708 --> 00:26:46.041 A shotgun mic, I got the 945 00:26:46.041 --> 00:26:47.333 cheapo version by RØDE. 946 00:26:47.541 --> 00:26:48.416 It's an NTG4+. 947 00:26:48.875 --> 00:26:50.500 Again, weird naming conventions. 948 00:26:50.791 --> 00:26:53.125 The NTG4 is not that expensive. 949 00:26:53.541 --> 00:26:56.000 The NTG3 is a lot more expensive and NTG2 950 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.416 is like I need to take out a loan. 951 00:26:58.416 --> 00:27:00.875 But it's, you know, I got this nice shock 952 00:27:00.875 --> 00:27:03.541 mount to avoid vibrations, even though 953 00:27:03.541 --> 00:27:05.250 it's just sitting on a-- this would be more 954 00:27:05.250 --> 00:27:06.500 relevant, I think, if someone was 955 00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:08.125 actually holding a boom pole and we were 956 00:27:08.125 --> 00:27:10.000 just walking around, then it would make 957 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.125 sense to have a shock mount. 958 00:27:11.125 --> 00:27:12.291 But this fixed setup, it 959 00:27:12.291 --> 00:27:13.208 doesn't really make sense. 960 00:27:13.208 --> 00:27:14.250 This is what it looks like. 961 00:27:14.250 --> 00:27:14.916 You just plug-- 962 00:27:14.916 --> 00:27:17.791 It's exactly the size of an XLR plug. 963 00:27:18.458 --> 00:27:19.750 Well, a little more because you have to 964 00:27:19.750 --> 00:27:20.541 fit it in, obviously. 965 00:27:20.833 --> 00:27:23.375 But yeah, you just got this long shotgun 966 00:27:23.375 --> 00:27:25.041 like cylinder and then you 967 00:27:25.041 --> 00:27:26.958 just plug an XLR cable into it. 968 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.125 And it does need power. 969 00:27:28.541 --> 00:27:29.583 So it has something interesting where you 970 00:27:29.583 --> 00:27:31.750 can plug it with not USB-C. 971 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:33.250 I wish. You have to plug it 972 00:27:33.250 --> 00:27:35.208 with, I think mini or micro... 973 00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:36.916 It has to be micro USB, I think. 974 00:27:37.166 --> 00:27:38.541 And then you can charge it up and you 975 00:27:38.541 --> 00:27:40.083 have 150 hours of it. 976 00:27:40.083 --> 00:27:42.500 Or you can power it with phantom power, 977 00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:43.958 which we've seen. The plus 48 volts. 978 00:27:44.375 --> 00:27:45.583 So I actually never charge it. 979 00:27:45.583 --> 00:27:46.458 I just have phantom 980 00:27:46.458 --> 00:27:47.541 power coming through XLR. 981 00:27:47.541 --> 00:27:48.916 And that's... that's great because batteries 982 00:27:48.916 --> 00:27:52.750 are the enemy... batteries are the enemy. I will show you. 983 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.750 The problem is now you need to connect 984 00:27:54.750 --> 00:27:57.208 that XLR thing to something and it's 985 00:27:57.208 --> 00:27:59.583 certainly not going to be a camera. 986 00:27:59.958 --> 00:28:01.000 It's not going to be 987 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:02.583 an iPhone or whatever. 988 00:28:02.583 --> 00:28:04.833 You have to be something that has an XLR 989 00:28:04.833 --> 00:28:05.375 input that can 990 00:28:05.375 --> 00:28:06.416 provide that phantom power. 991 00:28:06.708 --> 00:28:09.291 And one of those things is the Zoom H4n 992 00:28:09.291 --> 00:28:10.708 Pro Black, which has. 993 00:28:10.791 --> 00:28:11.541 So on this side, you can see that it has 994 00:28:11.541 --> 00:28:13.083 mics going that way. 995 00:28:13.083 --> 00:28:14.250 And that way they're kind of crossing. 996 00:28:14.250 --> 00:28:15.541 They're going to X pattern. 997 00:28:15.541 --> 00:28:16.916 They're called XY mic. 998 00:28:17.041 --> 00:28:20.166 I'm not sure why, but they do a great job 999 00:28:20.166 --> 00:28:21.750 at recording stereo. 1000 00:28:21.791 --> 00:28:23.291 It's actually very funny to just hold one 1001 00:28:23.291 --> 00:28:25.291 of these and have the-- have to do 1002 00:28:25.291 --> 00:28:27.000 headphones plugged in and just go around 1003 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.291 and listen to the world in stereo because 1004 00:28:29.291 --> 00:28:30.625 it's like having ears, 1005 00:28:30.833 --> 00:28:32.583 but more sensitive, I guess. 1006 00:28:32.625 --> 00:28:34.083 It's a very funny sensation. 1007 00:28:34.333 --> 00:28:35.083 It does come with its 1008 00:28:35.083 --> 00:28:35.916 own little dead cat. 1009 00:28:35.916 --> 00:28:38.125 I included the accessories, but it's 1010 00:28:38.125 --> 00:28:39.458 actually big because you have to cover 1011 00:28:39.458 --> 00:28:40.583 both the X and Y mics. 1012 00:28:40.625 --> 00:28:42.500 You have to stretch it over. 1013 00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:43.166 It's really weird. 1014 00:28:43.208 --> 00:28:44.625 These are the kind of mics that like the 1015 00:28:44.625 --> 00:28:46.041 first ones that were portable enough to 1016 00:28:46.041 --> 00:28:48.583 get good recording portably. 1017 00:28:48.583 --> 00:28:50.166 And they were used for a lot of bootleg 1018 00:28:50.166 --> 00:28:51.833 recording of concerts because they were 1019 00:28:51.833 --> 00:28:53.375 small enough to fit in pockets and things 1020 00:28:53.375 --> 00:28:54.958 like that, but still high quality enough 1021 00:28:54.958 --> 00:28:57.333 to get like solid bootleg recordings. 1022 00:28:57.333 --> 00:28:58.375 That makes sense. 1023 00:28:58.416 --> 00:29:00.541 I've seen them used mostly for well, 1024 00:29:00.541 --> 00:29:01.541 recording ambient sounds. 1025 00:29:01.541 --> 00:29:03.791 You go into the forest near a river, get 1026 00:29:03.791 --> 00:29:04.583 some birds, whatever. 1027 00:29:04.625 --> 00:29:08.416 And those work off of two AA batteries, 1028 00:29:08.416 --> 00:29:10.208 which is great when you want to move 1029 00:29:10.208 --> 00:29:12.750 around and not great when you just want a 1030 00:29:12.750 --> 00:29:15.500 freaking home studio set up that reliably 1031 00:29:15.500 --> 00:29:16.833 works because the rule 1032 00:29:16.833 --> 00:29:18.416 of maximum annoyance. 1033 00:29:18.458 --> 00:29:20.125 One of your things will be out of battery 1034 00:29:20.125 --> 00:29:21.125 by the time you need to shoot. 1035 00:29:21.583 --> 00:29:23.166 I was enough of a theater kid that I 1036 00:29:23.166 --> 00:29:24.166 remember like for mic 1037 00:29:24.166 --> 00:29:25.291 packs and stuff like that. 1038 00:29:25.291 --> 00:29:27.208 That was like one of the big things that 1039 00:29:27.208 --> 00:29:28.791 the tech team would always have is they 1040 00:29:28.791 --> 00:29:31.041 would just have walls of double A's and 1041 00:29:31.041 --> 00:29:32.208 nine volts and whatever else 1042 00:29:32.208 --> 00:29:33.583 all the mic packs required. 1043 00:29:33.625 --> 00:29:36.125 Because at any moment you had to be like-- 1044 00:29:36.125 --> 00:29:37.583 or before every show, you would just 1045 00:29:37.583 --> 00:29:39.083 cycle all the batteries so that you 1046 00:29:39.083 --> 00:29:40.625 didn't run out, even if you could 1047 00:29:40.625 --> 00:29:42.500 probably go two or three shows, like you 1048 00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:44.250 don't want to be mid something and then 1049 00:29:44.250 --> 00:29:45.125 totally drop your 1050 00:29:45.125 --> 00:29:47.083 recording or your mic or whatever. 1051 00:29:47.083 --> 00:29:48.625 And that's funny because sometimes I get emails from 1052 00:29:48.625 --> 00:29:50.041 people like, "Oh Amos, I would like to like 1053 00:29:50.041 --> 00:29:50.791 work with you, learn 1054 00:29:50.791 --> 00:29:51.416 from you!" or whatever. 1055 00:29:51.416 --> 00:29:52.041 I'm like, "Okay, are you 1056 00:29:52.041 --> 00:29:53.375 ready to charge batteries?" 1057 00:29:53.583 --> 00:29:54.583 Because that's what I do. 1058 00:29:54.625 --> 00:29:56.791 That's the-- there's so much to the job. 1059 00:29:56.791 --> 00:29:58.125 So like thinking of how are you going to 1060 00:29:58.125 --> 00:30:00.083 plug things in and like figuring out how 1061 00:30:00.083 --> 00:30:01.333 to hang your lights so they 1062 00:30:01.333 --> 00:30:02.958 don't fall off and kill everyone. 1063 00:30:02.958 --> 00:30:03.875 That's just you really-- 1064 00:30:03.875 --> 00:30:04.541 But anyway, yeah, batteries 1065 00:30:04.541 --> 00:30:06.250 are a big, a big bad thing. 1066 00:30:06.250 --> 00:30:07.833 So we have these fake ones. 1067 00:30:07.833 --> 00:30:08.583 We have fake... 1068 00:30:08.625 --> 00:30:10.750 It's called a DC coupler on there. 1069 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.208 I'm actually happy with that job. 1070 00:30:12.625 --> 00:30:13.875 It's a thing that has the exact shape of 1071 00:30:13.875 --> 00:30:15.458 the battery, but there's a little cable 1072 00:30:15.458 --> 00:30:17.333 coming out going into a power supply. 1073 00:30:17.500 --> 00:30:19.458 And this is how it looks in 1074 00:30:19.458 --> 00:30:21.458 situ in the DC-GH5 1075 00:30:21.458 --> 00:30:23.291 This is one for my camera. 1076 00:30:23.333 --> 00:30:24.833 And you can see that the camera 1077 00:30:24.833 --> 00:30:26.666 manufacturer knows about it, even though 1078 00:30:26.666 --> 00:30:28.500 they don't sell that, I think. 1079 00:30:28.500 --> 00:30:29.500 But you have this little 1080 00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:30.958 how do you describe it, James? 1081 00:30:30.958 --> 00:30:31.666 Help me out here. 1082 00:30:31.791 --> 00:30:33.291 It's like the mouse hole 1083 00:30:33.291 --> 00:30:34.791 that you see in every comic. 1084 00:30:34.791 --> 00:30:35.541 It's like that little 1085 00:30:35.541 --> 00:30:36.916 round corner in there. 1086 00:30:36.916 --> 00:30:38.333 And if you've ever wondered why your 1087 00:30:38.333 --> 00:30:40.166 battery door has like a little rubber 1088 00:30:40.166 --> 00:30:42.208 door on it, it's exactly for this. 1089 00:30:42.208 --> 00:30:43.000 And I have one of these 1090 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.083 for my cameras as well. 1091 00:30:44.083 --> 00:30:45.958 And I realized I was like- oh, I had 1092 00:30:45.958 --> 00:30:47.458 never noticed that before. 1093 00:30:47.458 --> 00:30:48.666 But it's for exactly this. 1094 00:30:48.708 --> 00:30:50.458 But it got me nervous to use those 1095 00:30:50.458 --> 00:30:53.666 because you're buying a camera that costs 1096 00:30:53.666 --> 00:30:55.958 upwards of a thousand and then you're 1097 00:30:55.958 --> 00:30:57.083 buying a fifteen dollar 1098 00:30:57.125 --> 00:30:58.041 Ali Express 1099 00:30:58.083 --> 00:30:59.125 adapter like this 1100 00:30:59.125 --> 00:31:00.000 USB adapter 1101 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:01.500 which could fry your thing. 1102 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.250 Yeah, I was very nervous the 1103 00:31:03.250 --> 00:31:04.750 first time, but it works fine. 1104 00:31:05.083 --> 00:31:08.708 And so for the the Zoom H4n Pro Black 1105 00:31:08.708 --> 00:31:11.208 recorder, you can actually see from that 1106 00:31:11.208 --> 00:31:12.791 angle, you can see the XLR 1107 00:31:12.791 --> 00:31:14.458 inputs between both XLR inputs. 1108 00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:16.041 You have a power input. 1109 00:31:16.041 --> 00:31:18.083 It doesn't just run off of batteries. 1110 00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:20.916 And so I bought the most cursed USB cable 1111 00:31:20.916 --> 00:31:21.875 you've ever seen, probably. 1112 00:31:22.125 --> 00:31:23.208 Can you describe it? 1113 00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:25.041 Oh, I this... we will get 1114 00:31:25.041 --> 00:31:25.833 into some cursed stuff. 1115 00:31:25.833 --> 00:31:28.375 Yeah, this is like a traditional USB to a 1116 00:31:28.375 --> 00:31:30.000 barrel jack where you have like five volt-- 1117 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.958 because everything uses 1118 00:31:30.958 --> 00:31:32.083 a five volt barrel jack. 1119 00:31:32.333 --> 00:31:33.250 And if you just need 1120 00:31:33.250 --> 00:31:34.541 five volts, you can do that. 1121 00:31:34.541 --> 00:31:36.291 The really cursed ones are the ones that 1122 00:31:36.291 --> 00:31:37.625 look like this, but 1123 00:31:37.625 --> 00:31:39.416 aren't really five volts. 1124 00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:40.708 Or they do like cursed 1125 00:31:40.708 --> 00:31:42.000 things like boost the power. 1126 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.166 Or now that USB-C is a thing, you can use 1127 00:31:44.166 --> 00:31:45.541 USB PD and you can get up to 1128 00:31:45.541 --> 00:31:47.458 20 volts on these barrel jacks. 1129 00:31:47.458 --> 00:31:49.416 And barrel jacks have no actual standard 1130 00:31:49.416 --> 00:31:50.583 for what their voltage is. 1131 00:31:50.583 --> 00:31:53.291 By convention, the 2.1 1132 00:31:53.291 --> 00:31:55.458 millimeter ones tend to be five volts. 1133 00:31:55.708 --> 00:31:57.791 But whether it's center positive or not 1134 00:31:57.791 --> 00:31:59.500 center positive and what the actual 1135 00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:01.458 voltage is all very, very cursed. 1136 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:03.750 I learned that at a very young age 1137 00:32:03.750 --> 00:32:04.583 because we had some of 1138 00:32:04.583 --> 00:32:05.958 those universal power supplies. 1139 00:32:05.958 --> 00:32:08.208 And I learned that you can go like get 1140 00:32:08.208 --> 00:32:09.541 the voltage from 1.5 1141 00:32:09.541 --> 00:32:10.708 all the way up to 9. 1142 00:32:10.708 --> 00:32:11.791 I think it was from our model. 1143 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:12.625 And then you can also 1144 00:32:12.625 --> 00:32:13.958 switch the polarity. 1145 00:32:14.041 --> 00:32:15.833 And I think I killed a couple of devices 1146 00:32:15.833 --> 00:32:17.333 just by getting it wrong. 1147 00:32:17.333 --> 00:32:18.250 Just go pop. 1148 00:32:18.250 --> 00:32:19.750 And it goes like, which one was it again? 1149 00:32:20.458 --> 00:32:21.208 Oh, yeah. 1150 00:32:21.208 --> 00:32:22.333 OK, so let's say you do all this, right? 1151 00:32:22.333 --> 00:32:23.083 You have your you have 1152 00:32:23.083 --> 00:32:24.541 your portable H4n recorder. 1153 00:32:24.833 --> 00:32:26.958 You plug your shotgun mic into it. 1154 00:32:27.291 --> 00:32:28.458 Everything is charged, everything-- 1155 00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:30.166 Or you use those- those power cables. 1156 00:32:30.583 --> 00:32:32.750 Then you have the audio that comes from 1157 00:32:32.750 --> 00:32:34.750 the camera and you have the audio that 1158 00:32:34.750 --> 00:32:36.458 comes- the good audio, the audio you want. 1159 00:32:36.750 --> 00:32:38.041 So how do you sync that up? 1160 00:32:38.041 --> 00:32:40.125 Well, professionals have time code. 1161 00:32:40.416 --> 00:32:41.791 I don't know exactly how it works, but 1162 00:32:41.791 --> 00:32:42.666 all their equipment 1163 00:32:42.666 --> 00:32:43.666 is connected together. 1164 00:32:43.666 --> 00:32:44.875 And there's something that generates the 1165 00:32:44.875 --> 00:32:46.375 clock signal and they record it. 1166 00:32:46.375 --> 00:32:48.125 And so to align it, they just say the 1167 00:32:48.125 --> 00:32:48.833 different clips align 1168 00:32:48.833 --> 00:32:49.666 them with the time code. 1169 00:32:49.666 --> 00:32:50.541 I don't have that. 1170 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:52.583 You definitely cannot rely on the daytime 1171 00:32:52.583 --> 00:32:54.041 of any given device, 1172 00:32:54.041 --> 00:32:55.458 especially battery powered ones. 1173 00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:57.083 There's no way this is precise enough. 1174 00:32:57.166 --> 00:32:58.666 So you do it by waveform 1175 00:32:58.666 --> 00:33:00.625 or by whatever feels right. 1176 00:33:00.833 --> 00:33:02.333 And you get it wrong a lot. 1177 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:04.250 Again, if you go to my early videos, you 1178 00:33:04.250 --> 00:33:05.500 can see delays is 1179 00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:06.708 large as 200 milliseconds. 1180 00:33:07.166 --> 00:33:09.125 Now I'm pissy if I'm looking at something 1181 00:33:09.125 --> 00:33:10.791 and it's 15 milliseconds off. 1182 00:33:10.791 --> 00:33:11.583 I'm like, no, no, no, let 1183 00:33:11.583 --> 00:33:12.541 me- let me go in the setting. 1184 00:33:12.541 --> 00:33:14.083 Something's not right. 1185 00:33:15.083 --> 00:33:16.166 You've caught that on some of our stuff. 1186 00:33:16.166 --> 00:33:17.000 I feel like one of the older 1187 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.500 tools we had did that once. 1188 00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:19.208 And you're like, "No! I can 1189 00:33:19.208 --> 00:33:20.708 tell! There's 50 milliseconds. 1190 00:33:20.708 --> 00:33:22.083 It's not right..." 1191 00:33:22.083 --> 00:33:24.833 And I'm like, oh, OK. 1192 00:33:24.833 --> 00:33:26.750 Oh, and you can't really, really do 1193 00:33:26.750 --> 00:33:28.541 waveform because if your camera is 1194 00:33:28.541 --> 00:33:30.375 further away, it actually takes time for 1195 00:33:30.375 --> 00:33:31.083 sound to travel all 1196 00:33:31.083 --> 00:33:31.708 the way to the camera. 1197 00:33:32.416 --> 00:33:34.583 So you have to choose like what feels 1198 00:33:34.583 --> 00:33:36.666 right and what is actually right. 1199 00:33:36.958 --> 00:33:39.041 You have to choose a compromise because I 1200 00:33:39.041 --> 00:33:39.833 don't know, it's complicated. 1201 00:33:40.083 --> 00:33:42.208 But yeah, the slide is of the DaVinci Resolve 1202 00:33:42.208 --> 00:33:44.250 timeline with two audio clips. 1203 00:33:44.250 --> 00:33:45.958 And you can see actually the 1204 00:33:45.958 --> 00:33:47.166 one that says external mic. 1205 00:33:47.166 --> 00:33:48.666 You can see there's fewer... 1206 00:33:48.666 --> 00:33:49.791 There's less noise than on 1207 00:33:49.791 --> 00:33:51.791 the iPhone mic in the middle. 1208 00:33:51.875 --> 00:33:54.291 And if you see there's... there's only one 1209 00:33:54.291 --> 00:33:56.250 noise and there's like two or three at 1210 00:33:56.250 --> 00:33:58.416 the bottom on the- on the yellow timeline. 1211 00:33:58.416 --> 00:33:59.541 That's because, yeah, the iPhone picks up 1212 00:33:59.541 --> 00:34:01.625 a bunch of stuff and the shotgun is 1213 00:34:01.625 --> 00:34:04.625 sitting literally just above me, just out 1214 00:34:04.625 --> 00:34:06.041 of frame with the safety 1215 00:34:06.041 --> 00:34:07.458 margin because I'm not crazy. 1216 00:34:07.541 --> 00:34:10.583 And I found a better way. 1217 00:34:11.041 --> 00:34:12.541 I don't have to do AV 1218 00:34:12.541 --> 00:34:14.333 sync again in my life. 1219 00:34:14.333 --> 00:34:14.875 This is the whole 1220 00:34:14.875 --> 00:34:15.750 reason I made the slide. 1221 00:34:15.750 --> 00:34:17.125 Not just because he asked that because I 1222 00:34:17.125 --> 00:34:18.166 discovered something. 1223 00:34:18.208 --> 00:34:21.500 So I have my shotgun mic go into the Zoom 1224 00:34:21.500 --> 00:34:24.791 UAC-232 external USB audio interface, 1225 00:34:24.791 --> 00:34:25.916 which I originally bought because I 1226 00:34:25.916 --> 00:34:28.791 wanted to test out floating point audio. 1227 00:34:29.083 --> 00:34:30.166 Why did I want to do that? 1228 00:34:30.166 --> 00:34:31.875 Because on the list of things that maybe 1229 00:34:31.875 --> 00:34:33.041 lose recordings, clipping 1230 00:34:33.041 --> 00:34:34.458 is definitely one of them. 1231 00:34:34.458 --> 00:34:35.000 It's like, "Oh, I can't 1232 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:35.666 hear anything! Better 1233 00:34:35.666 --> 00:34:36.083 turn it up!" 1234 00:34:36.083 --> 00:34:37.666 And then you're clipping and then the 1235 00:34:37.666 --> 00:34:38.958 entire recording is ruined. 1236 00:34:38.958 --> 00:34:41.083 You can see actually on this slide 32 1237 00:34:41.083 --> 00:34:42.416 bit float is enabled. 1238 00:34:42.416 --> 00:34:43.750 They have a little marker for it. 1239 00:34:43.750 --> 00:34:46.083 I think it's one of the first USB ones 1240 00:34:46.083 --> 00:34:47.208 that are consumer grade. 1241 00:34:47.208 --> 00:34:48.083 Sounds weird because 1242 00:34:48.083 --> 00:34:49.125 Zoom is definitely released. 1243 00:34:49.125 --> 00:34:50.500 Like the F6 could do that. 1244 00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:51.833 Some portable ones could do it before. 1245 00:34:52.041 --> 00:34:52.916 But I think it's the 1246 00:34:52.916 --> 00:34:54.000 first consumer grade. 1247 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:54.833 You can just plug it into 1248 00:34:54.833 --> 00:34:55.750 your computer and it works. 1249 00:34:56.208 --> 00:34:57.416 So the shotgun mic goes 1250 00:34:57.416 --> 00:34:59.500 into that Zoom UAC-232. 1251 00:34:59.500 --> 00:35:01.166 And then what's really interesting about 1252 00:35:01.166 --> 00:35:04.541 this one, and that I can't do with my 1253 00:35:04.541 --> 00:35:06.375 other ones, which are Scarlett Solos, 1254 00:35:06.375 --> 00:35:07.916 Scarlett Duo, is that 1255 00:35:07.916 --> 00:35:10.708 it has two USB-C inputs. 1256 00:35:10.750 --> 00:35:12.666 One for signal or data 1257 00:35:12.666 --> 00:35:14.083 rather and one for power. 1258 00:35:14.375 --> 00:35:16.208 So you can barely see it from that shot. 1259 00:35:16.458 --> 00:35:18.125 But if you look next to that, you can see 1260 00:35:18.125 --> 00:35:19.333 there's two cables going in. 1261 00:35:19.708 --> 00:35:22.208 The left one says DC 5 volt and the right one 1262 00:35:22.208 --> 00:35:23.458 has the little USB symbol. 1263 00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:25.958 And so you don't have to plug both in. 1264 00:35:25.958 --> 00:35:27.791 If you plug only one into a computer, 1265 00:35:27.875 --> 00:35:28.875 only the data one to 1266 00:35:28.875 --> 00:35:29.916 the computer, it'll work. 1267 00:35:29.916 --> 00:35:33.000 But if you use this accessory, the camera 1268 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.083 accessory for iPhone, that the male end 1269 00:35:36.083 --> 00:35:37.041 goes into the iPhone 1270 00:35:37.041 --> 00:35:38.250 is a lightning cable. 1271 00:35:38.250 --> 00:35:39.166 And then you have three... 1272 00:35:39.166 --> 00:35:40.833 Is there a better terminology that 1273 00:35:40.833 --> 00:35:41.875 male-female that we've 1274 00:35:41.875 --> 00:35:43.083 come up with in the year 2025? 1275 00:35:43.291 --> 00:35:44.625 Yeah, plug and receptacle. 1276 00:35:44.625 --> 00:35:45.291 Plug and receptacle. 1277 00:35:45.291 --> 00:35:45.666 OK, cool. 1278 00:35:45.666 --> 00:35:47.208 So the plug is lightning. 1279 00:35:47.208 --> 00:35:48.291 It goes into the iPhone and 1280 00:35:48.291 --> 00:35:49.458 then you have three receptacles. 1281 00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:52.500 Two are USB-A, correct me if I'm wrong, 1282 00:35:52.500 --> 00:35:53.666 and one is lightning as well. 1283 00:35:53.666 --> 00:35:55.666 So you can have two USB-A accessories 1284 00:35:55.666 --> 00:35:57.958 connected and also still provide power to 1285 00:35:57.958 --> 00:35:59.291 the phone, which is important again when 1286 00:35:59.291 --> 00:36:00.875 you shoot for a long period of time. 1287 00:36:01.208 --> 00:36:03.208 And that USB-A cable goes all the way to 1288 00:36:03.208 --> 00:36:04.458 the external USB audio interface. 1289 00:36:04.791 --> 00:36:06.375 I was kind of-- I thought about it. 1290 00:36:06.791 --> 00:36:07.708 I was probably having a nap 1291 00:36:07.708 --> 00:36:08.958 and I was like, "But could I? 1292 00:36:09.416 --> 00:36:10.708 Like, what... would it just work? 1293 00:36:10.708 --> 00:36:12.375 It's just USB, right? 1294 00:36:12.541 --> 00:36:13.500 I don't know what the 1295 00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:14.500 iPhone has drivers for. 1296 00:36:14.500 --> 00:36:15.375 And yeah, it does work. 1297 00:36:15.875 --> 00:36:16.458 It does work. 1298 00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:18.666 And you can even get floating point audio 1299 00:36:18.666 --> 00:36:20.208 captured directly from the- this-- 1300 00:36:20.208 --> 00:36:21.958 So this is a screenshot of the Blackmagic 1301 00:36:21.958 --> 00:36:23.166 camera app on iPhone. 1302 00:36:23.458 --> 00:36:24.625 And you can see the audio source is not 1303 00:36:24.625 --> 00:36:25.583 set to iPhone microphone. 1304 00:36:25.791 --> 00:36:27.208 It's set to Zoom UAC-232. 1305 00:36:27.666 --> 00:36:29.250 So I get floating point audio 1306 00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:32.833 synchronized from my nice little mic 1307 00:36:32.833 --> 00:36:34.333 directly in the 1308 00:36:34.333 --> 00:36:36.208 recording as a single file. 1309 00:36:36.208 --> 00:36:36.833 I never have to-- 1310 00:36:36.833 --> 00:36:38.166 It's never out of sync. 1311 00:36:38.166 --> 00:36:40.125 So this is our this is our second iPhone. 1312 00:36:40.125 --> 00:36:41.833 So the first one is a teleprompter. 1313 00:36:41.833 --> 00:36:44.416 The second one is a receiver. 1314 00:36:44.416 --> 00:36:45.958 It's a camera, but... I'll show it. 1315 00:36:45.958 --> 00:36:47.541 We're getting there. 1316 00:36:47.541 --> 00:36:49.250 OK, camera and receiver 1317 00:36:49.291 --> 00:36:50.166 camera and monitor. 1318 00:36:50.208 --> 00:36:52.000 Essentially, those are the three iPhones. 1319 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:53.416 Teleprompter, camera, monitor. 1320 00:36:53.416 --> 00:36:53.916 Yeah, yeah. 1321 00:36:53.958 --> 00:36:55.333 For some reason, this is where I put 1322 00:36:55.333 --> 00:36:56.291 slides in about lighting. 1323 00:36:56.666 --> 00:36:57.291 Lighting is hard. 1324 00:36:57.583 --> 00:36:58.583 As you said, it's probably one of the 1325 00:36:58.583 --> 00:36:59.750 most important things. 1326 00:36:59.958 --> 00:37:01.125 And I realize that super late. 1327 00:37:01.416 --> 00:37:02.500 What we see on the slide 1328 00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:03.875 here is that I have glasses. 1329 00:37:03.916 --> 00:37:05.291 And the problem when you have glasses is 1330 00:37:05.291 --> 00:37:06.541 that light reflects on them. 1331 00:37:06.541 --> 00:37:08.166 So you have coding on glasses. 1332 00:37:08.166 --> 00:37:10.583 They try to remove reflections mostly for 1333 00:37:10.583 --> 00:37:13.208 visual comfort as a glasses wearer. 1334 00:37:13.250 --> 00:37:15.291 But while you are shooting your face... 1335 00:37:15.375 --> 00:37:16.500 How do I say this? 1336 00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:17.875 When you're-- when the camera films your 1337 00:37:17.875 --> 00:37:18.791 face, there's a lot of 1338 00:37:18.791 --> 00:37:20.500 reflections if you have hard lighting. 1339 00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:22.000 And I do because I have this couple of 1340 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.375 key lights, which are just big LED panels 1341 00:37:24.375 --> 00:37:26.458 with a little plastic white 1342 00:37:26.458 --> 00:37:29.291 plastic sheet on... in front of it. 1343 00:37:29.291 --> 00:37:30.083 It's not soft light. 1344 00:37:30.083 --> 00:37:31.083 I don't have room. 1345 00:37:31.083 --> 00:37:32.416 I simply do not have the physical space 1346 00:37:32.416 --> 00:37:34.208 for soft boxes in the guest room. 1347 00:37:34.208 --> 00:37:34.916 It is-- 1348 00:37:34.916 --> 00:37:36.041 I'm too tall and the 1349 00:37:36.041 --> 00:37:36.791 room is not big enough. 1350 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.166 I can't remember if it was you or someone 1351 00:37:38.166 --> 00:37:39.333 else who I was talking to who is saying 1352 00:37:39.333 --> 00:37:41.333 that they actually kind of like the ring 1353 00:37:41.333 --> 00:37:43.166 light look, that it's like now it's 1354 00:37:43.166 --> 00:37:45.875 becoming like familiar and kitschy, I 1355 00:37:45.875 --> 00:37:47.458 guess? Or not kitschy, but like familiar 1356 00:37:47.458 --> 00:37:48.791 and comforting? 1357 00:37:48.791 --> 00:37:50.041 In the eyeballs, yeah. 1358 00:37:50.041 --> 00:37:51.291 Yeah. Having the ring light in your glasses or 1359 00:37:51.291 --> 00:37:52.208 your eyes or whatever. 1360 00:37:52.208 --> 00:37:54.083 But in the glasses, I don't know. 1361 00:37:54.083 --> 00:37:54.916 I guess you do-- 1362 00:37:54.916 --> 00:37:56.166 You must not have been you because you do 1363 00:37:56.166 --> 00:37:57.500 not subscribe to that opinion. 1364 00:37:57.958 --> 00:37:58.833 I've been trying very 1365 00:37:58.833 --> 00:37:59.750 hard to get rid of it. 1366 00:38:00.083 --> 00:38:01.500 One of the things I've done so you can 1367 00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:03.000 see this is what my actual 1368 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.208 shooting station looks like. 1369 00:38:04.208 --> 00:38:05.416 You can see that the 1370 00:38:05.416 --> 00:38:07.416 ceiling is not... it's not right. 1371 00:38:07.416 --> 00:38:08.750 It's not flat. 1372 00:38:08.750 --> 00:38:09.666 It's angled. 1373 00:38:09.666 --> 00:38:11.666 And so my first thought was like, well, 1374 00:38:11.666 --> 00:38:14.000 if I get my key lights aimed at the 1375 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.166 ceiling, then the whole ceiling is like 1376 00:38:16.166 --> 00:38:18.958 one big softbox, which not really because 1377 00:38:18.958 --> 00:38:22.708 you still have a bunch of stands and 1378 00:38:22.708 --> 00:38:23.750 whatnot that obstruct 1379 00:38:23.750 --> 00:38:24.833 the light coming back. 1380 00:38:25.166 --> 00:38:26.166 And you can actually see 1381 00:38:26.166 --> 00:38:27.416 that in the reflection. 1382 00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:29.041 So you see all the it's it's weird. 1383 00:38:29.041 --> 00:38:29.916 It's not great. 1384 00:38:29.916 --> 00:38:31.583 So what I do have right now is it's 1385 00:38:31.583 --> 00:38:32.375 called clamshell 1386 00:38:32.375 --> 00:38:34.333 lighting like a- like a shell. 1387 00:38:34.333 --> 00:38:35.500 You can open and close. 1388 00:38:35.500 --> 00:38:36.416 You get something from the bottom, 1389 00:38:36.416 --> 00:38:37.541 something from the top. 1390 00:38:37.541 --> 00:38:39.125 Usually at the bottom, you would not have 1391 00:38:39.125 --> 00:38:41.166 a secondary light source like I do. 1392 00:38:41.166 --> 00:38:42.375 You would have a reflector, 1393 00:38:42.375 --> 00:38:43.958 but I don't have a reflector. 1394 00:38:43.958 --> 00:38:45.166 So I just have another key 1395 00:38:45.166 --> 00:38:47.458 light that I'm almost stepping on. 1396 00:38:47.708 --> 00:38:48.458 It's bumping against 1397 00:38:48.458 --> 00:38:49.291 my belly when I shoot. 1398 00:38:49.291 --> 00:38:51.500 It's just like just below my chin and 1399 00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:54.000 it's lighting me from below so that I 1400 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.375 don't look like I'm telling a horror 1401 00:38:55.375 --> 00:38:57.166 story at a campfire while the opposite of 1402 00:38:57.166 --> 00:38:58.375 that because it's coming from above. 1403 00:38:58.500 --> 00:38:59.791 Whatever! It's balancing the light a 1404 00:38:59.791 --> 00:39:01.291 little bit because if it only comes from 1405 00:39:01.291 --> 00:39:02.833 above the shadows are terrible. 1406 00:39:02.833 --> 00:39:03.708 And I look like I've slept 1407 00:39:03.708 --> 00:39:04.750 even less than I actually have. 1408 00:39:05.041 --> 00:39:07.000 So the top lights, those are all 1409 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.875 controlled by HomeKit, by the way. 1410 00:39:09.041 --> 00:39:09.750 It's all Apple. 1411 00:39:09.750 --> 00:39:10.916 I just I come in. 1412 00:39:10.916 --> 00:39:13.125 I say, "Siri, I'm going to record" and then 1413 00:39:13.125 --> 00:39:15.041 it turns on the lights and "On Air" sign. 1414 00:39:15.041 --> 00:39:16.083 It's very nice. 1415 00:39:16.166 --> 00:39:19.208 And it works pretty well. 1416 00:39:19.208 --> 00:39:21.208 The bottom light is at like three 1417 00:39:21.208 --> 00:39:23.333 percent, I think, out of 100 percent. 1418 00:39:23.833 --> 00:39:25.041 But it makes all the difference. 1419 00:39:25.708 --> 00:39:26.916 And this is what you get. 1420 00:39:27.125 --> 00:39:28.416 If I look straight at the 1421 00:39:28.416 --> 00:39:30.208 camera, you can barely see-- 1422 00:39:30.208 --> 00:39:31.833 You can see a hint if you zoom in. 1423 00:39:31.833 --> 00:39:33.333 You can see a hint of the 1424 00:39:33.333 --> 00:39:35.916 bottom lighting in the bottom. 1425 00:39:35.916 --> 00:39:37.041 But it's not distracting. 1426 00:39:37.041 --> 00:39:38.250 You can look me in the eye. 1427 00:39:38.250 --> 00:39:39.833 I look well lit. 1428 00:39:39.833 --> 00:39:41.458 I wouldn't say look good because I've 1429 00:39:41.458 --> 00:39:42.416 been working too much. 1430 00:39:42.416 --> 00:39:43.791 And you can see that in my 1431 00:39:43.791 --> 00:39:45.708 eye, the bags underneath my eyes. 1432 00:39:45.708 --> 00:39:46.666 But the lighting is OK. 1433 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:48.916 I have to ask, how much do you have to up 1434 00:39:48.916 --> 00:39:50.458 your glasses cleaning game? 1435 00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:52.375 Like, do you have to get like special 1436 00:39:52.375 --> 00:39:54.416 microfiber and cleaning...? 1437 00:39:54.541 --> 00:39:56.208 I have a lot of microfiber. 1438 00:39:56.208 --> 00:39:58.625 I own glasses for a long time 1439 00:39:58.625 --> 00:39:59.666 Because I come in here and I have a 1440 00:39:59.666 --> 00:40:01.166 window behind my monitor. 1441 00:40:01.166 --> 00:40:02.416 And a lot of times I just work in my 1442 00:40:02.416 --> 00:40:03.375 living room, which isn't 1443 00:40:03.375 --> 00:40:04.958 like super directly lit. 1444 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.500 Anytime I come in here and the windows 1445 00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:08.250 open and I get light directly on there, 1446 00:40:08.250 --> 00:40:09.041 I'm like, "Oh, my 1447 00:40:09.041 --> 00:40:11.041 glasses are awful right now!" 1448 00:40:11.041 --> 00:40:12.583 I have a bunch of microfiber cloths. 1449 00:40:12.583 --> 00:40:15.250 It's just around the guest bedroom. 1450 00:40:15.250 --> 00:40:16.458 Sorry, the studio. 1451 00:40:16.500 --> 00:40:18.333 It's still not enough to have this 1452 00:40:18.333 --> 00:40:19.500 clamshell lighting where I have light 1453 00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:20.916 coming from above and from below. 1454 00:40:20.916 --> 00:40:22.250 So nothing directly in my eyes. 1455 00:40:22.250 --> 00:40:23.125 because I move around. 1456 00:40:23.166 --> 00:40:24.166 I look up, I look down. 1457 00:40:24.166 --> 00:40:25.125 So if I look up, you can 1458 00:40:25.166 --> 00:40:26.375 definitely see the top lights. 1459 00:40:26.375 --> 00:40:27.750 But what you're seeing in that slide on 1460 00:40:27.750 --> 00:40:31.208 the left hand side is the unprocessed raw 1461 00:40:31.208 --> 00:40:32.416 image from the camera. 1462 00:40:32.416 --> 00:40:33.750 Not raw, not unprocessed. 1463 00:40:33.750 --> 00:40:35.166 There's a lot of processing, but like not 1464 00:40:35.166 --> 00:40:36.833 color graded in DaVinci Resolve. 1465 00:40:36.833 --> 00:40:38.416 And on the right hand side, it's just a 1466 00:40:38.416 --> 00:40:41.000 single effect called Despill. 1467 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:43.166 And it's designed for green screen. 1468 00:40:43.166 --> 00:40:44.416 When you have a green screen behind you, 1469 00:40:44.416 --> 00:40:45.041 there's light that 1470 00:40:45.041 --> 00:40:46.000 goes on the green screen. 1471 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:46.916 It bounces off of it. 1472 00:40:46.916 --> 00:40:48.250 It becomes green light 1473 00:40:48.250 --> 00:40:50.083 only and it reflects on you. 1474 00:40:50.083 --> 00:40:52.166 And then the green spills onto you. 1475 00:40:52.166 --> 00:40:53.791 And so it's trying to remove that. 1476 00:40:54.083 --> 00:40:55.666 And by doing that, it's actually changing 1477 00:40:55.666 --> 00:40:57.416 the color of the clothes you wear. 1478 00:40:57.625 --> 00:40:59.083 So obviously you cannot wear green. 1479 00:40:59.083 --> 00:41:00.416 But even if you wear something else, it's 1480 00:41:00.416 --> 00:41:01.291 going to become a slightly different 1481 00:41:01.291 --> 00:41:03.000 shade because it thinks it's green from 1482 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:03.791 the green screen when it's 1483 00:41:03.791 --> 00:41:04.833 just the color of your clothing. 1484 00:41:04.833 --> 00:41:06.541 But as you can see, you can still tell 1485 00:41:06.541 --> 00:41:10.208 the shape of the light, but it's much 1486 00:41:10.208 --> 00:41:11.875 less distracting, right? 1487 00:41:11.875 --> 00:41:13.500 It's now kind of skin colored. 1488 00:41:13.541 --> 00:41:14.458 If you're just, I don't 1489 00:41:14.458 --> 00:41:15.458 know, I'm moving around a lot. 1490 00:41:15.458 --> 00:41:16.166 It's very fast. 1491 00:41:16.166 --> 00:41:18.541 It's not as distracting as this big green 1492 00:41:18.541 --> 00:41:19.916 aggressive lighting. 1493 00:41:19.916 --> 00:41:21.416 So I'm really happy with that. 1494 00:41:21.416 --> 00:41:22.458 I thought about it, I 1495 00:41:22.458 --> 00:41:23.166 think two weeks ago. 1496 00:41:23.166 --> 00:41:24.666 I was like, "Hey, there's a Despill now. 1497 00:41:24.666 --> 00:41:25.333 What if it? 1498 00:41:25.333 --> 00:41:26.083 Oh, wow, that's great." 1499 00:41:26.083 --> 00:41:28.083 So with those two things like the light 1500 00:41:28.083 --> 00:41:30.833 placement plus this, I'm fairly happy. 1501 00:41:30.875 --> 00:41:33.916 The next time I have uncontrollable urges 1502 00:41:33.916 --> 00:41:36.375 to spend money, I will get this. 1503 00:41:36.375 --> 00:41:37.791 Well, it's two things. 1504 00:41:37.916 --> 00:41:39.916 I love when you get distilled just to the 1505 00:41:39.916 --> 00:41:42.833 like, you can tell it's just a Cree LED 1506 00:41:42.833 --> 00:41:44.375 element and then there's a heatsink with 1507 00:41:44.375 --> 00:41:46.500 probably a fan on the back of it. 1508 00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:48.375 And then, yeah, a mount to the... 1509 00:41:48.375 --> 00:41:49.666 This one is fanless. 1510 00:41:49.666 --> 00:41:50.916 That's why I haven't bought it yet is 1511 00:41:50.916 --> 00:41:52.000 because it's actually expensive. 1512 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:52.833 Oh, is it fanless? 1513 00:41:52.833 --> 00:41:53.583 OK, then it's probably 1514 00:41:53.666 --> 00:41:55.083 a big chunk of aluminum. 1515 00:41:55.083 --> 00:41:56.083 This one is fanless. 1516 00:41:56.083 --> 00:41:57.333 It's completely silent. 1517 00:41:57.458 --> 00:41:58.791 This is what I want. 1518 00:41:58.791 --> 00:41:59.791 I don't want-- because when you're 1519 00:41:59.791 --> 00:42:01.458 outside, it doesn't freaking matter. 1520 00:42:01.458 --> 00:42:05.583 The um... ground noise? The base level noise? 1521 00:42:05.583 --> 00:42:06.250 I don't know. 1522 00:42:06.250 --> 00:42:07.208 It's already so high. 1523 00:42:07.208 --> 00:42:08.291 It'll usually be like high frequency 1524 00:42:08.291 --> 00:42:11.041 transformer noise or fans or you get 1525 00:42:11.041 --> 00:42:13.166 what's called coil whine through 1526 00:42:13.166 --> 00:42:15.625 inductors and stuff like that. 1527 00:42:15.916 --> 00:42:18.125 So, yeah, because the studio is so small 1528 00:42:18.125 --> 00:42:20.000 because you can hear everything inside of 1529 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.000 there, I have to turn off the AC 1530 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.333 obviously when recording, even though, 1531 00:42:24.333 --> 00:42:27.083 you know, the perch, the shotgun mic is 1532 00:42:27.083 --> 00:42:28.041 sitting right above me. 1533 00:42:28.041 --> 00:42:30.333 I still try to avoid any... I would get one 1534 00:42:30.333 --> 00:42:32.125 of those silence LED protectors, which 1535 00:42:32.125 --> 00:42:33.541 has a Bowen mount. 1536 00:42:33.541 --> 00:42:36.375 And then on that, I would screw in a 1537 00:42:36.375 --> 00:42:38.791 collapsible lantern softbox also by Godox 1538 00:42:38.791 --> 00:42:41.083 that I think it would look great. 1539 00:42:41.083 --> 00:42:42.750 Honestly, it would be like softer 1540 00:42:42.750 --> 00:42:44.875 lighting, but there's 1541 00:42:44.875 --> 00:42:46.291 many things I want to buy. 1542 00:42:46.291 --> 00:42:47.666 But yeah, lighting is important. Now that 1543 00:42:47.666 --> 00:42:49.125 I have this lighting, which 1544 00:42:49.125 --> 00:42:50.416 is very, very close to my face. 1545 00:42:50.458 --> 00:42:51.666 I have to make an effort not 1546 00:42:51.666 --> 00:42:53.000 to look too much up or down. 1547 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:54.375 I don't have the problem anymore where 1548 00:42:54.375 --> 00:42:57.500 the black screen, which is a large piece 1549 00:42:57.500 --> 00:43:00.708 of black clothing behind me, is also lit. 1550 00:43:00.708 --> 00:43:02.458 So I used to have to 1551 00:43:02.458 --> 00:43:04.000 this is a steam de-wrinkler. 1552 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.833 You can get one of those for 20 bucks in 1553 00:43:05.833 --> 00:43:08.291 the supermarket, just to get your... if you-- 1554 00:43:08.291 --> 00:43:10.000 don't want to iron fully your shirt if 1555 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:10.791 you're traveling, whatever. 1556 00:43:10.791 --> 00:43:11.916 You just de-wrinkle them. 1557 00:43:11.916 --> 00:43:13.125 I used to do that for 1558 00:43:13.125 --> 00:43:15.041 like an hour before shooting. 1559 00:43:15.041 --> 00:43:16.541 Just de-wrinkle my black screen. 1560 00:43:16.541 --> 00:43:18.916 Now I don't have to if you go back to the 1561 00:43:18.916 --> 00:43:20.166 you can't even see the screen. 1562 00:43:20.166 --> 00:43:21.583 I didn't-- I used to play with the levels. 1563 00:43:21.583 --> 00:43:23.416 It looks green screen almost like you 1564 00:43:23.416 --> 00:43:24.500 green screen to like a 1565 00:43:24.500 --> 00:43:25.750 black background onto it. 1566 00:43:25.750 --> 00:43:27.125 Yeah, and that's because there's almost 1567 00:43:27.125 --> 00:43:28.791 no light that goes all the way to the 1568 00:43:28.791 --> 00:43:30.500 screen or like compared to the light that 1569 00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:31.708 bounces off of my face. 1570 00:43:31.708 --> 00:43:32.625 It's nothing. 1571 00:43:32.625 --> 00:43:33.333 So I used to have to 1572 00:43:33.333 --> 00:43:34.000 play with the levels a lot. 1573 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:34.958 I could compress like play 1574 00:43:34.958 --> 00:43:36.500 with gamma and gain and stuff. 1575 00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:38.625 Just exposure, but only for the dark 1576 00:43:38.625 --> 00:43:40.083 parts in DaVinci Resolve. 1577 00:43:40.083 --> 00:43:41.833 But now I don't have to! Just the lighting 1578 00:43:41.833 --> 00:43:42.958 gets you there and I 1579 00:43:42.958 --> 00:43:43.708 didn't want to leave it. 1580 00:43:43.708 --> 00:43:45.333 It took me, I guess, six 1581 00:43:45.333 --> 00:43:46.500 years to learn the lesson. 1582 00:43:46.500 --> 00:43:48.416 Also, if we go back to the the photo of 1583 00:43:48.416 --> 00:43:49.500 my setup, where is it? 1584 00:43:50.291 --> 00:43:51.458 Yeah, this photo. 1585 00:43:51.458 --> 00:43:53.666 I don't know if-- it's hard to tell... 1586 00:43:53.833 --> 00:43:55.708 So you can see that there's a- there's a 1587 00:43:55.708 --> 00:43:57.750 boom pole for the shotgun mic, right? 1588 00:43:57.750 --> 00:43:58.416 There's a stand. 1589 00:43:58.416 --> 00:43:59.125 It goes... 1590 00:43:59.125 --> 00:43:59.958 It's upright. 1591 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.125 And then there's something that can 1592 00:44:01.125 --> 00:44:04.333 rotate in the X axis, 1593 00:44:04.333 --> 00:44:05.666 so that it's bent a little bit. 1594 00:44:05.666 --> 00:44:07.791 It allows the mic to move away from the 1595 00:44:07.791 --> 00:44:09.375 stand so that it sits above me. 1596 00:44:09.416 --> 00:44:10.208 Right? This stand cannot be 1597 00:44:10.208 --> 00:44:11.291 physically where I am. 1598 00:44:11.291 --> 00:44:12.208 It has to be offset. 1599 00:44:12.208 --> 00:44:14.083 So it offsets the mic to be above me. 1600 00:44:14.083 --> 00:44:16.083 That's one of the two of those kind of 1601 00:44:16.083 --> 00:44:17.125 stands that I have that 1602 00:44:17.125 --> 00:44:18.583 I think is called a pole. 1603 00:44:18.583 --> 00:44:19.875 And then I have another one. 1604 00:44:19.875 --> 00:44:21.083 I've always heard this is just like C 1605 00:44:21.083 --> 00:44:22.875 stands like they're just the like what 1606 00:44:22.875 --> 00:44:24.375 you use for everything. 1607 00:44:24.375 --> 00:44:25.416 I need one of these, yeah yeah. 1608 00:44:25.416 --> 00:44:26.875 But instead I have this thing that just 1609 00:44:26.875 --> 00:44:28.333 bends and it can offset it. 1610 00:44:28.333 --> 00:44:30.000 But if you look at the top light, it's on 1611 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.416 one of those as well. 1612 00:44:31.416 --> 00:44:32.458 But there's usually there's a 1613 00:44:32.458 --> 00:44:33.250 counterweight because 1614 00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:34.500 the light is pretty heavy. 1615 00:44:34.541 --> 00:44:37.458 So you would have the light on one end 1616 00:44:37.458 --> 00:44:39.500 and then the other end you would have some 1617 00:44:39.500 --> 00:44:40.416 just a bag of weights. 1618 00:44:40.416 --> 00:44:41.291 I don't know that keeps 1619 00:44:41.291 --> 00:44:43.041 it in balance, but I don't. 1620 00:44:43.250 --> 00:44:44.208 So it's actually 1621 00:44:44.208 --> 00:44:46.333 resting on my teleprompter. 1622 00:44:46.333 --> 00:44:47.458 Otherwise it would fall down. 1623 00:44:47.458 --> 00:44:48.458 Oh nice, yeah. 1624 00:44:48.583 --> 00:44:49.500 It's terrible. 1625 00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:51.333 I don't sleep well at night because I'm 1626 00:44:51.333 --> 00:44:52.791 like, "Everything's going to collapse. 1627 00:44:52.833 --> 00:44:54.125 It's going to break my key light. 1628 00:44:54.125 --> 00:44:55.125 It's going to be terrible." 1629 00:44:55.208 --> 00:44:56.791 Lastly, we have media management. 1630 00:44:56.791 --> 00:45:00.708 When I use the Zoom H4n Black 1631 00:45:00.708 --> 00:45:02.208 Pro Recorder when I 1632 00:45:02.208 --> 00:45:03.500 shot directly on camera, etc. 1633 00:45:03.500 --> 00:45:05.708 It was SD card mania. 1634 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.583 You just- you're always running around 1635 00:45:07.583 --> 00:45:09.500 copying files on and off of SD cards. 1636 00:45:09.750 --> 00:45:11.625 It's always so freaking slow because 1637 00:45:11.625 --> 00:45:13.708 they're spec'd to be just fast enough 1638 00:45:13.708 --> 00:45:15.541 that you can record video in real time. 1639 00:45:15.541 --> 00:45:16.416 And that's it. 1640 00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:18.500 So when you're copying an hour's worth of 1641 00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:20.166 footage, it could take up to an hour if 1642 00:45:20.166 --> 00:45:22.083 that's the category of 1643 00:45:22.083 --> 00:45:23.250 memory cards that you got. 1644 00:45:23.250 --> 00:45:24.291 When I started shooting on iPhone 1645 00:45:24.291 --> 00:45:25.916 instead, because I just noticed, "Oh, the 1646 00:45:25.916 --> 00:45:27.541 iPhone actually just looks better and I 1647 00:45:27.541 --> 00:45:28.416 don't need to do any set 1648 00:45:28.416 --> 00:45:29.458 up whatsoever. 1649 00:45:29.500 --> 00:45:32.208 And it's less trouble and it's easier to 1650 00:45:32.208 --> 00:45:33.333 control remotely as well. 1651 00:45:33.333 --> 00:45:34.375 That was a big point. 1652 00:45:34.375 --> 00:45:36.250 I started AirDropping files to myself. 1653 00:45:36.291 --> 00:45:37.708 But you know, the problem with AirDrop? 1654 00:45:37.708 --> 00:45:38.750 it's great and super fast 1655 00:45:38.750 --> 00:45:39.541 over Wi-Fi and everything. 1656 00:45:39.791 --> 00:45:41.750 But I think it needs an initial Bluetooth 1657 00:45:41.750 --> 00:45:42.916 connection just to 1658 00:45:42.916 --> 00:45:44.083 say, "Oh, OK, I'm near you. 1659 00:45:44.083 --> 00:45:45.041 We can do 1660 00:45:45.041 --> 00:45:46.083 Wi-Fi direct or whatever." 1661 00:45:46.125 --> 00:45:49.875 And my studio is just out of range of my 1662 00:45:49.875 --> 00:45:51.166 Mac studio downstairs. 1663 00:45:51.166 --> 00:45:52.958 So I had to physically remove the iPhone 1664 00:45:52.958 --> 00:45:54.916 I use as a camera, step downstairs a 1665 00:45:54.916 --> 00:45:56.375 little bit and then it would start the 1666 00:45:56.375 --> 00:45:57.750 AirDrop file transfer. 1667 00:45:57.750 --> 00:45:59.291 So kind of defeated the purpose. 1668 00:45:59.291 --> 00:46:02.750 I tried saving to iCloud, but that syncs 1669 00:46:02.750 --> 00:46:03.625 whenever it wants to. 1670 00:46:03.625 --> 00:46:05.208 Sometimes it's instant, sometimes not. 1671 00:46:05.208 --> 00:46:06.375 It's not really progress 1672 00:46:06.375 --> 00:46:07.375 indicators or whatever. 1673 00:46:07.375 --> 00:46:08.500 I just lost so much time 1674 00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:09.875 waiting for things to transfer. 1675 00:46:09.875 --> 00:46:10.375 I don't know. 1676 00:46:10.375 --> 00:46:11.500 Sometimes I gave up, took the phone with 1677 00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:12.208 me, stepped downstairs 1678 00:46:12.208 --> 00:46:13.166 with it, plugged it in. 1679 00:46:13.166 --> 00:46:15.500 And then the wire transfer is slower than 1680 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:18.250 the wire- the wireless, because the wire 1681 00:46:18.250 --> 00:46:21.791 only uses USB 2 speeds and... terrible. 1682 00:46:21.791 --> 00:46:23.625 I think only like the current very high 1683 00:46:23.625 --> 00:46:25.500 end models are USB 3 and everything else 1684 00:46:25.500 --> 00:46:27.333 is still 400 megabit. 1685 00:46:27.333 --> 00:46:27.750 Yeah. 1686 00:46:27.750 --> 00:46:28.083 Yeah. 1687 00:46:28.083 --> 00:46:28.666 Basically. 1688 00:46:28.708 --> 00:46:29.916 Yeah, that's part of the reason why I didn't 1689 00:46:29.916 --> 00:46:31.458 bother with iPhone 16. 1690 00:46:31.458 --> 00:46:33.083 We'll see what the 17 brings. 1691 00:46:33.083 --> 00:46:36.041 I think it was about like the chip on the 1692 00:46:36.041 --> 00:46:37.958 iPhone is not new enough or something. 1693 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.166 There's the marketing reason and then 1694 00:46:39.166 --> 00:46:40.250 there's whatever they decided because 1695 00:46:40.250 --> 00:46:42.916 like that was the thing about um... the jump 1696 00:46:42.916 --> 00:46:47.000 from USB 2 or USB high speed to USB 3 or 1697 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.458 USB super speed is you need more pairs. 1698 00:46:49.458 --> 00:46:50.875 It basically goes from a single 1699 00:46:50.875 --> 00:46:52.000 differential pair to 1700 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.250 multiple differential pairs. 1701 00:46:53.250 --> 00:46:55.708 And so if--was it, Thunderbolt has always 1702 00:46:55.708 --> 00:46:57.375 been USB high speed. 1703 00:46:57.375 --> 00:46:59.416 So it's only had one data pair, which 1704 00:46:59.416 --> 00:47:01.166 means they've just been designing their 1705 00:47:01.166 --> 00:47:02.666 chips for so long to only have a single 1706 00:47:02.666 --> 00:47:03.750 data pair coming into it. 1707 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:05.500 So you can't just do a 1708 00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:07.791 single pair USB super speed. 1709 00:47:07.791 --> 00:47:09.875 You need the second differential pair to 1710 00:47:09.875 --> 00:47:10.666 go up to even the bare 1711 00:47:10.666 --> 00:47:13.333 minimum USB super speed setup. 1712 00:47:13.333 --> 00:47:15.708 So now that I only use iPhones for 1713 00:47:15.708 --> 00:47:17.958 everything, I have one camera iPhone, one 1714 00:47:17.958 --> 00:47:19.000 monitor iPhone and 1715 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:20.916 one teleprompter iPhone. 1716 00:47:21.166 --> 00:47:21.958 I just put everything 1717 00:47:21.958 --> 00:47:22.916 on Blackmagic cloud. 1718 00:47:22.916 --> 00:47:23.833 So Blackmagic are the 1719 00:47:23.833 --> 00:47:25.791 makers of DaVinci Resolve. 1720 00:47:25.833 --> 00:47:27.458 My very limited understanding of the 1721 00:47:27.458 --> 00:47:30.333 company's history is they make expensive 1722 00:47:30.333 --> 00:47:31.625 Hollywood grade 1723 00:47:31.625 --> 00:47:33.708 hardware for video production. 1724 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.375 They sell hardware that's more expensive 1725 00:47:36.375 --> 00:47:38.500 than all the computers I own combined. 1726 00:47:38.750 --> 00:47:40.458 And I have too many computers. 1727 00:47:40.458 --> 00:47:43.250 And as a bonus, they also made a freely 1728 00:47:43.250 --> 00:47:45.250 available color grading software. 1729 00:47:45.250 --> 00:47:46.833 And then it actually turned into a 1730 00:47:46.833 --> 00:47:48.833 nonlinear editing software solution that 1731 00:47:48.833 --> 00:47:51.583 rivals Adobe Premiere and everything. 1732 00:47:51.625 --> 00:47:52.166 And then they started 1733 00:47:52.166 --> 00:47:53.416 selling a studio version of that. 1734 00:47:53.416 --> 00:47:54.541 I don't know exactly what order things 1735 00:47:54.541 --> 00:47:56.708 happened in, but they had everything to 1736 00:47:56.708 --> 00:47:58.000 succeed except the 1737 00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:59.666 freaking cloud media storage. 1738 00:47:59.666 --> 00:48:01.666 When I tried working with another person 1739 00:48:01.666 --> 00:48:03.416 to help with editing my videos, I think 1740 00:48:03.416 --> 00:48:06.166 only a year ago, two years ago, we had to 1741 00:48:06.166 --> 00:48:09.041 ferry files on Dropbox or whatever. 1742 00:48:09.041 --> 00:48:10.291 It was-- it was so annoying. 1743 00:48:10.291 --> 00:48:12.166 Now they finally have- it's in beta still- 1744 00:48:12.166 --> 00:48:14.083 but you finally have Blackmagic cloud. 1745 00:48:14.125 --> 00:48:15.500 So not only do you have the thing that 1746 00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:17.208 you've always had, which is the way 1747 00:48:17.208 --> 00:48:18.500 project libraries work in DaVinci 1748 00:48:18.500 --> 00:48:21.166 Resolve, they're just Postgres databases. 1749 00:48:21.166 --> 00:48:22.625 So even if you install it just locally, 1750 00:48:22.625 --> 00:48:23.833 they're running Postgres. 1751 00:48:23.833 --> 00:48:25.875 And so you can pay them five bucks a 1752 00:48:25.875 --> 00:48:28.250 month to have a library hosted by them, 1753 00:48:28.250 --> 00:48:29.833 or you can run your own Postgres server, 1754 00:48:29.833 --> 00:48:31.541 which is what I ended up doing, which is 1755 00:48:31.541 --> 00:48:32.291 a pain in the butt 1756 00:48:32.291 --> 00:48:33.250 because you have to secure it. 1757 00:48:33.250 --> 00:48:34.291 Because if you just open a Postgres 1758 00:48:34.291 --> 00:48:34.833 database on the 1759 00:48:34.833 --> 00:48:36.750 Internet, people will get in. 1760 00:48:36.791 --> 00:48:38.166 But yeah, it's just a Postgres database. 1761 00:48:38.166 --> 00:48:39.500 So it locks timeline with someone's 1762 00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:41.250 editing and it's designed for that 1763 00:48:41.333 --> 00:48:43.000 collaborative workflow from the beginning. 1764 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:44.166 But what's new is that they 1765 00:48:44.166 --> 00:48:46.375 can also now store media files. 1766 00:48:46.375 --> 00:48:48.000 And obviously, they're pricing it, 1767 00:48:48.083 --> 00:48:49.750 selling it as a premium, as everyone does 1768 00:48:49.750 --> 00:48:51.125 with the cloud storage. 1769 00:48:51.125 --> 00:48:52.875 But I think what am I paying? 1770 00:48:52.875 --> 00:48:55.458 I get 500 gigabytes for 10 1771 00:48:55.458 --> 00:48:57.500 bucks a month, 15 bucks a month? I don't know 1772 00:48:57.500 --> 00:49:00.041 It's below the cost of thinking of it. 1773 00:49:00.041 --> 00:49:01.333 You know, like if you were just a 1774 00:49:01.333 --> 00:49:02.541 hobbyist, it might be different. 1775 00:49:02.541 --> 00:49:04.541 But if you do it professionally, it's like... 1776 00:49:04.541 --> 00:49:05.708 As a company expense, it's nothing. 1777 00:49:05.708 --> 00:49:06.875 I won't even think about it. 1778 00:49:06.875 --> 00:49:07.416 Exactly. 1779 00:49:07.416 --> 00:49:08.500 So I tried it. Ahh, we'll 1780 00:49:08.500 --> 00:49:09.041 We'll see if the 1781 00:49:09.041 --> 00:49:10.208 experience is good or whatever. 1782 00:49:10.208 --> 00:49:11.583 It is amazing. 1783 00:49:11.583 --> 00:49:12.416 It is amazeballs. 1784 00:49:12.541 --> 00:49:13.416 You have Blackmagic 1785 00:49:13.416 --> 00:49:15.000 camera running on your iPhones. 1786 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.666 You shoot something, you stop shooting, 1787 00:49:16.666 --> 00:49:18.250 and it's instantly there. 1788 00:49:18.250 --> 00:49:20.000 If you have the project open in a 1789 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:21.833 computer somewhere, I did a demo, you may 1790 00:49:21.833 --> 00:49:23.500 have seen it on my Discord server. 1791 00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.958 You stop shooting, it uploads immediately 1792 00:49:24.958 --> 00:49:26.041 the proxy version, which is a low 1793 00:49:26.041 --> 00:49:28.125 resolution version of what you just shot. 1794 00:49:28.125 --> 00:49:29.000 It does that first. 1795 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:30.291 So you have the assets, you can drag it, 1796 00:49:30.291 --> 00:49:31.750 you can start playing around with it. 1797 00:49:31.750 --> 00:49:32.666 And then the original, the full 1798 00:49:32.666 --> 00:49:33.958 resolution original is 1799 00:49:33.958 --> 00:49:35.375 synchronizing after that. 1800 00:49:35.458 --> 00:49:37.041 And it takes care of everything. 1801 00:49:37.041 --> 00:49:38.583 You can lose the entire project. 1802 00:49:38.583 --> 00:49:39.333 It's cloud. 1803 00:49:39.333 --> 00:49:40.458 You can synchronize it 1804 00:49:40.458 --> 00:49:41.416 from wherever you want. 1805 00:49:41.416 --> 00:49:43.541 You can share with some editor and have 1806 00:49:43.541 --> 00:49:46.208 them sync only the proxy so that even if 1807 00:49:46.208 --> 00:49:47.791 they have a crappy computer with not a 1808 00:49:47.791 --> 00:49:49.583 lot of disk space, they can still work on 1809 00:49:49.583 --> 00:49:50.458 cutting and everything. 1810 00:49:50.500 --> 00:49:52.000 So a lot of that rough cut of editing is 1811 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.875 only done with like the low-fi video 1812 00:49:53.875 --> 00:49:55.750 because you don't need to be doing 4K 1813 00:49:55.750 --> 00:49:57.750 assets just to like crop out 1814 00:49:57.750 --> 00:49:59.750 the coughs and um's and takes. 1815 00:49:59.750 --> 00:50:00.166 Yeah. 1816 00:50:00.166 --> 00:50:01.625 Yeah, you can do a separate pass for 1817 00:50:01.625 --> 00:50:02.708 color grading, a separate 1818 00:50:02.708 --> 00:50:03.916 pass for special effects. 1819 00:50:04.083 --> 00:50:04.916 It's amazing. 1820 00:50:04.916 --> 00:50:06.416 This is the camera iPhone. 1821 00:50:06.416 --> 00:50:07.375 It's an iPhone 12 Pro 1822 00:50:07.375 --> 00:50:08.750 Max that I bought recently. 1823 00:50:08.750 --> 00:50:10.000 I used to use my personal iPhone, but 1824 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.500 it's just it's awkward getting a call in 1825 00:50:11.500 --> 00:50:12.833 the middle of a shoot and having to like 1826 00:50:12.833 --> 00:50:14.833 disassemble your entire setup just to 1827 00:50:14.833 --> 00:50:15.708 answer like, "I'm sorry, I 1828 00:50:15.708 --> 00:50:17.583 was unhooking my camera." 1829 00:50:17.625 --> 00:50:18.666 It has this very custom. 1830 00:50:18.875 --> 00:50:20.750 You might be wondering why there's blue 1831 00:50:20.750 --> 00:50:23.000 tape around the little grip. 1832 00:50:23.083 --> 00:50:24.708 That's because if it's not there because 1833 00:50:24.708 --> 00:50:26.500 it's metallic, it's detected as touch. 1834 00:50:26.541 --> 00:50:27.083 Oh, yeah. 1835 00:50:27.416 --> 00:50:30.208 So I had to make it distant enough. 1836 00:50:30.208 --> 00:50:31.875 Put enough insulation in between the two of them. 1837 00:50:31.875 --> 00:50:32.333 Yep. 1838 00:50:32.583 --> 00:50:33.375 Why 12 Pro Max? 1839 00:50:33.375 --> 00:50:35.458 It has a nice camera and it's... it's 1840 00:50:35.458 --> 00:50:38.000 actually very accessible price wise. 1841 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:40.500 Again, we'll have the total in a second. 1842 00:50:40.500 --> 00:50:42.000 By comparison, when I wanted to go the 1843 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000 full DSLR or mirrorless way with like an 1844 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.250 actual camera looking camera like the 1845 00:50:48.250 --> 00:50:51.958 DC-GH5 from Lumix, I bought an Atomos Ninja V 1846 00:50:51.958 --> 00:50:54.291 which is this little monitor slash 1847 00:50:54.291 --> 00:50:57.333 recorder thingy that you can screw on top 1848 00:50:57.333 --> 00:50:58.916 of an existing camera 1849 00:50:58.916 --> 00:51:00.166 with a cold shoe mount. 1850 00:51:00.208 --> 00:51:01.791 And then you connect them over HDMI and 1851 00:51:01.791 --> 00:51:03.708 you get this nice little HDR display and 1852 00:51:03.708 --> 00:51:05.500 it records directly onto SSD, which was 1853 00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:06.750 one of the things I was really looking 1854 00:51:06.750 --> 00:51:07.750 forward to because you 1855 00:51:07.750 --> 00:51:08.958 have these little cards. 1856 00:51:08.958 --> 00:51:11.250 You you mount the SSD into the card and 1857 00:51:11.250 --> 00:51:14.583 then you can just slide it in the Ninja V 1858 00:51:14.583 --> 00:51:16.416 and then you slide it out and you connect 1859 00:51:16.416 --> 00:51:18.791 it directly over USB to your laptop. 1860 00:51:18.791 --> 00:51:19.541 It was very fast. 1861 00:51:19.541 --> 00:51:21.250 You can use it as your main disk if you 1862 00:51:21.250 --> 00:51:23.041 like living dangerously and you get very 1863 00:51:23.041 --> 00:51:24.083 fast transfer speed. 1864 00:51:24.083 --> 00:51:26.000 It was it was kind of ideal, except this 1865 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:28.416 thing runs super freaking hot. 1866 00:51:28.416 --> 00:51:31.000 It hurts to just touch the stop button. 1867 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.708 It gets so hot and it's so expensive and 1868 00:51:33.708 --> 00:51:34.791 I really didn't need it. 1869 00:51:34.791 --> 00:51:36.208 And I spent so much money on it for 1870 00:51:36.208 --> 00:51:37.125 nothing and you still 1871 00:51:37.125 --> 00:51:38.708 can't trigger it remotely. 1872 00:51:38.708 --> 00:51:39.083 I don't know. 1873 00:51:39.083 --> 00:51:40.333 You need- you need to buy more stuff. 1874 00:51:40.333 --> 00:51:42.041 You need to buy into their- their own 1875 00:51:42.041 --> 00:51:44.333 cloud, which they sell also. 1876 00:51:44.333 --> 00:51:46.791 Um... Yeah, I ended up selling that. 1877 00:51:46.791 --> 00:51:47.625 I'm not using it anymore. 1878 00:51:47.625 --> 00:51:48.375 I still have the camera. 1879 00:51:48.375 --> 00:51:49.458 I don't have the Ninja V anymore. 1880 00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:52.041 So the takeaway is 'three iPhones' sounds 1881 00:51:52.041 --> 00:51:55.000 kind of expensive until you buy 20 pieces 1882 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:56.958 of the wrong gear and realize-- 1883 00:51:56.958 --> 00:51:58.875 We're literally one slide away from the total. 1884 00:51:58.875 --> 00:51:59.791 But yeah, this is the-- 1885 00:51:59.791 --> 00:52:01.375 Oh ok. Yeah, yeah. 1886 00:52:01.375 --> 00:52:02.916 This is the the monitor iPhone. 1887 00:52:03.416 --> 00:52:05.250 It's just showing me what the camera sees 1888 00:52:05.250 --> 00:52:07.041 so I can do all the adjustments. 1889 00:52:07.041 --> 00:52:07.625 I don't need-- 1890 00:52:07.625 --> 00:52:09.250 I used to think, "Oh, I need to pay 1891 00:52:09.250 --> 00:52:11.000 someone to help me.." on the list of things 1892 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:12.791 that made me lose footage. 1893 00:52:13.083 --> 00:52:13.791 There's something in the 1894 00:52:13.791 --> 00:52:15.000 frame that I just didn't see. 1895 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.291 There's some-- like I set up the shot. 1896 00:52:16.291 --> 00:52:17.666 I go behind the camera. 1897 00:52:17.666 --> 00:52:20.166 There's something... here I can check now 1898 00:52:20.166 --> 00:52:21.166 and then that the shot 1899 00:52:21.166 --> 00:52:22.541 looks exactly the way I want it. 1900 00:52:22.541 --> 00:52:24.791 I could do the white balance, the ISO, 1901 00:52:24.791 --> 00:52:26.041 the everything and 1902 00:52:26.041 --> 00:52:27.166 trigger the recording and stop. 1903 00:52:27.166 --> 00:52:29.708 And yeah, just it's not having a monitor. 1904 00:52:29.708 --> 00:52:32.125 And this is an iPhone 12 mini. 1905 00:52:32.208 --> 00:52:32.833 That's very small. 1906 00:52:33.250 --> 00:52:34.041 Don't need something big. 1907 00:52:34.208 --> 00:52:36.041 And this is the total of like two setups. 1908 00:52:36.125 --> 00:52:38.916 On the left we have the DC-GH5 and nice 1909 00:52:38.916 --> 00:52:40.458 camera, which is already not nice. 1910 00:52:40.458 --> 00:52:41.500 You should get another one now. 1911 00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:43.125 The Ninja V, the camera is 1912 00:52:43.125 --> 00:52:44.083 around twelve hundred. 1913 00:52:44.083 --> 00:52:46.583 The Ninja V is around five hundred and 1914 00:52:46.583 --> 00:52:47.416 all the accessories you need for the 1915 00:52:47.416 --> 00:52:49.000 Ninja V, because you need a good SSD for 1916 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:50.333 that, just like you need a 1917 00:52:50.333 --> 00:52:52.333 good SD card to record video. 1918 00:52:52.333 --> 00:52:53.375 And those don't come cheap. 1919 00:52:53.375 --> 00:52:55.208 They're like data center SSDs. 1920 00:52:55.208 --> 00:52:56.416 I had to order them special from 1921 00:52:56.416 --> 00:52:57.250 somewhere and wait 1922 00:52:57.250 --> 00:52:57.916 two weeks for delivery. 1923 00:52:57.916 --> 00:52:58.791 It was really bad. 1924 00:52:58.833 --> 00:53:01.041 So the total for all of that comes to 1925 00:53:01.041 --> 00:53:02.875 2,078 Euros and 1926 00:53:02.875 --> 00:53:05.083 three iPhones comes to under nine hundred 1927 00:53:05.083 --> 00:53:06.791 because I bought the iPhone XR in 1928 00:53:06.791 --> 00:53:08.500 2023 for 250. 1929 00:53:08.500 --> 00:53:09.958 I bought the 12 mini in 1930 00:53:09.958 --> 00:53:12.541 2024 for 270 and I bought the 12 1931 00:53:12.541 --> 00:53:14.708 Pro Max, the like the best iPhone they 1932 00:53:14.708 --> 00:53:16.833 did, but four generations behind for 1933 00:53:16.833 --> 00:53:18.458 under four hundred Euros. 1934 00:53:18.458 --> 00:53:20.166 So 377 Euros 1935 00:53:20.166 --> 00:53:21.333 for the total of just 1936 00:53:21.333 --> 00:53:22.375 under nine hundred Euros. 1937 00:53:22.375 --> 00:53:23.500 And you get a really nice setup. 1938 00:53:23.500 --> 00:53:25.500 I didn't include all the clamps and hooks 1939 00:53:25.500 --> 00:53:27.083 and stands and all the things you need to 1940 00:53:27.083 --> 00:53:29.166 make everything go together and the 1941 00:53:29.166 --> 00:53:31.000 teleprompter, which was probably forty 1942 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:32.958 bucks because it's a mobile phone 1943 00:53:32.958 --> 00:53:34.458 teleprompter and not a real one. 1944 00:53:34.458 --> 00:53:35.083 And you get a really, 1945 00:53:35.083 --> 00:53:36.333 really, really nice setup. 1946 00:53:36.500 --> 00:53:37.750 I would say how far away are you with 1947 00:53:37.750 --> 00:53:38.416 just this because you 1948 00:53:38.416 --> 00:53:39.250 still need the light. 1949 00:53:39.250 --> 00:53:40.541 I mean, it's fair because you need the 1950 00:53:40.541 --> 00:53:41.541 same thing for both of them, but you 1951 00:53:41.541 --> 00:53:42.750 still need the lights and 1952 00:53:42.750 --> 00:53:44.375 you probably want the mic. 1953 00:53:44.375 --> 00:53:44.958 Yeah. 1954 00:53:44.958 --> 00:53:46.041 Yeah, I didn't include the things you would 1955 00:53:46.041 --> 00:53:46.916 need either way-- 1956 00:53:46.916 --> 00:53:47.500 or how -- 1957 00:53:47.500 --> 00:53:48.166 The entire setup? 1958 00:53:48.166 --> 00:53:49.791 Close to being good is the mic? 1959 00:53:49.791 --> 00:53:51.000 From an iPhone? 1960 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:51.500 Yeah. 1961 00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:52.166 I wouldn't use it. 1962 00:53:52.208 --> 00:53:52.708 Oh OK. 1963 00:53:52.750 --> 00:53:53.625 But I wouldn't use it because it's 1964 00:53:53.625 --> 00:53:55.166 getting the-- it depends 1965 00:53:55.208 --> 00:53:56.708 if the room is treated... I don't know... 1966 00:53:56.708 --> 00:53:59.083 No, I would get I would get a DJI 1967 00:53:59.083 --> 00:54:01.166 wireless thingy and just clip it here and 1968 00:54:01.166 --> 00:54:02.541 be done with it. To start with, 1969 00:54:02.541 --> 00:54:04.458 it would be perfectly acceptable. Because 1970 00:54:04.458 --> 00:54:05.416 you can you can move around 1971 00:54:05.416 --> 00:54:06.250 like YouTubers do that a lot. 1972 00:54:06.250 --> 00:54:06.916 They move around. 1973 00:54:06.916 --> 00:54:07.625 They do a little sketch. 1974 00:54:07.625 --> 00:54:09.000 They have a green screen in some corner. 1975 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:10.916 You can also turn the RØDE 1976 00:54:10.916 --> 00:54:12.750 Wireless Go II, they have this-- 1977 00:54:12.750 --> 00:54:13.916 You can turn it into an interview mic so 1978 00:54:13.916 --> 00:54:15.333 they give you a handle. 1979 00:54:15.333 --> 00:54:16.208 Yeah, it's like a stick 1980 00:54:16.208 --> 00:54:17.291 that you clip it onto it. 1981 00:54:17.291 --> 00:54:19.000 Yeah, we saw that and 1982 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:19.791 it looked like-- 1983 00:54:19.791 --> 00:54:21.041 You could probably make your own stick. 1984 00:54:21.125 --> 00:54:22.291 Yeah yeah yeah, exactly. 1985 00:54:22.375 --> 00:54:23.958 Speaking of RØDE, I was not 1986 00:54:23.958 --> 00:54:25.375 correct and you were correct. 1987 00:54:25.375 --> 00:54:27.000 It's Australia, not New Zealand. 1988 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:27.875 Yes! 1989 00:54:29.833 --> 00:54:30.541 So that's 1-0. 1990 00:54:30.541 --> 00:54:32.291 Are we doing the ... 1991 00:54:32.291 --> 00:54:34.916 quiz trivia nights at SDR? 1992 00:54:35.541 --> 00:54:35.916 Cool. 1993 00:54:35.916 --> 00:54:36.375 There you go. 1994 00:54:36.375 --> 00:54:37.708 Anyway, that's my TED talk. 1995 00:54:37.708 --> 00:54:39.416 I'm so freaking pleased with all this 1996 00:54:39.416 --> 00:54:41.000 because I spent so much time 1997 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:42.375 iterating and so much money. 1998 00:54:42.708 --> 00:54:44.291 I have so many useless things to sell 1999 00:54:44.291 --> 00:54:46.666 now, but I'm afraid of having people come 2000 00:54:46.666 --> 00:54:47.750 to my house to buy them. 2001 00:54:47.750 --> 00:54:49.375 I'm going to get hijacked. 2002 00:54:49.625 --> 00:54:51.000 It's one of those like I was thinking I 2003 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.333 was like, "Oh, this is this 2004 00:54:52.333 --> 00:54:53.500 is real into like production. 2005 00:54:53.500 --> 00:54:55.083 This is very different than the normal 2006 00:54:55.083 --> 00:54:57.250 stuff that we do about like the software 2007 00:54:57.250 --> 00:54:58.500 libraries and stuff we write." 2008 00:54:58.500 --> 00:55:00.916 But it's your-- it's the same thing like we 2009 00:55:00.916 --> 00:55:01.625 are building like 2010 00:55:01.625 --> 00:55:02.833 software stuff for our job. 2011 00:55:02.833 --> 00:55:04.625 But as someone who records video and 2012 00:55:04.625 --> 00:55:07.041 produces video, this is the same sausage 2013 00:55:07.041 --> 00:55:08.750 talk, talking about how the sausage is 2014 00:55:08.750 --> 00:55:10.041 made and things like that and the tools 2015 00:55:10.041 --> 00:55:10.875 you use and what you've 2016 00:55:10.875 --> 00:55:12.041 had to build up around it. 2017 00:55:12.041 --> 00:55:14.166 So it's interesting to see because you're 2018 00:55:14.166 --> 00:55:17.291 someone who does video edited content for 2019 00:55:17.291 --> 00:55:19.875 technical topics, how close 2020 00:55:19.875 --> 00:55:21.458 it is to the same like process. 2021 00:55:21.500 --> 00:55:23.916 But it's just all physical components 2022 00:55:23.916 --> 00:55:25.541 rather than software components. 2023 00:55:25.541 --> 00:55:26.500 We haven't touched the 2024 00:55:26.500 --> 00:55:27.791 editing process at all. 2025 00:55:27.791 --> 00:55:29.875 Again, I've gone through so many 2026 00:55:29.875 --> 00:55:30.666 different revisions. 2027 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:32.791 I've gotten sick of DaVinci Resolve, 2028 00:55:32.791 --> 00:55:34.291 try to move to different software. 2029 00:55:34.291 --> 00:55:36.750 Saw that it was probably even worse elsewhere. 2030 00:55:36.750 --> 00:55:38.625 I started like doing my own presets and 2031 00:55:38.625 --> 00:55:40.125 stuff like those macros. 2032 00:55:40.125 --> 00:55:41.000 You can do-- there is so much 2033 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:42.083 you can do with DaVinci Resolve. 2034 00:55:42.083 --> 00:55:43.625 It's intimidating how much you can do. 2035 00:55:43.625 --> 00:55:45.291 But yeah, that's that's it. 2036 00:55:45.291 --> 00:55:47.208 I'm sorry for how long it is. 2037 00:55:47.208 --> 00:55:48.458 And/or you're welcome. 2038 00:55:48.458 --> 00:55:49.458 Well, we'll let you get back to your 2039 00:55:49.458 --> 00:55:50.458 iPhones because I know you're in the 2040 00:55:50.458 --> 00:55:52.875 middle of recording stuff right now. 2041 00:55:52.875 --> 00:55:54.166 So you get to go back and 2042 00:55:54.166 --> 00:55:55.583 keep your iPhones company 2043 00:55:55.583 --> 00:55:56.708 in one of my videos. 2044 00:55:56.708 --> 00:55:58.708 If I sound really tired in the middle, 2045 00:55:58.708 --> 00:55:59.708 suddenly it's because I 2046 00:55:59.708 --> 00:56:01.250 stopped to record the podcast. 2047 00:56:02.500 --> 00:56:03.208 Very cool. 2048 00:56:03.833 --> 00:56:04.583 I enjoyed it. 2049 00:56:04.583 --> 00:56:05.208 Thank you. 2050 00:56:05.250 --> 00:56:05.625 Aww... 2051 00:56:05.625 --> 00:56:06.291 Very good. 2052 00:56:06.291 --> 00:56:06.750 Thanks. 2053 00:56:06.750 --> 00:56:10.250 I have like an old Sony like a 6100 that 2054 00:56:10.250 --> 00:56:11.791 I use and I use one of those-- 2055 00:56:11.791 --> 00:56:12.541 It's funny. 2056 00:56:12.541 --> 00:56:13.416 Like you went down the list of the stuff 2057 00:56:13.416 --> 00:56:14.833 you probably don't want to use and I use 2058 00:56:14.833 --> 00:56:15.708 every single one of them like-- 2059 00:56:15.708 --> 00:56:16.166 Oh, yeah. 2060 00:56:16.166 --> 00:56:17.083 I use one of those little 2061 00:56:17.083 --> 00:56:19.000 USB dongles for capturing. 2062 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:21.666 I bought the 6100 used because you could 2063 00:56:21.666 --> 00:56:23.833 get clean HDMI output on it. 2064 00:56:23.875 --> 00:56:24.458 Yeah. 2065 00:56:24.458 --> 00:56:26.000 And then I put it into one of those 1080p 2066 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:27.541 dongles and-- 2067 00:56:27.541 --> 00:56:28.750 [[Amos Wenger] I'm so pleased with this slide. 2068 00:56:28.791 --> 00:56:29.875 It's just the best. 2069 00:56:29.875 --> 00:56:30.708 It's a good slide. 2070 00:56:30.708 --> 00:56:31.333 Right? 2071 00:56:31.333 --> 00:56:33.333 I leveled up my Google Slides game. 2072 00:56:33.333 --> 00:56:34.625 It's interesting how much it goes from 2073 00:56:34.625 --> 00:56:36.416 reading is-- the one on the right side just 2074 00:56:36.416 --> 00:56:38.791 reads as 'ah yes, glasses reflection' versus 2075 00:56:38.791 --> 00:56:39.625 the one on the left. 2076 00:56:39.625 --> 00:56:40.708 You're like, "I can see a light." 2077 00:56:40.958 --> 00:56:42.250 Even though you can see a light in both 2078 00:56:42.250 --> 00:56:43.666 the one on the right just reads as 2079 00:56:43.666 --> 00:56:45.125 'generic reflections,' 2080 00:56:45.125 --> 00:56:46.500 which you don't notice. 2081 00:56:46.500 --> 00:56:47.208 And then the one on the 2082 00:56:47.208 --> 00:56:49.125 left is like 'ah, studio shooting.' 2083 00:56:49.666 --> 00:56:50.500 I'm really happy with that. 2084 00:56:50.500 --> 00:56:50.958 I don't know. 2085 00:56:50.958 --> 00:56:52.916 I don't know if you think it's good, but 2086 00:56:52.916 --> 00:56:54.583 I'm really happy with this quality. 2087 00:56:54.583 --> 00:56:55.416 But you know what's 2088 00:56:55.416 --> 00:56:57.333 shitty is that I have backlog. 2089 00:56:57.333 --> 00:56:58.750 So I'm going to release another couple of 2090 00:56:58.750 --> 00:56:59.875 videos that have 2091 00:56:59.875 --> 00:57:01.416 something substandard now. 2092 00:57:01.750 --> 00:57:04.416 Oh... and then people are going to go to those 2093 00:57:04.416 --> 00:57:05.250 videos and be like, what the 2094 00:57:05.250 --> 00:57:06.625 fuck are you talking about, Amos... 2095 00:57:06.625 --> 00:57:07.208 I know! 2096 00:57:07.833 --> 00:57:08.666 I know you got to get them out. 2097 00:57:08.666 --> 00:57:09.416 You got to get them out. 2098 00:57:09.416 --> 00:57:10.250 I meant to bring it up. 2099 00:57:10.375 --> 00:57:12.333 I had that USB cardioid 2100 00:57:12.333 --> 00:57:13.750 mic that I used for a while. 2101 00:57:13.750 --> 00:57:14.083 Yeah. 2102 00:57:14.083 --> 00:57:16.875 The first like eight episodes of Chats 2103 00:57:16.875 --> 00:57:19.166 with James, I had the mic backwards. 2104 00:57:19.166 --> 00:57:20.875 It wasn't until I was like streaming on 2105 00:57:20.875 --> 00:57:22.458 YouTube and there's like a 2106 00:57:22.458 --> 00:57:24.166 little icon on the front of it. 2107 00:57:24.166 --> 00:57:26.458 James! Well, if you look at the pattern? 2108 00:57:26.458 --> 00:57:28.208 There was a little icon and I was- I was 2109 00:57:28.208 --> 00:57:29.666 live streaming on YouTube. 2110 00:57:29.666 --> 00:57:30.333 I didn't know shit 2111 00:57:30.333 --> 00:57:31.125 when I bought that mic. 2112 00:57:31.125 --> 00:57:31.750 So like-- and I still 2113 00:57:31.750 --> 00:57:33.208 really don't know shit. 2114 00:57:33.208 --> 00:57:34.916 But like someone on the YouTube chat was 2115 00:57:34.916 --> 00:57:37.250 like, "Hey, if the icon's on the side 2116 00:57:37.250 --> 00:57:38.708 facing the camera, your 2117 00:57:38.708 --> 00:57:40.166 mic's probably backwards. 2118 00:57:40.166 --> 00:57:41.416 And I went back and I listened to some 2119 00:57:41.416 --> 00:57:43.333 old episodes and I'm like-- someone posted 2120 00:57:43.333 --> 00:57:44.666 the interview with... 2121 00:57:44.666 --> 00:57:46.291 what's his name... from Oxide. 2122 00:57:46.291 --> 00:57:47.458 Oh, Bryan Cantrill? 2123 00:57:47.458 --> 00:57:47.916 Yeah. 2124 00:57:47.916 --> 00:57:48.458 The founder? 2125 00:57:48.458 --> 00:57:49.208 So I had an episode 2126 00:57:49.208 --> 00:57:50.666 talking to him: the whole audio. 2127 00:57:50.666 --> 00:57:51.250 I'm like (muffled) "Yes! 2128 00:57:51.250 --> 00:57:51.708 And I'm doing!" It-- 2129 00:57:51.708 --> 00:57:52.416 Like, it sounds like 2130 00:57:52.416 --> 00:57:53.875 I'm yelling into the mic. 2131 00:57:53.875 --> 00:57:55.166 That's amazing. 2132 00:57:55.166 --> 00:57:55.708 Yes. 2133 00:57:55.708 --> 00:57:57.916 I don't know how-- like, now listening back 2134 00:57:57.916 --> 00:57:59.833 to it, I'm like, "How did I edit that and 2135 00:57:59.833 --> 00:58:01.916 not go fucking crazy?" 2136 00:58:01.916 --> 00:58:03.416 And I think it must have been that I 2137 00:58:03.416 --> 00:58:04.833 couldn't get my levels up right. 2138 00:58:04.833 --> 00:58:06.458 And so because I had my mic backwards, I 2139 00:58:06.458 --> 00:58:08.250 was just speaking loud and it was picking 2140 00:58:08.250 --> 00:58:10.125 up the reflections off my monitor or 2141 00:58:10.125 --> 00:58:10.708 something like that. 2142 00:58:10.708 --> 00:58:12.541 I'm like, I just sound like I'm like, 2143 00:58:12.541 --> 00:58:14.250 methed out the entire. 2144 00:58:14.250 --> 00:58:15.916 I listened to like 10 minutes of it 2145 00:58:15.916 --> 00:58:16.583 because I'm like-- 2146 00:58:16.583 --> 00:58:18.000 VERY ENTHUSIASTIC. 2147 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:19.500 "Oh, this will be a good callback!" 2148 00:58:19.500 --> 00:58:22.083 And I'm like, "Oh no! It's so bad!" 2149 00:58:22.083 --> 00:58:23.125 Just imagine all the 2150 00:58:23.125 --> 00:58:24.666 progress I've done since 2019. 2151 00:58:24.666 --> 00:58:26.708 I can't even go two videos back without 2152 00:58:26.708 --> 00:58:28.500 cringing intensely 2153 00:58:28.500 --> 00:58:29.958 about some aspect of it. 2154 00:58:29.958 --> 00:58:31.791 And sometimes I spend so much-- I spend 2155 00:58:31.791 --> 00:58:33.250 like an entire month writing, 2156 00:58:33.250 --> 00:58:35.708 researching, shooting, editing, post 2157 00:58:35.708 --> 00:58:36.708 producing something. 2158 00:58:36.708 --> 00:58:37.458 And then I look back at 2159 00:58:37.458 --> 00:58:38.416 it and like the audio's-- 2160 00:58:38.416 --> 00:58:40.000 If it wasn't me, I would skip immediately 2161 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:40.875 this video just because 2162 00:58:40.875 --> 00:58:42.166 the audio is not acceptable. 2163 00:58:42.166 --> 00:58:43.666 But it's like learning to recognize JPEG 2164 00:58:43.666 --> 00:58:45.291 compression artifacts once you see them, 2165 00:58:45.291 --> 00:58:46.666 you can't unsee them. 2166 00:58:46.666 --> 00:58:48.666 You're ruining everything for yourself. 2167 00:58:48.666 --> 00:58:50.041 I talk about that a couple of times. 2168 00:58:50.041 --> 00:58:50.791 There are hobbies 2169 00:58:50.791 --> 00:58:52.583 that I explicitly avoid. 2170 00:58:52.583 --> 00:58:54.416 Like I talk about like with wine and 2171 00:58:54.416 --> 00:58:55.458 coffee and stuff like that. 2172 00:58:55.458 --> 00:58:57.458 I know some basics on how to make it not 2173 00:58:57.458 --> 00:59:00.416 terrible, but I don't want to learn the 2174 00:59:00.416 --> 00:59:02.250 next things because I know it's 2175 00:59:02.250 --> 00:59:04.416 diminishing return and it will just ruin 2176 00:59:04.416 --> 00:59:05.750 mediocre coffee for me. 2177 00:59:05.750 --> 00:59:07.083 You know what I mean? 2178 00:59:07.083 --> 00:59:09.916 Like I ruined 80% of TVs for myself when 2179 00:59:09.916 --> 00:59:11.625 I bought a nice little OLED one because I 2180 00:59:11.625 --> 00:59:14.416 have actual deep blacks and you go to 2181 00:59:14.416 --> 00:59:15.208 someone else's house and 2182 00:59:15.208 --> 00:59:16.416 everything just looks gray. 2183 00:59:16.416 --> 00:59:17.625 It's just... I can't. 2184 00:59:17.625 --> 00:59:19.958 Yeah, I got a Steam Deck OLED and that's the first I 2185 00:59:19.958 --> 00:59:21.166 think OLED device that I have. 2186 00:59:21.166 --> 00:59:22.666 And I'm like- Oh, okay. 2187 00:59:22.666 --> 00:59:23.583 There you go. 2188 00:59:23.583 --> 00:59:24.291 I kind of get it. 2189 00:59:24.625 --> 00:59:25.375 Yeah, I don't know. 2190 00:59:25.375 --> 00:59:26.250 I could see it when I turn it on. 2191 00:59:26.250 --> 00:59:28.416 I'm like, " Oh, that looks really good. 2192 00:59:35.500 --> 00:59:37.000 This episode is sponsored by Depot, 2193 00:59:37.166 --> 00:59:37.958 the build acceleration 2194 00:59:37.958 --> 00:59:39.250 platform that's on a mission 2195 00:59:39.250 --> 00:59:40.875 to make all builds near instant. 2196 00:59:41.250 --> 00:59:42.583 If you're tired of watching your builds 2197 00:59:42.583 --> 00:59:43.791 and GitHub actions crawl 2198 00:59:43.791 --> 00:59:45.083 like the modern day equivalent 2199 00:59:45.083 --> 00:59:47.083 of paint drying, give Depot's GitHub 2200 00:59:47.083 --> 00:59:48.125 Actions runners a try. 2201 00:59:48.583 --> 00:59:50.000 They're up to 10 times faster with 2202 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:51.250 unlimited concurrency, 2203 00:59:51.291 --> 00:59:52.625 faster caching, support for 2204 00:59:52.625 --> 00:59:54.125 Linux, macOS and Windows, 2205 00:59:54.416 --> 00:59:55.333 and they plug right into 2206 00:59:55.333 --> 00:59:56.416 other Depot optimizations 2207 00:59:56.666 --> 00:59:58.375 like accelerated container image builds 2208 00:59:58.500 --> 00:59:59.458 and remote caching for 2209 00:59:59.458 --> 01:00:01.666 Bazel, Turborepo, Gradle and more. 2210 01:00:02.083 --> 01:00:03.583 Depot is built by developers who are 2211 01:00:03.583 --> 01:00:04.583 tired of wasting time 2212 01:00:04.583 --> 01:00:06.083 waiting on builds instead of shipping. 2213 01:00:06.375 --> 01:00:07.166 It's made for teams 2214 01:00:07.166 --> 01:00:08.166 that wanna move faster 2215 01:00:08.416 --> 01:00:09.125 and stay focused on 2216 01:00:09.125 --> 01:00:10.000 what actually matters. 2217 01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:11.166 That's why companies 2218 01:00:11.166 --> 01:00:12.625 like PostHog use Depot 2219 01:00:12.625 --> 01:00:14.500 to cut build times from over three hours 2220 01:00:14.500 --> 01:00:15.625 to just three minutes, 2221 01:00:15.875 --> 01:00:16.958 saving tens of thousands 2222 01:00:16.958 --> 01:00:18.291 of build hours every week. 2223 01:00:18.583 --> 01:00:19.541 Start your free seven 2224 01:00:19.541 --> 01:00:20.916 day trial at depot.dev 2225 01:00:20.916 --> 01:00:22.125 and let them know we sent you.