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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service audio is going get out of here it's okay you only see this side anyway oh there's something poking out of here too man hey guys this is doing tree with paradox and welcome to the behind-the-scenes office store slash letting you guys know how things are handled on my side of things in terms of the production for the YouTube video stuff right off the bat I'm gonna start off with saying that I never wear my watch because I tend to move my hand so much during the video as otherwise it starts to make this type of sound as I make the videos the window is closed and I position things around the room so that there isn't too much echo there's still not the best thing of acoustic environment that I'm in but I sort of work with what I got so let me show you exactly what that is and before we begin meet the newest addition to the family Sony rx100 mark 3 well hello there nice to meet you guys welcome to the very first behind-the-scenes shot with Sony rx100 mark 3 all right so this is where the magic happens I have finally moved into an office wait for my living room so I have actual full workspace that can be you know I can concentrate on just doing work and not everything like I was doing from the living room but let's first talk about the lighting setup that I have set up for this particular shot where how much front of the camera which is right there this is a three 3d lighting setup I have two soft boxes one softbox is right here it's shining light slightly from above on to me and it's brighter than the other softbox give me a bit of an edge light the second softbox is the front it's also slightly higher and on an angle and third light is this background light it helps to isolate me from the background from this chair it's a different color lighting too because this is as you can see it's very orange and I position the lamp so it's not visible it's kind of behind the chair here and it creates this sort of halo effect around me which helps to isolate me from this table of stuff that I've positioned in the boxes so that's the pretty much the lighting setup that I constantly use for the videos now let's talk about the equipment ok so everyone's always interested in seeing what type of camera that we shoot with I used to shoot with the 5d mark ii which was a beautiful full-frame camera but I switched since then to the gh4 for multiple reasons first is 4k everybody is switching to 4k now and I really wanted to get the extra pixels second of all it's a much smaller body so for me that if I travel a lot and I take all my gear with me or if these try to take as most gear as I possibly could handle in my backpack the smaller body is a a very good thing on the camera right now is a Sigma 18 to 35 this is considered the YouTuber lens because it's absolutely amazing F 1.8 aperture throughout the entire focal range I have beautiful smooth focusing ring and the zoom ring and it's sitting on the meta bones speed booster which allows me to get one extra start of a stop of light and it expands the range it's a beautiful low-light monster it's kind of heavy with the lens but also I love the tilted screen use that all the time the second lens in my arsenal is the olympus 18 to 40 millimeters this lens I bought before the Sigma because it's a mic referred mount so I needed something to actually mount on the camera before I went with some adapters it's a beautiful lens 12 to 40 millimeters F 2.8 so the lighting there is not as good as on the sigma however this is a much lighter lens I can just travel with this get all my shots I have a little extra reach with the 40 millimeters and it's got the really smooth focusing ring as well and it's beautiful for macro video photography things so that I can pull focus while really really close to subject without moving the actual shot so that's beautiful for the tripods are things I'm using this very old Manfrotto 71 HTV head it gives me smooth pans so this is fine however it doesn't give me the best tilt which I'm not super happy about but I don't use that feature often anyway the tripod is from Ben Rhodes so this is the C 1 5 7 3 F it's a carbon fiber tripod which is useful for me when I travel a lot I need something light it comes with a bag it has this middle section that can be raised and put down the case we need that extra reach and you don't want to extend the legs all the way out and the best feature about this tripod is this sort of built-in ball head which allows me to really strengthen out my angle as you can see right now I can put this down like this like so without moving the actual tripod legs so if even uneven surface I can level this out and I have a little leveling bubble on the tripod head here so I know when this thing is actually fully leveled and I can continue with my with my shots the second tripod that I have this is the Sackler ace this I got while I had the 5d mark ii just because that was a heavier camera and this tripod is one of the sturdiest tripods that I ever worked with it goes a lot higher than the bender here it got its got the exact same plate on the top which is useful for me if I need to switch from this tripod on to the the little tripod and it's got absolutely smooth tilt and pain and everything like that and it's got the built-in level or head this level head as well in case I need to level my shots it's a very good tripod a little on the pricey side but this comes in handy all the time when we do anything outside or with bigger systems the slider of choice for me is the cinema doozie so this thing is very good on multiple levels first of all it is compact in case I need to move somewhere this is the slider that I took with me to Germany it's only 60 centimeters in length from one end to the other so it can fit inside my suitcase it's got very sturdy construction it's full carbon fiber rails it's got an incredibly smooth carriage that requires a lot of patience a lot of practice to master and one of the things that I love about these little wheels that I can select the unscrew to raise it or lower it in case I need to level the tripod on an even surface however obviously as a professional video slider it's got all these screwing holes at the bottom so I can easily just attach this to my tripod it's compact and it gives me very beautiful smooth slides something that a lot of people have been complimenting on our videos and so basically that concludes the equipment rundown and now let's check out the the rest of the setup so the system you see behind me that's my workstation that's where I go every day to answer emails to write scripts to edit videos to upload videos so that's like be the daily workhorse of a desk and of a computer I am using the 21 by 9 monitor from LG but I usually have dual 27-inch g-sync monitors on there because of 144 Hertz which I love more but this is really cool for entertainment and movie consumption as long as things are 21 by 9 aspect ratio as otherwise you get these black bars in this and by the sides but this is kind of the the setup very symmetrical looking in case I need to do any filming I move this desk around so this is my mobile desk I can place the camera in that corner I can place the camera in that corner I can place the camera over here and then looking into this direction so I get this beautiful sort of setting behind me but let's first talk about the audio my main speakers right now are the audio engine a 5 plus the bamboo Edition it adds beautiful element in terms of aesthetics because they are both kind of just positioned on each side of the the screens and they are beautiful wood they are really loud they have pretty their basic response now my headphones of choice are the following the HD 650 s from sanitizer and HD 800 from sanitizer and one behind there this is the HD 8 DJ so these are cost headphones which are excellent to travel with they're built like a tank they will never break and these are a bit more stationary for a home I travel with these anywhere I go and these are strictly for home use just because they are a little bit on the pricey side and they're a bit more fragile than the others they're sitting on the Silverstone headphone stand which is full aluminium base it's like a hammer I love this one especially because it allows me to fit both headphones on there the headphones are connected to the Silverstone DAC and amps or currently this is what I'm testing with this is the amp and the DAC is right behind there this is a USB DAC the amp is connected to the DAC the DAC is connected to the computer and it allows me to quickly monitor the volume of headphones with this volume knob gives me a blue indication of connectivity both for the amp and the DAC which I like this visual aesthetic and this is the scarlett 2i2 this is strictly for microphone use which is XLR XLR XLR connected to Audio Technica 2035 so everybody's been asking about you know how do we get the audio this is the audio technica 2035 and for peripherals these are my daily drivers I love them they travel with me everywhere I'm actually currently testing the my onyx caster this is their new Mouse and I gotta say I'm almost in love I love the gliding feet it glides super smooth on this aluminum in win mouse mat and this is the cool Master Nova touch tkl it is 10 keyless as you can see which I miss but I can't go to another switch they use the top row hybrid capacitive switch which is designed by Cooler Master I think they do the collaboration with Chopra so they are amazing they used the cherry stem so I can actually replace the key caps because they have the X and I can use just regular cherry compatible cherry MX compatible key caps with this keyboard but I don't have to I don't I don't mind the stock configuration here but it's very light switch it's very quiet switch I can't go to anything else because this is my favorite switch so far it's also compact it comes with a removable USB cable it's very sturdy very simple looking and that's kind of exactly what I was yeah I look for in the keyboard now because I'm testing the caster I have the my onyx nails 7000 stashed away this is my by far my most comfortable and favourite Mouse of all and I'm not exactly sure if the caster will replace this but one thing I'm realizing that the mouse feet on the my onyx nay of 7000 are not as good as on the castor and so I might actually just switch the caster and the my onyx either do for a giveaway or just you know just in case Mouse now obviously the highlight of the entire editing suite is this 21 by 9 aspect ratio monitor from LG it's a really outstanding panel its IPS it's 10 bit it's given me 34 40 by 1440p resolution so basically for K by 1440 P and I can span the entire timeline of premiere on it which is awesome however the only thing is because it's curved as you can see it's giving you this bowtie effect which is awesome for multimedia and it's a bit more I can say immersive if you're sitting down and watching a 21 by 9 movie however if you're working on anything and Adobe Photoshop Premiere After Effects you know all your straight lines are slightly curved especially on the angles here and I don't like that so I will be switching this the to my dual 27-inch 1440p monitors so I can have a bit extra real estate and I don't get too worried about the the curve this factor so the monitors are standing on this dual base system the base is black aluminum it's from Silverstone allows you to allows me to raise the monitor a little bit and stash things away behind it or underneath it so I have my card needed here I have some mail that just came in I have a few office companions with me like the true bond that I got in Berlin and it still works check this out and it's slow just like in real life port Rabanne I have my intel SSD that is ready to be populated inside the machine a few extra gh4 batteries right there right in hand reach my dinosaur and obviously the minion the famous minion it makes its way into a lot of actual reviews because it's if I'm shooting in front of my setup you always see this guy and he's made his appearance on both this side and this side where I have the Majorca post card alright the last piece of the puzzle would be the chair so this is the dxracer d series chair I have the blue version it's comfortable for me because the leather doesn't make me sweat it's pretty soft they have adjustable armrests you have the very comfortable lumbar pillow that I cannot use the chair without and actually very uncomfortable without the lumbar pillow you have a little bit of a neck pillow that I use all the time because without it there's this plastic piece right behind here that you were constantly banging your head with against okay guys so that concludes this show tour of the office and how I do my work and so I hope you enjoyed this behind-the-scenes a quick rundown on the equipment and studio space how I maneuver some of the things while making videos I will be making an upgrade video on the editing right behind me because nothing has changed since my previous upgrade video but I am switching to the skylight system so we'll see how that is performing against the the 3930k with a 6700 K processor both were gaming and editing so make sure to subscribe to not miss them I hope you enjoyed this in-depth look of my work scene if you have any questions leave them in the comments below I'll make sure to answer all of them so make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one all right let's get this show on the road