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all right blog time we haven't done one of these in a while and we've got a lot of stuff to do and that's why I like doing vlogs cuz we can do work and video creation at the same time it's my excuse anyway uh so studio has been growing we you guys are probably noticed the last few videos that we have definitely changed the look of the studio we turn it into a workshop and that is something that I've wanted for a long time and I'm glad I got back to my roots on that because a lot of you have noticed the video feels different it looks better and it feels like a PC nerd workshop but let us not forget I'll turn slowly so you guys stop bitching and complaining that I'm making y'all sick let's not forget that this is a studio first and foremost it's a place that I work but it's also a place that I create and because of that we have really expanded the amount of stuff we'll just say stuff to where I already feel like I need a bigger studio but the expansion of the studio wouldn't have been made possible without the help of my new partner in crime in this that is precision camera and video in Austin Texas you guys should definitely go and check them out I will leave a link down below so that you guys can go and see what they've got imma turn right here so that you can see some of the key lighting here is actually hitting me yeah so anyway check them out guys precision camera and video Austin Texas you'll be hearing more about them on this channel they have made a lot of what you're about to see possible but there's some things we need to need to tackle here you guys have seen me complain about the overhead lighting like the sky lights so we tackled that a little bit it's super ghetto and I think we're gonna redo it I mean this literally if there was ever a jerry-rigged this would be it I think I think we're gonna redo it today part of it is we have to go and we have to rent a 14-foot ladder to even start to reach it and I'm afraid of heights nick has seen me cling on to the six-foot ladder when I'm what two rungs up and I'm just like oh my god and the way we even reached what you're about to see was I put the six-foot ladder on top of our table OSHA I hope you're not watching liability insurance you better not be watching yeah so I put a letter on top of the table a six-foot ladder and then I used rebar to like poke anyway just take a look so yeah we we got installation foam pieces you the same stuff we made our bounce boards out of it by the way it's a spinner and we just laid it across obviously we still have more to do now let me tell you what's funny about that is when I talked about needing to do something with the skylight a lot of you guys were like just lay stuff across just make like a false ceiling and I was like yeah I don't want to do that because this is the beautiful rustic ceiling and I want to see it in my videos the problem is I can't have a beautiful rustic ceiling without that big-ass skylight right there so anyway yeah more power to you guys the ones who were telling me to do that and I was fighting back saying no obviously but I'm not happy with the way it kind of turned out so far we need more panels obviously because we had two more but we ended up using them upstairs because part of my problem here too was the upstairs was stupid bright because the window was do you see that right there do you see how bright that is that's one of the reasons why we have to block it out it changes the color and everything of the studio we don't want that in terms of recording look how much darker it is up here though because we're going to block out most of the light by doing the same thing so now when we do livingroom stuff and by the way I do have a new lg tv a nano cell tech they were doing a review on so this set will finally be getting used so we also have a lot of new lights and stuff these are aperture 120 DS I believe they are spotlights and we've got some more aperture LED panels and we got some more aperture LED panels up there and we've also got the ice light the ice lights pretty cool Nick once you take that out so we can show them our lightsaber and then we've also got the two hives right there the wasp 100 - these those are awesome that's this guy right here this is how we've been getting a lot of the color that you guys have seen in the background that you guys have really liked and you guys are like wow the video looks so good like this is kind of how we're doing that we've also got well this isn't a new stance where my old stands but the this is one of the aperture lights right here that we've been using and got some butcher paper on there basically right now to diffuse it a little bit anyway the control box for that this is how our new like creme de la creme right here this is the sony fs7 mark tear and it is ridiculously stupid and yeah so we handle this with kid gloves because you can't afford to replace it he's where we are it's also got an aperture professional field monitor on there and if you guys want a size comparison of this this is a professional camera this is not a prosumer camera this is a professional moviemaking camera no it's not a red but still it's very capable this is my ex s5 this is what you guys have been seeing me shooting on for quite a while it's my Sigma 18 to 35 lens but check this out if we put these lights side-by-side yeah I guess you can definitely see a size difference there let me zoom in on that holy crap man look at that so anyway yeah this is what you've been seeing me make videos on now for the past year actually I got this in October of last year and this is what we're moving forward to so this camera right here is not very shoulder friendly you know you can see it's also we've also got the control leg back here this thing is not very shoulder friend I mean you could shoulder this right it's actually not that big and heavy compared to what a fully rigged out cinema camera would be it's way lighter than a red that's for sure he has a pad but you'd still want something nicer than that but I love this field monitor this field monitor this is bad ash okay look you can see me tell me on the ax 33 by Sony and we're not sony fanboys are we no not at all think of that the other thing that's really cool about this field monitor is check this out it also has all its got parade it's got histogram based on RGB histogram it's also got color meter that is freakin cool now we have no excuse for our videos to suck and this right here is the Atmos Shogun inferno this is our 4k raw 12 bit recorder field recorder and it's just sitting on high right now we haven't actually hooked it up yet but this is what's gonna allow us to match footage now of the FS 5 - the FS 7 because this does this does 10 bit internal 4k you can also get a backpack for it which will unlock raw but it's under this cover and the backpack hangs back here and has additional stuff and this will allow us to match this footage and we had to do the five hundred and forty nine dollar firmware upgrade just to unlock the features on this but now we'll have two cameras that can match and yeah we're looking forward to that and apparently the battery is dead for this actually wait wait try this one and this the same size yeah yeah that looks like a lightsaber on camera make it long long sound Wow Wow now you look like Finn for sure okay here we go it's so short it's like Yoda lightsaber because it's like a light dagger and so blaney it's it's cool because it's got you know the the amber side so it warms it out right or you can do it like half way and sort of mix it oh okay yeah that's cool so these are our new pupil grips c-stands we've got a few of those as you can see we have these connected here to these quacker clamps which have basically like I said it's it's the same panels we have up there just much thicker really thick and this is how we bounce our light so we can control light we have two of these now again because we just got the extra sand and stuff so Nick is gonna demonstrate now how we bounce the light to get a more soft diffused four over here on set and you can also see we started doing some sound treatment trying to make this room sound better we'll be experimenting with that and see what works best yeah tilt it forward a little bit more because the higher you go with this the more tilted you'd want it so we're trying to get some overhead lighting here there we go that'll work doesn't he look so majestic now like that or the shadows and stuff make it make a face wait I'm blending myself you're fine so this is without the light and if we turn the light on you can see that's obviously like really bright and it's great creating some harsh shadows so we can control that that's why we've got all these lights and then we can move things around but these are the bounce lights that I'm stepping on things there's Nick's two cents as you guys have been bugging before okay so this is what it kind of looks like when we're shooting video right it sort of looks like this except risk waist well yeah and then when you move in set this is what you get so because we have the light on this side right we wouldn't want the camera to be over here cuz then it's really direct light it doesn't look as good so we would move the camera this way you know you can see we get some nice lighting back there I don't like that that light's kind of in view we don't really have a choice at the moment we can raise it up a little bit yeah in the liners so this is what kind of looks like when I do my videos we've also decided we need to add some more shelves to our AV cabinet it's growing obviously when you drop this shelf down this is battery charger station we can drop the Shelf down and then put another shelf in here this is our a7s2 how do you guys are like why'd you get the a 7s and not the a7 are actually being H did a really good video about the differences in why you would want one versus the other this is Nick alright actually and I've got some I've got some cool stuff to show you guys here so let's go do that you guys might recall this guy here the cougar conquer case got a lot of work to do we're gonna do some casemod stuff to it but yeah some of the components are in there and so we got some more pieces for this and I'm concerned now that one of the pieces that I got is gonna be too big this is the defy boat on 270 it's a d5 pump with the XS PC reservoir all built in and it has a lighting cathode or LED or whatever that goes right through the middle so we can illuminate this guy the problem is now that I look at it I think I think there's a problem oh boy this that is the biggest penis pump I have ever seen yep I'm pretty sure this guy is too big dammit oh well man this I thought this was a lot smaller oh yeah it's not gonna work because I need it to also make sure I can clear my rat up here and I was gonna try and go push-pull on that but I don't think that's gonna happen oh that's glass those plastic that's glass you hear that right yes man so I got this different performance pcs the performance - pcs comm I really thought that was a much smaller reservoir - that's why when I saw the box I was like oh rap anyway this has just been hot let me tell you why this is buggy it's not only is that gonna be too big I also ordered this happen eh-eh founders edition block which actually works in more than one card it works in the 10 60 70 80 80 TI Titan X and Titan XP graphics cards but I only got one this is what happens when you write emails while you're like in the middle of doing other things anyway what else do I got here we got some cathode lights because we're doing black lighting cables that some things that we need Oh check this out something I've never actually incorporated one of my builds we're gonna be incorporating at this time are you ready coolant temp sensor dude and it's got green backlight so yeah coolant temp sensor and then this is where it gets its sensor from it's basically a pass-through fitting now I got a write performance pcs if you like hey guys guess what I'm stupid again I already wrote them an email today I was like hey guess what I forgot to get my second block now I got to write them and be like well before we leave there's one more project I want to show you guys I'll have Nick unbox it you guys have noticed right this guy right here on the floor my cooler master cosmos - 25th anniversary edition that's for a project here and Nick is going to go ahead and unbox this box right here we also have two one terabyte Kingston drives because there's something I've been severely lacking in all of this YouTube career and you guys have kind of noticed and that has been lacking a proper server and what we have here are 15 one five one terabyte drives hey guys editing J here what I meant to say was it's actually 15 10 terabyte drives that's 150 terabytes of storage oh it's gonna be a hell of it give me a hell of an array so yeah actually Linus is helping me with this project so he and I will be collaborating on this and we're doing an unrated thing but we're doing it different we're not building in Nazz and I'm gonna leave that I'm gonna leave I'm gonna leave the details until the project is ready that's coming soon because I am out of storage I am out of storage and that's a problem 15 10 terabyte drives holy Sh what you haven't noticed is we've done what two trips now we were I said we were gonna go there and try and do something with the light now we have a 10-foot ladder because we got the 14-foot ladder and couldn't even get like in the building cuz the hallway and yeah math is hard we also got this blackout film several rolls of it we're gonna black out the windows because I'm the windows are cool and all but I'd rather have control of the light so we're gonna black out the windows or green-screen whatever you guys keep going in the green screen and it's UV protection that's me yeah so that's a big fat no here's what we ended up so the latter as you can see goes way high up there which it's also on a table and yeah dad does they happen we couldn't get the 15 or the 14 foot ladder in the door so we made a 14 foot ladder by putting on top a 10 foot on top of a 4 foot table oh yeah there's just not enough room for the feet right I know that this is how sometimes some contractors have to do it they build a platform like across stairwells and put ladders but there's just not enough room here to where I trusted it not to kill me so I guess the ceiling for now stays as getaway as it is it's not bad so we're gonna do it we're gonna go ahead and just black out the windows now we'll see how that looks I should take care of enough light I guess we'll come back and see if that looks like place the light only cost me 21 bucks to rent so that's what it looks like now with the temporary blinds down we're blocking out as you can see most of the light there's still some slight right there like edging that you can see but we can block that out now and actually shoot some cool color against that with our hive lights and whatnot and I think we'll make things look a whole lot better and then when we want it up you know we can let the background the moving tree and all that do its thing but I like that a lot better that's already so much more control over light in this space hey guys it's time to go it's like 6:30 or six what time is it 5:30 9:00 okay I was way off whatever we'll probably hang out here a little while longer then just to kind of maybe let traffic die down just a little bit traffic I agree anyway guys we're gonna go thanks for hanging out with us behind the scenes allowing us to get some more stuff done and again remember the whole reason why we do this is because I want to bring the best quality content I can on top of just subject matter and stuff and I enjoy this I enjoy making these videos I enjoy making them look pretty because I mean you guys look at me I'm not pretty so we have to make it up with quality thanks for watching remember you can buy your Jace $0.02 merch now link is down in the description below like a hundred shirts were sold on day one which is pretty awesome so thanks for that guys also - huge shout out and thank you too precision camera and video in Austin Texas for the equipment you guys saw as well as performance to a species calm for helping me out with the thread Ripper build on some parts that obviously I screwed up and they have already told me our new parts are on the way thanks for watching guys and as always I'll see you in the next one