Gadgetory

this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by netflix when the lights are off the glamour is gone and i haven't found my razor in like three days what's it really like behind the scenes of a fabulous internet TV show named after an animal that roams the plains find out now it's rumor roundup behind the scenes hey what is going on everybody and welcome to a special behind-the-scenes edition of rumor roundup technobuffalo on revision3 this week's episode is brought to you by our good friends at netflix we thought you know what it's a short week it's Thanksgiving week here in the United States wherever you are in the US somewhere else happy thanksgiving or if you don't celebrate thanksgiving just happy day to you i wish you and yours nothing but peace prosperity and happiness for the rest of this week in all the weeks to come thank you for watching us and supporting us and hopefully enjoying us and more importantly you know all the best to you and yours so we thought you know it'd be fun to go behind the scenes right and last week I was lucky enough to shoot revision3 in the rev3 studios in San Francisco the crew there was awesome the studio the facilities were great the show came out looking great you know John Q had super high quality footage to work with did a great job in post-production as he always does and the result was awesome so we thought this week you know what let's go the other way and show you what it's really like here where I shoot the show in the techno Buffalo North offices ie my home office here in Oakland California and now first things first when I get ready to shoot the show on a normal week there are three things that I usually do that I'm not doing right now can you guess what they are number one shave the beard well I guess I don't always shave it but if it's this long usually I'll shave it a more vain about the top of my head that might beard for some reason number two clean off the workspace but I want to show you what it's really like when I'm putting the show together all right so normally when I'm shooting the show the background does not look this messy they want the stuff to look nice because after all it is TV on the internet but just to show you what it's like usually when I'm working coffeecup speakers broken mac old USB enclosures more speakers in the background lucky bamboo of course there's the monitor there's the Mac there's the power drill which really I'm not that handy of a guy I was just you in the using the power drill because I don't actually have a Torx screwdriver maybe you can see there will zoom in I've got the Torx bit into the power drill because that's the only torque screwdriver i have i have no geek cred because i don't even have a proper computer disassembly screwdriver set but i was using that to take apart the apple TV i got my new business cards over there excited about that and of course i've got a few review phones that need to go back thanks HTC and nokia for lending letting those to me i'm sending them back right now I promise some rechargeable batteries and my magic weapon for all things video the elgato turbo 264 HD USB dongle tell you what if you edit video on a Mac this is well worth your investment with more than 23 million members Netflix is the world's largest subscription service instantly streaming TV episodes and movies members can instantly watch thousands of titles on a wide array of devices including Sony's ps3 console microsoft xbox 360 and the nintendo wii console as a netflix unlimited member you can instantly watch thousands of movies anytime you want for one low monthly rate there are no late fees and no due dates for a limited time as a new member and TechnoBuffalo viewer you that's right you can get a free 30-day trial to netflix just go to netflix.com slash Buffalo be uff alo Buffalo sign up there get yourself a free 30-day trial to netflix be sure to use that URL netflix.com slash buffalo so they know we sent you number three change out of sweats I usually don't shoot the show in sweats unless I'm shooting the show wearing a hoodie because hoodies are part of the tech hipster meme cool thing even though i don't think i'm a hipster or all that cool but I you know what today I went for a run this morning I'm still kind of kicking it in the sweat where am I TechnoBuffalo sweatshirt though new techno Buffalo gear coming for the new year we're going to be giving the proceeds away to charity so check out TechnoBuffalo icon for more on that that'll be pretty cool excited about that but this is a this is the half mock turtle zip neck sweatshirt Lisa Rama with the TB logo on it the old logo so I'm rocking that one for the show here on the desk behind me the computer set up thanks to my man glenn from lending me his old apple monitor which looks really cool and you know he line it to me so she starts it's not your mother's famous Glen otherwise you know the computer setup in the background we get the big TechnoBuffalo wallpaper go in there when we do the show and you know on a normal day I'll come in you can see my coffee cup you can see on my gear scatter around I've got the stuff from the 20-hour mac project which you should go check out on technobuffalo here interested i took an apple TV i got for twenty dollars off of craigslist and turned it in to an OS 10 leopard mac it's fully functional the performance isn't good enough to be used as in every day Mac I'm using it as an iTunes server and it works just great thumbs up to check that out if you will but anyway how does the show actually come together well it's pretty simple but it involves large data files traveling over miles and miles and miles of ether and a lot of magic from John Q and post-production let's check it out all right once the footage is shot I loaded up into iMovie I use iMovie for editing basically because it's cheap and it's easy honestly you know what for all the whiz-bang stuff is great when you need it to go whiz-bang but if you're like me and you're for John Q he needs a more professional caliber editing tool for me basically we want to keep myself out of my own way I don't want to do damage I just want to edit the footage you know get the story together and leave the color correction the retouching all that stuff to the pros so I use iMovie it's fast it's cheap it's easy and I can't do much do too much harm with it so here's the footage from the November fourth episode of rumor roundup when I was in the TechnoBuffalo main offices down in Irvine California so I've got my project down here you can see the lookout a professional and they're getting in the way the camera got stuff on my arm terrific and so I put it all together my export it using like I said the secret weapon the elgato 264 HD it starts to export I go fill up my coffee while waiting for a text we're actually no wallet exporting i usually do other work and once it's done exporting i put her in the TechnoBuffalo dropbox folder basically dropbox is a neat little utility you can use to send files across the interweb to people large files I usually these files are pretty big if I go to the the November 11th episode 734 megabytes and menza get the files over to John like I said then he does the magic he makes him look prettier sound prettier and that adds all the titles animations and product shots to make them look a little more fashion all notes are a vital part of the production process they give John Q notes to edit from and they give the folks at our revision3 the text that they need to use to put on the website the meta info if you will the descriptive info that goes with the show so this week rue around up behind the scenes once these are all saved send into John Q along with the file footage and the rest is what we like to call the John Q magic alright and so there you go it's a little behind-the-scenes look at how rumor roundup comes together and you know next time you watch the show appreciate all the effort I had to put into cleaning up all my junk off of the desk so you could have a nice clean studio set for rumor roundup maybe I should shoot in the rev3 studio more often hmm have to check in with the folks there in the meantime thanks again to everybody for watching thanks to netflix for sponsoring thanks to rev 3 for having us three times a week and as always thanks to John watch for making my videos look way better than I ever could till next time happy Thanksgiving happy holidays everybody we will see you for the home stretch the month known as December which is crazy crazy land in holiday electronic shopping gift-giving extravaganza mode getting tired just thinking about it I'm gonna see if there any turkey leftovers bye bye where the might go for a limited time oh don't do that