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get back from Computex but for now I can show you these awesome custom cables that last months made aaron from west mods just went yesterday and picked those up so i'll show those to you and then finally a quick rundown of the hardware we're going to be using today it's at Computex because we got to edit on site there so we can upload the videos for you guys to share all the new awesome computer her brains coming out so I'm gonna get started right here and unbox my new stuff first off we got this tripod head this is the MV 500 aah it's a fluid video head with base it's because I've been using this one by bail-bond which is an adequate try fluid head it's only about 40 or 50 bucks depending where you buy it but it's just it's not the nicest when you tighten these down sometimes it still shifts a little bit I'm still using these for a couple of setups here in the garage studio but we're on the road I wanted something that's just a little bit nicer I'll set that up in a second but I want to get the camera set up too so it's ready to go on top so this is a GH 5 cage kits with top handles my small rig it provides protection for camera specifically if you're traveling and you might drop it a mile and a quarter or something like that this is gonna be a bit of extra security also since it's a cage that goes around the outside it's got a bunch of like 3/8 inch mounting holes on it it's actually 3/8 inch and quarter inch mounting holes both available right they're kind of scattered throughout this product and then of course it's gonna hold the camera securely there at the bottom while still providing access to the key parts like getting at the battery or the SD card slot adding a handle to the top was an extra $30 this is the lens that I usually use for chefs that I want to look pretty it's a sigma 18 to 35 art lens and it's used by many many youtubers since it is actually an EF mount lens I have a Micro Four Thirds adapter here by meta bones it's the meta bones speed booster ultra 0.7 1x it's actually a pretty heavy configuration and also a bit bulky so I'm gonna remove this entire thing and protect my sensor and this is gonna stay at home lens I'm using from for the trip is actually an official panasonic lumix lens and it is the HD 12 to 35 pretty wide angle and the reason I like this lens is because it's very small and it focuses very quickly so as I'm moving around Computex and trying to get footage of stuff I'll often use autofocus just because it's a lot safer in this type of shooting environments and this thing focus is really fast and it also doesn't really make any noise just a single screw to hold this on and this is not the most expensive cage that's out there there are some more expensive ones that have the add-on extras like the ability to have a hook that goes around your HDMI input to keep it from wiggling around or accidentally getting getting pulled out for my purposes though this is going to serve me just fine provides the basic protection that I wants and then I will mount this to the base plates on the new tripod this is the this is a lock for the base plate also release still works quick it focuses it's awesome all right so our tripod head has a fluid drag system here that can be locked down with this knob then you can give it a nice soft place to the side-to-side that way and then we also have a fluid drag system over on the side here it's not adjustable like the bigger ones that I think that's also to keep the weight down then of course you got your standard lock right there so you can lock it and do the tilts you can not the arm on either side it's interchangeable hold their arm and I messed with this multiple times and then Joe came over and figured it out immediately this top plate here you actually put on at an angle I was trying to slide it in from one side like I do with the one that I already had ups in an angle like that and then can lock in that way and that way I actually can't slide off forward or backward you have to push that down in order to do it and of course each in tighten that down to lock it as well with me oh hey I wouldn't hunter done this cuz it's a hex nut then I realized small rig they're smart look Ellen rich built-in right there held on with a magnet so yeah the on top of the cage provides a structural rigidity throughout - down to the base plates base plates can then be attached to the tripod like so tighten that down and the reason I like to set up with the monopod is because provides a bit more stability since it's down on the ground this one has a little feet so I can extend those and it actually allows me to serve sway back and forth a little bit or rock in at a thing I'm recording and kind of put my foot down there on the bottom to keep it steady and then if I need to take this entire thing and lift it up to move around I can just lift it up by the handle up on top now the other thing I'll do it shows because I don't have a dedicated camera person there and this is I just discovered this rig can also do this is to take the camera flip it around on the mount up back in there and you can do this with this tripod head so that's cool then since I got the flip out screen I can just point that at myself make sure I'm framed it in focus be holding the camera right here and then I can start and stop it recording my blah blah blah hockey bits and then when I'm ready to record other stuff I can get behind the camera and do that it's actually a very flexible and simple view setup for recording and an event like hunting thanks for CES alright next up a quick aside and a big shout out to Erin from Webb muds because he made all of these custom sleep cables for Riptide which is back here behind me that project will continue once I return from coputex in the meantime you guys can get a slightly better idea how it's going to look when it's all finished and kitted out with these beautiful cables that Erin put together Erin's daughter actually helped him out with these two so shout out to both of them and these are actually set up with two different systems since there's two different systems in that rig so I'm going to take these out really quickly and then put them back in the bag so that I don't mess them up or anything you'll notice here actually a combination of materials he's used paracord as well as this is a PE T variant that he also has available which gives extra pretty cool effects you can see sort of a different texture on the blue there then you can on the white or on the black then he also does the cable comes as well they're all pushed down here so that once I get them installed I can spread them out wherever they need to be so that the cables stay nice and in line and of course I with a blue theme it's mostly like that all black system right now and there's a bunch of RGB in there so I did wants the blue to be sort of like the water for Riptide so the idea that was that the blue there would be for Riptide and I was I almost chickened out I went with like all white or something a little bit more monochrome but he convinced me to put a little color in there and I'm glad he did these are the cables for the smaller system the little X 470 rig that's in there which only needs a 24 pin and an 8 pin but I'm also gonna position these in such a way that they'll be very visible and evidence when they're actually installed so unfortunately don't have time to install these right now but I'm really excited that they're here and definitely excited to get back to working on Riptide once I returned from copy tanks and rounding things out for the Computex setup here's the rest of the gear and bring in most of my audio when I'm on the show floor or that Suites is going to be recorded on this little tas game this is the dr 10 l this was actually rebecc-- recommended to me by Austin Evans so I've been using this for a year or two now it's a nice little self-contained lav mic and especially unlike a noisy wireless environment like on the show floor where you wouldn't use Wireless anything this has been very reliable backup secondary and also to use for recording voiceovers and whatnot back in the hotel room is gonna be my zoom h6 I've got the shotgun mic attachment for that since this actually sounds really nice a collection of memory cards of course I'm really enjoying my 256 gig ones because they can just record forever and you never have to worry about space I might bring a few little extra reading things like this is a magic arm just in case I need to set up a camera and somewhere special or possibly a microphone to capture my audio and then Joe's coming along so he's going to be editing on this laptop right here provided by gigabyte gigabytes a sponsor for my coputex coverages here so this the arrow 14 this is a tiny little laptop just a 14 inch screen but a lot of power under the hood IPS screen - which is nice I 770 700 HQ at 16 gigs of DDR 4 and at 512 gig m2 SSD only thing that's really missing is an extra hard drive for storage but we're gonna add a bunch of external drives to work off of so should be just fine and since it's best to have a lot of screen space while editing we got a secondary monitor here this one just connects via a USB 3 it's the Asus MB 169 it's actually I believe a slightly larger screen than the one on the laptop but this one's cool cuz it's super portable very lightweight as long as you don't futz with the plug and disconnect it really quickly you have it as a secondary monitor and that will be the editing setup but guys that is gonna wrap it up for this video we are pretty much ready to go for copy techs although I think the last thing I need to do is actually pack I'm gonna pack a big bag of stuff and I'm gonna make Joe carry it so if you're interested in Computex coverage coming out very soon hit the subscribe button for sure wish us luck in our travels and we'll be reporting back to you from Taipei Taiwan like at the beginning of next week thanks guys we'll see you next time bye bye alright