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so I finally stepped up my audio game here in the studio thanks to studio pros 2000 watt light kit I have one of them set up and currently using right now bear with me the camera calibrations aren't perfect just yet I'd literally set this thing up five minutes ago so if it's a little overexposed or you know the white balance isn't correct it's just because I haven't really had time to fiddle with it yet but I didn't want to show you firsthand how to set one of these things up and what you should expect in terms of video quality and picture quality improvement thanks to having just a single one of these thousand watt light kits or two of them like I have here for a total of 2000 watts of 5500 k's studio lighting action first thing I do is open up the stand box it's the long narrow box and the state is actually decent quality I've noticed that the Studio Pro really didn't cheap out here where they honestly could have but all you got to do is just loosen this little bracket right here there's this little screw and then you're good to go so expand the three legs and then just push it down you see we have a nice wide stand you can go for something that's a bit narrower not as stable but you get the point so we'll go with a fairly wide stance here and then you have three adjustments up top and these are identical to the one down below and these will of course control the height of the panel if you want the panel exceptionally high you definitely have that option with this kind of stand we're talking upwards of eight feet so plenty of versatility in terms of the vertical form factor so what you're looking at here is a single bar length this is extended all the way and that is about two and a half feet and of course we have the other two here that we can extend to the same height so yeah at least eight feet here I'm actually gonna stretch it out all the way and see how high we can get this thing just just because I am curious so again just loosen this it's spring-loaded so you know when it's set properly and looking at that's a little a little lower a little shorter than the other poll and then the last one up top does the same thing yeah we're going we're coming to the ceiling so if you want this one to be a little higher than I guess the one that you're using as your primary lighting panel then you can certainly do that with this raise this up as high as you want and then angle the actual LED panel on the top of it downward just make sure that once you do have these at their desired Heights you tighten the screws to make sure they don't slide up and down you don't want something like that happening in the middle of filming and you do have well it's fairly expensive bulbs up top you don't want those to break either if the whole panel suddenly came crashing down and what we have here is the five bulb housing nothing really special on the front but this is what's cool on the back they don't just give you a one switch we can just turn on one and all the light bulbs are shining at full power you do have sort of a dimming option here so instead of just keeping on all five you can turn off either the bottom left on top right just the center or the top left and bottom right and of course you can configure these however you like for that unique lighting effect that you're going for the power connector is a standard three prong connector you would use on a typical power supply for PC and the cable included with each housing in this kit is about ten feet long I don't know the exact measurement but it is significantly longer than those included with typical power supplies mean which means that you can pretty much place this kit wherever you want the each LED panel and I'll have to worry about needing some kind of cable extension to get it where you need it to be and lastly we have the mounting system to screw complexes here nothing fancy this one controls the angle of approach that you're like it will have with your subject so you can kind of just bend this very well it's very sturdy that's a good thing it's it is built fairly cheap it's plastic but it is sturdy that's good for especially bulbs like these and then this this grew over on this side is what fastens the housing to the tripod system just make sure this is loose and just slide it over the top of the stand and then screw it tight any wart no it's not going anywhere you can't loosen this and kind of just so instead of moving the entire the entire stand whoops instead of moving an entire stand you can just slide the kid around so that's something that I think is very cool to give you that option there and then also like I said before controlling your your lighting angle all done with this one over here on this side once you have that set accordingly again just tighten it and you're good to go very secure and firm lamp stand now here is what a standard studio pro bulb looks like this is what you will have included with your kit it is a 45 watt 5500 K bulb which means that this light will be roughly truewhite it's not going to be very warm nor cool it should be fairly close to just neutral white which is good that's what you want especially for camerawork standard hundred and ten volts 60 Hertz and it just screws right in to the bulb housing system simple as that and you're good to go something else worth mentioning each of these bulbs is packed properly they're not just floating around in cardboard boxes with no support I think each of these bulbs is wrapped around or wrapped inside of a styrofoam mold Studio pros not sponsoring this video by that I didn't say that originally but they didn't sponsor this video I paid for the these kits out of my own pocket but I do want you guys to to feel safe about buying an LED kit like this I do have this one and I'm just getting it giving my impressions as I go it would suck if one of these just was delivered broken or just didn't work you know I do have nine other bulbs so it wouldn't be that catastrophic but if you do happen to have one that doesn't work out of the box be sure to send studio pro an email there email is in this video's description if you have a problem with any of their products they'll be very prompt from what I've heard they their customer service is excellent just give them a try you know don't don't just drop them altogether because you had one bad product it's likely not even their fault they packed the product properly shipping just like I said isn't perfect right inside the studio pro accessory bag you'll get two of these one for each of the panels is basically a kit for setting up your diffuser now you'll have four of these rods for keeping it nice and sturdy and rigid and then you'll have the you'll have the backdrop of diffuser which is reflective which is good for getting that light outside pushing it forward and then two diffusers one small the fuser inside of I don't know if this if there's some professional word for this I'm not a lighting Pro you have a diffuser inside of the actual diffuser on the outside so I'll show you right here to what I'm using so this is one diffuser this is one that wraps around the entire light panel and then there's another smaller diffuser inside of this one I kind of get to cut off right here and it's further in but both bees act to diffuse light basically spreads it out and doesn't make it a blotchy to the point where you don't have one area of your animal filming scene being more bright than somewhere else it kind of spreads the light out evenly for that nice professional feel my first up you're gonna have the backdrop this is what will cover the back side of the panel and kind of spread the light forward it just helps disperse the light forward or not backward but you can see the outside here coated with the it still feels plasticky but it is it's not cheap it just it just feels the plastic I don't describe that but you see the inside is coated with a reflective material good for getting that light outward in the forward direction it will have four areas for velcroing I don't recommend doing this until the very end so you're gonna want to attach all of these immediately and then wrap them around the old housing now it's not gonna feel like it wants to stay up at first is because we have nothing supporting it now these are the rods that keep the entire panel kind of together you need to have these there are going to be four of them for each kit and they're gonna run from the knot corners of these housings of each of these bulb housings to the corners of the diffuser itself these little inserts right here where I was pointing to a bit earlier bear in mind that the ends of these rods are slightly different so this side is a bit thing than this side so this side is the part we're gonna want to insert into the actual cover itself and then the slimmer side will be inserted into not this one here it depends on which way you orient the actual cover but we'll be inserting them into the corners down here up here and then likewise on the other side the manual recommend starting with the cover side first so remember the larger end of the rod into the velcro corner and then the other end of the rod be careful not to slap any of these bulbs little too hard the under end rod is gonna come in to one of the corners I showed you on the bulb housing it just slides right in just make sure that it's angled correctly or it won't it won't want to do that see just like that and there we go so now we have both the and you can't see it there but we have both both the top left and top right connecting rods in place so you can see how it's kind of setting up our cover here it's making it seem a bit more a rectangular like it's supposed to so again start with the corner of the cover run it down the side make sure that your Stan doesn't you know fall on you you are applying quite a bit of force to get these connecting rods in place just like that and we only have one more to go and just like that okay afterwards you can just velcro the back corners will be a little difficult depending on how much tension you have on the box itself but this will keep light from bleeding out of the back of the entire panel okay and there we go looks pretty good doesn't it now the last thing we have to worry about are the two diffusers this installation is much simpler than the for support rods so you see this is the interior diffuser I was talking about this connects to the four little elastic bands here on the inside of the back cover and then we have our large diffuser that wraps around the frame and then connects via velcro straps in the middle of each of the four sections a simple little clip right here I'm not the biggest fan of these kinds of clips on elastic bands but it's better than nothing okay diffuser number one is installed now time for diffuser number two and this one is the simplest of the two no cheap elastic bands to worry about this just simply wraps around the frame like so and it fits rather snug on its own you don't even need the velcro straps to be honest but you do have them to kind of keep the guess the middle of each side in place and that's it velcro the corner well the sides not really corners I guess and that's it boom there you go that's an entire light panel so I have my camera's exposure turned as low as it will go this panels super bright and see how dark my hand is but the panel is on all five lights are on and you can just barely make out the five locations of the bulb so the diffuser is doing a great job of dispersing light not perfect but this isn't an ultra expensive light kit this is definitely for people on budgets and I mean just looking at it while it's very brightly exposed we just turn the camera this way you can see it pretty much just evens out especially in a moderate lighting scenario you can't make out the individual locations of each of the bulbs okay and this is how I want to end the video don't worry the light panels are not on this is the before so this is what I typically use just the natural lighting in this apartment the lights themselves are very warm so when I use just the standard auto white balance the camera isn't doing a great job at adjusting to that orange hue so you're seeing a very orange image and the image itself the video is very murky very blurry there are a lot of spots everywhere it's just not a very clean video overall but I'm gonna turn the panels on right now huge difference now it's super bright the cameras doing its own thing adjusting the exposure and the auto white balance all that stuff I don't usually tinker with much of that unless I'm in a very special situation but it is very bright these panels are excellent I'm well lit I have both of them on there about I guess 30 degrees from my left and right and it's you know it's just a very well-built system and I'm very pleased with the panels I'll be using these and probably every video that I film in my studio and the good thing is now I can film at night without having to worry about using crappy indoor lighting thanks to the Studio Pro 2000 watt light panels if you have any questions or concerns be sure to leave those in the comments below give this video a like if you thought it was cool or you appreciate the insight give it a dislike if you do feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click Subscribe if you have already stay tuned for I think I'm gonna do another round of benchmarks with a few of the processors I have lying around this is Salazar studio thanks for learning with this