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click now to learn more so you guys have been asking me for a studio tour since
forever ago i'm finally doing it this is
the Linus media group studio this is behind the scenes this is where all of
the videos we make i was going to say we're all your favorite videos except
they're probably not your favorites but this is where all the videos we make
are made so this is the storage rack this is where the queue of upcoming
content kind of sits as well as stuff that we haven't or that we have already
done so this is here this thing keeps getting opened this is the lumia i'm
pretty sure it's taran who keeps opening it because he's all like
book of spells like going all larp on it and i'm just like no that's not what
it's for it's a lamp not a larp
anyway uh this is our rubber mallet that we used
to recently assemble all these shelves um
this is this is where i store my personal crap that i don't have room for
at my house because that's what being a boss is all about
it's a racing wheel i don't think anyone's gonna complain yeah yeah exactly right so this is the regular
unboxing set so you guys normally see it from this angle so why don't we why
don't we do it from the other angle instead right so this is our special
table that's actually called a vert desk we uh we told vert desk they sent us not
only this one which they sent us quite some time ago but they sent us another one if we promise to explain how we use
it for shooting this makes our lives so much easier because
instead of adjusting a tripod or adjusting a slider which i think
brandon's actually setting up right now you know where it's like undo this
stupid thing and then undo this other stupid ridiculous thing
they are stupid compared to the vert desk so now we have vert desks instead
so we can just be like oh yeah okay we need to slightly adjust the height
depending on the size of the product or the size of the host for example and
boom done they hold like 300 pounds uh over here is some some more pending
stuff so this is stuff that i'm expecting to have to deal with pretty much immediately stuff like Corsair's
upcoming ax 1500i video and like oh yeah
pretty stoked on this one ASUS's ws z97
board all about mws boards this is my garbage can that i made out of a
cardboard box uh these are our fancy lights that we've actually had for a
long time this is the brandon shelf so
howard's up there and then uh things like his extra cameras that he insists
that we have just in case he needs them actually it's for like commercial shoots
and stuff this is a blackmagic cinema camera so uh i you know it's funny i've lost
all perspective for how much things cost i would have looked at a blackmagic
cinema camera back when we started this whole enterprise and gone holy balls
that's way too expensive and then now with how expensive all the other
production equipment we have is i just kind of go okay that's like an extra
camera here okay so put this in perspective this is our main camera rig
so this is a sony fs700 which is about a seven and a half thousand dollar camera
now i think this lens is another 800 or so that's some tamron thing that uh
brandon has a hard on for he owns one himself and still insisted that i buy
one so he could use it this is a convergent design odyssey 7q
so this will allow us to record 4k prores or even 4k raw in the future but
right now we're able to record 4k
but down sampled to 1080p prores so that's the improved sharpness that
you've seen in our videos over the last little while it's a few grand for one of
those including the proprietary ssds that go in it so it's just all this
stuff is like so unbelievably expensive
that uh like you guys just have no idea what it
takes to make like really high quality videos well i guess you do now because
you're watching uh this is our green screen so this is where we shoot fast as
possible it used to be on like a self-constructed white wall that i built
in my garage but we found an actual green screen is much more effective
these lights are our old lights so we just used them to illuminate the green
screen they actually have these check out these like janky plastic
colored well whatever they're in there like janky plastic color changer things
in there i want to get new lights and i want to have them ceiling mounted so the
idea will be that you wire them all up to one switch just kind of go
boom and then we're ready to shoot as fast as possible because
the amount of time that we waste dinking around with getting the lights
positioned and then fixing it in post-production is just not worth it uh
here's where the stormtrooper lives until i get around to dressing up the mannequin and then this is the
networking hub which i probably shouldn't even show anyone because of how brutal it is so here's the fiber box
here's the cable box here's like all the routers that we were using to diagnose
something here we were going to build a pf sense machine with this but then we just we just bailed so there you go
this is what we use for our voiceovers so i've actually done an unboxing of
this this is the editor's keys sl300 mic and then the little vocal
studio booth thing is absolutely fantastic
over in the kitchen here brandon is yeah i guess you're you're seeing what the
process is for b-roll so you know a lot of work goes into getting
things all you know set up and shot it's funny if you come over here behind
you can see that things aren't quite as tidy as they at first appeared to be so
here's like saw slade and gaff tape and
brandon's like you know panini maker
because like whatever that's the thing normal people bring to work and then i
keep telling people please do why are there dishes in the sink if you have
dishes at work you clean them and you take them home but for some reason we
end up with dishes here i don't quite understand it
back here we've got all the stuff for our build guide that we're working on filming right here this is the cardboard
pile there's actually a real problem around here is what to do with all of
the cardboard that things come shipped in like we don't know how to address
this problem because we don't exactly have like a commercial
sized dumpster out in the back yard or anything um i think that's mostly it for
the uh for the oh yes right the bathroom and here it is the
most frustrating room in the entire building because i'm the only one who
cleans it and as you can tell it's not like that often and people just do the
most the most sort of strange things like why do
people put toilet paper in a can that is
literally right next to a toilet where they would have the opportunity to flush
it instead of me having to deal with it it's not me i would have to assume
blowing their nose well they should blow their nose and put
it in there do you rather than flush it yes if they weren't going to the
washroom yes isn't that terrible for the environment well
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money actually we missed a couple things on the stairs here that's the water
cooling supplies for an upcoming build guide
there's a quadro for some reason i'm actually not sure
why that's there um there i don't know what those are
all right so up here is the legendary okay so here's the
stuff from last week's garage sale that i'm gonna ship out this is the executive
bathroom that no one uses because no one here is an executive i believe in a very
flat you know organizational
structure uh this is the water cooling closet so
this is the uh this is the container that we use for
spraying naughty employee i mean this is the container we use for filling
up reservoirs and stuff like sorry it was tempting i don't know how long that
water's been in there um we've got a whole whack ton of radiators up here so
many that this thing is actually flexing here's the tubing bucket so we got all
the tubing and the crabs in that bucket then we've also got fittings a bunch of
like really old water cooling crap from like my house
more radiators more like random widgets and like blocks
and pumps and stuff and then down here is all the supplies from my old chiller
so this could be used to make a sub-zero cooler you can get a CPU down to around
-25 or so with that but you gotta actually put it together
and then the wan showroom so actually this oh
that's how it's gonna be all right i guess i deserve that so this room um i
have already set up my whole system with the one button boop and the wan showroom
is lit just like that so easy
also in the lan showroom is our steel series set so this is where we shoot our steel series Techquickie videos and
then over here is the random pile of stuff that has gradually reduced in size
i mean some of it's like collapsed like if you look back here i don't even know
what's up with some of this stuff like there's toilet paper rolls back here probably because i switched to one wipe
charlie's there's also like you know guns and
stuff you know uh these are just bb guns by the way
they're not actually they're not actually weapons um so don't worry too much about it
uh let's see what else we got in here this is the crt that we used to play games on
the after party on back when we had one of those and then that's another black magic
cinema camera so that's why the WAN Show went from
um looking like kind of poop to looking freaking pretty good and then the
lighting was what made a big difference in terms of the consistency of the show
because i would look at the thumbnails and i'd be like okay it looks good and
it looks good but they're completely different types of good so
this is our sound setup that unfortunately no one here other than
edsel really knows how to use so this is a compressor this is a mixer and then
the problem is that we don't have the cables to something anyway that's why
it's always quiet but that's also why when i talk really loud it doesn't
just peak immediately or clip or whichever one is the one for sound not
video this is the wardrobe closet so this is where uh slenderman lives uh
until i address him in his stormtrooper armor this is a gill's outfit from the
funk commercials here's our ninja suits from that be quiet! commercial here's a
ncix pc t-shirt for some reason um
i don't know man i'm not sure what to say and then this is where most of the real
work gets done so our team members in order of appearance are
eds liago brandon lee
taren van hamert and then finally someone you've never
met before this is mr nick light so he is the one who is responsible for
that recent fast as possible that had no ad integration on it
this is our sales and advertising coordinator whereas
taran does some script writing some producing some video editing and even
some on-screen hosting brandon you guys and edsley you guys are probably mostly
familiar with but they specialize in filming editing ed actually doesn't do
much filming anymore i'm not even sure if he still remembers how to use a camera but he does most of our color
sound and post-production work and all that good stuff and then uh i'm not sure
what i do around here this is the old
gear closet which has now because nick's desk is in the way of it has been turned
into kind of long-term storage so boxes for things that we might need to return
at some point if it's you know broken or whatever my monitor that i really want
to switch back to this is that lg 21x9 monitor but i'm reviewing a monitor
right now that's on my desk so i need to like deal with that
actually here i guess i might as well show you guys my desk while i'm at it so this is my office with a window you know
got my window here i share the window mind you but i share the office too but
whatever is my computer that has no side panel as
some people observed in a picture i took a little while ago this is a benq
32-inch 2560 by 1440 monitor that i'm
taking for a test drive right now this is my water bottle uh this is huh this
is kind of funny this is the random raid card and 10 gig Ethernet or not Ethernet
lan card that i've had on my desk i don't really know what to do with for
a while it's like funny this is my phone stand check it out
it's from cooler master boop
luke thinks they're stupid but i disagree because now i can see my notifications without even without even
glancing at my smartwatch before i glance at my smartwatch
i can see things this i probably don't even want to show
you guys but this is sort of the server room i guess it's also sort of a
bathroom no one is allowed to use this bathroom so i can walk you guys through
a little bit of how the workflow goes in here so we have our scanner and printer
we have storage that goes in the bathtub
this is our fireproof nas down here that i haven't actually deployed but i should
probably do something with at some point this is our archive so this is where
anything that's no longer being stored on the raid array in the nas goes on wd
sorry yeah very safe following all the best practices it's like there's it do as i
say not as i do this room no one should do anything you know my favorite part is
like this the water's on i'm not going to turn it yeah but i
should turn it he didn't cut the water
both the toilet and the sink actually work right now so like if something
bumps the faucet well you shouldn't bump that i should be the only one allowed in
this room anyway also he thinks that is a proper way to archive drives
i don't look at this look at this it's not proper i know it
isn't proper the point is that's where they are no one touched them
okay so here's our switch uh this is mostly
gigabit but also 10 gigabit so there's a 10 gigabit link to our server that also
runs to edsel's machine since he's the one who back when we set this up who was
doing most of the very high bit rate content editing this is our netgear
storage appliance that we use as an iscsi drive so that loop can install all
of his games on a network drive whenever he's benchmarking rather than install
them locally and have to re-image those all the time down here is the main
server so this is running a xeon processor with some Intel board that has
Thunderbolt we are using a consumer grade board so that we can use Thunderbolt for ingesting footage it's
got i think it's like 10 or 11 drives in it that are running in a raid 6 right
now so those are all three terabyte drives now that we're shooting prores
i'm having to archive things a lot more often and it's getting kind of crazy in
terms of our storage needs we're going to need to readdress this sometime soon whether it's with freenas or another
solution but for the time being that's how everything runs uh we copy footage
off of it here's those proprietary ssds i was talking to you guys about these
things are so expensive like unbelievable so we use this
Thunderbolt dock right here for copying um very very large files and then we
have this one right here for copying anything that's like
moving moving archival footage onto greens for example or just if the
Thunderbolt dock is in use for whatever reason now let's move over into
loops area
so this is where most of the benchmarking happens uh there's the closet here which is
overflow storage for things like the copious amounts of RAM hey there's your
stick no it's there's one the the other two are in
this system and you missed an opportunity i said there's your stick
and you didn't you know sue me for harassment um so
this is a recent addition luke finally got a nice rack
for his room where most of the storage is done
it used to be kind of all over the floor but things are much much tidier now it's
kind of easier for everyone to work lately so this is where all the graphics
cards or anything that he's about to be working on go uh this is for an upcoming
case review i know we're a little late on the 230t from Corsair but we're
finally getting around to it now so uh luke just did the build on that i gotta
script it still and we're probably going to film that a little bit later um this
is where the test benches go we've actually got oh you put the new leg in
so this is funny oh it's not okay no because it has different screws the new
legging it has different screws that's actually a problem
anyway uh oh it doesn't matter you just they're not threaded you just i know i
know oh well at any rate um so this is
uh so here you should go back so that they can see the curve of this table
like the bowing that's going on with this table so we finally got a fifth leg
to kind of prop up the middle of it and then we want to get a thing down here
that's actually going to be built on this piece of wood so that we can um
so we can put the test benches down here and free up some more space on the top so there's lots more things to continue
to do which i guess leads us to the overflow storage where we have things like city
combs this is you're doing isn't it
what do you know about this why do we have a shaw cable company i
have no idea i bet you know
nope anyway uh so like leaves for like a
table that's here because i don't have room for it at my house the couch master
because that's where i think most bulky stuff like this that people
buy on an impulse and then can't figure out where to put ends up
and then this most of these boxes are actually empty
so there you go read into that whatever you
will but this is where all the cases or
the boxes for cases that we don't know
like that we have deployed but we still want to have the boxes just in case our
and like this mini fridge and that table that's
hiding under a bunch of the boxes so this is where all the overflow storage
is and i think that's pretty much it
thank you for coming along for our little interactive tour of the Linus
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