LED lighting many of you may use it in your PC to illuminate your sick build or
give it a cool color effect that matches the rest of it however today I'll be
talking about LED lighting for video production and why we decided to adapt
it to light the majority of the videos we make here at Linus Media
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today we have to go back to the lights I started with starting with one of the
classics this is the standard LOL tungsten fixture it's a flood light
which utilizes an incandescent bulb that draws a rather High 1,000 Watts from the
wall it packs quite a bit of punch but your power bill will start to rack up
using several of these for too long not to mention how hot the light itself gets
after only a couple of minutes of use making it much more difficult to operate
tungsten lights have long been the staple of lighting for anyone doing video work for decades but because of
their high power draw and heat output they can be a less attractive option to
work with when you need lots of light set up at once and are tight on power
distribution this brings me to the next solution that we had fluorescent lights
and in this context specifically compact fluorescent lights or CFLs like this
impact softbox which can take a total of four CFL bulbs the benefit to a light
like this is that they are generally a much lower power draw to the previous
tungsten the main problem with them for our use is that the bulbs that can
typically used in a fixture like this are not of the highest quality when it
comes to color CFLs specifically also do not lend themselves well to dimming so
the control you have over the output on these types of Lights is a bit lacking
overall while we did end up using the CFL softboxes for a long time here on
lus Tech tips I've been continually looking for a better solution since the
color from the CFLs even when properly white balanced left something to be
desired this brings me to our main fixtures of
choice and what I use to shoot over 80% of what we do here at Linus Media Group
high output LED lights and in this case westcott's Flex LED kits for a long time
LEDs had a very bad reputation when it came to using them for video or
photography work this attitude towards the mainly stemmed from the vast
majority of LEDs available in the first few years being garbage in terms of
build quality features and particularly color this was the main reason I had
held back from using them since I had not found any LEDs that were better than
our overall setup LEDs in the beginning tend to have nasty green or magenta
color spikes not unlike poorly made CFLs
now however LEDs have been refined to be of a much higher quality the westcot
flex have become one of my favorite lights to use around the office simply
because of how fast they are to adapt to any situation as well as their excellent
rendering of skin tones compared to LEDs I've used in the past with LED lights
like the flex I can travel to any location that has any wall power and not
worry about blowing a circuit with any of the lights that I want to use thanks
to LED's far more efficient power draw the opposite is true if I ever wanted to
utilize lights like our little incandescent since blowing a circuit even in the studio is a constant concern
if I'm not careful with power distribution the flex system like other
LEDs can also utilize a portable battery system allowing us to use the lights in
places where we cannot draw from the wall like in a car or on location
Outdoors an example of how I'm currently using one of our Flex lights is in our
Workshop set i'm utilizing one of our midsize Flex lights as a fill light for
both sides of the set in this inexpensive 30-in China ball and because
of the flexibility of the design I've simply folded the light into a cylinder
and clipped it to the inside of the China ball super simple on the recent
video that Luke did on the steam VR performance test which you can watch
here I used flexes to set up each location we shot the video in I had a
fairly limited amount of time and I hate doing math so instead of calculating if
I could blow a circuit running all of our tungsten lights and instead of using
the fluoresence which can take a while to turn on using the LEDs made sense and
helped me speed through the setup process so in conclusion I like many
others had my reservations for utilizing LED lighting for video production but
since Linus would kill me if I accidentally kept leaving lights that
Drew 1,000 watts of power constantly LED lights like the flex light have become a
good solution to simplify the way that I work and for the curious I would highly
recommend seeing if LED lights would fit your workflow and
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