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LED lighting many of you may use it in your PC to illuminate your sick build or

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give it a cool color effect that matches the rest of it however today I'll be

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talking about LED lighting for video production and why we decided to adapt

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it to light the majority of the videos we make here at Linus Media

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Group Intel has brought ddr4 to the mainstream with their core i76700 K and

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core i56600k processor check out the link in the video

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description to learn more so to understand how we came to where we are

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today we have to go back to the lights I started with starting with one of the

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classics this is the standard LOL tungsten fixture it's a flood light

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which utilizes an incandescent bulb that draws a rather High 1,000 Watts from the

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wall it packs quite a bit of punch but your power bill will start to rack up

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using several of these for too long not to mention how hot the light itself gets

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after only a couple of minutes of use making it much more difficult to operate

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tungsten lights have long been the staple of lighting for anyone doing video work for decades but because of

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their high power draw and heat output they can be a less attractive option to

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work with when you need lots of light set up at once and are tight on power

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distribution this brings me to the next solution that we had fluorescent lights

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and in this context specifically compact fluorescent lights or CFLs like this

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impact softbox which can take a total of four CFL bulbs the benefit to a light

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like this is that they are generally a much lower power draw to the previous

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tungsten the main problem with them for our use is that the bulbs that can

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typically used in a fixture like this are not of the highest quality when it

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comes to color CFLs specifically also do not lend themselves well to dimming so

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the control you have over the output on these types of Lights is a bit lacking

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overall while we did end up using the CFL softboxes for a long time here on

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lus Tech tips I've been continually looking for a better solution since the

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color from the CFLs even when properly white balanced left something to be

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desired this brings me to our main fixtures of

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choice and what I use to shoot over 80% of what we do here at Linus Media Group

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high output LED lights and in this case westcott's Flex LED kits for a long time

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LEDs had a very bad reputation when it came to using them for video or

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photography work this attitude towards the mainly stemmed from the vast

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majority of LEDs available in the first few years being garbage in terms of

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build quality features and particularly color this was the main reason I had

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held back from using them since I had not found any LEDs that were better than

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our overall setup LEDs in the beginning tend to have nasty green or magenta

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color spikes not unlike poorly made CFLs

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now however LEDs have been refined to be of a much higher quality the westcot

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flex have become one of my favorite lights to use around the office simply

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because of how fast they are to adapt to any situation as well as their excellent

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rendering of skin tones compared to LEDs I've used in the past with LED lights

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like the flex I can travel to any location that has any wall power and not

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worry about blowing a circuit with any of the lights that I want to use thanks

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to LED's far more efficient power draw the opposite is true if I ever wanted to

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utilize lights like our little incandescent since blowing a circuit even in the studio is a constant concern

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if I'm not careful with power distribution the flex system like other

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LEDs can also utilize a portable battery system allowing us to use the lights in

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places where we cannot draw from the wall like in a car or on location

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Outdoors an example of how I'm currently using one of our Flex lights is in our

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Workshop set i'm utilizing one of our midsize Flex lights as a fill light for

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both sides of the set in this inexpensive 30-in China ball and because

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of the flexibility of the design I've simply folded the light into a cylinder

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and clipped it to the inside of the China ball super simple on the recent

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video that Luke did on the steam VR performance test which you can watch

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here I used flexes to set up each location we shot the video in I had a

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fairly limited amount of time and I hate doing math so instead of calculating if

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I could blow a circuit running all of our tungsten lights and instead of using

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the fluoresence which can take a while to turn on using the LEDs made sense and

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helped me speed through the setup process so in conclusion I like many

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others had my reservations for utilizing LED lighting for video production but

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since Linus would kill me if I accidentally kept leaving lights that

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Drew 1,000 watts of power constantly LED lights like the flex light have become a

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good solution to simplify the way that I work and for the curious I would highly

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recommend seeing if LED lights would fit your workflow and

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needs and on that subject race Rackspace

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watch next so in the top right hand corner click that little button where

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Luke Cooks a pizza on a computer made of

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cardboard yeah it's pretty awesome