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Now, if you're following me on Twitter at Lionus Tech, you'll have seen my post

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the other day that the old TechTip studio is no more. I was clearing it out

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and done with it. I've also posted a couple preliminary pictures of the new

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and improved TechTip studio, but I wanted to take you guys on a quick

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little tour. So let's start with the

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TechTips rack which uh used to be in the room that was adjoining to our old

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TechTips studio. So this is our rendering machine where we do any sort

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of video editing. This is our test bench where we can well put things on a test

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bench and uh where Slick can benchmark where he won't disturb me and Diesel

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over on the other side anymore cuz it used to be that his his rack was totally

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in the wrong place. Then we got a KVM up here which will allow us to switch

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between those two machines. some storage here. Now, I used to have kind of a

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separate room for storage, but now I'm going to keep all the storage on one

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side of here. If you look down, this used to be two rooms and there was a

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door in between them, but I actually opted to have the wall completely removed so we'd have a more open space

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in here. So, all the storage will be in this corner and then also in this corner

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as well. So, that's cases and weird stuff, monitors, stuff like that. And

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then this is your smaller stuff. Your video cards, your motherboards, your

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memory, your CPUs, all that kind of hoo-ha in this corner with all the

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random networking stuff. All the networking stuff goes on the top because

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I very rarely sort of use that stuff. Now, this is my green screen wall. So,

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we got special chroma key paint. And this way I can unbox things in space if

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it comes to that. And I've also got something that I need to unbox pretty

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quick here, the Node 605 from Fractal Design. So, this will be the unboxing

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table. And what we'll do is we'll

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actually position the camera over there so that what can happen is you can

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either point the camera this way at the green screen or the green background.

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And if we want, we can then just turn it around and point it at what is the NCIX

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tech tip set and also painted in chroma

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key blue just in case we wanted to do some chroma keying on a blue background.

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So, here you'll recognize the usual NCX

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Tech Tips table as well as well, here's

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our TV, but we ran into a bit of sort of an issue where

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the TV is kind of too big for our new set. So, you can see I've got uh

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wall-mounted outlets here. So, that I'm going to drill a hole, or rather cut a

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hole. I have one of those uh one of those handy dandywall saws around here

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somewhere. I'm going to cut a hole and then I'm going to run an HDMI cable

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down, but this is too big. So, we're going to replace it with something

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that's smaller and something that finally has a matte screen and a matte

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bezel. So, you're not going to see so many reflections in the screen, which is

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sort of sort of brutal. Then over here,

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this is the Tech Tips whiteboard where I usually have uh this is what you see me

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glancing at of the corner of my eye when I'm trying to cheat and read stuff.

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Then, we've got our portable monitoring station. So, the tripod will actually go

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here in the middle of the room. So, it's just a matter of turning around the lights to shoot that way and turning

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around the camera and the lights to shoot this way, which is very cool. Then

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we have another rack over here. Not sure exactly what I'm going to do with this

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one yet. This will either be another test station for Slick to work on, or it

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can be something where we run things temporarily in order to uh do some kind

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of a demonstration over on the TechTips table there. So, this will be just kind

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of a portable rack. We might keep things like extra peripherals that we sometimes

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need to film and uh you know like the tech tips shirts and all that kind of

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stuff. So So this is just kind of a utility rack for the time being. So

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that's pretty much it guys. Thank you for checking out my little tour of the

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Oh, and the cables bin. Hold on. You have to see the cables bin. Thank you

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for checking out my tour of the all new and improved NCX TechTip studio. Don't

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