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We got some noise. Okay, take it again from the top. Aperture's B7C lights are so cool. Their
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natural skin tones. Damn it. It's been
like this ever since we moved to the temporary ShortCircuit set. Oh god, it
was 2 years ago, wasn't it? We got to do something about this.
What the hell?
Elijah!
Elijah! Forget it.
Guess we'll just have to wait till they're done. 1 minute.
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month or year. It really is true. There is no solution that's more permanent
than a temporary solution, which is why our ShortCircuit channel has been using
this cramped temporary set in what used to be our logistics department for
almost 3 years. It
has some real challenges. It's right next to the main receiving door. Quiet
on set. And it's directly underneath both the
staff lounge and the TechLink set, which as far as I CAN TELL ARE POPULATED BY
ELEPHANTS. WE'VE MADE IT WORK. STILL, ShortCircuit clearly needs a permanent
home. And while I've been out of the office traveling, the team has been hard
at work. They even tore down this very set while I was away.
You know, I noticed there was an awful lot of green in here. And we're on the
wrong floor. Can't sneak anything past you, boss. So, let's go take a look at
the new temporary home of ShortCircuit.
>> Temp- temporary? Yeah, well, I want it to last a long time. Uh. And, you know,
there is no solution that's more permanent than a temporary solution. Ow,
this is awesome. Why is it that LMG
cannot resist building kitchens? Great question. And I'm glad you asked.
It's not really related to your question, though. No, it's really not. Our team has done a ton of work, but we
also need to give a big shout-out to our friends at Aperture for supplying the
amazing lighting package. Uh we'll be taking a closer look at that in a couple
minutes, though. It looks like we've actually kind of got three sets here
rather than just one. Three in one, even. You [music] know, I wanted a more
lived-in feeling space. You know, though, kind of like LTT has in their
main sets in the studio. I wanted something with more variety in the backgrounds for more, you know,
>> [music] >> natural living space. Also, it should be better for thumbnails than just like
putting a big piece of Styrofoam behind the host every time. Barely better.
>> [laughter] >> Why don't we take a look around? First up, we've got kind of a home office den
kind of thing. Yeah, I think phase two will look a little different with this being a more living room kind of area
with an office desk as well as a place for TVs and projectors, but
>> Cool. What are we going to call it? We got to decide. People have been nagging me saying, "What are we calling these
sets? What are we calling these sets?" And I say, "Linus, he's a very
particular man." I'm not the one who gets to name the sets. >> Oh, perfect. We'll name it Frank. If I
was allowed to name the sets, we wouldn't have three sets called ShortCircuit set, [music] and we
wouldn't have two sets called apartment set, and we wouldn't have two sets
called workshop. It's so confusing. So, you don't like ShortCircuit apartment.
Office. Whatever we end up calling it, this set's mainly going to be for the
big items. Monitors, desks, full PCs,
that kind of thing. In fact, this sick Doom-themed setup from Maingear is going
to be the first unboxing shot on this set, and it's over live on ShortCircuit
right now. There's a couple of really cool little features that are going to help us keep it fresh over the probably
years that we'll be using it if our current sets are anything to go by. Uh
this canvas is a really neat one. With this light, this Storm ADC up here, we
can project basically anything we want on it as long as it doesn't melt. You
can see there's a little ShortCircuit logo on it right now, but I don't know.
It's not doing anything. Turns out you're supposed to put those at the back. We'll figure it out. These are
also cool. An IRL RGB ShortCircuit logo.
Great woodworking re- Oh god, Reese.
Just because we're upgrading the sets doesn't mean we're completely changing the channel, though. If anything, I
think we want to go a little bit more back to basics. ShortCircuit is supposed
to be unboxings. It's not supposed to be overcomplicated. So, the idea is that
when the host and the camera operator walk onto set, everything is pretty much
good to go. No tweaking the lights, no playing around with the camera angles.
We just slate and go. So, what's
involved in that? No media, so FTP ingestion, as well as one operator for
all three cameras with a clear view of what they all see, so I can make sure
everything's going well and they can see everything going on all at [music] once. >> We are looking at maybe upgrading that
setup in the future, by the way, with an editor also being on set doing a live
cut straight to the server that would then get refined into the final cut. But
um I don't know if it's going to work out because I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret. That is a more than
decade-old idea for Linus Media Group, and every time we've tried it, it's just
kind of crashed and burned. If you actually look back at this ancient power
supply unboxing, pay close attention to the cuts because that was done live to
tape exactly the way that you guys are coming up with here. I wish us luck with
it, though. It really is super efficient in theory.
Hey, we're on the second set, though. Why don't we talk about this one? This
is the main set. Used for most items, anything that doesn't need a specialty
set. And its key feature, it's got to be the glow wall made by Justin and Jordan.
It's got this frosted look. It is reminiscent of the TV on the old set.
We also upgraded our top-down setup. So,
now we can drag our top-down across the various sets using this little rail
right here, and we throw our old Fujinon lens on it so we can zoom way, way
closer in onto smaller items that are being unboxed. That's going to be a
really nice little upgrade. Oh, not nearly as nice as the lighting,
though. Behind our frosted glass panel doors are four of Aperture's Infinibars.
So, these are basically RGBWW lights
that are connectable into pretty much any shape you want with more than a dozen connector and mounting options.
We've got two 2-ft ones and two 4-ft ones that combined with this bounce here
can give us any number of really cool-looking effects. And also, what a
great little place to hide when I don't feel like doing work.
Huh? It's even great for wardrobe changes.
lttstore.com On the other side of the set, we've got
more lighting. In this case, Nova soft panels. We've got a P300C and a P600C
here. Each of these is adjustable [music] from 2K to 10K for color
temperature, and they have full RGB lighting. This one is 600 W, and this
[music] one is 300 W. It is worth noting that a new Nova 2 line has come out
while we've been working on this, which is even more better. It's brighter and
has a few more bells and whistles, but uh realistically, we're not pushing these
lights anywhere near their limits, so we didn't really need them. Here's what
they look like in action. Although they are getting a little bit of help. I
mentioned the Storm ADC before. [music] That's a point source light, but we
actually have one of those on each of the sets [music] acting as a hair light. These support
anywhere from 1.8K to 20,000K
for color temperature, and also support RGB, and they output at 80 W, making
them [music] actually great for running both on AC power as well as on battery
as just a very convenient point [music] source. And they're flicker-free, unlike
consumer LED bulbs. It matters a lot in production
because if you start getting of phase [music] flickering from all your various lights on set, it's a nightmare.
Bells playing around with it right now, moving all the different sliders around, but this is our Sidus Four, and this
thing is super cool. >> [music] >> It's kind of like SignalRGB for your
computer system, but for sets. It allows you to take various ecosystems like DMX,
[music] CRMX, as well as even Bluetooth-managed lights, and then sync
them all up through this convenient app.
Mwah, deserves a kiss. And oh, it can even be battery-powered. So convenient.
Oh, I guess we're on the third set. Want to tell us about it? This is the bar. We
already have a kitchen, so >> Yeah, are you telling me or asking me? Uh both. There's also no sink, but don't
look too closely. This is for our medium-size items, so unboxing a PC or
monitor starts here before moving to the office. Oh, we did borrow one thing from
the kitchen set, though. Very cool idea. This desk, which is disguised as a
kitchen island, was sent over by Motion Grey and is a sit-stand desk, which
allows us to kind of unbox something small or, you know, spread out what
we're doing, and then go, "Oh, okay, but I want to be able to really manipulate
this item and lift it up a little bit." Super convenient. And I can tell we were
way smarter about it than that other one. You can actually lower the desk all
the way without breaking the side skirts. Hopefully.
What else we got going on here? Well, let me tell you. We got a lot going on here starting with the Hisense Canvas
TV. We wanted a window, you know, some movement, some life, something beautiful
here in this bar. >> We wanted another idea stolen from LTT 8
or 9 years ago. Improved. >> [laughter] >> Uh the idea is that we'll have some
window footage here that we've taken or maybe you've submitted. [music]
Don't talk to yourself. We also have these nice statues provided by Teenage
Engineering. Oh yeah. needed >> set deck. They sent over some speakers,
their mic. Oh, yeah. Cool. >> These little guys? So cute. Yeah. Please
tell me we didn't pay retail for them. Moving on. How much How much are these
worth? Hold on, I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. That's real wood. Yeah.
Uh okay, hold on. Hold on. Let me think. Let me think. Okay, so Bluetooth speaker, that's got to be worth 20
bucks. Teenage Engineering, 200. >> Actual retail price?
Oh, little too low. Otherwise, just some fun set deck. We have Doosan Doosan
kitchen clock. IKEA donuts.
Did we actually go shopping for cookware? And these aren't cheap. Yes,
they are. Yeah, they are. They are. But the piece de resistance, what ties
it all together? Whoa, whoa, those are That's glass. You got to be careful. You got to be careful. Little place.
We paid a lot for those. That is the most expensive thing on the What? Yeah. Why?
>> I said I needed it. >> What? When I got budget, Jakey gets what
Jakey wants. How much did we spend on this?
That's accounting's problem. >> [laughter] >> I know that this was a you initiative.
Yes. A Pocari Sweat mini fridge? My girlfriend made it for me.
Oh, so it's just a mini fridge with a Pocari Sweat sticker on it. Yes, and she
made the sticker. And of course, we got to have Linus on set the whole time. Tertiary Linus.
If you want any more behind the scenes on the development of the set, by the way, LMG.gg/Floatplane.
Alfred and Jordan sat down with Sammy to kind of talk through the process. According to Jordan, we missed
something. Ah, okay, that's a lot less exciting
than you made it seem, Jordan. He said there's a computer in the closet.
>> say it was exciting. Well, okay, that's fair. Is this from Scrapyard Wars?
Maybe. I think it is. This is from 2015.
All it does is put footage of Windows on the TV. It doesn't have to be fancy. Are
we talking about that picture or no? What's special about Oh, oh It's
e-ink. That took me a second. This is the InkJoy picture frame.
It sure is. That's pretty cool. I made this.
No, you didn't. He's right. Anything else we missed, Jordan? I think we're
pretty good. I can think of something we missed. What's that? I've missed having
an employee lounge. Where did it go? For now, a bunch of the pieces are in the
corner where we shoved them to make room for the set, but the rest is apparently
going to come down here where there used to be an item receiving desk, which is
just simply not here anymore. And then we're also going to tear out the old
ShortCircuit set, which Hey, we totally could have shot that intro on the set.
Like it clearly hasn't actually been torn down yet. It's totally still here.
Movie magic. Basically, it doesn't really matter what's here in the future
because the only production that an employee lounge or whatever else could
possibly interfere with is the WAN Show, which is in this corner over here, and
that only shoots once a week for 3 to 5 hours.
So, if we're being realistic, this will probably end up being a mixed-use space,
which leaves just one more thing. A big thank you to the build crew. More than
20 LMG staff worked on this in some capacity. And also, a big thank you to
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