The ULTIMATE Linus Tech Tips Studio Tour!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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4,193 words · ~20 min read
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the cm storm sf-17 uses a massive 18
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centimeter fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port usb hub
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click now to learn more so you guys have been asking me for a studio tour since
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forever ago i'm finally doing it this is
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the Linus media group studio this is behind the scenes this is where all of
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the videos we make i was going to say we're all your favorite videos except
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they're probably not your favorites but this is where all the videos we make
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are made so this is the storage rack this is where the queue of upcoming
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content kind of sits as well as stuff that we haven't or that we have already
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done so this is here this thing keeps getting opened this is the lumia i'm
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pretty sure it's taran who keeps opening it because he's all like
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book of spells like going all larp on it and i'm just like no that's not what
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it's for it's a lamp not a larp
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anyway uh this is our rubber mallet that we used
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to recently assemble all these shelves um
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this is this is where i store my personal crap that i don't have room for
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at my house because that's what being a boss is all about
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it's a racing wheel i don't think anyone's gonna complain yeah yeah exactly right so this is the regular
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unboxing set so you guys normally see it from this angle so why don't we why
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don't we do it from the other angle instead right so this is our special
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table that's actually called a vert desk we uh we told vert desk they sent us not
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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
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it for shooting this makes our lives so much easier because
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instead of adjusting a tripod or adjusting a slider which i think
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brandon's actually setting up right now you know where it's like undo this
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stupid thing and then undo this other stupid ridiculous thing
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they are stupid compared to the vert desk so now we have vert desks instead
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so we can just be like oh yeah okay we need to slightly adjust the height
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depending on the size of the product or the size of the host for example and
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boom done they hold like 300 pounds uh over here is some some more pending
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stuff so this is stuff that i'm expecting to have to deal with pretty much immediately stuff like Corsair's
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upcoming ax 1500i video and like oh yeah
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pretty stoked on this one ASUS's ws z97
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board all about mws boards this is my garbage can that i made out of a
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cardboard box uh these are our fancy lights that we've actually had for a
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long time this is the brandon shelf so
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howard's up there and then uh things like his extra cameras that he insists
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that we have just in case he needs them actually it's for like commercial shoots
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and stuff this is a blackmagic cinema camera so uh i you know it's funny i've lost
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all perspective for how much things cost i would have looked at a blackmagic
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cinema camera back when we started this whole enterprise and gone holy balls
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that's way too expensive and then now with how expensive all the other
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production equipment we have is i just kind of go okay that's like an extra
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camera here okay so put this in perspective this is our main camera rig
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so this is a sony fs700 which is about a seven and a half thousand dollar camera
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now i think this lens is another 800 or so that's some tamron thing that uh
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brandon has a hard on for he owns one himself and still insisted that i buy
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one so he could use it this is a convergent design odyssey 7q
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so this will allow us to record 4k prores or even 4k raw in the future but
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right now we're able to record 4k
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but down sampled to 1080p prores so that's the improved sharpness that
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you've seen in our videos over the last little while it's a few grand for one of
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those including the proprietary ssds that go in it so it's just all this
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stuff is like so unbelievably expensive
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that uh like you guys just have no idea what it
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takes to make like really high quality videos well i guess you do now because
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you're watching uh this is our green screen so this is where we shoot fast as
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possible it used to be on like a self-constructed white wall that i built
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in my garage but we found an actual green screen is much more effective
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these lights are our old lights so we just used them to illuminate the green
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screen they actually have these check out these like janky plastic
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colored well whatever they're in there like janky plastic color changer things
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in there i want to get new lights and i want to have them ceiling mounted so the
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idea will be that you wire them all up to one switch just kind of go
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boom and then we're ready to shoot as fast as possible because
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the amount of time that we waste dinking around with getting the lights
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positioned and then fixing it in post-production is just not worth it uh
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here's where the stormtrooper lives until i get around to dressing up the mannequin and then this is the
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networking hub which i probably shouldn't even show anyone because of how brutal it is so here's the fiber box
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here's the cable box here's like all the routers that we were using to diagnose
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something here we were going to build a pf sense machine with this but then we just we just bailed so there you go
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this is what we use for our voiceovers so i've actually done an unboxing of
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this this is the editor's keys sl300 mic and then the little vocal
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studio booth thing is absolutely fantastic
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over in the kitchen here brandon is yeah i guess you're you're seeing what the
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process is for b-roll so you know a lot of work goes into getting
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things all you know set up and shot it's funny if you come over here behind
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you can see that things aren't quite as tidy as they at first appeared to be so
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here's like saw slade and gaff tape and
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brandon's like you know panini maker
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because like whatever that's the thing normal people bring to work and then i
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keep telling people please do why are there dishes in the sink if you have
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dishes at work you clean them and you take them home but for some reason we
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end up with dishes here i don't quite understand it
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back here we've got all the stuff for our build guide that we're working on filming right here this is the cardboard
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pile there's actually a real problem around here is what to do with all of
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the cardboard that things come shipped in like we don't know how to address
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this problem because we don't exactly have like a commercial
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sized dumpster out in the back yard or anything um i think that's mostly it for
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the uh for the oh yes right the bathroom and here it is the
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most frustrating room in the entire building because i'm the only one who
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cleans it and as you can tell it's not like that often and people just do the
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most the most sort of strange things like why do
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people put toilet paper in a can that is
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literally right next to a toilet where they would have the opportunity to flush
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it instead of me having to deal with it it's not me i would have to assume
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blowing their nose well they should blow their nose and put
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it in there do you rather than flush it yes if they weren't going to the
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washroom yes isn't that terrible for the environment well
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anyway uh the point of this is dollar shave club our sponsor for this video
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going to the store fighting with someone to go and unlock the safe to pull out
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some more razors and then waiting in line or going through the self checkout
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which if you've ever gone to the one at home depot it never actually works like
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have you ever successfully made it through the self checkout at home depot i swear you scan one thing and it's like
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boop please wait for attendant the chick doesn't even wait just walks over
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immediately when you show up to help you anyway home depot self checkout aside
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the ones that you buy at the store because they don't include any of the unnecessary bs frills and gimmicks that
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those ones do like vibrating handles that have actually been demonstrated to
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not actually do anything in any way they
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once every month so that you're gonna have a fresh blade one for every week of
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the month so you don't have to choose between the options of dragging a rusty
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nail across your face like he was doing before we got some dollar shave club
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supplies way to go man or you know fighting with traffic to go
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out and get some razors when you just want to get a nice clean shave they've also got other products as well
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including dr carver's easy shave butter which goes on clear so you can actually
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see what you're doing softens up the hair just basically does what it's supposed to do and smells nice which i
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consider to be an excellent bonus and another thing that also smells nice and
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has additional functionality is one white charlies you can see where these were positioned in the bathroom right
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next to the toilet which should give you some idea what one wipe charlies are
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used for punishing employees
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actually for wiping your butt anyway let's continue with our tour and head on
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start saving your time and saving your
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money actually we missed a couple things on the stairs here that's the water
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cooling supplies for an upcoming build guide
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there's a quadro for some reason i'm actually not sure
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why that's there um there i don't know what those are
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all right so up here is the legendary okay so here's the
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stuff from last week's garage sale that i'm gonna ship out this is the executive
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bathroom that no one uses because no one here is an executive i believe in a very
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flat you know organizational
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structure uh this is the water cooling closet so
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this is the uh this is the container that we use for
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spraying naughty employee i mean this is the container we use for filling
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up reservoirs and stuff like sorry it was tempting i don't know how long that
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water's been in there um we've got a whole whack ton of radiators up here so
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many that this thing is actually flexing here's the tubing bucket so we got all
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the tubing and the crabs in that bucket then we've also got fittings a bunch of
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like really old water cooling crap from like my house
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more radiators more like random widgets and like blocks
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and pumps and stuff and then down here is all the supplies from my old chiller
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so this could be used to make a sub-zero cooler you can get a CPU down to around
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-25 or so with that but you gotta actually put it together
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and then the wan showroom so actually this oh
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that's how it's gonna be all right i guess i deserve that so this room um i
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have already set up my whole system with the one button boop and the wan showroom
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is lit just like that so easy
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also in the lan showroom is our steel series set so this is where we shoot our steel series Techquickie videos and
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then over here is the random pile of stuff that has gradually reduced in size
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i mean some of it's like collapsed like if you look back here i don't even know
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what's up with some of this stuff like there's toilet paper rolls back here probably because i switched to one wipe
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charlie's there's also like you know guns and
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stuff you know uh these are just bb guns by the way
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they're not actually they're not actually weapons um so don't worry too much about it
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uh let's see what else we got in here this is the crt that we used to play games on
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the after party on back when we had one of those and then that's another black magic
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cinema camera so that's why the WAN Show went from
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um looking like kind of poop to looking freaking pretty good and then the
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lighting was what made a big difference in terms of the consistency of the show
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because i would look at the thumbnails and i'd be like okay it looks good and
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it looks good but they're completely different types of good so
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this is our sound setup that unfortunately no one here other than
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edsel really knows how to use so this is a compressor this is a mixer and then
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the problem is that we don't have the cables to something anyway that's why
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it's always quiet but that's also why when i talk really loud it doesn't
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just peak immediately or clip or whichever one is the one for sound not
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video this is the wardrobe closet so this is where uh slenderman lives uh
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until i address him in his stormtrooper armor this is a gill's outfit from the
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funk commercials here's our ninja suits from that be quiet! commercial here's a
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ncix pc t-shirt for some reason um
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i don't know man i'm not sure what to say and then this is where most of the real
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work gets done so our team members in order of appearance are
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eds liago brandon lee
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taren van hamert and then finally someone you've never
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met before this is mr nick light so he is the one who is responsible for
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that recent fast as possible that had no ad integration on it
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this is our sales and advertising coordinator whereas
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taran does some script writing some producing some video editing and even
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some on-screen hosting brandon you guys and edsley you guys are probably mostly
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familiar with but they specialize in filming editing ed actually doesn't do
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much filming anymore i'm not even sure if he still remembers how to use a camera but he does most of our color
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sound and post-production work and all that good stuff and then uh i'm not sure
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what i do around here this is the old
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gear closet which has now because nick's desk is in the way of it has been turned
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into kind of long-term storage so boxes for things that we might need to return
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at some point if it's you know broken or whatever my monitor that i really want
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to switch back to this is that lg 21x9 monitor but i'm reviewing a monitor
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right now that's on my desk so i need to like deal with that
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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
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got my window here i share the window mind you but i share the office too but
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whatever is my computer that has no side panel as
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some people observed in a picture i took a little while ago this is a benq
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32-inch 2560 by 1440 monitor that i'm
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taking for a test drive right now this is my water bottle uh this is huh this
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is kind of funny this is the random raid card and 10 gig Ethernet or not Ethernet
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lan card that i've had on my desk i don't really know what to do with for
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a while it's like funny this is my phone stand check it out
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it's from cooler master boop
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luke thinks they're stupid but i disagree because now i can see my notifications without even without even
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glancing at my smartwatch before i glance at my smartwatch
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i can see things this i probably don't even want to show
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you guys but this is sort of the server room i guess it's also sort of a
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bathroom no one is allowed to use this bathroom so i can walk you guys through
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a little bit of how the workflow goes in here so we have our scanner and printer
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we have storage that goes in the bathtub
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this is our fireproof nas down here that i haven't actually deployed but i should
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probably do something with at some point this is our archive so this is where
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anything that's no longer being stored on the raid array in the nas goes on wd
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sorry yeah very safe following all the best practices it's like there's it do as i
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say not as i do this room no one should do anything you know my favorite part is
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like this the water's on i'm not going to turn it yeah but i
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should turn it he didn't cut the water
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both the toilet and the sink actually work right now so like if something
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bumps the faucet well you shouldn't bump that i should be the only one allowed in
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this room anyway also he thinks that is a proper way to archive drives
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i don't look at this look at this it's not proper i know it
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isn't proper the point is that's where they are no one touched them
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okay so here's our switch uh this is mostly
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gigabit but also 10 gigabit so there's a 10 gigabit link to our server that also
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runs to edsel's machine since he's the one who back when we set this up who was
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doing most of the very high bit rate content editing this is our netgear
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storage appliance that we use as an iscsi drive so that loop can install all
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of his games on a network drive whenever he's benchmarking rather than install
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them locally and have to re-image those all the time down here is the main
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server so this is running a xeon processor with some Intel board that has
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Thunderbolt we are using a consumer grade board so that we can use Thunderbolt for ingesting footage it's
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got i think it's like 10 or 11 drives in it that are running in a raid 6 right
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now so those are all three terabyte drives now that we're shooting prores
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i'm having to archive things a lot more often and it's getting kind of crazy in
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terms of our storage needs we're going to need to readdress this sometime soon whether it's with freenas or another
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solution but for the time being that's how everything runs uh we copy footage
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off of it here's those proprietary ssds i was talking to you guys about these
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things are so expensive like unbelievable so we use this
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Thunderbolt dock right here for copying um very very large files and then we
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have this one right here for copying anything that's like
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moving moving archival footage onto greens for example or just if the
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Thunderbolt dock is in use for whatever reason now let's move over into
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loops area
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so this is where most of the benchmarking happens uh there's the closet here which is
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overflow storage for things like the copious amounts of RAM hey there's your
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stick no it's there's one the the other two are in
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this system and you missed an opportunity i said there's your stick
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and you didn't you know sue me for harassment um so
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this is a recent addition luke finally got a nice rack
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for his room where most of the storage is done
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it used to be kind of all over the floor but things are much much tidier now it's
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kind of easier for everyone to work lately so this is where all the graphics
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cards or anything that he's about to be working on go uh this is for an upcoming
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case review i know we're a little late on the 230t from Corsair but we're
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finally getting around to it now so uh luke just did the build on that i gotta
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script it still and we're probably going to film that a little bit later um this
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is where the test benches go we've actually got oh you put the new leg in
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so this is funny oh it's not okay no because it has different screws the new
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legging it has different screws that's actually a problem
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anyway uh oh it doesn't matter you just they're not threaded you just i know i
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know oh well at any rate um so this is
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uh so here you should go back so that they can see the curve of this table
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like the bowing that's going on with this table so we finally got a fifth leg
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to kind of prop up the middle of it and then we want to get a thing down here
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that's actually going to be built on this piece of wood so that we can um
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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
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to do which i guess leads us to the overflow storage where we have things like city
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combs this is you're doing isn't it
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what do you know about this why do we have a shaw cable company i
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have no idea i bet you know
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nope anyway uh so like leaves for like a
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table that's here because i don't have room for it at my house the couch master
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because that's where i think most bulky stuff like this that people
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buy on an impulse and then can't figure out where to put ends up
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and then this most of these boxes are actually empty
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so there you go read into that whatever you
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will but this is where all the cases or
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the boxes for cases that we don't know
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like that we have deployed but we still want to have the boxes just in case our
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and like this mini fridge and that table that's
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hiding under a bunch of the boxes so this is where all the overflow storage
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is and i think that's pretty much it
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thank you for coming along for our little interactive tour of the Linus
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media group studio i hope you guys enjoyed it like the video if you liked
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