New Editing Den Tour - So much swag & so many decorations!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,604 words · ~13 min read
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so if you've been following the exploits of Linus Media Group for any extended
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period of time there's a good chance you've come across this tour of our
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previous headquarters as well as this series of videos chronicling our move
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into a larger more modern office but
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while we did make a video showing our editors upgrading their workstations for
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the new editing Den we didn't aside from thanking NVIDIA for sending us Titan X's
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for the new machines get into the specifics of all the other hardware and
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everything that goes around them and we've received a lot of requests to take
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a deeper dive into the hardware that our editors use to do their daily work so
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without further ado here we go
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Corsair's RMI series power supplies feature premium components for great
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performance with very low noise check out the link in the video description to
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learn more okay visitors come with me what we have to
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collect all of your peripherals yeah I call an MX master nope
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can you guys just calm down about the MX
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Masters okay so everybody gets a Silverstone
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headphone stand
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Silverstone headphone stand yay
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Silverstone headphone stands for all yay
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everybody gets a new keyboard 910 for
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you makeup stack because I'm handing you
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more stuff before we leave here 9 10 for you Dennis I don't know not a nine test
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you've picked a g710 yes oh I actually did two seven oh you have yours everyone
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has a keyboard rock on okay mice the only fair and
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Equitable way the NX Masters okay so Ebbs out of the
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running you want simple Hyperion or the
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uh
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um uh whose remains Brandon
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oh okay well then you get an MX master
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BS everyone else is out of the running you guys have already got your mouse
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pads headphones uh who picks the momentums
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no tearing them I picked the backless
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although I like these ones oh look who didn't pick them you picked HCA DJs you
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bet so you legitimately get one of those
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so these are open back uh but badass
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um who will take those Taryn once
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editing room is so loud but I can hear
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all of you guys talking all the time anymore unless you had said you liked
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these right no you don't like it you want me yeah yeah okay I know okay I
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still have an hd6 mix okay I'll try it
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yeah no done deal all right next up everybody gets a siren Pro you know
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really so you mean that thing that broke my monitor well you bro you broke your
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monitor it's not the sirens fault Burkle
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I think you're out of here okay cool I'm gonna go sell all this stuff
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are we done and I think you're done yep you're ready okay I'm gonna put her on
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out here is this our USB audio yep
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meet me around the other side
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one of these we are getting all the Stacks I already have stacks magni
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and Modi twos well don't go away yet okay magni and Modi 2's for all uh okay
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right and everyone okay back around to the other side
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I have everything in the world okay is that it yeah you guys have done
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it yeah Christmas Is Here
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oh this is one forgetful Santa first of all
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here's your desk organizer uh second of all
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I called not that one okay I won display
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Pro colorimeters for all you can calibrate your monitors so enjoy your
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calorimeters everyone
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ready to check everyone yeah already this is
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so much value in all these Christmas presents
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this is like the best Christmas ever best it's not even Christmas Even better
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than that Christmas workouts
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worth it
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HD you on 650s sit on my lap a little
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longer Ed
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foreign so we're putting up this wall decal
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that's great it's only slightly less crooked than Dennis's Iron Man face
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mine's cooler we may have gone over budget yeah it's not the 90s what do you
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need a calendar for so
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fractal Josh got this done did you ask Kimberly Schultz if you could do an
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unauthorized print I did not wow okay so
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my order came in from uh dftbs
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um I see Dennis has this weirdo it is
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actually pretty cool but Linus said no desk ornaments okay all the stuff I
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bought is all useless
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no it's not literally no one has
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listened to anything I said about this and your desk is a mess
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if you check out this photograph
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because honestly every time I do makes
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me laugh someone someone else missed the memo about not having
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what else is that wall going to be creative I got the most things for my
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money I think actually you did too yeah
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so the first big upgrade from Need for seat USA as well as updesk.com is in the
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furniture department so everyone got office Comfort or Dominator chairs you
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can see that everyone's equipped with if they were listening the orange and black
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versions of the aforementioned chairs but some people went and ordered black
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ones anyway it was supposed to all be orange and black for LTT and equipped
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with a height adjustable desk so these are good for a couple of reasons number
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one is that they allow you to change to a standing height throughout the day if
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you just want to move around and get more comfortable you can see we've also
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got these mats from Costco so that your your heels and the balls of your feet
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don't get fatigued from standing and then the other thing that they do is
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they allow you to sit at a height that's most comfortable for you so you can see
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that Dennis and Edsel both prefer very
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different heights even for their seating position so the other cool thing is that
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you can actually program different heights so you just hold it down and as
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long long as there's no obstacles under the desk yeah we're good then boom this
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is birkel's sitting height which is obviously not very comfortable for me
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but that's the whole point and everyone being a special case I guess leads us
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pretty well into taryn's workstation where the first thing you'll notice is you remove the armrest from his chair I
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also like to scoot up as close to my desk as possible so that I can rest my
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arms on it rather than my ARM rest and the second thing you'll probably notice
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is that he has three monitors unlike everyone else in the company who was
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just fine with two 31 inch 4K monitors
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so LG kindly provided one extra monitor
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for Taran to put scripts or whatever else on but most people are equipped
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with two 31 mu-97 monitors these are
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true 4K monitors so they're 4096 by 2160
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not Ultra HD they feature 10-bit panels
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they've got height adjust the actually the full range of ergonomic adjustments
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that we need and what's really cool about them is they actually have support
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for not only srgb color space which frankly is all we're using for
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publishing to the web anyway but also 99.5 coverage of adobe RGB and even
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support for DCI so if we were ever to you know do something where it's like
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yeah we need to do this as if it's going to be shown in a movie theater then we
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would actually have the capability to do that neat little accessory that goes
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with it is actually these little x-rite i1 display Pros so these allow us to
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calibrate the monitors as well as monitor ambient light so that they can
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adapt to different ambient light in the room although it doesn't really change
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much so that you're always getting the best color accuracy possible
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foreign next up we've got our
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peripherals so everyone was using just a mishmash of random stuff back at the old
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office Logitech stepped up and offered to provide us with whatever keyboards we
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wanted so you'll find a healthy mix of g710 pluses for those who prefer the
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Cherry MX experience and Orion spark G9
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TENS for those who prefer the Roamer G experience and mice now a lot of people
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wanted MX Masters Brandon's the only one who got one of those unfortunately but
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the good news is that logitech's gaming mice whether it's the g402 or the g502
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which is what most of the others opted for offer great tracking and of course
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very good performance and ergonomics as well they're just not wireless although
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Brandon doesn't seem to be using the wireless functionality of the MX Master
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anyway for the rest of the peripherals we actually love these desk mats from
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steelseries these are great because it means you can have as much or as little
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actual mouse pad as you want you can also throw them in the washing machine
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something this one probably needs if you ever need to clean them and these were a
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nice addition as well so in the past no one really had microphones at their
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desks but Razer sent us siren Elites for everyone's workstations and we use them
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for all kinds of stuff whether it's recording those clever voiceovers at the
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end of next time on scrapyard Wars or even creating sound effects at our desk
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something that happens more often than you'd probably think
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thank you that's too much finally everyone got
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their audio upgraded as well most people were using some mix of different gaming
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headsets that we had left over from reviews now everyone's using something
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from Sennheiser whether it's an hd6 mix hd8 DJ or even some people opted for
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their audiophile series HD 600s or HD
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650s and of course for some of those headphones we had to go ahead and
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upgrade our audio source so audio
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yes that is actually the name of the company if you haven't heard of them before sent us stack twos so magni
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2 and Modi 2 DAC and amps for every one
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of our editors to power their new headphones
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which leads us to the towers now we didn't change that much we did add those
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aforementioned Titan X graphics cards but we're still using the same 4960x
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extreme Edition 6 cores uh 32 gigs of
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Kingston memory unless you're Ed he's got a 12 core Xeon and 64 gigs of hyperx
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memory but you know whatever he's just a boss apparently a couple people have
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quadros for doing color work uh everyone's got Kingston KC series ssds
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Cooler Master v750 power supplies no the only things we really changed were the
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coolers where we went with their new gemin 2 coolers as well as the cases so
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we switched over to silencio series cases because what we discovered is that
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while the intention with whole room water cooling was actually to overclock
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the workstations um now that we don't render on the
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workstations anyway quiet and consistent long-term reliable
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operation is more of a focus so we went back to air cooling which has fewer
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points of failure and we went with cases that had noise dampening material built
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into the inside so that the office environment except when people are
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talking or filming in it is really really quiet
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which leads us to our last demo if I
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could get the camera focusing its attention on Brandon's system
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Boop what's all this then ah yes General
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Electric kitted us out with 2 000 volt
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amp UPS units for every single workstation meaning that even in the
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event of a power outage not only our server room but also the individual
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workstations of our editors are protected and will continue to run on
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battery power for quite some time like in excess of 20 minutes giving us time
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to save our work correctly you know even if Premiere is being a bit of a butt
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head or whatever else back up all the data to where it needs to go and shut
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down the systems correctly a very very
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important thing to be able to do so that's pretty much it while I think we
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can all agree that uh my team and I
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struggled during the move and shortly after the move to maintain our usual
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standard of quality with the content I
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really feel like we've finally found our stride and the content that you guys are
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looking at now reflects not only the outer space that we have to work in but
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also the better equipment that we have in order to create our videos
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so all that's left now is to thank our sponsor Dollar Shave Club who actually
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this it was not planned but incidentally
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was the sponsor of our last office tour
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back when we were at the old place the one I referred to at the beginning so if you're not sure what Dollar Shave Club
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is guys it's the club where you join for well not dollar but a
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few dollars just a few dollars a month where you can shave your face prepare
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your face for shaving put stuff on your face that smells nice after you're done
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shaving and wipe your butt yes they have supplies for all of those things it's
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available in Canada the US and Australia
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and basically it's for people who want to look like they go out of their house
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without actually going to the store finding someone to open up the stupid
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unfathomably why does this exist cage that store I mean I know why they exist
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it's because people steal them but people wouldn't steal the razor blades
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and cartridges if they weren't so freaking expensive so anyway Dollar
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Shave Club solves all those problems by making it easier to get them and cheaper
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they just show up at your door you shave you look nice you wipe your butt you
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smell nice on your butt I mean if that's a factor for you and
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yeah so visit dollarshaveclub.com Linus Linked In the video description to join
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the club so that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching if you liked this video hit the
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