Hello right, come with me. As you may know I've been moving house recently
it's been hard work it's affected the channel and I was ill this week so
there's no video last week....it's just been a bit difficult but now, but now it's all
coming together and the new office is set up I've got a few new bits to show
you as well so let's get the camera set up on the tripod and we'll see how
things look right let's go.
How's that looking? Is it okay?
I can't decide if I need the blind up or the blind down. Blind up..... Blind down I
think I'm gonna blind up today it's a nice sunny day so I can also adjust the
strip lights behind me to a different color. Got red there, nice little blue hue, green
Philips hue system pretty cool.
Right I think we're ready so let's go!!
A really important part of a nice photo and video editing setup is to have a
nice space to do it in and I'm not really talking about size or anything
like that but just a place where you can go you can concentrate and get your work
done I've had it where it's just been a
computer in the corner of a room at the last place I had a full-blown home
studio now that I'm here I've got this office which is a bit smaller but the
kids needed a bit of extra space so it's a compromise that I've made but it's
still a nice space, it's peaceful and it just allows me to get on with my work
and really be creative and productive so that's the first thing I'm also got this
really quite nice new desk that I've invested in just to really enhance that
and get everything I need into the setup as I've mentioned a few times before on
top of all of this I'm doing I was also running a part-time job just
to keep a little bit of security for the family and things but about three weeks
ago I quit that job and I'm now full-time at
this what-whatever this is photographer filmmaker youtuber not quite sure I'm
gonna be doing a lot of different things on and off
channel moving forward but they are all going to include photo and video
creation and therefore editing so I wanted to get the setup just right and
I've invested a bit of money in to doing that and the first thing is this
brand-new iMac Pro it's an absolute beast of a machine
it's the iMac Pro with 10 cores and it's just going to be the center of
everything I do it's gonna be the workhorse it's gonna be the powerhouse and
it's just gonna drive everything I'm doing moving forward it's also frighteningly
expensive but I just think it's gonna be the right thing to do it's gonna make me
productive I don't need to worry about Lightroom and Premiere Pro slowing down
like it used to on my laptop and to be fair I recently sold my old iMac from
2009 for 500 pounds after nine years of using that machine if the economy of
this one proves to be anything like that then I will definitely get my money's
worth and it will be worthwhile..... it will definitely be a worthwhile investment
I then also have the second monitor hooked up
that is the viewsonic VP2785 4K it's a monitor that's being created
specially for photographers it has 99% coverage of the Adobe RGB color space
and it also comes from the factory calibrated I'm going to now be using this as my
main monitor for editing photos and it also now something I didn't realize you
do is it's going to act as the main window for my video editing to see what is
actually going on in the main timeline so it's really nice you can see how that
works there and it's just gonna again just make me bit more productive and
just make things a bit more easy and seamless the iMac itself has one
terabyte of built-in storage that's on an SSD it's very very fast but obviously
one terabyte is not really going to be big enough for storing all my photos and
video files so for that which I mentioned in the week I've got the Drobo
5d 3 that connects via Thunderbolt 3 I think it is and it's fast it's big it's
got 18 terabytes of storage so that will keep me going at least for the next
couple of years and I can add in extra hard drives as
that storage requirement comes up in the future next thing since my livelihood
now depends completely on this setup I have invested in a battery backup system
with the move I had a couple of times when the power tripped out and the
computer and the Drobo died and when I turned it back on on one occasion the
Drobo just wasn't working thankfully I managed to get it going
again but having that fail and losing files temporarily and having to restore
things from backups takes time I don't want that so I've now invested in this
battery backup system if the power now dies
everything's plugged in to that and it will keep everything going for about an
hour or so until the power comes back on and I can get everything saved and shut
down the computer safely so I don't risk losing any files if I'm out when that
happens the Mac has a built-in management system that will shut
everything down as well so it's a really nice thing to have and it's just gonna
keep me going and keep everything safe so I don't lose out when things go wrong
next up we have the printer here this is the canon pro 10s it's a really nice
printer I've had it for a little while now all the prints that I sell are
printed using that machine I'm going to be making a video about printing coming
up pretty soon so we'll talk about that a bit more then. So as you know as you're
sitting down you're editing videos you're editing photos it takes time and
it can get tiring sitting at the screen so you need a break from the screen
every now and again and for that I've got a little bit of entertainment I have
the guitar
I also have this external sound box that's connected to the computer that
lets me plug in speakers and the all-important headphones for those late
night editing sessions I can still listen to music and edit videos without
disturbing the family. Post-processing wise on the computer I'm using Adobe
Lightroom for my photo editing I very rarely go into Photoshop these days now
and again maybe and then for the video I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro. I really
love the Adobe system it keeps everything seamless across all your
devices and just keeps productivity and creativity right at the front and just
keeps everything flowing really really nicely if you haven't got a dhobi
Lightroom and Photoshop and things or you have not tried it before I'll put a
link down below for you to get a free trial and I'll put links to all the gear
that I've got down in the description below so you can check it out at your
leisure as well please do leave a comment down
below and I really want to know is there something that could enhance my photo
and video editing that have missed that you use I'd really love to hear from you
also please subscribe to the channel if you liked the video and I'll be out and
about again very soon doing some landscape photography anyway I hope
you've enjoyed this one I'll see you on another video very very soon
I'm Adam this is first man photography, for the first time coming at you from the new
office bit of a cough still
Out!!