hi so most of you have seen kind of a behind the scenes of my studio I just almost stepped on my
dog and I have a video coming soon of my whole desk setup I'm still refining some things with
it but yeah I've shown a ton of behind the scenes of how like my cameras and lights and all this
setup works but this year I have a huge goal to make more content bigger better but not sacrifice
quality and how do you do that well you get help but see as a still relatively smaller channel uh
I can't really afford to hire another editor so I looked to what already existed in my household my
lovely wife Michelle so Michelle actually has a background in helping influencers and and
content creators and so she knows a lot of the industry but she's never deep dived into editing
and so I've been teaching her DaVinci Resolve and she's been learning on her own and and so she's
actually helped me edit a lot of my short form content uh the edit Place videos cutting down
a-roll on my main Channel videos sometimes and we want to start working together more I need to step
things up because as a gear nerd let me show you what she's working with and I'm ashamed to show
you this but by the end of the video I won't be ashamed anymore this is her desk uh normally it
doesn't have those boxes on it a base M1 MacBook Pro sitting on an empty desk kind of behind my
whole setup staring at cables and stuff that is a not good enough experience for the love of my life
and someone who is willing to spend a lot of time helping me out create more content for you guys so
thanks to today's sponsor who makes this awesome dual monitor arm I took a very small budget bought
two 4K LG monitors found a fantastic deal and we're going to create an awesome budget video
editor setup so I cleared off the desk and this is what it normally looks like when she's editing
it's literally just the laptop in the middle of the desk and it's actually plugged in through a
USB type-c port to the Blackmagic Cloud store that way she can access the project files that
I transfer from my main computer right here but here's a better look at what we're going to use
for today's setup so I think this is going to look pretty good but still pretty basic I'm actually
sourcing most of this from what I already own at the core of everything again is the dual monitor
desk Mount which I think is going to look really nice and then I want to make sure we had matching
monitors just so like whatever color accuracy they were on sale for like 300 bucks each and
for that price I couldn't find anything else that beat it for audio I actually got two homepod minis
for the holidays and I wanted to try them out as computer speakers I know they are not going
to be the most professional sounding things out there but I think they're definitely going to be
the internal speakers and again I'm just trying to Source what I already have you guys remember
the Anker 563 which I actually just did a video on a number of weeks ago this is going to give us the
two full HDMI ports that we'll need for the dual monitors it's going to add gigabit that we can
hook up to the Cloud store more USB type A type c and a whole bunch of ports so we can have a lot
more interfaces connected to the computer since this is just the base 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro with
two USB type-c ports and finally I actually just found a really nice mechanical keyboard I don't
know if we're going to end up using this this will come down to her personal preference but
it's there we have the connections if we need it and so yeah let's get to building foreign
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so far the install has been stupid easy if I wouldn't have to like move the camera
around and stuff this would have taken me five minutes so far obviously we still have to get
the actual monitors mounted and balanced and everything feels incredibly sturdy
all right so we got it mounted to the desk that thing's not going anywhere now time to
actually undo the straps for the arms and start getting the monitors on it [Music]
I Now understand this label that much more because as soon as I cut those the arm just
like shot up these things have quite the amount of tension to them but they can hold
up to a I think like 14 14 and a half pound monitor so that's pretty impressive foreign
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first monitor is done and on so in the back of the arm here there's actually an allen key where you
can adjust the tension and balance but to be honest this seems pretty good to go right off
the bat when I change it to a position it stays there I really thought I was going to need help
mounting this but it was super easy to do by myself so now let's throw on the second monitor
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ERS is already looking way better than it was before now time to Cable it up and uh start
hooking up the other peripherals now these arms actually do have a very nice system for cable
management you essentially just undo a screw right here which I'm about to do and then you pinch on
each side and that will take this arm off allowing us to feed the cables through the arms making
everything look super clean the monitors are all hooked up we have the computer the keyboard
I grabbed an old MX Master Gen 2 or whichever the previous generation is we have the homepod
mini speaker hooked up and the Hub to connect it all the Anker 563 right here so now is the most
important piece green light we got keyboard colors we have one display oh no I think I've made a
colossal oversight this is the base M1 MacBook Pro that only supports One external display doesn't it
simultaneously supports One external display up to 6K resolution fear not I believe I've heard of
this issue in the past and I believe there are some display drivers that we could potentially
install to kind of bypass it let's see if that works 12 seconds later that was way easier than
I thought it was going to be literally search display link manager uh I downloaded it you
basically give it the permissions to whatever it needs for your graphics and displays and then
within two minutes both monitors are working we go under displays you can see that it recognizes
both individual displays here alrighty so it's actually been a couple days uh because we all
got sick which is fun but the desk is all set up and ready we've got a project open so she
can start getting to work I think it's time to go surprise Michelle to see how she likes her
new desk setup so you know how I always tell you you need more than your little laptop to edit um
oh my God a little more than just a little laptop I got two screens oh of course what
am I gonna do with two screens oh I get a whole keyboard so the only downside
uh that I've learned with the audio of this is go ahead press spacebar
press it again but I hope it goes without saying if anyone is watching using the homepod minis
there is a Bluetooth lag from when it starts and stops so we'll definitely have to switch to an
actual speaker uh that plugs into the computer so even though there's still a fair amount of uh
refining to do with the desk setup with speakers and stuff as soon as you throw on airpods or
something it's perfectly fine again I want to give a huge shout out to juanyo for sponsoring
today's video I'm a sucker for good engineering and there's so many monitor arms that like are too
loose or too stiff or like they don't stay exactly where you want to put it and the only reason I'm
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times they swivel 360 rotate vertically you've got great movement in all directions and the fact that
installation seriously took five to ten minutes and that was like wait with filming and yeah if
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code down there and hopefully this is the start of a lot more content uh coming out that will
be better content so that's the goal thanks so much for watching guys see you in the next video