so for a long time when i thought about desk setups i always try to make it something cool how
many monitors can i have basically what's going to look the most impressive what this led to was
mass inefficiencies and overall just not an experience in a workstation that i really
enjoyed since becoming a parent and having to be nothing but efficient and productive
in short amount of time this is my 2020 desk setup for video editing and everything else
now first let's start with what i'm sitting in this is the herman miller ariane
technically this is the previous generation and i got it for an insane deal literally a 1300
chair for around 200 bucks and although it may not be as stylish as the much more expensive embody or
even my previous uh gaming chair which i loved the look of for someone who can be sitting in a single
chair for hours and hours every day editing videos and doing various tasks having something that has
good lumbar support and fully adjustable pretty much everything is a must this chair is definitely
the most comfortable chair i've ever sat in now the desk itself is an electronic sit stand
desk however i needed something that was really wide and really big now to get the dimensions that
i have of a 76 inch long desk if you bought from a normal uh stand desk company would cost you a lot
of money so what i did is actually went to mono price and got the electric sit stand desk bottom
portion on there for around 200 bucks and then the actual top is from ikea so this is actually just
a 76 inch countertop since it is a countertop it also holds up very well for durability
although it is ikea it's not one of those cheap wood desktops that scratches really easily
now i used to keep everything on the actual desk including the very heavy mac pro my drobo
again multiple monitors and here i tried to minimize things a little bit more and
so i'm actually storing the majority of the heavy equipment on a separate stand now what this means
is i'm actually running all of the cables from my monitors speakers and everything else on the desk
off to the side to the mac pro and different power outlets i have hidden now to be honest while i
love super clean cable management i've never actually really taken the time in the past to
do it but since having a toddler running around the first time he went under my desk and started
pulling at cords i knew it was time for a change and so i actually really tried here with some just
basic cable management straps it still could be better and what's funny is i actually reached out
to a couple other youtubers who are somewhat kings of cable management themselves and i asked them to
rate on a 1 to 10 scale my cable management for this sit-stand desk let's actually get into the
meat of this year and start talking about what is all in this setup so starting all the way to the
left here we have the nomad base station apple watch edition now you'll see a bunch of nomad
products over here i absolutely love them i love the texture the feel the leather that they use and
of course the pretty much matte black everything style going on here next up is actually two cables
that i keep kind of sticking out underneath the mac pro legs these are two thunderbolt 3 cables
that i use to either charge my ipad as well as plug in my samsung t5 drives from my different
blackmagic cameras and then of course we have the 2019 mac pro now i've already done a couple videos
on this so i don't want to dive too deep into it but for those who are curious this is essentially
just the eight core base model with the 8 gig gpu 580 x and then i added the second gpu the 5700 x
which added an additional 16 gigs of video ram i added 128 gigs of ddr4 ram to the additional
32 giving me 160 gigs of ram and just recently i did add a 2 terabyte nvme ssd which i now use
to edit current projects on before editing off my drobo this finally allows me to play back
6k b raw files in q0 with pretty much no problems now moving on to the actual desk here we have the
keypad where you can simply of course change the height of the desk you can create three different
presets so i have one as my sit two is my stand and three is kind of just max all the way up
and of course your up and down arrows just to make fine adjustments if you wanted to all the way kind
of in the shadows of the back corner is the apple homepod while siri and the homepod in general kind
of sucks in terms of a assistant still it's a fantastic speaker and since my studio space here
is technically in our living room we use it all the time to dance with our kids and it's nice just
for general weather updates next up we have my mic which i'm testing out the new sure mv7 which is
what you're listening to right now it is currently on the throne max mic stand which i really like
this mic stand it looks a lot more premium than some of the cheaper options but it's also not as
expensive as the more well just expensive options and of course all these products on the desk setup
will be linked in the description below for you to check out this mic i actually have set up
in a really cool way my favorite feature besides just the ultimate sound quality of it is the fact
that you can dual output both xlr which i have currently running into my black magic pocket 4k
which we'll get into in a second as well as it has a usb connection which allows me to record
straight into the computer the mic has a ton of cool features like a touch sensitive top with led
indicators to change mic levels and change headphone volume but i'm gonna have a whole
dedicated review on this mic so stay tuned and get subscribed for that next up we have my speakers
these are the fluance ai60s they're fine i'm not the biggest audiophile so i can't speak like an
expert on the sound quality i've obviously used them to edit all of my videos they're bluetooth as
well as plugged in and since i always use the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack to plug into my computer
it is kind of annoying if you have the volume really high and actually stop playing anything
and just leave them idle they kind of have a high-pitched ringing noise to them personally
i would turn to people like jonathan morrison from tld today for better speaker recommendations that
being said they sound good and i like the look of them on the desk so it fits next up we have
my monitor now this is something i've gone back and forth on many a time i have had this monitor
now for about six or seven years it is the lg 31mu 97b this thing boasts a 32 inch 17x9 4096 by 2160
4k display it has 10 bit color covers 99.5 of the adobe rgb color gamut and supports dcp p3 digital
cinema color standards and as someone who is a intermediate colorist having something that is
10 bit and supports most of the wider color spaces is incredibly important now underneath my monitor
i have my wallet as well as my airpod pros nicely tucked inside a nomad case in terms of keyboards
i actually really like the chiclet keys on the latest uh full apple keyboards this one is the
one that came with the mac pro i did a whole video on this deluxe keyboard which i use for
shortcuts and editing and davinci resolve as well as it has a little toggle wheel which i can use to
go around the timeline this soon will be replaced with the new black magic speed editor which was
just recently announced all the way Hey to the left i just have the apple trackpad 2. this i
pretty much solely use for gesture based commands and for my mouse i'm actually still using the
first generation logitech mx master i've thought about upgrading over the years but honestly i have
no real complaints it's the most ergonomical mouse i've ever held in my hands and all the buttons on
it are perfect shortcuts for video editors now if you remember from my last setup video i actually
had a smaller monitor in front of my main monitor that i used to keep finder windows and different
color scopes while editing and again i wanted to get rid of the clutter the mess and the cables and
so now that i have the newer mac pro i'm running big sur now i just use the sidecar feature with
my 12.9 inch ipad pro so i just bring that up and now i can just simply extend my desktop onto that
use it to do finder windows use it to hold my scopes in davinci resolve or sort through a bunch
of different footage when i'm not editing audio on videos and i'm doing color correction or media
management i usually have some sort of youtube video popping up here you can see canoopsy plane
awesome creator doing his own desk setup video you should check that out after this one and now we've
gone all the way to the right of the desk and we're ending on what i think is the coolest and
kind of main centerpiece of this new setup as i said before i have a toddler constantly
running around pulling at cables light stands and tripping over things and so i wanted something
that was clean and versatile and i could just raise the desk and get out of the way so here
i'm using two newer light stands that clamp to your desk they're rated to hold up about 10 pounds
and here you can see me fully using a black magic pocket 4k with a condor blue half cage it
completely holds up my iris cine lenses a monitor and then i have a v-mount battery mounted to the
bottom of the base just to save some weight from being all on that ball head at the top
this entire setup would not be possible if i could not complete it with a good light that was small
powerful and looked good and so huge shout out to godox for sending me out their new ml60 light this
thing is a beast in a small package i mean if you look at the actual light itself in my hand here
it's not much bigger than a soda can but it packs the same power that their sl 60 watt that everyone
knows and loves from godox in a much smaller package you can run up to 50 percent of the
light without any fan so it's totally silent and then even when kicking on the fan to go up to 100
to full power honestly it's still dead silent and you can't pick it up it goes all the way from zero
to a hundred percent it's got eight effects built into it like lightning cameras and tv flickering
you can run it off an ac adapter which it comes with or two np f970 batteries making this entire
setup extremely portable i also recommend picking up the godox 80s60s softbox that's what i'm using
it comes with a grid it looks absolutely beautiful and it comes in such a small package but again
is a perfect size as you can see for this desk setup it's got great reliable color rendering cri
of 96 plus and tlci of 97 plus so not only does it work for a desk setup like this but also if you're
a run and gun and you just need a really nice soft powerful battery powered light this thing
is the perfect package again all this stuff will be linked in the description below if you want
to pick one up for yourselves and that pretty much does it for the desk setup i hope you guys enjoyed
this video let me know down in the comments below what you think of my entire setup feel free
to leave some critiques whether it's for cable management or different mounting options i would
love to hear your feedback thanks so much for watching guys and i'll see you in the next video