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- A little bit of a busy day today,
gotta tell you guys somethin'
I got rid, I sold, I traded in,
it's gone, the ATV.
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The quad is no more, ladies and gentleman.
It's a sad day,
just loading up the rest of the accessories,
headed down to the dealership.
The happy news, the good news is that
I swapped it out for a Jet Ski.
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I mean, I live five minutes from the water,
it just makes way more sense.
I'm gonna go pick that up, drop off the plow,
and all the other things I have for it.
And yeah, we got a few things to talk about today.
So let's get started, and just launch this vlog.
I think this is episode number six or seven?
We're just moving right along, just having a great time.
Ah, I love summer.
(grunting)
I will ride you again.
Little bit.
Little bit this way.
I really miss riding that.
I don't miss negative 30 degree Celsius though.
Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about
finding your own voice.
As many of you know, I love making videos.
And with making videos comes watching videos too,
I love watching videos.
I love watching what you guys make.
I love watching what my friends make.
And sometimes I just binge the (whip snapping) out
of YouTube and find myself, like I'm sure all of us have,
down that YouTube rabbit hole.
And four hours later you've seen
that panda sneeze a hundred times.
(high-pitched fake sneezes)
(whistling)
Come on.
(grunts)
But with watching all of these YouTube videos,
and browsing the platform, I'm bound to see
a bunch of videos made by other people
that refer to finding your own voice.
Or copying other creators.
Specifically I've seen so many videos that say
I am not Peter McKinnon, or I am not Casey Neistat,
or Peter McKinnon copy or,
I've seen a lot of that kind of thing.
I've even talked to people over email.
I've seen some great videos.
Today I kinda wanted to address a little bit about
copying other creators vs being inspired by other creators.
And kinda my thoughts on some of the vidders I've seen
about me on YouTube, with regards to this topic.
That was very formal, the way I said that.
It was very like, it was very official.
See the trick with these straps for your truck
is keeping them nice and bundled.
Normally, I keep them like this so when you take them out
you can use them fast, put 'em away.
The last few weeks have been a little out of control,
now look what I'm dealing with.
Look at this.
Look at this mess.
How did I let it get so bad?
Ugh!
Alright, I'm gonna time-lapse untangling these
cause it's gonna take me like 45 minutes.
(laughs)
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I want to let you in on a little time-lapse secret.
If you're gonna do it like the lazy way, the fast way,
when you just want to get a time-lapse done.
Set the camera up, hit record.
Let it go for whatever you're doing,
and then when you get in post you speed it up.
So it's (makes speed noise).
It's fast, that's what I call like the lazy way.
But sometimes it's just the best way.
The key, so that you don't get that time-lapse
hunting in and out for focus because you may be
going out of frame, and the camera's trying to refocus
is: touch the screen, touch the shutter button, whatever.
Get your focus, and then flip off auto-focus to manual.
So that it doesn't move.
That way you're not going to get any of that
eh-eh-eh-eh-eh
that push in, push out.
It's not gonna happen.
It's gonna be a nice clean time-lapse.
A little trick for you today.
Try that out, it'll make you way less frustrated
when you're editing in post, and you're thinking:
Why is it doing that?
(laughs)
Okay.
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Alright.
That's good.
(grunting)
Forget it.
Okay.
You know what really irritates me about YouTube sometimes?
Things that happen,
Not even irritates me, but just like it makes me sad.
It makes me sad.
Imagine I just never told you?
I just shut the door and the vlog ended?
Bye!
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It makes me really sad when I see someone
that has made an edit or put a lot of work into a video,
they've worked very very hard on it.
They post it online for everyone to see.
They put themselves out there.
And I see some comments saying something like,
Peter McKinnon much?
Or hey that looks exactly like Peter McKinnon,
or you ripped off Peter McKinnon.
That's the Peter McKinnon transition,
that's the Peter McKinnon B-roll.
And where I think that's in one part cool,
because it's amazing to see the influence
that I've had doing what I love.
And it's connected with so many people,
and that's inspired them to create content
and put it on YouTube.
That to me, I've said this to all my friends,
I've never had a more fulfilling job.
But what I don't like is when I see other people
putting down those creators
because they're using techniques that I taught.
Alright so that's what I want to talk about today,
that is today's topic.
It's very important to me.
I need to get going cause I don't want
these guys to be mad at me.
But, welcome to episode
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(curiosity music)
(sighs deeply)
I think I just broke his desk.
Yup.
I just broke Matty's desk.
(curiosity music)
(shoots Nerf gun)
When did Nerf guns get awesome?
(shoots Nerf gun)
Oh hell yeah.
Whoa!
(shoots Nerf gun around living room)
(machine gun sounds)
(fire alarm beeps)
(chewing)
Matty's been gone for like 15 days.
I miss him.
It's lonely here, you know.
It's just me.
Myself.
His pistachios.
It's his camera.
- What are you doing?
(laughs nervously)
- I didn't
I didn't know you were coming back!
You've been gone for so long,
I was just telling everyone how much I missed you!
There's a new noodle shop that just opened down,
I was gonna go eat, and I was gonna go by myself.
But then, now that you're back, do you wanna,
Do you wanna go get noodles?
- Of course.
- Let's B-roll some noodles!
Yes!
What are the odds?
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That was,
You know when you eat like, that was a lot.
It was good, it was delicious, but I,
Productivity completely out the window now.
- I feel so full, man.
- [Peter] That's a lot of food, wasn't it?
- I don't think I can work anymore.
I feel like just going home.
Or one wheeling.
- I could do that.
See there's a very distinct difference
between copying someone verbatim.
Just doing exactly what they do,
oh that's cool, I'll do that to a T.
And then there's a very big difference in doing that
and being inspired by somebody.
It's totally fine to see someone, to see a creator,
to see an artist be inspired by that.
Do the same thing, but have your own twist to it.
Like back in the old American Idol days,
you'd see like a singer come onstage,
and they'd sing a song, and one of the judges would be like,
That was cool, but like you just did exactly the same thing
as the artist who made that song originally.
Like what do you bring to the table?
Cool, well take that song, sing it by all means.
But how are you gonna make it yours?
It's fine to be inspired.
I'm inspired by Edgar Wright, and you guys may have
noticed that when you see some of those drone war scenes.
When I'm bringing my drone out of the backpack.
Like, here's one from the desert.
(drone beeping)
Here's one from the ice hotel.
(snaps)
(drone beeping)
That is a very Edgar Wright style.
And if you want to see a comparison,
here is a clip from one of his movies
where that exact same thing is happening.
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Now I'm not shooting my entire sequence like that,
all my comedy like that, my color and everything
exactly verbatim but I'm taking what I like from his style,
adapting it into my vlogs
and my personality to make it work for me.
And the same thing goes with other creators on YouTube,
Which leads to my next point.
Which is one of the things that I think
a lot of people struggle with,
a lot of creators get flack
if they do anything remotely similar to anyone else.
And it's funny because Casey and I are friends,
and if I write a boost-it board,
I get a ton of Casey Neistat comments.
And this is where the whole vlog kinda rolls together,
where at the beginning I mentioned, of this episode,
that I see a lot of videos of:
Peter McKinnon copy, or I am not Peter McKinnon.
And I see other people giving other creators flack
because they maybe adapted one of my film making styles,
or techniques or tips from a tutorial.
And they use that in one of their videos.
You see, I give you this knowledge, I teach these things.
I was taught at some point,
or I figured some of this stuff out.
But I'm teaching you so you can use these in your videos.
So don't feel bad.
Don't let someone tell you like:
Aw, that's way too Peter McKinnon!
That's a Peter McKinnon transition.
No, that's just a transition,
Peter McKinnon just taught the tutorial.
Cause I want you to learn it.
If I didn't want you to do any of the exact things
I was doing, I wouldn't teach them.
But, I've learned something not too long ago.
That, if you want to be successful and happy,
I learned that like, it's sharing.
Sharing and being nice is just the way
to both of those things.
The second I started providing value,
I became more successful.
The second I decided to stop keeping everything for myself,
and making everything about me,
and being greedy with my own techniques
and work-flows and process.
The second I decide to share that so everyone could benefit
from the stuff that I've worked hard over the past 15 years
shooting, trying to figure out.
That's when things started to explode for me.
So that's kinda my whole mentality.
What benefits you benefits me,
but mostly I just share knowledge.
So if you're using some of the knowledge that I shared,
good for you.
That's good, keep it up.
Don't make your vlogs exactly like mine,
wearing a backwards hat, using the techno music,
doing the coffee, doing all of these little things
exactly the same way, in the same,
you know, chronological order.
With the same type of coffee, the same exact track,
the same exact clothing, all of that stuff.
Like that might be a little too far.
But I didn't invent coffee, if you put coffee in your video,
that's totally fine.
Like I have no rights to that,
I don't own that by any means.
I've just,
I love it!
And I do it all the time,
so now it's become kinda synonymous with me.
Just like Casey doesn't own wearing sunglasses inside,
but it's become synonymous with his brand.
So now when other people do it,
that's immediately what they think of.
And that's cool, that's powerful, what that's created.
That is awesome, that's the goal.
But, take,
Take from different sources that inspire you,
roll it in to you.
Now what makes you unique,
using these little things that have inspired you,
and go create a movie that's entirely you.
So that the next person can be inspired from what you made.
I'm pretty sure that made sense.
It's a little bit like a,
It's a little bit like,
There was a lot there.
I apologize.
No, I don't apologize.
You're welcome.
I hope that helped you.
Alright, I gotta get going.
It was raining all day today.
I was about to leave and then it just started,
just monsoon,
(explosion sound)
like Jumanji-style rain.
So I waited it out, now it's nice.
The wife is expecting dinner cause I,
I feel so bad.
Last night, I feel terrible about this.
Last night my wife made this incredible chili.
It was delicious.
It probably took her like the whole day to make
because it was just like,
it was phenomenal.
If you're watching this, babe, it was great.
Thank you very much.
And I had one simple task, at night when I was going to bed
she was like, hey, can you run the dishwasher
and put the chili in the fridge?
And I was like: yeah, of course, of course, of course.
I got it, go ahead,
Go, go to bed.
And I ran the dishwasher with no issues.
Let the dogs out, went upstairs, got into bed.
And then this morning, we walk downstairs
and the first thing,
I forgot to put the chili in the fridge.
So, I wasted it.
And she spent the whole day making it.
I just feel terrible.
So I'm gonna bring dinner home, cause you know it's,
It's the least I can do.
Sorry about your desk, man.
- Yeah, it's nice to be back.
(Peter chuckles)
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