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Yo guys, Jonathan here.
Hope you guys are doing well.
We're back with a Q & A and we're kicking it off
with a really tough question from my buddy
Dan Markham, aka, whatsinside.
He asks, if you had to wear one pair of shoes
for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
That's a really tough question.
If we're going, like, all time favorite right now,
I would probably lean towards the original
Human Races in blue, but if we're talking like
a life long commitment it's probably
going to have to be a pair of Ultra Boosts.
Right now my favorite pair has gotta be
the Triple Black 4.0s, they're comfortable,
but they look freaking awesome.
- Very nice.
- Denis asks, is the notch in Apple a bad trend?
Specifically he's talking about the iPhone X,
and that's kinda a two part answer, yes and no.
I thought a ton about this,
is the notch in the iPhone X ruining upcoming smartphones?
And yeah, when android manufacturers are
copying Apple just for looks and there's no
function to that, then it is completely stupid.
As you know, the essential phone actually
kicked off the notch before the iPhone X.
It's much smaller, not as obtrusive,
but I really don't mind either on both of these phones.
Ultimately the reason why those notches are there though
is because we just don't have the tech to hide everything
underneath the display.
I honestly kinda prefer what Samsung is doing.
I don't mind just a little bit of bezel,
but Apple kinda went their way,
they embraced the notch and we are
definitely seeing the effects of that.
If you haven't yet, mkbhd, did a really awesome
and informative video on the state of bezels.
In a nutshell we're pretty much at the middle point
until we get to the next evolution of smartphones
before we can officially hide everything
underneath the display.
It's an awesome video, i'll make sure to link it down below.
Make sure you guys check it out.
- If you could combine any three smartphones together
to make the perfect smartphone that's out right now,
what would that look like?
- For that I'm going to go with the Galaxy S9 as the body,
the iPhone X internals plus software,
but then I'm going to rip the camera out of the Pixel 2
and smash that in for an amazing smartphone.
Next up Praveen Alessio asks,
If you had to use one of these for the rest of your life.
What would it be?
A smartphone with the best camera
but a really bad display,
or a smartphone with the best display
but a really bad camera.
Not sure if this was cheating, but I would probably
lean towards the phone with the good display, bad camera,
because as much as we look at our phones,
I would get really tired of looking at a terrible display
and vice versa, I could always bring a camera with me.
Next up, Life of Tech asks, what is the best storage
solution for 4K footage?
Right now, I can't keep my raw footage
as it takes up so much space.
Now, I'm not sure what your exact budget is,
but for the most part I'm using a Samsung T3 SSD.
Those come in the capacities up to two terabytes,
so that's usually plenty enough storage for most projects.
If you happen to need even more speed
and even more storage, OWC just came out
with a brand new solid state solution
that is up to eight terabytes, which is crazy fast.
It's pricey, but it's definitely going to be
the best option out right now.
Dae asks, animes that you are hyped for 2018?
Honestly you gotta ask Ken Bolido for that.
Next up, we got another good question from Brandon Havard.
Man, we got an all-star line up today.
He asked, what's one thing Final Cut Pro X
doesn't do that you wish it could?
Now if you had asked me this like six months ago
my answer would be completely different.
But with the recent update, they packed
so many new features in there that are really useful,
color correction tools, so no longer do I need to use
a third party plug-in like Color Finale,
there's better LUT support-
It's gonna around a little bit weird
but if there was one feature I want
that's not there it would probably be GIF support.
I know that might sound crazy
but there's been many times when I wanna
throw a GIF in one of my videos
and I end up having to do multiple steps
since it's not supported in Final Cut Pro X.
You have to open it in Finder,
record that with QuickTime and then bring it back.
So if that was just included with Final Cut Pro X,
that would be surprisingly amazing,
and queue the incoming Premiere Pro
is better than Final Cut Pro X comments
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Next up, Toast Malone asks, and brownie points
for your name by the way, do you think there's
still room for new tech YouTubers to
make a name for themselves or is it impossible
nowadays to get into the game?
Honestly it is definitely a little harder now
because it is so saturated and so many people out there
wanna make videos but at the same time
if your content is good, you're gonna stand out
no matter what.
Someone like Peter McCanon even though
he doesn't do technology specifically,
is a fantastic example of someone who
started late but absolutely killed it.
Nathan not Drake asks, have you ever been arrested.
Thankfully I can say no to that.
The biggest scare, or something close to that
I could say was back when I was in middle school,
and absolutely none of you out there
watching this ever repeat what I'm about to say
or try this, but if you have Piccolo Petes
and you take them apart, you empty them
into a 7-up bottle or a soda bottle,
you can kind of make this homemade explosive
really loud-sounding-
(explosion) (laughing)
We ended up spending like all night
making this master giant one
and thought it'd be a good idea
to light it off during summer school.
I remember lighting it, running,
and it was the equivalent of that Simpson's episode
with April Fools where Homer opens the fridge-
- April Foo-
- I felt it in my chest, everyone freaked out,
the cops came, we ran, and my mom
she ratted me out and told the cops to take us,
so I was pretty scared.
Also mom if you're watching,
thank you for the tough love, I love you.
Chris Mix asks, hey what lens for your DSLR
is your favorite to use.
If we're talking like absolute,
just pure favorite right now, no budget,
it's gotta be the ZEISS Otus,
specifically the 28 millimeter,
it's an amazing, amazing lens.
I've been using it pretty much exclusively
for most of the videos you've seen lately.
Now if you're looking for more of a budget lens,
it's hard to argue with the Sigma 18-35.
Gio asked, do you think 2:1 will become
a standard format for video and what do you think
about vertical videos?
So I'm not sure if you guys have
caught the more recent videos but I pretty much
switched to 2:1 aka 18 by 9, so if you're
watching on an iPhone X or a Galaxy S8
or an S9 or any of those ultra tall displays,
it's gonna fill it more of the display.
It's also a really interesting topic
as far as video formats goes.
I had no idea until I went down this rabbit hole
that there were already shows that were shot
on a 2:1 aspect ratio.
Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events,
which is an amazing show.
So as far as that goes, I do kind of think
it's the future as far as that aspect ratio
that middle ground but not too wide,
but some of that kind of blends in
with most modern smartphones.
Now as far as vertical video goes
I don't always hate it, there's definitely
a time and a place, something like Instagram
or Snapchat before they were dead.
I think it's a little exaggerated in the sense
that some people absolutely freak out
any time they see a vertical video,
but I'm not saying go upload to YouTube in vertical
but there's definitely a time where
it makes sense and where it does make sense
I actually enjoy it.
Rohit asks, Canon or Sony.
That's kind of like a back and forth
that's been going on forever.
Back in the day, Canon was like the go-to camera
the 60D specifically was the YouTuber camera,
then as Canon started to be stubborn
and didn't dish out 4K, everyone kind of
started to jump ship to Panasonic,
to Sony, but now in 2017 and 2018
people are kind of going back to Canon
for their auto-focus, for their Color Science,
but if you're gonna ask me, I think the camera
to look out for this year has got to be Sony's A7 III.
They just announced it, it's a full frame camera
with tons of video capabilities
but the best part about it is that it's 2000 bucks
which is priced crazy compared
to what you're getting with this camera.
Sam asked, is a hot dog a sandwich?
I'm gonna say no because in my eyes
a sandwich kind of houses everything in between.
You have the bread, you have the layers in the middle
and then you have the other piece of bread
that kind of houses everything
whereas the hot dog, or the bun rather,
kind of acts as the cradle to the hot dog,
so kind of different, unless you like
rip the bun apart and then made a hot dog sandwich,
but otherwise hot dog is not a sandwich.
David C. Angle asked, do you prefer the iMac Pro
over the MacBook Pro.
I'm gonna say if I'm in the studio
or if I'm editing where I don't have to travel
all day long I am using the iMac Pro.
The power is awesome, it's completely
changed my work flow but of course,
I can't throw an iMac Pro in a bag,
so when I'm traveling I definitely
go back to the MacBook Pro.
It's kind of become a best of both worlds situation.
- My question is how old were you
and when did you get all of your
fancy equipment like your camera,
your crazy expensive computers,
your office and all of that because I'm 12
and this is my YouTube setup.
Honestly man, I think your setup
might be better than mine.
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