I'm not going to lie to you, this video
is a somewhat lame attempt to replace
the video that was supposed to be coming out,
but that was delayed by the manufacturer.
But since I committed myself to make a video
before the end of the month for today's sponsor, Storyblocks,
the show must go on. And so I've contrived
this Frequently Asked Questions video as a replacement.
I hope you enjoyed that bit of oversharing.
Let's get undone.
[offbeat music]
♪ Gerald Undone ♪
♪ He's crazy ♪
What's happening everybody? I'm Gerald Undone,
and this is what happens when my Discord server
tried to decide on an intro.
So I spent the last three hours
scrolling through thousands of comments looking
for the most common questions to answer in this video.
I'll warn you right now, some of the questions are silly,
but I didn't ask them. You did.
That being said, I am overall quite impressed by how kind,
clever, and engaging you all are in the comments.
I'm truly lucky to have such a fantastic audience.
Now, let's get into those questions. First up,
and something that you would have just noticed is
an edit in this video, sort of a jump cut,
because the first question is
"How much do you edit your videos?"
And a lot of people were saying that they often seem
like one impossible take, and that's by design.
I do edit the videos.
Sometimes I can actually go quite long
without messing anything up,
but inevitably something goes wrong and usually
I just cover it up with B-roll or a product shot
or something to try and make it flow better.
I have another video where I talk about
how you can make the audio blend well.
So as long as you cover up the jump, it seems like,
you know, one thought-out sentence.
This is also helped quite a bit by the second question,
which is, "What is that thing on the end of your lens,"
or "Do you use a teleprompter?"
Two separate questions I get asked a lot because, yes,
that thing on the end of my lens is a teleprompter.
It is a Padcaster Parrot.
And it comes with this little remote
and you can use it to play and pause.
It's not the greatest as far as remotes
because like some people use foot pedals
and different things like that. And often I keep it here.
So sometimes you'll see me like reaching down into my crotch
during the bloopers. That's all I'm doing
is I'm going back up in the teleprompter,
even though it looks inappropriate.
That's another question I get asked a lot
in the blooper questions
like, "Why do you keep reaching down after you mess up?"
I'm going back up in the teleprompter. Next question.
Are you in a garage or a basement?
I think that's because of the, like, industrial look here.
No, this is actually-- all my sets, including this one
and the previous ones, were always sort of in, like,
a living room of an apartment. And that's the same thing here.
This is sort of just a converted living room.
And the industrial look is just something that I'm into
because I often get asked do I use tools
and stuff like that. And I do.
Yeah, I use these tools all the time.
I like to build things and repair things and, you know,
be a bit of a handyman around my place and that kind of thing.
So these are all my tools. I like them
and I think they make for a fun backdrop.
Another question I get asked a lot is "What's with my intro
and why do I call myself crazy?"
So the real story here is that that intro is from
a long time ago from I guess like five years ago now,
when I used to make really wacky absurdist comedic content
and I always kind of liked that jingle.
I thought it was kind of silly and funny. And so I kept it.
And now it doesn't really make a lot of sense.
But I guess it's still kind of makes sense because, you know,
you could argue that you'd have to be crazy in order to make
these kinds of nerdy deep dives and stuff like that.
But mainly I just keep it for the jingle because
I think it's silly and it sounds fun and it's catchy
and-- but I do get some flack in it for the comments.
I know that the majority of Undone fans out there
like the intro, but there are a handful that don't.
So to all the other comments, like, "Change your intro,
you should change your intro."
I'm not changing my intro. Nothing you can do about it,
not changing it. "What microphone do you use?"
So this is a Sennheiser MKH 50.
It's somewhat recent to the channel like only
a few months ago. Before that I used to use an Oktava MK-012
I still love that microphone.
And then before, before that I was using that Samson C02.
There's a big step up to go up to this mic, the Sennheiser.
I think that it's worth it.
But I think that if you're on a tighter budget,
that Oktava is a great option.
And just for people who maybe are new to my channel
or don't really look in the descriptions much,
I do try to keep sort of the core items like a six piece
or whatever in the description up to date of whatever gear
I'm using for the video that you're watching.
So if you went in there, probably says microphone,
if you clicked on it, would show this link.
I also have a kit page,
but if you want something a little quick and easy,
I try to keep those camera, lens, microphone--
those links up to date all the time.
"Silly question. Are you Chris Pratt?"
You would be surprised at how many comments
are talking about Guardians of the Galaxy,
or comparing Chris Pratt, or saying I look like Chris Pratt?
I mean, everybody tells you you look like somebody
but most of the time they're, "You look like my cousin."
But this one comes up a lot. No, I am not Chris Pratt,
nor did I star in Guardians of the Galaxy. But I'm flattered.
Next question. "What sound blankets do you use?"
This one came up a lot after I did
the, sort of, studio tour of this place
so I can sort of wheel one over here.
I thought I did like a little construction of these,
maybe it was on social.
So these are...
These are Producer's Choice,
and I got them from a website called Vocal Booth To Go.
Good experience. Like them. For Canadians,
those are a bit more expensive
because you have to pay for duties, and have them shipped,
and they're heavy and everything.
It does start to add up a little bit cost wise.
But they're great. These ones are, I think, like 8' tall.
And I have them on those Neewer rolling C-Stands,
kind of modelled it
after Caleb Pike's build out a little bit.
But on the top, I'm just using a curtain rod
and Velcro tries to hold it on.
And these are a good first step if you want to try
soundproofing without doing anything too permanent
and if you can put them on,
the rollie stands, it'll help a lot as well.
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"Why do you look sunburned, or flush, or red?"
I get this comment so often.
I think it's because we talk about colour and cameras
and stuff. You can't make anything
as a camera reviewer without everything you do...
People looking at it like, is it sharp enough?
Is the color right? Is the--
because everything is an evaluation at this point, right?
However, my redness or pinkness is not an evaluation.
I am just a very pinky red person.
I think my skin is essentially translucent.
You know, you can see the blue in my veins-- anyway...
On my knuckles and my face-- anywhere where there's like
blood moving around, I look very red and pink.
Nothing I can do about it, but don't let it make you think,
"Oh, that camera's coming in too pink."
I just am pink-- that's the way that that goes.
That's why I normally hold up a colour chart
or try to shoot other people to show you.
"What LUT are you using? Will you share your LUT?" Yeah.
So-- and there's also a few questions about Leeming LUT,
because I used to talk about Leeming LUT a lot.
So I'm still-- so I'm not really using Leeming LUT anymore,
not because there's anything wrong with it,
but because I'm basically just using
the same gamma and gamut on everything.
So I'm not, you know, matching cameras as much.
But the LUT that I'm using now is based a little bit on
the curve that Paul Leeming uses in his LUTs.
I'm shooting S-Log3 S-Gamut3.Cine, and yeah,
I have a couple, I tweak the colour a little bit
and you know, added a little bit of purple in some of
the shadows to give the wood the way that it looks
and looks good with products and that kind of thing.
So it's-- it's an S-Log3 transform that I've converted
to look a little bit like Paul Leeming's curve,
but then with my own colour and a few other-- and added
a lot more contrast than what you normally find in a LUT.
So yes, I can share it, you know, I'll just put it there,
I'll put in the description for free, just download it,
do whatever you want with it.
It's for S-Log3 S-Gamut3.Cine
I'll let you know though that it's designed
for overexposure, probably about, like, 1.5 stops
or so overexposed, which works well in this setting.
And I normally have controlled lighting,
so you might-- might not work for you.
And it does have a lot more contrast
and a lot more little purple going on there.
But if you want to give it a try, go ahead.
Tag me in something if you-- if you did something with it.
But yeah, you can have that. No big deal.
OK, "Teeth." All right. First off,
there's a common thread here that I want to address.
There's way too many comments about appearance.
And that's something where-- for those that don't do it,
don't worry about it, you're awesome.
But for those that do, a little PSA here,
I'm pretty much immune to physical appearance criticism,
doesn't bother me, but there's a lot of other creators
that it affects them quite a bit.
And so if I can say,
let's stop commenting on people's appearance,
especially for other creators just starting out, you know,
like getting your flack,
I've noticed quite a few. Like, "Why are you so red?"
You know, "When did you cut your hair?"
"Why is your hair different lengths?" Whatever.
Yeah, I cut my hair a couple of years ago, by the way,
for those questions. Why did I cut it?
Because it was getting in my way and like, the wispies would,
like, blow in my eye and it was more maintenance than
I thought would be. I thought it'd be easier to grow
long hair and I found it to be harder. So I cut it again.
Yeah, just questions about hair, questions about
but why am I so red, questions about my teeth.
So I'll answer the question about my teeth now.
But in the future, let's just stop commenting
on people's appearance in general in YouTube comments.
Anyway. So, my teeth. Yes, these are still my teeth.
But I had Invisalign like over the last, I don't know,
I think I started in early 2020 like January,
February 2020.
And I finished it a few months ago and then did
a couple little tweaks and then that finished
a few weeks ago. So I'm pretty much finished now.
There's still my teeth, no crowns, no caps or whatever.
I almost wanted to make a video on Invisalign
because the technology is actually pretty rad
for those that don't know you.
You get these like clear plastic
aligners and you just wear them.
It's kind of weird, but
I could actually really put this one in right now.
You just wear them like that and you can't really see them,
so I'll leave that one for the rest of video
so you can take them out, shoot your video,
put them back in, do whatever. So it's great.
What impressed me was how they can actually move bone,
like, over a series of time and it wasn't too painful
and it wasn't too weird. It's-- it's crazy technology in a way.
You think of so many other things that we still
haven't really nailed and yet
we can just like move teeth with clear plastic over time.
It's pretty great anyway. So, yes, I'm happy with the result.
Thank you for all those that made compliments.
It's weird seeing people compliment, though, like
"Your teeth look better."
It's a weird thing to hear, but thanks.
I know that your intentions were probably good.
I still say let's not talk on people's appearance.
OK, next up, "Where can I watch your professional work?"
So here's the thing.
I feel like there's a bit of a-- a characterization
that's assigned to me that I'm some sort of
production on-set camera whiz or whatever.
I'm not. I've never branded myself as somebody who does
a lot of big high end productions or that I've done
a lot of that kind of thing.
My professional work with video has mostly been, you know,
smaller scale client work, corporate videos,
promotional videos, that kind of thing.
And I don't share it because it's lame, you know,
like I was never really into it or that inspired by it
or liked it that much.
I really liked playing with cameras a lot more than
I liked shooting corporate videos with them.
And if you've ever shot corporate videos-- I mean,
some people are great at them and they love them.
And those are the people you want shooting corporate videos.
But for anybody else who doesn't love it, you get it.
But I've never worked on big sets.
I don't do huge productions.
And I wouldn't consider myself a filmmaker,
which is another term that gets thrown around a lot on YouTube.
I'm not a filmmaker. I'm a computer nerd
who likes to play with cameras
and I like to test the cameras a lot
and then tell you my findings.
And I never claimed to be anything other than that.
But I don't share my professional work because
I don't care about it or like it and I don't really do it.
I don't do it anymore and I haven't done it for--
since the YouTube channel has been doing well.
So now my professional work is my YouTube channel
and I try to put a lot of the things that I talk about
and do the best that I can on the YouTube channel.
So let's say this shot, for instance,
is representative of, you know,
a certain quality, or my audio hopefully is representative
of something or my lighting or whatever, you know,
so that you can kind of see-- or when
I shoot my product B-roll, you know,
you can look at those things.
But sometimes I do share a little like artistic things
on Instagram or Twitter.
Follow me on one of those if you're not.
But outside of that stuff or that's the stuff that
I want to be representative of what I do.
And if you think, oh, this guy, you know,
this guy is really good at filming YouTube stuff,
are really good at shooting product or whatever,
then, then, then good. Then you can take my advice
on how it pertains to that,
you know, but for the most part, I try to give advice that's--
I try to give information that's valuable
for whatever you like to shoot.
And however, whatever your skill level is,
there's real world, then there's YouTube.
But if you do YouTube professionally,
that kind of becomes your real world thing.
And a lot more people are shifting to online content
creation as their profession.
So then you giving advice
on how to make online content is actually
a real world application for how to do it.
So it's like a sort of meta take on what
the new real world is.
The real world is becoming more and more online,
which means that advice
for how to do things online is becoming more
and more real world. It's weird, right?
But I think you get what I'm saying.
So I feel like my content is my real world example
more than my corporate videos that I used to shoot are.
Those don't even represent anything anymore.
And that's enough about that. Alright.
So while reading hundreds of your comments in preparation
for this video, I came across this gem from Gamer Bear YT
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they couldn't have more perfectly fit this video while
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But shooting it yourself was either logistically
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Moving on to my next and my last question,
which is "Why is the channel
a bit more Sony focused these days?"
Something I've always kind of want to talk about on
the channel, but don't really is how
the marketing departments affect this
from the different companies.
So as a YouTuber, I'm running a business here and obviously
I want to talk about products that are new and fresh
because that's going to get more views
and it's easier to get sponsors for those videos and so on.
Right? The whole business aspect of it,
you're going to watch a video on a new camera.
Anyway. So Sony has been really, really good
with being good at communicating,
being good at-- early,
sending me the stuff to make the reviews,
and they don't ever sponsor any videos
and they don't give me money or anything like that,
they just get me the gear ahead of time
and they try to work with me so that
I have enough time to do what I want to do and work out
the video that I want to make. And they do that so frequently--
And they also make a lot of products.
I mean, we can all admit that they're pumping out more gear
than anybody else is right now.
But when they do pump out something, they send it to me.
Other companies, some of them are great.
That also do a good job.
Sigma has always been really good at getting me stuff.
Fuji's normally pretty good at that kind of thing.
Panasonic I've had a good experience with.
If I can't get access to certain cameras, or if a company is slow
or if they're marketing department is like
a revolving door where they're constantly changing personnel
and you don't know who to email and the person you do email,
you get an auto responder saying they don't work here anymore.
Like the only way that this-- that this business works
is if I can get the gear as a loaner to make the videos on.
I can't be buying every piece of equipment.
So if the PR companies aren't-- the marketing of the camera
companies aren't working well or working with you well
or very fast or responsive, it can be quite difficult.
So I think if there's a bias from a YouTuber--
This is this is speculative.
So I can't say this about everybody,
but I can tell you where my bias comes from.
My bias isn't so much on Sony as in like
I like Sony's products and I'm a fanboy
and I'm going to recommend them all the time
or that I'm being paid by Sony.
What it is that it's easy to work with Sony.
They have gear, they get it to me on time.
I can make videos on that.
And there's other companies that I don't talk about
as much because I can't get their gear as easy
or it's a big hassle, or I can't plan it with my schedule.
I can't make it work with sponsors,
or it's TBA on everything.
So it creates a bias where if I start planning a video,
I think, OK, what could I do?
Well, there's that new Sony thing.
Maybe I'll fit that in, and then you send an email off
to a few different people and Sony gets back to you
right away and like, yeah, we'll get you that.
That'll work out fine. You don't hear from anybody else.
Well, I guess I'm making a Sony video because, again,
I'm not going to go spend $15,000 every month
on camera equipment to make videos.
Anyway, I'm sure you can understand.
But that's where my Sony bias comes from.
It's twofold right now.
One, I'm actually using Sony, so I'm interested in it.
You guys are also interested in it.
My Sony videos perform better than other videos.
And Sony has been really good, you know,
from their marketing angle.
And I'm not going to mention any brand specifically,
but there's other questions that I get asked a lot.
"Hey, Gerald, are you going to review this?"
"Hey, Gerald, are you gonna review that?"
"When can we see a video on that?"
I've tried. I've tried multiple times.
"Send me that." "Can I have one of those?"
"When are you going to send me one, can you do--" whatever,
and I'm not going to buy these things. Those are too expensive.
So if if you want to see those,
then those companies need to send out more units,
you know, even just loaners.
That's all we're asking for here.
And I generally only need them for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, I'm not complaining. I'm just trying to give you
an understanding of why Sony is probably occupying, you know,
50%, 50-60% percent of some of the new--
the new gear videos that I'm doing.
One, it's because they make a lot of products.
And two, they get them to me in a timely fashion.
OK, moving on. The last thing I've written here
is "Thumbnail pose." You guys are going to love this.
We're going to do a dirty YouTuber thumbnail pose.
So I don't know what I'm doing here.
How about if I'm, like, annoyed with your questions, or, like,
mystified by them? So something like this?
[camera shutter]
That's probably good, right?
Got to make that YouTuber face once in a while. I know.
OK, that's the end of my list.
So I am going to leave now.
But that's going to be it for me. I hope you found
this video entertaining or least helpful.
And if you did make sure you leave it the old thumbs-up
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Alright... I'm done.