hey folks and welcome back to another one of these tested in production videos
my name is Joey family and as you are probably aware things are a little bit
different at the moment we the tested family has now left the studio we are
staying inside staying in our homes safe distance from each other but content
continues we will all be shooting stuff from our home offices our garages our
little home sets to bring you content and because of that I want to change up
the flavor and style of what this video is usually I talk about that
professional gear that were using that we've got the tests in the field a bunch
but here I wanted to talk about how we're setting up these home studios
these home offices now I've been doing this for a little while now i work
somewhat remotely so i've been setting up my own little garage office studio
space for quite a while now and i operate the camera myself and shoot
myself so i want to give you guys a look under how i do that and also some
recommendations on gear that you can get whether it be this stuff or
budget-friendly picks that you can do for your own videos if you decide to
shoot yourselves while you are sheltered in place at the moment so let's get into
this some of the stuff will look familiar the camera for example is the g
h5 i've been using the g h5 forever i made a full tested video about it i love
this camera it is a 4k mirrorless camera i upload an edit in 1080 but the 4k
gives me the ability to do this like a punch in for emphasis or some kind of
dramatic effect but i normally usually just frame for what i do and then i use
that as some leeway it has autofocus is GH 5 has questionable autofocus as you
can see it's alright now to face autofocus detect so we'll see how good
this handles this setup but it should be ok i'm relatively stationary not moving
around too much not too much stuff going on but as far as other cameras go the
other guys would be using their DSLR or mirrorless cameras um there's some
canons I know Adams can be using an iPhone iPhone is just just fine for a
lot of things cameras sensors have all gotten pretty good at this point so if
you have access to some kind of camera it probably has video modes if it's been
made in the last 10 years or so or if you're shooting on your iPhone I have
some tips commendations on how you can rig that up
as well to be somewhat of a studio camera to give you audio to give you
some flexibility there from there we'll go into light
so Lighting's a tricky one so I have quasar tubes that I use these these uh
these lightweight fluorescent tubes have just a great wrap around I use those
quite a bit and especially because they're so small I can fit them in a
tight space this garage is relatively tight space so I use that sometimes my
key light and I also use the aperture 120 and 200 D I've done videos on these
as well they are a pretty good product they're relatively inexpensive
especially for production stuff and they get a lot of power and what I tend to do
for most videos I tend to shoot through grid cloth or shoots through some kind
of silk and this this tip will will work for if you just have I mean when I first
started this I had shop lights from Home Depot that I just blew through they're
very hard lights but you blow them through some silk or even if you have
like a bedsheet a white bed sheet hang that thing up windows work well too if
you have available light or natural light there are ways to control that
with thicken with bed sheets or with with little diffusion tricks but yeah
the quasar tubes the apertures those lights I think are very affordable and
will be reliable and consistent if you I tend to do this a lot longer um I also
use practicals I love practicals on my sets especially like in shot so I guess
a practical lights back there and I got a florescent that's been gel to chill
out its natural greenness and I tend to use a I was gonna talk about this but I
should I tend to use those lights behind me and a lot of like house bulbs that
you use if you have a lamp that you just turn on sometimes it will flare out the
camera or it'll be too bright can't control I mean you can dim it a little
bit but it'll still give some flares but I tend to use well I can't find it at
the moment but I will probably find it by the time I shoot this coverage it's
this stuff this is doline spray this is a very
cheap like $7 spray that you just spray onto your light bulb and it does it down
quite a bit and helps reduce flare-ups and also just helps control the the
spray the light these things were real gnarlie we're kind of ugly in terms of
the light quality that they sent out and it just gave it was kind of distracting
in the lens so I sprayed some dulling spray on it and chilled them out of it
you can do that with any practical light you can just wipe it off after you're
done it's really non-destructive material so those are my lights and I
even recommend something like like a paper lantern yeah you could buy these
since I'm Amazon for dirt cheap on all different sizes again you want to you
want a large source if you don't really want something flattering and something
to give you a little bit of freedom so buy a large one through a big bright
photo bulb in there and hang that thing up turn on and you have a very nice
light you have options there when it comes to light you don't need to have
these really expensive studio lights you can play around going from lights we
have what's about audio audio deer I use a sennheiser mic this is a wireless
sennheiser pack i actually reviewed this on the site years and years years ago
but i still use it it's it's a it's pretty pricey but it is the perfect mic
for one one person productions because because of all the automated automated
functions it has it doesn't really require you to check channels and listen
for any kind of interference it auto selects the cleanest channel and links
itself up that way it also has some auto gaming functions so if things are
getting too hot it'll kind of dip down a little bit and keep your audio
relatively clean in a clean space and it has batteries that can be charged via
micro USB you can use what the rest of the guys use quite a bit and i've used
these climate too they're these little tascam recorders slash lavalier mics so
where is this I have a transmitter I have the the mic running down to a pack
I'm transmitting to the receiver that's on the camera with the with the shoe
that takes in the audio so that means my signals being thrown over there and
recorded into the card that's recording this video however these test cams have
micro SD cards in them it allow you to record on the pack here throw in your
pocket and have your leveler mic on you know that way you're not going to deal
with any kind of wireless and interference because there's no wireless
there you can't really monitor your audio but again if you just check your
levels and then throw that thing on hit record you should be good to go and
they're actually the quality is pretty nice they're relatively inexpensive a
lot less enix a lot less expensive than the
Sennheiser's or the sony mic packs that we use and they're just they're great
all-around mics when you need to just throw an extra mic on somebody but you
don't have the inputs on the cameras and stuff so we use them in the professional
capacity but they are there for everybody and there the price point is
very attractive the other option is you can use an on-camera mic not the
on-camera mic that's on there but you can buy I have a couple Sennheiser's in
a road these are more what you'll see in like the vlogging world there are
microphones that sit on the camera and because of that you're going to get that
camera a little bit closer my camera is about 10 feet away from me mainly
because my space is so small I need to compress that and use longer lenses and
press that space and so with that microphone if I was to use that I would
need to get that thing pretty close to me and use wider lenses you need to be
able to see a lot more in my experience they're actually pretty good sounding
now Audio is a really important thing especially when it comes to like home
videos it kind of you can make a really funky looking video at your house and if
the audio is bad people are gonna tend to perceive that as a much lower
production quality than if the audio was super clean if that makes sense so audio
is very very important I don't understand that as far as people's
perception of your production quality but also just the tolerability the
tolerance of someone watching your video if you got strong audio you're golden
sets so again I'd add this is my garage and it's very small and you just kind of
have to use what you use what you got again I know that it's very ugly on this
out here so I use the longer lens to compress that space and then when I
shoot coverage I kind of change up the shot a little bit to make it look like I
have multiple sets but really it's all in the same six-foot square area what
else editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro we all use Dobby Premiere Pro attested as
our editing software platform of choice I love it I also really like DaVinci
Resolve and this is a free totally free program I use it for color grading
specifically but it has audio mixing color grading and editing
and if you're thinking about trying out editing and you're not an editor I I
always tell people start there because the it's the language of their editing
platform is very similar to what you'll find an avid in Adobe and you'll get a
sense of if you really like it and if you want to step up your game then you
can get the Adobe Premiere Pro subscription license but let's go back
to iPhone because I did mention about production using iPhones we're gonna be
doing a number of things using like Bluetooth headsets as the mic but going
back to the tasking if you're gonna use an iPhone I recommend a you gettin that
task in mic cuz you're not gonna have your mic input options in here rather
limited and then buy it some like this a little Joby Gorillapod and then a little
iPhone attachment with this I mean with iPhone sitting there you can wrap this
thing around whatever if you're doing SHOP videos time lapses that's great or
if you can do the whole vlog set and throw your phone there and the tascam
you have very clean audio and you'll have source audio for syncing up on your
iPhone yeah that's my set up so thank you guys for checking out this video and
thanks for bearing with us as we transition into this how style
everything I talked about will be in links below if you want to check that
out and if you have any recommendations on things you want to see more of my no
field testing will be a little bit light for us as we can't get out and try these
things but if there's um you know stuff in the past you wanted to see us talk
about or I don't know anything video camera related or production related or
just stuff in general feel free to throw those suggestions below or or shoot me a
note on Twitter and I will try to get back to you thanks again and we'll see
you next time bye you