ever wanted to control magic well maybe the aperture MC is for you
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today and let's talk about the aperture MC lace these are specialty lights used for accent and
detail work like this behind reed they're not really something that you would use to
the light a subject with they're just not strong enough not really something you'd use to light a
full scene with they solve one of the problems with lighting the ability to quickly adjust the
settings of the lights once they're in place this is key for quick creative decisions now
compared to the m9 the light output is a bit brighter at full intensity it has full RGB
has lighting effects it has a little display to let you know the settings as a silicone diffuser
which works really really nicely let me just play it on which is a little bit raised from
the light so it gives you a nice diffused look it's fairly nice you can do a little highlight
full RGB it's a bicolor light allows you to do HSI can let you choose any color that you want
powerful magnets to allow you to attach this to pretty much anything stands anything magnetic so
you can go in a lot of places really really quickly it also comes with adhesive velcro
so that's pretty good so if you need to put it in other places you can in terms of the size between
the m9 and the MC the very very comparable there are heaps of improvements compared to the m9 the
lights on their own are really good especially compared to the m9 but it's the app that controls
the light that takes it over to the top like I'm talking next level good so the app allows you to
control multiple lights allows you to adjust the intensity really quickly or even the color balance
to change the color of the lights very very quickly you can actually dial it in
exactly where you wanted to so the app allows you to choose a specific color
so let's grab this blue now let's grab this orange ready here we go
this is one of those magical feelings that you get being able to adjust lysa tucked away hidden
away is such an amazing tool to have especially when you want to make quick creative decisions
and you want to adjust something so definitely being able to choose the light that you want to
go with the app has lots of presets in it has effects the app is the reason why I'm buying
into what Apter is doing with their lighting system the ability to control setups remotely
once their lights are programmed in you can adjust them you can adjust the color you can adjust the
intensity you can add effects to them I really really like this and especially when they start
adding this to a lot of their bigger lights and they said they're gonna be coming out with an
attachment a component that attaches to older lights to be able to control them with the app
I think that's an amazing way to gold especially if you are working with the small crew is the
ability to adjust them in real time to help make quick creative choices in a studio lights can be
connected with DMX controllers they essentially have a cable running from light to light to light
this allows for quick changes and lighting setups like we switched instantly but that's great for a
permanent studio setup but if you're on location or you're working shoot to shoot running a DMX
cable that ties all the lights together is not really an option and manually changing one light
at a time is the best way to go a slow way but the best having an echo system that allows all your
lights to be controlled with an app being able to add lights as you go and being able to quickly
change the lights and the setups and the intensity as your as you're working especially once lights
are set up in higher positions that are hard to reach to taking the moment and stopping the flow
of the the creativity essentially and going and adjusting that light that really slows down the
flow of the entire thing the ability to go into an app and change the intensity of a light especially
one that is rigged up high or in a place that it's hard to reach if it's over an actor's
head or up in the ceiling outside even here's a current limitation I found with the MC I wanted
to use this for shoot to simulate a flickering light in a hallway especially as this is one of
the touted modes I wanted to link two of these together and flicker in sync but I wasn't able
to adjust the intensity in color without them going out of sync and I'll show you an example
one of the things I can't do is I can't seem to get them to be in sync together I can't figure
out why that is so if I wanted to go full in I can change the so that's one of the things that
I'm trying to figure out is it just the app thing or is it a software update every time I try to
get them to go in sync can't seem to get it to go usually the same it'll be nice if they they work
so I'm gonna try to figure that out but that's one of the drawbacks right now that I'm trying
to figure out it's how do they get in sync so if I have like 12 of these I want them to all
be firing off the exact same time to create an effect all across a specific thing so can't get
them I can't get them in sync so that's the one thing I'm trying to figure this I'm hoping will
be addressed in an app update perhaps a firmware update I don't know loving the lights currently
and using them everywhere anyways guys that's it for my little review on the aperture MC the
future looks bright pun intended and with this system aperture is bringing with the app and
the connectivity I'm really looking forward to what they cook up next anyways give me
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