- [John] (claps) Our blackboard's still cool.
Here, guys, Jonathan here.
Not too long ago did an office tour
which debuted the shoe wall, but since then,
there's been a couple of key upgrades.
Specifically, one that might be the biggest upgrade ever.
This is the Jellyfish by LumaForge.
(upbeat electronic music)
So hopefully, over the past couple of months,
you've noticed a couple things,
not only the increase in output of videos,
but also the increase in quality of videos,
and the only way that happens
is by building an awesome team.
So by now, some of you have probably made
the Kevin Kenson connection to the point where
some people think I'm stealing his set,
and in actuality, it's actually part of one bigger project,
Sun Squared Media, which branches out into TLD,
my dumb face, and then Kevin Kenson,
which is led by Matt, a.k.a. Matt's Macintosh,
Rich Hype Beast Ho, and Mr. Andrew Espatman.
And then we have finally started to build out the TLD team,
instead of me being dumb and obsessive,
and the first piece of that puzzle is Mr. JD Tech,
and then roundin' things out,
we are blessed with Mr. Fresh,
a.k.a. Chill, a.k.a. Courtney, and young Stevie.
Kinda float in between Kevin Kenson and TLD,
and add their sauce to everything.
Now recently with some of the bigger TLD projects,
the iPhone reviews, the iPad Pro review,
which should release sometime with air power,
that is currently sitting around
eight terabytes of footage.
So my storage life was in complete chaos.
I have a giant Pegasus drive,
which is like 16 terabytes.
I have 50 billion Samsung external SSDs.
I even tried moving that entire iPad Pro review
to an external LaCie drive that was like
eight terabytes in RAID.
But it was still slow, it was like pulling teeth,
so everything was just like, out of control.
Enter the Jellyfish by LumaForge,
which has completely changed the game.
This is packing 120 terabytes of storage.
Now because of the RAID setup,
80 of that is usable.
But the beauty is,
is you have one blazing fast unit that connects
to all of our computers through ten gig ethernet.
In this case we have five iMac Pros,
one 2018 Mac Mini,
and the idea of not worrying about storage
or messing with drives or transferring footage
from computer to computer is so freaking awesome.
So, it's about to get a little meta for a second.
I'm gonna show off a couple things.
One, it's the first time setting up the Jellyfish
on this Mac Mini.
And two, the idea is that we just shot a Kevin Kenson
video, so I'm gonna import, organize,
set up a Final Cut library,
and then in a minute Matt can open it up on his
iMac and begin the chop.
So, yeah, that Linus server 5000 pro junior is cool.
The problem is though, you need a bunch of
Linus's and Terra's running around to operate it,
and the idea here is that even though, yeah,
it does work with Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere,
Resolve, to me it's kinda like the Final Cut of
shared storage where, I've never set this up before
on this Mac Mini.
I'm gonna go to auto setup.
Let it do its thing.
Seconds later I'm gonna just pop in the password.
And in a second we should see everything, which we do.
So, prior to this we have two locations set up.
One for TLD and one for Kevin Kenson's.
So, with the Mac Mini, the idea behind this
is supposed to be kinda like,
the input organize station.
So I'm actually going to mount both of these.
And you have an option here,
you can choose to just mount them every time,
or you can set them up to mount every time,
and we're gonna select auto.
So with this every time you turn the computer off
or restart it, these will auto mount every time,
which is awesome.
So for this particular project,
we're gonna head over to the Kevin Kenson share.
This is his predictions on the future of gaming.
Head over to the projects folder.
December 2018. Create a folder.
2019 gaming predictions.
I'm going to first create an A-roll folder.
(keyboard clicks) Gaming predictions, A-roll.
I'm gonna hop over to this view
just to make things a little easier.
And there are better, and I guess, more secure ways
we can do this in the future.
For now, we're getting better every step of the way.
Just by copying this way, so I'm gonna copy and paste that.
And you can see, I mean, that is a crap load of footage
that is copying pretty damn fast.
And the idea that we're not only storing files
and projects off one location,
we are actively editing on multiple computers,
which is bananas.
So the A-roll footage is done.
I'm gonna hop in and transfer the audio.
Today is the 24th. Christmas Eve!
So from there we're gonna launch open Final Cut Pro.
And I'm gonna show you guys how we would
actually set up an actual project in library
to then begin the edit.
So what I'm gonna do it head over to new library.
We're going to look for that Kevin Kenson Jellyfish share.
Jellyfish, Kevin Kenson, projects, December 2018.
Gaming predictions.
(keyboard clicks)
So that is a library.
And recently what we've found works the best is
having each video project as a library.
That way if someone wants to open it up on that computer,
or this computer, we're not running into each other
or stepping on toes.
So for here go to rename this event.
So from there, there's a couple things you wanna do
as far as modifying your library.
So that's actually, if you hop over to the top here.
Go over to the modify settings tab and storage locations.
We want to do two things.
One, we're gonna change the media folder
and create a new one in that folder
where we organized everything.
So we're gonna find that Kevin share.
Projects. Gaming predictions.
And we're going to make a folder
called 2019 gaming predictions.
I can't spell.
Predictions. Uh, media.
Next from there, we want to actually
create a cache folder as well.
Now, you don't have to do this part,
but if we're going, like,
the full organized route,
this is gonna be the ideal way to do things.
So we're gonna take one step back.
New folder. 2019 gaming predictions.
Cache.
And then we're gonna change
the motion content to in library.
You can leave backups the same.
And from there, we're good to import.
Now there is one important thing you wanna do here.
And that's to leave the files in place,
because otherwise it's gonna copy it and duplicate.
You're just not gonna wanna waste
that much storage.
In this case,
because I already created that A-roll folder,
I want to leave this key word marker
checked here from folders.
And that's gonna automatically
create a keyword collection
and keep things nice and organized.
So up here we already have that Kevin Kenson share.
We're gonna hop over to projects.
Gaming predictions.
Give me a little more space.
We have the A-roll.
And I'm gonna import the actual entire folder,
because again, it's gonna create that keyword collection
and keep things nice and tidy.
Import selected.
And you should see it's a really, really quick process
because we're not copying anything over to the drive.
It's already there in place.
We're just kinda referencing things.
So that's all done.
I'm gonna go and I always drag this all the way here
just because I like seeing everything in place.
If I'm gonna be an extra nice guy,
I'll actually sync the files for Matt,
so he can just open them up on his iMac
and start chopping right away.
So we're gonna give this a name.
Gaming predictions.
We're gonna go to custom settings.
We're gonna make this a 4k video.
Kevin is not in two to one,
so we're gonna leave it at 3840 x 2160. Okay.
So first up, we're gonna actually sync these together,
because the camera we shot on here
does not have in camera audio.
We're gonna do it the old fashioned way,
and use the clap plus the waveforms.
So in this case,
I'm gonna actually have that turned off
for audio synchronization.
Look at there, eat it, drop it in the timeline.
I'm gonna go to find Kev's clap point.
Or actually it was Matt clapping in this one.
Alright, so, marker one.
Marker two.
Drag these over.
So we got those synchronized.
- [Kevin] 2018 is quickly coming to a close,
and while we had a lot of awesome games come out,
on the hardware side things were...
- [John] Alright, I'm gonna go one step above and beyond.
I'm gonna be the double nice guy and start this
color grade for Matt and see if that opens up.
There's not a lot we're gonna do here.
I'm gonna pull out a little bit of green.
And there's actually a video that I did
with Patrick over on the Lumaforge channel
that kinda talks about the backwards way
I edit and why I do that.
So make sure you guys check that out.
But we're not gonna do a whole lot.
I'm gonna pull some green out,
because we tend to have a lot of green things.
The plants, the trees that come out.
Everything in life is a balance,
so it naturally adds a little bit of green.
I'm gonna then add a little bit of warmth,
in the midtones, which is skin.
Cool off the shadows just a little bit.
Not that much.
And then from there I'm gonna go ahead and do
what I kinda call like the V saturation,
where I'm gonna pull it up on both the shadows
and the highlights and then crank it down
in the midtones because that's where the,
kinda like the skin tones live.
And this way, it's not gonna be like overbearing.
That's looking pretty healthy.
I'm gonna like, pull the highlights down a little bit.
On the exposure, that's looking clean.
Maybe I'll pop the red on his beautiful
Christmas sweater a little bit.
Bring that up.
And overall I think that's looking pretty good.
Maybe, you know, if you wanna be artsy,
you can go throw in like a color curves,
and kinda give it a little bit of like that,
that luddy look.
That's, that's too much.
That's clean.
I feel like that's good.
So, there we go.
Before.
After.
Before. After.
- [Kevin] But if you look at the rise in
of what's coming in 2019 and a little beyond that,
there is a lot of stuff going on.
- [John] Alright, so if I find this first cut for Kev.
Because we were there we know this is the last.
We got this like, beautiful smile.
We'll figure a way to throw that in somewhere.
- [Kevin] So we're gonna take a look at
what hard news we have, what rumors have been circulating,
and just what kind of theories people have
about what these big three companies have in mind
for the future of gaming.
- [John] Sweet cut.
Now the idea here is I'm gonna close this up
and Matt should just be able to open it up
on his iMac and finish the rest.
- [Matt] Alright, so we're just gonna open this up.
Projects folder.
Gaming predictions.
Hopefully this is where the magic happens.
And uh, actually it's already in here.
- It kept my grade.
- [Matt] So, thanks to John my footage is already organized
and I don't need to figure out the color grade.
This shot turned out great.
- [Kevin] So we're gonna take a look at
what hard news we have, what rumors have been
circulating, and just what kind of theories people have
about what these big three companies have in mind
for the future of gaming.
- Just, it's cool we don't have to freaking
pass t5 drive.
- [Matt] No, yeah, I mean that, that alone is great.
- What did the old process used to look like?
- [Matt] Oh, it was a mess, so
John would start working on a project,
it would be on a drive,
then he'd pass the drive to someone,
then that person would lose the drive,
then we'd restart the project,
or there'd be conflicting versions of stuff out there.
Yeah, it was a disaster.
- [John] So with the work flow like that
and the team we've started to build
it has already paid off immensely.
There have already been instances
where I start a project on my iMac Pro,
Courtney then opens it up on his iMac,
does the basecut,
I open it back up on my iMac Pro to finish it off,
and the entire workflow is kind of amazing.
The idea of being able to work on a video
and then have JD work on a second video.
Having Courtney and Stevie working on a third video,
and then meanwhile the Kevin Kenson operation
running completely independently rich on one video there,
Matt on another video there..
You're talking like five videos being edited
at the exact same time off one device.
Which is like, mindblowing!
Again though, what it comes down to for me
is the convenience.
I don't wanna tweak things,
I don't wanna troubleshoot things.
That's why I called it the
Final Cut Pro x of shared storage.
I just wanna make videos,
like everyone else here does as well.
So, hopefully you guys enjoyed the video.
If you did, and you are feeling like being awesome
make sure you guys go Linus Server Pro 5000 Jr.
on that like button.
If you guys wanna learn more about the Jellyfish,
I'll drop a link down below as well.
Thank you guys for watching,
and I will catch you guys later.
- I wake up, get views,
and I make f***ing awesome Kevin videos.
Had to go to Sprouts.
Get that coconut milk.
That's a little close there, John.
Was that good?