- Now as a content creator, yes I love traveling.
I love going out and filming cool stuff,
but realistically, I spend a majority
of my time right here in front of this computer.
That is, of course, when I'm not out there
signing autographs for fans.
Usually I charge like a couple
hundred bucks for a autograph,
but today I am feeling kind of nice.
Hey, I figured you guys were fans,
I just wanted to hand you guys
an autograph or something.
You guys don't want it?
Hey man, I saw you have a RED,
I'm sure you're a huge fan.
- Who are you? - Autograph.
- I don't know you, sorry.
- Bro, can I just give you like 20 bucks
and can you just take it, not a copy?
I'll get you a free drink from the open bar.
- You couldn't pay me to keep this photo.
- (beep) it.
Autographs for free!
Here.
- I'll take it.
- Okay!
- No, I'm good.
- All right, cool!
You want to keep it safe,
don't let it get wet.
- I want the dog's signature.
- (laughs) Oh.
Cut this out, I like the dog.
- Free autographs.
Which one of my videos is your favorite?
- What do you actually do?
Like, are you a YouTuber, are you?
- I'm the Potato Jet, bro.
- I actually hate potatoes, no offense.
How did you come up with your, okay.
- How am I supposed to get rid of nine more?
Yeah, actually, now that I
think about it a little bit more,
I do actually spend all of my time right here.
But it's not any ordinary desk.
It can go up and down, it's electronic.
So I can use it sitting down,
but I can also use it standing up.
During some days I'll just start
getting kind of tired halfway throughout the day,
and I'll just hop on this thing for a few minutes,
and I'll feel much better every time.
It just keeps all the juices flowing, you know?
And this thing's pretty cool,
it's a full RGB light from Westcott.
It's a light mat put inside this little dome thing.
So if I ever feel like spicing it up
a little bit I can always switch it around.
All right, so now let's talk about
the most important part,
which is obviously the computer.
This is an Asus PA90,
and they actually sent this out to me
two months ago to try it out,
and I love this thing.
This thing is wicked powerful.
It has an eight core i9 processor,
and the graphics card is the NVIDIA Quadro P4000.
And let me just say this is a dream to edit on
on most cameras, just zero lag.
You click something, it does it in nanoseconds.
If you're in the market for a PC
that can handle high-end video work
and no problems with RED cameras and
ARRI Alexas, and stuff like that.
This is definitely one of the ones
to take a look at,
and they just offer it as a set like this,
so you don't have to build anything.
It just arrives, plug it in, boom.
I've made an entire video about it,
so you can click right there
and go check that out.
This monitor is also by Asus.
It's a PA32UC,
and the PA stands for ProArt.
So both this monitor and the computer
are ProArt series,
so they've been made with creatives in mind like us.
And this monitor's basically everything
you might want out of a monitor.
It's 4K, 32 inches, does HDR.
And to me, the most important thing
was the color accuracy,
and this monitor has a DeltaE of less than two,
which basically just means it's super accurate.
Another thing that's nice about this
is that it goes up to a thousand nits in brightness,
so see how there's windows behind here?
During the daytime a lot of sun can come in from behind,
and, luckily, this thing can get really bright,
so it doesn't look too backlit.
But no matter how good your monitor is,
it's always good to have a calibration tool like this.
This is one of the most common ones,
the Spyder5 by Datacolor.
I think they actually just came out
with a slightly newer version, the SpyderX.
But these are great because your monitor
will eventually fall out of calibration over time,
so every month I just plug this in,
and within a few minutes it will
give me a recalibrated screen.
And these aren't crazy expensive either,
so definitely one of the things to check out.
Especially if you do any sort of color grading.
Now let's get into software.
I basically live in the Adobe ecosystem,
so Adobe Premiere primarily.
Not saying you have to be Adobe,
it's just what I learned on,
and I never really felt like switching out of it
because I've been happy with it.
And it's also really nice that a ton of other people
are also using Adobe here in L.A. at least,
so whenever I need to collaborate on a project
or I'm working with other editors
where we need to bounce the project back and forth,
it's usually not an issue.
And with the Adobe Suite obviously comes
Adobe After Effects and Photoshop and Lightroom,
and you have access to all that stuff.
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And you know what that means, Giveaway.
So we are giving away a year subscription
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It's actually kind of a funny story.
What happened was we were at a Wipster party,
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which was this.
Congratulations!
(cheering) Kari just won a raffle.
- What did I win?
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- I don't even know how to use a computer.
Why couldn't it be like a year's supply of dog food.
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But what exactly is Wipster?
Well, just let me know if this sounds familiar, okay?
So, you finish editing a project,
and you have to export it out, and then once that's done,
you can upload it, wait for that to finish,
and then you can finally email the file over to the client.
Then the client responds back with a huge list of notes
that are impossible to follow.
There's timecode stamps all over the place,
and the notes can be terrible, like,
Oh, can you remove that one slow mo shot of that guy?
And you're like, well, every single shot
is a slow mo shot of that guy,
so I don't know what shot you're talking about.
Huge inconvenience to you as the editor,
but also to the client.
They don't want to be sitting there typing out
all of these timecodes and time stamps and notes.
Now Wipster streamlines this entire process,
and first of all, you can just log on to it
and use it on the website kinda like a standard
file sharing service,
but it has a ton of video friendly features.
But where I think Wipster really shines,
is its integration with Adobe Premiere.
So check this out, when I'm done editing my project,
I can open up the Wipster review panel,
which is a add-on extension to Adobe Premiere,
and then I can walk away, I could go get lunch,
I could go play with the dogs,
I could dance to techno music, whatever.
The computer will render out the file,
and then automatically upload it,
and then when that's ready,
it'll automatically send the email
to people who need to review it.
And the clients are absolutely going to love you
for how easy it is for them to give you feedback,
cause they just go boop boop boop,
and leave feedback on the timeline, at a specific spot.
Then you will be notified when they give you feedback,
and these notes will appear right back here on Premiere.
And they also give you a checklist
that you can mark off as you go.
If you have the Premiere plug-in,
you never have to leave Premiere.
You can send the revisions straight from Premiere,
and then get feedback imported
straight back on the timeline.
Whenever Sam and I are editing a project together,
it makes the whole process so much more collaborative.
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Now while we're on the topic of Premiere,
let's talk about how to edit faster,
which is all about keyboard shortcuts.
Now my keyboard shortcuts are all over the place,
because I originally learned on Final Cut,
learned all my keyboard shortcuts,
and then I switched over to Premiere,
but didn't want to relearn the whole new hotkey system,
so I just kind of adapted it to Final Cut,
and then I've just been customizing it ever since.
So basically, my shortcuts are probably gonna be
very different from yours.
But anyways, here are the most common shortcuts
that I use all the time.
We obviously have our standard Arrow and Blade Tool.
I also love using the Add Edit Tool,
which basically just puts a cut wherever your cursor is,
or if you have a bunch of clips highlighted,
you could just slice them all at once.
I'm also always using Enable which allows me to
enable and disable a clip.
And that's useful for if I wanna see
what's underneath a certain clip,
or if I just wanna remove a clip for now,
but later if I decide I wanna put it back in,
I just have to re-enable it.
I also adjusted my Default Audio Transition time
to just two frames,
so when I'm done with a whole sequence of audio,
I can just highlight everything,
add in my default transition,
and it smoothens out all the audio.
There's also Q and W which is
Go to in point Ripple Trim Previous Edit To Playhead
and Wedge Tool Go to Out point
and Ripple Trim Next Edit to Playhead.
I have no idea what this means, but it's useful.
Just look at this cut here, it's too loose.
So if I want to tighten it up,
I would have to shorten this down
and then I can close that gap down,
and same with the second clip.
I can shorten that down and trim that out.
But if I just bring my cursor to here, and hit W,
it's gonna delete all this afterwards, so just like that,
and same with Q, I can delete everything before this point.
So boom, piece of cake.
Saves you a lot of clicks, so that's always good.
Another one I use all the time is Track Select Forward Tool,
which basically selects everything after your cursor.
So you could just grab all this stuff
and do what you need to do with it.
I also like using Ripple Delete,
so if I want to delete this clip and close this gap,
I would have to do this whole process,
but with Ripple Delete, one click, done.
I also love color-coding my timeline so I can visually see
where the segments end and start.
So I basically have 10 different colors
programmed into my number keys.
And of course if you don't have a music library
already you know that that's a struggle.
So I use Epidemic Sounds primarily.
And I actually try to listen to their music
as much as possible even when I'm not editing,
that way when it does come down to the time to shoot,
I know what shots I wanna get and how I wanna cut it,
and I already have an idea
of the pacing and mood in my head.
And Epidemic Sounds has a huge music library,
so I love that, and they also have a pretty good
sound effects library as well.
So those are always very useful to just be able to
look something up and just start plugging stuff in.
I have an Epidemic subscription for my YouTube channel,
so while I have that account,
I can use as many songs as I want out of their library.
I also recently started using Musicbed,
and they have some really great artists on there,
so they're both good,
and I would say the type of music that they both offer
are slightly different.
So, it's worth trying out both,
and figuring out which one's better for you.
And I have links below for a free trial to either of them.
Ooo, by the way,
if you do use their songs during their free trial,
it's not like if you cancel the account,
they go and just pull down all your videos.
It's cool as long as you uploaded it
while you had a proper subscription.
Another thing I really love is having these JBL speakers
over here, or studio monitors, and they sound so good.
And I love the fact that my little studio is soundproof,
so I can blast these things, and I don't have to worry
about neighbors knocking down my door.
And I connect the speakers through this Audio Interface.
This is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.
This thing's useful because I can obviously
adjust the volume of the speakers,
but also it has these XLR inputs on the front,
so I can actually plug this microphone straight into here,
and record straight onto the Adobe Premiere timeline,
which is super useful.
Also, when it comes to hard drives,
this is one that I love working off of.
This is a SanDisk solid-state drive,
I think this is two Terabytes.
First of all,
I love how small and lightweight this thing is,
so if you're editing on the go,
you can just plug this into your laptop,
and it's lightweight enough for it
to just dangle like that.
And of course it's a solid-state drive,
so it's going to be faster than your standard hard drive,
and also more durable and reliable.
So it's definitely one of the things
I would suggest to check out.
Although, it's not super cheap,
so I don't really suggest it for long-term storage,
but I do a lot of working off this hard drive,
and then when I'm done with a project I'll transfer it to
a bigger, less expensive, hard drive.
Another thing I highly recommend is a solid mouse.
This is a Logitech MX Master.
It feels really good in the hands,
and it's been super reliable.
Much more reliable than the ones from Apple I had.
And I think it's been really well designed
because it has this scroll wheel, so you can hear it.
(scroll wheel ticks)
So it clicks like that whenever you're scrolling slowly,
but if you wanna scroll fast, you just
(scroll wheel whirs)
and it just free spins.
It also has a scroll wheel on the side,
which is a must for me because I like being able to scroll
side to side on my Adobe Premiere timeline.
It's also got this secret extra button down here
where my thumb is sitting,
and it also switches easily between three Bluetooth devices.
So I love that whenever I want to switch
between different computers, I just have to press a button,
and it'll automatically start working
opposed to linking it on that computer
and then un-links from here.
Then you have to bring it back here and re-link it.
And one thing that I actually really like having
is this Dyson air purifier back here, because first of all,
it's a fan so it keeps me cool.
But I recently started getting air purifiers
around the house cause I have terrible allergies.
and now I'm actually so glad that I have that air purifier
because there's much less dust in here,
and there's always cameras and lenses sitting out,
so I want to keep those as clean as possible.
And in your studio,
if you're ever trying to shoot product shots or macro shots,
it's difficult to get all the dust off the product.
If you've ever shot with a macro lens,
you guys know what I'm talking about.
Think I'm just about out of stuff to talk about.
Ooo!
Let's wrap this up and read some comments.
Potato jet can literally talk for 2 hours
without breathing.
That is actually false, I breathe.
Two times a week.
451asians says
Breaking News: Potato jet cheats on girlfriend with
2 women named "Arri" and "Alexa"
and was caught RED handed
No 3 women Arri, Alexa and Scarlet
Matti Haapoja says
hot danggg how are you so good at beat saber already??????
That's my issue with video games,
is once I start getting into a game, I just can not stop.
I just can't.
I get so addicted to things.
Lemons and Smoke says
Guys I'm not gay
Gene at 2 minutes and 39 seconds
Ok maybe I am gay
(laughs)
That filter is kind of scary how good it is
at making you look like a girl.
Anyways, I got a few more autographs to sign,
so I'll get on that.
I feel like this picture's pretty good.
I might want to put it on a mug.
(laughs)
Or a shirt.
Should I just get a shirt?
That just has my own picture on it
and wear it around for a couple days?
Yeah. I'm gonna do it.