 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. Today we are looking at lights. If you asked me which one light has had the most effect on the film industry in the last, say, 20 months, I would have to say the Quasar tube. Quasar science, based here in LA, makes these amazing lights that have the same form factor as a fluorescent tube, but it's actually a tube of LEDs. So they fit into traditional fluorescent housings, fluorescent mounts, like your old KinoFlo 4x4 banks, but they are bright, they are dimmable, they are quiet, and they are very affordable. Almost every single film set I've been on in the last 12 months has these in some way, shape or form, on set. The reason is that they're super versatile. They're easy to rig. You can, like, gaffer tape them to the ceiling and still get a really nice backlight or hairlight or even an eye light. I got my hands on some about a year ago and I've used them really often. The most common way I use them is the entry level one, which is called the T8. I use as an eye light on a little light stand just below my camera level here, and it just does a lot to lift the levels of my shot. So like that's without, and that's at like, you know, 1 eighth power. You can dim them with these little lamp dimmers and go up all the way and like blow it out, but usually I kind of keep it around there, so there's still a little bit of shape. It's a really great way to use underfill. They're just really versatile and they're light, so you can put them on a C-stand, you can put them on a lighting stand. This one is just on like a little clapper grip. I'll put all these links in the description. Now these are the T8s. They're only 75 bucks. They're daylight only, and you have to add an extra dimmer to them. The next thing up from this is the bicolor tubes, the crossfades. I have one here. I have it rigged to a C-stand arm so that I can clamp it straight in, and I also have it attached to this. It's a drill speed controller. I have that on the end of the C-stand arm, so I keep it attached with the light. These guys are also dimmable, but the reason they call crossfades is they have a little dial in the lamp itself that takes it from tungsten to daylight, which is super useful. They're a lot brighter. They're a little bit thicker, probably because they have two rows of different colored LEDs in them. These bigger guys, brighter guys, actually do more of the job of a key rather than a backlight, a hairlight, or an highlight. So Quasar listened to all the feedback from the earlier models and added a lot more improvements for their next light. It's called the Q-Rainbow. A couple of important design changes. This one has a locking twist mechanism for the power. All these lights are internally ballasted, which means they plug straight, there's just a cable, and they plug straight into the wall. There's no added extra sort of like power pack that you need to hang off a C-stand, and that's what I love about them, that they're really simple. It's one unit and a cable. But these guys, the new Q-Rainbows have a locking plug mechanism that has their own internal power switch. On the other end of the light, they have a little digital LED. So you have your menu here and you can change your intensity. So you can dim on the light itself. You can change the color temperature all the way down at 2000 Kelvin all the way up to 6000 Kelvin. Then you can also change the hue, and it comes with different presets. It comes with blue, cyan, green, red. So you can click through the presets, or you can create your own. It also comes with effects, short circuit, which is cool if you want to plug this into an existing fluoro tube and get a horror effect. It has paparazzi, fire effects, police light, which every LED maker is putting in these now. Really impressive upgrade to the quasar. They are not as cheap as the T8s. 250 for the Crossfade and 80 or 75 depending on where you get it from for the T8s. And for that, you get a 50 watt. Really, it's just a way to make something that's already a really cool versatile, affordable light, much more powerful. You can run these through DMX, you can you can sync them to one another. So if you want to put them in a big bank like some people do, you can have them all following a certain pattern or you can lock them all to the same mode. So when you change the settings on one of the quasars or the quasars change, and really just they they're like I said, they're a really great way to get a lot of light in a tight place and with a lot of control. So that's my look at the range of four foot quasar tubes from quasar science. Quasar was good enough to lend me a couple of these for my shoot last weekend. And I used them in a whole bunch of photography projects that I've been doing. So thanks to them. If you have any questions, leave it in the comments, check out the description for links where you can get your hands on these or find out more about them. And I will see you next time.