 In this video, I'm going to be talking about the Nanlite PavoTube 6Cs and doing a bit of an unboxing and then also telling you how you can download and install the new firmware and also use it with the mobile app. So if that sounds interesting, stick around. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech. My name is Alec and this is actually the first sort of official non-vlogmas video from my new studio. And so one of the things that I wanted for the new studio space, because I couldn't just add colors in a virtual background anymore, was some actual lighting in the background. As you can see, I'm still a bit lacking in that. But one of the things that I did do was invest in a couple of these Nanlite PavoTube 6Cs. And so that is what I'm going to be talking about today and doing a bit of an unboxing. Now, I have actually unboxed it already, but I put it back in the box just for you. Just so that you could see what is in the box. And then after that, as I mentioned, we'll have a look at how do you can download, install new firmware. There's a little bit of a knack to that. And then also how you can set it up with the mobile app so that you can control them, all multiple ones from your mobile phone. And yes, there is a slight blue tinge in the background. And that is because I've got one of them on a stand just behind me. So I have got lots, lots more plans for this studio space. And we'll be building it out and obviously sharing all of that journey with you along the way. But this was, as I say, just the first little step. So let's get straight to it and let's get on with this unboxing of a re-boxed boxed item. So in the box, we have got, first of all, there are some instructions in here in a nice little protective plastic bag just in case you drop the box in the water. I wouldn't recommend that. That's also got the warranty card as well. So do read those with care and attention, obviously. Then in the top, we've got this little packet of small metal plates, which I shall come to in a moment. And there's basically just three of them in there. In fact, there's two. One of them's fallen out. There you go. And they're just little metal plates, but as I say, I'll come to that in a moment. And then we've also got the actual light itself, which is in a very nice little carry case because with the size of these, they're about 10 inches long, 25 centimeters and not too heavy. They are really good little things to carry with you when you're traveling, especially if you're doing lots of Zoom calls, things like that. Having some good lighting on the go always helps. And then, sorry, I've just dropped it on a button on my laptop. Then also in the back, we have got a cable, which is USB3 to USB-C. And then we've also got this little lanyard with a little screw fitting, which is typical sort of for camera and lighting, a quarter-twenty thread. And that, as you'll see in a moment, if I take the actual light out of the bag like that. On the back, you have got a charging port, five buttons, which we'll come to in a moment, a little small screen. But then in either end, you've got a screw fitting. So you can actually screw this on if you want to carry it around your wrist or want to secure it somewhere. But obviously also you can just attach it to any sort of stand that you may have lying around, such as I've got there with that lighting stand. So it's just screwed onto the top of that. Or you could use it with a little camera tripod or something like that if you want it on the ground, angled up at a wall or what have you. But the other thing about it, and incidentally the reason for these little metal pieces here, is that you'll notice, perhaps you won't notice, maybe if I make it clear. There you go, put it against the white background. The light is kind of rounded on the front where the actual light is. But then on the back, you've got it sort of squared off and then these two angled sides at the back as well. And there's actually magnets in both ends around these three sides. So you can see that these metal plates basically are magnetic and will attach to the small metal plate. And so what that means is that what they include them for is that you can actually just use gaffer tape or something like that to tape these onto a wall. And so then you can just attach this to random places as you see fit. But the beauty of it being sort of three-sided is it means that if you are say on a wall and you want it to shine sort of up at the back wall for example, then you can angle it slightly like that or you can have it angled out to the side or angled a different way. The same if you were to attach this to a metal shelf for example, you could have it underneath the shelf and you may want it, I should probably change my camera angle like that, you may want it angled down or you may want it angled forwards or backwards or something like that. So that is the reason for those little angles and it works quite well really. You can attach it to any metal surface. One thing to note is although the magnets are technically quite strong, you can see it fits quite strongly there, it does take quite a light touch to actually sort of pull it off. So if I was to mount it to a wall for example, I would need to pull it too hard for it to come off which in one way is good, but in another way is a little bit disconcerting. I'm always worried that if I were to mount it to the side of a shelf it would come off very easily. So that is just something to bear in mind, but still it's good to have multiple ways to mount these things. So let's have a little look shall we at what happens when we switch it on. So I'll come back to the top down shot and just move some of these things out of the way. And yeah, we've basically got five buttons as I say. So the first one is the power button and you actually press and hold that one. You'll notice when I press it that there is sort of bars that come up on the little LCD screen there and you press and hold and then once the none light logo appears then it comes on. There are three different sort of core modes and then multiple settings for each mode and there are basically four menus or four sort of menu folders if you like. So one for each of the different settings and then one for the sort of overall settings of the light. So I'll start with the first one which is the sort of white light. So you can basically change the brightness of it so from zero to 100% and then you can go down and change the color temperature so that goes from 2700 to 7500 so you can change the temperature of the light like that and then you've also got a gamma setting as well which goes from plus 100 to minus 100 and zero being in the middle which is the default setting so that's the level of control that you've basically got over the white light. Now if I press this button it will cycle to the sort of next menu sorry this one to the next function and that is the colored light and here again you've got the brightness so you can change that between, funnily enough, zero and 100% then the next one you've got 360 is the different number of colors that you can basically have so the full sort of spectrum there and so if I just cycle through these I think all through with the various colors of the spectrum and then if I press it again I can change the saturation so that is basically the sort of saturation of that color so 100 being fully saturated and if I was to go down all the way down to zero then basically it would be changing from the colored light to white i.e. with no color in there at all so that is basically I think probably the most useful functions the colored light and the white light and then another one which is sort of special functions and here you can basically cycle through a number of different types of lighting effects basically so this one is called a police car so flashing red and blue inside each of these as well you can change the brightness of them so I can imagine you know if you were doing some sort of stage lighting or something like that and you wanted the effect of these things then this is obviously the use case for them in your videos I'm not probably not going to be doing this sort of thing in my videos I shall just tell you about the different functions that there are nevertheless and so yes you've got the name of the function which in this case is police car and then you've got the brightness and then you've got different things like the speed and the different colors that you're going to cycle through and then let's have a look at some of the other effects so there's police car this one is storm so simulating obviously lightning this one is hue pulse which is just pulsing on whatever color you had the hue setting on before same for the white light so again pulsing at whatever color the white light was set to hue flash flashing with that color and the white flash as well and then you've got one that's basically looping through all of the different colors of white or grades of white whatever you want to call it whatever the technical term is it's escaping me at the moment the next one is the same just looping through different whites and then finally we've got the different hues and it's just basically cycling through all of those colors again with each of these there are lots of settings so you can change the brightness the speed the range of hues that it's going through so this is 0 to 360 going through them all you could have it going through a smaller range of the spectrum if you just wanted to have it sort of cycling through a particular range of the spectrum and then the speed as well so in seconds so we've got eight seconds here next one whoops a daisy I'm getting a bit ahead of myself next one we've got is also welding so if you want to simulate somebody welding nearby in your videos then these are the lights for you we've also got explosion which is obviously just going to be random occasional flashes we've got fireworks so again random colors we've also got one called bad bulb which I find is exceptionally amusing for a very accurate color accurate video light to simulate very poor quality lights so there is that one as well then there is disco which is just as you can see a range of flashing colored lights and a candle firelight setting and then paparazzi being a flash and then TV flickering in the background effect and then I think we're back to the police car so that is the the sort of effects that you can get from it for what they're worth and then the next sort of main menu so that is the we've got the white menu the colored light menu and then we've got the the effects menu if you like whatever you want to call that and then the next one is the sort of main settings of the light so the first one is channel 2 which is the first one is the channel so you can have multiple channels for these lights so that when you are controlling them with either a remote or the app then you can select different lights to have different colors so there's different channels for each light and you can have multiple different lights in the room the next section next menu item rather is the language so if you want to change the language you can change the wireless protocol I've just left that as it was on version 2 as opposed to version 1 not sure quite of the significance of that yet if I'm totally honest and the next one is Bluetooth reset so you can actually reset the Bluetooth if you've got it paired with different devices and then the next one is one to actually look which is the version of the firmware so here it's saying I've got version 1.00.11 which happens to be the latest version but I have to say it wasn't the latest version when I got them and in fact although I bought two at the same time from the same supplier they did have different firmware versions on and one was slightly older but none of them, neither of them were the latest version so let me just switch off the light for a moment just so that you don't get dazzled by all of the flashing lights that is basically a rundown of the different functions of them and the build quality is excellent I'll show you just quickly before we get onto the firmware I'll just quickly show you the website in fact I've got one step ahead that is the firmware download there's the website for Nanlite I'll obviously leave a description leave a link for this in the description and there are a few options so I just got the lights on their own but you can also get them with different things like a ball head fitting two tubes together and then a joining fitting between them to make them double length obviously and then there's a few other different options that you've got for them those are even longer ones so these are the six C's but then also you've got some longer versions of them as well now if I just come down here there are a few different accessories none of which I actually got but one of them is the fabric grid so if you want to be a bit more directional with the light then there is a grid available for them just proof bag if you intend to do any underwater filming or out in the rain there's also which could be useful actually a battery pack which would screw onto the bottom and then it basically just plugs directly into the charging socket on the back and that does extend the life so it does tell you by the way the amount of time that you've got remaining so if I just switch them on and go to a very plain setting what you'll see here is the time remaining so at the moment you can see I've got nearly full battery and it says 0.8 hours remaining but if I were to dim it down to say 50% all thereabouts what you'll see is the time instead of 0.8 is now 1.8 hours so that will change accordingly as you increase that you can just plug in any old power bank because as you saw the cable is just a regular USB 3 so you can just plug the USB 3 into your power bank and then the USB C into the pavo tube you can also just have it wired obviously directly into a USB socket and then power it that way as well so you don't have to worry about the battery life just coming back to I keep going to the wrong page there just coming back to this the last thing is you can also get a remote which is pretty cheap really $12.99 and that allows you to adjust the colour like that of them but what I'm going to show you now is also how to download and install the firmware because with the firmware update if you've got one of the older versions you can actually link it to the NanLink app which will allow you to do some pretty interesting things with choosing your colours and so on so let's have a little look at that I'll leave a link to this obviously in the downloads as well in the description but basically what we're going to do here is go to this page and then you'll see that there are some different firmware updates available this is the regular page and it will just keep updating with the latest firmware so worth saving this one and all you do is click on a firmware version 1.00.11 and that will download the latest version it tells you what's in here so it's added the app control function and so just download that and then it will take you through once you've downloaded it to a zip file and once you expand this it will bring you to this folder which has got some documentation but there is then this UPD file all you need to do is copy that onto a thumb drive so something like this but bear in mind that the socket on the back of the pavo tube is actually a USB-C so if you haven't got a flash drive that is USB-C you may just need to get one of these little adapters which is basically USB-3 or regular USB to USB-C and you just plug it in like that and then that means that then you can update the firmware on the light all you do for that is you just literally plug this into the back of the light with the light switched off and then switch the light on and it will instantly recognize that you've got the firmware on the flash drive and so it will just ask you do you want to install this and then you just click yes and that is about as complicated as it gets so once you've done that and you've got the latest firmware then you can actually control it with your app on your phone so I'll just quickly show you how to do that if I just bring up my phone what you want to do is search for the NAN link app again I'll leave a link in the description and then once you've got that and downloaded it you will need to create an account but once you open the app it's pretty straightforward to create the account and then when you want to link it with your light all you do is you come into here there's a little sort of actually call that the hamburger that little symbol at the top with three bars you click on that and click on new scene give it a name so I'll call this let's just call this studio shall we and click on create and then once you've done that click into that particular scene so obviously you can imagine you can create multiple different scenes with different lighting setups and things like that and you've got this big plus button so and it says tap to add a new fixture so if I click on this one now and then we can choose via 2.4G or via direct Bluetooth and you can see it does actually say that a transmitter box is required for the 2.4G whereas Bluetooth is direct contact connect so if I click on that one then it should just bring up the different tubes that I've got and I believe it is this top one that is the one that I've got on my desk as opposed to the other one and although I can just select all of them, silly me and then I'll click done and this is basically going to add those into the scene so you can imagine if you've got lots and lots of different lights you can add multiple different ones in and then in just a moment when this is finished doing what it's doing just taking a little moment there we go it has got this one now this one was channel 2 I seem to recall so this one that I've got in my hand is that second one down and now what I can do is I can change all of the lighting settings so if I click on that you'll notice that the light just went off click on it again and it should come back on and I can change the brightness of it by using these different sliders here I can also change the colour temperature so I'm just let me tell you what let me put this in the top down shot shall I and then you can actually see what's going on so as I'm basically changing the slider for the colour temperature it's changing the colour temperature of the white light and the gamma so we've got all of the same controls that we had before actually a lot easier with these sliders the mode so the CCT mode is the white mode the HSI is the one that's going to have the different colour sections so I can and you can see I've just got the wheel there I can just literally move it to any colour I want it does make setting the colours really easy quick as you can just take it to a specific point you've also got this one with sliders where you can change the hue and saturation and again you've got that 0 to 360 and then also the percentage saturation as well but the colour wheel is really good however there is I think an awesome feature which is a little camera symbol and if I click on the camera symbol basically this just brings up a little pointer and you've got a little pointer in the middle and you can just put that on any colour that you want so if I was to point it at this blue for example you can see that it's picking up the blue in this sort of bar that is down here and it's picking up that particular colour and then I can just click on that one to take the image and say done and now look at that it's actually changed to that colour so if you've got particular brand colours and things like this and you want your lighting to be on brand as well I think this is an awesome little app to be able to do this with and then you can also click on the little heart symbol there to save it as a preset so if you want to save that as a preset you can do that way and if I come back out and then this is how we basically set up these fixtures with the different lightings and then if I different lighting setups and then if I come out from here and let me come back to this shot and then basically in here you can see we've got studio well I could just keep going and adding all new different scenes and things like that there's not a lot in the settings section so it's just some basic things for account settings language things like that prevent device sleep device doesn't go to sleep personally I'll probably just be opening the app, switching on the lights and then that will be that so I hope you found that useful and you think these are pretty cool lights because I'm pretty impressed with them to be honest with you and they do just what I want for the studio I'm just looking down at my stream deck one thing about moving into a new studio space is nothing's still quite exactly where I expected I've also changed my just going on a bit of an aside here configuration so I'm no longer sitting down I'm actually standing and that means my stream decks a little bit further away than I was normally expecting it but anyway that is all for this video and I will give you another update after I've been using them for a while to let you know how they're going and you can expect over time there to be a steady increase in the amount of lighting in the background going on in my studio if you found this useful though please do go ahead and like the video and subscribe and why not share it with all your friends and family who might also be interested in this sort of content but for me for now that is all but don't go anywhere because 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