 So I uploaded my video yesterday about the how we make money making YouTube videos So let's talk about how we make YouTube videos and specifically the course questions that came up was the gear I use and This is one of those things that I'm going to recommend. There's a lot of channels I think one of them is actually called tube noob It's kind of cool because they have a whole list of different things you can get to help start your YouTube channel on a budget This is not your base budget stuff This is what I use and kind of why I use it There's a lot of different setups and it's not like there's one better than the other kind of comes down to what you're comfortable with Now I have a background in photography I have a background as a wedding photographer not everybody knows that about me But it's really not a secret if you do know anything about me I've long loved photography and I was a cannon shooter when I was doing the wedding photography And I probably shot over 500 weddings Canon just became my go-to I had a ton of photography equipment Which I slowly sold and traded in to get video equipment because I you know made this run at YouTube here And the first thing I'm gonna talk about this is my old spare camera from doing wedding photography It was like the backup one, but it became an easy shooter here for doing video So this is a Canon 70d and I still use it and all the b-roll in this video will be from my Canon 70d It is still a great camera. It still holds up really well It does have a couple issues and actually I had two of them and the other one died Is which led to the next camera we're gonna talk about I have this with magic lantern Which allows you to really unlock features that can didn't really ship it with And I believe and this is a guess that all the extra Usage and the really long record times I was doing when we were doing some of the vlogs and things like that That actually had to be split up because we were running so long That's where you run into a challenge with this Canon 70d and a lot of other SLR cameras that don't do long record times And the camera burned up So now I have one that is just my 70d of spare parts and this one is still in use But it's just used for b-roll and it works really well for that now because I'm using Canon We're gonna talk about the next camera The one I chose was the Canon c100 mark 2 Now it's not the popular choice of youtubers But it is a popular choice for people who do documentaries and things like that So it's it Canon's camera has been around a while so it's no it's not some fancy new 4k camera Canon sells this camera and it's I think still goes for a little under $4,000 maybe 3,500. I haven't looked at the price on in a while. I've had it for about a year I love that camera one of the reasons why is I don't want to spend a lot of time in post-production And the c100 has top-notch audio input, so I really don't have to do any post-processing and audio video wise Canon is a weird camera the way they did this and this is really cool It has a 4k sensor that down samples to 1080 with dual pixel autofocus and really crispy sharp pictures The weird part is I'm shooting this on a 50 millimeter f 1.8 lens sometimes referred to as a nifty 50 Great lens you can pick it up for less than a hundred dollars like I did and It's really weird to get this kind of quality out of a you know sub one hundred dollar lens with a $3,000 plus camera, but the results are great And to shoot with this shallow depth of field with all the lights around me and balancing the light I have it with two ND stops and if you're not favorite neutral density filters Something you don't get an SLR cameras you have to put them on the lens It actually has a whole series of ND filters to stop down the light to keep these really shallow depth of field focus Right out of here and Canon's color science as it's referred to so you have color profiles like C log for Editing and so you can do all your post-production once again. I don't want to do post-production So I use a color profile load it in there So the video comes out of the camera no post-production color has to be applied I mean obviously you could always spruce it up a little bit But it doesn't make a big difference on my videos So I'm actually gonna upload this directly out of the camera with no adjustment just to give you guys an idea That's Part of the reason like I said for the Canon. It's an expensive camera It's probably not the most ideal but in terms of being a studio camera It does have clean HDMI out and that clean HDMI out really is nice when you're doing things like a live stream It's a workhorse of a camera So it's it like I said, maybe it not that I'm gonna say every youtuber should get this but is not a bad one Plus it has XLR mic inputs. I'm not currently using XLR mic I will get to the mic in a second But it's nice that it has that support if you have other microphone other audio inputs It just makes it really nice speaking of streaming live gamer portable 2 I'll give a shout out to the Linux gamer on this. This is how we do our live streams There's actually a TV on the wall over there where I have this being viewed or cam viewed So that's how we do our live streams using OBS and this plugged in is just great So HDMI in on this works in Linux works in Windows like I said Linux game I seen them review it and I'm like, oh cool. This works in Linux. I'm a Linux guy So that's how we do our live streams and capture for that It's actually really nice because of being an HDMI capture My friend Jay has actually used my studio a few times to do distro reviews with it where he can directly capture instead of doing a screen Capture so he can capture things like loading and stuff like that a great little device and I'll leave a link to all these things below But yeah, that's we've been using that for our live streams. Next. We're gonna talk about lighting now These are Aputure AL 528 s amaran lights and they have the Aputure easy softbox on them. They're simple. They're easy They do support running on battery or being plugged into the wall They're easy to quickly dial in and get my lighting set and the softboxes make them just really I think they look professional and they work because they're nice soft light because if you don't have them with the softboxes The light's just really harsh and it makes me win some when I try to look at the camera without them So this is kind of like a good kit to put those together and then my back lights provided by an Aputure amaran AL F7 3200 to 9500 K, which means it's got adjustable color So the other ones are fixed color, but this is an adjustable color so you can make it really warm or really cool light It's nice. The one thing I'll note about it as much as I do like it And it's running right now off of USB C But you can put a battery on it and if you put the battery of Sony NP series battery It will run off the battery, but it won't charge the battery So that's kind of weird versus the other lights will run on the battery and when you plug them in They charge the battery at the same time So they're always charging and whenever I have to do a product shot where I don't Have a cord easily reaching or have to worry about plugging a wall I can just grab the lights and move them over with the Sony batteries plugged in and they'll run off the Sony batteries I think I get almost an hour or two of runtime on there So that's how I move the studio lights in other areas and it works really well Microphone just out of view here. Actually, I'm gonna drag it down in view a little bit and then we'll switch to b-roll The as-in microphone, it's been a great choice. It sounds good in my opinion. I watched a few reviews on it I don't know that downside is of course it takes batteries, but that's not too big of a deal I have rechargeable batteries that I just pop in and at the beginning of each session It's got a couple different boost options and with the processor in the C100. It just I never have to only make any adjustments I have the C100 on auto. I have this Boosted and it just sounds great the other cool thing. It's a two-in-one microphone So you've got the shotgun mic which is what we're on now And it's got a stereo option and I've used that when we have a few of us when we're around the table I just switch over to stereo if I got to pick up more than one person So the pickup pattern, you know narrowed down for shotgun like when it's just me talking But you can just add another pickup pattern for stereo If you want to do it kind of like in a group setting and have everyone talking around it and hanging above them Off to the side here is the feel world t7 7 inch IPS display field monitor And now this was a bit of confusion to me until I got into this This feel world is really nice. I actually like it it for as inexpensive as it is. It's us in $200 on Amazon it runs off one again one of these Sony batteries and the difference between a field monitor and a Just plug in an HDMI monitor like Tom was doing turns out one color accuracy So the TV does not show me it shows me me really big It does not show me the details I need as a YouTuber to make sure my videos being produced properly what I mean by that is this shows me like what they refer to as focus peaking Which is also supported on the C100 camera, but it's really quick to view that now The confusing part is it's called 4k now It does not have a 4k display But that means it will take a 4k input even though my camera is only 1080 But if I upgrade to a 4k camera it will downsample that and still display everything here Apparently some of them won't down sample because cameras will put out at a fixed rate And then you have to have something that deals with it, but this field monitor is nice It has audio monitoring on it Stupid problem is it doesn't have a mute button that I can find for the audio So I took a broken headphone jack and popped it in the headphone side because it output sound all the time And I don't want it to do that So it's actually you can't even see it because it's flush with it. It's that's actually a broken headphone jack in there So but it's got two HDMI inputs if I had two camera feeds I can feed it with both cameras I can switch between them. I think so. I've never tried that. I think that's why there's two HDMI feeds Anyways, I've never tested I only ever feed it with one camera So I'm there's playing reviews on this that are better than mine I'm just showing you what I'm using for the camera stuff, but it does work really well The other being that it's a less expensive field monitor is if you Want it off it does have an off button, but it still seems to drain the battery less than when it's on but it does drain it So whenever I'm done with that is pop the battery off and that's been my solution base. It's a good thing I'm glad reviewers told me that because if not a bit I go turn it on later. I wonder why the battery is dead Now I'll talk real quick about batteries. I have chose the Kastar I don't know how to pronounce things sometimes and this battery kit Amazon inexpensive It charges up these and has a nice display. I used to have a cheaper one that didn't have this play It's kind of annoying. You don't really know where it's charging it blinks a pattern like hey if it blinks this fast It's this charge net charge this has nice and 10% increments of how charged the batteries are and it does two at a time So I always have two batteries on it and that way my field monitor Which has the NPN or if I have that other light that requires it to easy to charge both of them And just have two batteries at the ready all the time. It was inexpensive, but definitely Worth it. It was it's great charger Now let's talk about this because this is kind of neat. I don't use it all the time I keep planning to use it more. This is for doing product shots It's sometimes called a dolly or slider that it's actually a combo dolly slider So one it can slide the camera back and forth like this for a product shot or and this is where it gets kind of cool You adjust these up and down so it locks in place or doesn't lock in place The wheels because obviously you don't always want it to move what you want it to move So actually when you get the wheel to the edge here I Can send it all the way around me and back and of course the product was there Well, I'm gonna hit it, but you kind of get the idea if you get if you get the placement You can do these kind of cool spin around This thing is actually so stupidly fun to play with it's got really nice wheels with bearings in it and then you spin these little rubber stoppers and They just bring the wheels up off a little bit and then it's actually pretty stable so we can then do it as a slide or Spin it around like this because you want to bring it closer to your product for that kind of zoomed-in effect If I do more product videos, I bought it for that. It was on sale on Amazon and I couldn't resist I do really like doing some of the higher-end photography work, but it comes down to processing and editing and I'm like, okay Let's just get this review done But I plan to do some more stuff on here I don't want to get overly processed because I care more about the content than The glam of it, but these tools will make it handy Now I will address real quick how we mount everything and how we mount everything is actually with These Joby mounts now. I believe the Joby is compatible with what they call Arca Swiss mount It seems to fit in the Joby. I have at least one Arca Swiss that I've tried with them If you want to look that up, you'll see what they are. There's different mount plates But the nice thing about the Joby is I'm very very confident with it So I can put this Joby in here I know it's tight net and I'm not worried about it or this and when you have expensive equipment And I do use these mounts for everything. They're kind of an investment But once you've got them It's so nice because everything is so easy to articulate put exactly where you want and you can feel confident when it's on there It's not coming off. It just has a really nice feel great build quality and Even with a heavier DSLR like this if I put the camera at an angle and dial it in It doesn't creep on you because there's nothing more aggravating you get a product shot set up You hit record and then you're doing it and you're watching the camera slowly fall over now I also do have this which is the Gorillapod made probably famous by Casey Neistat for a lot of his work This is a great tool if you got to wrap it around something For a shot or you're what I'm doing some of the onsite videos, which I need to do more of But you can just wrap this around something and mount it and I did one of them where I was standing on a man lift We literally just wrap this around the edge of the man lift It's a solid mount and solid here when you're 20 foot up on a man lift You really don't want to drop your camera your lenses and things like that because it'll just it'll go horribly wrong So that's all the mouse now quickly on the lenses. I only have a couple of them I used to have a lot more when I was in a photography But the ones I use is the nifty 50 like you're watching right here from this part This is the Sigma 10 to 20 millimeter and this is you know for those really wide angle shots and then the last lens I have is the 1835 STM Canon lens and One of the cool features of C100 is it has facial detection But the facial detection only works with a certain limited number of lenses One of them is that 1835 so it's not like a professional cinema lens But it gets a job done and it does support facial detection It doesn't have that super shallow depth of field like this 50 millimeter and it's on there now But it's great for a knife shot a lot of my other videos on there Now the last thing about the mounts is how does it all you know, what's on this mic stand? What's on this? Well, let's talk about that. This is usually out of frame and this is a pro cam LS I'm sorry pro master LS6 Boom stand and I got it down lower than usual It's usually completely out of frame here once again Joby mounts on there, but what I'm gonna do is show you how we do these overhead shots what I'm doing me I'm usually standing up to do this but I can do it like this. It's kind of get the camera in place and Tighten this up a little bit and I'm just centering it because I'm particular like that. So now that that's centered and we do that and Then we take the camera. I was gonna make sure all this is nice and tight nice and tight Tighten this up and there's a little lever on it and that's how we get these shots What's loose this one it's hard to reach them because I'm other just out of frame And there we go once you tighten them up. They're not that hard to tighten I'm just reaching and then this is how I get the overhead shots So we line the camera up here Tuesday Just like I said above so when you're seeing me do a product one camera shooting down seeing the product and then this one And I the audio is not as good on a 70d So I always refer to that as my narrative track that comes off the C100 because the audio is going to be so much better and I just cut back and forth between the cameras But that's really it for all the gear I use the only other one that's not featured here is out there at home is I do have a GoPro hero, I think it's the black five or black six. I don't remember which one it is I use that for my time lapses It works really well for that and it's got the same thing. I got these same Mounts on it and I usually to stick the GoPro on here In a cage and hit time lapse that's how we get some of those time-lapse videos You've seen of some of the wiring installs we do and things like that, but it's all been yeah It's all worked really well for me in terms of that and I don't use it as often But if you wonder I still have my phantom for drone, I need to use it more It's always on my to-do list whenever we do a project But then I get sidetracked because I don't go on site as much Because I just don't know we have the time to do it to go fly over through a building or something like that I'm hoping we can do it We have a client that I want to showcase some of the stuff and I'm hoping to get permission to do a drone there Plus I want to do a drone we got to do a wrap-up on another video for the bowling alley And I want to use a drone for that, but I don't use it as often as I'd like Lastly and I can leave a link to this. I'm still using Kaden live for all my editing. I run Linux I run pop OS that's December 2018, but I'm still running as my operating system And I still use Kaden live for all my editing someone's gonna say have you tried DaVinci? I've looked at it. It's neat Maybe because I will need more titling That's the one big hang-up I have when I'm doing this is the titling is just awful in Kaden live I've donated money to the project. I've watched him really evolve it. They've become a very stable product It doesn't crash as often. It's really good to features It's how I've got over 600 videos on my channel edited with it Only a few videos were edited with open shot Which is when I really really first started and before I moved to Kaden live, but when it comes to adding titles Yeah, they they really need a good titling system I usually have to do the titles with some other random thing and Import them and overlay them and it's tedious and that is getting to me a little bit I am considering DaVinci at some point. I've really been trying to stick with it all open source But sometimes if it just isn't there it just isn't there and if I can't get Some of the titles put the way I want I may have to switch to something like that to really add and enhance the titling features This just looks nice when I can put all I'd like to be able to easily because it's so much work and post-production to put Just the specs next to me or whatever I'm talking about So that is something I'm considering for those wondering no I don't have any interest in using the adobe suite or learning it I was a full-blown and long-time adobe user when I was a wedding photographer hands down The adobe lightroom and adobe Photoshop is perfect for photography And I know the adobe editing suite for video is really good But I'm just been determined for no other reason than feather in my hat to keep using open source for this Kind of a prove-you-can type thing and I don't know I can't really answer other than torturing myself as to why so I'll leave links to all this gear where you can buy it Pretty much all of it's available on Amazon. I have some affiliate links I'd appreciate to help out for the channel if you click those to buy this If you have any questions comments or care to have me elaborate or review more on any one particular thing Let me know I don't do a ton of gear video because I'm not Well, I'm not a camera gear expert I did thought talk about talking about the C100 a little bit more but yeah for the most part Let me know if there's some interest like hey I really want to know more about this if not I can really recommend tube noob and DS I think DSLR video shooter they have just I've learned tons from both of those channels and Probably if I can remember the names of some of the other channels that were just immense resources besides Like Casey Neistat who know I don't shoot in his style nor do I plan to but his Casey Neistat skill guide to filmmaking to me is one of those things that can really help you get at least an understanding Because you have to create your narrative and things like that and that makes me think of how do I tell the story? Which I probably babbled a little bit here, but it is a guide to help how you maybe should assemble What you want to do for YouTube and you know It all depends on what your purpose is mine and more mostly is you know sharing knowledge about Everything open source firewalls blah blah blah, but I wanted to share what I'm using for equipment And how I built my studio for those of you wondering one last thing I want to cover real quick is just a layout of the studio so I'm standing like in our what we call our kitchen and If you're wondering what this is this is for a future video. We're gonna be doing soon Anyways, so this is the layout of the studio with all the foam on the walls There's more foam than you need if you're soundproofing, but it does make a big difference So now I'm in the soundproof area. I don't know if you notice the echoes start going away The camera sits here and we run everything Which is some magnets and wires we have HDMI wall jack we keep all the wires above our head and just using little magnets that were from Harbor Freight with Hooks because when you walk in please note the lack of wires on the floor I hate wires on the floor. It doesn't look good. It's a trip hazard and people walk through here all the time I can't have people coming in a studio including myself and Knocking things over because you yank something and then as the equipment being expensive pulling a camera over things like that So that's kind of just the general layout of the studio and then when we're all done with this big table We clear it all off. We just put the lights off to the side But all the little photography gear actually ends up all in here. It's just a metal cobalt cabinet from Lowe's and Then we lock everything in here And it's also where we keep all the charging equipment so that way it's all nice, you know the drone batteries are here the cannon battery chargers It's over here still on the table from the demo But the the Sony NP battery charger all that just goes in there, so it's all consolidated in one place But that's it. Thanks, and I'll leave links to everything below Thanks for watching if you liked this video go ahead and click the thumbs up Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback Or if you just want to say thanks leave a comment If you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out go ahead and to subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know That you're interested in notifications. Hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube Anyways, if you want to contract us for consulting services You go ahead and hit launch systems calm and you can reach out to us for all the projects that we can do and help You we work with a lot of small businesses IT companies even some large companies and you can farm different work out to us Or just hire us as a consultant to help design your network Also, if you want to help the channel in other ways, we have a patreon. We have affiliate links You'll find them in the description You'll also find recommendations to other affiliate links and things you can sign up for on Lawrence systems calm once again Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video