 Welcome back another product review and today I'm going to take a look at the not only the Wacom Cintiq but also the Intuos Pro and it's going to be kind of a comparison kind of a face off or kind of a pro and con what to use use both or just one and I'm going to throw in an unboxing in there as well. So let's get to the unboxing first after the break. Today I'm going to take a look at the Wacom Cintiq 16 creative pen display. It's a huge all in here. There you go. As always there will be chapters so you can skip forward if you don't want to see unboxing. First I want to take a look at the Wacom Cintiq but there is a bonus. There's the express key remote. There you go. That is the box. That is bonus one. The Wacom Pro Pen Slim. That is the box here and at the end. Handle with care. The Wacom adjustable stand. There you go. A lot to do. Let's start with the display. All right. Let's see. Where are we? Massive box. Let's cut this open nicely here. That was a very short cut here. Let's take this out. I have no idea what's in here. Okay. You got a description. We have a power cable. Then let's open this here. I see. So we have another pen here. This is the pro pen but this is the bigger one. Can't wait to open up the smaller one. We have a manual. This let's open this clumsily. There you go. That is for the power. More cables here. That goes into here. That's for your power. USB and HDMI. All of that. Tricky tech. Of course the spoiled cable management person here goes just should be one cable but you know I don't know how this tech works so this is just me saying something. It's not really a complaint or a suggestion. This is the ignorant comment but that's that in terms of cables and that is that in terms of the box. Back is empty. Put here. Slightly sticky here. Let's open this up. I see. I see. There you go. That is your Cintiq. Got your label here. That is the top. That is the back. You can see here the sides. It's all very thin. Nicely done. This is to put your pen inside. Let's go to the back again. You have your adjustable feet. Curious if I can do the same trick as with the Wacom one but I might not have to because I have that adjustable stand. And in here you will see more connections. Close this again. Looks like you got ventilation jets. All right. That's that. It's awesome. I love it already. Put your pen. There's this protective plastic over it. I'm a lefty. This is how I would do this. You got your power and then you can put your pen in there. I mean as you can see there's nothing dramatic about this. It's a fairly fast specific cut. Some parts out here. Fast unboxing. You got the product. You got to plug it in. They got to test it out but I like that there's not much to assemble or any trickiness. It's right there. So far I already like it. Let's unbox the extra things. Next up is the Express remote. That is the box here. Very excited about this one. I do love my hotkeys and it'll be interesting to see how I'm going to use this to supplement my stream deck to replace potential couple things. Very curious how this is going to change my workflow. There you go. That is that. Open up this here. That looks like your USB dongle. Let's right open this up. And in here we have more manuals. Every time I say more I just want to say more lambas bread. But you might have caught that in a different video. And on here it seems to be the charging cable. That's the length. And then in here we have the remote all angles branding. It's very nice. Cool design. Actually heavier than I thought. Clicky buttons. You got all your buttons here. But it's nice. And you also have that rubbery cushion. So it doesn't it doesn't slide around. And in here already with some power and then to charge there and then turn it off. I never had this in my hands before. I'm really surprised by that's a surprise. I've been walking this really good stuff but I did not expect something this sturdy and nice feeling in terms of a remote probably says more about me than the company. Well anyway that is that. Again excited to try all of this out. Let's put this back. Next up we got the walking pro pen slim. Put your box fairly simple here. You think it would be fast opening up this pen box but this took longer than I wanted. All right that's interesting. You got this here probably manuals and things underneath. There we go. That is what you get in here. There's nothing hidden and that's it box wise. In here protective plastic wrap. That is the case branding here for the pen. This off you can see the nibs. Yes my favorite the nibs and you pull this out gently. I'm afraid of breaking this. I've never opened this. I don't know if this comes out completely. I don't think so. This stops here. And in here you have the pen. Cool. I like this protective case especially when you travel around. Oh yes I like this. I wasn't too sure if I was going to prefer the bigger one or the smaller one here but after having used the Wacom one I'm just very used to the smaller pen it's just the way it handles the feel the weight and everything. I form an opinion after all this time and I do prefer the slimmer one. So once again thank you so much for Wacom for providing me with the slimmer one. It's very kind of them. They listened to watch the review and heard this and said we'll send you a small one. So I do prefer it. I have to say I do still like the feel of the big one in terms of the front. The squishiness it has something also nice in terms of just because of the compression the squishiness it doesn't hurt. It's now uncomfortable and the buttons are nicely accessible. There's just something about the smaller one the handling I just kind of prefer it so I'm glad I have both and the cool thing is given that they are the same tech they will work across the Intuos Pro and the Cinti. So I'm excited to not have to switch pens. You can only use one there shall only be one and that's very cool and if you want to compare definitely smaller. All right so many goodies last but not least it's not that heavy. Handle with care the Wacom adjustable stand. We have this protective here adjustable stand the plates for the back tiny screws more tiny screws. Plastic thing is here I actually don't even know what that is I will find out and here's a stand. Ooh heavy nice and hold on let's always double check that's it nothing in here to the mechanism in the back but that is the content in case you're interested in what is going on in this package a little on screws but that's that for the hardware so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take this assemble it put the display on there put on my desk I got a new swivel arm for my monitor the whole setup will be totally different so I'm going to snap my fingers and then we're going to fast forward to see how everything ended up being awesome or not probably very awesome and then I'll give you my subjective two cents. All right we are in the future now and I've used all of these for quite some time now and as you can see my general hair and everything at times have changed here's way way way in the future and I have used the interest pro and the Wacom Sintiq 16 for quite some time now and I have changed a bunch of stuff first thing that I have actually not used anymore is this let's just tape on it because so the screws don't fall out but I don't use that anymore so let's go straight into the review pros and cons and everything so at first the Sintiq 16 this stands as you can use it here you can set it on your table wherever you are right for your setup and then you can bring it up and you bring it down what I have noticed in my setup is I'm fairly picky in terms of sitting the posture standing I got the you know the electronic standing desk here that this setup was too low so when I had it up it wasn't it was something where I still had to crouch over and especially when it's flat on the table it definitely works but it was a bit I was concerned about my posture and I started to have some back issues where I was just not not sitting the way I wanted to sit so the first thing that I did then was look into a swivel arm and you can see this here that is the arm that goes up and down turn it here and bring it back now which one was that I can blend in here this is the amazon basic single monitor stand lift engine blah blah blah all of this here it's currently not available and my review is that I don't like it so I've installed it I actually had it on the right side but then I got a new monitor and I moved my mic around and it's this is my current setup that I'm somewhat okay with I would still prefer this mic on the left so I gotta look at other things here but going to the tablet it is for me much easier to have it on the side bring it in and then put it back out because what I love about a Cintiq is that it serves as an external monitor so in my general setup the way I have it now is that I'm actually using the Intuos Pro and the Cintiq at the same time it's not either or as you can see in this view I have an extra tablet that is for my second computer so I have like a gaming computer setup that have an extensive work setup where I use the tablet a lot so what I do is I can grab this bring it down for the critiques and because it's so small I still have room for my keyboard which brings me actually to the second thing I actually use I don't use anymore which is a shocker and that is this I was super pumped and as you saw in the unboxing the material is all very solid I like the setup and all the keys you can have you got the dial here you got a ton of extra buttons it's there's a lot you can map on this and I thought it's going to be something I'll be using where I put it maybe on here as I do my critiques but it's fairly small and it slides down it's not something that's magnetic that immediately went out the window like I can I won't use that here because I do need a keyboard as a critique because I want to flip through and use my hotkeys and so on so I thought this would be perfect and at the end because it's set up like this I have access to my keyboard and I can go on here I can draw I can scrub through this you can make this a bit bigger I can scrub through this here I can go back and forth I can draw the the hotkey on and off I have everything here that I need in terms of hotkeys and when I need to write all I need to do is lift it go back to my bigger setup and I can go over all the screens and I can still type and I can go back and then still draw and do my critiques so that has actually been the biggest surprise that after the whole setup of the express keys which let me show you you have here in your desktop center you got all my devices here I need some updates but I can go to the remote here express key settings I can bring this into this and you can see that after everything I've done it's back to being a default because I try different things I reinstalled some stuff and I thought I'm going to do like a crazy awesome setup and at the end I ended up not using it now I'm still hanging on to it because here a couple things as much as I love this setup with this antique it's great for critiques because I do my critiques at 720p and I upload them on youtube at 720p and this is a 1080p display so I can still zoom in I can do a bunch of stuff and that's that's okay all works for this as I have started my work at a new company I'm doing a lot more drawovers in terms of poses and just I can't say too much but it's generally I use photoshop a lot on this display and I've noticed that the 1080p to me doesn't work anymore where I have to bring in all the tools and the shelves and I sometimes I use photoshop on a bigger screen move things around I got some hotkeys like I got some like workspaces safe but ultimately within this setup photoshop gets very small so now that I have everything set up and I'm comfortable with my eyes already going towards a bigger cintiq this could be the pro the 22 like I don't know I have to look at what's out there and I have a feeling that because of my setup at work I'm going to switch to a bigger cintiq which also means that I'm going to change this arm because again I don't like this arm the arm is it's fine for this and it's fine for that but then this and I try to loosen the screws it's just it's kind of clunky I'm not a fan of this arm other arms are also really expensive so I gotta do a lot more research and do some googling in terms of what are good arms like what are people recommending it works for what I have now like I can do a bunch of stuff with this but I would love for it to be slightly smoother maybe other arms are not smoother I don't know but that's my current setup so going back to express keys if you have a bigger cintiq this it would take up a lot of space which means I wouldn't have access to my keyboard still I would have the setup where I can quickly lift it and access whatever I'm on my table but it'll be I think as a setup much more difficult and if you look at the bigger ones they do have this where they're attached on the side again you do some research how to do this but then I would for sure use it and this is why I haven't returned it again thank you walking forward for providing this but I want to hang on to this because I can see how it's absolutely necessary with the bigger display right now with the smaller one there are no buttons on this except the on off button so I do need this for the keyboard and like I said in my setup I have access to the keyboard it's totally fine maybe comment let me know if you're using a bigger display which one and why I gotta dig into all that setup they're very curious hanging on to this because I still do like it what I have noticed though and this is more on the con side is that it's as you saw in the unboxing it's very it's very clicky and that's fine in terms of feedback I know I clicked something but what happens and it's turned off by right is when nothing's happening when I do critiques and I I use this at first to flip through images and like my keyframes and my bookmarks everything ended up being loud with my microphone the mic picked up all the clicking and that was actually one of the first things like ooh that's kind of too loud it's a bit distracting in the recordings so that's one of the things if you have this and you're recording stuff watch out you can hear the clickiness but as a tool it works for my current setup not so much but I'm gonna use it for later but let's bring this back up here and go back to the top of properties here so here in the remote you have all the outer keys and there's a ton of stuff you can do here you can set up all your clicks keyboard keystrokes modifiers navigation a ton of stuff different applications you have so much here this is for all of these but you also have the inner keys and then you also have the ring keys so there's a ton of stuff you can do again the cintiq has nothing that's just my pen setup so for this I have regular clicks obviously you know navigation stuff using this then I have the middle mouse for me is this one so middle mouse click is this so I use this to drag things around to open up tabs in a browser but for sure because of Maya because I need that middle mouse clicking and then the right click right there that's just right clicking for you know the menus and context stuff and just like did my general setup and you would think that that's the eraser but I actually don't have this mapped as an eraser I have still mapped opening of folders to this so when I do this I can just do that and that opens up the folder it's much faster I love it of course in Photoshop I would map it to eraser like there's different things that I use in my general setup because I use folders so much I open up folders all the time and move things around a lot that I have now used this as my primary and it's kind of like a very satisfying flick of the pen so that the folder opens so that's what I have for the backside of the button so I think you can you can tweak a bunch of stuff and it's great for interest pro as well I everything is there set up and you have all kinds of different functions so definitely check this out I'm probably going to do a separate clip in terms of pen I'd say pen workflow from Maya someone else has asked me about a pen workflow it's really just this that's the your main button middle mouse basically main button middle mouse and in the right side that's my setup in Maya now in terms of hotkeys and things I had a setup at the beginning with the express keys and then I went to other third party there I mentioned stream deck and now loop deck so I'm testing a bunch of stuff so that kind of workflow is changing a lot so which one would I recommend that's kind of tricky to answer because I'm using both my case is just I like using both because I'm not always drawing I do like having a regular setup with just the tablet and the keyboard with all the stuff that I'm doing there and it's also for posture I like all of this this has worked out as I'm moving this over to draw a little bit I don't really have any problems I have it fairly set up where I get closer bring it down and it's fairly low and I can do all my stuff here and then it's lifted a little bit to do something else and bring it down it's a fairly good setup and I'm I really like having the Cintiq and the tablet at the same time I always had a walk in tablet and never Cintiq for me it was always the tablet computer and it's just it's for me in terms of animating and using something for a long period of time it's much more comfortable to use for me this again I had a different review about an ergonomic mouse I'm still using the tablets and the pen as I haven't gone back to a mouse unless it's from other separate things and even though my second computer can see this here it's a it's an older tablet from Wacom like I've always had a Wacom tablet now with this edition I really prefer doing drawovers and critiques on a screen that I can draw directly on so that I wouldn't get rid of this I would not be able I already have a hard time drawing and drawing just on a tablet looking here it's even worse so I definitely use the Cintiq other than that the setup is great and I love that this functions as a separate monitor so if I don't use it to draw I mean it's overkill I got four monitors but it's really a setup that I'm currently using where this is my main work drawovers something else even if I record because I have it right below I can have a window open with notes so I can talk quickly look and then keep on talking that's been a great setup as well the biggest screen there is for watching things lectures things to do is like what I'm we'll have to do next like a reminder screen and for me dailies like I like watching things on the big screen just to review animation and then the other screen here is just for my own email and work email and bunch of stuff where I need to see chats and stuff like that it's a crazy setup but I have to say I really like it and in terms of workflow I like little things like flicking my pen to open up a window I know it sounds silly but anything that I do repetitively I want to have either shortcut or something where I don't have to spend a lot of time sounds really like a massive first problem but trust me if you do a lot of repetitive tasks throughout the day and I do them every day Monday Friday it's just there's something where you just get into a really nice habit and it's also in terms of if any of you have any hardware gadgets and tools with knobs and buttons there's also a certain workflow again where it gets very satisfying in terms of doing something flicking the pen like this very satisfying so in terms of my preference I use both in general workflow and just working without doing any drawings Intuos Pro is great I like a smaller tablet like this I don't know because it's just again I have a lot of stuff on my desk and just I don't need more it's it's enough ergonomically it also works really well I don't think I would go bigger with a regular tablet cintiq wise I think for me it's really great to do drawers and if you can afford a stand where like a movable arm that to me would be the preferred setup if you have to do on the side or if you set up behind you personally wouldn't go back to the stand that flips back down because then it takes up a lot of room and I still need my keyboard so in terms of personal preference I prefer a swivel arm just because I can move it out of the way so I can use the tablets and the keyboard and just use this as a second screen now if you do have an express key and you want to set things up and have this in the description all the links in terms of setup when you want to do proc links if you want to check it out the only other thing I want to mention in terms of cons which is it might just be me but I found that and you can see this on the screen it says right now in just pro 93% it's because it's cabled and when I take the cable off because this is a bluetooth wireless tablet right I can take this off and you could technically work on this it's I haven't set it up because I always have it plugged in now why do I have it always plugged in it's because after a day battery is dead I don't know if that's me maybe it's the amount of usage or I don't know I found that after a day it's dead and then I gotta charge it overnight and since I'm not moving around and moving my tablet in place somewhere else I don't know I have found you just I'm just gonna leave it plugged in so the wireless aspect is not something I'm gonna use and since I need to plug it in every night anyway to charge it I'm just gonna leave it plugged in all the time that's just something I want to know I know what happens to you let me know in the comments I don't know if you have a longer day usage or is it something that I have or too many things plugged in I don't know and the other thing I wanted to mention which I've mentioned with the Wacom one as well is just a cable setup to be honest I'm just not a massive fan of the cable setup where as this comes out it's a massive cable but then that splits into power in usb and display and everything then I wish that and again this is something where I don't know how to take works and how complicated it is but I would love for this just to be one usbc cable that's my biggest if Wacom is watching this please please please consider this they're probably going yeah we have you you know you don't know what you're talking about I really don't know what I'm talking about but that's my biggest gripe it's just the cable that's kind of that I don't know I'm really happy with this setup the responsiveness on on the screen for drawing is great all that needs to be improved is is me my drawing skills they're horrible so that's what I need to do I'm curious what you think maybe I missed something you know me like maybe there's something where like well if you do this it would be so much easier so let me know in the comments maybe you're using this antique you got some tips and tricks maybe tips on the different arm that's better in the different interest pro maybe you have maybe different size something else that you prefer I don't know I'm very curious about people set up this is my absolutely bonkers setup that I use that I'm really happy with right now and that's that I don't know hope that's helpful if you like it subscribe if you don't miss any of my uploads you know I gotta you know sneak in sneak in it's not really sneaky it's right over it's my pitch from my channel so like and subscribe the usual that you gotta say but it helps my channel grow so thank you and it's also a longer clip it's very long actually so thank you for still watching it's very patient of you and 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