I'm not going to lie to you,
this video is a somewhat
lame attempt to replace the video that was supposed
to be coming out, but that was delayed by
the manufacturer. But since I committed myself
to make a video before the end of the month for
today's sponsor, Storyblocks, the show must go on.
And so I've contrived this Frequently Asked Questions
video as a replacement. I hope you enjoyed
that bit of oversharing. Let's get undone. [offbeat music] ♪ Gerald Undone ♪ ♪ He's crazy ♪ What's happening everybody?
I'm Gerald Undone, and this is what happens
when my Discord server tried to decide
on an intro. So I spent the last three hours scrolling through thousands
of comments looking for the most common questions
to answer in this video. I'll warn you right now,
some of the questions are silly, but I didn't ask them.
You did. That being said, I am overall
quite impressed by how kind, clever, and engaging
you all are in the comments. I'm truly lucky to have such
a fantastic audience. Now, let's get into those
questions. First up, and something that you would
have just noticed is an edit in this video,
sort of a jump cut, because the first question is "How much do you edit
your videos?" And a lot of people
were saying that they often seem like one impossible take,
and that's by design. I do edit the videos. Sometimes I can actually
go quite long without messing anything up, but inevitably something
goes wrong and usually I just cover it up
with B-roll or a product shot or something to try
and make it flow better. I have another video
where I talk about how you can make the audio
blend well. So as long as you cover up
the jump, it seems like, you know, one
thought-out sentence. This is also helped quite a bit
by the second question, which is, "What is that thing
on the end of your lens," or "Do you use a teleprompter?" Two separate questions
I get asked a lot because, yes, that thing on the end
of my lens is a teleprompter. It is a Padcaster Parrot. And it comes with this
little remote and you can use it
to play and pause. It's not the greatest
as far as remotes because like some people
use foot pedals and different things like that.
And often I keep it here. So sometimes you'll see me like
reaching down into my crotch during the bloopers.
That's all I'm doing is I'm going back up
in the teleprompter, even though
it looks inappropriate. That's another question
I get asked a lot in the blooper questions like, "Why do you keep reaching
down after you mess up?" I'm going back up in
the teleprompter. Next question. Are you in a garage
or a basement? I think that's because of the,
like, industrial look here. No, this is actually--
all my sets, including this one and the previous ones,
were always sort of in, like, a living room of an apartment.
And that's the same thing here. This is sort of just a converted
living room. And the industrial look is just
something that I'm into because I often get asked
do I use tools and stuff like that. And I do. Yeah, I use these tools
all the time. I like to build things and
repair things and, you know, be a bit of a handyman around my
place and that kind of thing. So these are all my tools.
I like them and I think they make
for a fun backdrop. Another question I get asked a
lot is "What's with my intro and why do I call myself crazy?" So the real story here is
that that intro is from a long time ago from I guess
like five years ago now, when I used to make really wacky
absurdist comedic content and I always kind of
liked that jingle. I thought it was kind of silly
and funny. And so I kept it. And now it doesn't really
make a lot of sense. But I guess it's still kind of
makes sense because, you know, you could argue that you'd have
to be crazy in order to make these kinds of nerdy deep dives
and stuff like that. But mainly I just keep it
for the jingle because I think it's silly and it sounds
fun and it's catchy and-- but I do get some flack
in it for the comments. I know that the majority of
Undone fans out there like the intro, but there are
a handful that don't. So to all the other comments,
like, "Change your intro, you should change your intro." I'm not changing my intro.
Nothing you can do about it, not changing it.
"What microphone do you use?" So this is a Sennheiser MKH 50. It's somewhat recent to
the channel like only a few months ago. Before that
I used to use an Oktava MK-012 I still love that microphone. And then before, before that I
was using that Samson C02. There's a big step up to go up
to this mic, the Sennheiser. I think that it's worth it. But I think that if you're
on a tighter budget, that Oktava is a great option. And just for people who maybe
are new to my channel or don't really look in
the descriptions much, I do try to keep sort of the
core items like a six piece or whatever in the description
up to date of whatever gear I'm using for the video
that you're watching. So if you went in there,
probably says microphone, if you clicked on it,
would show this link. I also have a kit page, but if you want something
a little quick and easy, I try to keep those camera,
lens, microphone-- those links up
to date all the time. "Silly question.
Are you Chris Pratt?" You would be surprised
at how many comments are talking about
Guardians of the Galaxy, or comparing Chris Pratt, or
saying I look like Chris Pratt? I mean, everybody tells you
you look like somebody but most of the time they're,
"You look like my cousin." But this one comes up a lot.
No, I am not Chris Pratt, nor did I star in Guardians of
the Galaxy. But I'm flattered. Next question. "What sound
blankets do you use?" This one came up a
lot after I did the, sort of, studio tour
of this place so I can sort of wheel
one over here. I thought I did like a little
construction of these, maybe it was on social. So these are... These are Producer's Choice, and I got them from a website
called Vocal Booth To Go. Good experience. Like them.
For Canadians, those are a bit more expensive because you have to pay for
duties, and have them shipped, and they're heavy
and everything. It does start to add up
a little bit cost wise. But they're great. These ones
are, I think, like 8' tall. And I have them on those Neewer
rolling C-Stands, kind of modelled it after Caleb Pike's build out
a little bit. But on the top, I'm just
using a curtain rod and Velcro tries to hold it on. And these are a good first
step if you want to try soundproofing without doing
anything too permanent and if you can put them on, the rollie stands,
it'll help a lot as well. LTTstore.com "Why do you look sunburned,
or flush, or red?" I get this comment so often. I think it's because we talk
about colour and cameras and stuff.
You can't make anything as a camera reviewer without
everything you do... People looking at it like,
is it sharp enough? Is the color right? Is the-- because everything is an
evaluation at this point, right? However, my redness or pinkness
is not an evaluation. I am just a very
pinky red person. I think my skin is essentially
translucent. You know, you can see the
blue in my veins-- anyway... On my knuckles and my face--
anywhere where there's like blood moving around, I look
very red and pink. Nothing I can do about it, but
don't let it make you think, "Oh, that camera's
coming in too pink." I just am pink--
that's the way that that goes. That's why I normally hold up
a colour chart or try to shoot
other people to show you. "What LUT are you using?
Will you share your LUT?" Yeah. So-- and there's also a few
questions about Leeming LUT, because I used to talk about
Leeming LUT a lot. So I'm still-- so I'm not really
using Leeming LUT anymore, not because there's anything
wrong with it, but because I'm basically
just using the same gamma and gamut
on everything. So I'm not, you know,
matching cameras as much. But the LUT that I'm using now
is based a little bit on the curve that Paul Leeming
uses in his LUTs. I'm shooting S-Log3 S-Gamut3.Cine,
and yeah, I have a couple, I tweak
the colour a little bit and you know, added a little
bit of purple in some of the shadows to give the wood
the way that it looks and looks good with products
and that kind of thing. So it's-- it's an S-Log3
transform that I've converted to look a little bit like
Paul Leeming's curve, but then with my own colour
and a few other-- and added a lot more contrast than what
you normally find in a LUT. So yes, I can share it, you
know, I'll just put it there, I'll put in the description
for free, just download it, do whatever you want with it. It's for S-Log3 S-Gamut3.Cine I'll let you know though
that it's designed for overexposure,
probably about, like, 1.5 stops or so overexposed, which works
well in this setting. And I normally have
controlled lighting, so you might--
might not work for you. And it does have a lot
more contrast and a lot more little purple
going on there. But if you want to give
it a try, go ahead. Tag me in something if you--
if you did something with it. But yeah, you can have that.
No big deal. OK, "Teeth."
All right. First off, there's a common thread here
that I want to address. There's way too many
comments about appearance. And that's something where--
for those that don't do it, don't worry about it,
you're awesome. But for those that do,
a little PSA here, I'm pretty much immune to
physical appearance criticism, doesn't bother me, but there's
a lot of other creators that it affects them
quite a bit. And so if I can say, let's stop commenting on
people's appearance, especially for other creators
just starting out, you know, like getting your flack, I've noticed quite a few.
Like, "Why are you so red?" You know,
"When did you cut your hair?" "Why is your hair different
lengths?" Whatever. Yeah, I cut my hair a couple
of years ago, by the way, for those questions.
Why did I cut it? Because it was getting in my way
and like, the wispies would, like, blow in my eye and it
was more maintenance than I thought would be. I thought
it'd be easier to grow long hair and I found it to be
harder. So I cut it again. Yeah, just questions about hair,
questions about but why am I so red,
questions about my teeth. So I'll answer the question
about my teeth now. But in the future, let's
just stop commenting on people's appearance in
general in YouTube comments. Anyway. So, my teeth.
Yes, these are still my teeth. But I had Invisalign like over
the last, I don't know, I think I started in early
2020 like January, February 2020. And I finished it a few months
ago and then did a couple little tweaks and
then that finished a few weeks ago. So I'm pretty
much finished now. There's still my teeth, no
crowns, no caps or whatever. I almost wanted to make
a video on Invisalign because the technology is
actually pretty rad for those that don't know you. You get these like
clear plastic aligners and you just wear them. It's kind of weird, but I could actually really put
this one in right now. You just wear them like that and
you can't really see them, so I'll leave that one
for the rest of video so you can take them out,
shoot your video, put them back in, do whatever.
So it's great. What impressed me was how they
can actually move bone, like, over a series of time
and it wasn't too painful and it wasn't too weird. It's--
it's crazy technology in a way. You think of so many other
things that we still haven't really nailed and yet we can just like move teeth
with clear plastic over time. It's pretty great anyway. So,
yes, I'm happy with the result. Thank you for all those
that made compliments. It's weird seeing people
compliment, though, like "Your teeth look better." It's a weird thing
to hear, but thanks. I know that your intentions
were probably good. I still say let's not talk
on people's appearance. OK, next up, "Where can I watch
your professional work?" So here's the thing. I feel like there's a bit of
a-- a characterization that's assigned to me that
I'm some sort of production on-set camera whiz
or whatever. I'm not. I've never branded
myself as somebody who does a lot of big high end
productions or that I've done a lot of that kind of thing. My professional work with video
has mostly been, you know, smaller scale client work,
corporate videos, promotional videos,
that kind of thing. And I don't share it because
it's lame, you know, like I was never really into
it or that inspired by it or liked it that much. I really liked playing with
cameras a lot more than I liked shooting corporate
videos with them. And if you've ever shot
corporate videos-- I mean, some people are great at them
and they love them. And those are the people you
want shooting corporate videos. But for anybody else who doesn't
love it, you get it. But I've never worked
on big sets. I don't do huge productions. And I wouldn't consider
myself a filmmaker, which is another term that gets
thrown around a lot on YouTube. I'm not a filmmaker.
I'm a computer nerd who likes to play with cameras and I like to test the
cameras a lot and then tell you my findings. And I never claimed to be
anything other than that. But I don't share my
professional work because I don't care about it or like
it and I don't really do it. I don't do it anymore and I
haven't done it for-- since the YouTube channel
has been doing well. So now my professional work
is my YouTube channel and I try to put a lot of the
things that I talk about and do the best that I can
on the YouTube channel. So let's say this shot,
for instance, is representative of, you know, a certain quality, or my audio
hopefully is representative of something or my lighting
or whatever, you know, so that you can kind
of see-- or when I shoot my product
B-roll, you know, you can look at those things. But sometimes I do share a
little like artistic things on Instagram or Twitter. Follow me on one of those
if you're not. But outside of that stuff
or that's the stuff that I want to be representative
of what I do. And if you think, oh,
this guy, you know, this guy is really good at
filming YouTube stuff, are really good at shooting
product or whatever, then, then, then good.
Then you can take my advice on how it pertains to that, you know, but for the most part,
I try to give advice that's-- I try to give
information that's valuable for whatever you like to shoot. And however, whatever
your skill level is, there's real world,
then there's YouTube. But if you do YouTube
professionally, that kind of becomes your
real world thing. And a lot more people are
shifting to online content creation as their profession. So then you giving advice on how to make online
content is actually a real world application
for how to do it. So it's like a sort of
meta take on what the new real world is. The real world is becoming
more and more online, which means that advice for how to do things online
is becoming more and more real world.
It's weird, right? But I think you get
what I'm saying. So I feel like my content
is my real world example more than my corporate videos
that I used to shoot are. Those don't even
represent anything anymore. And that's enough about that.
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and my last question, which is "Why is the channel a bit more Sony focused
these days?" Something I've always kind
of want to talk about on the channel,
but don't really is how the marketing departments
affect this from the different companies. So as a YouTuber, I'm running a
business here and obviously I want to talk about products
that are new and fresh because that's going
to get more views and it's easier to get sponsors
for those videos and so on. Right? The whole business
aspect of it, you're going to watch a video
on a new camera. Anyway. So Sony has been really,
really good with being good
at communicating, being good at-- early, sending me the stuff
to make the reviews, and they don't ever
sponsor any videos and they don't give me money
or anything like that, they just get me the
gear ahead of time and they try to work
with me so that I have enough time to do what
I want to do and work out the video that I want to make.
And they do that so frequently-- And they also make
a lot of products. I mean, we can all admit that
they're pumping out more gear than anybody else is right now. But when they do pump out
something, they send it to me. Other companies,
some of them are great. That also do a good job. Sigma has always been really
good at getting me stuff. Fuji's normally pretty good
at that kind of thing. Panasonic I've had a good
experience with. If I can't get access to certain
cameras, or if a company is slow or if they're marketing
department is like a revolving door where they're
constantly changing personnel and you don't know who to email
and the person you do email, you get an auto responder saying
they don't work here anymore. Like the only way that this--
that this business works is if I can get the gear as a
loaner to make the videos on. I can't be buying
every piece of equipment. So if the PR companies aren't--
the marketing of the camera companies aren't working well
or working with you well or very fast or responsive,
it can be quite difficult. So I think if there's
a bias from a YouTuber-- This is this is speculative. So I can't say this
about everybody, but I can tell you where
my bias comes from. My bias isn't so much
on Sony as in like I like Sony's products
and I'm a fanboy and I'm going to recommend
them all the time or that I'm being paid by Sony. What it is that it's easy
to work with Sony. They have gear,
they get it to me on time. I can make videos on that. And there's other companies
that I don't talk about as much because I can't get
their gear as easy or it's a big hassle, or I can't
plan it with my schedule. I can't make it work
with sponsors, or it's TBA on everything. So it creates a bias where if I
start planning a video, I think, OK, what could I do? Well, there's that
new Sony thing. Maybe I'll fit that in,
and then you send an email off to a few different people and
Sony gets back to you right away and like,
yeah, we'll get you that. That'll work out fine. You
don't hear from anybody else. Well, I guess I'm making a Sony
video because, again, I'm not going to go spend
$15,000 every month on camera equipment
to make videos. Anyway, I'm sure you can
understand. But that's where my
Sony bias comes from. It's twofold right now. One, I'm actually using Sony,
so I'm interested in it. You guys are also interested
in it. My Sony videos perform better
than other videos. And Sony has been really good,
you know, from their marketing angle. And I'm not going to mention
any brand specifically, but there's other questions that
I get asked a lot. "Hey, Gerald, are you going
to review this?" "Hey, Gerald, are you gonna
review that?" "When can we see a video
on that?" I've tried.
I've tried multiple times. "Send me that."
"Can I have one of those?" "When are you going to send
me one, can you do--" whatever, and I'm not going to buy these
things. Those are too expensive. So if if you want to see those, then those companies need
to send out more units, you know, even just loaners. That's all we're asking
for here. And I generally only need them
for a couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm not complaining.
I'm just trying to give you an understanding of why Sony is
probably occupying, you know, 50%, 50-60% percent
of some of the new-- the new gear videos
that I'm doing. One, it's because they make
a lot of products. And two, they get them to
me in a timely fashion. OK, moving on.
The last thing I've written here is "Thumbnail pose."
You guys are going to love this. We're going to do a dirty
YouTuber thumbnail pose. So I don't know what
I'm doing here. How about if I'm, like, annoyed
with your questions, or, like, mystified by them?
So something like this? [camera shutter] That's probably good, right? Got to make that YouTuber face
once in a while. I know. OK, that's the end of my list. So I am going to leave now. But that's going to be it
for me. I hope you found this video entertaining
or least helpful. And if you did make sure
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