Building this YouTube set from an Ordinary Bedroom | Studio Tour

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(smooth upbeat music) - So what do you guys think of the new set? I, for one, am really digging it. I think buying this $2.5 million house for this view, totally worth it. Yeah, and I didn't stop there. I also got myself a beach house out in Malibu. Let me just match the lighting here. And there you go. Now look at this ocean view. But sometimes it gets a little bit lonely up here in the beautiful mountains of Malibu. So I like to, you know, have another place for some nightlife. I get some skiing in this winter. Huge shout out to our sponsor, DJI, for sponsoring this episode. First of all, they gave us upgrade allowance which we've needed to make this work. Backgrounds like this one have been shot on the DJI Mini 3, and it's honestly impressive how even though their smaller drones are considered entry level, like, the amount of details that I can actually see, just coming up close. I mean, this is the amount of quality you can get out of entry-level drones these days. I'm really excited to utilize this set. It's been a a pretty long time since I've had a set that I'm just like, "Oh, I love this," and last time was probably when we set up the backdrop and we ran with that for a while. Okay, who is that? Who is that? That's not me. It's funny how you don't even realize you gain weight until you look at some old photos or the doctor calls you and goes, "Hey, your cholesterol is high and you're prediabetic," which, that kinda happened to me. So we're kind of in this process of just like trying to reintroduce ourselves to some good food, eating more vegetables. This has been a nice little reminder to always prioritize health first, even though it's not fun to starve yourself. But anyways, let's go ahead and go back to before we had all this set up. Benefits of not having children is you have extra room. There would be like a baby cradle right here. Nope! I'm gonna enjoy every square inch of this house until that day comes. If I wanted to turn this bedroom into a giant video wall, how much would that cost me? - It'd probably cost you like 100-and-something-k. - Oh, 100-something-k? - And then you would also need to upgrade the power in your house considerably. Probably four 30 amp outputs. Brompton processor would run you, like, 20k. So yeah, you'd probably be, like, 150k. - I think my budget's about 1% of that. How about if I just want a window that looks like I have a nice view? At Costco there was a sale for 55-inch TVs. Recorded all the TVs at 240 frames per second. Checked which ones flickers. Can I take three of them, put them on their sides? - You'd have an edge between each one. - Right, but if I'm trying to make it look like a window, I could make it look like a window frame and just put, like, a little bar through it. - Any screen will work. I mean, we've done video displays on a wall. - All right, window number 1. What's a good way to hold this vertically? Should I just put this on this chair? Dylan's the most expensive TV stand ever. - [Dylan] Well, with me you get, like, years of experience. - Don't you hate it when you have to type in passwords like this? - [Dylan] Yeah. - God, this is gonna take forever. "Unable to connect to..." Ah! Took me 16 years to type in that password (laughs) and it didn't work. I guess we're gonna try again. How does that look? Like, pretty realistic? Or does it just look like there's a guy back there holding a TV? - [Dylan] Does it look like a TV with legs? - Or why don't you just use the actual windows you have in the room? We have the view of brick walls. So. Oh, cool. So we can adjust the brightness. So this is useful, to be able to adjust the exposure of the screen. Okay. This background's looking a little bit better now, huh? - Yeah, this is a little more realistic. - Saw it on YouTube, right? Shout out to, what is it? - Yeah, to Cozy Sound. - Now we have to match the lighting. Welcome to my loft on the 80th floor. Yes. I pay $12,000 a month to live here. All right. Excellent work, Dylan. Do we need to hire two more Dylans for if we wanna do three TVs? (smooth, upbeat music) This should just hook on window number 1. Complete firmware update. This is just weird. Does every electronic on this planet require way too many firmware updates? Now, the whole concept of using a display to fake a background or environment, it's nothing original. We made a video a while back, checking out a mixed reality stage on a big scale. And more recently I had a chance to check out how virtual production is used in smaller spaces. - I'm Sam Nicholson, founder of the Stargate Studios, and we've been working on virtual reality: "Pan Am," "Walking Dead," "Ugly Betty," "CSI," "24." - [Gene] This is unusual because you're turning the set. - What we've got is Sony VENICE 2 with the C LED wall, Prolights, Kino Flos, everything tied in with motion and coding so that we can do 360s around the set. - What's the difference between this and a giant TV in the background? - High refresh rates, which gives us the ability to shoot up to 200 frames a second. A much higher dynamic range than a television. You want the high lights to almost clip like real lights do, real sun. - It's really maximizing the space. - So you wanna go to daylight? - [Gene] Yeah. - That's the other thing we can do is, we can change light extremely fast because we are pixel-mapped on the lighting. - And the resolution that's required to get this plate back there. These are 8K, heavy, raw, Venice 2 plates, with all the color we can get, Rec. 2020 and beyond. - As you move the camera, the whole background shifts, so it maintains that parallax. - So it's an illusion. I mean, these are all magic tricks, right? - Right. So these are tracking markers that's being watched by these six cameras, or are they cameras, or infrared? - Yeah, they're cameras. These are OptiTrack cameras. This is mocap technology redone for camera tracking. - Wait a second. We were just in a beautiful place by the water. - Everything's fake. Even the ice is fake. - All right. So now that we have a virtual window that can pretty much take us to wherever we want, it is time to get some backdrops. And that is where our sponsor DJI comes in. Let's give this a shot. So right now we're flying the Mini 3, which is the latest entry-level drone from DJI. And for a budget drone it delivers a surprisingly good 4K image. And what makes this drone in particular perfect for the shots I'm trying to get is it's ridiculously good battery life. Right now I'm flying it with the optional plus battery, which is the setup that gave me my personal longest flight record and I want these shots to be as long as possible so I don't have to loop it in the background. So now I just have to find a good spot to go and sit in. I'm thinking having these rocks in the foreground is gonna make our view a little bit more believable. Now, if I really wanted to, could I hike this camera up there and get a shot like... I could, but I just spent the last couple days falling on a snowboard and my body just cannot take any more abuse. So this is just gonna be much easier. (chuckles) So the wind has started to pick up a bit, but that's one of the nice things about this Mini 3 is it still has Level 5 wind resistance. So it still looks pretty locked off. Now, the camera specs on this little guy, pretty impressive. 1/1.3-inch sensor, f/1.7 lens and you can get started fine for 559 bucks with the basic controller. And I love how these Minis have this notch cut out right here for the camera, which means you could tilt almost all the way up during flight. You can go into portrait mode where the camera actually turns. Now, me personally, if I could have one and only one drone, I would opt for the upgraded version of this, the Mini 3 Pro, which has the same great camera and lens, but few upgraded features. Like, notice there's forward collision sensors, rear collision sensors, 4K 60 in D-CINELIKE instead of the 4K 30 in fixed color. So that gives you more flexibility in post to color grade and access to dynamic range. Fold up to be really nice and compact. Thank you so much to DJI for sponsoring this episode. Links down there in the description if you're thinking about picking up one of these. So now let's go ahead and download these clips and try to throw them in the background. This is a light from Aputure. Let there be light! Oh, yeah. Oh hey, that is pretty bright and that's only 30% too. So what's cool about these mats is that they're super lightweight and soft. Optional frame. This is gonna be perfect for tighter spaces where I don't have much space behind the desk, but I can just mount this back there and still have a nice soft source, instead of trying to figure out how to get a big old soft box back there. So this is Aputure's amaran tube light. This is just a two-footer right here. And see how there's a sun right here. So there should be some nice warm light coming, right? Warm light at your service. Whoa. - This view makes me feel like we won the lottery and we got a fancy house on the hill. (both laughing) The image looks great, I don't. - What are you talking about? You look beautiful. - I'm getting a tan. You're a little late for halloween. - Oh, yeah. Now I want this space to be fully controlled so I can film day or night. So this stuff here, duvetyne, is really good for blocking out light and I still don't know how to spell duvetyne. When I first started YouTube I actually did have a real window in the background and I remember one of the things that was tricky about that, the lighting will change pretty drastically every time a cloud goes over or whatever. So from one shot to the next, it might just be like bright, dark, bright. And now I'm gonna go ahead and figure out what lens combo I wanna use. - Ooh, there's a UPS truck. - [Gene] There's a UPS truck going back there? - [Kari] Yeah, look. - Kari, could you be me? (Kari laughs) That's what you see when I'm filming? Let me go ahead and get you up on the small HD here. Makes it so much nicer to just be able to look at a larger screen live. - If you keep the TVs on that wall, you can put the curtains up much higher on the wall and just dangle them down so it'll look more luxurious. - I'm getting quite a bit of spill from this light all around the background. I generally want this to be nice and dark. So grid time. Velcroed in. - I think you should build out something to cover up the base of the TVs. It will almost look like a bay window. Having like a little plant over there. - Hey, this is both of our world's combined here. Your world, plants, and my world, C-Stands. - You know what would really sell it is if we got like a little like mini couch and then the dogs were sleeping on it. - Even like your camera stuff or any more gear that you get, just to place whatever you're working on at the time back there behind you, that could be nice. - Now to feed the image to the TVs I just have this ASUS Zenbook. Got this USB-C to this adapter, which has four HDMI outs. And the PC just kind of recognizes everything as separate monitors. So I just arrange them to be portrait and vertical like this and I just play a video clip and just spread it out through all the monitors. Now, there are these video processors. Those would be nice 'cause then you could just plug in one HDMI input and you could feed any source to it. It will automatically divide it up. Some of the nicer ones, you could even tell it how big or thick the seams are, so that the image just seems more fluid. It doesn't do the jump when it goes from one TV to the other, but they tend to be a little bit more expensive. And, honestly, I think this is good enough. I mean, the way I picture using this is, that it's out of focus for a majority of it anyways. I like having this lamp here. There's actually a piece of paper that's in here that I use as diffusion just to kinda soften it. But this is an Aputure B7c, so little LED light. Throw this one in here. I'm connected to the Sidus Link App, so I could get really funky with the colors and do this whole... (roaring) But honestly, most of the time I just go for, like, the boring color. Now let's try to get a nice little evening shot here. I just have a preset for that and everything switches out. Huh? Pretty cool, huh? This lamp right here, if I turn it off it, it's still running. So there must be a battery inside of here. Can I just pull it out complete? Oh yeah, that's cool. I do also like the idea that I could just zoom in and do some cool producty shots like this. Ah, look at this. This looks sick, actually. For a while, I'll be honest, not too excited to film in this studio space. It just feels old after a while, but here I can just keep going out, shooting new backgrounds. I can't take credit for this background by the way, this is a shot from Storyblocks. Also notice that we got some curtains, but also, I got like a little piece of sheer. I'm hoping that these little things will just convince people just little bit more that this is not a bunch of TVs. Nobody puts a sofa in front of the TV facing the other direction, right? Still trying to figure out a few things to put on the shelf. Of course, we have our ALEXA. I just have these Aputure MCs. I have one hooked up up here. And one that's taped on here. But right now I'm ordering these adhesive metal plates that I can just stick up here. So that way I can just magnetically attach all these, have that flexibility. I'm trying to keep everything Aputure lighting in here so that I can control everything through that one Sidus Link App. But I feel like building out a set now is so much more fun because all these lights are full RGB. So that just gives us so much more flexibility than we used to have back then. Like, just having a bi-color light was really cool. Now we have all the colors we could possibly want. Size of this set right here, we are about 11 feet wide from side to side; TV all the way up to the camera is a little under 12 feet; and we have eight-foot ceilings. So, you know, pretty standard. Nothing fancy in terms of space. - You can adapt the size, probably, to your space and still get a similar effect. - Yeah, 'cause you could really just have one TV and put curtains around that. So far one of my favorite things about this is I kind of get to go out and shoot backdrops like this, and like this, for example, I shot off a rooftop on my birthday, so happy birthday to me, yay! But, like, the view that I was able to capture then, I get to reexperience it every time I film with this backdrop. As for audio, I'm still contemplating if I wanna use the Shure SM7B or just use these DJI Mics. I mean, what's nice about these is that I have full range to just move to wherever I want and not have to worry about being kind of tied to this mic. This is a dynamic mic. So generally speaking, you have to be pretty close to have it sound good. But when you are, listen to how my voice sounds when I'm recording on the Shure SM7B, and this is how my voice sounds when I'm talking on the DJI Mics. Now, these displays back here, they're all the same exact screen and model number and everything, but there is definitely a little bit of inconsistency. So I think I just have to do a calibration. I mean, since everything's just hooked up to the pc, I think I could just do it with those simple calibration tools where I put the little sensor in front of the screen and let it run its thing. The best part of all this is no more, "We're losing the light!" And, of course, without Kari's help we wouldn't have these beautiful plants. Plants are kind of the (beep), they're awesome. They just make everything kinda look nicer. I would never be able to keep one alive. So I'm glad that you like it. - [Kari] I'm glad you said that 'cause I actually just bought- - [Gene] More plants? - [Kari] Yesterday. - I love the shot and I think it looks really good, but there's this rule with cinematography that you're never supposed to aim for, like, the prettiest image. You're always supposed to be going for the best shot for the scene or whatever is happening. And I think one of the things that's important with YouTube is that there's like a sense of, like, rawness and a sense of closeness. So in the past I would use a 20 mil, which is pretty wide, and I like the closeness that you feel out of something wider. The problem is, it's a little bit tough to do that here. So this is almost a 70 mil and we just pushed it back and this compresses the space, which is important because we can't really show the edges, right? I can't really go all the way out to an 18 or 20 without just losing the illusion. But the other way to make a scene feel a little bit more close is by eyeline. - Maybe the word you're looking for is casual. - Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's exactly right. Casual. (Kari laughs) I want it to be a little bit less professional, a little bit more casual. I think the background is good the way it is. We just have to rotate the table so I'm facing the camera. I could be like, "Hey, today we're talking about blah blah blah with special guests, Kari and Peter. - Blah blah blah. - This is gonna look like crap right now because we haven't lit it yet. So let's go do that. (smooth upbeat music) Do you know how this is perfectly parallel to the bottom of the frame? Tough part about that is, it's always hard to get it perfect. It's always slightly, slightly off. So if we do like a little intentional offset, like this, I love the idea that I can just go straight from talking to you guys and that I can swap out the background and the lighting and then I can come over here, work on the computer a little bit, and now I'll cut to the Kari cam as she gives some very valuable input. - Why is everything so expensive? - I may go ahead and run a third camera so that we could kind of have like a little back and forth going this way, close-up angle, like here, if I wanna show you some stuff up close, like, "Hey, check this out. Isn't this cool?" (Kari laughs) Interesting conversations and funny talk. And then I could just turn around and go back to just a regular angle like this, pull up some stuff on the computer. - I do kinda like the other angle a little bit more aesthetically, but I think this one probably is gonna work better if you have somebody here. - Since this is a 4K, I can probably extract a close-up shot outta this thing. So it's kinda like I have a bunch of different camera angles going. But yeah, I think overall this 35's working and I still have that head room, we're not seeing the tops of the TVs. All right, so now it's like day 8,000 of working on this set. That's one of the things I really have a hard time with, is finishing up something because I always wanna just keep working on it until forever. But at certain angles you could kinda see a little gap between the TVs and at first I was thinking about getting fancy and putting in like a piece of wood here or something and painting it. But honestly, I think a piece of gap tape is (chuckles) gonna work just as good. It's always fun to see how much you can really get away with. I mean, once you lock down your camera angles and all that stuff, you know exactly what's in frame, then you just go in and just do some patchwork. Now, when we were making the anamorphic video with Atlas, I was kind of inspired by this light that they had that was retrofitted to be an LED. So I kinda wanna try to pull a page out of the Atlas book. These are the fixtures that I really learned on. But honestly, like, with LEDs being so good these days, these use so much power. So I pull out the bulb and I think I could just put this thing in here and magnetically attach it straight onto this reflector back here. (chuckles) So I don't know, looks pretty convincing, right? And since it's attached to the reflector, look, I can actually kinda change the shape of the beam. You can kinda tell that it's not perfect. But I mean, hey, now out of the 650 I have full dimming control, as well as color temp control. But most uniquely, it's full RGB now. I definitely want this light to have two purposes. One, to be kind of cool back here to fill out this space a little bit, but also work as a light to light someone that's sitting back here. Really utilizing these little MCs for this set, but the thing is that they are battery-powered, so I don't want it to die halfway through a set. So my plan is to run a little USB-C to all of them. All right, so here is how it kinda looks in its final form, but it's not really a final form because every single time I look at this shot, I'm just like, "I wanna change this or I wanna add a plant right here. That hanging plant I wanna put on this side, right here." Like there's just an infinite number of things I wanna still experiment with. But I think for now this works. And for my fill light, right here, I can just use my laptop that is just slightly out of frame. I have Photoshop open and I can dial in different colors. Green, purple, red. So in a way a laptop is kind of, you know, an RGB light. I usually do my comment reads off the phone, but maybe I can just make it like an overlay, right here somewhere. How does this look? So comment's from Christian, "Hey, Gene. Would you rather get confronted by one hundred potato-sized jets OR one jet-sized potato?" Holy crap. This is by far the most liked comment in (laughs) that last video. bloomylicious says, "Asking the important questions." "This took some serious forethought." "Leaving this video on pause until Gene answers this." All right, being confronted by a bunch of tiny jets, that actually sounds terrifying. I'm just picturing like a bunch of FPV drones that are jet-powered just, or on the other hand, a jet-sized potato. So, basically, just a massive potato, that just sounds incredibly delicious, and I would go for that. I don't even think I can follow that comment up with anything else. So I am going to wrap this one up here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Click on stuff if you like and hope you enjoyed this build video set thing that we did. And that is all. Too-da-loots. See you later.
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Channel: Potato Jet
Views: 348,137
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Keywords: potato jet, potatojet, filmmaker, film maker, camera, cinematography, cinematographer, videography, videographer, gene nagata
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Length: 19min 2sec (1142 seconds)
Published: Thu Feb 02 2023
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