Hello everyone, today I decided to make a special video,
a behind the scenes video  in which I'll show you
everything that is behind my work: what equipment I use,
what computer I use, what programs I use, how my office is structured,
how I prepare the set for shooting
I will show you also what specifics my PC has, what's on those shelves
and what's in that mysterious corner
Everything I use... from the software, computers,
my office, the camera, equipment is based on two fundamental concepts:
quality and time
when choosing the equipment I always  look for the tools that can guarantee
the best possible quality at the lowest possible price
so this video maybe can help you out on which cameras to buy
and in any case I have linked below in description
all the things we'll be talking about in this video
let's start from the vlog camera that I use to record myself.
Now you can't see it because it is the one that is recording at this moment, however, I use the canon80D
for three reasons:
the first one is that it has an adjustable display that allows me to
see myself in real time while I'm recording
second, it has a great quality and third is not too expensive
for the lens I use a wide-angle 10 18 which costs about 200 euro and has
and it's important
to have a wide-angle because when I record myself like this
I need as much visual as possible.
to hold the Reflex I use this tripod the joby gorillapod
is very practical, very comfortable, you can do everything,
has only one flaw, that after a year you throw it away because
it weakens, so when you put on the camera
it ends up falling
as a microphone I do not use that of the camera but I use this rode videomic pro
and this thing that everyone keeps asking me about is called dead cat.
this is used to reduce the sound of the wind
so technically this video has been recorded about 4-5 months ago
but I never had the time to edit it
and those most observant probably realised this because on the background there are less cups
and it's missing the silver  button
all this to tell you that the equipment is still the same,
except for the microphone, since I bought this
the old one is almost dead
so I got the rode video mic pro plus
in addition to having a better quality it also has a function that turns itself on together with the camera,
 
the other instead you had to turn it on every time manually, and you have no idea how many videos
I threw away because I had forgotten to turn it on
for the dynamic shots on the track I use  this
Sony AX53, it's 4k
but I always keep 1080 because I don't need the 4k right now
and it's awesome because it's very stabilized,
look at the lens
see? the lens flloats
it's great, so after a 5-year long experience
of free-hand shoots, it allows me to do things
similar to those done at the motogp
with the huge cameras. For the slow motion
I use a Sony FS700 which I found
used at about €4000, that we use with
Racebooking just for high quality shoots
and we mount on it a sigma 150-600
we use it only for high quality productions because  as you can see from this picture
it's huge and uncomfortable. For the slow motion in my vlogs
I use this: the SonyRX100
mark 5, it's
awesome, really.. it's great
it does slow motion at 250frames / second
at maximum quality, and also at
500 frames / second with lower quality. The only downside
is that is does slow motions not longer than 8 seconds
the cool thing about this is that very handy, it's small, you put everywhere,
but I don't use it for the Vlog for 2 reasons:
the first one is that is has no wide-angle, so it's very narrow
and the second reason is that it lacks the jack for the external mic
About the drone: in 2014 I bought the
dji f550. It's huge, it's not handy,
when the dji mavic came out, I bought it
except that I crashed into a tree
so now...
it doesn't work much...
in order to replace the deceased mavic I bought
the dji air. Lastly, for the action camera
I have 3 choices: I use a gopro session which is
very small and you put it everywhere, I usually place it on the helmet
the some old gopros, basic model which I bought... I bought like 40
Moreover, I recently got this small
upgrade, since I bought this gopro hero 6 black
which - aside from the fact that sometimes it blocks -
does some really great shots. I use a lot the Ezviz S5
and for the 360°
gyro-shots on the tail I use the gopro fusion
if it weren't' for the fact that the software
to edit the 360° images is incomplete
and it's full of bugs. For professional voice recordings,
such as trailers or similar stuff
I use this mic, the Rode NT2A
connected to a sound card of focus ritek which I have on my PC
while to record interviews or videos like this one
I use a bug microphone, the rode link
lastly, all the equipment
I put it inside this Manfrotto backpack
really cool, really comfortable which so many pouches
Let's talk about the PC now: it's a beast
which I assembled myself, that has Intel i7  6900 k CPU
128 gb of ram,
nvidia gigabyte gtx 1080 video card
a 512 gb ssd m2
which holds the operating system. 1500 watt power adapter
motherboard gigabyte X99 designare
do not buy it, ever.
internal sound card creative sound blaster zx r,
external sound card of the focusrite, scarlett 2i2
as for internal storage I have a series of hard drives and then I have two 1 tera ssd
put in raid 0 where I keep the proxies
you will wonder, what are proxies? I'll tell you
The videos shot with the cameras are very heavy and fiddly,
so when you use them while editing and scroll back and forth, they move very slowly
see?
Proxies, on the other hand, are a converted version of the original file, so much lighter and much smoother.
 
as you can see when I go back and forth the image
is very fluid, so before
editing a video I convert all the files and
I leave them processing for the whole night, so I have the proxies ready the next day
these proxies are kept on two ssd  on raid 0
what does raid 0 mean? it means that these files are
broken into pieces on both drives, so the result is that
I have a reading and writing speed that is double
but the disadvantage is that if even one of the two hard drives breaks, I lose everything
that's why on those two  hard drives
on raid 0, I only keep the proxies, which are the temporary files
used for editing. All my precious files
are instead - look where I've stuck myself - kept
in here, this is a NAS. That is a storage system
with 8 hard disks inside, of 8 terabytes each, in raid 6
 
raid 6 is complicated to explain, you can Google it, but
the concept is that these hard drives are arranged in such a way that instead of having 64T available
I have only 48, so I have less space
but I have two big advantages
the first is that the writing speed is
8x that of a normal hard drive
so can get up to 2GB / second (writing and reading)
and the second is that - theoretically - even if two
hard drives were to break at the same time, all I have to do is take them out
and replace them, and I don't lose a thing. So this is like a huge external hard drive
that's to all effects like a PC
connected via the network to my PC, to which I can access
and navigate via browser
from any part of the world. And this is connected to my PC
with a 10GB Ethernet network cable
so I can transfer the files at about 1.25GB/second
Lastly, up there
I have a series of 5T- hard drives
where I keep old stuff... out of nostalgia
I also have a Microsoft surface pro 3, which is the
worst shit I've bought in my entire life
Aside from
the countless crashes, freezes, blocks,
blue display, and the battery than runs out on it own
it's been a complete nightmare,
as soon I bought it neither the keyboard nor the pen worked, so I gave it back
they gave me a new one
after a while the touch broke, I gave it back
they gave me a new one, and guess what?
without it ever falling down, the touch broke again
and the warranty had expired. Lastly, I have a Macbook Pro
which I use to edit the video when I'm travelling, and I have to say that
it's high performing machine,
the sound is great, the display is great,
if it weren't for..
where's my macbook pro? getting fixed.
because the new Macbooks have a such a shitty keyboard
that it breaks just by looking at it. So, it's getting fixed
and the other genius thing about the macbook pro,
is that it costs €4200
so for professionals who use it to work
and a professional who might want to attach a USB key
a micro-sd to download stuff, an Ethernet port
has to go around with 860 adaptors
because they took every port off the new macbook pro
back to the PC
as you can see I use three displays. This is the bad one
this is the bigger one, as you can see,
it's ultra wide, so a lot of things fit in it
while this is the best one, the iso display, it costs about
€500, which has great colors, so I use this one
to retouch the colors. Now, something that most believe in
is that this are 3 different computers. But actually
it's just one PC, divided into three displays
as you can see, I take a random window and I can
move it around in any display, and when I show this to people
they're like "it's magic!". And the handy thing
about having 3 displays, is that for example,
when I edit videos, here I see the preview,
here I edit the video, and here I have all the files
but this is not used just for video editing, but for any other type of need
like for example with Google Chrome, I have
26 billion tabs open
I use Google Chrome on two displays
and here I can open something else. All this is powered by
a 2000 watts  uninterruptible power supply, this one
an  uninterruptible power supply is a device that weights a lot
it's 56 kg, this small box here, and
has two functions: the first one is to protect. In fact
this ons is connected to the electricity, and this one powers everything,
so in the case of lightning, power surges or various things
the  hard drives and computers don't fry, but just it.
the second is that it has an internal battery, so if the power fails, it keeps giving power to  everything
for about 20 minutes
so that you don't lose your work, you can save and turn off
About the software, I use Suite Adobe
So Adobe Premiere Pro for the videos
After effects for the special effects, Light Room for photo edits
PhotoShop for photo edits and video preview
Audition for the sound. The most important thing for
the video quality, even more than the cameras,
is the lighting. You can use the best cameras, but if the light
sucks, the video will suck
Sunlight is perfect, but it has two problems
1) it's only during daytime, so it won't work at night
2) it changes, the sun moves, a cloud passes by,
one day it's cloudy, tomorrow is sunny, so it's hard to use it
for the videos, for this reason I bought
on Amazon the lights I'm using now.
A set of 3 costs  €200, which is really nothing for
lights, and I have to say that they are great
Now, this is why light is important. This is me shooting with the lights on,
these is me shooting with the lights off. See?
It sucks like this. Moreover, by playing around with it a bit
and moving them around you can get
cool effects, so the first important step is for a good video
is to use the light
then I also have this one, which is smaller
it runs also on batteries,
and which I bring along sometimes if I need to make special shootings
this is my driving simulator
where everything started from, I don't use it anymore as much
I use the station to play with other games
but I did use to spend whole days in here
this is a G25 steering wheel, modified by Arc Team
and I won this whole thing via online championships
this is a wood workstation I built on my own,
and this is a
48 inch curved 4k television that I use to play
in the future I'd like to replace this TV with a 4k display
that has a much lower latency
and it's much better for playing games, especially the online ones
and to conclude, I'll show you how my office is structured
as I said at the beginning of the video, the key words of my work are quality and time
 
often it is said that time is money
and this is bullshit, because time is life
if you lose €100, you can get them back anytime.
if you lose a day of your life, you're never
getting it back. Knowing that time is  the
most precious thing we have, all that's in here
has the aim of making me save time. A quick example
if to get a task done with PC A takes 8 hours
if I spend €5000 to buy a much more
powerful PC it will take me 6hr. So I save 2 hrs/day
One might say "€5000...?
with €5000 I can go out to dinner twice a week
I can go on vacation 5 times, I could by a car,
you know what? I'm keeping the old PC. But look here
if you work 220 days/year
and save up 2hr/day, with the new PC you save
400 hours in one year
and 880 hrs in two years
to save up €5000, you are wasting
880 hr of life
but if you also see it from a money perspective, say you earn €10/hr
those 880 hr you're losing,
are worth €8800, so in two years
with those saved up hours, not only did you
get back the money spent on the PC but you also have €3300 more
all that's in here was bought
for that reason. Having that PC makes me save time?
I'll buy it. Having 10 sd cards instead of 2
saves me time? I'll buy them. And all this
has been set up according to this logic. All that I've earned
as of today, I've invested to buy
equipment that would allow me to
increase the quality and make me save up time
the result is that, yes,
I have not spent money on the good life, I have not done who knows what
but I have increased my productivity exponentially
and to do most of the tasks,
I spend little time. All that you see here has been
designed by me. I go the sizes, went to Leroy Merlin,
I got some panels to nail to the wall, and I built this whole
area, where I can put things,
put the equipment in order, draw, do small
repairs, build, do videos,
for examples, videos from above
like draw my life, I take this simple wood piece
I place it here, I attach the camera here and there you go
shots from above. Those up there are
a series of shelves where I keep all
the small things archived and in order
so that in any given moment I can have quick access to whatever I need
below these tables, in the whole office,
I created an electrical system, as you can see there are no cables lying around
because I attached them under the table, so like this
despite everything is wired and full of cables,
there's nothing down there, so no mess,
no dust, and most important, in every angle there's a power outlet
in this angle at the end of the table there's
a series of tools at hand
and there's also a fire extinguisher that I hope I'll never need
what you see here is my charging station
this is a trick I learned from  Casey Neistat
I took all the chargers of all the batteries from all the cameras
and I attached them to this wall, labelling them, so that
I know what every chargers is for, so every time I'm done with a task
I get all the batteries, put them here,
and charge them. Obviously up here I have a series of
spare batteries. Moreover, under the table
I have two USB hubs with various cables
that come out, so that every time I'm done
with working on an action camera I look for the right cable
I take it, attach it, and it charges
Great, we're at the end of this office tour
of my equipment and my work. I hope you enjoyed this video and also that
it was useful to learn
something new
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Bye!
