Before I start this video, I have to say this really really clearly. I don't think your degrees are useless. I don't think they're worthless and I don't necessarily think you're wasting time. Please just watch the video and I'm going to explain all my points as I go. Before I change your perspective on how all this works and show you that college might not be the way for you, I'm going to have to let you know right now that there are industries that do require a degree. You're not going to become a doctor with your $10 Udemy certificate. You're not going to be building bridges, cars, buildings, all those sorts of things with this certificate you got online for free. Most of this industry won't even let you put a foot in the door without a degree. Here's the problem. The legitimate value of college and universities is in professors. You're paying someone who has experience you don't and information you need, and you're hoping that they have the ability to give that to you. Problem is that unless you're going to the top of the line colleges in the world, that's probably not the reality of your specific college. And in Marineopolis, that was a big issue that I kept seeing. Most of the teachers have stagnated in their field and have defaulted to teaching as an end of means. They need to pay bills, they need a feed mouse, and they're human, they don't want to go homeless, so that's what they have to do to make money. And I'm sure there are good teachers out there, and there were in Marineopolis, but when a lot of the teachers are the first ones out the door, the first ones out of all the students, and it's the teacher that leaves the classroom, I think that means a lot. And if you hit up their glass doors or their indeed reviews, you can kind of see that there is a bit of a sort of pattern with teachers working at Marineopolis and that they really don't enjoy their job. The problem for me with college is that it's very theory heavy, and when it comes to practical experience, it's kind of on the table for you to figure out on your own when you're, and it's just, it feels wrong when you're paying so much money to learn everything that they maybe should give you that practical experience as well. But I like to think of it as driving a car, the real learning, the real experience happens when you're sitting in the car, you're putting your foot on the gas, you realize you put a little bit too much or little too little, or you turned a bit too hard, or you didn't do a signal here, you didn't do there, you figure out these things as you're driving the car. And then you go and you do the theory in class and you can apply that to your practical experiences, but theory without any tangible experience is really hard to apply to anything and then it just becomes useless, or at least not very useful. Like I can tell you don't press the brake too hard when you get in the car, but until you get in the car and you slam that pedal and you nearly crash and then you realize okay well that was too hard, then until that moment you won't really know what I'm saying. Of course the idea is there, but the actual practical experience is going to happen when you make that mistake physically pushing that pedal. All this became a really brutal realization for me when I searched out of sciences and I went into business and I sat in my business class and my teacher pretty much revealed that he never actually ran a successful business, because why would he be a teacher? He would be running his successful business. So someone is sitting in front of me that's supposed to have experience, I don't have information I need when they haven't done it themselves. That just seems a bit wrong, right? But yet he was sitting there in class teaching the next generation, very impressionable generation about business, something he has never done successfully. And you know he's being paid, he's being given money, this is his job, to theoretically tell us and teach us about experiences that he has that we don't, and information that he has and that we don't. But yet how can he give us that if he doesn't have it himself? It just seems really weird and wrong and it just didn't make sense.  We aren't living in the 1800s anymore and I don't need to sit in front of a classroom and read a PowerPoint that you could just email me, I could just do it on my phone. Today in the present world 80% of the things I do can be done off of my phone, there's certain things I have to be on my computer to do like edit videos and all that, but 80% of my business I could just run off my phone and that's what I do, I'm at the gym sometimes, I just go, I'm answering emails, I'm doing everything I need to do on this phone right here. But entrepreneurship is in something everyone wants and that's totally okay, so let's move back into the degrees.  Now let's say you have a really great teacher and that's absolutely amazing right?  Well not really, at least in Quebec. You see in Quebec Canada's laughing stock may add, we use a scoring system called the R score. The reason that I want to bring up R score is because it's the primary reason why universities at least in Canada will look at you. If you have an R score that matches their requirements they're going to look at you and if you don't they're most likely going to push you to the side and check on the next person. If you've never seen R score let's do a quick example. We got a calculator here, we're going to go and throw in your mark. You got an 85 which is really good in your class. The class only did about a 75. The standard deviation was let's say 10 and the average of the whole high school or college or whatever you're in was 75 as well. We're going to calculate that and you got a 30 which is a respectable score but let's say for medicine and something like McGill you need about a 35 average so you did 10% better than the whole average but because of the deviation and how well everyone else did you don't get that high of a score. A perfect example of this is let's say you got a 95 which is an amazing score and the class got a 90 right and the average was a 90. You guys all did amazing you should all be rewarded for it not really that's not how R score works so we're going to go and calculate that and you only got a 32 of course 32 is a good number but the fact that you got a 95 let's even push that to 100 now you're hating 35 100 in the class is what took you to 35 35 is not even a perfect score by the way it goes all the way up to 50 you cannot go over 100 you can never push 100 on your grade in school and you won't even get rewarded for that you'll get exactly what you need to apply to let's say a medicine school it's an absolutely absurd way of calculating someone's value and intelligence and it's just so wrong and it doesn't work but for some reason out of everywhere in the world Quebec is the only place it decides to use this stupid strategy or the stupid logic so without getting again too deep into our score I gave you an example with the calculator if your grade is really good but it's still close to the class average you get a relatively known low number in relation to what you got so it like we showed an example if you do really well but everyone else does really well your R score isn't going to be as high as it technically should be it's not showing your true intelligence it's showing your intelligence in relation to everyone else which is a really really scummy way of calculating your intelligence it really makes you hope that everyone does really bad and that you do really good and of course you're going to say no people aren't that terrible well it's a little different when you're putting everything on the line to live somewhere you're probably working a couple jobs just to pay your rent so you can live in the you know live in this area which is not a cheap place to live in and the fact that it decides your future if you do well or not or at least what everyone thinks so it becomes a very negative atmosphere and everyone wants to sabotage each other but they all act like friends it's just a very back-stabbing kind of environment that it that it encourages and this issue scales all the way up so if you were to get a hundred in a class and you were to peak you can technically like we saw in the example get between 33 to 35 R score which is really low for how well you did of course 35 is good enough to get you into a health school but it's really low in relation to the score that you got in that class and I'm not trying to say competition is bad but when you set it up in a system like this it's not encouraging to work well with others it's not encouraging to support your friends and make them do better it's kind of very like do I help my friend at the cost of myself or do I worry about myself and and screw my friend it's a very scummy environment and that's very noticeable we're walking around the marinopolis halls everyone puts a smile on their face but it's really not like I know I'm well ever admitted I don't really think the education system in Quebec is actually going to change much so it's really up to you to change your mentality about how valuable is this versus actually going and building projects and getting practical experience of course unless you're trying to get into an industry that forces you to get a degree like becoming a doctor or specific types of engineers or all that now the problem with degrees for me is that people pursue degrees rather than education they're getting from those degrees people would rather say they're a computer scientist than saying they can do the things that a computer scientist can do everyone's so focused on the idea of getting that degree and getting that paper because it will set them for life versus getting the skills that will set them for life and that they can apply in more than one situation and because of that mentality there isn't much that separates you from every other generic college student there's so much supply out there but there's not enough demand and when I say that you know of course people are going to be like Mike there's always jobs out there and you know what it's like Honda Civics you could see a Honda Civic every two three cars on the road but when you go to the dealership there's another 100 to 200 sitting in the back waiting collecting dust like the programming industry a lot of you familiar with that for my channel the programming industry is hugely oversaturated but it's oversaturated with people who can only kind of do the job they don't have people they're not saturated with people who can do the job and that's why you see a lot of like 17 to 20 years old people who like dropped out of high school and learned to code in their mom's basement and go and get out jobs that like pay them like 80k versus getting a degree and then getting paid 80k and now a huge percent of that is going into your debt all these success stories in the software industry it's because of that reason they're not the same typical generic student they they pop out when you're holding a thousand resumes and you got one person who has done it differently it kind of pops out little backstory when I was working my job the colleague I was with he was the guy who would do the interviews and he said something along the lines of if your college degree is the most important thing about you you're really really boring and I really kept at the heart for a long time because it's really true a degree is not a bad thing I don't think it's useless I'm going to say this a billion times I don't think your degree is useless but if you weigh everything on everything you have onto that degree it's just not enough because everyone else is doing it as well well you need a solid projects that show your skills whether it's a bunch of paintings you did or showing that you know you know how the stock market works and you've done well good trades or you know you've designed things on programs you could do graphic design whatever you're whatever you're doing you have to show that you could do the job with projects that reflect the job you're trying to get into now that we went over the larger problem of college degrees and Quebec education more specifically I want to talk a lot about Maryknapple I went to Maryknapple for about a year and a half and I would reflect my experience in one sentence don't go there so Maryknapple's college most classrooms look like the first ever classroom but colorized school is always under construction there's absolutely no room to breathe air it's so small and it's so populated and also conveniently whenever you need it the air conditioning is broken everyone pays the same amount but some people get really good teachers and some people get really bad teachers but you pay the same amount it's just up to luck your education is in the hands of luck the fact that they couldn't find enough good teachers now you might get stuck with one that's not very good of course those who have been watching my channel for a while I always say don't rely on those teachers don't rely on anyone but yourself go on your computer at home I honestly wouldn't even go to class I'll get into that later and I would just sit at home and study on my computer because that's where I can get most of the relevant information that I need the atmosphere in the school is really garbage because of what I explained earlier with our score you got a bunch of people that are spending a lot of money to be in this college and their success is related to how well you do so if you do worse and they do better they become technically in their eyes more successful in school so it's not anymore about getting that hundred percent mark and trying to be better than yourself than you were yesterday it's all about being better than everyone else and making sure everyone else doesn't do very well like I said the school is very small you have absolutely no room to just go and talk it's all about school school school school school but during the cafeteria all people do is study when you go any aisle any any staircase in the school there's people filling down the stairs just reading their books on their laptops there's absolutely nowhere to go so if you need it you need a breather you need a minute you need to get away from civilization you got to go and walk about 15 minutes to find the nearest location where you can go and sit down the difference is something like Dawson that is inside a mall in downtown Montreal where you could literally go anywhere and get away from all these students for me the biggest issue Marinaldo is are the teachers the teachers have a lot of room with how they work it's very lenient we are humans and humans judge subconsciously I can look like your third grade bully and because of that you can resent me without even knowing me it's just how we work we make associations you know your bully had black hair and I have black hair so now you associate me with him and you don't like me off the bat teachers have the room to be nice or not to people they can kind of ghost you and they can kind of help you a little bit more than they would help others it's a really scummy system for people who don't want to show up to class and that was a big problem for me I don't work well in classes I work well at home in my room in my enclosure let's call it but in the teacher's eyes I'm just someone who doesn't care about school because I'm not in class every which that also became a problem for me because teachers started to take attendance so I'm I'm there I'm sitting here and they're telling me you have to make a decision for the rest of your life this is a really important career decision here you got to choose what you want to get into and you know you're gonna have to be paying for it and all that but if you want to leave the classroom or if you have to go to the bathroom you have to let us know does that really make sense to you you just will be treated like an adult and you have to ask to go to the bathroom and back to the teachers having a bunch of room to play with what they can do and make their own rules that business teacher I was telling you guys about the one that never ran a successful business he had the rule of no computers or electronics in the classroom this is a business teacher we're in 20 this was 2016 no computers allowed this guy was the most boomer you can get and he was teaching us the next generation how to run businesses and set up a successful life for ourselves and others okay boomer now I went on my rant you listened you know thanks for being here on my TED talk but let's talk about some solution if the industry you want to get into does not require a degree like becoming a writer photographer illustrator programmer coder filmmaker mechanic plumber musician any of those type of creative jobs at least give a try you know taking that gap year that you're going to take to go vacation like in Cabo or something take that year to go and explore hobbies try things you've never tried before try and find what you truly enjoy and try to learn it on your own try and maybe start a little business on something that you enjoy little mom and dad kind of shop on Shopify or something try and start your own thing see if that works for you and then make the decision if you think you need college or not everyone jumps out of high school not knowing what the hell they want to do jumps into a curriculum or some type of degree they're going to pursue because they don't know what else they like and then they get so deep in shit and so deep in debt unless they have someone to support them that they can't go back and they have to live the next five ten years of their life the most creative years of their life the best years for you to explore things and to take risks and all that paying off debt for something that they don't even use for me personally audiobooks is literally what took me out of shit and and brought me to a bit less shit I'm not in a position here where I'm making millions of dollars in my Dan Balzerian lifestyle but I think the biggest progress I made was from audiobooks that's where it started I can't read for shit but I can listen and that's where it started for me then I moved on to websites like can academy that was pretty much what everyone used in Marinaldo anyways because most of the teachers have like these shitty russian accents or something and you have no clue what they're saying so can academy was a great one for chemistry math and now they're adding like everything you can think of you can probably get a college degree on can academy and brilliant org was the big one for me that's where I got a lot of artificial intelligence kind of things and really went into machine learning and all that so if you're doing like math or programming or any type of stem that's where I would go for that kind of stuff and it's all for relatively cheap it's good structured information for a good price I'm not sponsored by them by the way so now depending on the type of industry you want to get into and how you want to get into it it kind of really there's really many ways about getting about it if you're trying to be an entrepreneur in an industry you're going to have to spend a lot of time learning on your own and applying those things you learn in your business or whatever you're doing if you're trying to get a job you're going to have to do something similar but instead of applying these things on your business you're going to be applying them to projects and then taking those projects and being like hey here are my beautiful projects hire me please so let's say for programming jobs the best thing is when you can show up showing a project that's similar to what you'll be doing on the job that's usually what sets you miles apart from everyone else because everyone comes in with their generic projects that they stole from a certificate from a Udemy course and they like reorganized everything and they're like hey look what I made I made a to-do list and then you got those guys who come in and they're like well you guys do real estate you guys are running a home real estate website and here's one I made for myself that maybe even generates a bit of money so I already know how to do this I know how to do the business side of it I can provide value to your company and it's all about showing that you can provide value for the company or providing value for your own company for your own business 18 to 25 are the years where you want to be taking risks because you're going to learn from those risks really well once you move on to later years things change you have now your own apartment in your mortgage possibly a kid to feed things change you kind of get locked into that script of going to college working your job till you're 65 and hoping that the money runs that you run out before the money you saved all those years runs out in conclusion tuition is increasing salaries are not at least not at a level where it makes sense if you're getting a pay raise most companies inflation will turn that into like a one or two percent pay raise job security with your degree is a total scam I'm sorry you're not going to get more security because you have a degree except for the fact that they might use that as manipulation knowing that you're in more debt than someone else so you'll be more loyal when there's a tool in your toolbox and you haven't used it for years you try and sell it or get rid of it or you stop carrying it around you don't just carry it around because it was loyal to you for a year or two I'm sorry but that's the tars truth of how employees are treated you are a tool for the company's goal the CEO was once an employee and said fuck this shit I'm gonna make my own company so that I can be living my dream life and if you're not gonna if you're not helping that dream sorry but he's gonna have to get rid of you to save his own future and that's just how it is of course some CEOs are gonna be much nicer when it comes to letting you go and some are not but the idea of job security because you have a degree or job security in general is just a it's a it's a big meme it's a big joke it just doesn't happen it's not true don't believe me look at Wayfair look at HSBC just because of the coronavirus HSBC which has 235 000 employees got rid of 15 percent of their workforce 15 percent of their workforce based off of one year of like a revenue loss so 15 percent of 235 000 whatever the math is I'll put on the screen got fired and they're gonna be getting fired over the next three years because they can't just fire 35 000 people they need them to do their jobs and they need them to train other people to do their jobs so they're just gonna slowly roll off over the next three years all those people I know it's scary straying away from the traditional path and it was something that took me a good amount of time to kind of forget about on my own but from my firsthand experience it was the best decision I made ever and I'm not saying that necessarily because of what I'm doing I'm just saying stopping school and taking that semester to kind of figure things out on my own and see what I truly want to do and what I truly you know I'm good at and not good at and reading and all these opportunities I had when I stopped school for a minute it totally changed my life and I do recommend it for you I'm not saying your degrees are useless I think it's like the third time I said this in the video I don't think your degrees are useless I don't think they're worthless I don't think necessarily you're wasting your time I think you're hurting yourself by not taking the time to truly figure out what you want to do of course you can say you want to do something and change it later but just doing college for the idea of getting college done just because you want security or makes you more confident or it's going to properly prepare you and you're going to feel prepared at the end which is what no one ever feels prepared first of all all those reasons are reasons why you should stop take a minute take a breather figure things out and then get back at it when you're ready to go now that I've opened your third eye of truth feel free to like the video and subscribe so much more the shit coming on maybe we'll do some college cringe or something we'll just take the idea from Josh and reuse it here there's a lot more coming


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Tom here from Lawrence Systems. It is June of 2022 and there's a new version of TrueNAS scale. Version 22.02.2 has been released with a whole lot of improvements and bug fixes. We'll be covering some of that. I also took the time to take a system and do an in-place upgrade from TrueNAS Core 13 to TrueNAS Scale 2202.2. So in place after I set it all up, same hardware and then do a series of benchmarks and the last time I did these benchmarks people said they weren't thorough enough so I also threw in some iSCSI benchmarks and a few different file sets so we can understand better the performance differences over NFS and iSCSI between core and scale and where scale still falls behind a little bit. Before we get into details of this video, let's first. Are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering, storage, or virtualization project? 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I'll be leaving links to everything down below and here is the TrueNAS Scale announcement in their forums. We are pleased to announce release of TrueNAS Scale 22.02.2 Angelfish. This new release has several bug fixes, improvements, and new features. With this release, the enclosure view is now available for the following TrueNAS platforms. I have one of the mini threes, so I'm excited to eventually try it on my mini three. I might start moving things over to scale. Just because that particular workload, I want to play with some of the Docker things on that server. And you know, it's pretty cool. I don't run any jails on it currently because there's, as I've said before, you cannot convert jails directly over from TrueNAS Core because it's built in BSD to the TrueNAS Scale Docker platform. Now I wanted to make a quick comment on this. Someone said the PIP install, the Python installer was missing and they opened a JIRA ticket on this, but please note this was closed because you're not supposed to be using some of this. This is where some of the confusion comes in with TrueNAS Scale. And I think it's something that should be noted.  I bring it up like that because there's a lot of people that start well monkeying with it a little bit. And if you're going to go through all of that and try to manually do a lot of things on this particular system as opposed to using the UI, this is the same thing that goes for TrueNAS Core. You're going to potentially break things. It's just designed to be an appliance where their UI takes care of all of it and gives you a good interface for that. If you were going to run things manually, you may as well build your own bare metal server and set up whatever the tools you want. So you have more control. This is not like a full Linux distribution with scale. It is very customized. So if you start monkeying with things down below, so to speak, at the command line level, you could potentially cause a lot of problems that the interface may not understand. Now, the ZFS commands are still able to work from the command line to control things within ZFS that may be not in the UI if you have certain advanced use cases. But when you start messing with installing extra libraries, or even though it is based on Debian, you start apt-get updating. I know I've broke a couple of the installs, being curious what happened. So it sounds like they're starting to lock things down, like not being able to use PIP to install whatever Python things you like to install. Now, here's the release notes and they have all the enclosures listed and lots of these little improvements on here. Some new features in here as well. Expose info about Gluster Network interfaces. I'm going to talk a little bit about that because this is the more common question. And of course, here's a list of the current bugs, which there's actually quite a few. Yeah, there's actually, well, a whole lot of bugs still in the system. By the way, if you're someone like me and enthusiast testing it, if you find more bugs, please add to it. This is how the engineers get working on it. But the big important thing, of course, is the way this works in terms of Gluster and the tying together of different file systems. So you can have a clustered SMB share, a clustered file system. And a lot of people were thinking there's just some magic where you log into a couple TrueNAS scale systems, tell them to talk to each other nicely, and then they do so. But that's not exactly how they've implemented it. The current implementation in TrueNAS scale and how you get the scale out architecture is all facilitated via True command. I don't know if they plan to allow it to occur locally on each system. But the current, as I understand it, implementation and the way going forward is always going to be using True command. True command is a service offered or Docker image offered that you have a license fee that you attach based on number of drives. I've not taken the time to really dive into review it. It's pretty cool for doing management of multiple machines, both core machines and scale machines, and it adds some of that functionality to build out your cluster management. So whether or not this will be exposed directly so people can just log in and do it, they do have some, you know, relatively inexpensive True command offerings you can sign up for trials on it. But it is a separate management tool that orchestrates the control that allows the functionality and ties Gluster together with SMB with all the other features are working on. That's part of their roadmap as I understand it right now. So a lot of people ask, well, can you do a demo on it? And I'm like, well, I'll do one in the future. I'll build a few scale systems and tie them together and do some testing with True command. But I just wanted to offer that clarification. That's the way they appear to be going forward with it. Everything I've read so far in the documentation. So while they do talk a lot about the clustering, I just wanted to make sure it's clear how the clustering works. Now for everyone's favorite part, how did you do the benchmarks? Really simple. It was all on the same exact platform and system. The only thing we did was an in place upgrade. This is not a high performance system. The hypervisor is Zen. The storage target we chose was NFS and ice guzzies. So we went into the test of both. This was just a rise in five system we have that runs Zen. And it's not a particularly performance oriented system. But these are the benchmarks we have on here. And we'll scroll down. The most important is that all things were the same other than the software change. We didn't have to rename the shares. The in place upgrade worked perfectly fine. The same NFS share and ice guzzies share worked. So no problems there. Now when you look at the block size, and I'll leave a link to this, you can dive into the details more so than I'll even cover them here. But the block size of one meg, no problem when doing FIO tests, they actually are really close to each other. So here's your scale of NFS and ice guzzies. Actually, the NFS was just slightly faster. Ignore the fact that I have a typo I type ZFS instead of NFS. But wherever you see Trunes core 13 ZFS, I meant to type NFS Trunes core 13 ice guzzies. But they're all really neck and neck here for a lot of them, whether it's IOPS or just raw data speeds. But any of the smaller four and eight k block sizes, well, it just gets stomped on the performance is well roughly half right here on the four K. This was a read engine four K. Let's scroll down a little further. Even at eight K, we're still looking at about half the performance. So if you have a workload on a VM target, it has a lot of small rights. Well, this is going to be those results you get. It's just not quite as performant back up here to the one meg again, we actually outperformed it again Trunes scale NFS just slightly faster, not substantially not, you know, the big swing we seen on the other ones, but a little bit. Then if we see the random right, and wow, we drop even slower for NFS, it seems to have a really hard time rating for small four K blocks, ice guzzies fared a little bit better. And even ice guzzies for small blocks, a K blocks worked a little bit better on Trunes core ice guzzies versus ZFS. You can see the different speed differences. But I'll leave links to all this so you can stare at the numbers.  Once you get to about 100 to eight K, they come closer to being in there, but they're not the same until you hit like the roughly one mag mark. So take that for what it's well, that's if this is something that's important to you using it as a storage target for virtual machines or for NFS or ice guzzies performance. Now this is a system I did the actual testing on. It is also an AMD Ryzen. It's just a Ryzen 3 2200. But the important part, as I said, is it's the same system that ran core and ran scale. And we've tried this with other systems before we ran to the same issues where it was a little bit slower, it doesn't appear to be specific to Ryzen. We tried the same at Intel and got very similar benchmarks where we've seen it a little bit slower on the four K rate performance. Now, if we go over here to the apps, and it's of course, what a lot of people are looking at is all the cool things you can run Docker, which is a really solid use case for this, because the applications available for Docker versus the jail and IO cage system in core and BSD, well, substantially different. And it makes a lot of sense throwing your applications directly on your storage, especially if you have something that's either a storage intensive or just has a lot of rights of storage, because well, now you're removing that barrier of I need the application to talk to the machine. Well, if it's on the machine, it can talk to it at a much higher level. So I haven't really done any tests. There is a way I could possibly if people encouraged me enough, take the time to build pharaonics and IO cage, run a performance test and do a pharaonics build inside of Docker. It's low on my party list. Maybe one day I'll test it to see how the direct IO performance differs. But if you're using as a storage target over NFS rise, because he well, those other benchmarks are more relevant to that. But I did set up here the install applications. I installed net data worked net cloud worked perfectly fine had no problem going through setting up the settings, setting up the storage on there. And I feel it's pretty stable. It went really well. I pointed it to a specific data set for next cloud. So I'll probably do some tutorials coming up on it. Because I actually found it relatively easy to use when I did this. It deployed faster than it did at least it felt faster than I did before. In a few people commented about the hangups they had had with the interface. And I didn't seem to have any of those like before update available. Let's see how fast it can update. We'll go ahead and tell to do that. Click the upgrade and see how that goes says the upgrade went fine. And it seems to be working. So good news on that. So my overall feelings are I love seeing the progress on sure Nats scale. I'm finally thinking about moving one of my systems over to it. I can live especially it's going to be my video editing system. I can probably live with a little bit of performance loss because well, I'm mostly moving larger files, not a bunch of small files because it's my video service, my true Nats mini. So I'll probably do some testing on there to get myself more familiar with it. So I can eventually create tutorials. I know a lot of people have been asking for more tutorials on true Nats scale. And it's been on my to do list to start making them. I just need to really start using it. The majority of the videos I do have a lot more to do with the consulting work and the enterprise work that we do, where we're doing, especially lately, a ton of virtualization consulting and true Nats being one of our favorite servers, especially for high end systems, including, you know, full disclosure, where an IX systems reseller, some of their high end models that you see me review on this channel. So definitely that's where I spend a lot more of my time. But I'm fascinated by and love the catalog of different simple to deploy Docker images that are available that well, looks pretty cool and looks like a great reason to start doing everything right inside of one system. There's a great efficiency of having a server where, as I said, the storage and the tools I need to use are right directly on there, especially, you know, if you have any type of logging servers or anything like that, that would be pretty cool to run directly on the true Nats scale system. So I'm looking forward to the future innovations. I'm looking forward to probably have to fill out a few bug reports, because I like helping progress things. It's kind of fun hunting them down and saying, All right, I found this issue where this is how you get around that. So I encourage everyone to do this for testing. I don't know that I would in case someone asks or wants to point down below. I don't know if I would run the Docker side of things in a production environment. But I would consider the data itself and the integrity thereof from ZFS that part seems to be good. So I trust it with my data. I'm not as sure because I'm much less familiar myself with Kubernetes and until there's some better documentation for how they implemented and how they put it all in there because it's troubleshooting. It seems to be a little bit vague. I've looked through the forums and sees plenty of unanswered questions of when people have had problems with it and there's not a ton of documentation available yet. But hopefully I'll be part of the people making that documentation. I have no problem doing that once I understand it and teaching everyone else how to use it as well. So get out there, help with the project if you can, participate in the forums and answer some of those questions if you're someone who is familiar with all of it. In the meantime, thank you all for watching. If you want to have more in-depth discussion, hover my forums or just leave your comments down below while you love or hate True Nascale. Thanks and thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video. If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up. If you would like to see more content from this channel, hit the subscribe button and the bell icon. 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Today's video is kindly sponsored by SimplySafe. Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. Guess what? We are switching rooms again. I just finished up with the kitchen, as you guys know. Then we went into the living room and now we are making our way to the TV room for a little bit. And that is because there's going to be a little bit of I guess construction per se happening in the living room over the next couple of weeks. We're actually going to have the doors installed in here and it might require a little bit of reframing. And there's also going to be some painting going on. So in this space, there's going to just be a little bit of a time delay for those things to happen. And I figured while those are happening, why don't we go ahead and start on another project because I actually got word from the upholstery guy that's been upholstering my sofa that you guys saw. The one that I actually got for free off the back of that truck. Drew, what are you doing? I'm just potentially taking this sofa that they're going to, you know, throw away. What the heck? It's giving. Wow. They've been upholstering that sofa for about, I'd say two and a half, three weeks or so. And I believe it's going to be done tomorrow for us to go take a look at seat in person to make sure there's nothing that needs to be changed on it prior to them then delivering it back here. So I'm kind of shifting my design right now into the TV room. But let me take you guys down there so I can give you guys a little reminder on that space. All right, so we're downstairs. This is actually the entry door downstairs. And when you walk right through here, this is the room that we are going to be turning into the TV room. Now we need to pick all of the other finishes out for this space though. We have three really large windows here that lead out to the courtyard. They provide so much light and this actually faces the sunset. So in the afternoon, this gets beautiful, beautiful light coming in. And then these doors right here actually lead into the breakfast nook, which is really cute. I also love these doors. I think that they are original and they have some fluted glass, which I'm sure is an original and probably added after. But this room, I do not want to stay yellow. It's just a little bit too pungent for me. I actually was liking it when I first move into the space. I was like, maybe I'll try to work with this yellow color. Like it's one of the colors I'll keep in the house. But I don't think it's gonna go with our red tone couch, just giving very ketchup and mustard. So I'm going to head to the fabric store right now, get our little fabric swatch for the sofa because I actually don't have any of the fabric. We had to order it. So I'm gonna go grab a fabric swatch so we can start playing around with ideas, colors and get everything kind of together for this space. Before heading to the fabric store, I'm going to set my SimpliSafe.  It's right here. What was that? Is that an intruder? False alarm. Before intruders come, always make sure to set your SimpliSafe. I'm just gonna click away. I love my SimpliSafe. I've had mine for years on my whole department, at my house, and just make sure everything stays nice and protected. And if you have never heard of SimpliSafe, where have you been? I have actually been sharing them on my channel for probably the past three years. Actually, because they are my absolute favorite home security system, I just love how user friendly and simple the SimpliSafe system is. I think anyone can set it up. It is a breeze. It ships directly to your door and you can actually set up and customize your very own system to make sure that every single entry sensor or all the different components you need for your home are available and you can set them up properly throughout your space. And when I moved into my house, which is also a little bit on more of a central street, I wanted to make sure that it was also nice and secure. So I set up my SimpliSafe system. They have monitors, entry sensors, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide, temperature, water, HD cameras for indoor and outdoor. They have every single little component that you need to create your very own customized home security system. But they also have 24 seven professional monitoring that is powered by fast protect technology that is exclusive at SimpliSafe. So when a threat is detected, SimpliSafe's monitoring professionals can promptly contact you and dispatch first responders, which is incredible because we wanna make sure we stay nice and secure in our homes and all of our lovely decor and vintage items and pieces we've been curating and collecting over the years stay nice and secure as well. I mean, there really is no safe like SimpliSafe. You can actually get 20% off your SimpliSafe security system when you sign up for an interactive monitoring plan and get your first month for free. Just visit SimpliSafe.com slash loanfox to start customizing yours. Justin and I have a story time for you. Well, Justin has a story time for you. I was actually back home for the past, I think two to three days. I don't know, it's a blur. I was shipping the vintage items from the vintage drop, which by the way, the vintage drop did so well. Oh my gosh, you guys, everything's sold out in like, how long? Eight minutes? So fast. 10 minutes. So me and Drew go on Facebook Marketplace all day every day. Every single second of the day. We probably send each other at least five items each a day, but usually more. And I was on Facebook Marketplace and I saw this really cool armchair and it had like a unique shape. I have a pretty good eye. So like- We'll top it up here. Yeah, we'll put the picture. And I was like, something is telling me that this chair could be cool. So I put it in Google Lens, which is our secret and I can't believe I just told you. I think I've told them that secret before. I was like back video once. Google Lens, always smart. I put it in there, it popped up. Oh, the lady was asking $50 for it. And it popped up and I was looking through all these comps and like, I realized that this chair was like really crazy. Some of the comps were saying $8,000. Some were saying $12,000. Some were saying $40,000. Some were saying $60,000. And then there was one that was a pair of the exact same chair that I have that sold for $220,000 for the pair. For the pair. But Justin has only one. I only have one and it has some rips in it. So like, but it can definitely be repaired.  It's gorgeous leather. This is astounding to have in your possession. They're using all these positive adjectives and they're like, we're meeting with our team and we'll get back to you tomorrow. So it's supposed to be today that they get back to me. I'm meeting, I'm meeting. A team meeting with the 20th century furniture team. So our Facebook marketplace thing has really paid off. Yeah, we need to do a video for you guys. Yeah. With all the best ways to look on Facebook. If you guys would like a hack video on how to shop vintage and antique, give this one a thumbs up. All right guys, Jamie's given us the book. I feel like I'm like the double worst product right now. We can hand over the book. He's the book for you to... Thank you. Beautiful fabric. Is it good? Yeah, we'll go tomorrow and look. Oh yeah, because I want him to be there when you go. So I know he has one for me and I don't even want it. I told him, make sure that you're gonna be there. Okay, so how about one? Yeah. Use the shirt, the booklet. That's the paint stone. All right guys, so we are checking out these swatches at Sherwin Williams right now. They actually have pretty good lighting here. So I think it's a good representation of the color. This is the fabric of course in the back and this is the one I'm leaning more towards. It's called Rojo Morone by Sherwin Williams. We have Carnelian here and then Turkish coffee. I kind of like this one because it almost seems like a mix of these two. Has a little bit more red to it. This one's kind of leaning brown. This one also looks like kind of like that. And also guys, this is part of their historic collection. Not sponsored. So it makes sense for an older home as well. All right, the room is cleared out. The sun's actually setting. So we are going to be painting this into the night but I'm actually pretty excited because that means tomorrow and then daylight we'll have a little reveal and I think we are going to be doing the ceiling as well in here. So it's going to be pretty dark as you guys know but this is supposed to be like a moody theater room kind of TV area. I'm very, very excited about it. I think it's going to kind of make this room feel kind of encapsulated and really warm. Oh wow. You can really see that red tone in there. This is such a pretty color you guys. I know I've been gravitating a lot towards browns lately but you know what? I think it's fine. I think it's totally fine. The beams I'm hoping are really still going to pop against this color. The color is quite a bit darker than this so I think these will have still a nice contrast but still be kind of tone on tone which is what I'm going for in this room is a very tone on tone color palette. Maybe a little hard to tell on camera but all the walls throughout my home are actually completely plastered and they have this really, really great kind of like natural plaster texture to them. So something that you want to keep in mind if you do have really textured walls is to find a roller that has a very thick nap to it. That way the paint can get into all the textured spots because I even tried to find one of the thickest ones and there were still a lot of areas of plaster that just had a small little white dots of the original wall color. I guess they would be yellow, a small little yellow dots and you could easily see them through. So that's just a great tip is if you are painting overly textured walls is just to ensure that you have the right roller for that. In the mornings I ended up taping off the windows.  All right guys, this is what the room is looking like this morning. The color is pretty vibrant at the moment because the light's on and we're gonna be doing a second coat on all of the walls starting to tape off the beams up here and make these nice and clean because as you could see there's kind of like this white chalkiness on the edge of the beam. So we're trying to figure out how to get it closest, the paint closest to it where it's not on the beam but it also eliminates this white little edge there. So we're gonna work on that but we are about to go look at the sofa. I got confirmation that we can go see it today just because they wanna make sure that everything looks great prior to bringing it back here and needing any changes. So we're gonna go ahead over to the showroom or the workshop and see the sofa.  I love it. The pattern almost reads like as a solid. It looks like, doesn't it kind of look like a tweet or something from far back? Like a really textural fabric. It doesn't really like pattern. Patterned until you get close and you can tell it's like this micro paisley print. It has a stripe to it too. It's so good. There's a stripe. Oh my gosh, it's still so comfortable. I'm obsessed with this, you guys. This is the best couch I've ever seen in my life. I love it. Yeah, it has stripes. Oh my gosh, it's so comfortable. It's so good. I feel like with the, I love it. It has a circle on it. This is so pretty, you guys. Imagine this with the color on the walls, like it's gonna make me some drawer pillows and he offered this mojo. It's beautiful. It's darker in person though. I feel like on camera it's coming off so saturated and bright. It's cause it's shiny. Yeah, it's shiny. It's a circle pillows. Pretty like one circle. I do like the circle. Oh, that's so good. That's a designer piece. What did you get this for? I got it in the breakfast noob. I know, oh, breakfast noob and cat from scratch. That'd be so cool. And this one, dude, from scratch. Wow. So we do it from scratch and we post it. Oh, me, wow. I started when I was super young, like 10 years. Cause my dad has his own shop in Mexico. Okay, so then you came out here. So after school, like after the home war and me. Yeah. He told me to start doing it. I mean, easy things. Does your dad still do it? Yeah. He helped me. This is me. Oh, don't worry about it. Okay. Guys, if you need upholstery in Los Angeles, new image upholstery, they are the best. They do custom furniture. I was quoted up to $10,000 for that sofa and they did an impeccable job, 2,500. All right, the upholstery place happened to be by Old Good Things. And if you guys remember, I found some sconces here that I just keep thinking about. I keep thinking about them and I wanna see if they still have them. I'm gonna be so sad if they're gone. Ah, I think they're gone. No. I'm pretty sure they're gone. I think they were on this wall right here. These are pretty though. Look at these, you guys. Oh my gosh. Wait, it's $12.50 for the pair. Wait, is this a real light though? This is, oh my gosh. This is a light. Oh, I might even like this more than the other ones. I love those. It's the same price too, which I was, those are so good. Yeah, it is. There's a little dangle in the middle. Yeah, and it's bold and it used to be for candles because you can tell because they like had to add the wire. Yeah. We just got back from looking at the couch. Look at the color right now. It is just such a pretty like red toned maroon. And in some lights, in real life at the moment, it actually kind of looks purply like a wine tone. It needs to be more exaggerated. Yeah, it doesn't need to be a little more exaggerated. Is that good? Yeah. You can see what it looks like. Yeah. This is called N-Comp to shoot. I shoot absolutely everything for the website myself. I am such a control freak over how everything looks, but look how cute the video turned out. I think it looks so nice on the homepage. Good morning. I have something exciting to share with you guys. The couch is here. I'm looking at the couch right now in the room with the paint color on the wall. And I have no words. I have no words. Are you kidding me right now? Is this real life? Oh my gosh, you guys, this is no filters. Nothing. Look how absolutely stunning this looks in here. It is perfect. I love the color. I love the pattern. I love how small the pattern is because from far away, it makes the sofa almost look like a highly textured like vintage tweet or something. As you get up close, it's more of like a ditzy print, like a super small, tiny print. And they just did such an impeccable job recovering this sofa. You guys, like, I cannot believe how incredible it looks and feels the color in here. I also have to share it with you from this angle. This is a little look from inside the breakfast snack area, but oh my gosh, it just looks so pretty. Like, it's not too dark. It truly just feels warm. It feels inviting. It feels cozy. Now of course, I'm going to be swapping off the slight fixture. This just drops far too low. Not too sure if I'm gonna be keeping this one or potentially maybe trading it with a architectural salvage store for a different piece. Sometimes you could do that, so that's an option. I also still need to get a rug for this space. We need a coffee table for this space, which actually we could do a pretty substantial coffee table, it seems like. And then over on this side by the windows, I'm having some custom window mullions made, which I did in the upstairs or muntins, as some of you guys also call them. They're going to be just a six by two grid. So if you could imagine, there's going to be six panes down and then two across. And I'm gonna have those made for all three windows there. And then right here, we also have a little bit of space where I know the rug is not going to be, cause it's gonna be more in this general area. I'm thinking of doing like two little chairs with like a little table in the center. I think that would be really cute there. So that's kind of what I'm thinking in front of those windows. Something about the colors in here just screamed to me like moody oil paintings on the wall. Like collected over the years. And I just want to add a couple to the space and artwork. Of course, we're going to be doing some sort of TV situation here. That's the whole kind of purpose of the room. But I just love it. I love the color. I love the beams. I love, love, love the couch. But I honestly love it. I love it so much. And I hope that you guys do as well. I know that you're seeing a lot of brown in my space at the moment, but I will tell you guys, this is the last space that I'm probably going to have be brown. And now of course we have the kitchen cabinets brown. This is actually downstairs. So it's kind of like a different area in the home completely separate. So I felt like since this was downstairs, I could go really bold with this dark maroon brown color, which I love. Again, this one's Rojo Maron from Sherwin Williams. In the morning time when the sun isn't in here, it almost has this wine look to it, like a really dark purpley wine color. And then when the sun actually filters through, as you guys can see now in the afternoon, it has more of a red tone, which is kind of more true to color, which I like a lot because of course, our sofa is also like a dark burgundy. The sofa is a little bit darker in person. I can tell on the screen right here. It looks kind of bright, but I swear to you guys, it is so beautiful. It's perfect. I love it. And I hope that you guys loved this video. I shifted focus from the living room down to this room. And I think we probably will be working in this room until it's pretty much complete. That way we have an actual TV space because I don't think I'm going to be putting a TV in the top living room anymore, unless I do like a little easel or something simple in there. So I want to have a space where we could have friends over, hang out. So I thought working on this, especially with the couch being done was great. So I hope that you guys loved this video. And also if you're in the market for a simply safe system, do not forget to check them out. And I want to thank them so much for sponsoring today's video. And I will catch you guys all in my next one. Have an amazing rest of your day. Bye guys.


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Okay. The recording is on. Thank you everyone for joining this course, PC314 Media and Technology and Ministry. Let's pray and we'll get started. Maybe Aaron, if you could pray. Now we can get started please. Sure. Thank you all for blessing us on a new day. And thank you all for giving us opportunity to learn this specific subject, media and technology, Lord. Lord, as you have called us to be influencers, you channel of blessing to many Lord. Help us all to be excellent in this subject. So Lord, I pray and ask for your strength, your wisdom to cloud each and every one of us to sustain the kingdom. So Lord, bless everyone. Amen. Thank you. Thank you everyone for connecting to the class today. So we have been in this chapter on digital equipment. Basically, we're just kind of getting an exposure to the equipment side of things. So we talked about, we went through a list of the software side that, you know, okay, this is what we use generally for the media work. Then we started talking about the different pieces of equipment. We talked about cameras. Then we talked about the PA system last week. Now just to get an idea so that when you're dealing with people in the church and or so, you know, and you have to make sure that your PA system is good, you'll have some background, some information on what to do and so on. Today, we'll talk about video production. And then after this, we get into live streaming. So what actually happens when you're doing a live stream of an event and so on. Okay, so I'm not going to get into all the details, but enough for us as we engage in doing video productions. Now, of course, these days, many of us record videos on our phones, on our smartphones, and for many purposes, that is enough. And if you just want to record something that's happening or, you know, just remember something. Okay, yeah, you record that on our phones. But when we are talking about ministry work and we are thinking about maybe, you know, recording, let's say it could be anything could be a video announcement, or you want to do a small, short, even 30 second promotion for a seminar you're having or a conference you're doing, or you're planning to do a video recording of daily divorce stones so that you could share with your congregation, or you're doing, you know, the video recording of your Sunday service, or it could be maybe you want to produce short films, you know, maybe five minute short films, which is, you know, very, very good way to communicate to get a message across these days. People enjoy watching meaningful, impactful, short videos. So it could be doing something like that. So, you know, so there are different ways in which video can be used in the ministry. And so for those kind of purposes, we need something more than just our own phone cameras.  But then if you're looking at recording a Sunday service or things like that, then you definitely need something more. And so the goal here in this part of the digital equipment is just to expose us to, you know, these are the things in the equipment you're using. These are things you need to think about so that, you know, when you get involved in some way doing that, you'll be aware of these things. So I'm going to share the PDF and we will go through some information here. So video production, that's what we're talking about today. So, you know, in the church and the ministry, we could use videos for so many different things. We use it for doing our video announcements. You know, back in time, in the early years, we had somebody come up and make the announcements, so they will have to remember, you know, we'll have to write it down for them, five things you have to announce and so on and so forth. Then we thought, why don't we put it on videos, you know, you can be creative, you can put music, you can add sound and you can, you know, the same announcements can be presented in a very, you know, nice and creative way. So at some point we started doing announcements using video and also since we had many locations, we could make sure that, you know, all the announcements are made across the six locations that these things are played in. Then you could, you know, you could do promotional videos. You could do video reports of, you know, of events or conferences or mission trips. So that's a very useful thing, you know, when we go on mission trips, we get pictures and we record videos there, then we put it in the short video report and we show it to people in the church. It's a great way for them to know, hey, this is what actually happened on the mission trip or what is happening in our Outreach churches and so on. So we could use videos for so many things, you know, you could think about short films, movies, music videos, so many other things. So just some general information here. So when we talk about, you know, video production, this actually happens in three main steps. Right. So if you want to produce a video, you go through these three steps all the time. Right. And of course, the steps will vary depending on how simple or complex a video you're producing. But what are the three steps? First is a pre-production. So in the pre-production, you're planning your strategies, you're thinking about the whole thing. Think about strategy. What are you trying to communicate? To whom you're trying to communicate? What is the message you want to leave? You're talking about the script, meaning what is going to be said. You're thinking about the set, meaning, you know, what is the background, the props and all that, and within which you want to record the video. You're thinking about the cast, who are the people going to be there, recorded. Think about the crew, the people are going to do the audio and video recording and so on. So all of this happens in pre-production. You have to think about all these details. Right. So there's a lot of work that goes into it in the pre-production. And if it's a video that's happening over and over again, then, you know, you can continue using a lot of this thinking that has happened. You can build on it for every successive shoot. So there's pre-production. You've got to plan everything very carefully. Then there is a production. That means this is the actual shooting of the video, scene by scene, you know, so on. So the cast comes in, the crew are on there and all the equipment is there and then you shoot the video. A lot of things that go into shooting the video, you want to make sure everything is, you know, right. That the message is conveyed on your video recording quality is good and so on.  After the video is shot, there's still more work. What is the work? It's called post-production. This is where everything is brought together, you know, the video, the music, syncing the audio and the video. You may need to edit the video, cut out, you know, things that not supposed to be there, add the music, add special effects. There may be other graphics and things that you want to add to the actual video. So that also is a lot of work. So really, if you're talking about even a 30-second video, right, even a 30-second video, a lot of work goes into it, depending on, of course, what you're doing. Now, if you're doing a 30-second promotion video, for example, we want to do, you know, a 30-second promotion for our Bible college, then in the pre-production, here's what we do. Now, here, we're not shooting any real people. We're just bringing together images and so on. So the script has to be written, right? So that means what is the message we want to convey in this 30-second video to promote the Bible college, right?  Okay, we're going to do this promotion video. See on YouTube and social media, so YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, you know, just 30 seconds, we're making this video available. Now, the thing is this, if you're going to run a promotion on YouTube, this video promotion, people are forced to watch only the first five seconds. After those five seconds, they can skip the video. So even if you put a lot of effort for 30 seconds, they're not going to watch all 30 seconds. It's quite possible after five seconds, that's a skip, right? Now, of course, there are other promotions you can do on YouTube where you force them to watch the entire duration of your video or whatever it is. But generally, if you do a normal YouTube promotion, people are only required to watch five seconds, and that's counted as a view. And they click the after five seconds and skip it. So really, you've got to get your message across the main message you got to get it across within five seconds. So you're going to plan your script to make sure that in the five seconds, you do communicate what you want. Now, you may have seen many ads, YouTube ad videos, promotions where in the first five seconds, you don't know what the video is about.  So what has happened? In the five seconds, they failed to communicate who they are, what they are, what they want you to do, et cetera. So it's a waste. So you have to think like that. You have to have a strategy. If I'm going to promote this video on YouTube, I know how that platform works. I know what's the restriction. So I have to, in the first five seconds, get my message across and be convincing enough for them to want to watch the remaining 25 seconds or whatever. So those things you have to, it's part of your pre-production, thinking about your script. So you write your script to make sure within five seconds of your message. Visit apcbiblecollege.org for free Bible courses. Five seconds. So you've got your main message across. That is you've got the website, you are at apcbiblecollege.org. They've heard it. They've seen it on the screen thing. So you've got that message across. Second, you want to know there's free courses or whatever. So it's something that you want to, or whatever you want. They're for Spiritful Bible College or whatever, something. But in that five seconds, you get your message across.  So, and then you want to think, okay, what is the audience reaching? You're reaching a global audience. So you want to show people from different parts of the world because you're reaching out to a global audience. It's not just for one particular city, right? And what else do you want people to know, right? So that's in your script and all that. So all that goes in the pre-production, then you might want to give it to your media team. They will put together the video based on your script and so on. And in this particular example of a promotion video, you may not need to go and shoot anybody. You may use pre-existing video segments and pictures and things like that. You're producing the video. Sometimes you'll have to go and shoot. You have people acting, you're cast, they're doing certain things and you have to record. Then after that, they have to work on it, put everything together. Then you kind of, you know, you go over it to review it and so on. So three steps, right? Pre-production, production, post-production. And the person editing it will put all this together. Now, one thing we have to keep in mind is that when it comes to video production, there are always, you know, constantly there are new devices that are coming out, always getting better, better resolution, better this and better that. So it's constantly improving. And also there are new video formats that are coming out, right? And new resolutions. So 4K, 8K, higher resolution, you know, higher quality videos. So just that you can, you know, you don't yourself have to worry about it. You have to let the media team handle that part, you know. But just be mindful that there's things that are changing constantly in this space.  And I just want to kind of talk about the different parts of the equipment. But I'll just share with you what we do at ABC. You know, at least for many years from the time we started, we didn't buy our equipment, you know, because these things are very expensive, right? These cameras and so on. So for a long time we just rented it, right? And even now we still do. Like we may own maybe one or, you know, just one or two cameras, but every Sunday we rent. We just, you know, we have a vendor with, okay, the man will come with the camera, with the tripod, with the cameraman is there. And they do the recording for us, you know, and we pay them for it. So one is it works out well for us because we don't have to pay huge amounts to buy the cameras. And, you know, if a new camera comes out, it is a responsibility to buy it and bring it. We are not, maintenance is not ours.  So it's fine if you, if you have the money to buy. It's, you can find out what's best for what you're trying to use it for.  And the advantages, you know, like I said, you don't have to worry about maintenance. You don't have to worry about upgrades or different lens or whatever. All those things they take care of. You just rent it, you just pay for them to come and shoot and record for you. But of course you need the right camera. And then, not only do we have cameras that are fixed on tripods, but you also need portable cameras, typically the GoPro. So for example, we use the GoPro, we attach a GoPro next to where the drummer is sitting. So in our Sunday service, right? So you're actually having multiple feeds that are coming in from different cameras. You've got cameras in the Sunday service. You've got multiple cameras, these big cameras on tripods from different angles. Then you've also got these portable cameras that are stuck in certain places. These are small cameras that are fixed, wherever, where there's a lot of moving. You know, for example, like I said, the drummer, so that you can show the drummer also as part of the service and it gives it a good feel. So we use a small GoPro placed near where the drummer is and every now and then we show him. So that's one way of showing, you know, using portable cameras or if the person is themselves, they are moving and you want to see something happening with them. You'd use something like a GoPro. Of course you have a tripod as part of the equipment. Then there are external microphones that are needed. So you can use mics with a windshield like this that'll pick up the sound or if it's for a speak speaking, then of course you can use wireless mics. And like we said in last week, the sound of course when it's coming from the worship involved gets mixed in the mixer and then there's output that goes for the video feed. There's audio recording and also for the live stream. There's an output that goes. So, or if you're just recording a single person speaking, you may use a single mic, a wireless mic or a mic with a windshield that's positioned, held somewhere in place. Right. Then the next part of your video production is the lighting and reflector kit. So again, all of this you can hire. So again, we for a long time, we never bought these things. We just hired them. And now, so you have lighting, they come up with these stands and they're different lighting you, you will, you have the halogen lighting or you have the LED lighting where you can control, you know, the brightness or the warmth that comes from the LEDs. So you can control it. And again, you hire these things. You don't have to buy them. And what is interesting is this green screen, they call it the chroma. If you use a green screen, you don't have to worry about the background. You know, so during while that they're doing video editing, they will just replace the green screen with any kind of background, like, you know, you could put a background like a living room. Or, you know, you can put a outdoor background, maybe out in the jungle or on the beach or whatever you can read whatever is green gets replaced by something that you want like an image. So the advantage of this is you don't have to worry about the set. That means you don't have to worry about where I'm going to shoot the decor. You know, I need this. I need that it is sometimes it's kind of expensive, or you may not find a suitable place. So what you do is you just shoot with a completely green background and everything that's green is replaced by an image graphic.  Of course, lighting is very important. And all this thing you you can hire for your shoot, right, and the people who are doing the shoot, they will take care of all the adjusting the light, the brightness and so on, while they are doing it. And just be aware that there are LEDs, LED lighting as well that's available today. And there's what they call as a reflective kit. So basically, it's this big round reflecting surface. They usually see them carrying it in black bags, they unzip the bag and and this thing just reflects light, they reflect light on the subject or in how are the lighting is needed to provide proper lighting. So this is also something that you can just hire you don't don't know what I'm saying what I want to say is you don't have to waste.  It's all good. You don't have to worry about renting these things. I mean, they're purchasing these things. The other thing, some other things that you would need is it's called the game ball, which is for for a for a camera that you're holding on hands, or you're moving. So some cameras, you put them on a tripod, some cameras people will be moving around. And so the game ball hugs them stabilize, make sure that the camera is held at the right angle or properly. Software for editing that we have already mentioned earlier, hardware, I'll just mention some things you need to keep in mind for a hardware for computer. So these things. Again, in the early days, the editing and the hardware software, it was rented. We didn't buy it. We just gave somebody outside to edit everything for us and give it to us so we didn't spend money on it in the early days. Only later on, we bought our own computer for video editing and software and people to do it. People would be hired or employed by the church to do it. But in the early days, everything was rented. We just paid people what they for the work they did to give us the video. Other things you would have to think about is captions on your video. So sometimes, of course, you can have transcription that means the voice to text translation would take. Or that's the closed captions will show it or you just live text on the video. You think about that I need to show text and sometimes this has to be done while you're shooting the video. So, for example, during a Sunday sermons, while the sermon is being preached, you will find the scripture was coming up, or you'll find, you know, key points coming up. You can do it in post production, but just to make things easier. If you do it while it's happening, you have your captions, all of that coming up at the right time in sync with the video, the voice and the caption so they're all in sync. It can be done in under post editing, and sometimes that's done. But in a live service, you need to think about that text that comes, you know, so you pre plan that text. So it's part of your pre production work. You know, all of these, these are the scripture text that should come up or these are the points that should come up. And we will talk tomorrow, I think, when we talk about live streaming in how that is done, but that comes up on the video. Other things you need is memory cards because these videos, of course, they take a lot of space. So you need to make sure you have a lot of memory cards. If you're doing live streaming, you need capture, you need capture cards that go from camera to computer. So then from camera goes ultimately goes, it goes out to your computer and out to, you know, the live stream. You need battery. I'm in a plug to, if you want to plug the camera into the power source as a backup. So basically, these are the things that you would need for your video production, right? If you're going to shoot a video, these are things. So let's quickly run through it again. One or more cameras, if it's a large event, a stage, so on, you'll need multiple cameras. Sometimes you'll have cameras on crane, so you'll have a crane that moves around, pans the audience or pans the stage with the camera attached to it. So those things, portable cameras, if there's a lot of action happening and you want to position a camera in a very, you know, a place where a person can't go and shoot, then you'll use these portable cameras, tripod, mics, lighting, reflective kit. So this is your lighting kit, your background green screen, if you don't have a, they want to use a set, lighting, LED lighting, reflective kit. Other things, the gimbal to stabilize the camera, if it's not on tripod, editing, hardware and software. Take up the captions, you want to come up on your video, memory cards to store all the files, the raw files, capture cards if you're going light streaming to connect the camera straight to the computer and power in enough battery or should be able to plug it into power source. Okay. Then I've just mentioned a little bit here on the computer specifications. So if you're planning to buy a computer now, like I mentioned earlier, in the initial days, we didn't buy, you know, we just let somebody do it outside for us, they took it and edited it. So we didn't have to buy a computer, because this hardware is expensive, right? But just to let you know if you're planning to buy a computer for video editing, you need to look at a higher end, slightly a computer for a normal user, right? Because you're dealing with very large and you need a lot of processing power. So the processors have to be more than just for regular users. A lot of memory, a lot of hard drive space, a lot of RAM and hard disk space. You also need good graphic cards and preferably a large screen so that person doing the editing, you know, can work on a big screen. These are basic things that I think about if you're planning to buy a computer, ideally you want a RAM, the memory should be around 32 GB and or more, the better they can open up their files and so on. For the processor, ideally you want something i7 or i9, so you want a higher end or higher end processor and more number of processors, four or more processor cores. Storage, that is the hard disk, of course you need a good SSD, that is, they are fast and as much as much space as you can afford. So usually they go into terabytes, you know, so one TV and so on. So you need more. This is the minimum, but you need higher end. You need a computer with a good graphics card, so that's important. You ask that, what is the graphic card and make sure it's there. Of course, good operating system, a large screen, of course, and a connection to quickly copy your file or your Thunderbolt port to quickly copy the videos off of your wherever stored. So typically you would end up on memory cards that come from the cameras and then you'd have to connect them and load it up into your copy it into your computer, so you need a good port to do that. So these are just general things to look out for if you're planning to buy a computer specifically for video editing. The normal computer that, you know, that we use for day-to-day work will not help. It may be okay if you're doing like a short 30 second video, but if you're planning to edit, you know, a five minute video or anything bigger, it will become very slow and so you need to have a good computer, right? So in essence, this is what we need from equipment side for video production. And with this, you know, you could get started and produce videos. I would encourage you to think about it. Think about producing videos. It's a good, powerful way to communicate a message or to communicate to people. These days, people like to hear and see and get a feel of what's happening. Okay, so I will pause here for today. Tomorrow we're going to get into live streaming. That means this whole thing is going to happen live. That means you're not doing any post-production. Okay, you do your pre-production. You're planning everything. Production is happening and it's just two hours of a sermon or a conference or whatever. And you're not editing afterwards. It goes live to the audience. And so, sorry, so what actually goes in? How is that configured? I'll share that with us tomorrow. Okay. So any questions on video production? You know, as far as maybe you've tried something or you have any questions on this? Anybody? You all good? Okay. Okay, so yeah, so we'll pick this up tomorrow. We will talk about live streaming tomorrow and we will go forward. Okay, let's close in prayer. Anybody wants to take a moment? Please, you could just pray and then we will wrap up the class. Thomas, could you pray with us? Yes. Father and Jesus, thank you for this wonderful time as we're learning the media equipments and all. Thank you, Dad, everything for your kingdom to reach many souls. Thank you for the coming days. Help us to utilize this knowledge to do the things for the better video things and all. Thank you, Father, as we're going to learn the live stream. Help us to invest our time and learn for the better things. We thank you. We praise you. We love you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good afternoon. God bless. Bye now. Thank you, Pastor.


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Last month, I recorded and published my second Try a Chapter book tag video because I enjoyed doing the first one so much and I enjoyed the second one as well. I enjoyed it so much. I'm going to do it again.  It gives me the opportunity to fit in more variety, to feel like I'm getting more reading done, and to give me more variety to talk about and to recommend to you. So here's my third Try a Chapter book tag and this month the gimmick is books that are on my cell phone because I have e-books stored on my cell phone that have been sitting there for months and months, sometimes a couple of years. So I dug through these to decide which ones I wanted to try and there's great stuff. I liked almost all of them. First of all, there's Arawan by Samuel Butler. The Arawan from 1870s. It's a Gulliver's Travels-type social satire, world explorer kind of thing. He discovers a utopia, a lost utopia on a lost continent. I read the first two chapters. Amazing writing. At the end of the second chapter, things were about to get started. I was hooked. I'm definitely going to go back to this one. And the next one, I'm going in alphabetical order here, Exigency by Michael Seamson. I reported this book when I bought it last year, or maybe even the year before. I got it online at KoboBooks.com. They were doing a giveaway of science fiction books. I got it for free. KoboBooks.com is a service that I recommend. You can get all sorts of DRM-free e-books from them, and DRM-free is important. This is not a paid advertisement, by the way. I just like what they're doing. Okay, this book was a total surprise. I've never heard of the title, never heard of the author. The first two chapters were fantastic. I really enjoyed it. It's about a small group of scientists who are in a space station in orbit over an alien planet observing from afar the local intelligent aliens. The writing is character-driven. The author is doing his world building by character building, and he's doing a good job of it. And the second chapter, something goes wrong on the space station, and they have to get out of the station without any warning. And it was exciting, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Okay, number three. Low of my tears, the policeman said by Philip K. Dick. This is another surprise. This is not a title I'd heard of. Someone recommended it to me. One of my viewers, as a matter of fact, I forget which one. And again, I liked it. The first chapter was kind of difficult to get started on to get into the flow of what was happening, to understand the characters. The second chapter, this is a world famous television star. He wakes up in a seedy hotel without any ID on him. And he discovers that nobody knows who he is. That's where chapter two left off, and I definitely want to know what's going to happen. I'll be reading that one for sure. Okay, number four. A little brother by Cory Doctorow. This was the only one that I wasn't crazy about. I'm not crazy about the writing style. I'm not that crazy about the story. The first chapter was better than the second. I read two chapters again. I ended up reading two chapters instead of one. It's about a high school kid who is a real hacker whiz, and he's involved with a group of other kids who are serious hackers. It's about a present day dystopia where the constant presence of the government and cameras and censorship on the internet and everywhere else is ever present and everyone's concerned about it. Like I said, I wasn't crazy about the writing style. I thought it was very similar to... What's my phone ringing? Yeah, yeah, I'll have to take a look at it later today when I get back home. Okay, thank you. Alright, like I said, I wasn't crazy about the writing style. It reminded me very much of Player One by Ernest Klein, which I didn't like. He had this almost downright silly style where he's trying to show off about how much he knows and how hippy he is and how he's up with the lingo that the kids use these days that I didn't like it at all. In the first chapter, he made a pop culture reference that looked like he was trying to impress us with how much he knows and he got his reference wrong. He said that in Japan, Astro Boy is called Adam Boy, and that's not correct. He's called the mighty Adam. So his one shot at that, I immediately knew that he didn't know what he was talking about. And then the second chapter, he devoted each chapter to somebody. The first chapter he devoted to a bookstore in Canada, that's nice. The second chapter he devoted to Amazon.com for a guy who's concerned about the ever encroaching presence of corporations and governments on the internet to talk how much he likes Amazon. And he says that Amazon treats him like gold. I don't like this Dr. O'Fella. Okay. All right, finally, number five, The Water Knife by Paolo Batsigalupi. I have not bought this book last year when the book was released. Again, maybe that was a year before. I'm so out of touch with when things have happened. He gave away the first chapter online and I saved it onto my phone. I finally read it and it was good. I've read a lot of Paolo Batsigalupi's short stories. He's a fantastic world builder, one of the best world builders I've ever seen. I've talked about that when I've talked about his short stories. And I've talked about how when I find an author whose short stories I really like, I'm always reluctant to read a novel because their style that I like so much doesn't translate to novels. But this first chapter of The Water Knife was good. So I'll certainly be getting The Water Knife at some point in reading it. That's it for this book tag video. Thank you for watching. Please like and subscribe and become a patron. 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Good day, I'm Chaplain Cathy Scott, the Deputy Wing Chaplain at the 42nd Air Base Wing. Here to talk to you a little bit more about religion. Oftentimes, people confuse religion with spirituality. Religion is an organized set of beliefs, a set of doctrine, outlining what a belief system, what they believe to be true, but spirituality is the deep longing for things. It's the connection to the holy, and somebody can be spiritual, but not religious. When somebody is religious, they might do something on a regular basis, at a regular time, in a very disciplined way, but spirituality is a connection with the holy. It's connecting with other people. It's a deep sense of longing. Throughout these times, throughout these trying times, stay spiritual.