Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series, where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's okay. We do record the show, and then it is posted on our website for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you the end of today's show, where you can access all of our archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please share with all of your colleagues, friends, family, neighbors, anyone who you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. In your state, it may be the so-and-so state library. But here, we're just the library commission. So we provide services to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live that could be for any type of libraries. Publics, academics, K-12, universities, corrections, museums, archives, everything and anything. So our show here, the only criteria is there's something to do with libraries and all of those types of libraries. We sometimes bring in guest speakers, talk about cool things they're doing at their libraries from across the country. When we have book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, could be anything. So you definitely should be able to find something on our show that would be of interest and use to you. We also bring in a Nebraska Library Commission staff to do presentations and that we have this morning. And also, because it is the last Wednesday of the month, it is pretty sweet tech day. Yay. Every, the last Wednesday of every month, Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian comes on. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning. And shares something techy with us. So if you're the tech person in your library or you're interested in that kind of thing, this is definitely the show to sign up for and attend. We talk about tech things other times in the month too sometimes. But definitely the last Wednesday of the month will always be Amanda and her pretty sweet tech. And today we're going green or other colors that we've been informed earlier. I wore green for the day, but how to make green screen videos. So I will just hand it over to you, Amanda, to take it away and teach us everything we need to know. Well, so it's actually not too bad to make green screen, especially since technology is getting better and it's getting easier and easier to do it. So we're just going to go over a quick little snippet of what green screen is. I broke it down into kind of a step-by-step process so you can try it yourself. And then I'll do a demonstration of how to do the video editing to get to remove that green background and put yourself somewhere else in the world. And then I go over some recommended tools. I've tested out a whole mess of them. So I'll tell you what worked for me, what didn't, and what made me want to pull my hair out. Then I'll go over some activity ideas and things you might want to try in the library. All right, so first things first, these next three slides are just going to be a quick demo of what green screen will actually do. So usually you start with a background. This is the scene that you're going to be putting you in place. And then you would want to find or record a green screen video. So this is just any subject with a green background or a heavily contrasting background. And fun fact, it doesn't actually have to be green. They originally, so before they actually used blue and they've also used like a variety of other colors. All it has to be is a heavily contrasting color that you'd be able to select in an editor and remove and make transparent. And then they chose green because they did some studies and found out that it is the furthest color from being a human skin tone. And so unless you are using face paint, green is good. As long as your clothes aren't green, otherwise your shirt might disappear. I know, yes. I'm not doing green screen in here. This is my real office. So then you can just put them together. So you can see the lion's actually in a different position as she was before. And that's because this is actually a video. I just took a screenshot of a video. And this VR is actually another video that I found using an open source website. So this is kind of your first tip of the day is it takes more time and money to be able to shoot your own green screen footage. But if you still wanna teach green screen editing without taking the footage, you can find free green screen, a footage out there that's available on like Pixabay. And I put a series of resources out there. So you can just search around and practice editing on that just to get a lay of the land. If you like it or if your students like it, then you can get the gear and setup to record your own green screen. And you can also just do it with your phone. All right.  In that case, it was a lion somewhere. It's either in the zoo or on safari somewhere. It was open source video. So who knows? And the subject was, I found a random virtual reality girl in open source. So I just kind of put the two together. And in the later editing, I'm gonna put in a little thought bubble that says this is what happens when you don't pay attention. And so then your second step is to either find or record. You can find or record your background video yourself or you can find and record your subject video. Then you're going to pop into an editor to remove that green background. And then you'll just layer the two together. So it looks like that. And then you can add in any audio that you want. And in some cases, you can actually record it while you're doing it. But we'll get to that in a second. And then you just wanna save it as an MP4, which is YouTube friendly or any other video format that your editor is comfortable with. All right. So I put in a little snippet just in case you do want to set up a green screen. This is just a reference slide that you can use on your own because we only have 15 minutes here and it takes a minute to set up a green screen. And so the demonstration that I used, I've already gone through and I have recorded it and I have done the editing process to remove that through. But basically you would set up that heavily contrasting green screen. The recommended green screen size by Parker Welbeck in this top resource here is that you use about a 20 foot long green screen so that it covers the entire floor. So it's easier to be able to have the flexibility to move around. So in the case of that virtual reality girl, she was able to move left and right and she still had the green background behind her. And it's because that green screen was chosen that way. I've run into a lot of libraries that use the green wall paint. So the tip that I get there is that if you use a green wall paint, use a slightly better editor than you would have planned to do because the green wall paint actually comes, it will appear from a distance as one shade of green, but in the editor it's going to appear as maybe three or four possibly more shades of green. And that's because of the texture of the wall and the way the light is hitting the wall. So walls actually have little bumps all over them. So if you run your finger over your wall and you can actually feel a texture, then that paint is going to show, that texture is going to show up as different shades which is going to make it more difficult to go into the video editor and select and remove. However, if you're using a higher quality video editor, then you'll actually be able, that will have an automated threshold setting. So you can change the threshold setting so that it grabs more different shades and a wider range of shades. So if you're using the cheapo version that doesn't have as many settings, the wall paint is going to be a nightmare. But if you're using a higher end editor and you're using the wall paint, you can cheap out on the green screen setting, but it'll be easier with a more expensive video editor. So I won't spend too much more time on this slide. You can go back to it when you want to. Does anyone have any questions about setting up the green screen and how to do different lighting features? Let's see, nobody's typed anything yet, but yes, if anybody has any questions, go ahead and whenever you think of it, just go ahead and type into your question section of your GoToWebinar interface and I'll keep eye on that for Amanda. And the how to green screen in six easy steps actually has a lighting setup for you. So it'll actually tell you the different angles and you can just kind of mirror it back based on what's in that video. So I'm going to go into the demonstration now and I'll use this first setting. This is the easiest possible setting that you can do if you're just getting started. And that is using Zoom. So has anyone used the virtual background in Zoom? And I'll give a second for you to put into the chat whether you have or not while you're doing that. I'm going to open up the sample video that I've put together. I'm sure many people have. Well, in the bat, yeah. Yeah, it's very common nowadays considering a situation. I tried to use it when I was at home one time and apparently I needed to upgrade my Zoom or do something because I had no choice. I went to the part in Zoom that said here, pick and it was empty. Let's see what we got. Yes, I use a photo I have on my computer from my background. Yes, no, I've tried and it doesn't come out right. Yeah. My husband uses it for work regularly. They have a weekly meeting and there's always a theme for your background. So this is fine. It doesn't seem so sweet. Everybody share your favorite breakfast food and so there's pictures of food behind people or your favorite animal or something. So they go and find other, like the first person here says a photo I have. You can either go and find their own photos to use in it. So they figured it out. Yeah, yeah. So this, so that virtual background is basically an automation of green screen. So you may not have a specifically green screen behind you but that's all Zoom is doing is it's selecting the colors that aren't you and removing it. And that is just the basic premise of what you're doing. So this was actually shot in Zoom. Cool. So I just set up my webcam just like I have right now. My background is exactly as it is right now. It has my white wall and my closet background. And I just uploaded this lion video. Well, that's pretty cool that it can be actually video behind and not just a static picture. I didn't realize that. That's a hungry lion he got there.  Like I'm in trouble. So I won't play that whole thing but I basically just did like little reaction shots to what the lion was doing in the background. I didn't have to do any extra editing with this and you still get the appearance of green screen. So that is why Zoom is actually my recommended easiest editor that you can use. I'm going to open up my Zoom. I'll start a new meeting here. And I'm not going to join with computer audio because it won't, it's gonna conflict the go-to meeting. And I'm hoping that this is going to let me access my video settings. Okay. So I went in here and I mirrored my video so that I'm facing the right way. I did a mild touch-up of my appearance and it was mostly just because I had like a little red little mark here and that just got rid of it. And I adjust for low light so I didn't invest in any additional lighting systems. I let Zoom do it for me. That's nice. People are always like, I need to buy those big ring lights or something and I need to, necessary depending on what you're using. Yeah. And so that just basically, it just kind of changed the contrast in the room so that the background was brightened and my face was brightened. And that way I didn't have to do any extra setup and I was just, my desk is actually facing a wall right now. So I wouldn't have been able to put any additional lighting in front of me. Software just didn't for me. And then we go into advanced. And I made sure to optimize the video quality and these I just left on their own. And in the background and filters, I uploaded my lion. So I just hit this plus sign in the upper right where it says add images or video. And then I grabbed my lion and popped it in there. There is a checkbox now in here that says I have a green screen but I did not select this because it only works with green or highly contrasting colors. With the white background this, even though it's all the same color, it won't work. But if you have the mirror, my video is selected and you have a more monotone background, that'll work. If you don't have a monotone background, the easiest cheat sheet is if you have white poster paper or white activity paper, tape it to the ceiling and roll it down. And you can do that three, four in a row and that will white out your background so that this will actually work.  And then you can also re-roll the activity paper back up and still use it because all you really did was tape it up and roll it down. So you're not wasting it, it's just kind of using it for something different temporarily. And we're gonna close this. If you wanna have some extra fun, there's also studio effects that were added kind of recently. So you can give yourself a mustache or a beard and you can also give yourself lipstick without actually applying lipstick. So those are kind of fun. So I'm not actually able to demonstrate that because if I try to activate the camera in Zoom, it's gonna take away from go-to-meeting and I just, it's easier to just show you the settings because that's pretty much the only thing you need in here. All right, do we have any questions about the Zoom settings and kind of what works, what doesn't there? Let's see, no, it doesn't leave any questions. If you have any questions about using Zoom, go ahead and type them in. Someone does say, I haven't used it yet using the Zoom background, but I'll learn how, which hopefully maybe they're doing today. And someone says, my computer needs more RAM. So someday, yeah, people are needing better to upgrade. Ah, ah, good question. What does mirror video mean? You said you needed a mirror. So if you don't mirror your video, you will actually be like shifted and rotated in a weird way. So when you mirror your video, it makes it look more natural. The easiest way to do it is, oh, I wish I could actually, let's see what happens, what if I actually just start it? Cannot start video, that's what I figured. Nobody else is, something else is already using it, yeah. Yeah, so the best way to do it is to just unclick that box and see the distorted weirdness that happens if it's not checked. Sure, try it without, yeah. But it'll flip you and kind of shift you around and you'll look like, you'll just look back at yourself going, that's not natural. So is that, I've seen some people when they use the Zoom backgrounds. And I mean, this one, when you did it, it's very clean, but people move around and it flickers and like because they've moved suddenly, the background doesn't fully fill in or something. Yeah, so the biggest thing is that something else or that just technology. So the biggest thing that happens with this is the contrasting color of what is behind you in your actual background. So I've done, I've tried this two different ways. I've tried it with the closet behind me open and I've tried it with the closet behind me closed. So with the closet closed, it works like this, like you get on the screen. With the closet open, you get black bars right here. Because there's so many other colors and things in the closet, so many other things. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so what we've done behind you already is so busy, it's got too much to try and account for and adjust for. Yeah, and the other thing to look for is how you arrange your hair. So if you look at this, you can see I'm actually missing a curl on the side here and I'm actually picking up some of the pigment from my hair. But I left it because who in the world looks at a tiny little curl on my shoulder? So I left that there because mostly no one would notice. And if you look here, you can see a blurring from, this is actually the rounding up from my shirt over my shoulder. But my shirt is a similar color to the background that I'm using. Yes. So it's starting to blur a little bit because Zoom doesn't necessarily know which pixel to choose. It can choose, yeah. And it's actually, this is actually closer to the weight of my background. So if I had chosen a more contrasting color like a red, this probably wouldn't have happened as much. So you gotta think ahead about what you're gonna wear depending on what you're doing. If you want that to be perfect or clearer, cleaner, yeah. And my hair here is clearer than my hair over here because there's more white space in between the hair on this left side. So it's also having troubles picking up this. So when I shot this, I shot it three times because before my hair was like out here and it disappeared. I shifted it in front of my shoulder and then it looked more natural. And if I were to move really quickly, it wouldn't have actually picked, it would start doing that blurring. So that's why when I play this, I don't actually move really drastically. You see, when the line turned to the side, I actually turned really slowly. And if you wanted to be able to keep up with what you were, your movements. And that's also the frame rate too. So assume if you are running a lower internet connection or if you're running a, you don't have as fast of processing power, the frame rate per second is when that frame refreshes. So if Zoom isn't able to refresh itself, that's also what's going to get that blur too. It's the same thing that happens in virtual reality because like, so when you're trying to turn around like that and navigate, the screen has to refresh every second. And if it's not, you blur. Yep. Yeah, a good comment here that is a good explanation of the mirror video. And obviously I've done this. Mirroring is important.  So without mirroring, there would be backwards. So you'd be holding up the book and if you can see the lettering, it's gonna be reversed. If you see some people when they post pictures on Instagram or online somewhere and they're wearing a shirt or something, you can tell if they've done this or not because whatever the writing is on the shirt will be backwards. So if you're doing those kind of story time things, it's also very important if you're gonna be holding something up so that it looks right. Correct, yeah. But if you're gonna take one of those videos that says, can you guess what's wrong with this photo? Do it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Everyone in the comments says, this is great. I hadn't thought of using Zoom. So glad I can use something that's already familiar that we've been using for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, so this is the easiest way to do it. It's actually the way that I do it most because looking at the final product who in the world would ever know. And so if I need to do any additional editing, I pull this into either Canva or I go into Windows Video Editor. Do you wanna make it full screen again? Do the, into present mode, sides, yeah. So it just gets built. I'm actually about to jump into the next one. So I might just leave it like this for a second. Never mind, I'll let you do your thing. Ignore me. All right, so we've got, we're at 1027 here. So it takes a minute to demonstrate Canva. So that is kind of the editor that goes along with it. But I've also got Wondershare Filmora X which is, it's another green screen editor that I use to make this. So you can see that it's got the, it has a watermark by default. If you get the paid version or if you use the trial, the seven day trial version, you won't have this watermark. But this is the easier way to actually do a video. So if you don't wanna be pulling your hair out, trying to grab each little pixel from your painted green screen wall, that's probably the easier way to actually do it. And so there's Wondershare Filmora, the VSDC and Lightworks are three that I experimented with. But I liked Wondershare Filmora the most because it didn't make me wanna pull my hair out. And you can get it for a $70 one-time fee or $40 a year. The difference is that $70 one-time fee is that you get a lifetime access to only Wondershare Filmora X or 10. I don't know if it's a Roman numeral or an actual just letter X. But I don't know if it's a Roman numeral but so once they switch to Wondershare Filmora 11, you won't have access to 11. You'll still only have access to 10. So that's the difference between if you use that one-time fee versus the $40 a year, because the $40 a year, you will have access to any additional versions after that. So once they've gone to version 11, you automatically get upgraded to it if you're going on a yearly. But if you only wanna experiment around with this or you're only using this for probably one year anyway, or if you just don't care about having the newest, latest, greatest, you just want it to work, then the one-time fee is good to go. As long as they do good support of the previous ones still. They do, yeah. I don't know how long. I don't know if I do it for a year or two years, but they do have support for it after they switch over. Eventually they would have to stop supporting like version two after up to 10. But yeah, that's a good way to get started. Just try it out. If you don't wanna commit to the annual fee, you know, and then make it or do it, yeah. VSDC is an open source editor. If you Google free green screen editors, VSDC lands on almost every list. The caveat to that is that VSDC recently upgraded their, what's covered in their pro versus the free and the transparency editing has now been switched over to the pro version. So they do require you to have a, it's like, it's $19.99, but I put $20 because it's $20. Yeah. So if you are, it has, that one is a little bit clunkier than Wondershare and Fillmora, but it does work. It just kind of takes a little bit more to do it. There are a million tutorials online for how to do it, but they've also changed their platform. So look for a more recent tutorial versus something a few years older because the screen will look different. And Lightworks does work for most things. Lightworks is a, they have both a free and a pro version. This is what some of the expert level people use. So there is a higher level, there was like a higher learning curve to doing it. What I did notice is that, so I'm gonna click this open here. So this here, I had to layer two images together. This was my background here, and this is the green screen that I found in open source. In order to get this to look the way it is, when I first loaded her in here, she was in the very center of the screen. In Wondershare for Elmora and in VSDC, I was able to just click and drag her over here to where she's supposed to be. But in Lightworks, I actually had to go in X, Y, and Z axes to be able to shift her over. And when I first tried to shift that, shift her over, it actually took a screenshot of this entire section. So I had like a double lion going on for a second. And so I found out through trial and error that in Lightworks, it wanted me to crop her down to just the area she was covering. The first time I cropped her down, when I played this video, she lost her wrist at this angle because she moved in the video, but the crop box that I had made cut off the area where she moved her virtual for her VR controller. So I had to recrop it and then move it. So it takes more tweaking and adjusting in Lightworks to be able to get this to look the way that you want. But Lightworks is really good if you don't actually have to change the placement.  The only headache that I had with Lightworks was shifting and positioning this layer so that it's in the right position. So if you don't need to shift anything, go with Lightworks, it's free. And so I'm gonna reduce this down and I'm gonna pop back in here. So we've got 1035 and I will open up and do a demonstration of the Wondershare Filmora editor so that you get an idea of what layering video tracks looks like because when I demonstrate the layering in video tracks in Wondershare, it's not that terribly different than any video editor that you open up. So let's go to Wondershare and Filmora X. And this will just take a second to load. I may re-click it. So I'm going to, the first thing you want is to, I always put it into the 16 by nine, the widescreen which is that 1920 by 1280. So that it'll actually fill up the entire screen. And then I'll go into New Project. So in this panel up here where it says Drag or Video Clips Images and Audio, this is where I'm going to drag and drop those, the video clips that I found. Instead of grabbing it from my downloads folder, which is probably easier for me, I'm going to go back into Pixabay and I'll show you the source of where they came from. So I'm gonna open up Mozilla. I'm going to open up a new tab. We'll go to Pixabay. Pixabay has, I use it for like everything. My background slides come from this. And I'm gonna go to Videos. I'll go to Lion. And we'll scroll down until I find here. The reason I chose this lion instead of any others is because it had a blank open space so that I'd be able to place additional characters. If I had gone with something like this, then I wouldn't have been able to have a space to put anything. I wouldn't have been able to, it would have just looked clunky. So I'll grab this. I'll go into the free download in the right corner here. And I wanna make sure that this 1920 by 1080 is selected. We'll go to download and save it. Now I wanna get my VR girl. And she may have actually come from, I'm gonna open this back up. These are my main sources that I go to to find free videos online. And I think she actually came from Pexels. So let me search in Pexels. I'm gonna go to video, green screen. This also might be an indexing issue here because I did search for a green screen when I initially found the virtual reality girl. And the person who loaded that image in there may have indexed it under a green screen but may not have added the virtual reality. So I can search for a green screen in Pixabarie. And as I'm scrolling through these, these are a mess of different green screen images that you can play around within your library. You can add explosions to different things. You can make fish fly in space. You can make sharks fly around everywhere. And there's just a ton of stuff that you can do on here. One of these sites has a Minecraft. You can play around with COVID when you're in here. I never thought I'd say play around with COVID. But there it is. And so they just have a mess of stuff. Rather than have me go through these five different websites, just know that I got VR girl from one of them and you can search there and download. So I'm going to go back into Wondershare of Filmora. We're going to assume that all of our stuff is downloaded and ready to grab. And I'm going to go into my download folder which that lion just showed up in. And I will drag this over so you can see what I'm doing because it's on my second monitor. So I opened up my file explorer down here. I go into my downloads and then I just drag and drop the lion over. Now I want the VR girl here. So I took a screenshot over just because I made a demonstration slideshow. You can see some of the other green screen that I've been playing around with. And this is VR girl. So now we're going to drag. We have these are the clips that we're working with in our project. Down here is our project space. So this is where I'm going to drag and drop this lion. And you can see that these different frames have shown up. So now when I drag and drop this girl down here you actually aren't going to be able to see this because of the layering right now. So this is kind of a demonstration of how layering works. So you've got your background down here. And if you try to put your foreground image down at the bottom, you won't see it. You'll only see a little tracing of where it's supposed to be. So if you don't see it, it's a good indicator that your layering is just in the wrong order. So now we want to be able to get rid of this green background here. And it's actually pretty easy just by going into there's this little icon up here when you hover over it it says green screen, click on it. And you want to make sure that your color is selected correctly. If it's not, you can click on this little dropper and then click on this green and it'll get rid of it. So you can see before when it did it automatically there was a little haze of gray.  And you can also kind of adjust these different settings until your subject image looks the way that you want or two on the screen. And then when you have it looking the way you want click on okay.  And that's it. I bet that was a lot easier than you thought it was gonna be. It is a very intimidating thing to say. You're going to make this video in green screen and layers. It intimidates me, I know. But once you actually do it, it's not bad. I think it's a lot of experimenting like I was just saying little tweaks here and there that can adjust things. You'll see, oh, that worked better. That's how I've done it. I've had to edit things. At first it's intimidating like, okay, he's gonna be forever. And I just dedicate some time to playing with it. Not necessarily with this has got to be the final good one and learning from just move a slider, move something around, click something, undo something, redo it. You can always fix something. You can always delete and start all over again. I do have a couple of questions that have come in. And I'm sure we'll get to this other one here. And this is, I know this, we're talking here about how to make green screen videos, but someone wants to know, are the steps for video editing going to be the same if you're doing a simple photo? So like doing something that's just a static photo. Do the same thing with that, that's just not video. I will open up GIMP here. So GIMP is my Photoshop alternative because I'm cheap. So it's basically a free image manipulator. So I'm going to go to file and I'm going to open. I will grab my, from my downloads folder, I'm going to grab the screenshot of this green screen. So we'll open it. And now I'm going to go into the selector. So this little eyedrop picker tool, we'll pick that green and delete it. So the reason that I grabbed this is because it selected the entire mess of it. So we are going to change the threshold on here. So I'm going to pick it and now going to go to the fuzzy select, delete. So the reason you still have these little bits and blobs here is because they're actually part of, it's closed off in a separate section from where this background is, but you can pick, you can grab it. I'm going to, I just hit the control Z to clear it. So we grab fuzzy select, change the threshold and now it grabs more of that pixel and delete. So as you change that threshold, it'll grab more and more of this color. I'm using the cheapy version of this. If you use the actual Photoshop, it'd be done by now. But so if you- But it's free and it works. Yeah, GIMP, G-I-M-P. Everybody was wondering? Yeah, but if you use cheapy, it only takes like a few seconds more and then you're good to go. Cause I don't mind deleting a couple more times if I get it for free.  Yeah. So basically all I did was go in, I loaded the image in, selected that I grabbed this, selected the green color, and then I grabbed my fuzzy select tool, selected that green, hit the delete key, and it was gone. So you're basically just removing a green. Nice, all right. And then you can open up. Open as layer. And you can ask me the next question while I'm loading this in. So I want to know, did you say we could use Windows Video Editor for green screen videos? Yeah.  Well, it's the Windows Video Editor. Go to the new project and green screen test.  And that's why when I say, when you've learned them, you've learned them all. They all work. This editor, it won't work for layering. That's the unfortunate part. It'll only work for sequencing. So the place where the Windows, so the place where this Windows Video Editor comes in handy is if you've recorded in Zoom that has automatically done the layering for you. And you just want to be able to clip out little sections and edit it and trim it using an additional video editor because Zoom won't do the trimming and the editing and it won't add any text to it. But if you already have a completed video like this one and I'm going to grab my lion video which is in my videos, green screen folder. Grab this. So where this Windows comes in handy, assume that you actually don't have the trial version and this is not here because it looks kind of gross but you can add text and say it's a great way to start memification. And you can also shift the location of this up here on the side or pretty much anywhere you want to. So if you want to do basic editing like that or add them. So if you want to add text, if you want to sequence videos together which would look like this. So if you want to add in another, I'm going to go into my downloads and you want to add another video together, you can sequence them side by side. So now these will play one after the other but this doesn't have chroma key option to be able to remove this but you could remove it for free and pull it in here. And Wondershare does also let you add text. So you don't need a separate editor to be able to add text, you can do it there. And you can also trim so that these match up. Otherwise if you had, if I had left this alone then she would have randomly disappeared at about the 18 second marker and then it would just be a lion. So you just want to trim it and you're good. And then it all matches up, yep. If you are looking for another question and go ahead and type in your questions, anybody. We still got 10 minutes officially left in today's show but we will go as long as it takes for Amanda to get through everything she wants to demo and any questions you guys have, we will not get cut off right at the top of the hour. No, not at all. We'll stay here as long as you guys wanna, not for hours and hours but we have no problem going over a little bit. We have one question which I assume might be getting to how you finish and download the final product so that you can share it. Yeah, so you can go into export. In Wondershare you would go into export and you can either upload it directly to YouTube or Vimeo but I usually just export it to my device which is my computer. And so I just give it a title just like saving anything else and Lion Green Screen Demo. And in this version you'd want to select your setting on here so the type of device that you're going to be exporting it to and the settings which is the pixel resolution you'd wanna change to the 1920 by 1080 which is what this is going to be saved as and you would go into, okay and I want my local device. So this is one thing you wanna look out for for when you're exporting it is if you already know the specific device that you're going to be using or students are going to be using you can optimize it for that device but the easier way to do it and if you're going to be later uploading this to YouTube or uploading it to Vimeo, select this local which is the local device. This will be the file format that you're saving it as. I usually go to MP4 and Lion Green Screen Test. And so when you go to the local device the resolution will be set by default as the resolution that you had saved in your original project. And then you go to export and it'll take a second to finalize it and get it downloaded because it's rendering this entire video format as it's saving it. And then this will usually, you can default it to go into your download folder. When you first download Wondershare Filmora it will actually create a new folder called Wondershare in your documents folder and it will save it to that folder. So if you download this and look in your download folder expecting to find it there it probably won't be there. It'll be defaulted to that random weird folder for whatever reason. Yeah. And so I'm just going to wait for this to download and I'm going to find the target. So the find target opens up the file path and you can see this weird file path that it went through. So it's in my documents folder, Wondershare, Wondershare Filmora and output for whatever weird reason. Well, you can move it. And I did promise that I was going to add in some text on here. So I can show you how to do that and I will also mention that for anyone who wants to do the more advanced audio or video editing you can add different effects on here. But these are all automated so it's kind of like a little formula that Wondershare's already figured out and they just pop it in there. So we're going to add text in here. We're going to do this little, I like this little burst because why not? So one of you choose one of these, it's going to ask you to add it to the individual project. When it adds it, it's going to download this icon locally onto your computer so that you're able to actually use it. The text is going to show up down yonder and then we're going to type this in here and I know I said I was going to put something in here. Oh, I'm going to shift this up, change my text color and I'm going to change the settings on here until this is actually more visible. You can actually see a faint outline of it right here. The reason that it's not showing up is because of, do we have any guesses? Layering. Layering, layers. So that's why it's not showing up there. I always demo that because that's the number one thing that people actually do and say, I just added text in the last one showing up. So I'm going to change this and I want a different style on here. I'm going to change the color, change the size and then center this so that it actually shows up where you want it to.  You see that I'm changing where this is located and no text is appearing. But when you move it over, text will only appear where it overlaps where you placed it. So if you want this text to appear through the whole video, you actually have to extend it out in this bottom panel. Make it all match up, yep. And so wonder if there may be a mistake here you could then put it in just one section. We'll drag this over, shrink it down. Now I'm just kind of futzing around with it so it just kind of looks the way I want it to. I'm resizing this text box entry. I'm able to shrink it down. It's huge. Fit it into the bubble. And this is just kind of playing around with it. And there's an automatic font resize for when you resize the text. So you just have to manually go in here and change the font. This is what happens, you don't pay attention. Yes. That's true. All right, so that is, I'm not gonna finish playing around with that just to get the idea of kind of how to position it and how to play around with it until it fits where you want to. And I would just kind of reposition it elsewhere on the screen. And you can also preview it by pressing play. Okay, so I did say that I would go into activity ideas that you can do in the library. So I'm going to minimize this. And this is the GIMP in case you're wondering what you're looking at again. I just layered this in so that, you know, how to use a static image. And I will close my stock video for as a record. Someone did ask, they wanted to see the list of websites for pulling open source video and pictures from, and that would be right there. And also while we're mentioning that when the recording is available for this, which everyone who attended today and everyone who registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know when the recording's ready, there'll also be a link to the slides in there as well. So the Google slides here that Amanda's using. And what I'll do for a quick reference is I will put in the link to the Google slide that I'm using so you have the links. That it'll also be on the Encompass Live page when it gets loaded up. Yeah. All right, so this is the list of links that people had asked for. What I usually do is I will search on here and just go for green screen. But if you, I search for green screen and you just get a mess of them. If you, sometimes if you search for blue screen, you'll get something and anything that has a heavily contrasting color that you can manually remove that background shade, you can use in a project. And in terms of activities, it looks like I did not add that slide here yet. So I'll just tell you. So what you can do is, has anyone ever seen Whose Line Is It Anyway? Yes. It's kind of like an improv show. So in Whose Line Is It Anyway, they usually have like Colin Macri, he's one of the actors on the show. He'll be standing in front of a green screen and he's has to try to guess what's going on behind him. So you can kind of replicate that by partnering two students up and having like recording like a little webcam version of it. And then the other just like a news report about some event. Yes. Yeah. But he doesn't know what it is except, yeah. Then he has to, like the person has to stand with their back to the wall and they're back to the screen and try to guess what they're in front of. So that's just kind of fun. And you can also do like a newscaster thing. The easiest way to do it is by going into Zoom and then you can get a newscaster background or you can get an on location background like I did with the lion. And then you can, like the people can start practicing narration and kind of acting skills and different things like that. And you can also go into, oh, let me find the link to this, which I will actually add once I found it. Okay. So there are a collection of green screen lesson plans that were put together by Common Sense Education. Nice. So I'm going to add a new slide on here. And these are the lesson plans for a green screen copy. Put it into the link. Take this over here. So these are organized by general grade level and it has a, you can click it open and it will give you all the materials that you need and guide you through the process of what to do, when, where, and why. And you can also adapt this to suit kind of your different need and just use the general concept or idea. But this is kind of the quickest, easiest way to get started with it if you are new to it. And it's a lesson plan. You've seen lesson plans. That's great to have good ideas if you're not sure what you want to be doing with your green screen thing. And then there's also the newscaster. You can introduce people to the idea of weather channels and weather stations because the weather channel, the weather channel is basically all just green screen. And that's also where that mirroring is going to come in handy is because if you don't mirror it's not gonna look right to the people that are trying to follow your fake weather channel. And it'll also help people get like the hand-eye coordination and figure out what a US math looks like or what a state math looks like just by practicing around with that weather channel. And it's always just fun to put yourself on Mars because why not? Especially now. In the news. Pretty much. And so it's 11.05 and we're just about wrapping up here. So do we have any questions about green screen editing tools or anything else? Yeah, get your questions in. We'll answer them here in a few minutes until we get through them. We have a question about someone wants to know is it possible to get a list of all the resources or we need to go through the recording to find them? No, you won't need to go through the recording. You're going to have a link to the slides which I'll share that again here. I shared it into the questions but it will be linked from the recording.  And all of those are hot links. You can see them in there. She created that one for the, to the common sense, right? Yeah. They'll be all things you can just click on right in there in the Google slides. Yeah. And I am going to change the font color on these just because, and there are a few other activity ideas that I had in mind. I just need to track them down. So by the time you access this again, there'll be more links on this activity idea page. That's just great about Google slides. They're a place you can go to and if anything needs to be updated or adjusted or corrected on them, they can be fixed. Yeah. And you'll always, you guys accessing these slides will always have the most recent information that might need it to be added. Yeah. But the recording, it'll take me through probably still tomorrow to get everything edited. Well, probably wouldn't do much editing but downloaded from go to webinar, uploaded to YouTube, figured it all out. Get all the links in there. So sometime tomorrow, you guys will get an email from me with letting you know that the recording is available. So by the time you have that, all this updating should be done. But I have shared the link into the questions and in the chat. So if you want to jump in there and just look at it, now you are absolutely welcome to. That's true. Doesn't look any other questions about green screening are coming in. Just lots of thank yous. Thanks so much for the help. Gonna try something out. But you guys all, you will. You can always reach out to Amanda here at the library commission. Our contact info is on our library commission website. Is there anything else you want to talk about or show Amanda before we start wrapping, I start wrapping things up. It's about the long and the short. It's probably a lot easier than you thought. It is, yes. I am very excited about wanting to do some of this myself. I got to think of friends. Not much of my job that would need to do this but I can do some fun things personally too. Because you can. Really practice that. All right, I'm gonna pull back, present your control of my screen. So that I can wrap things up for everybody. So that is today's Encompass Live. I'm gonna go back to our main page here. If you use your search engine of choice and just Google the name of the show Encompass Live, you'll find our website.  And you'll find our upcoming shows. And right beneath them, this is our upcoming shows. There's a link to our archived Encompass Live shows. This is where today's recording will be to be the top of the list. The most recent ones are at the top. And as I said, there'll be a link to the YouTube recording and a link to the Google slides, which I have open over here. So I have it for myself too. You'll all get notified tomorrow when this is ready. I'll show you here. And our archives are looking for other shows to watch or other topics. There's a search feature here. You can search our full show archives or just the most recent 12 months if you want just something current. This is because this is the full archives for Encompass Live. And I'm not gonna scroll all the way to the bottom because that would be too much. Encompass Live premiered in January, 2009. So we have over 10 years worth of recordings here. And we'll keep them up here as long as we have a place to host them. There's some great information out there. But and we're librarians, that's what we do. We archive and save things for people. But do pay attention to the original broadcast date of the shows. Some information may stand the test of time, book reviews it, things like that. But some information may be old or become old and outdated. Websites might not exist anymore. Resources or services may have changed completely what they do, might not exist at all anymore. So just pay attention to the date of something that you're watching if you do watch any of our archives. We do have a Facebook page that I do link to for Encompass Live. So if you do like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. We do post about the show, reminders to, like here's our reminder to log into today's show, unannouncement about next week's show, information about our presenters. So if you are a Facebook user, give us a like over there. We do share onto Twitter and Instagram, and I'm not sure where else, using the hashtag and comp live, a little abbreviation there. So you can always look for that anywhere if you wanna find information. So on a reminder, when we just yesterday confirmed a next week show, a next week, March 3rd, we're going to be celebrating the upcoming National Poetry Month, which is in April, but ahead of time, having people doing a session on Nebraska Writers Collective and their spring programming that they're doing some new things for young poets. Usually this has been louder than a bomb, a Great Plains Youth Poetry Festival has been done by them, but due to COVID, not being done in person, but they've got some other things going on. And joining us will be Matt Mason, the Executive Director of the Writers Collective, but also our current Nebraska State Poet, yay, Matt, along with Gina Tracy, who is the Program Director at the Nebraska Writers Collective. So they're gonna talk about everything that is coming up, one that I'm very excited about. Sure, we all saw Amanda Gorman do her, read her poetry at the inauguration and at the Super Bowl. Now the Writers Collective is having their first Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate, so a Nebraska Poet for that. So definitely do sign up for that and any other upcoming shows. I'm working on getting things confirmed for other dates in March and April. So it's been on our schedule here for our other upcoming shows. And last thing I'm gonna mention is, this Friday, two days from today, is an annual conference that we do here through the Nebraska Library Commission that big talk from small libraries. This is a conference with all presenters are from small libraries, all types of libraries, public school, academic, but with a population served or an FTE of 10,000 or less. So this is the little libraries talking about what they're doing. Everyone is invited to attend. You do not have to be a small library to learn what your colleagues are doing. It is free all day Friday. So please do go ahead and register, check out the schedule, see what our presenters are, and join us on Friday. The entire day will be recorded. So if you're unable to join us on Friday, that's fine. We have a previous conferences section here with all of our previous years and it will be posted there. And this is the 10th anniversary, the 10th annual big talk from small libraries online conference. So I'm very excited about that. So I hopefully I'll see some of you on Friday at big talk or at any of our future encompass live shows. So thank you everybody and we'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video We are here to talk about the game that happened between the Steelers the almighty Steelers and the Chicago Bears Everybody including myself Pick the Steelers as a short thing. I'm sure my boy static major did too. I hope you come through me I hope you come through. I hope you come through. I know you will those static major I know you will and I know you're gonna have an excuse to why the Steelers lost. I know you will I know you will So really quick Let me introduce myself before we get into this me I mean Graven viz. This is my YouTube channel engraving vision I'm a Ravens fan and my Ravens got whooped today by the Jaguars wasn't even close 44 to 7. I believe game was so bad so bad and There were a lot of Steelers fans that came through ha ha Ravens suck Ravens ain't nothing Ravens are terrible Ravens are this Ravens are that but the Steelers lost to the Bears But the Steelers lost to the Bears the almighty Steelers Antonio Brown been Rollers-Burger Just the superstars are endless and they lost to the Bears No, this ain't got nothing to do with karma. I hate when people say karma ain't got nothing to do with karma Ain't got nothing to do with that They got so many players so many all-stars and they lost to the Bears the Bears Old Steelers fans now. This is only for the ones that been talking trash. This is only for the ones that been talking trash You know, you know a Steelers fan like I love for y'all y'all know that that's old news But this is for the ones that was talking to all that trash It was a lot that came through on a video early today.  Chill out. It's just one game And I said I'll be rooting for Chicago But I didn't expect Chicago to win, but what does Chicago do? They made me happy. They made me a happy man And I know guess what?  It had to go to overtime for us to lose but guess what whether you get blown out by 37 points or You lose an overtime by six points Guess which loss counts more neither because a loss is a loss It still makes your record two and one the same way the rate the Ravens record is two and one The Steelers record is two and one because whether you lost in a blowout whether you lost in overtime a Loss is a loss doesn't matter what kind of loss Doesn't matter when the loss happened doesn't matter what time the loss happened doesn't matter how the loss happened a loss is a loss So this just makes me happy This makes me happy. Oh Where's where's my people that we're all the stillest fans that why they ain't coming through right now? They come through on the Ravens lost video, but they not coming through on the Steelers lost video. What's that about man? What's that about? Oh? Man, I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it So, yeah now cuz come on man, you know, I gotta talk trash to my Steelers fans, man. I Love my Steelers fans. I love them. You know, it ain't nothing but respected from this way, too They already know that they already know that but um man Hey, I just I just want to make sure they come through on this video like they came through on the Ravens lost video But boy, they came through for the fact. They just came through. There was a lot of them, too One one in particular say hey, we're all the stealer nation that Doing a Ravens live stream. So I'm asking right now. We're all the stealer nation that throwing the Steelers live stream Hey, well, I mean, what's up, man? What's up? What's going on? I'm just curious man, but now I'm all in all Steelers lost today. So this makes the game next week Make it it makes it that much more interesting makes it that much more interesting Because it's for and I know it's only gonna be week four, but it is for the AFC North for now It's for the AFC North for now. It's for leading the AFC North for now.  Oh, well, hey Bengals get it Bengals get it I don't see them winning but hey, who knows Think the crazier things could happen Because this has been the week of upsets. This has been the week of upsets It's crazy This has been the week of upsets Who would have thought Ravens get blown out by the Jaguars Steelers lose to the Bears. Oh The past end of our ended up winning that game. I didn't see the end of it. I Didn't see the end of it. Just remember 23 never forget. I mean, hey, that was that team So again Steelers fans who was getting on us early today about that blowout to the to the what's it called to the Jaguars? remember and I'll use the Super Bowl for an example the Super Bowl is the best example if You lose the Super Bowl by 37 points or you lose the Super Bowl by six points You still lost the Super Bowl you still lose still lose So just wanted to get that point across Just wanted to get that point across I Had to I had to Because ooh, this is still as weak now Jaguars game is done This is this is still as weak now. It's time This is still as weak All we needed was to win the coin toss, but hey, they lost the coin toss lost the game They lost everything And even though they lost Even though they only lost by six They lost But again one game Same way the Ravens just got blown out today one game same way to still is just lost today one game It's not the entire season It's not the entire season So Ravens fans don't trip over it Steelers fans don't trip over so I Wouldn't trip, you know, I just had to come on here and talk my trash real quick You know, I just had to do that again still as fans, you know, I love y'all You know, I love y'all got nothing but respect for y'all too, man But you know, you already know what time it is, man CJ and cast that I don't like the fact that we keep losing the teams we should be beating You know how Ravens do Ravens. They love doing this. They play down to the competition Games they should they games they should win easily. They don't like doing that They just don't like doing it Yeah, Jacksonville is solid. They're solid squad, man Billy Clancy last year we in week three last year We lost in week three to 0 and two Eagles when we were two or no. Yeah, man Stuff happens, man, that's NFL They like it being a parody parody league Parody league. Oh, yeah, y'all make sure I leave a like on the video to I'm not sure if I introduce myself all the way I know I did say that I'm engraving vids and this is my YouTube channel engraving vids and I'm a Ravens fan But on this channel we talk about Ravens all the time as you already know But we also talk about Steelers too. We talk about everybody in the NFL So if you're Ravens fan, you can subscribe if you're still as fan, you can subscribe Don't be afraid to talk trash to me. I enjoy it just as long as you keep it clean. That's it I don't mind. Y'all know I don't mind He said an L cancels out an L Well, it doesn't technically cancel out the Ravens L because we still lost even though Steelers lost makes our loss a lot better It makes us be able to breathe a little more and keep that tight race in the AFC North Because you know it's gonna come down to those two teams for AFC North. It always does Browns will be there soon But right now it's just Steelers and Ravens. What's up, Freya Redd? What's going on, man? Steelers and Ravens both can't bounce both can't bounce back. They play each other Pitt win the next week though Let's see. Let's see. Oh, I know you're still as fan. I can tell by your avatar Saw good as a whole lot of season left to consider the fact we're going it is a whole lot of season left That stairway to seven though. That's I mean my fault. What is still is on? I think they don't six or seven. I Don't even remember but I don't see that happening because they still haven't figured out how to beat Peyton Patriots yet. Oh Appreciate that for it. Thank you. Number one ball appreciate that Am I watching the game right now? Not right now. I'm getting ready to though.  Just the Steelers fans. They know I love them No, they know I love me ain't got nothing but love for me ain't got nothing but respect for them So y'all already know how that goes man. So shout out to all the Steelers fans out there Shout out to you guys. This is gonna be a fun week This is gonna be a very fun week because you know, we're gonna be going back and forth all week Steelers gonna give us reasons why they gonna win Raven's gonna give y'all reasons why they gonna win It's gonna be a lot of fun, man. Y'all already know how it goes. But anyway, appreciate y'all watching. Thank you Again if you're still as fans you can subscribe to the channel to make sure y'all subscribe if you haven't already Leave a like on a video if you haven't already and turn notifications on so when we do go live because we will be going live again tonight later on But I appreciate y'all man appreciate you if you're a Bears fan congrats if you're a Steelers fan I still appreciate you. Don't worry. Shout out to Lavar.  So yeah, man appreciate y'all. Thank you And I'm gone man. Make sure you hit me up on Twitter though, cuz I'm about to be tweeting some stuff, too My Twitter Instagram and Snapchat everything is engraving vids appreciate y'all man. Thank you And I'm out man. I'm gone Bye


David, can you hop in on this? So no more sanitation wipes? Yeah. More and more. Solo is good. Got a purse right here. You have your list of medications.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here, bringing you another video today about video. So I've mentioned on a few of my videos so far that one of the main things I'm getting out of my journey on YouTube is learning about videography and all its interesting aspects like audio, lighting and video. But of course, audio is a major, major part of video. So I've done a few video reviews of microphones I've picked up today along the way. And they tend to be in the kind of more budget or low end of the range. Even this one I put in that category. This is the Audio Technica 80 2020. It is an XLR podcasting slash studio microphone. So I have to connect it to my computer via an audio interface. But like most people who are, you know, at the early stages of their videography or video journey, I don't have a ton of money to spend on the different things. And I personally have a preference for what I call spending my money widely. So as a learner, I often try to like just buy different microphones just to learn how to work with them. So I have, for instance, a phantom powered lav mic, XLR lav mic, 3.5 mil, a few 3.5 mil TRSS lav mics. I have a XLR shotgun. I have a 3.5 mil shotgun. So I like to buy different types of mics just to kind of play around with different setups rather than spend a lot of money on any one microphone. My rationale is just until I really know what I'm doing, it's better to go in that manner. But as I become interested in sound and microphones, I can't help myself. But when watching Netflix now or movies, what microphones are those guys using? So I follow a couple of really good sound guys here on YouTube. I'm going to give you a couple of recommendations. One of them is Curtis Juzz. And actually, that's all that I have at the moment. No, sound, sound speeds. This is sound speeds is the second one. I'll put a link to these guys in my description because they're both fantastic. Sound speeds is a professional boom operator. And that sounds not very interesting. The video is not just about boom operation and booming mics. He is encyclopedia, walking encyclopedia of knowledge about sound. So those guys are really, really sharp.  But nevertheless, I wanted to get a list. So I went to one of the subreddits. I highly recommend. I mentioned before I have kind of a bit of a love-hate relationship with reddit in general. But my longstanding thinking is that it's all about those kind of niche communities where people are a lot nicer to one another. And often it's just kind of such a small world that there's almost like that kind of pressure of interacting with people. You know that you have to be nice to them. So I find this a great subreddit. It's called location sound. And I'm going to read off the description here. The subreddit for location sound, production sound and field recording. We are the sound department responsible for recording the audio when shooting film or video. So this is a small sub of 20,000 people, relatively small, but not tiny. But there's a lot of folks actually working in the industry here. And something really cool is that they are pretty receptive to questions from engaged amateurs like me. So I posted here a few days ago. I'm going to jump now over to my screen. And if anyone wants to be, I don't know, is a reddit friends even a thing? I shouldn't know this. I've been using reddit long enough. I'm Daniel Rossell on Reddit, not exactly hard to find. So that's me. So I asked this question four days ago. Are there industry standard microphones used in big studio Hollywood productions? This is something I'm going to read. I'm going to read my post here as a rookie videographer. I've always been curious to know when it comes to huge Hollywood productions in which dimes and nickels, presumably aren't a huge issue. Are there any quotes best in class or industry standard? Love mics, AKA lavelier, I think it's pronounced lavelier, shotguns, wireless systems, or does each individual sound department tend to have their favorite go-tos and that ends up determining what specific products are used. I actually asked that or part of the question for a reason because there's a great YouTube channel that these guys recommended in this thread in which they interview sound guys and look at their sound boxes. My understanding is that, you know, these sound professionals tend to move between studios or productions. It might be wrong about that, but they certainly have their favorite.  If that if that makes sense. So, oh, yeah, this is a YouTube series. I'm going to put myself down a little bit. This is totally worth watching. It's by Ursa and they do the series of what's in your kit bag. And it's amazing. They they interview the sound guys. Oh, two other YouTube channels. I'm on my third take because I keep screwing little things up in this video. And I'm really sorry if I already mentioned this. That would mean I'm going crazy. CritisJudd and SoundSpeeds, I think I already did. Back to the post. So I got a list from somebody, Spacedog420. Thank you, Spacedog420. I love how ridiculous Reddit user names are when you actually read them out. So Spacedog420 gave me exactly what I was looking for. A list of microphones that are commonly in use amongst professional productions. Starting with boom mics. Now, as an amateur, there is a couple of brands I recommend like Sennheiser and a couple of ones I haven't. And Neumann, I know, is make some pretty high end microphones. And then some others that I haven't become acquainted with yet. He goes down into La Vella microphones or commonly called lav mics. I recognize the countryman from CritisJudd's reviews. I think he's reviewed a few of their microphones. And then for wireless systems, he gives a few as well. So the next thing I wanted to do was run these in, run these through B&H photo video to see how much they cost. And here is the excitement of the video. Starting with the countryman B6, one of the lav mics mentioned. This one surprised me in that it's not insanely expensive. B&H have it on back order for a just shy of 300 USD. Now, there were more expensive ones in that list, but my understanding from watching Critis's videos and other people is that the countryman B6 Omni lav is considered a respectable La Vella microphone that's definitely in use among TV studios, etc. One clue that it's a more professionally oriented microphone is in the color varieties. They have these different colors for, you know, disguising the lav mic, which is something that a lot of kind of more amateur folk don't really put effort into. But when you have a whole sound department, you know, someone can be really, really smart about matching the lav mic with different skin tones in order that it shouldn't be visible to viewers. So that's a random lav from that list. Then we had some nice options in our boom mic. We had a couple of Sennheisers. So I put one of those, the Sennheiser MK50 into B&H photo video. I thought I did. Ah, the Sennheiser 60 was no longer available. So I went for this. This was also on the list. The Sennheiser MKH 50 48-fold phantom power microphone, which is obviously a shotgun mic that I guess as it was listed by our friend, Mad Dog, whatever his name was under boom mics, it must commonly be used for booming. And this guy comes in at 1200 USD. Now, there were definitely more expensive shotguns on that list. And there were cheaper ones, but just picking something from a well-known brand and seeing, well, how much would that cost 1200? Now, that's interest interesting to me because well, I guess the amount of money it is for reference my audio Technica ATR 875 compact shotgun microphone, which I'm using as a boom on my camcorder, clocks in at about 100 and 20. Sorry, about 150 dollars. So that's kind of how much you need to spend on shotguns to get past the really low end of the market, which is products like Boya, you know, the kind of Chinese Hong Kong manufacturers that make stuff that really, really sounds dodgy. So about 150 bucks for in the world of shotgun microphones will get you an excellent professionally oriented microphone. That is budget. But look at the difference between $150 and 1200. It's quite a quite a big financial difference between the two. So actually, the difference between the professional and amateur end of the shotgun microphone world, it seems to me, is bigger than the difference between the lav mics, because 300 versus maybe a $100 lav mic to get something truly studio grade, broadcast quality, professional, etc. etc. isn't ginormous. But the difference between a, you know, spending 150 bucks on a shotgun and spending over $1,000 is quite a gap. OK, and then in wireless systems, so something I like about B&H photo video is that they tend to they divide everything according to pro and consumer. So you can see they have a pro audio section for wireless systems. Look how many they have over 1200 different wireless systems. Now, in terms of what's pro and what's not, this is the link I got to by following prompts for pro and I'm sorting on what's popular by best sellers. And the first thing we get is something that looks to me like it would definitely be suitable or it would not be out of place in a pro video production set. That's this Sennheiser EW1112PG4 camera about wireless Omni-Lav microphone system. So you get a Lavelier and these systems tend to be also looking for like interchangeable. So you can buy one TX, one RX, a wireless system pair. And then if you need to buy more transmitter units, you can buy them and then they'll record into the same transmitter. So this is six hundred and fifty dollars for this particular system. And by the way, this is by no means as pricey as it gets. So I'm going to now source on price high to low and just see what we can find and some pretty interesting wacky products here. I'm trying to find an actual wireless system. So you can see six thousand, we're in the six thousand range. Four and a half thousand. So yeah, basically that's a lot. And you can all you can obviously filter based on the receiver type. So actually I'm going to just clock into camera mount here. This is a bit more what I was looking for. ElectroSonic's L-Series ZS LRT camera mount wireless Omni-Lav microphone system coming in at three thousand three hundred and sixty six dollars. So the conclusion of this little purchasing expedition. Thank you very much to Location Sound and Subreddit and it's Mad Dog. And everyone else that commented on that thread is that the cost of professional microphones that might be used in Hollywood and big budget productions, you are looking at something like four hundred dollars and up for lav systems. You're looking at shotgun microphones for booming that commonly cost over one thousand dollars a piece. And for wireless systems, you might be using six hundred to thirty three hundred. That's about the range. So versus our amateur kit, the wireless, the lav mice aren't crazy. The shotguns are a lot more expensive and the wireless systems are a little bit more expensive. Saramonic to give an example of a brand that I don't think is used in professional applications. You can get a wireless system from them for about three hundred dollars. They're about versus six hundred, sorry, over three K to get ElectroSonic's and about six hundred and fifty to get something from Sanheiser. Hope this video has been interesting. If you're also fascinated by the world of videography and video production, so you get more videos from me about those topics and many more. Do feel free to hit the subscribe button. Thank you very much for watching.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another art journal video. Today I have some new stamps by Alancreate, this is a great european company, make sure to check them out, they have wonderful designs, the ones that I have here are designed by my super talented friend Olga Heldwein and I asked on instagram whether you would like me to use these stamps on an art journal or on a card, the majority voted for an art journal layout so here we go. Now I am using different types of art journals depending on the stamps that I like to use as focal points. So sometimes you see me working on my dilutions art journal which I absolutely love and other times I am working on this disk bound system, I switch from book to book depending on the techniques that I want to do, so here I have loose pages so I can easily use for example my sprays without making a mess of the rest of the book or use my gel plate. I tend to work on the 6x6, I find this size perfect for my card making stamps but I also work on 8x8 and for today with the size of these stamps I decided to work on a 6x6 page. Now for today I am going to put to the test a new paper to me, this is by Artisa and it is their mixed media paper, I am going to make the pages out of this one and see how it takes water and mediums, these are 9x12 in size and 110 pounds, I like that in the pack you get two of those pads, so 60 and 60 that's 120 pages of mixed media paper and all of that for about 20 dollars, I do have a coupon code down below for a 15% off, this is an exclusive offer and you can get anything you like by Artisa using this code, now this pad is perforated so you can use that if you want or just rip off the pages like I did, I am going to cut it to size so that's 6x6 and I am going to use my punch to punch out the holes for my disc pound journal. I get a lot of questions about the punch that I am using, this is by the happy planner and you will find it linked down below and now I am also going to cut out one more square out of this mixed media paper by Artisa which is slightly smaller so I will be working on the smaller one and then I am going to stick it on the main page so that I will end up having a border that I absolutely love, now for today I am going to play with pattern paper that I had on my stash, I am going to look through this and try and find a couple of them which are green, I am going for a very fun background technique today which I used previously, this is where you cut out pattern paper to get the texture from it, so here I am going to use the blue one for the sky and the greens that I picked out from the previous pad are mainly for the grass, so now I am going to leave this aside, I am going to pick this one, just look through your stash, I am sure you have lots of pattern paper that you haven't used and you are just hoarding, these make great patterns for the backgrounds of your art journals, so I am going to use my fingers and cut out little pieces, you can use your scissors if you like, it depends on the look that you are going for, I am going for a more messy look today so I am just going to rip it, I am not measuring anything I am just ripping little pieces so I have a bunch for my background, now I am going to be quite messy with my mat medium, so I am going to bring in this silicone mat by Waffle Flowers, this is really handy to use, especially when I am filming so I don't have to clean up the glass mat all the time, I can do all the gluing on top of this silicone mat and put it aside so I will end up having a clean glass mat later on and this silicone is super easy to clean up, everything dries on top of it and you can just peel it off afterwards, now to glue down all my little pieces I am using mat medium and water, I am applying mat medium underneath and at the top just to make sure that everything is nicely stuck there, at the bottom I am going to stay with a mix of the green pieces, so now I have kind of a hillside at the bottom and at the top I am mixing the different pieces of blue for my sky, once I covered up the whole area I am going to give it a quick dry and then I am going to use my scissors to cut off the excess, another plus of this silicone mat is that it is heat resistant so you will not damage it when you are using your heat gun directly on top of it, once mat medium was completely dry I used my scissors to cut off the excess paper and I absolutely love how it looks, I like the colors that I chose but just in case you picked colors that are super bright then here is a technique for you, just dilute some gesso with water and then apply a very thin wash all over your colors, this is going to help the colors fade out, I like how the colors were looking before the wash however I did that just to show you that this is an option and I'm going to show you a couple more techniques on how you can bring back the brightness of the colors if you don't like the wash, just feel free when you are playing with your mediums there are no mistakes there is always a way to fix things if you don't like them, so now one way to bring back the color is to use your big brush markers, if you don't have big brush markers just use a light wash of your acrylic paints, you can use your gelatos or your distress crayons, whatever you have works just blend them out, you can see here I kind of created some hills, I'm going to add some color on my sky as well, you can follow the lines that you have at the background, the lines of the little pieces that you already added, just make sure that you don't end up with a flat color, leave different areas darker or lighter, it really adds up to the finished look, now when it comes to our general background it's all about the layers as well as the visual texture, so for today's background I'm going to use a couple of those techniques, first of all I'm going to use my archival inks and do some stamping, I have a stamp here that I cut out from a bigger six by six one, it gives kind of a pattern that looks like canvas, notice that I'm doing second generation stamping, I don't want that ink to go very hard on top of my page, I just want to add some texture there, but not to be super vibrant, all the stamps I'm using here are great for backgrounds, like text for example, these are really versatile, I had them in my stash for ages, I believe these are now discontinued but I'm sure you can find something similar, I'm using green for the grass area and blue for the top area where the sky is and I'm super happy of how this looks, so I will move on to another technique, this time I'm going to use this stencil that has text on top of it, this is again another very old stencil that I have, I'm sure you'll have a stencil with text, if you don't it's a really great thing to add into your stash, I'm not sure if I can link to this exact one, I think this one is discontinued, but I will link down below to something similar, I'm applying modeling paste on top of it and just because everything underneath is permanent, including the inks, nothing is going to move or smear and smudge, so this white modeling paste is going to stay bright white, now here I'm going with sprays, I wanted some more variation on the color, I'm not spraying all over the background just in different areas, so this way I will not end up with a flat color and I end up coloring some areas of that white paste, so it's looking more interesting now, and by the way the sprays I used here were Distress Oxide sprays and you will find every color that I'm using linked down below, and before I put my background to the side to dry I am going to add some splashes because I absolutely love them, so blue for the sky, green for the bottom, I'm going to add some white gesso as well, white splashes all over and just a few of the black splashes, just because I feel that this is going to bind everything nicely together, since I will have black lines from stamping my focal points at the end, and now it's time to do some stamping, again I'm using the Arteza mixed media paper, it has two sides, one is a white texture and the other one is completely flat, so I am going to use the smooth one to do the stamping, I'm going to stop those adorable designs, now my ink pad is quite dry, so I'm just going to reink it once again, and while I'm doing that I'm going to let you know that I was quite happy with how the mixed media paper reacted on my background, so I applied lots of water, lots of mediums including matte medium and sprays and everything, even paste, it didn't warp at all, it stayed nice and flat, and I'm really happy with the outcome, I also tested out with stamping on the smooth side and I'm super happy with that, so I'm going to go ahead and start coloring my images, for that I will use my favorite method when it comes to our journaling, which are my big brass markers, for using those and doing the smudging technique, I do have to cover up completely all the stamped images with matte medium to turn this paper into a non-polish surface, and once everything is dry I can go ahead and start using my markers, now I'm going for a very colorful little creatures here, and after all these are my squirrels, they are going to live in my art journal so I can color them any color that I want, I wanted this to be a bright and happy page, so I'm working with oranges and reds for the first one, with yellows and orange for the second one, and with blues for the third one, I am able to smudge the ink and blend it out with my finger just for a few seconds, the moment I use a heat gun on top of it it becomes completely permanent, I always like to have a positive and motivational pages on my art journals, and I absolutely love this design as these are supporting each other to reach for the acorn, which is high above, for my page today I use the sentiments from the same stamp set but you can absolutely use any supportive quote that you can find, also notice that I'm not being careful, I go outside of the lines as I'm smudging with my finger, and I always use two colors of markers for coloring each of those squirrels, a darker and a lighter one, super simple to do, I absolutely love how it ends up making all those shadows and highlight areas, which is something really difficult to do with your alcohol markers, it takes so much time and here is just a smudge with your finger, I'm going to use my scissors and fuzzy cut it and if you find it quite difficult you can always go around it and make a thick black line, this is going to help you fuzzy cut easier, however I'm just going to go directly and start cutting, now it's time to stick everything down, I'm just going to try and decide where everything is going to go, and I'm sticking everything down with my nouveau de luxe glue here, and of course you can use your mat medium or any other type of glue, and before I stick down the acorn I'm going to make a note of where this is going to fall, and I'm going to create kind of rays coming out from the acorn, since this is their target, so for that you can either use a stencil or just draw some rays on your own, here I'm using diluted gesso, I don't want this to go super bright on my page, so I have my brush loaded with lots of water and although I'm dipping directly in the gesso jar, I am applying a really thin coat, you will see that once it dries it's not going to look as bright white as it is at the moment, and again you can create these rays if you have a stencil, I do have a few here but I decided to just do them with my brush just to show you that you really don't need to have everything, so anyway I am going to apply some white glue at the back of my branch and stick it there making sure that the acorn falls at the center of those rays, on my mixed media paper I stamped some of the sentiments from the stamp set, the one that says you can do it and the other one that says dream beaker and reach higher, I'm going to cut them out in thin strips with my scissors and then just stick them down, now when I'm making my original videos they turn out quite big just because I try to explain all the steps and the process, what I'm thinking and why I'm using different mediums, but if you find that they turn out quite big and I don't have to share as many steps as I do just let me know in the comments down below and I will make sure to make them shorter I'm adding some little details here and there, so here I'm going to use my scribble sticks to add some shadow, I also used a thin black marker to add some lines around the sentiments, now I am using this pattern paper and I'm going to punch the holes, I absolutely love that hood green design that it has and I decided that this is going to be the frame for my main page so I'm going to stick that down on my mixed media paper, just because this pattern paper is very thin it wouldn't stand nice and sturdy, so now it's time to stick this page on top of it for that I'm using my Nouveau Deluxe glue but of course you can use your matte medium or any other type of adhesive, I'm going to finish it off by adding some white highlights here and there, this is a detail that I absolutely like to do all my focal points when my page is finished, I think it gives them a whimsical look and it brings them more to life, it also helps them stand out from the background and by the way when I'm doing that I'm not paying any attention on where the light is, I'm just adding white highlights here and there, now I'm going to use some of the sentiments from the stamp set and I'm going to just stamp around just to create a darker border and I have a piece of copy paper to help me mask areas here and there, I also used my thin black marker to draw some lines here and there and add some doodling, I used black archival ink to stamp the date and I'm going to finally put my page back on my 6x6 discbound journal, so that was the layout for today here are some close-up photos where you can see all the details on the background and on the stamped images, I hope that you had fun that you got inspired, don't forget to leave me a comment down below to like and subscribe as well as share it with your friends if you feel that this is something that they are going to enjoy you will find links to everything I used down below just like always, thank you all so much for joining me today and I'll see you all next time


Hi, how are you good? What what what do you have for me? Okay, um, I just wanted to know what my options were. Oh, how old are you? I'm 33 Okay, I don't know what job. So what do you want? I'm trying to See what my options are as far as like a high value man. I don't have any children. I'm a law student Okay, I'll student Yeah, my third year How are you 33? Yes, why don't you wait so late to go to school? Well, I went to undergrad and some things happened my brother passed away and things of that nature and I came to a Career change late in my life All right, and how long you've been in school? In law school, this is my third year. It's my last year. So, um, you want to get married? Okay What kind of I do want to give what state are you in? I'm in Florida Florida and how much will the first year attorney make? Well, I plan on moving back to LA where I was living prior. How much for the first year attorney make? Um, that's a good question. I would say like at least 75,000 how much for the third year make Six figures are a buzz and do you want a man on that who's earning that? Yes And you want a man who's earning that by the time you will be what three years from now you'll be how? Three years from now i'll be 36 Okay, uh, and you want to be married. Do you want children? No, I don't want children. Oh, man. Who's married you can't get kids So you want a high earning man who doesn't want children? I mean, I prefer not to have children if he wants children. I'm making compromise But I personally what you mean you're making compromises. I'm so compromise giving one We can discuss it, but I have a bigger issue than that Oh, man. This is this.  Oh, I have a I have a bigger issue Um so I was I was I would say bless with something That I can't get rid of if you catch my drift Okay And I I have tried to date people with that same gift And it's not like Working out like I try to date people without the gift and with the gift and it's it's hard for me to find somebody to be with Yeah, it is See first thing you say is high value You need to just a person who's willing to deal with that But that gift doesn't define who I am as a person Excuse me Okay It's damn sure affects your market credibility though and market and it's your sexual marketplace value true So you want a man who Is in the top do you care if he's black or not? No, I don't I actually just started dating or I was dating an Italian guy with the same gift who I thought was high value Yeah, yeah, but the thing is so you want a man who's in the top 10 percent of earners who does not want children with a quote unquote Uh ability to deal with your gift Lean for a little bit Yeah You want to know where your chances are Slim to none Ma'am you can't put a price tag And ask for what you're asking for What do the kind of men who are earning the kind of money you want a man earn? What do they want from a woman?  Okay If you were working at walmart, would you be asking for what you're asking for? I mean, that's my only problem though. I feel like i'm no, no, it's not No, it's not because if you can't understand what i'm saying, this isn't your only your problem is you don't want kids and you sound really selfish You don't you don't see your problem.  I'm just want to find somebody that has the same Gift that is you know on my level. Well on your level. What level would that be man? Like I said, I feel like that's my only problem What level would Okay, what level what level would you be on though? All right, how tall are you? I'm five ten dress size 13 14 I'm I've been working out though. I'm losing weight.  How many? 200 and five foot ten 13 14. No, man No, man You are tall so it's it's it proportions. Yeah, ma'am Let's say this last time you weighed yourself was when the scale said 200 Yeah, but that don't mean that's how much you weigh. It's last time. Okay. All right. And then what is your level? What do you do right now for a living? I'm in school full-time I'm an actor as well, but Greens potatoes tomatoes lamb ramps hauls dogs chicken turkeys rabbit How much were you earning annually before you went to college? uh Before I went to college probably between 50 60 000 a year Doing what? Call center customer service try right A 200 pound gifted woman at a call center And you talking about getting on your level my soon to be level when I lose weight and become a lawyer I need you ladies to understand something Ma'am This is why people think I pay people to do this. You say you watch my show And you're still talking about when I become a lawyer So what? You'll be an attorney got news for you. It doesn't make you sexy There plenty of men who attorneys out there who You know how many overweight attorneys I talk to And I'm trying to be funny, man, but you got a lot of that ego But that's what I'm saying. I'm trying to find somebody like that has my same gift as well and I can't even like Keep them around Take the hint If I asked the men why they don't want to be with you Why if I asked guys what it was what is it like if I asked the men You've dated How do they experience you? What is it like being with you? Dating you what what what do you think they'd say? That's a good question. I'm not really sure. I'm I'm not really sure Do you think you're an easy person you're wrong with?  Not necessarily easy to get along. It depends.  You cannot use seven. What would you rank yourself? I can't use seven. No Okay, um Then I'll go with six. I guess if I can't use seven a six That's cute face. And what would you rank your body? My body yes, not your future body your body Can I use seven? Yes Okay, seven Ain't nowhere in the hell of 200 pound woman. No seven I'm five foot ten you keep forgetting that part.  Oh Jesus You weigh more than a man And this is how far we've gone man Your cute face, but you are out of shape and overweight And giving yourself a seven What would a man who's over shape and out of shape and overweight Said he was accepted You ladies are far too generous with these things your average for a black woman An average for a black woman is 80 percent or overweight and at five foot ten 200 pounds What does that make your bmi? Like a uh 29 or a 30 I believe I feel like I'm like a retired. I don't care what you feel like ma'am it makes You you ladies keep acting like how you feel changes something And then I have to be the mean guy for keep saying no ma'am no ma'am And you're and you're an educated intelligent woman becoming an attorney But listen how you're talking you're not dealing with reality I mean you're not dealing with reality I don't I don't know how else to put it Well, I'm just trying I'm trying I'm trying to 28.6 9 so 29 29 and 30 is considered obese So a cute woman who's cute new face Give me that who's One point away from obese You're only got high value man.  You ain't got no money right now By choice.


So guys I am back and today guys I bring you one of many to come Dead island to videos and today guys I bring you a guide and an early on weapon You do not want to miss man. This thing is super powerful How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and if you do enjoy the video If you like really helps out and if you like what you see I want to see more be sure to subscribe also guys I Apologize about my voice. I have got a flew my nose is bloods my throat is itchy Please send me that love Okay, so the weapon in question today is called improvised Hammer and this thing is super powerful It more or less one shots with that heavy attack most enemies It also has an amazing durability to and you can also swing it pretty quick Also, so when you get in attacked by many ads many zombies you can take care of them pretty easily So this weapon is locked behind a certain door a door you need a fuse for Well, I'll show you today exactly where this door is how you get this fuse and it's that simple So as I said, this is real early on so after the prologue of the game Your first mission is basically called desperately seeking Emma. Where in Bel Air are you? You simply guys into progress through the first mention You have to basically get through and you eventually come to this swimming pool area right here Where there's a few zombies in it and you can basically plug in a battery and fry them all don't do as I did though And kill yourself as you get out of this mansion You have to find a code for this gate as you can see right here So you first come to the gate you realize it needs a cold and then again Basically direct you where you have to go to find said Cold but if you don't know you're seeing the unscrewing now, it's pretty straightforward guys But yes, if you actually come to this gate if you notice just left of this gate It's like a small alleyway at the far left of this alley where there's a room But this room is locked and you need a fuse to open said door If you look inside the window there's a giant crate inside of there So to get a fuse people you actually need to buy it and you actually come to the vendor where you can buy this from within the next Instance that is important as well guys You loot absolutely everything because if you don't find enough money to buy said fuse You will have to sell certain items to accumulate. I believe around $1,500 so yes, obviously you want to be looting so this progress the mission people and you'll eventually come to Emma's house Now as you progress about five minutes into this you will then meet Sam Now Sam is the guy who Introduces you to the workbench and you also get an amazing machete here But just after speaking to Sam for the first time and learning about the workbench to his left is Carlos Now Carlos will be the first vendor you'll come across this guy You can buy items from and also sell items to again those things You have looted if you haven't got enough money sell them to Carlos and you'll see guys He will have a fuse for sale. So go ahead and simply buy this fuse Now upon buying this fusion to make your way back to the very first mansion you come through But after buying a fuse you will then have to speak to Emma who will then indicate to you that Michael will let you out the back door of her house So you then need to go to Michael as you can see me doing on the screen now speak to him You can then go out the back door and just make your way around to that first mansion Just follow where I'll go on screen now people You can then simply guys go to that door place that fuse in that box that door will open You need to kill a couple of these zombies and then you can open that box and get this Weapon and this guy's you can upgrade this weapon to add months to it when you find them this and the other It's just it's a great early game weapon. You do not want to miss Super super powerful. So get it while you can and there we have it guys guys If you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out feel like what you see and want to see more Dead Island 2 be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one