Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MKBHD Update 9.0!”.
Hey what is up guys, mkbhd here and welcome to update 9.0? It’S been nearly a year since i did my last numbered update video, as you may remember, that was update 8.0 in august 2012, but without any further ado, this is update 9.0. Now you might have noticed a short gap between this video and my last video, and that amount of time was basically filled with me going through a sort of a cleaning and overhaul sort of behind the scenes process. So i was going over the efficiency of the way i make videos i felt like it was a little bit inefficient before now. I’Ve added a couple of tools to help me make that a much smoother workflow and that’s basically what i’ve been doing for those past couple days. I also made some behind the scenes changes in terms of like studying what sort of style video i want to keep doing. I love the style that i’ve been working on. I’Ve been working towards a certain look of the way i do video, but i’ve also been uh watching some other people’s videos that happen to be excellent and a whole bunch of different stylized things, so that basically involved a whole bunch of watching youtube videos, vimeo videos, Downloading a whole bunch of different effects and animations and transitions, and things like that to help me get an idea of what i want videos to look like. But that’s what i’ve been doing for the past couple of days, but now that i’m back now that i’m back in full force, i figured i would uh pull for some faqs. Some frequently asked questions so without any further ado. These are the most frequently asked questions that have showed up in the past couple of years. Actually in the mkbhd inbox, a lot of these were recently pulled from twitter.
I asked you guys at mkbhd on twitter uh what questions you guys had to ask me, and so that’s where my notes are here on my phone, so i’m going to be reading them uh, and i guess my answers to you just right off the top of My chest so the first one is: what’s the setup behind you like, and am i still using the hackintosh pro uh? Yes, so the setup behind me gets probably the most questions out of anything and i do hope to do a 2013 setup tour project similar to the compilation i did in 2012. But in terms of just what’s always behind me in my videos, i do still use the 30 inch dell ultra sharp monitor with the portrait 20 inch beside it and it is still flanked by those red and black ikea, audio m505 v2 studio monitors and yes, the Hackintosh pro is still running the show, so that is what’s going to be my editing machine and it has been since i finished the hackintosh pro project video series. Now the mac pro is coming out very soon. The new 2013 little trashcan looking darth vader mac pro, and so that will have the opportunity to run the show, we’ll give it a full fair shot and see how it goes uh.
But until then, and as of right now, it’s the 2013 hackintosh pro. What am i currently studying and why i’m currently studying business and technology, i’m a junior in college this upcoming year, 19 years old on i’m studying business and technology. That’S my major! I’M also studying a little bit of marketing and a little bit of information systems, and why that’s just because? That’S what i’m interested in! That’S what i like to uh study – and this is probably the first year uh my third year in college – that i really get to pick the exact courses to be specifically what i’m interested in. So i get to really fine tune.
What i learn about this year – and that’s that’s, definitely good, so i’m studying it because that’s just what i like what camera and equipment do you use um? I actually get this question a lot, probably more than any other of the questions that i get uh. So i actually took the liberty of putting together a list on amazon i’ll, have it as the first link below the like button of all the basically the core of the video equipment that i use to shoot and actually edit my videos. So the software and the hardware that goes into the production. So that’s the camera, the lens microphone, all that kind of stuff and that’ll be the first link below. But basically, i’ve been using the canon 5d mark iii for a little bit now and it’s become easily the favorite tool in my bag, but i have some other updates about that. To show you very soon so i’ll be sharing that with you.
Also, why don’t you use iphones or do reviews of them uh? Well, i just happen to have been using android for a very long time now uh, but about that it’s funny i did try the iphone 5 for a little while uh, and you can probably ask tld today to vouch for that, because i bought his iphone uh. But i i don’t really use ios for the same reason, i don’t use windows phone much and that’s just because i don’t find the same level of customization. I tend to like to make my phone my own and that’s why i did the what’s on my android series but yeah there’s not the same level of customization on windows, phone or blackberry or ios. You tend to look at those home screens and they all look.
The same, but that being said, i am giving it its fair shot. I do have some windows phone flagships in the house, so that will be uh very soon in the review series and also i i definitely plan on giving ios 7 a full hands-on. Try we’ll see what the next iphone is like, i’m not that excited about it because i know it’ll be very similar to the iphone 5. But that’s the answer to your question. Why don’t you game? Well, i rarely game, that’s a good question, because i don’t really ever review anything gaming related because i’m not a big gamer. But when i do game uh, it’s racing games, it’s driving, games, driving, simulators racing simulators need for speed, forza. That type of thing.
That’S the only way i’ve ever enjoyed gaming really, and now i don’t actually own any gaming consoles. I have a tv that i’ve played games on, but it’s connected to a computer, not a gaming console. So if you guys want to suggest ps4 or xbox one for me as someone who has never really played a lot of console games, let me know in the comment section below i can already see a war starting out, but i honestly i just play racing games.
That’S basically it that’s what i find fun. What’S a great 1080p camera for starting out on youtube uh. My personal favorite recommendation is the canon elph-300hs. It’S a compact camera. So it’s a point shoot and it takes great stills, but it’s also very affordable. Very well built takes 1080p video and takes quality video.
So it’s a good stuff. It has a wide angle lens on the front too, i believe it’s a great recommendation for starting out in any sort of media creation experience, especially for starting youtubers. If you had to pick one smartphone to be your daily driver, what would it be? Oh wow, that’s a good question um. I because obviously i don’t really use one phone for very much longer than a couple of weeks.
I tend to hop around based on the scenario, but you know if i picked a single daily driver, i would have to go with the galaxy note. 2 and now it’s not a 1080p display and i do love pixels and i’m really disappointed that. There’S no note. 3 yet, but that’s the only phone with lte, whose experience i really enjoy that lasts longer than i needed to so that’s the battery life key factor there. The razer max hd, is not really fun to use for me. So i would say the galaxy note.
2. I would be fine with using that as my only phone, if we went back in time which phone would you have wanted to be a google edition phone wow, that’s a great question. Uh. The google edition program of phones is very new. We have the sony one. The htc one, the samsung one, ah wow, i i would i would pick the galax.
Actually, no, i’m gon na go with the samsung galaxy s2 because i use that phone on verizon and i really loved it. But that was back in the time when touchwiz was really bad. That was, i think, android 2.3 uh touch was just a mess back then, and i would have loved to use a phone like that. With a nice battery life and one of my first uh positive experiences with an oled display, i would have loved to see that phone run stock, android and, of course that was back in the time when, if you were into android, you would root and install an Aosp based rom anyway, but uh enough jargon aside.
I think the galaxy s2 would have been a nice phone to see as a google edition who do you like better duncan 33303 or me. This is from lamar wilson. I’M not gon na answer that i’m not gon na answer that features i am expecting in the upcoming android 4.3 update uh. You know i’m not expecting a whole lot of change. Actually, with the android 4.3 update, i did a video and in the video i did about uh the way google is taking back android and delivering new updates and new features via the play store rather than over the air updates uh.
It seems like the next big update. We see with android in terms of features will be android 5.0 rather than 4.3. So in the 4.x category of android, i’m expecting to see more and more incremental improvements.
Performance improvements, little functionality, things here and there there’s some rumors about uh some improvements with the notification panel, for example, some notification say shades, stuff, uh and new apis there, so that could be interesting to see how apps tie in and plug into that. But right now i think uh android 4.3 is just gon na, be a lot more under the hood stuff and i’m totally fine with that best. In-Ear headphones for under 100 bucks clips s4. Those are nice and best over-the-ear headphones for 100 bucks.
I’M gon na go with the grotto sr80is for that loved them. Uh, that’s it! Those are the questions that i’m answering. If your question wasn’t answered, feel free to you can still shoot it to me at twitter at mkbhd. That’S where i got a lot of these questions from and also facebook, but i’ll have all the social media links below like where they usually are, and all the stuff i mentioned in this article will be right below that like button, but either way that’s been it.
I am back back in full force, more reviews, more explained, videos, more technology, all kinds of stuff like that is right around the corner coming very soon in the next few videos, so stay tuned for that subscribe. If you haven’t already – and i will talk to you guys in the next article, you .