What Should You Name Your YouTube Channel?

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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Thank you, hello and welcome.
My name is Tom.
This is the Enthusiasm Project,season 13, episode 8.
And it's gonna be great becausewe're gonna be talking about
stuff and that's what we tend todo on the podcast episodes.

(00:48):
I am wearing my hoodie today.
That is just a VHS coverprinted on a hoodie, because
it's very bright and I likebright colors.
So actually a lot to covertoday, which is kind of cool,
including some stuff that I havechanged in my own setup after
last week's episode.
I'm also using a microphone.
I've never well, I've used thismicrophone once before never

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used it.
Otherwise We'll talk about thatKind of some cool stuff
happening.
Cool stuff happening, includingthis might be a little bit dated
depending on when you'relistening to this, but NAB, the
National Association ofBroadcasters Convention in Las
Vegas, is coming up at the timeI'm recording this.
It's going to be April 5ththrough 9th in Las Vegas.
You know I talked a lot aboutNAB last year, definitely wanted

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to go back this year, put allyou know, made all the
reservations, booked all thethings, and then I was actually
able to get a promo code fromNAB to share that gives free
registration to the exhibit hall.
So if you just want to go there.
They have like classes andevents and all that kind of
stuff.
Those things are still, youknow, still paid if you want to

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do any of the add ons.
But the big thing, like reallythe main thing at NAB is the
exhibit hall where you can goand see everything.
And you know, I don't even knowif you could get through it in,
honestly, two days.
I want to see if, like, we canactually make it through the
whole thing.
And, depending on your interestin what you do, some of it
might be more relevant thanothers, but it is unbelievably

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massive and that is really cool.
So you can go to nabshowcom oruse the direct link in the
description, if that's easier.
The direct link will just takeyou to a registration page where
everything is $0.
If you go to nabshowcom, youcan use promo code PR05 to get
free registration as an attendee.

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So it kind of looks likeP-R-O-5, pro five, but it's a
zero.
So I asked them to give me apromo code because it was
something they offered last yearand I thought it'd be really
cool and really helpful foranyone who wants to attend or
you're on the fence of attendingbut you don't really want to
pay the admission.
So I'm super appreciative.
But they gave me the promo codethat I have to explain.

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It's a zero and not an O everytime, so PR05,.
Or you can just use the directlink in the description and
that's good, anytime beforeMarch 25th 2025.
That's this year, obviously.
So there you go.
If you want to go to NAB or youjust want to save a little bit
of money on NAB, you can do that.
I'm super appreciative of themdoing that.
There's no kickback or anything.

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I don't get a commission on thefree registration that people
sign up.
There's nothing along thoselines.
It's just a cool thing.
There's no like kickback oranything.
I don't get like a commissionon the free registration that
people sign up.
There's no, nothing along thoselines.
It's just a cool thing.
But if people do actually usethe link to sign up, it will
make it easier for me to be ableto do that in the future,
probably, I would guess.
So you know that's beneficialto everybody.
And there you go, and I thinkthat wraps up the I don't want

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to spend too much time talkingabout NAB because I know that's
a dated, timely thing and youknow, obviously we want to talk
about stuff that maybe is morerelevant for longer than that.
So the next thing we're goingto dive into, of course, is our
mic of the week.
That's right.
The mic I'm using today is amicrophone.
I've only used on a couple ofstreams before in Heather's

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office.
I don't think I've ever used itin here.
I haven't used it on any videos.
This is the SE Dynacaster.
This is a microphone thatpeople have been recommending to
me for years, for so many years, and I finally have one,
because Bronson from AudioHotline sent this to me a while
back and just gave it to me.
So that's awesome.
It does have a $299 MSRP.

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So thank you, bronson, muchappreciated from the Audio
Hotline channel with a very coolchannel name, something we
might be talking about later.
And the DynaCaster what'spretty cool about it?
I have reviewed an SE.
I reviewed the SE X1Amicrophone, which is a condenser
.
I got the red one.

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I did a whole video on it.
It's it's a good microphone.
And I reviewed that one becauseit's really, really affordable.
It is like 70 or $80, maybeeven less, and it's a cool
condenser microphone.
Mine did have a weird issuewhere it's like kind of
backwards.
Oh crap, I realized I just gavethat away to a friend and I
don't think I told them.
It's the side that you'resupposed to talk.
I hope they figure that out.

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Anyway, it was a good.
It's a good microphone and Iliked it.
This one, obviously, is a littlemore premium, and what really
makes this one stand out?
It's built like a tank, whichis very, very cool.
I have it on my Elgato lowprofile arm.
It does have kind of the samemounting issue as the Super 55
that I used last week did, wherethe XLR port and the mic mount

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are really close together.
So you might need to use anextension tube that's what I'm
using right here just to give alittle more room for the XLR
cable.
It depends on the stand or themount or the boom arm or
whatever you're micing it on.
It might be a problem, mightnot be, but what really makes it
stand out?
The build quality is fantastic.
I do think it sounds prettygood, but it has a built-in
booster.
So this is one of thosemicrophones that does have a

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built-in booster, something likethe Blue Sona or I guess now
it's called the Yeti Studio.
Does A couple other microphoneshave?
A couple other dynamicmicrophones have built-in
boosters, which is really coolbecause you never need a cloud
lifter.
You never need a Fethead Ifyou're planning to use these
with interfaces or mixers thatdon't have a lot of gain.

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Basically, if you're using amodern interface that has more
than 70 decibels of gain, youdon't really need to worry about
boosters.
There's going to be enough topower anything, even all the way
up to the Shure SM7B.
But if you're using somethingthat's a little bit older that
has like 50 to 55 decibels,that's where, on a microphone
like this, you're going to bemaxing things out and it's going
to maybe start to sound alittle bit funky, and that's

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where those boosters can reallyclean things up.
The fact that this is justbuilt right in means you can use
this with any interface.
You just turn on phantom powerand you're good to go, which is
very, very cool, and you canturn the booster on or off, so
you don't have to use it.
I do have it on, even though Idon't need it with the
Rodecaster Duo that I'm runningit through.
I just it's kind of cool.
I have 24 decibels of gain.
That's pretty low.

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Usually, a dynamic mic likethis would be up around 56.
I think it sounds awesome.
I am using the SM7B preset andthis is something too that I
tell people all the time withthe Rodecaster Pros, the new
ones or any of the Rode stuffthat has presets.
Sometimes people ask like, oh,what are your settings for that
microphone?
It's like 99% of the time I'mnot using a custom preset.

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Well, actually I should takethat back.
The only custom presets I havemade are for the SM7B and the
PodMic.
I made custom presets that Ilike on my voice for those two
microphones.
Any other time that I'm using amicrophone with the Rodecaster,
I'm using one of the built-inpresets, just the default ones,
and I rarely make any otheradjustments.
I kind of just go through untilI find one that sounds good.

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And so this, knowing it's adynamic microphone, I just went
straight to the SM7B.
This is a more full soundingmicrophone than the PodMic, so
it doesn't really need like theadjustments that are made there.
So I am using the SM7B presetand if I go over here and I turn
that off, this is just theDynacaster's default sound.
This is what it sounds likethere, which is still good.

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It's very crisp and clear.
I just kind of like the waythat this SM7B preset rounds
everything out and I think thatworks really well and I like the
way that this microphone sounds.
So thank you again, bronson,for the SE Dynacaster.
Now moving on to the next littleupdate before we get in today's
topic, this is something that Ichanged after last week's

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discussion where I did my cameratimeline.
I was sort of thinking about mycameras and kind of going
through things and remembering Ihad a camera that I really
really loved as I talked aboutthe timeline, which was the
Canon EOS R, the original fullframe mirrorless camera from
Canon, which I've had, you know,forever.
I mentioned all the reasons I'mnot going to get rid of that
camera in last week's episode,but I was kind of going through

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some things and like organizingand putting things away, and I
kind of mentioned Heather hadbeen using the Canon 6D Mark II
for a long time.
When she had the 6D Mark II inher office she was using a dummy
battery.
A weird thing with Sony is Sonyseems like they really push you
to use USB power with theirmicrophones, with their cameras,
and that works great.

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I've honestly not had anyproblem as long as you use like
a powerful enough USB source,then the cameras can stay on
indefinitely.
You can get dummy batteries forSony cameras and they can work
okay, but like they're all kindof third party things and that
can be really hit or miss.
You kind of never know, like,how reliable or how effective
those are going to be.
Sony doesn't really provide aclear way, whereas Canon just

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sells like dummy batteryadapters that it's just nice
like to get an OEM.
When it comes to batteries andpower and all that kind of stuff
, I don't know Especiallysomething that's gonna be like
left on for long periods of time.
I like it to be as reliable aspossible.

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So Heather always ran her 6DMark II when she had it in there
off of a dummy battery and the.
I never got one for me.
Even when I was using the EOS Ras my main camera, like for all
of my online teaching duringthe pandemic all the streams and
podcasts and things I justswapped out batteries.
I just kind of knew I could getat least two hours minimum and
I would just swap out batteries.
You can find live streams likereally long live streams from
times past where I have tochange the battery in the middle

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of it, but that was kind ofrare because usually I wouldn't
go for more than like two or twoand a half hours or anything,
but it definitely did happen.
And that was just because I wasbeing cheap, because I think it
was like 150 bucks to get thedummy battery and I just didn't,
for some reason, didn't want tospend the money, but I realized
I was like oh, so here, sorry,sorry.
Let me explain some friction inmy workflow.

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The camera that I've hadmounted on my desk since I redid
everything has been the Sony a7IV, which is great, and
sometimes I swap out otherlenses I have, you know, like my
Tamron 20 to 40, which ispretty wide and works well at
the desk.
Here I've got the, I have a 16to 35, and the 24 to 70.

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I've got cool lenses that workwell, but they're a little bit
big for like a desk setup andthey're also not as fast as I
would like.
So I typically use I move my 241.4 over here when I'm doing
podcasts and streams, justbecause it does, I think, look
the best in this setup and givesme the best amount of
background blur.
But it's a little bit of ahassle because I find I'm

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constantly moving the lens backand forth and I'm not gonna buy.
I don't know, I didn't wannabuy a second 24 millimeter lens,
so I'm always moving the lensback and forth.
My frugality seems to be thelike cause of a lot of problems
in these stories, I'm realizing,which also means taking the
prompter on and off over here.
And then I'm also using the a7IV because that is my kind of
take everywhere camera that Imentioned last week.

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It does great photos, it doesgreat videos.
It's, you know, kind of the allarounder, so I'm always taking
that out places.
It's also my third studiocamera, so I have my FX3 as my
main one.
My A7S3 is always set up as mysecondary camera.
And if I need something else,another angle, which happens a
lot, especially if I want toshow stuff like on the desk and
show close ups of things, almostlike filming B roll live as I'm

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making a video, then the A7IVworks really really well for
that, especially because it doeshave the really nice Super 35
mode which kind of crops in andgives you more reach, which it
can be very, very helpful forwhat I do.
So I'm always I'm always kindof changing the setup and it
really is a bit of a hassle.
And then I realized, wait, aminute, I still have the Canon
EOS R, which is great, oh sorry.

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Also, the reason I put the A7IVhere was because I wanted a 4K
setup at my desk.
So when I originally did this,it was running through the Cam
Link 4K and everything wasrecording in 4K.
Then I got the RODECaster Video, which has been my main capture
card since it was released inSeptember of 2024, which is 1080
.
So my A7IV has been going intoa 1080 capture card.

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All my settings are justswitched to 1080.
And it's just been and it'sbeen fine, you know, but yeah,
so anyway, those are kind of thefrictions I was going in.
That's when I realized I've gotthis EOS R.
After talking about it lastweek, like wait, this camera is
amazing.
It still works totally fine.
I've also got the dummy batterypower supply that Heather was
using, so now, like I could justpower that camera permanently.

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And I have the 35 millimeterf2.0 lens that Heather was using
for a long time too, which isnot you know.
Obviously it's not as fast asan f1.4 lens is, but it's pretty
good and it's got goodautofocus and the EOS R has
clean HDMI out.
So that's what I'm using.
Now I basically switched thiswhole setup to be my Canon EOS R

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, which is awesome because it'snot just living in a drawer
anymore and I'm using my 35millimeter lens, which works
great, because something like a50 is way too tight on this shot
, but 24 was a little bit wide,so I was always just kind of
cropping in a little bit onEcamm or with Ecamm before, and
now I can just use this 35millimeter lens with no crop and

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there we go.
So this is awesome because nowI don't have to change anything
like ever here.
The only thing I have to movesometimes if I want to is the
Elgato prompter, becausesometimes use it on my camera
when I'm filming.
Most of the time it lives hereat the desk.
So anyway, I thought that waskind of cool.
That's something that you know.
Like this camera had beensitting in a drawer for years at

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this point.
You know I've used it a littlebit here and there, but it is
kind of like definitely notbeing.
It's not past its you knowuseful life, but it just isn't
getting used.
And I was having friction inthe workflow and after going
through the whole cameradiscussion last week I was like
wait a minute.
Here's a solution to thatproblem and it's a win, win, win
, win, win for everybody becauseyou know, camera gets used,

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workflow gets improved, it's allgood.
The only thing is which won'tbe picked up on something like
this is the autofocus is veryloud.
You can hear the clicky.
All my Sony cameras and Sonylenses have like silent
autofocus, which is amazing.
This one does not, but itshouldn't.
You know it's not the wholetime I was ever using this
camera as my main camera.
It never.

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That was never a problem,because it's not going to get
picked up on a mic like this.
So, anyway, canon EOS R, canon35mm f2.0 lens that's what
you're looking at me on righthere running through the
RODECaster video and into EcammLive, which is super, super
awesome.
And now we can move into themain topic of today's show,
which I thought would be kind ofinteresting, and that is

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YouTube channel names.
I don't even know why this wason my mind, like what prompted
me to do this.
Maybe it's been switchingbetween, like, the Tom Buck main
channel, tom Buck 2, theEnthusiasm Project channel, all
those things.
But if we go back, remember inthe Q&A episode a couple weeks
ago, somebody asked theevolution, like of the

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Enthusiasm Project name.
Where did that come from?
And I was trying to explainlike, oh, this whole idea to
even start a blog back in like2009, 2010, all that kind of
stuff.
If you didn't know, my mainchannel did used to be called
the Enthusiasm Project.
Here is an image of one of myold channel banners.
That was at the top of thechannel and it was like this
from 2017 through 2020.

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So the first three years yeah,basically like June of 2017 to
about September of 2020, thatwas the channel name, which it
seems like the channel is doingfine is was a scary thing to do

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and, especially, I really lovethat name.
There's a reason.
I came up with it back in, youknow, 2009, 2010, and wanted to
use it in 2017.
And, like, I really like thename.
That's why this podcast isstill called that, because I
really like it.
It it speaks to a lot of valuesand a lot of things that I like
.
There was one day in 2020, sohere's the story of how the
change came about.

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I never really considered it.
I just I never reallyconsidered it.
My friend, peter Lindgren, andI who, peter, has a very large,
very successful YouTube channel.
We had a podcast that we didpretty regularly for a while in
2020.
And you know, we'd recordepisodes like every week, and
there was one week we hadHeather on the podcast as a

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guest.
So Heather and I were here,peter was in Sweden, you know,
doing his side of the podcast,and we did our episode and
afterwards we were just sort oflike chatting, you know, because
it's just then, it's just avideo call.
At that point we were just sortof hanging out and Peter
suddenly goes something like hey, have you ever thought of
changing your channel name tojust your name?
And suddenly Heather was likeyes, and I was like okay,

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clearly you've had thoughts andopinions about this for a while.
Um, and I guess she was justlike.
You know, she knew how I feltabout the name, that I was proud
of it.
She didn't want to make me feellike I should be doing
something else.
The last thing she's going todo is tell someone what they
should be doing, creatively, ofcourse.
But as soon as Peter opened thedoor, she was like yes, change
the channel name.
I've been telling you thatforever and the reason being is

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not because the enthusiasmproduct was a bad name, but it
was.
It really was not an effectiveYouTube channel name because no
one could remember it.
And I saw this like I saw um.
So of course, at first myimpulse is just to dig my heels
in the ground, but literallywithin a week I had changed
everything over.
So once it kind of clickedprobably even less than a week,

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a couple of days I had changedeverything over Um and, and so
the reason for that is because Ihad noticed that people were
having a hard time finding thechannel.
Especially, it's like theenthusiasm project is kind of a
hard thing to type out whenyou're doing URLs, because
there's two E's right next toeach other the enthusiasm
project.
These are all things to thinkof when you you know, when you

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create a name for something, allthe different ways people are
going to interact with it.
So sometimes people didn't knowlike is it?
You know youtubecom, slash theenthusiasm project, slash
enthusiasm project, and peoplecouldn't really remember what it
was called.
And so, like what I heard a lotof people saying sometimes was
like it's like, it's like thisguy with a lot of blue, it's Tim

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or something like the like theteacher with the dad jokes.
It was like these are kind ofthe ways people were trying to
explain my channel instead ofjust saying what the channel was
and so that you know I knewthat, but for some reason for me
that wasn't really enough tochange it.
However, one of the ways Peterand I met well not met well,
yeah, one of the ways that wefirst started communicating was

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early 2020, he did a video thatwas like you know, favorite
YouTube channels and he featuredlike five channels and mine was
one of them.
It was before we had everreally talked.
It was when the channel wasstill called the Enthusiasm
Project and he, you know, hadclips from the channel.
He linked to the channel, butwhen he was saying in the video,
he couldn't remember my name orthe channel name and I was like

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, hmm, that seems like a problem.
I noticed in comments peoplewould like sometimes they would
literally call me Mike becauseof, I think, microphones and
stuff.
I get called Mike a lot, likeunironically.
I get called Tim a lot and Itried, like I would put at the
start of videos I used to put myname on screen with like my you
know, social media handle, likeTom Buck at Sodar and Tom, so

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it's hopefully you see that it'sin the description, like hi, my
name is Tom, this is the, myYouTube channel and stuff.
And still people wouldn't know,wouldn't know what it was.
And so within a span of liketwo weeks, I saw three of those
types of incidents happen wherepeople were, especially this is.
I saw three of those types ofincidents happen where people
were especially this is, youknow early on in the pandemic.

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So everyone's just doing stuffonline, and I saw three
different like streams or videoswhere people were trying to
reference my channel butcouldn't, like couldn't do so
effectively because theycouldn't remember the name of me
or the channel or whatever.
And I was that that did botherme and I didn't know how to
approach that.
So then, a couple months later,when it was like brought up,
like hey, do you, you know, haveyou ever thought of changing
your channel name, it did kindof click like maybe, and you

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know, there's a thing like if itwere just a random YouTube
comment, like you should changeyour channel name.
I don't probably want to listento that, but the fact that,
like a friend who I know caredabout me and who's savvy in this
stuff, along with my wife, whoobviously cares about me and is
savvy in this stuff the factthat both of them had the same
suggestion and the same thought.
Obviously they're not coming atthis from like the point of

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view of trying to hurt me orfrustrate me.
They care about me and theywant what's best for me, and so
they're suggesting this becausethey think it is something that
would be, you know, what's bestfor me.
And I felt like it wasimpossible too because I was
scared.
I, you know, I never thoughtthe channel could hit a thousand
subscribers, much less 5,000,10,000.
Now is it like 24,000?
To me that was just like, whywould I?

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It would almost be like buyinga social media platform with a
very successful and globallyrecognized name and then totally
changing to something obscureand weird.
Who would do such a thing?
Why would I want to change thename of the thing that people
knew, you know when it, when italready kind of had an
established audience?
But I did have the thought like, okay, well, the channel's
growing beyond what I everthought it could do.

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So maybe I don't know, I don'tknow where the limit is.
Obviously I don't know like,maybe 24,000 is where it caps
out, but maybe it can go to 50or 100 or whatever.
And if I am going to change achannel name ever, it would be
better to do it, you know, whilethe channel is as small as it's
going to get, rather than waittill it's, you know, over
100,000 or something and andthen change.

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Like you know, I'm going to doit.
Doing it now is the best timeto do.
It was kind of the thought Ihad.
And then I looked up availableURLs and realized that Tom Buck,
just my name was available andI was like, okay, that was kind
of the thing that did it, thefact that I could just have my
name, super simple, barely aninconvenience to type in.
And then that that literally assoon as I, as soon as I

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realized the URL was available,I jumped on it, changed
everything over like right away,and it's been that way ever
since.
And five years later, lookingat that, looking at that change
and how I feel about it, it was1000% the right move.
I completely know why I didn'tuse my real name when I started.
I had never like put myself outthere online in any way.

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So the idea of just startingwith my own name when I started
the channel just wasn'tsomething I was going to do and
I really was like.
I've talked about the evolutionof the channel.
Like you know, it wasn'tsomething I was originally the
one that was planning to be oncamera for.
It was something that, like, Iam on camera out of necessity,

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because it was like the only wayI could regularly and
consistently make videos.
So it the idea of like makingit my name made it.
I wasn't comfortable, likebeing the brand, even though
it's my channel, even though I'mthe one in all the videos, even
though I'm doing everything Icould kind of hide behind.
Like the bigger channel name,like the brand of the channel,
and that sort of made me justfeel a little more comfortable.

(23:48):
A little like if you've neverdone anything like this before
and I would say even it'sprobably less so now because
social media has evolved so muchwhere everyone's making stuff
all the time for better or worse.
But you know, eight or nineyears ago, when it's like, oh,
you're going to make thischannel, that's your name and
you're going to film yourselfand then you're going to sit
there and edit footage ofyourself, I'm going to put it
online because you think peoplelike it, it's easy to feel like

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this is a little narcissisticand, you know, like spotlighty
which is obviously not the casethat's just necessity.
Like, I want to make videos.
Okay, I make videos.
Okay, I'm the one who has to bein the video, so I got to film
myself.
I want the videos to be as goodas possible, so I need to edit
them.
And, yeah, I'm making videosbecause they're intended to be
seen by other people, so I'mgoing to put them on a platform
where other people can see them.

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Like, it's not, it does nothave to be a narcissistic
endeavor, but if you've neverdone anything like that and
especially where things were inthe past when it wasn't it's
common for everybody everywhereall the time to be making stuff
you know it did feel a littleweird.
So having that channel name waswas something I could kind of
hide behind.
But five years later, I am incredit, like it was absolutely

(24:50):
the best decision.
Totally, totally recommend it.
In my case, when we are talkingabout a personal name, like
using your name versus a brandname, or you know a non personal
name for a channel Even thougha brand name, or you know a
non-personal name for a channel,even though I am saying that I
loved it and it was the rightdecision for me.
I do want to point out thatthere is no right or wrong.
Like there is not.

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Like you should be using yourown name, that's not the right
move for everybody.
Using a brand name is not theright mood, right mood, right
move for everybody.
There are some differences whenit comes to using your personal
name versus what we'll call abrand name.
Big benefit is that a brandname can be clear to a niche.
Tom Buck, what the heck doesthat guy make videos about?

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I don't know.
They could be cooking videos,they could be gaming videos,
they could be drama videos, truecrime investigations, and it
turns out it's audio videoproduction stuff.
There's nothing in there.
There's nothing there thatwould tell you that it's audio
video production in the name,whereas you know, I guess the
enthusiasm project didn't reallyeither, but at least the word
enthusiasm communicatedsomething I mentioned.

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I got this microphone, this SEDynacaster, from my friend
Bronson who has a YouTubechannel called Audio Hotline.
You have an idea, even withoutknowing anything about the
channel, that it's probablygonna have something to do with
audio right, audio production,audio gear, all that kind of
stuff.
Just based on the name.
So the channel name cancommunicate, before anyone sees

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anything else, what the videosare about, what everything's
gonna be about.
And obviously a brand can alsobe really good for teams.
If you're someone who's not asolo creator and you're someone
who wants to, you know, havesomeone working with you or
there's multiple people on thechannel or whatever, then a
brand name makes sense.
I think it can.
It can make a lot of sense.

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It can sometimes be weird whena personal channel becomes a
team channel.
You know, like, sometimes peopleare upfront about.
Upfront about.
It's like Marques Brownlee withMKBHD.
That's a channel he started asa kid just by himself and then
over the years had people youknow, hired people on, had
people help.
Now there's a whole team ofpeople in a big warehouse in you

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know New York City that runthis channel, even though it's
still kind of just under hisname.
But he's upfront about it.
So that's why, like, he'salways the example I use of
someone who uses a team well,because it's not just that the
team is effective in what theydo, but he never hides it.
Like the team gets to shine.
There's even like side channelsthey have, it's just people.

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He's not even in them it'sother people on the team making
all the videos, so that can work.
Sometimes, though, people, liketheir channels, blow up it's
just their, it's just their name, and then the channel gets
bigger and bigger and bigger,and then they hire their editor.
They hire, you know, like thereends up being several people
working on the channel, but it'sstill just the one person's
name, and sometimes peoplearen't always super clear,
upfront about that.

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It's just a little weird.
It's just a little weird whenyou have a personal named
channel and that person isn'tlike the main voice or the only
voice.
It's just.
Sometimes I personally findthat to be a little bit strange.
So that can be something youknow.

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If you're someone who plans toget to that point, if that is,
your goal is to build somethinghuge.
It's like a team and almostlike a, you know, a studio type
situation.
I'm not throwing you too muchunder the bus, bronson, but if
you watch any of Bronson'svideos on Audio Hotline,
obviously they sound really goodbecause he's super good with
audio production.
He's completely brilliant at it.
They're also some of the bestlooking videos on YouTube.

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Period Like.
He is so incredibly good whenit comes to videography.
He has got.
You know he's done itprofessionally, he's done it
personally, like he knows a lotabout cameras.
He has all kinds of camerasfrom different camera systems.
He knows the ins and outs oflike working with log footage
and all the really complex stuffthat I don't even go into on my

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.
He's very, very good at that.
So obviously he's got aninterest there.
Plus, when you see how good hisstuff looks, his B-roll, it's
all just so amazing.
You kind of want to know hey,how do you do that?
And you know, like we've hadchats where it's like he might
get a camera or something wherehe's like I kind of want to make
a video about this camera orthis piece of video related gear

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, but the channel is AudioHotline.
Should I do that?
You know, and those aredecisions that can pop up when
you do have a brand name that isvery specific, it can sometimes
limit you if you want to dosomething else.
So that's just something toalso consider.
And when we're also looking at apersonal versus a brand YouTube
channel, looking at privacy ishuge because obviously you're

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putting your name out there.
There are.
You know, I wasn't hiding myname when my channel was the
Enthusiasm Project, because itstill said it at the you know
every video description and atthe front of every video.
But there are people who don'twant their full name out there.
If you look at, you know, ifyou look at someone like Gerald
Undone, no one is.

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That is not his legal last name.
Like people don't know what hislegal last name is.
Look at podcastage you don'tknow Bandrew's full legal name.
There's, you know, there's achannel I watch called Cathode
Ray Dude, which I absolutelylove.
Tons of videos, super in depth,can even be very personal and
open about, like you know,career, all the things that are

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happening in the life of acreator and stuff.
Still don't know the actualname of the person behind the
channel.
Some people just want to keeptheir name private and if that's
you, then using a brand name, adifferent name for your channel
, is obviously the way to go.
You don't have to use your fullname.
You can still be an onlinepersonality.

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You can still even show yourface and actual personality and
you don't have to use your fullname.
You can still be an onlinepersonality, you can still even
show your face and actualpersonality and you don't have
to, you know, give away yourtotal name, fortunately for me.
I guess, when we're talkingabout personal names, the other
thing is what is your personalname?
My name is two syllables thatare spelled exactly the way that
they sound, so like.
I'm very lucky in that regard.

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Spelled exactly the way thatthey sound, so like.
I'm very lucky in that regard.
You know it's seven letters,two syllables.
Tom Buck, it's, it's you don't?
I don't have to spell it outfor you.
Some people have long,complicated names that are very,
very tough to spell, and sothat's where it's like.
You know, do you use anabbreviated version of your name
or a different version?
Or, if you have a name that isjust something that you like,

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how?
At the beginning of this, I hadto say it's PR05.
I know it looks like an O, butit's a zero.
If you do that kind of thing toexplain your name of your
channel every time, it's goingto be a nightmare.
So you know, keep it simple.
That depends on your name andit also depends on what's
available.
You know, like, if you are justJohn Smith, it's gonna be hard
to get the slash John Smith URL.

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So you know what can you get todirect people quickly and
easily to your channel.
If Tom Buck wasn't available,like I might have to try to find
something else that would work,like what?
What would be a way that's notgoing too far like off topic but
would still be effective.
It can be a little bit tricky,so in my case, things lined up,

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I have a very simple name andthe URL was available.
So those are all things toconsider, but if you do want to
use your real name, yourpersonal name, believe it or not
, using your personal name makesthings personal and I mean that
in a really good way.
It changed the way I felt aboutthings when YouTube comments
would more regularly start tosay hey, tom, because also Tom's

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.
My legal name is Thomas andlike that's a lot longer but
that's very formal, like nobodyreally.
Maybe my mom is the only personon planet Earth who calls me
Thomas or like someone at likethe DMV or the doctor's office.
You know anybody who knows me,the way I refer to myself for
decades has been Tom.
That's my, that's my name andso that when I when people on

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the internet this thing wherethere's people I don't even know
and and you know it can be ascary place when people use the
name that is familiar to me andthat other people are like, who
I'm familiar with, call me.
It makes things feel a littlebit friendlier and a little bit
more approachable.
And I didn't really expect that.
But I just kind of noticed when, when those comments popped up

(33:12):
and people would start saying myactual name, it just sort of
felt a little bit friendlier andit was nice to be called Tom
and not Tim or Todd or Mike orwhatever.
Like it's nice to be called Tomand not Tim or Todd or Mike or
whatever, like it's nice to becalled my actual name.
And it it kind of made the, youknow, it made the, the internet
, a little bit of a friendly,friendlier place.
But again, I did luck outbecause I have a name that is

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easy to say and spell.
So it does.
It does also depend on your name.
A benefit to your name too isthat it is not limited to a
specific niche or topic.
So you know, like I said, tomBuck, right now I do audio video
production, but if I reallywanted to change to something
totally different, the channelname doesn't necessarily have to

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change.
So you do have a little moreflexibility because it is.
It is putting you in that youknow front and center position
and not the brand name, not theniche or anything like that.
But again, at the same time, itdoesn't convey the niche or
topic.
So a benefit is that it doesn'tlimit you to a niche or topic,
but a negative of using yourname is it does not necessarily
convey the niche or topic.

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Again, tom Buck, you don't knowwhat the heck that could be
like someone who does discount,like you know, I'm going to give
you like all the discounts thisweek on, like Costco or
something, because I'm going tosave you some bucks.
That's why my name is Tom Buck.
Like my real last name is likesomething else and there's also
the hybrid option, which is athing, so it's.
You know you incorporate yourname into something else.

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So if I was super into tech andI wanted to be like tech Tom or
whatever, you know you do oldschool video games and your name
is Ryan and you want to be likeretro Ryan, like there are, I
guess I'm really intoalliteration when it comes to
that, but there are ways thatpeople can incorporate their
actual name.
I mean Gerald Undone.
That's an example too right.
Like you have first name, whichwe're assuming is the actual
first name but not the last name.

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So you can, you can do kind ofthis hybrid thing which could be
a good compromise, especiallyif maybe you have a simple first
name but a last name that's alittle more complicated or you
don't want to put your last nameout there publicly.
You know that can be a goodthing.
It's all about whenever you'retalking about any of this stuff,
it's all about what works foryou and what works for your
audience and you know what makessense.

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And the thing that I reallylearned when it came to the
whole enthusiasm project versusregular name thing was to not
try and choke an idea to life.
I was so attached to the name,the enthusiasm project, that
that's what I wanted the channelto be.
But I knew it was never likethe channel was succeeding in
spite of it, not because of it,and that just wasn't effective

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Things.
Everything kind of clicked intoplace for me when I changed
using my real name, and sothat's something.
You know.
I wouldn't say that's what youhave to do, but it's.
Whatever you're doing issomething to consider how and
why you're doing it.
And then the name I stillreally like that name and it's
like, oh, that actually worksgreat for the podcast.
Like I don't know why, like TomBuck podcast doesn't work for

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me at all, but the enthusiasmproject as a podcast works great
.
So it's, you know, you can kindof reconfigure, reorganize,
restructure things and then theycan actually, you know, they
can actually work quite well andsuit your needs pretty well.
So if you've, if you're someonewho creates things online,
especially on YouTube, there's agood.
You are going to have to cometo the decision of what is your
channel name and you areprobably going to think do you

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want to use a real name, do youwant to not use a real name?
Do you want to use somecombination of real and fake
thing or fake nickname?
And I kind of wanted to gothrough some of that just to
share my experience and mythoughts on it and maybe help
you, help you navigate that, ifthat's something that you're
going through as well, but alsoencouraging you that if you did
make a decision a couple ofyears ago about what your, your
channel or whatever is named,you don't have to be stuck with

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that for ever, even if you getpast the 100,000 subscriber mark
, where you have you getverified to get your check mark
and things.
You can change your channelname and get re-verified.
So it's even at that point.
You're not necessarily stuck,although I guess if you end up
with like a silver play button,then you would have an old, an
old name on the silver playbutton.

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Those are very probably goodproblems to have, I suppose.
But if anything, maybe thatencourages you.
Like no time, like the present,if you want to make that change
, you should definitely makethat change sooner rather than
later.
And speaking of change, let'schange our topic.
Do some channel check-ins, seewhat's happening here, where I
can share what I'm working on,what's happening.

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This has been an incrediblybusy week so I keep talking
about my MV7i video, the nextvideo.
I know if you watched last weekyou're gonna be like Tom, I
still haven't seen that.
I haven't seen the MV7i video.
That is going to be next week'svideo.
I finally made my RODECastervideo, auto switching video.

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That's hard to say.
The RODECaster video, as youmight know, has an
auto-switching feature, which issuper cool.
This is something that had beenasked for in software and
switchers.
I mean since the beginning,like, I've tried to find ways to
do this.
People have tried to find waysto do this where the switcher
will switch automatically basedon who's talking or based on

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what audio is coming into whatsource and it's not a feature
that's ever been around or basedon what audio is coming into
what source, and it's not afeature that's ever been around.
The Rodecaster videoimplemented it and then, very
shortly after the YoloBox wasupdated, or even at the exact
same time, the YoloBox wasupdated with its own
auto-switching video followsaudio feature.
But the YoloBox, I gotta say,like the timing is, I wouldn't

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say that they implemented itdifferently and it's.
It's pretty thorough and itdoesn't feel like a thrown
together feature to compete withthe Rodecaster.
I think, like it just it justwas.
It's something that's sorequested.
They worked hard to make ithappen and it happened when Rode
was working on the Rodecastervideo.
They knew that that wassomething that needed to happen,
especially because it's gearedso much toward podcasting and
events.
It's really nice.
Basically all you do.
You got video sources.

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You can take certain videosources, you can pair them with
different audio sources or evenmultiple audio sources, and then
you push a button and theswitcher will just switch
between them.
It is based on who's talking,but it's not like super rigid or
robotic, which is very cool Ifyou well, yeah, if you haven't
seen the video, go watch thevideo, cause there's a good
example of that in there.
Um, but it's not like if youdid something, like if you've

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done things like, I don't know,google meet or discord or like
kind of online things, where itwill auto switch based on who's
talking.
It's like so aggressivesometimes if somebody like
coughs or sneezes, it switchesto them and they're like what,
and then it switches back to theother person.
This does not do that.
You can set the sensitivity.
You can set like how fast orrelaxed.
The switching is Same with theYoloBox Ultra as well, and it's

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so natural.
I don't know what the YoloBox.
The YoloBox is kind of based onsensitivity and things.
I don't know what else theyprogrammed into it, but the
Rodecaster it was kind of cool.
They actually and I'm so gladthey didn't call this like an AI
feature, because I feel likethey easily could have, and I
hope they don't in the futurethey basically created an
algorithm that goes into it,which I like, because that gives

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credit to people who had toprogram a thing they did a whole
bunch of research on like livebroadcast, studio broadcast, and
what actual directors,technical directors, do during
these things and what they cutto.
And of course, the thing theyfound right away was that people
don't.
They don't cut just to who'stalking.
Someone's talking, cut to theircamera, cut to their camera,
cut to their camera.
That becomes way too roboticand strange.
There's a mix of differentthings.

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Like in a typical setting, youwill have a master shot that has
, you know, like all thesubjects Say it's two people
talking in a podcast You'll havea shot that has both people and
then you'll probably haveseparate shots for each person.
So a three camera setup.
That's probably the simplestand the most basic.
It makes sense that whensomeone's talking you see them,
but sometimes but that's not theonly option Like when do you

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want to actually see the otherperson and see their reaction?
When do you want to see the twoshot thing you don't want to
just see at the beginning, likehi, where is the show?
And then the whole show is justsingle shots and then you end
the show back on the two shot.
That doesn't make sense either.
So they did a lot of researchinto what it looked like, how
professional, real world.
You know, broadcasters anddirectors cut these things and

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how they work, and theyimplemented that into this
algorithm so it does not just gobased on who's talking and it
does not automatically switchthe second somebody starts
talking.
It feels incredibly natural andso I did a video that explained
how to put that all together,like how to set that up, and
I've been trying to like.
It's a video I've been wantingto make for a while, but it's
one of those ones where I don'tknow, sometimes I get

(41:33):
intimidated by videos like this.
I don't know, but I I decidedto tackle it and then I decided
I wanted to do like a samplepodcast.
So I asked Heather to help meout.
So we do.
It was supposed to be like twoor three minutes.
It ended up being like half thevideo, it's like 15 minutes.
But that even kind of worksbetter because you see, it's not
just working for a coupleminutes, it works for as long as
you need it to work.
And we just talked about icecream.

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We just talked about Handel'sice cream, our favorite ice
cream place in the thing.
But you see how the switchingworks and how it cuts between
them and the thing that I've acomment that has popped up so
much in that video after Iposted it is, people are like I
was like paying attention to thediscussion.
I wasn't even looking at theswitching so I didn't even
notice the difference and I'mlike perfect.
That to me shows that it'sworking.
The fact you're not, you're noteven thinking about the

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switching, you're watching andlistening to what's happening,
it's like it is.
If you told me that a personwas making the cuts and making
the switches, I would a hundredpercent believe you.
It does not seem like it is amachine doing it at all and in
fact I would kind of argue it'sbetter than a person, at least
better than me.
Not better than a person betterthan me, cause I maybe live on

(42:37):
the fly, I'm a little bit better.
But especially when I editmulticam stuff, I get so hung up
on like when to cut to areaction, when to do whatever,
and this is just done and that'sthe beauty of it, it is just
done.
Once you stop pressing record,the whole segment of Heather and
I is completely unedited, likeI didn't cut anything out.
It is just start to finish realtime how the roadcaster did it
and it's done.

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So it was like editing thisvideo.
The first half I was likeediting like a normal video, you
know, cutting things up, addingin whatever.
And then the second half, I waslike oh, I'm done, I don't have
to do anything with this.
It's great, so amazing for theworkflow.
But that video was just so muchfun, like we had so much fun
making it, I had so much funediting it.
It was one of those ones thatwhen I was done, I was like you
got to watch this because it'sjust, it's fun, it's enjoyable,

(43:20):
and I just felt like I want toshare this sooner rather than
later.
So I bumped that up in theschedule for for this week.
So that's the most recent videoand that's why it wasn't the
MV7i, which is also a very funvideo, but the RODECaster one's
a little bit, a little bit morefun.
I mentioned obviously earlierthat NAB is coming up.
So something I've been thinkingabout is, a couple times in the

(43:42):
past year, instead of doing aThursday upload, I've done a
live stream.
You know, ideally it's nice todo both right, like do a live
stream at some point throughoutthe week and then do an upload,
but sometimes, especially asthings like schedules get busy
and there might not be time tomake a full video within a week
or something.
The live stream can really help, and I was almost thinking of

(44:03):
the Thursday before NAB, ofdoing a pre NAB live stream to
maybe talk like I don't know ifthat'd be a fun idea.
So something I'm kind ofthrowing around is like, instead
of doing a video on thatThursday whatever it is, I think
it's the first Thursday inApril I'm doing a pre NAB live
stream to sort of talk aboutwhat I'm excited about, maybe
get some ideas from people tooof what they're interested in,
what they're looking for at NABand the other thing that I've

(44:24):
been trying to do.
So the other thing with theRODECaster video auto switching
thing is, I think I mentionedlast week, I have my Canon XL1,
but somebody actually donatedanother one to me.
They had one that has been in acloset in storage since 2009,.
They said it really wasn't evenused that much prior to that,
so it's kind of just beensitting around.

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They knew that I really likedthese things and they offered to
just send it my way.
So they did and I was like thisis perfect, because my main
camera it was the Sony FX3.
So I want to make sure peopleknow, like, yes, the Rodecaster
video, the video quality looksgreat, but my R2 cameras, like
the single shots for Heather andI, are each an XL1.
So there is, you can tell whenpeople didn't watch the whole

(45:08):
video, because I explained thatwhole thing.
I show the XL1, I explain thisI'm very clear.
Like, when you see these shotsand the image quality doesn't
look as good, it's not theRODECaster, it's the XL1.
And then there's still everyonce in a while, a comment is
popping up where people are,like the single shots are a
little bit blurry.
What happened there?
It's like, ah, tell me youdidn't watch the video, without

(45:29):
telling me you didn't watch thevideo.
But yeah, so that was reallyfun.
I obviously love those cameras.
I've made videos about you knowold tech, projector, camcorder
and the XL1, just sort of otherthings.
You know off and on a lot, andI have a lot of other stuff that
I want to make.
But a reason I don't make thosevideos is because I feel it's
hard for me to contextualize,it's hard for me to talk about

(45:50):
something like the Rodecastervideo, auto switching, which is
literally like the newest of thenew right, that is, the most
modern, most relevant, likenewest thing, and then the next
week be like hey, here's just avideo about, you know, a piece

(46:10):
of audio video gear from 30years ago where it's it's like
there's nothing you can reallytake away from that.
That is really moreentertainment.
Like it really is more justlike, oh, this is cool and
interesting and entertaining,whereas, like the Rodecaster one
that will show you how to doauto switching, it will show you
what it looks like, it couldhelp inform your purchase, like
there are a lot more practicaltakeaways from it, and I never
really know how to reconcilethose.
So that's why it, when I'mtrying to go through topics of

(46:30):
videos to make and I have all ofmy like old school, you know
tech equipment videos thosealways get pushed off, even
though I love making them, justbecause I never really know how
to contextualize that tech.
And so I had the idea yesterdayis very, very simple why not
just have it be a series, notsomething where it's, like you
know, the last Thursday of everymonth is a retro tech video or

(46:53):
something although that would belike that'd be pretty slick to
be able to do that, but nothinglike that.
But just like you know, it's aplaylist, it's a part of a
series.
You can easily say like it'sjust that lets people know right
off the bat it's part of aseries.
It's not like the channel's nottotally changing directions,
where we're only talking aboutthis stuff.
It's not totally out of leftfield, it's something that kind

(47:13):
of pops up, you know,recurringly.
So that's something I'm tryingto put together and figure out
and wrap my head around, becausethat'll give me, that'll make
me feel a lot better and I feellike give a lot of context to
this old gear when I make thoseold videos.
So those are some of the thingsthat I've been working on the
past couple days, past week.
Now, last thing, last bit ofbusiness, we got to do gear
spotlight over here Before we.

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Then we have a couple listenermessages as well.
Gear spotlight, I am trying tolook at things that are a little
bit overlooked, that I don'tget to talk about or I haven't
talked about very much, and thisone is the Lilliput 4K camera
monitor.
This thing is awesome.
I actually have two of theseand both of them are from B&H.
I bought one at B&H when I wentthere, because anytime I am in

(47:58):
New York and go to B&H.
I like to get get a souvenir,but instead of just getting,
like you know, a mug or one ofthose mugs are cool, heather
just got a really cool hockeyhall of fame bug from the hockey
hall of fame and it's likeawesome.
So there's nothing wrong withmug, but the mug is practical
right.
She uses it every single dayfor her coffee and she likes it
every day.
So I always get something likea camera battery or a lens hood

(48:18):
or like something I will useregularly and then that is my
souvenir.
Lilyput monitor was one of themand then I ordered a second one
just because they're so good.
The I don't know what the MSRPis, but the current list price
is $142, which is a bizarreprice, but that's quite
affordable.
They do have the option to bepowered by batteries, like the
Sony I forget what those NPFbattery, the ones that are just

(48:42):
I've been around forever um canrun on those.
Obviously, it runs on AC power.
You've got HDMI in and HDMI out, so you can do a pass through
if you need to.
Even got headphones If you want.
Mine is red Cause.
I got this red silicone case,but this is just a.
It comes with a silicone case.
That just pops off prettyeasily.
And there's also Velcro on theinside of that, because it does

(49:03):
come with a like a sunshade aswell, so if you're using it
outdoors they can have a hoodthere.
You've got quarter 20 mounts onthe top and bottom, super easy
menus, super good image quality.
You can monitor audio throughhere, you can do focus peaking
on here, you can do anamorphicdesqueeze on here.
I just needed something that,like, looks clear and is sharp
and reliable for, you know, justmonitoring video.

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So I have.
I have two of these.
I have one mounted on my FX3camera rig so that way, just
even though it has a flip outscreen, usually the camera's a
little too far away for me tosee it.
So now I can see it a littlemore easy on here.
And I have another one that'smounted it's actually the one
that is in the photo here.
It's mounted to my auto pull.
And that one it just has aloose HDMI cord that can go

(49:48):
anywhere, but it's usually wheremy a7S III is connected when
I'm filming videos, because thathas the 50 millimeter lens on
it.
So the camera's usually alittle further away and again, I
can't see the flip out screen.
So it's there and it's nice tojust be able to double check
Everything's recording,everything's in focus, like it
works really well.
These things are great.
Obviously, there's tons ofoptions for small camera

(50:09):
monitors, but some of them kindof get really expensive and I
don't need like anything thatdoes recording or anything like
that.
These don't make fan noise,they don't do anything.
I have left them on all daymany, many times over the years.
I've had them for, I guess,three.
I've had one for three yearsand one for like a year and a
half so and they both work great.
I've had no problems with anyof them.

(50:30):
Actually, does it have a VESAmount?
Wow, I'm just noticing there'sholes for a VESA mount on the
back here it looks like, whichis pretty cool.
Oh, and it does.
I should have mentioned that itdoes have the Sony NPF
batteries, but you can actuallytake that out and it comes with
some other mounts for otherbatteries.
So if you have differentbattery systems when you use,
you can power those with that aswell.
So that is gear of the week.

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Is the Lilliput 4k cameramonitor?
A little monitor like thatdoesn't really need to be 4k,
because it's I don't know what,what the size is seven inches, I
think, is what it is.
It's smaller than the Elgatoprompter, so that's nine inches.
That's probably about seveninch monitor.
Yeah, so probably don't need tobe 4k.
The fact that it is is awesomeand it works incredibly well.

(51:11):
I've got two of them, so nowlet's move on to listener
messages, our last, last bit ofthis.
We've only got two commentsfrom last week's YouTube video
that I'm going to share.
Jumping into that.
The first one is from Gil,believe it or not.
Sorry, my computer did a weirdthing.
Gil said this was on the IsCamera YouTube Dead video?

(51:33):
Gil said around 2011,.
I started watching cameraYouTube.
There was so much to learn from, like those DIY PVC pipe videos
which were dope.
One hack I loved was coveringyour camera's pop-up flash with
scotch tape to soften the light.
I remember this until I forgotthat.
I love the garage culture of itall.
It was cool to watch someone dosomething and then go out and
try it yourself.
I still watch camera YouTube,but I'm not as invested as I

(51:55):
used to be.
I think it's because there areso many manufactured enthusiasm
videos about cameras and gear.
I might read up on the latestthing if someone asks about it,
but I'm not really into itpersonally, unless it's
something I really like.
This episode was great, asalways.
Gil put in like this onecomment pretty much summed up my
whole feelings in the episode,so it's a little more eloquent
there.
But that's exactly the garageculture of it.

(52:17):
It was watching someone dosomething and then feeling like
you'd go do it yourself.
That's what I thought wasreally cool.
That's kind of the point I wastrying to communicate last week
where it was like I could takemy Canon T2i and I didn't have
to just watch videos wherepeople are talking about the T2i
.
It's very cool when they were,but I could watch anybody
talking about any DSLR thing anda lot of what people were
sharing and being excited aboutwere things that applied to just

(52:39):
anything in general.
So it, you know, the specificscould be cool if you want to
dive into that.
But that is real enthusiasmwhen it's just sort of like and
then this and then this and thenthis or it's, you know,
something becomes the heart of asetup and then they keep
figuring out how to use it.
I just thought the garageculture was like the perfect way
and also manufacturingenthusiasm in modern videos also

(53:01):
.
You know perfect way to do it.
Next comment was from ElementalEducator, who actually got to be
on their podcast.
We recorded a podcast episodewhich will be coming out
relatively soon, so I'll be sureto share that link.
Elemental Educator said prettycool timeline and a great
microphone.
Oh yeah, the super 55.
Multiple people in the commentssaid it reminded them of old

(53:22):
school wrestling mics that wouldlike come out of the ceiling
and, like the announcer, be like, let's get ready to rumble.
Uh, and then if I I did havethe thought of like, couldn't I
hang one?
Like, could I hang one and getlike a pulley and a crank and
have it lower.
Never say never.
Educator said I switched fromNikon to Sony and I'm now using
the FX30 as I felt the phonesout there now take good enough

(53:45):
pictures for what I photograph.
I appreciate that Sony made acamera entirely dedicated to
video to reduce the price fromphotography components.
Love it so far.
Will camera YouTube shift toApple Vision and MetaQuest, who
knows?
So yeah, it is cool to see thecameras get more.
They can be a little morespecialized.
Like you know, the FX30, fx3,FX A7S3 are geared more towards

(54:09):
video, right, and then there'sother cameras, like the A7R
series with Sony, are gearedmore towards photo, and then
there's like the A7IV, which iskind of in the middle.
Somebody told me that the FX30does not have high like shutter
burst for taking photos, like itis really such.
It is for video.
So even though it has somephoto capability, it's like
incredibly limited.
It's like, oh shoot, I'dactually didn't realize that.

(54:30):
But that's great because you doget this awesome video camera
for a way better price than ifit had to do everything all at
once price than if it had to doeverything all at once, and that
is kind of cool.
Like it's.
It's subtle changes, but it'snice that instead of like there
is only the one option, like youeither get the 5D Mark II or
the T2i and those are kind ofyour options.
You, you can.
You can find like the camerathat hits like most of your

(54:52):
check boxes and I think that ispretty cool.
But then the question here thewill camera YouTube shift to
Apple Vision and MetaQuest?
Like, essentially, do you thinkthe camera production and video
production will switch to?
Like I don't know if it's likevirtual reality, augmented
reality, spatial video kind ofstuff.
I'm not sure, because it'sinteresting.
Those things just haven'tclicked yet.

(55:15):
I feel like at some point thatmust be a thing and I know there
are.
You know like iPhones can dospatial video and stuff and at
some point something might click.
I have a Quest headset that Ibought for an application called
Sensorena, which is like hockeytraining and it's amazing, like
because it is absolutelyincredible and like genuinely

(55:36):
helps build skills andcoordination and positioning and
everything for like playinggoalie and hockey, especially
where it's like it's way easierto put on the headset and play
sensor for 20 minutes and liketry to find ice time every day
and drive all the way and getall the stuff on.
And you know, like what is myactual opportunity to practice

(56:00):
something specific.
I can't usually ask someonelike can you take one specific
shot at me 50 times so I canreally practice it?
Like no, but with virtualreality I totally can and it is
pretty amazing.
So I'm not.
I don't know what the there'sgoing to be something you know
and it's kind of fun.
I do miss that like excitementof a new thing, leveling up and

(56:22):
opening up things for people,and I don't know what the next
thing like that would be or ifthere really will be.
I mean, there has to besomething, right.
I don't know what that would be, but I look forward to it.
I think.
Maybe I hope so, unless it endsup being something terrible,
but yeah, that could be.
Maybe I hope so unless it endsup being something terrible, but
yeah, that could be.

(56:42):
I don't know that that could befun.
Or or I look forward to peoplemaybe kind of having the fatigue
that we were talking about andthen feeling like you know, let
me go, let's go back into thatkind of garage culture.
Let's go back into that likeokay, we've got, like, the most
amazing tools in the world.
Let's like figure out cool waysto use them and things to share
about them and, like you know,dive into more than just the

(57:03):
specific, like here's a newthing, here's a review on it,
here's a new thing, here's areview on it.
Like let's kind of, let'sexplore a little more, and I
think that could be really,really fun.
So, that being said, if youhave anything you'd like to
share, you can always send anemail to Tom at
enthusiasmprojectcom.
You can leave a comment on theYouTube videos, you can click
the fan mail link in the shownotes on the audio version or

(57:24):
you can go to hi my name isTomcom and leave a voice message
for the podcast.
I hope this is interesting,especially if you're somebody
who is looking to figure outwhat do you do with your YouTube
channel name?
Maybe you're thinking of makinga change.
You don't know how to don'tknow how to navigate that.
Hope you took some good stuffaway from there and don't forget
you can register for free to goto NAB by using the link in the
description and you can checkout all the really awesome stuff

(57:47):
.
Maybe there'll be.
Whatever the next new thing is,maybe it'll be on the NAB show
floor.
I am curious I don't think it'sgoing to happen because I have
I've been wanting to make avideo on.
Every time I talk aboutanything like the roadcast or
any video switcher, the 4kdiscussion inevitably comes up
and I have some pretty strongopinions about it and I think

(58:10):
and I really do want to kind ofshare these and have this
discussion my opinion is thatthere's not going to be a fully
featured full-on 4K videoswitcher for a long time because
it's technologically and priceprohibitive, like the Rodecaster
video, if you took that.
It's not like flipping on a 4Kswitch and now it's in 4K To

(58:33):
make it do everything it does,and do that with four 4K inputs
that work reliably.
I can't imagine the Rodecastervideo costing less than $8,000.
So when people like, well, it's1200 bucks, it should be full
4k, I'm like not even close.
But I'm kind of holding off onsharing these opinions until
after NAB, just in case,especially that is when

(58:56):
Blackmagic tends to announcestuff.
Obviously they were first onthe mini HDMI switcher scene
with the ATEMs, so I don't knowif they have something up their
sleeves in terms of 4k.
And I don't want to like, Idon't want to plant my flag on
this opinion hill and then belike proven wrong immediately
afterwards.
So I want to see what happensat NAB.

(59:18):
I don't, I don't know, I haveno idea.
So that's what I'm gonna waitand see.
Anyway, I'll wait and see whatyou think about this episode.
Thank you for listening, thanksfor hanging out with me.
I hope you have a safe, happy,healthy, fun rest of your week
and I'll see you next time.

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