roxics
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No I'm just jealous. I don't really hate him.
How to Destroy an 8K RED Camera as Fast as Possible...
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No I'm just jealous. I don't really hate him.
I have produced tv show about cars for 3 years. Then we moved to youtube. We have like 1-2 milion views per month depending how much we want to work. Since we are from Eastern Europe and we have 5 times lower income from ads compare to US I can imagine that Linus and his crew can make some serious money.
Maybe you dont like Youtube. Thats cool. But one day you really should try to make content that you like. Not content which is (almost everytime) crippled by clients or producers. This is the main reason why people like Youtube so much, including me. Just look at this topic, so much emotions here. How many teardowns of cinema csmera have you seen on TV? That is why doing whatever you want works.
Maybe you dont like Youtube. Thats cool. But one day you really should try to make content that you like. Not content which is (almost everytime) crippled by clients or producers. This is the main reason why people like Youtube so much, including me. Just look at this topic, so much emotions here. How many teardowns of cinema csmera have you seen on TV? That is why doing whatever you want works.
Mitch Gross
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There are many individuals making serious money from Youube channels. There are also entire production companies such as Crafty who are entirely YouTube based. These companies make very professional content and do so not only on a daily basis, but across multiple channels. Cooking shows, product reviews, education, chat shows, etc. If it can be studio based that's all the better as it is easier to churn out lots of material on a consistent basis. This is a real production business, not just a 14-year old giving makeup tips (although there are some doing that who are making a fortune).
As in any industry, for every 1 who is making real money there are hundreds who aren't getting anywhere. But the cost to entry is incredibly low, so content is king.
Back to the question of this particular teardown video, there is a certain hacker mentality to these guys that has always annoyed me (along with the host's voice, but I guess he can't help that). In an earlier video they tried to open up a Mac desktop computer, fried it in the process and then freaked out when Apple said they wouldn't repair it because of what they'd done. Here these guys think they can actually improve this expensive RED camera via watercooling, as if RED has no clue how to build a camera and these homebrew bros can do a better job. It's the definition of hubris and coming from a manufacturer's perspective I just shrug them off. I've been in sales & manufacturing in this business for more than a decade and have countlessly dealt with users who thought they "knew better," only to come up with something that was rightly rejected a long time back for any of the many technical reasons that we just don't have time to go into. There are guys who "build" computers who think they know everything, but most of them are simply assembling ready made parts that are on the whole designed to work together already, so its just a matter of getting them together and running. The space between the two is a chasm.
As in any industry, for every 1 who is making real money there are hundreds who aren't getting anywhere. But the cost to entry is incredibly low, so content is king.
Back to the question of this particular teardown video, there is a certain hacker mentality to these guys that has always annoyed me (along with the host's voice, but I guess he can't help that). In an earlier video they tried to open up a Mac desktop computer, fried it in the process and then freaked out when Apple said they wouldn't repair it because of what they'd done. Here these guys think they can actually improve this expensive RED camera via watercooling, as if RED has no clue how to build a camera and these homebrew bros can do a better job. It's the definition of hubris and coming from a manufacturer's perspective I just shrug them off. I've been in sales & manufacturing in this business for more than a decade and have countlessly dealt with users who thought they "knew better," only to come up with something that was rightly rejected a long time back for any of the many technical reasons that we just don't have time to go into. There are guys who "build" computers who think they know everything, but most of them are simply assembling ready made parts that are on the whole designed to work together already, so its just a matter of getting them together and running. The space between the two is a chasm.
+1 Totally agree with everything you wrote, Mitch.
...Did you mean CRFTSHO who were one of the first YouTube channels that showed how well the GH5 mixed in with RED cameras ?
...Did you mean CRFTSHO who were one of the first YouTube channels that showed how well the GH5 mixed in with RED cameras ?
Mitch Gross
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Crafty is a production company in Denver. I believe it has half a dozen studios at its facility churning out content every day. The productions mostly focus on home crafts such as knitting, painting and woodwork. This particular company skews to an older audience, but it has huge subscriber bases across its various channels. I don't know how many people it employs or the revenue stream, but it's a lot and there are many such companies. I could give many more examples.
The 5 channel universe of the broadcast 60s & 70s became
the 50 channel universe of the cable TV 80s & 90s became
the 500 channel universe of the digital cable / satellite network 00s & 10s
became the infinite channel universe of YouTube today.
If you are starting out today, it's a tough haul to get to where you are allowed to monetize anything. And for many different generas, unless you are being a jackass, you won't get enough people to make it worth while. The world apparently loves jackassery and this type of production often requires little skill because the viewers do not care.