Traveling to Europe for the ARRI Headquarters SUPERTOUR!!... and some durability Tests

this episode is brought to you by storyblocks alright we have made it all the way here to Airy headquarters here in Munich Germany we're gonna go really in depth and answer the one big question is it pronounced Airy or Ari I don't know but first of all do we really have to wear these right now I don't see anyone else wearing no this is definitely the uniform got the socks and everything this is called the leader hose yeah good to see you yeah I thought you said we were supposed to wear these to get into the the building oh Don I thought we were going to wear that tonight oh shoot you brought the change of clothes though no man I don't have anything you're telling me we're here at area headquarters and I'm going to be walking around like Japanese Pinocchio like a little shoot what are we gonna do I'll put my costume on so at least we'll look coherent here okay sure yeah we must report for Duty people should take care of their cameras and absolutely treat it well but not I see so this is the if not test if I break this camera I'm not liable right or was that I didn't read the contracted you signed it already ah okay 55 000 please you guys do this with a real working camera and everything yes not for every camera you know you do it once once in a while no because of course it gets a little damage here on the side yeah it scratches the paint it's scratches yeah this is one of the main tests that sound it sounds horrible it hurt me it felt like punching a baby like you would think it's fun it's not fun okay he's saying I need to do it from the higher position he needs more pain we need more pain how much of a beating has this one taken the first time what it's the first time for that camera that was the first hit of the camera yeah so it needs a second I thought this was the camera that's already been beaten to death that you didn't care about anymore that's a brand new one we already saw this so somebody will get it tomorrow well in that case I'm done anything I've done I can't handle any more of this why are you laughing at this torture the camera loves it I think I might be traumatized you're usually the one that does this test ah this is what you come and do for fun the laughing afterwards it had made a crooked look it this is a hundred mil 150 ml Bowl and it's on tight too loosen it to the left right it's actually on there good see the tighter that is the harder it is to bend this we have tested that with a running camera so you see that the camera was filming itself in the mirror and the camera continued recording that's the job of the camera didn't drop any frames or anything like that it just kept going the drive worked well the whole camera worked well the lens stayed where it is and in a good shape so we measured it but it didn't have to be adjusted at all oh so it didn't have to be reshammed or anything like that as cables are here and somebody you know could pull a cable or step on the cable and so which would pull the camera to that side so it's more common that the camera is damaged on that side than on this one this is the one how you test your codex cards I don't know what we do with it maybe the signature primes oh no now this trip to Germany actually happened last year and ever since it's been kind of sitting on a hard drive and I've been meaning to go back to edit it but I wasn't quite sure how to piece it together or how I wanted to edit it we just kind of went around and just shot and shot and it just became so much footage that I've been kind of procrastinating editing this but times like this is when using storyblocks is actually really useful I just need a good way to just kind of tie everything together and one of the easiest ways to do that is to just throw in some voice over with some irrelevant b-roll so I just went to StoryBox where they have over a million stock assets and I can just drop in this b-roll and you may have noticed that this is something I like to do even on videos that aren't sponsored by 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hurt after a while it does and then they come to here and this is all hand shaped you're looking for in this case no light through the cracks basically and then just to make it a little bit harder as well it also has to have no light passing through if you turn it do you have your own that you made at home yeah yeah is it like you know in a glass case yeah how do you hear that what's up good no so titanium's stronger and less affected by heat the more expensive than aluminum these three pieces probably about 250 euros 250 years just raw material yeah haven't done anything to it yet kind of starts here and makes its way to here and a bunch of stuff happens and then it's here it sounds like every step of the way there's a ton of quality control we shake them for 20 minutes on each axis just to make sure that all the screws are tightened that all the screws have the right amount of glue ah so this is testing for TSA the luggage loaders on the plane we also have them in these climate Chambers and we'll take them all the way down to negative 20 degrees run them at Max performance make sure they still work and then we'll take them up in multiple stages right up to 45 degrees and run them at Max performance as well they have this little incubator at home but this is like a legit version of that exactly oh my God there's a lot of stuff moving here yeah so this goes to what the storage room or something and picks up all the parts you need all the little Parts as well as the completed cameras as well if I scan this yeah and then unforan which means deliver it to me please pull it out hey what's that I'm just kidding please don't release the German Shepherds we need one of this at our house oh yeah oh my God and it has tiny little Airy lights look at that I think it's like is it weight sensitive yeah you need to drink it down in under one minute if you want to work here oh now as cool as it was to see the behind the scenes of how they put all the cameras together the real reason why I traveled across the world is to get to work hey jeans hey you finally made it what happened my limo broke down on the way here no way should I give me a call I'll pick you up oh really you have a car here yeah so that's my ride it actually really matches your outfit we've randomly just found it in the parking lot we just thought it looked really cool we actually don't even know whose car that is we're here at Area Rental right now and we are going to start pre-production for my masterpiece time to make a movie I like this belt it's pretty sick hello Dylan is my translator hello it is a YouTuber Alan mentioned in ganseyville prices it doesn't take that long to say hello pleased to meet you yes we'll use you later if you can go do you know what you want to shoot about and if you have any ideas I would like to shoot on a red camera even Alexa 65 so whatever you have an Alexa 65 here okay I actually didn't know you guys had that here can I see it can't touch it somebody is lying to you there's not too many of these around no not really yeah very large format very large format you could say I mean the cool thing is that people who work with other re cameras before usually don't have a hard time adapting to it I would like to shoot my masterpiece on it but I just found out that we had a few budget cuts because the producers you know how they are but the interface looks exactly the same so if you're used to shooting on any area yeah this is the same area we're all 6.5 yeah this is the full open gate they don't want a camera which is harder to use aerial rentals customizes a lot of lenses right because I've heard about like the DNA lenses and things like signature primes if someone comes in and they say I really like the master anamorphics but I want to shoot on the LF you can go in and adjust the sharpness and and essentially tune it exactly for whatever the cinematographer wants right exactly because every DP you know that it wants some individuality yeah inside if you have the right lens technician they can fiddle around and do it for you you guys are actually prepping for a shoot right that's correct yes ah can you talk about what it is or is it unfortunately due to an NDA resign I can't tell you it's exact show we're prepping but it's an international feature film we just did in the morning the VFX lens grids because we have a lot of visual effects and what you actually do is actually shoot the Distortion grids if you have a lot of visual effects shots and anamorphic lenses usually have like a distortion then the VFX department they analyze it in a special software so they can actually see the Distortion of the lenses so we're prepping here since last week on Monday we have like one and a half one weeks of prep eight prep days probably you used to be an intern here from the seven oh yeah 10 years ago 10 years ago we started and getting more more to business and now he's the first AC of a big show so we're very proud of him yeah very cool all thanks to Arie thank you if uh you show up without a memory card or something then you'd be in a lot of trouble then we've been a lot of trouble luckily it never happened to us you seem like you have it together if I was in first AC then you'd probably show up and half of the lenses would be missing on this show We Carry Three cameras with us three Alexa mini left it's a large format show good luck on the show thank you very much yeah are you excited I'm very excited yeah three days to go and then we start shooting if you're looking at a small screen and it's like I like how it looks but then you blow it up onto a projector then it looks a little different this will really help see what we're talking about downstairs when we're trying to figure out the lens and then if you're not happy you go down to our lens technician they oh I would like to have it more sharp on the right it's sort of a close look because the lens technician could sit next to you and write down what you want to have changed so this gives both the possibility to have a really uh fast turnaround your custom tune the lenses shoot your test look at the test much faster to your perfect idea or to the perfect lens for your shoot it actually is great because there's so much more confidence when you can just see it right here for the GPS this is now a loading situation they're loading for a big show is this for the same project they're doing the test thing also like in the the camera Department as you can see they check everything that they have here from the first screw until the last lamp I love how the the giant lights look pretty much exactly like the small ones but just scaled up like a photo of it on the internet I could pick up like a couple of those and you show up in your sedan people say cameras can get heavy but no you're required to have some tattoos to work in this department right I don't know we both don't have any oh I don't have any usually the grip guys over the tattoo this is the two they're two guys 2K blocks I used to have one of these and was like this is my big flight you want to see a 360. I've always wanted to know how you get this onto the stand it's really not that heavy really yeah you can like lift the 100 with you oh that's not so bad how much power does this use 1 500. the max you can just plug this into your house and power this whole thing but you have to make sure that you're not running the laundry machine at the same circuit don't cook water at the same time oh with the electric one Americans don't use plastic you've never seen them it's always a coffee machine yeah yeah Americans it's always coffee machine this little small cube here could basically light up this lamp for about six to eight hours that does yeah about six to eight hours which is a pretty impressive thing that we offer our customers yo you can't have a good shot without good lighting that's why all dops come from lighting you want to grab it holy that's what we do all day long you know we do all day long you have a super techno here Carrie this is what I want for the house I want that we have them in all different sizes obviously basically the the Maxima gimbal in here and then just push I'm not doing anything it's all yours oh okay so that's it one person can push this actually yeah ah even not when you're not using the telescopic feature or the jib movements I've seen them just bring this on and they literally just use this instead of a tripod because it's like oh reposition this big old camera here exactly it's like okay you can position it and do movements at the same time whatever you need different sizes for example they're 23 footer from Scorpio one of these interior telescopic cranes so this one will be able to fit through a standard doorway yeah yeah grip crew of the of the next show their first loading day today does any broken equipment ever come back and you're just like how did this get broken yes just like a huge steel beam just bad all right so we ran into a problem I want to film a scene right there next to that building but apparently phone permits here are really expensive for that building but if you get a film permit for right over here it's like a quarter of the price so you might think that this is the expensive lens to rent but it's still less than a film permit so a little hack for you guys out there can you tell us about this lens it's a huge lens yeah one of the only lenses I know which has 1000 millimeter we got our Focus here and aperture control right here from this high five and let's see this Zoom here whoa it's okay signal as well as control and everything for yourself you see them all the way over there so we're still having three out of four bars okay this is gonna work guys this is like one of the most important action sequences in our film it's gonna be where Dylan and I fight each other I guess there is no take two for you man yeah some people thinking they're almost caught the uh called the police here but okay we should get out of here quickly what do you think of our performance there I think you nailed it you're natural like this place is actually publicly full of people and the camera is so far away that no one has any idea what did you do what do you guys think you're very dirty can I see playback on that these kids just walking fast like what the hell you see all the dust coming off oh my gosh yes then you're just over there smiling like we got the scene guys we did it we are here actually it's a beautiful place in the in the heart of Vienna with us are always he's a local first AC and he was also a better test of the high five so he knows the system very well I see that there's a lot of ACS that are glued to the monitor so they're just tied in there and I also heard of ACS that only look at the subject directly so where do you sit in that everyone uh who's asking me what's the right way to pull Focus I always tell them there is no right and no wrong way to pull Focus if it's sharp then it's the right way I do that for about 10 years now oh and I started with 35 millimeters so I'm used to measure focus by my eye but then after a while was more like into using the Monitor and these are SDI cables they come out of here and wow I'm just not used to seeing that hello nice horse I Rose four we have here oh wait is that how you say a high Rose hi Rose I think I kept calling it a Hiroshi oh really I like it oh my God how many times have I went to a rental house and be like can I get a four-pin Hiroshi sounds a little bit Asian man yeah I know right they're like man you're so Asian but maybe I'm wrong I don't know the funnest thing is determining oh my God I used to say vignetting you know vignetting in the last I used to say big Nettie oh but it's actually called vignant really yeah oh it's not that far away from there right now I feel like an idiot twice so from there we went to the next location in the beautiful countryside and that's when I realized there was a slight mix up when Aaron asked me to go there to work they didn't mean make a movie they had something else for me what happens if you uh crash into this and it's not possible hit the pillar it just said dead man that doesn't sound like the thing I want to see right before because they're on the left and the right side yeah now if you can drive to by yourself uh you feel very powerful in here huh I feel like a king bring me some breakfast you can go very high oh my God this is so close to everything have you seen that YouTube video where a forklift crashes into one of these and then they all fall like dominoes yeah yeah I thought so is that why I said that's right on the screen right here okay where are we going let's keep going we can go to the next level too yeah yeah yeah yeah Dylan do you trust me with your life right now can we still move forward yeah we can yeah and you can you can move it how fast did I hit this go Max Speed all right Autobahn time okay that's scary how do you feel Dylan no I was just thinking if anything happens I'm just gonna have to like grab onto this with the fork in this palette is there sensors on the fork no there's no sensors on the phone there's no sense on okay so this is where I can really mess up you told me that it's impossible to take a bus to go okay that was fast that was fast if we were to go forward and then as fast as possible and then stop over no yeah it will well you want to try it again no that's we're fine can we get down oh my God we will do this for 30 times to guarantee what did that light everybody do to you did it bully you as a child or just according to the standard for the professional Lumineers that's my job okay a little angry or something oh no this pin if this fails the second suspension protects it uh from falling down nothing falls to the ground shouldn't break either and should work as it's supposed to be afterwards make me throw a hammer into a camera and now this the seller in the basement we have some freezers so we're also testing the fixtures under very low low temperatures I'm sorry I was just distracted by your beautiful beard still look good it looks good yeah so do we have the time so otherwise oh yeah okay I like to be precise and clean like like we like our fixtures you know so we always we're always precise open door oh that's a cool door a little bit like Star Wars oh look at this that's right I got a PhD in doctoring I see the LED floors the biggest portion of the manufacturing now oh my God look at all these 360s is this like the uh gift bag everyone on the way out I guess just pick up one this is a gaffer's dream right here so if you've ever shot on an Airy light then it was here this is his home no it has definitely left this facility the lighting production started in in Munich but then we got World War II and then they needed to move the premises and everything and then they they found this premise is here oh I see all the different colors in there Orbiter emitters yeah yeah it's a six color engine this is spectral power distribution gives you a more natural light if you want to grade color grade afterwards or having information in each color makes a big difference different ways to measure accuracy of Lights is there something that you guys look at to try to make sure that the lights are very well even tlci is of course a very important one for us we also test for for regular CRI with the eight samples so the extended CRI cqs tm35 thing doesn't matter what type of line measurement you are using at the end an hour fixture has to perform the best way in with all these different measurements this is 18 000 Watts pure HMI discharge lamp light power if you hold a cigarette or a piece of paper in front of the fixture you could light it whenever you turn on a light you're supposed to yell striking is this why people say that someone was just like doing something and then they just turned it on this is a UV glass and we have that for all HMI fixtures to lower at least the UV radiation there's a safety switch inside so if I do this then it will switch off immediately it's kind of like the thing where you attach the key to the jet ski on your thing so if you fly off then it'll shut off we have the re photometrics app if we're looking for Orbiter and go into a model and you see all the data you see the illuminance at that distance we will see the beam diameter and you can adjust it to your own need so look at the re photometrics app is always worthwhile and there's still tungsten's being made here yeah one of the things I really like about the Orbiter is it's this new tool that's fancy it's got all these features in it but you still can say oh I know how to light with a 2K and gels so you can say okay make it look like a 2K tungsten with these gels or make it look like an HMI with these gels how we see it we manufacturers need to adapt to the language the Jurgen of the industry into the film industry into the methodologies in the film industry you are now at the dentist office for lenses so let's say I was flying a signature Prime on a drone and accidentally crashed I never crashed drones though but if I did what would be the first thing you would do with it something happened to the lens during your drone gas okay so what are you looking at here this circle and if you go out of focus you can see that it's not symmetric to have a smear in One Direction so something is happened to the lens maybe it's banned would you say this is fairly minor issues or no out of specification and here you also can see the numbers this is the contrast it should be above 80 or 90 percent so here you have 50 percent contrast the lines white and black are blurring and you have good resolution with low contrast it's possible you can have a very high resolution and a very low contrast that's very often with older lenses because of straight light the coatings on all the lenses they were not as good or you can have also low contrast on lenses you are using for image processing and so a machine is processing the image so we don't need a high contrast but that's a different application but in cinema we need high resolution and ultra high contrast is it possible to have high contrast but low resolution it is possible and this is a little bit how should I say on cheaper lenses and the human eyes is contrast as sharpness so if you have a lens with a high contrast and low resolution maybe it's a very cheap lens it's it gives you the impression oh it's very good but if you zoom in in Photoshop you see oh I don't have resolution I don't see the details but first of all I thought it's a good lens but it has no details if you have too much contrast especially on a portrait lens and you see with high contrast every Wrinkle in the face you're saying Ah that's too much contrast I like the resolution and the contrast not that much then I'm using a soft filter for Port fret right but you are starting with a very good lens and then you find a way to adapt the lens to your applications now we are in a clean room which is controlled and this is a clean bench which is just a higher level of a cleaner room this would be a good place to be when you have allergies oh yeah it's the best place yeah okay I'm gonna come here and scream and hang out sensors most important part of the camera of course important not to have a finger smudge on there when the kayaking this is how we get the mini LF sensors one of these Wafers about 10 000 Euro or 12 000 Euro so if you have this whole thing together it's about 25 of these little slices so that's what turns into a LF sensor yes there are some who are defective basically what the what this machine does it's really pre-measuring so that we know which one we really can build and which one just doesn't working I see so you check every sensor before you throw it in a camera for basically if you're like if you bake a cake it's hard to make it always the same we just only take the best ones yeah there's so much more that we got to do and people we got to meet but I really appreciate everybody's time to share their knowledge with me like Florian who is part of area Academy there you can go and learn everything you need to know about the camera to be proficient with Airy stuff and then this is Mark who basically knows everything there is to know about the new area Alexa 35 I had to find out where he lives I kicked out his door and forced him to explain a bunch of stuff to me for hours and hours so Mark I really appreciate you explaining all this to me and teaching me some very valuable skills whoa I need to learn how to do that will Arie ever put out a budget camera so I can start vlogging on on Alexa mini mini you know what we talk about that often but we're really really good at making really cool high-end cameras I'm not sure we're good at making something less expensive you can't just take this technology and put it on like a GoPro capsule so I could put on my helmet when I go no let's see the thing is this little puppy here the actual electronic board that's 20 watts already there's no free lunch so if you want the best image it's going to cost you some wattage some size some weight and that's what we're really really good at doing most important question how do you pronounce the brand well I I my rule is I always mispronounce things like the natives do so in Germany it's Ari because it's Nick that's the official name of the company okay Ari and in America I would call it Arie now what we just need is a very long walk off into the sunset shot but I need it to be really really long let's do it oh my God the back of my shirt is very dirty I think the sunset's actually the other way we're walking away from it shoot we already started we've already committed yeah we've gone too far yeah I mean like if I zoom out the shot I'm all the way out here we get back to the hotel if we just keep walking forward what time is it oh it's a horse oh my God this horse is ruining the shot how dare you you know that you make sausages other horses in Vienna what really yeah whoa wait how far out are we oh okay okay this lens is pretty insane okay so if you look at the shot the guys that look like they're right here basically they're actually pretty far behind yeah they look like they're right behind us right but then we look back anyways how much longer until the sun sets didn't we schedule this I think we still got like three hours left the sunset today is at 9 30 p.m 9 30 p.m so why do we have such

good range on this Wireless high five so we actually we attached the 2.4 gigahertz frequency hopping module yeah and this should give us range literally until the sunset there oh no we lost it right at the we got a good time have full camera control though I can run stop it oh let's see if I can get it no link we're officially lost on our video transmission but the high five has no problem so if it says two to three bars we're good so generally speaking the focus unit will outperform any video transmitter absolutely I would like to try this with the DJI transmitter and see how that one does because that does give us some pretty crazy you know what we do this in us with the 900 megahertz oh transmitter next shot we do we plan it I'll get permits in Mexico and we'll shoot in the US now we have to walk all the way back yeah let's do it look at this now horses walking on a lot to put in this oh we're not allowed beyond our budget oh okay okay honestly I think this movie is going to be great and I think the only problem with it is that we don't set it up for a sequel we have to so that the audience wants more and we can make a lot more money a cliffhanger for a second like this is too nice of an ending say something mean to me quickly your hair looks stupid what do you mean looks like a dumb fix you know

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