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A few ideas, have a white block thing on the desk that tablet devices, phones, Kindle etc can slot into and charge, so it look like the white thing with the red acrylic that picard had on his desk. This would also be recreating the "datapad" that picard keeps on his desk. A fish tank of some kind, probably a lot of upkeep just for a reference but it should make the space feel more alive. TNG had that tiny port hole style tank, but the enterprise e had a big cylindrical one that's more impressive and lit up. Maybe a screen mounted to the wall and recessed into the wall panels to make a virtual window, that can play a starfield animation that can look like moving at impulse, at warp, in orbit of a planet. An oled screen would be ideal since it will be mostly black, but probably be too expensive just for a virtual window. But would be easy enough to place it somewhere that is still usable as a TV when needed. The thing that I think would really give it that star trek feel, the ability to have atmospheric audio, so you can have that starship hummm sounds playing, and be able to adjust it with voice commands like "engineering, begin engine silent running". The same speakers could also be useful for a possible future project, I'm sure some star trek fan will eventually make it with the advancements is m in ai voice recreation, a recreation of majel Barret's voice that can be used for notifications and voice commands. Edit. Oh and duh, how could I forget, some gold painted models of star Trek ships. Mounted on the wall or on a plinth like the stargazer in picards ready room. Double edit... Just got to the end where you mention the picard command chair. Since you've already bought a chair I'd say a fun addition to that would just be to add some sort of wireless control panel on the side of the arm rest.
I'm sure you are probably aware of it (or already used it), but I did find a TNG computer inspired theme in Home Assistant. A tablet in kiosk mode with that running would tie in well.....though it is Home Assistant and you will need to tweak/fix it every five minutes.....
Coming from someone who edits RU-vid videos, I just want to say that I really appreciate all the work you put into your videos. Your humor is awesome, the characters and silly wig cutaways are always gold, and the cadence and flow is spot on, and I often watch your videos even if I'm not particularly interested the product. Thanks!
The star trek and especially tng fan in me is super jelly, I would've probably gone with grey and a highlight rug for the brudge flooring.. I wish you luck! ..giant book in a case? Gold ship models on the wall? ...fish tank..? ;D The govee stuff is so nice, I love the idea!
I am definitely of the TNG era as a fan, but the salmon pinks of Picards ready room and a salmon pink carpet would not have made for a space that I wanted to spend 10 hours a day in, so I've gone for the only other option I could find that I felt looked like Star Trek, and it was shiny white laminate. I just need to find a colour rug to break it up a bit.
Love the new office setup and glad to see that Govee is hooking you up with some lights! The OBSBOT is interesting... I don't consider the $75 to be too bad of premium for an NDI license. The $500 price on Amazon seems great for the camera - until you realize that doesn't include the $100 ethernet adapter or the $80 remote. Now you're up to almost $700 - getting close to $800 if you also want the NDI. The cheapest PTZOptics cameras are around $900 and you get optical zoom, NDI, SDI, HDMI, USB, ethernet... all without additional adapters or licenses. So I think if you don't need the optical zoom, don't need the remote, don't need ethernet - OBSBOT appears to be a really good product!
...so I usually wake up Saturday morning looking forward to your videos like I'm a child again waking up to Saturday morning cartoons, this Saturday morning was different however due to early St. Patrick's day festivities and never really falling asleep. Had I been through the normal routine and caught this video I would have saved myself some time, and a little bit of pain associated with so much partying. After researching streaming cameras I found the Obsbot Tiny 2, which I am hoping will work for my application. In watching some of the reviews I found out you can add these cameras to your stream deck for one touch function and no controller needed. You probably already have a stream deck and know some of this information but I thought it would have been helpful to add this to your video above. You could have even post an affiliate link to sale another product and make another 2 pence piece off of me. Anyways, look into adding a stream deck if you don't have one and keep up the fun videos. Cheers.
A couple of the episodes I looked at of Star trek have a Teal green carpet (darkish) - That would look great with the wood work and pretty much go with any other colour
Yeesssssssss. I've actually bought shiny shite laminate, but I'm thinking teal green rugs! 😁. Neesha thinks it won't go with the red chair, but it works for Star Trek, so it should darn well work for me!
@@paulhibbertWomen always get it right with that stuff Paul, l know sexist stereotype but true nonetheless, I'd go with her idea, you'll thank me later. 😂
dont forget ethernet, power, usbc, and audio / video connections to every corner of the room and to the centre ceiling to enable easy future installs. its so much easier to install at the build stage rather than retrofitting later
Thanks mate! I just love the idea of having a room that looks like it's from the future, but still feels homely. It's a difficult balance, but I reckon I've nailed most of those aspects. Just hoping it all comes together the way I have it in my head
@@paulhibbert oh absolutely, I know what you mean there! Well good luck and I'll look forward to seeing the finished results in a future video. Well. Hopefully not 84 years though ha ha :)
Awesome! I can't wait for the update! I'm guessing that if you want it to look anything like your cool design.....it won't be one of your DIY efforts?🤔😂 If it works out...I might just slip in a suggestion in a casual conversation with my wife😂 BTW, what design software are you using to plan this? It will come in handy when I get the 'nod' from her indoors😂 Oh well, Saturday entertainment half hour now over, it's time to tackle my wifes to-do list 😱
Don't worry, professionals are doing practically all of this! 😂. I used various pieces of software to imagine the room. Mostly photoshop, but I also used MagicPlan which has been incredibly useful for deciding where furniture will fit and to see a 3D representation 😊
The office plans look great. I do agree with DMonZ1988 though, I can't imagine any ready room where the Captain would be facing the wall. I think most of the floor options would be okay except the solid black. That one didn't work for me. It made me think of Q vooping out the floor so you're just hovering over the void. And this was a bait-&-switch! The thumbnail had Neesha, and she wasn't in the video. It's always a bonus if we get to see her involved.
Thanks guys! After googling the various trek sets It had to be carpet, or shiny black or shiny white. I decided black might look a bit ominous, so I’ve gone with white and will break it up with a rug 😊
Thanks dude, I spent some more time looking at Star Trek sets, and the Walnut just doesn't exist as a floor anywhere, in fact, none of the floods are wood. In the end I've gone for a white shiny laminate with the intention of putting down a rug that will hopefully match the colour scheme!
For the wall panels I used ‘the wood veneer hub’ they have a crazy selection of different panels even some smart home strip lights that fit between the gaps of the panels which would look epic in the studio. Grate video can’t wait to see your studio turns out.😀🛸🪜
Thanks dude! I shall check them out! I'm hoping that the acoustic panel company I've approached comes through for me as they had everything I wanted in one place, but they weren't answering their phone all last week and I'm nervous they've gone bust!
Can't believe your actually going to build the star trek bridge very jealous, shiny white floor makes visual sense but I prefer the wood effect more videos on this please totally awesome❤
@@paulhibbert I'm sorry but Captain Picard would never allow rugs on his bridge! Data was nearly court marshalled for a scratching post for spot! #iamnotanerdhonest 😂
Are you using Naturewall for the feature wall? I'm about to tart up my man cave and I have that same wall planned. It's not cheap but it's very nice. I was going to make it myself out of real Walnut and the acoustic felt - but the walnut is horrendously expensive, even rough sawn stuff (I have my own woodworking workshop in my garage)! So, I'll be buying the slightly less expensive Naturewall stuff. The camera looks pretty good too. I might treat myself to one for making Instagram videos in the workshop.
Hey Paul, I like the black or wood look for flooring..it highlights the other items in the room. White floor ..looks too clean and if you ever do additional floor robot cleaners..it might be a pain to identify areas that were missed. Cheers.
Those white floors appear as though they would create a light reflective nightmare, as well as making your giant custom made desk blend in with the flooring. Also, any type of hard surface flooring could create sound reflective issues, but it's possible those would be negated by the walls. But to be successful there you would need a mixture of absorption panels And Diffusion panels on the ceiling. Without it you'll get an effect of sound bouncing back and forth between floor and ceiling. Softer wood flooring can reduce that, but having some ceiling treatment would be best. Honestly, if you have basic DIY skills (or have a friend who does) making your own absorption panels is cheap and easy. Don't buy them online. RU-vid has about 736 videos on how to make your own. All you have to do is go buy a roll of the cover material you want. So making separate wall and ceiling panels won't cost your left arm (or your right one, if ya know, you swing that way). Basic deffusers is the same, easily self made. But with the short distance (floor to ceiling) you might need something a touch more exotic. But you won't need more than 8 total, likely less.
The answer to the floor situation is strategically placed rugs. Not sure whether I’ll do anything to the ceiling. I’ve gotten this far in much worse and more reflective spaces, I currently film with mirrored wardrobes behind me and until I put a rug down and some cheap dampeners off Amazon on the walls it was horrendous. I’m pretty good at EQing out some of the remaining room sound and then the reverberate plugin is pretty good and Final Cut pro’s built in voice isolation slider is a god send. I then add in a tiny amount of fake studio reverb and I have something fairly passable with minimal treatment. Obviously not quite as good as having a completely treated room, but considering every wall will be treated, there will be a giant sofa in there and then some rugs (especially in the recording area) I reckon it will sound lovely 😊
Thank you Paul for your content! I cant say "Home Assistant" without thrusting my hips and my gf just rolls her eyes at me. I love it! Great success to you on the studio update!
@@paulhibbert 🤞 I looked up the pricing and for this class of product its pretty fairly priced £220 and up I think the one you showed is just north of £500? I'm currently in the garage playing with some yealink conferencing equipment on a benq 65" touchscreen and the camera bar alone was over £1k for a fixed camera and the PTZ stuffs even more and that just to support MS teams.. It will be interesting to report back in on this 3 months from now to see what firmware updates have been release and how well they work. TBH I it would make a low effort video series. "6 months ago" and just give us an update / round up on previous products.
I had considered that, but I'm short on time, so shiny white laminate it is! I'm hoping I don't regret that decision when I end up cleaning it every 10 minutes!
Surely a Star trek themed Studio should have the desk in the middle of the room facing the door, as with the furniture in the series I recall it was always away from walls. It would seem you have the space. A bit like a Saturday night talkshow host. In the rendering @7:59 if you rotate the desk 180 degrees it would look much better.
I originally considered putting it in the centre but I couldn’t then get the rest of the furniture in, but spinning it around to face the room might just work! I will have to see 😁
Not sure what your plans are for the Studio with the Sofa and Chair, but if you intend to invite Studio guests this would be a good camera angle from above the door to cover the room and dialogue. Also facing the wall sucks, you want to be able to enjoy the view of your room when sat at your desk. @@paulhibbert
White floors would bounce light more, make the space look bigger, and show scratches and dirt quickly. Darker floors would be easier to maintain but would make the space feel smaller. You’d ideally have something that’s acoustically sound (ha), especially when your chair moves around on it. You might want to check out videos RU-vidrs have done on updating their studio spaces in general for any ‘gotchas’ they encountered so you can make sure those things are incorporated into your final design. Also, you need to have the sound effects automated somehow! That’ll make it feel more immersive and also be a ‘smart home’ automation to set up :)
@@paulhibbert I can point you towards uk based studios that can build bespoke furniture much quicker and possibly cheaper, as well as supplying the flooring.
I wonder how well it handles fast moving action.. say Ice Hockey.. will it track a person or object from within a large group of people... or say a number on a Jersey... Sports tracking Cameras are ridiculously expensive.
🤣🤣 I nearly spat my food out when you looked into your garage…brilliant. And yes I still laugh at the fly and the violin. I can’t wait to see your readyroom when it’s finished. Love it.
You can use NDI on Mac but you have to have the NDI plug-in and I think the NDI SDK and it's helpful to have the NDI tools. The only downside about using OBS on the Mac is the stupid full screen system that they introduced how many versions ago. You can full screen the multiview onto a second monitor ( FYI I use a touchscreen monitor hint hint ) the only problem with that is it blanks out all your other monitors. The solution is to do a windowed multiview and maximize it option clicking the green button. Or the real solution buy a Windows computer which I finally decided I'm going to do. I do live event streaming and I use 3 MEVOs but I have seen the Obsbot Tail Air camera and I really want so one maybe next year? The included license that's why I went with The MEVOs and they were the only thing available at a reasonable price at the time.
I might regret it, but I’ve gone with shiny white laminate and plan to break it up with rugs. I looked at a bunch of carpets and they just didn’t feel right
I can’t choose between the flooring options either. All of them sound good, and have issues. Why hasn’t Govee made colour (and pattern) changing floor tiles? I’m very disappointed in them. My inner nerd is jealous, though I’m more Janeway than Picard. (It’s mostly the hair you understand.)
Those Osbots look great! I got myself an Insta 360 Link a few years ago. Been disappointed with the slow delivery of updates and improvements for it. Mind you, you've highlighted all the problems I'd also face with the Osbots. ~sigh Hurry the F up technology! Us nerds have stuff to do!
I've ended up with Shiny white laminate as it was all I could find that fit all the criteria I needed, BUT I plan to break it up with a rug or two as I think the main issue with it is that it looks quite stark on its own. I felt the black might look a bit ominous, and no star trek floors are wood effect!
You do NOT want a light colored floor. It will drive you nuts BEFORE you turn the cameras on. Even if floors that show every speck of dirt don't bother you, the reflected light will make it tough to get lighting effects to work right.
I ended up rethinking this. I couldn;t find a single wood floor in all of Star Trek, and I suddenly realised, wood laminate is very much of our time here and now, and a shiny black or white would help sell the future vibe. Both looked a bit start in my mock ups though, so I concluded I'd get a white shiny laminate and break it up with a colour rug. Just gotta figure out the colour now!
It's a Canvia, but I don't recommend it. It's horrendously expensive and the software is a bit mental, and sometimes pictures come out sideways. A few too many bugs for something this pricey!
Already bought shiny white laminate 😬. It's expensive so maybe it will be OK, but it's the purchase I'm most nervous about. The smallest imperfection will be super obvious
@@paulhibbertPersonally, and it's only my choice, would've gone for matt white tiles. I already have laminate flooring and my office chair wheels badly scuff the floor and the top layer of the laminate has worn off.
First of all those Obsbot cameras look fantastic and they look like just the thing for folks who are too cheep to hire a camera man. Since I fit into that category, I'm watching with great interest. Second, it is, of course, not only wholly reasonable, but pretty much a duty of every man to turn an available garage into a site for engaging their favorite hobby (unless it is already engaged in the plebian activity of housing vehicles to keep them out of the weather. Mine sadly is, so no TOS-accurate bridge for me, complete with a completely-missing-from-TOS toilet. A five-year mission is a bit long to hold it. No wonder you could even get those guys in the red shirts to come on away missions.) Aside: One wonders that the blonde, easily offended person who only obliquely resembles Paul Hibbert is able to unsubscribe nearly every episode. Either he resubscribes between episodes or there is a nearly endless supply of blonde, easily offended people who only obliquely resemble Paul Hibbert so you can lose one of them nearly every episode. I think the later is more likely. I think I've met several of them on Facebook groups. As to the floor covering, I think the wood looks a little noisy, the white is a little too reflective (lighting would be problematic, but also, who wants a reflective surface underneath them?), so I'd go with the black. Thanks for a great review and a fine update on the Trek studio. See you next Saturday.
That camera is hunting quite a bit in follow mode, to the point that it became annoying towards the end. IMHO, darker flooring would would better, but black would be way too dark. In the white and black flooring images the eye was drawn more to the floor than the contents.
I know right, it's been so hard to make a choice, I ended up with white shiny laminate with intention of putting down a posh rug in maybe a teal green to match some of the Star Trek colour scheme, but Neesha worries it will clash with the red chair. We'll see!
I thought about it, but in the end decided I could put a rug on shiny white laminate, but I couldn’t put shiny white laminate on a carpet and I would be stuck with it if I didn’t like it. Hope I don’t regret it!!
Never seen an actual car in a garage, kids toys, weights and bench, punchbag hanging from the ceiling, old microwaves, rabbit hutches, a small dinghy or trailer for dinghy, some power tools, pressure washer, assorted wheels, couple of bikes, home brew kits, skateboards, planks, ladders, empty pop cans, bags of old cement gone hard, smalk pool of water under a tap. Broken light tubes, parts of engines, broken indicator lights, dog basket, rolled up hoespipe thats started to unwind, slot machines, small pool table and dartboards, fishing creels, broke pool sticks, but no cars 😂
