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Hey everybody, it's been a while since we achieved

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our milestone of 100 ,000 subscribers on YouTube

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and we felt it necessary as a tribute to show

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you just how much it takes to produce a season

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and an episode. And if you're one of those watching

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this right now, thinking of starting your own

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vidcast or podcast, you might just want to stick

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around and see just how much we do just to produce

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a show. First things first, if you guys are thinking

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about starting your own podcast, you must make

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sure that you've got at least a good PC. I would

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not recommend anything else but a PC with Windows.

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And make sure that you've got a good graphics

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card. You've got more than enough required. If

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you're doing a video... A vidcast instead of

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just a podcast, you need to have a lot of space.

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So you really have got to configure a very good

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PC, okay? We've got two screens. You can see

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one here and one over there. That's our preview

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screen. And that's what our guests and myself

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as a host will be able to see when we are actually

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shooting and recording over at the other end

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of the hot seat. I like to call that the hot

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seat. So, and the next thing you need to find

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out for yourself is exactly what hardware we

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need. And you can have a sound card. You must

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have a sound card. You can either have an audio

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interface or a mixer board. We decided to have

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this mixer board right here because we need to

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have at least four channels going at the same

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time. And I know for a fact in the space that

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I can fill right in my hot seat area. would be

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at least myself and two guests right there. And

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my video producer Kai, he would need to have

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a microphone. I'm using his microphone right

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now. And of course, where microphones are concerned,

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you can see I'm using a wireless mic, which Kai

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uses during our shoots. And this is in a Shure

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SLX2 wireless mic. But I do not use any other

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microphones except for Shure. I mean, these guys

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are in the forefront of, especially for podcasting.

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You can see that most of the mics I have are

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all podcast mics and they're dynamic microphones.

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In my hot seat, we have plenty of Shure mics.

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uh i have some spare as well as a matter of fact

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everything you see there are all sure the mv7

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series uh the sm7db that's my personal mic uh

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and uh and that's what you need to also plan

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to have and in shot as you can see i have uh

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several cameras these cameras are basically Webcams,

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they're Logitech's. We decided to use those simply

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because it's a plug and play and they're all

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HD quality anyway. And we've been working this

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way all the while and we just fit them on tripods

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and there we go. So we actually have a three

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camera setup. And we can have four, as a matter

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of fact, as you can see the one we're using right

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now, I'm being shot at with my phone as we're

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recording this. So what else do we need? What

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else do we do right here at CCBTV Podcast Studio

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is that we also use, of course, your typical

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Google Drive. We use our typical Google Drive,

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and this is where we start planning stuff. And

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what do I do? Of course, on WordDoc, we plan

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talk sets. I'll just give you an example. These

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are all planned out. And how do I plan this?

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I do a lot of research and I use my AI to help

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me do it. So we plan all of our talk sets, questions.

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Everything is here, including my voiceovers that

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I usually would use. I mean, since we started

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season six, we use intros, voiceover intros for

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our guests before we start the show. So it's

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all here. My scripts are here. Questions and

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all are there. And at the same time, before we

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start a season, Kai and I, we go deep into some

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planning, and then we have a format of how we

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plan our season production schedule. For each

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of our series, you know that we've got a lot

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of series. We've got from the tribute show to

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Singapore's Music Icons, to the I Love My Job

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series, to Hobbies and Lobbies, and to the ones

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for the writers and authors called Ink Spill.

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and so on and so forth. So we got all kinds of

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series, and we actually planned them out in our

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production sheet. Now, we decide who we're going

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to pay tribute to. We decide on the people that

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have got interesting jobs or stories to tell.

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And then after doing that, we actually work on

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sending out... our text messages to them to ask

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them for their assent if they could do us the

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honour of being on our show. Beyond that though,

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I will send out invitations and I have got all

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my invites ready, templated. So I send out invitations

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to my guests, official invitations with the dates

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and details, dates, times, venues, etc. to appear

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on the show. So all these are all the pre -production

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work that we do. Once we've got all that started

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and going, then we wait for shoot days to occur.

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Now, before anything else, before we started

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out working on this podcast, we realized there

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are a couple of things we need to have. We decided

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that we will work with RSS .com because with

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this platform, it goes out to so many podcast

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platforms. All I need to do is upload my audios

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here. And the audio versions of the shows goes

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out to multiple, multiple platforms, including

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YouTube Music and to Spotify. And then we upload,

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of course, first in our primary platform, which

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is YouTube. We upload it into YouTube Studio.

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You need to create your channel there. You also

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need to pay for subscription here for rss .com.

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Okay, you got to pay for subscription. Beyond

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that, of course, naturally, we have to start

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our own pages in our business suite on both Facebook

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and Instagram, where we also upload our trailers

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and our reels. So we decided to do stuff that

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after each shoot, we have to cut a particular

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segment of the show that we think would be great,

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good enough to be for the purpose of being a

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teaser or trailer. We decided on Wednesday nights,

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trailers go out. for the full release of our

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videos on a Friday night. So we upload these,

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only the reels and the trailers, onto the Facebook

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and onto the Meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram.

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And then, of course, they also go out on TikTok.

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And then when Spotify got Spotify Video, because

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the audio has already gone out through the RSS

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.com platform. And from there, once the audio

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launches, I can actually launch videos by uploading

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a video onto the audio platform. And then what

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you'll see in the Chris Hansen conversation,

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if you, you know, I hope you've got us in your

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playlist on Spotify, you will see us all on video.

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So that's that where, you know, the planning

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and the pre -production and the post -production

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is concerned, but not entirely because we got

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to also plan our folders and where we have all

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guests as you can see. So we create our season.

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Of course, naturally in my folders, I have the

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Chris Hansen conversation and we have all of

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our seasons and assets all here. Our assets would

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mean our opening reel, our outros, our intros,

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etc. And also all logos that we've created and

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designed. And we do most of our designs and thumbnail

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designs as well. That's also another thing that

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we need to do for our shows. And I do all of

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the thumbnail designs using Canva Pro. We also

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pay. for Canva Pro subscriptions. And then, of

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course, per season, as you can see, we create

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folders. And in each of these folders, we have

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our episodes that after post -production goes

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into our export folder. Raw folder would mean

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that all of our, whatever we've recorded using

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the OBS goes in, for the shoot itself, goes into

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this raw folder. And from these folders, from

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the raw folder, What we do is that we then go

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into using Adobe Premiere Pro. Now that's the

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big chunk that we actually spend money on because

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it's really expensive. It's on the Creative Cloud

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application. And using Premiere Pro, when we

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come here, what we do is that we bring our raw

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footage and import in for post -production purposes.

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So as we're using the Adobe Premiere Pro, import

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in the raw footages that were shot during the

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actual interviews. And after doing that, then

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Kai will start doing the post -production on

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those videos. When we say post -production, it

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means in the end it looks like, let's just pull

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out a video or something that we've already done.

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Like, for example, what we're shooting right

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now is what we're showing you how we're actually

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doing stuff, okay? So he brings in and he imports

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in everything from the raw folder. And there

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you go. It's all imported in. So what Kai would

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do is that he will also bring in our assets.

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As I showed you earlier, we have an assets folder.

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And that would bring across our opening reels

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and our end credit reels. You can see that we've

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got plenty of versions. So Kai has brought across

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our assets already. And this is where we will

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start taking a look at the audio now. So the

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Chris Hansen conversation, we pride ourselves

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to really ensure that we provide or we give you

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clear, good audio. And in order to do that, because

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it's great working with Adobe, you can bring

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across from Adobe Premiere Pro over to Adobe

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Audition. And that would be the digital audio

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suite. There you go. And then we start. to put

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in our presets. We built our own presets and

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this is one of them. And then after that, we

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start playing to listen. And we need to turn

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on the... We have a monitor and the monitor is

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a studio monitor and we monitor the sound from

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there and then after that, we do our post -production

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work. There's one important factor as well that

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we forgot to mention. As you can see, there's

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a glow coming on this side. And the glow is because

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we've got a soft light. We make sure that we

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also have proper lighting and that everything

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is going to turn out really nice on our HD recording.

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Okay, so that's about the size of it, everybody.

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This is what it takes for us to run a show. And

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believe you me, it's not easy work. And to those

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of you who continue to support the show and to

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all of our subscribers, once again, Kai and I,

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thank you so very much. You've seen the effort

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that we put in for each and every show. It's

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never been easy for any single show. Every shoot's

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a new shoot. Every show is a new show. And we'll

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do our best to continue bringing you some more

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quality content. This is Chris Hansen. Thank

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you for joining us. See you again. Bye -bye.

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The Chris Hansen Conversation. Real talk, no

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filters, and a growing community of more than

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100 ,000 subscribers across ASEAN, right here

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from Singapore.