Kevin SimpsonCPA Web Books · Founder at CPA Web Books

Lights. Camera. Action! My new office studio lighting and camera setup

27 Apr 2021 · 1 min

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In this walkthrough video, Kevin Simpson presents his newly built office studio, detailing the custom lighting rig, a four-camera system, and the audio and switching equipment used. The lighting, designed by Matt Robinson, illuminates the background and front of the set. The camera array includes a 4K main camera, a writing camera that displays notes, a backup room camera (currently unused), and a mobile camera for flexible positioning. A Blackmagic switcher handles live camera switching, while Rode audio gear provides high‑quality sound capture. Kevin notes that the first test of the setup yields very high quality, and credits Matt Robinson for assembling the entire system.

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All right, so here's the whole setup. Matt's just finishing up, so he's just clearing up. But there's the lights he created. And we're going to wire it nicely this way. It lights the backgrounds and so forth. And then this is the front. He set us up here. So we have a 4K camera. We have a writing camera so I can write down notes, and it displays it here. We have a backup camera. We're actually not going to use this one that displays the room. And we have a mobile camera that's going installed over there when I can carry around. So four cameras. We're using this blackmagic device to switch cameras, and we're using Rode for the audio. And first sweat test is it's pretty high quality we got there. Matt Robinson did it all.