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Welcome to APP stories. Today's episode is brought to you by a membership and I know i'm john, for he's on with me is federal of the teacher.

Hello, john. How are you?

I'm doing really well. We have another special guess. I'm enjoying doing this federal grades and nice to have a little, a little company along for the ride.

You know, yeah, yeah, it's nice to make IT up. As I said last week, yeah, this is this is a person that we have mentioned multiple times over the most recent episode, des of APP stories. The end is one of the coasts of the conference on podcast is one of my fellow ipad users where we're in the same support group. Chris lw, welcome. Welcome to ap stories.

Thank you guys so much for having me. I am so excited to be like I mentioned the pressure um I ve been long time listen, I started listening with epo de one and and federal go was a source of inspiration for me to start my youtube channel and stuff like that. So I am excited to be here, excited to have comfort mac stories and all that stuff. So yeah, I am really happy.

unfortunate. We need to address a few things up front.

Yeah, yes.

So we do absolutely. You have to account for yourself. You have to really.

you have to answer you to answer for your taste.

We're just looking for an explanation. Look, i've come to defend myself. I'm prepared to defend myself.

I know john, former lawyer. I I can take them on in the court. And I good, so so comfortable.

One for those not familiar with the show is one of the other podcasts in the max stories family of shows. And it's an incredible texture.

I say this like as an actual like I listened to every single episode I recently caught up on like two months of episodes because I was busy with my I O S ht review excEllent show where Chris milan and mac virtua, uh, try to step out of the comfort zones uh on a weekly basis by using a different tech product or trying something tech jc that that they haven't tried in a while and they have these chAllenges. Uh, it's a really fun show, if you like up stories, I think you're definitely gonna low. Uh, comfort one uh, and on comfort zone.

Uh, over the past month, especially Chris has taken on this. I'm sure it's not like a it's not like like a stake. It's like is to do Chris doing what Chris does a Chris form this new persona on the show as the guy with strong opinions.

And so far, we like that. Um we appreciate that and some very particular. Taste created things for example uh you're dislike and apartments we're going to get into the actual um but you're dislike for daft punk.

Yes, I I and I can actually have a valid reason behind but I never set IT because it's it's more funny if I don't have a valid reason for IT like I just let the stick on on for IT, I will pick behind the curtain here. I can't stand death punk in technical music uh for like any kind of electronic music I can't stand any of IT because my very first job was working at a pizer place OK. And I just have to close the place down.

Because when I started, I was in high school and in college I worked there little bit. And so I classes the morning, but I I close the place down and the people I would close IT down with would blast, when I say, yes, they would really take our sound system that we had in the place, turn IT up ninety percent, and blast daft punk and any electronic technical music. And after a really long day of work and being in school, that was the last thing I .

just want to be here. I just.

ma, behind there is a little .

bit romine IT OK .

just can't listen to IT IT drives me nuts.

It's a bad taste. I, I, I.

I, I like that we are humanizing.

increase .

the man doesn't. He has reasons.

He has reasons.

I am very highly opinionated, and I believe is on the last epo, john, in the pressure when you guys we're talking about me mentioned about, like he mentioned that like you can see my high opinion, this essentially go up the deeper I am in a video project and I think john, you're the first person to nail that like literally the the deeper I am in a video project the more my opinions get uh, a spicy I guess .

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of the show. The other thing um which is more of I don't think it's weird, I should say I don't think I am make you know we're talking here if there's one thing that like on a serious note that I truly cannot stand in people is judging other people for their music taste so this is only good fun. No, you you wanna listen to Justin bieber, go listen to Justin bieber.

I not good like good .

like seriously one thing that I cannot stand is other people judging me or others for, like, their music takes time to come on. But here we're just, know, poking the crease because, yeah, crease.

yeah. Uh, oh, and and I can take IT popocatapetl fine.

The other thing is more of a fascination, your passion for the beverage, known as soda, known as doctor pepper yeah, now this is a uniquely american thing. Uh, I have come to understand. We don't have doctor pepper here.

Uh, it's not something that you can go to to, uh, we call in bars, uh, like a coffee shop. Basically, if you can go to a coffee shop and and ask for a doctor pepper, they have a cocoa, they have a fanta, they have Spike. But we don't have doctor pepper.

And what is IT with the doctor pepper? And why do you drink so much OK? Well.

first stuff, i'm going to start you off a little bit a trivium. So doctor pepper is not actually a cola. If you look up what doctor pepper is, a pepi coca cola, those a cola, a doctor pepper is its own thing.

It's actually like categorize as a pepper drink is weird. In fact, I just read this like a month ago, and I was fascinated by IT. But I love doctor pepper to the point, like how most people love coffee.

I've never been a big coffee drinker. I did have a little stint drinking cold brew, but I don't like hot drinks. Another weird opinion about me.

Don't IT could be freezing outside this year. Degrees fair and hide or sells is what a kelvin you want to. Whatever temperature you like could be freezing outside. I will still prefer a cold drink over a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate or anything like that OK.

So I am also diabetic so I can't have sugar y drinks like regular coca cola, even regular doctor 点。 So um basically there is a lot of things in my diet that I used to be able to eat that I just can eat. Now OK doctor pepper has kind become that like, okay, this is my um this this is my treat essentially like this is my my fixation so i've not eating cy all day snacking or something like that so uh my version of doctor pepper of choice. And if you're watching the video version, I will hold IT up right here for you.

You like a hand model, right?

Exactly professional ah.

for those not watching. A is old in a doctor pepper, what is? So this one .

is doctor pepper, zero sugar with cream sold. This is my preferred. And I do do john athan, uh, he was, he was kind enough to go out and get one.

If you listen to the pre show for the last weeks episode, I believe you ve got the regular creams, soa one with sugar. I've never had that one, but this is the zero sugar one. And this just hit s like when I take a sip.

F of this, like how some people feel about coffee. This is what that just hits for me. So I I absolutely love that I actually have a second can over here, just in case if I run out.

My parents actually found this in the grocery store because I used to be obsessed diet after Peter and and this one's actually kind of a kind hard to find, so I will fall back on diet. dr. Pepper quite a bit. Um but my parents found this in a grocery store one day and ever since then, any time I see IT in a grocery store, I just buy up all the stock because I .

have so much incredible yeah we have a share of document and I just wanted to mention um there's one line of time that says how bad IT has got so .

go head a click on that link there and you you see OK okay IOS, most people might be familiar with this. There is the taxi expense like feature of where you can type in know a couple of letter, just something, and all expand to something. IT is gone so bad that i've talked about this so much that I have a an expansion that says dr. And IT expand to doctor pepper, zero sugar with cream soda because that's just a long relined type.

incredible. Interesting, interesting that. So federico, yeah, I got a contextualized this for a little bit.

Yeah, I will agree with Chris. The doctor pepper, the diet doctor pepper is probably one of the best diet. So as out there, like A S IT comes to taste.

I wanted to like, what does he actually taste like.

see, I really wish I had, and I would have thought this through, and I would have shipped you some. I really wish I won't had time, I would ship everyone on the mac stories team this, if I knew this was gona be a bit for this like whole series because .

it's a but IT is Better. IT is Better than most diet sodas. I think. I mean, doctor, pepper is not one is not one of my go to sodas. But if you're talking about diet sodas, I think IT does do a Better job than most of them in terms of just the flavor and and how close to is to the actual sugar y version of the drink too.

But he doesn't actually taste like, this is gona sound stupid. IT doesn't actually taste like black pepper.

right? No, no, no, no. OK isn't there a story that it's made with prunes .

or something like that it's supposed to have like twenty three different flavors make to something like that.

And you go I .

try to give you one a couple of years ago, wwdc. But here's my promise to the listeners right now. OK next wwdc if john and or federico there, you know anyone else on the maxi team, I will hunt them down and make them try this and would make like a little video for the max story channel.

How about yeah it's it's not hard to find Chris in the doctor pepper in the same the day when you see chis, the usually a dr. Pepper right there with which wwdc is, in fact where Chris I met the first time a couple of years ago, right? I mean, we've set a couple of a key notes together and and yeah, usually when you're slit outside that pressure, you ve got yourself a doctor. Pepper.

yes, I bring a couple of cases, a lot of my hotel fridge.

The one thing all says that, Chris, is dollar than you would expect. That is true. That was my take away from from from our encounter.

And people actually told, like a couple of people a few years ago, this was such a strange comment, uh, told me you are, I pictured you shorter hi. A couple of people told me, I don't know why. I don't know why is with the theology of like maybe they we're picturing I don't not supermarkets or something.

You know guy from middle with the mustad, I don't know. Yeah anyway, thank you, Chris, for for playing with us and answering or non serious questions. We do have some actual tech la topics to get to before we talk about the ipad.

Uh, can I want to we can I want to do a vibe check with you on the very recent acquisition from apple of pixel matter, the pixel etre team, the pixel matter APP photometer. Uh, because I really don't know what to think personally, and so I kind of want you to hear from you and from john. I think john also has theories for a bike check. What do you think or maybe what do you hope will happen?

Yeah so my initial thought was, oh my god, please bring back a pitch. Like as a photographer, I miss arbiters so much. Um every photographer mrs. Atr h don't know why apple killed IT, but H I I don't think like realistically, I don't think that's what they're going to do. Um you both have been in briefings with apple.

They love to show off like whenever they had a new chip, they love to show off what is is a pixel matter photo or photo batter or whichever one ah that had like the A I or mine I was machine learning machine learning like coloured rating tools, like just hit a button and this will edit your photo magically for you automatically. And it's so fast on our new chip. We can wait to see what deal with that kind.

But I have a feeling that they bought these for the the talent acquisition. Uh, and I have a feeling they these people are going to be working on the photos APP, but specifically the editing tools in the photos of which are decent. I I you know I have a whole side hustle as as being photographer and doing uh, photography stuff.

But uh I I don't rely on those for like my professional photography stuff. I use lights, room for everything but if I ever just like snap a quick photo and I just see something that I like, it's a little dark and I just wanted adjust IT or maybe bring down the highlights of something a little bit. I'll just use the the photos editing um you know that the tools in the photos APP to edit the photo and if they work fine but I really won't be surprised if these people are coming in.

Do you kind of build up those tools specifically and make photos not just for viewing your viewing photos, but for also editing them and changing them? I mean, we just saw apple put the retouch tool from apple intelligence and that one. So I wouldn't surprise of its more .

of that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. What was your theory, john?

So minds more a theory about what's gonna come of the apps because that I agree with Chris, I think this is probably a talent acquisition more than anything else. And I really feel like photo matter is gone to disappear into photos. I think that that there is a lot of overlap there in terms of like the audience for those apps.

So I think that a lot of those features in the U I will be assumed within photos, which I think is fine because it's both of those apps work in a very similar way. And I think you'll probably be Better together than they were separate. I'm not as clear on what I think pixel matter pro is going to end up as I do feel as though it's somehow related to image playground and that apple what apple has right now with image playground is essentially a demo APP all IT does do to generative A I and create these images.

Pixel made up pro would bring a whole new dimension to that because in addition to be uh, a photo energy nap, IT can already do things like typography illustration because IT has paint brushes in IT IT can do some basic animation tools, that kind of thing. So I feel like what what will end up happy is we will always have image playground is kind of the way to get introduced to that tool and figure out how IT works. But I do feel like pixel later pro is going to become a new image editing APP that's gonna kind of about in the pro line.

It's not gonna really be like aperture. It's not gna be like light remote. It's not gonna limited to photos. It's gona be it's gonna be more expensive and encompass image editing in general, which is where photo a pixel matter priority kind is yeah yeah.

I feel like image playground like looking at a long term, it'll probably turn out to be a feature like image playground is not a product image playground. This is feature. And and you typically see this feature in much bigger applications, like you look at photoshop, you look at canvas, you look at, uh, you know uh, all these other tools to create the images.

Uh, I mean microsoft pain to now as A I building, but it's a feature of a much bigger product. Let you do illustrations, so let you do layers, so lets you do graphics, so you do typography and then you have the generative aspect. Right now apple just has a little tool.

I mean, it's a playground, right? It's literally in the name, but he doesn't seem like this IT doesn't seem to me like a sort of product that becomes like a tent pole application of apple's Operating systems. What as I think you write like something like pigs for matter, pro could be a full featured program to create, you know, to create images with graphic, create administrations and then you have the generate feature on the side that's baked into the product. I think you both have started theories honestly um but I don't know, I don't know.

Yeah, I think for the time being will still have those apps around. I don't think no, apple. Apple did the same thing with dark, dark sky.

IT was around for like a couple of years before IT ended and became an A P I essentially and folded into weather. So I think it'll be around for while. I certainly hope so.

Pixel matter pro is an after I use all the time for stuff on max stories and IT would be quite an adjustment for me to have to learn a different APP. I mean, there are plenty apps it'll do IT, but pixel matter prois just something that I used to and work very well, living quickly and. This eb sode of APP stories is brought to by I know reader.

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Uh Chris, ipad .

yeah .

the ipad.

I, I, I use one of those.

Yeah now you use how many of those because, uh, for those watching in the video, uh, I think, uh, there's a desk and I ray sure I can see the various to yeah two ipad pro, but I know that you you have more than two ipad pro.

Okay, I so what I do have on my desk is I have a thirteen inch ipad pro. Two, terrible. This ones mine, uh, over here.

This is what I deal on my work, video editing, photo editing, podcast editing, every all, the, all the work happened here. And then over to the right, it's actually on ipad pros, the new ipad mini. So this one is in mind.

This, this is apple's review unit. Right here. Of all the are accounting review .

units for how many ipad? Like Chris.

Chris, he wakes .

up in the morning, go into the office, looks around, how many ipad does he see?

Okay, looks around. And how many i've has joy? See that number.

Is is that not a good number? One, two, three, four, five, six, six. I think it's six OK .

OK like an bit of of or do you actually use them?

No, most of them I need to send back to apple because they overdo. And i'm sorry, apple, I knew in them back to you. I've been moving and busy and woos my bat, but out of all of those that I actually use, it's it's the ones like actually use on a data day basis for work life, reading whatever.

Ipad pro thirteenth to terribly, that's my my machine. And then the previous generation ipad many that's my personal one ah that one I is kind of my best tea device like i'll use IT for uh as an e reader or going through our service fees. But mostly what I use IT for is when I am filming my videos S I I film a bunch of bel, i'll put my script on that ipad mini because i'm usually not filming the ipad mini.

Am usually filming my ipad pro and I don't want to do back in forth and I just used that kind of a shot list. So like i'll just have a line in my script and be like maybe it's like I sit up my ipad and typing up studium. So i'll just of my ipad types of city in film that shot and then over to the ipad mini and crossed after, okay, that shot is filmed and moved on to the next thing. So really I only use two, but I think I have six here in my studio right now and I I just need to send up some from back.

Um so you you work you you get you worked on on the thirteen inch yeah um and you mentioned on comfort zone you you you recently did a chAllenge where I believe in an um I still and mad to try a different take on multiple in and um since you regularly use stage manager, you had to turn stage manager off for the chAllenge um now a few weeks have passed since that episode and I can want to to to to to get your angle here like um you still use stage manger on a daily basis uh, do you use an external monitor regularly? Uh, do you ever find yourself working on the ipad pro itself without the monitor, without the external display and and going back to the traditional split view slide over or even when you're using the ipad process itself, do you keep stage manager on?

Um okay. So the um that was very interesting chAllenge that really kind of like push me to try do things are especially because I I primarily do work with stage manager on all the time, especially when I have a keyboard and track pad attached to IT.

So I and the reason why is often times I do need three or four apps open at a time and split view just doesn't quite give me that you can kind of get three with slide over, but IT doesn't quite do that. The other thing that stage manager is a huge advantage of for me is IT works really well with iphone haps split just doesn't. It's still like they could easily fix this bite like just being like, oh, is this an iphone APP always open IT in slide over view instead of like trying to do like this full stream with big borders and stuff like that.

That's of that kind of a thing that hurts me when IT comes to using split for you. Plus I love having the dog always visible. I don't know why, but something .

doc always visible. What about the recent apps on the OK? That's okay. That's that's the refined choice for for true expert.

I I just I think the recent strip on the side takes up too much juice. Um I I like the idea of IT. In fact, I have a document um literally called stuff I want from apple and there is a whole section on stage manager fixes.

But h all I answer to some of your questions first. So um I do work at an external monitor uh and I have a studios display. So uh obviously with that you have to have stage and jar on and I have stage ranger on on my ipad.

But usually when i'm working on external l display um I have mechanical keyboard and a magic track pad and I just had my ipad off to the side and one of those magnetic stands and it's usually just on the home screen and I just used like widget is kind of like a dash ford summary of my day like i'll see reminders, calendar, the music that we did and few other things in their like parcel and batteries and things like that. Uh, so that kind of does that. But the thing I would love for apple to add is a way for IT, for the ipad, like just a settle, like is a keyboard and track pad attached. And if a keyboard and trackpad is attached, u stage vantage, if it's not, go back to split view because I I don't know about you, federico and jump. But like stage manager works the best when you have a keyboard and mouse at that.

I absolutely, kay.

but for me and I kind of have a feeling you guys are going agree, the ipad works best if you don't have a keyboard amount attached. The ipad works best in split view and that when you're just in a touch of violates, so there almost should be a setting to jump back forth. I if apples going to do this thing where they give you multiple versions of multitask, give us a smart setting essentially that lets us jump back in fourth between the two without having to manually talk. And it's not that big video and is in control center.

But I would be nice if IT tomorrow, maybe just even like a shortcut automation tree yeah even just like I I would even take like not supporting other keyboards, even just a trigger that the magic keyboard attached or detached like that solid would take like and be pretty sweet but yeah um for shortcuts so one way to ask you is um you doing all of your production, all of your editing on the ipad throw yeah use logic uh fair right I suppose for audio uh or do you also do the audio logic?

So everything is actually done in final capra for the ipad because comfort zone is also as a video feed. What I do is I just added IT once I edit the video and then all export the video and all export in audio only and then what that way i'm not editing at multiple times because it's .

nice yeah IT .

IT takes a couple of hours to edit that show just because I do not fall listen through and make sure I can clean things up like that. But I have been using this new APP and it's actually not on the ipad uh but it's called hush. And i've been using IT for the last few .

months yeah .

to clean clean up the background of the audio so I have a mac mini. It's actually mounted underneath this desk that i'm sitting out right now. And literally the only reason I bought that mac was recording comfort zone because we use a service called riverside and IT requires a premium and browser.

So all that mac mini does is record comforts out. And then I take all the audio tracks, run IT through hush and IT, cleans up all the background audio like fans, air conditioning and things like that. That does a really good job.

Yeah, really does. I was i've been using a combination of different tools on audio over the years. And when I started using hush, I was able to really minimize the amount. I was using some of the other tools because IT does such a great job at s. It's an A A I based noise reduction, you know a background noise reduction tool.

And it's basically just you pull in the the audio of files, you have a slider to determine how much of the effect you want, and then you just to go and wait for IT to finish. I have mine set. I think over time i've decided i've set IT around seventy percent, which if you do IT too high, sometimes they'll get some weird artifact. But but for the most part, I think seventy has worked pretty well with the audio we have for this show.

I think that's where I have mindset as well as seventy. And I I don't use IT just for comfort, and I use that I use IT for my videos. Uh, I actually recommended, hopefully don't get the new one in trouble for this.

But the apple events teams, so I did over the summer, I didn't interview with a cup people behind the smart script and the the apple events team actually help helped me film all that. And their audio guy was like, yeah, use this APP. It'll clean up only echo from the room. So yeah, apple approved maybe how .

we'll get .

somebody trouble for that. Not apple proved.

yeah uh, Chris, what's your external storage set up?

Uhh, that is a good question. So primarily I have a snooze. No um I I think it's sixty terribles the story takes space. Video guy, the video.

I think I i've i've been using IT for a couple of years now and I think I have about a third, maybe a little more than a third used up already. So um I bought that with just the idea of like i'm going to use this for years. Uh, I back up basically every final video, every final episode of comfort is out.

And I also back up a my B O footage, especially of either devices i'm sent on like a lonner, like like a review unit from apple or something like that, that i'm not going to go out and buy. I'll back up all my footage should ask. So that way, if I ever want to a reference IT in the future, I can just throw a clip of IT and stuff like that. And that just that takes a lot of space, especially for k footage.

And and you save all these files from the ipad to this.

yes. So my synod, gy, I built my snooty, so I have sixty terabytes of spinning hard drive. But IT actually has two, two terribly N V M E chips in IT as well.

And these work as a read right cash. So when you're copying stuff over IT to IT, it's not copying IT directly to the spinning drives. It's copying IT to this really fast in vami cash.

And what I did is I have ten gig bit per second eat that were A K port on the back of that technology, plugged directly into the tangible a bit port of my router. So that way I can back things up to pretty quickly. Now my, I had when at my desk, I used the cow digit T S for dog, which that only has a two point five gig a IT per second port on IT. But still it's it's thousand yeah I just start copying over volage and like go make lunch or something like that not come .

back and it'll be done. Yeah very cool, john. Shall we do our friendly interrogation?

We, should we have a friendly interrogation for you, Chris, about all the apps that you use for your productivity. And the place that we like to start is with rss, because R S S. Is near dear to the the APP stories audience heart, and wondering what ape using for rs ss these days .

just like everyone um I am in the wilderness right now wandering around trying to find that perfect R S S because um I used to use reader. I tried the new version of reader. I really I gave you the old college try, but just like college, I drop out of IT because I just IT doesn't quite work for me. Uh, so right .

now i'm using leer. Finally.

finally OK.

I I am liking leer for the most part. It's not as pretty as reader, but I can get past that. There is a lot of customization and there so you can fix like a lot like I had some issues with lying spacing and stuff like that like stuff was too close together and and I you can fix all that. So that's not bad. The thing with clear that absolutely I I love is you can go in and you can replace, uh, the star button at the bottom of the two bar with with your read IT later service.

which was next question.

So yes, I just all that bandit off right now. I'm using rain dropped out I O O and what I like about rage dropped out I O is IT can be more than just a realer service. So I like use a retaliatory APP is more of a bookmarking APP.

So yes, I put articles and stuff in that I want to read, but I also put apps I want to cover hard, where I want to cover for either the channel or comfort zone or something like that. So I put a lot of just generic links in there. And raindrop dial seems to be a great uh, middle ground between light hey, uh, this can be a read later service, but you can also just have to set up.

So when you click on something that just opens IT up in your default wsa or if it's a massive on post, it'll open up in an ivory or something like that. So I the combo of lear in raindrop I O kinds seems to be the sweet spot for me right now. But I am still looking around and playing with other stuff.

Yeah, no, that's interesting. I was using raindrop IO for quite a while, and I have kind of fAllen off the bandwagon. I go through these periods where I save a lot of links, like round of links, not video links.

I can confirm he does that.

I'm a digital harder is what federal ca says. That's a whole. Another episode that we have. We have been an intervention about, I think but but yeah I was using rain dropped out I O I am not currently using IT, but he does have that great flexibility where it's not just reread IT later, you can have all kind's links and there you can throw in something from amazon you might want to buy at some point, for instance, or you can throw A P, D, F in there. Lots of different options.

And and IT does have the advantage of being web, web based, which means you don't have to have the APP open for IT to sink and be available whereever you happen to be. You know, that kind of a problem with a lot IOS apps, where if you save something with the sheer sheet from the from the browser, IT may not sink directly to the APP right way. You have to actually open the APP for everything to downloading a and sink up, whereas with the raindrop dt, I O, it's always just there on the web.

Yeah, yeah. And their share sheet and even browse her extension is fantastic. I IT does exactly what I need. Uh, let's me save something quickly, target and then move .

on um for your script writing I believe you're using the syrian yes uh.

I use of syrian for everything now a absolutely love IT uh IT took me a little bit to get onto the of city and ban where and mostly because I am an ipad person and their ipad, I I think they would even say IT was rough for a very, very long time. And it's still not really like IT doesn't support multi window, which is one of those things that still drives me a little bananas to this day. Luckily like that has tape support and you can do there built in split view and stuff like that but um I do or write everything in a city in and I absolutely love IT to the point where I took one of their the the border theme and I customized IT to match the theme I built for drafts back in the day because before city and I was a big draft user and uh, fun fact, I have the number one draft theme on on the draft store. If you go there are looking team.

Sorry, we have yeah everyone .

calm down.

everyone .

calm dark just, you know yeah no yeah because because it's IT was black and blue. And I think at the time I was I was doing that, I had batman and the animated series on and like his his he was black and blue and that one so like I I just went yeah I I love that theme because i'm a big dark mode user like everything is always a dark mode no matter what for me ah especially because that helps with filming because when when stuff is uh in light mode in your filming, your devices, the highlights tend to clip a little bit.

Professional tip, use dark mode if you're film in your device.

Yeah you even in dark wardrobe my big and I ah it's parathion black v nex. Uh those those are the short time wear every le day to the point that my girlfriend got so annoyed at that he actually wouldn't bought me just a ready of a Green t shirt at a hunger of my closet. So if you look at my my side of the closet, it's black back back black, Green, black back black.

back black. incredible. Um for podcast recording, you mention riverside is the the service that you're using for confession, I works in a chromium browse so that's why you need a test top.

Uh, for video. Uh, imagine final cut on the ipad. What's your camera?

Uh, yes. So I am using the cannon are five I have been a big cannon fan boy like that there are three big companies actually four big companies of fan boys of dog pepper, apple, canada and ford um for .

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not to be confused with the mckey that's the electric one that's not a true bus stank a sorry chance Miller.

but a throw throwing shade the chance Miller.

Now even I have have a friendly beef about this that just goes on. People, yeah, but yeah, no. 那 I I love my can in r five for those that are interested。

H the lens I used is at twenty four to seventy f two point eight l series lands. Uh, it's kind of the most versatile lens. You can shoot wide. You can shoot zoom in.

I used to have a whole wide, a range of different lengths for different projects and stuff like that, but i've pared down to just this at a fifty millimeter lens. And IT covers all of my needs. It's perfect.

I'm kind of been really reassessing my life. And like the gear I use. And like, do I really need all of these devices? Like for example, yes, technically I have six ipad here, but I really only used to and they have have very .

big progress.

I'm trying to pair IT down. I'm trying to be a little more uh, smart with like not just money spending but with like .

the year I use yeah lastly received by one oh we have the best to for last test manager. I believe you recently moved from things to reminders, interest. How do you like IT?

Uh I am I I uh yeah um I like IT and I have some issues with IT. Um so I would I ve been a big things user um I ve tried other task managers over the years, but I ve always gone back to things um ever since things added a really good keyboard shirt cut support that was years ago now but i've been I just love that.

But what I ve been finding lately is my business group to the point where I needed a Better project manager and things wasn't doing the stuff that I needed for that mostly a calendar view in some kind of can ban system. Uh, I kind of made my own sort of cabin system using headband and things, but IT IT was a very kinds Jerry red duck tape together kind of thing. So uh, I switched to a table first for and kind of separated out my task management and project management.

And I didn't like having two different uh, silos for this kind of stuff because what I was finding is I would look at one one day and do all of that stuff and then ignore the other that same day just because that's the way my add works. Um so I knew I needed something that could basically be both a task manager and a proper project manager and me being me, uh, I was like, well, reminders and calendar now support. So there is my calendar view and reminders got a campan system a few years ago.

So that kind of does everything I needed to. The only thing I really wish I would do is it's a feature and things that I absolutely love. But IT essentially allows you to set a start date and then they also had the ability to set a separate due date.

So for a lot of times, like I have videos s videos I don't finish in one day. I there's no way I could finish a single video day. So all my videos have a start date and a due date.

And that's not something I can do in reminders that I really wish they could do. Plus uh h another hot take the font and reminders. I don't like IT I don't like the the S F rounded font IT reminds me if I don't know if they have this in italy, but a john will know what i'm talking about IT reminds me of fier Price.

Oh yeah.

I know what Price. okay?

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little .

playful, you know it's .

it's a fun that work sometimes in some places, but IT has to be used very early. I think it's.

oh, this is gonna sound so horrible. When I say IT, i'm increases year. I mean, is he said worse things?

I'm a very opinion. yes.

Sometimes sometimes kind IT kind of feels like the apple version of comic sense.

Yeah, one one hundred.

I am so sorry for this.

I completely and I think at the colors that they add in reminders like, oh, all your projects are different colors. And the reflects that, I don't think that helps. I think if they just made IT like a standard black or White font pending on if you're using lighter, dark mode, I think that would help quite a bit. But yeah, I don't IT just makes me feel like i'm playing with like the kid's version of a task manager when I actually like trying to get like serious work done, because I run my business out of a task manager. So yeah, yeah.

Lastly, create your favorite email.

I hate email so much. I get so much junk. I just having a public i'm sure you both are aware this having an email address that's publicly available on that .

like a both like this morning .

um I was going through my email. My grandson was sitting next to me, and I I just started laughing, and he looked at me. And SHE is like, what's so funny? And I had gotten an email about somebody wanting me to promote their skin care products on my youtube channel.

They wanted me to make a whole dedicated video, do their skin care products. And i'm like, not. I know the .

skin care is important though. You gotta have a skin care routine.

I don't disagree with that, but i'm not the person to talk about that. So now me, but now I use the male APP. Um i've never been happy with any any real email APP.

Um I am kinds curious. I haven't put IT on my device because i'm still working on an eating that one apple intelligence tips and tricks video kind of thing. Uh I am kinds curious about eighteen dot two and the male apps improvements and like the way that does categorizing and stuff like that.

I I am heavy with the block contact uh, feature and mail. I am I very heavy with that because of the amount of just people that sign me up for things I get sign up for everyone's newsletter and stuff like that. So i'm kind of curious about that. I would love the other issue is I don't have a google email. So the email APP that everyone loves on the back that supposed to gona come the I O S any day .

now was .

IT called my stream mainstream. Yes, uh, not a great name. But and I even know what the for my I T is. I even know what the point with my stream yeah. But like it's not rather anyway, it's besides the point, uh, the fact that that google only is a big bomber because I I use a separate I map email address is not hooked up to google in any way whatsoever uh, so yeah, that's kind of always a bomb.

Yeah, yeah, that's too bad. Don't let me let me give you a chance here, Chris, as close out the show to put one wish out there for apple on final cut pro for ipad. What what's the one thing that is the biggest pain point for you, an editing video on the ipad?

That is a good question and I I know exactly what IT is. Uh, so right now, when you are in your timeline, you can hit commenced on a clip and hit command v and pasta clip. That's fine.

What's the same way on the map there? But on the mac, if you were to hit command shift v and have like a different clip selected IT would pace the effects from the the clip that you copied, the effects that you have, like your color grade, not transitions, but color grade, whatever, like mask position seems like that all that stuff would copy that yeah command ship fee on the next clip and let you pick exactly what's pace over that is not there on the ipad. That is the thing that slows me down the most. So basically, whenever i'm color grading all my B O clipsed I colored grade one clip, I have to go into the inspector panel then to affect the menu bun copy effects. Then could every single one of the other clips in the timely and click on that clip go into the inspector panel effects menu button pace effects for every single Cliff IT is the thing that slows me down the most .

is and used to miss one of easy to miss one of those clipsed as that having to go through that process. So I noticed that .

you yeah that is that is not easy for that. So that is my big wish. And I have, uh, I I got to meet a bunch of the final cut team lash.

I gave a talk at apple final cut summer ah and I got to meet the team and I literally gave them my wishlist of features, right? I'm hoping, you know something comes of that. But yeah.

that conference is coming back around soon. So maybe we will get some new soon.

Yes, right. ExcEllent, excelling.

All right. Well, Chris, I want to thank you for join us APP stories today. Where can people find you online?

Yeah um you can find me on youtube and Christopher li L A W L Y or you can go to my website, the entitle dot site and there is a project to have up there with all my stuff comfort zone, my youtube channel um uh in steam all that all that stuff is there so you can check out all the links out there as well.

ExcEllent, excEllent. All right. Well, thanks again for joining us. You can find me in federico over at max stories dot net. We are on mass down.

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