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Our producer’s work-from-home setup will give you desk envy

 

With many of us working from home for the foreseeable future, having a top-notch workspace can make or break your home office space.

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Here at Digital Trends, our video producers have some pretty impressive work-from-home setups. Producer Dan Baker shared his workspace to help inspire you to step up your home office game. 

Baker needs a rig that can handle quick turnarounds of 4K editing for DT Live and other Digital Trends videos, so his desk centers around a 2017 27-inch 5K iMac with a quad-core I5 and 40 gigs of RAM. 

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To tune out the sounds of working from home (like those pesky squirrels that live in the tree outside the window), Baker prefers to use Audio Technica ATH-M50X Bluetooth headphones. The battery life lasts about 40 hours (an entire work week), so you can count on them to hold up to never-ending Zoom conference calls. 

The keyboard and mouse are arguably the most crucial part of the setup. For a mouse, Baker prefers the wireless Logitech G502 mouse, which can bind Adobe Premiere shortcuts to the extra mouse buttons, speeding up the editing process. 

For a keyboard, the Vinpok Taptek has a variety of RGB modes and can save Bluetooth connections for various devices. The keys can be a bit loud, so if your spouse is your temporary co-worker, you might want to opt for a quieter keyboard. 

Since we’re all working from home for a while, meetings are taking place virtually, and Baker goes the extra mile in a video camera. Instead of just using the iMac’s built-in camera, Baker has also set up a Fujifilm X-T20 with the 27mm 2.8 pancake lens by using the Elgato Cam Link HDMI to USB converter. 

For video conference calls, there’s an Audio Technica AT2020 plugged into a Behringer U-Phoria UM2 audio interface, which Baker says can double for after-work activities like, say, chatting while playing the latest video games. 

There are plenty of other work-from-home accessories you can add on depending on your specific needs, such as a standing desk, a more comfortable office chair, an external hard drive, or a charging hub. 

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