all right there we go hey guys what's up welcome back man look yesterday i kind of embarrassed
myself as a youtuber nobody said anything i don't even know if anybody cared enough but i care okay
because i'm a youtuber i use cameras for a living i got a lot of nice cameras except the one on my
laptop look at this man look at this hot mess right here this is awful okay i got an expensive
laptop man this is a 1500 galaxy book uh 360 pro i think it is it's it oh i know is it's expensive
and it's a great laptop does everything i need to do extremely well except video conferencing look
at this man this is looks like i took a meeting yesterday and i was talking to these two guys and
i just wasn't thinking man i just opened up the computer and i didn't plug in a microphone i was
using the mic from the from the laptop using the webcam here and i guess it's acceptable in today's
climate you know but i got to do better man so in order to level myself up seriously man look
at this i'm not a vain guy but i'm just saying this phase is too damn handsome to be looking at
through a potato like this camera right here now ironically about two hours after that meeting
was over this thing showed up and i was like you got to be kidding me like perfect terrible timing
right this is the anker power comp c300 uh webcam this thing does 1080p 60 frames a second or 30p
i prefer 30p so that's what we're going to be doing this video in on all these little tests
i just feel like it looks a little bit more cinematic or at least realistic so you know
i'm done filming with the potato here let me let me show you some stuff man so this is the potato
camera that comes default on my on my laptop here so let me just go ahead and close this out because
we're gonna go into anchor work that is the the app that you download from anchor's website
you download anchor work and just give it some time to fire up might have some updates to do go
ahead and do those updates but that's going to get you the ability to unlock everything awesome that
this camera does okay it boots up and here look at that man yeah man that fella is handsome man
you see how much better that is yeah that is so much better okay hold up let me all right let me
show you some stuff here you can go into this control panel here you got device you got your
resolutions there 360p 720p i'm recording at 1080p now this is not an actual recording that
you're looking at from the camera itself this is actually a screen recording from the laptop so
there might be some quality diminishment there just because it's a screen recording
and not the actual recording from the camera because i just wanted to do this kind of live
with you guys but we're filming at 30 frames per second you can also change it to 60 if you want
this is where it gets cool man so you see this wide angle i got right here um let me see here we
can go into a 78 degree angle oh man that's like up close and personal that's like you know this
let's let's back out a little bit that's a little close all right so we'll go to the 90 90 is good
i kind of like 90 for this type of thing right here and then we got 115 degrees which kind of
backs out and shows you everything right but if you want to you can go into here and you can go
into personal mode and it kind of does everything for you see that automation right there that that
ai oh the ai just took over it did personal mode and then we'll go into streaming modes
because you can do some live streaming with this camera i would actually live stream uh
stream with this camera this is this is pretty awesome right here oh that's man that's that's
good quality right there all right and then we're gonna zoom in a little bit more i think
in meeting mode oh it zooms out that way oh wait what's it doing what you doing okay so it's it's
focusing on me you see how it kind of just focused on me because it stays focused and if you have
uh two or more people in the uh in the video frame it will focus on the person uh closest
to the camera so whoever's talking maybe just lean forward a little bit and it'll automatically go to
that person that's talking i thought that was super cool me and my wife are just playing
around with it later on in the night but these are like default or or presets that you can have right
there let's go back into custom because i want to show you some stuff i have it set here with auto
frame and so basically it's just kind of the the little box is going to track my face and make sure
that it's always in focus no matter where i am okay and then if you go into solo frame it's gonna
kind of wait a minute oh yeah there it goes you see how it kind of zooms in a little bit and just
that is so cool that is look at that man that is awesome
so you're always in like the perfect frame so here's what i like about this there was
absolutely no technology needed to start working this camera i mean this little control panel
is super simple to use you know you don't you really don't have to be like some kind
of some kind of i.t person to use this thing because most people are not you just need
you know some people just started working at home and just started this whole webcam business
and you just need something to get set up because that's not your job you're not just thinking i.t
you just need the camera to work and you just want to get going so this is a great way to do
it because this thing is kind of just automating it for you but a lot of times when we're doing uh
a web conferencing and stuff you know like i said you got this terrible mic that you use the
mic that we're using right now oh i didn't change it i didn't change it hold on let me let me stop
recording the screen and let's hit no and what i'm going to do is i'm going to change the mic
to the anchor power comp c300 and now you're getting a chance to hear some really good
audio quality coming directly from the stereo speakers built into the anker power comp c300
uh webcam there now these tiny little mics they do a good job but they're only capable of so much
so that's where this little gem comes into play and this is the anker power comp uh
uh s 500 speakerphone i tried a different version of this it was actually one of their
earlier versions of this and it was a really great speakerphone but this one right here is the most
technologically advanced one they have to offer you can get 12 people on a conference on this
thing being around it and it will reach out and pick up the voice of whoever is talking and cut
out whatever background noise you're using now i'm gonna put this thing right here and i'm roughly i
don't know maybe what three feet away from it so that's what it's gonna sound like when i'm
about three feet away then i'll bring it a little bit closer because a lot of times let's just face
it you're by yourself at home doing a conference call and you don't want to use the uh the wireless
earbuds and have the stuff dangling down your face in your meeting or you might not want to
use some uh you know the the over ear headphones you want to look a little bit more professional
so with this power comp uh s 500 right here you get the opportunity to not only have a well built
really classy professional looking device but you also have some really good audio quality without
having to you know have the audio coming from your tiny little microphone in your built-in computer
or you know you want something a little bit better than your webcam that you're gonna have here
and it's just gonna sound good man it's just gonna sound good it has a few features built in on here
you've got a plus and minus there for your volume you've got your little phone hang up and pick up
and you also have a mute and let me just press that because it actually turns red when you mute
it and then you can see my voice toggling on and off or the little blue light going with my voice
there on the bottom side of this bad boy you got your power button which you'll hold to turn it on
and off as well as a play button or playing pause i should say because you might want to use this
as a speaker like you know you're jamming your tunes and stuff and then you're gonna have a link
button here to link up another one because you got a bunch of people on some parting lines some
some ridiculous super duper long meeting you can hook up two of these together
and get you talk on that way either way these are both great devices and i'm happy
to have them because i don't want to look like trash again in front of the people i'm having
a meeting with man it was really embarrassing being on that camera and using the microphone
i wish i could just go back and redo tomorrow so if you're watching this video guys
i the the people i did the meeting with yesterday i apologize i should have had the proper equipment
now i do and the next time we talk you'll see how good i look and how good i sound hey man don't get
caught like i did either way i'm not an expert in this kind of stuff but what i do know is my
video or my my web conferencing will not be trash any longer hey check out anchor work that's their
uh kind of you know online conferencing kind of stuff it's called anchor work and they got the
the cameras they got different speaker phones and some other cool gadgets there for you to check out
and while you're over there on their website tell them antoine from new stuff tv center you know the
untechnical tech channel y'all keep being good to each other and i'll see you when i see you
hey man come here i'm be real frank with you and tell you that it's freaking weird that you just
linger here when the video's over but if you still want to hang out with me
it's cool you can go over to my podcast man i'll be over there in just a few minutes
it's called talk to me the podcast nobody asked for but i'm giving it to you anyway
so go over there hang out real quick and i'll be there in a minute and we'll get
to hang out i'll see y'all soon are you not entertained are you not entertained
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