- As many of you have noticed,
there's a stark difference
between the quality of the videos
that I shoot in the studio with my staff
and the quality of the videos
that I shoot at home by myself.
Bless their hearts,
my Logitech webcam and second generation ModMic,
try real hard,
but we are day seven into the quarantine beard here
and I figure if I'm gonna get serious
about streaming at home
and making videos at home,
it is time for an upgrade.
Here is what we're starting with.
And by the end of this video,
this is gonna be
about the ballinist streaming setup within reason.
That is at least if Jake's word is anything to go by.
First, we've got one of Elgato's key light airs.
So these are a nice lightweight,
super bright WiFi app controlled light
that comes with a stand
and it doesn't really need a diffuser
'cause it's got its own built in
kind of diffusion layer.
We've got an Elgato Multi Mount,
which I originally thought was a mount
for multiple key light airs.
Not so in fact that mount is for this Canon T6i.
We didn't choose this camera
for any particular reason
and this lens is in fact a placeholder.
But the idea was just to have a better camera than a webcam.
We're replacing the ModMic
with a broadcaster mic from RODE
that's gonna be powered by a U Phoria UM2 from Behringer.
Got a nice little stand from RODE to go with it.
Capturing the video from our camera
is gonna be the Cam Link 4K from Elgato.
That's a USB 4K capture card.
We've also got a power adapter for the camera,
so that we don't have to run batteries in it.
An HDMI cable also for the camera, pop filter, hammer.
I promise you this will get interesting.
And finally an Elgato Stream Deck.
So this is the 12 button variety.
They've got little screens on all the buttons
so you can set up all your scenes
and all that good stuff.
Now it's after midnight,
which means that I can't really count on Yvonne
to shoot this whole thing with me.
So we're gonna throw the camera on a tripod
and get real creative about the way
that we're filming this late into the night.
It really is harder to do this without a camera crew.
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Many people's first impulse when they wanna improve
their video quality is to upgrade their camera.
But as you can see,
I'm getting a dramatically better feed
out of the same webcam
that I started this video out with
just by changing my lighting.
So that's where we're gonna start.
But of course rather than grabbing
a couple of studio quality lights
and bringing them into my house
and putting them on C stands.
I am of course going to begin with these key light airs.
Wow, that's a heavy base.
They got weights in there.
Power supply.
So we've got a little ball doodad,
we're gonna tighten up them here,
key lighter diffusion pad thing here.
That's kind of finicky.
So you gotta undo this
and then you gotta stick both things in
without the whole thing coming apart.
That goes down at the bottom.
And the experience is 100% tool less,
except for the user.
Eee, got 'em.
I'm gonna want these on kind of the right
and left to evenly light up my face.
You know, I told myself that part of this process
was gonna be cable managing my desk.
That's clearly not happening.
Oh, how convenient is that?
They've got little numbers on them,
so you can actually make them even.
Nice.
Select the accessory you want to control.
Turn it off and back on.
Wow, that looks so soft,
you can hardly tell I've got an isolation beard at all.
So you can go ahead,
you can adjust the temperature of the color.
Well, I'm definitely lit AF now.
Actually, hey Von, can you turn the room lights off,
so that we can see what it looks like
with just the stream lights?
Okay, then well, fancy lights are still
not going to compensate for the fact
that I'm still using a webcam,
but this is progress.
Let's see if we can
kick things up another notch.
This looks even simpler than the other mount.
You got one of these handy dandy,
tighten it to attach it arms right here.
And you basically screw this end
into the bottom of the camera.
Look at it go!
Wow, look at that.
To be clear, I'm not hating on the Brio.
It is an excellent webcam.
It's just still a webcam, that's all.
The next cool item in our bag of tricks
is this DC power adapter.
So it actually comes with a wall wart,
but I'm not gonna need that
because I have a high powered
USB port on my USB hub.
So I'm just gonna take these cables
and plug straight into that.
We got video, it's set to 60 FPS, 720p,
but I have no idea how to get rid of this stuff
on the screen or how clean
the HDMI feed is right now.
For that, we will need an HDMI capture card.
Just gonna plug the Cam Link directly
into the back of my Thunderbolt hub here.
We are setting up Cam Link 4K.
To hook it up all I need is this micro HDMI
to HDMI cable, I hope.
We had it for a second there.
See, that's this.
I don't get any output on the back screen
when I've got an HDMI cable plugged into it,
that's sort of inconvenient.
There it is, see that?
Oh, it's like interlaced AF here.
Of course this game wouldn't have been as fun
without the side quests.
Now we're updating the firmware on our camera.
Firmware update complete,
let's plug her back in.
Yeah that still looks horrible.
Well, that might be a slight problem.
It appears that I selected a USB two port.
I don't know about that.
The Elgato software seems to think so.
Now let's try one of these other ones then.
Okay, we get signal that also looks like 60 FPS now.
After fighting my way through the menu here,
I figured out how to disable the auto power off.
So that's there.
What I don't know yet is while it does say 60 FPS here,
that seems to suggest that that's internal recording
that doesn't necessarily indicate
that the output will be 60 FPS.
So it says here 1080i 60 FPS,
but then on the input than the output is 30 FPS,
on Elgato's utility.
Maybe that's an Elgato setting I can change though.
What is good is that a 60 FPS interlaced output
turning into a 30 FPS progressive input is perfectly normal.
So we're gonna be stuck with 30 FPS for the live feed,
but that should be fine as long as the gameplay is 60 FPS.
Really doubt anyone's gonna be bothered by that.
So this is configured.
Oh it's got that face detecting.
Wow that is a lot of beard.
Hey there we go, alright cool.
Now I am getting some interlacing artifacts
you can see that,
hopefully we can apply some kind
of deinterlacing filter, hey deinterlacing.
Oh-hoo, that is better, isn't it?
That is one heck of an improvement.
I think what I'm gonna wanna do is
actually match my lights here to the light in this room
so that I can have a little bit of light behind me.
This is gonna look that much better than the webcam.
Webcam, real cam, webcam, real cam.
Yeah, I just don't think the webcam
is gonna get there, alright?
And something to consider guys remember
you're gonna see it like this.
So at 720p that's gonna look pretty sharp.
Okay, then this is progress.
This is camera upgrade and lighting upgrade.
Now it's time for audio upgrade.
For this we will need the microphone arm,
so I'm gonna go ahead and just attach
that right next to where my headphones go.
Kind of like that.
And this hold the microphone.
Oooh, shiny yeah,
this clearly goes on here.
I have a slight problem right now though.
I feel like there's supposed to be a little ring
in here and I can't find one.
Thankfully, there is a backup plan.
I'm going to steal the nice shock mount from the RE20.
Of course a microphone like this doesn't plug
into just any old three and a half millimeter jack,
you need an XLR interface.
So that is where the Behringer Euphoria UM2 comes in.
This thing's pretty cool.
It's actually completely USB bus powered
so you won't be powering anything like super,
super crazy off that or anything like that.
But you just plug this little puppy and via USB.
XLR goes in the front and bippity boppity
you are off to the races.
This mic requires 48 volt phantom power.
So we'll go ahead and turn that on.
Now it's time for the big test.
Let's see if there's an improvement
going from the ModMic to the broadcast mic.
This is the ModMic.
And this is the broadcast mic.
What do you guys think, ladies and gentlemen?
So we got our broadcast mic,
and we're back to the ModMic now.
So if I was sitting here,
Oh, I'm playing a game.
It's real intense.
I'm got my gamer face on.
Now, I'm switched over to the broadcast microphone.
Now I got my gamer face on, pretty good?
I don't know, I have no way of knowing.
I'm monitoring this one,
but I'm not monitoring the other ones,
so I got to go back and look at the finish.
- Small update.
I did my issues with the GOXLR sorted out,
so I'm using that now.
It might not have the most amazing reputation
for audio quality either,
but I really like a lot of the features
and it's super-easy to use.
Full credit to the ModMic.
It's actually a lot better sounding
by comparison than I expected.
I mean, obviously, this one has a lot more dynamic range,
but yeah, credit to the multi year old ModMic.
Now I remember I promised to use a hammer.
That's because one of the biggest problems
with my setup right now actually has nothing
to do with the computer,
or really streaming at all.
It's that my stupid, stupid horrible carpet protector
is sliding around all the time.
I'm gonna nail it into the plywood.
Last piece of the puzzle.
Time for the stream deck.
Can you program macros a little pictures
so you don't forget what they do.
The good news is that going through this software,
I've got this like,
epic streaming setup that I can use.
Alright, OBS.
So title, screen, scene, blindness, screen share.
I'm all set up.
So now all that's left is to jump into a game
and see if I have got what it takes
to be the next Twitch sensation.
Here we go ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see what we can do
about our eyeglasses supply chain.
You've got to get some more eyeglasses.
There's no way to win, right?
You get to the point where you use propaganda
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And if you don't use propaganda,
they're mad because you didn't use propaganda
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Like why are the Engineers so mad?
I feel like I'm watching my future as a Twitch streamer.
Okay, well, let's go, just attack the harbor.
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The beard wasn't quite as glorious
at that point yet though.