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Hey everyone! Kelsey here and welcome back to gal.
today i'm going to be giving you some camera
audio and lighting tips to make your video calls from home or if you're a pro
live streamer look more pro now i'll be going over
a basic pro setup that you can do just from your home and i'll be giving some
more advanced tips for those of you that want to do some
multi-camera setups and have better lighting in your scene as well as
how to convert your dslr camera into a webcam to make
it look more cinematic now before we jump in i'm
doing a giveaway we're giving away over two thousand
seven hundred dollars worth of live streaming gear that will allow
you to do better live streaming from home and make it look
more pro and all the gear that i'm giving away I'll be showing
how to use in this video as well so what are we giving away
first up is the sony rx100 mark 7 as well as the yolo box
by yolo live and it's a great streaming studio kit if you want to hook
up multiple sources of video to stream to youtube facebook and
different social and this joby Beamo light as well as two
of these telepods so you can easily set it on your desk and
illuminate your face while you are streaming and for audio
i'm giving away this rode nt usb mini microphone
that you can have for better audio while you're streaming and i'll be showing you
all of this gear of course later in the video
but for second place i'm giving away this cloner alliance flint 4k
plus which is a video encoder that allows you to
hook up any dslr or mirrorless camera to then stream from your computer which
is pretty cool so how do you enter just
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premieregal.com giveaway to enter so thank you to these brands for
donating these products for the giveaway and now let's go ahead and jump on in
to how to stream and do video calls more like a pro
so if you're just doing the occasional video call and you want to look better
on camera you can start with just using a webcam
it can be the built-in webcam on your computer or it can be a
external webcam that you can hook up to your computer via usb that you can set
on your monitor or put on a tripod i'll put a link to some of the webcams that i
recommend that i recommend and i've linked to a
few different hd webcams that look great but if you want it to look even
better you can hook up your dslr or mirrorless camera and convert that into
webcam but i'll be covering that in the
advanced section so stay tuned for that so right now i'm just recording with my
built-in webcam on my macbook pro i have the overhead living room light on
it's a little bit too low in light so you see a lot of
grain it doesn't look that good and i'm recording with the built-in
microphone on my macbook pro so it just sounds a little bit distorted it doesn't
sound as high quality as opposed to using the rode
nt-usb so let me go ahead and connect the road
a few minutes later i just connected the rode nt-usb microphone
so already the audio sounds a lot better now we need to work on the lighting
so i'm going to turn off the overhead lights right now
and then i'm going to turn on the key light on the right
and now it just looks a lot better you can still see a little bit of grain
so in this case it does a pretty good job it's on its way here
another thing that you can do is add a background light
so i have an rgb falcon eyes light back there that i'm just going to turn on to
add a little bit of color in the back so let me go ahead and turn
that on real quick
you can see i started to paint my scene a little bit better here
there's more color in the background and you have the key light here as well
and it's just looking a whole lot better so we can show you the before
where it was super grainy with terrible audio and now
you know when i come across when i'm streaming or if i'm doing a video call
it just looks far more dynamic another thing to think about too
is where your webcam is you know i don't have it super close up so it's like just
filming my forehead which isn't as flattering in this case
but i have it actually up on just a cardboard box here
and it just is elevated like i'm talking to the person directly you can situate
it however you want just be sure to have
your shoulders in view something that's not too awkward because
having the webcam like this it's just a little bit too close i think
and when you have it on your lap it's like moving a lot so definitely have it
just sitting down on your desk and you can
kind of reframe it you can see i have some like bags there
just make it nice because you don't want to have clutter in your scene
so this is a great setup for just doing occasional live stream video calls
on zoom or let's say you're live streaming to youtube
but if you want to go even more pro let's show you some tips on how to
convert your dslr camera into a webcam
and how to do multi-camera setups before we jump into the advanced section i want
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video and sending me these glasses and now let's go ahead and jump into the
advanced live stream setup
right now i'm filming with the canon eos r but let's say you have another
mirrorless camera like the sony rx100 you can use a video encoder to connect
it into your computer to convert the video
signal so that way it's recognized by the computer
and you can use that as a webcam source so to do that i'm using the cloner
alliance 4k plus which you can win in the giveaway
by the way and i just hook up the sony into the cloner alliance using a micro
hdmi to hdmi in and then i connect the cloner
alliance into my computer via usb and it comes
with a bunch of different adapters so if you only have usbc
you can attach the usbc adapter and then you can plug it in
and now you can see on my laptop i'm actually using quicktime player it
actually recognizes the video signal with the setup that we have if you're on
zoom if you're on google meets or if you're doing live stream to youtube
you would choose the video input source from
the usb input which is available through the cloner alliance
you can see right now on my computer i have instead of the facetime
built-in hd i'm using the live streaming usb
device which is the sony camera the reason why it's called the live
streaming usb device is because the cloner alliance is a usb
device so that's how that works so
what is so great about using the dslr or the mirrorless camera
well because they usually have the ability to have an interchangeable lens
or let's say it has a built-in lens with a lower aperture
you can actually have a better depth of field so it looks more cinematic
so if your lens goes down to an aperture of an
f number 1.8 or 2 it can make the background more blurry
and yourself the subject more in focus and it creates a better depth of field
and just looks more cinematic as opposed to just using a webcam which
is pretty flat a little bit lower quality and
everything is in focus so that's why people are started using
dslrs and mirrorless cameras as their webcams
because it just looks a lot better and you can already see the difference
so you can do this with any camera i believe canon has a software that you
can use with usb directly into your computer but if
you're using sony you're going to want to use
a device like the cloner alliance video encoder
another thing to think about is the type of lens that you're using
so the sony comes built-in with a wide angle lens
so already i'm getting far more space for such a small space that i'm filming
in just here on the ground i'm able to get
a nice shot and i'm not too close up in the frame
so if you have another dslr camera that has an interchangeable lens that you can
remove be sure to get a wide angle lens to take
advantage of the space especially if you're just filming at a desk
and you don't want to be too close up because if you're using just like a
prime lens it'll be like super close up on your face and that's kind of awkward
so having a wide angle lens will make it
more friendly seeing more of the person in view and not super
close up on the face so this is a great single camera live
stream setup but let's say that you want to have multiple angles or let's say
you're at an event or a podcast and you want to be able to switch
the camera angles during the stream this is where you can use
a device called the yolo box let me show you how it works
so this is the yolo box it's just a screen here and you can set up
different video sources you can plug in the
sony rx100 via hdmi or another camera source via usb and you
can even connect the source from a drone so
if you're doing a stream at an event you can have the drone be another camera
angle from above while you're streaming and you can easily switch between the
different video sources or a pre-recorded video source so at the
bottom here you can actually insert a sd card with pre-loaded media so if
you have an intro video that you pre-edited and you
want that to play in the beginning of your stream
you can actually put in an sd card as a live video source
and then all you need to do is make sure you're connected to the internet so
you can connect ethernet direct line into the bottom here or you can connect
over a 4g network you can actually put a sim card in here if you
have some sort of network plan or wi-fi and i'm connected to wi-fi now and then
you would just connect to youtube facebook or twitch and you
can stream to all three of those at the same time from this device so
it's super powerful another great thing about
yolobox is it doesn't have to be just for live streaming
you can use this as an external monitor to better close up see what is on your
camera so you can hook it up via hdmi and you can actually get a better
picture at what the output of your camera
is recording so that is how you do a live setup with multiple camera sources
but let's say that you want to show your screen let's say you're doing a live
stream your gaming or let's say you're doing a tutorial
which is often what i do and i want to be on camera and i want to
have my screen this is where you can use some
live streaming software and a free software that i love that
works on both mac and pc is obs studio
and this makes it really easy to just capture
a window or your desktop and have your dslr camera
hooked up as a different feed and you can overlay
your video on top of the screen recording
and i made a whole tutorial on how to use obs with a canon camera so you can
click up here in the card to watch that full video
um if you're on a pc which i recommend by the way for live streaming pc
computers are just far more better for live
streaming gaming and they have more advanced software
that you can use for example there's vmix so if you want to be able to show
your screen and have multiple camera angles you can
sign up for a 60 day trial of vmix to see how that works so i'll link to
those below today you know it's way more virtual uh
you know you're doing business with people virtually now so
the way that they interact with you is the way that they
are left with the impression of you so if they don't get to see you face to
face how do you make your scene look
evoke your personality a little bit so like painting your scene
how do you make it more interesting so that way you can have a better
live stream engagement with your audience so you know you don't have to
go the full nine yards and do the whole dslr setup or do the multi-camera setup
but you can and i hope that these tools will help you achieve that from this
video and if you have any questions at all
just be sure to leave a comment below and don't forget to enter the giveaway
because you can win all this gear and then you
can start doing it from home yourself so go to premieregal.com giveaway also
be sure to like the video and leave a comment below
and now this brings me to this week's comment
of the week
porva bangalore cultural association wow that's a mouthful
wrote can we just use the built-in microphone of the camera in cases where
audio is not that important and this comment is referring
to the live stream dslr setup video that i
posted previously on the canon with obs so when you hook up the camera to your
computer do you need to use an external
microphone like this rode and usb mini for the audio or can you just use
the camera audio is what his question was
so the the answer is you want to always use an external source because
the input the video signal is not capturing the audio from the camera
and even if you can capture the camera audio from the dslr
it's still not going to sound that great just like when you're not live streaming
and you're doing video recording you always want to have an external
microphone whether that's a lavalier or a shotgun or a usb
microphone like i have you just want to have that audio source
be closer to your subject and have it sound more clear and have
better dynamic range than what you would get from
uh just the camera audio so the answer is
i wouldn't recommend it so thank you for the comment if you want to be featured
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bye!