- What's up guys?
It's Andy Feliciotti and welcome back to another video.
If you're like me and you've been spending
all your time on Zoom calls,
you may have been wanting to up your video quality.
Well Canon finally has a solution for that.
And if you're like me,
you may also have an extra camera laying around.
For example, I have the 5D Mark IV right here.
And Canon has released a new bit of software
called the EOS webcam utility.
And it actually lets you plug your camera
directly into your computer and turn it into a webcam.
So if you're sick and tired of having
really bad webcam quality like this,
and you wanna upgrade the quality to something like this,
then you're gonna find
this piece of software really helpful.
Now typically you needed something
like a HDMI capture card.
For example, I have the Elgato Cam Link right here.
This is around $100, but luckily
you don't really need this now with this update.
These will actually still get you higher quality,
like 1080p, while the software that Canon came out with
is a lot lower quality.
But let's just dive in and talk about
how the software works first.
So I'm gonna just hook my camera up right here.
And I'm gonna plug in the wire
that came with the 5D Mark IV.
This camera actually has a really weird wire,
but if you have a newer camera like the EOS R,
you can use a USBC wire, which is a little more standard.
Now if you don't have a Canon camera,
a lot of camera companies,
they're actually already copying this.
Fuji and Panasonic, for example,
have updated their cameras with it.
But right now, we're just gonna focus on Canon.
I think Sony said that they're also gonna plan on
doing something like this for all their cameras.
So right now we're on the webpage
for the EOS webcam utility.
It's actually really simple to install.
But you can see here the supported cameras.
Some things like the Canon 70D do work,
people have reported.
So maybe if your camera is not listed here,
it might actually work.
So I definitely recommend looking that up
before just giving up after seeing this page.
But yeah, basically, after clicking one of these links,
you'll be given that page
where you can download the utility.
So after you install the program and restart your computer,
you'll see a new option for a webcam
in all of your programs.
For example, in Zoom or Facebook Video,
or anything like that.
Right now I'm in QuickTime.
So you can see here the EOS webcam utility beta.
And right now the camera is off,
hence why you don't see the camera.
So let's turn the camera on.
I guess I have to plug it into the computer, right?
I actually missed that part.
So now you can see the feed directly feeding from the camera
into our software here.
We're gonna Zoom in, make it look a little better here.
?Now if you do a lot of Zoom calls
or even live streams on YouTube, or something like that,
this is definitely a great solution for you
to actually get higher quality,
especially if you have one of these cameras laying around,
not getting much use.
Look at this.
I'm the CEO of the company now.
Look at this quality.
Simple.
And of course, you can change
all the settings on your camera too
to manually control the exposure and stuff like that.
I have it on auto ISO, so it's a little bright right now.
But this is gonna supercharge your video.
And best of all, it's free and you already have a camera,
and you probably already have a wire.
So you can just jump in to having better quality
on all of your Zoom calls
and all your conference calls.
So this is the quality that you're probably
used to seeing on a webcam.
This is the MacBook Pro webcam here.
And you can see it's all grainy.
And I have to move the screen to control the angle.
Definitely not an ideal solution,
especially if you want higher quality.
It looks like I'm about to be fired
or I'm about to leave my phone unmuted and have an echo.
So we're gonna go back to using
the 5D Mark IV as our webcam.
Now I mentioned earlier that if you want higher quality,
you actually have to use a capture card.
For example, this is the Elgato Cam Link.
And these are actually in really high demand right now.
So you actually might have to
end up buying a knock-off product.
For example, this is just a super generic one
that I found for $15.
It just says HDMI video capture on it.
Basically what these devices do is they take HDMI input,
and then put it into your USB
and act as a webcam on your computer.
So if you have to a camera that actually has
a clean HDMI output.
There's plenty of websites out there
that'll show what cameras have cLean video outputs.
The 5D Mark IV is one and the EOS R is one.
Let's compare this with the webcam utility.
So right now we're using the EOS R webcam utility.
So let's go switch over to the Elgato Cam Link.
And you can see the quality to the naked eye
is basically the same.
I am a little bit smoother, I think.
But overall, you're really not getting
that much benefit for the cost,
especially because these things are like $200 now,
since everyone's trying to get one.
So for sake of comparison,
we're gonna compare it to this $15 one.
This one also does 1080p, but from my testing,
it's a little bit worse looking.
So let's try this out.
And here we are on the generic HDMI capture card.
As you can tell, the skin colors
are like way, way more saturated.
The detail's a little bit less.
The dynamic range too is kind of affected.
But if you didn't see the comparison of all three,
you might actually really like this.
So if you have a camera that doesn't support
this new webcam software,
this is actually a great option.
Especially because it's hard to come by
these Cam Links right now.
And I mean, come on.
This thing's 15 bucks.
So, I mean, I'm pretty impressed for the price.
I actually expected it to be a scam, and it wasn't.
So I hope this video was helpful
to learn about different options
for using your cameras as a webcam.
Definitely I think most people
are just gonna wanna use the software,
since you probably already have a wire for a camera
and you have a camera that's supported.
So it's free and easy.
Definitely if you're on conference calls all day,
or if you're live streaming.
It's a great option for all of these.
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Thanks again for watching.
See ya.