if you're using sony imaging edge webcam software to level up those zoom calls your youtube streams
with like a sony rx100 or sony mirrorless camera you might notice that your battery is depleting
much faster and you're running out before the day is over well today i've got two battery solutions
that are going to keep you going all day long let's get into it real quick if you're new here my
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alright so here are the two battery solutions i've got if you're using sony imaging edge webcam the
first one is actually free there's two usb settings that you want to take a look at one
of them is going to let you actually use the usb interface the little plug here on the side
to work with your computer which i show in this video that i'll link right here you want to set
usb connection to pc remote that's the first thing but a couple under that at least on the rx100 five
and i think the zv1 they have a thing called usb power supply and so by turning usb power supply on
it's gonna be able to take some of the power and the charge that's coming from your computer's usb
hub or the back of the the computer and feed power into the battery which will keep that going longer
so that's option one that's totally free easy to do okay now option two it's gonna cost a
little bit of money it's only 20 bucks this one i got off of amazon it's a dummy battery
so a dummy battery is what you want to be looking at this one is a dk-x1 it weighs like nothing but
it has all of the right contact points that um the same as these mpbx ones that i would go through
like crazy if i wasn't streaming this just has a cable that runs out of the bottom of the camera
and it plugs into a usb port like a it could go into a wall charger or uh you know a battery
like this if you need to be a little bit more mobile and you're away from a power you know an
outlet in the wall so what you'll do is you'll just pop open where your battery normally is
get rid of that sucker and then this will go in the exact same slot so that just goes in
like so and there is a little tab right here on this camera that you just kind of pull back
and that's going to let the cord come through there and still let you close the door close the
little lock and you should be able to power it right on up which you can do like that so we've
got this power cable which is really nicely firmly snugly securely i guess is the word attached to a
usb battery bank which will last i mean for a super super long time you definitely could get a
a long day out of a battery like this this is the i think it's ten 000 milliamp hour anchor
battery but there's others like it there's some that are larger you just want to make sure that
it's not supplying more than 5 volts they warn that make sure that you
only supply 5 volts because if you're doing this second method and you're not doing the usb
power supply in the menu you run the risk of frying your camera if it goes over that five volts
so these anchor ones they suggest them so i would probably choose them
because you don't have the protection of usb going into here to charge a battery which
is then supplying power it's just directly coming from the source over these you know
these little connection points these little pins that are on the dummy battery so dummy battery is
a great option so you just got to make sure it's only supplying 5 volts at the most and if it's
not supplying at least 2 amps it's not going to be enough to power the camera which is why sometimes
you'll find a computer port using option one that i just showed you turning usb power supply on
that it actually will drain the battery over a long period of time which you're eventually
going to run out of power one final tip i want to give you if you're having trouble connecting
with sony imaging edge webcam is to make sure you turn the dial on your sony camera to the auto mode
when you first launch the software and then once you're in preferences and you see the image then
just switch that over to movie mode and that may um that's going to give you full manual control if
you want that so you can dial in the exposure but if you're not seeing any picture make sure it's in
auto mode first i've noticed if it's in anything else sometimes zoom doesn't see it or you know
like a youtube stream would not see that so i hope this was helpful if it was please give it a like
ask any questions in the comments so we can all learn from each other and i'll see in the next one