Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is the Elgato key light a large diffused lighting system
for streamers and content creators that's designed to work with Elgato's stream deck obviously with a
control center app via your phone and via desktop software as well this is an unboxing and review
video I'm going to be setting up the light and showing you what it's like I'm also going
to do a comparison in the near future with the Razer Chroma key light so stick with me for that
and subscribe if you aren't already but I want to talk to you about why this light's
useful and awesome a number of different ways now as you saw from that intro clip is desk mountable
and I'll show you the setup process for that it comes with a nice stand
that's very high extendable and that's one of the big highlights of it but also obviously
more importantly it's large offers diffused lighting with a maximum of 2 800 lumens so
it's really bright it uses 160 premium OSRAM LEDs and has a temperature range of 2900 to 7000 kelvin
now that's really important and useful to someone like me where it's very useful to adjust the color
temperature to match your camera because you can then set that in your camera settings and make
sure that you have a really natural looking light and that's how I capture a lot of my
footage to make sure that all the lighting matches and it looks as natural and clean as possible so
it's really nice to see that functionality here but more on that later on as you'll see when you
get out the box a very nice cardboard box with lots of recyclable materials inside and then the
key light itself now I've been using the key light airs for quite some time and they're quite titchy
and I'll show you a comparison later on the size difference this thing is huge by comparison also
it has four mounting points so you can mount it top bottom or either side so you can have either
lengthways and landscape format or portrait as well depending on your space and how you want
to set it up including the box you obviously get the various connectors and there are a number of
things for attaching the cables to the poles to neaten things up and I'll show you more on that
in a little while a power brick for connecting it because it does need mains power supply in
order to run and you need to connect it up to your wi-fi on your home network and then that
will allow you to then control the lighting via the smartphone app or via the desktop app or both
and I'll show you more on that obviously also works with Elgato stream deck software so it's
controllable there but one of the big highlights for me is not only the size and power of the light
and the flexibility of it but also this desk mounting so it has a really solid clamp system
for easy mounting to your desk and you can see a massive clamp on that it also has two adjustable
points that are really easy to adjust so you can unscrew them and then adjust the height
of this with ease and I will show you that it goes very high later on it's incredibly tall
at its maximum height which is really useful for arranging your lights in different positions so
you might have different uses for it unlike many streamers who want to use this as a key light for
lighting up their face when they're playing and ensuring that something like a green screen is lit
up well but this is also useful if for example you want to have top-down lighting in a small room for
lighting a shot like I would do for unboxing and review videos so it makes for a really convenient
lighting system for that and that's worth keeping in mind as this is multi-functional in a way
also because it doesn't have a desk stand and it just simply mounts onto the desk
rather than having taking up extra space with some stand that you have to account for so it's really
convenient in terms of sort of space it will take up in your room and also the setup process
is really easy so you can see the power brick this is obviously a U.K. plug the best in the world
British plugs nice and safe with the grounding so make sure you don't electrocute yourself
and then the cables necessary to connect it up really straightforward plug and play basically
just plugging it in and I'll show you that in a second and then it attaches to the head and you'll
see there's a ball head in the top here and as I said you can mount it in different positions here
you can see me putting in on the landscape quite large and certainly not subtle once you've got it
installed on your desk and in the area you can see it's quite a chunky beast but this is good because
it offers a lot of diffused light and actually lights up the space really well and obviously show
you the lighting capabilities later on and then at the rear you just plug in your power and you have
the button to turn it on and reset it if necessary to repair it with something else
one of the things I did note when I screwed it on was I managed to damage the rubber on top
of the ball head mount so just be careful when you do that because it's a bit easy to destroy that
but it's only a little tiny bit of rubber it's not that important but just don't get over tightening
it like I did you can also mount it as I said in the portrait mode so you can have it like
this instead which is beneficial if you have less space but you still want to light up an area now
off to the left-hand side of my desk I'm actually using the Keylight Chroma from Razer at the moment
in a same sort of sort of logic so it's positioned like this and then really high up to light as a
top down shot but obviously as I said you would generally use it face on to you to light you
up behind a camera for example so that you have good lighting on your face and it provides nice
lighting but what I wanted to demonstrate is one of the things that's most appealing about this
to me is just the flexibility of it so not only is it mounted on a solid desk stand where it's
not going to fall off it's well clamped on there but it's also really easy to get into a position
that's useful so you can adjust it to the height that you want it's fairly tall to start with
but you can adjust it I mean obviously my desk is at a certain height but you can set it all the way
to the ceiling basically so in this room you can see it's much taller than I am
and ridiculously tall in fact because of that you probably wouldn't want to do it at this
height because it then does develop a little bit of a wobble I'd say so it's a bit wobbly
but I mean that's obviously going to depend on how wobbly your desk is the setup process from here
is really straightforward as well and that's one of the things I'll say about it is once it's set
up and plugged in and connected to the wi-fi as I'll show you in a second it's really easy
to then control it whenever you need to turn it on you can just do it from the app or from your
PC with these you don't need to turn it on and off constantly there are a number of clips included in
the box that you can attach the cables to on the pole to sort of tidy things up I would recommend
that when you're doing this you make sure that you have it extended to the height that you want it at
so that you can then get those clips on because if you try put the clips on and then adjust the
height that then ruins where the clips are and messes up the cables and it becomes a problem
turn it on go into the app which I'll link to in the description and then you can just add a
new accessory and you go through the steps which I'm not going to show you here but there's just a
few steps to connect it to your wi-fi once that's connected up you can then add the accessory in you
can see that I've already got key light airs on here and now I'm adding in the key light as well
one of the nice things that I like about Elgato software is that you can actually set them up
so they all pair together so when you adjust the lighting you can actually adjust the brightness so
all of them adjust the same brightness and color temperature at the same time or you can adjust
them individually and that's one of the things you'll have seen there if I turn off all the other
lighting in my room apart from obviously the desk lights you can see the effect of the key light
and how bright and dark it goes now it's hard to demonstrate the sheer brightness of this and I'm
going to try and do it from various angles so that you can see it but obviously it's coming across on
a camera so in real life it's a lot brighter than it might appear in some of these shots I will also
note it's important to update the firmware because there's a couple of firmware updates to this
basically as soon as I did it and I had to install them from the desktop so on the PC
so I'd recommend downloading that app and installing it there but then on the phone
you also get control over the brightness and the color temperature so you can see you can
basically go from a very blue color all the way up to a much warmer color at the other end
this is really useful because as you'll see from the slider you can't quite see it because it's
hidden behind my finger but you can see the actual kelvin readout in terms of the temperature you're
using so I'm using 5500 on my camera so it's set to 5500 kelvin to give me a natural representation
you can actually drag the slider along and set it to the specific color temperature you need
and you can do this on desktop as well this is really handy for making sure your color matches
up and you have a really good look and feel at the end video result and on live streams as well
and so here you can now see a front view of what it does and how it lights up my face as I said all
the other lights in the room are off so it's quite bright you would generally be using other lights
I'd been using two key light airs historically I think this could be a soul light that you're using
along with a room light you could probably get away with that as a basic one because it is very
bright and it is very big so it does light up a big space you might find you have to use more than
one light depending on your situation but this is certainly a nice looking solution and it does as
you can see go very bright and give off a good light into the room and more importantly lights
your face up nicely for video and also would work really well with products and here you can see it
next to the keyboard air and you can see just the size difference of that also note that one comes
with a stand rather than a desk clamp so you do need space on your desk for that and that's one
of the reasons I like the main full size key light because it has a clamp which takes up less space
now I want to demonstrate the lighting differences that the light can make so I've got my desktop
over there so you can see the controls and I am currently I have no lights on in the room there
are windows in either direction so you can see natural daylight spilling onto my face as well but
I want to just demonstrate what difference the light can make even during this sort of bright
lighting so obviously go into windows and you can access the Elgato lighting controls and you
can see it is on but I've said it's a minimum brightness I'll just turn it off completely and
you'll notice that makes no difference maybe a tiny tiny tiny bit and I if I crank it all the
way up you'll immediately see just how much that fills up my face quite a bit of extra lighting
in this sort of brightness and then obviously turn it back down again and just to demonstrate
turn off again I'm gonna go and close the blinds and I'll be back in a second so now here I am in
again with natural light still so there's no lights on but I've got both blinds closed so
you can see there's still some daylight coming in and I can then turn the light on and you'll
notice immediately the difference he'll make if I crank it up so now we're 100 it's overpowering
the camera actually it's far too bright I think that's one of the good things I've found is that
I can run it I mean somewhere between 15 and 20 brightness um at night so generally speaking at
the weekends when I'm gaming and streaming I'll have it about 20ish percent maybe lower
I'll also have a light on above me just in the room but that's not particularly bright
and this will be enough to light my face up but also green screen that I generally have behind me
now I do also have key light air off to the side there but again that's set to roughly the same
so a very small amount of basically maximum brightness is required in order to light up
now this is going to vary depending on your webcam obviously I'm using a DSLR camera and
Elgato's cam link device and I've done a video on that separately if you're interested as I
said already you can adjust the color temperature so you can see when you go through the range here
that actually tells you what color temperature you're at so you can see if I put it all the
way up to 2900 my face looks very orange now if I turn that all the way up I'll make it
even worse absolutely looks terrible my camera is set uh about 5500 kelvin so if I go to here
that is actually a more natural look of my face and then obviously you can go the other way and
make it very blue if you wanted to so you have a good range of color temperatures and what you
can do with it but you can see just how bright it gets even during the day but you really don't need
that much brightness easy controls and obviously this is also set up you can set this up in Elgato
stream deck software and on that hardware if you have it so you can just press buttons
to turn the lights on and off and adjust the brightness and as I said already you can set it
turn on the key light air as well and you can have both lights controlled via that one bit of
software and doing the same line and then you can just turn them both off from here as well
and you have the ability to do on your phone too so you don't even need to alt her back out
to out of your game into windows or whatever you're doing you can just do it from your phone
or from the stream deck or from the software so it's multi-controllable and really useful
this has been the providing Prawn hope you found this video useful let me know in the comments if
you've got any questions also come back and see that Razer Chroma versus video because that's
slightly different that has RGB lighting do you really need RGB lighting on a key light
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