- I connected a external USB camera
to a live streaming app inside of my phone.
And I'm gonna show you how to do it in this video.
But before I show you how to do that
let's talk about the things that you're going to need
in order to make that happen.
The app that I'm using today
is a free app called PRISM Live Studio.
Now if you're not familiar with my channel
I have tutorials on how to use PRISM Live Studio
both for a live streaming situation
or for a free video editor where you can remove
the watermark for free.
But I'm gonna put links down
in the description below to that.
And if you're not new to my channel
you know how amazing of a live streaming app
this is, so you're really gonna enjoy
what I'm going to show you today.
Once you've downloaded the app
the next thing you're going to need is a USB camera.
Now this is an expensive Logitech that I picked up.
It's just a normal webcam but it's important that it's USB.
This is very important, don't skip this part.
The next thing you're going to need is a connector.
Because I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S9
I need a USB-C connector to USB.
If you have an older phone you might need
a five pin cable to USB, whatever the case,
you're going to need a connector
where one side of it's going to plug into your phone
and the other side's going to be USB.
Now let's talk about the why.
If you have an older phone and the optics are not that good,
maybe you can get a webcam with better optics
and use that for your webcam.
That makes sense for an older phone.
Some of them actually aren't that good,
but these webcams are actually good
and they're affordable and they're a lot cheaper
than buying a new phone.
And of course if you have a newer phone
you might be thinking,
hey, my camera's really good, I don't need a webcam,
or maybe the webcam quality is inferior.
And you'd be right thinking that
but it's not always about the quality.
Actually when you compare this live
to the built-in camera that comes with my Samsung Galaxy S9
you really can't tell a difference
once it's actually streaming.
But here's where this really shines.
You don't actually have to move your phone up and down
and you're not held hostage to the position of your phone
while you're live streaming.
You can set your camera up on a little tripod,
or you can clip it on something
because that's what you can do with these things right?
And you could screw this into the bottom of a tripod
and you could set it anywhere in the room.
You could do an overhead shot with it looking down.
Plug it into your phone, and now you can use your phone
as the monitor and you can use your phone to communicate
with the chat because with PRISM Live Studio
you can see the chat.
So this is the real win here,
it's not necessarily the phone camera,
it's about what you can do with this,
well I'm making a lot of noise here,
it's about what you can do with this
and get creative with the positioning of this,
that's where this thing really shines.
Now before we continue I do want to say
that this is only for Android users currently,
iOS users this is coming for you
but you don't have it just yet
so keep an eye on your PRISM updates, it is coming.
Now setting this up is incredibly easy.
All you wanna do is take the webcam side of the USB
and I'm gonna put this up close here.
Then you wanna take your connector
and you just want to plug it in.
You just wanna plug it in
so you have the webcam connecting to the actual adapter.
Then you wanna take the adapter
and plug it into your phone like this
so you have the webcam, the adapter, and the phone.
And you immediately see that PRISM Live Studio
asks you if you want to connect the webcam
to the app or not, and if you do, which you do, tap on okay.
After you tap on okay you're gonna see that the stream
from the webcam shows directly inside of PRISM Live Studio
and once it's in there you can go through
and you can use their filters,
you can draw on top of the screen,
you can do everything that you would normally do
if you were using the native camera
inside of your smartphone.
Now you might have a couple of questions
that I'm gonna answer some of the ones
that just came to the top of my head
when I was making this video.
And the first one is, "How do I charge my phone
"if I'm trying to live stream and I'm using this adapter?"
Well I thought you would never ask
because there are other types of adapters out there.
You don't have to get a single adapter,
you can get something like this.
For this particular adapter it's USB-C
so it's gonna plug right into my Samsung
but it has a charging port
and it has other USB connectors here on the back,
so I can plug this into my phone,
I can charge my phone and I can run the webcam
at the same time and I can even run a microphone.
And this is one of the cool new updates
PRISM Live Studio recently made
and that's that you can now use external microphones,
especially USB microphones.
Plug them right in using this cable
or using this sort of an adapter
and you can use it inside of PRISM Live Studio
where you couldn't do that previously.
Now iOS users, you could do that,
it was by default in some situations
but it wasn't actually a feature yet.
Now for Android users, you can use the mic, it is official,
so that's a really cool update from PRISM Live Studio.
And while we're speaking of updates, if you don't know yet,
PRISM Live Studio removed any time limitations
for recording and editing using the video feature.
Previously it was 10 minutes but that is gone
so make sure that you update your app
because now there are no limits
to how long you can use PRISM Live Studio.
Another question might be, "Okay that's cool,
"I don't want to use a webcam, I have a DSLR.
"Can I hook up a DSLR to my phone using PRISM Live Studio?"
And the answer is, not yet but it's coming.
It's actually coming really soon
so make sure you stay updated
because it's not going to be long
before you can take a DSLR and live stream
through your phone using the PRISM Live Studio app
and that is gonna be insane.
That's when you can truly get amazing optics
through a live stream and stay totally mobile.
I'm really looking forward to that
cause when I'm out and I'm running around,
maybe I'm with my brother, he has his DSLR,
I have my phone and I have a internet connection,
we can get a much better quality image
with great depth of field,
that blurry background during a live stream,
and we can do that with a DSLR through a phone
and PRISM Live Studio,
so keep your eyes out for that, it is coming.
Now if you want to dig in even deeper
and watch full tutorials on how to live stream
or edit your videos with PRISM Live Studio for free,
tap on one of the videos
that's showing on the screen right now,
it'll take you to those videos
and you can learn how to properly use PRISM Live Studio.
Thank you so much for watching, I do appreciate it
and I will see you in the next video.