webcams are a streamer's best friend a zoom teacher's worst nightmare and
somewhat optional for a v tuber unless of course you're talking about youtube studio then you
either have to have an iphone android or webcam and today we're going to be covering that last one
webcams come in many shapes and varieties and also at several different price points so i've
collected four webcams with the cheapest being twenty dollars and the most expensive being
two hundred i'm going to be testing them all today talking about which ones you may want to buy and
how to improve what you may already have to start i'm just going to show you what the image quality
of each webcam looks like before we start using them for v tube studio this will let you know
what kind of quality difference you can expect up first is the larson webcam which is easily one of
the cheapest pieces of hardware i've ever had the pleasure of plugging into my computer but hey it
works and for 20 bucks who can complain next up is the logitech c525 which at the time cost me
around 50. but has been replaced by the logitech c505 we then have probably the most popular webcam
on the market which is the logitech c920 finally we have the logitech brio which runs us about 200.
now to explain the battery of tests i'll be running i have all four webcams positioned next to
each other on my desk and will be recording them simultaneously from here on out i will be swapping
between them as i talk so you can get an idea of what everything will look like first i am going to
read off a simple sentence in the natural light of my room i will then re-read that sentence with a
lamp pointed at the wall near me to help get some reflection of light onto my face this should help
the webcams track a little bit better we will then go back to the natural lighting and adjust
some of the native settings in youtube studio for each webcam and finally we will end up with proper
lighting and settings and an explanation of what i changed to help get the best results this is
the first sentence i am speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking turns out to be just fine
this is the second sentence i'm speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking turns out
to be even better this is the third sentence i'm speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking
looks noticeably better this is the final sentence i'm speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking
looks the best now if y'all don't mind i'm gonna swap back to just using one avatar for the rest
of the video because my audio was popping like crazy when i was trying to record with all four
let's go over what we just saw the first and second sentences are quite obviously the worst
of the bunch because there is no audio input delay added to the sources adding as little as a
100 millisecond delay to your microphone can make your audio sync up much better i have a very quick
tutorial already made on how to do this linked in the card and video description observation number
two proper lighting had a very noticeable effect on the larson webcam and the c525
but it still helped out even the brio and the c920 lighting can be done with something as
simple as a lamp pointed at a nearby wall just to make sure that that light bounces onto your face
or if you want to buy a cheap ring light off amazon for 10 or 15 dollars that might be the
way to go if you want more consistent lighting in the future finally what are all these settings
that i changed well let me show you we're going to start by opening up settings now there are two
primary places that will most affect your webcam's performance in the first tab if you scroll all the
way down to the bottom we have microphone settings when you turn this option on youtube studio tries
to use your microphone to help it decide what mouth shapes it should make you can adjust the
volume gain volume cutoff and frequency gain this alone can make your mouse shape significantly
better however the best settings to change are located in the second tab tracking settings will
be near the top and here you can adjust your blink sensitivity eye open sensitivity mouth sensitivity
mouth smile sensitivity and brow sensitivity these all default to 50 and as you can see i've changed
mine quite a bit if you are having problems with your model blinking continually turn down the
blink sensitivity if you want your eyes to be open more often turn down the eye sensitivity for me i
find that turning down the mouth open sensitivity by quite a bit can help make your talking look
much more natural mouth smile sensitivity doesn't generally cause too many problems
but you should adjust this if you're finding that your model is smiling too often last off is browse
sensitivity i've yet to run into someone who has a problem with the default setting with this
let's take a look at the difference of the larsen webcam with and without settings and lighting this
is the first sentence i am speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking turns out to be just fine
this is the final sentence i'm speaking to the webcams hopefully the tracking looks the
best it's a pretty noticeable difference if you already have a webcam spend some time with your
lighting and with the settings to see what you can improve before deciding if you need to upgrade if
you don't have a webcam here's my recommendation if you're only going to be using this for v tubing
the webcam tracking frame rate in v2 studio never got above 30. so any webcam that can do at least
1280 by 720 at 30 frames a second is good to go i would take any money you would have spent
especially on something like the logitech brio and invest it in some lighting even just a dedicated
lamp because that's going to help you out much more in the long run though maybe don't go
quite as low as the larson webcam maybe a few steps above that as always if this video helped
you out please let me know in the comments down below and i'll see you all next time