this right here is a kit lens and in my opinion it completely sucks
and i'm going to quickly show you why
and you're probably wondering straight away why is this picture so dark and
that's because i haven't changed any of the settings on my camera
itself i've only changed the lens around and there's a thing called an f-stop
value and kit lenses are generally notorious
for having high values which essentially doesn't allow as much light
to come into your camera as a lower f-stop
prime and so let's change the settings of our camera
to adjust and make the same light come in and see essentially how bad it looks
compared to this lens right here now i've had to quickly adjust the setting
in my camera called the iso value to accommodate for this higher f-stop
value that doesn't allow as much light to be let in
so this lens right here we're going to change back over it it's called a prime
and then we'll quickly look at what camera and lens setup
you can get on a budget if you want to get a good picture whether you're
getting into video making on youtube or if you're getting into streaming on a
budget
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so hopefully what we saw with that comparison was how important it is to
get the right gear for the right job now if you're a landscaper and you're out in
the sun something like this kit lens is going to do
good i guess it's going to be a good thing but a lot of us who want to shoot
cameras especially on youtube you're either focusing on something like
99 of the times or the other one percent of the time you
still want bokeh in the shot so that's where a prime lens if you
learn to shoot on a prime lens you're going to experience better colors
better bucket for less money generally so with that aside let's go
with some recommendations here if you want to get
some cheap streaming quality but still get a really good picture quality
similar to what you're getting here you can go on ebay or other websites
like maybe go on your local sites whether it's
craigslist or gumtree or facebook marketplace and you can
generally look for something like this an eos 650d
this is going to set you back maybe 200 like if you offer them 200 bucks
you'll probably get one there's one on uh buy it now for 275 bucks so
these go around 200 to 250 dollars usually that's what you can get them for
and this will give you the option of then getting
either one of two lenses i'd recommend if you're on a budget and that is the
yongnuo nifty 50 it's a f 1.8 so it's going to
give you a very similar picture to what you're seeing here
on my camera or you can get the 35 mil f2 if you want
a bit more of a wider picture so if you're in a very small space but you
still want to get a good picture out i'd probably recommend going with a 35 mil
so basically for the money you can get yourself for maybe 350 bucks
you can get yourself something that's going to give you
really good filming quality if you're starting out on a budget
now if you're going to be streaming you're going to want to get a microphone
obviously so this is a microphone that i'd
recommend straight off the bat for 68 you can get a usb microphone with
a 16 millimeter diaphragm now i'm using the corsair wave 3.
that's because i'm sponsored by corsair and they make a really nice microphone
but it does cost an additional roughly 90
msrp than what you're seeing here and you're not going to be getting
over double the voice quality this is pretty much going to give you
80 percent of what most microphones can do after that you're going to be going
into small detail you're either going to get a
deeper voice or you're going to be getting all these other things
that aren't going to affect someone just talking into a microphone
so if you're going to be doing that something like this is going to serve
you really well for 68 bucks then if you want to get a
cheap pair of headphones these are the most renowned headphones in the
market for value for money 29 bucks i've got a set of these around my studio here
they're called the kph 30is from coss absolutely phenomenal value for money
phenomenal sound quality they're lightweight
if you want to go out and do a workout outside get some good audio
these will do the job and they've also got a built-in mic so if you don't want
to be sitting in a static position playing
games if you're moving around a bit you can just use these to game with your
friends and they're still going to be able to hear you
absolutely fine so now we've essentially just covered the most two important
things to getting any recording done and that is video
quality and audio quality they do say audio quality
is slightly more important than video quality
but i'd say they both matter in the grand scheme of things
so you can get really good audio and really good picture quality
for literally under 500 bucks in 2020. so the next piece of the puzzle you're
going to need to connect your camera to your computer
is what's called a video capture input so basically a lot of the time say for
instance a graphics card that's going to be outputting a vga
signal and this is going to essentially input
one into your computer this is a budget one for 25 bucks
me personally i'm using the elgato cam link 4k it's 120
bucks so it is a little bit more expensive but it will give you better
video quality next up in the pipeline is your
motherboard i don't know why this is in japanese and the weirdest thing is i can
actually read this too it's like urudora usb dengen that means ultra usb
power so this one is the b450 steel legend
and of course there's another one that i do like and that is the b450 aorus elite
now i'm looking at these two motherboards because they represent good
value for money if you want to get into
streaming or recording go grab yourself one of these at ryzen 5
3600 and you got yourself really good performance for gaming but also
for recording videos and even streaming and so i'm going to talk about these two
motherboards it's important instead of like i usually here at the
channel recommend uh going with a really cheap motherboard
if you're just gaming but if you're streaming there's
a reason why you want to spend a little bit more on your motherboard and that's
so you can get strong usb ports and this is most likely
because you're going to be running things like your cam link
a usb microphone even a usb headset and then you've got your mouse keyboard
it might have rgb leds on it even a stream deck if you want to spend
a bit more on streaming i'm just going to quickly take my usb
headset off to make sure that these usb ports aren't overloaded and now
we're going on to the next best thing you can do
to get really good picture quality this is something that's really underrated
and that is lighting you have to have good lighting you generally want
a light coming off one angle of your face
and then you want a light over in sort of at the other
sort of degree hitting the back of your head aka a hair light so
you'll generally want two lights on your face or your subject or whatever you're
filming if you're filming a product or a pair of headphones you generally
want two lights and then in the background there we've
just got what's called a placement light or a bit of a decoration for the set and
of course we've got the computer in the background that's
got some rgb through the roof and that's really sort of not just lighting up the
scene giving it a bit of spice but getting lighting it doesn't cost that
much you can get these soft boxes i use three of them in my studio and i've used
them for years they're absolutely fine and they only set you back around 49
bucks if you're in australia you can get two
of them for 104 aussie which would be around 75 us
dollars or something like that so you can get lighting for very cheap but
it's very important to have if you're filming at night or even if
you're filming in the day and you don't have sunlight coming in at
all angles to wherever you're filming now of course
that being said if you are on a strict budget and you can't afford lighting
just make good use of sunlight it's technically in my opinion some of the
best filming and best photos can be done in the sun so if you are out in the
sun all day do be careful i don't want you getting
burnt because i want you to keep watching my videos
and we're on to the last bit and this is monitors right if you're
if you're streaming or you're gaming you can get away with having your
secondary monitor and third monitor as a real
cheap monitor a lot of the times like this was a true story that i had came
around here someone came around they wanted to get a
240hz monitor and i said yeah 240hz is great fluid
really great gaming experience but then they said i want to get
three 240hz monitors to stream and i said well are you going to use
nvidia surround or something like that that's where you've got all three
monitors putting out your game and he said no i'm gonna
stream and i said what is he gonna game on one and then have all your other
stuff on the other two monitors he said yes
and i said you do not need three 240hz monitors
your stream does not need to be monitored in 240 hertz so
you can save a lot of money and i'll show you guys right here
you save a lot of money by picking up some cheap 17-inch monitors for around
20 bucks you just get two of these one to the left one to the right that is
my preferred setup if i'm streaming one to monitor my obs
stream labs recording software the other to
use my main game or my main subject of the video
and then another monitor spare to do whatever whether i'm talking to someone
on skype or something like that i've got that monitor as a spare for
backup and so even if you're in australia you
can pick these up for 15 aussie dollars on your local site this is a site called
gumtree i love this site and this one here is 15 aussie dollars
that's like about 10 us dollars and you can get a vga to hdmi
adapter with that so that's going to save you a lot of
money you find two of these that's 20 bucks and you got your two secondary
monitors done then you can go onto amazon buy your
fancy 144 hertz monitor or your 240hz monitor and you can be
having fun on a budget and now here we are at
today's video at the finish line and all i'm going to
say is especially if you're streaming this one's really important go into
streaming software go into your output and just make sure
your encoder is selected to your graphics card i've
got a 5700 xt in my system at the moment and you
can see here i'm using the hardware that's the amd gpu
to basically do all the hard work when it comes to recording this video
so that's how easy it is instead of getting a really
new beauty uh 1 000 cpu you don't need to do that you don't need
to go out and buy a 3950x to stream minecraft or stream uh
warcraft world of warcraft or stream even call of duty war zone
you can get away with the ryzen 5 3600 but basically just use the graphics
card's dedicated encoder to do all the hard work and take that
off your cpu and you'll be having happy days you'll
be having a really smooth stream you'll be getting still
really good video quality i mean i'm recording off the amd
gpu encoder which is inferior than the nvidia encoder with the rtx decoder and
especially and you guys i mean i don't know i'd
love to see someone complain about the video quality in today's video
i think it's absolutely fine i've watched it back i'm like damn it looks
really nice and bellissimo voila i
i don't even know what that means i i think i heard it somewhere so
i think it's italian if it is uh let me know in the comments i think i butchered
it but in today's video i wanted to show you
guys that you can go out and build what computer you want you can go out and get
a gtx 1660 super or a rx 5600 xt
and a ryzen 5 3600 or i5 10 400 and they're going to be great choices if
you're looking for good value for money on the new market
but some of these things that i'm showing you here is just in turn if you
want to get a streaming setup that looks really good
you can save money throughout the whole process and still get something
that looks just like someone who's spent three times as much
on their setup and in order to do that it's really not that hard at all
you get on this gear and if you are serious about filming
then you'll start to learn on your own all the nooks and crannies and things
that you like and things that you don't like with your
current gear because believe me the stuff that i've recommended you here
today you are going to be able to get some
really good picture and voice quality out there
for whoever wants to watch your videos and now we've got the question of the
day which comes from georges rapp and they ask is an
r5 that's a ryzen 5 1600 af combined with the gtx 1660 super a great
choice if you want recommend something else
that's an absolutely fine combo at the moment ddr4
memory is actually as i did a video on this
i'll put the link up here it's actually cheaper on the new market than ddr3
so ryzen 5 1600 af if you can pick it up for that 85 dollar price tag
and with the gtx 1660 super that's a really good combo so
there's no real need to recommend something else i mean i
do like the x99 xeon combo off aliexpress but
in the current climate depends where you live you may be waiting
a couple of months for that to rock up to your door but other than that since i
did recommend jumping on craigslist and local sites like gumtree
i would recommend if you don't mind looking at the used market as well
for some used bargains on older cpus even ryzen first gen stuff
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