How's it going, everyone, Miguel,
Quiles here and don't run off, because I know you're looking at this
video and thinking, wow, the quality is just terrible.
But the reality is that in 2020, when I'm filming this video,
most people's Video Conference videos look like this.
And so in today's video
for Alpha Universe, I'm going to show you guys how you can get your videos
from looking like this to something like this.
I'm going to break everything down
for you, show you the lighting setups that I'm using to get this lighting.
It's kind of extreme, but it looks amazing.
Let's get started.
How's it going, everyone? Welcome back.
My name is Miguel Quiles,
and as we talked about in the intro, I'm going to be breaking down exactly
the lighting setup, the camera, the lens, everything that I'm using to get this
really professional-grade, professional quality-looking zoom slash Skype slash teams slash
You know, all those programs that we're
using in 2020 that we're all too familiar with for our video conferences.
I want to show you guys how you can take
that that look, which normally would be coming from a webcam.
But now we're going to upgrade it using
a professional or even just the regular mirrorless camera.
So if you're curious on how to set up your
mirrorless camera to use it with one of these video conferencing apps or
programs, make sure that you check out the video that hopefully would have posted
up before this, where I kind of talk you through
the process of downloading the software, installing it, setting up your camera.
It gives you basically everything in terms
of getting a camera connected to your PC or your Mac.
So definitely check out that video.
If you have any questions about that.
We're really going to be honing
in and focusing more on the lighting, the lenses,
the camera settings that basically give us this like final polished look.
So with that being said, let's get started.
Let's start to kind of break down this
lighting setup that we're using here in the studio.
And
I'm going to turn off all of the lights one by one and just kind of build up
the scene that you're actually seeing, because sometimes when you're watching
these videos, it's kind of hard to tell, like exactly what's going on.
So I want to just kind of strip it all down, start from scratch and just show you
how I build up this scene to make this video.
So first and foremost, the lighting that we have,
that is our practical lighting is going to be coming from these nano leaf canvas
panels that I actually have in the wall behind me.
And they kind of change different colors
and they just kind of add this like really nice kind of RGB glow to the studio,
which I think just looks really interesting and looks cool.
So that light is basically just adding
that little bit of a glow and add some depth to the image.
And then the next light that we're using is this RGB wand.
It's like a little light saber looking stick that I've
actually put over my shelf where I keep by soft boxes and I keep all of my lights
and things of that nature that basically have that in the back.
To add again, another layer of separation
from that background kind of adds a little bit of focal point of interest
in the background, which I think looks really cool.
The next light that I have is a light
made by Locksley and this light basically is
set to blue and it's facing that same shelf where that light is that light wand.
And it's basically just bringing up that ambient light back there and just kind of
kind of making that glow look a little bit
more extreme and just a little bit more noticeable in the video.
And then moving on the next slide, I have a rotolight, annova pro 2.
I'm actually using that as a separation light.
So I have all these kind of RGB colors going on behind me.
And this light is basically just adding a little bit of kind of see it here
in the video, a little highlight, a little outline so that it's making me
have that 3D pop from the rest of the image.
And then finally, what might be the star of the show?
I don't know, but is the main light because obviously you want to make sure
you have a really nice, good, soft light on yourself.
And so I'm using a three by four soft box, which is going to provide a really nice
big soft light and the aperture ones we need.
Now, keep in mind, I'm telling you,
all of these different lights and stuff that I'm using to make this really crazy
setup, but you can use whatever lights it is that you have.
So it's not so much that you have to use
the specific lights that I'm talking about.
But you just want to keep in mind as you're setting up your, like, next level
video conferencing studio
that you want to make sure that you have multiple layers of lighting in your scene
because it's going to make it look more interesting, is going to make it look
really like highly produced, which is what we want.
So that's the lighting setup.
Let's talk about the camera, the lens,
the camera settings that are going to give us the finishing touches to this look.
All right.
So let's talk about the camera setup that I'm going to be using here.
I've got the Sony A7 see, which is a beautiful full frame camera.
I got the flip screen to be able to see.
I mean, I can obviously see myself in the the Zoom app or the Skype app,
but it's really nice to have this flip screen where I could also see in a much
better quality what the image is actually looking like.
I'm using the twenty four one point four
master lens, even though I have other lenses,
I've got the 16 to 35 G.M., which is also very good.
But this 24 one point four is a fantastic lens for video conferencing,
because it's not super wide where you're getting more of the background and you're
getting just more detail than what you actually need.
It's just a really good focal length for that, like front and center.
You know, I'm in the middle of the frame and talking to the camera.
It's a really good focal length for that.
Being able to open up to one point four is also super useful because it blurs out
the background in a really pleasing type of way.
So this 24 G.M. is probably my favorite lens.
But obviously, you know, we're at the
kind of like the higher level of the alpha series of lenses.
So if you wanted to go for something that's not as extreme but still looks
really good, Sony has the 20 millimeter F one point
eight lens, which is also really fantastic.
Great lens to be able to do these virtual
conferences and actually make it look really good.
Just open up that aperture itself on point
eight and you're going to get an image that looks really, really good.
So for my settings here, I'm at ISO 100 f one point four, fiftieth of a second.
These are all the, you know, typical settings that one would have if
they were going to shoot a sale like a YouTube video or something like that.
You'll actually maybe see this lighting setup in the YouTube videos that I'm
making here for Alpha Universe and be like, man, it looks really similar to this
video conferencing video that he's making right now.
And that's because it is it's the same exact setup.
So if you wanted to kind of upgrade your
YouTube video, look, you can totally take the same idea,
the same concept and apply it to those videos.
But that's basically the entire setup
that we're using as far as the camera and the lens for the audio.
I've actually got Sony's microphone on top of the hot issue and that that microphone
is actually going to be capturing all of the audio, feeding it through to
whatever program it is that you're using so that you can get good quality audio.
Obviously, when it comes to video
conferencing, audio is a very important piece to that.
There's a lot of different options that you can run with.
But what I love about this microphone is that it's small, it's discrete.
You don't have to plug it into the camera.
It just works off of the hot shoe, which is super useful.
So it's one less thing for you to worry
about when you're trying to set up really quickly for a meeting.
This side of things is very quick, very easy to set up.
And that's basically everything that you
need to be able to have a really nice, clean, beautiful webcam setup.
So what questions you guys have about this?
Let me know in the comments section below
and I'll do my best to answer all of your questions.
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So thank you so much for watching this video.
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