Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and in this video I'm going to be talking to you about
how I'm trying to make my mouse videos better so here I have a wonderful mouse which I have been
testing out and trying and this as a side note might be my new favorite at least at the moment
this is the Steelseries x5 which is a very nice mouse for a number of different reasons I'm going
to do a proper unboxing and review of it and also a comparison with the Aerox 3 and some other mice
shortly but this isn't about that it is instead about something else which is how I'm going to try
and take my mouse videos and improve the quality of them in a number of ways and one of the ways
I've been doing this is actually employing something that I've already done previously
did I video on previously but I want to show a bit more depth and that's using Elgato's green screen
mouse mat now one of the things that you might notice is that behind me I obviously have a very
sort of nice setup for my unboxing and recording purposes this is literally a desk purely dedicated
to capturing nice footage of mice keyboards and other things I don't use anything on here at
all there's no computers or anything on there oh well I tell a lie there is actually one in
the corner there that's the Corsair 4000d that's because I'm doing a video on that and more on that
later hopefully however what I want to be able to show you is how I'm going to use this space
instead of my normal space to do content so what I'm doing is using the green screen mouse mat
to overlay the gameplay footage with the mouse on it so you can see a mouse in action
now essentially the reason for this is I have actually had some comments I've
talked about previously about how I take on board comments that people leave
and one of the ones was one of the criticisms I've had of my mouse videos is that my b-roll is stupid
because all you've seen is the mouse and you're not actually seeing it being used
which I was both offended and interested about because yes
I suppose that's true I take it that people will understand I actually am using the mouse I'm
using it on a daily basis for working for video editing and for gaming but I don't always include
the footage and the reason for that is my desk is often in chaos and it's very difficult to position
the camera in a way which will capture nice footage and also have good lighting now I have
a good light as you can see from the lighting behind me and you've probably seen before and it's
just out of the range of the thing at the moment I can move the big light around and you'll see the
light changes and so I can light up the space but in order to light up my mouse I'd have to light up
my desk which then reflect on the monitor and it becomes tricky but I had an idea because as you
can see up here I have cameras set up and I also have really good lighting in this area because
of a light that's up here and another one over there and so this is perfect for the green screen
use now because this is a wireless mouse I can actually connect up one of the cameras so this one
with an HDMI cable so I can have a feed that's running from that into my computer
and then shows the mouse so I can easily in theory capture live footage from that put it into OBS
and then do some clever trickery so I'm going to use that to show you what I do and how I'm going
to use this to hopefully improve my mouse videos in future especially for wireless mice because
it's very easy to do this but it's also not easy and I'm going to show you why right now so what
I'm doing now is I'm running the camera above me in through the Roland UNV-022 which I demonstrated
previously which is essentially a device where you can run a HDMI source into it and then into your
PC and I have it set up and what you will notice is actually the green screen mouse mat actually
already has the filter on so I'll show you how I do this in a minute because it becomes a little
bit interesting I think it's worth doing and this is Elgato's green screen mouse mat and you can see
it's basically invisible and actually if you look out the window behind me you'll see that the field
is also invisible but essentially if I just show the other source now you can see the mouse itself
and what I can do is if I go into filters I can add a chromatic key to it and now I have
the mouse green screened out now this isn't perfect but what you'll see is the lighting
is pretty good which is very important for green screen work and it means that it's a bit easier to
ensure the mouse is there but without too much green so there is a little bit of green on my
hand for example so I probably need to adjust the filter a little bit but it demonstrates
the purpose of what I'm trying to do so the goal here is essentially to be able to overlay
the mouse over something else
and what I've done with this setup this is essentially
you can actually see the green screen there's that's freaky there's the massive mouse being
green screened onto the mouse mat in the background it was pretty entertaining so
what I'm going to be doing is sitting here on this side playing games on the other side and
then putting that footage across and so I am going to try and demonstrate some of that in a
second but what it means is I end up sitting here with the mouse on this side and my keyboard on my
lap while facing this way to look at the monitor on the other side and I think just it shows how
much effort is going to go into this little thing now it might be a bit easier in theory to just
set up a boom arm like I have got as you can see because I've got the cod cast on it here I could
put a camera on this I could put it above my mouse mat and I could do things from that angle but what
you'll notice if I turn the camera around is that over this side is a bit crazy messy at the moment
it's also a lot darker as you can see even if I turn the light you can see I've got a lot going
on at the moment I'm testing the speaker out I've also got two keyboards I'm switching between uh my
stream deck and Go XLR on my desk and I've got the mouse mat as well a big monitor and other things
so the point is it's not terribly easy to set up a place where you can do something like this
where I have a mouse map within easy reach that I can capture footage on and then use that
so now I'm going to demonstrate the process for how I'm setting this up so essentially
what I'm going to do is show you how I'm going to capture this footage it's really straightforward
and this is OBS now you could do this with several different tools but as I said I'm using the Roland
UCV-02 at the moment and so what I'm going to do is just add that in quickly and go into here and
you select video capture device I'll go in here and select okay and then you can see we have
uvc02 from the drop down now you could see that I also have a camlink 4k that's another
good way to do it you could do it with a webcam and other things too
so now you can see for temporary reasons I have a controller in place of the mouse because I'm
using the mouse right now to do this capture but I'll show you the mouse in a second so what I'm
going to do is essentially just put this here at the bottom and I'll demonstrate why in a second
and normally you'd want to fit to screen but I'm going to put it in the corner because I
don't want it to fill up the entire screen I just want it to be a demonstration purposes now we're
going to click on filter so we're going to add a filter into here I'm going to add an effect filter
of Chroma key when we do that it should automatically get the right color so it's green
and you can see there's a little bit of green hue down the bottom so you could possibly adjust it
a smidge that actually maybe that you can see that's taken off some of the edging where it
was a little bit green so this might actually be better like this so now I have that set up the
next thing I'm going to do is going to launch a game so I'm quickly just going to start up a game
and for demonstration purposes because it's a good fun game going to use ready or not so while that
game is starting up I am now going to add a game source so go into here and we'll add game capture
and we're going to select specific window ready or not and now ready or not is here but it's on
the top you can see the controller is now hidden because they're not in the right order so you
have to drag the video capture up to the top and then that puts the controller in so now I
have the controller in the right place and we're just going to quickly start the game now so the
logic here is quite simply what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put the keyboard on my lap
move the controller out of the way put the mouse in its place so now if I position myself properly
you can see you just get to the edge of the screen and if I just click off here a minute
like that and I can start a mission and you can see that you get to see a live feed
of what's happening in the game and also me using the mouse I mean obviously I can make it bigger or
larger my point here is to sort of show the mouse I could make it bigger perhaps that would be more
engaging I wanted to show the real-time use case of it and what it's like but you could obviously
make it smaller you could bring this into a stream obviously you do have to be careful of the edges
of it if I go too far to the edges and it's going to disappear and obviously also I need to keep
it within the camera's distance but it gives me a live visualization of what that's like and you can
but right now I mean this all looks straightforward but rather than sitting
at my desk doing this I'm sitting with the mouse on one side keyboard on my lap but my computer on
the other side so I'm not looking in the direction my mouse is and I'm twisting my body into really
awkward positions so I thought it'd just be an interesting demonstration of how I'm doing this
and how you could do it to give you an idea of what it's like and side note this game's
great fun by the way and someone's holding this door shut so and they're on the other side of it
this is going to let me deploy yep there we go I have a c2 charge
I think that sorted them right out
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got any questions and also come back to see that x3 because look at it it's gorgeous
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