hey guys tom here from fx home and today we're looking at how to get your webcam footage
looking like this to this with many of us now working from home it's important to keep a level
of professionalism in your setups whether it be for live streams podcasts presentations or just
catching up with your nan we're going to be doing this by going over some household items that you
already have access to to enhance your footage as well as going over a couple of accessories
to enhance the quality this will be a step-by-step process so you can see how we actually managed
to get to this result but before anything if you could hit the subscribe button and ring the bell
icon it really helps out the channel and lets us know that you're having a good time so so this
is probably familiar right the angle the view the quality it's it's all wrong it's terrible
right now i'm working with a laptop's webcam uh so how on earth do we start making this look better
well number one is the angle you don't want to look at my nose i don't want you to look up my
nose this angle is even more unflattering when you're working in complete darkness illuminated
by the screen light you look like you're out of horror film organ portraits should be eye
level and here is no exception this can easily be sorted with the help of a laptop stand a couple of
books or a box if you have one lying around the house now that we're eye line we need to create
some depth between myself and the background right now i am way too close to this wall and it's not
really doing anything in terms of the shot i feel like we can create a bit more depth between myself
and the background and that'll help out our entire lighting process so i'm actually going to rotate
my setup round come have a journey with me we're going to rotate around around yeah that looks a
bit better i didn't plan this at all this is much better and clearly has a lot more space in it
this is definitely looking a lot nicer and a bit more professional but um not to sound like your
mum but clean your room we may be stuck inside but we don't want the person on the receiving end
of a phone call or presentation to think that we're a bit messy might give the wrong
impression this is a tip so i'm going to clean it now time lots of times having a great time
much better right now we're looking a lot better than what we were but we're very
flat and a bit lifeless to be honest we need to create some contrast and separation between myself
and the background one of the first things that i'm going to be adding oh god what's this one oh
tom you really fudged this one up the first thing we can do to enhance the quality of this image
is introduce a new light this light is just going to sit by my desktop and be able to act as a thing
that's looking a little bit bright so i might turn that down just a touch lovely without with without
with now i know you're thinking i don't have a ring light a nice simple alternative to the
ring light is to actually increase the brightness of your monitor or introduce a desk lamp does the
same thing all you're doing with this technique is just adding some light onto your subject so your
webcam can do its thing and there's no problems at the moment there is no daylight coming into
the scene but there is a very large window beside me if there was a large amount of light coming
into this if i redirected myself to face that window and allowed that daylight to come through
it would do the same thing as the ring light embrace the light and it shall guide the way
another thing that i've done is add this practical light in the background this is a really nice way
to bring some atmosphere and depth to your scene and also create a little bit of divide between
myself and the background that way you're not blending all into one now for the purposes of this
tutorial being bearable i am using an external mic if i was to switch to the built-in one i sound
a little bit of crackly it becomes even worse when i start typing to me in this up and avoid
bothering anybody else that may be in the room we can throw on a set of headphones headphones
like these ones are perfect because of where the mic is actually sitting it's in a great positions
where i can be moving around and doing things and it's still going to be right by my mouth as
opposed to the built-in mic where if i was to be moving away back and forth you can hear my
audio displacement the one thing to keep an eye on however is this rubbing up against any clothing or
after press we've been restricted by whatever the laptop actually comes with which is the default
things in most cases this is a hd 1080p webcam but there are a couple of external accessories
that we can add to heighten the quality and the result of our image a first obvious option
is an external webcam these are easy usb plug-in options that can now come in up to 4k resolution
but if 4k sounds like too much for what you need then you can actually use your phone as a webcam
apps like epocam can link with your computer or laptop with most phones these days you're looking
at a 4k camera with a fantastic result for things like podcasts and everything else in between a
blue yeti mic is a simple solution for clean audio as they can simply plug in via usb and immediately
improve your sound quality lastly if you do have access to a dslr you can link this up by using a
cam link these adapters are usually pretty pricey but allow you to stream with the quality of your
dslr thank you for watching this tutorial if you have found something useful please do hit
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down below what you're planning to use these tips for presentation calling nan let us know
thank you again for watching this tutorial and we will see you next time
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