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we're here at Logitech to check out the c922 webcam it is a direct replacement

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for the legendary C920 webcam which is used by a huge amount of streamers

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including myself the c922 features two

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main new modes 60fps at 720p and

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background replacement let's see how it fares against its tried and trusted

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older

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brother the be quiet! dark Bass Pro 900

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modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations

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click on the link in the video description to learn more let's start

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with the most drastic feature change they now have background replacement

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they've opted not to use Intel real sense we've seen that applied in a few

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different background replacement cameras in the past instead of using a depth

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sensing camera they went with a strictly software solution which is mainly

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focused on shape recognition and comparing contrast levels now when I

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first caught wind of this I thought it was going to be terrible and it wasn't

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at all it was actually rather awesome especially for an amateur streamer or

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something like that it's not going to replace an actual green screen or blue

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screen or something like that but it does a really good job with what it has

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which is actually very impressive especially when we put it in Crazy

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scenarios like pointing it towards a window that was partially open and a

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super variabl back wall something that it shouldn't do very good with to test

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out how well it worked Ed and I ran it through a number of scenarios including

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a few different torture tests where where we expected it to really start

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failing was mainly when we reduced the light in the room and to be fair it did

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get worse but it was impressive that it actually functioned at all we even did

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some testing where we rapidly moved the camera around changing the angle of

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attack that the camera had on the person that it was trying to record this would

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be problematic for a camera that is trying to base its background

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replacement based off the shape of your body and we tried it against a few

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different backgrounds even rapidly changing the backgrounds again there

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were some problems here but it was rather impressive that it functioned at

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all because this was a pretty intense scenario for this type of background

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replacement now again because it's basing itself off of shape recognition

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and contrast helping it out by giving it a second to really recognize what's

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going on in the scene having a basic solid background and having ample

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lighting can really help it out if you want to step up the experience now if

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you do want to put something like a foldable green screen or something

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behind you even if you don't have the throw distance and lighting that you

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would normally expect from a green screen experience you can get a lot out

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of it by using that in combination with the background replacement software and

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a chroma key through whatever streaming software you're using I'll also point

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out that it had an easier time tracking myself than edzel but I would expect

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that is probably due to the reflective properties of his glasses than anything

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else now moving on to 60fps this was enough to sell me on the camera entirely

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by itself before I even heard about the background replacement stuff it streams

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at 60fps 720p just like a huge huge

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amount of twitch streamers because of the max bit rate cap that twitch has

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it's kind of the best way to stream right now so having your webcam being

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able to stream at that same frame rate that same frame rate that pcmr likes is

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very very cool and I must note that checking the settings is rather

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important as the fact of it running at 60fps is a little bit Dynamic for

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instance if you enable low light compensation it's not going to work it

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has to slow down the frame rate so it can get more light per frame dropping

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you down to about 15 FPS not 60 and

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enabling other things can drop it down to 30 even so just make sure that it's

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actually functioning at 60 if that's what your goal is with all the settings

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between the c922 and the C920 set at the

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same thing I did personally find the c922 to be considerably better

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especially when looking at my hair you could really see the older C920 struggle

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with loads of artifacting lines while the newer c922 handled it much better

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managing to look a lot less like the footage I would expect to come from a

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traditional webcam and again I have some additional notes here I would highly

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recommend diving into the manual settings edzel brought this up and I

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definitely agree the sharpness seems to be too low by default they could change

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this later on but just so you know and depending on your setup you might want

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to have different exposure contrast brightness etc etc dive into the manual

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settings you can get a lot more out of the camera that way if you opt to get

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the non-x version you can get an included little mini tripod if you want

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to not mount it on top of your monitor like I expect most of you to do and I

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would also note that I believe the mic in here is the same as the original C920

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meaning it's pretty bad and I would highly recommend that you buy an

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external mic if you're shopping for this thing look at it for its awesome visual

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qualities not the included microphone although included with it comes I

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believe a few months of xplit premium Now last but not least for you security

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fans out there the form factor is essentially identical meaning that it

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works with the old C920 privacy cover and considering that FBI

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director James Comey has recently recommended covering your webcam that

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might be not a bad idea to pick up or continue using if you already own it

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Linus techtips in the how did You Hear About Us section but now I want to know

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what you guys think are you considering upgrading to this over your current C920

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or if you're shopping for a webcam is it just better that this is supposedly the

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same price and better in basically every area and has more features or do you

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just not care let us know in the comments down below or on Twitter @

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Linus thanks for watching check out Amazon to buy one of these things if you

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