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As many of you have noticed, there is a stark difference between the quality of

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the videos that I shoot in the studio with my staff and the quality of the

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videos that I shoot at home by myself. Bless their hearts, my Logitech webcam

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and second generation Mod Mic try real hard, but we are day seven into the

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quarantine beard here and I figure if I'm going to get serious about streaming

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at home and making videos at home, it is

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time for an upgrade. Here is what we're

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starting with. And by the end of this video, this is going to be about the

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Ballinist streaming setup within reason.

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That is at least if uh Jake's word is

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anything to go by. First, we've got one of Elgato's Keylight Airs. So, these are

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a nice lightweight, super bright Wi-Fi

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app controlled uh light that comes with a stand and it's doesn't really need a

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diffuser because it's got its own built-in kind of diffusion layer. We've

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got an Elgato Multimount, which I originally thought was a mount for

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multiple key light airs. Not. So, in fact, that mount is for this Canon T6i.

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Uh we didn't choose this camera for any particular reason and this lens is in

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fact a placeholder. But the idea was just to have a better camera than a

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webcam. We're replacing the mod mic with a broadcaster mic from Rode that's going

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to be powered by a Euphoria UM2 from Behringer. Got a nice little stand from

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Rode to go with it. Capturing the video from our camera is going to be the

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CamLink 4K from Elgato. That's a USB 4K

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capture card. We've also got a power

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adapter for the camera so that we don't have to run batteries in it. An HDMI

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cable also for the camera, pop filter,

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hammer. I promise you this will get interesting. And finally, an Elgato

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Stream Deck. So, this is the 12 button variety. They've got little screens on

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all the buttons so you can set up all your scenes and all that good stuff.

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Now, it's after midnight, which means that I can't really count on Ivon to

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shoot this whole thing with me. So, we're going to throw the camera on a tripod and get real creative about the

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way that we're filming this late into the night. It really is harder to do

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Many people's first impulse when they want to improve their video quality is

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to upgrade their camera. But as you can see, I'm getting a dramatically better

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feed out of the same webcam that I started this video out with just by

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changing my lighting. So, that's where we're going to start. But of course,

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rather than grabbing a couple of studio

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quality lights and bringing them to my house and putting them on seaands, I am

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of course going to begin with these key light airs. Wow, that's a heavy base.

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They got weights in there. Power supply.

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So, we got a little ball doodad we're going to tighten up in there. Key light

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air kind of diffusion pad thing here.

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Oh, that's kind of finicky. So, you got to undo this and then you got to stick

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both things in without the whole thing coming apart. That goes in at the

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bottom. And the experience is 100%

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toolless except for the user. Hey, got them. I'm going to want these on kind of

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the right and left to evenly light up my face. You know, I told myself that part

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of this process was going to be cable managing my desk. That's clearly not

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happening. Oh, how convenient is that? And they've got little numbers on them

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so you can actually make them even nice.

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Select the accessory you want to control. Turned off and back on. Wow,

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that looks so soft. Can hardly tell I've got an isolation beard at all. So, you

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can go ahead. You can adjust the temperature of the color. Well, I'm

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definitely lit AF now. Actually, hey, Von, can you turn the room lights off so

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that we can see what it looks like with just the stream lights?

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Okay, then. Well, fancy lights are still

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not going to compensate for the fact that I'm still using a webcam. But this

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is progress. Let's see if we can kick things up another notch. This looks even

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simpler than the other mount. You got one of these handy dandy tighten it to

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attach it arms right here. Then you basically screw this end into the bottom

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of the camera. Wa! Look at it go. Wow. Look at that.

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To be clear, I'm not hating on the Brio. It is an excellent webcam. It's just

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still a webcam, that's all. The next cool item in our bag of tricks is this

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DC power adapter. So, it actually comes with a wall wart, but I'm not going to

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need that because I have a high-owered USB port on my USB hub. So, I'm just

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going to take these cables and plug straight into that. We got video. It's

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set to 60 FPS, 720p, but I have no idea

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how to get rid of this stuff on the screen or how clean the HDMI feed is

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right now. For that, we will need an HDMI capture card.

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Just going to plug the Cam Link directly into the back of my Thunderbolt hub

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here. We are setting up Cam Link 4K. To hook

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it up, all I need is this micro HDMI to HDMI cable. I hope

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we had it for a second there. See,

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that's this. I don't get any output on the back screen when I've got an HDMI

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cable plugged into it. That's sort of inconvenient. There it is. See that? Oh,

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it's like interlaced AF. Here, of course, this game wouldn't have been as

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fun without the side quests. Now, we're updating the firmware on our camera.

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Firmware update complete. Let's plug her back in. Yeah, that still looks

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horrible. Well, that might be a slight problem. It appears that I selected a

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USB 2 port. Wait, did I?

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I don't know about that. The Elgato software seems to think so. Well, let's

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try one of these other ones then. Okay, we get signal. Ooh, that also

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looks like 60 FPS. Now, after fighting

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my way through the menu here, I figured out how to disable the auto power off.

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So, that's there. Uh, what I don't know yet is while it does say 60 FPS here,

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that seems to suggest that that's internal recording, that doesn't

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necessarily indicate that the output will be 60 FPS. So, it says here 1080i

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60fps, but then on the input, but then output

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is 30 FPS in Elgato's utility. Maybe that's an Elgato setting I can change,

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though. What is good is that a 60 FPS interlaced output turning into a 30 FPS

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progressive input is perfectly normal. So, we're going to be stuck with 30 FPS

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for the live feed, but that should be fine as long as the gameplay is 60 FPS.

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I really doubt anyone's going to be bothered by that. So, this is

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configured. It's got that face detect thing.

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Wow, that is a lot of beard. Hey, there

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we go. All right, cool. Now, I am getting some interlacing artifacts. You

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can see that. Uh hopefully we can apply

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some kind of de-inlacing filter. Hey,

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deinlacing. Oh, that is better, isn't

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it? That is one heck of an improvement. I think what I'm going to want to do is

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actually match my lights here to the

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light in this room so that I can have a little bit of light behind me. Does this

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even look that much better than the webcam? Webcam. Real cam. Webcam. Real

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cam. Yeah, I just don't think the webcam's going to get there. All right.

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And something to consider, guys, is remember you're going to see it like this. So, at 720p, that's going to look

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pretty sharp. Okay, then this is progress. This is camera upgrade and

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lighting upgrade. Now, it's time for

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audio upgrade. For this, we will need the microphone ARM. So, I'm going to go

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ahead and just attach that right next to where my headphones go. Kind of like

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that. And this hold the microphone. Ooh,

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shiny. This clearly goes on here. I have a

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slight problem right now, though. I feel like there's supposed to be a little

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ring in here, and I can't find one. Thankfully, there is a backup plan. I'm

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going to steal the nice shock mount from

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the RE20. Of course, a microphone like this doesn't plug into just any old 3

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and 1/2 mm jack. You need an XLR interface. So, that is where the

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Behringer Euphoria UM2 comes in. This thing's pretty cool. It's actually

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completely USB bus powered. So, you won't be powering anything like super

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super crazy off of it or anything like that, but you just plug this little

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puppy in via USB. XLR goes in the front

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and bippity boppity, you are off to the races. This mic requires 48vt phantom

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power. So, we'll go ahead and turn that on. Now, it's time for the big test.

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Let's see if there's an improvement going from the mod mic to the broadcast

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mic. This is the mod mic and this is the

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broadcast mic. What do you guys think, ladies and gentlemen? So, we got our

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broadcast mic and we're back to the mod mic now. So, if I was sitting here, oh,

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I'm playing a game. It's real intense. I'm I'm got my gamer face on. Now I'm

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switched over to the broadcast microphone. Now I got my gamer face on.

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Pretty good. I don't know. I have no way of knowing. I'm monitoring this one, but

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I'm not monitoring the other one. So, I got to go back and look at the footage. Small update, I did get my issues with

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the Go XLR sorted out, so I'm using that now. It might not have the most amazing

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reputation for audio quality either, but I really like a lot of the features and

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it's super easy to use. So, full credit to the Mod Mic. It's actually a lot

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better sounding by comparison than I expected. I mean, obviously, this one

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has a lot more dynamic range, but yeah,

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credit to the multi-year-old mod mic.

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Now, I remember I promised to use a hammer. That's because one of the

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biggest problems with my setup right now actually has nothing to do with the

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computer or really streaming at all. It's that my stupid,

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stupid, horrible carpet protector is

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sliding around all the time. I'm going to nail it into the plywood. Last piece

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of the puzzle. Time for the stream deck. You can

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program macros, put little pictures so you don't forget what they do. The good

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news is that going through this software, I've got this like epic

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streaming setup that I can use. All right, OBS. So, title, screen, scene,

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line of screen share. I'm all set up. So, now all that's left is to jump into

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a game and see if I have got what it takes to be the next Twitch sensation.

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Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what we can do about our uh

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eyeglasses supply chain. We've got to get some more some more eyeglasses.

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There's no way to win, right? You get to the point where you use propaganda and

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people get mad because you use propaganda. And if you don't use

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propaganda, they're mad because you didn't use propaganda to increase their

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happiness. Like, why are the engineers so mad? I feel like I'm watching my

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future as a Twitch streamer. Come on, let's go. Just attack the harbor. Do we

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some more of my isolation content. I uh replaced the cells inside a battery

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bank. That was a fun little adventure. Uh the sparks definitely flew, so uh

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maybe check that out. The beard wasn't quite as glorious at that point yet,

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though.