WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.440 As many of you have noticed, there is a stark difference between the quality of 00:00:03.679 --> 00:00:10.240 the videos that I shoot in the studio with my staff and the quality of the 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:14.639 videos that I shoot at home by myself. Bless their hearts, my Logitech webcam 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:20.960 and second generation Mod Mic try real hard, but we are day seven into the 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:25.680 quarantine beard here and I figure if I'm going to get serious about streaming 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:29.599 at home and making videos at home, it is 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:31.840 time for an upgrade. Here is what we're 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:37.360 starting with. And by the end of this video, this is going to be about the 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:41.120 Ballinist streaming setup within reason. 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.360 That is at least if uh Jake's word is 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:50.160 anything to go by. First, we've got one of Elgato's Keylight Airs. So, these are 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:52.559 a nice lightweight, super bright Wi-Fi 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:55.680 app controlled uh light that comes with a stand and it's doesn't really need a 00:00:54.399 --> 00:01:01.039 diffuser because it's got its own built-in kind of diffusion layer. We've 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:05.360 got an Elgato Multimount, which I originally thought was a mount for 00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:10.880 multiple key light airs. Not. So, in fact, that mount is for this Canon T6i. 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:14.799 Uh we didn't choose this camera for any particular reason and this lens is in 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:19.520 fact a placeholder. But the idea was just to have a better camera than a 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:24.320 webcam. We're replacing the mod mic with a broadcaster mic from Rode that's going 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:29.119 to be powered by a Euphoria UM2 from Behringer. Got a nice little stand from 00:01:26.479 --> 00:01:34.000 Rode to go with it. Capturing the video from our camera is going to be the 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:37.200 CamLink 4K from Elgato. That's a USB 4K 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.799 capture card. We've also got a power 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:44.640 adapter for the camera so that we don't have to run batteries in it. An HDMI 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:46.399 cable also for the camera, pop filter, 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.119 hammer. I promise you this will get interesting. And finally, an Elgato 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:53.759 Stream Deck. So, this is the 12 button variety. They've got little screens on 00:01:52.479 --> 00:01:58.399 all the buttons so you can set up all your scenes and all that good stuff. 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.200 Now, it's after midnight, which means that I can't really count on Ivon to 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:06.799 shoot this whole thing with me. So, we're going to throw the camera on a tripod and get real creative about the 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.120 way that we're filming this late into the night. It really is harder to do 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.319 this without a camera crew. Instantly see your current and past network 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:18.400 activity, detect malware, and block badly behaving apps on your Android or 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:22.440 PC device with GlassWire. Use offer code Linus to get 25% off GlassWire at the 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:30.560 link in the video description. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:36.160 Many people's first impulse when they want to improve their video quality is 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:40.560 to upgrade their camera. But as you can see, I'm getting a dramatically better 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:44.560 feed out of the same webcam that I started this video out with just by 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:50.000 changing my lighting. So, that's where we're going to start. But of course, 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:51.920 rather than grabbing a couple of studio 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:56.560 quality lights and bringing them to my house and putting them on seaands, I am 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:04.239 of course going to begin with these key light airs. Wow, that's a heavy base. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:07.040 They got weights in there. Power supply. 00:03:04.239 --> 00:03:13.120 So, we got a little ball doodad we're going to tighten up in there. Key light 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:14.800 air kind of diffusion pad thing here. 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:19.200 Oh, that's kind of finicky. So, you got to undo this and then you got to stick 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:24.800 both things in without the whole thing coming apart. That goes in at the 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:27.440 bottom. And the experience is 100% 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:32.480 toolless except for the user. Hey, got them. I'm going to want these on kind of 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:36.720 the right and left to evenly light up my face. You know, I told myself that part 00:03:34.959 --> 00:03:41.120 of this process was going to be cable managing my desk. That's clearly not 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:45.920 happening. Oh, how convenient is that? And they've got little numbers on them 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:47.519 so you can actually make them even nice. 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:54.720 Select the accessory you want to control. Turned off and back on. Wow, 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:59.200 that looks so soft. Can hardly tell I've got an isolation beard at all. So, you 00:03:56.959 --> 00:04:04.879 can go ahead. You can adjust the temperature of the color. Well, I'm 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:08.239 definitely lit AF now. Actually, hey, Von, can you turn the room lights off so 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:13.439 that we can see what it looks like with just the stream lights? 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:15.120 Okay, then. Well, fancy lights are still 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:22.000 not going to compensate for the fact that I'm still using a webcam. But this 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:25.520 is progress. Let's see if we can kick things up another notch. This looks even 00:04:23.919 --> 00:04:30.880 simpler than the other mount. You got one of these handy dandy tighten it to 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:36.400 attach it arms right here. Then you basically screw this end into the bottom 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:40.560 of the camera. Wa! Look at it go. Wow. Look at that. 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:45.040 To be clear, I'm not hating on the Brio. It is an excellent webcam. It's just 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:49.520 still a webcam, that's all. The next cool item in our bag of tricks is this 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:53.680 DC power adapter. So, it actually comes with a wall wart, but I'm not going to 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:58.560 need that because I have a high-owered USB port on my USB hub. So, I'm just 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:04.400 going to take these cables and plug straight into that. We got video. It's 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.680 set to 60 FPS, 720p, but I have no idea 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:09.919 how to get rid of this stuff on the screen or how clean the HDMI feed is 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:14.639 right now. For that, we will need an HDMI capture card. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:18.479 Just going to plug the Cam Link directly into the back of my Thunderbolt hub 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:23.840 here. We are setting up Cam Link 4K. To hook 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:30.880 it up, all I need is this micro HDMI to HDMI cable. I hope 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:33.600 we had it for a second there. See, 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:36.479 that's this. I don't get any output on the back screen when I've got an HDMI 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:42.479 cable plugged into it. That's sort of inconvenient. There it is. See that? Oh, 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:45.919 it's like interlaced AF. Here, of course, this game wouldn't have been as 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:49.759 fun without the side quests. Now, we're updating the firmware on our camera. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:55.600 Firmware update complete. Let's plug her back in. Yeah, that still looks 00:05:52.880 --> 00:06:03.919 horrible. Well, that might be a slight problem. It appears that I selected a 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:06.639 USB 2 port. Wait, did I? 00:06:03.919 --> 00:06:12.160 I don't know about that. The Elgato software seems to think so. Well, let's 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:17.520 try one of these other ones then. Okay, we get signal. Ooh, that also 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:19.120 looks like 60 FPS. Now, after fighting 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:23.199 my way through the menu here, I figured out how to disable the auto power off. 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:29.360 So, that's there. Uh, what I don't know yet is while it does say 60 FPS here, 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:33.840 that seems to suggest that that's internal recording, that doesn't 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:40.080 necessarily indicate that the output will be 60 FPS. So, it says here 1080i 00:06:38.400 --> 00:06:44.639 60fps, but then on the input, but then output 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:48.639 is 30 FPS in Elgato's utility. Maybe that's an Elgato setting I can change, 00:06:46.479 --> 00:06:54.160 though. What is good is that a 60 FPS interlaced output turning into a 30 FPS 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.080 progressive input is perfectly normal. So, we're going to be stuck with 30 FPS 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:01.280 for the live feed, but that should be fine as long as the gameplay is 60 FPS. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:05.759 I really doubt anyone's going to be bothered by that. So, this is 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:11.360 configured. It's got that face detect thing. 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:13.919 Wow, that is a lot of beard. Hey, there 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:19.280 we go. All right, cool. Now, I am getting some interlacing artifacts. You 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:22.319 can see that. Uh hopefully we can apply 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:25.919 some kind of de-inlacing filter. Hey, 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.080 deinlacing. Oh, that is better, isn't 00:07:25.919 --> 00:07:32.960 it? That is one heck of an improvement. I think what I'm going to want to do is 00:07:29.919 --> 00:07:34.560 actually match my lights here to the 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:37.680 light in this room so that I can have a little bit of light behind me. Does this 00:07:36.479 --> 00:07:43.680 even look that much better than the webcam? Webcam. Real cam. Webcam. Real 00:07:41.919 --> 00:07:47.039 cam. Yeah, I just don't think the webcam's going to get there. All right. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:53.120 And something to consider, guys, is remember you're going to see it like this. So, at 720p, that's going to look 00:07:51.599 --> 00:07:58.800 pretty sharp. Okay, then this is progress. This is camera upgrade and 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:01.759 lighting upgrade. Now, it's time for 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:05.199 audio upgrade. For this, we will need the microphone ARM. So, I'm going to go 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:11.680 ahead and just attach that right next to where my headphones go. Kind of like 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:13.360 that. And this hold the microphone. Ooh, 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.000 shiny. This clearly goes on here. I have a 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:23.039 slight problem right now, though. I feel like there's supposed to be a little 00:08:20.479 --> 00:08:29.680 ring in here, and I can't find one. Thankfully, there is a backup plan. I'm 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:32.240 going to steal the nice shock mount from 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:38.320 the RE20. Of course, a microphone like this doesn't plug into just any old 3 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:43.519 and 1/2 mm jack. You need an XLR interface. So, that is where the 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:48.000 Behringer Euphoria UM2 comes in. This thing's pretty cool. It's actually 00:08:45.680 --> 00:08:52.160 completely USB bus powered. So, you won't be powering anything like super 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:57.519 super crazy off of it or anything like that, but you just plug this little 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:59.440 puppy in via USB. XLR goes in the front 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:04.160 and bippity boppity, you are off to the races. This mic requires 48vt phantom 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:08.320 power. So, we'll go ahead and turn that on. Now, it's time for the big test. 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:14.800 Let's see if there's an improvement going from the mod mic to the broadcast 00:09:10.959 --> 00:09:16.480 mic. This is the mod mic and this is the 00:09:14.800 --> 00:09:20.160 broadcast mic. What do you guys think, ladies and gentlemen? So, we got our 00:09:17.839 --> 00:09:24.160 broadcast mic and we're back to the mod mic now. So, if I was sitting here, oh, 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:29.120 I'm playing a game. It's real intense. I'm I'm got my gamer face on. Now I'm 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:33.120 switched over to the broadcast microphone. Now I got my gamer face on. 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.760 Pretty good. I don't know. I have no way of knowing. I'm monitoring this one, but 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:40.800 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 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.120 the Go XLR sorted out, so I'm using that now. It might not have the most amazing 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:49.440 reputation for audio quality either, but I really like a lot of the features and 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:53.360 it's super easy to use. So, full credit to the Mod Mic. It's actually a lot 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:59.279 better sounding by comparison than I expected. I mean, obviously, this one 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:02.480 has a lot more dynamic range, but yeah, 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:05.200 credit to the multi-year-old mod mic. 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:08.880 Now, I remember I promised to use a hammer. That's because one of the 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:13.279 biggest problems with my setup right now actually has nothing to do with the 00:10:11.040 --> 00:10:19.120 computer or really streaming at all. It's that my stupid, 00:10:15.839 --> 00:10:21.680 stupid, horrible carpet protector is 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:25.440 sliding around all the time. I'm going to nail it into the plywood. Last piece 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:29.920 of the puzzle. Time for the stream deck. You can 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.040 program macros, put little pictures so you don't forget what they do. The good 00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:37.360 news is that going through this software, I've got this like epic 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:43.279 streaming setup that I can use. All right, OBS. So, title, screen, scene, 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:48.000 line of screen share. I'm all set up. So, now all that's left is to jump into 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:52.720 a game and see if I have got what it takes to be the next Twitch sensation. 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:58.160 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what we can do about our uh 00:10:55.839 --> 00:11:01.920 eyeglasses supply chain. We've got to get some more some more eyeglasses. 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:04.880 There's no way to win, right? You get to the point where you use propaganda and 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:08.399 people get mad because you use propaganda. And if you don't use 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:12.480 propaganda, they're mad because you didn't use propaganda to increase their 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:17.200 happiness. Like, why are the engineers so mad? I feel like I'm watching my 00:11:14.640 --> 00:11:21.040 future as a Twitch streamer. Come on, let's go. Just attack the harbor. 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