![]() This tool only allows you to send video capture with a quality of 720px. ![]() However, sometimes we don’t need everything for streaming.įor example, both WordCamp Spain and WordCamp Europe were streamed using Streamyard. In fact, in Spain some of the items you share here have been sold out for several months, those of the ElGato brand (I think many of us take advantage of the confinement to do our streaming). This setup is amazing for video class recording, documentaries, videos for our Youtube channel etc. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! We’ve put together a Guide to Distributed Work Tools here, which includes a lot of great equipment recommendations for day-to-day video meetings. Lighting (we need to see you, naturally).Solid internet connection (the most important thing, always).If I were to put together a livestreaming “hierarchy of needs,” it would be: You could drop about half the cost with only a minor drop in quality switching the camera and lens to a Sony RX100 VII and a small 3.5mm shotgun mic, and that’s probably what I’ll use if I ever start traveling again. When you run this off a laptop its fan can get really loud.Īgain, not the most practical for day to day meetings, but if you’re doing prominent remote streaming appearances-or if your child is an aspiring YouTube star-that’s how you can spend ~9k USD going all-out. Here’s what the setup looks like all put together:Īfter that photo was taken I got a Mac Mini mount and put the computer under the desk, which is much cleaner and quieter, but used this earlier photo so you could see everything plugged in. For the mic I use the audio feed from the Camlink, run through Krisp.ai if there is ambient noise, and it works great (except in the video above where it looks a few frames off and I can’t figure out why. This is “extra” as the kids say and it may be tricky to get an ear molding taken during a pandemic. I love in-ear monitors from Ultimate Ears, so you can put one of these in and run the cable down the back of your shirt, and I use a little audio extender cable to easily reach the computer’s 3.5mm audio port. For audio I usually just use a headset at this point, but if you want to not have a headset in the shot… The only thing I haven’t been able to figure out is how to horizontally flip the screen in MacOS so all the text isn’t backward in the mirror reflection. I like to put the video of the person I’m talking to right over the lens, so near the bottom of my screen, and voilà! You now have great eye contact with the person you’re talking to. ( You can also use an iPad and Sidecar for that.) Now you’ll have a reversed copy of your screen on the teleprompter mirror. If you’d like to have a more two-way conversation Interrotron style, set up the teleprompter on the tripod, put the camera behind it, connect the portable monitor to your computer (I did HMDI to a Mac Mini) and “mirror” your display to it. Put the Key Light wherever it looks best. Now you have the most beautiful webcam you’ve ever seen, and you can use the Camlink as both a video source and an audio source using the shotgun mic. ![]() Plug the HDMI from the camera to the USB Camlink, then plug that into your computer. You can run off the built-in battery for a few hours, but the Gonine virtual battery above lets you power the camera indefinitely. GEAR GUIDEīasically what you do is put the A7r camera, shotgun mic, and the lens together and switch it to video mode, go to Setup 3, choose HDMI settings, and turn HDMI Info Display off - this gives you a “clean” video output from the camera. Now we’re onto something! Illustration by Steve Hardieįor normal video conferencing a setup this nice is a distraction, but if you’re running for political office during a quarantine, a public company CEO talking to colleagues and the press, here’s a cost-is-no-object CEO livestreaming kit you can set up pretty easily at home. Then I came across this article about the Interrotron, a teleprompter-like device Errol Morris would use to make his Oscar-winning documentaries. When I reviewed recordings, especially for major broadcasts, my eyes kept looking at the person on the screen rather than looking at the camera. The quality improved, however something was still missing: I felt like I wasn’t connecting with the person on the other side. I had experimented with using a Sony camera and capture card for the virtual event we did in February when WordCamp Asia was canceled, but that Trevor Noah video and exchanging some tweets with Garry Tan sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, even after I was on-record with The Information saying a simpler setup is better. ![]() When Bill Gates was on Trevor Noah’s show it was amazing how much better quality his video was. Update: There’s an updated 2021 version of this setup. ![]()
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