[HN Gopher] High-fidelity remote communication
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High-fidelity remote communication
Author : bewuethr
Score : 128 points
Date : 2021-11-02 19:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Arelius wrote:
| Ok, one reality I find this does not address is that not all of
| us have a nice silent space to work in, and most Mic's don't
| perform well in that space.
|
| In my case, I live in a one room Studio Loft with my wife, who is
| in meetings all day and is quite a loud speaker. Pretty much any
| boom/desktop Mic I've tried is also really good at picking her
| up.
|
| My current workaround is to use a unidirectional headset
| microphone[1], But would love other ideas, as cable management is
| a bit cumbersome.
|
| [1]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D49N8C4
| intpx wrote:
| Have you tried a supercardioid dynamic mic with a pre-amp (like
| the sm7 in the post)? These mics have a fairly tight pickup
| pattern, especially with higher frequencies and with a pre-amp
| you can adjust the gain so that it really only picks up when
| you are very nearly touching it. Also, deadening your
| environment goes a looooonnnng way to cutting down on
| background pickup noise. rugs, acoustic panels, divider
| curtains etc.
| Arelius wrote:
| I haven't, but good tips, bit expensive to just try out, but
| might give it a try..
|
| The SM7B seems to be listed as Cardoid not Supercardoid?
| meheleventyone wrote:
| Grab the SM-58 mentioned above for the same impact. A
| dynamic cardioid mic is great for isolating just your
| voice.
| olivierlacan wrote:
| Howdy, author of the post here. I do address this issue in an
| earlier post: https://olivierlacan.com/posts/loud-and-clear/
|
| And generally every single mic recommendation I give in the
| linked post has a cardioid pickup pattern which is precisely
| what can help isolate stray noise in places with louder
| environments. Software like Zoom will do the rest of the work
| for you depending on how aggressive the noise control settings
| are. Zoom is surprisingly good at eliminating echo, feedback,
| and other non-speaker-voice noises from the mic signal.
|
| Stray far and wide from omnidirectional pickup patterns in
| microphones because they will unfortunately be far too
| sensitive to environmental noise. This is also true with many
| noise-canceled mic/earbuds combos which cancel noise for the
| person wearing it but _not_ for the people receiving the mic
| audio recorded in the noisy space.
| Arelius wrote:
| Thanks, I've tried a few USB Cardoid mics already, and it
| still picks my wife up loud and clear. I haven't yet tried a
| supercardoid, or to get a mic amp that allows gain
| adjustment. So might give that a try.
| dundercoder wrote:
| For ease, you might want a Shure MV7. It's a good directional
| cardiod with a built in USB interface.[1]
|
| Get the mic close, disable auto mic level in zoom, and set the
| gain on the mic to be loud enough only while youre speaking.
|
| [https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MV7K--shure-
| mv7-usb-...]
| zokier wrote:
| The audio comparison is disingenuous because the levels are not
| normalized in any way. Once you normalize the levels the
| difference between Macbook and Shure, while noticeable, is not
| really something I'd call "radical".
| navane wrote:
| I disagree. The Shure sounded like he was speaking, or
| whispering in my ear, depending on the output volume. This
| makes sense, as this was recorded from a distance of 10cm from
| his face.
|
| This made me wonder, apearantly I (I would say we, but you did
| not) can hear the distance something is recorded at, separately
| from the volume. How cool are our ears.
| sokoloff wrote:
| Agreed (with @navane). The Shure recording, as presented, is
| definitely louder than the other two. However, when I reduce
| it and play it back-to-back with the laptop mic, the Shure is
| pretty radically better. (I'm using a mid-range set of
| headphones.)
|
| What's surprising to me is how good the laptop mic is,
| despite the hurdles working against it.
| rectang wrote:
| I agree that level matching is important when the goal is to
| make accurate subjective quality judgments. This is very well
| understood in the audio industry.
|
| Rather than microphone quality, the differences between the
| samples are primarily attributable to microphone position and
| technique: specifically, being 10 cm from the mic produces
| something people like better than being 60 cm away. The main
| issue with the MacBook mic is that it's inconvenient to get
| close to it.
|
| The advice to get a boom to make it easier to bring an outboard
| mic into optimal position without strain is excellent and
| highly practical, IMO.
|
| The one big quality outlier is the Airpod Max sample, which
| exhibits compression artifacts and rolled off high end (and low
| end, but that matters less). It is substantially worse than all
| the other options. (It probably has worse latency, too.)
|
| The iPad Pro sample isn't great either, probably because the
| mic is off-axis when speaking into it from a natural position.
| Again, the degradation is primarily a result of suboptimal
| microphone position and technique rather than component
| quality.
| nicolaslem wrote:
| Thread on a similar topic with tons of good recommendations:
| "Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter"
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26818774
| kozak wrote:
| That thread was a life-changer for my remote working
| experience.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| I wonder if there's some economic connotation as well, bad
| audio makes you seem less wealthy, which is another factor
| people (unfairly) associate with intelligence.
| kroltan wrote:
| All that effort, then comes the actual video call software and
| blows the quality to smithereens, and you're back to yelling at a
| speaker connected to the mic socket and recording using the
| GameBoy camera add-on dipped in molasses.
|
| It's really frustrating, I also cared to set up a decent input,
| but all of Google Meet, Slack, and Zoom have terrible terrible
| compression.
| sparsely wrote:
| I gave up carting my webcam and stuff around with me - in 90%
| of zoom meetings it makes essentially no difference. I'm sure
| there's some specific scenario where Zoom will send actual HD
| video but they're pretty rare.
| tjansen wrote:
| We're also using Tandem (http://tandem.chat), which looks
| fantastic in comparison. Not sure exactly why. Resolution is
| still 480k, but the frame rate is noticeably higher, and
| possibly the compression rate as well.
| ohadron wrote:
| I think https://www.around.co/ also have decent compression
| compared to the ones you mentioned.
| deeblering4 wrote:
| The Shure SM7B is a very popular microphone, but for a remote
| meetings use case I'd suggest starting with a quality XLR capable
| audio interface (this is a requirement for the 7B anyway) and a
| Shure SM57 mic.
|
| The reason I suggest not starting with an SM7B is because this
| microphone is expensive at nearly $400, and requires high quality
| mic preamps to get a proper signal out of the mic (often people
| add a $150 cloudlifter) which adds to the expense.
|
| The SM57 on the other hand is an excellent XLR dynamic
| microphone, used on countless recordings and live sound
| applications. It is super durable, and can be purchased used at
| around $50.
|
| Plus Shure makes an optional $20 foam windscreen for the SM57
| called the "A2WS" which helps filter out pops and plosives, and
| makes the mic look similar to a 7b.
|
| There are many comparisons available on youtube to see if you can
| hear a $350 difference yourself, for example
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFba93OLLig
| meremortals wrote:
| any recommendations for a budget - midrange XLR interface?
| deeblering4 wrote:
| I'd recommend checking out the SSL2, Universal Audio Volt and
| Focusrite Scarlett. IMO always worth shopping used too.
|
| I'd avoid the super cheap Behringers, M-Audios, and the like.
| These will typically be noisy and have essentially no resale
| value in the future, while quality brands hold most of their
| value and can be re-sold later if/when upgrading.
| meremortals wrote:
| Thanks!
| Acen wrote:
| As a cheaper alternative, Presonus have some solid
| interfaces.
| popinman322 wrote:
| Can confirm, my Presonus Audiobox works well enough and
| passes through just fine to the windows VM I use for AV
| stuff. Still needed another amp though.
| meheleventyone wrote:
| I use a Shure PGA-48 with a windscreen with good results as
| well.
| deaddabe wrote:
| The author points out that remote working is solving the
| "expensive places to live" problem, yet moved to a studio in
| Paris which are awfully expensive. I am quite of puzzled by this.
|
| Of course, if the author gets the North American salary instead
| of the European one, while living in Paris, then things might
| work out financially.
|
| I moved in the deep suburbs of Paris because rent and apartment
| prices are a no go for a single income person, even in tech.
| olivierlacan wrote:
| If you note, I said I moved _back_ to a studio apartment in
| Paris. Not a cheap area even if I didn't live in the center of
| town but definitely didn't move there by choice either.
|
| I think you're mixing two points I'm making. None of the point
| about offices in city centers and expensive neighborhoods
| relates to my personal experience. It was a general point about
| the futility of office-obsession on the part of companies,
| which was particularly bad even for startups in the Paris area
| back in 2015/2017. Hopefully it's better now. But I remember
| people looking at me like I was mad for saying remote was non-
| negotiable.
| deaddabe wrote:
| > If you note, I said I moved _back_ to a studio apartment in
| Paris. Not a cheap area even if I didn't live in the center
| of town but definitely didn't move there by choice either.
|
| May I ask the reason of work was not the one? I know I would
| not want to go back in the country side for now, given the
| limited public transportation and medical infrastructure out
| there.
|
| > I think you're mixing two points I'm making. None of the
| point about offices in city centers and expensive
| neighborhoods relates to my personal experience. It was a
| general point about the futility of office-obsession on the
| part of companies, which was particularly bad even for
| startups in the Paris area back in 2015/2017. Hopefully it's
| better now. But I remember people looking at me like I was
| mad for saying remote was non-negotiable.
|
| Sorry if I misread or interpreted things too quickly. From
| what I am witnessing in the area, you currently can :
|
| 1 - Go full remote in the country side and have your pay
| reduced. Job security takes a hit too, because the job market
| is not "hot" like in the US. 2 - Agree to come to the office
| 2/3 times a week and go live in the suburbs (or stay in town
| if you can afford it and enjoy it)
|
| I currently using option 2. Maybe I am missing g other
| options.
| closeparen wrote:
| I've long felt that the decentralization of the San Francisco
| tech scene is great news for New York... for the price I'd much
| rather be in Manhattan than somewhere that fancies itself a
| quaint small town.
| frockington1 wrote:
| I live in flyover country, most new work seems to be from
| Manhattan based firms. Unfortunately the tax situation in the
| boroughs is driving employers away
| wink wrote:
| In general you're right of course, but it still solves the
| problem that you may not HAVE to move to the expensive place
| anymore. Of course you still CAN, like the author chose to.
|
| And as someone who never moved away from where he was born and
| also never lived in the really expensive part of the city, it
| might solve the problem of many more people just moving here to
| work, whereas they would prefer living more remotely. I would
| love to stay here, for example, not just because of work
| because I've lived here all my life and like it.
|
| Also your (and the author's) mention of a studio confused me
| for quite a bit, we'd never call anything 30m2 a studio where I
| live :P
| deaddabe wrote:
| > In general you're right of course, but it still solves the
| problem that you may not HAVE to move to the expensive place
| anymore. Of course you still CAN, like the author chose to.
|
| > And as someone who never moved away from where he was born
| and also never lived in the really expensive part of the
| city, it might solve the problem of many more people just
| moving here to work, whereas they would prefer living more
| remotely. I would love to stay here, for example, not just
| because of work because I've lived here all my life and like
| it.
|
| I lived in rural land before moving in the Paris suburbs in
| order to land a job. In some ways I am glad I had to. It
| opened me to so many new stuff. I would not imagine enjoying
| my twenties in rural land personally. The trade of housing
| space for commodities, almost car free living and
| infrastructure is currently worth it for me. Maybe I will go
| back rural in my 30's now that full remote is gaining
| traction. Or maybe not. I get your point though.
|
| > Also your (and the author's) mention of a studio confused
| me for quite a bit, we'd never call anything 30m2 a studio
| where I live :P
|
| The nomenclature we use in France (IIRC) is studio for a
| single room, and then 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom, etc.. no matter
| the floor size. How would you call it? And where do you live
| so we have context in naming things? :)
| fossuser wrote:
| I'm pretty interested in this: https://opalcamera.com/
|
| There's been a vacuum in high quality web cameras for a while,
| most of the market has just been junk.
|
| A good microphone is totally worth it too. I'm not sure why after
| over a year of pandemic and remote work many are still using
| their 720p webcam in a dark (sometimes backlit) room with the
| crappy built-in mic. If you're making good money invest in a
| decent set up - with mostly remote comms, it matters more than
| you think.
| forgotmyoldacc wrote:
| The image quality will be comparable to a smartphone, judging
| by the image sensor.
| joelbondurant wrote:
| Voters must make high fidelity communications among biohazardous
| human capital objects mandatory or nobody will comply.
| farisjarrah wrote:
| I got an Avaya Huddle Cam, like the kind in many large enterprise
| conference rooms for $200 off amazon, its plug and play and has
| all sorts of zoom and pan features, HDMI output, stereo
| microphones and is 4K and because its Avaya, and regular folks
| dont seem to know about them, they're not really more overpriced
| then normal because of the pandemic or shipping. Also got a $35
| Monoprice branded usb microphone does quite admirably. My co-
| workers have complimented me that it sounds very clear. The best
| part is that they are all plug and play and work on
| Linux/Windows/Mac with no additional downloads or drivers.
| dividedbyzero wrote:
| My setup went through a lot of iterations over the lockdowns
| trying to build a high-quality setup in a small inner-city
| apartment; I'm almost happy now, but it's been quite a journey
| that I expected to be much easier and a lot less of a rabbit
| hole, but oh well at least I learned a ton. Also, why are webcams
| that bad? Given what low-tier phones can do with their back
| cameras, it's really weird just how freakishly bad webcam image
| quality still is on a lot of models.
|
| As for some of my learnings:
|
| Cameras: Using an external camera is important, looking downward
| into a laptop camera isn't very flattering to begin with, and it
| makes me uncomfortable. As with an ill-fitting suit, it makes me
| less confident. So I tried using my Fujifilm X-T4 with a HDMI
| capture device, since I already had that; a Logitech StreamCam, a
| Logitech C920 (or C922, not sure), a Razer Kiyo Pro and several
| cheap 720p webcams. The X-T4 wins in the image quality department
| (unsurprisingly) hands-down, but you have to run the audio
| through it as well or use a super low-latency capture device or
| else the image may lag just a small-but-perceivable bit and make
| the result feel pretty uncanny-valley-ish. It's a big hassle to
| set up before every meeting and leaving it on a free-standing
| tripod is an expensive accident waiting to happen. Would not
| recommend unless you must have the very best quality you can get
| (and have compatible microphones and good lights).
|
| I've found the Logitech Streamcam to be pretty solid in terms of
| image quality. Don't count on Logitech's software if you're on a
| Mac, because part of the functionality is outright missing or
| broken, another part is availably only through a virtual webcam
| the software creates that won't work with most apps, and the
| whole thing will eat CPU like crazy, I've uninstalled it pretty
| quickly. Instead I use Webcam Settings [1], which can set the
| most basic parameters (exposure, focus, pan/tilt/digital zoom,
| backlight comp, anti-flicker, white balance) directly on the
| camera, which works a lot better. I digitally zoom it on my head
| a bit as it's quite wide, and that doesn't seem to hurt the image
| quality meaningfully as far as Slack/Zoom/Teams calls are
| concerned (might be different if you stream to Youtube at full
| res, but I never do). All StreamCams I received mid-2020 had
| focus issues, but these can be fixed relatively easily by
| cracking them open and changing the pre-set focus manually
| (voiding the warranty of course), and they seem to have fixed
| their QC since anyway, so getting one of these should be a pretty
| safe bet.
|
| The Razer Kiyo Pro is great as well, with a very nice image, but
| it's even wider, and last I checked there was no macOS software
| at all. It still works well on macOS, though, you just can't use
| anything that requires Razer software, but it's compatible with
| Webcam Settings, so I'm fine. Using it on the living room TV
| nowadays for calls with friends and family and it works really
| well in that function as it's really wide-angle, so I could
| imagine it would work well for small meeting rooms. It's pretty
| big (too big for my desk setup, actually) and the microphone
| isn't great (you definitely need an external one no matter what),
| but its image quality is really great, considering it's a webcam.
| Very good low-light performance as well, great colors, looks more
| like an actual digital camera than a generic webcam.
|
| I didn't like the Logitech C92x I tried at all. Grainy, bad low
| light performance (not that important as I have lighting, but
| still), slow to react to lighting changes, ugly, washed-out
| colors even when lit properly, I sent that one back right away.
| It was from Amazon so it might have been a fake, and there seem
| to be several models that are near-identical but differ greatly
| in image quality, so your mileage may vary.
|
| Next, lights. People are having quite a lot of success with ring
| lights, but I have my desk against a wall with shelves, so
| placing a ring lights at the proper distance doesn't work well,
| and I find they're eyesores. I currently use approx. six meters
| of Hue-compatible LED strips with warm/light diodes in addition
| to RGB hidden behind the monitor and shelves, at a press of a Hue
| switch all come alight and give me a lot of pretty clean, bright
| indirect light bounced of the wall, and it's essentially
| invisible unless turned on. Still working on synchronizing the
| light color and intensity with the outside light coming in
| through the window, but being Hue-compatible makes that pretty
| straightforward in theory.
|
| People keep preaching that lights and microphone are the most
| important things to get right, and I guess it's true. Turning on
| those LED strips is like a 600% image quality boost even in a
| relatively well-lit room using a decent camera. If I were to re-
| do this with a free-standing desk, I'd probably look into using
| softboxes.
|
| Finally, microphones. Especially when part of a grid of
| participants in a call, the part of you that gets to make the
| biggest impact is your voice. It's also a pretty visceral kind of
| impact; I think there was a piece on that on HN a few months,
| back, essentially describing how being hard to understand makes
| people viscerally like you less, so as with lights, nailing this
| goes a long way. I use an Elgato Wave 3 on a short horizontal arm
| at around face-height that I can rotate off to the side; since it
| has a built-in pop filter, it's a pretty compact package and it's
| fine to have it dangle around at head-height, and since it has a
| kidney characteristic, I can angle the part with the least
| sensitivity towards the keyboard to really reduces typing noise
| by a lot. Before the Wave 3, I used the much less expensive
| Behringer C1U as well, and while you might want a pop filter with
| it, it's just fine as well, no gripes with it. Almost any half-
| decent microphone is going to be a big improvement over webcam
| microphones, let alone bluetooth headsets, just make sure you
| decouple it from your desk (there are lots of inexpensive stands
| and arms that will do this).
|
| If you need to get up and draw things on a whiteboard or the
| like, I find the Rode Wireless Go and the corresponding lavalier
| microphone work like a charm, but it picks up mechanical
| keyboards very well. For my Macbook, I had to add a USB sound
| interface (a cheap one worked fine) and one of these USB isolator
| thingies to get rid of a persistent whine when keeping the
| receiver plugged into USB-C for power. I tried cheaper chinese
| transmitters that had their max gain so low it was borderline
| unusable, but I find the Rode Wireless Go (I) to be very solid.
| Good range and battery life, too.
|
| I'm still working on getting the background right. I can't rely
| on background removal functionality as I sometimes have to use
| software that doesn't have this, and there seem to be no
| standalone solutions that don't hog half the CPU. I've played
| around with OBS a bit, but it introduces a perceivable delay that
| I feel makes it a bit harder to take part in fast-paced
| discussions, so nowadays I try to avoid it. I can't place my desk
| so my actual background is nice, so I currently use a simple
| molton fabric backdrop on a rod of bamboo that can be attached
| magnetically to two little magnets dangling from the ceiling and
| can be set up and taken down really quickly, rolled up and
| stashed away out of sight. It works quite well, but it's an
| opaque white - some structure in there might be nice. As I said,
| still a work in progress.
|
| Apart from this, I'm quite happy with my current setup, and I've
| received unsoliticed positive feedback as well, so I seem to have
| done a thing or two well enough. Not sure if the result is
| actually worth all the effort I've spent (probably not), but it's
| been a (more or less) fun rabbit hole/lockdown project.
|
| 1: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/webcam-
| settings/id533696630?mt...
| dochtman wrote:
| Wondering how the 2021 MacBook Pro camera stacks up to the 2019
| one. I did my first Zoom call with my 16" M1 Max yesterday and
| the quality seemed to be quite a lot better (although I
| coincidentally improved the lighting near my desk a bit, as
| well).
| the_arun wrote:
| 1. Don't we need a good internet connection (& VPN software if
| needed) to pair up with this setup?
|
| 2. Also the bandwidth of our video conferencing service (eg.
| Zoom)?
| tristor wrote:
| As someone who has been working remotely for almost a decade at
| this point, I will say straight out that a built-in camera on a
| recent laptop is mostly just fine. What you need to concern
| yourself with is /position/ of the camera and /lighting/.
|
| Do these three simple things to make your video better:
|
| 1. Get a laptop stand that raises your laptop so your eye level
| is towards the center of the screen. Not only does this improve
| ergonomics, it improves the positioning of the camera for video.
|
| 2. Get a lamp that you can move the head on and point it at the
| wall behind the laptop (assuming it's white-ish in color) to
| provide reflected back light at your face from behind the camera,
| and then add as much ambient light as possible in the room
| emanating from the corners (smaller rooms are easier to light).
| You don't need anything fancy, although yes a ring-light is
| probably "better" you can get by with cheap floor lamps from
| Walmart and some "daylight" color temperature bulbs.
|
| 3. Make sure all the lightbulbs in the room are the /same/ color
| temperature, whatever that happens to be, but preferring
| "daylight" if you can.
|
| Just these changes will MASSIVELY improve video quality on
| conferences, and for most people wouldn't even necessarily
| require buying anything additional except possibly light bulbs
| (you can makeshift a laptop stand, and move lamps from other
| rooms if it's an especially important meeting / interview you are
| preparing for).
|
| For audio, nothing beats a microphone on a boom, but any good
| quality USB headset with a built-in boom microphone will get
| pretty close, so don't sweat this so much. The main thing is that
| you should NEVER be taking a call using the built-in speakers and
| microphone in your laptop... it sounds horrible and picks up a
| lot of noise.
|
| The only laptops I would never use the camera on are Dell laptops
| that inexplicably chose to put the camera near the keyboard so
| it's staring up the person's nose the entire time.
| whoisjuan wrote:
| Can someone suggest a camera that is similar to the Sony A6000
| mirrorless he demos but not as expensive?
| olivierlacan wrote:
| I think you're asking something very difficult. The specific
| point I make in the post is that mirrorless cameras have
| varying degrees of clean HDMI output support, varying levels of
| fussiness about being on for extended periods of time, and many
| other quirks that make them hard to recommend period. Let alone
| bargain hunting.
|
| The A6000 is among the most reasonably priced and dependable
| mirrorless cameras that you _can_ use but it'll still set you
| back around $1000 new and you'll need a lens, and an
| acquisition card (Elgato Cam Link), etc. This is why my post
| recommends _against_ mirrorless cameras for a huge majority of
| even tech-savvy folks.
|
| Specifically because A/V tech savviness and computer tech
| savviness are far from wide overlaps in expertise.
| justanother wrote:
| I use an S55H hanging from a pulley, boxing ring-style, just high
| enough to be out of the video frame unless I'm trying to show it
| off, into a Cloudlifter and Scarlett Solo. As a veteran of
| several remote-first company audio wars, I have gotten many
| compliments on this rig. All this to say, it's hard to go wrong
| with a condenser mic and a cloudlifter into a decent audio
| interface. My camera game (iMac Facetime camera) is however
| fairly wack.
| Cilvic wrote:
| >narrow pickup microphones with live headphone monitoring
|
| Does someone know why this matters?
|
| None of his samples show him with headphones, so what are they
| used for?
| PragmaticPulp wrote:
| Great article. My favorite part is that the author advises
| against overly complicated setups and has some very realistic
| recommendations instead:
|
| > The strange video you see at the top of this post was filmed
| with this setup. One that I actively recommended against to any
| fellow remoter. Particularly folks who aren't into photography or
| videography. It's cumbersome, complex, and requires constant
| fidgeting to keep the camera on, obtain a consistent color
| temperature, or prevent automatic focus hunting due to shallow
| depth of field.
|
| This is a common theme among people with overly complicated
| setups: Looks and sounds great when it works, but they're
| fighting with their setup in every other meeting: Focus issues,
| automatic power off problems, photographic cameras overheating
| because they weren't designed for long streams, audio issues as
| they work to select the microphone they want instead of something
| else, and so on.
|
| This page recommends two excellent webcam-style USB cameras that
| won't deliver the professional-looking blurred background images,
| but they will just work when you plug them in and they won't be
| full of surprises. That's more valuable than a blurred background
| or crisp 4K video through expensive lenses when you're just a
| small H.265 compressed square on someone's screen.
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| I've gone through exact process.
|
| Initially, I've set up my DSLR, through purchased copy of
| SparkoCam. Continuous video ring light, green screen behind me,
| nice zoom for proper proportions of face and nice replaced
| background.
|
| Insert months of tripping over cables, tripod, camera, green
| screen; dropping video because something on complex chain gave
| up; the laptop fan running like a jet airliner; and just
| general pain-in-the-kiester of it all. Now I have a logitech
| Brio in front of me. Nowhere near as nice, but more than good
| enough... and I haven't thought of it since I installed it :)
|
| (I still have a small ring light, because lighting is important
| as the article indicates, for clarity of facial emotions and
| context )
| MonaroVXR wrote:
| >Photographic cameras overheating because they weren't designed
| for long streams,
|
| They do, but you can't do video longer than (insert minutes)
| because otherwise it would be a video camera.
|
| https://www.borrowlenses.com/blog/video-recording-limits-in-...
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