- So what are the best
live streaming cameras
for every budget?
In this video, I'm gonna be talking about
five different levels of a solution.
We're gonna be talking
about just getting started
with your smartphone.
Getting started with your
laptop, webcam and some software,
maybe getting an actual webcam,
DSLR and mirrorless options
as well as investing in maybe a camcorder.
And I'm gonna share some
tips and tricks as well,
and for every different budget
and I'm also gonna put time codes
down in the top pinned comment
as well as the description.
So if you wanna skip directly
to one of these areas
of cameras for your particular needs,
then definitely check
out those time codes.
And if we're just meeting,
my name is Sean Cannell,
and this channel is THiNK Media,
bringing you the best tips
and tools for building your
influence with online video,
we talk about cameras, tabletop tripods
for live streaming, accessories and gear
and I'm super fired up
for this particular video,
and so smash like if
you're ready to live stream
and let's start off with
number one right here.
This is all about live
streaming with the smartphone.
Now again, there's gonna be time codes
if you wanna skip ahead.
But the best way to get
started live streaming
is with the phone you already have.
You know at the time I'm
recording this video,
we're in the middle of a global pandemic,
and there's actually a famine
when it comes to webcams,
believe it or not.
So there's some limitations.
A lot of people are live
streaming right now,
they're ordering gear,
and whether you're watching
this video in the future,
and things have already recovered,
live streaming is the future, right?
People wanna connect whether
it's teleconferencing,
creating content like this.
I'm recording this in a live stream
and I'll be talking about
my gear in a little while.
And so think about starting
with just your phone.
And the cool thing is we've
got a couple videos here
on THiNK Media about how to livestream
with just your phone some tips
and tricks for live streaming
to Facebook Live or to YouTube,
just with your phone.
And so don't wait if you
don't have the right gear yet,
start with the gear you already have
and the fact that your phone
is connected to the net,
hopefully you have fast enough LTE
but preferably on fast enough Wi-Fi,
with typically like a
five megabyte upload,
although you can survive
with less than that,
you can always do a speed test.
Just google speed test to
figure out the streaming speed,
but here's what I'd recommend.
If you're streaming with your phone,
stream with, get some accessories.
So this is like a Joby
GorillaPod, a little me photo.
We've got some videos on this
and of course I'll link those tutorials
and videos in the description.
I've got a plug in Shure mic right there.
So it's a little bit of better audio
and obviously that's vertical.
So maybe you wanna do Instagram
Live or just go vertical
on one of the platforms
that'll let you do that.
And if you haven't seen this video,
this is on some smartphone accessories.
This is great for creating
YouTube content as well.
And this is like this you
nazy mount right here.
And so you might want to
stream with a better mount
and it gives you the ability
to do is put on like a light,
put like a microphone on there,
put a tripod on the bottom,
some kind of even tabletop tripod.
And we've got a video on
the best ones of those.
And so that way you can get
started with just your phone.
Now for those of you that are here live,
what do you stream on?
It's good to see you Kincaid Dynamite.
What's up Writer, what's up Magnus?
And let me know if you
just use your phone.
And if you have any accessories,
this is a must watch a video for sure.
And there's also some
good software out there.
There's things like Switcher Studio.
And this will allow you
to actually connect multiple
devices, iPads, phones,
I think it also might work with Android,
and you can do multiple camera angles
if you wanna get more
dynamic with your phone
or if you just have the one camera angle,
it's software that will allow you
to put up sometimes
graphics like lower thirds
and things like that.
And so don't hesitate
to use just your phone.
That's kind of level one.
But that brings us to level two,
which is live streaming with a laptop
without a fancy webcam.
And so if you just have
your laptop webcam,
they're usually not the best.
One tip I recommend is
to get it off the desk
so it doesn't have that
unflattering upshot
where you get like the 40
chin, you know like my gosh.
If you actually wanna move your laptop up
on a couple of shoe boxes
or something, books,
have it pointing down at you,
you could get a little bit better results
and maybe some lighting going on,
as well as probably a USB mic
but that way you've already got the webcam
that comes built in with the camera.
And using some lighting
and maybe some software
to adjust the settings can really help.
I've seen some people
in our community here
like live streaming with
software called Ecamm Live,
now you probably wouldn't need that
if you're just using the
software on your laptop
or your laptop webcam,
but Blanco uses an A6400, and Ecamm Live.
But here's the deal.
There's some free software if
you've got just your webcam
and your laptop like Open
Broadcaster Software.
This allow you to share your
screen like I am right now,
this will allow you to
switch to different angles
or even like play a video
like I'll be playing a little bit live.
There's also StreamYard.
StreamYard is probably
the user risk friendly,
best, just super cool to use.
You can add kind of some branding to it.
You can bring on interviews and guests.
If you're finding yourself
in a situation right now
where you need to get
started live streaming
and you want something that's
super user friendly to use,
check out StreamYard,
again just a laptop webcam,
and you're good to go.
You may wanna accessorize it a little bit.
And then of course Zoom,
now a lot of people,
if you didn't hear Zoom
stock went up 30% almost
in the last month because
everyone's quarantined
during the time of recording this video,
everyone's stuck at home.
I hope you're doing well.
I hope that you're staying healthy.
And Zoom also lets you share your screen,
stream to the internet, bring
other people on, do webinars,
do things like that.
And so you can also check
out Zoom software as well.
And you could use just your laptop webcam.
And I wanna ask the question to you,
have you started live streaming yet?
And what platforms do you live stream on?
Are you live streaming on
Twitch on YouTube, on Facebook?
And are you in multi streaming,
what camera have you been using?
And What tips do you need
when it comes to streaming?
Barrel Lean, I'll be revealing
my full setup in a bit.
Safe asked, "Can you use an SL2?"
You can and reminder,
there's some time codes
so you can skip around in
this video if you want.
But the third level is live
streaming with a pro webcam
like a "pro" webcam.
So when you get a webcam,
here's what you're looking for.
And I would say you're
gonna want a 1080p at least,
if it's a 720p webcam, that
thing's probably pretty old.
Now you gotta use whatever you have.
If you find yourself with a
desktop computer of some kind,
no webcam, then you do need
a separate webcam, right.
And the other thing I like to look for
is 30 frames per second
versus 60 frames per second.
If you're a gamer, shout
me out in the comments,
and most games are streaming
or operating at 60 frames a second,
so if you want to stream gameplay,
you typically wanna match
that and they're at 60 frames,
so it's smooth motion in the game.
So you wanna make sure a
webcam can actually produce
that for you.
For a lot of entrepreneurs,
business owners,
30 frames is probably fine.
That's what I'm streaming in right now.
I don't have a tone of fast motion
or anything crazy going on.
The other thing with web
cam is field of view,
like what's the field of view?
I'm on a more fancier setup
and I'm able to adjust,
I have an interchangeable lens
so I can get a really wide angle shot.
I don't have the smallest
home office here,
but it's also not the largest.
So if you're thinking, man,
how do I actually get a good
angle, in a smaller room
where I'm sitting right in front,
I mean, this is where the
lenses it's pretty wide,
it's probably on the widest that goes.
That's 12 millimeters on a GH5, right,
and then I can Zoom all
the way into 35 millimeters
if I want.
And so that's some of the
benefits that we'll get to
of having an upgraded camera.
But when it comes to webcams,
here's a couple tips and
some of my top picks.
There's the classic of
course, C920 webcam.
I use that for all of my
day to day teleconferencing.
It's discontinued now,
you can find these for
around $50 to $100 eBay,
but right now there's a lot
of people price gouging these
because there is literally
a webcam shortage,
those should be predicted,
coming back in stock around April 2020.
If you're watching this on the replay,
at some time in the future,
it's probably not gonna be
something that's a big deal.
So you may wanna wait
until you can pay the
right price for this,
you might be able to go on
like Facebook Marketplace
or somewhere and find one
of these for like $50.
It's the old classic good wide angle field
of view at 78 degrees.
There's some app and
software that work with it
so you can control your settings.
The next one would be the
one that is the newest model,
it's $69 at the retail price,
and that guy will do
1080p, 30 frames a second.
Kinda same deal, you can get
one with a Privacy Shield
in case you're worried about
Big Brother spying on you.
I'm always wondering too, you're like,
"Dude, who's looking through my webcam?"
Let me know in the
comments if you're like,
"Is somebody's watching me?"
You wanna like cover it up,
you put a sticky note over it.
They did the Privacy
Shield just so you have
that peace of mind.
Also you can flip it down
so you don't accidentally
like change on camera.
There's really funny compilations
of livestream fails and whatnot.
Of course, Logitech put out a pro version.
And this is $100.
You could do 60 frames at 720p.
So a good kind of more
geared towards gamers
or somebody that needs that,
features like background replacement,
if you kind of wanna get a depth of field,
fake look or like weird backgrounds,
but maybe cool if you're
interested in that.
And again, these things
are just vanquished
as it pertains to what's been happening
with this pandemic that's going on.
Here's B&H photo and you can just see
that they're backordered.
Here's the one I was talking about.
We'll talk about the Logitech
BRIO in just a second,
backordered all of them
are just backordered
but they say they're
coming in at the beginning
of April 2020 so it shouldn't be too long.
And then you can get even some
different Logitech webcams.
Now I'm only really
talking about Logitech,
there are other brands,
just read the reviews,
but Logitech is kind of the crown holder
pertaining to webcam culture.
The next one would be the Logitech BRIO.
That's the wrong picture of it.
But this is a $200 webcam,
4K, 30 frames, 1080p 60 frames
and 90 degree field of view.
And so that's the one I
would recommend for you.
Maybe just backorder it if you want,
if you don't have any urgency on it,
and a lot of great features.
It's got RightLight 3 with HDR.
So it's just the newest features,
and the 90 degree field of
view makes it super wide angle.
And so this would definitely
be a very versatile USB-C.
So it's newer connections
and the newest kinda connection standard.
And so definitely the Logitech BRIO
would be my top webcam pick
until maybe this new one drops.
So this one is not even backordered,
it's not out at the time
of recording this video,
but it's coming out very soon.
So I'm definitely gonna
put in an order for this.
This is the Logitech StreamCam Plus,
$169 here in the US, 1080p
60 frames, which by the way,
these days I only think you
really need to stream in 1080p.
I mean you got bandwidth
issues, bit rate issues,
internet speed issues,
if you wanna stream 4K,
more power to you, but
for most of us 1080p
might already be a scratch,
I struggle here sometimes
on a, is it Comcast, Cox?
Gigablast and I get like a
really good download speed
but my upload speed can really be tough.
So you could control your bitrate
depending on your software,
I'm doing six megabytes a second,
I would prefer to do eight
and then in 4K, you may
even wanna go higher.
That's a conversation
for another day getting more technical.
But the cool thing about this camera
and what I'm excited
about is that this guy
is kinda geared towards
social media platforms,
like Twitch YouTube, Instagram stories.
Because it looks like it's
gonna work maybe with phones
and laptops and stuff, 'cause
it also turns vertical.
If you look above my picture here,
you've got that vertical
deal, face tracking, USB-3.1
with the new port, and just
kind of a future camera
that should be pretty
cool, we're thinking.
Well, the fourth level, if
you're getting value hit like,
is live streaming with a
DSLR or a mirrorless camera.
So let me know if you've started DSLR in,
I see somebody here live that
said the stream went offline.
I wouldn't be surprised
as I spoke with that,
my internet connection.
But have you used a DSLR
or mirrorless camera?
Have you ever done a stream with something
other than your phone,
other than a webcam?
Let me know.
And here's a rundown of
what you're looking for
with either a DSLR or a mirrorless camera.
And so you're looking for a
1080p resolution at least,
clean HDMI, if you
don't have a clean HDMI,
you know when you look at
the back of your camera,
and it shows like how
much battery life is left
and like little brackets
and all that kind of stuff,
that's what it means to
not have a clean HDMI.
So when you plug it into
your camera to livestream,
you're gonna have all this stuff around
that'll just kind of be distracting.
So you need that and
we'll talk about cameras.
Unlimited runtime, meaning
you can turn off the fact
that it powers down, like even
if you have continuous power,
some cameras will just turn off.
They have like an auto shutoff time.
So you need to make sure you got that.
Connection type,
that's just knowing that
if it's like a micro HDMI,
what are you gonna plug it into,
and see just to find that.
Continuous power, most
the time when you do this,
you're gonna have a dummy battery.
So I've got a GH5 right now,
dummy battery plugged in,
plugged into the wall,
I can go all day long.
And so if it doesn't
have continuous power,
and you just have the battery in there,
well you could stream so long
as the battery doesn't die,
but then you'd need to replace that
so that can be frustrating.
This is an M50, that's
a good recommendation.
A6400, another one and
we'll talk about that.
You can get dummy batteries for 'em,
either from the manufacturer themselves
and usually you have a little
more peace of mind with that,
or there's usually like 20 $30 versions
on Amazon that you can get.
And so the next thing would be autofocus.
Now, this is not a requirement,
I don't have autofocus turned
on 'cause this is a GH5
and it doesn't have the best autofocus.
I don't wanna hunting all around the room.
So I just have that locked
down in manual focus.
So the M50, I've heard that mainly,
you can use like the SL2 or the M50.
But you're not gonna have
autofocus, not a big deal.
Whereas a lot of the
Sony cameras, the a5100
and up have like that
super fast phase detection.
And you don't lose autofocus
when you plug it into live
stream via the HDMI port.
And a flip out screen if you want that,
it's nice to have because
even though you might be able
to monitor with your software,
you maybe wanna get your
image right. your shot right.
And so that flip screen for live streaming
with the mirrorless camera DSLR
is pretty critical, in my opinion,
we're talking about
the ideal specs, right?
So this would be the dream camera
if it had all of this and
then doesn't overheat.
You want a camera that's
built like a tank,
it can run all day and not overheat.
And so the other thing is,
or the reasons for this
is that you really want to have,
why not just use your phone?
Why not just use your laptop?
Well, the answer might be obvious,
but the image quality
is usually not the best.
And the sensor inside of
even a webcam or a phone
or a laptop webcam is
like a tiny little sensor,
whereas the sensor inside
of an APSC camera like this is large.
This is a big sensor,
you can even stream on
a full frame camera.
And that's why some of the
gamers or streamers you watch,
they might be like,
"Dang, yo, that video quality is amazing,"
and so that's really the goal of streaming
with a nicer camera.
And so this is an example
of the M50 or the M6
with a 16 millimeter Sigma lens
and this would be a great streaming setup.
And when you stream with a better camera,
you get better low light performance,
you can control your image better
that sometimes it's just hard
to get a webcam looking right,
but you can control all the
settings in the actual camera.
And then you also have the ability
to change lenses that's a huge thing.
because when you can change lenses,
you can take your M50 like
this, get a wide angle lens
and problem solved for getting
that best image quality.
So Canon SL2 would be
a recommendation here.
For around $450 you could get
1080p, 60 frames a second,
clean HDMI, you do need that dummy battery
and every one of these you'll need that.
The AF does need to be
disabled or it will be
when you use the HDMI output
and you've got the flip screen
and you could shop around the
SL2 is a little bit older now
unfortunately, it looks like the SL3
does not have unlimited
runtime based on the website
that I use.
So, the SL2 though is
great, so check it out,
you might already have a camera
that you livestream with,
but we're gonna talk about
what you need to plug in
in order to be able to
livestream in just a second.
My topic of course, is the Canon M50
because it's kinda like does everything.
Right now you can pick one of
these guys up for like $422
for the body, you could get
a wide angle lens separate
and you're not just stuck with
the live streaming camera,
you can live stream with it,
you got 1080P 60 frames,
you can vlog with it.
It's an amazing photography camera.
So if you're not planning
on just setting a camera
on your desk and using
it for multi purpose,
this might be one to look at,
you get that external dummy battery.
In fact, I've heard that you can,
from my friends that live streaming pros
that you can use just Ecamm Live, the M50
and I think just plug it in via USB.
Now typically the problem with that
is you might not have the best frame rate
or the best quality
because not enough data
can transfer fast enough.
But anyways if you wanna
check out any of these deals
and current pricing,
my affiliate link is in
the description below
and I've got a list of all the gear,
there's a sale at the time
of recording this video
on the refurbished deals.
They don't have the SL2 but
the M50 is in the stock,
that'd be the better buy
in my opinion anyways.
And so yeah, and definitely
check out this video
where I talk about the Sigma 16 1.4.
Now, that lens is pretty expensive,
like the lens cost more than the camera.
The lens is like 400 and you
can get the camera for like 422
but for like 1000 bucks, you
could get a really crispy shot
that's gonna look basically like this.
The sensor in the M50 is bigger
than the sensor I'm shooting on
and your lens is really gonna be the thing
that is the quality of the image
and so check that out.
Now in Sony world,
the a5100 is a favorite
of a lot of streamers.
A lot of people that live
stream in the gaming world
professionally, business,
I found one for us right now for $313.
1080p 60 frames a second,
and all the same things
except you also retain full autofocus.
Now, when live streaming,
people have a problem with
this camera when vlogging
and when it's internally
recording that it overheats.
When live streaming,
that doesn't seem to be a
problem for most people.
But if any camera brand
has had an issue with that,
it's this particular model
you may wanna skip past this.
But my friend David at Live
Streaming Pro still swears
by it has no issues.
And so the fact you could pick this up
for like $313 right now used on B&H,
you could probably get one of these eBay,
Facebook Marketplace.
It's like a killer.
The image quality is good,
the low light is good,
very affordable, 1080p 60.
So if you're building like a gaming setup
and you want that crispy result
that a lot of people have, check that out.
Now, when it comes down to a
couple other recommendations
if you haven't seen this
video on best camera
for YouTube Canon M50 versus the A6400,
this kind would be the top recommendations
that I would have for you
and instead of the M50,
you may wanna go with the A6400
that just slid in screen there.
Because not only do you
get 4K, you get mic input,
the a5100 doesn't have it,
you just get kinda like
the best of everything
that's the a6400 in 4K 30 right there.
And then it also is really
great for live streaming,
if you are looking at
any of the Sony's A6100,
A6000, A6600 you're gonna
be good with the light
even the full frame ones as well.
But you're gonna be good there
but these are still two of my top picks.
The price has been driven down
on the A6400 a little bit,
you can pick those ones up,
use these days and whatnot.
So definitely a couple
recommendations as well.
The price is going up but
I've been sharing some
of the most budget options with you.
Now if you want like a full on pro setup,
that's what I would believe
like this is, GH5 camera.
2000 when it was new, you
could probably get one at 1500.
You got the tripod on the
desk obviously the USB mic,
I've got a basically a gaming
PC with the capture card,
the lighting the full deal.
We're not gonna talk
about it in this video,
but I will click or tap the YouTube card
to watch the ultimate live streaming
setup equipment checklist
and to see step by step
the setup that I use.
I think that at some point,
you may wanna build a setup
that's kind of like this right,
you're seeing what I see.
I've got vMix, I've got my
audio interface, my camera,
my lighting, I've got a hair light going.
So this is quite a bit of gear
and that's why I started like
start with what you have.
Start with your phone, start
with a high-end webcam,
get used to your software,
but if you wanna check out this video,
of course all the show notes
and links in the description down below.
Hey, are you getting
value out of this video?
Smash like, we're gonna be
talking about some more cameras
and none of these cameras are gonna work
unless you get a piece of gear
that I will share with
you in just a second.
But I wanna shout out
Magnus first 1000 hours
and when Mighty R says,
"What about equipment
"that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?"
We started out, your smartphone,
you can get some accessories.
I've got that video linked
up in the description
for accessories that
will just cost 50 bucks
for like a mount, a thing
and you have better audio,
get some good lighting.
Or not like or just literally
grab your fart-phone,
smart, your fart-phone.
Hey, okay, that's the stuff
that happens live, doesn't it?
Hit like for your fart-phone
and then start live
streaming on your smartphone.
And of course, that's not
gonna work as much for gaming
and other things but for
especially business minded content
creators and those of
you that are maybe trying
to do some live streaming right now,
build your brand a little
bit, build a following,
going live on Facebook, Instagram,
use your phone and just get started.
And then of course, invest in more gear
and level up as you go.
Okay, warning, live
streaming with the DSLR
and mirrorless camera, though
requires a capture card.
And so you wanna check
out like a Cam Link 4K.
And there's also an older Cam
Link, if you could pick one
of those up right now, highly recommended.
There are a few sites I saw
dug around the internet,
you could still get these.
These are sold out everywhere
during this global crisis,
'cause everyone's trying to livestream
and so 1080p 60 4K, 30, $129.
These Cam Links are really cool
because if you wanna ever
check out the Elgato website,
and you're curious which
other cameras are compatible,
maybe a camera you
already have is compatible
with live streaming.
The Blackmagic Pocket is,
you've got a Canon 77D
or even an 80D and so M50, M6 so whatever,
they got the list all the
Sony's on here, check those out
and what it'll tell you
is if you go a5100 yep,
yes clean HDMI, yes unlimited
runtime, yes dummy battery.
So check that out.
And this also you'll see a full lineup
of their Capture solutions.
So it's not just Cam Link,
they got a mobile option
here, Screen Link.
You got a couple different
solutions up here.
And so check that page out.
But Cam Link, Omar and
the THiNK Media Team
picked up a couple of these
right now, a lot of churches
and faith based organizations
are live streaming,
they can't gather in person,
because we're quarantine here
in the US and a lot of places
and you need to be in small groups.
So a lot of people live streaming
so he picked up a couple
of these plug and play,
pretty user friendly, easy to use.
These are in stock, these guys right here
and so an Elgato HD60S 168 to $241,
1080p, 60 frames.
And so check these out
because these are kind of
what we're talking about
there's internal capture cards
and external capture cards.
And so this guy's gonna run
you $168 for the 1080p version,
you could go here's a
internal capture card,
so you need a PC where you can
plug it into your PCI port.
And you also have like, I
think this guy right here,
this will do 4K 60.
Again, it's an internal situation,
but I would recommend this,
not a lot of people know about these
so it's probably why they're
not crushed and sold out.
And if you've already got an M50,
you've already got something
like that you could get
used very good original packaging 154
and a great solution that
is worth checking out
and you need that capture card.
So then what you do is you
wanna have the right HDMI cable.
So this is there's like micro HDMI,
micro HDMI I forget the
term, full size HDMI,
and you take you have to get that one
that goes into the full size HDMI input
on a capture card like this.
And then you plug this into your laptop,
you can see the setup right
there a couple plugs in there.
You can even pass through
and you could do capturing
and flash recording a
lot of different things.
And so of course I'll list some details
of some of these things
in the description below
to get a little more specific.
And then the card I'm using
is actually a Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4K.
199 and it can do 1080p60, 2160 p30.
There's different 4K resolutions,
but that's the 4K can do the 30 yet,
and so it's this little
mechanical device here is plugged
into my PC and then I can plug
the HDMI right into the back
and that's the situation that
I have going on right now.
So you need some type of a capture card,
it's a lot more user
friendly to get a Cam Link
or like that, HD 60S
external capture card,
or if you already got a PC,
that might be a whole nother
thing to build, right?
You're like, "Okay, well now
I've got some other pieces,"
and remember, I made
that video breaking down
the exact setup I'm using
in kind of how it all pieces together.
So take advantage of that.
But there is another level you could do.
You could do live
streaming with a camcorder
and maybe you already actually have one
of these guys sitting around
and you could use this
Panasonic is full HD 1080p
up to 120 frames a second,
and definitely worth checking out.
There's a couple different
models of these guys.
And so, if we look over here,
you've got full HD for 447,
you can go there's like a second camera.
You don't really need that,
or maybe you want it, no you don't.
Then you also got like 4K for 647.
And again, you probably aren't
gonna be streaming in 4K,
but maybe you want to
and so this would be kind
of a newish camcorder to check out.
Sean, what's the difference between,
camcorders seems more practical for video.
I can just plug in the
power cord into the wall.
It comes with one most likely right check.
So I don't have to buy a dummy battery.
I have the zoom lens built in.
I have a mic input.
And typically you'd
probably want a USB mic,
but if you wanna make sure it
has a mic input, I got that.
Man, it has everything I need.
Why would I want a mirrorless or DSLR?
And I think there's two big
reasons, one image quality.
These just look so crispy
man, team crispy man,
smash like for crispy video.
And two is interchangeable lenses.
A lot of these camcorders
they're not gonna give you
that blurry depth of field
and they're gonna start pretty zoomed in.
What you can do is screw
on an interchangeable lens
that we can't really
it's not interchangeable
but you screw on like a little lens
for it to go a little bit wider.
But what's so nice about the M50,
or whatever so here's
like an example right?
This little guy over here,
you would screw on this piece
to the front of your camcorder
and you just make sure
that the thread side is right
and that the model numbers
match and that'll give you wide.
Now hey, by all means 'cause
it's pretty user friendly,
you're probably never
gonna have any struggles
with autofocus, autofocus will work,
but it's kind of an image
quality trade off potentially,
and not bad at all.
Great way to stream and then another one
that I would recommend
is the VIXIA HF G50.
This is the newer Canon camcorder
1080p 60 frames a second,
4K 30, $900.
Now, by all means, you could
get a lot cheaper camcorders.
So if you just check out like B&H photo,
you could go for a
professional camcorder too
but that's probably what
we do your broadcast studio
or something you might
wanna check that out.
You can also see they
got some live streaming
kind of setups here.
But this honorable mention
by the way is the Mevo Plus.
It's kinda like not even in a category,
it has kind of mixed reviews,
but it gives you like multi style
or multi frame video,
it's just one wide angle,
but you can crop in and stuff.
So those aren't really those
are in stock right now.
So that's actually a solution
that you could get going with.
But if we were to just roll here
and just go to like price low to high,
we're gonna see that for $159,
you could get going with a camcorder,
get a little capture card, plug that in
and it's gonna be better
than a webcam, right?
It's gonna actually
probably be a bigger sensor,
you've got the, you may
wanna spend a little bit
so it's got a lot of cool options in here,
but you may wanna probably
spend 300 or up I would think
to get a superior image
quality to some of the webcams.
But, like this guy right here is on sale,
and it's gonna probably
be pretty crispy for you.
You could screw a wide angle lens
in front of it and whatnot.
So that's kind of the camcorder level,
but I do want to ask
you, check in with you,
what have you been live streaming with?
Do you use any particular setup?
What do you think is the
best live streaming camera
for this year?
And we covered a lot of
different budgets, right.
Again, if you just start with a webcam,
you might be able to pick one up,
if there isn't a webcam
famine, for right around $50,
you could start with just your phone.
If you want to invest a little bit more,
you may spend 350 on a used a5100,
try to get a Cam Link for around 100 bucks
and you're streaming
for less than 500 bucks
with really high quality
or maybe you want to go really high end
and check out some of those resources.
I'll summarize everything
in the description.
Check in with the Think
Fam, DJI Osmo Mobile three.
I don't know Larry, I've never tried that
but that could be one to check out.
The new Canon M200 is sort of
the competitor to the a5100.
No mic input, but it's kind
of meant for live streaming,
flip the screen up at the top,
you've got clean HDMI output
really good image quality, low light,
I would still probably get an M50
because you have a mic input, flip screen,
but an M200 is worth checking out.
And I'd love to hear from you all.
I mean, we got first 1000 hours
using an HD Logitech webcam the classic.
And if you're curious if
your particular camera works
with live streaming, check
out the Cam Link website
with a list of the compatible cameras
and just check out details
and some extra resources
in the description below.
If you got value, hit
like but here's the thing,
the video that you're gonna
wanna watch next is really all
about audio 'cause I think a huge piece
of live streaming is your audio.
I'm streaming right now on the,
I believe it's the MV51 by Shure.
And so you wanna probably
get some kind of a boom arm,
even if you're at a laptop,
and there's some cheap Samson Q2U,
really good dynamic microphones,
cut out a lot of background
noise, maybe 60 bucks
but then you buy like
a boom arm and websites
or brands like Neewer, not
necessarily the highest quality
but doesn't have to break the bank.
There's definitely some
good USB microphones
and that's typically if
you're going laptop PC,
almost you may want to
just plug in a shotgun mic
or something into the mic input.
And then you're curious,
does the HDMI allow audio
to go over the HDMI so
that you actually can get
that audio into your stream.
Sometimes that can help
with no lag issues.
But at the end of day, all the gamers,
all like the pro streamers,
I've got this setup right here
because I want you to
have good crispy audio.
And so to check out our playlist
on the best USB microphones
just click or tap the YouTube card,
click like if you got
value out of this video,
and I will see you in the next one.
Click or tap the screen to
watch a video in the playlist
of the best USB microphones for YouTube.
So what is the best USB
microphone under $200?
Well in this video, I'm gonna
be reviewing the Rode NT-USB
to see if it lives up to that title.
Coming up.
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