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The post-covid internet is rife with stories where people discover their classmate/coworker is a Twitch streamer because the person pops onto Zoom with high-qua
by spiffytech 6y ago
The post-covid internet is rife with stories where people discover their classmate/coworker is a Twitch streamer because the person pops onto Zoom with high-quality lighting and camera and their picture quality is so glorious that everyone else's looks like a fuzzy classic film by comparison.
Most people's Zoom video is poor quality because it's "garbage in, garbage out". Barely-passable camera, and lighting that's actively hostile to picture quality, because nobody cares as long as your face is more or less visible.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago> where people discover their classmate/coworker is a Twitch streamer Link?
- Twirrim 6y agoAnecdotally, that's how my team found out one of our co-workers does some Twitch streaming. He has a really good mic, camera and a 3-point light setup.
- soylentcola 6y agoIt's how my team had it reiterated that I like to mess around with things like this (especially when I'm already working from home). I still just have the basic Microsoft 1280x720 USB webcam that I grabbed from the office when we left in March. Phone-as-webcam was more trouble than it was worth, but it did get me playing with OBS for better control over exposure, white balance, gamma, etc. From there I rigged up a couple of desk lights and clamp lights I had around for better lighting. Then I got a cheap green sheet to replace the white sheet I'd hung behind me to hide the junk room I've been using as a temp office. Then I hooked up a Shure mic to the old USB audio interface I used to have hooked up for messing with guitar. So now I've got the best sound, lighting, and video-loop backgrounds of the team. Yay? ;)
- monadic2 6y agoLighting matters much, much more than the camera setup. What is a twitch streamer? Some kind of gaming culture?
- michaelmior 6y agoTwitch is a live streaming platform primarily targeted at gamers to stream gameplay.
- monadic2 6y agoThanks :) that makes sense. I don't know who downvoted this but you're a pathetic loser.
- spiffytech 6y agoOptimizing lighting absolutely produces bigger wins than optimizing the camera, but I've seen plenty of terrible webcams where a better camera could do wonders even with the same lighting.
- monadic2 6y agoTrue, but this seems distracting from the point that 99% of people have terrible telecommuting lighting.
- klodolph 6y ago> Lighting matters much, much more than the camera setup. That’s true if you have a decent quality camera, but the built-in camera on a laptop or the front-facing camera on a phone are generally terrible to begin with. The MacBook Pro comes with a “720p FaceTime HD” camera and I know it’s not the best on the market, but it’s more or less typical and it’s mostly garbage, except for the fact that it gets the job done and it fits where it needs to go.
- freeone3000 6y agoTwitch streamers also have very good lighting setups. A ring light at minimum, usually multiple lighting rigs.
- technofiend 6y agoThat and decent cameras were immediately out of stock. A $99 Logitech 922 gives a perfectly usable image but you couldn't find one for that price for months, if at all.
- numpad0 6y agoYou can have a basic mirrorless with “clean” HDMI live view and MS2109 for that price, if you don’t mind buying ones that were collecting dust on someone’s shelf
- WWLink 6y agoI was able to get a c920x last week for $69, and while I am super happy with it, the video quality really sucks for 2020. Ah when the iSight came out, the best thing about it was the stereo microphone array inside of it. Well, that and it looked amazing. Microsoft has a camera that looks like a crappier version of the isight called the lifecam.