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How to look cinematic for your boss 🤣🤣

There is 2 common mistakes that I like to mention (no money needed): 1- Not cleaning your laptop of phone camera so your image doesn't look blury; 2- Using this zoom chroma key options that makes you look goofy instead of accepting your surrounding and showing it to people as it is.

" so I can pretend that I'm tidy person" - love this 😉😂

"I usually color grade my footage, so why not color grade my Zoom calls?" 😂

mistake Number 1: Clean the camera lens!!

0:17 hell yeah c&h !!! what a piece for the shelf oh my

I've done something similar! I used EOS Webcam Utility with my T3i to get a clean feed, then I apply a custom LUT in OBS and send the video out of OBS as a virtual camera. I also use a teleprompter with a tablet on the Zoom call so that it looks like I'm looking at the people on the call. Great video!

Thanks Simon! Always impressive!

Amazing video! You can apply the LUT in OBS and still use the (cheaper) camera btw

A tight slap to zoom to make its video better

Great video mate! Love the slightly different content too :)

Some great tips here! I do most of these things, but hadn't thought of using a teleprompter (mainly because I don't own one) or a LUT. I use my Fuji X-T3 with a 35/1.4 lens and plug the USB right into the computer, using the webcam utility (with an in-built Eterna film emulation) and OBS. I bounce a light off the wall in front of me and overlay a vignette. Rode NT 1 into the Audient iD14 and I look and sound great :)

Wow, really cool, I'm impressed!

Everyone always says "apple is so expensive", they literally include a pro-mist filter with their laptops. THAT'S CALLED VALUE, PERFORMANCE PER DOLLAR, Thanks Steve Apple 👍

You are a mad man and I love your madness! ♥

fun video, thanks for uploading

This is such a mood, I had to make a videochat to identify myself for a contract and spend hours setting everything up. the call ended up beeing 5 minutes but the lady noticed and asked how my webcam is so sharp and detailed :D

When he says the channel name quickly, it sounds like "Dear Slug Eyed". I was confused for a second about the dear slug-eyed patrons.

Entertaining, funny and knowledgeable. Yes, I'm talkning about your parents. :) Thumbs up for the video and delivery.

I usually use the camera. If the call is important, i set it up at eye level at in front of the windows. During my last interview, nobody mentioned anything, until I talked about my hobbies which includes photography and that I was using it as webcam. The interviewer was something like “oh that’s why look so good, I was wondering, very cool”. But even with just the camera people notice. So yeah, just use that

This gentleman deserve a happy meal

It it just me, or is a large portion of these shots super blurry

dope!

I have an overkill setup for video calls as well, I relate with everything in the video. I use my old Canon EOS 60D with a Sigma Art 30mm, and an AKG P120 for audio. Just another recommendation would be using the Canon Webcam Utility for using your camera as a webcam. It helps to keep the camera on, and also remove any overlay that one gets in-camera or on HDMI feeds.

thanks

So during the lockdown and work from home setups I went from working out of my living room in a apartment, to working out of my office in our first house, then I renovated that same office. When I finally finished setting up that office one of the things I did was upgrade my webcam setup. I used a spare gorilla pod and a old pretty basic LED light. I conveniently had a window as well and considering the majority of my calls are during the day I don't need to worry too much about night time setups. The camera I use is a nice full frame camera shooting at F4 as well which doesn't create a ton of background blur but I still manage to get some separation. Having real blur does automatically jump the quality up because I find the auto cutout background blurs that people use on zoom calls to be really obvious and almost always looks really bad. the RESULT... I have actually got a lot of complements from people on the quality of the setup. IF I really wanted to go a little further I would no doubt dress the scene behind me a little more with a plant instead of a printer and maybe a light in the corner. BUT even without these it still absolutely blows away the majority of the setups I have seen. ALL that said I happened to already own a mirrorless camera that easily plugs in via USB to be used as a webcam. I already had a space LED light and gorilla pod that again was not even being used. So this setup was stupid easy to setup and cost me nothing extra. I suspect most people do not have this kind of kit just hanging out in their office.

love your parents, love your mom's accent.

Nice flex!💯

thought i was the only one obsessed w making zoom calls look better 🤲

I thought your dad said the new setup looks crap I felt so bad lmaooo

4:42 you know you can go a bit ferther by creating a profile and changing the screens resolution, might need a restart but it means you can turn you camera in to a box. And use an immage or a giff to add lighting from your monitor

I do use a Fuji X-T3 for a webcam and I use a Motu M2 audio interface with a Shure SM58 mic for my regular Zoom calls. I have only once gotten a comment about how good the video quality is. I regularly get comments about my how good my audio quality is.

I am so glad that i am not the only filmmaker who gets pissed off by zoom call quality lol

Hi dear friend, I earned well learning audio punching by your video.. ia have a good number of subscriber too...❤️, Love from india

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Zoom calls are the worst!! But this looked great 👌

Amazing video! Thank you! That last bit is the most interesting for me personally! Could you please make another video on creating luts for bmpccXk in davinci resolve and using these luts for zoom calls?

Canon has now the official webcam driver the turns all DSLR's into a webcam. (From t2i and beyond....)

Loved the video man. Something different that nobody is talking about. You did great job! 👍😊 Btw, if you have time I just uploaded few min ago video as well. If you have time... Well you know what I mean. It would mean a lot to me 😉

please all ways make these types of video i missed your video vibe because im your oldest subscriber

Haha, great video idea AND advice. Tips for those with a smaller budget once we got higher on the list: wipe off the finger prints on your web cam from opening your laptop lol

By the end of this video, I started clapping.

2 years late but at least you went overkill lol

trying to imagine a world where anyone at work did a single step

Let me hit the end call before going this far 😂😂😂

Zoom gives you virtual backgrounds. You don't even need a green screen.

Ladies and Gentleman, we got a Zoom call winner :)

How did you know I have a zoom interview Monday lol

I will admit to trying to get the lighting better, and I am using a T2i (canon has a free program that allows you to use it as a webcam, btw). But I never considered using a teleprompter or a camera that can use LUTS. Certainly overkill, something I am going to have to consider. 😉

What USB microphones would you recommend?

that annoying box will go away if you turn off auto focus won't it?

If everyone would do this it wouldn't be super jarring every time a call looks too good in a movie.

And thats other persons internet is sp bad that he sees 144p video...

Coming soon zoom the motion picture

Regular people don't really notice or particularly care. Well, apart from the clutter.

Petroleum Jelly on the Webcam?

I use my Rode NT1 through my Zoom H6 to get much better audio for MS Teams meetings. My colleagues have remarked on the difference over the old headset systems we use, but my camera is old school - a Nikon D700 - which doesn't shoot video. Might play around with my iPhone to see if I can use it's camera for streaming to Teams. Thanks Simon for some great ideas !

Step 1: Throw away Macbook

Step 1 CLEAN THE LENS

why is the whole video blurry most of the time....? It made the video really annoying to watch... I dont understand...?

First 😊⬆️

using a telepronter for a zoom call? WTF I'm going to criticize it a bit. It's not in a destructive way but it seems that your own image is much more important than seeing who you are calling. Aren't you interested in seeing your parents the right way? a teleprompter is for reading sentences, not for seeing other people, hahaha, that detail seems excessive to me.

Sorry mate but this has to be one of the worst thumbnails I've ever seen

Don't make zoom calls.