Great tips! I thought you would say the solution is buying a new one but thank you for proving me wrong

Great tips. The biggest tip for any webcam usage, external or not, is to lower the brightness of the webcam as much as you can muster, and use as much of your own light as possible, preferably natural light from a window as you mentioned. Not only does it look better but you get significantly better performance and higher framerates. Also, the highest resolution on a webcam isn't necessarily the best. Take those two into consideration and you can have amazing, natural, smooth looking webcam footage that almost looks "professional", instead of that grainy, strained, "surveillance look".

Wow, I had no idea that you could use your smartphone as a webcam. Love the style and presentation of the video, it was a pleasure to watch and follow along. This was really informative and is definitely going to help me out in the future, great job Eber on this!

Thanks for the tips! Watching this video saved me from years of struggles with my poor-quality laptop webcam. I have noticed that webcam quality is getting worse with new laptops.

I fixed mine by putting tape over it

These videos yall produce including the ad spots are FIRE!!! Quality is flawless!

Thank you for this video. It's a good round up of tips & tricks.

Great video. Useful and as always full with info.

These tips, really healpful, i've been waiting for video like this. thanks 👍

Eggselent! So much to leverage. Lots of new info.

these videos like tips&tricks help alot 💙

Your tips were really helpful. Thanks so much :)

Thanks man....very informative 👍👍

Thank you for such a simple solution! Did not realize I had lowered the brightness all the way in camera settings! Grateful! 🙌😄

Very informative! Great video.

I appreciate your work! Thank you!

For iPhone if you want to use as a webcam and you have a Mac, you can also do it wired through QuickTime. Then you can feed that output through OBS as a virtual camera

Thx for the great tips

Good one! Short, quite a few points and spot on. About that audio, I have a feeling you are going to love how the Creative BT-W3 + Jabra 65T (or a similar and better TWS) work nearly flawlessly. Could you do something like that? Would love to see comparisons of such stuff. Cheers!

Thanks- very helpful

you are making everything looking fantastic, you are great and thank you very much for this fantastic video

I have a desktop and needed a webcam to do online learning. But a couple years ago budget options were all sold out and in looking into alternatives I came across Droidcam. Suddenly a free program gave me far better picture than a $100 webcam would have, and I already had a great camera on my phone. So my video class on learning Linux was suddenly possible.

very valuable video and it was really helpful , thanks man , loved your efforts :))

Thanks!! that was good options to improve My simple webcam

Very good tips there. I use some of them myself.

I like the cameras you Hardware Cannucks guys use. Which cams are they? They look quite pro and I sure would like one!

I recommend to use the Epoccam along with OBS. Just position yourself so that the watermark won't be in your way and scale your video feed in OBS to exclude the watermark. Start the virtual camera and boom! Your feed might look slightly off to some, but at least you don't have the stupid watermark and look better than everyone else!

Thankyou very much. I used the obs studio. Before this i thought the blurry of my camera cannot be fixed. I even considering to buy external webcam for my laptop. Now i dont need new webcam, my video is clear now.

Yeah, Would love to see an extra vid you doing external solutions like ext. Webcams, lights etc.!

Great video

nice video 👍🏻.. the next one would be the best free webcam software for pc

Thanks bro

I use my NZXT puck as my phone holder with DroidCam. Even the front 12MP camera quality is far better than my old Sony Cybershot 16MP camera. Add that into OBS with a background removal plugin (use robust video matting method) and you have a perfect camera setup for a live stream or something like that.

I'm going to have to rewatch this video when I'm sitting at my desk. This rocks, thanks. I'ven using a website called Blankwhitescreen but I have tons of screen real estate to play with.

Very Good advice, could you tell me if a Camera Shutter on a Lenovo Laptop can be installed? I know some models came with this Piece of Hardware was installed by default any advice would be greatly appreciated Thank you.

New iPad Pro camera is dope

Useful

For Android the better option is Iriun Webcam, video quality was far superior and no need for reboots when changing quality. At least this was the case last summer.

What do you use to shoot this video?

DroidCamX works well for conferencing with my desktop. The video quality of my cell camera is much better than most of the laptop cameras out there. And the app has zoom, white balance, brightness, contrast, image flip and a few other adjustments. I think this version cost me $5 to unlock all the camera adjustment features, but was well worth it. I use a small tripod to hold the phone in the right position.

My Asus G15 doesn't have a webcam, and thats fine with me. They suck. I carry a Logitech C922 that runs rings around any laptop camera. Takes 20 seconds to setup, and I use OBS to adjust settings

EposVox has a great video on how to create your own LUTs using Resolve 16/17 (free), so for anyone that uses a desktop webcam/doesn't move their camera that can be a great option and then apply it to OBS how it was shown in this video.

Using a cellphone as webcam is the best one, grab a old cellphone you won't use anymore and it its better than a lot of the webcans that you can buy.

Good advice, overall, but Microsoft, in particular, really needs to get its webcam act together in Windows 11. Zoom, Skype, the Camera app, and Windows' webcam settings can fight each other, and be out of synch. Skype provides the same fine adjustments as OBS studio, but they don't necessarily stick, depending on what other apps use your webcam. Open the Camera app and it automatically changes to auto-exposure. Zoom has a "touch up my appearance" setting that does...what? I have my Zoom backlight compensation set to a manual level that looks best to me, but the adjustments levels don't correspond to what shows up in Skype. It's not unusual for me to have to reset all apps to their defaults and start over.

It baffles me why MS doesn't include options in the camera app. I want manual control so I don't have to put up with my backlit situation.

My camera is very sharp and makes every skin flaw take over. How do you adjust it to softer focus?

Yes more tips for audio feeds

DroidCam is also available for iOS and iPadOS. No MacOS Client atm.

So S22 review is coming soon, right? Eagerly waiting...

What If Processor like Intel and AMD, adding the ISP like what M1 Have?

my laptop webcam says its 720 16:9 30 fps, so if I buy a webcam, the same stats, it will be the same, or different since it aint with a laptop can tl me pls

How to. Fix the pixel. Problem in acer aspire laptop... As in the camera app it does not allow the to increase in Laptop

Where was this video 1.5 years ago? Jk great and informative video 👍

I always use the droidcam app ! Nice

Biggest upgrade for my webcam is tape over the lens

I thought electrical tape and an external camera was the best solution. I'll give the tips and tricks a shot though. :-)

I agree with lighting. I don't like to do it in dark

'come on elgato, y?' cuts fast😅

OBS is a resource devouver for lower end laptops

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Or use EpocCam turns your phone into a wireless webcam

I love the fact that bad light sources make you look older

Didn't NDI bring out an Android App recently? I think you need to pay for it, but I think the quality is much better

my windows 10 pc has 1mp hd webcam is that why the quality looks so bad?

crappy laptop webcam is actually very helpful for online exams 😂😂😂

Bandwidth is also a cause. HD camera would take up a high speed port’s bandwidth.

You didn't cover using proper video lights to really control the lighting (not talking about that mini ring light that covers some of the screen). Otherwise, a really good & useful video.

What Laptop are you using?

OH I get it now. See, I fixed mine with a piece of black electrical tape. I guess you meant something else.

My webcam is actually terrible. I think it's just the overall quality of it, I don't think this can really be fixed. The camera quality for me is pretty much non-existent. The picture it grainy, but we're not talking tiny grains, but pretty big ones, they more around throughout the screen, it's a bit blurry and glitches between more blurry and a bit more sharp from time to time. I have to sit with almost minimal lighting (that's shining right at my face, but it's not even sharp lightening, it's the kind of light you get on a cloudy day - it's bright, a bit dull, but it's not too strong), but any kind of light seems to be too much for my camera and my face is not visible anymore because of oversaturation. For some reason it often glitches out and the picture becomes bright purple and is covered with these glitchy lines that move around the picture when I try to change the orientation. When I use OBS and change something with the way the video is displayed and I confirm changes, the camera becomes black, like it was off, but the light next to it is lit, meaning the camera is on. I then have to reset both OBS and camera to make it work again. I have this laptop for over 3 years now, but I never actually used the camera, it was always off. I have to attend a zoom interview tomorrow and I just now got to see how terrible this webcam looks like. Idk, I'd either have to use my phone to do it, or this thing, but with both it's not a good look, so I guess that's about it with my potential job :/.

the moment you use your smartphone to fix your notebook you should just use your phone. Either directly by joining from the phone or indirectly by using something like droid cam and importing the camera feed into your notebook

Don't use isopropanol to clean your camera lens. It normally has an anti-glare coating and using alcohol will strip that and you'll end up with more glare.

In today's date there's almost no meeting which can't be attended from smart phone . So I just prefer using a smartphone directly. Unless and untill I have to present something

Been using droidcam for a long time now. I prop the phone on some books. Works great.

The webcams on Apple & Microsoft laptops are the best!!

Timing of audio to video.. made simple

My only complaint about this video is that I wish I could send it to coworkers at the start of the pandemic.

on android iVCam is awesome quality, I use it a lot

The question is, why $3000 laptops use same crap sensor like on $1000 laptops? Cost saving measure? Why they ask for $3000 for a laptop if they don't use higher quality components?

Great video as always. Sorry to hear about the additional time, money and effort (aka the Microsoft tax) that Windows laptop users have to go through to get something that should be available right out of the box. Since 2018 my Pixel Slate and Pixelbook Go (2019) have both had 1080p webcams with stereo sound built in, so no need for any workarounds to have professional-level communications.

Put a sticker over it. Done.

just use your smartphone cam (back or front) via obs. there is site with no latency . using it all the time for livestreams. just search for vdo ninja :)

Please provide tips for these specific topics:- 1) how to optimise your pc fans to get silent operation no matter how much the load is. 2) How to make your cheap microphone actually sound soft and expensive using some softwares. 3) optimising windows 11 for best performance 4) how much reduce eye fatigue and pain while gaming. These are the questions I'm constantly trying to find solid answers for.

How beautiful is your voice!!!

I use a gopro

Awesome

droidcam also has an obs version where they directly connect to obs and the quality is very good (but it comes with a watermark which you can remove by paying)

You know what? People will be lucky that I'm not in my underwear, let alone have decent lighting! LOL

the best of the best solution is using DSLR camera as a webcam

Many work laptops are locked thus software is not an option

I use Droidcam X, and it has been very useful in many situations. Not to mention, exceptional camera quality (depending on your phone camera quality).

XSplit VCam is a good alternative for background blurring. The built in Zoom one is so bad.

All I want to do is change the webcam angle.

Just put brightness to ful,easy

Using droidcam to connect phone as ur cam...which far better than using system cam

knifing it works.

why wouldn't you use the good camera on the rear of your phone?

it made it even blurrier ):

Just be aware of the reflection if you wear glasses and use split screen 😏

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