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excellent hey guys how's it going welcome to Paul's hardware today's video is a little bit of a behind-the-scenes look at how I set up to shoot live streams so I'm going to be looking at a lot of the hardware and configuration stuff that you see behind me going over some of the cameras that I have set up my audio solution and especially a focus on how I shoot myself because I'm usually a one-man operation so oftentimes after kind of get things all arranged for myself to hit the record button and then record myself and then I have myself later on so sometimes it's a matter of being able to monitor myself like I'm doing right now with the camera that I'm using which is the Panasonic Lumix LX run-and-gun shooting camera has some limitations but definitely nice that it has this Panasonic image app which allows me to see exactly what the heck is going on that's one of the most important things when you're shooting yourself it's just being able to look at it and be like yes it looks okay I hope because one of the last things you ever want to do one of the things I really try to avoid is having to reshoot something having to go back because it was out of focus or maybe because we lost audio or the audio didn't pick up well enough and as I talked about all this stuff I'm reminded that I'm recording using an in-camera microphone and it's probably really echoey but we'll deal with that anyway um also what the heck is this thing right here I'm going to show you right now so since I started with cameras I'm going to go for the rest of the ones that I'm currently using starting with my main one right here which is the Panasonic Lumix gh4 actually as this Olympics anyway it's a gh4 from Panasonic I love love love this camera I got it about it partially slightly used from Larry Dickerson aka geeky nerd dad follow him on Twitter and YouTube and stuff and some things that I really like about this camera apart from the ability to shoot 4k interchangeable lenses nice large Micro Four Thirds sensor it's got a flip-out and articulating screen which means that I can open the screen and I can actually if it's not being blocked by cables turn it around and face it towards me as I'm recording stuff that way if I'm studying for shot I can look and immediately see what it is now in the absence of that in for instance when the in the configuration you see right now it has my big ghetto teleprompter in front of it I can't see this through the cardboard so that's when I would line up and use my smartphone like I just showed you a second ago with the image app and then that would allow me to actually see what's going on here so I can monitor it even if I'm a waif or not looking at it directly the other way that I can monitor it is of course if I'm actually live-streaming or setting up to livestream which would be via the HDMI out which is right over here kind of so that's plugged in and that's routed all the way over via cable on the floor to my computer's capture card right there which is a Blackmagic intensity Pro you can find lots of pros and cons for the intensity Pro online lots of people have tried it with varying degrees of success but it's actually worked pretty well for me so anyway there's kind of my main camera that I use when I need a secondary camera I use the LX 100 although the Alex 100 that I'm recording this right now does not necessarily have everything you need to use it for for a main camera the LX 100 doesn't have an HDMI out clean HDMI out it does have an HDMI out but you can only use it for playback it's actually pretty stupid I feel like Panasonic could bypass that if they really wanted to but anyway I'm getting off topic so the Alex 100 I order a package stuff live is a webcam so this is a Logitech c920 it's kind of a I don't want to call it the gold standard in webcams visual quality is pretty good with this and the software is not terrible either so you can kind of get by you got to figure out some of the quirks wait did I say the software is not terrible the software is pretty bad but once you've kind of figure out some of the quirks you can use this and set it up and I use this just to record directly to the computer when when needed or I will also use this actually to set up and do time lapses and I think that deserves another video if I want to show you guys how to do webcam time lapses because it would be too complicated for this but anyway that's kind of what I do when I'm recording and there's a look at my view when I'm recording can also see our washer and dryer in the background but all right let's move on from cameras now and I want to talk a little bit about audio so let's talk about where I'm on my audio comes from all my audio gets piped through this little guy right here this is a monoprice sound Pro audio series sound board is just a mixer the product ID is 6 1 5 808 if you guys are interested there's actually a newer version of this it's a little bit cheaper on a price which is I believe a 10 channel mixer this is an 8 channel mixer but it has four XLR inputs that are powered with phantom power so the newer one you can get is a little bit cheaper than this and I believe that's a 10 channel but it's only got two powered XLR inputs this one is four so it's a little bit more expensive I think this is like 80 bucks or maybe 90 bucks the newer one I'll put a link in the description and that one's like I think that one's like 60 bucks or so but again click link in the description if you really want to find out anyway what this allows me to do is take multiple mic inputs so I've got two mics going into it right now and that will allow me to do multi person setups so for instance when Cal and I do our livestream show every Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. Pacific on twitch.tv slash awesome hardware we can record ourselves now here in my garage studio we are using these microphones which are also from monoprice and they're the mono price large diaphragm condenser microphone I believe is what they're called the product ID and these guys is six hundred eight hundred you gotta check those out and we've been getting some fight now that we finally figured out how to actually like configure these we've actually been getting like some positive comments on audio which is nice these are ideally placed very close to you which is why I have them attached to these kind of swing arms up here the sir these are super ghetto swing arms they're like 15 bucks on on Amazon which is why they are being held up with extra ropes and stuff speaking of extra ropes and stuff I have this sort of overhead ceiling framework that I built up here as well as a ghetto mounted light that's providing a little bit of light the reason I built this out of wood is to make it malleable and flexible and to allow me to do things like add a little drop down piece so that I can bring the mics closer to our faces and stuff like that also too I have this little guy in here which is just a c-clamp mounted with another camera although this camera is nice because it can do HDMI out it's just a camcorder but this allows me to get like a top-down view of just whatever the heck is going down here on the table then it allows me to like switch back and forth between it and that kind of stuff last thing to mention for Audio and for this recorder is that since I already showed you those mics those are plugged in via XLR right here when I bring this over to Kyle's and we livestream from there I use these which are little lav mics just wired and they plug in same way works the same way I like the sound quality of the large diaphragm condenser microphones better but it's nice to be able to drop in those those lav mics whenever necessary last thing is that it's got a couple different ways of connecting so there's actually USB out on this side over here so we can just plug that straight into the streaming system and then just connect via a standard USB device no drivers required or anything like that or I can use the outputs right here the aux sender the headphone out and that I can pipe right into the camera so if I'm not streaming if I'm just recording locally onto the camera I can do that into the camera then I don't have to sync up the sound later on or that kind of thing a couple of the things before I move on if you're in the market for a camera again make sure it's got that articulating screen or some way of actually being able to see yourself especially if you're recording yourself make sure it has a discreet audio input usually via a 1/8 inch Jack having a separate audio input is really really key if you don't want to record sound separately and sync it up later which can just kind of be a pain in the butt its way it's way easier just to record locally and then the last thing is to make sure you have AC power this is especially if you're streaming so this I have a little power battery pack unit so it just pops in there and then it little wire feeds out and then I can actually feed full time power to this via just a little 15 dollar battery pack that I got again I think on Amazon this works great and I have had the camera running for like literally hours and with the AC power and it just works and it stays on and it always feeds the HTM out and it's good to go now this device in front of the camera is my ghetto teleprompter it's been through a couple different variations it is made of a cardboard box and a piece of glass this is me being frugal or just deciding hey a teleprompter is really just a glorified angled piece of glass I don't want to pay 100 or 150 or 200 bucks for the ones that they sell although honestly those are nice and in retrospect maybe I should have just done that but this is basically cardboard box reinforced with some duct tape I made black I got black duct tape to make it fancier and I also added a metal or this is just a unlike a straight hanger that goes across the top to hold this little cross beam up and that holds the glass in place the glass reflects down onto a monitor screen this was really really cheap to put together because the glass was like you know two or three dollars and it's cardboard and duct tape that is assuming that you have some of the other stuff you need though so I did have an older monitor it's like lower resolution than 1080 so I don't really use it much anymore but I popped it on here for this and then that actually goes over and connects up to my laptop right here I can also connect it to the streaming system if I need to and then I use some software called mirrors mirror script Pro which is totally free and it works so that's Merri script Pro I just get whatever text or script or whatever or usually like if I'm live streaming I just put some notes on there to kind of keep me on track and keep things organized you hit start and then you can flip it on screen or whatever and then it's just being mirrored onto this over here and then as you can maybe see it's it shows up right there and then if I want to control it I have a USB connected a keyboard it senses it this is a Coolermaster keyboard you don't need to use a high-end mechanical keyboard for this I just happened to have too many of these lying around apparently and then I usually I usually wear like socks or something and then I hit the spacebar with my toe and that's how I control the words going up and down or just to pause them if I want to go off on a tangent or something like that and it actually works really well even to the extent that I like prefer this setup over some of the other teleprompter setups I've seen specifically because it allows you to change like the software allows you to change the size of the words on screen like bring the margins in if you want to and just kind of configure it so that it gives you the best best way to go you can also use the buttons here to like slow down or speed up the text which is also pretty key to kind of help you speak in a regular cadence or that kind of thing and this is all honestly guys you know I don't know if you guys are into teleprompters or if you think they they're fake or whatever but really it's there so that you can kind of keep up with what you want to talk about so that you don't get too distracted like I'm probably doing in this video and going off on tangents and to keep things concise and to cut way down on the editing time because if you have a bunch of random tangents and you edit them all out then that takes longer okay so I talked about cameras I've talked about my audio solution at least for right now and I've talked about my teleprompter how about this whole live-streaming thing well that's handled by this system over here which is the streaming system I also have another system over here which you guys might recognize that is arctic panther oh that was my it so I don't have to edit inner growl later as a pretty terrible grill anyway my my goal here for streaming is that I need to be able to play games on this system because this is my good system dual nine 80s and whatnot water-cooled that's connected just to a 1080 monitor right now but I also have a pass-through going so this comes over here and it feeds to this guy this is the Elgato gamer HD 60 so this has a HDMI pass-through and then a USB out the USB out goes over to the actual streaming system here and that way I can actually capture on to the reaming system also is a glossy monitor so you can see me in the reflection high so I'm going to show you guys a pretty basic setup that I have for capturing that GTA 5 over there and streaming it with this system I bear in mind and most with most computers like you don't necessarily need a separate computer to play the game and then a separate computer to stream it I only have this setup because I like having a dedicated computer to stream on or at least that the handles streaming is kind of its primary tasks because that means it's doesn't get moved around or messed around with their settings changed your equipment swap bed or anything like that very often for a streaming system you'll definitely need a capture card of some kind so I have to the internal Blackmagic intensity Pro that you can see right there and then the external Elgato Game Capture HD which is like right over there that's the external USB one I also even kind of like having those separate having those be separate devices so it's easier to tell which one is which in this in in like the system as you're doing selections and that kind of thing and they seem to play nice together so far if I have a complaint about the game capture hd60 it is that there is some lag and delay because it actually does a little bit of buffering inside the device so you might notice right now I've got GTA v up there then over on the system I'm just going to load up OBS for dreaming software I like OBS because it's free and I also use xsplit I have a license for that I think exploits a little bit more full-featured and the UI is a little bit friendlier but you can do most of the stuff that you would do in xsplit using OBS and I'm apologize if you guys have a hard time seeing this at all okay so just real quick to show you a basic captioning I'm going to hit preview and that actually made the screen go dark here for a second because that started up the buffering in the elgato game capture hd60 but after a second it streams and then what you see over here is now shown right over here from there I could go on and do other things like setting up the camera and dropping in there this isn't necessarily going to be a software tutorial on this although guys let me know if you are interested in a software tutorial from me I'm still learning every day about how you how to use the streaming software so it would be you know it'd be that kind of video but this gives me the basic functionality of playing the game over here on my nice epic water-cooled system with dual nine 80s still getting most of the performance granted I'm limited to 1080 60 but if I'm streaming anyway then I'm probably to do that anyway I might get a new monitor over here it's something higher than 1080 and that might help things a little bit or at least make a little bit better use of those dual dual nine eighties there beyond that though you have other let me see what else I have set up here oh there's me so I switched over to this other scene and now you can see me that's that's the camera recording straight from the gh4 over there and now you can see me on screen with my Alex 100 and then of course we can use the software if we wanted to like edit this around or that kind of thing we have to select this and hit edit and then you know you can you can resize stuff and move stuff around and all that kind of stuff so guys that is a kind of a rundown of the hardware I'm using right now the systems I'm using right now I know there wasn't a whole lot of delving into detail but I didn't want to make this video too long let me know in the comments if you want to see more videos like this and how I have it set up this is obviously will hopefully obviously also a work in progress I have some painting to do and back here and other projects that are ongoing so stuffs still ready to be moved around here anyway thanks for watching this video hit the like button if you enjoyed it don't forget to subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one also check out my store you can buy paul's hardware t-shirts thumbscrew t-shirts also mugs glasses and all that good stuff great way to get yourself some merchandise and also help support my cause thanks again for watching guys we'll see you next time