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".
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 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!
Hey i'ma ask you something if you can do me a favour and try to use it for omegle cause when i'm using omegle even tho i change the camera on google settings when i return back to omegle it picks up the laptop camera and won't let me use my phone's one thank you..
@@mrbrave4767 I can use OBS Virtual Camera and Droidcam virtual camera without any issue. Video works as expected. You need to refresh the page upon changing the default webcam in the settings in order for the settings to apply.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
Excellent point. I have a FHD webcam that looks great on my end, but the zoom recordings show a far diff picture. I'm upgrading my internet from 10 to 500 GPS, wondering if that would help.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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
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 :/.
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.
Maybe a simple tip about light that you could have mentioned: simple table lamps. Place one on each side of the laptop, they will pleasantly light your face and highlight it from the background.
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.
thats not an excuse for laptop manufacters! i have a phone alot thinnier than my laptop screen and it have 108mp camera and 16mp selfie camera quality doesnt depend on how much height it have it depend on how much width and size on lens alot of phones have powerfull selfie camera and very thin so laptops doesnt use 5mp or 8mp because they want you to spend money on external cameras
@@kayligo it's an acer aspire 5. Please don't be fooled by my comment lol. There's no comparation between the cameras, the phone's is 100x cleaner, colorful and with much better quality overall, but I still prefer the pictures taken on my laptop :)
DroidCam + iPhone and your done Why use a subpar piece of crap fitted in a laptop for a couple pennies Also you can use DroidCam directly through OBS with a simple plugin
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)
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
Great tips! I thought you would say the solution is buying a new one but thank you for proving me wrong
I fixed mine by putting tape over it
🤣🤣
Can confirm. This truly fixes the problem.
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".
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 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!
Hey i'ma ask you something if you can do me a favour and try to use it for omegle cause when i'm using omegle even tho i change the camera on google settings when i return back to omegle it picks up the laptop camera and won't let me use my phone's one
thank you..
@@mrbrave4767 I can use OBS Virtual Camera and Droidcam virtual camera without any issue. Video works as expected. You need to refresh the page upon changing the default webcam in the settings in order for the settings to apply.
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@@sheadiggs9355Hah thanks!
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.
Tried with Cameo, kept crashing, and It messes up the quality.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Biggest upgrade for my webcam is tape over the lens
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
Thank you for such a simple solution! Did not realize I had lowered the brightness all the way in camera settings! Grateful! 🙌😄
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.
These videos yall produce including the ad spots are FIRE!!! Quality is flawless!
Bandwidth is also a cause. HD camera would take up a high speed port’s bandwidth.
Excellent point. I have a FHD webcam that looks great on my end, but the zoom recordings show a far diff picture.
I'm upgrading my internet from 10 to 500 GPS, wondering if that would help.
I thought electrical tape and an external camera was the best solution. I'll give the tips and tricks a shot though. :-)
I like the cameras you Hardware Cannucks guys use. Which cams are they? They look quite pro and I sure would like one!
these videos like tips&tricks help alot 💙
These tips, really healpful, i've been waiting for video like this. thanks 👍
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 love the fact that bad light sources make you look older
I love the fact that he showed us we are not old and ugly, we just have bad lights.
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?
Yeah, Would love to see an extra vid you doing external solutions like ext. Webcams, lights etc.!
Thank you for this video. It's a good round up of tips & tricks.
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.
DroidCam is also available for iOS and iPadOS. No MacOS Client atm.
Your tips were really helpful. Thanks so much :)
very valuable video and it was really helpful , thanks man , loved your efforts :))
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.
Very informative! Great video.
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!
you are making everything looking fantastic, you are great and thank you very much for this fantastic video
The best bloger of all time
Eggselent! So much to leverage. Lots of new info.
New iPad Pro camera is dope
Thanks!! that was good options to improve My simple webcam
nice video 👍🏻.. the next one would be the best free webcam software for pc
Thanks man....very informative 👍👍
Great video. Useful and as always full with info.
I appreciate your work! Thank you!
Or use EpocCam turns your phone into a wireless webcam
I agree with lighting. I don't like to do it in dark
Very good tips there. I use some of them myself.
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.
So S22 review is coming soon, right? Eagerly waiting...
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
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
crappy laptop webcam is actually very helpful for online exams 😂😂😂
Thx for the great tips
'come on elgato, y?' cuts fast😅
Yes more tips for audio feeds
Where was this video 1.5 years ago? Jk great and informative video 👍
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 :)
Thanks- very helpful
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.
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.
The webcams on Apple & Microsoft laptops are the best!!
OH I get it now. See, I fixed mine with a piece of black electrical tape. I guess you meant something else.
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
miss those days when this channel was sponsership free
What do you use to shoot this video?
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 :/.
OBS is a resource devouver for lower end laptops
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.
Been using droidcam for a long time now. I prop the phone on some books. Works great.
the best of the best solution is using DSLR camera as a webcam
Great video
My only complaint about this video is that I wish I could send it to coworkers at the start of the pandemic.
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.
Maybe a simple tip about light that you could have mentioned: simple table lamps. Place one on each side of the laptop, they will pleasantly light your face and highlight it from the background.
What Laptop are you using?
I always use the droidcam app ! Nice
What If Processor like Intel and AMD, adding the ISP like what M1 Have?
Thanks bro
My camera is very sharp and makes every skin flaw take over. How do you adjust it to softer focus?
I fixed mine by changing the frequency from auto to 60hz. USA is 60hz
You know what? People will be lucky that I'm not in my underwear, let alone have decent lighting! LOL
on android iVCam is awesome quality, I use it a lot
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.
thats not an excuse for laptop manufacters!
i have a phone alot thinnier than my laptop screen and it have 108mp camera and 16mp selfie
camera quality doesnt depend on how much height it have
it depend on how much width and size on lens
alot of phones have powerfull selfie camera and very thin
so laptops doesnt use 5mp or 8mp because they want you to spend money on external cameras
Put a sticker over it. Done.
Actually, my laptop camera looks soooo great, I even prefer it over my s20 fe's camera
What laptop do you use?
@@kayligo it's an acer aspire 5.
Please don't be fooled by my comment lol. There's no comparation between the cameras, the phone's is 100x cleaner, colorful and with much better quality overall, but I still prefer the pictures taken on my laptop :)
Timing of audio to video.. made simple
Useful
How beautiful is your voice!!!
How to. Fix the pixel. Problem in acer aspire laptop...
As in the camera app it does not allow the to increase in Laptop
my windows 10 pc has 1mp hd webcam is that why the quality looks so bad?
That's not the "sensor" you're cleaning. It's the lens!
DroidCam + iPhone and your done
Why use a subpar piece of crap fitted in a laptop for a couple pennies
Also you can use DroidCam directly through OBS with a simple plugin
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 can buy a webcam and hang it on your laptop screen 🤷♂️
Just be aware of the reflection if you wear glasses and use split screen 😏
All I want to do is change the webcam angle.
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).
my camera is looking like a old television NEED HELP
I use a gopro
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
Just put brightness to ful,easy