 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosell here I've been doing a lot of video blogs lately and I'm doing a video interview later in the day So I thought I'd take a chance. I did a little home office tour last week showing you guys the setup I've got for working from home and in this video. I wanted to show what I consider to be the gear or the gear that I find really really helpful for creating doing video interviews from your home if you're being invited to speak on a Vlog or a podcast or a video podcast just a few pieces of hardware I find really helpful. So from a webcam standpoint, I've been using the Logitech C930 for about the last year and a half This is a business grade 1080p webcam from Logitech I'll just hold it up so you can see it a little bit better against the screen But so that's that's great in my opinion I'm not really sold on the idea of 4k webcams because I think for you know If you're using even something like Riverside.fm it's You're gonna be compressing the video feed as it goes up across the cloud and you're not going to be really getting all the Resolution out of your webcam. I think 1080p is really good enough for a lot of video interview work and stuff like that Yeah, you're gonna get better results if you use a The limitation on any webcam right any device that's designed to plug straight into your computer or USB is They're pretty small and small means a small sensor size So you're gonna get better results if you use a DSLR or a even a camcorder that can run into USB generally But for most basic projects, this will meet the bill now the thing I have it up on is a Logitech Sorry, Ulanzi MT-34 Multifunctional tripod. These are literally my favorite favorite pieces of camera gear They're just so useful. I bought about four of them. The reason I say that is because they do a lot of things They have a tripod base, but that pulls out so you can use these as a selfie stick if you're on the go They lock off their telescopic and they have a ball bearing here at the top that you unlock using this So you can also you can take you can toggle it in all directions So this really is extremely useful for me Especially if you're traveling these will come back down and you can put them on your luggage versus let's say And they do make some great, you know fixtures that you can have Something like what I have my lights on these scissor switches. So these exist for webcams I mean, these aren't specific to lighting. It's just a quarter inch head. You could put a light here You could put a microphone here or whatever and this just that screws down Physically clamps onto my desk But the benefit of using something like this is that you can just if you want to keep your desk uncluttered And I'm not saying my desk is uncluttered These really you can just pull them out when you're doing a video interview, whatever fold them back down and save space So just show you guys trying to use my whoops my hand here This is where our telescopes and you literally just can pull this out to It goes a surprising height so that's it kind of extended up to Really a decent height and it's a wide-angle camera So you can do a lot with a webcam Just make sure that your webcam has a quarter inch at the bottom because that's where it'll attach to this and that will Open up a lot of doors for you in terms of angles and look it folds all the way down. So super useful Thing to have the second thing I do is I almost never use the built-in webcam audio for doing an interview especially So I tend to just use a lavalier microphone when I'm doing video interviews or my YouTube vlogs Sometimes I'll use a podcasting microphone. That's why I have a audio interface here on my desk The Beringer Euphoria UM2 opens up a lot of doors in terms of microphones And the other thing is if you're doing a group call I find these Jabra devices great They're speaker phones and microphones for intended for kind of conference rooms and stuff like that These all work out of the box with zoom even on a bunch of Linux And if you're doing if you have like two or three people in the room this type of microphone is great It'll really pick up. That's what it's supposed to do It'll pick up the whole room and you'll get a really really nice audio quality over the speaker phone and The final ingredient you have video sound and lighting so for lighting I Have two lights on my attached to my sorry behind my monitor right here one on the right and one on the left I tend to only use the left fill light This is an LED panel. I picked up on Amazon and it generally gets me enough light It's not quite as granular as I'd like which is a negative But it does a trick and it's remote controllable So I have I keep this remote control on my desk and I literally always use this when I'm doing a even a regular zoom call Lighting is a thing that will really really improve just the video especially when you're dealing with the webcam Because web cams something like this a logitech. It's a small sensor. So the low light performance really suffers So whatever you can do to Help the webcam capture good video by improving your lighting So if you don't have enough lighting from ambient conditions add a bit of lighting One two you could probably add a third light there. I think it would probably be overkill I've heard that two is enough So sometimes I'll add a little bit of lighting to fill to fill this side of my face But almost always and this is a remote control. It's got a toggle for the brightening strength It's got a trouble toggle for color temperature So I've turned it on there and I can just play around with that's me turning down the lighting and that's me turning off And it gets really really bright This is throwing a ton of light coming at me from that direction and then as you say sometimes I fill in from there I keep my webcam going in the center Love my here or Jabra if it's if I'm not recording for multi cam That was the brightness and this is the color temperature toggle. Oh, sorry color temperature So there we're going for a more kind of changing up the color temperature and that's it That's what I find really makes a difference in terms of getting better quality zoom calls and better quality video recordings from your home webcam light sound