 the weird thing here is, you know, I'm testing my stream stuff, right? Because for those who don't know, I redid my whole studio, and I know I'm not on camera yet. And in testing my stream stuff, things are just broken. As an example, my stream countdown timer doesn't work. Why doesn't work? I have no idea. It just doesn't. So we're just going to hopefully have this work, because you know, maybe it doesn't and we'll transition. Alright, so the main camera was working. This is the new camera, the Lumix G9 that I've been recording in my last couple of videos with new microphone setup. This is using a blue boom arm stand. So you got to move the chat over there. Where's the chat chat chat chat chat chat chat chat chat chat box. I'll screw over more to the middle. So I I'm just having a lot of issues with this this setup. I mean, heck, you can see a plate back here. This was like my lunch. I had a I used this plate to heat it up. It was leftover chicken veggies. Left over chicken and veggies. Just haven't thrown it out yet. My garbage can's full in my office. I gotta take care of it. So I know things are going to look nice with the camera when it wants to focus, which it's been having a weird issue with the focusing. I think it has to do with the mic being in front of my face. So if I'm off to the side, it probably focuses a little better. But like right now I know it's still like kind of in general blurry. See my hands are good. And now I look good. I can hold up things like the PlayStation controller doesn't focus on it. I have no idea. Now this is the lens it came with. I was trying to use the lens that adds the bokeh effect more to the background, but it didn't. This lens that adds the bokeh effect. It's a 25 millimeter lens. No, 46 to 58 millimeter lens that adds the bokeh effect. The problem with this one is it doesn't as a hard time maintaining focus sort of when a mic's in my face, it has a hard time maintaining focus. When the mic's off camera, which I can't do right now, it doesn't have a hard time maintaining focus. So it's a balancing act with this lens. So basically this lens works really well for prime news or I guess here's the news as I call it now. But it doesn't really work that well for anything else. And that's mostly just because I can't use a lav mic yet. lav mic would be an easy solution to a lot of my videos, but I just it lav mics don't work because of the power lines in my backyard. So whatever I'm just here doing my thing. My whole studio has had a lot of changes over the last couple of weeks. You can see you know part of like like back there to the podcast set back there. See that like the TV's not up right now we have some panels down right here. Because there's some construction again being done on the podcast set. I swear one day will be done working on the podcast set and it's just gonna be consistent and be good. And I'm not gonna have to worry about it anymore. Someday. So one issue I'm gonna have with this stream set up right now is when I play games, the TV for me to play games on is right here. So I could read chat, but you're gonna get like a side face while I'm playing games. I'm not sure if I like that or not. The whole side face while playing games. But what am I going to do? And here's the problem my monitor well actually I can bring the monitor down so the monitor is blocking part of the TV. I think this monitor can come down one of me. Oh yeah, so that part's fixed by just pushing the monitor down. I mean I don't need it down right now. But I don't know about that side view while playing games. Now technically I do have a 4k 60 fps monitor right here that would have me more looking at. But see now I can't read chat unless I go like this. Honestly the game here with the chat right here is actually I don't know. I'm not streaming a game right now so there's just a lot of quirks I'm trying to sort out to get everything. Because when I reorganized my studio I didn't reorganize it worrying about live streams. That's kind of like my bad. I worried primarily on the podcast set which the whole reason there's no TV up and everything's down is we are upgrading the TV back there. There's gonna be a bigger TV so the guests look nicer and the camera picks them up easier. The TV's actually down there but the screws are stripped on the feet so I gotta hack saw the feet off and I haven't done that yet. It'll be done before the podcast this week. But like everything's been built around that back in. Like this is one of the new desks for the podcast. The reason this desk is here is because when I record, what's your my call it? When I record, my gosh. Here's the news. I use the boom arm that's on that desk to like bring this mic just off camera. So is what it is except I got to flip the mic. I'm not my setup right now. I'm not really like super sold on my setup staying the way it is right now. And see the camera keeps getting blurry. It's just it doesn't like the microphone by my face. It just doesn't. Like on the camera here it's tracking my face fine. Like it knows the tear up here. But like through the HDMI feed to you guys. It's not really focusing correctly. Now I can again do this focuses on my hand. Then it looks super clean for a moment. But then I go back behind the mic. I guess it's still looking clean for now. Something about the HDMI out isn't as clean as the signal directly on the camera. And I don't know why but streams are going to be really weird on my channel for a while. Trying to figure out a way to make make the song see streams used to be super simple right. My desk used to be turned this way in my office. So what you guys never saw was behind my desk was basically the rest of the studio. So behind my desk was the rest of the street just a wide open space. So basically right behind my desk I had a shitload of cords. You know because I had all my console cords running my audio cables things running off to the podcast set. And then I could take my tripod with the camera and set it up right directly behind my desk and I can move it anywhere I want. I had a nice freedom of movement to move the camera anywhere I want. And then you would see my gaming collection and stuff in the background which is still there by the way. I haven't moved any of it. It's still there. The problem with that setup is not only do I have a desk sitting in the middle of a room that makes no sense and just looks like shit. It also got in the way of the long view I needed for the podcast set. And now you can say just move the podcast set. And I thought about moving the podcast set up against this wall over here where I currently have like a little kitchen set. But the wall is just not big enough. So it stays here plus I want a blue wall behind that wall is white and I'm not repainting right now. So everything was built around making the best possible angle I can for the podcast set. The problem is everything else sucks. Now yes here's the news looks great. I like here's the news with my monitors in the background. I like that. I like like I could put up a custom wallpaper if I want. I could have more right now I think I have rotating wallpapers. Is it even rotating sometimes they don't rotate. I don't even know if it's rotating. Let me bring this down and just keep this up and let me see if it's actually rotating because I have no idea. It's supposed to be rotating every minute but I don't know if it is. I just I'm always torn like I'm trying to do I'm trying to do everything I can. So things are simple. That's always my goal. I want things to be simple. Things are never simple. Like I think for the stream set up. I don't want to use the Lumix G9 one because it has just a lot of autofocus issues with with the mic and all that and the machine that's great. But also you'll see after a little while the camera will just stop outputting through HDMI. I want to stick to this camera to be for videos and what I want is a really nice webcam. Like a really nice webcam. And I might even tell like a 4k webcam like 4k webcams are bullshit. But there's some webcams out there but they're just so they're fucking expensive. That that have really great frame rate and all that and great quality. Where is it the it's like a $200 webcam. The one that I was looking at and I've seen a lot of a lot of good really great reviews for me. Let me find it on Amazon here. Pretty sure it's $200 maybe maybe it's a little less now. Let me see. No not not the AI robot one because our AI robot ones that are like follow me around. But it's a standalone one. Let me find it here. I know it's in here. I was looking at it the other day and I forgot to add it to my cart is like a thing to say for later. No no. Where are you? Where are you you bastard? Maybe it's maybe it's over 200. Maybe it's my problem. Maybe you started 200. God how expensive was this thing? No there it is. So the Razer Kayo Pro Streaming webcam that gives an uncompressed which is what creates the really good image quality 1080p 60 FPS with the ability to go up to 180 at 720 but I'd be using that 1080 with a high performance adaptive light sensor HDR enabled wide-angle lens adjustable field of view etc and that's what I wanted to use for my live streams that way here's the thing my desk right now is like most people's desk it's up against the wall it's up against the wall which is great it's more out of the way it opens up my office more I don't have a I mean I still have a cable mess I'm always gonna have a cable here's the thing about being a youtuber we always talk about like oh yeah organize your cables I can't organize my cables like on my desk right now I got it I got a charging cable for my my keyboard in my mouse I got a cable to charge different controllers I have all the cables for my audio interface which are fine I can cable manage the audio interface except for the fact that I'm constantly changing mic positions I'm changing camera positions I'm changing what consoles are hooked up because I don't have a proper 4k HDMI switcher so at the end of the day I end up having cables everywhere because I need access to my cables all the time so there's always a cable mess in this damn studio really pisses me off to be completely honest really pisses me off but what am I gonna do about it there's no real way to organize it because I constantly have to unplug re-plug reposition I mean that the audio plugged into this mic right now goes out this direction down on the floor in front of me like literally I'm picking up the cable with my frickin foot and then up the other side of the desk into the audio interface then when the mic is back here for a different a different type of video type over here for a different type of video type or back there for the podcast the audio cable runs like this along the ground I like the camera right now its power cable is running past my feet around my desk and up because typically the cameras over here or over here or it's just a hot mess and my whole goal of my setup is always to try to make things as easy as I can and I think one way is I give up on using this camera which looks great as my normal stream camera I think I need to buy this $200 because I my thing is I don't want to sacrifice image quality that's that's kind of my thing like I have other webcams I'll show you I'll show I have other webcams where is it where's my this is this is the current webcam I have the current webcam alternative this webcam isn't like horrendous but look at that look at that FPS look at that frame rate doesn't look like shit it looks like shit I'm sacrificing quality I'm sacrificing quality to use this really old webcam I have from the 1990s where's this I mean look at this this camera is way better no look I'm not saying that the Razer Kaio Pro streaming is gonna be as good as a frickin Lumix thousand dollar camera and of course that but it's intended for streaming it's more flexible and I don't have to try to fit a mini tripod with my camera behind like on my desk behind my monitors and worry about it having focusing issues because it's not really intended to be used the way it's currently being used it's meant to record video or take pictures and when I hit record it's perfect there's no issues with the autofocus but just sitting there in general as an HDMI out there's gonna be issues I just can't I do I've invested like two thousand something dollars in the last three weeks between this camera lenses the podcast set the desks these frickin boom mic arms I don't I'm just tapped oh man I got any money so I can't like buy the webcam I wish I would have budgeted for it I've been trying to avoid it but I think I think I'm just gonna have to I cannot handle like the I can't handle this quality I'm sorry maybe I'm just too spoiled I'm probably too spoiled but I can't handle that kind of quality any better I need better I'm gonna read chat now I know people probably like you've been ignoring chat like well yeah sorry I'm not trying to ignore chat I'm just testing shit and I don't like how it's turning out which is why I need to get it the proper webcam that I can't afford right now so I guess I'll say hi to people who are here we got Dima steep Shay Cormack Chris Robert Tolin fierce deity master J Lo whole bunch of other people camera looks fine stay simp what's my favorite game it's breath of the wild why did it take so long for the new stream it because of issues like this where it's going on like I basically the setup I had before in my studio was perfect for live streams but sucked for anything else so recording standard videos where I'm standing and talking recording the podcast recording with my computer in the background everything about my old setup was dog shit just dog shit for making other videos but it was great for live streams simple easy but streams are kind of like a secondary thing I do I primarily make YouTube videos and then I also stream so I feel like I just I need to get a new I need to get just bite the bullet when I can afford to and get one of the new webcams and just say fuck it as it'll solve a lot of my headaches because then this camera well I guess I have this camera available for streams it would just be like a secondary camera that maybe does like a side shot that shows like my gaming collection or whatever or maybe like I'm featuring something back there on a table and I can like have the camera point at it so like there's other other uses that I could end up using multiple cameras for streams but I gotta go later later Luke Merrick anyways I didn't expect there to be very many people here for this stream see look at that look at all that autofocusing problem I don't you don't have that with a typical webcam dumb dumb come on focus focus on me see and what could happen now is look the positioning of this webcam here is better but I can't fit my main like camera here because then it hits the monitor arm so it doesn't fit but like this webcam is attached to the top of the monitor and that's what's nice about webcams so I just need I just need to get a webcam I just need to buy one I need I need to buy the right webcam I'm not buying some piece of shit cheap one because look at that I do I want this quality all the time call me a stickler maybe the shit doesn't matter to you but it matters to me I like having the best quality I can plus it gives me an extra camera to record with in a pinch if like the Lumix is being used for something else in the moment I need to get a video I'll quick I can potentially just use the webcam to record I say just do a smaller giveaway next month and use your YouTube revenue to improve channel quality via a new webcam well that's that that's fine to say Brian part part of the reason I don't have any money right now is not just because the money I already invested in having to get a new camera which literally was not part of my budget plan that sucked I I I'm waiting on my tax return man I don't know what the hell is going on I think it's because they did another round of those stimulus payments that they're like yeah f you and your tax return what I mean at me and my tax return damn it so like the YouTube revenue I have coming in this month which arrives in two days I am using that revenue to pay bills because the money for my job I use them by the equipment so I'm kind of paying myself back and then using that money for bills so it's kind of a love and take give and take love and take give and take I do not own a pet snake unless you talk about the one between my legs and I really hope you're not talking about the one between my legs tech issues are always a guarantee when you try to approve it try patting yourself on the back of the fact you are pushing your content forward and value for all of us you do yeah I mean the new set for the podcast is great it's gonna be even better once we get the new TV up in it like dude the new podcast set turned out better than I expected so that's just awesome I did there's not a pet snake behind me you realize guys that I have the entire view of my camera I can see what's on my camera if you're talking about the cords back there those are just cords those are a power cord and an HDMI cable that run to a TV that's currently not on the wall it's not a snake but yeah I just it's frustrating when when one thing's right but then the rest isn't right now recording videos with this is awesome I'm great but like I just so if you wonder why I haven't been live streaming you could see why I hate this in and out focused shit well I hate that I don't have a really good setup to use my camera for live streams but I also appreciate that now my camera is better set up to make any other video I want besides a live stream what I have for breakfast I had I kind of had a so my breakfast I kind of slept through breakfast my kids aren't here right now they're with my parents so I slept in the day and I woke up at like 10 I want to say so like an hour and a half ago so I kind of just went straight to like a lunch kind of breakfast and I had had some chicken and veggies chicken and veggie wraps are my kids home oh my kids are home all right