Comments on: 4 Essential steps to make you sound & look professional whilst working from home

By: michaelcade

michaelcade — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:51:00 +0000

In reply to Yann. Absolutely Yann, heard similar things. I also got one of the cheap HDMI capture cards that were reviewed by some of the influencers on YouTube, I was just intrigued as to how they came out. They do an ok job when i connect my old Canon 700D / T5i camera in although looks completely different to my Razer Kiyo web cam. I am not sure if that is the capture card though or the canon could be either really.

By: Yann

Yann — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 08:10:31 +0000

I must say I was very disappointed by the 922, on a Mac, the software (all of them, there is like 3 different apps all doing more or less the same thing) is very confusing, you have to have *perfect* lighting, because that thing has no dynamic range and blown out areas appear anytime you have a darker shirt or background. The exposure settings don’t stick nor the white balance.

I ended up getting a cheap hdmi usb acquisition card for my Fuji X-T3. Def. overkill but couldn’t get anything decent out of the Logitech. An iPhone is no comparison to it with much better quality

By: Paul Stringfellow

Paul Stringfellow — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:13:24 +0000

Really good tips here – I use a fifine mic – rock solid and a bit cheaper than the Rode you are using – got a mic arm as well to position it properly – managed to grab the Logitech C922 the other week as they dropped in stock for 5 minutes.

Have started looking at lighting recently too and have a green screen to hide the rubbish in the back of the loftice 🙂 . Because the loft is an odd shape it has the added benefit of providing some nice background shapes too!

Have a HD video camera for recording stuff that isn’t at the screen too. – sorting out a good tripod to has helped with that.

Environment considerations are good tips as is use a headset if your laptop can’t cut out background noise quickly – so many people drop on and start shoving feedback into a call… and of course the mute button.. it’s just polite as you said!