[0:00] when we think about streaming we think
[0:01] about gear and when I think about gear
[0:03] specifically I think about what we're
[0:05] trying to do to make our lives easier
[0:07] either as streamers or creators or in a
[0:09] lot of ways just what people who use
[0:11] everyday applications uh need to use to
[0:14] simplify their process well today we're
[0:17] talking about two things that have
[0:18] literally changed the game for me and
[0:21] how they've had recent updates to make
[0:23] them even better and how you should
[0:25] probably consider picking these up if
[0:26] you're looking to boost productivity uh
[0:29] but also to make you a better Creator
[0:31] let's get into this video just as a
[0:33] heads up some of these products that
[0:34] you're about to see brands have sent me
[0:36] before or have sent me recently but some
[0:38] of them I bought and paid for out of
[0:40] pocket it's not changing anything for
[0:42] this video uh they're not seeing
[0:43] anything ahead of time and specifically
[0:45] we're talking about Elgato today we've
[0:47] got you on the creepy View
[0:49] today no I've got you on this is
[0:51] actually the face cam Neo this isn't the
[0:53] product one of the products we're
[0:54] talking about but this is a fantastic uh
[0:56] camera and honestly I've been using it
[0:59] not so much as a webcam for my stream
[1:01] which that's actually a pretty good view
[1:04] minus the like janky broken door behind
[1:06] me maybe I should just leave this up
[1:08] here for stream anyway um I'm actually
[1:10] going to use this to show you the items
[1:12] because I don't want to tear things down
[1:13] in my setup just because i' I've got
[1:14] some other work to do but I feel like I
[1:16] needed to say this because of some
[1:18] recent updates so the first one is
[1:19] actually this this is the stream deck
[1:21] plus and they also sent along with this
[1:24] one the XLR dock that goes into the back
[1:27] and honestly uh I already had a stream
[1:30] deck plus give me a second as you can
[1:31] see I already had a stream deck plus and
[1:33] I love it I actually bought this one out
[1:35] of pocket right when it released um but
[1:38] I'm glad they sent this over because I
[1:39] personally love the white aesthetic and
[1:41] I could not justify upgrading from this
[1:43] to this uh but the real thing about this
[1:45] is just how I use it and how it makes my
[1:48] day-to-day so much easier uh but I do
[1:50] want to highlight the XLR dock in the
[1:52] back so let's go ahead and highlight the
[1:54] differences between the two this is the
[1:56] stream deck plus you normally will buy
[1:59] it it just has a little Bas in the back
[2:00] nothing crazy it's got a USBC connector
[2:03] and it's all basically the same it's got
[2:05] four knobs a touchcreen here where you
[2:06] can swipe you can see this thing is well
[2:08] loved uh and it's got four buttons or
[2:10] eight buttons actually and that's kind
[2:12] of what the stream deck does well
[2:14] recently they've released um the XLR
[2:16] dock where it actually takes basically
[2:18] the wave XLR and converts it into a
[2:21] stand that just plugs into the USB port
[2:24] on the back of here you use one USBC
[2:27] cable and basically all the same other
[2:29] connectors you have an ox out for your
[2:31] headphones as well as an XLR and all of
[2:34] it controls through one device kind of
[2:37] freeing up a whole bunch of like room on
[2:39] your desk but they also have a USB hub
[2:42] which you can take a look at as well but
[2:44] that's kind of what we're talking about
[2:45] sure I use this for my XLR interface now
[2:48] to be able to control the microphone
[2:49] which by the way is the wave DX right
[2:51] now typically most of the time I'm
[2:54] running uh the shore
[2:56] sm7b but uh the wave DX is honestly I
[3:00] really love the microphone for $99 let
[3:02] me know what your thoughts are here I've
[3:03] done multiple reviews of this microphone
[3:05] and comparing it to other ones so you
[3:07] should go check those out if you're
[3:08] curious if you want this mic or not uh
[3:10] but they also sent this one out the
[3:11] white one I had a black one they sent
[3:13] out a white one love the aesthetic along
[3:15] with the Elgato wave Pro arm LP arm I
[3:18] just did a review on this also really
[3:20] awesome it's a little expensive for $180
[3:23] when I say A little I think it's a lot
[3:24] expensive but now owning it I probably
[3:27] would justify buying it as well so let's
[3:29] go and talk about the stream deck and
[3:30] how I use it specifically I'm just going
[3:32] to show it to you like this rather than
[3:34] actually going in the software and
[3:35] showing you I feel like this is probably
[3:37] real world example of how it works
[3:39] anyway looking at this you can see the
[3:40] stream deck I have eight buttons I have
[3:43] the four things right here this is
[3:44] mostly for the wave software and these
[3:46] are pinned so it doesn't matter what uh
[3:49] thing I go into they stay even if I
[3:51] swipe to the next these will stay and
[3:53] you can do that in software and you can
[3:55] see I have my mic gain right here I have
[3:57] my PC volume for and you see little
[4:00] headphone right there that's for my
[4:01] headphones and then I have stream same
[4:04] thing for voice chat headphones and
[4:06] stream music headphones and stream and
[4:09] this is how I'm able to control
[4:10] everything so easily and honestly this
[4:12] is why I love this there's a reason why
[4:16] here's my mouse right by the way this
[4:18] thing is the coolest thing ever uh seven
[4:20] bucks um anyway there's a reason why my
[4:23] mouse is here and this is so close is
[4:25] because I I touch these faders and move
[4:29] these knobs
[4:30] constantly I love being able to adjust
[4:32] my volume if I'm in a call if I jump
[4:35] into a voice chat with someone if I'm
[4:36] actually playing music uh I love being
[4:38] able to just reach up and easily adjust
[4:41] and make this happen uh this is probably
[4:44] a game Cher and why I say the stream
[4:46] deck plus is worth it is just because of
[4:48] these knobs sure there are cheaper
[4:50] options there's like PC panel and some
[4:51] other stuff but holy
[4:54] crap this is one of the best things ever
[4:58] let's talk about some of the buttons
[4:59] that have to make other things easier
[5:01] CPU GPU temps I'm as you can see I'm a
[5:04] I'm a little bit of a tech nerd and have
[5:05] a pretty nice PC whatever the case but I
[5:08] love building PCS and I love monitoring
[5:10] the PC at all times so you can see CPU
[5:12] GPU uh I've got time here just because I
[5:15] actually hide uh my taskbar here so I
[5:19] like to have it to where I can reach
[5:20] down and you can tap it to get date all
[5:23] these are things that are supported
[5:24] inside their like Marketplace which is
[5:26] really cool CU you can just go into
[5:28] Marketplace and be able to use them I
[5:29] have my recording folder as well as my
[5:31] streaming folder so I have recording and
[5:33] then I have streamlabs which is my
[5:34] streaming folder and then I also can
[5:36] swipe and on this page I have quick
[5:39] opens for specific folders like to open
[5:42] my OBS folder for videos that's going to
[5:44] be my OBS recordings my client folder
[5:46] which I do all uh like all my client
[5:48] work opens up my Nas screenshots or any
[5:50] screenshots I've taken it opens up that
[5:52] folder and then my Nas Just summons up
[5:54] the general like like home of the actual
[5:57] Nas folder then I have outputs in GOI
[5:59] outputs ISS where I want to send my
[6:00] headphone headset speaker earbuds or the
[6:03] TV uh which is really cool cuz wave just
[6:05] lets you kind of readjust where
[6:07] everything goes goie is all of my stuff
[6:09] to turn on and off when it comes to like
[6:11] my little goie plugs so my aam my key
[6:15] light as well as I can just hit blue and
[6:17] it'll turn on the blue lights in the
[6:18] room everything also have a white and a
[6:20] blue and then I have as you can see here
[6:23] I do have a key light Neo and this is
[6:25] where I was messing with key light Neo
[6:26] adjusting temperatures and stuff but
[6:28] back to the main page for recording
[6:31] literally like it's so easy for me to
[6:33] change I have aam and overhead desktop
[6:36] cam only PC Cam and desktop Cam and
[6:38] capture card I even have a start and
[6:40] stop for me to start and stop recording
[6:42] I can pause replay buffer and save all
[6:45] of this right here and if I hit one of
[6:47] these keys this actually has a timer and
[6:50] goes back if I hit it now it's going to
[6:51] mess up maybe I can turn on replay
[6:53] buffer you can see that it'll actually
[6:56] like go back to the previous folder
[6:58] which is what's really cool let me go
[7:00] back and going turn that off because I
[7:01] don't really need replay buffer right
[7:03] now and you can set up that timer on how
[7:06] long it will go back to the original
[7:07] page same thing for stream I've got like
[7:09] camera just chatting intermission Lives
[7:12] full aam as well as some other things
[7:14] that are just filters that turned on and
[7:16] off uh and this is what I use for my
[7:18] stream and in all honesty the stream
[7:20] deck plus is one of those things that if
[7:23] I were to start all over again I think a
[7:25] stream deck like here's the mark 2
[7:27] stream deck I'm testing out some stuff
[7:29] with voice mod right now but here's the
[7:30] mark 2 stream deck uh that was one of
[7:33] the first stream decks I ever bought
[7:35] love it so much uh but the moment wave
[7:38] software released and I got a wave XLR
[7:40] and being able to control everything
[7:42] just with buttons rather than the knobs
[7:44] stream deck plus not only comes with the
[7:47] wave software so you can use it with
[7:48] like USB mics uh just without having the
[7:51] XLR thing it can you can still get wave
[7:53] software and control USB mics uh but the
[7:55] the whole customization of getting
[7:57] stream deck stuff with buttons but
[8:01] actual knob adjustments is a game Cher
[8:04] especially when it comes to this next
[8:06] product so then next product is kind of
[8:08] weird for me to try to show you like
[8:09] this but I'll I'll show it to you anyway
[8:11] so this is the Elgato teleprompter and I
[8:15] personally love the Elgato teleprompter
[8:18] I think it is great Elgato did send it
[8:20] over um but even in my review I said
[8:23] that as the cost of it I think it's a
[8:25] $300 teleprompter and I believe they're
[8:28] coming out with a larger one maybe a
[8:30] 15inch they showed it at twitchcon this
[8:32] teleprompter is one of those things that
[8:34] just makes you a better Creator let me
[8:36] show you why so what you can see right
[8:38] here is you're actually looking at me
[8:39] holding up the face cam Pro uh but what
[8:42] you can see right now is it's actually
[8:43] focused on the product and what you see
[8:46] is how pretty it is right uh but that's
[8:49] actually my aam that's an that's a Sony
[8:51] a6700 with a sigma 16 mm lens uh and
[8:56] it's running out HDMI which maybe I can
[8:59] show those cables there you go it's
[9:00] running out HDMI into the computer into
[9:04] an Elgato 4K 60 Pro because I am running
[9:08] 4K 60 out of the a6700 now the reason
[9:11] why this is so cool is sure I'm able to
[9:14] monitor myself and show myself on the
[9:16] screen uh but to be honest doing scripts
[9:19] and things like that is what's really
[9:21] cool but my main use for this is to do
[9:24] just like this when I'm recording
[9:26] content I'm looking directly at my face
[9:28] on this teleprompter so I'm not just
[9:30] staring at like an empty lens or
[9:32] anything I'm actually taking the time to
[9:35] stare at my face to see my facial
[9:37] expressions to see everything I'm
[9:39] staring at that and so as a Creator I'm
[9:42] able to have more interaction more
[9:44] connection more I don't know Vibrance
[9:47] with what I'm doing because I can see am
[9:49] I smiling do I look weird uh and I think
[9:52] that's why this makes you a better
[9:54] Creator one of the coolest things is it
[9:57] all connects via one us BC cable and it
[10:01] does all of the video out everything
[10:03] does the display all of that from one
[10:05] USBC cable and it's really cool so let
[10:08] me go ahead and show you the software
[10:10] and show you why this is now one of the
[10:12] coolest things I could totally do screen
[10:14] cap but I kind of like carrying this
[10:15] thing around and looking like this so
[10:16] what you see right here is the actual uh
[10:18] camera Hub software for the Elgato
[10:20] prompter and you can see I've got some
[10:21] text right here that's preset and this
[10:23] is I was actually recording a video with
[10:25] light stream for their Channel um Love
[10:27] Light stream by the way you you go check
[10:29] them out out they have a new update
[10:30] coming they're making it free for
[10:31] console users you you you got to check
[10:34] this out anyway what you can see is I
[10:36] actually have the text over here and the
[10:39] cool thing about that is this text I can
[10:42] just scroll right we can just scroll and
[10:45] and do this sure but what's neat is now
[10:48] I can go down here and do voice sync you
[10:51] select your microphone and with the text
[10:55] it'll actually be on the screen and once
[10:56] I hit play in the software which I'll do
[10:59] right here if I look at the screen it
[11:01] says getting ready and then it says
[11:03] active you can see that if I read you'll
[11:05] see the scroll in this video tutorial
[11:07] we're going to walk through setting up
[11:08] your PS4 PS5 and PS5 Pro to stream to
[11:11] light stream where you can add overlays
[11:13] alerts Salk cast to five platforms do a
[11:15] multiplayer stream and so much more by
[11:18] the way did you see I put multipler
[11:20] multipler stream anyway what you also
[11:22] get is uh being able to do text you can
[11:25] just use it as a display which right now
[11:27] I have it like OBS sharing over to that
[11:29] then you can also just do twitch chat
[11:31] and you can see it connects to your
[11:32] Twitch chat uh right here you can have
[11:34] multiple um little twitch channels and
[11:36] go back and forth that's always really
[11:37] cool and then have it you know pass
[11:39] through stuff that's coming from the
[11:40] desktop that's why I think this piece of
[11:43] software not only for text be able to do
[11:46] ad reads and stuff like that for sponsor
[11:48] stuff uh but for me to be able to record
[11:51] and be more effective as a Creator I
[11:53] love the prompter for that and I'll be
[11:55] frank I'm it's not like like lost on me
[11:58] that these products are expensive a $300
[12:01] product $200 stream deck plus with $119
[12:04] XLR dock I mean just between those
[12:07] things we're talking about 600 bucks I
[12:08] just built a custom PC over here for 600
[12:11] bucks what's the better spend well I
[12:13] mean everything is going to be dependent
[12:15] on what you're looking for if you're a
[12:17] person who's just getting into the game
[12:19] and you don't have a lot of extra funds
[12:21] you don't want to invest a whole bunch
[12:22] of money into something getting
[12:24] something like this NE might not make
[12:25] any sense but where I am and when I'm
[12:28] looking at myself on this monitor like
[12:31] I'm looking at you hey by the way uh but
[12:33] I'm genuinely looking at myself on this
[12:36] teleprompter this makes me a better
[12:38] Creator I'm able to engage able to do
[12:40] things this makes my job easier and a
[12:44] lot of people will spend money on gear
[12:46] that they don't necessarily have to have
[12:48] that don't improve it like the sh SM
[12:49] sm7b I love this microphone I use this
[12:52] microphone I think that it is a great
[12:53] microphone but I do not think that for
[12:56] Content creation and streaming you have
[12:58] to have $400 microphone I don't think it
[13:01] makes you a
[13:02] $400 better
[13:04] Creator this
[13:06] though I mean it makes it makes me
[13:09] connect better with the content I'm
[13:12] creating and I like that and the same
[13:13] thing for the stream deck plus I love
[13:15] stream deck sure you could use other
[13:17] cheaper options there are a bunch of
[13:19] companies doing things like this uh but
[13:21] I just I love how seamless this works
[13:24] not only with wave software working well
[13:26] but it works on the stream deck plus
[13:28] they've now made the the dock to kind of
[13:30] you know cut down the stuff on the table
[13:32] to make sure it's actually just one
[13:34] piece there's just a bunch of reasons
[13:36] and I showed you how I use it and it's
[13:38] just effective for me now granted there
[13:40] are people who use a lot more elaborate
[13:43] setups for this but I use the tool to
[13:46] make my life easier and it it just it
[13:48] just works oh and special mentioned the
[13:51] face cam Pro which I used for like
[13:53] handheld content this whole time yeah I
[13:55] mean if you're looking for a 4K 60
[13:57] webcam uh it's $300 as well it's way too
[14:00] overpriced I don't think that it's worth
[14:02] the 300 bucks uh the face cam Mark 2
[14:05] though I think that that's a great
[14:07] webcam and you should go take a look at
[14:08] that you should totally go check out
[14:10] that review of the face cam Mark II and
[14:12] the other webcams right here as well as
[14:14] the review of this mic arm which you'll
[14:16] see right here thank you so much for
[14:17] trusting me with your time today I hope
[14:19] you have a great day and uh make sure
[14:20] you drop down in the comments let me
[14:21] know what your thoughts are we'll see
[14:23] you soon