> A good camera with a big sensor and a wide aperture lens
And how does one use this in a way that has no latency for a live webcam.
A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
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Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Wearing fine clothes that fit well, and not looking uncomfortable in them, also signals that effort (not just money..) Having the time to put in that effort requires some amount of money. To afford to have someone take care of the kids for a bit, or to pay someone to work on your car on the weekend instead of fixing it yourself. It takes money to have the free time so you can spend the time clothes shopping instead…
Yes—as with everything else one may wish to do, it's easier to dress well the more money you have, and it's very hard for single parents with two jobs to do it (again, like everything else). That's true.
Yes. So placing higher value on people based on how they dress is a garbage practice used to profile people with poorer backgrounds and limit their social mobility, keep them out of better jobs, keep them out of upwardly mobile roles like management.
It's "learn to play the fashion game or get fucked"
We would be so much better off without that crap.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what it signals is a form of sophistication or good taste in the case of high fashion, or tidyness and well-being for casual clothing. Caring about sophistication or good taste in fashion is a luxury that it takes money to afford. Even just the time investment it requires to be fashionable, to source nice clothes and plan outfits and all of that shit, it's absolutely the domain of people who have money. I don't thi…
You have moved the goalposts. > I don't think you've ever been poor. You shouldn’t jump to conclusions - there are many people on hn from other countries where having access to a thrift store defines you as relatively wealthy. Either way, if you look like a hobo on your livestream setup, then people are likely to judge you. I wish the world was less judgemental, but you don’t get to tell others how to be, so you have…
> some people really care about how you dress and that is OK
Extremely disagree. That is them trying to exert a form of control on me and it's absolutely bullshit.
Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#84As someone who records nearly daily, I'm going to critique: > What’s required for an impeccable streaming setup? > 1) Good lighting that can be precisely calibrated, both in brightness and in colour temperature For most uses, fixed brightness is fine as long as you can adjust the light's distance. Lighting doesn't need to be color-temperature adjustable because that's what the white balance on your camera is for -- j…
There doesn't seem to be a great consensus on the best microphones to use on my usual sources (HN). This is surprising because the difference between laptop mic or bluetooth mic and a good microphone is enormous. I also don't mind spending a bit more $$$ because this is for my day job.
But when buying a mic, I've read many types of good microphones (bluetooth streamer/podcaster looking mics vs XLR traditional looking mics e.g., Shure SM58-LC). Its hard to pull the trigger and know whats best. At this point I'll go with the Shure model, a stand and an XLR to USB-C cable sooner rather than later.
I have a nice webcam so a great mic is the next step.
Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been watching quite a few of those kinds of setups videos on Youtube during the pandemic. I actually setup a small home studio because I've been getting back into music during lockdown (I originally studied music in undergrad before switching to engineering). It's been fascinating. The mic setups and also the lighting setups that people have put together are great. I've seen some very inexpensive ingenious setup…
Sounds great - if you have the names of some of those youtubers with a low-cost high-quality setup, that would be awesome! ;)
Shameless self plug but I just helped set up this stream: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRHhSGD_Py/
Visual Synthesizer is what's used to get some of the visual to react to the drum set input via MIDI. Surprisingly easy to setup with a DAW like Ableton: https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer
I'm happy to answer any questions in the meantime until I write up a blog post about it all.
Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#86On the lighting bit... I stumbled across this at Two Minute Papers- a neat bit on relighting a video stream. https://youtu.be/SEsYo9L5lOo
The paper is Total Relighting: Learning to Relight Portraits for Background Replacement from Google Research. It can be found at https://augmentedperception.github.io/total_relighting/
The video from the presenters - https://youtu.be/KeebkkaZhhI
Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes—as with everything else one may wish to do, it's easier to dress well the more money you have, and it's very hard for single parents with two jobs to do it (again, like everything else). That's true.
Yes. So placing higher value on people based on how they dress is a garbage practice used to profile people with poorer backgrounds and limit their social mobility, keep them out of better jobs, keep them out of upwardly mobile roles like management. It's "learn to play the fashion game or get fucked" We would be so much better off without that crap.
Sure, but we the same applies to any other skill or practice. Like learning to program. Or bathing. Or showing up to work on time (a much, much bigger problem than, say, not owning a suit, for the actually-poor—ask them, or their employers, and you'll get an earful).
In the case of management, specifically, I'd think if someone's reached the point where they have a realistic shot at a management position, but haven't figured out they need to dress for it, and also found the time & willpower to do so, that's signaling working as intended. Any of several causes for that would be a good reason to think twice about putting that person in management. Meanwhile, anyone who cares can dress plenty well enough to start in a lower-level management position by hitting Goodwill or eBay and dropping low-hundreds of dollars, which isn't nothing (I'm aware—I'm familiar with tracking the costs of groceries while shopping to make sure you won't overdraft, or only getting 5 gallons of gas because you can't afford more until next week, et c.), but that's a pretty damn low admissions price compared to, IDK, college, which is usually also required to take the easy route to management.
There's a pretty big gap between middle-management dressy, and having enough bespoke suits to wear a different one every weekday and switch them out seasonally. The former's not exactly a high bar, compared to all kinds of other costs and time-sinks that are associated with being employable. Once you're "in" then yeah, maybe costs increase somewhat if you want to improve your chances of both being effective and moving up, but at that point you're... in management, so that shouldn't be some kind of huge hurdle anymore.
Re: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
#88> A good camera with a big sensor and a wide aperture lens And how does one use this in a way that has no latency for a live webcam.
Use an HDMI capture device.
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Any chance you could list some links for the Twitch streams you're referring to? I've been asked to participate in some live streaming sessions for electronic music and I'm not quite sure how not to make it boring, at least from a visual standpoint.
Check out sarahcoponat for a cinema-quality stream. She improvises flowing cinematic piano, sometimes two hours of two pianos at the same time. She's streaming today, but it's an experimental day with guests so you'll want to check out her VODs, recent YouTubes, or Wednesdays stream.
I was excited to check her out, but it seems like VODs and highlights are limited to subscribers sadly. Clips gave me a good feel for what she's doing and it's a solid setup for sure!
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I've found it to be super laggy and unusable, unfortunately. iPhone 12 + 2018 MBP.
Yowch. Sorry to read that. I built Camo. Can you drop us a note? Should be lower latency than a regular webcam as we can rely on device hardware to encode.
I love Camo. Any ETA for the Android version?