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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Welcome to this episodeof "BROKE vs PRO" at ourfine sponsors, Micro Center.Today, Gerald Undone,the camera expert andYouTuber extraordinaireis going head to head withme to see who can buildthe best YouTuber setup.Is that gonna offend youif I get a ring light?- I mean, it'll make mine look better,so, go for it.(Austin laughing)- So our challenge is very simple.Gerald is going to be building a high-endprofessional setup usingthe wide variety of itemsthat we can select here at Micro Centerfrom the creator aisle.I will be using that same aisleexcept with an eyefor the less loved-- Value.- Yeah, value, exactly.(Gerald chuckling)Let's go take a look. (chuckles)Welcome, my friend,to the creator aisle.- Okay.- So,if we were here a couple of years ago,this would've been, like, half an aisle,but they actually have, I would say,like, a pretty decent amount of stuff.You've got a bunch of higherend cameras up top here,you've got, well, you've got a camcor...Joanna, did you bringa RED to Micro Center?- Oh, I didn't even notice that.- What's our RED doing here?- Micro Center sells REDs now.- That's not true, actually.- Yeah.- It doesn't have a tag.- Yeah, where's the sticker?(Gerald laughing)- There is, hang on.- Oh.- You know what, if anyone inmy audience is watching this,he'd be like, "Of course hegravitates to a Sony camera,"(Austin laughing)I'm not paidby Sony or whatever, I just saw.Whenever you see the cardboard box.- Yeah?- It's the FX line,and I like the FX camerasfor live streamingwhen I don't know what the setup is.- Yeah.- 'Cause they have a fan,- Yes.- And so that way, I'm like,just go for as long as you want.- So I'm guessing you'regonna lock the FX30 in?- I mean, everything else is great,but if I get to spendhowever much I wanna spend,then I'll buy this one,(Austin laughing)you know?- Well, that's the thing.- You didn't give me anyrules, so. (chuckles)- I'll deal with Micro Center later.So if you're gonna go with an FX30,- Yes.- I'm gonna gowith something a littlebit more affordable.So the idea with thesesetups is that they needto be functionalfor streaming,but also to recordif you're doing a normalYouTube video, right?So you want to have nice-looking A-roll,and you want to have at least 1080p,like, bare, bare minimum.Ideally 4K, but for me, I think I might,so I have two options here.I'm trying to go as cheap as possible.There are a large number of webcams here.I mean, this webcam isliterally $11, right?Like, I could just roll with this,or would I count the priceof my phone in the equation?Because I feel like everyonealready has a phone, right?You can just plug in.- Only if you havea premium, I think.If you have, like, an extreme phone,then maybe the premium on that phone?- I mean, does everyonenot use an iPhone 15 Pro?Is that too expensive?- I think that has apremium on it. (laughs)- Damn, all right,fine, I'll use a webcam.All right, all right,all right, all right.I feel like the C920s is the smart move,but that's a lot of money.I think I need to go cheaper.What if I make this a littlebit more of a challenge?What if I legitimatelygo with the $12 webcam,and try to make this lookas good as possible?- What is this thing?- 1080p for live broadcast.- Well, that'swhat you're doing, right?- And video chat, it's twomegapixels, and it's $12.So yours is $1,700, mine's $12.- Yeah, there's your title.(both laughing)All right, I'm gonnalock in the $12 webcam.I'm gonna regret this later,but like, I think it'll be fine.So now, we've got this,should we look at lighting?- Sure.- So, I'm not superfamiliar with Nanlite.Is that a company that you know?- Yeah, they have afull range of products.I mean, they're gonna be even bigger stuffthan you'll find at a Micro Center,because you can get, like,industry-level stuff,but you can see these big COBs?- Oh, those all Nanlite?- Yeah.- So-- I would say though,on average, probably higher budgetthan for the budget build.- Yeah.- Nanlite might.- So basically saying,I don't have money fora Nanlite, but you do.- Well, I don't know what your budget is,but you saved money on your webcam.- I did save money on the webcam,but I think my budget's, like, 100 bucks?- 100 bucks on lights,or 100 bucks all in?- All in-ish.(both laughing)How about this, why don't you go first,and I'll just copy your notes?Go ahead, why don't youlook at your lights,since now-- Yeah, so I, okay,so I'd want to,based on the setupthat you showed me,I'd probably put a key on me.Normally, I would dosome kind of fill lightdepending on the setup.We could also just do, like,a bounce with, like, areflector or something,and then I even sometimes like a littlehair light action,- Oh yeah, hair light.- Like some kind of, like,little rim, you know?And then something for accent,which we could dowith like, a tube or something like that.So I think the biggestthing I've seen hereis to have the 150, which,- This big guy up here?- Is this one, yeah.- So I will say thatfor a big light like this,260 bucks is actually not bad.- It's not bad, yeah.- And then another, what,$100 for the softboxor something like that?- Yeah.- So, I found a $20 ring light, um...(Gerald laughing)You know what, I could gowith the Influencer light.It is gonna help me get more subscribers.Oh, it's color adjustable!I can go between 3100 and 5500.See, that's basically the same- There you go.- Thing that you've got.- Yeah, you've pretty muchlocked in.- I'm gonna Influence myselfby buying this,(box thumping)but you know what?(Gerald laughing)I'm encouraged by your capabilities.I'm gonna get two lights instead of one.Oh wait, what if I actuallydo get a ring light?And what if instead of usingit as, like, a normal lightto, like, light me from the front,what if I put it off to the side?'Cause that should be likea decent amount of power,and it's got its own littlestand and everything.So, if this is my lightingsetup, I feel good about that.Now, the question's going to be audio,'cause this is where I'm not playing.I've got 40, 50, 60...Oh wait, I'm out of money already.Wait, hold on, huh, what?How much was this, $40?It's 40, 50, 60, it's good.I got, like,$30 for my audio.(both laughing nervously)- You might run into trouble there.- Why don't you go firstwith the audio this time,and see what you could do?- So when we walked by,you said Shure SM7B and MV7and stuff like that, I think?- Yeah, on the top shelf,if you wanna be a pro.(Gerald laughing)- I have been kind of goingoverkill on everything so far.The MV7, there's gonna be some audio snobsthat argue with me here,but you can get probably,like, 85, 90% of the wayand save some money,so I'll go a little easieron your wallet, Austin,and we can get an MV7,- Thank you.but maybe we'll get the MV7+?It just sounds better,you know, for somebody?- Oh, does it got RGB on it?(Gerald laughing)Yeah.Okay, so that's great.(Gerald chuckling)You've got yourself a real nice mic.So now, with $30, mychoices are still, actually,I have some choices.Wait, wait, wait, wait.No, I'm gonna save some money.I'm gonna not Influence myself.I'm gonna un-Influence myself.I'm gonna get two.What if I get two ring lights?So if I do two,I've saved some money,so that's 40.I'm only at $50, so now,I've got $50 for my mic,which is a much better, yeah.Okay, I'm feeling,okay, yeah, $50 for mic.Now, what can I find that's $50?Um...(palms clapping)Mm.This HyperX is on sale for $40.I don't know if it sounds good.It is high res, whichis better than low res.It's tap to mute.- How does it connect though?- USB, it is USB.- Okay.- I'm gonna lock in the SoloCast,which gives me a totalfor two lights, awebcam, and a mic of $90.I'm feeling good.I feel like mine's gonnabe just as good as yours.No one's gonna be able totell a difference at all.- You're probably right.(Austin laughing)That'd be kind of sad.(Gerald laughing)So now that we've gotour creator setups mostly sorted,the next task is to getourselves a gaming PC.Now, I say gaming, but eventhough we can game on it,it's actually more so closer to, like,a streaming PC, I would say.- Here's the sweet thing about gaming PCs,- Yeah.- Austin, is you can buy,as somebody who's a video editor, wink,(Austin chuckling)and a YouTuber,gaming hardware allowsme to do those things.- Of course, you're buying an RTX 4090 to-- Exactly, for video editing.- For video editing, what?- For video, yeah.- You can't game on a 4090.(Gerald laughing)That's crazy.So the goal hereis we're gonna work together on the PC.So I think once we build our setup,we'll each have, like, half of the desk,but we'll put the PC in the middle,we'll route all of our stuff into itvia OBS,- Love it.- So that way, we canshare and collaborate,and I don't have any moremoney left, so. (cackles)- Wait, am I buying the PC parts?- Yeah, it's all you, let's go.(Gerald laughing)All right, now,we did exercise somerestraint with the PC,choosing an RTX 4060 instead of a 4090,and an Intel Core i5-14600K as opposedto something higher end,largely because thesehave the latest generationof Quick Sync and NVENC to make surethat our video encoding willbe as smooth as possible.So let's go ahead and roundup the last of our components,and let's get this PC andYouTuber set up on the road.(screen whooshing)So we have ourselvesabout three and a half hoursto build this entire setup,so why don't we do this?I'll start building the PC,why don't you start buildingyour half of the setup?And then it will take me three secondsto set up my two ring lights at the end,and we'll call it a day.(upbeat music)So my setup is actuallygonna be relatively simple.Certainly when it comes to the PC,it's not actually enormously complicated.So we do have ourselves a650 watt Gold PowerSpec,so this is the fully modular variant.This system's gonna probablypull close to, like,I don't know, like, 400 watts tops?So it's not really gonna be too demanding.One of the things I wannamake sure that we're doingis designing this with theidea that there's a lotof flexibility involved,because while for gaming,you're gonna wanna upgradeyour setup every few years.When it comes to editing,you may have to upgradeyour setup more often, 'cause like,who knows if you wanna buysome new Blackmagic camerathat shoots in 36K?I mean-- Austin?- Yeah, yeah, hi.- We're runninginto a height issue in this studioyou guys set up here.- Oh.Is it because the studio's not designedfor tall people like you?- We might have to sit.- Let's sit.- Okay, I'm gonna gofor sitting height.- Well, I mean,- You'll be the sit-- Austin's probably fine.- Ooh!(Alex laughing)- Can you get offyour apple box, please?- You know, Joanna, I regret asking youto please put on a mic today.(Joanna chuckling)really, you can just takethat right back off now.(Gerald chuckling)- Look, Austin's coming into my shot.(everyone laughing)- You know, you've beenhere for 10 minutes,and disrespects immediately.(Joanna and Gerald laughing)Obviously, right now, we're using allof our very lovely, soft studio lights,but when we actually do this for real,we're killing all of these guys,so it is just gonna be purely downto our artistic endeavors,and how dim I can setmy ring lights.(Gerald laughing)(Joanna chuckling)- Okay, so, I finally lockedin this crazy rig setup,going for a seated position,so we brought everything down,got the parabolic softbox set up here,and I turned it up too much.You could see that I'm all blown outon the monitor here, too bright,but we can also talkabout the advantage of a grid,which a lot of times, they come with.This grid, I think, isactually slightly too,I think this might have beenfor the 90 centimeter softbox,which they also offer,but we can still kinda give a roughexample with this one on.I don't think I'm gonna useit for this setup anyway,but so with this like this,not only am I less bright now,because there's less, like,overall light with the grid,but it just kind of, as you can see,it makes it so the anglesare coming more straight out,because the grid is like small,little fences all the way,so the light just kinda hits me,and it'd be more directional.In this shot though, it makesalmost no difference, again,because the wall is so far away,and because the house lightsare lighting up the wall.And then if you don't want it,(Velcro ripping)you just...So now, I just need to dial inthe intensities that I want.I'm making sure I'm happy with this one,and making sure I'mhappy with the exposure,and we're getting there.How are you doing, Austin,with your computer build?- I'm not gonna lie,I feel like I underestimatedGerald on this one,because I went into it going, "Ha-ha-ha,I have, like, a super lowbudget webcam, ha-ha,"and I'm seeing the levelof, like, craftsmanshipthat you're going throughwith your lighting,and I'm a little bit concerned that minemay in fact not be up to scratch,(screwdriver clicking)but you know what, thePC's gonna be great.The PC's gonna be justripping once I get the AIO on.- I think maybe I'll gohelp Austin, 'cause I...- Are you done?- (laughs) Yeah.(crew laughing)- Really?- Yeah.- I don't even have my system posted yet,much less my setup built.(rhythmic music)And now, let's installour 4K60 Pro.Now, this is an HDMI capture card.Now, this is not, strictlyspeaking, necessary,so there are other ways to get video in.Now, for my setup, I'm notgonna be using this at all,because I'm literallyjust plugging in a webcam.Now, for the FX30, I know that thereare multiple ways to connect it,including you can just use,like, a USB capture card,which is pretty easy,but this is gonna giveyou much higher quality.(screen whooshing)Honestly, I think we're readyto actually fire this thing up.This actually looks really, really clean.Now, we still obviously havea lot of other stuff to do,like I had not evenbegun building my setup.We have the Stream Deck,my mic, all that stuff,but we're not gonna worry about that.We're just gonna do atest boot of the system.Oh, you, yep, we're in, hey!Z790 motherboard,Core i5-14600K.We've got ourselves 32 gigs of RAM.All right, cool,and we do have our PCI Gen 5 SSD,so we'll go ahead and XMPit, and I think we're good.Let's just plug in ourWindows install USB,and we'll getthis thing going.I think we might be okay here.I actually am feelingrelatively confident.Well, Mr. Professionalover here might have thousands of dollarsof high-end equipment,I have an $11 webcam,so I'm a little bit afraidto see what this looks like,'cause it's not gonna be-- I can't wait.And that's gorgeous.You get all the pixel.- It's not very good.You know what, it's fine.(Gerald chuckling)It's fine.I love the fact that it's,like, seven frame per,you know, maybe 15 frames per second.So we're gonna have to dialin some real corrections.Do you see how far behind it is,the audio and the video sync?Like, it's like, a solid half second off,so I'm gonna have to fix that later.- Oh, there yougo, there's your 1080p.- 1080p, okay.Oh!- Oh!(Gerald laughing)- You really area wizard at this, thank you.And now, it's timefor my setup, starting withmy beautiful ring lights.Okay, so this is our base, all right?And then we lock thatdown, something like this,and then does that go...- You need somekind of little adapteror something.Where'd you get that from?What's that in your hand?- I don't know. (chuckles)Well, I don't know where anything is.- 'Cause that's 1/4-20.Oh, it's a ball and socket- Oh my god.- Kind of thing.- You do the wholesocket, yeah.Let there be light.(light clicking)Ow!Let there be less light.(Gerald chuckling)There we go.- It's actuallypretty gradual.- I'm gonna get to tweaking my setup here.I'm gonna dial it in real, real good.Don't worry, it's gonna bejust the crispiest of crisp.- With your one other light?- I gotta get one more other light,and change the webcam, theshutter speed and stuff,and I'm sure it'll be great.Hello, my friends, and welcometo Austin's high quality setup.I've got my $12 webcam,my beautiful ring lightsthat are ringing me with beautiful light,and I've also got myself a microphone,which hopefully sounds pretty decent.Now, I have not had a ton oftime to iron this setup out.My biggest question isI'm not entirely surewhere my levels are.I just turned 'em down a little bit.They seem like they're fine.We'll see how this actually sounds,but this is a little look at whatmy beautiful setup is like.Now, if I had a little bit more money,upgrading my webcam would actually makequite a big difference,because it's a littledark and a little blurry,but this is what my setup looks like.You wanna hop in and see?Look, see?(Gerald laughing)Isn't this great?What's so funny?- You know, for $100,that's what it is.(both chuckling)- Thank you, I appreciate that.Okay, fine.- I have a sneaking suspicionthat this is your best item,and that, like, your $40,or whatever this money you spent in- Yeah.- That's actually gonna pay dividends,and it's, like, the audio's gonna besignificantly better thanyour video, I suspect.- I can't hear anything,but you, dear viewers, are listeningto this microphone rightnow, so does it sound great?Is it amazing, or did Inot configure it right,and it sounds like abunch of garbled nonsense?Well, I'm sure it's gonna soundjust as good as your setup.- I actually want youto jump in the setup,and I'll switch it on OBS.- I feel like you're trying to trick me.No, wait.- No, no, no, it's good.- You want me to?- I want youto go over there.- Okay, you sit inthis setup then.- Yeah, yeah.Okay, sure.- Okay,so, we'll trade, okay.Okay, tell me when.- Okay, three, two, one.- Hello, it's me at Gerald height.(Gerald laughing)I can't see what's going on.Tell me, what does the setup look like?- You look fantastic.- Yeah?- It looks really sharp,doesn't it?- It does, yeah.(Austin and crew laughing)- I'm sure the viewersare seeing it.- It's probably the same.I mean, is there actually(Joanna chuckling)a difference at all?I don't think, it's probably looksexactly the same, right?- I can count youreyebrow hairs, like,- Oh.- (laughs) I can see- Uh...- The details there.- Okay, why don't weswap, why don't we swap?- Okay, sure.- You walk everyonethrough this setup up.- Okay, so we talked about we got an FX30.- Yep.- Right?I threw on a Sony lensthat I had in my bag,because I forgot to getone at Micro Center.That is a 16 to 25,and I think we are probably justa little bit tighter than 16,but we're definitely on the wide side.We're all the way open at 2.8,which does help give alittle bit of separation- Yeah.- From the background.It's nice and sharp on uswhenever we were in it,and then pretty blurry back there.The light here is 150 watt COB- Whoa.- Behind a 60 centimeterparabolic softbox.- It's so soft, it really looks nice.- It is, yeah, honestly,we have space to go bigger.Like, we probably couldhave fit a bigger one,but it's doing a nice enough job,I think, at 60.- Yeah.- And then of course, a littlebit of production design.Luckily, I didn't have to do a lot here,because we're in a YouTube studio,so a lot of it was set up,but all I did was we got some tube lights,and what I like to do is Ilike look at the main shot,and then if I seesomething that looks weird,so the couch was looking dark,so we put a tube light andkind of lit along the couchjust to bring it up a little bitso you could get somedetail of what it was,some color accents.I like to do a purple and orange theme,so I put those in the back wall,and just looking forpockets where I thoughtit could use a littlebit of extra attention.All this one's doing isthere's a small, little 60 wattup there with a hyper reflector on it,so it's a hard light coming across.You can see, without it, thecontrast ratio on my faceis really, really stark,like, it's almost black over here.And I'm also starting tojust kind of disappearinto the background,but if we turn it on,then not only is it goingto line my shoulders,(light clicking)which gives me some, you know, 3D effect,it's also filling in that side of my face,and I'm getting a little specular,which is a nice, it's theopposite of that contrast,where it's almost like white, black, grayin terms of the luminance.- But where's your ring light?- I do not have a ring light.- Well, this is a round light.- It's true.- It's ring-like.- And then for audio, wetalked about we have an MV7.We're just running the USB.We didn't really tweak it at all.- Yeah.- Just plugged it in,and dial it in, you should dial it.I'm not saying don't,but I'm saying, look,- Yeah.- This is what it sounds like.- It's plug and play.- Yeah.- Because there's an actual Shure appI think you can download- Right- That can actually, like,help to customize some stuff.You can get into theWindows settings, but again,we just plugged all this stuff in,we're running it straight to OBS, so.- We have a computerrunning literally, I mean,you can see it in thatcamera, it's this close,and shh.- I will actually giveus a little bit of propson the actual computer.(Gerald chuckling)We are obviously utilizing a bunchof the actual Fractal fans.- Yeah.- This thing is dead silent.It is recording right now.Now, mind you, most- It is.- Of the work is being donethrough the GPU, through NVENC,but like, the PC is not breaking a sweat,and, I mean, I can hearwhen I put my ear here.As soon as I move a few inches away,it's like, dead silent.- I doubt thata dynamic mic like this(bell dinging)close mic'd, that's notgonna be a factor at all.- Yeah.I'll give you, this a pretty good setup,but I mean, if we come back overto clearly the superior setup,and I just switched back (clears throat)from that looking angle to this,you can see that we'repretty much exactly the same.I mean, can you tell that maybeyou've got a couple extra pixels,and, I mean, I think it's the same.I mean, we're just doing a little A/B,so this is Austin's angle, $100,and then this is Gerald's angle.Oh wow, It's like I'm living in real life.(both laughing)It is really sharp, is it not?- That's a little,well, no, but, you know,but come back to me.This is also sharp.(everyone laughing)(palms clapping)Okay, you know what?Maybe what we've learned hereis that you should spendslightly more than $100building your setup,or you should give yourbuddy, Gerald, a call,and he'll help you buildsomething that's (clears throat)goes from this to this.That's...I hate that that looks so good.That looks absurd.(Gerald laughing)- I was surprised by thedisparity, to be honest with you.Like, I'm not trying toadvocate for, you know,spend so much money all the time.I usually try to actuallyfind a value choice,but I do think there must be, like,there's gotta be a minimum thresholdwhere at least the camerahas to be good enoughthat it can utilize the other aspects,and then that's when youshould dump your moneyinto lighting, andproduction design, and stuffonce the camera's at a minimum.And I feel like that minimummight actually be a callbackto us talking about phones.I think if you have- Ooh.- A decent phone,then the phone can appreciategood lighting, you know?- Let us know who wonin the comments below,and if you'd like, definitely be sureto go check out Gerald's channel.I dunno why I'm stillrecording to the webcam,but you know what, I'm justgonna commit to the bit now.- I will not allow a plug- Okay, you know what, sorry.- On that camera.(everyone laughing)- I'll come back, I'llcome back.Make sure to check outGerald's channel(Gerald laughing)where he's done an entire studio tourof our studiothat was not lit witha $20 ring lightand everything else.Thank you very much, myfriend, for coming out.- It's a pleasure.Thank you.- I appreciate it.And of course, our friendsover at Micro Centerhad some big news.They have a brand new storeopening in Miami very shortly,so definitely be sure tokeep an eye on their socialsto find out more,as well as keep an eye outfor their new tech dealsfor back to school.As always, everything wetalked about in this videothat you can find at Micro Centerwill be linked in the description.