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Livestream Like a Pro with the NearStream VM33 Wireless 2K Video Camera
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May 29, 2025
You can livestream on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch with just a tap or two if you're using the NearStream VM33 Wireless Live Streaming 2K Camera. It's all controlled from your mobile device and with a crazy 40x zoom and crystal clear imagery, it'll help you level up your video work. Don't live stream? It can record to your phone (wirelessly!) or record hours of video to its MicroSD card too. Tech expert and YouTuber Dave Taylor offers a detailed demo and explains the pros and a few of the quirks too. Check the camera out at: https://amzn.to/3AmC9Wz and the tripod too: https://amzn.to/48wvCp0 Or go directly to the NearStream site with this link: https://nearstream.us/all-in-one-streaming-camera-vm33?sca_ref=5964626.f4epg8XSGp Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 2:05 Livestream Specs 4:14 Camera & Phone Demo 7:00 Microphone Inputs 9:06 More Specs 10:45 Back Port Tour 12:00 Conclusions #nearstream #livestream #streaming #2kvideo #askdavetaylor
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a remote access 2K camera that's ready
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to live stream or record any event you
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want let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out this this is the near stream VM 33
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Wireless live streaming 2K camera and as
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you can see it is a self-contained unit
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it's pretty big and chunky because it
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has a lot of batteries so it is a really
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great little camera marred by some less
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than great software but we'll get to
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that I have a great demo to show you
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that will be something where you'll be
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like wow that is pretty slick but let me
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tell you a little bit about it so it's a
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4X digital and 10x optical zoom so you
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can have this pretty far away and zoom
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way in so if you have multiple of these
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and it's really designed for you to have
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more than one and then you can be in
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control and switch from camera to camera
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all while live streaming so that's
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really slick um and you can zoom in so
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you can have this safely in the back of
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the bleachers and still have it be
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pretty tightly cropped on the basket at
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one end of the basketball court or the
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center of the volleyball net or pulled
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way out so you can see both teams and
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everything going on in the game
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meanwhile a second one of these might be
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pretty tight cropped on a commentator
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who's actually saying what's going on
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and that's really pretty slick for such
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a basic device so has a great amount of
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Zoom it has on the top an eight
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microphone array and just as importantly
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on the back you can plug in an external
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microphone and I'll be demonstrating
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that and you'll hear the dramatic
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difference between having a wireless mic
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right by your face or right by your
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mouth and having the remote microphones
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trying to pick you up from 15 or 20 ft
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away so the battery itself gives you 6
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hours of record or live streaming time
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and in terms of that live streaming
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capabilities it's full 1080p HD and it
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supports both realtime messaging
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protocol or rtmp which you'll find in
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things like OBS and it can live stream
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directly to YouTube or Facebook or
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twitch because it also uses the ND I or
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network device interface so it is very
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slick for recording you can record
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wirelessly onto your control smartphone
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because you will need a phone to
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actually manage this one of the things
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to notice is there's no screen on this
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device so when you're setting it up you
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have to pair it with your phone and you
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have to use your phone to figure out how
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to get it positioned just so a really
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cool upgrade would be to have even just
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a tiny little screen but that would be a
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big step from what they have here which
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is just a really straightforward
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wireless remote controlled video camera
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so I actually put in a Micro SD card it
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doesn't come with one but what did I put
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in I put in a pretty decent size one
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this is a 128 GB and that gives me a lot
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of storage and the thing that's crazy
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about things like micro SD cards is they
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are super inexpensive nowadays something
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like this can set you back less than a
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cup of coffee at
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Starbucks but that's a whole Starbucks
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issue too we're not going to go there so
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um in the app and this app they have is
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the near Stream app it gives you access
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to multi camera controls it gives you
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the ability to do graphic overlays
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there's a lot you can do in fact enough
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of me talking let's jump into that demo
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and what I'm going to have is I'm going
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to have the record recorded video from
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the near stream VM 33 on one side and
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then you'll be able to see what I was
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doing on my phone on the other side and
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don't be disconcerted they are slightly
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out of sync because of latency but
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you'll see it's a pretty remarkable
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demonstration now what you're seeing is
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the video as recorded by the VM 33 I'm
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using a wireless microphone that's
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plugged into the 3.5 mm Jack in the back
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in fact here in the app you can see that
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on the side I'm also sort of managing
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the camera remotely with the app so
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first off on the bottom there are the
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ability to do graphic overlays and I can
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for example drop my name onto this or
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turn it off you can do your own graphics
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and have them be transparent for the
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most part and then have much more
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sophisticated overlays it's a pretty
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basic feature there and then I can go
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into audio and you can see that it's
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getting the audio and if I tap on that
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input gear then you can see I'm using
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the 3.5 mm line in in a moment I'll
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actually switch to using the built-in
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microphone but before we get there I
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just want to show you I'm going to go
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into the camera controls image
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adjustment and I'm zoomed in to level
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seven so now let's go all the way back
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and you do that by using that slider on
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the top and suddenly you can see my
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camera is pretty far away from me at
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this point and it's still pretty clean
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and it's doing a really nice job with
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this and there's various adjustments I
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can make I can do things like mirror the
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image so that it is consistent when I'm
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looking at the screen my light is here
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and it's there on the screen too um
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generally you probably don't do
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something like that um so we'll choose
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done actually let's zoom in again again
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and I can zoom in even further you can
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zoom into a ridiculous level this is
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going to be too much darn Zoom we'll see
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what happens but let's see that's a lot
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of Zoom why don't we go back to where we
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at seven let's go to six and I'll Zoom
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back there and as you can see it's
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pretty straightforward to do this if I
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had an additional camera I'd tap on the
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plus symbol on the right and then I can
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add a camera I can go into multi view if
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I have multiple cameras I can show them
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simultaneously either onto the recording
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which is what I'm doing now or on my
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live stream for graphics you can see
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here I have various options for
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overlays um for picture and picture
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again this works a whole lot better if
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you have multiple cameras you can have
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one as an inset for the other and for
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audio there are some features you have
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there I can actually drop in an audio
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track for background or to add drama but
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I also want to demonstrate going to the
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actual microphone on the camera now that
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camera is probably a good 15 feet away
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from me so we're going to switch so now
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you're hearing the audio is recorded
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from the built-in 8 microphone array on
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the top of the VM 33 and I'm pretty far
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away so you could hear the audio quality
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changed quite significantly let's go
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back here and you can see it's still
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getting audio it's you're still hearing
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me talking but it's obviously not as
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clean or not as listenable as me using
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an actual wireless microphone so let's
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switch back and it's that easy to
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actually manage all the controls on this
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and if I wanted to instead of recording
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and I'm recording to the SD card sorry
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the micro SD card on the VM 33 and
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that's giving me the best possible of
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results it's giving me better than HD
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that's why that image looks so clean and
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crisp but I could also live stream too
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and I can't record and live stream so
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I'll have to demo that separately and
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just show you the basics of how that
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works but as you can see here if I had
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multiple near stream cameras I could
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have them along the bottom and I could
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switch between cameras as easy as just
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tapping so you can imagine that like I
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might be here being a commentator and
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then there are two cameras pointing at
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the actual game if we're at a sporting
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event and I could be like well let me be
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an inset where I'm talking even as we're
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watching the game live so it's very cool
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I think this software could do with a
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little Improvement it's really kind of
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difficult to work with but the camera
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and that image quality is really
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remarkable now let me switch back to my
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regular setup to show you what's on the
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back of the camera I think the video
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quality is pretty remarkable but the
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software it takes a while to get used to
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I would highly recommend you hook
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everything up and just experiment with
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it and try different setups and
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configurations for at least a half an
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hour before anything that's critical and
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when you get it recorded I will say that
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it was not easy to get the data off of
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the micro SD card I could not find the
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windows software which the company says
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is available to let you talk to the
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device and it definitely does not work
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if you just plug it directly into a
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Windows or Mac computer I'm not sure why
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they didn't have that as one of its
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features that would be so easy to have
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it show up as an external device but it
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doesn't so you can also just pop that
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micro SD card and put it into a card
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reader I would recommend that as the
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easiest and by far fastest way or of
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course you can experiment with having
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the camera record directly onto your
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mobile phone the downside with that is
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you are then somewhat um stuck with
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whatever bandwidth your phone and Camera
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can figure out whereas recording
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directly on the camera gives you the
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highest bandwidth and therefore the
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highest resolution um if you're live
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streaming then obviously those bets are
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off and you're probably wondering why do
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I have this tripod next to me so near
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stream also sent me this little tripod
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this is a really great little tripod it
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extends all the way up to 51 in so it's
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basically chest level this is a really
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nice addition to your kit um you might
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even want to get multiple of these
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cameras but as I said let me show you
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what's on the back cuz that's really all
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of the controls and
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capabilities and the say controls is
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probably a little bit optimistic there's
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the power button there's USBC for
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charging and perhaps connectivity I was
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not successful with that there's that
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micro SD slot there's a 3.5 mm audio
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jack for microphone and then there are
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some LEDs along the top that show you
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battery status which is critically
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important if you're recording something
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like a sporting event where you can't
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say hang on can everyone just stop for
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10 minutes while I switch batteries and
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you can't even switch batteries so you'd
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really be saying can everyone just give
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me an hour while I recharge my camera no
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one is going to appreciate that so make
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sure you're fully charged beforehand it
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takes good 3 4 hours to do a full charge
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from zero but then you get 6 hours of
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battery life so that should be enough
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for really even the longest game and
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like sudden death and you know all sorts
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of extensions and everything even a
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soccer game that against two perfectly
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matched teams is going to take less than
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six hours one hopes so live streaming
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you can live stream Sports and meetings
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and lectures you can even use it as a
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webcam if you want it actually includes
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a USBC to usba Cable pretty heavy duty
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one so this plus this plus this lets you
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make it actually a really cool webcam
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and in a lot of video streaming apps
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like Zoom you can switch between cameras
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so you could have this set up to give
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you a longer shot and maybe have a
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whiteboard behind you that you're doing
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um figures or doing mathematical
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equations on or something and then you
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switch back to a closer camera or use
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the app to actually zoom in and then
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you're back on camera talking about what
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you were just doing so lots of options
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lots of interesting capabilities and as
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I said I think that the camera
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technology here is really good it could
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do with a slightly faster autofocus but
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I'm going to give it slack for that
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because the image itself is so crisp and
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clean it's really impressive I was
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experimenting with this where it was 30
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or 40 feet away from me and when I
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zoomed in significantly it was crisp and
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clean to the point that you didn't even
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believe that it was like Well it can't
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possibly be that far away I can barely
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see the thing it's just that good a zoom
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on it and that's really impressive so
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the software they could probably do with
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a Rev on the interface and it would be
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great to have it maybe work with a
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tablet instead of a phone cuz that gives
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you a lot more screen real estate to
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work with but it is definitely one worth
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checking out and if you're someone who's
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live streaming on Twitch or Facebook or
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YouTube this makes that process
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literally a single tap in the app that
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then gives you access to that stream and
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that's about as easy as it's going to
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wish I would have demonstrated great
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this this unit is the near stream VM 33
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Wireless live streaming 2K camera and it
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is
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$399 currently minus $40 dropping it
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down to
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$359 at
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amazon.com and the tripod this little
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guy it's a really nice little guy comes
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with a bag too so you can fold this up
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and throw it over your shoulder and then
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you're ready to be in the field this
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51-in tripod is$
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29.99 tripods are very affordable
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nowadays and it also I should point out
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has a quick release so you can just
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screw this into the bottom of the near
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stream camera and then with the flip of
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a lever you can put it on the tripod or
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you can take it off the tripod because
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you want to put it in a different
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position or charge it or get the data
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off of the card or whatever so it's
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everything I got I hope this was a value
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and I'll hope to catch you in my next
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video
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