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Using digital cameras as Webcams

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Using Sony cameras as a Webcam A5100 Use HDMI to Thunderbolt converter. Use digital zoom to remove skin smoothing. Chris Marquardt 3.61K subscribers The Sony alpha 5100 is a promising camera. It has an APS-C sensor, it's small and affordable and for use as a streaming camera, it provides clean HDMI output. HOWEVER, there are several issues with it that you have to overcome first to use it as a studio camera. Issue 1: supply permanent power. Issue 2: focus jitter with certain 3rd-party lenses. Issue 3: overheating. Issue 4: a firmware bug that makes it near impossible to disable skin smoothing on the HDMI output. It is NOT USEFUL as a vlogging camera due to its overheating issues and the lack of a microphone input. It works great as a stationary studio/streaming camera though. Chris shows how to tame the Sony alpha 5100 for this specific use case. Listen to the podcast episode at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitl6... Amazon.com affili

Google Meet Grid View

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-view/bjkegbgpfgpikgkfidhcihhiflbjgfic Install it to Chrome browser, then you can have ulimited number of users displayed on the screen. one person said he did it for 50 participants, which is larger than Zoom's 49. I tried it with Firefox also but it didn't seem to work properly. This chrome version works well and has extra functions as well.

Voice to Text conversion

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I confirmed that it worked. No need to type any more. Just say the words. You can also transcribe your recording this way. You can use Google Docs to transcribe but only if you use Chrome browser.