From the course: Improved Video Conferencing with Digital Cameras

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Using a video interface device

Using a video interface device

From the course: Improved Video Conferencing with Digital Cameras

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Using a video interface device

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- [Instructor] This is a hardware video interface. This is one of the more popular ones. It's called Cam Link. And they really are cool because What they do is they make everything work. They make your modern digital camera connect to your computer and stream video, and you're going, "Wow, that's really neat." The way that that happens is that it has a USB connector on one end that goes to your computer, has HDMI on the other end. So you get a cable and you connect this end to your camera. Now, most cameras don't have full HDMI connectors on them. They're too big. My PEN-F, for example, has a Mini HDMI. So you got to get the right cable, you know, full HDMI to whatever your camera happens to have. Make sure you check that out and get the proper cable ahead of time. All right, once you do, then you have all of this going on behind your computer here. Now, I know it looks like a production studio. Well, it kind of is…

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