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Best Budget Camera Monitor (For Cameras Without Flip Screens) - YouTube
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so is shooting YouTube videos it's
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really nice to have a flip-out screen so
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that you can monitor yourself and make
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adjustments but what happens if your
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camera doesn't have a flip-out screen or
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if you actually are shooting further
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away well you can always invest in an
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expensive external monitor but not
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everyone has the money to do that so in
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this video I'm going to talk about my
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favorite cheap monitor for DSLR and
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mirrorless cameras which is actually
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free and that is using your smartphone
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or a laptop with software to create a
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monitor for your video so I'm gonna
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reveal how to do it and more coming up
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hey what's up Sean here with think media
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you're new here consider subscribing so
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a lot of us when creating YouTube videos
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we shoot by ourselves right so whether
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we're at home or at an office it's
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really nice to have a camera that has a
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flip-out monitor so that when you're
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shooting you can monitor yourself maybe
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adjust some settings but you run into a
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couple situations that can be
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problematic number one maybe your camera
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doesn't have a flip-out screen so now
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you have to get everything right start
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the recording run in front of the camera
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and then it's kind of a guessing game or
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it does but maybe you're shooting kind
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of far away from the camera right now
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I'm about five six feet away from it so
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even having a monitor wouldn't help me
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very much and additionally it's also
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nice if you can adjust the controls
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without having to be behind the camera
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because if it's in this case I'd have to
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run back adjust the controls run back
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over here adjust the controls and so
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that's why having an external monitor is
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really nice but they can cost a lot of
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money they range from a couple hundred
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dollars to hundreds of dollars and so in
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this video I wanted to talk about a free
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way to create an external monitor and
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initially that is downloading the app
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for your camera so right now we're
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actually shooting on a sony a7r - and
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this is the Sony PlayMemories app and
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I'm able to start and stop the recording
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on here as well as see the entire shot
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composition right here on my
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phone now the different apps vary
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depending on the camera model there is a
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Panasonic one it's called the Panasonic
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image app and the Canon one is called
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the canon camera connect and different
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ones do different things in the Sony one
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I don't think we can adjust the controls
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here but we can start and stop recording
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so that's nice you can make sure the
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camera is still running you can see your
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whole shot composition but on the Canon
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app you can change the shutter speed the
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ISO so even if you want to dial in the
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exact picture and image settings you can
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do that on the app okay and so the two
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things that you want to check to see if
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you can do this with your setup is is
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your camera a new enough model to have
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Wi-Fi and app compatibility and does
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your camera manufacturer actually have
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an app for your camera
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we know Canon Panasonic Sony's good and
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I'm sure some of the other brands have
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it covered as well additionally there's
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some other cool things that you can do
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with the mobile app for your camera I
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mean if you're ever taking a group photo
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and you set your camera up instead of
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using the timer you can just use your
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phone as a remote shutter of course you
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can start and stop recording if you want
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to do video clips but it's also great
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for just transferring files a lot of the
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newer cameras allow you to transfer
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transfer video and photos over Wi-Fi and
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we like to do this a lot on the road if
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we want to take nicer photos for
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Instagram or whatnot we can just grab
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them to our phones really quickly and
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then share them online
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so using an app is a super good solution
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however there is another solution that
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might work for you as well and that is
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using your laptop and software and so
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the only way that I've ever tested this
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is with the Canon EOS utility but this
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is another great way to be able to
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create a monitor as well as adjust your
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settings and so here's all you have to
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do to set it up is you grab your USB
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cable and you can just plug it into your
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camera this is a Canon 70d
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picked it up right away there on my
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camera and it opens up the EOS utility
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app then I can go to my camera settings
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and remote shooting and go to my live
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view mode and there it is it's
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activating the camera now one tool or
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tip that I'm using here is a USB
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extension cable that's just usb about I
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think it's ten feet long because this
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little black cave
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not very long and now I can use this
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camera and and operate it remotely here
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so if I was to use this as the main
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shooter here then I can not only see my
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shot but I can make all kinds of
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adjustments to it even down to the frame
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rate and the white balance and a lot of
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things and so if you were gonna be batch
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producing content yourself you got your
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whole studio set up just like this then
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this is a great way you could have even
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your notes here on say your computer
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your laptop and you can also make sure
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you have your adjusted adjustments and
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settings all controlled through the Yui
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OS utility so either a software solution
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or a mobile phone smartphone app
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solution two really great ways to have
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the best monitor for cheap actually free
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right if you already have that stuff
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around to be able to start leveling up
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your videos because you have more
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control and better vision of the content
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you're creating okay so I hope that
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these tips were helpful and as usual I
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will post links to the EOS download and
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other information the app downloads in
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the youtube description below so
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definitely check those out question of
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the day have you ever used these
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software are these apps before on your
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phone for a monitor for remote shooting
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anything like that definitely share your
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