Logitech C920/C922 Best Settings to Make Your Cheap Webcam look more professional
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Do you have a logitech c920 or simiar webcam?
Looking to Make Your Cheap Webcam look better? for Free? I gotchu!
We all know webcams aren't exactly the best cameras in the world.. but what if i told you with a few tweaks to your setup and settings in OBS you can make your webcam go from bland to Beautiful!
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It may be too niche. But, could you talk about camera and lenses to get good depth of field?
@@Krunnky 100% a great idea! i can definitely do that :)
If you haven't already could you talk about any sound advice you have? People can forgive poor video but not poor audio and I wanna make my mic sound crisp 😂
Hi! Can you advice how to get the video looking great for Zoom app and also to mazximise the wide angle view, please? I'm using a Mac and it has been pretty frustrating trying to get the C922 to work properly. Thank you in advance!
@@SimonMKing done!!! 💜
I've got a basic audio thing up now!
Hopefully do more stuff like that in the future
4 years on - just used this to set mine up. vast improvements, thanks a lot.
Thank you!
This is late but I appreciate it. :) I've always struggled on getting my green screen to be cut out cleanly until I realized that the "green" was more of a "puked up grass" color, once the sun is no longer blaring in my face and I can get good lighting I'll try these adjustments.
Thank you!!!!!
I liked that you did most of it from the perspective that we were in OBS. That was smart/cool.
i figured that would be the most useful way for people to learn this.. you can see the changes happening as i did it then
oh also!
i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
World of a difference. Thank you so much!
Im so glad it helped you out 💜
Bro you should have way more subs this video was professionally done, great job man ! The quality was awesome and so was the content. Great help buddy !
Thanks for the kind words!!
i'm glad you found the vid useful and enjoyed the content
oh also!
i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
thank you man
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
glad you found it useful! thanks
THANK YOU so much!! I have this webcam for let's plays and I've been looking for ways of making it look better. This video was so helpful!
im so glad you found it useful! hopefully you can get yours looking better now ^_^
@@AJSarsfieldFilm I definitely have! Thank you! 🙂
Thank you! Really helped out
Thanks for checking it out!
Took me aages to get the c920 to a decent looking standard so I thought I'd share the Info to help others out
Thanks
Thanks so much for this! it's really helped make my camera that little bit better.
Webcsms arent perfect but they csn look decent if you set them up right!
Glad this was useful 👍
Good shit A.J
Appreciate the tips and tricks! :)
This was a great help! Enjoyed that you gave us this from the perspective of the C920. Thank you so much Sir!
I'm glad you found it useful!
Thanks for watching 💕
oh also!
i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
Just today came across your channel with this video. Good work! Thank you for the information!
Glad i could help and thanks for checking out the channel
my family and i have renamed you the tech viking. you've been super helpful, thank you tech viking!
Hahaha omg I like the name 😂
Thank you So much 💜
Very helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! ^_^
Thank you. This helped me a lot!
im so glad it helped out!!
Thank you so much for this! I got myself a fancy keylight and couldn't figure out how to make my webcam work with it.
Im glad this was useful!
Keylights are great lights for most people but without the correct cam settings its a waste 😂
Great video mate!
Thanks dude!
Glad it helped 🙌
What a fantastic video! Thanks for all that info! It makes a lot of sense now :)
Thanks Man! hopefully it helps some people.. i really struggled when first starting out with making the webcam look half decent... looking forward to making more videos in the future!!
@@AJSarsfieldFilm Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing more!
Thanks webcam adjustment helped alot
This was amazing and just what I needed. Thank you!
thank you so much! im glad it helped you out!
oh also!
i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
Sharpness was a huge change, thanks!
gotta be very subtle with it but it does make a big difference on a cheap camera
That was VERY helpful my friend! THANK YOU
Im glad you found it useful!
Making webcams look decent is a real challenge sometimes
Thanks brother. Cleaned mine up nicely
Super glad it helped!!
Thanks. You have a great voice. Great audio.
having my first facecam stream tomorrow (i used to stream without cam first) and this helped a lot, thank you so much!!
this reply took forever... but i hope your Face cam streams went well
@@AJSarsfieldFilm they did!! but i switched over to no-cam again bc i feel more comfortable that way! :3
Liked and thumbsed up ty man!
appreciate it! thanks for watching
Great video...I look forward to many videos that educate us newbs....I appreciate it...
I really appreciate that... thank you so much
Super awesome and helpful video. Thank you for this 🙏🏼
Hells yeah!! HOOT!! Thanks for the tips :D
Thanks Vox!!! I hope more people find this useful.. webcams can beso difficult
I remember how awkward it was when I was starting out
Good content.keep it up 👌
Thanks man, keep it up.
Thanks so much
Useful instructions. Thanks :-)
Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful 🥰
Is there Anything else you're struggling with and I'll try and make a video on it??
Awesome video brother!! Super helpful and easy to navigate thanks to your help. Keep up the amazing work ✊
thank you so much! im glad you enjoyed the videos and it was helpful
the white balance part was a game-changer! thanks 👍
Its crazy how much of a difference that makes... it's not perfect but at least it stops the software deciding how it should look for you!
Thanks for watching
This video just turned my setup from a a shitty over exposed c920 to a crisp DSLR looking 920. Now I see why lighting is key, i had the lighting but all those auto balances being on fucked it all up and made it look terrible! Thank you!
believe me it took forever for me to realise this too..
im super glad your camera looks better now though!
Fantastic vid! Hoot!
Thanks Krunk! im glad you liked it Hoot, hoot, hoot!
Thank you so much
Im glad it helped 💜
Thanks mate, great explanation
thank you so much im glad you found it useful and easy to understand
I love you for posting this, my camera quality is so bad and I couldn’t figure out how to configure it. Thank you!!!!!!!
You're more than welcome i'm glad i could help even if it was only a little bit!
oh also i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
i needed this, exactly what i was looking for! just made scenes on canva with the trial and this camera was really making me sad 😅
really good and helpful video!
Thanks im glad you found it useful 🥰
I’d agree to the general direction of your advice. Still there are some things I might add.
A) Logitech Webcams (all of them!) while being comparably sharp for the money , are quite noisy. So while sharpening the image can help for smaller webcam views, for example while playing games on stream, it will make the Noise of the Image more noisy still. Keep that in mind.
B) Running two portable sun bright like the Elgato Key Light at full power and turning the C920 down to an exposure of -7 to -8 with some (or no) gain to stop the image from blowing out won’t help with the image noise. The sensor is simply too small. Even the Logitech Brio is guilty of this issue.
C) The cam should run at 5000K fixed white balance. The light color should be set to match that. The full light however should be set to like 4250K.
D) I’d recommend to try creating your own LUT to fix the weird coloring of the C920 - it’s usually not very hard to do. There are tutorials for Davinci Resolve on YT.
Wat would you suggest as a webcam? I run a a6300 now but I want to try going back to a webcam
I used an a6300 for years.. such a good little camera if you can avoid the overheating issues...
I'd personally buy an elgato Facecam these days..
Its not as good as an a6300 but as webcs go it's pretty good!
A secondary option would be to use your phone instead and link it using epoc cam (iphone) or droidcam for android
@@AJSarsfieldFilm thank you
Good video bro!
thanks man!! i'm just getting started again so hopefully i can keep it up!
Thanks for the tips man, I'm trying to set up a light and the C920 to not look like shit and so far I'm being defeated intensively...
hope you eventually figured it out.. the C920 doesnt make it easy for sure haha
This was really useful, thanks! Given a cheeky like and sub
thanks I really appreciate it!
hopefully i'll have more tutorials n tips coming soon!
thanks for watching
@@AJSarsfieldFilm no problem keep it up ♥️
You need more subs. Quality content
Appreciate it 🥰
glad you enjoyed the content!
Video properties is hiding because you probably have certain option on - it's forcing OBS to be always on top. It's an easy fix, but I currently forgot what it was, haha. By the way, you are clearly a pro.
How don't you have more subscribers with such videos and beard quality ? Hi from France !
HAHA!! Clearly the beard isnt epic enough! thanks for the kind words
goodSuper
What camera do you use now? It looks amazing. I just saw another video on the new El Gato Webcam. Thoughts?
k but this is the best video ive seen explaining this
I'm glad you found it useful 🥰💕
i liked that you were short and to the point. oh wait.
Sorry you didn't have 7 minutes spare to learn something new...
Thanks for watching :)
im from india i watched till end, it was very useful. gotta say just one thing, logitech c920 is not cheaper webcam here though.
How much are they there??
they unfortunately aren't as cheap as they used to be here... I got mine for about £50 but because of Covid and people working from home they're now double the price :(
Hope you can help me. I've had a c920 for the past few years and really like it. I got a pop-up from Logitech recommending that I install their Capture product which required that I uninstall the previous software. Long story short - how do I get the old software back? It doesn't show up on Logitech's download page. I don't do streaming or video games - only skype, Pal Talk, etc. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Thank you! My colleagues and I have been trying to stream with this camera and we couldn't figure out why it looked so off.
They're very finicky to be fair and the software is a nightmare cause it never saves anything...
You can get decent images out of it though with a bit of work!
Hope you got yours looking better
thanks for the help!
PS thats a solid beard. 👍👍👍
Hahah thanks 😂💜
AJ Sarsfield Film I’m gonna give this a go when I get home so I’m hoping it cleans up the contrast on me. It’s hard having such red hair and very white skin tone. My light has an option for white or warm light as well as a combo setting
@@forcewokegaming id stick with the White option if possible... get everything looking correct then if you want to you czn play with the white balance to add some Warmth to your image!
I hope you figure it out
@@AJSarsfieldFilm I will give it a try for sure! now i do only have the one light hovering just to the left of the webcam that is on my right monitor. i game on the left. so i will def try raising my light and putting it to the right just a little to offset my glare on the glasses.i have ordered some new glasses that have a high anti glare filter on them so i hope that helps!
Oh defo! Getkftw light higher and to the side helps a tonne with glare .. itll never be perfect but the worst thing you can do is have it right next to the camera... because it'll just reflect directly in your glasses
Play around with angles! Youll get there
Great video but I have an Issue on my C922 pro when I place my neon lights behind me they look way too bright and unclear..how do I fix that (can't control the neon light brightness)
Looked up the A73 and holy smokes dark knight.
haha its not a cheap camera at all, then you have to add on a decent lens and that's like an extra £500+ so it definitely adds up..
but i film weddings usually.... so i need a good camera for that...
What is that setting app called?
I have a similar lighting set up but my webcam (C920) seems to always have that noise in the picture that i cant get rid of. Yours is clean. WHY???
6:34 Did I just see a ghost!?
i was wondering who'd be the first to spot that lol - - -i think my kitty had got bored of my rambling by this point and had to leave... lol
@@AJSarsfieldFilm hahaha, I feature mine exclusively on my podcast. I have given up locking them out of the room :D No can do!
How do I fix those lines that are travelling horizontally in the c922?
Either you have noise suppression and it's not that good, or you have it too low on the color panel for the mic settings. It could be either one but it sounds weird and muffled like that.
Is it possible that these settings are not available for the Mac version of OBS??
Will this work in DaVinci, with the corresponding settings? I already have that downloaded, but not OBS.
can i put my c920 pro on widescreen mode?
dude, this is super helpful, thank you!
however, i turn up my vibrance on my monitor and whenever something red is on screen it makes me look ridiculous, even though i have white ringlights - not sure why. if i turn the saturation down, i'm weirdly pale
I'm glad you found it useful! 💕
I'd double check your white balance if your skin tones are very red!
white lights are usually around 5000 5500 kelvin so you'd want to keep your Wb setting around there..
If its still Red after that look into adding a colour correction filter in OBS to reduce the Red a bit
@@AJSarsfieldFilm will have a go! Thank you! Thanks again for the super useful video as well!
I have no clue that this video is so professional, the video quality is like the high end filmmaker camera, the editing is basic but advanced
But why does he has such less subscribers
i appreciate the kind words!
hopefully people continue to find my videos and enjoy it here as much as you did..
thank you
Thanks for this video. I have a somewhat related question, how did you keep the coloured background lights so vivid without the Elgato key light obliterating them? I have some Philips Hues and the key light washes them out, even on low settings.
This is a VERY late reply..
hues are great but they arent always the brightest of lights ( i use LIfx bulbs and they're similar)
however The coloured background floodlights are pretty bright tbh! around 60W each so they can easily keep up with the keylight..
But if you want to keep your colours more saturated the trick is to actually have a slightly Brighter Keylight and turn down the exposure on your camera.. that way your face will be lit well But the background will look "darker"
any colour you add in behind you then should stand out more..
(Gotta find a good balance though) it takes some trial and error for sure
oh also!
i started a new channel this year, so if you want to see any future tutorials etc i'll be on there instead!
th-cam.com/channels/zFNp07QFDXgsJp8j-w-dZQ.html
@@AJSarsfieldFilm thanks for your reply, that’s really helpful. I actually got some improvement also by blocking the key light with some cardboard so it doesn’t shine directly on the background.
@@tomphp9925 that is also a fantastic way to help!
Most people use LED panels for this type of content and although they look good aren't the easiest to control so light spills everywhere causing these issues!
Hope you figure everything out!
I've tried like 7 different settings now and the quality looks good on OBS but when I start recording and then watch the video it's CRAP. Blurry, pixelated and laggy. Something with the output settings? Or the videoformat I saved it as is wrong? I've saved them as MKV and MP4. I'm new to all this 😂
I'm trying to become a twitch streamers and I cant find a c920 anywhere so if you have one laying around I'll take it 😁✌🏿
i LITERALLY sold my c920 a couple of days ago... if you were faster i might have taken you up on this ;)
Good luck finding one though! they're Super rare to find atm.. especially at normal prices!
DANG lol. But great review anyway 😁👍
I just installed a C922 Pro and find the picture is too wide and need to focus down but can't figure how to do this. Windows10, fairly smart geek. Help?
So I’m not sure if it’s me...but everytime I’m trying to change something my webcam gets darker and worse, I think I’m stuck with the crappy default quality :(
did you ever have a problem getting it to 1920x1080p the highest obs will even give me an option for is 640x360?
Have you tried downloading logitechs most up to date drivers and their logitech software from their site??
support.logi.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360024849133--Downloads-HD-Pro-Webcam-C920
after that's all updated make sure its 1080p in that software.. and hopefully it shows up in OBS
if not try a Custom Resolution setting in obs and set 1920x1080 manually... hopefully that works for you...
Your c920 actually looks clear, mine looks like a grainy mess and thats with 2 elgato lights and a ring light as i was told better lighting fixes all camera problems and also the more lighting means the gain can be set at 0 which should take the grain away and make the picture clearer... gave up and back in its box it went
he is using the c922 not the c920
They both have the same sensor n hardware though..
The only difference is the 922 can do 60p in 720p.. which is basically just a firmware difference..
so in theory both cameras should be able to achieve this look
@@AJSarsfieldFilm ok and hi i love your vid it helped me a lot thx
Glad you found it useful at least!
I just wish they'd fix the issue if not being able to save settings 😒
How are you getting a good image with "gain" 0? When I set it to 0 my image is way too dark, even with lights.
honestly i have no idea why its doing that..
i get that it seems counter productive in camera terms to have "gain" set to 0
however
i feel like "gain" is the digital synthetic way of increasing the "exposure" of an image
and "exposure" in the settings is more analogue
i think it uses shutter speed to correct for it.. (as the higher this setting is the more blurry the movement gets)
so make sure everything is set to "manual" and what is your current "exposure" settings
Hello, some of the stuff that shows up for you doesn’t for me, like configure video. I need help
I'm in a similar boat, scrolling thru to see if anyone has recommended a suggestion, properties on my version of OBS doesn't have a configure video option. are you experiencing something similar?
Any ideas for how to SAVE these settings? If I close OBS, my c920s completely forget everything no matter what...I've tried overriding them with G Hub (enabling or disabling that 'let other programs rule' check box does nothing as far as I can tell), I've tried reverting to 10-year-old Logitech drivers (as suggested by some forum or other), I've tried the Roland Weigelt CamProps thingie..very nice but only if you have one camera. I absolutely cannot believe that c920s make so many Top 10 lists when so many streamers are ready to sledgehammer them to bits!
Ahem sry. So...any ideas?
I can't find the properties windows, not even underneath my other programs! Seems like they still didn't fix this after 2 years T.T
the latest driver update for the Logitech c920 looks terribly grainy i prefer the old application and matching driver
When I click properties on my c922 its not showing me any of those options, can you assist?
I don't get those options either... I use a Mac whereas the guy in the video uses a Windows based computer. Any help with this would be great @AJ Sarsfield.
@@DannymikReacts u found anything?
@@miniman4758 I don't think this option exists on a Mac
I know I’m a little late, but you can change these settings in the c920/c922 software. Just google ‘c922 software’ and install that.
When i bring up the camera properties i get the logitech menu not the one shown in the video. How can i fix this please.
Uninstall Logi-capture. With it installed, you will always be sent to the logitech menu, which is a nightmare
@@jakedasnakegaming2046 I dont have it all i have is G Hub
I am using an external webcam ( logic c920) and the video lags. I am not going through OBS, just using it as an external camera to do live on Facebook. It lags before I even go live on Facebook, simply when I pull the camera up in any program before I go live. Is there something I can do to fix that? If it normal to seem lagging before you go live and then correct itself live? New to this.
If its choppy and in auto my brstxsuggestion is making sure your camera has enough light for the subject.... if the subject is under exposed the camera will try to make the image brighter by using slower shutter speeds which in turn will make your image choppy n blurry and overall not look very good!
So i learned how to run it through OBS. Solved the problem.
Whats the link to this software??
It’s called streamlabs obs
Thanks for the video mate. However I applied these settings and yes I noticed an improvement at first, but once I closed and re-opened OBS my webcam was awfully laggy?
unfortunately one of the downsides to logitech webcams is they dont save the settings... so you sadly have to do this everytime you open obs to stream/record..
its a bug people have complained about for years and logitech never fixed properly :(
@@AJSarsfieldFilm nice one mate appreciate the reply! It looked great, I closed it, then re opened it and it went almost pitch black? Very odd! Thanks though man
@@AJSarsfieldFilm do you have any idea why its lagging?
@@oibab1475 i cant know for sure... but usually the lag will be because of exposure settings if you have the exposure or brightness setting Too high the movement gets really slow and choppy...
and the only way to fix it is to make sure you use a light to make the image brighter and turn down the exposure/brightness settings to about what i said in this video
@@AJSarsfieldFilm thanks a lot mate! Keep up the classy content and you’ll continue to explode
My issue also is flipping the image on OBS so my Webcam isn't shooting my face opposite... if that makes sense? Everything that should be shot left is now right and vice versa. On the Logitech app it's fine. Only with OBS it's opposite. HELP!!!
If you right click the source in OBS there should be a "transform" option and youll be able to flip/rotate it in there 👍
if you do an mod take the plastic stupid cover off that covers the lens it looks better
I've seen these mods done before and it definitely helps!!
its the dynamic range and colour that is the biggest drawback though compared to Actual Video cameras...
Your mic's processing is really odd, especially since it's such an expensive mic. How much background noise did you have going on at the time?
completely agree...
from what i remember I was getting WAY too much reverb because of the bare flat walls... + accidentally had 2 compressors on the audio which wasn't helping
(1 software 1 on the mixer itself)
I defo could have done a better job audio wise however i have fixed a lot of the issues i was having now..
you live n learn haha
how do u do that slow close up effect at the end of your video
Which one?? Do you have a timestamp 😂
:@@AJSarsfieldFilm sure starts from 7:40
@@AJSarsfieldFilm it also starts in the begining
@@wabitxxx oh the slow "zoom in" as I'm talking? I shoot in 4k and mostly edit in 1080p so I can crop in without losing quality..
In your editor (I use premiere) in the clip editor, in motion/transform setting
Set a key frame on the position and scale at the start of your clip and then go to the end and set another but this time increase the scale by 10-20% or whatever looks good to you.. reposition it with the position options and voila you have a slow zoom in.. i hope this helps?
i should make a video on this showing and explaining properly
6:36 anyone else see the ghost moving the curtains in the background 😱😱
Hahaha clearly I have ghosts 👻
It was not, not my cat xD
Where is your camera angle? I have my lighting and settings all fine but I can't find a camera location that doesn't make me look stupid. Tried on the side monitor, monitor in front of me, higher up on a mount, close to me on a tripod..I cannot get it to look good lol.
My OBS don't show the "configure video" option. Can someone help me? I use it on Mac OS.
no
Mine doesn’t either
same situation, may I ask if you identified a solution?
Has there been a solution to this? I'm having the same problem
Having the same problem, It seems the only way to change certain settings is in the logicapture program, and you have to choose logicapture as the source. Would be good to find out if you can actually change the settings in obs somehow
Please how can I get Logitech products they are just being difficult to reach