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EMEET Nova 4K PC/Mac Webcam -- DEMO & REVIEW
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Sep 20, 2024
Ready to level up your video conferencing with a 4K webcam with a crazy responsive autofocus system? Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out - and demos! - the EMEET Nova 4K Webcam for Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, and Linux. He also demonstrates EMEETLINK, a super useful app you can download for free that will allow you to fine-tune settings and upgrade the firmware any time there are updates too. EMEETLINK: https://emeet.com/pages/software-service-downloads Check it out on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dlIPCz Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #emeet #webcam #4k #4kwebcam #askdavetaylor
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Up your video conferences with this 4K webcam. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that I spend a lot of time on video conferences
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whether it's Zoom or Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, I just seem to endlessly be a little square
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in a grid of little squares of people. Now, when I look at everyone else, I am always checking out
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what are they wearing, what's behind them, and most importantly, how crisp is their image
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It's what I do. I have video. I produce video. So that's something of interest to me
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Now, I always want to look the best I can, and so I always want the best possible webcam
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Enter this. This is the E-Meet Nova 4K webcam. So it has a huge amount of resolution, and you
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don't even need to use it in 4K for it to give you a really great crisp image that's going to look
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good if you're giving the lecture or the talk or telling the joke and you're full screen, or if
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you're just one of those many little squares in that grid, you're going to be crisp and clean and
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look really good. Now, let me give you some specs, and then we'll jump onto my computer, and I'll give
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you a demo of both the camera and the microphone so you can see just how crisp and clean it is
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It's ultra 4K HD, so it's 4K at 30 frames per second, though it defaults to 1080 HD. So you do
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have to play with it a little bit to get it to be the maximum resolution. My experience was that
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it's totally fine. You still look great. I'll show you what you look like in Zoom, in fact, and it looks
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really crisp. Now, it also features something called PDAF autofocus, which is phase detection
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autofocus, and it's a super fast autofocus so that if you're moving around or you're showing
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something to the camera or something, then it can just really quickly refocus to get to the correct
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thing being the center of the tension, which is what you want. Dual noise canceling microphones
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73 degree field of view, and that's good. You don't want something with too much field of view because
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then all the junk around you is somehow in the camera, and that's really annoying. So having it
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be pretty tight is actually really nice. It also, by default, does auto light correction and auto
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balancing, and my experience is that's really good. If you have issues with that, which some people do
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for various reasons, then you can actually go and get the E-Meet Link software, free download for
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Mac or Windows, and then that lets you get to all the different settings and fine-tune it the way
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you want. Includes instructions in a number of languages, and includes a little clip-on camera
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cover. So if you're concerned that it's just staring at you all the time, the little cover will just be
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over the lens while you're not using it. And I know for a lot of people that's really important
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and having it be a physical object, I think, is much better than having it be just software and
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just assume that the little light's not on, therefore it's not in use. So, nice security
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piece there. Includes a five-foot cable. It is, unfortunately, only USB-A, which is fine for you
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PC desktop users, but for a lot of people, you need USB-C. I actually am using my own USB-A to
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USB-C adapter. This costs literally less than two dollars on Amazon, so you can make that investment
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if you need to. Not a big deal. Dimensions-wise, it is 2.2 inches by 3.9 inches by 2.3 inches. It
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has a little hinge, so you can use it on the table if you want. The camera itself also adjusts
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but you can also just clip it on as most people would do to the back of your screen, just like
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that. And that's really easy. Now, I've talked a lot. Let's jump into a demo. You're seeing me
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through the E-Meet webcam and hearing me through the E-Meet microphone. To confirm, I am pointing
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at the camera and you can see a really big finger. Now, right off the bat, let's do a quick test of
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that autofocus. So, if I put this close, it will focus on it. Notice I'm pretty out of focus in the
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background. When I drop it, it almost immediately comes right back to a clean focus on my face
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And this is the E-Meet Link software that we're looking at, and you can see there are various
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settings you can change here. Let's change this from 50 hertz to 60 hertz. I don't see any difference
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but maybe you would. It might be more different if I was moving more quickly
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And then, if I look at things like sharpness, watch the background
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So, if I increase the sharpness, it makes the edges on the bricks look a little bit brighter
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but let's just turn that right back to where it was. And it does give you some level of control
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and if you need to turn off automatic white balance, that's how you do it. And then I can
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go and adjust everything, but honestly, I think it does a perfectly good job all by itself
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Now, while we're in the app, let's go and look at, there are some settings, and most importantly
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you can check for software updates. And there's notifications, there's support if you have an
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issue. Super easy, you can get to the user manual, all sorts of stuff. Let me come back here, and now
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what I want to do is I want to switch to Zoom. So, let's see if I can just bring Zoom up. And
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here we go. In Zoom, you don't even have to start a meeting. You can just go into video settings
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and it gives you that little preview. So, I wanted to show you that if I go into Zoom, and then I
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click on original ratio, then you don't see much difference. But watch what happens when I turn off
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HD. So, this looks a little lower res, and that's the intent of it. And so, with Zoom
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if you don't have HD enabled, you're sending out basically 720p video. And that's good
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it's good enough for most uses, but for me, I always have HD enabled because I want to have
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it as crisp as possible so that if I want to do something like, say, so here's this document I
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want you to look at, then you'll be able to actually read it because it's crisp enough
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So, I think that's about all I can demo. Let me jump back on camera. Not much else to tell you
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about it. It's just a simple plug and play device. It'll work with Mac or Windows or Linux or Chrome
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Books, anything you can plug in a webcam, it's going to work with. And of course, it also has
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those built-in dual microphones, easy to work with. And if you let it just do all the auto balance and
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everything, my experience was really good. If you need to tweak it, you can use that E-Meet Link
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software to actually modify it and get it to be just how you want, super easy. Now, we do need to
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talk about the price, but before we get there, I'm going to ask you to subscribe to my channel
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Click on that subscribe button, click on that bell icon for notifications, and while you're at it
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click on that thumbs up. I always appreciate that positive feedback. Cool. Now, this is the E-Meet
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Nova 4K webcam and it is $69.99, but as I recorded this, I noticed it was on a substantial discount
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down to $49.69 at Amazon.com. You can check out the link in my description. For under 50 bucks
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this is a game changer. If you're the person who's always blurry and out of focus on your calls or
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Zooms or Teams or Meets or whatever, this is your solution and it's under 50 bucks. So
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no brainer, check it out. That's all I got. Hope to catch you in my next video
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Bye
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