Michael Reynolds 
RGB video lights are the fastest way for a creator to change the mood of a shot without touching a single gel. Twist the hue dial and a flat white key light becomes a cyan rim, a warm fire effect, or a deep magenta background wash in about a second. That single capability is why … Read more
The best LED ring light for makeup videos is the NEEWER RL-18 18 inch kit. It combines 55W of 5600K output, a full 0-100% dimming range, an 18 inch ring that fills a seated tutorial frame, and a 4.7 star average across more than 65,000 reviews. The UBeesize 12 inch is the runner-up if you … Read more
The best portable LED lights for vlogging are small panel lights that run off a built-in rechargeable battery, mount on a camera hot shoe or a phone clip, and give you tunable brightness and color temperature in something that fits in a jacket pocket. Our top pick, the ULANZI VL49, wins on weight, runtime and … Read more
A tablet teleprompter is a rig built around a sheet of coated glass angled in front of your camera lens, with your tablet lying flat underneath it. You read the mirrored reflection of your script while the lens looks straight through the glass and records nothing but your face. That is the whole trick, and … Read more
A DSLR teleprompter is a beam-splitter glass rig that clamps in front of your lens, reflecting a scrolling script from a phone or tablet mounted below the camera so you read on the lens axis and keep real eye contact. If you have ever filmed yourself reading from an iPad off to one side, you … Read more
A camera slider is the cheapest way to make a locked-off tripod shot look like it cost money. A few hundred dollars of rail and bearings gives you parallax, reveals and repeatable time-lapse moves that a gimbal simply cannot fake. We have been shooting on sliders for years, mostly for interviews, product work and the … Read more
A camera cage is a rigid frame that screws into the tripod socket of your mirrorless camera and turns it into a rigging platform. A cage gives you threaded mounting points for a top handle, side grips, a monitor, a microphone or a light, and it takes the weight of that gear off your hands … Read more
The best microphone arms for streaming desks are the ones that hold a heavy mic chain steady, sit low enough to stay out of your camera frame, and actually clamp onto the desk you own. That last point is where most buying guides go quiet, and it is the first thing that goes wrong: an … Read more
A green screen is a flat green fabric or panel placed behind you during a livestream so chroma keying software can remove it and replace it with any virtual background you want. Your streaming or editing software samples the color of the screen, isolates everything that is not that shade of green, and makes the … Read more
Every capture card on this list looks the same in a thumbnail: a small black box with an HDMI port on each side. The differences only show up after you plug it in, and they show up hard. One card gives you a clean 1080p60 signal with zero lag on your TV, another captures 4K60 … Read more