Video streaming can be a great business, although a bit painful. Whether you’re playing, crafting, or just hang out in a jacuzzi, one of the biggest streaming challenges can be finding a camera system that suits your needs. That’s what Logitech had in mind when creating the Mevo Core multi-camera system, and it’s an impressively simple solution to a modern problem.
He Mevo Core is a simple cube-style camera that uses a Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens system. The four sides flanking the lens each have a ¼-inch 20-thread mount, allowing you to mount it from the top, bottom, or side. On the back, there are two USB-C ports for charging or connecting as a wired webcam, a 3.5mm audio output, an HDMI port, and a microSD card slot hidden behind a protective cover.
The entire system is designed to adapt to a wide range of shooting situations. The camera can capture 4K video locally and stream up to 1080p video over Wi-Fi 6E, and it even has an internal rechargeable battery that can record or stream up to six hours on a single charge. It’s a fascinating camera system that walks the line between streaming webcams and the more professional mirrorless cameras used for recording video. But it’s the software that steals the show.
A simplified study
Mevo Core cameras are designed to be used in multi-camera setups (where you have multiple cameras around you for multiple angles) and to get close to one if you only have one camera. He Mevo Multicam app It is the key that makes the entire system work. This app allows you to connect multiple cameras and feed them all to a single output for live streaming.
Photography: Eric Ravenscraft
The Mevo Core cameras are surprisingly easy to pair with the app. Open the app and it will automatically detect the camera and guide you to add the camera to your Wi-Fi network. Once they’re on the network, you can connect them to the app with the touch of a button.
Once your cameras are connected, you can tap the source to change the live output to that camera angle. In addition to Mevo Core cameras, you can also add Mevo Start Camerasor with a Mevo Pro subscriptionYou can connect any smartphone’s camera as another video source.
In addition to this, the Mevo Multicam app allows you to add picture-in-picture presets, as well as graphic assets such as full-screen overlays, lower thirds, and over-the-shoulder images. The result is a makeshift live studio that can operate with equipment that easily fits in a messenger bag.
Streamers typically have to rely on apps like obs and StreamLabs to manage video streams, and while those apps are certainly more robust, the Mevo Multicam system has a simplicity that makes it incredibly easy to manage multiple live camera angles. The app can show you all the camera feeds at once and let you quickly tap one to swap angles, adjust the audio input levels of each, and add graphics with a tap. If that was all this system did, I’d be impressed, but Logitech added something I would have wanted years ago if I’d thought to ask.
Convert one camera into many
The 4K sensor inside the Mevo Core is solid and captures decent image quality, but it’s best used as a 1080p streaming webcam. So why the extra resolution? Well, because when you shoot with more resolution than you need, you have the flexibility to crop the image without sacrificing image quality. That’s partly why some of our favorite cinema cameras use 6K sensors to record 4K content.
Typically this is a post-production process, but the Mevo Multicam app makes it easy to use that flexibility for live productions. In the app, you can touch parts of the frame to crop the subject and send only a part of the video to the output. This is a technique I have used myself. when editing video essays, but this camera system takes it to live performances. You can use a wide shot and then crop it to a medium shot to emphasize a line.