 where we going? We want to put... Hello everyone and I say everyone. I mean Greg and Michael. It's great to see you both here, especially you Michael. I know you've had a tough couple of weeks and so it's really great to see you back and see your your face and see the video that you something this morning. It's yeah that's all I can say brilliant and Greg I like that. Yes let's just cut this into and win the game. Well we may be already there actually so I'll come on to that in a little minute. But as always anybody who fancies hopping on there is the the link. Hey Rich, how are you doing Rich? Good to see you again as always. So yeah just my usual weekly update and it's been to be honest this was the first week where I was actually behind on my my videos because I had that sort of marathon zoom session last weekend so I was at a conference and it was basically 14 hours of zoom a day Friday Saturday and Sunday. I had three hours of zoom on my Sunday morning for Doc's office hours so 45 hours altogether and I did my hour-long live stream last Saturday as well. So I'd had pretty much enough of screens by the end of it all so I decided that Monday and Tuesday I would just have a complete day off the screens which I did so that was that was good. It was all worth it but it was just a little bit too much zoom for anyone one person I think. So I was a little bit behind because last week I was on 92 days and I had done 92 videos so I had a bit of catching up to do and you may have noticed that there was a few videos going out in the last few days to try and catch up. I did actually you know I thought about wouldn't it be great if I only actually put out 99 videos and actually fell short of my my target. Just because of the whole recovering perfectionist thing I thought what a bold move that would be to actually not you know be happy with not actually being perfect but I'm still recovering and I couldn't quite bring myself to do it so I did have to get up to the full hundred and in fact this is effectively now is the sort of the start of the the 99th day so technically I've still got 48 hours to go so I'm going to do basically Monday morning I'm going to look at all the stats and stuff like that and just do a sort of wrap-up really video about you know the point of this was it was an exercise in you know what can happen if you do just post consistently for this amount of time so I'll do a full sort of breakdown of it basically and you know some of the things that I've learned along the way. I've certainly one of the goals of it was to become you know better at just being able to sit down and do these videos and I did actually just go back and watch my first video the other day and I can certainly see that it has I have improved slightly not a lot but I have improved slightly so it has that served that purpose at least. So what else happened this week well I was oh hello big rich. Let me just get my little two up screen there we go I've got to add him in now one second oh one there we go hey rich how you doing I can hear me I can hear you know yeah yeah cool cool I can still hear you though okay hang on give me a second sorry sorry sorry that's the wrong one excuse me there you go probably better how you doing rich excellent how are you yeah very good very good yeah 99 episode that's cool yeah nearly at the end I'll show you my yeah my stats just quickly let me bring this up so I'm on day yet 99 I actually done yesterday I posted my 99th video so technically this is my hundredth video so I was gonna say 99 might be a cool thing stay at 99 and well that that's what I was thinking I mean we got Greg coming in now as well let me just change to a three up I do I did actually do a little bit of planning for this hang on there we go hey there we go that is way too big I've covered myself up with my stats now but basically that's where we are 99 videos 299 subs and one and a half one one and a half thousand hours almost and 14,400 views so there we go I'll get that out of the way 1,000 watch hours that's pretty yeah yeah yeah it's been sort of quite consistent in terms of like the yeah the the two needles on the little you know the little thing you have on YouTube to tell you how close you are to it they're sort of moving in parallel really so that's pretty yeah that's everybody's goals a thousand a thousand subs of 4,000 hours so you're you're making you're making headway that's good you're third of the way there that's good yeah although you know what you get at the end of that is probably not a huge amount I'm gonna do actually another video I know it's a number it's just a goal I mean yeah yeah whether you get it or not really matter I'm sure there's people that make money on YouTube without having that many subs at all yeah well that's what I'm gonna I'm gonna do a video which is all about the sort of the revenue and cost sort of analysis for this this time because it's certainly being self-sufficient so far so are you are you making money yeah yeah so in it's around about I say a thousand five hundred dollars something like that because people from brands or from buying me a coffee or what from buying me a coffee people can book a call with me on buying me a coffee so I've had you know quite a few hours of calls booked with people paying for an hour to chat about stuff and then other people book me to do other stuff outside of that as well so very nice yeah how are you doing I'm good I'm working on a figma doc but I saw Rich was here I was like I'm not gonna let Rich get in there by myself yeah how you guys are great great friend I have what I need to do I need to be a bit more professional and put names up here don't I really can if you want actually I had a quick question on your intro screen on the outside when the countdown type timer was there yeah some of the the little social things change right yes yeah a little is that on multiple scenes or is that like a animated graphic or something or it's just I did it in was it keynote so that's basically I just animated those things changing and then that background is just static in key keynote or sorry like a movie that's rolling yeah yeah sweet just I was always curious like which technique people use to do I just watched your TV studio one oh yeah that was actually a lot of fun to do hang on let me just go back to my what it's here there we go this is take one tech TV that's awesome that was a good one too yeah it was because somebody had asked in the group about it and they said you know I'll can you do can you do something like this with e-cam and I thought well I'm sure you can so I thought I'd just give it a go I'm quite curious have you ever run in have you ever run into again in Ken Robinson from Australia no I haven't actually no no he's a real estate guy I met him in Lita last year in August he's a pretty good guy but he he does a thing like that he's his V-Mex but he does a TV studio thing like that all right I'll check it out pretty slick it looks really nice it's really neat yeah it made me want to do the full green desk thing as well and actually get like you know multi-cameras and see if I can emulate a studio not like I'd ever like to do a show like that because it's a bit pointless when you can do like this really isn't it it's a vanity thing really to want to put yourself in a full set to make you look like you're on TV but it's just a good little exercise really to see what you can do with e-cam it's amazing you know a little Mac mini and whatever it is $40 a month software and you can do something like that yeah okay yeah pretty pretty pretty amazing oh do you know what I had my my first major screw-up last week on with my videos because I do my videos I record them and then I just post them to YouTube I don't like going to edit any editing normally but I did this one which in fact it was the one about the beta and I posted it and then I got a message from Kath who's in Australia and she just sent me a message saying oh no no sound and I actually rebooted my computer and I hadn't I hadn't gone through my whole checklist and I forgot to reopen audio hijack so on my my laptop it's got a thing that basically as soon as I open my Mac it just does that all automatically but I haven't set up all of my automations yet on my Mac mini so it just wasn't open so I was doing everything and recorded it posted it and then yeah no sound so I had to go back and do it again you didn't capture the sound somewhere else like through your your mixer anything like that no no because I just have my short mv7 going straight into the Mac and then it goes through audio hijack that is basically my capture device so it's yeah and it just takes out the sound of the the aircon so yeah it's pretty pretty funny really I think I need to go back and watch my checklist video again yeah because we've got our setup to where it records the roadcaster will record the audio file just in case oh that's cool so I throw it away every week but always keep it just right right yeah when I got this mic part of the thing about it was it's USB but then it's also got the XLR so I always thought at some point I would get a roadcaster but I'm not sure I'm quite liking the minimalist view of this you know without too many things on my desk but I get it yeah that's an mv7 yeah yeah yeah but I don't have the yeah a little sound effect buttons I could always put them in my stream deck though so have you thought of what you're gonna do for number 100 or are you gonna count this as 100 well this is this is my 100th video really yeah cuz I do count so I've done 13 live streams and I have been counting those in my videos they yes okay it's just a case of posting 100 videos so I will do like a proper like wrap-up one though so I suppose that'll be 101 but yeah I've got a few sort of things planned for like having looking back at the 100 videos and sort of takeaways and stuff like that like I mentioned about the cost and revenue sort of side of stuff and then I've just been thinking about what to do next I'm I'm still in two minds I'm possibly just gonna go for the 365 videos in a year thing so might just carry on doing doing this all right but yeah I think I'll decide that on Monday morning the best time to make any important decisions it seems like you have it down as far as a workflow or maybe not but it seems like you do from this way it's pretty much there really yeah the last three weeks I've got to say I've been the three weeks where there's just been stuff come up that have like the you know my mammoth zoom session last weekend and I know something the weekend before and so on so the last three weeks have been the ones where I've got out of the routine of just actually getting up and doing something every day yeah so work but yeah pretty much it's it's there and I think I've got enough sort of video ideas certainly my OmniFocus list is overflowing at the moment so I'm going to shoot with that side of stuff but it's just a case of whether to focus on some other aspects of it like as people will know I did start out on the TikTok journey and I did five days where I did 30 TikTok videos and then basically fell flat on my face and stopped so I forgot about that that was fun yeah so there's there's other things that I think well maybe I should like cut back on the actual YouTube videos but just focus a little bit more on some of the other aspects of the channel and stuff like that so yeah we'll we'll see we'll have to give that a little bit more thought just started doing shorts oh I saw yeah yeah noticed I have a weird thing like where the music for some reason I have it in the MP like in the video file on my computer but somehow when it gets uploaded music is gone all right I don't know I don't know if there is just cutting off a certain threshold because I have it low or if there's some detecting the music and taking it out but it leaves your vocal your vocal audio stays in the voices there but the music just disappeared maybe it's like they recompressed it or something so it's like just like disappearing because I have it kind of underneath the voice I just thought it was weird I'm gonna do a test and try to turn the gain up on the music and see if it's present in the short traffic or any results and not too much it's weird like I did a random one and it was probably like my most viewed video so far like but but these new ones were I'm just starting to test them out and they don't have my face in them because what I've been doing is doing I'm using the script to generate audiograms and then I'm like just putting them into a frame you know like kind of thing so maybe I'll try putting a picture of the person who's speaking into the frame as well and see if that helps oh so you're doing you're doing audiogram shorts I'm doing yeah it's as a video but like an audiogram yeah but not but not real life people okay no also the other thing is like the audiograms that the script generates are not 16 they're nine what it is there's 60 their squares technically and so the short like require like that nine by 16 yeah they're more for Instagram when they do it out of the script yeah yeah so that was why I had to generate the the frame with our show branding around it but I love the script I just started subscribing it's awesome yeah I wonder why they don't do that why they don't have a nine by 16 thing because you think with reels and tick tock and all that stuff that there's plenty of demand for it so it's I guess it's just new maybe they're they're gonna hopefully they work on it and figure it out maybe it is let's let's all submit a feature request get everyone in office hours to submit a feature request that's that's something that I want to look at a bit more as well you could do it in e-cam too I guess technically right I've been using here to just export it yeah yeah well that's that's how I did my tiktok videos was just did them in an e-cam easier you're right premiered Japan any but to use yeah that's something else that I want to yeah I was gonna look at doing like things like that with the script and Jarvis as well to start I should be doing stuff on my blog as well really on the site but I've just focused on the video but I thought maybe if I reduced to like three videos a week and perhaps spend a little bit more my morning time doing stuff like that because they were the great tools but I don't have the time really to dig into them properly but the pretty video for your own business for your home building stuff for your architecture shop not for the home building but we've got an advertising and marketing company as well that does social media advertising and marketing so I'm redoing I'm still in the process of redoing the whole course that I did for that so I've developed this like it's like a five when you say we've got does that mean you own it or you own it with partners yeah me me and two partners so we've got a social media advertising marketing company and it's for basically small businesses and they're largely in UK based but I created a course around the thing for people who basically don't want to pay agency fees to do their social media marketing that isn't my background I've got a background in that but my two partners I've got a background in advertising and marketing and I'm kind of like the systems and processes guy so so you don't do any of this video stuff for that company yeah so I created the course and then I'm creating the all the video content so that's sort of my my side of stuff so so yeah I'm just I'm just in process of redoing all of that because I did the the first version of that course was sort of end of 2019 and obviously a lot's happened since then but also I've got my game a little bit because all of that was done where I was filming and editing and I just I just come across when I look back at those videos I come back across as like really sort of like stiff and not not relaxed and do you know what I mean like just sort of I haven't got a sort of flow to it at all so that's just because I was recording and editing and then I didn't want to move too much in case I had to edit so I mean I don't move too much now actually having said that but it doesn't come across as sort of as natural I don't think so I want to just update it also that's one in the process of doing at the moment but then we've also got another company with somebody else which is a stock trading company so I'm writing a course for that because we've developed this algorithm basically for that spits out daily things based on technical triggers and so we're going to be marketing this as a subscription so that people can sign up to get these daily triggers basically but the problem is you don't want people getting these triggers and then go in and mismanaging their funds and then having a like a big blow up with their their trading pot and then coming and blaming us because of their lack of portfolio management and sort of risk and management basically so part of the thing about this is they're going to have to go through this course to before they can actually get access to these triggers so I'm doing a course on basically risk management and portfolio management because that's how most people end up getting caught out in stocks is by you know putting all the money on one thing and then it blowing up on them so so those are the two things that I'm just making videos for at the moment aside from this channel and Carly says how did you approach content planning during your 100 days that was basically I just I just wrote captured anytime I had an idea I'd put it into OmniFocus and then every morning I'd come down and open OmniFocus and then just pick one of them that I fancy doing so there wasn't a huge amount of planning to it to be honest so I've still got a quite a list in OmniFocus so I'm just sort of working my way yeah working my way through those I am going to probably do a bit more on the sort of Mac productivity so when I started the channel it was originally going to be all about Mac productivity and sort of the tools and things that I use on the Mac but then I sort of got a little bit sidetracked and ended up just doing all e-cam live basically all e-cam live or stream deck so I'm going to start coming back to the sort of general Mac Mac stuff I think a little bit is OmniFocus like an idea planning like a notion oh sorry it's it's similar to that have you heard of getting things done by David Allen the sort of productivity yeah yeah so OmniFocus is basically a task management system that is based attack task management software that is based around that system that that getting things done system so as well as having tasks you also have contexts that you can apply to stuff so there's no point having like a big list of things to do if when you look at the list you're not in a particular frame of mind or a particular place where you can do them so I have things it captures everything for me really like even like shopping things and stuff like that so when I go to the supermarket it just pops up with all of my shopping list but it doesn't show me those things in my task list when I'm not in the right context to be able to see it or if I'm in a work yeah it's everything's context based basically and also when you when you have a like a particular project you don't need to be shown all of the tasks that are dependent on another task being shown until that tax task has been completed so it just gets everything out of the way and you just basically only get shown the things that you can actually do so you can actually focus on getting things done quickly say hi to Sammy so yeah that's another video that I'll do basically is how I use OmniFocus and how it's good for task planning but get into a bit more of the productivity so Michael said he liked my Hazel video Hazel's great for sort of automatic management of files and folders and things like that on the Mac so I'm going to do one I did a sort of general one yesterday but one of the things I have that doing is if I download something from Epidemic and like you're going to use a audio track in e-cam live it's handy to have the actual time the length of the track as part of the name when it's in e-cam live so if you're going to set a timer or something like that you know exactly how long it needs to be so I've got this automation with Hazel so that if I download anything from Epidemic Hazel basically watches folders and then performs actions based on different criteria that you set so I've got it watching the downloads folder and anytime something hits that folder that has come from the source URL of Epidemic then it moves it into my Epidemic folder out of downloads and it also goes and grabs the timestamp of the or the the length the duration of the file and adds that into the file name so now all of my Epidemic tracks have just got the file name the the length of the track as part of the file name automatically so it's it's really cool for like automations like that it also downloads like if I download anything from a bank my bank statements it just files them automatically you can do things like any of the metadata in pictures so if you want to sort your you know if you're into photography and want all of that sort of data captured as part of your the file names or something like that you want to change it from whatever the default Canon or whatever camera you've got the whatever the default file name is you could have it change it to things like the location the f-stop or whatever whatever that there is in the metadata you can pull out all of that and add it into the file name so it's a great little tool for organization that that's fantastic Hazel is that a sad thing that one isn't actually but it's like forty seven dollars I think and it's just like a one-off payment but it's yeah that was the last last video that I did actually was about that so I'm gonna be doing a few more sort of in-depth videos about it but yeah it's like one of my five sort of power apps I guess there's that one keyboard my throw text expander I use a lot for expanded text snippets and then what are the ones one password and dropbox I suppose so those are the sort of fire that I'll stick on everything before I get you know so Greg are you a Mac guy too you are right back yeah I haven't been on PC ages yeah it's painful if ever I have to use it there was I just wanted to make sure we were all being all inclusive that's all I don't think I would know I usually don't know what to do on it when I am asked to use one we've got it we've got a we've got a PC for QuickBooks and that's it but that's because you can't use QuickBooks on a Mac it's horrible yeah isn't that crazy yeah it is and I want I don't want to go to QuickBooks online because it's it's another cumbersome beat so it's garbage have you tried zero I have not I haven't tried any of those things there's another one called Zoho or Zoho or something I haven't tried they're all supposed to be great or another one that starts with an F I can't think of I can't think of it there's another online service but there's I think I might have tried that one but the CPA wants QuickBooks and I don't want to pay her more money to give her something foreign so it's just easier to do it so do you do that on a virtual machine or have you got a dedicated machine for that it's a whole computer yeah it's a computer at my house right and we use remote desktop to get to it from where we are so my sister can do it at her house or here in the office or I can do it in my I can do it for more ever yes I have a virtual machine for any time I need to do stuff on PC but it's just painful yeah I tried the parallels thing so you're talking about parallels or VMware or something yeah yeah so parallels yeah yeah I couldn't I mean I like it but it's again it's all it's a mystery I like a real live computer and here's my company file and I know where it is yeah box I know where it is just a parallel things all it's all focus focus to me I don't trust it yeah not good for mission critical stuff necessarily well yeah I mean if I gotta go see the IRS I want to be able to produce a file here's the document so yeah without having to say oh it's in there it's in my Mac or whatever I don't want to have to it's just me I missed a question Kelly asked what Mike I was using this is a short SM 58 run through the roadcaster pro with no nothing else so I saw that question for a few minutes I don't know she's still here if you ask Kelly the website's looking great she's got a new website up for testing so what else have you guys been up to this week have you been doing leader by the way I haven't been able to catch up with many other videos I've just been so busy but I've been still putting out my daily ones but how have you been getting on rich I know what Greg did the year had the great start it's a little bit about you rich I did lead it until we went we took a trip last weekend that was kind of impromptu so I missed three days yeah and I followed up on the beach and said okay I'm back I took two days off to travel and whatever and I went back so I jumped out of the group I jumped I did it last year last August yeah yeah you know how it is when you come back from a trip and you have a mountain of email and stuff to catch up with yeah yeah I could never and the time like you said the time to devote to to reciprocate people feedback it's tough it's it's tough and then last August I guess I had a lot more time available so this long yeah yeah well I've got I've come clean and say I've not been an active member of the community at all there I just haven't had are you still are you still posting I am still posting because I set myself the goal of going live every day in August and that's what I thought it was when I did it I didn't realize there was even I didn't realize you signed up for it I thought it was just everyone said hey let's go live in August so that's what I thought I was getting into and then when I got in there and realized it like oh my gosh there's like you know two or three hundred people in here well that's how vlogmas you weren't around at Christmas time right no no no yeah so vlogmas is like that we go live every day in December that's in the LGL group and that's not a sign-up for the thing you do it or you don't do it doesn't make any yeah yeah it's not live it's live or recorded doesn't make any difference right that was really fun that was really fun through Christmas watching those late night recaps were really fun right I'll definitely definitely give that one to go this time and if I do leader next time I'll just have to you know book several hours Sammy by the way if you're still here he is a superstar I mean he's there every every everyone's stream he seems to be in everyone that I've looked at 200 a day he listens he watches 200 of those a day or no it's crazy that is commitment that's why so good oh to be young and have more a lot of time on my hands yeah yeah yeah I mean he's doing he's been doing this for a long time though he's as well it's like it's unbelievable that I think it's five year anniversary his five-year anniversary was last week he said yeah or maybe the week before but five years I mean the kids only 17 or something I know when I went and followed him on Instagram and then I went back and I'd look through some of his old stuff and it's like man you think you've literally been doing this since you know it's brilliant and he's up his old videos are great too it's yeah it's really yeah really cool eyes inspirational he's really cool how's things going with zealous by the way Greg one of that's one of the things that I haven't done for the past two weeks I'm gonna dig into that but I've just been not busy with everything and setting up this Mac Mini but the other the other reason why I didn't do it earlier as well is because I was on my old Mac so I didn't want to try stuff out with with old technology so now that I'm on the mini I'm gonna devote a bit of time to testing it's getting better we it's good we do our after show every week after our primary yeah on zealous so we've we've had about 10 people in now I think on stage at the same time cool we just had James on this week yeah yeah it's going well like you know it's all dynamic layout stuff does um you know like we can bring in multiple guests and whatnot we're getting ready to launch a new product actually roll a use case I guess pretty formally right right which is a virtual meet and greets okay yeah so what's cool about it though I think is that um you can basically sell different ticket types so you can sell a one-on-one ticket or you can sell a group ticket and then you know like our whole thing is helping people monetize right yes yeah yeah so we're like working with some creators and a network of creators and so um you know they can't meet their fans right now so they can do like a virtual meet and greet and so they can actually then bring their fans in one at a time got you be on stage with them and have a convo with them basically uh-huh cool it's just kind of like this but you can charge this right right right yeah your thing is kind of like a clubhouse I stumbled into one the other night and didn't realize that oh wow I want stage all of a sudden it up that was not ready for that well I didn't add everyone overzealously into the stage environment but yeah it's like clubhouse and like a stream yard or restream and a patreon all rolled up into one thing basically cool stuff no problem Kali she says thanks for the feedback because she asked for some feedback on a website so I'm glad it was helpful but this is a bit small she post that somewhere I remember her talking about in the meeting but I don't remember I didn't ever saw a link she asked if anybody would like to help and just email her if they would so if you were if you reach out to it she'll let I'm sure send you the link to have a look at it let me just make this a little bit bigger it looks a bit small to me what your comment yeah I understand that's what you want yeah this is my perfectionist nature kicking in I am almost wishing I did stop at 99 to be honest just to have that well it's almost perfect well you want to plug on this and just don't do it yeah yeah take it down take it down and delete it yeah yeah give yourself a day to break the chain and then you can just like come back on Sunday and say well you didn't make it oh that's it so you guys do in elevators and just skip the hundred episode and just go to 101 yeah yeah yeah oh like the 13th floor yeah that's pretty yeah there's no 13th floor right is that really is that a thing they don't is that a thing is it really really cool I mean I don't know that I agree it's a useful thing but no no well that's what yeah yeah they skip them some rows often all right right got you yeah you have no no what's the sum you say today I figured out a new e-cam trick if you use e-cam profiles if you make a new one the comments will not be the same so means you can have a show with alright okay so that's that makes sense if it saves it between profiles if you're on the new beta oh isn't that amazing by the way the new beta it's the new e-cam beta is amazing that's what I'm just using that all the time now I'm not using the other one that was another thing that I wasn't testing on my on my old Mac is I didn't want to be a beta tester on basically a 2013 MacBook Pro I didn't think it was quite fair so but now that I'm on the Mac Minio I'm all in on the beta yeah I'll put in a little bit as a betas are pretty solid too right I mean I've used I haven't used it for real but I've used it playing around with it yeah it's like you expected to be mine a little niggle so I noticed there was something about the virtual camera like if I stopped I was on when I was in fact it was when I was on the zoom calls and then I came off it and then I went into something else and it just didn't work so just rebooted it and it came back again but yeah it's it's pretty pretty pretty solid really yeah the beta is pretty good I would say yeah your green screen buttons it's got what sorry your check marks the screen share thing that we oh sorry yes yes yeah that was a bit of a weird one yeah so it was copying over almost like the green screen effect to screen sharing for some reason but yeah it's great that we got that little community that you can go and put in things like my forgeans mode feature request we'll see if that was awesome that was pretty funny I didn't see that that was a cracker and I thought you were gonna do it I wanna in a mode too but I don't guess you got that problem yeah no no we're just making fun of the all of the Anna connotation so animation yeah it's been pretty pretty pretty solid really the beta I don't know how long it's gonna take for these things to come through but I mean there's so many things in there that were like things that I'd be this month though or like they're very close there's actually more things they just this stuff was I think that stuff they thought was pretty stable and they wanted sort of some eyeballs on right right yeah so what do you think that's gonna be like a main release it to the like the public version then soon or or you mean they've just got more things to I think it's gonna push soon yeah cool like probably like a Labor Day or you know early September yeah what do you guys like best out of the new stuff it's there profiles to me killer I'm I'm big on the overlay cropping window sharing indie I think yeah yeah this the screen sharing and cropping is is a big one but they're all they're all great they're all like killer features that so many people had asked for and there's like something there that I didn't even know I wanted like yeah I have a question on that yeah you've done screen sharing where you have like a bunch of tabs open say right yep have you cropped just the tabs out so it looks like just a browser but then you can still switch sit ups I did that yesterday on the video yeah yeah okay it's cool yeah he had tabs I'm like why don't you hide that right like you just crop that out no yeah yeah yeah it's it's just it that's another thing actually that seems to be I've noticed a little bit of a bug I don't know if it's just me or not but when I'm sharing full screen there's something happening where it's almost like it's cropping off the edge of the you know what I think I've just figured out what it is it will be the same thing as so that issue that I had with where it was applying green screen to the desktop the screen sharing rather so anything that was green on the screen it would show my desktop image through instead but also when I did pan and move on the camera it was also panning the desktop and what I was just about to say was it was a bit of a weird issue where my desktop image when I had did full desktop was almost like it was cropped slightly but what it is is it's just basically mimicking whatever you've got on your main camera it's mimicking that onto the screen sharing so because I'd zoomed in my camera slightly it actually zoomed in the desktop and then there was no way for me to expand it by using the crop feature because it was actually yeah right right that'll be that'll be what that is yeah but that's they're all they're all great features aren't they I do like the profiles because I have got like basically this sort of four or five different use cases that I've got for e-count so having all those those profiles are good because duck always used to say oh well the way to do it is to just save everything put it all into a folder and drag it out so you've got it backed up and then when you need to use it again you just drag it back in to the scenes the only problem with that is the stream deck loses all of its connections if you do that if you just drag out the folder and and take them out so you've only got you know scenes for one particular show if you drag in the scenes from another show back into the scenes window stream decks forgotten all of the connections so whereas with profiles it just works as it should so yeah yeah I think the thing that I was the reason I liked it actually because we do two shows like on Wednesday and Friday and we have a third one coming that was one part just separating that stuff but also for shorts previously it didn't remember the aspect ratio right so like you'll get all cock-eyed like if you changed it to try to do like you know you could be in like one of your other scenes that didn't fit inside of that aspect ratio and it would freak you out because everything would go in the wrong place yeah it's nice to just make one where you know you're doing vertical and all the other stuff as well yeah yeah that's cool and cool that you can actually now package them up as well so you can export a profile and it just saves all of that stuff so it's a great way to like back it up or if you want to I don't know if people are actually making whole setups for people like as digital products you know to say this is an entire show full of all the the sound the overlays and all that sort of stuff and then to be able to just package it all up and send it over to someone it's pretty pretty cool isn't it yeah or throw it on a backup machine in case you have a problem in case your machine fries I mean you have it all on another have another computer on this other side of the room yeah I think it would be people selling selling them for sure though oh yeah well I mean Bradley Vincent does his overlays and there's for getting the name now at least yeah he does his overlay packs and stuff like that well to be able to do them as like a complete setup is it's pretty pretty cool I'm tempted to do a few of those myself that's one of the things that I've sort of monetized is putting up little icon packs on my on my website and I'm not charging a huge amount for them I don't intend that to be like a revenue stream but it's something that has actually just paid for the the the square space you know to pay for the site so selling little there's a couple of two dollar icon packs for stream deck and another one that's $15 is it something like that excuse me and so yeah just having something like that on the site just helps to you know keep the site self sufficient sort of thing so I have thought about doing a few overlay packs and stuff so it'd be a good way to to do those saying here we should organize a Southeast Asia ECAM event I thought that I was the only person in Thailand doing that ECAM life but I was obviously of course there's going to be people and I noticed that there was somebody when I did the the family dinner last month was it one of the other guys on that was from from Thailand who does a it's like a Christian broadcast channel in Thailand and then I noticed just this week there's been two other people that have got Thai language shows that they're doing in using ECAM and one of them is actually like it's a TV station so it's it one of the TV shows they've started doing this live that they're using ECAM for so far away those people from you and they'll probably be in Bangkok to be honest so I'm kind of like 800 kilometers north and yet we've got someone here in Vietnam challenge ITV so yeah there's quite a few people in this sort of this sort of geographic region though using ECAM so yeah be good to I sort of jokingly said when everyone when they mentioned in the ECAM group about having the meetup you know that the next one should be over here but I said it's jokingly thinking there weren't many people over here but probably got a few to get something together and are you going to any of the events are you going to what's what's it called the one in them what's the what's the big meetup coming rich I forgot the name of it now there's one in all there's one in Albany called video in October that's the one yeah yeah I have not I have not booked that one there's another one called video marketing I did it you say what VidCon got cancer Mike guess Mike I'm thinking they may cancel the other one too already and now VidCon is in California I think yeah yeah yeah I don't know what they're gonna do there's another one called video marketing world that it's here in Dallas right in my town so I don't know I don't know I didn't see how much it was but it run by a guy that lives here Scott Simpson is his name S. I. M. S. O. N. I think it's his name he was on Doc show where you're speaking at that one I don't know who's speaking at it in fact I went to their site and they didn't have any speakers announced yet but that's supposed to be in October as well the end of October so I don't know but I don't know what's actually gonna happen in life once I actually do it the only thing I know I'm going to for sure is leap into live which is next month and it's online definitely yeah I'm doing that one for sure anybody who's not doing that is is crazy okay I haven't done it before no I didn't I don't know and I'm sure a lot of it will be repetitive I mean we hear doc preach his message yeah all the time and it's gonna be more the same and it's fine with me I mean I could listen to him forever me put him on repeat it's like a record just play it over and over and over it's fine yeah there's all there's gonna be a lot of new new people that are that I haven't heard before so it'll be fun there is definitely far more than $20 worth of content absolutely unbelievable yeah be justing to know the numbers like how many people actually do sign up for it because yeah it's a is a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned and that's smart too it's not $200 so it's not prohibitive but it is something so you if you pay for it you're gonna go as opposed to yeah yeah for free and then not going at all so if you have some skin in the game I think it makes it more important so I think that's really smart on their part Michael is saying he's been out of touch and what is leaping to live well check this out I've also got a scene for it so if you're gonna play doc's commercial oh do you know what that's what I need to do is I need to get that up yeah so it's basically 13th to the 17th of September going to leap into dot live and it's the it's organized by e-cam live the leap into live boot camp and it's basically got all these speakers so all the people that you already know from the community and a few others that maybe you don't know but all talking about stuff related to content creation and yeah five days $20 there is a discount code as well isn't there where you can get 30% off unbelievably so if it's too much but yeah it's just gonna be amazing a whole week of content and there's a special Facebook group for it as well so we can all chat about stuff in there as well so yeah it's it's awesome so that's what that is on the job with that button that's cool I love that yeah yeah I do need to get doc's video though I'll have to where can I grab that from you know I'll ask him for it he'll send it to me I'm sure that you can find it doc rocked out live probably that's probably where I'll find it in it yeah I'll do youtube.com slash doc rock just download it how do you do it yeah he'll probably send you the real one though yeah yeah yeah yeah well do you know something else I've been doing since I've got the mini is I've been doing my videos in 4k and streaming in 4k in fact have I switched that off today but the thing is my Canon is still only over USB so it's still technically taking a 720p signal into the thing but he came up scales it so he used to upscale it to HD obviously and then now it's technically I suppose upscaling it to 4k but I just figured that I don't know whether this is right or not but if it scaled up like that and then when as most people watch it on the mobile when it scale back down again I've heard that that can it can look better even though they're still watching it on technically the same screen so your YouTube stream right now goes up to 1440 all right I don't think I've ever seen a 4k video on YouTube maybe I haven't I just didn't know it but yeah it's I'm more thinking it so the recording will be what that will be the maximum that it streamed that won't it I guess so I suppose yeah yeah but my the recorded videos I do though I'll just post it as they like 4k when as they come out oh you just upload a 4k file to YouTube yeah so but but this one yeah we'll just be the maximum whatever it's allowing to go out basically but so 1440 though that's that's before I always used to only stream at 1080 so that would be the limit because that's what I was streaming at whereas now if it's 1440 then it's confirmed 1440 hello tech in the city so yes it's a bit high resolution than before as I say though my camera is still only coming in at 720 so it's not gonna make a huge difference and what about once you get to dividing it's it doesn't matter right like so it's like actually okay like zoom does that automatically if you have like more than like two people it doesn't take more than 720 per feed yeah I bet you interview mode doesn't come in higher than 720 also right and you can still compose it at whatever size you want yeah yeah and what about zealous how does that handle what's how what can that handle with them I suppose it's feeding up to the other we've gotten 720 to work at 30 frames a second but we've only gotten to about I think right now 25 frames per second at 1080p right so the way zealous work is when you create a stream we actually create an instance in the cloud to actually stream through so like a dedicated machine and so we just it's just more spending a little more time to spin up a standalone machine with a GPU in it so that we can actually render faster right that's the main thing like right now in ecamm we get the benefit locally of you doing all the graphics but in zealous we're actually composing it on that little server that's running for stream cut yeah yeah yeah that was a by the way every time you were on my stream before everyone would say oh Greg's a bit laggy like the the syncing was out I'm sure that was all my computer because it was always when you were the third person in and reintegrate that right into your on your computer right before pushing and doc said something about you basically need a core for every guest like anecdotally is there's no there's no tech behind that but just anecdotally so if I was on like a four core Mac and it was two for the two as a base for ecamm and then one for each other person and then if you've got stuff running as well on the computer then it was always like when you were added in afterwards like with Eileen for example then there was a real sync issue with you but as soon as she dropped out and you moved on then it solved the problem so I was like that was it that was it all along it was it wasn't you it was me that that makes sense that makes sense yeah yeah the benefit of the cloud-based things right like you know melin and restream and whatnot is you don't have to actually pull all of it in to reassemble it right yeah so but you get limitations in what you can put together yeah yeah so what else have you got planned for the week ahead I got a big right bike ride in the morning 60 60 miles oh cool cool wow that's awesome I got I got the phone I just got a ride to put up so have a good time congrats on cool cool thank you very much catch you later bye bye bye so how was your day off by the way yeah I didn't do much just spent it with the kids it was it was good yeah sounds like a win yeah good to have a couple of days off the off the screens yeah yeah I can imagine it you know it's exhausting right uh-huh yeah so I just gonna spend spend the next week just sort of planning exactly what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make a few videos like around this sort of whole hundred thing and like I say the sort of wrap up of the stats on Monday and then I'll do what about the sort of revenue and way to ways to monetize because I think that's something that a lot of people think you know they have this target of the thousand subscribers and 4,000 watch hours because of this monetization and then you know I don't have not got there myself but I'm sure it's gonna be a very big disappointment when I reach it to see the the pennies that trickle in from it so so yeah I want to sort of focus on like ways that people couldn't because I think everyone's got ways that they can monetize what they're doing in some way or another you know like like I say I did my streamdeck icons that I just using myself so you know throwing those up on a website or something like that is it's pretty easy easy to do so did you um do you think you always set a new goal like try to go bigger yeah I am I am still thinking I haven't made the final decision yet but I am still thinking of 365 days 365 vids in a year basically so just carry on at this this sort of pace but that wouldn't technically be going bigger would it because it'd be just doing the same thing as I've been doing so I'm not sure but I do want to I do want to get on to the other platforms and that and like my Instagram is pretty not not at all consistent with what I would do if I was doing it for someone else you know it's a bit random I do want to do a bit more of the the sort of short video format so the stuff obviously on tiktok and stuff like that but I don't know I'm just not really I don't know I didn't really feel it that much the thing is I did started a podcast when I started this which was supposed to be it was very unimaginably titled my YouTube journey and it was supposed to be tracking like what happens what like to accompany the channel in terms of like the development of it and how it's grown over time for people who are starting out on YouTube I did three three episodes of that and then stopped so you know people see my YouTube channel and see like always getting getting all of his goals accomplished and like hitting his targets and that but it doesn't mean I'm like that in everything the stuff that I'm letting fall by the wayside like my podcast and I don't know there's something about that where usually with me if I'm not doing something there's some sort of friction in there that is holding me back from doing it and I think initially with the podcast I think what it was is I felt like that that needed to be this perfectionist thing in me came in and that because it is purely audio and there's no video it was 100% like audio so I felt like that that needed to be so more perfect and I did use discreet to take out like the Ums and Urrs and stuff like that but that then added an extra level into the workflow that added that friction back in so I'm not sure I'm just gonna have to think about how to redo that I think I'll probably just do it as a video and then take out the audio for the for the sort of podcast audio podcast side of stuff but need to just have a bit yeah I wanted to do a podcast also for our show and it it was just it's so much work that's it that's the friction that I have in general it's so much work right like it's like the thumbnails and I for our show it's like news so it's like you know we're interviewing we're always interviewing someone or we're covering the news right so like Friday morning we do the news for an hour so you know we're like we have to read a bunch of stuff and then like write up like the news basically oh I forgot to publish all right right so there's just like all this work like every week I have to start a new doc and capture all this stuff and then we're tweeting it out throughout the week and then it adds up it's just a lot of time like while being an entrepreneur and still trying to do this you know like my actual work and my consulting clients and you know otherhood all the other thing and training all the things going on at the same time it's a lot of work like and so we wanted to do a podcast originally also and originally my thought was like oh I just pull the audio off of the live stream and just check it out there as you know but then I was like that's garbage I know like that that's not the way you should do it right like so now to have the script though I feel like it's possible maybe you know because like the simple things like the thumbs and Oz like just pulling all that stuff out yeah really awesome also getting then you can like you've used it right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just so brilliant just be able to copy paste some words and like turn that into a media file is like what like it's just mind-blowing right like what you're doing so I do think there's a way to maybe get to it now like but yeah it's so much work with the volume you like it would be a lot of podcasts yeah well so I wasn't gonna do it with all of them I was it my the podcast was basically just like a thing in parallel about the whole process of growing the channel so it wouldn't be a podcast of all the sort of tech tutorials and stuff because that didn't translate but yeah and it was it was it was a separate thing in parallel of right this is week one this is what's happened this week you know this is week two and so on and it was supposed to be for yeah people are on this sort of journey themselves really but so then I thought of doing it as a video but I thought well that that wouldn't really fit as a video on to my normal channel so where would I post that video if I was gonna do it as a video and then strip the audio out where would I post it because you won't want people who are expecting tech tutorials and then me coming on and talking about something tangential although I suppose that's sort of what these these live streams are I suppose really yeah but that's the thing is like the direction of these live streams as well what do I want to do with I like I like doing a weekly live stream to sort of you know for the the practice of it and stuff like that but it's a case of what content to do in these and like where to sort of take this I suppose as well you know I like these live streams also because I think they're a good reflection point on the content you put out for the week yeah yeah and the other things you learned from other creators in the process yeah you know like in the week like so I think that that's been valuable cool like that's I enjoy I appreciate that yeah yeah you know I think it that's that's some of the the part to learn about the week that passed right maybe this is where you get your podcast content right yeah yeah you can snip out some parts from here that are interesting or you know something like that do you know what you might have just solved the whole question for me maybe I'll just make a podcast of the live stream and trim out some bits and do something like that that might be that might be the way forward to reduce the friction because it's something I'm doing anyway yeah well you know then you can just say great you know this week I posted these things and yeah yeah you know this day and you know you're talking about the stats no other stuff so I think it it would make for you know good content right like I think that's the podcast right like you know and then just don't let it don't let all the jokers like us and until after you got through the main stuff it's no fun when I'm talking on my own so well before your podcast like what's good about it is you could do you know your first 10 minutes yeah yeah here and then bring your guests in and then maybe there's some good nuggets you know guests as well you know kind of after the fact you could be some bonus stuff or maybe some questions right like yeah yeah you them up oh I just have three questions that you ask any guests it comes on like you know yeah did you catch any of the pieces week right would you think oh okay great now you can weave it together into your into your story yeah yeah you've got me thinking now I think that sounds like a plan thank you for that the the commission checks in the post bet your vet well I five o'clock here I'm gonna go now myself yeah it's nearly time for my little boy to wake up so yeah yeah good as usual my mind is upstairs on job so oh cool yeah yeah yeah great week I'll chat with you soon catch you cheers bye bye well another nice little chat and thank you for everyone who joined in and is watching at home I just missed this little comment I forgot to I forgot to comment on the comment I was too busy chatting so sorry about that waiting for the next Mac mini so I got this Mac mini I've been waiting for quite a few years now for a new 16-inch MacBook Pro and I knew that they would be bringing one out at some point and when they announced the the other M series max last year I was thinking any day now there's going to be the 16 inch and then they bought out the Mac mini and the MacBook Air and the 13 inch MacBook Pro and they haven't done the 16 inch so I was waiting and waiting and waiting for that and then it just got to the point where in fact it was probably the thing that pushed me over the edge was when Greg was on the stream with with Eileen three weeks ago something like that and it was really laggy and I use I start menus I'm going to do a video all about that one actually as well but I start menus basically just has all of your sort of system performance metrics and stuff like that in the menu bar and every time I'm doing something with e-cam live on my ancient MacBook it was always you know 90% processor usage and all these sorts of things so it was getting pretty close and it just got to the point where it was just too slow so I thought well rather than waiting let me just get the Mac mini and it will keep me going and the other thing was the reason why I always wanted the I used the 15 inch MacBook for however many years have been using that and so it's this mobility thing so that's why I wanted the new MacBook Pro the 16 inch it was because I obviously need to be mobile don't I well the fact is this MacBook has been sitting on my desk not moving at all for well 18 months something like that so I think I've I've gone on one trick where I needed to take it with me but apart from that I've been just basically static at home as a lot of people have so I thought well really the Mac mini is probably going to be fine interestingly though I say interestingly it might not be interesting to everybody but when I when I came to start moving things around on my desk and you know sorting out the MacBook so my MacBook had been propped up on about this little stand that sort of elevates it in the screens over to the side and then when I came to lift it off to start clearing things out for on my desk I couldn't actually shut the top of the MacBook and the the whole body of the MacBook was bulging out and basically what happened is I don't know if you can see but this is the battery and it's supposed to be basically as thin as this little part here but it had bulged out to like four or five times it's original it's original size so pretty scary really that a I didn't notice it and be that that happened but I hadn't had the battery service since I bought the MacBook so what's that seven years or something like that so anyway I managed to order another one and I've replaced the battery on it now so that should help a lot that was probably part of the reason for some of the performance issues I was having as well I would imagine but yeah pretty shocking that I didn't even notice it and as I unscrewed the back of the MacBook the little screws just like pinged off because of the pressure inside so yeah pretty scary I've just got to figure out exactly what to do with that battery now and how to dispose of it yeah so I couldn't actually believe that I'd gone seven years without changing the battery because it's something in my the the computers that I've had before the MacBook I had before that the 13 inch I've changed that battery a couple of times so so yeah I couldn't believe that I had actually done it and it's it's this was the first year of the MacBook pros where they have the the sort of bonded battery into the bottom the telltale sign was that the touchpad start working yes that exit that happened with this as well and I didn't really notice it so much because I would I was just using it on my desktop so I got my my mouse here but yeah it did it wasn't it you couldn't press it or anything but it's really really shocking I'm gonna post a video I think I'm a little picture on my blog blog because it was really really bulging out there was literally like you know a centimeter gap or something when I tried to shut the the case pretty shocking so yeah I've just got to figure out what to do with this battery though now because in the UK there are places where you can go and dispose of of batteries securely but I have to figure out where to do it I might just pop it in the post and send it down to the Apple Store in Bangkok I'm quite far away from there but yeah I have a late 2013 fifth that is this is the exact one that I've got so yeah that is my model as well a late 2015 15 15 inch 16 gigabyte 1 terabyte SSD that is the exact same model that that I've got so and you've replaced your battery twice and I hadn't yeah I think a lot of people's laptops have been desktop so but it wasn't it wasn't bulging out before before covid because everything was fine on it then but yeah just when I came to clear it away I wonder if that's part of the problem actually I wonder if that has perhaps had some impact on the the battery that where it's just constantly plugged in and there's no cycling of it perhaps that might have been some reason that caused it to to swell up like that heat I guess Hawaii heat yeah well it's pretty hot here in Thailand as well and it's pretty humid as well although not so much down where I am here I'm in my little basement but yeah the yeah so here's another thing about the humidity if I've got anything that's got like a rubber rubberized coating on it so what an example of this would be well my mouse would be one but like these this little clicker so this from Logitech has got a little rubberized coating and in this climate after you've had them for about maybe a year 18 months maybe two years something like that the rubber just goes really sticky like it's literally you can like rub it off and so things like that also it's happening on my camera so in fact specifically on the the camera yeah gooey gooey paint yeah so my Canon camera on the lens where it's got the slight rubberized thing to it maybe it's a poor quality lens I don't know if it is the kit lens after all so perhaps that's it but yeah things go like really sticky now you can sort of get it off but it's just something that I'd never experienced before in the UK where we don't have the same humidity as we've got here but it's this yeah this this rubberized thing goes goes a bit sticky after a while so anyway that's a bit of a digression right well I think I'm going to call it a day today because it's 6 a.m. here 10 minutes past 6 in the in here in Thailand so I'm going to go and my little my son is normally the first to wake up so I'll go and have a little play with him until until everyone else wakes up it seems that the older they get the later they get up so my nine-year-old daughter is always the last to wake up but Dale my little boy is is always first out of bed wanting to play with his little toy so thank you again for everyone for popping by and saying hello and yeah I shall see you all I'll see you all on the live stream next week and I'll probably see you all in some office hours at the weekend for those who are going to be there tomorrow morning and I yeah so so that's I used them some sort of alcohol to to get the stuff off that worked these questions Michael asks did you come across any other programs the Mac mini needed a wired mouse and keyboard in order to fully install them no it was only that one which one was it now I'm forgetting and I'm glad you mentioned it because I know Michael you sent me a message telling me that I would need a wired mouse for for to install what was it wasn't pro mouse it was one of the other ones I remember now there's one application where when you go through the install process you needed to boot into basically safe mode and granted access I'm forgetting I'm forgetting what the app was but there we go so I'll see yeah I'll see you Michael and some other people in office hours tomorrow and for now have a great day I'll go to my usual end screen I still need to get some sort of proper outro I think for my my live streams whoops that's the wrong one look at this ever the professional I'll I'll leave you with my normal outro screen and wish everybody a fantastic day and I'll see you all again soon