 In this video, I'll be showing you how you can use ECAM Live with Microsoft Teams. I'll be showing you the basic steps that you need to take to enable this to be possible, but then also having a look at some of the advanced settings that you may want to just check to make sure you are getting the absolute best quality sound and audio within Teams for you and your participants. And then we'll have a look at, whilst you are in a meeting, some of the settings that you may want to check there so that you're having the best experience as well as your meeting participants, especially if you are going to be giving presentations and things like that. So let's dive into it. This is going to be using the ECAM Live virtual mic and virtual camera features, which are part of the pro plan, I should just say. Let's come over to ECAM Live in Live demo mode. And then what I'm going to do is just come up to the output menu. And then from the output menu, we have the virtual cam and virtual mic. So just make sure that those are both toggled on. If you've never used them before, you will see a little thing that says install virtual cam and install virtual mic. Just go ahead and do that. It will prompt you for your system password. So just pop in your password and then it'll take a couple of seconds and you'll be good to go. Basically, what these two features are doing is they are taking, in the case of the virtual camera, it's taking all of your ECAM feed, the output, the production that is going out, just like you're seeing from me now. It's taking that all and then it is presenting it to your computer as if it was a camera source. So then when you're in other apps, you can just go and select that as the camera. And so you're taking all of the production value of ECAM Live with all the different screen sharing options, all that sort of stuff. It's taking that all into the application of your choice. In this case, Teams, obviously. Now the virtual mic is something that was added in ECAM Live version 3.10 and that does for audio what the camera did for the video feed. So basically, it allows you to take all of the audio out of ECAM Live, including your mic, but also any sound effects, movie scenes and things like that that you've got with audio. It then feeds that into the particular application by presenting it to the computer as if it was a microphone. And so then you can just simply select that in the app of your choice. So I've basically now just told you how to do it. Let me show you how to do it, shall I? There's an idea for a tutorial. So let me come over to here now that you understand what those two things are. I'm in Microsoft Teams. And if you come up to your little avatar in the top corner, click on the little three buttons here for settings. So we're going to click on those just in this top corner and then come down to the settings here, click on settings. And then within settings, we've got a number of different things. We've got general accounts, privacy notifications, and then this one here, devices with a picture of a little headphones and microphone headset. So click on that one. And now we, at the top of this list, we've got audio devices. So the first thing here is the audio devices and speaker and microphone. So we just want to come down to this microphone, actually. I want to leave the speaker as it is. But if I just click on here, then we've got a whole list of different potential things we can use. But what we're looking for here is the Ecamm Live virtual mic. It's this one. So we're just going to come and select that. So now that is now taking the audio from Ecamm Live and that is all just feeding into here. If you want to test that, you can actually just make a test call. You've got an option here, though, to automatically adjust mic sensitivity. That's going to mean that it is then taking control over your audio settings. Now, you may be in two minds about this or maybe you haven't thought about it, but basically, if you are paying a little bit of care and attention to your audio as all fine folks at Ecamm Live do or Ecamm Live users do, I should say, then you may not want them to teams to be actually managing your audio for you. You may want to just do this yourself. And so you could here just think about disabling that one because you're going to be in control and watching your levels and things like that. And so you want to control that yourself. Bearing in mind that as with Zoom, teams is just trying to account for every possibility. And so you could have people joining teams calls where they're using their built-in mic on their laptop. They've got their laptop fans running. Maybe they're in a noisy environment and all those sorts of things. So they're assuming that you're not taking care of these things, but as I say, as an Ecamm Live user, I'm sure you are taking some care over this. Next one is noise suppression. Now, this one might be on by default. I have already switched it off, but that is going to try and block out any background noise. Again, you may or may not want this one on. It just depends if you, you know, the environment that you're working in. I prefer to just have all of these sort of audio processing things within teams. I prefer to have them all off so that I can be in control of these things. Next one is high fidelity music mode. And this one will be off by default, but you may want to toggle that one on. That's going to give you the absolute best quality or it will present the, sorry, it will deliver the best quality audio from you over teams. So even though you might not be playing your piano or guitar or something like that on the call, this is basically just going to enable this higher quality audio. And so once again, if you are, you know, investing in your audio setup and you are putting some care and attention into it, then for me, it makes sense to actually maximize the quality that you're getting over teams. So just enabling this high fidelity music mode might be something that you want to consider. Bear in mind, there's a similar thing with Zoom that you can do for this as well, called Original Sound, made a video about that. I'll leave a link to my Zoom video in the description as well. But the thing about this is it will potentially use higher bandwidth and things like that. So that is always a slight concern. You do just want to make sure that you are aware of that. Next is enable echo cancellation. So I'm hoping that you're being a good e-cam user and you've got some form of headphones in, and so you won't necessarily need to worry about the echo cancellation. But also bear in mind, even if you are using some form of speakers, then if you are using the e-cam live virtual mic, then you may well be using the echo cancellation that's built into e-cam. So once again, even if you're not using headphones, then you may just want to leave it off here and just have it all controlled within e-cam if you're using the e-cam live virtual mic. So that is the audio settings that you may want to have a look at. Next, we've got the camera and all you're going to do here is just come and drop down to the e-cam live virtual cam. And this is perhaps going to, it's taken the last shot out of e-cam actually. I'm looking quite grumpy there, aren't I? There we go. Very pensive. I don't know what I was thinking there. But yeah, you can select the e-cam live virtual camera and now that's going to basically bring your camera feed in. Now, there is a thing about Zoom if you have used e-cam live with Zoom and you have maybe heard about the question of, how do you get the best resolution out of Zoom and Zoom sometimes downscales things if you're using the virtual camera, what are the ways around that? There's lots of different videos that I've got done on my channel specifically about this. You don't have to worry about that so much with Teams because the streaming resolution of it is higher, typically 1920 by 1080 and also the frame rate is high whether you are screen sharing or not. So sometimes Zoom will drop down the frame rate when you are doing screen sharing but then it will increase the resolution but then on the other hand, if you're just using the camera then it will downscale the resolution but upscale the frame rate or rather maintain the frame rate I should say. So with Zoom there's a bit of a juggling act that goes on whereas with Teams it is just generally higher resolution and higher frame rate off the bat. So you can just take your virtual cam from Ecam directly into Teams without necessarily worrying about it. Now all of these things that I've talked about here are actually things that I've talked about and covered in depth, in greater depth in the Ecam Live Masterclass. Now this is basically an online resource covering everything from beginner through to advanced using Ecam Live but also covering things like using it with Teams, using it with Zoom and then also how to use it for giving more engaging presentations that you will then potentially be feeding into your meetings. So I cover things like working with PowerPoint and Keynote to make those sort of work hand in hand with Ecam Live. Without it just being a case of you on one side talking to some slides on the other side of the screen really making it a part of the presentation. I also cover everything that you might be thinking about using with Ecam Live so the software in there like Speedify, Tripmode all of these sorts of things that work hand in hand with Ecam and then not to mention of course, how could I forget? Stream Deck and Loop Deck. There's a whole series of videos in there about that. And the great thing about the Ecam Live Masterclass is that it's always up to date with the latest versions of Ecam Live. So as a new version comes out with new features and things like that this will be continually updated and you can get immediate access and lifetime access by going to EcamLiveMasterclass.com. There are over $150 worth of bonuses included and the cost of the lifetime access is $147 so you're basically $3 up already. So head over to EcamLiveMasterclass.com to find out more about that. Now, once you are in your team's meeting and you have got your Ecam Live virtual camera going into Teams then there are a couple of things that I want to show you in terms of how you might want to set up your actual meeting to make sure that everyone can see your presentation clearly. So I'm going to come over to a meeting that I've got prepared and here it is in full flow with all of my many attendees. Now, what I want you to just imagine for a moment, if you will, picture the scene. In this black space here within this meeting I want you to just imagine for a moment that Ecam Live is actually running and all of the feed of Ecam is going into there. The reason why I'm not doing this is because I'm just running it on one computer and otherwise we would get this sort of whole tunnel vision of it going to infinity as it was replaying what I'm trying to demonstrate to you. When you are using this, you won't have such issues. This is just purely a function of the fact that I am recording what I'm doing with a virtual camera that is then going into Teams and so it would create this sort of endless loop. So for the time being, just imagine that your pretty face was in this box rather than mine. So this is where you would see obviously your view. Now, if you'd got lots of different participants I'm sure you know what our team's meeting looks like. You would have the different squares of all the different people that were in the meeting. Now, if you are going to be doing a presentation if you are just in a general meeting and you're just using it for your main camera then that's one thing. But if you are going to be doing something where you're going to be doing a presentation or maybe you want to demonstrate something on screen much as I'm doing now and do a sort of screen sharing of a document or something like that that you're working on whatever your use case is. Then you're going to want to make this large for the participants that are on your meeting. And normally you would do a screen share and so then that would just take over the screen for the participant. But actually we don't need to do this if you are in a meeting and you want to just do it with Ecamm Live. What we can do is rather than come into here and go to share screen, what we can actually do is we can come down here to these three little dots, click on the three little dots and you've got some options. So first of all, switch camera, we're not going to do that. Pin your image and then there's this one down at the bottom, hide for me and this next one is spotlight for everyone. Now that if you're running the meeting and you want to give a presentation and you're doing it all through Ecamm, that's the easiest and quickest way to just make yourself full screen for everybody. So you click on full screen for everyone, spotlight for everyone rather. And now your whole screen, your whole Ecamm output including whether you happen to be in this view or whether you happen to be in your screen sharing or your presentation or whatever it was would now be full screen for everyone or at least taking over the window for them. So then you would actually be able to see in here exactly what they were seeing because it's spotlighting them. What you may want to do though is you may want to actually hide it from yourself because you can obviously see it in your Ecamm window and just so that you can actually see all of the other people in the meeting and see their reactions to your presentation. So what you may want to do then is actually come down to this button again having done the spotlight for everyone. If you click on hide for me, then what you'll see now is that this is saying invite people to join. But what you would see on your side is you would see all of your meeting participants in here but what they are seeing is they are seeing your full screen or sort of spotlighted presentation. If ever you want to get back to your main presentation you can just click here in this little arrow down at the bottom, click that one and it will bring your thing back up again and then you can come down here at any time and just do exit spotlight. There is another way that you can do that and then just confirm. There is another way that you can do that though and it says you are no longer spotlighted. There is another way you can do that which is from the show participants and so you can also do this from in this meeting you can come over here and you can click on the three dots and you can do exactly the same there. So you can either do it from the three dots down here or you can do it from the three dots in the participant list. And so that is a way that I would recommend working with Ecom Live Virtual Cam into Teams. It is actually a little bit more simple and straightforward than working with Zoom but I will leave a link to the Zoom video that I've done on a similar topic down below and in fact I'll leave a link to my Ecom Live playlist with loads of great Ecom Live content so that you can get stuck into that and I'll see you in that video soon.