 In this video, I'm going to tell you how to get better control over your audio levels in Ecam Live. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech. My name's Alec. In this video, we're going to be talking about basically some fine adjustment that you can do with audio levels in Ecam Live. This came about because I sort of made a little discovery myself. Not that I'm the first. I mean, it's in the software, but something I hadn't realised. I sort of noticed this about a week ago, something like that, and thought I was the only one who didn't even know about it. But then it was mentioned in a group just today. In fact, that somebody else had a question about it. And so I just mentioned that I'd found this thing and they didn't know. And then somebody else commented that they didn't know about it either. So I thought I'd just make a little video just in case there was anybody else who might find this useful. So let me just go into demo mode. This is going to be a pretty short video, really, but I hope it's useful to some of you. So I've got my Ecam Live and I've got my sound levels window over here. And I've also got my sound effects window. Now, anything that you've got in your sound effects, so things like music and sound effects, they are controlled by this sound effects volume slider here. So you can see at the moment, because I'm speaking, my microphone here input is bouncing up and down. So that's obviously picking my voice up. And then the next one down we have is movie volume. So if you've got movies in your scenes and things like that, then this is where you set the volume for that. And then as I say, sound effects covers anything that's in the sound effects panel. So that can be music or just sound effects. Then you've got system audio, which is obviously the audio that's coming through from your system. And then the interview mode. So that's controlling the volume of any guests that you've got on your interviews. So the thing that I want to talk about specifically is really this sound effects and the sound effects panel because the little epiphany that I had, the discovery that I had rather, I should say, is that you can actually control the volume of each of these items that you have in your sound effects panel. You can control those all individually. So why is this important? Well, for example, if I've got some background music, let's say this. That's a little bit loud to talk over, isn't it? So let me stop it before it goes on too long. That is far too loud. So OK then, let's move the slider down for sound effects or something more reasonable. And now that's quite OK, isn't it? For a bit of background music. But what about if you've got a sound effect that you want to play, something like this? Well, you see, now that's not very loud, is it? So what we need to do with that is we need to move the slider back up again and then try it again. So there you go. We've got that sound effect there. So the problem is, well, it's not a problem because there is a solution that they've obviously thought about. But the thing about it is that you've got different volume levels. Well, the little thing is basically here, if you click on this cog wheel for each of these items, you can actually set the volume here. So this slider here is for the volume of that individual item. So now if I reset the volume of this particular item, so that is just this piece of music. Now that is still low and runs in the background. But this one that I've left that full volume, if I click that one. I didn't do something stupid. That one's still the same volume. The volume of my sound effect set to 100%. And then I can just adjust the volume of these individually. Incidentally, while we're in here, I have mentioned this in another video, but you can click on here and press loop. So if you want to loop something, you can loop it there. You can also add a hot key so that you can just trigger something by a hot key. You can do it automatically within stream deck as well, of course. But if you wanted to, if you're not a stream deck user, then you can just add a hot key. I don't know, some outro music or some sound effects. Then you can do that there. Also, if you want a piece of music to play automatically when you go into a particular scene, then you can just click on this and click add to scene. And then what you'll see is it appears up in the top corner. So that would mean that if I went to another scene, for example, say this one, and then went back to that first scene again, then the music just automatically fires up. So, and if you want to delete it, you could just click here and delete it from that scene. As I mentioned, you can just loop the music as well. But by the way, if you have got a folder, say you've got a series of background tracks, then you'll notice that on the background folder, there is a cogwheel next to that one as well. And you don't get the volume control globally for that particular folder. But what you do have is you have the hot key as well. So you can assign a hot key for this folder. And also you have the looping control. And you also have add to scene. So what that means is that if you've got a series of background tracks and you want that running in the background, you can actually add that whole folder to the scene. And then you can toggle on this looping one here. And that basically will then, every time you go to that scene, we'll start playing the music and we'll loop through all of the tracks that are in that folder and just keep looping round and round. So that is all I've got for today for this particular video at least. And it was just this little discovery that I had which I certainly made my day. I'm easily pleased that you can actually adjust levels on a track by track and sound effect by sound effect basis. If you found that useful, then leave a note down in the comments. And if you've got any other little nuggets of information like that because it's easy to miss some of these things. If you're like me, you haven't thoroughly read the instructions. I've got to confess a lot of the things that I learned to do, I learned by doing them. And sometimes I've not necessarily read thoroughly through the instructions. So I'm sure there are a few other little things out there that I haven't quite got my head around yet or noticed at least. So that is all for today. If you have found it useful then obviously, don't forget to like and subscribe. And in the meantime, I'm going to leave a link to some more great e-cam live videos over on the right hand side there. So until the next video, have a great day, everyone.