 How are you all doing? Don't know what happened in there, my camera just froze for a moment so I just unplugged it and plugged it back in again. Working again now. Hey Carly, how are you doing? Great to see you as always and Jeff as well. I can't stick your comments up because it came in. You were too trigger happy. It came in before I started but great to see you here as well Jeff. Hey Andreas, nice to see you too. Hello to the future indeed. We're in the future but we're behind on some things. We're behind on things like stream deck pedals for example but I'll chat about that a bit later as well. I hope you're all having a wonderful day wherever you are in the world. It's been quite a good week for me this week with YouTube. I felt like I was totally out of my flow for not just a month. I would say probably about three months so I feel like I'm just getting back into it this week. I've just got to keep the momentum up with that. So yes Jeff, I know you mentioned well done. The flow has started again. It has. I've just got to keep it going now. It's been a video a day this week. Technically I need to be doing one and a half videos a day to try to catch up with my backlog but hey it's a start isn't it? I'll give you my regular weekly update on my channel progress. At some point this is going to start getting old but I am just invited. That day may already have passed but I do just generally on my live streams give a little update on where I am towards my progress towards my 365 videos in a year goal and so I will be knocking this on the head on the 15th of May or 14th of May which is when my year is officially up. So it is at day 260 week 37 and I have done 196 videos. So the good news is I am no further behind this week because for the past as I say really three months every week I was falling further and further behind not quite getting my seven videos in in that week. So the good news is I haven't fallen any further behind but I also have made up any so I've got to catch up with that a little bit. But I have had the largest of jump forward in subscribers this week compared to any other previous week so normally it's sort of lately it's been around between 30 and 50 something like that and it was actually 83 this week so that was quite a jump forward and in fact it was took me six and a half months to get up to a thousand subscribers and then in the last month I've basically added on well 250 to that so the pace is definitely picking up again and thank you very much to all the lovely people who have subscribed it still boggles my mind that anybody watches to be honest with you but that's my little secret I've just told you all. So yeah it's been quite quite quite a good month really in terms of the sort of progress of the channel and the sort of rate of growth. I suppose it's no surprise really that this week I had better results because I was just posting consistently so I noticed when on the stats which I'll dig into in a moment as well as obviously the new viewers to the channel who are just maybe searching finding videos and things like that that I have made previously then of course people who are subscribed will have seen my videos this week some of them potentially at least and so it does make sense that this has been a bit of a better week. They have not gone back just yet but it's tomorrow so it's a very sad day that they've got to go but yeah it's been great having them here for two months and they could have stayed as long as they wanted as far as I'm concerned but it's quite long to be away from home and leaving the house in the UK they just want to get back and check that everything's all right and who knows perhaps we'll be heading over there in the summer if all is well in the world and travel restrictions are eased and it's easy to take a family on mass over there but yeah it's been great having them here and yeah so hopefully things will return fully to normal because it's been a bit difficult to be going to bed at my usual ridiculously early time because I do go to bed quite early you know around about half past six I'm thinking is this too early and then about seven o'clock I'm thinking right I'm cleaning out if I need to go to bed so but yeah with them being here obviously I'm not necessarily wanted to be going to bed so early spending some time with them so yes everything should be all completely back to normal as of next week in terms of my my scheduling I need my beauty sleep thanks Carly I appreciate that it does indeed how time flies I can't really believe in fact that it's gone so quick and it's already we're already into February now we're more or less so it does does indeed fly but let's have a little look shall we at my stats which is one of the things I normally do on my live streams and just have a little dig in I do like analytics I'm a bit of a stats geek so let's have a little look at here this is for the past 28 days if I just have a look at my lifetime which is always a nice graph to look at for me it's funny the way that it sort of like had these couple of places where it just sort of ramped up and then stayed pretty consistent all the way through here and then it had another bit of a jump up and these were usually triggered by some sort of video that I created where it caused this sort of step upwards so this was around about in fact they're all related to Elgato I've got to say so this was I think stream deck version 5 came out around about here was it or no this one was when the stream deck software version 5 came out with lots of different updates updates and I made a video about that and I had this all spike and then things picked up a little bit there this one actually was think was the ECAM beta one of the one of the beaters caused that spike and there was some other Elgato announcement around that time as well and then this spike is basically because of the Elgato foot pedals which I did a video about that and yeah it was had quite a good response compared to my other videos I say quite a good response compared to my other videos it was like over double or three times more what I normally get in fact let me just have a quick look at how that one's done because here you could see the views of my videos this is sort of pretty typical really if I after like a day of a video being up I've got 127 views something like that this one a couple a day earlier 200 views and this one from the day before that 196 so these are pretty sort of typical oh am I cutting those off the screen there we go that's a bit better isn't it these are pretty typical views for my videos but you can see the one with the stream that pedals was 508 just because it is a pretty sort of hot topic really having just been released and so so yeah that did get quite a lot of views compared to normal incidentally I don't have the foot pedals yet I do have some foot pedals but they're not the stream deck foot pedals I will definitely be getting some though because I do like a lot of things about them as I mentioned in the video if nobody had seen it I like or none of you have seen it I like the the fact that the pedals are themselves three distinct pedals as opposed to by distinct pedals I mean I like the fact that they have got a sort of different shape the foot pedals I use all the pedals look and feel under the feet exactly the same hey Paul great to see you here yeah although all the the ones that I've got all the pedals feel the same so like if I use them now to if I just wave back to Paul like that and then I press this button on my pedal it takes the comment down so generally I know where they are but occasionally you can't really you can't feel from the foot pedals if they've moved or something like that you can't actually feel just easily which one is which whereas with the Algato foot pedals because they have got this sort of different shape to them you can easily know like which one's the middle pedal and the outside too so I do like that I also like the different sensitivity that you can have with them as well so you can change out the springs so that they can you know either a light touch or a heavy chuck touch so I'll be interested to see how how that works out I think I'll probably end up getting two of them just because I was going to get another set of these to be honest so I'll probably have two of those and then these ones I'm going to totally butcher and make something else because it is effectively they've got little switches in them that we can use for triggering different things so I'm going to I'm going to make it a little something of my own hello Lee great to see you here as well so let's do I see any usage outside of streaming for Algato pedals I do to be honest because I use mine the pedals that I've got which are in fact let me show you these are mine if I can just get them just in the stream in the screen I'm looking for my pedal I was looking for my pedal to take your comment off the screen and it's just here there we go so these are the foot pedals that I've got the cable is just quite long enough to show you I did do a video all about these but these are just totally generic non-branded foot pedals they just say on them foot switch but I do use those with zoom calls and things like that for either muting or unmuting or various different things I do try and I try and commit them to memory because I don't always I don't always succeed at that I yeah I often I often screw it up but I'm lucky this time Lee so yeah I do use the pedals for those things but I also find that they are useful with just general productivity stuff if you've got your like your hand on the mouse and then you hand on the keyboard or you're typing something and there's things that you need to do just assigning stuff to them on an ad hoc basis can actually speed things up if you're you know typing and stuff like that it's a bit like the stream deck there's things that I would use ordinarily have used keyboard shortcuts for but they rely on sort of both hands being on the keyboard depending on what the keyboard shortcut is to sort of reach across to different things especially if there's multiple combinations of keys and so stream deck itself just you know alleviates some of that and means that you can have one hand on the mouse and one hand on the stream deck so there's definitely some use cases for them as well but I'll be I'll be digging into those because the thing about these pedals that I've got at the moment is it's a bit of a a bit of a pain to go and create the well not a pain it's a little bit of a workaround though to go and create the shortcuts in keyboard maestro whereas obviously the thing about the stream deck pedal is it's just the drag-and-drop user interface that we're used to so so yeah definitely going to be looking forward to to getting those and giving them a good old tryout and you know I'll be making a video or two about it the video that I did make it was really just I suppose it was more of a reaction video so I just went and literally heard the news went and looked on the Algato website and then I saw that they had made a video themselves so I went and downloaded the video from the Algato YouTube channel I snipped out all the little bits where the Algato guy was talking stitched all those together so that I'd got some b-roll of people using the pedals I did mention this in my video by the way but yeah I didn't let the fact that I hadn't actually got them stop me from making a video so there we go hey Eileen and I've got to say I don't know where it was but the first notification I got we're just talking about the Algato pedal by the way Eileen the first sign that I got that it had been released was a message for you but I can't find the message I don't know where it was normally it would have been on Twitter or was it Instagram but then I went looking for it and I couldn't find it because I saw your message and then went off looking at the Algato site and yeah I couldn't find your message to respond oh it was Instagram was it hmm I yeah all right well thank you very much anyway I was looking for that and I couldn't find it so I'll have to go back and have another look at what was going wrong there but yeah so yeah I do like it are you gonna get one Eileen are you interested in another peripheral for your for your Mac they did it is something that's one of those things that I suppose it's bit like a stream deck when you first think about getting one maybe you're not quite sure of the use case but then once you get it it has a load of uses and that's certainly what I found with my generic off-brand foot pedals I think by the way the price point just sticking on to the pedals for a while I think the price point is pretty reasonable to be honest at what was it $80 something like that yeah just just seem about right I mean these ones that I've got are nowhere near I'm sure the engineering build quality of those but these were they're between sort of $20 and $50 I think on Amazon depending on which off-brand brand you get but yeah I thought the stream deck pedal pricing was pretty good and I did like it as I say the option to switch out the springs change the sensitivity and all that sort of stuff so yeah definitely yeah definitely looking forward to those as soon as they become available so that was all a bit of an aside I was talking about that video that I made about them and how I did get quite a few more views on that and then that also brought in traffic as well the most of the traffic from that so looking at that video and the analytics usually the if you look at the the percentage of traffic that's come from YouTube search or Google search it was significantly higher this time so obviously people were searching on Google and finding the video that way so that was quite interesting but this graph is always interesting to look at the if you go into the analytics for a specific video what you can see is the sort of gray patch down at the bottom that is what typical views at typical videos do over that period of my my videos I should say and then this one is what that video did so you can see that it significantly outperformed my regular videos hey Greg great to see you here and I got your name right this time I was just talking to Lee that I don't always get names right I had an absolute disaster two weeks ago I was getting everyone's name wrong but great to see you here so yeah obviously it did have a significant increasing interest initially when the news first came out so so yeah that was that let's have a little look at some other analytics shall we so I've been in the YouTube partner put program for almost a month not quite a month and let's go and have a little look I'm interested by the way Greg I don't know if you're thinking about getting the Elgato pedals with being in education it is quite good if you're you know doing things like on on-screen lecturing want to keep your hands free so there could be a good use case there hey Aubrey always great to see you let's have a little look where we're at so yeah this is this is what I'm going to be sort of sharing over the next few months as the channel grows it's just exactly what it means when people say you know about the revenue that you can expect after you've been monetized so here I'll just be basically sharing what are my views what's the the revenue that's come from that and what different areas has it come from so once I've got a bit more data on this then I'll be able to dig into sort of advert types and all that sort of stuff I haven't done anything with the advert types at the moment it's basically just just letting them all run as they are I'm letting YouTube do everything in terms of ad placement and so that's definitely some room there to tweak that in terms of you can go in and physically decide exactly where you want the ads within the the confines of how many ads you can have in your videos so I will be doing some tweaking with that and see how things go so let's have a look by the way the my consistent top video week on week month on month is this one why basically why profiles are better than folders on stream deck in my opinion because I did set up my stream deck with all nested folders because that's just the way my mind works used to a file system I know that people are going more and more to just using tags to find things and using search to find folders but still can't get past a nicely well-structured folder tree on my Mac so yeah so I did a video all about that because I spent ages using folders and then discovered the wonders of profiles instead of folders on stream deck probably a bit late to the party on that so I did a video about why I thought that profiles were better than folders and that is consistently my my best video so in the last 28 days you can see 3,000 views on that one compared to my next top video this last month which was a thousand two hundred so yeah there's that video is definitely a popular one let me just remove this little comment there we go the bots are out today so so yeah it's just interesting to see that that one has consistent sort of traction the other one that's interesting is this one download internet videos so that was talking about an app called Downy which you can get as part of the set up bundle I suppose I should I should start doing some pitches in here tonight so if you're not familiar with set up check this out set up is a monthly subscription service that allows you to get access to over 200 great utility style apps for the Mac and you basically just pay one monthly fee of $9.99 and then you get access to this sort of app store that sits on your Mac and you can go in and just choose and download any of these apps give them a try upload them offload them whenever you're not using them and there's loads and loads of great apps I've got quite a few videos on my channel about set up apps so definitely worth a try and if you go over to takeonetech.io slash set up you get the same one week free trial as everybody else but if you go on to sign up to it then you also get a free month and I get a free month added on my subscription as well and that is how their affiliate program works so definitely give set up a try how was that for a smooth segue but anyway so this video that I did about Downy which was one of the set up apps and that one also is quite high consistently high but it's interesting that was the first one of my videos this week where I got a little notice next to it saying that this one what's the word this one couldn't be monetized because it wasn't suitable for some advertisers or something like that but there was a way that you could click on it to say I want to question this and to get a like a human to review it so we did click on that and then I got an email about yesterday saying we've reviewed the video and it's fine and monetization is back on so it was just interesting to see that that was that you know they do have this this automation in place to pick up things that may have fallen foul of their advertising rules but as it was it was a it was fine I got it checked and it was okay but it did just make me I wondered at first was that something to do with the fact that I was talking about downloading videos that YouTube didn't like and thought maybe maybe not but anyway it was it was all right in the end so so let's have a little look at some more of this analytics if that is of any interest to any of you in fact let me just check on the comments first of all yeah absolutely getting the pedals but I haven't found an Agato partner in Singapore that is offering him yet yeah that's the same for me here and if I go to the the Agato website then it tries to redirect me to a somebody in my local area that's selling them but alas nobody is just yet I will get eventually we're in the future but we're also sometimes in the past it feels so let me have a little look yeah they did sell out pretty quick even in the US also you got one of the off-brand ones as well did you yeah I mean they do work they're really yeah I mean like I say I'm using them now I can hide your comment with them I can switch back to my main scene I can flip back to this scene or with the foot pedals so they are they are good I can definitely vouch for that and yeah of course classic use case is for musicians just coming back to who was it who asked just a little look oh Andreas yeah so for musicians I know that David Hunt was in there as well with being a piano player so yeah definitely definitely use case for doing things on your computer whilst playing your musical instrument so yeah and oh thanks Carly so let's have another little look further into here because it's this one that I'm going to be sort of focusing on really and so this is the revenue as well as I do my weekly updates I'll be sharing this with you and so funnily enough the week where I posted more videos then the ad revenue went up isn't that a surprise because my views went up so it was kind of these these spikes by the way this was where there was a either a super chat or a super sticker during my live stream so this one and then this peak here and this peak here but you can see that in between that the the line was generally look at that around about 250 250 $2 50 a day something like that some days a little bit more than that but then yeah the last week it's been more like sort of three four five and six dollars a day so as you can see I'm not gonna sit back and retire yet haven't quite got the money to buy my island yet unless it's just a little mound of soil in a puddle or something like that so yeah I just want to share this with you on an ongoing basic basis just because a lot of people talk about how you know that the the money that you get from YouTube ad revenue is nothing compared to other sources so I will be doing a full update on my other revenue sources that I generated from the channel so by the end when I reached a thousand subscribers I did do this in my my live stream at a thousand subscribers but basically in six and a half months of being on YouTube up until the point where I got technically monetized on YouTube and the revenue that I generated through the channel was around about six thousand five hundred so I averaged about a thousand dollars a month something like that but that's not all just from I mean it was from things like buying me a coffee so yeah I should obviously say if you're liking this stream and don't forget to hit the like video at the like button subscribe to and why not head over to my buying me a coffee page to support the channel on an ongoing or one-off basis but that is basically when I talk about this revenue it's come from things like that oh thank you very much Eileen now why didn't my why did my little widget not work thank you very much Eileen I was much appreciated I'm just wondering I know why my widget didn't work I actually set so I've been saying this since I had my first super chat or super sticker I've been saying that I need to get my widget set up so that the widget the I get a little notification actually on screen when somebody goes to the super chat or super sticker and I did set that up but then I've just realized that where it is is it's part of this group for my little live stream lower third at the bottom so this actually contains my stream elements is extreme elements stream elements widget in the top corner so I'm sorry I didn't have that active otherwise it would have popped up with a nice little blink I've got to make my own little animations because I'm just using the stock ones there from stream elements so definitely need to get my game up on that one but thank you very much Eileen that is much appreciated so I've lost my train of thought a little bit there oh yes I was talking about my the revenue so it's come from things like buying me a coffee but then it is also from things like my calls that I do so people can book consultation calls with me either through buying me a coffee so on my buying me coffee page there's a place where you can go and book a call with me and that just all automated through Calendly and zoom but then I did have a couple of people actually said that they would like the ability to be able to book these calls but without going through buying me a coffee so they didn't want to be prompted to give their name and email address to buy me a coffee to book a call with me so I also added it onto my website as well so on take one tech dot IO and on the contact or in fact in the top menu there is also consultation and so people can book it through there so when I talk about the the revenue that's come so far from the channel it's not all just sort of passive revenue there is some some of that is through calls and and little ad hoc freelance jobs and things like that that I've done as part of that as well so it's not just sort of totally passive revenue as you might get from the the ads although that's not passive is it let's be fair I mean it is once you've made the videos but you've still actually got to get out there and make them so that is just a little update so anybody who wants to join by the way now that I've got that up there take one tech dot IO slash join if you want to come on and have a little chat about anything that's happened this week the stream debt pedals the release of the e-cam live beta which what was the main feature that they added in this week that it's totally slip it there was actually three beaters there was the first one and then half an hour later or it's actually beaters beaters three then about half an hour later there was beta four when they fixed a quick bug and then there was another one that came out a little bit later so we're up to e-cam live version three dot one oh beta five but what was it that they added in I'm forgetting now if I only had made a video about it well I did but it was feels like that longer ago now that I've forgotten it was I tell you what it was it was being able to play sound effects over the top of music without actually ending the music so previously on e-cam then if you started one audio file then it would stop the one that had been playing so they did a nice bit of coding actually with that so that basically if you are playing music it will kind of figure out that it's a longer piece of audio and so it will just keep playing that if you play a short audio clip over the top of it so that's quite a nice little as I say nice little bit of coding that they've done there and whereas if you've got a long piece of music playing and you click to start another piece of music then it kind of figures out that you obviously want to stop the other one so you don't have two pieces of music playing over each other so that was one thing and then the other thing that they added was some text alignment tools so justifying left and right would keep things centered sorry keep things aligned within the text boxes so just made those work a bit better and betting Anna was the one that asked for that Anna and Fulgians from Building Blocks you can thank them probably for most of the certainly most of the text related things that they've asked to have added in and they did some pretty amazing stuff with it but I digress once again squirrel let's have a little look where we are through with this so if I come into the revenue section so it does actually tell you by by video basically and you can see that over the past the past month then that video that I mentioned earlier why profiles are better than folders is my my highest video from just purely advertising revenue alone so although this one technically here we've got one here with $16 but that was my first live stream where I did get a super chat and a super sticker on that one so that that's included in that sort of revenue but this one here $10 is basically just revenue from that video that I made back in June last year about the folders and profiles and then you can see by on a video by video basis so this is going to be interesting to watch going forward obviously my overall channel is still really quite small isn't it let's be honest so I'll obviously have some more meaningful feedback and information to share with you all over time with this and then you can still see the ad types here so I've talked about this before let me just make this a little bit bigger shall I so you can maybe see it might help so the ad types skippable ads still pretty much 90% of the revenue non skippable ads 5.6 bumper ads and display ads I'm definitely going to go through I'm definitely going to be taking these ones out because I'm not a fan of those I'm not really fan of non skippable ads either so I'll probably just remove those ones as well and then let's have a look here so ad revenue $83 from ad revenue and then from YouTube premium which is obviously people who are on premium then the creator still gets some of that as well so it's 83 and 10 for that and then this is 22 from things like super stickers and super chats and so on so as I say all very low numbers just at the moment but still it's it's just interesting to see because as I say I think a lot of people don't really share this information so it might be interesting for you all so what other little nuggets of information can we glean from the these things if I have a look at my my audience that's pretty much the same as it's always been in terms of demographics and things like that obviously you can see the blue is new viewers to the channel and then the purple is returning so that they've been pretty consistent but obviously now with me posting more videos this past week then returning video returning viewers I've got more to return for so that's accounted for the higher numbers this week just the people who are subscribing watching the videos that I've put out other channels that your audience watches this is interesting so e-cam live obviously makes sense Tom book of course makes total sense the master himself I wish I had the I wish I had the the time and the artistic ability to create thumbnails like Tom he has got without a doubt in my mind the the nicest thumbnails in the business and I'm not talking about the ones on his thumbs they are so nice nicely done I really love his whole style and aesthetic he's and he's an all-round nice guy as well alpha gaming live streaming pros and nutty so nutty is someone who just stream decks of I'd never actually seen this that his things until I saw this until I saw it up here it's not somebody that I've watched before but obviously there's a lot of stream deck stuff on there so yeah and then who else think media makes sense doc rock the master himself he puts vox now I'm follow him adi on Twitter and I got a notification up today saying that you'd posted something new and it was just the letter w and I thought do I need to actually be notified about that but anyway Aaron perekki I don't really watch Aaron stuff actually I should probably go and have a check out his stuff as well this one is interesting this is when your viewers are watching on YouTube and so I've got this sort of hot spot which is basically around about midnight my time this is in Wednesday and Thursday and I've always thought about doing a second live stream which is something a little bit different to that and so if I do I'm that may be the time but I'm just not sure I can bring myself to get up at three hours early at midnight it seems like I mean I could stay up for it but that would really totally wipe me out so if I was going to do it I'd just be getting up early for it but I'm not sure I'm not desperate to hit the optimum time to be honest but I might want do one at sort of 3 a.m. 4 a.m. my time in fact that's still quite a hot spot there isn't it or Tuesday 5 a.m. my time that might be that that might be the time we'll have to see if I do something different I have got a few ideas for another another live live stream where it be because this is usually sort of my channel update but I do fancy doing something a little bit more sort of focused as well on some specific topics and things like that so that might be when I do that top geographies is still predominantly as you can see US pretty much 40% so so that's why I often talk about things in in US terms it is interesting though to see all the different countries I say it's interesting it might not be interesting to everybody it always makes it's anything to do with data I find fascinating this is boring but there you go all the different countries and the percentage of people that are watching in those countries yes anyway I digress and by the way I think there is a lot I mean when I go through these things on the channel and there is just the the the figures that you get up here so all these sorts of things like unique views subscribers and all that sort of stuff and but then you can also dig into those in a bit more like I just did so this see more and then you'll get lots more information about each one of those so there is quite some depth to the the analytics that you can do on on YouTube as there is in anything these days YouTube Facebook Google whatever there's no end of data so so yes let's have a little look at what else we've got here audience and engagement the other thing by the way about the conversion rates let's have a little look at that because in fact is reach my average conversion rate from videos in terms of this one where you see the how many impressions of the video and then what the click-through rate was so it should show me the percentage they go 3.9 percent click through rate so if the thumbnail is displayed somewhere on YouTube then on average 3.9 percent of people actually click through or 3.9 percent of views a click-throughing a click clicking through not click-throughing that's not a word clicking through to go and watch the video whereas with that one about the stream debt pedals it was something like 11 percent so in the first day that it was up because obviously it was a more of a hot topic I suppose but I do like just having a look at these I got no idea by the way I haven't got as far as doing some in-depth research into what is typical for other people's thumbnails and so yeah definitely some room for research there there's a great tool in TubeBuddy actually let's have a little look at this if I go into where is it click magnet get started and then in here there's a thing that you can basically analyze it I suppose it really it's poorly performing thumbnails because it tells you which which when it comes up let's have a look at this this one CTR opportunities so this one it will tell you basically it's looking for where there is a video that once people get onto it there is high engagement however the click-through rate on the thumbnail is is low so it's showing you where there is an opportunity that if you could improve your thumbnail then maybe it would get more people into what is otherwise a good performing video so you can see on here this is after I'll update this one so last last week it wasn't this week it was the week before wasn't it I was on Alison Sheridan's podcast which was a real pleasure chatting with Alison I've been listening to her stuff since since I became a Mac user 16 years ago in fact so it was really lovely to go and have a chat with Alison but you can see here the click-through rate on that particular video was only 2.616% and yet the opportunity here is saying it's very high because of the sort of the low click-through rate versus the engagement that people had once they got onto the video so this would be an ideal opportunity to create a split test of the the thumbnail and then I've got some other ones here a lot of my vlogmas want really but that makes sense because people see is a vlogmas video with me dressed as a or not dressed photoshopped I should say as a silly Santa so so those didn't have a high click-through rate but I didn't expect that to be honest because it's not my regular content is it and some of those were a little bit silly as well those vlogmas ones so so yeah it's interesting to just be able to go through here and you can like within here if I click on create a B test and then basically that is opening up another page and just let me get just log into TubeBuddy in fact well that's loading I should say TubeBuddy is a great service to use if you are a YouTube creator it's basically sits in your YouTube studio and almost becomes part of the YouTube interface and I find it really useful even on the the low cost version or the the free I think the free version you can try at least but then even on the lower cost if you're less than a thousand subscribers it's half price so it ends up being like three or four dollars a month something like that you can get a free trial at takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy and it basically has acted as my my coach basically as I'm going and uploading my videos giving me tips on the the not so much the thumbnails in that sense but it tells me the descriptions the tags that's the word I was looking for and various different other things and gives you sort of a checklist to go through but then they've got all of these other tools like the tool that we're looking at now and so head over to takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy to get your free trial so so yeah that's that's TubeBuddy so what by clicking on this create a B test here what it's done is it's just opened up the the regular TubeBuddy website and here it's loaded up that video and all I would do is just create a second thumbnail and drop it on here and then run a test on it and you can also do tests on things like metadata as well so the description the title stuff like that bear in mind when you are doing any sort of split testing then just stick to one thing at a time so that you know exactly what is causing any changes to the the results you're getting but yeah I should definitely go through and have a look at all these poorly performing thumbnails and see if I can do some split testing to get some better opportunities out of those so that's what we're just in here though there's also this one element inspector which I always find interesting you can have a look at this is comparing my thumbnails that I've got a face versus no face on them well all of mine have my silly face on it to be honest so that's not quite as relevant but then here you've got the emotions now let me just have a little look at this because this appears that that's funny that is that is it seems like today for some reason I've just done a thing this is not actually picking up my different different emotions that is interesting I've not looked in this for a little while but normally that will tell you which emotions are generating the best results I don't know why that's not working that feature at the moment I shall I should come back to that I did make a video about how to use it as you can imagine but for some reason it's just not working today I'll just move swiftly on as if that didn't happen shall I and then you've also got some other advanced analytics but yeah I really do love TubeBuddy the way that it just sort of sits in here almost as I say looks like part of the the YouTube interface it pops up in other different places in fact that one where we were looking at the audience this one here is is the YouTube interface but this bit down here is the TubeBuddy interface and that's the bit that is actually telling you specifically which time is is working so the upload time it's telling me that the best time to upload my videos is weekly for weekly is on a Tuesday at 12 a.m. midnight so I obviously aiming for a video a day so that is not quite so relevant but certainly the time would be useful because here you can see down at the bottom it tells you all of the different times and then here you've got also for live streaming if that's any different and it does look like it's ever so slightly different so only that one's changing but that's basically based on when your audience is online online so so there we go so thank you Jeff yeah I really enjoyed chatting with Alison it was it's funny when you've been listening to somebody for so long in podcasts and then get to speak to them it feels like you're speaking to someone you already know although obviously she didn't know me but I felt like I knew her really quite well it's quite quite strange and thank you Carly I'm gonna try and squeeze a few more of those in when they're relevant and I do have the legend level and I'll be honest with you I slept on that for ages I had the lowest level for four months was it something like that I tell you when it was it was that leap into live streaming with Ecam live their event that they did and they had a promo on Tube Buddy where you could get three months of legend a trial of that so previously as I say I've just been using the lowest version and the and it was because I was less than a thousand subscribers it was like four dollars a month something like that and legend was kind of like what was it forty dollars or thirty dollars I can't remember exactly up and now I can't remember exactly but yeah I thought at the time do I really need to go for legend but then I got the free trial and one of the first things I did was use the find and replace tool to go and add in my Amazon affiliate links to all of my previous videos and I've got 160 or something at the time or 150 whatever it was and just been able to do that find and replace and replace and add in those Amazon affiliate links to all of my existing videos my revenue from Amazon went up by more than the cost of Tube Buddy so I kind of figured well it's paid for itself now and then I started digging into all the other things you can do with legend like the A B testing the the things that we were just looking at there as well looking at opportunities and I figured that probably as the channel grows it's the sort of thing that is just going to be a no-brainer and pay for itself so I would definitely recommend if anybody's not using Tube Buddy legend then try it out you can get a trial and give the features ago and have a little dig into it and have a look at the various videos I've got a few videos on Tube Buddy in fact I've got quite a few shorts on Tube Buddy as well I did a series of shorts about it so just little one minute chunks that you can go and get an idea of what you can do with that level and there's obviously loads of great YouTube content all about Tube Buddy as well so yeah some of those other features though are definitely worth the cost in my mind so so that is that and yeah it's quite funny as well Jeff because that whole thing with Alison came about because she'd watched one of my or some of my stream debt videos and then she went on to buy me a coffee page and I just recognized her handle which is pod feet so her podcast network is called pod feet and so I just noticed that pod feet have bought me a coffee and I said hey is that Alison and she responded and said yes and was kind of surprised that I had knew who she was and then said you know she invited me to go and have a chat on the podcast so I was really happy about that and the way that that all worked out and then and then I found out not long after that when Doc said you know oh I've seen that you've been on Alison's podcast and he said oh I told her about your channel when she told me she got a stream deck so once again I've got to say as always thank you to Doc it's because of him as are most things that go well for me these days with my YouTube channel a lot to thank that man for so where were we so with let's have a little look shall we at some of the other things while I'm still talking about Tube Buddy I tell you one thing I haven't used so I haven't really dug into this too much in Tube Buddy but they do also have this keyword explorer I've I'm sort of not really sure about keywords and this this thing can do all sorts of things about finding them but it was actually a link that Eileen sent me to somebody from Google interviewed talking about keywords and I'm basically not spending as much time as I used to with keywords but you can do a keyword search here so I could search for stream deck pedal and let's see what comes up and so you can do all sorts of things here it'll tell you for the particular title there it will tell you what it's like in terms of search bot volume what the competition is like and all these sorts of things there is some analytics but as I say I've not been as quite as hot on keywords just of late I've been trying to focus more on getting my timestamps in that was one of the videos that I did this week actually was there was a plug-in for stream deck which allows you to basically create a text file where you can add in timestamps it's just called timestamp on the stream deck so now I've got a button that I can press every time I want to add a timestamp to this text file and it basically is just capturing then all of the by timestamp I literally just mean that the number zero zero colon oh one for one second for example and so I'm just capturing all those timestamps so that I don't have to go back and watch all of my videos again so I've been for the last week I've basically been coming up with a I've been doing a little bit more planning than I normally do because normally I just sort of run straight into it let's have a little look I just picked up on this watch the video from watch that video from Daniel Battelle there is a difference in keywords and tags I will definitely go and have a look at that highly thank you very much and use keyword explore all the time and love it so I'd yeah I've just I guess I need to go and reassess my information then by the sounds of it I'll go dig into I'll have another and then I'll report back I do still put my my of course sorry I beg your pardon I get what you're saying yes I'm talking about the the keyword explore it is is yes for getting titles correct and also the descriptions and things like that and what I was mistakenly referring to there was from Eileen where she sent me a thing about specifically tags so where you can go down and add in tags for a video so yes I am wrong because the keyword explore is actually not about tags it is about keywords for titles right then so hashtag Alec was wrong and hashtag Carly was right and hashtag Eileen was right I need to go and have another little dig into this don't I there we go I've now completely gone off my train of thought yeah I think I think I'm going to get off now and I'm going to go and just have a look at all of my my my keywords yeah I have lost my train of thought never mind I shall I should just I should just plow on and one great feature in TubeBuddy is that you can do keyword explore and I use it all the time because I think the keywords are crucially important unlike tags which are a totally different thing all together my secrets out rich I'm a total doofus I know it's it's very easy when you're selective about what you record about isn't it it's very easy to just talk about the things you know about and then people say oh you know quite a lot of things it's like yes except for all of the stuff that I don't know yes quite the doofus why do you think I never have my wife on these livestreams to give another alternative context so so yeah what else can you do in TubeBuddy though let's have a little look yeah it's this one that I was getting a little bit mixed up with this one the tags list so I have got some tags lists that I've created so when I am I'm doing stuff about zoom or about e-cam live or things like that then you can save a whole load of tags and then when you're uploading your video you can just add them all in so that is another thing that I do use to save me actually going through and adding the tags in manually each time the best time to publish that's the thing that we kind of looked at in here in any case so this will tell you when the the best time to publish your videos is and I'll probably start doing this a bit more after my 365 videos in a year challenges up because I'm not going to continue doing a video for a day forever I've decided after the 365 days is up I'll probably drop down to maybe three a week something like that and what I'll probably do is pre-record them or record them and then just schedule them to go out at optimum time so I'll probably be using this a lot more at that point let's have a look what else they were in here website tools I don't think I use these oh well this is the sorry this is the stuff that is actually on their website there is a valuation I'm not going to bother clicking on that one but there is a value because it's zero there is a valuation so as your channel it gets larger and larger or past a certain time then you can look for evaluation there's competitors as well so that you this is basically where you add in competitors and you can do various different comparisons between those I don't really know that I have those do do you upload as unlisted and let YouTube process before making it public I didn't used to but I have sort of been doing that inadvertently but yeah I got a message from in fact I think it was Jeff actually who watched one of my videos pretty much as soon as it went out and it was like really low quality but that's because it hadn't finished processing so there's definitely something to that but I don't tend to because I just tend to record it upload it do all the stuff and then let it go so that I don't have to worry about it I could just literally schedule it for two hours later that'd be another way of doing it it sort of happened this week because I've been filming my videos and then going doing the school run and I've been halfway through when my kids have got up so I've had a video that sort of technically being uploaded but I just haven't finished entering all the details so that's kind of happened this week but that's definitely a good little thing to get into the habit of so that people are seeing it in you know the highest possible definition and yeah that would be solved I think after my when I finished the year in my 15th of May whatever it is 14th of May I think I am going to try and get into the habit of just actually blocking time to do like three videos for the week and then just schedule those all out for the rest of the week so maybe maybe on Sunday after our little class with doc then yeah get out my videos all then and then schedule them for the week so yeah because I do also want to kind of reclaim my my early mornings that sort of time when I do my videos which is between 4 and 6 a.m. usually that always used to be kind of like my my learning time as well and YouTube has been a whole learning experience for me anyway but yeah after after I finish my little challenge my self-inflicted challenge then yeah just blocking out time on say one day a week to create my videos and but then have that that time in the morning and reclaim that to do whatever it is I'm studying or trying to figure out on that particular day it will be good as well but anyway this is all my my own personal scheduling thoughts you're probably not interested in at all anyway so so what else happened this week I feel like there was something else that happened this week that I'm missing off the pedals were released oh there was a zoom update as well yes oh I'm speaking of things that have happened this week I can tell you what hasn't happened this week I still haven't released my zoom course but it's it's definitely coming soon I have been filming more content for it and that's the only bit that's left I've just got to finish off making the videos but keep getting keep getting sidelined and distracted by some other work stuff so hi Michael great to see you here the UK Michael we all know what we don't know but I just suddenly I just suddenly look from there to my teleprompter and I can't read it we all know what we don't know but we'll not know what we don't which is okay unless someone knows we don't know the stuff they know who knew I know exactly right hey Caleb great to see you here I just noticed you posted a stream that you did with your guessing your dad and haven't I haven't got around to watching it yet sounding like paperware I know it's terrible isn't it it is coming it's getting ever closer it really is it's getting ever closer I will have another another week of focus next week great stuff chaotic but fun well that to be honest that's how I feel about these live streams my videos I always feel like I've I've got a purpose and I know what I'm doing but my live streams I always feel like they're a little bit of a rumbling mess to be honest and yeah we'll see I'm easily distracted you see and when I've got just a tutorial to do then I know what I'm talking about I just get in do it get out whereas for these live streams I feel like I sort of ping-pong all over the place but hopefully there's something of use in there for somebody so what else did happen I yeah it was just it was just those updates today really wasn't it this week zoom and ecum zoom the thing that they've added into zoom I've been in the beta for quite a while actually but it doesn't actually work if I know it's just it was just a cunning ruse Paul it's just a cunning ruse to get some friends so yeah join the club Caleb if you had a plan of action and it went off topic that's how I feel every week to win these live streams I do sometimes have some little notes like a rough idea of what I want to cover but that's part part of the thing I was saying about how I want to do a yet another live stream on the Wednesday I should probably just sort out the one I've got before thinking of doing a different one but actually having a bit more of a focus on topics each week and part of this was my early live streams used to be like that my early live streams I used to go into it with an idea of something I was going to do and cover and then I would go and cover that topic and the reason I did that is because nobody was watching because I didn't have any subscribers in the beginning and so I was kind of forced to do to do that but I've late I feel I have just been a little bit more haphazard with this sort of flow of it and then it was really watching Doc's live stream that he did when was it just last week I think where he was talking about in fact it was the one that he was talking about with trends for 2022 and about bringing a little bit more production values into live streams but what I took away from that was actually just his approach to that particular live stream and how he's done that on everyone since as well where he has had more of a sort of focus to it certainly in the beginning because he's the same has the little sort of squirrel mentality of getting sidetracked and going off topic and chatting with everybody as well and whereas he's definitely had more sort of structure to it and getting some content done in the beginning and then the chatting and so on towards the end so I definitely need to think about being a little bit more planned I think with these live streams I don't know what you all think it'd be great to hear obviously your feedback but yeah so just to say Caleb I always go off topic in my live streams so you're definitely not alone so yeah there's some other things with Zoom actually so this week apart from the the new feature that they added in which was a see how that happened I already went off topic I was just talking about this five minutes ago and already lost my train of thought what they added in Zoom is the ability to add in videos into the waiting rooms in Zoom and I think that that is really a really good feature that allows you to add your own sort of custom branding to your experience when people are coming to the to your meetings classes whatever it is if you are doing classes then it's a great way to have sort of some pre-arrival information if you want or maybe some rules or guidelines or something like that for how the meeting is going to be run if you're running meeting with lots of people who have never never come to one of your meetings or things like that then it's a good way to sort of prepare them for that and or if you are you know a company and you've got other services then it's a great way to have something maybe like a role of client testimonials or something like that there's lots of ways that you can really use this one thing that's a bit of a shame is that it is a basically one video that plays into your your waiting rooms you can't change it on a meeting by meeting basis just yet I'm hoping that that is something that they'll add in the future where basically you know as part of the setup of the meeting you say whether you want the waiting room on or not and then you just have a place where you can drop in a video just for that specific meeting so that the messaging can be more specific but nevertheless it is still a great feature and now there is also I need to I'll have to drop this in the description afterwards because zoom have there's often an issue with ecam that people find it's not an issue with ecam let me correct that right away there is often an issue that people talk about in the ecam group which is when they're using their virtual camera in ecam and that it's going into zoom people sometimes say oh the image quality when I'm like sharing my screen or having my sort of production going into zoom the image quality people are saying the image quality is not not so great well there's a couple of things about that first of all in in ecam let me just quickly just show you this because it's worth knowing if I come into my demo mode a moment and so here I am in ecam live if I go into this output menu you've got virtual camera there so you can turn that on and off but you've also got this other one which is sharing window and what that one is you want that one turned on if you're going to be using like doing presentations and things like that with zoom what that one basically does is it creates a sort of virtual output if you like a virtual window of your ecam output and then what you do is in zoom you then go into screen sharing and you'll see if you've got the sharing window turned on in ecam in the list of windows that you get on the zoom screen sharing one of them will be ecam sharing window the thing about that is it's not actually visible anywhere on your screen it's just sort of a sort of virtual window almost and so what that means is you've still got your regular ecam output where you can see all of your ecam controls and things like that but you're basically getting a clean feed that can go into zoom one way that people have been doing this is that they'll have a second monitor and they'll have ecam going to that monitor and then they'll share that monitor from zoom screen sharing but that's basically tying up a monitor isn't it so it's just this one thing that I think a lot of people don't realize is that ecam have thought about it and have built that thing into it into ecam so that's sort of one way one way to get that higher resolution because they do treat a zoom treats a screen share as a higher resolution than a video feed because they figure well we can afford to sort of down sample your video to 360 or 720 instead of full HD resolution whereas anything that's on the screen you don't want to down sample that because if you're showing like an excel file you don't want to see blurry images there so that's why this thing of doing it through a screen share in zoom is better than just using a camera however zoom have now said that if you do contact them then they they will actually up your regular video quality as well so that is now another thing so I need to just drop into the chat in a little while after this in the description I'll go and find the actual instructions for how you can what you need to tell them for them to go and actually do that for you but that's definitely worth knowing so so yeah that's that's where I am with my my zoom course a little bit further along than last week but not finished but as I say I'm getting back into my flow with things and some of the other things that I've had going on in the background with my well in the foreground with my regular work have I've died down a little bit so I've got a little bit more time in my mornings to get some of this stuff done so yes and yeah back to the regular videos now apart from that I've not got a huge amount more to update everyone on today or to talk about but if somebody's got any specific burning questions related to any of the sort of stuff that I cover on my channel happy to answer those or if anyone wants to pop on for a chat about anything how their week's going in the content creation space or anything like that then you can always jump on as well and have a quick chat otherwise I will be signing off quite soon because as I say said earlier my parents are going back to the UK tomorrow so we've just got a couple of days a couple of days left so I shall probably be dropping off early to go and get a few other things done before everyone else in the house wakes up and what have I got planned for the next week in terms of videos do you know what I don't actually know I've got a list of videos this week there was quite a few things that just happened to happen like the the Elgato announcement which came totally out of the blue for me I just literally heard about it from Eileen sending me a message which now I know was on I think I was just looking in the wrong place I was looking in Twitter and it was on the Instagram so yeah there was that video then there was the e-cam live beta the zoom beta and various of the things so most of my videos this week were just sort of reactions to things I was actually going to make another video yesterday and I didn't get around to it but it was about now let me just get the name of this application it was an app called share mouse and I don't know if I'm gonna actually bother making a video now share mouse is this came around because Keely our friend Keely FH umpires and soon discord for creators which I'll be promoting the hell out of when it's ready she was she was doing some stuff where she was basically using let me come back a minute she was using two computers and wanted to basically have one keyboard and mouse that she could share between both of them she went and bought the Logitech series and with Logitech I made a video about this as well and you can have this thing I forget what it's called now is it called flow where you can use your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers and you just sort of move your mouse to the edge of the screen and it goes on to the other screen onto your other computer and I technically use that with my Logitech mouse I don't often use two Macs but I have been just recently for the the zoom thing because I'm having multiple computers joining into the zoom call and things like that so the Logitech one works quite nicely that you can move across to the other screen the thing is I am still using a an old-school Mac wide keyboard so with the Logitech software it doesn't actually transfer that across it only works with Logitech devices one of the things that I suggested that might work I don't really know if it would but there's one called an app called keypad at a link video for this as well keypad is basically to convert your peripherals that are plugged into your Mac it converts it allows you to use those as Bluetooth devices so that then you can link those to like your phone or your iPad or something like that which enables you to just from the menu bar switch the controls so that I can just go and click a button in fact I've got it programmed into my stream deck that if I press a button it then allows me to use my keyboard on my phone or on my iPad and so that's a great little app and I wondered if that might work for multiple apps multiple Macs as well because it would just show up as a Bluetooth device and she tried it and said it was not the best experience for that use case so okay fair enough I accept that and what she found was an app which was called share mouse and this enables you to basically share one mouse and keyboard with multiple computers and I've got to say I've downloaded it and installed it and it is it just works as you would totally expect it sits up in the menu bar and then when you click on the little thing in the menu bar my friend got my other Mac at the moment and it you just install it on two computers and if they're on the same network they'll recognize each other and then you get to just organize the displays in much the same way as you would do in the regular sort of system preferences display manager and then yeah it just works move the mouse to the edge of the screen it goes on to the other one and works just fine the reason why I haven't made the video is because there has been a feature which has been sort of pending in Monterey since they demoed it at whenever it was the Mac announcement that they did the Apple announcement I should say last year was it June time something like that and what they've called that is I think universal control and the demo they did of that was amazing because they basically just took their iPad put it next to their Mac and then move the mouse over and it just moved seamlessly onto the iPad without really any setup they could drag and drop images across from one to the other as well so that's something that you can't do with share mouse and or listen you might be able to copy and paste but this basically just it treated the the iPad or another computer just like an extension really of your working space on your your main Mac so you can just sort of drag stuff across this is with universal control on the Mac anyway they announced it as I say last year but then when Monterey came out it wasn't actually there and it wasn't in the beta as well but then I saw James Hicks posted on Facebook just yesterday I think it was that it has now made it into the beta so that means that it is close so I might hold off on making a video about share mouse I suppose one point about it is it does work on Mac and PC as well so if you're using a Mac and a PC then share mouse would work across platform but I am really interested to see the the universal control yeah it's different to it's different to sidecar this Caleb sidecar basically is when you have your iPad and it becomes an extension of your desktop so therefore you can literally drag your Windows you know your Mac Windows from that sidecar still going to be there that's that's so that you can as I say you can use it as I perhaps didn't explain it properly actually that is where it does become literally another desktop of your computer and what universal control is is it's allowing you to still have the iPad as the iPad it's not it doesn't become an extension of your desktop it's just that you can use your keyboard and mouse with that as that secondary device as another device and but like say you're working on a on a on a document and you've got a photo on you're working on a document on your iPad and you've got a photo on your Mac on the desktop let's just say and then what you can do is you can just drag the document on the desktop of your Mac and drag it across and drop it into the document that's on your iPad running iOS and all similarly if you've just got two Macs they're still individual devices but you can just sort of flow between them it's so it's a bit different to sidecar but probably built on the same sort of technology I'm guessing sort of in the in the background behind it and yeah I've got lots of I've got lots of Russian spam friends today I haven't used the I just catching up with comments here I haven't used the the restream teams feature I've not really I've don't really all I'm doing now for restream as I'm using it to restream to Facebook and YouTube I might just even knock that one on the head because most of in fact let me just have a little look have any of the comments today come from Facebook I'm guessing not I do stream it to face Facebook just because I do get people who watch my stuff on Facebook and so I figured it was a way to just get the video to go there but I might just knock restream on the head all together to be honest because yes hashtag doc was right you don't need to create disparate audiences on different platforms but at the moment I did I was streaming to Twitch to Twitter and all those but I had knocked those ones on the head as well but no I in fact it was Matt who contacted me and mentioned about the the teams feature and whether I wanted to try it out on my stream but as I say I just don't use I'd certainly don't use the the restream web interface not that that's actually anything to do with this feature but yeah so that was a long answer wasn't it so in answer to that question Caleb no I haven't I haven't used it oh yeah this the timestamp feature is good and but you see look at this so in my in my videos I've been using that feature but then now in this live stream I've completely forgotten and gone off topic so although my timestamp file started at the beginning and even though I talked about it I've still not been pressing my little timestamp button so this is going to be a live stream without timestamps mind you I don't know quite how I'd document all the sections in this video so yes it will not be long until general release and that will be yet will be yet will be good when it comes because it did look pretty awesome the demo they did of it and I know that they're gonna this is an Apple fanboy speaking isn't it I know that they get it's gonna come out when it's ready and it's it's gonna have it's gonna be a step up from from whatever else is currently available it's funny how we Mac people we we sort of say these things like that's what always happens we just gloss over things like mobile me when that first came out well what was the music one that they did was it called ping or something like that I can't remember but yeah as my Mac fanboys we we talk about all the successes but we gloss over the total failures like the Mac Pro that came out the trash can Mac Pro or rather didn't come out for four years anyway ah really 12.2 released today so has that actually got this feature in it then so if it are you can you tell my excitement are you saying so I know that the 12.2 beta is out is that 12.2 has been released today if so that is great news certainly for a friend in Canada let's have a little look Keeley will be pleased so so yeah once she found share mouse and then she she returned the logic Logitech devices that she bought because she likes the Apple devices and a trackpad 12.2 is out right well that's I know what I'm doing this morning then I am updating my software 12.2 is out excellent I do yeah I need to I need to implement that so it becomes a reflex the other thing that I'd thought about with big again after watching Doc's stream there's so many things if you haven't watched it already go back and watch his one about 2022 trends because it's more than trends really it's actually a whole collection of things that we should really consider implementing and doing in our video production and live streams so it was a great video in fact let me just have a quick look because it really was definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already and yeah one of the things that he was talking about was or one of the things that I took from that as well was getting a bit better at sort of repurposing content as well because that's something it's something that I don't do and the reason why I don't do it is because it involves me having to go back and basically watch my my videos back and do some editing which I don't really like doing but if I've got some easy to find time stamps I'm just going to drop this in the chat because there you go that one yeah it's if I can put time stamps into my live streams for little things that I could clip out I don't know what I would clip out of today's for example but this comes back to me being more intentional about what's going to be covered in it then yeah it needs to become a reflex that I'm just pressing it for time stamps but then also where I can sort of take stuff out of it as well for repurposing so that's that's definitely something I've just I've just come from the bottom up with the comments I've just seen this one as an educator I loathe Prezi and then I'm just wondering where did that come from and it's Jeff saying how many playing with Prezi I was chatting with somebody about this yesterday actually I yeah I'm not I'm not going to be diving into Prezi at the moment firstly because I don't have time to jump into another software package it's a bit like for me canva I know that a lot of people rave about canva and how easy it is to to use and create stuff and I've seen some people doing some amazing stuff with canva Michelle Lawrence from LBC branding for a one she's got such a great workflow going for creating different content for different places and she'll create it for you know create your thumbnail from a storyboard that she's built for slides but then she'll chop that up to make into Instagram posts and sort of Instagram carousels it's just amazing what's what she's doing with canva so I know that canva is a great platform but I'm just still stuck in my like Photoshop and Illustrator ways and so and even though canva would probably I'm I'm I'm an adobe creative cloud subscriber but I'm probably only using the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what I get with that and what I'm actually using it for but it is just that sort of muscle memory of being able to do things in those those applications whereas maybe canva might actually if I just spent the time getting into it it might be able to enhance my my workflow who knows but I just haven't had the time to devote to it and Prezi is something that is very similar to that for me because long time PowerPoint and Keynote user prefer keynote but PowerPoint is sometimes it does need to be done as well and the thing about Prezi is I like what their their concept of bringing you into the presentation so that's kind of a big thing about you know them is they're always talking about well you know you you can create immersive presentations where you become a part of it the only thing about that is you can do that with Ecamm and use PowerPoint or Keynote in conjunction with Ecamm to still be as part of the the presentation so I don't really do many presentation presentations where it's kind of me talking to slides or anything like that it's all interact in not interactive it's all more immersive in that you know they'll be using green screen screen sharing so that was something I've been hoping for and asking for for a long time but that enables you to basically just add keynote style graphics and overlays and things like that over the top of your Ecamm live so that you can still have things just sort of flying in from the side and most of the things that you can do from an animation point of view with Prezi you can sort of do with keynote as well the one thing about Prezi that I do kind of like that you can't do with keynote though is as I get the impression it is more of a it gives you the ability to do things that are a little bit more free flowing potentially whereas with keynote you've obviously got a structured order of slides to go through and you can jump around by using things like hyperlinks that you're embedding into the slides to just link to other slides but Prezi very much does seem like you know you can have it a little bit more conversational and dip in and out of different elements of it this is me speaking having not actually used it but watching the demos you can dip in and out of different bits of your presentation without having to go through quite such a structured order to it but then as I say in in ecamm in any case if you've got using screen screen screen sharing you can have your slides there and just bring them in and out as needed in any case as opposed to it being just a slide deck you know you're just in there in the middle of it talking about whatever is you're talking about so I'm interested to hear more though about specifically what's what your issue with Prezi is though Greg I've got my opinions and I just haven't got the time to to dig into it really I've got too many other things going on to start to learn another package when I mean really keynote can do some amazing things and the sorts of things that you can do with animation in keynote is it's quite good I'm not saying that this is great but my title sequence this one here this is actually all just keynote animation so yeah you can do some animations in there in keynote let's have a look adobe created their own version of camera convert did they that's interesting what's what's that called but again you see this is the same I mean there's there is a new adobe things being added all the time but I'm still just I've got this muscle memory with I mean some of the stuff that I use photoshop actually more than illustrator and probably some of the stuff that I do in photoshop I should be doing in illustrator it's just this ease of ease of doing it in the tool that you know but yeah which one which one's that that you're talking out because I'll definitely check out any new adobe products oh it's free is it all right so you don't that's not you don't need it as part of the creative cloud and universal control is scheduled for Mac OS 12.3 oh okay so we still got a little while to wait okay fair enough and keynote jump forward with the new picture-in-picture capabilities yes it has Jeff that is a very good point because now you can actually bring video feeds into keynote so you can actually add it as an element in your keynote so that means that actually the sorts of things that we do with ecamp you know where you're actually adding overlays you can actually do that sort of in in keynote so you could have a your video feed coming into your keynote and then still add in all of the other stuff on you know with ecamp still have it feeding into ecamp but you could just have some scenes where yeah the videos coming into your keynote file I think who else did I forget his name no he's killing me Michael Hyatt he did a little video in the ecamp group about that when it was first introduced as well the video into into keynote and the thing about that is here's another thing you can actually animate those little videos so people who have been asking for me included with with ecamp the ability to sort of move around camera elements on screen so we have obviously now with the beta from ecamp we've got this ability to fly in the the cameras so you can have it so that when you change scene your camera flies in and someone else's flies in as well with their keynote basically you can use the if you've got your camera element coming in your camera feed coming in then that's just treated like any other element so you can add borders and things like that but then you can use the magic move tool in keynote so that when you change from one slide to the other wherever something is on the screen you can have it just move to another location so anyone who wants to do those sort of fancy cameras moving transitions across the screen then keynote would be a way to a way to do that as well so the big idea of Prezi is that presentations need not be linear sounds reasonable and even innovative but the arrow of time moves in one direction yeah well that's I mean this is my kind of thing about that it's I don't want to say it's gimmicky there I just said it I feel like if you if you're doing something as a presentation and you want to control the message then yeah having a structure to it is not a bad thing is it and I'll defer to you as a professional educator about that so so yeah if you've got a sort of clear structure then there is use cases obviously where you might want to dig in and out of stuff but with correct planning from the start then that might not be such a big big deal in any case so I'm with you on this one Greg I think I'm not not sold on it yet Adobe Creative Cloud Express indeed right well yeah I've not had a look at that one yet and I'm guessing that's on the Adobe Creative Cloud the consequence is that Prezi presentations tend to emphasize the app rather than the content I've always that's that's one of the things that I've always felt I've always felt it's a lot about the sort of animations and things spinning in and out and moving and yeah is that actually enhancing it in fact somebody was chatting to yesterday said that as well is it is that just to make up for the the content it's available as a web app and oh right okay thank you very much Caleb I'll check it out yeah so so yeah no I haven't I haven't dug into into Prezi either this this week at all Jeff have you have you had a play with it Jeff sorry to I just went on railing all about how I'm not a fan of it have you have you been digging into Prezi because I have seen people do great things with it I don't want to be I don't want to be totally negative on it and some of the things that people in the community have been doing as well being great with it so it'd be interesting to know how you've done it I'm just thinking actually Jeff about how your mind maps that you've shown us in Doc's class obviously in fact I need to just since I'm mentioning it there we go buy me a coffee doc I need to put is a proper link up buy me a coffee dot com slash dot rock to join the drop squad and join us weekly for our calls where we chat about all things content creation but Jeff you did some great demos in their view of mind maps and actually just thinking about Prezi that's something that actually would sort of relate to that because of the way that in mind node you can just sort of drill down into a particular node of the mind map and then it opens up all the other stuff I can actually see how that could be really that could translate over really well to the to Prezi especially because of the way that you present that as well you present it in a really sort of fluid manner where you know when you were presenting the mind maps it was a case of drilling into this one and then telling us about all the different things that are in there so yeah maybe actually if that's what you've been working on I'd be interested to hear about it because yeah I can see how Prezi would work for that so let's have a little look Adobe Creative Cloud formerly Adobe Spark I get it right I had heard of that Creative Cloud Express is formerly Adobe Spark been watching loads of tutorials and that's yeah well I can to be honest and that having said about Prezi and not being linear I've just totally now thinking about your presentation of that mind map and the way that that was very much starting from a root and digging into different levels and coming out and so it does make it makes sense there as well because although you could still give a linear presentation in terms of you know going through all the sections building out in that way would be very similar to the way that the mind map was build it out so you do start with like a core and then go off to different sections from that and I can totally see how that would work I'm now just eager to see whoopsie daisy press the wrong button I'm now eager to see your presentation that you do with Prezi on that that whole mind map now that will be awesome I think you pretty much blew everyone away with that by the way when you did it in the group myself included so that will be that will be cool to see yeah so that is probably unless anyone's got any other burning questions or comments I'm going to I think wrap it up because I'll get on with the other things I've got to do this morning and then spend some time in my folks before they go home we'll miss them but it has been nice for the kids to see them for two whole months this is the longest time that they've spent here in fact before pandemic they used to come maybe twice a year sometimes once a year sometimes twice a year for a month at a time but it has been nice to have them here for two whole months especially after two years of not getting to see them so yes that's what I'm going to do for the rest of the day so with that I am going to sign off it's been great chatting with you all and I've learned a lot I'll guess what one of the things that I started this channel for it's not just for me to come and talk about talk about things that that I know about it's all about what I can learn from this stuff as well and I always learn everything I certainly learned about the difference between keywords and tags today hashtag I like you to do for us I can I don't mind answering that and so another visit planned they'll definitely be a new subscriber there you go look my little widget worked so great to have you subscribed Magnus if you're watching or if not then if you watch later great to have you subscribed I'll just answer this question though Caleb because well Jeff another visit planned I don't know we'll have to see because of all the restrictions they sort of lifted the restrictions on travel to Thailand just in time for my parents to book it and get here and then they sort of closed it down again and there was restrictions put on your place again so we'll have to see who knows with what's going on in the world but maybe we'll go over to the UK in the summer who knows what's the biggest thing that I've got out of this one video a day experience it's not as easy as it sounded to me when I started that's why I'm behind the first 100 days I did do a video a day and sometimes more sometimes less but there was basically the last three months of the year last year I I got a little bit derailed with other things and so I got out of the flow of it I don't have a problem making a video a day the thing I've got ahead of me now is now I've got to basically make like one and a half videos a day if not slightly more than that between now and the end of May so that is going to be a little bit more challenging because I've fallen behind but the thing about just doing it consistently and what part of the reason for me doing it was to actually get better at the process of making videos and and the whole reason for the hundred videos in 100 days which was my original target was just because doc had said you can't sort of make any draw any conclusions about stats and things like that until you've done your first hundred videos because some people do like two videos and then they start questioning things and all that sort of stuff so I figured right well let me just get the hundred videos out of the way and then I'll be able to assess the metrics but there is certainly you can see from where I've been consistent with my posting you can see where the the the the the lines are consistent if I just come back to my stats I will just be brief here let me come back to my overview of my stats and then I'll come into let's say this one and I'll turn on to lifetime here we go so whoops so here I was pretty much consistent and I got the same number of views all the way along and then this whole period here where it's been really erratic is where basically my videos have been erratic so definitely consistency is is the key but also just stick at it and the results will come the sort of uptake that I had in my videos like the views and watch time and stuff like that felt really slow to get off the ground but just have the I know that you're starting your channel or fairly early with it I understand so yeah just sticking with it and being consistent does pay so that is that is it I am going to I'm going to sign off so it was great seeing you here orbs as well and Paul great to see you as always and Michael our UK Michael and then we've got who else Jeff the time stamping is most useful yeah so I'll definitely be definitely be adding that into all of my other videos going forward so I'm glad you like that video thank you very much Caleb thank you very much everybody I hope you have a wonderful Friday Saturday whatever a day it is where you are and for those watching on the replay I will definitely remember to go in and add my end screen so that you'll see some other videos over here on the right hand side so till the next time have a wonderful day and I'll speak to you all soon