 If you use Ecamm live and have never tried using preview mode then stick around because that's what I'll be talking about in this video Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec and I was tripping over my tongue a little bit there in that intro But yes in this video we are talking about preview mode in Ecamm live And what is that exactly? Well, it is a feature that is built into Ecamm that allows you to make changes to your scenes on the fly during your presentations or during your live streams rather and And then you can publish those changes so it means you can sort of change things behind the scenes But while you are live and then publish those changes once you have made them But it's probably easier if I just demonstrate it So if I come into my screen sharing mode so that you can see my or my demo mode rather in Ecamm live We've got my obviously this is my main ecamm window I've got my scenes here and some overlays there And then if you come into the ecamm live menu up in the top corner Then in here you'll see that there is preview mode And then if you've made some changes then there is also published But we don't want to go into menus do we really we much prefer to use either keyboard shortcuts or our stream deck But here you can see that the keyboard shortcut for preview mode is command enter command return And then also once you've made some changes It is return or enter to publish those changes So let me just come out of that menu and I'm going to activate this Preview mode by pressing command enter and there you go Now we have another window has just popped up and this is basically the ecamm live Program window. So this is what is actually going out on your stream or what is being recorded And if I hover over my main window now We you can see that we've got this label that's popped up in the top corner here in the top called Identifying it as preview mode So whatever is going on in this window is currently in preview mode and is not actually live And then we've got these two buttons down here, which is either return to live mode or publish Now I should just point out that if we were to go back to live mode for a moment So I'm going to go back to live mode You can see that we still got these two windows because this is just the ecamm live program window And you can actually turn that one on and off independently anyway So although we have got two windows note that this now says recording. This is not The preview mode anymore So do bear that in mind that just because you've got two windows on screen does not necessarily mean that this one is By default in preview mode. So that's just something to be aware of if you're going in and out of preview mode But anyway, let's go back into preview mode and actually show you what it's used for and we're just going to do something simple So as you can see I've now got preview mode identified up here That means that this is not the live view or the live output And all I'm going to do is just add in a different border So I created another border for one of the other videos I made so I'm going to just add that one in now So there you can see clearly. There is a difference. We've got a different border around this one Then we have in the live view Obviously, you've got all of the functions available in ecamm live at your disposal Disposal so you could add in other cameras. You could add in other views. You could add in other Overlays and things like that. You can make any changes into this preview window that you would like to make That you could possibly make in ecamm live But now all we need to do is When we are ready is to publish Those changes by clicking on the publish button or just pressing the return button So as soon as I click this button, it will go live to the main window So there you go. I've clicked on it and now this is also going out into the live output So if you're on a stream, these changes would have been made Now note that we've published them, but we're still actually in preview mode So we can still go and make some other changes to this. Let's say I wanted to add in Another camera view for example, I don't actually have anything queued up on another camera But let's just say maybe guest one. Let's say I was going to add a guest into this particular scene And maybe I might want to make that a circle something like that You get the point you can do anything that you can do in ecamm live We could add them in so I could add in a guest over on this side And then when I'm ready, I can click publish So that is again another demonstration of it Now let's just say that I did make a few changes to this Maybe I might even add another guest in And let's call this one add in guest number two So now I've got two guests that are in the in the stream with me But let's say I go back to live mode and I haven't clicked the publish button It will pop up this message asking you have unpublished changes Do you want to publish these changes before returning to live mode? So in that case click publish or do you want to revert to how the scene was at the last time you published? Or do you want to cancel out of this so that you just return basically to the the preview mode? You can obviously select here remember this choice so that it will always default to that behavior in the future I probably recommend you don't actually have that one ticked because to my mind, you know If you are doing things live It's always good to have this extra little prompt to make sure that you don't inadvertently publish Something you didn't mean to if you're trying to get out of preview mode or alternatively if you Don't publish something that you you actually wanted to So I will leave that as it is for the moment But let's just say that was an error and I'm going to click revert changes So this is I bear in mind. This is when I've clicked back to live mode So I click revert changes and then it's basically going to put that to how it was But note also that this is now I am no longer in preview mode So this is what I was saying before don't make the mistake of thinking that I've You know come out of preview mode, but there's still these two windows that this is still preview It is actually now the main recording window if you want to make any changes then just click on this preview mode and let's just say I don't need this guest in anymore and let's say I'm going to put the Border back the way it was as well. So let me just take this border off and there we go We're back to normal and let me just say publish that And then also Because I've not made any changes it's now being published and if I go back to live mode now It would just simply drop out of live mode because out of preview mode rather Because there was no extra changes to publish there So now I could close down this window if I want and then if I come back to my main screen Then I'll rather take off my screen sharing that is basically a rundown of how to use preview mode So a little bit short and sweet that one. I've got a few other Ecam specific videos that I'm going to be making over the next few days as well So do watch out for those and if you found this useful Then do let me know down below in the comments and also Give the video a like and subscribe to the channel if you are not already if you are A preview mode user and you use it on your live streams Then let me know how you found using it and if you've got any tricks or tips that you want to share with anybody So there we go. As I say, there are plenty more Ecam live videos coming up And I'll leave a link to though the playlist in the bottom right. So for now. Have a great day