 In today's live stream, I'm going to be going over some of the new features of ECAM Live 4.0. Obviously, I've released a big video that covers absolutely everything just yesterday, so I'm not going to go over everything, it's not going to be a repeat of that, but I just want to really dig into a little bit more depth into some of the things that I'm personally really liking and how I'm using them and the sort of use cases of them. So it's a bit more of a deep dive into just a few of the features. Namely, that would be how we can use ECAM Live now to basically, sorry, the interface changes, I should say first of all, so some of the things that I like about that in terms of the tweaks that have been made and the improvements, but then how we can use ECAM Live to build out scenes, and it's a lot more streamlined now in my opinion in terms of how you can quickly build out these things, but also how you can build out scenes for other people and work with other people and collaborate now using ECAM, so I'll be talking about that. Then widget overlays. This is not necessarily actually one of my favorite features. However, I didn't really do a great job of explaining it in my video because I was on a 4K display. It was really sort of zoomed out, so maybe some of the detail was lost, so I'm going to go over widget overlays again, and then next I'll be talking about stream deck and some of the new buttons that have been added there and how I'm using those in a sort of practical sense. So that is the idea of today, and so we'll start off with some of the interface changes and which of those are my favorites. The first one actually is something that I think was also Dina Taylor's favorite, so one of my fellow creators in the Creators Pod. If you are not already following that, then definitely check out the Creators Pod. I'll leave a link in the chat and in the description to that as well, so that's me and some fellow creators, and we get together every week to mastermind, but then we also have a podcast about that, and we were talking about ECAM Live in the most recent episode, so you can check that out in that link there. And one of her favorite features though was also one of mine, which is the fact that we can now resize the main ECAM window. So if I just come into my demo mode, I've got things all over the place at the moment, but let me just come in here. So it's this thing of the main ECAM window. When you are actually designing an ECAM, previously there was this maximum size to the window, and it was something like on my screen, it was something like about that. And when you want to actually do some layouts and design and stuff like that, it's a lot better if you can see more of it. And I think that this is something that I don't even know if it's in the release notes as such for the main ECAM 4, but it's this fact that you can now make the main ECAM window as big as you need it to be. So I know also other people and myself included, we use the ECAM main window sometimes on our teleprompter if we're not using the video monitor output, and so if you are going to do that to sort of save space on your other display, then having this being able to fill the monitor, I've just moved it across and you can't see it, but having this being able to fill the monitor is a really useful little feature. So I do really like that aspect of it. The other thing about the interface which has been improved is this camera switcher. Now we're talking about that in the next section about scene building because this has got so many different features that are really useful for all the things I'm going to talk about then in terms of working with other people and building scenes, but it's the fact that also we can get rid of the camera switcher which was on this screen. So if I come into ECAM Live Preferences, go into General and maybe here's the point where I should be zooming, then you've got this one here, Show camera switcher in main window. So if I turn that one on, this little camera switcher down the bottom here, this is the one that we've always used to have, but the thing is it only really applies when you've got scene source as a camera, whereas generally I start with a scene source as blank and so then in that sense this is pretty much redundant if you're just going to be adding in camera overlay. So the ability to turn that off is great, although when I mentioned that they did actually take that out. So now if you do have a scene source as blank, this disappears in any case. So if you just flick over to scene source as, let's unlock the scene, change the scene source to blank. So this camera switcher you'll notice that now if you have scene source as blank, it actually doesn't show up. Same if you have a screen share as the scene source. This looks weird because I'm sharing keynote here as well, but if you were just sharing a blank desktop, then the camera switcher also disappears then. It makes sense that they've done that. But the ability to just hide this completely in here is something that I really like because for me that just gets in the way. And also now with the new camera switcher down here, this is something that is redundant as well. The other thing in terms of the interface that I'm liking, although you don't see it right now and I haven't hooked up my second computer, is the fact that we've got this new way of selecting whether you want to stream, whether you want to record, or whether you want to use virtual camera and just being able to toggle on and off any combination of those things as well. And the reason I like that method of doing it is because it means that you can actually authority of the time that I'm using Ecam, I'm actually using the virtual camera. That's really useful because it means it gets rid of all those other interface elements and namely just the record button, it means you're not inadvertently going to hit record as well if you didn't want to. But it just, I think, makes it a lot more tidy in terms of the general look of it. So that is, I mean, there's not a huge amount more aesthetic changes that have been made to the thing, but just the general way that it's working now is a lot more logical to me. I suppose one other thing that has been changed as well is the actual preferences. So you'll notice that this is now a lot different to the way it was before in terms of we had a button in these preferences for things like LinkedIn, Facebook, all the different platforms. Now those have just all been moved into destinations. So this is where you can set up destinations for your multi-streaming. They've also moved recording into its own separate menu because now they've sort of consolidated everything to do with recording into here. For example, ISO audio was previously in the audio section whereas now that they've added in ISO video, then it is in here as well with that. So a few other little minor changes to the menus. What else did they add in? They added something else in, I'm forgetting now, but yeah, there was a couple of other little minor things that they've added in here. This one, remote control. Do you know what? Yesterday I actually finally uninstalled my loop deck. So if you want to revoke access to anything that's got control of ECAM, you can just uncheck it there. So I actually deleted the app and everything. I had a complete refresh of my computer and trying to get rid of things that were maybe hogging my processions to fly that. So loop deck was one of the ones to go. With the new functionality that we've got with stream deck, which we'll be talking later, it was a little bit redundant. So hi, Johann. Great to see you here. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. But yeah, the beta, well, it's this, we're right now in that sweet spot where the beta and the regular ECAM 4 release are finally in sync. So I wonder how long it'll be and what the new features are to come. I mean, I'm still buzzing with all the stuff we've got in this, but if you've been on the beta program, all of this kind of stuff we've got isn't new. So I'm still thinking like, I wonder what's going to be in five. But I'll save my enthusiasm and excitement for that till later. Hi, Richard. Great to see you here. I hope you're enjoying version 4 as well. And hello, Speaker of the Devil, Dina, which is talking about you, your favorite feature on our podcast that we're talking about, the rescaling of the main window. And hey, Rob, great to see you here as well. I'm just trying to think, what was your favorite feature of ECAM? I think it was probably, was it Virtual Cam? Was that the one you mentioned on our podcast episode? My mind's gone blank. And hey, Gretchen, great to see you here as well. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, the Creators Pod podcast, we were all meeting up, having our mastermind sessions for, I suppose it was about six or eight months. Was it before we actually started the podcast and we thought, you know what, these are really valuable and we should probably be sharing these with other people as well. So yeah, I'm glad you're enjoying that Gretchen. Thanks. And another P is here from the Creators Pod. Hey, Michelle, great to see you as well. So the next thing then on my list of things to talk about, would be the, what is it now? Scene building. So this is something that has been, I suppose, enabled by the camera switcher. So there's a couple of really great features that I love in the camera switcher that are all related to building out scenes. And especially if you are collaborating with people as well. So let's talk about the camera switcher a little bit because it is to me one of the highlights or four highlight features. So if I come into this view a minute, it's always like I have to talk to myself to tell me what I'm going to do, but there you go. I'm going to move the scenes window over here and I'll move the overlays window over here as well. I'll just close down some of these things so there's a bit more room for you to see what's going on. There we go. So the camera switcher then is more than just a camera switcher. Obviously you can use it for switching the camera that you're on. So I'm on this camera at the moment, but I could just switch to that one. So just as we can switch cameras with the regular camera switcher, if you're using scene sources camera, then it works in that way. And this is one case where I am actually using scene source rather than building up a scene from scratch. But let's go and start to build a scene from scratch with just a blank scene to start with. I'll just make this a little bit smaller and then I'll stick this up here so that we've got a little bit more space and I'll zoom in a little bit more. I've been a guilty of not zooming too enough. I'll move that down there. Right, so if we have another scene and I'm going to call this scene one and then we're starting with a blank scene. So let's say that we want to have a scene that is maybe my camera. The thing that I love about it is you can just drag and drop cameras onto the scene like that. So I can drag and drop this camera over here, obviously way too small, move it like that. And let's say I wanted to do something with my top-down shot. I could just drag that onto the scene as well. It's upside down at the moment, but we can fix that. One thing I like about the camera switcher now as well is that you can easily get into the camera settings for any camera by hitting this little sort of magic wand icon and that is going to load up the camera effects window. Now, I'm zoomed in so I can't see where it is. Let me just zoom out a second. It's obviously appeared completely off-screen somewhere that I don't want it. I'll zoom back in again like that. So yeah, the ability to just basically select the camera and bring up the camera effects for that particular camera is great. A nice little shortcut. I often found myself thinking that I was adjusting one camera and then realizing I was adjusting the other because previously we'd have to come in here and change it. So the ability to just be able to click on the camera that you want to adjust is really useful. And so in here you can just rotate the camera. So let's say I want my top-down camera the right way around and then build out the scene this way. I'm not going to make anything too pretty. I'm just sort of showing the point really. I'll bring that one to the front like that. So let's say I'm creating a simple scene with top-down shot and this one over the top of it, something like that. So then if I was to create another scene and what I'll actually do is I'm demoing something here and I've done it completely the wrong way around. What I should have done is gone into this one and use the placeholder cameras. So the point about this is maybe I could just skip over that and pretend I meant to do that. The thing about this is if I was using a couple of camera links or something like that and then these cameras got switched up because they were sometimes the Mac sort of forgets which camera was which, then it's going to put these two in maybe the wrong place. Or if you're building out a scene for somebody else, so say you're actually creating a scene for a whole run of show or a whole show for somebody, either it might be a co-producer or something like that where one of you is building it and one of you is then running the show or maybe you're offering this as a service to actually design and build scenes for people, then what would happen before is if you've got lots of scenes, I mean you can see just how many scenes I use here for Take One Tech. I've got a load in different folders as well specifically for this. So if something were to happen where one of my cameras would be switched with another one in terms of the Mac just not recognizing which cam link was which or if I wanted to build out something like this for somebody else, they would have to then go through every single scene and actually change the camera. So say that this shouldn't be a top-down shot for the other person, maybe it should be a different camera angle or something like that, maybe this one, then they would have to go through and manually change that in all of their scenes. Whereas if we do this instead using placeholder cameras we can just get rid of these. Look at that, it now looks like I meant to do that. And we just drop in these placeholder cameras. So say camera B is going to be here and camera A is going to be over here like this. Then what we can do is when you've been out and built all of your 2, 3, 5, 50 scenes or whatever it is and you've sent this over to your co-producer then all they need to do is come into this camera switcher and into the A B source here and then they can just select which camera they want to go in that place. So maybe this one in the top corner is a different camera and maybe this one should be this one. Where has it gone? Here. It looked like I didn't add that one into the scene. Let me try that again. I'm making a bit of a hash of this but don't tell anyone. So there we go. If I put that one back up to the top so you can see here in the scenes it actually makes a lot more sense. You've got camera A, camera B but actually although there is usually just camera A and B is in this placeholder camera section to begin with you can just keep going and adding more so it's up to you how many placeholder cameras you want to define and then you can just go and add those into all your scenes and then as I say the person you send it to you just then have to instruct them okay camera A is your main shot, camera B is the one from the other side perhaps camera C is maybe of your guest camera D is maybe a top down shot whatever it is you can build out all of these complex scenes and then the person that you send this to all they have to do is just literally go and select which camera they want and then it will sort of propagate I think that that is a really useful feature to have Hey Eileen, great to see you here and hey Greg, great to see you too need more zoom I was not zoomed in enough maybe I'll have to try and work on that the one that I did in my other thing which bit was it that I wasn't zoomed in on enough was it the detail on the thing or had I just zoomed in too much I can never tell sarcasm is difficult to get over the camera switcher there let me just zoom in on that a little bit more if I wasn't fully zoomed in on it because the point that you need to just note with this camera switcher is placeholder cameras so when you open the camera switcher up this one all sources is going to show you all of your cameras the A, B one is the placeholder cameras so this camera A, B and C are the ones that you're going to want to be using for those placeholder cameras incidentally preferences up again that's fully zoomed out what you'll notice as well is these placeholder cameras A and B here those relate directly to the recording and the recording isolated video so when you're recording isolated video you're selecting basically camera A and camera B and what you'll notice is it does actually tell you which one it is so I've got two different capture cards actually so they don't get confused and the live streamer cap 4k is a different capture card but that's basically relating to what I've got selected as that camera so if I select this other camera for example so I'll change that to this one you'll notice how it changes in there as well so it does actually tell you which one you are indeed capturing so that is the the recording, that is the camera switcher and how that relates to the ISO one thing about ISO then is and that's another sort of headline feature I won't go too much into it other than it is just two cameras of your sort of the ones that are linked to your computer that you can record and then your interview guests I think I said in the previous live stream that I said about the features that I was looking forward to I think it was not last week but the week before in 4.0 I mentioned that interview guests were coming in at 1080p it's actually the feed might be 1080p but the ISO recording is only 720p for interview guests so that is just another thing to be aware of is that the ISO guest recording is still 720p and that's just going to be because obviously it's quite a processor in heavy tasks to be encoding yet another feed so there's a big difference between 720p and 1080p in terms of file size and encoding job that it needs to do so that was a little error that I made in my previous live stream just about this let me come back to my main scene for a second so the other thing about it is as I say it is only two cameras although those are going to be 1080p for your camera A and camera B recording and that's regardless of what you've got your stream size set to so if you have got your stream size set to 4k you are still going to record that in 4k it's just these ISO videos and I'm sure as we get better faster processors then that's something that may be increased in the future there was a... the reason for my confusion is we did have a way of testing this so we were testing with 1080p in our little moderator group and so we were able to record that way so I got a little bit confused but anyway so that is the couple of my favourite things about the camera switch in particular and how I'm using that next I just want to mention my e-cam live master class so if you are using e-cam live and you want to understand everything how to use it and other things associated with it so how to do things like these on-screen graphics I've got quite a few questions actually of people asking me how I did this particular thing in e-cam so that's just done with keynote but I've got a whole section in the e-cam live master class about how to use keynote and create immersive online presentations using e-cam so the e-cam live master class is not just e-cam but it's the other things around it and a whole sort of series of tutorials on using stream deck how to use that effectively as well it was my intention that this would all be updated ready for the release of e-cam 4 but I'm still in the process of uploading some videos so it will be updated in maybe a day two days at a time so had some major technical issues over the past couple of days but anyway I won't bore you with those but e-camlivemasterclass.com once you sign up you get lifetime access and that includes any updates so all of those updates for 4.0 will be in here and then when 4.1.4.2.5 come out that will all be updated as well so the idea is it's basically your online encyclopedia for all things e-cam live and they're broken down into small bike size chunks as well so you can always just go and find the exact little thing that you want to learn how to do or refresh your memory on how to do so that is the e-cam live master class go and check that out e-camlivemasterclass.com the next thing then that I want to talk about is widget overlays because as I say not necessarily one of my favorite features but there's a couple of points to make about it which is that previously widget overlays were only for people on the pro plan whereas now it is just available to everyone regardless of the plan you're on it's also not dependent on whether you're on intel mac or a apple silicon so things that are processed are heavy like ISO recording for example like the increase from 4 to 10 interview guests those are all dependent on you having apple silicon mac whereas the things I've talked about so far I'll just work on any plan any mac as well well I say any mac maybe not a 20 year old one but you get the point so yeah in terms of the widget overlays then the main thing that has been added into this is the ability to actually interact with it so if I just get a video I should have been a little bit more prepared let me go to my youtube channel and I'll take one of my videos so that I don't get into trouble but what I'll do is I'll just grab a URL for a video and I'll show you how to do this as I said I did demo this but I was on a 4K display and I didn't zoom in at all so it was obviously a little bit on the on the small side to see so maybe you didn't see the actual detail of it so just bear with me one sec I'll get a video up why not play the video from the other day I'll just hit pause on this okay so what I'm going to do then is and let me try and do this a bit more zoomed in I've got a video here and I'm just going to take the URL for this video I'm going to copy this URL and then I can move this out of the way and then now I shall zoom in to this screen a little bit more so we're talking about widget overlays and so they are just down here so this one just down at the bottom corner I beg your pardon this one up here get it right Alec this one new widget overlay I'm not thinking straight ever the professional click on that and it's going to pop up this box allowing you to add a widget overlay so here this is for things like you know like my buy me a coffee link for example when if somebody buys me a coffee on the live stream this is not a hint by the way but I've got a little widget overlay that pops up that will you know pop onto the screen and so they're used for that sort of stuff I also have for like super chat subscribers, new channel members and stuff like that that will pop up during the live stream if that happens like so it's they're triggered by events so typically I think widgets have been used for these kind of things you can also use what's it called there's a surface called UNO I think something like that which allows you to have somebody else basically adding widgets or adding things onto your screen I've got to do a video about that service by the way but it basically means like if you're doing things with I don't know tools or things like that or just general overlays you can create them in UNO it's run online in a browser so anybody else anywhere else in the world can be controlling it and then it will be putting that information onto your screen by using these widget overlays but you can just simply add in a URL here as well of anything so if I add in a URL of a YouTube video for example it's going to default to this size so so 2080 by 720 I'll come back to these three options in a moment but if I just click add widget overlay now you'll have to bear with me maybe the audio is going to come through this straight away if I click on add widget overlay it should load up that video or rather it should load up that YouTube page now let me just switch this on and see if I can pause it in time I'm going to switch that off so the thing that is really different about this though is previously widget overlays you could do this before however there was no control over it whereas now what we've got is the ability to actually interact and it's this option just down here what's happening something's frozen up on my computer there we go it's this option just down here this one with a little picture of a hand with a finger and you can toggle this one on and off when you've got it toggled on it means that you can actually interact with that video or whatever so now you can see that now I've got that actually controlling the the overlay itself so I can click in here to play I can pause the video like that for some reason it's going really slow not quite sure what's going on there that's not e-cam that is my computer my network but here you can see that I'm basically being able to interact with it so if I click on the pause there it's going to pause so another thing that you might do with this is I can get out of here for a second got some issues on my computer at the moment let me try this a different way there we go I'll come back to that I'll just hide that for a second it's my process is maxing out you can Eileen use a screen share to a website and I'll show you how to do that right now so if I come into here and I'll just go to my website and I'll just copy that from here and so then I would just do exactly the same thing if I come into here I'll add in a screen share something is taking up this is the issue I thought I'd solve this problem if you look right up at the top there 100% processor something is chewing up my processor because it shouldn't be doing quite this much but yeah Eileen if you click on this one again and then if I was to just load in a web page it got like this and then add would you overlay then it is just going to show a website and the thing that you've got then is if I zoom in again now if I go to say interact I'm going to click that to interact and then let's say I go to my store where you can find my courses things like that but you do have this back button now so you've got the forward and back button there and then you've got the reload button so basically you can actually just embed a website in this way and then navigate it that way so it is a really interesting feature or really useful feature and it's especially useful if you are using if you are wanting to demonstrate websites and things like that it's maybe got the screen real estate for them so it just means it's embedded in the scene like that I just heard a notification going off in the background but I think I missed it because something was covering up so I'm not quite sure what that was but it sounded like maybe my buy me a coffee someone's just bought me a coffee thank you very much I think I had inadvertently covered up my own widget talking about widgets but anyway so that is widget overlays and as I say it's not necessarily one of the things that is like my headline features because I tend to do screen sharing because I've just got as you can see a large screen to be able to put all of this stuff on and just be able to share stuff sort of ad hoc if you like but yeah I think it is really useful to be able to have these web pages embedded like that and even if it's just a static web page it means that if you just want to grab a screenshot of a web page well you can actually just add it in that way the other thing I should mention whilst we are on that if I just bring up my that YouTube widget that I had up there I just need to pause this again and then I'll zoom into it a little bit the thing that I mentioned about those other options if I click on the settings for that widget these ones here high resolution mode keep running and fill entire frame if you select fill entire frame let me just turn off the audio there we go it was starting to play in the background if I select fill entire frame that's basically going to fill the whole of your screen with not the whole of the screen the whole of the e-cam screen though with the widget so if you are playing a video or something like that that may be something that you want so it's going to just actually play it full screen the other thing is if you want to have a video where you can play and pause it if I switch to another scene and then you want to come back to that scene again then you want to select that keep running because otherwise what will happen is if I switch to another scene now and come back to this scene then this video will just start playing again from the beginning so whereas if you come over to the widget then if you come over to here and select keep running then basically if you switch to a different scene and then come back to this scene then it will pick up sort of where it left off one thing to bear in mind with this is it is just taking the web widget from the the internet so sorry the web page in this case from the internet so if you are using like I use youtube premium obviously however I can't be logged into youtube actually in here so it's just going to take it with the web and so there you could see it's got that it had that that played however what you can do is if you have that keep running selected then you can sort of queue up the video in advance and then it would just start from the beginning the other thing that you can obviously do is use the option key and then just crop into a particular area of the screen so I am still interacting with this so what you probably want to do is go up to the top and I will just stop where am I now I am interacting too much with it my I see a max studio on my list of studio updates in the near future you get the idea though you can just sort of crop into that so you could crop into the video area there we go just something like that stop scrolling around but yeah so you can crop into the video and then use it like that I'll just gloss over the technical issues today hello Transplant Helper what's your name by the way just so I can address you properly I'm glad you've found the videos useful though and hopefully learning a bit more from this one hopefully how not to make a presentation because I'm making a bit of a hash of it but don't tell anyone what was the sort of next major feature was the widget overlays and just one I wanted to touch on because I didn't do a great job of explaining that previously the final thing though that I want to talk about is specifically the stream deck updates and I suppose also the loop deck updates as well although as I mentioned I've just got tired of loop decks so I've finally just removed it from my desk it is now a fully functional door stop hey Jim great to see you great to have you here hey Jim thanks for stopping by so yeah it is these stream deck implementations and updates and I suppose it's kind of linked to one of the core features in any case which is the time stamp feature that have been added in so first of all I'll just say that this is something you can do without stream deck so if I come into my screen share here and if you go into recording whilst you are recording you've got this option to add marker and add marker with info if I click add marker what you'll see down here on my screen when I click that it says marker added and so it's now basically added a time stamp into a text file so at the end of the live stream I will get a as well as the recording as well as any ISO video audio recordings I'll also get a text file that will have a series of time stamps and it will start with 00,00 start and then the other times throughout the live stream that I hit that button so like now we're at what are we 30 minutes in something like that so if I hit the add marker I'll just get a text file at the end that will say whatever that time was and that's useful if you are just on a live stream and you want to if I say any pools of wisdom which is not happening today and when you press the button you could say if you want to go back and clip something out for example or you want to remember a particular point just drop that in but the really useful one though is in the recording here you've got the option to add marker with info and if I click that one it actually comes up here with add marker and I can give it a name so this might be I could just call it whatever it is whatever the chapter is and then click that and add it or just obviously the name of the section whatever and in fact that is ridiculous I wouldn't call it chapter fee the YouTube video I want to put my time stamps along the bottom and here is where I'm talking about e-cam live chapter markers I can type I can never type and stream at the same time like that and click add now I'm actually in that text file I will get a time stamp with the time and then that title so it's actually really useful for going through and putting time stamps into your videos obviously you're not going to stop and type it out during the live stream though so that's where the stream deck button I think is really useful so if I share my stream deck screen for a second hopefully this should work a little bit better than my full screen sharing he says where's it gone now? hang on a minute where are we? this one so in stream deck in the e-cam live plugin I say this every time I've got to say it again there are so many buttons in here related to e-cam they've just done such a good job of implementing anything you could pretty much want to do in e-cam you can do with stream deck but it's this one here is the new one that was added in this add marker and so if you drop that on here then first of all just use it to add a marker just like I've shown you where it just puts in the time but if you want to create chapter markers specifically then you can go ahead and add that text in there so e-cam live what's it called time stamp feature like that so if you're setting these things up ahead of time then you can create your entire run of show so that as you're going through the live stream you can just hit this and it will put in that time stamp so that is just really handy to be able to do those and that's what I do in advance with things like well this one for example so if I hit this one if you want to book a consultation to talk about anything related to e-cam look at this my stream deck hang on a minute my tech issues continue today everything is not working today for me I pulled out everything from my studio yesterday and I've put it all back together and it was working I think this is my computer issue let me try that again shall I see if that works this time no it's not going to work for me how ridiculous but here we can see this one which is so this one which is my little call to action to book a consultation so I have a little pop out that pops out on screen and so here you can see I've got it playing an animation and posting a comment but what I could do is to use this marker feature let's say I was going to talk about my e-cam live masterclass for example which I did previously what I could do is I could switch scene in here so if I go to create new multi-action sometimes the tech demos don't go right if I go to the multi-action and let's say run scene and I do actually have a scene in e-cam which is specifically for my masterclass look at that my stream deck is not connecting that is weird it was fine up until a couple of moments ago and now my stream deck is not connecting you just have to bear with me trust me on this one so run scene I could run my scene that I have for showing my e-cam live masterclass I've got a whole scene for that then I could come down here and click add marker and then at the marker I could give it the name of e-cam masterclass or something like that and then what I could do is I could also go to this one to post comment and then I could in here I could put a comment saying check out the masterclass at take one tech I beg your pardon ecamlivemasterclass.com so you could add that in and so there that is a multi-action and so then what's going to happen is when I press that button it's going to switch to the relevant scene it's going to post the link in and then it's also going to add in that time stamp and so if you've got a series of scenes set up with different titles and things like that then you'd be able to just go through and basically press one after the other and you'd have your entire video time stamped your entire live stream time stamped and it would be doing that thing of posting those comments and in fact that is another new feature was this one here which was post comments so previously you've had show and hide comments well now you've also got the option to post a comment as well and so if I come here click on post comment then you can see that you can select what you want to type in there and so you can have that for so if you've got stuff you know check out my website whatever you might want to post in your live stream links to affiliate links if you're talking about a particular product or something like that that you're going to talk about in your run of show in your live stream you could have your affiliate link to the product on Amazon or whatever it happens to be I'm sure you can think of reasons why you might want to have predefined comments I'm sure Mr. Moderator Paul in the chat has a whole load of these set up because he's on a live stream you know like in the e-cam group and things like that these buttons are just being pressed and stuff's just appearing in the chat so yeah it's really really useful to have these sorts of things although actually now I take that back because you have to be running the show as it was so it has to be your stream so it's probably not using this feature but anyway you get the idea though so that is another really great feature is the stream deck incidentally there's a couple of other things that I do with multi-actions in e-cam so we'll just mention those this is not a 4.0 thing at all but I do use multi-actions and one of the ones I use is this button just up here so although all my videos generally are done in one take although I have to say that one and a half hour e-cam for update video I did end up doing a minor editing chopping out some bits where my computer melted down a couple of times during it but generally what I do is I just record these videos for my channel I hit record, record them and then it is done so although it's generally one take it's not necessarily the first take and so the channel name is a bit it's more like one take take rather than take one take but any case what usually happens is I often just completely screw up the intro and so I think I'll just need to start that again so usually it's the first two to ten seconds that I often start again and so what I did is I created this multi-action because in e-cam if you press the end button the button to stop recording then what you get is that you get that little pop-up on screen and then you have to dismiss that now what you may not know is that the record button in e-cam live so it's called go live and finish and if you add it onto here I won't press it now but you can see how it says go live I'm not connecting to e-cam for some reason with my stream deck it's to do with my dock I've probably got plugged into the wrong hub or something but this button here when you are not streaming then it's going to say if you're set to live stream it will say go live if you've got e-cam set to record rather than live stream it will say record and if you are recording it will say end to actually end the live stream that button though will also dismiss that little pop-up that comes up so you know when you finish recording in e-cam you get that window that pops up on screen which says view file in folder in finder post to youtube and now the other thing that we've added in in this version is also center descript so that little window that pops up on the screen actually if you hit the record button again this button it will dismiss that pop-up so because as I say I start recording then I think I just want to start this thing over again what I did was I created this multi-action that's basically just three actions and you can see what I've got there it's basically hits the record button which stops the recording and then it's got a delay of two seconds which gives it time to stop recording process the recording and for that little window to pop up on the screen on e-cam and then you press it again and then it presses the record button again to clear that off the screen so basically that little multi-action means that if I start recording and I think no scrap it I'm going to start again I just press that button and it just does everything to dismiss the pop-ups and all that kind of stuff it's only a little thing but it just saves me a couple of presses and I find it a little bit more efficient so that is just another little way that I use multi-actions on here lots of other different multi-action things that I use in stream deck I'll be doing a whole series of videos to update my stream deck videos because there's quite a few things that I've changed in stream deck since I've been making videos about it so that is all to come and now I'm just trying to change scenes with stream deck again and once again it's not quite working I've got quite a few technical difficulties today in case it didn't show so with that I think that's probably a good place to wrap it up because those are basically four sort of standout features that I just wanted to touch on and go into a little bit more depth and in some cases just literally zoom in on let me just check if you've got any other questions about e-count do feel free to let them come in and indeed take 3, take 4 who's counting so yeah if you've got any other questions though about e-count 4 then drop them in feel free to pop into my discord server as well so take one tech.io family you can pop in there and then get any questions answered in there you can bet there are going to be a whole series more videos about e-cam I did want to do my 4.0 update the video I released yesterday as you know a complete update of all of the new features but I will be diving into more detail in some of them into into specific standalone videos and ideally when I don't have quite so many tech issues thanks though for for stopping by and joining the live stream I'll keep this one short and sweet and hope you all have a fabulous day and enjoy e-cam 4 let me know in the comments though what your favourite feature is as well and yeah have a great time everyone and I'll catch you later and what I need to do now is only to say I'll leave some e-cam videos over here for the people watching on the replay and thanks as ever to my channel members for keeping my nan lights buzzing have a great day everyone bye bye