 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We're going to be talking all about e-cam live and this is something that has funnily enough I haven't really talked about much on my channel of late I did start off making a whole load of videos all about e-cam It was almost, you know, 90% of my content for the beginning, but it's something that I haven't really talked about at length for a while and specifically with Black Friday coming around or here in even it's there's no better time to jump into e-cam It is the software that I use to create all of my videos live in one take with no edits Incidentally, if you're new to the channel, that's why it's called that take one tech because I do make all of my videos in one take With no edits as you can probably tell watching some of them by my little slip-up some somewhat bumbling nature in the videos, but it has really enabled me to create all that content So when I started my channel two and a half years ago, whatever it was now I sent myself the target of making a hundred videos in a hundred days And I had limited time to do that each day And so it was really a test bed for me to practice this process of making videos in one take and honestly without e-cam I would simply just not have had the time and not have all of the content that I've got up on my channel So I can certainly say that without e-cam, my channel certainly would not be as it is today But out of my channel grew an entire business in itself So I mentioned that I was practicing the process of making videos in one take Well that will create in course content for other businesses that I was involved in But as it turned out take one tech grew into this thing all of its own and I've now created many courses around the sort of content that I make on take one tech as Standalone courses and guess what software I use to make all of those courses. Of course, it is e-cam live It is live production software, which means that You can get everything set up in advance So, you know get your different scenes set up as we'll talk about in a moment With your different sort of camera shots if you like different things that you want to share and so on and then you're just sort of Basically switching between those in a live fashion So I'm going to go right back to the basics today and sort of talk about how you go about doing that in e-cam So for those of you that are more than familiar with e-cam then a lot of this won't be new to you But I will be sharing some of my Methodologies and practices along the way as well. So there may well I'm sure be some new little nuggets of information In here for you as well The other thing that came out of using e-cam though was realizing that e-cam's got this great little thing called a virtual camera Which means that all of the sort of live production that you can do within e-cam You can then just channel that into any other meeting platform like zoom teams and so on and Really just allows you to bring that high Production quality into your zoom meetings and team meetings and that's really where the focus of you know All that I've been doing with take one tech is you know teaching people how to level up their online presence in their content But also in their meetings their webinars and so on and it is just literally Being a game changer for me It has changed what I'm doing in my life and it has just changed the whole direction of things So I've got to just say a big thank you to e-cam and the development team behind it to the massive development team team of Ken and Glenn the twins and And obviously all of the other e-cam support stuff as well because it as I say has been a real enabler for me and Sort of removed some of the barriers that I was putting in my own way previously With perfectionism, you know trying to get that perfect take of videos and so on there was something really liberating about e-cam when I discovered it that That enabled me to just sort of create the content that I wanted to create and then bringing that into meetings to be Just have the tech get out of the way so that I can get on with just delivering whatever value it is that I'm trying to deliver in Courses meetings webinars and so on so With all of that said I should probably immediately say right off the bat that it is Black Friday weekend cyber weekend And e-cam do have a special offer on e-cam at the moment, which is 40% off their annual plans Using the code cyber 23. I'll talk about that a little bit later as well But if you've missed the cyber weekend, don't worry You can get 15% off all of the plans all of the time on e-cam simply by using the offer code take one tech And I'll talk about that a little bit later on as well But to begin with though, let's start with taking a look at e-cam Shall we and what can happen when people first come into e-cam is it may be a little bit overwhelming when you see You know lots of things on the screen, so let's take a look at what that actually looks like So here I'm using a feature of e-cam called live demo mode Which is intended to just basically show everything that is going on in e-cam at the moment now I've got a few different things open on my screen here So what I intend to do is actually sort of slim this all down so that we're not starting with all of these different things open But rather we'll just sort of build this up as we as we go along So all of these different windows around here you've got let me just move that one out of the way That's just to find a window all of these different things over here though What they call utility windows and these are things that you can show or hide depending on what you want to what you want to see So let's just get rid of all of those In fact, we'll get all rid of all of those except this one just up on the left-hand side here And this window here where you can see these different controls. This is called the e-cam live main window So when I refer to the main window, that's going to be this one if I refer to any of these other windows Those are all the utility windows and those are for different ways that we can control e-cam and incidentally I'll talk about stream deck later as well because the way that e-cam integrates with stream deck. It is a Match made in heaven. It just really makes the whole thing so much more effortless Whether it's creating content or in meetings But first of all we'll talk about this concept of scenes The scenes that you have in e-cam are you could think of them as you know Scenes of a of a play at the theatre or something like that's where you've got these different views or in a movie or whatever That are the different views of you that you want on screen So maybe I want to have this view here this scene here Which is me obviously face on if I press a button on my stream deck momentarily I can switch over to this one Hello, this is another scene. So these things here are two distinct scenes one of them I've got this camera over here and another one. I've got to this camera over here So those would be two distinct scenes Everything that is within that scene then is what they call an overlay So that is you could think of this as well like slides in a PowerPoint presentation or keynote For example, you know You've got a particular view and then you've got the elements then in that scene that are making up the the scene itself Now actually what I've got here is There's a couple of things. There's actually my camera, but you can see there's a really subtle border I haven't gone overboard these days on my sort of design and how I sort of lay out all of these things But if I was to bring up my overlays window and incidentally this scenes window here What I've done is rather than start with a completely blank canvas For this demo. I have just left in all of my original scenes, but I've kind of collapsed them all down into here So I've got all of the scenes that I use in in take one take down here various different scenes But I've just sort of collapsed those out of the way to begin with But I will just bring up the overlays window momentarily So you can get to these with different windows from these buttons down the right hand side here So here we've got some buttons here. I'm going to just click on this second one down Which is the button for the The overlays so this is basically all of these different elements that I was mentioning that we've got in the scene itself Now at the moment We've got the camera and if I was to just turn off the camera You can see that I've got a pretty plain background going on there And we can get rid of that completely and now we've just got a black Square going on in the background I tell you what would have been useful is if I'd changed the color of my my desktop so that you can actually see the window a little bit Better, but never mind. We've got these sort of black on black going on there But that is the main window and it's completely empty at the moment Now incidentally when you first start ecam there will be this thing where it starts off with just your primary camera As the sort, you know sort of filling the scene and the original way that ecam used to you work was It would always start off with your main camera and then you would be able to switch cameras Just like within the scene itself like this if I just press a different camera number It will switch over to a different camera just like this And all I'm doing there is just pressing the keys to toggle between those different cameras However, I would always recommend rather than having the sort of main primary source of the scene Being a camera. I would always start with a completely blank canvas because this was a Something that was introduced in a later version of ecam that then allowed you to add in Different camera elements onto the screen individually as overlays So if I come over to the overlays menu down here or the overlays window Down at the bottom these are the different things that we can add into the to the scene that we've got So we've got image overlays so you can have any sort of image come up So that could be anything from you know, a little image like this that you can just drop in and you can add Animated overlays so that could be something like like a little name tag That's gonna pop out something like that a little animation and I'll come to how we do all of these a little bit later You've also got a screen share overlays as well So that is where you want to share a portion of your screen which we'll talk about and then we've got text Shapes and so on but I'm just gonna for now Press this little camera icon down here and this is going to drop in a Camera overlay and you can see that it's defaulted to this particular camera Let me just come in and change the settings of this for a moment I'll just change that to this camera a and I'll talk through what I'm doing here in a moment Let's get that to here So usually what happens is when you drop in a camera the default camera is going to come up And it will usually default to this sort of 16 by 9 aspect ratio as well But you can see that we can drop that Anywhere on the screen. Let me just actually change my desktop background while while we're doing this because it will make a Lot of difference to be able to actually see the contrast between the desktop and the the actual place where we're working So let me just quickly come over to here I'll go to wallpaper on this screen and Let's just get this changed out for you It is that one just there As this struggles to do what it's doing. I tell you what I'll do I will just quickly come back out of this for a second and we'll come back into demo mode in a moment So what I'm gonna do is try and change my my wallpaper so that contrast is a little bit better However, what is happening is Just not having any of it Dear, I've got one of the new MacBooks coming on Monday And I think my little Mac Mini is is is getting a little bit jealous and give me issues We changed the wallpaper on here I might have to abort to this idea for the time being let me come back to this this demo then Fun and games. I'll wait for that to come up itself So let's let's just move swiftly on what I'll do is I'll just sort of show you how you can basically adjust these different Camera positions, so it's simply drag and drop. I'm moving this thing round on the the screen You just get my promos back over and everything seeming to have some little issues today Don't do that Wait a second come back here. There we go Yep, so I can position the the camera anywhere on screen You'll notice that there are those little lines that appear on the screen as well showing me that that is now sort of centered on the horizontal and vertical access Axis there are also some sort of bound it bounding box things that come on as well So you can see that blue line that's around the outside and now I can sort of drag this and it would align to to that box And it would show me when that is lined up. And so we've got sort of a bit of a border on the back and you can change the Camera that you're using so if I click on this little pencil icon over here And my promos is still not coming up promos is the application I use to Demonstrate things on screen. Let me just try and see if I can fix these multitude of slight issues that are going on All right, I think I might have got to the bottom of my display issues. Let's do this. There we go That's a little bit a little bit bright actually but never mind One of the benefits of ecum is that you can do all of this sort of stuff on the fly as you can see In terms of creating get scenes but There we go. So now you can see the outline of the box that we're working in that might be a little bit bright But you can still see what's going on in ecum a little bit better. I hope So let me just come back over here so we can come in click into here and we can change this Let me just come back over here so we can come in click into here and we can choose the particular camera So I've got multiple different cameras attached. So if I was to click in here, it would be this camera I've got another camera attached here, which is my sort of top-down camera But for the time being let's go back and put that as as this one So we can position our camera you can position multiple cameras though So if I come in here and I click on the little pencil icon I can also change the the size of this so we've got that currently in wide format 16 by 9 but you can change 4 by 3 square circle squircle tall format if you want And so I could position that on the screen just like this And then I could also hold down the option key to duplicate it And then I could just come over here select the little pencil icon And maybe we could make that one to be the top-down camera Why not and how about if I come into here change the shape of it and this time I'm going to select custom Which is you can make it basically any aspect ratio you want And then just like that I've got a scene setup with me on one side And the content that I want to talk about my top-down camera whatever on the other side You can also adjust the positioning you know you might think that it looks a little bit I'm a little bit too small in that window over on the left hand side So I'm going to click on the little pencil icon here to see which camera I'm on So I'm on the cam link 4k but then what I can do is I can actually go in and edit the camera settings So over on the right hand side you'll see that there's this little sort of magic one button These buttons down the side open up various different of these utility panels that I was talking about So this one is one of the other ones that I had open previously This is the camera effects window here And if I click on the zoom and pan feature Then I can basically just zoom in on my camera to get that to the size that I want it on the screen And then also I can grab the little image down here You'll see that the area that I'm sort of zoomed in on in the little window over on the right hand side here Is sort of grayed out or rather lighter in the area that I'm zooming in on So I can just zoom in a little bit more just like that and get that exactly where I want it on the screen So it's really easy to just sort of build out scenes And now we might have this scene we might want to create a completely new scene So if I click on the little new scene button down at the bottom here We might want to have another one which is maybe if I just add in a camera overlay again It's going to default to the last aspect ratio and the last camera that you chose So maybe this one I might want to have one of those other cameras Let's say not that one that's my desktop Let's bring in this one instead So perhaps I want to have this one here So now what we've got in our scenes though is we've got our main scene which was this one here Which I've now changed a little bit and then we've got this one over here So you can see that we're just sort of clicking between those two scenes So that's how easy it is to create different scenes with different sort of views in it What you might want to do though is have some sort of consistency across all of your scenes And you saw that the way that I've done this in my original scene at the beginning In fact let me just duplicate this one And I'll call this one top down, how about that And then what I'll do is I'll come back to this main scene And I'll just sort of reset that to what it was in the beginning by just deleting these and putting that back So let's look at this then, we've got our main scene, we've got our top down And then we've got our new scene over there which is the sort of side shot So quite simply we've just got three scenes But you can see that apart from the border around the cameras There's no sort of real consistency there or nothing that's sort of uniting them all together So what you can do is just take an image and drop that into the background So here I've got some little files here in my finder So if I just were to drop this image And this by the way is just a 16x9, just something to give a little bit of interest And if I just simply drop that onto Ecum It will by default just drop that into the current scene And it's going to be now over the top of everything But the way that overlays work, and that is by the way just an image overlay The way that you can organize your overlays If you look in this right hand corner here Is we've got the overlay here that I've just dropped in which is I can rename that, let me just call this background Like that Then you can just simply drag these down further down the list So this is basically just acting as layers So if I drag that down into the bottom Then it would be now underneath the camera So you can see how that works However, if I go back to my other scene It's not there, is it? Because it was only dropped into that particular current scene So this is a way to introduce the fact that in the overlays window here There are three different places where overlays can appear Either they're going to be in the show in all scenes This place just over the top here Or they're going to be further down in the show in current scene Which is where this background image is at the moment And so that's only going to apply to the current scene Show in all scenes will be at the top Anything that is higher up in this list Down at the bottom right here, bottom left Anything that's higher up in there Is going to be sort of higher up in the layer stack So it's going to be visible So show in all scenes basically means It's going to be over the top of all of your different scenes Showing current scene is meaning that it's going to be In the current scene that you're currently in, of course But show in background That is actually showing the background of all scenes So although this one specifically says all scenes Show in background doesn't say in all scenes However, it is So if I drop that background into there And then I switch back to my main scene You'll see that we've still got that same sort of border And background around everything So just showing you what that sort of looks like If I come out of here We've got that sort of consistent border then going around here If I switch into this scene We've got that one there And if we come back to this one We've got this scene here But again with that same sort of border Now you might think that that is a little bit of a boring border And we could do something a little bit more interesting Well, obviously you can drop I say obviously You can drop any image in there So you could make it as colourful as you want But you can also drop videos in there as well So if I come over to my scene here Or the overlays If I just remove my camera momentarily That's the pretty plain As I say you might argue background that we've got there But I could hide that And I could bring up just an animation Something like this So this is just a looping movie file from Adobe Stock And now if I was to reactivate that camera Then you could see the effect of this If I stop sharing my screen for a second Is that we've got this sort of background going on And like I say Because it is showing in the background of all scenes Then as I sort of click between these scenes We've got this similar sort of consistent look Across all of them So really it's very quick to sort of build out these things And part of the reason why I'm doing this Is because this live stream today incidentally Is because this was something that I went through With a coaching client just the other day Of talking about who was completely new to Ecamm And talking about how sort of quick and easy it is Actually once you've got your sort of style And your idea of your company branding or whatever To actually build out these scenes And whilst I do have quite a large list of scenes now If I open up all of these And there's a danger of looking at something like this And thinking like do you really need that many Or rather when you're just getting into it Feeling like oh there's potentially a lot of work But actually for most things There are relatively few scenes that you might need And so your Ecamm might very well Specifically from a business point of view If you're creating course content Or if you are using this to go into your online meetings Then really you might well just have A couple of basic scenes One with your main camera Maybe another one with a second camera angle If you're going to be demonstrating stuff Maybe another one with a camera angle like this The other thing that you might want to do though Is you might want to do a screen share That's a very common thing for people to do So let's look at that example And then we'll talk about how to Basically integrate this with stream deck as well So the first thing then is If I come to this top down shot Maybe you might want to say Well let's make another version of this particular scene But let's use a screen share Instead of this second camera angle So in the scenes window There is a button at the bottom to add a new scene But there's also this one to duplicate And that's just going to create a copy of the current scene So if we want to use this as a starting point Then I could come over to here Rename this as Screen share like that And then what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to come and add in A screen share overlay So down in the overlays window at the bottom There is actually Let me just try this one more time To actually load up ProMouse Because it seems like it's not Not liking this at all ProMouse to be open Not quite sure why that's not loading up Anyway, it would just help with the Little demo so you'd be able to see Where my mouse pointer was But having duplicated that and called it screen share I'm going to come down to the little icons At the bottom of the overlays window And add in a screen share overlay And now you can see we've got this Extra box on the screen here Now the default that it's going to do Is it's going to share your primary desktop So what this is doing now Is it's doing one of my other desktops Rather than one that I'm demoing at the moment But you can also come in here And you could We could certainly just share the entire desktop If we wanted to, something like that And let's just hide that other camera So we could certainly do something like that If you wanted to share your whole desktop Normally though You're probably going to want to share something specific So there are a couple of ways that you can do that The first one that is a very obvious And natural built in way So if I wanted to show you a primary desktop It will show you all of the different Applications that you've got open So if I was to click on stream deck for example Then it would show me One of the stream deck windows And it's because I've got my little pedals open Let me just bring up a different, there we go So if I wanted to show the stream deck app for example Then now I can show you That in this way By just simply selecting the app You may want to share your safari Whatever it is So I'm just sharing a safari window Now obviously you can see here That it is sort of Not really the right shape for the window So there are a couple of things you could do here First of all click in the little pencil Click in safari Sorry, click in the shape I should say And we could change that to custom And then I could adjust the shape Of this window here So that it does actually fit The window itself Or fit the application Itself just like that And now just like that we've got a screen share One of the things About that though is You have then got a dedicated scene Specific to that particular Window itself to that particular Application The way that I prefer to work with screen shares Is rather than have an individual scene Tied to safari So in this case if we were to do it this way You would have to name this scene Probably screen share safari Screen share stream deck Or whatever the other applications You wanted to demonstrate were The way that I prefer to work with screen shares though Is if I just reset this for a minute I'm going to set this back to The primary desktop And I'm also going to change the shape Back to the regular Shape like this The way that I work with screen shares Is even if I want to share safari In this case what I'm going to do Is I'm going to actually just crop into That particular area of the screen Holding down the option key When you're hovering over the edge of the window Allows you to crop in like this So you can see that I'm holding down the option key And that is allowing me to crop Into a specific area of the screen And then you can still resize that whole thing And we might want to crop out the toolbar For example at the top or the tab bar Something like that So now you can see that we've got a scene setup And we've got safari nicely Framed in the window The size of me in here a little bit And we've got safari framed in the window Just like that Maybe make that a little bit smaller If we want to get it all nice and neat And lined up Something like that And there we go So we've got a little screen share scene setup now The benefit of doing this though Is although at the moment we are sharing safari If I was to just move the safari window out of the way You can see it disappears off the screen But I could just as easily now Be sharing my stream deck app in there So we've only got one scene here Which is screen share But we can share whatever we want As long as we put it into that particular Place on the screen Now actually the way that I have my screens setup If I come back to this one The way that I have my scenes Set up in ecamm or my screen setup If I just switch over to this other view For a second Here is my teleprompter That's where I'm looking at my ecamm output And I'm doing the demonstration down here On this monitor at the moment Normally I would just have my ecamm output In that window And this would be where all of my ecamm controls are So I'm actually demonstrating this scene for you This screen for you at the moment But normally in calls or whatever I wouldn't actually have it set up quite like this However On my primary monitor here Which is a 43 inch 4k monitor The way that I work with this particular space Is I've got these six different areas Of the screen that I dedicate For different things And I've got ecamm setup so that I could either share This area here This area in the middle This one at the top and then again These six areas down on the bottom So by setting up those distinct zones Of the screen that I can share And then I'll have a scene for each of those If I was to share for example I'll just switch to my screen share now And share this top corner And then I'll flick to this one At the top left side of the screen I've got another one to share The center section Of the screen so all I'm doing there Is I'm just switching scenes in ecamm To share those Different portions of the screen So you just saw a scene that was cropped into here And another scene with the screen shares Cropped into there What that means is I've got the muscle memory now Of being able to know Which button on my stream deck Shares which portion of the screen And then it's very easy for me to just know That I just need to put my content up there And I'll easily be able to switch to it So that is the way that I work With my screen shares Is share a portion of the screen Rather than just the actual application itself Because it means I've got far fewer Screens The other thing that helps with Is if you are using Some sort of application For screen demos Like pro mouse as I use here Let me just come back to the correct screen Oh that's really interesting I've been wondering why my pro mouse Is not working However it just doesn't seem to be working on this monitor Very very peculiar But if I come up over to one of my other screens Let me show you on here This little application That I've got that is highlighting the screen That you can see on the screen That is an application called pro mouse In ecam when you share A specific application Then it is obviously Sharing just the application to the exclusion Of all other apps And since that pro mouse app itself Is an application It means that pro mouse doesn't show up In the output there So That's another reason to share your entire desktop Because then it will share any Application that is within that space So what I mean by that is Like over here We've got this scene where I'm sharing stream deck I could equally be showing part Of my safari in there And also you can see pro mouse Is showing up on the screen as well So that's another reason to share the desktop Is because it means that you can see Everything that is going on there Including your pro mouse Or any other application that you're using Like that for screen demos Just coming back To those scenes that we set up though If I go back over here And I'll come to this screen share One other thing to notice when you are doing anything With screen sharing If I flick to my screen sharing screen My content is actually over On this side of me It's over to the right hand side of me On this monitor What you want to make sure of that Is when you are looking at the content That you're sharing So if I was to look over here at the stream deck app You see how it looks a bit odd Away from the content So always make sure that whichever side of the content You are on You also adjust ecam accordingly So what I would do here Is I would put my camera over on this side And I would put this over on the other side instead So that now when I look at the stream deck app It actually looks to you like I'm looking at the app as well So there is That's just one little thing about setting up Screen shares What I'll show you now quickly is The stream deck though And how we can easily switch these things So if I just come over to My stream deck application And what I'm going to do is show you How to set this up in really Simplistic terms If I come over to stream deck The stream deck itself Just to cover this If you are not familiar I've got several of them on my desk But stream deck is basically A kind of really high tech keyboard in effect All of these different buttons on here Can be programmed And then it simply connects to your computer Over USB So it is effectively a really advanced keyboard But what you can do is Program these keys To control things like ecam I first got to my stream deck Specifically for use with ecam It was only when I got it that I realised That it is the sort of ultimate productivity tool Because you can use it for so much more than that But for ecam it is Really a match made in heaven Because the way that this works is These buttons over here Directly relate in the stream deck app To the buttons that you've got on your physical device So you can drop on Different actions to do different things Now ecam has got this really great plugin That basically means you can control Pretty much anything that you do In ecam you can control With stream deck So at a very basic level though Let's just set up some simple scene switching So here you've got Different things like start and stop recording So when I make my videos As I mentioned sort of one take videos I just press the record button Go ahead do my video create my content And then press the end button and then that's it It's done it's ready to upload to YouTube So that is the sort of go live And finish button there You've got some various other different things But we want this one here which is called run scene We've set up three or four different scenes Haven't we so if I just drop that in here What you'll see is that Down below This is where we've got the button Down below it will say select the item Select the scene and this Will just basically pull in the list of scenes That you've got in ecam So we've got my main scene which is that one That's me sort of front on if you like We've got the top down scene that we created The screen share and then there was Another one that we created That sort of duplicate of it Down there as well but I'm just going to go to the main here So now you'll notice as well It's actually pulled in A little preview So it's got a little preview in that In that window there Which is also on the button itself So now that we've added that button in The button has appeared here And I can actually see a little image of myself in there So it does sort of recognize All of that Actually what I tend to do though Is I tend to create my own icons And I'll talk about icons I've got a discount offer on all of my icons At the moment in my store TakeoneTech.io And use the offer code Friday 23 to get 30% Of everything store-wide over Cyber Weekend but anyway I'll leave a link to that a little bit later So you can see though if I come back to here It has bought in that little Scene icon so if you do want to just use Those previews you can certainly do that as well What I'm going to do is I'm going to add Another one in though Here and I'm going to come down to this Scene and instead of that main scene Let's make that top down scene I'm going to come over here Select run scene and let's make That screen share for example So now I've got three buttons on my stream Deck and if I just press those buttons I'm going to press the main one It goes back to the main scene I'm going to press this one Which is going to go to top down So you can see how I've got these three buttons I press this one and it's going to go to Screen share scene That we set up like that So that's how simple it is to program stream deck So if you spent a little bit of time To just have your scene set up For your virtual meetings or whatever it was Then very quickly You could have your stream deck set up To just switch between those And when it comes to doing some stuff That's slightly more advanced like integrating Keynotes with your presentations Into Ecamm And then feed those into Meeting platforms like Zoom, Vivo meetings or whatever it happens to be Then Some people can sometimes feel like There's a lot going on Well actually when it comes down to it If stream deck is the thing that you're using to control it The stream deck interface can be as simple as you want And as you can see We've really got something very simple going on here But it's allowing me to just sort of switch between these things If you were recording content like this Making screen demos Dropping the little record button here Always wary of actually having this on here Whilst I'm live So I could just delete this right now But that would be the way that you would actually just sort of Start and stop your video recording And so on So that's really the very basics Of using scenes in Ecamm And we've talked about overlays In terms of camera overlays and so on There are other types of overlays That you can use such as animated overlays So you might want to have something like this Either for your content In fact here is a good example If I show you something like this I mentioned about having a discount on my Icon packs And this would be an animated overlay So this little thing that's just appearing on the screen down below That's just an animated overlay If you want to grab my Ecamm live icon pack As I say they're only $10 And there's 30% off Through cyber weekend as well But that little thing that appeared on screen there Just like that Was just A little animated overlay Incidentally I make those animations in keynote But you can do it in whatever application you want Or simply download one from You know, various places that you can get these from Online Another one that you might want to use Is something like this Like a little name tag that pops out So maybe in your meetings or at the beginning of your videos Whatever it is Having something like that that appears on screen So that's just an animated overlay Let's take a quick look at how to How to add those in So if I come back over to my screen here I've got my little finder window And this one that we've just seen Is just this little pop out here So this little animation That's the one that you've just seen on the screen And if I wanted to add that into Ecamm I could simply drag that file And I could drop it into my overlays window Wherever I wanted it So let's say I'll just drop it right at the top there And you can see what's happened It's brought that overlay in Now obviously that's a little bit big But although it is sort of an animation that's running What I can do is still just resize that However I want so I could position that Wherever I want it on the screen Get it the right size Move it around like that One thing to note about animations Is we've got a few extra controls here You'll notice that this play head I've kind of paused it at the moment But there is this play head that's running here You've got some options here of what to do Sort of show and hide this overlay It's going to automatically play When you come into this scene You've also got some options here for where to start Either start from the beginning Start from last location And then also what happens when it finishes So when the video finishes Do you want it to just stay on the screen Do you want it to hide the overlay Or this one here hide and stay hidden So that's actually the one that I use I want it to be that when I activate this overlay So if I just hide it for a second And I'll show it again now When it comes on the screen like this I want it to be that when it's finished It is sort of hidden in the overlays window And what I mean by that Is if you look in the overlays here We've got all these different things And I'll just sort of collapse this down But the way that I was sort of showing And hiding things earlier is You'll notice that there are these little eye icons Just over here next to every Every overlay And I can sort of hide my camera I can hide this movie and show this movie So I want it to be that When this movie finishes This little animation That it is going to actually just hide it completely Off the screen as well And then it will just be completely hidden Now coming back to the stream deck then What we can do with this is If I just go back over to my stream deck In the same way that we've got this thing To activate scenes here So we've got these three buttons for scenes What we've also got Is we've also got Show and hide overlay And play animation So I'm going to click on this one play animation And I'm just going to select The name pop out Which is what I've called that one And now when I press that button On my stream deck here There we go it's just played That animation for me So that's how we would sort of activate that Another thing that you might want to do then Is just sort of show An image on the screen for example So an example of that would be If I come over here We can just drop in Any image that we want into the scene And I've got one of these set up Which happens to be If you want to learn all about how to Use this kind of tech And to level up in your online meetings I've got a free workshop coming up So I can just press a button on my stream deck That's going to show an image On the screen On my stream deck which is showing and hiding This image And this is a good segue to tell you About the meeting tech mastery workshop Which is where I'll be talking for five days It's a 90 minute Every day of All about how to level up your On-screen presence in your meetings So we'll have day one where we're talking About audio and lighting And video and Lighting I should say on day one Day two is all about audio And day three is about presentations And how to create immersive presentations This whole workshop I should say Is also in conjunction with Vivo meetings And so day four is all about the Vivo meetings platform If you are a current zoom user Or looking for a zoom alternative Vivo meetings offers a great solution And it's got a number of different features That really do set it apart For some of the stuff that we want to do When we're using e-cam live virtual camera Into zoom That people have is sometimes Resume resolution issues Vivo meetings just allows you to select Your exact resolution that you want Whether you want 720, 1080 Also 1080 recordings There's lots of great stuff in here AI notes and all these kind of things So day four will all be about Vivo meetings platform itself And then finally day five will be talking about Live production techniques and bringing those Into your meetings whatever platform you're on So it is for everyone So if you're a Vivo meetings user It's certainly going to apply The days of the workshop are going to apply To any platform And so you can get your free access to that By clicking the link in the chat Or in the description as well As I say, it's a totally free workshop Replays will be available And if you sign up as well There will be downloads to accompany each day As well There's also a bonus session the following Monday So this is basically Monday the 11th to Friday the 15th Bonus session the following Monday Which will be just in a Vivo meetings Meeting itself And then you'll be able to come and ask Your questions sort of directly sort of face to face For anything that didn't get covered in the other Sessions as well maybe having had the weekend To put some things into practice But All of that was to show as well That this little overlay here Was just simply an image overlay And you can basically add whatever you want As an image overlay In my demo here You can just simply drag and drop any image Onto there and it is going to just appear In your scene One of the things that you can do then Is I created a small little Guide to help me Which is something I've called the scene layout template And this is this little image file here And if you just drag that and drop that Onto the scene it's basically giving me this grid Because I wanted a way to create Consistent looks To all of my different scenes Framing For everything that was going on in the scene And what this scene layout template Allows me to do is If I was to create a completely new scene here For a second Like this Here we've got this nice little grid And now what I can do is I will just Just go ahead and lock this scene Layout template But now in this new scene that I've got Let's say that I want to add in a camera overlay But we want to put this Maybe over here Want to change which camera that is as well So I'll change that to be My main camera Like this and I'll change The aspect ratio of it as well So I'll change the shape to just Custom And then we still want to frame it But let's say I'm setting up an interview Show, why not? Let's say I'm setting Up an interview show with three people So I've got my camera there What I might want to do is just The zoom and pan to get me the right shape But then I can hold down the option key And I can drag and because I'm using These lines here that I've got In this scene layout template Then I've got this consistent look here So incidentally Ecam as well you can use I've mentioned interview mode This is one of the pro features If you want to be able to bring in guests into your show Either to your live stream or maybe you want to do a virtual conference Bring guests into here And then have them go into your zoom meeting With a sort of panel discussion Or maybe you're recording a multi-person podcast The creators podcast Which I do with my fellow creators And my fellow peas That's all done with Ecam So we can have multiple people on the screen at the same time And just as we've selected different cameras If I go into here I've got camera A Camera B, camera C and so on But that can also be your different guests So guests one to ten You can have multiple different guests in here So if I've got the interview mode running I could have this as guest one and guest two and so on Let's just change it to one of my other cameras For the time being that's perhaps not the best Best one to choose Let me try this one, there we go that's a little bit better Just to give you an idea that there is this sort of difference Between these cameras But what I've done though is because I'm sticking To my little grid pattern here It makes it really easy for me to create Multiple scenes, so how about I want a scene With just me and that second guest Well now if I was to duplicate the scene Like this What I could do is I could just hide this guest Move this camera over here And I'm using these guides here To put my cameras in the correct position But we are still keeping this Same sort of consistent distance Between them So the way that I set up this grid was The sort of bold white lines here Are basically the quarter mark The half mark and so on And the red lines are the sort of thirds But then I've sort of built in These gaps between them so I'm always leaving in That slight gap between the Things there and if I was to come And just swap out my background Let's put that little animated background Again just to see how that looks We've now got two scenes there With me and one guest, me and two guests And I've left space down at the bottom To have some graphics Maybe a The chat or whatever You can sort of add those things In just down there The other thing that you might want to do Is maybe you might want to have Another scene that's maybe you and a guest And a screen share so why don't we do that If I just duplicate this And let's put Myself up here In this corner And you can see that I'm still sticking to the lines I'm just realising with this really colourful background It's probably A little bit difficult to see so let me just Switch that back There we go And we'll put this over here And the point is again Just using these guides I can easily get Things lined up with each other And with the guides Like that And then we might want to have A screen share over this side So let me just go ahead and do that Let's say I want to share this portion Of my window again And I'm going to just crop into What is actually my safari window Like that Bigger on the screen So now what we've got is we've got Myself and a guest and we are talking about Something that's on my screen share And this could be by the way a power pointer If you're doing a presentation Style thing and you want to talk about the content And then what you do is with the overlay On there The scene layout template We can simply just hide that And now we've got I've just realised I'm not quite Making the best demo of this today But there you go it's one of those days So there you go You've just come out of here You can see kind of What that looks like Incidentally That scene layout template You can get that from my resources section So if you go over to TakeOneTech.io Slash resources And let's pop up another little animation Why not? I've dropped a link to that Into the chat and you'll also find it In the description as well You'll find if you go over to That page on my website I've got a load of resources there Loads of sort of free guides and things like that So this is what you'll find When you go onto the website You'll find a few sort of full pdf guides On different things But just down here the checklists and templates You'll see here the scene layout template Incidentally if you're using Ecamm There's also a list of ecamm live Shortcuts as well There's also a list of the Keyboard shortcuts For ecamm too Why don't I just quickly come over And check in with the chat Because I have been somewhat neglecting you And this is probably a good way to show How chat integrates with ecamm as well So what I'll do is I'll just come into my demo mode again If I demo the correct scene That would help I've got all my chat just down here on the right hand side By the way Window And then I'll share that with you So now what you can see Is one of the other utility windows That we've got in ecamm Is the chat window And this is accessible From the right hand side bar And the chat here Show and hide chat We're just showing and hiding that this way And this appears as another window But what we can do then Is we can scroll down through all of the chat messages And then I can just click on one of these And it will pop it up onto the screen So if I click that, you can see Hey Rich, great to see you And you can also go in and style these as well So if I click on the little pencil icon Then we can go to the edit text And we've got a little sort of editor So I could go in and change things like Change the colour of the name Change the colour of the body text Of the chat message Change the outline, the border and all of that kind of stuff So those are things that I can do In here to sort of style this But then I can just go down And click on different Folks like this Hey Neil, great to see you And congrats on your recent milestone as well Slowly rocketing up With your YouTube channel as well Just like we're all on that path So great to see that progress And then I can come down here Say hated Dan as well Hi Marcello, great to see you as well New to the chat I think So welcome And Michael, fantastic as always To see you It's not exactly the most ergonomic chair This is it, yeah, I know It's a dining chair But yeah, probably I should be Using it for the amount of time I spend in this chair I should probably just actually By now get An ergonomic chair But there you go Chris, great to see you as well Yeah, ProMouse has been hitting For people I know It's worked fine for me Until today when I'm demoing it And then it decides to flake out But it's really weird how it's working On my primary monitor and the other one But it's just this one monitor It's not working on today So there you go, go figure Hey Wayne, great to see you Fantastic to see a new face New name here as well Interested in ECAM currently using Switcher Studio similar I guess Actually no, I've used OBS That was what I was using I want to say very briefly Before using ECAM And the issue that I had with OBS was just it didn't seem to work Like my brain worked, there's something about ECAM that seems to just work in For me a more logical Way and it's much more sort of Drag and drop and easier to get things up And running, I've probably honestly Not done the best job of demoing it today I feel like things are being a little bit Placed with some issues I'm having with my computer Until my new book arrives on Monday But yeah it's I found that ECAM is the ease of use Is the thing that really was Did it for me, the ease of laying Out things, incidentally Speaking of different ways that you can do All of this stuff, I did also Consider going down the ATEM route So ATEM, Mini, ATEM, Mini Pro ATEM, Mini ISO, all of the ATEMs Those are hardware Switches that allow you to have multiple Different cameras plugged in and then you can Switch back and forth between your different scenes Way back when I was looking at Doing these sort of one take videos I certainly looked at the ATEM as a solution As well And there are some pros and cons to using A hardware solution versus a software solution The pro is For the hardware solution is That you're not doing anything on your computer Or rather I should say the heavy load lifting Is not being done on your computer It's being a dedicated live production app On your computer, so it does one job And technically they would say It does it really well However, I would argue that it doesn't actually Do the design aspect well One thing that I love about ECAM is this ability to Quickly Throw up comments on here If I want to quickly change the style of the comment I can do that very simply And quickly creating new scenes You saw how quick we've been kind of Just flying through the process Of creating these very You know, what can be quite complex Scene layouts with multiple different people Multiple different cameras and just being able to Sort of drag the corners to resize things That's certainly something that you don't have That ease of use or speed of use With the ATEM and things like that I know that you're not asking about ATEM But it's a question that it constantly comes up In the ECAM group which is If I've got an ATEM can I use it with ECAM And the answer to that is If you've got an external camera switcher Technically you can use that with With ECAM or with Switcher Studio In fact, however You're only ever getting that one single feed So it's the external switcher That is doing the camera switching And then you kind of lose the versatility Of ECAM To be able to do things like this Again, I digress I realise that this is not to your specific question But it's just Got me down this rabbit hole But no, I haven't used Switcher Studio myself However, what I'll say about ECAM Is definitely go ahead And get the free trial There is a 14-day free trial There's a few coupon codes That I can share with you for ECAM So the first thing that I can share About ECAM Is If you go to... I should say This is the wrong... I'm all over the place today I do apologise There is a coupon code I can share With you which is Cyber23 Which gets you 40% off their annual plans Of ECAM Live And I've left a link down in the description To all of this as well But that's just for their annual plans And it's obviously only running over Cyber Monday Through to Cyber Monday I have got two other coupon codes That you may be interested in So if you go to the link down in the description If you use the Kafa code You can actually get two months free of ECAM But if you just want to extend that by two months To figure out if it's really right for you Then use Kafa code Check out on a monthly plan And you're basically just not charged for the first two months And you can try it out And see if you like it And figure out if it can actually make money for you That's the way I always look at these things It's like how is this going to make me money And so if you get that sort of extended Trial using Kafa code Then you've got basically two and a half months To get it to work for you And to really put it through its paces However, if you are already sold on ECAM Then I've got another offer code Which is Take One Tech And you can use that one to get 15% off For the lifetime of your subscription And that applies to The annual plan, the monthly plan Whether you're on the pro license Or the standard license So for everything, if you just want 15% off All of the time, then Take One Tech Is the code to use that But like I say, right now the best one to use Is the option of lifetime on the annual plans With the offer code cyber23 Again, link to that is in the description As I say, it has completely transformed The way that I do things And one of the things that it has allowed me to do Is create course content And there is my other little segue Which is if you want to learn how to really Master ECAM Live Then you can go to ecamlivemasterclass.com And I have 30% For the cyber weekend Black Friday, I got 30% off All of my courses as well Using the offer code Friday23 Link to that is in the description as well But the ecamlivemasterclass covers All of the different aspects of ecam And how to go from zero to hero And it covers things like stream deck Creating graphics in Keynote It covers how to use it with zoom And all these kind of things as well So the ecamlivemasterclass is really more than just Ecam itself, it's all of the different things And the components that go into it As well So with that said, let me come back To my chat momentarily And see where we're up to with that So yeah, long story short Wayne I haven't used switcher studio But yeah, definitely give ecam a go And see how you like it It's going to be one of those things That you might just find that it works More in line with the way that you do things It's funny when you sort of switch From one thing to another as well I kind of liken it to When I switched from PC to Mac However, long ago that was 17, 18 years ago I'd been using PC for ages Well, all my life at that point And I hadn't realised that there was this other way Of doing things, so as soon as I moved Over to the Mac it was like, oh this just makes so much More sense for me than the way That PC's worked and it just seemed Like it worked the way my mind does And that was the same when I'd Struggled in many respects with OBS It's all learnable of course, but it was just Kind of like certain things just seemed like Tricky to achieve in there And then I came over to ecam and realised Oh, this is like a breath of fresh air And hey to you Keely, peas life One of my fellow peas from the Creators pod And also on that new M3 MacBook, I can't wait to Wait to get mine too Wayne again Hello, I currently have a current 1080 60Hz monitor And the output is 1080 Is there any point upgrading to 4K With a higher refresh rate Tempted by the sales today If you are So I'm just trying to understand This in terms of a monitor I mean I use a 4K monitor But then I'm sort of sharing different parts Of it depending on what you're wanting to do Then Yeah, the output of ecam I should say I'm just trying to understand the Context of this I'm streaming at 1080 But ecam can stream at 4K So if you were sharing something 4K On your screen, then you could Share that The monitor that I'm sharing on Right here, I have that set to 1080 Incidentally, although it's a 4K monitor I have it set to 1080 so that It doesn't look to blown up on the Or too small, I should say on the Screen share, but this one's a 4K monitor I'm just not quite sure I understand the thing here Yeah, 4K's obviously look better From a usage point of view But on the other hand If this one is a 4K monitor And this one's a 4K monitor Obviously the pixel density of this Even when it's at 1080 Is still a higher pixel density For my eyes than this one over here Because this is less than a Sort of quarter of the size And it's the same with my Teleprompter monitor, so I have my Output from Ecam or when I'm on a zoom call I'll have the other guests are in here So that I'm looking through the teleprompter Maybe if I switch over to this angle This is the teleprompter that I've got And my camera is behind that And you can see that there's this Screen here which is kind of like horizontal And I'm basically looking at a reflection Of that in the glass here So it means that I'm looking I can see my output or if I'm on a zoom call I can see the person I'm speaking to Into the camera. This monitor here Can technically go up to 4K But this one is even smaller than this So actually I have this monitor Set at a resolution of 720 Just so that when I'm looking at it You know, relatively It still looks as higher pixel density As you know my other primary monitor It's just that It's smaller, but it means that All of the interface elements on the screen are bigger All of that waffling Is to say that it all depends really Whether to go with Upgrade to a 4K monitor Or not It depends on the size of it And what you're looking to do with it really So yeah I've not really given you a great answer there But there you go Yeah, Jeremy She's on the M3 already And we're MacBook twins Because we ordered the identical one So Yeah, hashtag Keelie was right I copied Keelie So that was intended to be A little introduction to Ecamm And not really at all covering all of the different things That you can do with Ecamm Because there is really so much What I didn't cover there Was things like the ability to add in Shape overlays if you want to Create shapes or graphics on the screen By the way, this is not intended to be For your graphic program But if you wanted to do things like Have some little place up here Where you wanted to put some information Create a little box, have it sort of fly in and out You could do some rudimentary things like that If you're going to do any kind of Real presentation work though I always still use a keynote And then there's a way that you can bring that in Basically as a screen share So you just bring in your keynote content And I've got a whole video about immersive presentations So I certainly am not an advocate for One side, your slide deck on the other I definitely want to try and get away From the whole idea of slide decks The point is with Ecamm You can do some really advanced stuff Where you're just using keynote as the mechanism For bringing in the animations Of all of your supporting information So bullet points that are appearing On screen and all of those kind of things Another thing that I didn't even touch on Today in this short brief Sort of beginners introduction to Ecamm Is I didn't touch on the whole Sort of audio thing as well So I will just mention that quickly Which is these other things That you've got down the right hand side here We've got this concept of a camera switcher So this is the camera switcher window Here is where I can just see all of my Different cameras that are connected So that's this little window here And that is where if I want to have Another camera in this scene I could just simply drag and drop it If I wanted to drag this camera in I could drag and drop that one in there And so on Like that So it's really easy to just build scenes out that way Thing that I didn't mention earlier Another one that wasn't mentioned was The sound levels So you can see I've got my main mic input here But you do have control over Other things such as your If you're playing a movie You can have a scene set up with a full screen movie You could have that in there Then that would just appear in here The sound effects for that You would also have Your system audio If you're doing a screen share, capturing the screen Interview mode where you can select your levels For your interview guests And incidentally when you are in interview mode You've got another window for that Which is this one You know, Ecamm can look as simple Or as complicated as you want The interview mode window If a guest was to dial into my interview link Here then they would just appear Down here as a camera source In Ecamm as well But then there is also this one here Which is the audio library So you can have in your different Audio down here And then you can just click on play It's just going to play the music That should just sort of play through You can see that it's appearing here In sound effects And in exactly the same way With Stream Deck that we triggered Scenes and overlays You can also trigger your music as well So that one is playing But I could also assign that to A stream deck button to play it Or stop it You can also have the music associated with scenes So maybe if I go to this scene And then if I wanted my music to play I could just drag and drop that on there And now when I go to the main scene There's no music but when I go to that scene That music just starts playing So there's really so many options And so many ways that you can use Ecamm And it's just really down to your imagination And how you decide to How you decide to use it I won't go through all the settings But we've got a settings section here I do cover this in the Ecamm Live Masterclass All of the different things that you've got From accounts, the general settings Stream settings, recording and all of that Various different things that you can do In there So with that said As I say that is a brief introduction To finding your way around Ecamm And you can get 40% off Through Black Friday with the offer code Cyber23 You can also get 30% off The Ecamm Live Masterclass With the offer code Friday23 I should have just collaborated with Ecamm And got offer codes the same there, shouldn't I? What you'll also find though Is if you do go over to my store You'll find as well as All of my icon packs If you go to my courses section You'll see that I've got a load of other courses here So my YouTube and Discord beginners guides Are already out Ecamm Masterclass, Zoom, Roadcaster, Stream Deck And Keynote Masterclasses as well 30% off all of those through Black Friday As well through Cyber Monday So use that offer code Friday23 To get that off In fact you can see it right here at the top of my website On any page you'll find that that is Where you can get that and it tells you the code Just up there as well If you've got any questions about anything that I've covered today Feel free to drop them in the chat If you have any comments I should say I do find that I am A little bit slow to respond to Comments in YouTube It becomes overwhelming I was talking about this with somebody else As another inbox amongst many inboxes YouTube comments become very overwhelming Because of their somewhat disorganized nature And just having so many of them A better place to get answers Is actually to come and join The Take One Tech Discord It's completely free You go to takeonetech.io Don't worry if you've not used this before There's a little guide in there That shows you how to How to use it And then it's a great place to get your questions answered Because there is structure To the conversations And organization And it's much easier to search as well Let me just get to some of these other questions Thank you Emmanuel Always like to see nice new faces New names Ecam does not allow people To just buy the software outright Sometimes people just can't pay monthly or yearly And then you lose access to your Money maker Makes no sense to me There's lots of software These days that has gone to a subscription model What a subscription model gives From a developer's point of view Is that ongoing revenue For development and so on But I get that It seems like everything is a subscription These days Incidentally, all of my courses are standalone But I've also got my takeonetech academy Which is a subscription And when I decided to shift to a subscription model I still left the standalone things Available as well Slight digression But the reason for subscriptions Is ongoing development And making sure they can support it Just as Adobe do Just as all of the Microsoft 365 It's the way of the world these days What I will say is that At its full price And incidentally, I pay full price for Ecam So I'm paying $40 a month Or whatever it is When I subscribe That's the price that I'm paying effectively And the way that I look at it is It's basically It's just over a dollar a day I'd switch to whatever it is Whatever it works out on the annual plan But it's like a dollar a day basically A dollar a day out of Ecam Then I'm probably not I'm not using it right Because as I say It is enabled All that I'm doing with takeonetech And I've grown takeonetech into a six-figure business Off the back of Ecam effectively It also enables me To level up my on-screen presence In my meetings and so on I pay for a subscription for Zoom Which is $40 a month Or something like that Whatever I've added into it So when I look at it like that As a tool for my business It just still makes total sense to me I do get the frustration with Everything's a subscription But look at the Time cost of your time Involved for me It removed the need for editing The reason why I started my channel I mentioned right at the beginning was To practice the process of making videos in one take That came after months of struggle With myself and my own perfectionism Trying to make videos in one take Trying to make videos in multiple takes And edit them And I was taking To be honest, I'm embarrassed to say How long it would take me to make a 30-minute video It would be like I would labor for a week To get a one 30-minute video out Because I'd be trying to make constant edits Constantly retaking An embarrassing number of takes Actually trying to feel that I was getting this mythical Perfect take in my head I wasn't a great editor It wasn't something that came naturally to me I'd never spent the time to learn that process And so it would take me forever To make a 30-minute video My first 100 days on YouTube I was making a video every day for my YouTube channel My videos are kind of Generally this is a longer live stream But generally my recorded content is About 20 to 30, 20 to 40 minutes long And I just basically had a Two-hour window every morning where I'd get up I'd decide what I was going to do I'd record my video The video was done, I'd make the thumbnail Upload it to YouTube, do any YouTube management That I needed to do in that time as well And so basically two hours every day I was building and growing a YouTube channel With just that amount of time So when I looked at it through that lens Suddenly a dollar a day For Ecamm seemed like a no-brainer Because it was actually saving me Hours and hours and hours And I really value my time So yeah, that's Well, my perspective on that I get it that not everyone's the same And mounting subscriptions Are a thing And I'm constantly looking to trim back Some of my subscriptions as well But the one that is never going away for me Is definitely Ecamm There's other things that I can save there So hello Frederick, great to see you as well Is it possible to show the full chat window In a live stream? It is actually, yeah But I'll just say this right now You want to be careful about doing that So what I'll do is if I come over here In here What I can do is I've got your message up there And we've obviously got the chat window Just down here as well If I was to just hide your message there But then I go to screen share And I add a screen share overlay But now I click the little pencil icon And then instead of the primary display I can go to Ecamm and I can choose Any one of the Ecamm windows And then I can actually choose the Comments and reactions So now you can see that we've got the chat window like that And I could crop that in Or in fact maybe we might want to make The chat window bigger Let's move it on my screen like that And then what I can do is I could Crop into that just like this Obviously it's got a weird green color Because of my desktop background that I selected And then I could put that up there Like this And then if I just come out of my Demo mode You can see the effect We've got all of the chat window I mentioned that you want to be careful about doing that And I'll tell you the reason why You are now suddenly You've just given this portal to the internet To YouTube For anybody who wants to comment anything In your chat Now there was a case Actually someone using I say someone using So StreamYard is an online streaming platform Ecamm is an app for the Mac And so it's all done on the Mac StreamYard, Restream Things like that, they run in the browser And those are other streaming platforms And there's a whole different use case For those as well But their only YouTube channel Was taken down because Temporarily albeit Because they had the live chat Coming up on the screen And then anything that anybody types On your screen in your YouTube Now what happened with them was There was nothing In the actual chat itself But somebody had used a pornographic image As their avatar And so what that meant was That when their thing was coming up on screen There was a pornographic image came up on screen And it was flagged by YouTube's algorithm And automatically Blocked their channel And they had to go through some steps To recover that YouTube and managed to do that But the point is, anybody could say anything In your chat and it would just come up on your screen So With that said, yes You can share the live chat But just always be wary about Doing that And I should say, speak of the devil Mr. Paul Duncan, if you want to Block any of your Any Potential spam that's coming through I get spam comments in my In my YouTube chat So much But Paul Duncan created A blocked words list That you can upload into YouTube studio That will basically Block out any of these Comments that people might be posting That could be offensive It can be really distracted Just when you are on a live stream If you see a comment come in And you've got to go to If you don't have a moderator You've got to go through and physically Block some comments But aside from that You just don't want pornographic Links and stuff like that Dropped into the chat in any case Paul created this downloadable link And if Paul, you've got your little link to drop in You can go and grab this list of words And you basically just copy and paste it Into YouTube studio There's instructions with it as well And then it's going to block all of these words I sort of giggled a little bit When I first started mentioning this Because I remember at the time When Paul was talking about Or you need to go in and do this to prevent it And there's me Thinking about What words might I want to block And going through this list of offensive words And I got to about 10 I'm probably not very broad minded I got to about 10 Of words that I thought That one, that one, that one, that one I wouldn't want to come up on my stream Well this list that Paul has created I think it's over 3,000 When I got this list Because it's just a text file And basically it's just a list of all these words That you wouldn't want to have the time to go through to do yourself And you just drop it into your YouTube blocked words list But as I was going through them I was thinking I don't even know What that is It was an eye-opening experience In itself Anyway, yeah definitely go on Thanks for dropping that in MrModerator.me Highly recommend grubbing that From his download And then dropping it into your YouTube Studio to stop these sort of things Coming up in the comments Glad that Glad that helped With sharing the overlays Frederick Hi Ryan, great to see you I do love seeing new names, new faces in here It's important to niche down I see you offer live streaming services But then do lots of other things What has been your experiences The Idea of having a niche Is obviously important My niche itself It might seem from my channel That it is quite broad If I'm covering, you know, e-com stuff And roadcaster stuff and stream deck And meetings and All these sort of things What it came down to was when I discovered Who my sort of core audience is And there are people Or just go and watch only my stream deck videos I've got probably I've got more e-com videos than anything else Next after that it's stream deck After that it would be a roadcaster So there are some people who just want to figure out how to use their roadcaster And so they're finding my channel for that What I found over the evolution of my channel Was That actually the people who are going ahead And booking consultations calls with me If you would like to help with anything That I talk about on this channel Go ahead and book a call, takeonetech.io There is paid calls on there But there's also free discovery calls as well Where we can have a chat and see if I'm the right person To help you But when I started taking those calls I found that the people who were booking calls with me Were a very particular demographic It was basically business people Who were looking to use all of these tools In their own business Either treating their content creation As a business, which everyone should do Or they're using it They're in business, they want to just level up their on-screen presence In their meetings In their content that they're creating for their businesses In their course content for their business And those are the people As I say, who are booking calls with me So I realized that actually My sort of core demographic are those people Those are the people who sign up to the takeonetech academy Which gives you access to all my courses But we have weekly Q&As Monthly workshops, all of that sort of stuff Lots more sort of guided Course content Guided learning methods as well In there as well So when I discovered And realized actually who my core audience was Which is kind of people like me That's why I got into this Was to look at how I could use these tools and technology To grow my business Or to use as tools in my business So when I kind of had that realization Which should have come a lot sooner You could argue But when I had that realization Then that is when I That is how I decide What the content is on my channel And how I decide what to put on my channel So there was I think a couple of months ago I did a thing that was more about Sales funnels and you could think Well, that's not really related to Roadcaster But it is related to my core audience Now what I can also say Is that my stream deck content Although I've got more e-cam content Than stream deck My stream deck content is consistently In the top 10, in the top 20 Of all of my videos The stuff that I do about Using kajabi to create courses Is not featuring in those Because you could argue Well, that's not my The majority of subscribers Aren't necessarily interested in that I'm personally not chasing Subscribers If I were to chase subscribers What I would do would be I would just do purely stream deck stuff Because that's the stuff that I actually get the most Resonates most It's the thing I get most views on It's the thing that's most searched It's not like a Mac app like e-cam So I'm already cutting out all the PC people I'm making courses Most people who are using stream deck And so on are not making courses So there are probably some people Who get maybe turned off by that So all of this is a long Way to say that I have Got my niche of people That I'm serving And the way that I see it is That's who this channel is for Now all of the people who come and find my stream deck Things I'm so pleased that people find The stream deck videos useful and they'll come in And watch those and say this was great I don't mind if they're not watching My kajabi stuff or my other stuff Because I'm still serving My sort of core audience And that's the way that I look at this I sort of had a switch In my mentality with YouTube Where when I started it as I said It was a test spread for me to practice Making videos in one take And everything that I was doing around Take One Tech Was intended to lead people into YouTube So my website was all about The YouTube channel You know, if ever I posted on other platforms It was come and check me out on YouTube I had this pivot where I suddenly said right well actually Take One Tech is a business in itself I'm growing Take One Tech as a business It's a training and consulting company And YouTube I'm using as Just one inbound marketing Platform To bring people into that business Now I'm giving free value I'd ever sort of hide anything away on the channel and say Or if you want to learn everything you've got to pay I don't do that But I do treat YouTube as an inbound marketing Tool for my core demographic So yeah Aside from that though So with that sort of View of the fact that although it may appear That some of the stuff on my channel is not related When you understand my core audience Then you know It becomes clear that actually it's all for All for them Then with that said It is important to have at least Some sort of niche or some sort of target demographic In mind so I wouldn't necessarily be doing A series of videos on cooking And then also a series of videos on coding And then also a series of videos on something else That are completely separate So I do think it's important to have that sort of separation Or that level of separation But as long as you're clear on who your audience is That you're aiming at Then I don't think it matters if it's not like Hyperniche down to just one single thing If you're treating YouTube As part of your business If you're solely looking to You know Focus on YouTube as the thing itself Then yeah It's going to give you the best growth rate The best results and all of that Like I say if I was to just make Take One Tech The StreamDec show, the StreamDec channel I would certainly get better YouTube growth And better numbers on YouTube But probably the other stuff would You know not do as well Again and I always do these long rumbling answers But I hope that answers the question So there we go We've had Keely just mentioning In terms of putting comments upon screen Trust me Rich You have heard the ten words In our creator's part Let's have a little look At this Can a Kest connect via phone Use an external microphone To improve their sound In interview mode they can connect using a phone So interview mode works I guess that's what we're talking about Interview mode works But for the guest joining Ecam they just join in a browser So they join in a browser Select their microphone and select their camera Now it does work from a browser On a phone as well So if you're just joining you know Whatever browser you're using on your phone Interview mode does work like that as well And they can come in with their camera And they can come in with their audio That way as well It does work obviously I always recommend to guests that are joining That they would join from a desktop With a good connection and all that sort of stuff But yeah technically they can join with that Glad that was helpful Ryan DJI makes a wireless mic solution That has both Lighting or USB that plugs into the phone Sounds much better than the built in mic Anything that you can use where You can plug in a phone or plug in a camera Or Plug in a camera Or microphone to your phone It will just work I mean these days Being able to take in like external inputs I mean you can have a really good Mobile solution I did this one I did a review of the Camo Studio for iPad And then I used a Roadstreamer X To plug into that and it was able to take in My Sony ZV-E10 And this microphone directly For the iPad so yeah You can certainly get to good solutions there MB88 That's another good thing So that is the sort of little interface That takes an XLR mic And then takes that into USB as well So that would certainly be another option There as well Ok doki if there are any other questions Feel free to drop them in Otherwise with that we will wrap up And if you are interested in learning more About e-cam as I say There are videos on my channel There is more e-cam videos than anything else I think there is over 150 Or more out of 500 So by far the fact maybe even more Maybe 180 I don't know But lots of e-cam videos Technically some of those may be slightly out of date Because it's been going over two and a half years And one of the things I love about e-cam Is the community And how the community drives the growth Of the software as well So Ken and Glenn the developers Are continually adding new things in So yeah definitely check out The e-cam live masterclass if you want Something a little bit more up to date And I'm going to be doing a big update of that Over the holiday season as well So that will be and you get lifetime access To that if you sign up You're very welcome The Road Wireless Pro are great aren't they I've been trying those out as well They're really absolutely fantastic Do I take these live streams down I don't take the live streams down What I did do Actually This is another subject When I started the channel I was doing my 100 videos in 100 days And I would do 6 pre-recorded videos And I'd do one live stream And the live stream was very much me checking in It was more of a community building So I'd start the live stream I'd go through and I'd have a 3 minute countdown Because that's what everyone seemed to do I would then have me just saying hello To everybody at the beginning What are you doing great to see you here And go through everybody and have a little conversation Back and forth and it was kind of like a hangout It was a weekly hangout basically And then I'd say right here's what's being going on In the channel here's my growth and so on I was kind of sharing and documenting that process In my live streams What I found was that There was no real replay value Of those live streams because People who are watching it after the fact Would feel like they'd missed out The beginning of it as well Like those that'd come in and be like The thumbnail might say what we were going to Ultimately talk about But there was this whole load of stuff at the beginning With a countdown, me chatting with people And all of that What I did was I changed the format Of my live streams First of all I don't have a countdown anymore Like loads of live streamers still have these countdowns But I think for the replay value When they go into a video They just want to get into the video They don't want to see a countdown For somebody to just click on the timeline To go to where the actual stream starts But It's a turn off for some people And some people will click out of it The other thing is you'll notice that At the beginning of this live stream I just went straight into the content I was trying to treat these live streams As a tutorial or whatever it is I'm covering And I try and cover the topic first Before I get to the chat So that somebody who's seen the thumbnail And seen the title is actually Right from the beginning Rather than assuming I deliver on expectations But rather than having me talking Back and forth with people in the chat So that's why I very much front load The live stream With the content So to your point I don't take the live streams down They do help the channel To have them up there Certainly in the beginning as well It's a great way to build watch hours Because the live streams are often longer An hour and a half Usually my recorded videos are 30 minutes Something like that So if you're looking for building watch time They're great for that Second of all it's great to get to know your viewers So when I started my channel One of the reasons why I wanted to do the live stream Was to get to know who is watching And now I know you Ryan So it's great to have that sort of interaction And to be able to have the back and forth With people as well in the chat as well So it's great from that point of view When you chop off the comments Or chop off the thing at the beginning Then technically you do Lose the chat replay So let's say you've got a long introduction Or a countdown or something You can go into YouTube studio after And just delete that particular part You can do rudimentary editing in YouTube studio Of chopping out sections So you could go and remove that after the fact However you will lose the live chat I don't know how valuable that is In any case people talk about The live chat if you do any editing I don't know how many people do Actually go back and watch these videos The live streams And also want to go and watch What people were saying in the live chat So whether that's important or not I don't know But as I say I just go straight into it What I can tell you though Is that I went from having my live streams Of things that were very much just Something that people would look At the time And they didn't really have much replay value Now I can say that my live streams Have a much better replay value People will see the thumbnail, they'll click in it And they'll watch it And in fact some of my best performing videos Are replays of live streams And like now I don't know how many people we've got Watching only like 15 people at the moment Watching live But some of my live streams have got 40,000 views on the replays Whereas before basically the life of the live stream Was as it was happening The week afterwards and then it would Now as I say the live streams Are just similar to the pre-recorded videos I still think people prefer When they're searching YouTube If they're not a subscriber Or whatever and not looking for the live stream I still think people favour Recorded videos I think there's something psychologically That when you see on YouTube a list of Videos in your feed And one of them says Or one of them just is a recorded video And the other one says streamed 8 months ago I think there's this little psychological thing that happens Where we think it's out of date Even though the recorded video may actually be longer But because it doesn't specifically tell you In the feed when it was recorded You don't have that sort of association So I think people do prefer pre-recorded videos I mentioned that I was doing Six recorded videos a week And one live stream when I started I looked at my stats this year This year I've only done 11 recorded videos So one a month And the channel still being getting the growth So again another one of my long Wafflee answers Live streams definitely help But I treat them as if they are pre-recorded videos In many respects, albeit one take videos Yeah, Paul's just mentioning Lose the watch time And oh well that's the other thing To actually just take the video down Then the watch time and views you'd got Would not then count towards the things So definitely leave them up there You mentioned the road wireless pro You can put a microphone and headphone In the receiver Is there a solution to have headphones For the other two people using the transmitters There isn't actually no Not built into it at least No, you would need Some other bit of hardware To actually enable that So yeah And even the thing you mentioned there About having the microphone And microphone and headphones In the receiver Actually it would need to be a headset So if you were using something Something like this With the microphone Which is somewhere in here If you were using something like this You could have that plugged into the Thing so you've got the mic And the headphones But yeah the actual transmitters Themself don't have that dual Compatibility And then if you were to have some other solution Into that and then transmitting the audio Back to the guests Then there would be potentially Latency issues So yeah For that it's not going to necessarily Work too well for that So let's have a look Keely Keeping my live chat replay after It does depend on the type of thing I mean Keely has got a really Strong community That I'm sure do want to go back And look at Look back at all the replays as well So in certain cases you just definitely Would not want to lose the live stream Or indeed the chat I say as Keely Just said she's thinking about starting Trimming off the beginning So there we go we'll see Hey Emily great to see you here And thank you very much The supercharge coach I like that The lightning bolt in your name Fantastic Well I will wrap it up here If there are any other questions though Do go ahead and check out The discord as well if you have not Joined that already It is free to join Take one tech.io We've got a whole channel in there on e-cam So any issues you're having with that Or any of this other associated tech Or questions in there Thanks for hanging out for those that have joined In the chat for those in the replay What I'll do is I'll leave a link to Some of my other e-cam videos over here On the right hand side Thanks once again to all of my channel members And of course academy members I really appreciate all of your support And inspiration for all of my other content Have a great day I'll see you all next time