 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We're talking about zoom resolution and specifically using zoom with virtual cameras This is something that has come up time and time again if you are in the e-cam live community people are always asking about how they can basically improve their resolution in zoom and there is a Sort of fix for this, but I'm going to go a bit further today because there are even if you do some of these fixes There are still some potential issues that can cause your result or potential reasons rather that you can see your resolution drop Slightly on on zoom calls. So so that's what we're going to be talking about today This is a kind of follow-up to the e-cam advanced series that I did over on the e-cam live channel And I've left a link to that in the description And in fact this came up in the Q&A session that we did as part of that somebody was asking about, you know I've done all of these different steps and yet I'm still finding these these resolution issues in zoom So basically today, we're going to go through how to get zoom set up to use the virtual camera But then also talk about these steps and and the requirements that you need to have in order to to get that higher resolution So there is a PDF that accompanies this so you can find that linked in the description and also in the in the chat And this basically goes through all of the zoom settings Whether or not actually you're using a virtual camera But it was initially intended as using a virtual camera But it will tell you how to get things set up so that you get a better resolution in zoom And then also better audio quality as well So it's audio as it says zoom audio and video settings a step-by-step guide So let's some go through the sort of the issue first of all shall we first of all a few hellos hi Deena hello, Keely as well and hi Michael great to see you here a new face in the in the chat So yeah, we'll go through the different steps that you can take to improve your zoom and then yeah There's a few caveats with it as well so first of all what is the problem then well if you are using a Virtual camera or even if you're using a real camera actually on zoom Zoom is treating your camera feed slightly different to it treats a screen share So if you do a screen share in zoom you may see that you get really good resolution and the reason for that is and Don't shoot the messenger. This is just zooms sort of approach to this They are figuring that the thing that they want to make sure that you maintain on your video feed is your frame rate And so they prioritize frame rate over your video resolution for your camera Because what they're trying to do is make it as smooth and experience for the the most people that are on zoom and this includes basically the the people that you're on a call with and Essentially the lowest common denominator of the people that you're on a call with in terms of their internet connection and things like that So so when you use something like the e-cam live virtual camera going into zoom Then you're essentially basically zoom is just seeing that as a camera now where this can cause issues is if you are doing things Like screen sharing in e-cam so you've set up some scenes in e-cam or OBS or any other virtual camera software Where you are sharing a pop portion of the screen or maybe you're bringing some slides into your presentation into your e-cam Production I should say and then that is then going into zoom because if you find that zoom is then Deciding to drop your resolution down then what that's going to result in is far from it being a great experience It's going to be a poor experience because the resolution of your slides is now dropped as well And whilst your you know camera at resolution may not be a super critical It is super critical if you're sharing information on the screen that you want people to see Now there was for a long time a the recommended work around for this in the e-cam community Was to basically use the screen sharing function in zoom But to share your e-cam output and there is two ways that you could do that First of all you can have e-cam running on the honor on a separate monitor So you have the monitor output on e-cam Maybe I'll just quickly show you this if you have the monitor output on e-cam Which is in the the output menu and then you've got in here monitor output I can't see it on my teleprompter. It's up here somewhere. So you can basically send your Your feed to a monitor and then in zoom you could share that monitor Then they also have here something called the sharing window now when you've got that on that basically creates almost like a virtual window in e-cam That you can then address from zoom so then you could go to zoom and go to sharing and share this This window of e-cam this virtual window and so then it's sending all of your e-cam production that way now What that would do is I mentioned before that e-cam that zoom sorry will See a screen share within zoom as being something that is where the resolution is important And so it would give it a high resolution The problem is they don't really The trade-off there is always going to be frame rate So what you might see is if you would use that method in the past then yes, you might well have great resolution But you would then have a sort of sacrifice of the the frame rate So relatively recently it was Bought to our attention in the e-cam community that you can actually request that zoom upgrades your your resolution and you simply go to the The link which you'll find in the description and also in the in the guide that I've linked to as well And you basically request that you want to have a resolution upgrade and it's as simple as just Contacting them go to this website the zoom support and then enter a new ticket saying that you want to improve resolution and can you have an upgrade and Usually within 24 hours or something like that 24 48 hours They will respond saying yes, you've been upgraded to group HD resolution Now what that means is and by the way, you need to be on a paid plan to do this if you are on the zoom pro plan Then this is going to upgrade your resolution capacity if you want to 720p Whereas if you are on a business enterprise or education plan, then it will upgrade it to 1080p So this has been the the solution that everyone's been talking about for a long time But actually even when you've done that upgrade it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to get that full resolution on your meetings There are a few other steps that you need to be aware of During your meeting in order for that to actually kick in and so this was specifically the question that I'm addressing here because When this came up during the the e-cam advanced series and the q&a see that I did as part of that Somebody said look I've gone through and I've got this upgrade, but I'm still not getting the same resolution I'm still it's still dropping down sometimes And in actual fact even in the zoom q&a where I was talking about this at some point There's the resolution suddenly dropped. So it's kind of like well there you go It it can happen. So what is it that causes this? This is what we're going to be talking about because there are some other sort of little points to be aware of I'll just quickly check in with the the the chat. Hey rabbi Great to see you rabbi David. He's got lots of great content. Definitely check out David's Channel as well. He's got lots of great zoom content there as well all about this kind of stuff I'm not going to try and pronounce that but hi. Oh Jesse. Oh Jesse there we go hi Jesse great to see you and Abdullah great to see you as well. Thank you so much for your videos and she chose Great to great to great to know that it's it's making a difference We're about sorry you by the way And Michael in the UK great to see you here as well Where's my yeah little thing not working great to you zoom has no consideration for 70 Yeah, there's a It certainly doesn't there's needs to be a little bit more work on there on that one This put the zoom support ticket work like a charm They upgraded to 720 within an hour. I would like to get 1080p though So yeah, the thing about this is this is exactly what we're going to be talking about Jesse because There are still some caveats with this is in terms of why you may see the the frame rate Sorry the the resolution dropping so I have detailed all of this in the the guide that I mentioned So you can definitely get that down in the description and in the chat as well But I'll just go through the relevant section. So there's more to this than I'm going through here But I'm just going to go through the relevant sections So in here, it tells you about how to get that resolution upgrade And then the steps that you need to take once you've done that It you need to actually enable it in your account And so the place you go to do that is actually in your zoom settings online So in your account settings and you'll see that there is a in the settings section in meeting advanced You'll see this option for group HD video and you need to toggle it on there Okay, so now it's on so why is it then that you don't actually get the full resolution sometimes well This is the the crux of it basically first of all, there are some bandwidth requirements and You need to make sure that people on the calls have these these The required bandwidth for them to send the video first of all and also for you to for them to receive it as well So these are currently the requirements now I say business 1080p But as I mentioned it also applies to the enterprise and the The what's the other one education so they would get 1080p as well, but in order for Receiving and sending the video for one-to-one calls The requirement is 3.8 megabytes megabits per second up and three down Whereas for the pro at 720p, it's 1.2 up and 1.2 down Then the and by the way these specs have all just come directly from zoom I've been in contact with them to get the full sort of details and what is causing all of these issues Group video calls, so IE with more than two people on it Then it's 3.8 up and three down the same there, but this one is 2.6 up and 1.8 down If I go down further then in terms of sending HD there are Some requirements for this so first of all The meeting needs to be put into full screen mode if the meeting isn't in full screen mode It won't be sending HD You need to use active speaker mode You also need to make sure that HD is enabled in the settings in the zoom desktop client or mobile app So if I go over to the zoom settings a second This is over in the the video section of the zoom settings You'll see down here HD. So you need to make sure that that is actually enabled there rather than either original Ratio or anything else. So make sure that that is checked Then you make sure you have to meet the bandwidth requirements obviously so the bandwidth requirements that I've just mentioned above and You need to have at least one attendee Must be in full screen mode. So if there is multiple people on the call and you're not all in in full screen Then then it's not going to be sending HD either. So at least one attendee must be in full screen mode in terms of receiving this HD signal and All of the following conditions must be met. So first of all again the meeting you want to have that running in full screen mode You also want to use active speaker mode you also have to meet the bandwidth requirements and At least one attendee must be meeting the requirements for sending HD outlined above. So the key things here then are Firstly using speaker mode the bandwidth obviously and this thing of running zoom in full screen mode Now I've got to confess this isn't something that I originally realized so I didn't realize this to begin with And so that was what was causing me some issues in the past where you know resolution would drop and I wasn't quite sure why Um, so the thing about this though is what you might find is if you're running e-cam live And you've got e-cam live running into zoom and so you want to get the best sort of resolution out You might well have your e-cam live open and various other different things that you're sharing And so when you run zoom in full screen what may be happening for you in uh in on your mac Is that zoom is taking over the entire screen? Obviously it is full screen, but even if you've got multiple monitors What you may find is zoom is full screen on one monitor But then um, it's still sort of taken over the other monitors as well if you're finding that happens That's actually related to some settings or a setting in your in your mac settings So if I go over to uh my mac settings for a minute The one that you want to look for here is go into your desktop and dock And then down at the bottom Here you've got this option displays have separate spaces and it's probably going to be off by default now Spaces is this thing that you've got in the mac where basically Let's say you've just got one screen fair for the sake of argument Then spaces basically is this thing of having multiple desktops on a single screen where you can You know if you open things up in full screen mode, for example Then it will open it up But you've still got this other space which is your original desktop That there's usually a hotkey that you can switch back to it Or you can have just multiple desktops with multiple apps on and so that is called spaces Now the default is that these are kind of all linked. So if you have got multiple monitors Then what will happen is when you change space on on one monitor, it will actually switch all of them And so when you have that active and then you take zoom into full screen It is going to take over all of your monitors. So um, you actually have to Change that functionality to say displays have a separate space What that means is you can switch space on one monitor without it affecting another And that also means that you can drag zoom onto the monitor where you want it And then you can make it full screen and it's not going to have any impact on the other monitors Incidentally just while we're talking about monitors I do find in zoom that it is really useful to come into the general settings And then use the dual monitors down here So that basically means that you can have zoom running on multiple monitors, but it also means multiple windows So what I tend to do is have my main zoom window in for regular calls in my my teleprompter And then I'll have the other windows. So when I do coaching calls, for example, I have a monitor directly beneath my teleprompter So I'll have the speaker the the person I'm talking to in this monitor And then just down below I'll have their their other my other zoom window full screen and that will then be the screen share So that's how I do coaching calls so I can still talk to the person face to face But then I can see their full desktop on my full desktop. So I've got two full screen Experiences with zoom and then all my other stuff is over on my my other monitor to the side or or one of them You can never have too many monitors So then the let's just go through some more of these settings So that is how to send and receive the hd But the trouble is even when you are doing some things on your side in terms of you've got everything running full screen You're you know doing all the things that you've done you've gone through and checked all of those You might even have you know a second Thing entering it to make sure that you know the other participants There's at least somebody got these settings So let's have a look at some of the loss of resolution reasons here So as well as the prerequisites as I say here in the the guide for hd There are some other elements that can basically stop your you know reduce your resolution So first of all we've already said that it will only work if the video feed is in full screen and non full screen window will not show hd So that's one thing on their side If they are not in full screen, they are not going to even receive the full screen feed necessarily So that's something that you maybe want to you know say that they would need to be in the full screen And then it's also based on the processing capability. So if you're if you've got an issue with your processor Then that is going to cause an issue. So if you find that you've got lots of things running and you are you know Maxed out or whatever, or maybe you just have an underpowered computer Then that is also going to cause an issue as well It also depends on bandwidth. So we've talked about this that you know, the the bandwidth is going to be an issue However, the bandwidth requirements are pretty low as they go. I think these days people have got you know, at least three or four megabits per second up People are talking more in like, you know hundreds of Megabits and gig even so yeah, I think that is less of an issue But it is just something to be aware of because you know, you may have somebody dialing in for example on You know over a mobile signal So I do do that sometimes if I'm out and there's no wi-fi then I'll be Joining over, you know tethering or something so and I know there's other people Even in the take one tech community that at times they have issues with with bandwidth So it could be a well be an issue depending on where you are and how you're getting your internet But here is the other point the resolution can be downgraded if some participants or co-hosts have any of the issues Even if the host has no issues and this is really the the issue because you can have like the you know a gig up and down You know a mac studio maxed out and be separate computers for everything running so that you've just got a dedicated zoom machine But ultimately it's going to come down to You know, what everyone else has got in the meeting itself So it does you do need to know that basically it's down to what everyone's got Not just the host and so the the real crux of it is in short zoom basically takes the lowest common denominator and applies that to the meetings so It's it's kind of what it is really and in time Hopefully we'll see that with you know increasing bandwidths and things like that that ultimately they will just increase this to everybody What they're doing though is they're trying to make the best I mean just to put the you know think from the other point of view They're trying to make the best possible experience for everyone and as people who are using virtual cameras into zoom Although this is becoming more and more popular now We are still in the vast majority. You know when you if you've been in any zoom meetings You'll know that most people are basically putting zero effort into their zoom setup And by the way, if you want to level up Your zoom setup and everything else as well, then definitely check out the take one tech academy Look at that for a segue. So this is all about elevating your online presence with two tools like Zoom but ecam live as well and it's so it's not just about content creation But actually all of these sort of presentation skills as well So I talk about all of the different platforms How you can monetize your knowledge using kajabi? Then obviously all of the different tools So ecam live the zoom masterclass the roadcaster masterclass coming out next week is the stream deck masterclass as well Followed by keynote. So that is how to do, you know, great presentations and bring those all into ecam to feed into zoom as well So you can find that at take one tech i o slash academy That is where you'll find all of the details about that And there's other ways to learn in there It's not just about calls as well not just about courses as well But also there is a weekly q&a monthly workshops And various other things as well as sort of in person or rather cohort-based courses Such as the the accelerators which are in there as well So there's different tiers in there available some of them include coaching some of them include group coaching And you can find out more about that and what my Existing coaching clients say about me over on that link there But yeah, so the fact that you can use ecam and bring in, you know These sorts of graphics and things like that to create engaging presentations Is is a real, you know, great thing for for for levelling up your zoom But as I say there is these There is these issues with with resolution that we need to be aware of Let me just go and check in with the the chat for a second before I continue So hey Tanju great to see you So the Dan the delivery doctor The bandwidth requirements seem low compared to when using ecam. They must be for direct through zoom Yeah, that is the the bandwidth requirements that are put up there are specifically zooms requirements So it's not to do with ecam. It is look at that overlay out of place terrible Yeah, the the bandwidth requirements are for zoom So it's just basically sending a single video feed up and receiving a video feed back So, uh, yes, those are they are pretty low. I mean, I don't think that too many people will have an issue with that Um, having said that zoom will only send one hd feed and will always default to the lower one So everyone can enjoy your beauty phones and browsers can only our great point there about the phones and things as well Yeah in in browsers Um I would highly recommend that get yourself a dedicated zoom monitor so you can always be full screen Exactly. Yes. Yeah, and it makes sense as well to to have I created an emoji for our um, uh take one tech discord You can join that at take one tech i o slash discord. Uh, that's family. Sorry Um, but um, yeah, I created the the gas emoji because yeah We do tend to enable each other to buy all these things But yeah having a dedicated monitor and especially with zoom if you have a teleprompter I highly recommend it anyway to be able to have eye contact It's the thing that I get asked about most when I'm on meetings with people that aren't, you know, from From our little circle who know this the tricks But I'll be having a meeting with somebody and they'll just say where are you looking because it looks like you're looking straight at me And it's just because I've got the teleprompter in front of me with the the zoom on it So that is a great way of actually always doing this of having zoom in full screen is just get a teleprompter with a field monitor and then have zoom full screen in that and then You've sort of ticked that box already because you've always got zoom full screen in at least a monitor So yeah, great advice there, uh, David Hi, Kimberly. Great to see you And you can also monitor the statistics in settings pane. Oh, that's a great point Yeah, you can you can manage monitor the the bandwidth so you can see what your upload and download is in the in the statistics there as well Thanks for stopping by thank you very much. That's much appreciated Alberto. I'm glad you are finding it useful Hey, mr. Hicks. Great to see you here too and Let's have a look and Dan. Thanks very much Yet Dan is a member of the academy. So definitely check that out. We have a weekly Q&A So any sort of questions like this that come up? It's always nice to be able to actually see people as opposed to I love live streaming and getting the questions coming in this way But you can't beat actually just having a an actual an actual chat with somebody Same with jesse jesse is also in the the academy So yeah, great to great to be able to see and hear you as opposed to just see you in chat So that's always great. Hey victor. I know zoom use built-in cams and mics from Cheap laptops, but they they put zero effort. Yeah, I know they they do most people are not putting any effort whatsoever into their online presentations Are all the courses live or you have some replays and archive courses. Um, yeah, so Sorry to go straight back to I don't like doing the overly self promotions or stuff But basically yeah in the the the courses that I've got Basically, you've got different types of courses. So the beginner's guides are short introductions. I say short I mean the discord one that just recently launched is 50 videos long So, you're not too short, but the videos are quite short in themselves But these are intended to just sort of get you up and running Because some of the master classes like the ecam live master classes a lot longer And so some people feel daunted by having to go into a long course or something like that So the beginner's guides are intended to get you up and running learn at your own pace So they're all sort of on demand. You can just go through them. However You know whenever and however you want and then they're just there for you all the time as well If you go onto the master classes, they are also on demand as well. So it's all pre-recorded videos As I say the ecam one is like 130 odd videos something like that. Um, and yet you can just learn at your own pace Um, the accelerators though, these are going to be cohort based courses So that is where basically They run at a specific time And then there is pre-recorded content that you can go and consume But then there's also a daily check-in as well And so the idea is to have you working like in a in a in a group with other people Um, so that there's then that added sort of Motivation and inspiration to go through the course because what I found is with the master classes and To a lesser extent the beginner's guides though is once people have got the course There's there isn't the same incentive apart from their own self motivation to actually Complete the course. So there is a you know, an element of people start but never finish So having the accelerators is is intended to you know, accelerate the process By you know learning over a particular period of time with other people Um, but then there's also as I say these weekly q and a's and there's replays available for that as well As well as group coaching sessions and monthly in-person events So I've got different tiers available that you can check out on the website in terms of in-person events though since we are talking about Training I am actually putting on my first in-person event since Covid and certainly the first one for take one tech as well So this is going to be in dallas in october The digital stage revolution and this is all about basically The sorts of things that we're talking the fact that we can now do With relative ease from the comfort of our homes or home studios You know, you can deliver really amazingly high quality productions Into zoom also on to you know, youtube and other platforms like that Creating digital courses as well. So it covers all of this kind of stuff It's this ability that all of the things that we used to do in person We can now do sort of virtually in the digital stage And the irony is that I'm doing this as an in-person event on an actual stage So but if you want to register your interest for that, there will be limited places available So I'm just finalizing some of the details But if you want to check that out, you can find the link down in the description And I'll also just drop it into the chat as well So that will be october the 7th to the 10th in dallas, texas And that will be four days of intensive workshops to really master all of the the tech and you can find out as I say more information Over there on the website about you know, what's involved in it and a little teaser of exactly what you're going to get out of it And yeah, just register your interest. There is no commitment on your part from that It just means that you will be the first to to know when tickets do actually go on sale So so yeah apart from all of the online courses if you are interested in The the the in-person sort of stuff and a really intensive Experience then that's one to check out and incidentally, I do find that you know in the academy So there's different levels there where people have one-to-one ongoing coaching and some people do just come to me and say, you know what I'm done with courses I just want you to tell me how to do what I need to know for my particular use case And so that's why there is there's certainly a scope there for different sort of learning styles And I've tried to cater for all of those So let me just go down the list again So here we go Where am I lost my place? Oh hey Glenda, hope you're feeling feeling better and everything's going well with you 640 by 320 speak of you on zoom is insane. Yeah, it is it is He's a bit shocking really that it is not just a generally higher as I say I've tried to you know Not be too harsh on them Try and understand at least some of their reasoning You know, they're trying to give the best best experience, but to some extent I do think, you know, come on Come on. Can't we just get a little bit of a bit of help here? Oh, thank you for clearing that up Dan. Yes, more courses are coming out all the time as well So and then in the q&a so you can you can ask any questions yet There are templates and resources as well So as part of that also all of my stream deck icon packs as well that I've created If you're an academy member you just get all of those and all the new ones coming out And get alerted to when I'm looking when I'm releasing new new guides and all of that kind of stuff Yep, the those are so the accelerated courses are going to be one a month on a range of topics Hi, Eric. Great to see you here as well And hey Parker great to see you too Thank you very much Southern California is a great place I did consider that as well actually it's just because so it's in Dallas Because I just happened to be also in Dallas for a vid summit. So I'm going to do that there. I'm also a One of the running one of the workshops at ecams Creator camp as well, which is also in October. So I'm kind of sandwiching Sandwich in my event between those two which I'm going to be in the us for in any case So let's carry on looking through here. So what I thought I would talk about is Also, just some of the other settings in zoom For audio since we are talking about, you know, how to how to give these excellent presentations and things like that into zoom It's useful also to just touch touch on some of these audio Settings and I did go over this in the cam advanced series But I just want to mention it here because this is one of the things that I often get on coaching calls with people Where they are asking me, you know, I feel like I've done everything But I'm still having audio issues in zoom the majority of my calls I would say are some kind of audio Issue that people that people are having so let's take a little look at the audio settings And I'll just clear a few things up with with those hopefully for you But if you got any questions specifically about audio then let me know So we've already taken a look in the video settings And by the way, I do go through this all in the pdf as well So you've it literally goes through with screenshots and everything like that sort of step by step But if I go into the audio settings So this is another place where Zoom is trying to give the the best experience to everybody And so in doing so what it does is it tries to it tries to help you It tries to be helpful and do things which it thinks you might want And when you come down to the The settings down here The default is going to be Where is it is zoom optimized audio? So you may see that when you come into your zoom settings It may also have this one checked automatically adjust microphone volume And then zoom optimized audio will tend to be on audio auto What that's doing is basically first of all automatically adjust microphone volume It is assuming that the average zoom user, which is not wrong by the way Has got terrible audio setup terrible lighting Terrible camera and everything, you know the old classic Camera up the nose shot from a laptop on a desk using a built-in camera on the laptop right next to the fan with poor audio quality Maybe in a noisy environment as well So maybe in a busy office or something like that or in a coffee shop or outside wherever it happens to be There's lots of reasons why you might have terrible audio If you're watching this and you are an e-cam live user and you've you've put it in a bit more thought and effort into your zoom setup You've probably got like, you know the top sort of Four or five percent of people in terms of the quality of the audio that you've got and the quality of video that you've got And so you don't actually need to have all of this kind of Handholding that zoom is going to try and do in terms of getting the best quality because you've already put that effort in yourself So the first thing to do is automatically adjust microphone volume We can take that off because Hopefully you're using in-ear monitors. You may be using some sort of audio interface And incidentally if you're not using I mean I use a roadcaster But if you don't have that and you're you're using e-cam and you want all of the e-cam You know audio and things like that to your mic plus any sound effects You can use the e-cam live virtual mic, which is the same as the camera It just takes all of the e-cam audio into zoom instead So there you would just simply change from from your microphone to to e-cam virtual mic there But for the time being i'm going to leave this like this But all of the rest of this stuff i'm talking about is irrelevant if you've got a good audio setup It's it's not just specific to the virtual mic. It applies to everything. So we've turned off the automatically adjust volume because You're a big boy or girl and you can control this yourself and make sure your levels are right So I turn off automatically adjust volume The next one is zoom optimized audio and it says recommended for most users again. They're not wrong What this is going to do is it's going to try and block out any background noise So if you've got even anything from like an aircon to traffic noise to other people talking in the background To you know, you're in a coffee shop. There's music playing It's going to try and remove all of that and it actually does a really good job of it so for normal people Who haven't got gear acquisition syndrome and have built out their studio For normal people actually to have this on makes a lot of sense However, if you are actually trying to have a produced event where you are piping in basically You know audio from maybe from a roadcaster Maybe it's just audio from your e-cam live virtual mic. Maybe you're playing videos into it Maybe you've got presentations where there is audio as a part of it And that is going in through the mic channel So basically all of my audio comes into my roadcaster and then from there it goes into zoom Well, if you have this setting left on Zoom doesn't really know that you want all of that stuff in there because zoom is just hearing it all And zoom thinks that oh, well, that's a load of background noise that's going on Behind their voice. So let's just remove all of that stuff So this is a common problem that I I hear people telling me that you know, I've got everything set up But they can't hear my music and it's usually because this option here is still checked So I always recommend um, if you have Uh, potentially um, a you know, a Not not such a great setup. Maybe you've got some background noise going on Then you can add a push just leave this as low and it will basically knock out um faint background sound But it won't block out actually like music. So if you pipe in, you know, sound effects of music It's not going to block that out. So that might be what you want But what I do normally recommend though for most people With good setups Is this original sound for musicians Now there's a couple of options in here. There's three options to be precise When you enable this what that's doing is basically turning off Um, the processing that zoom is doing on your on your audio So it's not going to be doing any of this background noise reduction It's not going to be trying to optimize it It's going to assume that you've got a great sound and therefore it's allowing your original sound the the one that you're piping in Basically to go through into zoom Now you do need to enable this on each meeting, but I'll talk about that in a moment But um, the uh, the high fidelity music mode That's basically it says here optimize zoom audio for highest quality music It can increase cpu utilization consume greater network bandwidth for best results and ethernet connection Not wi-fi is strongly recommended. I thought I'd just read that with their disclaimer. Um, actually in terms of bandwidth We talked before about bandwidth for high definition video When it comes to the addition that is being added for high fidelity music It's pretty minimal So I don't think you need to necessarily see that and think oh, is it going to suddenly start using You know a massive amount of bandwidth It's not like you're going to suddenly need to go from, you know, three megabits up to 100 or something like that So you'll probably find you won't have any issues So I turn that on because basically that's just going to give the exact quality that's coming out of the, you know The roadcaster or thereabouts. Um, and that's what it's going to put into the zoom core Now echo cancellation is if you are using speakers. So you've got monitors. Um You can still have the original sound on But if you are somebody who uses uh monitors and I always say, you know It's best to use any monitors rather than having external speakers that the audio from zoom is coming Out of the speakers and potentially going back into the microphone Um, but sometimes people can't wear these all day I've spoken to countless people who say, you know what? I just don't feel comfortable with earphones in when I'm on, you know, consultation calls Uh for, you know, eight or 10 hours a day. It's just not workable or they're running long workshops, they don't feel comfortable Wearing headphones. I get it. So if you don't feel comfortable wearing headphones and you feel that you do want to have it on You know, the audio from zoom coming out of your speakers You can still take advantage of the high fidelity music mode and the original sound But just check this one So it does do that echo cancellation. I know if doc was here today, it's not echo It's slap back. But anyway, let's call it whatever else calls it echo cancellation You can reduce that though. Um by or turn that on there If you are wearing monitors, there is absolutely no need to have that one on I'll tell you another little thing that I've uh, I've seen this five times now, uh in, you know A space of maybe a couple of months people have book calls They've said I've gone through and I've done all of these different things But the people in zoom are saying that they are still hearing a faint Echo or a faint slap back. So they they're wearing monitors They don't have this one checked because they don't need to have it checked because they're wearing headphones They think um, but then um, they're still getting this this audio coming through and they've been through all the settings They've done all the troubleshooting steps and they just can't get why it's happening and it's happened five times And in each time it's happened It's been somebody who's been using these headphones the uh road anti NT 100 whatever now I I don't wear these on zoom calls because I think it just puts up like a barrier between you and who you're talking to But if you do wear these and you are using a road caster In each case the solution I've said is Just turn down the volume a little bit on your headphones. It seems that these ones in particular It's like the audio bleeds out from it And so if you've got your headphones on like this and your mic is here Um, there is a chance that it is actually picking up the audio from zoom from your headphones It's happened five times in two months with people who've called in and they've generally called in after A week of frustration and troubleshooting and trying to figure out where they've been checking the audio Rooting to understand where this audio is coming from. Um, and in actual fact, it was just they could the mic was picking up their headphones Turning down their headphones helped So I only mentioned that just because as I say people have people have paid for consultations with me where that was the solution So, uh, maybe you can save Save yourself some frustration there if that has happened to you So anyway, that was echo cancellation. Uh, the next one is stereo audio So normally if you're in it just speaking in a mic and you're just doing Spoken word as it were Then it's going to be mono you don't need to have stereo on for that if you are going to be playing movies or sound effects or music or things like that that you want that sort of stereo experience to go through to your Your participants, uh, then you can leave the stereo audio on again It will tell you that it's going to increase cpu usage and it's also going to increase network bandwidth requirements Um, but as I say, it's uh, it it's not that much of an increase So I don't think you're going to have that much issue um Let me uh, just check in with the uh, the chat. I mean, I'll just come to another point about this in a moment But just in case there's any questions Hi, hi, melvin. Great to see you here uh The rocaster pro to mute the output sound automatically When mic is on so you can actually turn that off. Um, if you have got a, um What's what michael's referring to there? Is the default situation with the rocaster is that um, when you've got an open mic It's going to turn off the studio monitors that are plugged into the back of the rocaster Um, let me just check if I've got my thing set up here because I can show you where to turn that off I've been moving my top down camera. So it's probably going to be out of alignment Uh, where's it gone? We'll see how this how this looks. Yeah, it's a sort of out of alignment. Isn't it? There we go Let me just move that forward. Um, if you go into your settings though, uh, michael And then go into outputs and then go to monitor Um, this option at the very top here, uh, you might not be able to see it too well But trust me, it's just there at the top. It says auto mute monitor output. So that is the default setting because quite rightly rocaster of uh, a road of figured that, um, you know, you're not going to want to have your speakers bleeding through into your mic So just like in a radio studio, that's the same way it works there as soon as you take the the volume of the mic down Then it will open up the in studio monitors But then as soon as you put it up again, then it'll shut them down So that is the default if you want to override that though, uh, you can always come into here and just uncheck that one So, uh, michael if you did want to have it coming through, um, that your speakers that would be the thing to do Just unmute audio in there. Um, but then back over in the zoom settings Wrong one back over in the zoom settings Then you would just use that echo cancellation. So you could have it coming through the monitors And then have the echo cancellation turned on in there Um, uh, how can I ensure? How can I ensure that I hear through the speakers? And speak into the mic or should I just use the earphones? Oh, sorry. That was the question. Um, yeah, so that's how you would do it then Just just go into the zoom settings and turn off that auto mute monitor, um, and then um, and then in zoom you would go in there and adjust it in there So you wouldn't get you wouldn't get feedback in terms of uh, depending on You know, unless you speak as a right next to your mic You wouldn't get the classic sort of feedback sound as in, you know, the sort of high pitch Whistling or whatever you get with feedback. So you wouldn't get that so much But what you will get is um, if you don't have echo cancellation on Then the people in the zoom meeting are going to say, oh, I can we can hear ourselves back They're going to say I can hear echo So you won't get feedback, but you just want to go and check that Incidentally that would not apply if you were say recording in ecum live as well So let's say you've got a zoom call going and you were recording in ecum Then you might get, you know, some uh, duplication of the zoom feed if you if you weren't sort of muting it You could you could I'm not going to I don't want to go too far down a rabbit hole assuming things But if you were ever doing that where you were recording in ecum You would got the zoom meeting going and then the zoom audio was coming over the the speakers potentially Then what you could do is you could just eliminate the original zoom feed from the path that is going to ecum But i'm probably making up a solution to a problem that you haven't got So I won't go too far down there. Um, so that is the original sound setting Um, but the thing about it is you do need to enable it every time you start a meeting which is a little bit frustrating Um, so if I come to my uh mark back to the pdf Basically, I've explained all about these different audio settings and things like that. So you'll find this all in the pdf Uh, but just further down here. I'll show you where it is. Um in the zoom window So when you actually start a new meeting what you'll see is up in the top corner Once you've enabled the option for original sound in the settings You'll see in the top corner. It says original sound for musicians and the default position is going to be off So what you need to do At the start of the meeting is basically go up to that and just click on the text And it will change to original sound for musicians is on I did a live stream uh last week which was all about automation And as part of that, I think I talked about my zoom workflow. So I use um I use an app called moon to organize all the apps on my screen So when we're talking about having you know zoom on this monitor Zoom on this monitor e-cam down here. Maybe something that i'm sharing over this place and different things like that I use moon to organize all of those windows. So they're in the right place on the screen Uh, but then I also use a thing called keyboard maestro Which enables me to do various automation tasks But what one of the things it can do is click on a particular found image on the screen. So what I've done is I've taken a screenshot of the uh original sound for musicians, uh, and then I've got keyboard maestro Basically automatically going and clicking on that. So when I uh when I'm on a zoom call or setting up for zoom I've got a button. I press on the stream deck that opens everything up As part of that uh multi action it not just opens everything up But it also activates moon to put everything in the right place And then it also activates this keyboard maestro macro To go and basically click on the the original sound for musicians. So it always basically comes on as part of that It also does other things like opens up the participants window opens up the chat window And various different things like that as well. So that's all sort of part of my My my sort of workflow of getting set up for zoom. I like things to be a one button push So that makes sense to be gone in e-cam and zoom Unfortunately, I don't have any issues with that in my coaching course great stuff. So yeah, it's um, if you if you I don't do a lot of Recording for zoom where I'm not just sort of rooting the audio directly and I don't play over speakers as well But glad that made sense. I was wondering if I was just confusing the issue. So glad that all made sense If there's any other questions about anything generally related to zoom audio do do let me know other than that I will just say that obviously the the zoom guide you can get that and I go through all of these things step by step Is a free guide. There's other free guide you'll find on my website as well Related to various other things AI for content creators or course creators. I should say and various other things as well over there So yeah, don't go and and check that out if there are any final questions I will get to them I'll also say if you are not already a member of the take one tech discord community go to take one tech Dot io family That's a great place to basically go and have all of these conversations and ask questions and get questions answered Not just from me, but also from people far smarter than me that are in there as well So it's a great place for that. That's sort of high high mind high hive mind In terms of the academy yet, you certainly can't expect this level of support So you'll certainly get an onboarding call when you you first sign up And then yeah, I mean I do the the weekly q&a's In there as well. And in fact, there's actually two of them because People are all over the place. So australia europe america. I'm in thailand So I do actually do two weekly q&a's there basically for me It's five a.m. On a thursday in thailand and five p.m. On a thursday here in thailand as well So I do two and then those are recorded as well So you can get the replay of those and go back and and have a look and by the way if you're not already in discord Then it's the thing about the discord, which is great. I did the whole video a live stream of that discord a couple of weeks ago But one thing that's great about it is the search ability So it's really easy to find Questions answers to questions that you may already have But because what i'm doing with the q&a's is i'm actually putting all the topics that were covered as well So it means that when you search in discord You may well find that it's been answered in one of the weekly q&a's and then you can go and watch the replay of that To to find the information that way. But yeah, certainly i'm all about All about the support and the motivation for creating the academy is essentially just to you know, get you the results that That you're looking to to give and that's that's my motivation behind it. And yeah, that's that's where i'm coming from in terms of Why i'm doing all of this So, uh, oh, thank you glender for the for the kind words And thanks rich for dropping in the the link and hello again Um, so let's have a look at this Does your new field monitor provide the full screen viewing on your teleprompter using zoom or ecamm? So right now i've got my ecamm output on it If i'm doing a zoom workshop or a zoom uh webinar or something like that I'll tend to have my ecamm output on my uh my teleprompter But then if i'm on a zoom coaching call or anything else, I will let me just get some of this stuff off the screen, sorry Then I will tend to have the the zoom Main window on my teleprompter Which will be that you know the person i'm talking to and then i'll have the second zoom window Will be down on my thing and maybe I can just show you what my setup looks like Just so that this makes a bit more sense. So my main monitor is over here is a 43 inch phillips monitor So that's where i've kind of sit to work But when i'm live streaming or doing coaching calls, then I kind of like turn just over to here So i've got my roe caster. Um, this is a 12 12 inch 12 and a half inch field monitor. So the lily put is just down here Um, and so that's what i'm looking into and then just below that i've got a portable monitor, which is Technically it's not 4k. I think it's 2k That's the thing But that is the monitor that i have here. So right now on the live stream I've got my uh my chat So that's where i'm looking at all the chat and stuff like that But when i'm on a zoom coaching call, then I will have the The second zoom on window will be there and so that will by default be I'll be looking at the person up in the camera. So getting the eye contact, of course But then usually they're sharing their screen because we're troubleshooting some issue So then that is what you'll see down. That is what I see down here And then I have all of my other stuff over on the the right hand side So anything i'm going to be sharing or anything like that as I say if i'm doing a zoom webinar or a zoom workshop Then what i'll often have is, you know, things will be moved around a little bit My main zoom window may well be Elsewhere so i've got another monitor that's just just out of shot here a vertical monitor So I may have it on there if I just want to get that full screen thing But then my e-cam might well be in the teleprompter because that's what i'm Delivering and so then I can see you know all the stuff that i'm putting up in terms of Bringing in presentations and stuff. I did another live stream. I feel like i'm just talking about past live streams today I did another live stream a couple of weeks ago, which was all about Immersive presentations or a few weeks ago and bringing keynote presentations into into e-cam So in that case what I may have is you know the presentation over there But bringing it into e-cam so i'm looking into the camera at e-cam because then I can see kind of what i'm What i'm supposed to be talking about if that makes sense So yeah to answer your question It does provide the full viewing experience and the monitor as well what you might find If I just go back to this shot, I do also have a smaller teleprompter over here So this is a lily put a seven and it you that's the one that I was using for a long time But I found with the smaller teleprompter the seven inch it was a little bit too small for the For the the light for the zoom interface So it felt like when I was just talking one to one with somebody it was fine I'd still got the eye contact. I could still see the person in it. Okay But when I was doing anything where I'd got like the gallery view It becomes you know when you've got more than a four by four matrix in there Then the people start looking really small whereas with this one actually it's It's really easy to see you know, even if I'm on a meeting well a full meeting with you know 25 or 49 people it's probably a bit too many but um In terms of seeing it on here, but basically I could still see people's Faces they're not just like dots on the screen. So it's definitely I don't know. I'm just saying now because I know that you are in the process of Evaluating monitors and that it's definitely worth considering You know the the the the slightly larger size if you can stretch to it Just because it does it just come into its own when you're trying to do stuff on the screen specifically With the interface now what I did with the seven inch monitor because technically it's a seven inch 4k monitor Well, if you get a 4k Resolution and shrink that down to seven inches It basically means the little touch targets or click targets with your mouse are like tiny tiny little dots So what I found was actually changing the resolution of that little 4k monitor Changing it down to 720 or even lower basically meant that The people are still going to look the same And yes, technically they are a lower resolution But because it's just a tiny little thing further away it's still actually to your eyes It's a higher resolution than a 4k display right in front of you But the thing about it though is it increases the size of all of the on-screen elements like buttons So if you are using a smaller monitor Consider like you maybe don't need if it's a 4k Seven inch monitor you can probably actually get away with 720 or lower as the the monitor resolution So changing that in your display settings will then allow you to to do that So How have I managed to attach so many screens to your M1 mini? So if you get a A dock that has display link technology So I'm using a wavelength or yeah wavelength. What's it called? Wavelength So I'll find the the dock And if there's a picture of it here actually what you need to look for is Some of them have this and some of them don't but you can see on this little image here There is this little icon on it and this little label and it says basically display link So you need to make sure that you've got a dock with display link technology built into it So I'm using a wavelength. It's not that particular one Where is it? And I've got one with it's only two extra ports two extra hdmi ports But you can get them with up to five And that basically you have to have a bit of software running on your mac Which is the wavelength software and then you've basically got your two monitors that you can have on a mac mini So there's one hdmi port But if you've just got any old dongle with a you know usb c to to hdmi you can have two monitors So you can still have those but then with the wavelength dock This is basically adding additional monitors. So I've then got my my wavelength is Giving me two additional monitors Which is one of my in fact, it's the two that I'm using here So the teleprompter and this one and then my other vertical monitor and my main monitor I just plug directly into the the main mac. So you could then use One of you know, if you wanted even more monitors Which when I upgrade to a studio, I'll probably will add an extra one But then you can get as I say up to I think up to five is the the maximum that I've seen on a wavelength Dock but as I say you would then have a little bit of software that runs in your menu bar And that is where you sort of control or add in the other other monitors But you still manage them all from within system preferences Maybe I should be showing you this rather than just trying to explain it if I come over to system preferences Let's just get this comment just off the screen so you can see everything Then if I come to system preferences and go to Whereas it displays There we go displays So you can see yeah, there's basically multiple monitors. So I think it is these two here this Philips one here and this vertical one Those are both basically connected directly to the mac But then these two here are connected to the to the wavelength But you've still got the same controls. It's just that they're they're coming in via a slightly different route So that is that question Yeah, the 10 inch is is great So I think I I got the seven inch because it was working with this smaller monitor originally But yeah, I've regretted even not getting the 10 inch for that. So that yeah, something like that is going to be it's going to be much better Would I recommend keynote over google slides? I kind of would but that's probably just because I'm I'm more in I've been using keynote for a long time Should I promote another previous live stream? I did the keynote 101 live stream two weeks ago Welcome to alec talks about past live streams So so yeah, I prefer keynote over google. I don't really like any of the google products to be honest I don't like google sheets google docs or anything like that. I always I'm yeah, I'm not a huge fan of those. I don't know why but I guess it's just because I'm a bit stuck in my ways with with other platforms But I do like keynote. So yes, and I definitely prefer keynote over powerpoint So powerpoint is great, but it's a bit bloated in my experience Those my three friends Well, these are my these are my imaginary friends. These are a tai chinese. Whoops wrong one tai chinese These guys are gloxial They're a a a tai a tai thing a tai look thing while chinese tai But I've got some friends to talk to So anyway, hey david great to see you Um Alex did a great session a few weeks ago on keynote. Oh, that's so that's the one. Yes Um, so yeah, you definitely find it in the ecom channel. It was like one of my last live streams a couple of weeks ago Um No, so this is the point. Um, jesse is um, you are limited to two displays plug directly into the the max So that's the the limit. So I have still got to my two displays plugged into the mac directly So well one of them over htmi one of them just with a little dongle I can't plug any more in like that But the display link is the thing that allows you to then have more displays Because you're actually bringing them in over a uh Using the display link software so you can add I think you can add more than five technically. Um, but I've only ever seen a wavelength dock with five before Let's have a look wavelength five Screen dock And it works works fine. So these are in fact, this is the one that I've got if I just um come back to my screen share for a second Uh, so this one is the one that I've got so it's got basically two ports And by the way, it's got an hdmi port and a display port So don't get confused between display link and display port So if you see a dock and it says that it's got a display port That is an alternative to hdmi which actually gives you better. Um, I better Uh Better quality image technically out of it. I don't think most people would notice but uh, yeah So the the wavelength has got um both display link and display port for two additional screens You can only use one of those at the time. So uh, either display link or display port for screen one and either Sorry Let me correct that Either uh display port and hdmi for screen one or display port and hdmi for screen two And this has display link technology. So hopefully you're stupidly confused Just look for display link though on the the the dock and that will be good to go But there are some of them that have got three or four um different, uh Ones in it. So is this one this looks like it's got more maybe those are h those hdmi Yeah, so that one's got one two Three, uh, so that's three Three, uh screens, but yeah, there are some with up to five. Anyway, as I'd want to go through looking at a full list But yeah, basically this this is in addition to that two screen limit. Um, so um Uh, uh, oh a friend of yours dicks there and won my mini because he thought he was limited to one screen Oh, that is unfortunate because even even without the display link dock You can just get a dongle that is a usb c to a hdmi And stick that in and you've got the two then at least Even without buying a dock and the dot wasn't that expensive by the way. It was only Well, it's relative, but I think it was like a hundred dollars or hundred and twenty dollars 3400 baht. So it was about a hundred dollars exactly then for this the the one that I've got So yeah, it's not uh to uh, plug-able also do want so just in case you're looking um, then uh, there is one that is called um, uh, a brand that is plug called plug-able And they have one that has the display link thing on them as well So so yeah, that uh, that should solve that problem So hopefully we've just enabled some more gas for you jesse to uh to add more screens to your setup You're welcome. That's what we're here for um Any uh, any other questions at zoom or uh or studio related happy to take those otherwise If there is nothing else then I will wrap it up here But just to say that yet you can get that guide just check out the links in the description And yeah, I've mentioned a lot of live streams. I'll probably have to just go and post those in the description as well But otherwise just go over to take one tech. I uh, sorry take one take on youtube and subscribe If you aren't already and then go and check out the recent live streams You'll see the past five live streams that I've done. I've basically referenced in the past 20 minutes So uh, so yeah, um, let's have a little look. I've just noticed some other things coming in um Uh, did I see your comment above about gas? I think I missed that actually I think I missed that one Uh, oh the kel yeah the kel digit element hub So there is the kel digit ts 4 or kel digit ts 3 Docks which have the uh additional outputs as well. So that's yeah, that is definitely another option um, and the kel digit element hub is a it doesn't have any hdmi outputs on it Um, but yeah, if you want to expand things then you can use that and hello by the way Great to see you here Um, so yeah with that said, um, thanks all for stopping by for those of you watching on the replay I will leave a link over on the the right hand side coming up And by the way, any academy members if you you can always feel free to drop into the live stream at backstage So all the time that I am streaming on youtube I'm also going into the discord and then we can have a little chat after the fact about stuff That we've covered in the live stream or usually just anything else that comes to mind as well So thanks all for watching for those watching on the replay. I will get around to adding another relevant zoom related video over here Thanks so much to my channel members as well. Thanks for all of your support and thanks to all of the academy members It's always great to see your progress as well. Have a wonderful day everyone. I will see you next time