 In this stream, we are going to be talking about my YouTube video production process and it's something that I get asked about a lot because I do do all of my videos in one take, not necessarily always the first take, but why one take you may ask. Well, a lot of you may have been familiar with this story already, but it's basically as a way to get over my perfectionist tendencies because I do tend to have a habit of tweaking on things a little bit more than probably I should, so I would if I was recording videos for course content or things like that for other projects that I was doing before I started my channel, I would tend to retake things multiple times and then I would just give myself a headache when I was going into the editing process because I'm not really a fan of editing in the first place and also I would end up with all these little clips that would somehow have to stitch together and so to create a half hour video would usually take me probably about 10 hours and it was just not sustainable and it certainly wasn't sustainable from the point of view of creating the sort of the level or the amount of content that I've been putting out on YouTube and it wasn't really an intention to be doing quite so many videos on YouTube necessarily, but when I started I just figured the best way to get better at this process of creating videos in One Take without the editing just removing that part of it was to just actually practice and do it and that's actually why I started the YouTube channel in the first place was just to practice this process and skill if you like if you want to call it that of creating videos in One Take and so that was where the name of the channel came from and incidentally the first name that I had for the channel was actually One Take Tech and the idea with that was that it was all One Take because it's not necessarily Take One, I do actually sometimes restart them but I'll talk about that in a moment as well, but yeah so it was going to be One Take Tech because the idea behind that as well was I am sharing sort of my opinions on products and things like that as well so it was just my One Take my one opinion as well but for some reason I figured that Take One Tech somehow had a little bit of a better ring to it but who knows maybe it did maybe it didn't maybe they both sound rubbish but that is where the the name came from so I do get asked about that and the thing that made it all possible really was Ecamm Live I've got to say because I did start having a look at OBS when I first got this idea about doing these things in this way not like I'm the first one to do it by any stretch but when I decided that that's what I wanted to try and look into I did go down the OBS route and it just didn't work out for me I didn't find it as intuitive as as Ecamm Live I didn't know Ecamm Live existed at the beginning though but I didn't find it so intuitive and the other thing was I was actually trying to do this on quite an old Mac to be fair and the the output that I was getting from OBS just didn't have the despite all of the settings the the frame rate of the output wasn't there and that was not OBS's fault by the way that was my computer's fault but I just happened to see a really nice chap called Mr. Doc Rock on right weekly back in I think it was March last year and heard him talking about Ecamm and I thought I should perhaps have a look at that and see what that is because it was obviously for video production on the Mac so I tried it out and never looked back and I can highly recommend Ecamm Live it's what makes this channel possible and if you want to get into live streaming on the Mac or live video production in one take just like I've been doing on my channel then definitely head over to takeonetech.io slash ecamm that will take you to the Ecamm Live download page where you can download and try it out for free and it's a great piece of software and like I say without it none of this would be possible at all or at least I would only probably would have made about 10 videos in the past eight months or something like that anyway so that is really why I've decided to do these videos in one take so I thought what I'd do is I did spend a lot of time in the beginning sort of getting everything set up for the channel before I launched it well I say a lot of time it was about a month that I spent just getting everything ready I spent you know some time obviously learning Ecamm and then I spent some time setting up all of my scenes and things like that I did do a video all about the sort of pre-launch process so in terms of I learned from Doc before I even launched the channel so I got my Buy Me a Coffee affiliate links set up and all that sort of stuff as well so if you are enjoying this content then obviously head over to buymeacoffee.com slash takeonetech to support the channel on a one-off or ongoing basis but then all of the other stuff like the Ecamm Live affiliate like the TubeBuddy affiliate and all that sort of stuff so there was a certain number of steps that I took in advance of launching the channel to actually get all of those things in place now what I've done is I've left a link to all of the relevant videos in the description of this video so anything that I'm mentioning in the live stream is linked in the description as well so I'm not going to go over all of the sort of pre-launch things that I did but in terms of what I do for actually producing the videos the first thing is the video ideas and so people often ask you know where I get the ideas from or you know how I sort of plan out the things that I'm going to do actually before I started the channel I did have a list of loads of different video ideas and that is just sort of continually growing and it's actually growing quicker than I can make them so there's always new things that are getting added to it I don't know how many I've got in there now but it's well over 150 now but they were all sort of stuff related to this the things that I do on the Mac so when I was thinking about what to actually do on the channel given that the channel the idea was it was an exercise in sort of self-development of the process of making videos I obviously just thought well what can I do that I love and I love anything to do with productivity automation and all that sort of stuff on the Mac so that is what the focus is and of course tech gear I didn't want to go down the whole sort of tech review channel and gear review channel because I could have obviously just you know made videos all about products and things like that but I wanted specifically to practice the skill of making tutorials because that was kind of the end game of doing these one take videos for my stuff outside of the channel as well so it needed to be something that was kind of related to that so I still do do the gear reviews obviously because it's all related to what I'm doing hence there are a few of those thrown in here for good measure it wasn't my intention to do a channel that was predominantly stream deck and ecam it just happens to be that those are the tools that I started using to create these videos and then I just fell in love with them really I don't know where I'd be without my stream deck and it's not quite working for me today but normally it is a an integral part of my workflow so yeah that's why there's been so many of them because they're just the stream deck was bought as a tool for video production and has ended up being like a massive productivity tool for just everything else that I'm doing so that's why there's quite a focus on that and ecam live I'm just in in love with that application so that's why I've got a lot of ecam videos on my on my site but although I do have a list of videos I would say that probably about 50% of the the videos that I've made have not actually been ones that I've sort of thought of as videos ideas you know on a list somewhere they really come from questions so questions that people either ask in the live stream questions that people message me and ask me all questions that I see in like the ecam group the stream deck group or wherever it happens to be so I just make questions that yeah just give me those those ideas and also looking at questions that people ask in other streams so quite often I might be on the like the ecam live demo which was just a couple of hours before this live stream and there'll be questions that come up in there that give me ideas so I've wrote down a few today for ideas of videos to make that are related to questions that people had in there so it's a great way to to actually get ideas for content is to be just sort of aware of what's going on in the sort of communities that you are moving in here if you like that are relevant to your channel so that's really where I get my ideas from it's kind of from questions from other people and then just the stuff that I love doing and I've got this sort of idea of making series of videos on different topics related to sort of Mac productivity automation and all that sort of stuff so I do have a stream deck series I've got a shortcut series now which I've just done last week all about the shortcuts app on the Mac something that I've not really used a huge amount actually I've tended to use it on iOS and then I use keyboard Maestro so I've got a keyboard Maestro series on the channel as well but I'm just sort of getting into actually using the shortcuts app a lot more on the on the Mac now that there is integration with ecam live as well so that's where we are in terms of the actual video ideas so then I thought well I'll talk about my sort of pre-record process what I needed to do in order to make this work because in case you weren't aware I tend to make all of my videos sort of between 4 and 6 a.m. in the morning that's my sort of YouTube time I've I've allotted to it I've been a little bit off schedule to be honest recently but you don't need to worry about that I don't tend to sort of batch pre-record you know a large number of videos and put them out although that's what I did do with the shortcuts one I sort of recorded quite a few of those in a row but generally I've just got this sort of window of a window of opportunity to make my YouTube videos and because it's a kind of like two-hour window I needed to make sure that I could just sort of come in and sit down and record without even thinking about it anything that was going to add friction into my way in terms of making these videos like I've got to come and set everything up is just something that yeah I couldn't really have anything in the way because I just need to be able to get down and get down and do it and if most of my videos are kind of like half an hour generally I'm aiming for you know the average length of my long form videos is around about half an hour and then yeah within that two hours I need to sort of you know come down set everything up that I need in terms of the the screen and so on make the video and then there's the upload process as well so I can't have too much time on either side of that and then there's the sort of channel maintenance as well which has to fit into that two-hour window so I'll talk about that part a little bit later but yeah it's about being frictionless and I try that with everything that I'm doing is try and have this sort of frictionless approach to it where it just just happens it's not it doesn't always happen but that's the that's the goal and if you aim for a goal you might hit it sometimes I fall for short so what have I done in terms of doing that well the camera is just always on the ecam live is always on I never shut down ecam live actually because I always have it there I use it with my zoom calls teams meetings stuff like that so it actually just is running full time I don't I don't switch it off for anything so ecam's always on so I know if I switch my computer on ecam's running the camera is always on and then my lights are just well I've got the lights behind me and I've got a switch over here that switches off my key light that looks like actually like it looks like I mean witness protection now doesn't it so that's what it takes to switch my lights on the lights behind me are my nanolite pavo tubes and I made a video also any as I say any video that I mentioned is already in the description so I made a button for my stream deck which enables me to press the button and these lights come on behind me so basically it's just kind of switch for my my main lights a switch on my stream deck for the lights behind me and then basically oh that's it I'm ready to go in terms of the actual screen so that automation video is in the description as I say in terms of the actual screen itself then I do have sort of different positions on the screen where I will where I will put things so if I just come into my live demo this is going to not quite how I make my videos because at the moment I'm in my live stream mode so if I just come into my live demo mode now basically now I've got my my comments down here I've got some notes because I'm trying to be more prepared about my live streams so I've got some notes I don't have notes for my videos by the way but my live streams I can often get distracted so I do actually have some notes for my live streams this for the past couple of times I've been trying it and then down here this is my keynote for my little titles so those little titles I've been putting on top of the screen are basically just a keynote slide there you go you can see that that comes up on keynote and then I'm using the green screen feature for it to come up on the screen as well and then my key my e-cam stuff is all down in this bottom which corner this corner bottom left corner but normally for my videos the only thing I've got on the screen to start with is my e-cam stuff and because I've got quite a large screen it's a 43 inch I've basically got sort of like six different positions I've sort of split it into you know a three by two grid so I've got six different positions that I can play stuff on the screen now if I come over to my stream deck you'll see how I've sort of got this laid out I did do a video just last week about how I use the stream deck and loop deck and I went through all of these actions on that so I'm not going to go through like my whole stream deck setup or anything like that because I don't think that's going to be productive you can go and check out that video but basically these are my scenes I've got this one for my main scene and then these ones here are basically four of those six areas of the screen so this would be kind of like the top left of the screen this one would be top center this one be top right and bottom right and then that sort of bottom middle is where I just have a free space that I can put any windows that I'm not sort of displaying but I might want to drag them into place or something like that so when I'm doing a demo I'm basically opening the apps or the windows that I need to do so if I'm doing a keyboard maestro video for example I'll have that down in maybe the bottom right if I'm going to be talking about how to use that with stream deck I'd have that in the top right so in fact that is in fact what I've got for today because I am going to be talking about keyboard maestro and the stream deck as well so you can see that I've got those two windows positioned over on the far right side so I basically get all of the windows into position for making the video of whatever it is I'm giving the tutorial on now I do that with an application called Moom and the link for that video is in the description as well so that tells you basically about how you can use this Moom app to just organize the windows on your screen but not just organize them actually place them in specific places so if I'm doing a video about as I say your stream deck and keyboard maestro then I've got a button that I press and it will just put those applications in exactly the right place so that when I do flick over to those screens the applications are in the right place just as they are there although that one's got a little green screen flicking over it so that's how I basically do my sort of setup process I've also got some things that I do for the sort of pre-launch the pre-going live setup in terms of checklists that I run so I'll leave a link to the checklist video that I did in the description but that's basically going through checking things like checking all the lighting checking my audio although I did record one video when I missed out my checklist and recorded a video without sound I uploaded it and without checking it and yeah I had a video up there without sound for about two minutes until somebody messaged me and said you might want to check your audio but generally I run through a checklist checking as I say lights audio all the things like that checking the scenes just to make sure that nothing's out of place with those and then then we are pretty much ready to record so in terms of the recording it's basically just a case of ecamm this is the beauty of ecamm it's a case of just pressing the record button and away you go and having spent the time sort of planning out these different scenes so like the thing that I was just showing you with the stream deck for example with all those different scene layouts I've just got all of the different scenes laid out you might want to check out the video that I did last week which is in the description about how I use the stream deck and the loop deck together but that basically explains what all of these different buttons do on the the stream deck in terms of the scenes my little pop-ups things like that so you know obviously don't forget to like and subscribe all of that sort of stuff I can just hit with the the touch of a button so the actual recording part now I actually feel is the easiest part of it because I'm basically just sitting down talking to some lovely people about whatever it is that the subject is so that's that's that's about as as difficult as that gets for me I do sometimes screw up the beginning because if I'm talking about something that I know about I don't have an issue but sometimes it's those little intros the little hooks where I've got to say this video is for you if x y and z or whatever never really come totally naturally to me I probably need to work on that and find a way that it does feel natural but I often sort of get those mixed up because I just sort of launch into it without much thought perhaps an idea it would be that I just actually spend 10 seconds thinking about it before I actually go into the 10 second intro but I often don't so I do have a special button on my stream deck just for that in fact which is this little button here which is my little go-around button and what that basically does is it stops the recording it pauses for a couple of seconds and then it presses the record button again because what that does in ecamm is it ends the recording but then it dismisses the little pop-up that comes up and so then I'm ready to press my little record button again and and start again in terms of the the end screen the one thing that I do in there is I have a little button on my stream deck actually now I've moved it to my loop deck but that basically switches to my end screen where I've got my sort of next videos coming up you want to check out these videos that sort of thing and then it pauses for 20 seconds and then it ends the recording because in YouTube you've got 20 seconds at the end where you can place those little videos I've tried to be a little bit more intentional about my endings of my videos now I used to spend sort of like a good minute or so of waffling all the way up to that point telling everyone that the video was basically over so now I'm trying to be a bit more intentional about not having any sort of wind down before the end but rather just going straight into it and actually where possible also trying to specify exactly what video they want to watch next so with my shortcut series at the end of every video I said the next video is you know about x y or z whatever it was and actually placing a specific video there so I'm still going to work and play around with that a little bit to figure out the best way to do it but for now that is what I'm doing so in terms of the workflow that is what I'm doing in terms of the recording process itself and yeah it just depends obviously on what I'm talking about depends on what the the content is like and any sort of particular changes and things like that in terms of the post recording I've got a few little workflows and tricks that I think it'd be good to share with you that you might find useful because here again it is a case of reducing friction I don't want anything to sort of stop me from getting on you know once I've finished my ecam recording I've got the recording there then I don't want anything to get into my way of of actually getting it up onto YouTube and thinking about it you've obviously got to get the file you've got to get it up onto YouTube then you've got to go and write your description you've got to make the thumbnail and all that sort of stuff as regards thumbnails I'm up although I did a slight redesign recently and in fact my live stream last week was all about the sort of the changes that I've made for my channel so I've left a link for that in the description as well but yeah the thumbnails I kind of although I've tweaked my design basically I've just got one stock design that I use and then I just go and change the the writing on it a little bit but what I have done is I have automated this process so if I come over to my stream deck just for a little minute to show you so this is my sort of page when I'm actually on my live stream or sorry or recording rather but when I'm sort of finished or this page has got all of the things that I do for sort of maintenance or for before the channel the recording starts so for example up along the top here these are all things related to actually related to the display in some way so this one turns on and off my virtual monitor on the the teleprompter so ECAM is now putting out my output from ECAM onto my teleprompter so that I can see what's going out there so I can toggle that on and off if I want it on or off this one changes the resolution of my display so I do have a as I say it's a 43 inch 4k but sometimes if I want to show something like a full screen demo for something then it's better for it to be 1920 by 1080 if I need to show like absolutely everything on the screen but it's still not look too you know too too small on the the screen for the viewer so I do have a button here which basically toggles the screen resolution of the whole display so I can change it to 1920 if I need to use that this one here hides my desktop item icons by the way for this I'm using a an application called one switch and that allows me to do things like change the resolution to turn off do not disturb hide the desktop icons all of these sorts of things with just like a little toggle in the menu bar I did a link to the five menu bar icon sorry five menu bar applications I recommend for live streamers and it includes this it includes a trip mode as well for toggling on and off all of your different applications that are running that may be taking your bandwidth so this one here though for the high desktop icons and the resolution is something that is in one switch so I'll leave a link in the description to all of those as well next here we've got the shortcut that I've got for switching my profiles in ecamm live so I use ecamm live for multiple different things and one of them is for this channel but then I use it for various other different business purposes and so for each of those different use cases I have a different profile in ecamm live set up with all of my different settings now you can use keyboard maestro to activate menu commands of applications that are running in the background because I didn't want to assign a keyboard shortcut to it and because then it's sort of taking up keyboard shortcuts and then unless you assign it as a global keyboard shortcut that will work in any application then it won't necessarily trigger it when it's running in the background and you've got another application at the front so I've created this shortcut with keyboard maestro so I press that button just in case I happen to have last been using ecamm live for another another use then when I come to start my my recording so this is actually still sort of pre-starter I should have probably mentioned this earlier but I press that and it will switch over to my ecamm profile now the sorry my yet take one tech profile now the next two along offer basically my my windows that I've got open in ecamm live so if I come into my live demo mode for a moment whoops a daisy I don't want to press that one oh now you know what's going to happen I think that this might just end the stream well that was a bit of a mistake wasn't it let's see if I can start this up again we'll see it might just end now oh and it didn't we were in luck let's see oh that was a bit of a look wasn't it I wasn't of I wasn't of programmed the shortcut for that let me come back I was thinking we were I was thinking we were on the way out there I've got to admit it so so press the right button when you're trying to go into live demo mode and here's me talking about my my professionalism and being able to do these things indeed you have doc done that that is indeed where that famous quote came from but anyway let's get back on into it what I was trying to show you was if I come into live demo mode I'd change my page on my loop deck that was the problem and so if I come into my live demo basically for my live stream I want to have these extra windows open so my interview window my chat window my bandwidth statistics but for recording I only need these windows down here so when I'm doing my if I come back over to if I come back over to my keyboard my stream deck rather let me just come back here I'll do this there we go so if I come back to my stream deck I've basically got these two buttons here which are for my ecamm live windows so it's to basically decide which windows that I want to have open in ecamm live so if I come back into live demo mode for a moment and not go to my end screen there we go like that what happens is when I press those buttons so if I go into my recording mode you'll see how it closes all windows except the ones that I want for recording but then when I'm doing a live stream I press the button for my live stream windows and it adds in those extra windows that I want for my live stream so that's just another button that I have as part of my sort of setup process to make sure that I've got all of the correct windows open for doing whatever it is I'm doing so then I've got a couple of buttons down here which I've only added these in yesterday so I've not been using these but I've basically there is a Twitter plugin for the stream deck so I've added two buttons in one that says I'm live now and one that says I'm going live in an hour so an hour before the stream I'll be able to just press that although I forgot today because I was watching the ecamm affiliate training video or stream rather and then when you I'm live I can just press this one and it will tweak that out so these are sort of still stuff that I'm doing sort of before actually going live but once I have finished this is the section we're supposed to be in I press this little button here which looks like a picture of a cloud you can't see my mouse actually let me just trigger that it's this one that from the bottom left let me just show you that where is it where's my pro mouse gone I tell you what it is my button for pro mouse is on the the other thing this button here this cloud button let me show you exactly what that does because if I come into my live demo mode this basically is a keyboard maestro macro that does a whole load of stuff now what I'm going to do is I'm going to press it and let's hope that nothing goes wrong but I'm going to press it and it should basically go through a series of steps that is all completely automated the first thing it does is it closes down my windows the next thing it does is it opens up my youtube channel page the next thing is it finds the create button clicks on the upload button goes down and clicks on the select files and it should do a couple of other things now but I'm wondering if it's just slightly broken because of everything else that is going on let me just try that again and see because it might be just a bit slowed down let me try again so it should just actually go through and do the whole process that's what it normally does flawlessly but of course when you are demoing something it's not going to do that is it now of course it's not for some reason there's something going on with this stream but basically what it does is if I try again it will actually go and click on the select files and I'll show you how to do all of this in keyboard maestro it then goes and finds the last uploaded video from ecamm and then it opens that one to add it into there and then what it does is if I come over to this section it then goes and does this other thing in fact let me just find where that's gone in keyboard maestro I'll show you how to do all of this afterwards let me just hide that one and disable that and then I'll try running this again there we go this is what it should do it closes everything down and then it opens up my last video this was just the last video that I made this morning just to show you I've got a bit of a grumpy face on there haven't I and then it should open up all the other things like my there you go it's opened up the up low window opened up photoshop it's opened up my excel sheet that I track all of my videos in because I do have my own tracking for all of these it opens up my last timestamp file that is a very grumpy face isn't it and it also opens up two finder windows for thumbnails and ecamm live and there is the last thumbnail so all of that actually when I'm not to obviously demoing it it all works flawlessly so with that push of a button after I've finished recording I've basically got my thumbnail editor open ready to make the adjust the thumbnail I've got my excel sheet open to actually add the video details into there then I've got my video already uploaded once I've finished my thumbnail and I export that it will appear in my thumbnails folder and so I've got the the folder already open I've got these two finder windows open as part of that macro and so I just drag the thumbnail onto the upload thumbnail and then I've also now got my timestamp so I've been using a plugin for what I'll do it though now is I'll actually show you how that macro is constructed in in keyboard maestro because there's a really killer feature of keyboard maestro that a lot of people don't know about and it's just it makes all of that possible actually so let's have a little look at that shall we and let's just gloss over that whole disaster that just happened so in keyboard maestro I've got this little routine which is upload the last video to to youtube and what that does is it uses a feature in it well the first step is it opens a new chrome window so here you can see if I just come back I'll get my little promos everything's everything's falling apart today let me get my promos there is the it's got this first action which is basically opens a new chrome window with the url studio youtube.com so that opens up youtube studio it then pauses for four seconds because sometimes it takes a little while for it to load up and load the interface and all that sort of stuff don't usually take four seconds but I allowed a bit of extra time the killer feature of keyboard maestro though is this one uh click on found image and what that does is it enables you to basically upload an image and keyboard maestro will go and find that image wherever it is on the screen and click on it so what I've done is I looked in youtube studio and in fact if I get my youtube studio up a minute you can just basically look at the steps so what I did was I came over to my youtube studio and I just took a screenshot of this image here of this button here the create button then I clicked on it and then I took an image of this upload videos and then I clicked on it and then I took an image of this select files button and then I clicked on it and then what I did was I know that I'm always going to want to have the last mp4 file from my ecamm recordings because it's always going to be when I finish the recording and I want to just upload the file so I did a search for uh oh sorry I did a little screenshot of dot mp4 this one I also took a screenshot of dot txt as well um so all of those are basically the uh the places where I would have been clicking um into in order to upload my video so then what I did was in uh keyboard maestro I basically just added a series of commands which are this click in found image so this one here is the little upload button from youtube and it's this action move and click on that so the the actual action itself if I just uh click new action I'll show you what it's called it is found image so click at found image so what that does is that goes and it moves the mouse it clicks on that uh the the upload button it then waits for 0.2 seconds just to give it time for the little interface to open up and then it moves and clicks on the next button upload video then it waits another couple of seconds and it goes and clicks on that one choose the video uh then it waits uh two seconds just because sometimes that interface takes a little bit more these times could all be sort of trimmed right down but I've just left them like overly cautious because then I know that it's just going to work without me without anything getting in its way if there's something that slows it down or anything like that um so then you can see this one here is the mp4 so this but this one here is looking for the mp4 image now you can be quite clever about this as well because you can either choose to for it to find the image on the screen but if you've got multiple different images that are the same like there's maybe you've got another find a window open with mp4 in it or something like that um then you can actually specify whether you want it to be in all screens um or you want it to be in just one now I've actually already got a routine in here to shut down all of my other windows so I know that there is only going to be uh one window open however there are potentially multiple different uh mp4 files in my ecam recordings let's say for example I did have one of those instances where I recorded and I started again and so there might be two or three in there but what I've done here is I've actually selected that on the screen I want to take the bottom most one of those instances so here you can either choose it's either unique meaning there's only going to be one of them on the screen or you can choose the best if there's a slight discrepancy between the matches it would choose the best one obviously we know that this is exactly what we want though but you can either choose topmost leftmost bottom most or rightmost on the screen so because these are all going to be listed in that folder when it opens up then I've chosen the uh the bottom most one uh and then I wait for another couple of seconds or .2 seconds rather and then I simulate the keystroke to hit return so that little routine there is basically if I just run that now it would just go open up youtube studio do all the business to uh get to the point of selecting the file select the file and then it would actually start the upload so that's kind of like a little sub routine if you like that then feeds into or is used in my sort of main workflow uh so when I've finished doing the recording um I actually go into the finder so it from ecam there's a button to show uh last recording in the uh you know reveal it in the finder for the the file and I go and rename it so I uh I rename the file with uh a little date string and then the title you know what I'm going to call the the video so it's not just the sort of generic name but then I then what I do is I press the button and what it does is this this macro here it it hides all of the applications which is what went wrong with my screen share overlay just now because it hid uh keynote but it hides all of the the overlays sorry all of the applications I should say uh this one I just deactivated this just now but this one runs that routine to upload the video so it basically hides every window on the screen it then opens up uh chrome to do this routine upload the video it then opens two folders in the finder so I want to have my thumbnails folder open and also I have the recordings folder open then it waits for half a second and then it goes to um find the uh because the the last last folder I opened was the the recordings it goes again and finds that mp4 file now at this point I've got the video uploading and then I've also got my ecamm folder with all of the recordings so in this one I have been specific about I want to only look for the mp4 file in a window with the title ecamm live recordings so then it's going to ignore the the file that's currently uploading that also has the mp4 on it if that makes sense and then in that case what I want to do instead of clicking you can choose either move it click it double click triple click or release so I want to double click it because what I'm actually wanting to do is actually open that file up I want to open that video up so that's um that video basically opens up on the screen um and the reason for that is that's where I'm going to go and watch that video back to actually find out what was happening at those particular timestamps that I've I've generated um next it activates the finder to make sure that that's at the front again and then it finds the .txt file from out of that particular window the reason why I activate the finder again is because at this stage it's just opening up all of these different windows so it's opening up it's going to open up youtube it's going to open up photoshop it's going to open up excel it's going to open up all of these different things um so if I am trying to find a particular thing I need to make sure that that window is at the front so I just activate the finder again to bring it to the front and then I'm finding the .txt file which is the the bottom most txt file will be the last timestamp file that I've created from that particular video or live stream or whatever and then it opens that up next next you can see why I was a bit apprehensive about running this while I was actually streaming um the next one is it opens up this excel file which is my excel database of all of my videos and the reason why I have them in in an excel file is I find it easier to search for that later so if I'm searching for a particular video or something like that then I can find it from there I also track total hours and stuff like that from that file so I open that one up as part of the process and then there's some other searchable things that I've added in there some extra fields that I've got that you just don't have in youtube next it opens up my thumbnail file so that one's just going to open up in photoshop then it waits for three seconds and then it has a keystroke which is option command shift control and one and what that does is that activates moon to put all of those windows in the exact position that I want them for to do all this stuff and it actually just totally fills my my monitor so that all was triggered by pressing this one button on my stream deck and that is how I've made my upload process as frictionless as possible because all I do is I just come into my stream deck at the end of my my video and I press this little cloud button and it basically opens up and does all of that for me so all I've got to do then is just go and do the the actual input of you know title and stuff like that I've got these buttons down here so this play button bearing in mind that I've opened the video that I've just made up in quick time this video will play and pause quick time in the background so it means that when I'm trying to put my timestamps in I can just press play and as I'm typing I can just be playing and pausing the video without actually going in going into quick time to play it and pause it and then these buttons here are double speed and single speed so obviously I don't want to have to watch myself back at single speed so I'll watch it at double speed and then obviously if I've got these specific timestamps then I'll go through and I'll just look at the particular parts to just figure out exactly what I need to what I need to put in for those those titles so that is kind of my like my post-filming workflow all of these other things over here are just other things related this is the play and pause for YouTube so if I happen to be watching sometimes I need to watch an old video back to get some reference out of it or something so I'll just have the play and pause there this button here is the one that I have for triggering my lights that I mentioned so pressing that will trigger my lights in the background on and off and then I've got some for zoom and discord here as well because sometimes I do coaching calls and so when I'm doing a coaching call then it's I'll often be doing it in my regular Ecamm profile if I'm on my work zoom calls I wouldn't be in this profile but if I'm doing a coaching call by the way if you want some help with your Ecamm live or your general tech life then you can book a one-to-one consultation at takeontech.io slash consultation and so when I do those then I will be generally in this profile so I will do them from zoom and I'll have my just basic sort of zoom controls there and these are just three shortcuts to the Ecamm live beta group Ecamm live group and also the let's get live Facebook group now obviously we're more discord related so the discord is generally open in any case so that is basically a little overview of my sort of post production workflow if you like and how I sort of get the the videos up so all in all if I'm doing a 30 minute video then it's it's kind of like 10-15 minute job just to make sure that I've well I've decided what I'm going to make put all the application windows in the right place to do the tutorial 30 minutes whatever to record it and then just pressing that button at the end just gets me to the point of like let's get it up so I can basically I would say a 30 minute video it's really an hour sort of start to finish just allowing that bit of time for you know tags titles adding in all of that other stuff but an hour maximum but that isn't all there is obviously to to the youtube channel there's also the sort of actual general maintenance as well so the thing about that is and I've fallen a little bit behind I've got to say with catching up with my comments in the beginning when there was nobody watching it wasn't as much of a a task to actually keep on top of all of those but now I'm getting you know comments from not just my current videos but all of my my previous videos as well so the more videos you do the more that you sort of get in terms of daily comments and I do like to answer all of the comments but sometimes they just they just get a little bit away from me and I don't have enough time so that is one thing that I'm trying to keep on top of or catch up with at least is just responding to people who comment on the videos but then also responding to things like emails as well I get quite a lot of people who are going to my website takeonetech.io and emailing me through through there so I'm responding to those as well and then obviously anything else related to the channel so there is a bit of maintenance that goes on I don't spend too much time on the analytics really I mean when I'm trying something specific like as in the the live stream I did last week I touched on the split testing that I'm doing so those things I'll go and just sort of have a little look at them but I don't get too bogged down in the actual you know the numbers and all that sort of stuff I tend to just do that once a week really before my live stream which I'll be coming on to which is just basically a summary of how the video the the channel's gone in the weekend having a little look at the stats and things like that but I am looking at how to improve upon things and so with this live stream normally I don't chop the beginning off the live stream but with this one if you're watching on the replay you won't have seen the little introduction and stuff like that the the countdown timer and all that sort of thing I am just going to try with a couple of these to see how it goes with removing that because I have been sort of conscious of the drop-off rate that you get on on the live streams on the replays so wanting to make that make that as useful as possible for people who are watching if you are watching this on a replay by the way I'd be really interested to know in the comments if you do actually ever go and have a look at the live stream chat when you're watching live stream replays I know most of the lovely people that are in the chat today perhaps do because I know I do but then I'm thinking that there's a whole other market that don't tend to watch the things live and watch on the replay and so just wouldn't go and look at that because I am chopping the beginning off I've also been a lot more conscious today in terms of planning and making sure that I've got all of the links of the different videos that I'm referencing having planned it out those are already in the description as well so I've got links to all of those other videos for reference as well so that there isn't hopefully apart from all the wonderful conversation there's nothing that's going to be missing from the the chat that isn't down there but I will make sure that anything relevant that has been mentioned in the the live chat is also going in the description as well so with that said I will just come on to my regular weekly update if my little thing works well so my channel update this is basically where I talk about what has actually been happening in my channel this week and in terms of my progress towards my goal of 365 videos in a year and by the way if anybody fancy is joining I will just stick this up right now for a little bit later if you want to come on and join in the conversation but I am aiming for 365 videos in my first year on YouTube and that will be coming to an end on the 14th of May and I've fallen a little bit behind the past few months but this week I think I did around about 15 or 16 videos for was it 15 I can't remember it was more than it was more than one a day though so I'm clawing back and I intend to keep up that sort of pace for the next few weeks I would like to think that by the end of March I could be back on level with the number of days equally in the number of videos but that might be a tall order but certainly by the end of May I'm intending to be at 365 videos the shorts by the way don't count I'll get back into a rhythm with doing shorts but they don't count towards my goal this is all personally totally fictionally made up by myself it's not a particular challenge I've just challenged myself so for me shorts don't don't count towards it and I've had another good week in terms of the channel growth so 1,529 subs so that's about 80 on on last week so welcome all of you lovely people who have decided to click that subscribe button don't forget by the way to turn on notifications if you haven't already you want to miss out on one of my videos but I also understand if there's quite a heavy video flow of late it might be just too much for you so whatever the case so the first 500 subscribers that I got took about four and a half months the next 500 were in three months this last 500 were in about two months so the sort of rate of increase seems to be increasing as well so we'll see how that continues but yeah I'm always I'm always delighted surprised and amazed by the fact that people subscribe and I'm just glad that there is hopefully something of use in my videos for some of you and if you've ever got any feedback or ways that you think it could be improved upon or other things that you'd like to see covered then I'm always open to suggestions and questions and things like that because as I've mentioned earlier that is where the majority of my content comes from is from questions that people have asked and answering people's queries questions and things like that so if I can make a video about it and it's relevant to the rest of the content I'll be happy to do so so that is where we are in terms of the actual channel itself as I say this last week I've done a whole series on on the shortcuts app and so I will be continuing that so I've done I think it's seven so far I've got sort of basically 10 planned in the series for beginners and then I'll be doing some more sort of advanced stuff I need to go back and finish my keyboard maestro series because I did actually start a beginner's guide to keyboard maestro but then I didn't really finish it off but I did do a load of other keyboard maestro videos that were just sort of related to various other different things as opposed to a sort of process to go through from start to finish so I'll be looking to to build that one out as well and the loop deck is something that I'll be making some more videos about because I've sort of been sleeping on it a little bit I I'm gonna say sleeping on it I don't mean I was late buying one I mean I bought one and then didn't do anything with it for months I used it only for Photoshop I was using the the dials on the loop deck I find are good for things like that where you've got to make adjustments to you know brush sizes all that sort of stuff so I was using it for that but I wasn't really using it for other things and I'll be honest with you I found that there was a bit of this comes back to friction if there's friction I find it hard to to get into something and there was some bit of friction with the loop deck that was stopping me from just diving straight into it I don't I can't put my finger on it really well I suppose I can actually I found the interface was not anywhere near as intuitive for just you know opening up and working with it and I didn't have the time also to go and watch videos read manuals and stuff like that so there's no excuse it's my own fault but I just found the stream deck has been so much more intuitive to just work you know dragging stuff on and working with it the loop deck there's a few things about it I'll be doing a full review of the interface and the loop deck separately I did do that video that I've already mentioned about how I'm using the two together loop deck and stream deck with ecamp but I forgot to put my join link sorry I'll stick that up at the top as well if anybody does fancy coming on for a chat but yeah so the the two of them do work really well together but the loop deck just had this little bit of friction and I just had that many other things on I felt like I didn't have the time to devote to it to actually come on and and and really dig in deep to it and figure out the best use cases for it but I am starting to do that now now that I've started using it with ecamp and I've got my my head around it a little bit more so I will be making a series about that I'll be doing a proper sort of head to head of the two devices you can probably gather from my tone which way I'm going to come down if I had to give one of them up I definitely would you know come down on the side of sticking with a stream deck just because the it's the number of buttons really that you have on that compared to the loop deck I know the loop deck's got dials which you can see would be useful for video editing is one thing that I could I could imagine that it would be useful for but obviously with this whole topic of this live stream being no edits I don't use it for that so they do come in they do come in handy but I do prefer the stream deck I think I would like just some massive combination of the two really but I've managed to do that by just actually using the two together so there you go but yeah so I will be doing a series of videos on the on the loop deck as well I will probably get a couple of those out this this coming week but then yeah it's we'll see how it how it goes so with that if you are watching this on the replay there are a load of previous videos that I've mentioned in this live stream down in the description so anything related to checklists related to the going live checklist that is related to the steps I took with setting up the channel related to some of the keyboard maestro stuff that I've talked about or the automation or anything like that then all of those links are in the description description below but now I'm going to go and check up with the lovely people in the chat in the chat because I've been missing a lot of these comments so I'll just go through and have a quick catch up and I think I've done all right without the stream deck apart from the disaster I had by minimizing my my keynote window in fact let me just toggle that one off right now so that doesn't happen again there we go let's have a little look of course some of these are losing the context so I've just got to figure out exactly where I was up to am I running the ecamm beta I am always running the ecamm beta I don't run the regular version unless I've unless I'm showing something that oh I tell you sorry I beg your pardon so you're asking I see you're asking about the the stream deck problem that I had and if it is a beta problem it's not it is a general ecamm thing because as part of the troubleshooting steps that I took I did actually close down the beta after doing all the unplugging uninstalling reinstalling all that sort of stuff I did open the regular version of ecamm bearing in mind that the the shortcuts for the beta won't necessarily work on stream deck for the regular version I went and created some new shortcuts for a new action sorry on stream deck for the regular version and that also wasn't working so there's some little communication issue I did send a support request so I've got a response back from that so I've got to sort of dig into a few more things I'll let you know how it goes as always the ecamm support is a very responsive so so yeah that that isn't the that that wasn't the issue in this case but yeah thanks for the mentioning that's a very good point that is oh thank you Michael I'll check it out straight after this you're you're dead right there doc I am certainly getting video ideas from from your live streams not the ranting I enjoy the ranting that's that's one of the joys of your live streams but it is from questions that come up I mean there were questions that came up today in your ecamm demo and so that are relevant so I'll I've noted a couple of those down and how to do that one of the ones that I wrote down today was running ecamm on a second computer because it is so simple it's untrue and yet a lot of people just wouldn't necessarily think about it so just going into in fact let me just this could be the video it is that simple you go into ecamm on one computer and then you go into the output and then there is a menu ndi output in fact I should be really demoing this shouldn't I let me just quickly go and do this because this is this is the video I'm going to zoom in here you go into ecamm on one computer and you go into output ndi output and you select whatever size 1080p so you do that on one computer that is on your on your network and then in your other computer it just shows up as a as a as a as a camera and then you add it in that is as simple as it is but because some people just don't know it I figured I'll just make a very quick video about it so that was one that I got from your live stream just today in fact a dog um are the mobiles this this is probably still stream deck troubleshooting and I that's you know that something thank you very much jeff that is something that I didn't uh consider is the stream deck mobile at working with ecamm I will let you know I'm writing it down I will find out after this I'll give that a try that's a very good point um yeah whether it's the I would have thought that uh it wouldn't to be honest because it's not a problem with the stream deck device itself as such because although I suppose the actions are stored on there aren't they I'll I'll let you know jeff thanks very much because that's a very good point as well um let's have a look uh what's this ah I see yes two uh two previous macgeniuses or is it once a macgenius you're always a macgenius surely let's let's be clear about that um how do I organize topics when planning a series it's a good question that um I don't have a particular process for that as such I mean with the shortcuts it was more of a case of uh trying to break it down into small steps um I do use an outliner so I did a video about that in fact that is one video that isn't in my description I'll go and add it in afterwards but there is a great little outliner um app for uh in fact it's this that I've got on my my screen right now it is this app here so this one so this is where I've planned out this stream and this little app is called cloud outliner and uh cloud outliner is one of the apps that is available in uh in set up and I've got to say if you don't know what set up is it's a great um service that is I believe it's 9.99 a month and you basically get access to over 200 great utility style apps um and you can just download them and use them as you want and if you don't like them you can offload them but there's loads in there that are really useful or the other thing is you can just download one use it for what you need to do uh if it's just like a one-off task and then offload it so it's great where there's something you might not have bought the full app um but because you just need to use it and you've got it in set up you can just use it so there's loads that I use like that I've got a whole playlist all about set up so I'll leave a link to that in the description as well uh you can get your free trial at takeonetech.io slash set up and everyone can get a free trial but if you use my link when you sign up you will get a free month and I will get a free month as well that is how their affiliate link works so that is uh set up and uh so if I come back here for one moment thank you Keeley for asking me that question and prompting me um because um the uh the yeah I do use this cloud outliner which is available as that um uh as part of set up um but it's just a case of sort of breaking things down in two steps so for me the shortcuts had a logical sort of flow to it with that one um with keyboard maestro do you know what if I'm honest that's probably why I haven't actually made the full series yet is because there is a little bit of friction there in terms of uh figuring out exactly the best way to position it I've got the I think I did one or two of the videos in the series I've got the first sort of four or five planned out already in terms of the name of them um but after that it's quite a uh there's quite a lot to it and so I suppose I'm struggling a little bit with that one to figure out the best route to take people through in order to learn all that it can do so giving sort of a brief overview and showing features and like that thing like clicking on found image for example that would be a whole video about just that particular feature but it's thinking about the way to sort of structure these things because it can do so much it's a bit challenging to be honest so uh that's perhaps part of the reason why I haven't planned out all the rest of them yeah thinking about the best way to do that but um yeah so to answer your question I don't have a specific way of breaking it down other than I plan it out in something like a cloud outliner or mind node of course uh and the the mind node master Mr. Jeff is it in the chat as well um but yeah I do find I find that when I'm planning out like a much bigger project like a course or something like that then I'll actually use more like a mind node or mind mapping software something like that um hey Andrew good to see you too uh nice to see you here um don't have albert doesn't have a stream deck but I do have a virtual version called ecamm live remote control on my ipad I've heard about that I've never actually tried that one actually um but yeah there is also a stream deck mobile app as well by the way um which is but that's that's a that's a paid thing it's like uh three dollars a month I want to say on a subscription thing but um yeah the stream deck mobile app is there is a free trial of it that's a great way to sort of try things out the thing I like about the stream deck is it isn't just limited to ecamm I'm not sure about ecamm live remote control uh I will have a little look at it though because um yeah I'll make a little note of it and I'll have a little look at it um I've not used that one but the thing about the stream deck for me is that it can do all of these other things with other apps as well so for example uh well that post recording shortcut that triggers keyboard maestro uh using a little plug-in called km link for the stream deck and that allows me to do all of that other stuff so um uh but yeah I'll I'll definitely have a look at that one um let's have a little look uh ah you've you've listen it's my my little my little squeaky seat I've ended up sitting down and do you know why it was because uh so when I when I did my office I was debating whether to have a standing desk a sitting desk I ended up going with something in the middle because it's just the position of the camera is on top of my monitor and my monitor is so large so if I had a full standing desk then I would still have the same issue which I had before which was that I'm basically um uh the camera is basically looking down at me uh and so what I've done is I've just adjusted the angle so that I can still sit down the reason why was because I ended up having to be sitting for my my general work when I'm just working on the computer and then standing for the videos um but then my keyboard and that was all too low so I had this little extra table thing that I could stick on top of the you know like a riser if you like that I could sit on top of the table so that my keyboard and stream deck and everything were all at the right height so that when I was standing making videos they were all you know at the right height and in reach and everything like that and you know what I just injected by actually doing that I had injected friction because what that meant was I had to go and get this little stupid riser thing to put on the table to get prepared to make a lot to do a video or a live stream or something like that then when I'd finish it I have to take it down I thought well this is totally the opposite of the the thing that I'm trying to achieve so I am sitting down at my desk albeit a little bit probably higher than normal and then when I'm working I would normally be about that high so that's what I've done is I've basically just I've just compromised I'm just slightly higher for these streams and the videos um but then I don't have to have all this hassle of taking stuff on and off my desk because the last thing I need is is any sort of friction getting in my my way um so let's have a little look where we up to hey hey rich great to see you here as well and Sammy great to see you as well it's great to see you all I mean I always say that but it is it's always just great to see you all so uh let's have a little look and that yeah that thing about the live stream ending yeah that was the uh oh I think I've done something stupid and in fact it is on my stream deck but now my stream deck is not uh not playing nicely but yeah I thought my live stream was going down then I really did I thought I'd had an auto moment there but uh I did say I did say that wasn't going to end the the announce the end I just wasn't hoping that it would happen midway through but really pleased that that whatever that multi-action was it obviously wasn't didn't include the actual ending so there we go hey Todd great to see you here I always get the Christmas spirit I always get the Christmas spirit when I see your little Christmas trees and I think about you and the the background and uh our Christmas tree I'm not going to tell you when we took our Christmas tree down this year but it was very late we put our Christmas tree up way early last year like the end of the last year because my kids were getting all excited about seeing their grandparents who were visiting for the first time in two years um and then we took it down very late as well I'll just say it was very recently hey Paul great to see you that's a lovely avatar you've got there uh let's have a little look um uh yeah so the the found image thing so that is really really powerful with keyboard maestro because it can mean that like if you've got to do it with um like websites where you need to log into something I mean that example of uploading the video you could see how it went through and just basically clicked in lots of different spec places but you can also use it on like uh open up a website where like whatever it happens to be your accounting software your CRM your whatever it happens to be um where you need to physically click on buttons it's it's amazing for that and it does it like really flawlessly as well because it's essentially just mapping pixels to pixels and it if there's it will find the exact match of the the image and as long as you've you know as I say you can specify whether you want to look in a specific window like a the title of the window or whatever but it will just always find it because all it's doing is looking for a match of those pixels so it's uh it there's no sort of ambiguity about it really um I suppose if you've got like a blurry image or something there might be an issue but even then it's still the pixels will match so uh oh one one uh place where it might not match actually having said that is if you've got a window that has some level of transparency so it could be potentially over another window um because it's looking for the um uh you know obviously the the color and everything of those things um so that would be one instance where it might have a little bit of trouble but even then you can there's a slider that you can adjust the sort of uh the accuracy but let me just quickly show you that just in case uh you are playing around with it uh one second come down here and I've got your comment right over the top of where I need to show you let me get that off the screen I've got to click in it not in the thing there we go um so uh yeah this action to uh find image where is it going oh well there's one yeah so you've got this thing here uh where you are uh um selecting the the image you've got this slider basically which is for the sort of the accuracy if you like so this one down here if it's right down at the left hand side we'll look for an absolute match uh this one here will look for something sort of close to it so you might have slightly off colors or things like that but the default position is is there sort of like 20 in I suppose or something like that I just always just leave that as the default and I've never had any issue with it but as I say there may be some slight issue if you if you are got have got some stuff on uh uh transparent backgrounds um yeah a little bit too deep with the catastrophic catastrophic problem that I had but uh there you go um oh well I'm glad I'm glad it seems easy to follow because to be honest with you sometimes I find that um uh you'll notice when I make videos sometimes like the shortcut series there was a few times in them where I just said I hope this is making sense because it's it's hard sometimes when stuff makes sense to to to you or to I or whatever when I'm making them to if it makes sense to me rather um then uh it's it's hard sometimes to just gauge if I've if I've explained it properly so sometimes I sort of second guess myself in that um but yeah definitely yeah have a have a play around with keyboard maestro uh and well and shortcuts as well but with shortcuts it's um I feel like shortcuts seems easier for the beginner to get into because there isn't this sense of there's just so much it can do although there is but they've they've kind of made it kind of with little building blocks and stuff like that keyboard maestro sometimes to some people can seem a little bit more sort of daunting really when you look at all of the different things that it can do but the thing about it is to just do like one thing at a time and start with the small easy steps and then work up to some of the other stuff other people are completely the opposite they see all of that it can do and then their mind just explodes with possibilities this is what happened to me and then they go and start making all of these different actions that they promptly forget and never use so that's what I did when I first started using it 15 years ago or whatever is I just made a load of stuff because I knew that it could do it and I probably spent you know hours and hours making all these different shortcuts and macros and stuff like that and then probably forgot you know that I'd even made them or what the keyboard shortcut was for them because this was before stream deck but yeah just start and build out the things that you notice that you are doing repetitively that's the the best advice I can give for anybody who wants to automate stuff don't try and spend all the time upfront planning every possible automation that you could do just go through your daily work routine and figure out like what is it that I just keep doing and notice like oh I just keep doing this thing I keep going to upload a video do you know what nearly every day I'm uploading a video to YouTube and every time I open up chrome I go to YouTube I click on this button I click on this button I click on that button if you're doing something repetitively over and over again then that's the time to think oh I can I can automate that and if it's something you're doing regularly you just build that muscle memory of actually triggering the the shortcut or the macro or whatever it is that you happen to be making so hey Dale great to see you here let's have a little look for comments with the channels I manage I not only check once a day well yeah that's the so that's the thing with me as well I have this sort of my youtube time is in the is in the morning but still sometimes it's a bit a bit you know hard to to catch up with them so yeah that's the that's the issue is as you sort of get more and more and then emails coming in as well it's it's hard to stay on top of it it was the the point about that but yeah I do I do try and check them every day um I've started doing it on the the iPad so I'll go to the like if I take the kids to school and then go to the coffee shop I'll generally check them there so most of them I'm writing on this my little folding keyboard this is the best folding keyboard I've ever had because it is actually full size and you notice that you don't actually see the joins in it as well so it is a proper full size working keyboard with proper keys it feels it feels remarkably similar to the the Mac keyboard and as I say it is exactly the same size but the folding mechanism is just it folds like along the edge so it folds sort of underneath some of the keys so you can see that this the the folding edge is not straight it's really amazing so when it folds up like that it's actually then compared to the size of the iPad mini it's actually smaller than the iPad mini so it means that I can go to the coffee shop and I've got a full size keyboard like that that that I can take with me I've tried so many folding keyboards in the past and they're all almost all rubbish they either have a split down the middle of them so that they the typing is just not the same like the position of your fingers on them is not the same because they have to separate the keys slightly the other thing is they are smaller so they're often not a full size so then that just ruins my you know I would need to be able to just touch type basically so anything that is not a standard keyboard is just hopeless and I haven't seen anybody do such a good job of actually getting the the folding mechanism the little edges here sort of fold out I didn't I wasn't intended to do this I'll do I'll leave a link to my folding keyboard video and where you can get it on amazon as well but the folding mechanism as it comes out this creates like a little sort of raised part here and then this one on this side and then it's just got these two little rubber feet that come out so then that sits exactly flat so when it's on the and because these are rubber it also doesn't slip so that was something I had with the other folding keyboards as they would all slip and slide around on the the table this stays exactly where it's put it's slightly raised up to be just a regular it just feels like a regular keyboard the other great thing about it is it's got a function key and then you can pair it with three different devices so I have it paired with my my ipad my iphone and then I've also got it paired with my other laptop as well so when I'm traveling then I'll have my laptop sort of propped up on a stand to get the the raised height for the you know if I've got a camera mounted onto the top of it or whatever and just a better angle for working and so I'll still use this keyboard with my with my macbook it's also got the usb micro usb on the back for charging but actually if you plug that cable into your mac it will show up as a regular keyboard on there as well so there's actually four ways to connect it with either bluetooth or the fourth way is with the cable and with the cable you don't have to worry about any you know like lost bluetooth signal or anything like that so sometimes bluetooth keyboards occasionally you might have little issues with them some people prefer a wired keyboard so then this does just become a wired keyboard in that sense I didn't get the one with a backlight there is a version with a backlight as well I just didn't see the need because I'm rarely sort of type it in the dark but there is one with a backlight that you can change between red blue and some other colour but I highly recommend it it is the best travel keyboard that I've ever had I don't know how I got talking about that why did I start talking about that that keyboard oh I tell you why it was because I was talking about dealing with that comments so yes if I've responded to your comment anybody who's watching my channel chances are I responded on this keyboard somewhere in a coffee shop so that is that so let's have a little look at where we are to know time to develop a staff of folks to give you a hand you know what I've thought about certain stuff offloading it to a to a VA some of the stuff I've just got to figure out the best way to go around that I certainly wouldn't want anybody responding to comments on my behalf but there are certain tasks that could be done it's just a case of where which which one's our best but I've been thinking about this already Albert um let's have a little look and now here's another thing about comments so um when somebody comments it comes up in my youtube studio so if I go into youtube studio I see any new comments that have come in if I reply to it then it doesn't if I reply to that comment and then somebody replies back it doesn't appear in those like the the list of new comments it's then in that thread somewhere so it's really hard to go back and actually continue the the thread of the conversation at the moment I still get I've got like a folder with email notifications so they automatically get stored somewhere else not in my inbox but I still get an email notifications of the the comments purely because I can then go and click on it and it will take me to wherever that thread is but I think that there could be a the the commenting management in in youtube studio I feel could be a lot a lot better debating joining in oh well yeah the the links up there anybody's more than welcome hey Keith great to see you always nice to see your friendly face around hey mate I'll assume that that was read in the in the English accent oh hi mate oh thank you I always wonder about that I wonder what the you know the how many people read the description so yeah I'm glad that I'm glad that someone is it's not just all in in vain so another thing that I thought about with my descriptions is I don't really post anything in the blog on my website but I've always thought that what I should be doing is also writing a really descriptive description of the video and using that as a blog post that then feeds into the video at least you know the description of what's going to be covered and what I'm covering in the video that sort of stuff so that's that one of these things is on my my my list of things to look at it's how to actually be a bit more focused on building up the the SEO side on the website you know if all of the videos that I've made if they all had a related a related blog post on the website then there would be a lot of you know potential for search traffic although obviously you know Google does search videos and you people find it through that way but I thought having a sort of text version in there would be useful so yeah that is I'm glad I'm glad someone's reading it though uh suggestion you might want to see if or one of your mods would be willing to during the chat when you switch topics to write something in the comments so that then when you come back to the comments you can follow um oh I see what you mean yeah so when we're on different topics so I've been there and then the comments are relatable yes because it's when you go back it is sometimes a little bit like I think I'll I think I'll figure my way through it though I don't like creating work for people but a good suggestion though um the output from Moom and keyboard maestro are they uh transferable to other computers keyboard maestro definitely you can export macros and keyboard maestro and then you can send them to people or you can import them and stuff like that Moom I don't think that you can export the settings um I will check it out though um because um yeah that's interesting I I suppose it's so monitor specific and application specific but um I don't know I'll have a look I'll have a look uh keyboard maestro definitely yes you can just right click on any macro and uh just go to export um let's have a look yeah it's just uh it's just clicking on any any of those macros um when you click uh right click on macro and then you can export like that and then you can also do that with a group so if you right click on the group you can export macro group and then to import a macro you just go into uh the here it's just in file I think file file import uh import actions yes so that's the uh or import macro sorry and that is the way uh the way to do that so yeah you definitely can export from that but I'll check up on the Moom thing I'm not sure it's a good question that is uh so if you could have like predefined positions and then export them I'm not sure about that I'll have to I'll have to check um I saw your video on cloud outliner I'm going to use a click up for oh yeah well obviously click up has got all of that sort of stuff built in um just working out if there was some magic to um yeah the that is in terms of the the work the workflow so if it's a series then I try and break it down into different steps in terms of the the actual videos I've never really thought about the process that I go through there must be some there must be something going on in here but I don't know what it is um I'm sure there's something going on in my head but I don't I don't quite understand it myself um yeah it's just I mean I always just think like when I'm making a an individual video I always just imagine that I'm talking to somebody explaining how to do whatever it is so I've often been people's go-to sort of you know tech guy tech support whatever you want to call it with questions related to any of this stuff so um yeah it's just I just I just think that I'm explaining it to someone often it's quite easy because somebody's asked me a specific question so in that case I'm just answering their question to the best of my abilities and I am I am actually thinking about a specific person that I'm talking to in that case um so um uh yeah but in terms of uh figuring out what I'll actually create in a single video no it's just yeah it's a hard one that it depends on the topic as well uh I mean with with the uh the shortcuts I did the later ones I broke down into specifics so one was working with images one was working with other things but even in there I only just scratched the surface of what was being covered so it is a case of uh of what could have been covered so it was a case of being a beginner's guide in that sense trying to uh to pick something that I thought would help move people forward in understanding how shortcuts worked uh in that sense but um I don't think there's any magic recipe in there as such because I could have picked any number of different things and hopefully people would have got something out of it so um yeah I'm not uh I'm not sure I've answered that and I'm not sure that I've got an answer to be honest um but uh yeah sounds like I've got that set up script oh well it's um it's it's there there are things that I find easy to uh to to talk about it's like ecamm I can just talk for eight you know what's good about ecamm I can tell you all about that I can tell you all about TubeBuddy what's great about that as well so ecamm TubeBuddy and setup are my kind of key um uh like affiliate sets that I've got um I've also got one for epidemic epidemic is the uh if you're looking for royalty free uh or copyright free music for your live streams or videos then I highly recommend checking out Epidemic Sound they've got a wealth of uh really high quality audio video sorry audio clips as well as music for you to use in your videos and it means that you can be sure that you're not going to have to go through that whole copyright strike procedure as you might do with some other platforms so definitely go to takeonetech.io slash epidemic to get your free trial today that one wasn't quite so smooth and uh I think the I think the setup one is just because I really do recommend it with a passion it's I mean it's such a great service and I've some people say oh well I'm already using things that are in setup so I'm not sure if it's it's worth it well I've got a load of things that I was using that I paid for that are in setup so for example uh uh I'm forgetting the names of all of them now um iStat menus I've been using that for years that one is the one that I have in my menu bar if I come up here so this is this thing here that tells me my CPU usage it tells me my free memory all of that sort of stuff um so that is iStat menus that's available in um in setup then also bartender the one that I use for managing my my menu bar as well let's have a little look at that that's this little guy here and when I click on it it will expand out so it means that I haven't got all of my menu bar items there you can also add spaces in between so it means that with my menu bar I've got like some gaps just so that things are easily more easy to sort of see the ones that I want to activate um so that was something I've been using for years as well there will be things that you've already got that are in setup and so if people have this feeling of like oh well I've already paid for some of this so I'm not getting the true value I can tell you if you're only using half of the applications in setup or you only need to have even consider because you already got half of them there would still be stuff in there that's worth it it's just uh it's just amazing and it is that uh sort of app discoverability feature that I really like on it as well uh which is that you can um you know just try something out and you know I know you can get free trials with other things but you still have to go and like hunt them out and there's lots of little utility apps that I didn't know existed until I saw them in setup and in fact that one that we were just talking about cloud outliner that's one that I hadn't actually heard about and then it was like an outlining tool that just came just as I was looking for just a really lightweight outliner um tried it out and thought hey this is perfect for what I want so uh I wouldn't have found it without setup so um uh yeah so it's easy for me to uh to to talk about these things that that I just love using as well same for TubeBuddy I'm not going to go into a TubeBuddy ad spot now but uh I can talk about that one for a long time as well uh yes shortcuts seems easy and not um let's not use that word come on now you know better than that uh I know Matt Cassinelli bloody hell how many did he have he had it was over a thousand it was like it was like two thousand or something wasn't it I can't remember but he had he had he had a lot yeah um so that's why I called mine a beginner's guide and I sort of thought right well I'll get my beginner's guide out of the way because then it can just segue nicely into uh Matt the the astrophysicist version of my shortcuts but yeah he's he's pretty amazing uh I'll leave a link to the the that live stream in the description as well if anyone wants to leave it in the chat feel free but I'll also go back and put it into the description because that interview with him I mean it was uh what was it three hours or something like that it was pretty amazing I got loads of good tips for that from that and and video ideas believe me there'll be some more video ideas coming out that might look strangely familiar um uh regarding keyboard maestro uh Kate yeah keyboard maestro tutorial for look at Max Spark oh Max Sparky is brilliant I uh I really like David Sparks he's he's got a great a great style and flow to him as well and his his explanations are great I've been listening to him for uh years 15 years uh Mac power users podcast and all the other Mac podcasts that he's been on and yeah I know he's done a whole series of tutorials so uh I should leave a link to his stuff because yeah Max Sparky is great David Sparks uh let's have a little look um good to need an affiliate link that uh doesn't work for Canada for that keyboard oh kid okay yeah well I'll send you I'll send you uh I'll send you just a direct link but um yeah I'd have to do that I'd have to set up uh yeah so my my affiliate links my um Amazon affiliate links are all for the US store so I need to go and get on to setting up I did actually by the way set up my affiliate links for uh UK Europe and other regions um but with the uh affiliates you have to have a certain number I don't know the the actual numbers here so you just bear with me but basically you have to have either a certain number of purchases through your affiliate link or something like that within a period I think it's six months so let's say for example it might be you need to have three purchases through your affiliate links within six months to maintain your uh your affiliate partner status with Amazon and this isn't on a um global basis it's on a region by region so I'd set up affiliate uh I'd join the Amazon partner program for US UK and other territories and things like that um but they uh they just the UK one I got things saying you haven't had enough purchases within six months and so that one uh dropped off I could have just gone and set up another one and reapplied that sort of thing but I just hadn't actually done that I probably should do that now because I have been getting more click-throughs so uh let me just do that thank you for the reminder I will just actually yeah I tell you what I'm getting quite a lot of work here today in terms of jobs that I've got to do I've got I've got lots of little notes um but yeah so um uh yeah I will have to set those up um let's have a little look it is the best mobile keyboard I've tried and I have tried quite a lot of them and the battery life is great too as well it's like um 100 hours I want to say something like that if you get the backlit one obviously if you turn them you can turn the backlight backlighting on or off so you don't have to have it on all the time um but if you if you have it on then it's uh it's it's like less than that obviously um but it's something like a hundred hours I rarely go out and think like oh the battery's dead so um yeah it's it's pretty pretty pretty yeah pretty good um so hey by the way first of all welcome Michael great to see you here um you can use can responses in TubeBuddy for comment replies do you know I know you can and I've never gone in and set them up because it never feels right to me I mean even on this is stupid even on YouTube there is in the YouTube studio there is a button so if it will it's quite a good job actually of detecting what somebody has said so if somebody says hey great video then there is a little shortcut button to press thanks or glad you liked it or these sort of things I never even click on just those can responses because I always feel like it's not me writing it and so then I feel a little bit sort of not entirely genuine by using those so um yeah I've never gone in and used the can responses because also the I fairly rarely find that there is something I mean I do write things like I'm glad you liked it or thank you or um stop saying that or why do you why are you so mean I rarely get mean comments if I don't ever get mean comments I usually get some well positioned comments that are constructive like the guy who said skip ahead to four minutes if you don't want to see C3PO R2D2 having a yeah having a stroke for for the first six minutes so there was there was some constructive feedback in amongst that but yeah my comments were generally quite nice so yeah and that's why I've never just never used the um that's why I've never used the um the the the stock responses and oh thank you Keeley for posting that link oh why is that like coming up hang on a minute where's that gone I've just lost my place now hang on somewhere down here I saw that Keeley had very kindly there is posted the link so thank you for posting that it is called the eye clever now there are a few different eye clever keyboards in fact I'll show you these because um they are they look very similar um there is the eye clever is the uh the the brand uh and there is one that's got a track pad on it as well and there's one that is looks the same but is actually smaller so let me just show you these because uh I really am a fan of them uh one second come over to this view I take that down take that comment down hopefully there we go right so um this is uh it's a Chinese brand so they do make some full size keyboards now I want to find these ones here the folding keyboards so this is the uh this is actually the smaller one okay so there's this one that looks exactly the same the difference is uh this one doesn't actually have the uh the function keys it's the function keys are joined on to the number keys so uh whereas this one has got this like full size number keys and then it's got the function keys along the top uh this bk03 is a really mini one the keys are smaller as well so it is really like it's almost like iphone size once you've folded it up um and so that's that's the smaller version with the numbers and the function keys combined and smaller keys so if you want something that is going to feel like a real keyboard I'm sure the quality of it is the same and so if you're happy typing with little tiny keys then that's fine but it's it's not the same uh it's not the same size uh this is uh I'll let doc translate this um let's have a little look at the other one though it is the where's it gone I could probably just change the language on here let me have a little look I'll just search for right so there is this one then as well uh let me get this up I'll show you there's this one now this one is basically the same size keys as that one we've just looked at so it's still the small keys uh it's got the numbers on the function keys combined but it does have a little trackpad on the side so if you want one that's ultra compact and has a little trackpad which obviously you can use a trackpad with the the iPads and things like that now as well so you can have the mouse clicks then that would be the one and that is a bit bigger than that last one we looked at but it is still small keys without the the full keyboard layout but this is the one uh in fact this one bk05 cunning naming naming here this one you can see it's got a blue backlighting on it or maybe you can't see that from the picture I don't know hopefully you can see that but that is the that is the one that I've got essentially but this also has the the backlighting on it and then there's a button that you can as well as the changing the you know which bluetooth port you're on you've also got a button to toggle on or off the the backlight as well but this is a full-size keyboard it is just like a mac think of a mac laptop keyboard it is that in terms of the size it does also have the command key as well so it's got command and alt with the little mac symbols on it on the one that I've got so you could just check to make sure that one has this one now that I'm looking at it looks like I mean it will still have the button but you know sometimes it's got like the windows style button as opposed to the mac whereas this one does actually say I mean it's the the mac one that is the prominent one so you've got the the little command key the option and then the control and it's got the sort of mac symbols on it as well and it's also got a button on it as well to pop up the the keyboard so if you are on a tablet or you know on the ipad or the the phone then it's got a button on it as well to pop up the keyboard viewer so if you want to go into like the emoji picker or something like that then you can also do that from it but yeah so that's what that was michael it is the the eye clever is the the brand uh keely's dropped a link to the video that I did in the in the chat but I'll drop a link to the actual product itself in the description as soon as I've as soon as I've finished uh oh it's currently unavailable is it oh no that's terrible um well I think I say that's terrible I mean there are worse things going on in the world right now but I'm sorry that you're disappointed I mean that's uh that's a bit of a shame um oh I'll have to have to have a little investigation about that let me yeah let me I'll I'll figure something out keely don't worry that is a bit of a shame you're with me then keely on that one about the canned responses Moom config files can be put in a cloud service they strongly recommend about trying to use the same config on different computers because the monitors are not going to be the same yeah that's kind of what I I figured really it's uh it would be yeah yeah and and the other thing is thinking about it it does actually recognize different monitors so I could have things appearing on if I've got multiple monitors it can recognize which monitor it's on so there must be some way that it's actually taking some form of like the name of the monitor or the ID of the monitor so I'd imagine that if you transferred them then um uh I would imagine if you transferred them there you'd have issues with that as well so yeah but thanks keely but you got a good point and that's another good point think of the support request for Moom if people started doing that I got you yeah yeah that that is a good point actually uh Michael about the canned responses so it's not necessarily writing a fully stock response to something um but like I do I suppose there are cases where I write little snippets like I get repeated questions about some things where I could actually just have a canned response that goes in there and then add some other stuff about it although my my microphone just started mysteriously drooping down then nobody wants a droopy mic on the live stream do they um so so um yeah for those for those sorts of things when I have got snippets then I I just used text expander for that so um so I suppose I do do a little bit of canned responses actually because that for for stuff where it's like go and check out this video or that video or this you know whatever it is then I would do that sort of stuff with text expander uh as I'm reading down these comments I'm finding that uh keely is just already a couple of steps ahead of me as usual um uh Matt's video with uh with doc was yeah it was it was a it was a good one that was it was a really good one I'm going to go and I feel sorry for you Paul because I understand you had to timestamp that or you know or did timestamp it so uh yeah there would have been a lot of pick out of there in terms of uh the flow of it so uh yeah but yeah it was it was great um it's available off amazon is it now how much is it on amazon then let me have a look what it is on amazon uh one second um I'm just trying to look for that link how much is it on Amazon Canada I didn't mention that in the thing but it's around about is it $50 or something like that it was on on regular amazon or something like that I can't remember exactly but um uh yeah um so um uh and Albert is saying his daughter lives in Ontario have some challenges sending us amazon and other US links to her um yeah it's uh it's the it's the affiliate side of stuff I think if you follow a link then they can find it but yeah it was just the the affiliate program obviously depends on buying it in uh in the that particular thing all right okay I'm still catching up so yeah so it was for a different model was it um and you've just got one from Amazon oh well congratulations Michael it is it's really good I'm I know you'll like it so what it means is by the way so the reason why I like this so much is because I have one of these the uh peak design tech pouch and so this is basically my mobile office so in here I've got my my iPad and then my uh little folding keyboard wherever it is I'll tell you what I couldn't see it then it's because it was unfolded and it just looked like a regular keyboard how silly is that so in here I've got everything that I need I can go out and get a whole load of work done with my folding keyboard my iPad mini uh my Apple pencil uh and then also for when I'm doing uh like if I have to do zoom calls or stuff like that I've got one of these I still haven't made the video about this but this is the iRig Micast HD and it's a great little mic that I can sit on the top of my my iPad just like this uh and it's uh bi-directional so you can either you can either have the mic on the uh the front or the back I mean it's got a mic in both sides you can either take it from both sides or just from the front or just from the back and it gets really good quality out of it it's also got a plug for uh in-ear light monitors so for my my headphones so I've got my headphones in there so I can actually get some pretty decent zoom calls going out on the road on just my little iPad with this microphone and then obviously just some other random stuff chargers power bank all that sort of stuff but that is essentially now my new uh my new laptop bag and it's about as big as my head the the international scale of measuring bag sizes so um yeah that's uh that's that's why I like it it just gives me this really sort of portable thing to go around with so I just always look like I'm carrying around my little man bag I know that the the tech pouch is intended to be like something that you can throw into a bag as opposed to carrying it on its own but I've got uh I've got a strap somewhere so if I'm actually going to be going anywhere long distance then I would actually clip a little shoulder strap onto this as well by the way this is in my description as well I've had this in the description for uh since I put in all of my Amazon things because I absolutely love this I've had it for a year the tech pouch I love the way that it opens out did I say that I wasn't going to do a product review channel I love the way that it opens out and everything's just it's got little slots for all sorts of different things like keys and cables and all that sort of stuff it just keeps everything really well well managed so I'm just generally carrying that out with my little carry thing here when I'm going from the car to the coffee shop um so um uh oh Michael's put the the link into it great stuff and uh goodnight Jeff thank you for stopping by if you're indeed still here but uh thank you for coming by uh yeah $50 on Amazon it's uh it's a it's a bargain like I say I've tried so many of these before and uh this is by far the best one and uh just got a really nice uh nice feel to it as well feels very similar to the Apple keyboard so with that uh with that all said I think I am about done here unless anybody's got any questions or anything like that about anything else that I've covered I went off on quite a few tangents but fortunately this time I kept all of my tangents to after the thing that I actually came to talk about so what I'm going to do is I'm going to um as I say said at the beginning for those who weren't here I'm actually going to chop the beginning off this live stream and I'm going to see how that that goes in terms of the the watch rate by the way since we are here we're just talking about these sorts of things I will just show you the the difference that um my new intro style so last week I was talking about how I was going to do a sort of slightly different style of intros for my video so you'll notice that um I don't now have any uh I don't have my title sequence I do have it on my live stream because I thought it would just sort of punctuate the end of the the countdown um but um uh um but with the the regular videos I'm now just going straight into it there's nothing to break that up um I'm also being more intentional about my end screens as well uh where I'm actually finishing the video and saying uh you know check out this next video and indeed with the shortcuts series that I did at the end of every video I tried to just roll straight into you know talking about the the thing that I was talking about and then saying and in the next video coming up next is going to be x y and z so I'm trying to be more intentional about that and not having this long long goodbye before putting that screen up the effect has been noticeable in terms of certainly the initial statistics that I'm getting out of it so I thought maybe just this last thing I'll just touch on this because I know some of you are interested in this sort of thing um let me go into my regular videos and uh I have to delete that that's that little one that I did as an example just now I'm uploading but if I come into one of these shortcuts ones like like this stream deck one for example and then I come into the analytics of this one um so then I'll come into the uh the engagement uh and here we've got audience retention now this is a lot different to what my videos used to be because you do get this drop off at the beginning as you often do which is just a case if people have clicked on the video they've seen it and they um they just you know it's they don't like you at the end of the day or they're not interested in your delivery style they're not interested in what you've got to say when you come in and I say this is what I'm going to be covering there's all manner of reasons why people just start the video and say it's not for me that's no problem I'm I'm I'm fine with that but whereas before my videos actually used to drop off a lot more than this and the others that I've done are very similar to this the retention since cutting out those things has been higher so now from after my little outro oh my little intro and by the way these dotted lines here I don't know if you can just see this um this is the first time that my my pro mouse is I think I don't know whether it's because uh let me just quickly check something here I'm wondering if when I've triggered all of these different things uh the um I wonder if that's my stream not working anyway uh basically this little uh dip here uh this sorry this little dotted line here these are the timestamps in the video so you can see that some people have just sort of come down and then skipped ahead to different sections um but the retention at the beginning has been a lot better but also the thing that is different is at the end screen uh I've got basically 31 percent of people are still watching when they get to that end screen that used to be about five percent because I would do this whole sort of run out that drawn out thing of well that's it that's all there is for this video don't forget to like and subscribe if you you know all that sort of stuff that I just pinned on to the end of the actual content so everyone was already thinking the video's over and they would switch off and then I would come to my end screen where I was trying to actually get people to click on and take action and go to another video um so because I've now not been um not been doing that long drawn out ending um I've basically got 31 or 34 31 percent of people watching at that end point uh instead of having um five percent of people watching so if you think about it in terms of conversion rate and let's say you know like five percent of people actually click on a video I'd rather have five percent of 31 percent than five percent of you know five percent or whatever it was before do you get what I'm saying so it's that's the the reason for me sort of changing those things up with that uh with that end uh screen now what I want to do with the lives is because I've got this thing that the most people who watch lives I do actually get quite a lot of people watching my live replays by the way so comparatively so if I think about my uh let's have a little look at my last live stream uh and the the views on it so this one that I did last week about channel design tweaks um I've had 220 views on that well there definitely wasn't 220 people watching I'd be surprised if there were more than 20 I mean how many on watching now so we've got 14 people watching now I'm sure there's some people come in and gone out as well um so let's say during the live there's been 20 people watching well if another 200 people are watching on the replay um then um uh yeah that's that's quite a large audience who is potentially then having to sit through all of that intro and I'm sure that the majority of those 200 aren't watching the live chat replay so if I come into this one and we have a little look at the channel analytics on this one just to explain my thought process now what we want to do is look at engagement and come down to that little uh watch time there you go look at that so there's a massive drop off when people see like first of all this is a live stream so it's maybe not for them I'm sure there's some people who think that even though I say you know live on it I'm sure there's some people who just think I'm not interested in watching a live stream and so having this whole intro is people that are just switching off now there will be people who figure out they can just either click on the timestamp or scrub forward three minutes to skip the intro but you see it's still only coming up to that's around 30 percent 33 percent and then the the numbers are just dropping off throughout the throughout the live stream till at the very end you know an hour 40 minutes in or whatever is there's eight percent of people watching and by the very end then we down to like three so what I'm going to do is for the next few live streams I'm basically going to chop off the beginning and I'm going to see what difference that makes to the overall retention rate and it might well be that it tails off at the end when people see that I'm just chatting in the comments and stuff like that but if we have a higher retention through this top part where I'm talking about content and that's why I've also been quite specific about actually listing the videos that I'm going to be referencing or all in the description so I'm still including some forms of sort of call to action that are in the in the video itself you know in that during the live stream even though I will be going to an end screen at the end although not many people might be actually reaching it if you see what I mean so yeah that's just a little update on what I'm planning to do and what you can expect on the on the channel so with that let me just have a little look of that so any other things to cover the meaning of life is one suggestion I will I'll note that down I'll leave that as a topic for a future live stream it might take more than 10 minutes let's have a little look except do what you love find something that you love your icky guy your reason for being do I have the bk05 or bk08 on that folding keyboard I think I've got the bk05 in fact let me just double check this the bk05 let me just check because there's a few of these little numbers because there's the one that I've got is basically it's like that backlit one but it is it doesn't have the backlight and I couldn't actually see that one I don't know if it's like a slightly earlier one that they've just upgraded that to have the the backlight I think it's the bk05 the bk05 is the one that I've got but with the addition of the backlighting the one specific model that I've got is something else but I would recommend the one with the backlight because you can just sort of turn it off I don't know if the one that I've got is even being discontinued because they've since added in the backlight but the bk05 is definitely the one to go for let me just check that other one I think the other one that you mentioned bk08 might be the yeah the the bk08 one I think is the is the smaller version so yeah don't get the bk08 that is the one with its tiny little keys and but it's the bk05 you'll be good with that that could be it maybe it's only unavailable to Canadians harsh harsh let's have a little look looks like pluggable branded a version of the I did it really that's interesting uh pluggable folding keyboard let's have a little look at that then shall we ah yeah no make sure you get the one that's the the right size as well so the yeah they've got the they have got it as well yeah pluggable so they've got this small one and then they've also got let's have a little look at the full size one they have got the full size one interesting full pluggable bluetooth keyboard that looks like the thing um so that does in fact look like it and in fact that one looks like it comes with a nice little case as well let me just put this on up there as well so this one didn't come with a case or did it no it did it did come with a case just not quite the same case let's have a little look here so this is pluggable and they've got that one I think this is the same thing because it's it does look it says full size folding keyboard so yeah it is it's got the it's got the number keys full size and then it's got the f keys along the top that is exactly the same keely so yes definitely that is the one that is a it's not the one but it is a yeah like you say and they've they've they've got a version of it as well the case that I got with this was I think it was just like a slipping case whereas this looks like it's a little foldable one that actually doubles as a stand so that's quite nice um nice fine keely great stuff that is exactly the one yep like you say they must have just uh must have just uh got a version of it so uh oh yes the meaning of life video I think I will definitely leave that one for another day I'll do a little bit I'll do a bit more research before I do that righty how that is all for me for today but thank you all for coming and stopping by and I hope there was something of interest in here and useful and if you are watching on the replay I hope you appreciate there being no long drawn out intros as well so uh until the next video well next week or next live stream where I'll be talking about what we're talking about uh maybe monetization I'll have to think but until then have a great week