 Let's try again. Shall we let us try this again? And in fact what I need to just do is I need to come Are we still going? There we go? Right, so somehow Let me just drop a message in I seem to be let's have a little look There we go. This is the thing you get for trying out new things for the first time live on a live stream So what I need to do is see if I can get the the link for this. I'm not sure if I can. Ah, there we go I'm glad that somebody's found it Yeah, I'm doing something a little bit different as you can as you can tell Keely, but check this out I can still do messages So great to see you. I've yeah decided that I was going to go totally Well, not totally naked. I mean, I'm I'm dressed from the shoulders up at least anyway. Let's just say that Yeah, I wanted to do something a little bit different and so thought I'd give it a go on my on my iPad for a change And so yeah completely out of the out of the studio free from lighting All those other things that we've got in there Ecom live with scenes and things like that. I did manage to rustle up a little a little lower thing third down here though But yeah in going live for some reason. I'm I'm using a service I won't let say the name of the service But I'm using another service, which is a browser based Live streaming service. I'm still all in on ecam But I'm using a sort of a browser based streaming service and what I seem to have Not done because I'm not that experienced with it is I haven't figured out how to actually stream to my previously scheduled event So here I am streaming somewhere else Hey, great to see you. Yes, I am indeed It's not a green screen This is actual vegetation. Look, I can actually pick some vegetation from just down by my feet So, oh, thank you, Keely. I've just noticed you've dropped the correct link in to the original stream So thank you very much for that What I'm earth. What on earth am I doing out here? You might well ask well it came about because the in Katie in you know, it's all the all the K's are great on a Keely Carly Katie Katie put a great post in the ecam live Facebook group and it was about drop your Stupid questions in quotation marks into the into this particular thread and the reason being that There's lots people who come into the community or maybe they knew to ecam live new to whatever it happens to be and so they you know the initial sort of Apprehension that people have about asking things is you know, or maybe it sounds a bit stupid There's you know, I'm just a newbie There's these other people in here who are far more experienced potentially and so some people hold back from asking questions for fear of feeling like You know, they're they're asking a silly question basically and this is starting a conversation around sort of the validity of things like this and you know, there are some people who Will yeah, I'm not one who really cares about asking stupid questions I ask plenty of stupid questions But I do I do get why some people might feel that sort of a little a little held back by it But it sort of got on to the whole conversation around other sort of barriers that people have to actually starting to Start a live stream starting to record and things like that and there is this whole sort of gear Acquisition system syndrome as we call it where it's like always looking for that next next thing And that can be a hindrance if you feel like you've got to have all of the latest and greatest stuff You know the latest camera that's come out. Oh, well, maybe I'll start live streaming after I can get my hands on that new camera or something like that and It is a bit of a cliche saying that really all you need is your mobile phone to start streaming So I thought well, I just actually put that into practice and I'm not going to start doing all of my tutorials this way Although it could be an idea. It's quite nice how it's here actually so maybe I could just have my computer And a bit of a bit of an odd one wouldn't it some large fish just jumping in the water be I mean So so yeah, that's what I'm that's that's the whole sort of reason for doing this and just sort of wanted to go over the I suppose my my journey with doing all this stuff and Have been creating stuff for the channel doing the live streams and things like that But also creating videos for not least I'll give it another plug the course that I've created for e-cam live and the zoom course, which is I promise it's imminent I promise But then other you know content that being created and stuff like that for other courses necessarily related to the channel and so on and So I thought I'd just talk about you know my what I did to actually get started and my setup So once I realized that you know, I was doing zoom wrong using my built-in Camera on my Mac laptop getting the whole up the nose shot that sort of thing realizing that there was another way to do it That's part of the reason that I wanted to Start looking into you know leveling up my My my video side of things also I was creating course content as well And so I was doing that all the the wrong way for me which was you know filming in small little bursts editing all together It was taking an awfully long time. I've covered this at length So I won't go into the whole story about you know how I got into the one take thing But in terms of the equipment that I've I had from the from when I first started Hey, Albert, great to see you here. Yeah, it's something a little bit different Something a little bit different. My studio is just there I've just literally stepped out of the back of my studio And this is kind of what's at the the studios at the bottom of our garden and then this is just sort of everything behind so We're quite lucky to be here nice and peaceful lots of fresh vegetation and stuff like that all around The mangoes Let me see I might have to go walk about and go through the garden But they just the banana plant mango trees just over there above the the studio Great see you dinner. Um, so so yeah the gear that I bought when I first started my Livestreaming creating video content and stuff like that. The first thing I bought I didn't actually buy I just took it off a shelf and dusted it off and that was my DSLR camera the Canon eos 60d and yeah, it is it has actually got a lens to reflex As opposed to a fixed fixed sensor But anyway, so that was something that I bought around about I suppose 11 years ago It was just when we were expecting our first first child our daughter Jasmine and I had these visions of me becoming you know a Real avid photographer a Camera isn't in theory, you know the ultimate gadget isn't it? It's got lots of different settings. It's all you know For my mindset, you know, you would think that it would be something that I would just really latch on to and Just dig into and just become obsessed by for some reason it didn't happen I never became like a really avid photographer and I really rarely I would say used anything except the Auto-setting on the camera that is the truth about it Took, you know thousands and thousands of pictures of Jasmine when she was when she was first born and like onwards And then more and more we've got much better and better cameras in our pockets And so rather than having to have rather than having a you know a large camera to hand It would always be the camera that was in my pocket that would be the one that we'd use for you know Taking pictures of Jasmine then Emily and then Dale and those are you know The majority of our pictures are basically phone pictures these days So the camera really hadn't been used that much and so I repurposed it for You know using for zoom meetings and things like that converted it to a webcam I also obviously was using it to record content and stuff like that But then I haven't really changed it, you know, I always had this idea that I would upgrade it I did actually put on my buying me a coffee, you know, one of my goals was to Buy a ZV-E10 and then I kind of slept on it a little while didn't really get around to it And then they've they have that sort of out of stock situation that we've we've now got so Yeah, and I suppose that's just through, you know comfort with the camera that I've got again, it's an 11 year old camera now but It's still it's still serving me quite well You know, I don't say that there isn't things that I would like it to do rather than there is no, you know There is I suppose there is technically autofocus, but not without you pressing the buttons No, totally hands-free autofocus and stuff like that on it. So Yeah, there are some features that I'd like But it's not essentially didn't hold me back from actually starting same with the lighting There's loads of things that I want to do in terms of upgrades to my lighting probably do, you know, go down the the Nanlite forza 60 is the ones that doc recommends probably get something like that set up in the studio at some point But for the time being I'm still with the original Cheap soft boxes that I bought at the beginning which was where, you know, I didn't really know much about Lighting for studios and things like that. I knew that I needed some and I was aware of the concept of them and went and bought these two soft boxes that were I forget to forget how much they were now probably like 30 dollars for a pair of them with two stands as well and the The actual light source in them is just regular light bulbs each one has the capacity to put in four regular light bulbs So if you want more light Add in an extra bulb if you want to change the temperature of the light Stick in a warm light instead of a daylight light bulb That is the lights that I have been using and I'm using to this day and again, I do intend to upgrade them but it just hasn't been something that's You know, it'll stop me from making a start. I've obviously added in other things along the way Stream deck was an investment. The microphone was an investment. I definitely did that at the at the very start I wanted to make sure my audio was was okay By the way, the audio that I'm using for this I'm on the iPad, but I've got this little iRig miccast hd It's a little thing that sort of mounts. I'll do a little review of it at some point, but it's You'll have to let me know how it sounds But it certainly sounds better than the built-in mic. I've used it on zoom calls and things like that So it's kind of quite quite directional You can perhaps hear some of the you know the insects and animals in the background But it's fairly fairly directional. So Um, yeah, it's um, it's a case of just really sort of making a start and it is a bit of a cliche about You know, you can just do it from your mobile, but um, I think there's also a balance to that where Like for me, and I've just realized I'm still I'm looking up at the microphone here rather than the the camera that's bad for me, isn't it? Thanks, Albert. I appreciate the feedback on that. Um, so but there's also a thing about yeah It is all very well saying oh, well, you can just start streaming from your mobile But there is also, you know, people have got Personal standards, haven't they with things and I know that for me when I started my channel I wouldn't have been happy just I wouldn't have been Uh content with just going, you know, totally live from my my phone and doing certainly not for tutorials and things like that Um, so there is a you know an element of being prepared and putting in the right amount of work to get prepared Um, but it's just a case of you know, figuring out where that line is and then, uh, you know Not continually allowing yourself to be sort of pushed back Further and further by seeing what other people are doing and in fact, although I'm in uh doc's office hours group And have been since I started my channel Crucially, I uh, I joined the day after My first live stream just because I know what I'm like I get shiny penny syndrome as well the same as anybody else And so I uh, I didn't want to go into that group having planned to make my channel and got a plan for it And then get distracted by a whole load of other things that you know that other people were doing or or second guess myself basically So I did kind of make the leap first before um, you know looking for the supportive community to Help me with all that. Let me just check up some of these, uh comments um Yeah, it is nice to get some fresh air so I've actually I have actually moved out of the basement. Um, that's when I moved into my New studio space that was at the end of uh end of last year Uh, so I've moved out now to uh, we've got a little cottage at the bottom of the garden. Um that we uh, well It's it's irrelevant what it's there for but we had it at the bottom of the garden So it was standing empty and it was basically just has been for the past sort of uh, I suppose nearly a year Just being used for storage and stuff like that So I decided to take over that because the basement we do have a bit of a flooding issue with that um Sometimes I mean this is like a little creek that runs around the back of the house and sometimes uh in the rainy season the water level can rise and Somehow or other it finds its way into the basement So I've had a couple of times where I've had to uh, you know Lift stuff off the floor or empty stuff out of the basement in case it floods So then I moved into the the little cottage which is where I sort of built the studio out of the green screen as well um But here's basically just all kind of like jungle on this side of it and we had a bit of a bush fire When was it a couple of weeks ago month ago something like that? So I've gone from floods to fires. So there you go. But fortunately that is a very very rare incident um I know cameras you see that is the thing isn't it it's um It is they they are a bit of a um I don't know why I never really latched on to them in terms of you know Just being cut totally obsessed because it is totally something that would be right up my street I would have thought um and yet somehow Uh, I never really dug into it. I love all the tech with all the uh the streaming stuff But just cameras for photography. I don't know don't know quite why that was I think perhaps what it was Is I felt like There was maybe quite a lot to learn and I was distracted by other things that I was just diverting my attention to probably now if I really uh, you know Thought it's something that I was going to spend some time on I would actually get into them a lot more than I did at the time I think it was just there's so much going on at the time that I got it that I never really Spent the time to you know, learn all of the uh all the different features and the terms and stuff like that So, uh, maybe now it'd be a little bit different Uh, so yeah, that's definitely on on my uh someday list I do have a really quite a long gear list of stuff that I intend to get And uh, some of it is on there that probably will never see the light of day in my studio There's some some stuff there that really I don't think should be there at all But I haven't taken it off roadcaster. I'm looking at you Um, I don't necessarily need a roadcaster. Um, but for some reason I still haven't scrubbed it off my list So I don't know whether that's just the uh the FOMO with everyone else having them And this is I suppose what I'm talking about today really is the fact that you know, you do get See what other people have gone think oh, maybe I need that but uh, yeah And certainly with the loop deck uh being able to control, you know Levels and stuff like that if that was going to be my justification for buying the uh the uh roadcaster Then that's sort of being taken away from me now as well, but I still haven't scrubbed it out So the little tech devils that sits on my shoulder is uh, it seems to have forbidden me for scrubbing it out Uh, let's have a look sounds pretty good Just don't have the very right boys. No, I don't think uh, yeah I I don't think I had even aspire to to that. Hey doc, great to see you Uh, you have bushfires daily. Yeah, um, bushag. Sorry. I'm a bit slow on the uptake Uh, let's have a little look. Um Oh, well, thank you very much I appreciate I appreciate the the sentiment there. That's very good Uh, yeah, I wouldn't have put that one up if I hadn't realized how slightly embarrassing it would have made me feel Thank you very much. Uh I'm trying to read this is a bit small the art is that you can often set something but you don't know immediately or ever That it's right. Yes. I suppose that's true Of course, it's true. It's come from it's come from keely and hashtag keely's right Um, so so yeah, that was really the point of the the thing today was just to try something Try something new. It did obviously go go wrong. I did think that I'd tested this But clearly not because obviously you always do a test stream, don't you? So I did two test streams today. I did a test stream from uh, just from youtube actually on the ipad And then I did a test stream from this other browser based service Um, which which isn't you can but that I'm not going to get into the habit of using Uh, but still it's something that I just wanted to try out today I thought I'd done a test and I thought it worked but with my little private stream that I did to myself earlier But clearly it's uh, it didn't so I'm not sure yet where this went But I do like the idea so coming back to uh, um Katie's post in the group I do like the idea about this the whole sort of stupid questions that people might feel that they've got Because there are you know things that you just sort of hold back on I know that I've still got plenty of stupid questions that I that I've got to To ask about things and so I think giving people the sort of forum to do that is it is You know a really a really great idea I also do like the idea of you know doing things without the technology stuff like this Obviously, I don't want to make a habit of it on the the channel because people do come to expect certain things I think and so So yeah, not sure I'll make a habit of doing this kind of stream on my channel But who knows maybe I'll try and do a bit more of this on to uh, maybe onto the facebook page Maybe on to uh, well obviously into discord as well But into into other locations as well Incidentally talking about what people expect when I was talking about the Cedar at the beginning and I talked about my Schedule and what I was planning to do Um, I have been getting a number of videos out Although they've been going out in different order so I'd planned them So my plan's sort of gone out of the window and the reason for that is just because of the way that I've been Batching the videos I've done them in a sort of just the order that seemed logical for me to record them and so I've had different stuff ready at different times rather than Having order the all the things in the order that I had originally said, but I'm quite confident I will hit the You know the number of videos and get all of those videos made by the end of April now I've got into a bit more of a swing of Actually making them. But one thing I will say though is about Consistency on youtube and how it can actually work both ways So, uh, whereas, you know before I was saying oh, I don't feel I'm being consistent in terms of you know Trying to get this video a day and I'd have spurts where I do, you know Seven videos in a week, but then I'd have other weeks where there'd be nothing or just a live stream or something like that And so that's what I was trying to get back into and when I started the this whole cedar thing I was saying oh, it'd be nice to You know increase obviously the number of subscribers over the over the month as well I I suspect can I actually mentioned it at the very beginning? I suspect that some people are getting sick of the sight of me Because the number of subscribers that I'm getting daily is actually dropping slightly compared to what it was like the week before cedar So bear in mind that when people are unsubscribing They've actually got to put effort in to go and and unsubscribe from you Uh, there if there's lots of people who are going to be subscribed to your channel They might not be watching your content, but they haven't literally gone to your channel to unsubscribe And so if you are appearing in people's feeds Then they'll be seen, you know as they're scrolling up. They'll say oh here's this this person Not interested in watching that video now, but they're just going to keep scrolling because they're you know They're looking for something else. It takes effort to actually go and physically unsubscribe The thing that will cause people to uh use their effort to go and unsubscribe is like if they're scrolling It's like oh, there's that guy. I'm not really so interested in in what he's talking about in that video Let me keep going And then there's like another one and then another one and then another one all from the same person That's what's going to push people to say. You know what? I am sick of the sight of this guy in my feed So I'm going to go and unsubscribe and I suspect that that's probably what's uh, what's been happening with some of my uh, My subscribers because I've put in out like, you know, three four videos a day In fact, I think it might have been five yesterday or maybe some of them went out this morning I can't remember but uh, yeah quite a lot So I suspect that there will be some people who aren't necessarily watching my content, uh, but hadn't unsubscribe but my ridiculous pace for the past few days might just be uh might just be pushing people over the edge. So I'm kind of cool with that to be honest. I just want to get to this particular target And presumably those are people who weren't necessarily actually engaged and watching anyway But I would be interested to hear anybody else's thoughts and opinions on this because I have been known to be wrong Many times a day as it turns out It's be interested to hear what what your thoughts are on that in terms of the sort of volume of stuff that's going out Uh, it's not going to continue like that obviously It just would not be able to it's unsustainable Um, but I will go back to at the end of uh, see that just go back to averaging a video a day And this whole see the process for me is just about, you know getting into this routine of blocking time and creating a batch of uh, uh videos and things like that Um, Albert Harrowingly and harassing emails, uh, make me unsubscribe Yeah, I I totally agree. I do not like being on uh on email lists where they are just bombarding you And although I am, you know, I'm trying to build email lists. I won't make any, uh We're gonna hide that at all, you know, when I've got a free download or something like that It's all about building an email list and I do need to do more of a job of nurturing that email list But I need to do it in a um, a way that is, um Exactly not what you're saying Albert exactly not harassing It's about, you know, engaging with an email list where you are actually providing value and stuff like that And people are interested and pleased to receive the emails Some people have just got it all wrong with sales funnels and email lists where they just do literally Almost feels like harassment. And so, uh, yeah, that's the quickest way I think to get people to turn off and it actually puts you people off you as a person for I'm just speaking from experience Knowing people who I might have been really interested and you know engaged with them to begin with Um, but then when you start getting this sort of bombardment of continuous emails that just feels like there's actually no, uh, feeling in them or care or anything like that from them Uh, it is just a case of right well now that I've got you in my list I'm going to try and uh, you know, basically spam you as much as possible. So, uh, it's definitely a balance to be had And I've got the balance a little bit wrong. I'm just saying I need to I need to try and be a little bit more engaging What without being uh, without being annoying um So that's that that's that's what I was kind of thinking, you know, there's going to be lots of people who have subscribed but are not necessarily, um but Yeah, not necessarily engaged with the content. It's just that they scroll they see it and they scroll past, you know Which is fine, you know people have maybe subscribed because there was one particular type of thing that they were working on or learning or something like that And uh, so yeah, just haven't haven't done the the unsubscribe part. So that's kind of my thought on it as well But we'll see. Uh, the numbers are still going up. By the way, it's not that I'm suddenly having, you know, like The the numbers are going down. It's just that before this, I suppose it was averaging of between uh, sort of six to Six to twelve something like that average new subscribers every day and uh, just in the last sort of week It's been more around the like two to three So that's that's because there's some going up, but there's also some going down as well So I'd imagine that that's uh, that's what's going on there. So yeah, the rate of increase although my Video production has gone up not video production, but video number of videos posted number of views rather And the watch time although those have all gone up the actual number of subscribers hasn't gone up proportionately And so I guess that's just because as you say the ones that are engaging are um, uh You know what's still watching and the ones that aren't are just hitting that unsubscribe button Um, so well, thank you. At least I respond to youtube comments. That's a good thing Um, I'm a bit slow to to respond to comments. Actually, I'm trying to catch up I used to be at the very beginning. I was basically always up to date So I'd wake up in the morning and one of the first things I'd do is look at the comments and be up to date with them That was very easy with you know, 50 subscribers and you know only one person commenting Uh, but as there's more on there, it just becomes like another another another task to add So I can see how that as things progress becomes, you know more and more of a uh, uh You know a thing that you need to consider to add time to so I do try and get back to my comments Um, I'm not always on the same day and sometimes I'm even a few days late and then I get a bit of a backlog And I sort of start with the most recent ones to try and catch up with those and so I've still got some that are outstanding from You know, uh a little while ago that I've got to I've got to get back to Um, same with messages as well I know that I've got a response to get get back to you by the way, Albert Which I haven't done since yesterday as well. So, uh, yeah, it's just uh, I do I do try with those sorts of things and Do try and uh, just do it, you know, obviously Actually physically respond as opposed to any sort of auto responses and stuff like that not not a fan of that at all Um, so that's a bit of a uh, that's that's that's all I've got really I could sit out here and just uh, you know, let you enjoy the The sounds there's one of the things I love about thailand actually Um, I also like when I go back to the uk the place where I'm from in the uk There like at night time You can be outside and it is deadly silent and like literally you can't hear anything It's also out and out in the countryside there whereas here. I do like the whole sort of um All the different sounds of the different animals the different birds different insects and stuff like that It's kind of like a little symphony going on in the background at all times. It's kind of nice So, yeah, I am I'm going to leave it there, but it's been great to hang out with you I hope you enjoyed the change of scenery for a bit of a change I might do a few more like this at some point. I'm not sure quite where or how or what to do, but yeah There you go, that's a nice particularly nice bird But that is that's all for me. Thank you very much for hanging out There's no end screen or anything like that because I don't have the facility So I will just say though if you're watching on the replay at some point I will put another video just here that you might want to check out I don't know what it is yet, but trust me. It's great. So until next time have a wonderful day everyone and See you soon. Bye. Bye