 If you use Ecamm Live and don't know exactly what all of the menu items do then it's videos for you Hello, and welcome to Take One Tech My name is Alec and I recently did a video all about the different preferences for Ecamm Live So I'll leave a link to that video up in the top corner But I mentioned that I'd do another one similarly for all of the menu bar items So that in a nutshell is what this video is all about. So I don't think it needs much more introduction So let's just get on with it. Shall we if I come over to my screen sharing now And I'll just basically run through all of these menu items and let you know what they all do in case There's some that you've missed because I do notice that there's questions come up sometimes in the Ecamm Live community Which by the way, if you're not a member of the Facebook group then go to facebook.com Slash groups slash Ecamm Live and join the community because there's thousands of people in there that are all doing the same thing all similarly creative just like you and Sharing their wisdom and experiences. So it's a great a great place to be but often things come up in there that are Basically things that you can find in the menu bar So I thought it'd be useful to just go through all of the menu bar items and yeah You'll hopefully maybe pick up a few little nuggets of information that might help you out along the way here so the first menu bar item is the Ecamm Live program menu and a lot of these are going to be similar to you'll find in Any other Mac application. So but I know that some of you are new to the Mac I know that there's some people who switch to the Mac just so that they could use Ecamm Live It really is that good So some of you I know I'm not entirely familiar with Mac So I thought I'd just go through all of these even the ones that might appear obvious So the first one is about Ecamm Live. We can obviously find out some more information about Ecamm Live It'll tell you the version number and things like that. So sometimes people will mention in the group That there's some issue or some problem or something like that and people will ask what version of Ecamm Live are you using? So if you click on here It will tell you the version number and then you'll know whether you are on the latest one or not And we'll come up to updating Ecamm Live in a little moment Next we have log in and log out of Ecamm Live We've also got begin recording end recording and so on Now obviously you have got the big red record button and end and resume and things like that Actually in the window itself. However, it is useful to note that they're in here Not that you would necessarily navigate to them But with all Macs what you'll find is if there is any menu bar item and there's Something in the menu bar there that has a keyboard shortcut associated with it Then it will always tell you what the keyboard shortcut is there So that's a great way to familiarize yourself with keyboard shortcuts that are associated with any Mac app It's just to go through the menus look at the different commands and then look at the keyboard shortcuts So that tells me that if I want to pause this recording I can actually press command P and if I want to end the recording I can press command E and so on So it is a really good habit to get into when you start a new program on a Mac Just run through and see what the keyboard shortcuts are because They might take a little while to learn but once you do they'll save a lot of time Incidentally, I did a video surprisingly enough all about keyboard shortcuts So I'll leave a link to that video in the top corner as well And that shows you as well how to use something called keyboard shortcut. Sorry An application called cheat sheet, which will help you learn the keyboard shortcuts But then also one that's called custom shortcuts that allows you to actually set your own keyboard shortcuts You can do it in the Mac system, but this application is just a little bit simpler to you So those are both worth checking out and as I say I talk about them in the video They're both free apps as well by the way So next one is this check for updates You should have Ecam live so that it's checking for updates automatically And if there is an update it's always worth updating Because they're generally pretty stable releases So and they will have no doubt fixed some bugs if there is an update come out So as I say always worth updating But if you haven't then you can always just check for an update there So if ever you post in the group saying that you've had a problem with x y and z And somebody says upgrade to the latest version This is where you do it check for update and then upload update to the latest version Now the next one down is preview mode And again, this is one of these ones where you're probably not likely to Activate it from the menu, but it's good to know the shortcut Which is command return or enter and then publish and I'll do a whole video about that I haven't done it yet, but I will do it in the next day or so And that is how you can basically Preview changes that you're going to make two scenes And or rather edit scenes actually during a live recording Not that you'd probably do it during a recording But certainly during a live stream you may want to update a scene or something like that And then publish those changes, but it just allows you to do some changes To a scene before they are actually sort of live into your stream So as I say I'll do a video about that when I do I'll be sure to leave a link, of course Next one is preferences Well, we talked all about that so that will be in that video specifically about system Not system preferences, ecam live preferences And you can get to it from here or pressing command comma Or it's also obviously in the ecam live window as well so you can get to it that way Next one uninstall system audio So that's not really something we want to do to stop you from being able to access the system audio with ecam live But that's where you do it if you wanted to Services we don't need to really worry about that because that's something for another video as well in in apple mac in the max os you can actually create what are called services so you can actually program your own specific shortcuts and things like that and Those are all called services certain macros and things like that you can program So you can actually create your own little things to run within programs And then assign them and those would show up there But that is getting a little bit too advanced for this run through So I'll talk about that in a completely separate video all about how to create services on the mac Next is hide ecam live So if you want to actually hide all of the ecam live windows Then you would click that one or press command h But if you wanted to hide all of the other windows that are on your screen except ecam live Then it would be command option h So that would hide all of the other windows and leave you with just ecam live on the screen and again These are things that are common to other applications as well And then if you had hidden either the ecam live or the all of the other windows Then you would click this show all to bring everything back onto the screen again And finally obviously command q is quit ecam live as this is with any other application that you may be in Next is the edit menu. So a lot of these are going to seem pretty familiar We've got the usual undo and redo Cooked copy and paste and so on. But also we've got a few extra ones as well as the normal copy and paste We've also got a copy facebook post url, so if you are actually streaming to facebook Then you can copy the url for that particular post and the same with any Embedded url and chat url as well. So that's the way that you can just actually grab that Straight out of ecam to be able to post it somewhere if you want to link to that Then we've also got the paste and match style Which is a common thing if you've taken some text from somewhere Which has got a particular font or style or whatever and then you want to paste it in and maintain that Then you can do paste and match style But we've also got this other feature here, which is obviously quite specific to ecam Which is pasting something as an overlay So so next we've also got obviously delete select all these are all pretty common Universal commands that you've got with apple so command a for Select all we've also got search comments. So that's something quite specific Command f so if you're doing a live streaming you've got comments up Then you can search the the comments that way We've also got these two command plus and command minus so that makes an overlay bigger or smaller on the screen So it's a sort of way to zoom in onto the overlay for example Next is stop current sound effect. That's a good one to remember and possibly program into your stream deck Sometimes you might click on a piece of music or click on some sound effect or go to a scene that's got a sound effect And you maybe have done it by mistake You don't know quite where it's coming from and you just want to stop whatever that sound effect is Then you can press command period command full stop whichever way you look at it And that will stop whatever sound is going on. So Kind of handy if you've pressed something by accident, which I often tend to do Next is just basically a couple of system things So start dictation or emoji and symbol picker. So those are just sort of apple universal commands there really Next one is into scene So show the scenes window. So that is the sort of panel that you have in ecam live with all of your different scenes on it So something like this Where you've got all your scenes so you can show and hide this You can obviously show and hide this from the little toggle button that's on the ecam live window itself But this is where you can actually activate it there and again good to check the shortcut for that And then we can also create a new empty scene Duplicate a scene or lock the current scene. So again, these are all things that can be done in the panel The scenes panel. So if I just bring that back across for a moment We can duplicate a scene down at the bottom here In fact, it's just off the screen a little bit. There we go We can duplicate that down here. In fact, that's still off I do beg your pardon. I have to make this a little bit smaller So let's do all fit onto there. There we go. That's better, isn't it? So we can add a new scene here. We can duplicate a scene But those can also be done in in here So either new scene duplicate scene and of course we can toggle a scene to be locked By just toggling the little lock there, but you can also see that you can just do it with this keyboard shortcut We've also got the previous and next scenes. So command and then left and right arrow toggles between Up and down through the scenes as they appear in your scene viewer here. So or your scene panel. So these are all the scenes if I press command Left then it will cycle up through the scenes and command right will go down through the scenes Now also, this is a useful one as well command backspace just will take you to whatever the last scene that you were on was So if you are flicking around maybe using a stream deck and you sort of hop from one to another That are not sort of consecutive then pressing command backspace will get you back to the last one now I did a video about this as well funnily enough because I call this my Sort of in case of emergency press this button in case of a scene emergency Where sometimes when you're using stream deck and maybe you're not quite familiar with exactly where things are It's easy to just press the wrong scene and then you think how do I get back to where I was? Well command backspace is a great way to just hop back to wherever you were and Can get you out of a mess if you've gone to the wrong scene by accident Now the next ones are basically all it just lists all of your existing scenes So the interesting thing about this that some people don't realize is that As the scenes appear in your scene stack here or scene panel In this order, they just are numbered one two three four five all the way up to Nine and so if you press command one it will take you to your first scene command two will be your second scene and so on so That's a great a great way in fact if I go there So I've got this these scenes here as well So I can press command one to go to this scene command two three four five and six and so on so If you haven't got a lot of scenes and they're just organized like that and you don't use a stream deck Then this is often the easiest way to just flick between scenes if you know where what number they're on So that is the the scenes tab and then the next tab down is or the next menu bar item rather not tabs Is the source so this is where you select basically what is the main source of the scene? So it would either be a blank canvas a blank blank scene where you can add on different overlays and elements and things like that Or it can be a camera. So you just have your whatever your default camera is So maybe like a front to head on shot or something like that Then you might just have it your camera is the Sort of main element in the scene and everything else built on top of that Or it could be a screen sharing or a video file And so for the video file you can just click in there and select the file that you want I usually just drag video files in if I want to have a scene where it's got the The video file is the basis for the scene. So in that case, I would just literally drag on the video file onto the The window and then that's it. That would become the the the source of the scene So the next one is a camera selection. So this is where you've got lots of different cameras and once again Some people don't realize that the cameras are numbered as well So you can flick between different cameras by just pressing the number that is assigned to each camera So you'll see here. I've got a lot of cameras and virtual cameras. Oh obs. I remember those days I'm glad those are over But anyway, so that was the obs virtual camera and then I've obviously got my this is my canon eos 60d Which is what I'm using for this my 10 year old camera still going strong. Although it might get knocked out by a sony zb 10 We'll see we'll see that though Now next thing you can do in here is if you um, in fact as a default I should mention this the built-in camera is enabled on your macbook or whatever computer you're using But I'm not really a fan of the macbook cameras And in any case it's over there and it's pointing in the wrong direction and I just basically would never want to use it So you can have a you can disable the built-in camera if you want and so you would click that here Mine it says re-enable because it is currently disabled And then also when you've got your list of cameras here You can say to which ones you want to include in the switcher. So here you can see that this is actually a ndi tools output But then I've got my canon My hd c9 20 which is my logitech that I use for my top-down camera And then also you've got your guests if you you have interview mode And so basically you tick the ones in here that you want to include in the In the switcher and then those are the ones that then have numbers assigned to them So you can see that all of these other ones I don't have any these numbers assigned to them. So they're not included in the switcher So that's what that means Next on we have the microphone and again, we've got whoops a daisy next on we've got the microphone and Yeah, he's just got the different microphones And so you're selecting which one is your active microphone there So and then you can also just mute and there is the keyboard shortcut for that However, you need to just mute your microphone in a hurry is shift command m And so yeah, that's just basically a mic picker. There's not a lot more to say about that Next in the overlays. So once again, we've got show overlays window. So that's just the the window that Surprisingly shows your overlays. So something like this. This is the ecum live panel that is showing all of your overlays So this command square bracket Is basically to show or hide that panel and again, you can do that obviously from the little symbol in the ecum live window itself Next is if you want to add in overlays So you can specify from here. There's the keyboard shortcut to add them in now. If you are in the ecum live Overlays window. So this one here, you can see that down at the bottom. We can either add a picture overlay We can add an animated movie overlay text overlay countdown Web widget a camera overlay or this is just actually a folder But those are basically all related to these so you can see overlay image overlay animated overlay text countdown camera or widget So basically rather than coming down here and dragging your mouse all the way across the screen There is a keyboard shortcut Associated with each of those as well. So we could do that there as well And incidentally the camera overlays New camera overlay. It does actually just list all of your cameras. So rather than Clicking on the button down here to add a camera overlay and then having to go and manually select exactly which camera you want You can actually just add them in directly from here and get just the one you want straight Straight off without having to select it. So Next you've also got some recently added items. So these are just basically all things that you've recently added into your overlays Oops Daisy. Sorry about that And then you can also do hide all seen overlays clear all seen overlays and then also the hide last comment so When you're doing a live stream and people are commenting then it will put that comment in to and you select it to add it to your stream So that it appears on the in the actual the output Then it will just basically add that in as an overlay So if you want to hide the last comment, you can just click commander j and that will take it off the screen You can also cycle between overlays. So if you've got some overlays, for example Maybe you're doing a presentation. I should probably do a video on this Maybe you're doing a presentation and you want some bullet points that you want to sort of fly in consecutively One after another or you've got different images that you want to cycle through something like that You can actually drop those all into a folder As individual overlays overlays not overlays. I'm not quite sure what they are and then using these buttons the option shift left and right That will sorry not option that's control shift left and right That will then cycle between all of those different overlays and sort of swap one out for the the next one So I'll do a video all about that actually because it is quite a useful little feature for doing Sort of presentations and things like that. So I'll do a separate video about that and be sure to link it down below So the next window Menu I'm getting all my terminology wrong. I'm very sorry. This is quite unprofessional, isn't it? The next menu is the recording menu Now you can toggle on here. This was something that was in the preferences as well And what you'll find is the you get lots of things in these menus that are Sort of duplicated. They're either in the preferences They might be in the menus or they might be actually something that's on screen And it all just means you've got multiple different ways to to do things But they all do the same thing. So you can toggle record all broadcasts on or off So you may want to do a live stream where you don't actually record it to your local disc I would probably recommend that you always do just in case you never know So that's always useful in my my opinion. I always just leave that one on Next is show recordings. So if you press shift command r that will take you to all of your recordings folder Where all of your recordings are stored and then also in here you can choose the recordings folder So if you want to specify it as a particular place on your hard drive Then this is how you do that. Just click on there and then choose another location And once again, you can also Do that in the preferences as well Next one is send last recording to youtube. So this is what I do Often is once I finished a recording If for some reason I don't actually just do it instantly when the the recordings finished You always get the option to upload to youtube But sometimes I just do send last recording to youtube and then it will just send it there that way Because I don't do any editing as much as I can avoid it Sometimes I have to a little bit chop out something or other here or there But generally I don't so yeah That's a really nice feature just be able to send it straight to youtube and then go in and edit all the details afterwards Next menu is the output menu now I did a video just recently all about zoom and some of the features of zoom And how you can basically get better image quality out of zoom So I'll leave a link to that up in the top corner as well But a lot of that was centered around some of these controls. So specifically the The virtual cam is what you might use to get your feed or your Ecam live into zoom into teams or something like that if you want to use it as a virtual camera The sharing window is something specific for zoom as well or to help out with zoom and other things And then the other method was the video monitor, but I'm sort of crossing over into what was covered in that That other video. So I'll leave a link to that video separately But first let me just actually go through what all of these are So the the video monitor output is basically At the moment this is set to it's off So it's not going anywhere else, but I do have two other monitors attached to this computer So I could have the output as you are seeing it or as it would be going out to the stream I could have just that so rather than having a separate You know the ecam live window itself with all of the controls and things like that I could have a video monitor output to just show me exactly what the output is That's going out to the recording or to the live stream and this is where I would select Which monitor to have that going to so for example if you were using a teleprompter and you wanted to have a Confidence monitor where you see the output actually in your teleprompter Then here you would just select the monitor that you're using with your teleprompter next we have audio monitor as well So this is where you would send a feed to something Like an external monitor or something External speakers. I don't want to confuse terminology. It is a monitor because you are monitoring it But I don't want to confuse it with being an actual screen monitor if you see what I mean So you could have this coming back to earphones or something like that if you wanted to monitor the sound output But bear in mind there will actually be a delay on this and some people Who get echo and things like that on their headphones? Especially if you're using something like I've got where I've got a short mv7 With a audio jack coming out of it as a monitor and the microphone is dealing with all the monitoring And that's going into my earphones my my in ear monitors If I actually had this audio monitor set on it would actually be duplicating that with a slight delay So it would give you this weird sort of echoing effect And so there's been a few cases in the past where people have said that they're getting some sort of weird echo And they've thought that they needed to have this on in addition to any other Audio monitoring monitoring that they've got so just do bear that in mind And if you do do ever get some sort of strange echo Then this might be something to check out So the next one is ndi output. So you can use ecam live itself as an ndi source And I've done a video all about ndi. So I'll Leave a link to that. I seem to be leaving a link to a lot of videos I don't mean to be just filling this with their links. It's just that when you've done videos on other specific topics It does seem worth mentioning them. So, uh, yeah, I'll leave a link to that in the description And uh, next we have the virtual camera. So this is as I say This is where you can use ecam live and use the output as a virtual camera So then you can basically bring that into zoom and rather than just using your camera directly into zoom You can bring ecam live and all of the good features and benefits that you get from ecam live As a camera into into zoom or microsoft teams or skype if anybody still uses skype So this is where you would turn this on or off I should mention that that is actually part of a the the pro level subscription to ecam live So it's not available for the standard package Uh, but yeah, if you if you do a lot of zoom calls and you think you might need it then It's certainly a worthwhile addition. So That is where you toggle that on and off and I should also mention that when you do sign up to the pro account It won't necessarily be installed as a default. And so you'll just come down to here Where it will say for new installs It will say install virtual cam and then once you've done it, uh, then you can toggle it on and off here Next is the sharing window and uh, this is better explained in the whole video I did about zoom because this basically will create a sort of virtual window for the output of Of ecam live in the same way that you could actually output it to a specific screen as a video monitor You can also create this sharing window and then when you're in zoom You can go to screen sharing and then you'll see Ecam live sharing window and then that will just give you just the output as well Which will help with your video quality in zoom So we're nearly at the end now. The next one is the Options and here we've got a few other options to have a look at. So first of all, we've got stream options And that will come up when you're actually on a live stream To adjust some of the settings there the next one down is stream size. So this is one that you can Change before the stream. You can't change it midstream, but you can change the resolution from either low res High res standard Really high or 4k. So just bear in mind if you're going to go to 4k Do make sure you've got the bandwidth to to handle that for live streaming We've also got the stream aspect and it's a stream max aspect But it's actually video aspect because you can come in here and change this for recording as well So it's not just for live streaming But yet the standard is obviously what i'm recording in now 16 by 9 but you can also make sort of extra wide the sort of letterbox style with the black and Top and bottom borders strips Classic 4x3 square or tall. So I did a very short one minute video A youtube short in fact about how you can make a tall videos and that's basically where you toggle that on So if you want to make youtube shorts TikTok videos instagram reels Things like that aren't with ecum live then you certainly can do And this is where you would do it to toggle it on and off There's also a toggle for High quality video mode. So I mentioned that in the preferences thing Preferences a video rather Which was I just have that on all the time. I've not noticed any Issues with speed as such that are affected by this being on or off. So yeah, I just always have that one Tuggled on So the next one down is we've got show picture in picture So this is when you're doing screen sharing or you're in video mode You can toggle on the picture in picture. So it'll put your little camera picture on so that is where you would toggle that on Next you've got the shape of the picture in picture. So these are the standard options You've got with any camera view actually, whether it's going to be wide square so on round or tall Next one down. We've got is a transition. So that is transition between scenes and I tend not to really bother with these too much as I mentioned in the preferences video because Yeah, I just stick with the either The default transition is what I normally use no transition Basically just flicks directly between the two scenes. But then all of these others start to get a little bit Cliche, I suppose it's the word But this is where you can change them if you want you can also change them in the preferences But you can change them here as well Next one is what to do with videos. It's how to handle videos rather. So beg your pardon. I'm just flicking too far ahead here There we go So if you've got a video that is the sort of base of the scene or the basis of the scene You've got a few options as to what to do when a video ends. So should it do nothing? Do you want it to just loop the video? Go to the next scene or end the broadcast So this is basically setting what the default is and I always just have it set to do nothing because then I can Just it and it won't be inadvertently ending the broadcast without me realizing what's going on But there are circumstances where you would want to use each of these other different options as well But that is just the default Next one is The window and so this is just basically again a pretty standard thing here for minimize zoom full screen and so on But then these ones down at the bottom are basically all of the different panels that you've got in In ecamm live. So we've got the uh, the sort of more common ones might be the Scenes sound effects sound levels preferences overlays things like that interview mode But then there's also a couple of others that don't feature or one in particular that doesn't feature on the little shortcut buttons on the Ecamm live sort of window and that is this bandwidth statistics So there isn't a shortcut associated with that one But you might want to toggle that one on if you're live streaming just to see how you're doing for bandwidth and so on But once again, you can see all of these shortcuts here again You can also just with one keystroke either show or hide all of the utility windows So if you do want to just you know get rid of all these little panels and things like that around your ecamm Live, maybe you're going to do a screen demo or something like that And you know that you don't need those all in the way Then you can just as I say just hide them all like that as well Finally, we've got the help section. So again, not much to say in here You can always search and by the way, this is another mac thing is in every help menu There will always be this little search bar at the top And if you're looking for a particular command you can just type it in here And it will always show you exactly where that command is in the sort of menu stack and how you get to it But you can also contact support from here. So lots of times people in the ecamm live group with Sort of issues and things like that Understandably reaching out to the group But sometimes there are things that do need to be addressed with support directly So if you're having some specific issue and you can't find the answer in by searching in the ecamm live group Contact support because in my experience, they've been very good at and responsive at getting back Next is the ecamm live user guide and the ecamm live online support as well. So definitely check those out as well So that is basically the ecamm live menu bars And we've done it in 30 minutes just a quick run through and as I say It's always a good habit to get into with any new application really It's just to basically familiarize yourself with all of those menus And you often find that by just going through and cycling through and whenever there are those little sort of arrows to say that There's an extension. So what I mean by that is Something like for example these where you see these little arrows next to the menu items It means there's kind of like a sub menu. So just familiarizing yourself with all the menus and sub menus Then you'll often find that there are little nuggets and little commands that you might not have even realized existed I know that that back to previous scene was one that I found that way And some of the others like hiding the comments and things like that. Uh, we're basically just discovered by digging into the menu stack. So Highly recommend that if you have found this useful then as ever don't forget to like and subscribe and uh, yeah share the channel with any friends or family who you think might find this content valuable as well So that's all for this video But don't go anywhere because there are plenty more ecamm live videos coming up right now Have a great day everyone