 If you're new to Ecamm Live and want an overview of its features then you're in the right place, that's what's coming up. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec and in this video I'm just going to give you a rundown basically of the features and the sort of user interface if you like of Ecamm Live. Now this is actually part of a much larger video that I did, in fact a mammoth four and a half hour tutorial start to finish of how to get going with Ecamm Live but what I'm doing is I'm breaking it down into smaller steps for those that don't want to sit through four and a half hours in one go. So this is going to be the section all about the introduction to Ecamm Live and exactly what it is and the interface as I said and so yeah I'm going to cut over to that and then I'll be back after that little extract and I'll speak to you shortly. Enjoy the video. Let's get on to the intro to Ecamm and exactly what is it? Well probably easiest if I just share my screen now so that you can see what I'm looking at because this is the sort of interface that I'm working in in order to do what I'm doing right now. So here we go let me just got my boom arm in the way of my stream deck so I can't see where my buttons are right so here we go I'll share my screen so now you can see what I'm looking at I've got my window which is what is being recorded and you can see there it's been recording and I've got a few other controls on the window itself and then I've got these different panels now we'll start with over here we've got a scenes panel so let me just start this other thing up here here we go so over here we have the scenes panel this is where we've got all the different scenes in our production so here we've got my main view and then I can change to a slightly zoomed view so you can see that this is a different scene exactly the same but just zoomed in and out and I'm switching between those here I've got another one which is my top down shot for example the one that I showed you so that in itself you can see here the output and we've gone down to my top down shot I've got various different different scenes so that's what a scene is it's just a different sort of viewpoint if you like that you want to put into your production now as we're in this particular view this is a good example of overlays so that is the next one here is overlays and by the way there looks to be a lot of scenes in here you don't need all of these scenes you can certainly make a very good production with a far fewer and these are just the ones that I use but if it looks complicated it's because there's just multiple copies of the same thing with slight differences so it's nothing to worry about and in fact let me just pop these out of the way there we go that looks a lot better already doesn't it so then in the overlays it's the same situation we've got lots of different overlays and overlays are basically things like this so if I come and drag this one out of the way put it locked I'll talk about locking overlays and scenes after because it's very important so that you don't make a make a mess of all of your hard work so what you can see here is we've got this camera my top down shot with all of my my notes and we've got my little camera picture in here and then we've got this sort of frame thing around it well that is this frame here so you can see how I've got that and that is an overlay that's a picture overlay so let me put that back and I'll just lock it before I mess this up any further now an example of a picture overlay or an animated overlay rather would be something like this one that I'm going to put at the bottom so that thing that's just popped up there with the like subscribe and turn on notifications great cue for me to say if you're liking this video go down and hit that like button and yeah subscribe to get links to where any new will be notified rather for any new content I make okay so that is what the scenes are so that was an animated overlay sorry overlays that was an animated overlay we just saw we've seen the graphic overlays and then you've also got music and video that you can add in as well so that is the overlays so if I just hide some of these again I want to make this look as simple as possible because yeah it's don't need to be overly complicated from the beginning in fact if I just change to that scene there we go it's just popped open all of these again so there we go normally when you start e-cam live you'll just have a completely blank scenes panel and a completely blank overlays panel next one is camera effects so this is where we're going to change the anything that's going on with the camera so at the moment I've just got my main camera in I'll show you how to set up different cameras and things afterwards but here we can see we've got some controls so I can control some of the picture settings brightness and things like that and then I could also control the green screen so yep sorry to break the illusion but if I just unlock this scene I can show you what my actual background is so there we go I'm just in front of a green screen and I've got a background but the you do have some adjustment over the the sort of sensitivity if you like of the the green screen but I found with a properly lit green screen it is it's easy to to do in e-cam live so previously I was coming from OBS I didn't use it extensively but I was looking for a particular software package to to do some video production work in and I went down the OBS route initially but then just found that it couldn't quite handle some of the things I was wanting to do on my slightly aging computer and gave e-cam live ago and it was a well a breath of fresh air really it's yeah the user interface is far more user-friendly and I'm a tech guy you know I like digging into pieces of software no matter how complex they may be but there's no need to over complicate something which can be made very simple and that seems to be what e-cam live has done with this sort of video production program so so yes it's a lot easier to set up green screen in e-cam live than it is in in OBS and it's literally just a toggle of a button there is a few things you can do to improve your green screen results and I did actually do a video about this in fact I could just show you that so green screen tips and that was my sort of five tips for how you can basically get better results out of your green screen because they can look pretty bad if they're not done correctly and you can judge for yourself whether you think this is any any good or not as a green screen but yeah that video up in the top corner will will help you with that oh incidentally you can see that that was just a little overlay that was an image overlay that I'm toggling on and off and then actually adding the link into the description is something you do in YouTube itself and I'll show you how to do that after as well if you want that was the the camera effects this is where you can make all different adjustments the next panel that we have is sound so here is where you can add in sounds so for example my intro music like this is coming in here and yeah this is where you can have all your different music or sound effects or things like that and then finally you've got this panel down here which is the sound level so you can see my level and then the the movie which is actually the the music level oh sorry the sound effect is the level of that music you've just heard movies obviously if you have any movie movies embedded in the in the scene but I'll show you how to do that a bit later as well I said finally but there is actually some other panels so there is the comments section over here so this is if you're actually on a live stream then any comments will pop up in here and actually what you're able to do which I can't actually demonstrate because I'm not live but the comments that come up you just click on them and whatever comment you've clicked on will appear in the in the window and there is actually another one which doesn't have a toggle so by the way all of these little panels have got a button down the side that you can toggle them on and off with so this is for the overlays this one for the audio this one for the camera effects and the music and the chat window there's another one which is available in a pro version which is for interview mode and that allows you to actually bring somebody else into your stream or recording so you send them a link and they click on the link and then they can join from the the browser and then they'll have their picture in your your production as well so that's that one so if I just hide that one a second so I'm going to hide the comments on that one because we don't really need that for the moment the next one down at the bottom here the little cogwheel is the ecum live preferences I won't go through all of these preferences or any of them in fact because I think that's probably something for another video I just want to go through the actual setup procedure but when I do do that video I'll link that one in the description of this video as well so that you can you can get to it one other window which doesn't actually have a button in here oh sorry I forgot this one as well the scenes tab so if we've got the scenes closed down and you ever want to get to it here is where you can flick between your scenes from in the window but then I'm just going to click on here show scenes and you can see that that scenes thing pops back up there so one other window which isn't shown which is quite a handy one to have if you are streaming if you click in window you can also see all these different windows that I've just opened here but this bandwidth statistics so when you're streaming live you can actually see the bandwidth usage as well I hope you found that useful and if you did then don't forget to go down and like and subscribe and turn on those notifications so that you get alerted anytime I make any new content and also don't forget that all of the icon packs and templates and things like that that I've talked about in these videos are available as a free download from my website so simply head on over to takeonetech.io and there you'll be able to see at the top of the page there is a link to the actual full tutorial that this is an extract from but also just below that you'll see that there is a area where you can download that full icon pack and template pack and make it your own so yes that's the place to go and also that's the place to go if you want to contact me as well that's the easiest place there's a contact page on that website but also you'll notice just down in the bottom right hand corner there's also a little chat box you can always get in touch with me that way incidentally if you're not already using it then this whole video has been produced with Ecamm live and it's the my video editor my video production environment should I say of choice certainly better than what I was using before yes and so yeah it's highly recommended it certainly made my life a lot easier and yeah if you head over to takeonetech.io slash ecamm then there you can get a free trial and try it out for yourself and see what all the fuss is about well that's about all for now but as I said this is actually an extract from a much larger four and a half hour tutorial that I did which will take you from zero to a full production setup in Ecamm live including obviously all of the overlays and transitions and things like that and linking it to your stream deck and designing all of your stream deck icons and all of that business everything that you need to get going with your video production and streaming so I'll link to that video down below as well or you can just go and find it on the top of my web page as well but for now that's all from me and I'll link to some of the other videos from that tutorial also to the right hand side and until the next video have an absolutely wonderful day