 One. Welcome to the live stream. Great to see you here. Hi, whoops, Daisy, look at that. That's a good start, isn't it? My comments have just come in absolutely massive. Well, there you go. Not a lot you can do about that, is there? No. Let me sort this out. I don't know what happened there. Hi, Jeff. I've got there in the end. Nice to see you and Marcus as well. Well, great to see you. Now, why is that bringing those in all the same? This is not right, is it? What a way to start. Why is that not remembering the size of them? Let me try again. Let me see if this one works. I did like your little shorts emoji. It's not that kind of shorts, although I am wearing shorts. Let me see. Let me try again. I think that's remembering the size of them now. Hi, Michael and Gage. Great to see you here as well. Michael in the US, and then we've also got Michael in the UK as well. Yes, Jeff, it has, hasn't it? The issue that I had where if an application wanted to need permission for the privacy section of system preferences, I was used to get the window where you let it have permission. It just used to stay on the screen and I couldn't get rid of it for whatever I did without rebooting the computer. But yes, the latest version has resolved that. It has been a busy week, so I've got a few things to go through today. Although I sort of called the livestream, I called it a week on the shorts. I've actually got a few other things to update on as well that I've done this week. You may have noticed that I've not put as many videos out or normal videos. I've put my shorts out, but my regular ones last week, I was intending that I was going to be catching up basically on my deficit because of a few videos behind the number of days that I've been doing this. So obviously the aim is for 365 videos in a year. So I want to try and keep up the pace. So I've not fallen any further behind, but I've not made up any ground, which is what I was hoping to do. But I've obviously been putting out the shorts. Either way, the YouTube shorts don't count towards those 365 in my book. Obviously these are just rules that I've made up for myself. But yeah, that would be cheating, wouldn't it? Just doing minute-long videos. I could probably do those in a month or something like that. So yeah, they're not counting towards the total tally. So I've got a few things to go through today, which is obviously the update on my little challenge that I set myself, or a few challenges. And then also, I'm going to look at the shorts and then just give you an update on some other things I've been doing this week because I've been having a little bit of a dig into TubeBuddy as well because I've obviously been using that for quite a while. I've mentioned it before. But as part of the leap into live program, then you have got access to three months of the TubeBuddy legend level, which is basically all the features. So I've been digging into those to see if they are worth the upgrade after the trial has expired. So I've already made my decision, to be honest with you, after just a couple of days to use it. Well, there is something related to the beta update. I'll speak English to my English friend Beta and I'll speak Beta to my American friends. So yeah, there is what I've been doing this week is being related to the beta actually. So I'll just first do my little roundup of the progress in terms of my goals this week. Oops, I've gone to the wrong page. There we go. So it's day 141. And as I mentioned, I haven't made up any further ground in terms of I'm still behind by four days, which I think is what I was behind last week. So I have got some videos out, some long form videos. So I'm up to 137 at the moment. So I've still got some making up to do, probably not going to be able to make it up next week, to be honest, because I'm in a conference all next week that's going to be sort of, it's another one of these eight till six sort of jobs. So although I'll still have my morning time, I've got a few things to do next week, hopefully seeing that Michael Powell's live stream one day next week. But then also, yeah, just a few other things to sort out. So I'll try and get the seven videos out. But I probably won't get 11, which is what I need to do to catch up with my number of days. So yeah, I put out 17 shorts this week, which isn't as difficult as it sounds, because they're actually my TikTok videos that I made when was it, a month, two months ago now? I forget now. So I have just been sort of repurposing those ones and putting those ones out. So I've still got, I made I think 30 altogether of those. So I've still got a few of those that are queued up in, I'll show you in a moment, actually, in my YouTube studio to go out over the next week. And I'll talk more about those as well. But basically, I've been trying to put out three a day. So we'll see how that goes. We'll have to make a few more, obviously. I'm going to have to start making quite a lot of them, actually. Well, 21 a week in fact. So yeah, we'll see. So the subscribers have gone up from, they were 444 last week. So they've had, again, quite a jump. The last week was the biggest jump that they'd had. And it was after I put out the video about the Ecam Live beta that had quite a massive jump up in views and subscribers then. So, but this is still probably like the second highest sort of gain, I suppose, of any week on week of lovely people that have decided that they want to click that subscribe button. And then the number of watch hours has gone up. And that's gone up by, I think it was 2.3 last time. So it's basically gone up by 300 hours. And then almost 4,000 views. So because I've been doing shorts before I mentioned this, it was just a weird sort of anomaly that the number of watch, the number of views was always sort of 10 times more than the number of watch hours, which is just a total fluke. But that's how it seems to have been for the past, well, weeks and weeks and weeks. But now obviously that I'm doing short form video as well, then that's obviously going to skew because it just won't work out with the same sort of averages. But yeah, you can see how on this little graph of these things, whoops, something's happened with my pro mouse. Oh, there we go. It had that spike up last week when I did that e-cam live beta video. I was really surprised by that to be honest of all of the content that I put. Generally, my stream deck content has done better in terms of the number of views, just because stream decks used across lots of different platforms, whereas e-cam live is a specific platform, isn't it? More of a niche. So I was surprised that there was a big jump-up for that specific video, but there was. So there we go. That's just the way it is. And then you can see that the number of views this is we're looking at hasn't actually dropped down dramatically since then. But then, like I say, I've been putting out, instead of an average of a video a day, I've been effectively putting out an average of a four a day. Hey, Greg, nice to see you here. But then with the watch time itself, the watch time is basically back to, I suppose a little bit higher than where it was. Again, you can't really draw massive conclusions from these figures at this point, but it's just interesting to look at. So the views has remained the same, but like I say, I've been putting out more videos, but the actual watch time is sort of back to the same amount. And I'll come on to my thoughts on shorts after this short time doing them. Because I'm still unsure about them to be honest and how they sort of fit in and how they fit in with what I'm doing as well. But I'll ask for some feedback when I come to that section a little bit later. And then in terms of the subscribers, there is that little spike that I had on that video about the beta. So 17 in one day, which for me is the highest number in any given day. This one back here, incidentally, was the second highest. That was when the Stream Deck 5.0 software came out. There was another update this week as well, which I made a video about. So I'll mention that as well. But basically, after that little spike from that one video, then the subscriber count is sort of creeping up about the same as it had been. So it's just fairly consistent between, well, sometimes zero, but between sort of like two and seven is sort of an average on a daily basis of how much the subscribers go up. So that is all I've got to say about that. But I will come back to these charts because I'm going to be talking about shorts. By the way, they do say if you're going to do any testing, then always change one thing at a time so that you can tell what's having the most effect. Well, this week I've changed everything. So I know that you should change one thing at a time to test and iterate and tweak and things like that. But I've not taken my own advice. And for some reason this week, I just went and changed a whole load of things. So I'll talk about some of those as well afterwards. Next thing is a bit of a failed goal really, which is the Great Cycle Challenge because I originally set out at the beginning of the month. And I set myself the goal of 200 miles in a month. I had a great first week and then upped it to 400 miles in a month. And then I had just a few weeks of just not having the time and not being able to make the time either. So I've failed to reach that by the end of September, which is what it was. But I got an email from the Great Cycle Challenge saying they're extending the sort of time that the whole platform is open until the end of October so that we still have chance to reach our goal. So I'm going to really put in the effort to actually just achieve what I set out to do, albeit a little bit later than planned. So I'm hoping that the better late than never is still applicable in this case. Oh, and by the way, shout out to Greg for doing an absolutely epic ride last weekend. 100 miles, I forget the exact distance. It was 100 and something, I believe, from Strava. I can't just remember exactly, but 100 miles having never ridden 100 miles before in a single day is just epic. So well done, Greg. That is, yeah. And with a knee injury. Yeah, it's just amazing. So congratulations on that. The other thing that I've been doing as part of a challenge, I suppose, is this Tweet 100 thing, which is basically just tweeting every day for 100 days, which doesn't really sound that difficult, does it? But as I mentioned before, the whole reason for me doing this was that I've not really been using Twitter properly. I've just been cross-posting whenever my videos come out. Then I'd set up a Zapp to basically send them out to Twitter. And I wasn't really engaging on it or anything like that. So the purpose of the Tweet 100 challenge is for me to basically just become a little bit more active on Twitter and start using it properly and engaging on it. So I think I have missed a few days because of the way things have worked out. My system let me down and posted some things on wrong days and stuff like that. So I've just been doing it manually now. I've missed some of the time difference or something like that. So I've been clocking two on a day instead of one on two days. But it has got me to be a little bit more conscious on Twitter and a bit more active. Incidentally, I did my first what do they call them? Twitter Spaces. I hadn't done one of those before and did one of those this week at the show, as they say. In Vietnam. So he did a space, so I went on that. So I'm very much a newbie. I'm not quite as experienced on things like this as certainly as much as Greg. I see you on Spaces quite a lot. Although I always seem to have just missed them somehow. So I'll have to make a bit more of an effort in future. So that's something else that I have been doing. And yeah, it's been quite interesting and connecting with some new people It's very easy though with any social platform. One of the, in fact, the topic on the Twitter Space conversation that Matt was hosting was about basically Twitter Burnout. Well, I did the Twitter Burnout thing in 2008 when I first joined Twitter. Not with Take One Tech, that wasn't around then. But yeah, I spent a year basically when in 2008 I was starting up a different business or had a different business in Thailand that I was doing and so I was using Twitter quite heavily for that and yeah, I basically experienced Twitter Burnout within a year and then left it for what 13 years or something like that until I've come back now. So yeah, I know that can be a thing. It's a bit like a sort of fire hose of content really. And I think the way I sort of explained it in a or described it from my own personal perspective in a tweet was that it's kind of like if you go to a buffet and there's just one dish on the table, then you can probably finish it all. If there's a table of dishes, then you can probably sample them all but you might not finish it all. But if there's like thousands and thousands, rows upon rows of tables and plates on them all, you can't possibly even try a little bit of them or never mind finish it. So yeah, definitely not having to feel like you've got to get to that end of the scrolling list where it says you're all caught up. I'm not even bothering to do that even with my very small list of people that I'm following. It's just a case of I dip in and out and if I catch something then I do and if I don't then so be it because as the list grows, there's just no way to possibly keep up. So that is Twitter. But now what I want to just mention is first of all, check out this. I've got my little graphics ready. Stream Deck 5.1. I did mention this in a video. I did a video about it and I can't believe how timely this was because it's basically got one update in it. There's one thing about actually two, there's one of them which is you can now whitelist your YouTube channel or your different channels so that if you're using the built-in Stream Deck store to get your music and sound effects and stuff like that, you don't get any copyright claims against your channel because apparently some people had been. So it sort of solves that problem because you just whitelisted the same as you would be with Epidemic Sound but the other thing that they added in which was I really can't believe the timing of this because it's basically they've added in pages to profiles so now for every single profile you can add multiple pages. So like for now my setup that I've got for here is basically in fact, I'll just quickly show you so I've got basically now I've got one profile for this take one take but then if I press this button it goes over to the second page and I've got some extra things and in fact I've actually got a third page with stuff that I rarely use but are just on there anyway so it means that it's just easy to sort of flick between different profiles or different pages if you've got multiple pages and like for my Excel one I have multiple pages for that as well I'll just say hi Kevin great to see you here so yeah so that was the thing that was so timely about that though was that I literally it was when did it come out it came out yesterday day before yesterday and I literally just sat down thinking I want to merge because I did have two profiles for my take one I basically had one for my live streaming and one for my when I'm recording because I didn't have room for everything on one profile and I thought well why don't I just make like a little button between them so that they're almost like pages and I thought yeah I'm going to set that up tomorrow and then later that day I just saw the update come out that it added pages so it was just in time I would have been a bit annoyed if I'd spent time sorting it all out and then the update had come the day after so yeah really really great I think it's a great little feature that is so that's one thing that has happened this week but the other thing that has happened this week which some of you may have noticed is I've basically done a little bit of a redesign actually on my on all the overlays and things like that in terms of I've actually just got rid of all my graphic overlays so before I had you know created overlays for different for obviously to take one take but then also my other things that I do with it where they were you know the old school way in the olden days where we made like a little border around and you could put that over the top of the camera so it may look like you've got this border well with the new beta which ever you prefer I think it's just totally made all of that totally redundant it's you can just do everything in e-cam now in terms of you know getting something in the background that looks nice to give you that border effect and so I spent that's part of the reason why I didn't quite get as many videos out hi rich so yeah that's part of the reason because as a lot of you may know I've got basically two hours a day that I try and shoehorn my YouTube stuff into making my videos from sort of like four until six so I spent a couple of days this week on my little two hours basically I went through and just deleted all of my scenes and then reconstructed them all using purely the the graphical sorry the camera overlays with the borders and things like that so it means that now I've got well let me have a little show bit of butter tastes better better so let me just take this off the screen I'll take that one down so basically you may have seen the intro that I had which is slightly different for the live stream so that is what I basically don't go let me just step back a bit you do know that I'm a recovering perfectionist and part of the thing about this channel was not to get myself bogged down in what I would often do for my own stuff I'm not usually this bad with actual like client work and stuff like that because I know what I'm doing and then I know what I've got to do for them but when it comes to myself I tend to question it a lot so I basically with this channel thought right well I'm going to is the sort of the anti perfectionist stance and part of the recovery process was just to get it done and get it out there and I mentioned before that I've not really been happy with there's no aspect of my channel that I've been totally happy with but I've been happy with being unhappy about it if that makes sense so part of the thing was just the general look and feel and the design of it and so on and so I wasn't really happy with that I wasn't happy with my thumbnails I wasn't happy with the you know the overlays that I had got and things like that and so I'm still not entirely happy but I've just spent a few days this week or a couple of days just doing some tweaks to them and one of the things that I kept sort of nagging me was that the colours that I was using before the sort of blue and yellow that I had just looked a little bit too light next to each other it's only a minor thing but this is the trouble with being a perfectionist you pick up on the minor little details and then spend hours tweaking on them so I didn't do that before and I just let them be but now I've basically just adjusted them and I've sort of changed the slightly the colour of the yellow and the colour of the blue that I'm using which this just sounds probably ridiculous to a lot of people I'm sure because I'm sure it doesn't look perfect to a lot of people anyway and it doesn't to me either but I do like the improvement that I've made to it and so I've just adjusted those colours a little bit so I've updated my overlays as well so like I've got this one with my screen sharing which by the way I'm going to come on to you later because I've actually got speaking of Rich Graham in the chat this is one of the other things I've been doing this week is updating all my descriptions using this link that Rich gave me or posted in the e-com group I should say so I've got that one and then I've also got my little top down view and all of this is just done with camera overlays and then I've just got a background image that's in the background and the beauty of this is that you can basically just change the background and it will change the way that your whole things look your whole production looks so let me just change that background image I did do a little bit of a silly animation so now you can have it with a moving background I didn't spend long on that I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of creating animations but in fact just to let me have a little look it's the palm pilot it's the OG palm pilot the pen and paper so you can change the background and then you can also if I come on to this one you could just put like any border on that you wanted really and so having all these scenes built up like this just means you can flip from one to another and you don't have to make all these overlays each time and it's made me think that what I could do is I could actually create let me come to the live stream one as well you can just basically do all of this and just add all these in so basically just reconstructed all of my overlays that I did have I actually palm posted yeah just did sort of reconstruct all of those I tweaked my little lower third as well that before was all just elements in e-cam whereas this one actually I did just make it in keynote just because I've got some little bits of animation stuff like that that come in there as well so that is basically what I also did this week it's just spent a little bit of time just tweaking these so I updated the look of my thumbnails although some of them have not actually come through yet so yeah it needs thanks Greg needs to be 5 pixels wider yeah so yeah it just makes it so much easier I'm going to do a video actually about how the death of traditional action we can just go all black there we go that's better get it back to where it should be so yeah it just makes it so much easier that for for people to just pick up e-cam and then start creating some things like this it makes it easy for people to just make stuff that looks nice without having to think that they've got to go and buy an overlay pack or something like that or they've got to create one themselves or something the other thing that I did actually to make these so that it makes it easier to make them on the fly and I've really got to tweak this but this was just my first little stab at it was I made a little sort of template so if let me come into a new scene like this and then I've basically made this little overlay which I can toggle on and off and then that means and this is just basically for the sizes of the the sort of shapes and things like that that I use in my scenes it was just for that but I'm going to make a version of this that is just basically tighter and sort of thinner lines really and some more generic layout styles but what that means is that basically I can just add in a thing like this I can say right this one needs to be up here just quickly drag it to change that to be a custom shape like this didn't mean to be doing a demo but since you're here I've been talking about it so there you go you can have it like that if I want to just add in a guest I can just drag that one down there and I've got a little bit wrong there so I could make that guest number one for example like that and then I could do a screen sharing so let me grab a screen share like this and there we go put that one up there change that to custom as well oops you get the idea so then you could make like that and that means that if you're doing something like where you're actually just live on the fly want to just create something then you can just do it you can just do it like that and get the layout easy so it does indeed Kevin make remove the need for cutting holes and all of that nonsense yes death to all holes so that was another thing that I had been playing around and tweaking with this this week so the next thing that I wanted to mention was TubeBuddy Legend because I had been on the regular TubeBuddy thing or the regular one whichever one it is I'm not sure if it was the lowest one or the pro or if the pro is the lowest one I can't remember it was like ten dollars a month or something like that and then in fact it was actually half price I think if you were less than a thousand subscribers and hello nice to see you here thank you very much that template I'm going to make one that looks a little bit prettier and is a little bit more generic and then I'll just put it as like a free download or something on the website and oh hey Jillian nice to see you here too and what do you do one rounded corner on overlays oh rich this is one of my favourite things let me yeah let me come into here let me just back it up a minute let me back it up and I'm going to go into demo mode this might be a little bit bit small in fact but let me just let me just come here right that is a little bit small I guess isn't it but basically I wonder if there's an easier way to share this let me just quickly drag on a or stick a little screenshot on like that let's see can you see that if I zoom in so if you click on the little pencil here then you've got the radius that you can set there like that but then you've just got these little boxes in the corners and you can just basically toggle the corners that you want the corners on so that one has got basically square corner, rounded corner rounded corner and square corner it's just you can toggle it on in there and it works on on the screen share overlays the camera overlays and all of the others as well so that means that and like the text overlays so that means that yeah with this one I've basically in fact let me take that grid off I've basically got sort of rounded corners on some of them but then it sort of continues on like that all my three up one for example you can see it's sort of rounded at the edges but then the ones in the middle excuse me I've got no no rounded corners so yeah that's how you can do that Rich and yeah it really I really love it like I say there's no need for the old school the old school way of doing things now hey Paul nice to see you how did I make the transparency with the green right well that is the one thing that I'm not doing in Ecamm and that is basically using the green screen screen share overlays so if I just come into my come into my demo mode if you see this down here this down here at the bottom right is basically a keynote presentation that I'm running with a green screen and then I've also with the green background I should say and then I've got just green text in it so if I come back to and then I've got let me just run that I've got basically a a little animation that runs just in keynote like that so that is all that is and then the effect of that if I come into my my regular thing again so if I just toggle my green screen screen share that's always a mouthful for me that one is green screen screen share overlay on and then I activate that in keynote so that's what I'm doing in fact you can sort of see my mouse is over if I hover my mouse I've got my mouse over keynote now but I'll get it out of the way but if I just take your comment down for one moment and then I activate that it's just basically running like that but because the text is green you just see through it so that's the one thing that I'm doing at the moment that isn't actually a an e-cam thing and then you can see how it's it basically looks like it's going to the edge of the border the sort of imaginary border but the way that I've done that is if I come into hang on a minute now I see the problem with pages on the stream deck let me come back into demo mode for a second so what I've done in PowerPoint if I just come out of here for a moment you can see how if this text was animating in from the side it could sort of spill over the edge so what I've done is if I've come into here and changed this I've basically just got this border which is sort of masking the edges so even though the text is flying in from the side it still appears on my screen like it is coming in from like almost behind this imaginary border that I've got so that's how I've kind of like faked that hello Donald nice to see you here too so yeah that is how I've basically sort of faked that look if I just play that once more time oops a lazy and then I'll add it as an overlay so there we go that is that is how I've done that so it just makes adding titles and things like that and a lot easier I've also got a transition that I can do it as an ecom as a a keynote transition but I've also exported it as a movie to make a stinger transition as well so that one looks like this and then I've done the timings of that with stream deck so that it's I should have taken this other one off the screen so I've timed it with stream deck so that basically the the image in the background is the scene in the background is changing while the stinger is covering up the the whole screen so that's how I've just sort of basically added that one in but I'm actually using ecom live for doing like presentations and things like that as well and it means that you can actually make like a whole presentation in keynote but then have it sort of running over the top of ecom live so that you can just add in these transitions and things like that into there and then even just sort of for some sort of like ad hoc stuff that I'm doing I would put the stinger transition in but then as it was running I would just be like manually changing the scene at the right point in the middle of it if you see what I mean and it just makes making these sort of like ad hoc presentations and stuff like that pretty easy now with with ecom so I've done four videos this week there should have been five but I haven't quite got around to making the fifth one because I've been too busy tweaking my own scenes but it's all about using this specific thing so it's the five videos all about green screen screen sharing on in ecom because it's a game changer the the twins I remember when they were talking about this in one of the live streams on the in the in the beta group where they said like they they couldn't really see what the the need for it was they said oh apparently some people are interested in having green screen on overlays and not sure why they'd want to do that but for me it was just like this is like the killer feature now for for integrating it into like presentations and stuff like that so anyway I digress a little bit and so I wanted to talk about as well was TubeBuddyLegend because with their leap into live you've got three months free of TubeBuddyLegend level and I've been just on the regular version I wasn't really sure about the extra for the the other one and I didn't didn't know whether I'd really need it or find it necessary but basically I've been using it for only two days now and it's already I've decided I'm just going to renew it after the three months is up because it's got a ton of functionality it saved me a ton of time already and yeah it's just I'll dig into it so there's three specific things that I want to to talk about with it first of all the bulk updates so I'll come back to this little screen sharing thing that I showed you because Rich thank you very much for posting this in the the ECAM Facebook group this was I'll leave a link to it actually in fact I wonder if I can do that now now if I leave a link to this in this chat will it actually stay up let's see if that actually comes up I'll drop it in there yeah I think it has so yeah it's basically 17 tips for writing effective YouTube descriptions so there's some great ones in there that I just wasn't doing and there was some that I knew about but I still wasn't doing anyway so so I thought well what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through and update my my sort of default description that I have in YouTube so for those of the you that don't know whoops there we go got my little fancy stinger again for those of you that don't know in YouTube if you click on the settings and then come up to user defaults then in here you can add a description that's just like the stock description that will appear and then so I had that before and then I would just add in my new you know whatever specific to the video above that so I was doing that but then when I went through and read that article I thought oh there's a few other things that I could do here and it's been one of those things that I've been meaning to update my sort of stock description footer for a while so I went in and did that and I thought right well I'll go in and I'll update my my default description and I kind of wasn't really thinking about you know I've done now you know or whatever it is 100 and something videos I wasn't really thinking about going back and actually updating the descriptions in those ones and then when I was going through all the you the TubeBuddy stuff I realized that there is a bulk update and you can do a find and replace so check this out because it's just save me like a load of time and I need to not have that stinger just be automatically every time because personally I think they can get a little bit annoying if it's every time if you're flicking backwards and forwards but I've just set it on to that particular scene so I'll just start later so I can choose whether it runs or not so let me come into here a minute and if I go into the content section of my YouTube channel don't know if you can see that let me just scale that up a little bit see it there we go then there is these little TubeBuddy things all over the place so where you can see up at the top we've got a little TubeBuddy menu here you've got one over here in fact having zoomed in I need to zoom out a little bit now because there we go you can see it there you can see there's a little one here as well so you get these sort of contextual TubeBuddy menus as well well up here so this bulk and miscellaneous tools in here you've got bulk video processing find and replace text so that's the one I'm going to talk about but you can also do things like copying the the cards that you've got you can copy the end screens and change end screens and things like that then you've got all of this stuff so copper is to do with the whether it's suitable for children stuff like that demonetization double check to check if you've been demonetized not something I have to worry about at the moment with less than my thousand subscribers and then scheduling stuff like that click magnet I'm going to come on to this one in a minute because this is just below my mind as well but yeah find and replace text so I could just go in and I copied all of my default description that I had been using previously and let's just show you just basically add in the text that you want to find and replace and although these look like small fields literally you can add you know whole you know your full description basically so just put my old one in there the new one in here and then click continue and it went through and said you know we found 150 whatever videos it was because I've got all my shorts in there as well click continue find and replace done like all of my descriptions for all of my videos I've been updated with this new sort of standard footer that I've got in my in my descriptions there was a couple that got thrown up where it couldn't do it because basically it was where the new description that I've added in is longer than the previous one but then it's also the the yeah it's longer than the previous one but then also this the sort of stock that the different I'm missing my words here the the the the new default footer that I've got is longer than my previous one but in some cases before I'd put like additional like custom text for that specific video so it meant that the description now was going to be longer than it could be so it does tell you if that is the case and it gives you a list of all the the video IDs I think it was about 10 of them so all I had to do was just drop the ID into the YouTube search in my YouTube studio to find all of these videos and just manually adjust it or whatever but basically in like I would say including those adjustments maybe 10 minutes I updated all of these things so that's to save me to go in and do it manually a save me save me hours hours and hours no doubt and I just wouldn't have done it before so the effect that that could have on the channel could be you know could be significant who knows so the other thing that it's got in it which I wanted to just have a look at was so there's another one which is post to Facebook now this might seem sort of trivial and you might not be interested in even cross posting to Facebook as I mentioned earlier I have been doing a thing with Zapier where I've basically just been when I post a video to YouTube it automatically gets posted as a link with a little description and the title and whatever it goes to Twitter or had been going to Twitter and Facebook and yeah those two there's I've got some other automations going on but basically just there but you know people on Facebook if they're seeing a link and then it's taking them to YouTube it would be good to have it as just have the video as an embedded video on Facebook especially because Facebook isn't going to give you any sort of any credit for posting links out to YouTube from Facebook whereas if you're actually putting videos on your page that are you know embedded on the page as it were on your Facebook page as sort of native then I think that that is going to help with discoverability on Facebook possibly so I wanted to give that a go and huge TubeBuddy actually makes that really easy so if you come over to any one of your videos and then click on the little TubeBuddy icon and then down at the bottom here you've got this one published to Facebook now when you do it it doesn't send the the actual video you still have to find I believe I might be wrong about this actually but it basically copies the title and the description and then it says like whether you want to include the thumbnail so it will take the thumbnail that you've uploaded and add it to your timeline and then you can schedule it as well and then it says choose file so it'll tell you the name of the file that you'd uploaded to to YouTube and then you click on choose file and then you select the file that you actually want to add so you'd have to just go and sort of find it again so it's as if it's not taking the file directly from YouTube and putting it to Facebook that way but it does just mean that if you want to post natively to Facebook then it is oh thank you thank you Rich let me do that again I'll just show you that quickly there's me chattering away to myself it always helps if you're actually showing somebody so there is the little TubeBuddy icon so you click that one and then you've got published to Facebook just ignore the last few minutes and then yeah it's taking the title the description and then the thumbnail it'll grab that and you can say whether you want to include the thumbnail as well in the video or the timeline and then you can choose when to publish it and then choose video so when you choose or choose file so then you'll just basically go and select the file, the same file that you'd uploaded to YouTube and then click publish to Facebook so that is just going to publish as a sort of native video then on your Facebook stream so I thought that's quite good and I'm going to start just doing that as part of my upload process once I've uploaded it I'll just also send it out to Facebook as well and see what difference that makes it was interesting that the first video that I did I posted it in this way then I did just get somebody who liked that post almost immediately so presumably I don't know whether that's changing how it's getting seen as well whereas normally cross posting ones I don't tend to get much sort of action on it but then I've not got loads of followers on Facebook on my Take One Tech page at least anyway so oh sorry I've just noticed that advice I missed this comment so I used TubeBuddy for a lot of features the backup feature is great for getting your links and data from it yeah that is good actually to just be able to extract it all so that they haven't got everything you've got your own copies of it as well watch your name by the way I don't like to call people just by their handles and then I can speak to you properly that advice TV nice to see you here though kidney health coach interesting let me have a look your pro mouse app any plans for a window version so the pro mouse yeah there isn't a windows version of it but there are windows alternatives I can't just remember what they are actually I'll have a look for it though and I'll let you know because somebody else asked me that and I did find a similar thing yeah that's pretty awesome isn't it I'm just going to keep posting all of my videos to there and I might even go back because you can do the scheduling I might even go back and sort of go down my old list of videos and delete all of the links out of Facebook and just sort of replace them with the actual videos and see what happens because Facebook on video is quite a big thing at the moment and I know a few people who have got quite large YouTube followings and have sort of made a transition over to doing more and more on Facebook and the Facebook things just exploded far more than their YouTube channel so I'll let you know how that goes though no Facebook doesn't like it when you post the YouTube video link do they they want to keep everybody inside their little wall garden that might be the one that I was thinking about actually Curse of Pro as a pro mouse option you mean is that a way is that a Windows or a Mac thing is that a reply for the Mac for the Windows one that Donald was asking about or is that another Mac one because there is another Mac one by the way for all those people in fact I probably should get it and try it again actually because I used to use this one all the time which was one called mouse posey like expose but mouse posey and that's been around for years actually and I can't remember why I actually stopped using it it wasn't that they'd done anything or stopped working or anything like that but that is another great one that's sort of similar to pro mouse so I know that some people usually Doc has an alternative for Mac right right now I haven't tried that one so I'll have to have a look at that Curse of Pro yeah Curse of Pro and mouse posey are two alternatives yeah Doc's always cursing me whenever he tries to use pro mouse it's becoming quite amusing to be honest so I'll have to mention that one to him as well so yeah that posting to Facebook from YouTube using the TubeBuddy I think is really good so that's another feature that I think is worth the extra cost the other thing though is let me come to this a minute it's the sort of analytics because I've always sort of laughed at myself about my thumbnails and you know the whole sort of like shocked YouTube face and things like that my daughter finds it hilarious sometimes I've got just a relatively neutral expression and then sometimes I do do the whole shocked look and things like that on my thumbnails I know that in practice in theory it's supposed to make a difference I've heard the no problem you've got to put snacks before well certainly before me so no offense and great that you could stop by yeah so the thumbnails though I know that the research has shown that you know faces with expressions have more engagement and people are more likely to click and take action based on them but is this really amazing feature in TubeBuddy which just corrects me up if I come into the little TubeBuddy icon at the top here and I'm just checking I am actually sharing my screen if I come up to the TubeBuddy icon at the top then in here we've got let me have a look this one click magnet so click on click click magnet and then it's going to take a little bit of time to think and then once it's the I have to press the get started button first then it'll take a bit of time to think yeah if you don't press get started it'll do nothing there we go processing data right and there's a few different options here so rankings click through CTR click through rate opportunities and advanced analytics so I'm going to come to this one first the element inspector so you click on this one now this is basically looking at thumbnails got Nick Nim in there and it's basically saying should you include a face in your thumbnails this versus this and then it says that in general that having a face in is better but you can actually test it now all of my thumbnails are basically the same rough template and I've just got it as a Photoshop file with I took a load of pictures like just the day on you know one sitting snap snap snap took a load of pictures and they're all there in Photoshop so I just pick one to stick in my thing so it makes making my thumbnails takes like five ten minutes something like that now so all of mine have got a face in but if yours if you had some with and some without then over on this side you've got faces versus no faces so this is basically of my last 50 videos that it's looking at and all of mine have had a face in but what it shows you is what is the click through rate so the click through rate being like when your video is shown either you know somebody scrolling in their own feed and they can see it there they might be a subscriber or it might be a recommended video and they're not a subscriber or it could be if somebody does a search and your video is appearing in that that sort of list of results the click through rate is basically how many people have clicked on it versus how many times the how many impressions of your video have been have been there so I'm sitting around about four percent click through rate I don't really know I need to do a bit more research really on what is considered a a good click through rate yes that is one of the benefits of having my hairstyle or lack of style it's also great for green screen as well so yeah so so yeah this basically if you had some with and without faces you'd be able to see the difference in the click through rate but this is the one that just really blew me away actually if you click on emotions it's got a whole range of emotions here and then you can scroll along the bottom and it tells you what your click through rate is based on the emotion that is on your face so this just blew me away first of all that it is just recognizing the emotions that are on my face in my or generally in my my thumbnails but then also you can just see a clear result so I've basically got it seems that I only have three emotions in my thumbnails first of all I'm either happy I'm surprised or I am confused and I think that that is true to life actually I'm really disgusted I suppose I am calm sometimes but obviously not in my thumbnails and then we got sad there as well so basically those are my three emotional states happy, surprised or confused but what you can see is of the videos the ones where I'd got a confused face were 2.87% click through rate the ones where I'd got a happy face were 3.4 but the ones where I'm surprised were 4.7% so I am going to make some ridiculously over the top YouTube face thumbnails in the coming weeks and really put this to the test because it's just amazing to see that difference but I kind of know it myself because when I'm scrolling through and I see that these pictures I'll tell you a great example is René Richie his videos I know exactly what he's going to be covering he's covering Apple news I know exactly what the Apple news is going to be because I've kept up with all the Apple news anyway and I know generally it's all the rumor mill stuff about Apple which I love by the way I'm into Apple as a company but René Richie what he does is all of his thumbnails are really over the top that sort of look and then it will say things like massive leak bombs or new leak or insider information or something like that and I know that he's only going to have the same stuff but as I'm scrolling past and I see his shocked face it always does just grab my attention so I know that these sort of things do actually work so I'm going to really put it to the test now that I can measure it and just try out some different faces I'm going to try some sad faces I'm going to try and be calm I might try and be angry I've got to find something to be angry about because I usually don't get that angry about things to be honest and then some neutral faces but I'm going to try I'm going to try over the next well certainly over the next three months I'm going to test out all of these different expressions and just for the hell of it to see what effect it has but there you go that is the proof of it that the surprised face does make a difference so there we go the other thing that you can look at in here is the sizes as well now because I'm using the same pictures and they're all about the same size that sort of doesn't give us too much so you can see here we've got a long shot the medium shot or I haven't got any that are close up but where it's a super close up so it would be interesting to try those obviously it looks like the ones where they're slightly more zoomed out perform better than the ones where they're zoomed in which would make sense in my case because nobody wants to see my big old face on their screens but I haven't got any that are really close up and I haven't got any with multiple people in as well so which is a bit hard where they channel with only one person isn't it but that's just interesting the other thing that you can do is you can look at the text versus no text so all of mine have got text in but I will try some where it's just literally you know the product or some way to illustrate what I'm talking about without text and just see what the effect of that is the next one we've got is words in the title so this means that you can scroll through and see which words were in titles that performed the best and funnily enough the highest performer the word is new so stuff where I've got a lot well not a lot I've got a few videos where they're like Ecamm Live, Beta, New Features or Stream Deck version 5 New Features I suppose everyone is interested in what the latest new and shiny thing is Next Highest is Live and then the next highest is Ecamm where I've got Ecamm in the the title yeah that's that's just interesting really to see those I suppose the Ecamm ones I do on my thumbnails I have a little sort of strip at the bottom where if it's about Stream Deck it will say Stream Deck, if it's about Ecamm it will say Ecamm and my thought process was that with that although I've got them in playlists as well I thought it would make it easier for people if they're scrolling through a whole list of videos on the my YouTube channel then they'll be able to see which were you know what they were related to so that was my thought process for doing that so there will actually be a lot that just have got Ecamm on it because it's part of obviously the name of the the program but that is just an interesting little thing so let me come back out of this one and then have a look at the a few of these other things in this click magnet stuff so you've got click through well let's have a look at power rankings first of all so here you can see basically videos and then these little sliders here this one hasn't got anything yet because it's just come out but basically here you'll see these rankings show you basically how they've performed in terms of the click-through rate so the click-through rate of this one was 6.49 which was the highest click-through rate and that was that video that I mentioned earlier in the live stream that performed the the best where I got a sudden spike so the latest one that I've done about the the beta look at that I've got surprise face in there I've also got new in there and the e-cam so all of my top words seem to be in that particular thumbnail and so what it says is these are the top performing videos for different traffic sources and if you want to grow your channel faster focused on making videos similar to those so it's like yeah just showing you basically which of yours are performing best so it's quite a nice way to see it and also similarly let's go down to here which ones are performing worst so these ones all basically look in the same tip to and so on so pretty pretty generic and you can see the click-through rate was lower on those I do need to bear in mind that some of these are shorts as well so there will be a discrepancy really between click-through rates on shorts compared to standard videos just because of the nature of them I think so I will just when I've been doing shorts for longer because it's only been a week I will report back on my findings but it does seem like the shorts have got the lowest click-through like all of these I've got a little short icon in the bottom that I put on my thing so it is definitely that the shorts are performing worse than the regular videos but yeah that's just interesting to have a look at but you can also change it by source as well so you can see which ones perform best by YouTube search or suggested videos or the browse features so when they're in people's feeds basically so that is quite an interesting little tool and then related to that let me go to this advanced analytics one this is basically again you can change it by all videos the lifetime of the channel the traffic sources and the minimum number of impressions but then from that you can see how many clicks versus impressions there were exactly what the number of views were and then what the clicks to views were the average duration that people watched for and then what that was as a percentage so this video they watched for six minutes and that was a 41% of the video average was watched and then you can also see the click through rate here and the ranking of it and so on so that's just another little insight and you can also export to CSV so if you're a bit of an excel geek and you know that I am then you can you can dig into it in a little bit more detail like that as well but the other one that I think is really clever is this click through rate opportunities so you click on this one and this one is basically saying that in fact let me just tell you so the video is performing well with like total watch time they've got good number of view duration so once people actually get to the video they're engaged with it and they're watching it so it is actually good content objectively speaking but these videos have got a low click through rate so therefore if they're technically appear to be good videos because the people who watch them watch them all the way through or watch a larger proportion of them but they're just not getting the high click through rate then it's thanks Jeff thanks for stopping by so yeah the these are the ones where the videos ostensibly are good or better but you just haven't got the right the good click through rate so it's basically saying that these are the ones where you could get the biggest gains by actually going and tweaking something to improve on the click through rate so if these ones I went through and had a look at like well what are my thumbnails like on these perhaps I should go and edit you know update my thumbnails then these would be the ones to that it is recommending to start with so I thought that that was a really nice little feature in a nice way that it is sort of interpreting the results for you as well so it's kind of that's the thing I like about TubeBuddy I always do feel like it's it's not just a thing giving you information it's actually giving you some actionable steps to take as well so yeah it's great for that so those are basically the three little features specifically that I wanted to talk about with TubeBuddy because I've done videos about it before but they were always about this sort of lower basic level or the pro level whichever one it is so that is that is that then the next thing that I wanted to talk about was basically my little journey into the world of shorts so I've been posting three videos a day or three shorts a day at the moment these are all just my videos that I made when I went on my little TikTok adventure and fell flat on my face I did six videos a day for five days and then did no more so this time I've decided to do it a little bit more in a more manageable way which is three videos a day and I think that that is a little bit more manageable it's basically 21 a week I'm still not getting into basically repurposing content yet I'm if you start doing TubeBuddy affiliate stuff buy TubeBuddy affiliate stuff are you talking Rich about I should have been more on the ball with my bottom I'm using TubeBuddy TubeBuddy is great it helps me to get more out of my YouTube channel and it saves me countless hours head over to takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy to get your free trial now is that the sort of stuff you meant Rich I do really like it I've recommended it countless times before on even just the basic level and the way that they work it with the basic level is that I don't know if it applies to the legend level as well but it's basically if you've got less than a thousand subscribers it's half price anyway so it works out like like five five dollars or four dollars something like that a month so yeah I'll try and do that more often I'll try and shoehorn that in I've got a few of those actually Rich so yeah I can also say if you enjoyed the music on that last TubeBuddy promo then you may be interested to hear about epidemic sounds head over to and get access to thousands of royalty free music that you can use to improve your YouTube channels yeah so that's like you do with e-cam and stream deck well yeah that's the thing and the thing about e-cam and stream deck is I don't actually get any commission from that although if you're liking this production then why not give e-cam live a try you can head over to takeonetech.io and get access to a whole month of free use of e-cam live and you'll find out why I love it so much it's my favorite application on the map yeah I mean I made those but I just never really get to shoehorn the main I'm always too busy just yacking away so yeah I'll have to work on my I'll have to work on my technique a little bit more I think Rich so yeah with the shorts I've basically put three a day out for the past for the past week which are the ones that I'd got sort of in the can as it were from from TikTok I've still got enough left for another sort of three days but this weekend basically I need to just record I need to make 21 a week basically I've not been repurposing my content I still not really properly dug into description all that sort of stuff so like extracting stuff and importing it it's still one of those things that is like given the limited time that I have to do all of this it's kind of like how much time do I balance with actually making the content and the time that I spend sort of learning new tools and there's so many of them to sort of dig into and the script is one that I do want to get into and I can obviously I've had play around with it here and there but it's not something I'm doing so for the moment making these short form videos I'm still thinking of just recording them and making them as you know making one minute long videos basically or even half a minute in fact I watched the thing with I want to say Nick or it might be Dean him in actually where he was talking about shorts and he was saying that although my ones have been a minute long Dean him in said that basically YouTube recommends 15 seconds not a minute although they allow up to a minute 15 seconds is is what they are recommending so I'll I'll try with some shorter ones as well and just see what the the effect the effect is I have already by the way Greg I've taken your advice I have already been getting the list so I've got I've got a growing list now of stuff so yeah thanks for your your pointer last week I'll just stick this up by the way for anybody you fancy just jumping on then yeah the usual link takeonetech.io slash join if you want to come on and have a chat about shorts or whatever or anything else I've mentioned or anything else for that matter just feel free to jump on but yeah the thing about the shorts is I'm a bit sort of in two minds about it really I'm not really quite sure about well first of all how they're going to perform after that my results so far with them basically are having said that this is about my results it is a little bit inconclusive I got my friend Greg just jumping on one second add him into here second there we go hey Greg how you doing hello how are you I'm very good I've got to change your name from guest yeah so I'm still I'm still unsure about the shorts and it's also the fact that they appear in everybody's timeline so they're not only on the shorts sort of shelf they do appear for everybody in their timeline and I wonder about you know do people get basically sick of seeing my face is the short question there because you know if you've got like four videos a day that are just popping up in people's feeds then it is going to be something where you know you're scrolling through and you're like oh it's this joker again so I'm not sure about that and if your actual videos get lost amongst them people like have the bell notification on for you or you know and have the preference for you you're going to show up more frequently I have to tell you a funny story about what this guy did oh dear is he alright he's got a little collar on you know you got the boys fixed oh right right poor little lad say hi hello t-rex yeah yeah no I don't think it harms you per se but you know in the spirit of experimenting you may want to try different throttle levels for a little while to see right like try a week of two a day and try a week of one day and just see if it comes out what I here's in terms of repurposing though how I've been doing it is finding good quotes from like guests and stuff like that yep and then just turning those in the shorts yeah and you know that that does and then you can use it to like link to your older post also so it kind of creates the webbing that comes back into the whole time thing you know what it is out is that if you have guests it's actually easier right because like our shows are always a guest so there's always quotes to pull out but I will agree it is it is kind of a pain in the butt because you have to reformat them sometimes like because you know our video landscape and then the shorts are portrait and so it doesn't work out that too well yes you want to hear my funny story with this little mutt yeah cool cool I'll say a quick hi to Dean first because yeah nice of you to stop by Dean I always love your stuff as well so yesterday I interviewed Kevin O'Leary the shark from Shark Tank oh yes yeah and I was recording it I was supposed to be recording it hit the record button on my roadcaster pro but as I started recording I was like what's that sound I was hearing this like white noise static coming over my over my headset and so I didn't get rid of it and so I ended up switching to my AirPods not realizing that I guess I've moved all of it off and out of the out of the flow of the roadcaster so I recorded an hour long show of blank sound oh no yeah so that part sucked but interestingly enough this morning before we went live for our show I was like alright what I gotta see where this sound is coming from where this problem is turns out that this little mutt had gotten around on the other side of the table and was pulling on the cables he pulled on my XLR cable he didn't go through it but what happened was when I pulled him off he dropped he left the XLR cable sitting on the power brick for my monitor and so the sound the static I was hearing was actually electricity flowing through like what's going on here my headphones aren't working my roadcaster needs to be taken back I was like freaking out something bad obviously had happened and then James Hicks was like all his checky cables and he said that to me last night when I was complaining about it and I went around the other side and I'm like what's going on over it I was like are you kidding me this can't be it and I just picked the cable up and moved it off and the sound was gone never work with children or animals you're streaming you mentioned James hi James nice to have you to stop by as well oh thanks the lower third is I just made it as a keynote animation that is one of the few overlays that I've got left I am serious your other lower third was a few pixels not wide enough so the only reason I know that is that when you had a moving background I could see the edge oh I see right you mean the old one you mean when I said 5 pixels before you were showing it with the bright colored moving background and I saw the little edge I think I'll make a note I'll just say hello as well to Venus prod morning joining late sorry what's your name by the way so that I can address you properly for all madam so are you going to ride more to get your mileage I am definitely because I'm still got the target for the end of the year as well stuff that we we discussed I'm still going for that I've still got to lose a lot of weight so I'm still going to get back into it but it's just been absolutely mad this past week well past few weeks actually just been a lot of other stuff going on with work related stuff as well so yeah and then next next week I mean a conference basically every day next week from eight until six so I'll have to try and squeeze in some videos somewhere but it's going to be a little bit tricky I'll probably do a lot this weekend to try and get them all you can do your short, I have faith in you you can do one minute short it's really easy less than a minute is even easier yeah I'll go for the 15 seconds the thing about the shorts where I'm editing them the thing is my workflow for like making any of the videos that I do I don't really do any sort of preparation for them I do more preparation for these live streams and everything so look this my little my little notepad where I've actually made some notes of like because otherwise I get distracted by comments and stuff like that and just lose my thread sort of thing but normally for my videos it's just a case of I sit down I do them I finish them and upload them sometimes I just upload direct to YouTube from Ecamm and then I go into my little YouTube template stick one of my stupid faces on and adjust the the words and export it and it's like sort of 15-20 minutes I guess on either end of actually doing the video that's how long it takes me to do it whereas if I think I've got to drag it into the script and I've got to go through and I have a good idea right now everyone who's watching ask Alec one question that he can answer in a short there's 13 people doing it so you should have at least two weeks of content yeah well yeah so that's that's great and thank you very much and I'll be happy to answer any questions and make sure yeah yeah yeah but coming up with the shorts where I'm gonna film them I've got no problem with that I've got yeah the whole idea of repurposing content that I need to try and figure out how to get that into my flow that's the one that's more difficult because I can easily sit down and just rattle off you know some stuff one minute at a time and save them all files and get those done but yes recordings is one continuous take or yeah yeah okay occasionally you can always tell the ones where about to have a break in it so sometimes like something happens where one of the kids runs in or something like that then you can always tell the ones where there's been a distinct break because I also wasn't using an editor for them I know how to use editing software but I've just tried to avoid it like at all costs because otherwise I'll get myself sucked into that so the way that I do it is I basically open a file in quick time and then like where the break is I just add on like the second file that I've recorded it as a separate file I'll just add that file on to the end but then it was only after a while that I realised that that screws up the audio sync of the last portion of the file like the bit that you've added on basically so any videos of mine where you see it where the sync is never perfect on my stuff anyway so I've still got to spend a bit of time working on that but if you see it where my audio is fine and then it reaches a point and then suddenly it just goes way out of whack that's one where I've added an extra file on to the end with quick time so here's another maybe hack you can use in line because I see twitch streamers do this sometimes like when they're planning that they know they want to crop out of part they'll they'll kind of put a visual cue in or something so maybe you can make a scene that you know is for a short yeah and have yourself framed up put the maybe like a sections into your thing you're going to cover and like hey did you know that you could do blank with e-cam like I'm going to show you how right and then you can just cut you could crop just that part of the video out and have that be your short that was part of my thinking with these things where I was basically doing my little like this so that is going to come in as like a little you as well otherwise it'll be too much work so put yourself like all put a tall version a little window with the thing like straight down 16 9 so you know it's perfect yeah cut it off like like a stinger but just with just only the middle far yeah that's brilliant yeah yeah well and then it's just a good setup for the part of the video you're about to do anyway right well yeah yeah yeah so that was yeah that's the thing about it they become your chapter markers anyway right yes yeah yeah yeah that was I mean that's the other reason for I mean having these things like these little this sort of stinger like this sort of thing is basically for the same sort of thing it's sort of a visual cue because I obviously still going through and actually putting in the chapters although there is a way that you can do that in the script as well so you can actually yeah if you if you bring your video in there's a new add I'll have to go back and watch Doc's video about it in fact I found out about it from Doc but that's because he had watched the video that was on leap into live where he'd watched the thing so yeah there's a thing in there where you can put them in and then it would just actually add the chapter markers in when you upload it or something so got you got you but I think that's if for your minimalist thing yeah do the intro do the tip and then show how to do the tip yeah the tip then show the tip you can cut that out and just set up and ready to roll like it's got all your art all your stuff I mean it could stay over my regular scene it could literally just be like an animated overlay that comes in where it basically comes in crops in just to that central part which would make sense in the context of the normal video but then I can just extract it out I know I'm doing this weekend thanks Greg we gotta be strategic with this stuff right yeah yeah because that's what it needs to be for me it needs to be like frictionless basically for me to just be able to come in and and get it get it done hey guys I don't see any questions here come on we need more questions for Alex we've got one for you so you can make a quick one on this aren't the RF shielded XLR cables probably are I mean you just weren't planning for it I got the cheapest fastest cable that could ship to my house when I originally ordered I'm like oh crap I need a cable James says you're going to give me a stroke well to be honest with you it's like every year every every week I get some more great ideas from you coming on so I really appreciate it it's sort of like a counseling session for me in many respects by the way Rich is right but the way you can handle that is crop and then just have a static what I did is I made a I made a video template in Premiere that like I just have to drop the little video part dynamically onto and then everything else is there right so I have like you know the text around it and I have audio built in the background and you just extend the timeline it takes like literally from from Descript out to YouTube takes me 10 minutes to do it that way what's that what's Rich talking about here it would be 1080 tall the portrait photo the video yeah well it depends on what you're streaming at yeah so I'm in actually in 4k now so it would oh you'll be fine then yeah yeah thanks Gary yeah so I think that Ecam with these there is no overlays now it's all just just camera overlays on a simple background the moving background speaking now we're at now we're on this I'll just quickly answer Dean now yes I do use the Ecam's tool mode to do the shorts it's brilliant it just fits right into my workflow so I've got a profile setup does it fit right because I think I tried it once and it was the wrong size no no it's fine if you go to the recording or output settings sorry no options stream size no stream aspect and then you go to tall 16 9x16 and you will still have the same window size in Ecam so the window appears to be the same but it's only the central bit that is actually visible when it exports so it does export it right but yeah I was thinking about the the sort of background to have in here and like I did sort of experiment with this little bit of a sort of moving background I literally spent you know a few minutes just animating the background so it slides across but I see people's live streams where they've got animated backgrounds and I'm still unsure about them sometimes I think they look really cool but then other times I think is it just a gimmick and does it just actually detract from what you're saying or is there another reason to have the sort of movement going on I'm not sure we're going to support that in zealous actually pretty soon I think next week's sprint we have them going in I think the subtle ones yeah just a little shimmer border and but that you would need an overlay like the old school overlay for right right yeah I've still undecided so I have got that really crazy one as well this one I think that's a little bit too bright for my channel anyway but you know what else happened this week is I got I noticed we were getting our first content claims on our on some of the music that I was ah right right that sucks and how did how did that get I've been using stream beats Harris Heller put up this library of like I thought they were copyright free but then suddenly I started seeing they're not demonetization strikes so they weren't strikes that like count against us the channel but they were claims by someone that the one song that we use was apparently or somehow you know right there and I don't know if this is impacting things like I have a playlist with ah like I have two shows and even though I have some videos in this playlist they're not showing up in there now ah right right yeah I suppose it comes down to the white listing aspect of it because this was one of the things in the stream deck update was that people were downloading the stream deck music from stream deck store and then they were still getting the copyright claims on their YouTube channels and things like that from the people who had made the music but all of the music from stream deck is you know you can use it freely so they were just having to go in and actually you know basically query the claim and then it was you know removed or whatever but they were still getting them and I had this similar thing with them because I'm a subscriber to adobe stock and as part of the adobe stock subscription you get access to all of the epidemic music library so I thought well that's great that means that I don't need to have an epidemic user you know pay for a subscription because I can just use all that music but the problem was that every single video I would get a copyright claim from epidemic and then I'd have to go in and actually get the license code from adobe and put that one in and also you couldn't actually use the same one you had to re-license it for every video so it means that technically on every single video that I was going to be making I would have to go into adobe stock re-license the the music go back into my YouTube and put that in like when it got queried I thought well this is just like a total pain I'm not going to do that so I just subscribed to epidemic for like $100 a year and I thought well the amount of time that that's going to save me is you know it's pointless to to have it as a feature of adobe stock if you you know for YouTube it's fine if you're going to use it just for like you know you're making like one promo video or something like that it's great for that but yeah for just full-time content creation on YouTube it's better to just pay for the license I suppose this is where I bring up my little epidemic video again but I won't bother yeah well and I did use stream beats from their website I linked off to a drive I'm assuming that was legit and the song that we use I don't know I mean it could be a scam but I either way I don't know it seems like a lot of work for us to have to get rid of the scam now you get stream beats music from either Spotify or Apple Music I got it from stream beats.com or Harris Hellers website and so James is saying you can also get access to Epidemic Sound through Canva Pro so I'm guessing that that will be the same thing because if if you get it through Canva Pro but then you're putting in your videos Epidemic is still going to give you the copyright claim and then you will have to go through and put in some sort of licensing information unless Canva Pro actually allows you to do the white listing which is something that I can't believe that adobe stock yeah that's it yeah so yeah so at the moment in Epidemic you can basically have one channel per platform so you can put in one YouTube channel one Twitter one Facebook and everything and a podcast as well so you can basically have one channel in every platform and then it's white listed and you don't get the claims then but adobe for some reason I would have thought that adobe of all people sort of thing built in but evidently evidently not so but yeah you can dispute the claim and that's what I was having to do every time basically Rich does it take a long time or no it's like it's just an automated process really so you just sort of put the you know say I want to query it and then it'll say why do you query it and then you just say because I've got a license and here's the license that's that so just Michael hello Michael how are you doing fine I had my mic muted again I've got a mug for that I just dropped in for a second well stay a while but something that is bothering me watching your stream your lower third for join when you're watching it on YouTube part of it is covered by that little icon that goes on all of them so you might want to move you might might want to move your coffee thing over to the left got you because like the coffee one when it comes on with the little icon you can't read the whole thing I see right right that makes sense I obviously should have put a bit more thought into my planning but see you wouldn't see it when you were making it like I'm not seeing it now I've got quite a list of things to do I've got to make my vertical video overlay and then I'll get this one fixed as well thanks Michael oh go ahead I was going to say I love your new look I really do and I'm doing some playing around thinking of doing the same thing and getting rid of my overlays and I'm not sure yet right right my big question is I love that background course it's not the right color for me and I have been searching almost part of the day in Adobe stock and I can't find that one to see if they also have it in different colors I'll send you a link to it it is from Adobe stock so it's just literally the I don't know if they've got any others but I'll send you the link to it no problem these images do Photoshop filters on them yeah I'll send you a link to it but yeah let me know what color you want and I'll modify it for you no problem either a lower red like my red not so much the yellow I don't want it to stand out that much but I like the particular shot I've downloaded a whole bunch and tried them out but I like that particular one but I like it in my colors so where it's blue there I'd want it to be my red and where it's white or gold it's like a gold color well the gold might be okay otherwise I might use a little of my own yellow there was one more thing I was gonna say I see you gave a vote for the static images as well Michael I prefer static images as well yeah I tell you especially in this particular view you've got your guests on that moving background would be really for me would be distracting I mean I try to watch I try to watch your face or Greg's face when he's talking but no I vote for I vote for me the guests move dynamic I can do that I think you could animate perpetually the overlays too yeah I also found out there is in PowerPoint there is a clock and date is it built into it? it's built in and I have the link to the page to show you how to get there but of course I can't leave I don't know if you can see this but the guest chat will have you might be able to put a link in is there a guest chat? oh alright let me try a bit of context Michael was asking sent me a question asking how to get the real live time into a keynote presentation so that when you've got it as an overlay if you're using it as an overlay then it will show up there so if you're doing something a bit like Anna and Folgen are doing on building blocks where they want to have the time and the weather and stuff like that on their overlays so it's a case of how could that be done in keynote and you can't actually have a live time thing in keynote which surprised me because a lot of people use keynote and PowerPoint for like say screens at exhibitions and things like that where you want it just putting out something and I could see why some people might have a use case for a clock on there but I thought that it wasn't also available in PowerPoint but apparently just drop the link now in the main chat it is so yeah okay and on that page if you go all the way to the bottom of that page there's a little video from one of your countrymen it sounds like who tells you how to do it but using the developer mode and adding some script but I couldn't find the developer mode and I couldn't bring it up and of course it's beyond me but anyway he does, there is a way of doing it I was sure I'd seen it before but I couldn't just find it when you had asked me so that's brilliant so I wanted to know that because I did try what you said by making everything in keynote and adding just the time and date but the problem is if you can see that I don't know if you can see that I have the date and time moving in with the thing but when I click it again it, whoops I hit the wrong button, hold on I'm going to just get you full screen let's see what you're doing oops I've got too many things on here let me just make this one to be Michael there we go, I can see you now so when I do this I move in the date and the temperature and the time through the text module but when I want it to go away I want it to go down but it just disappears because inside a group you cannot they don't function properly like if I have it up here and I turn off just the I say just just the date you'll notice that it goes down like it's supposed to but but when they're grouped and you hit it it just disappears got you the other thing and I don't know if it's a if it's a problem or not the time itself when you put a clock in you cannot have it move on it just appears automatically so when you if you watch when this comes up watch real quick you'll see the time comes up first got you yeah I see there's no way of saying move it up or move it down or move it left or move it right and I don't know if it was supposed to have that and for some reason it's not there or if it's there's a thing extreme elements if anyone knows how to use that because I know you could use a widget which would basically render some HTML to do a clock also the reason that Michael wanted to do this was so that you could have like the whole of the lower third and that that came in I suppose you could make the whole lower third in something like extreme elements but it was as part of a larger presentation so where the thing was made out in Keynotes or perhaps PowerPoint now so that you're using the green screen overlay method to be able to have like a whole presentation and this was just going to come in as part of it and have it all sort of inclusive so that was the sort of idea behind it but yeah, stream elements would be a way to do that wouldn't it are you going to do you use stream elements or that other one? I've technically got it on at the moment so if anybody subscribed during this live stream then it would pop up a little thing I'd never had it on for ages but I've actually switched it on but I need to just dig it in more dig into it more and just sort of play around with it because I want to actually create custom stream, custom icons and things like that to you so obviously I want to build my own because that's just the way that I I do but yeah so I'll have to dig into that a bit more and then when I do I'll obviously make a video about it oh good because I've looked at that and I just don't understand what they're saying right my mind is quite a few years older than yours well it's not that it's the interface of stream elements specifically I think it's a bit it's not as well designed as certain other interfaces shall we say so it's a lot better oh I'll just say a quick hello and a Saudi cab to Khun Su I saw a message from you on my YouTube page earlier or Facebook page so nice to see you here I was going to say a fellow Thai I feel like I'm Thai I've only been living here for 16 years but I'm English in Thailand and Su is Thai in England so it's like we're on an exchange program great to see you here back to your message as soon as I finish this and also D7 not sure what your name is but nice to see you here D7 a nice picture we've got two aviation fans in here so Michael's a pilot and I'm not but aspiring so yeah great to see you here as well so when is your your live stream have you decided yet Michael when your next live stream is going to be because of all the problems I had this week and then trying to figure out the green screen stuff what day is good for you so that I know you'll be able to see it if no one else does well don't worry about me I'll be available any day so yeah probably probably mid week I have some doctor's appointments early in the week so probably Wednesday or Thursday yeah no problem definitely not doing it on Friday I I do not want to go up against you thank you very much well I'll definitely be there for your live stream so and have you got anybody interesting lined up for this week Greg yeah this week I have my friend Goldy Chan is going to be on the show she's the director of community a company called like tricks to make face tune and a bunch of other apps like that and yeah just like a physical real world that we're hosting also so yeah all right that'll be an awful one to it yeah exactly not used to doing those anymore yeah hey did you see the stream that doc did where he had the founder of Alter Live on that's basically did you catch that one yeah yeah that was a very interesting looking platform I was thinking about it is expensive but I suppose that it works out quite expensive when you start getting more users yeah because you pay by the because you're giving people access to it it's basically church software so you've basically got the congregation and you pay by the size of your congregation so I suppose the you can use that yeah but I was thinking in terms of like some of the features that they've got were quite novel and it's not a bit of a different approach to zealous and obviously a different use case but yeah it was I thought it was super interesting though like some of the things in there I did finally think about a yeah because obviously I still haven't got my acting to my act together in terms of using zealous but I was thinking about running another live stream every week where it was basically just like Q&A so people who've got issues with e-cam or anything like that and I thought that that would be an ideal thing to actually use zealous for because then people can just post their questions in advance oh you know you can get the questions on your homepage for zealous and they'll come in automatically into the show yeah so that's what I was thinking it would be perfect because people could ask their questions in advance and then it would be at least a queue of questions and then but also people could actually come on if they wanted if they'd got some specific issue then they could do a screen demo as well and say oh this is the issue that I've got so yeah I still haven't figured out what the best time and day to do that is so but yeah so I forgot to mention I'm doing a new show starting this week also Tuesdays same thing similar model actually I used to run a daily show on clubhouse called Get Unstuck which was like half an hour for founders and entrepreneurs so we're doing a newer version into that but for creators and creator founders so like trying to provide like business support and brainstorming like for business off the ground so some of it is software people building software for creators and some of it will be creators coming in as well right right so this one I've just noticed this I asked a question on Facebook but wondering if you had an issue with using profiles and to stream decks I created a profile on one stream deck but it sometimes opens on the other I haven't actually no I I use them I use one physical stream deck but then I've also got two that are on the mobile as well that I use on the mobile device but I've not had that but what I do want to get is another second stream that physical stream deck because what you can do with profiles is you can press a button on one to change profiles on the other one so it means that you could have a sort of effectively like a home screen on it's just woken up that means it's nearly time to go hello this is Dale hey hello Dale is mommy mustn't be a wait yet so so yeah you can have like one profile that switches or one stream that switches profiles on the other one that's what these strange people are not that you're strange strange to him so yeah that's one thing that I do want to get another stream deck for to do that because I've definitely got a use case for that but yeah we'll see just one second let me just bear with me one second I'll be right back let me just quickly go I think his mommy's just bear with me talk amongst yourselves for one second I'll be back in a moment so Michael you've been preparing to do your stream this whole time or yes you know it takes a little nerve to I actually did one into the VIP group and I'm going to do basically the same one into YouTube which is basically introducing myself trying to tell people about me and whatnot but I would be interested I've heard you talk about it a lot what is the program you wrote oh my thing is called zealous it's more yeah it's more optimized for doing like group shows or like Q&A format things like that but I mean it can work like this as well oh okay I'll go take a look at it the thing that's good about it is it manages all of the like windows and things like that so if you've got people who come on and ask questions or things like that then you bring them in and it will just automatically arrange them and there's not as much not as much to do on the user side of it I think he's okay very good yeah you give up a bit of control in sort of flexibility design and some of the things that you have now but if you do run it full screen you can actually keep all your overlays and everything from your virtual cam basically present inside of your stream as well yeah so you can still do your whole production in that but it's sort of like an add-on that could almost replace the internal load but just give more flexibility because then you can have lots more people could come on and be queued up so you could have people queued up sort of off stage as it were I suppose and then just bring people in to ask questions and then yeah so I'm really looking forward to digging into it it's just one of those things of well you also can charge you can charge I'll yeah so one of the other differences is you can actually charge for dispensing your advice if Alex were to charge to dispense advice I'd be broke I'm happy to do all that I'm doing on YouTube it's a real pleasure to like with Michael sends me videos videos back and forth but he shows me what he's doing and it just makes it all worthwhile to be honest just to see people using the information speaking of which that's very nice of you to say Sue I'm glad you like the videos as well and Alter Live looks interesting to use for events and conferences yeah so that's what that's the immediate thing that I thought is I thought it was a bit of a obviously they've got a very niche market that they're going for well I say niche it's a massive market isn't it the church but I thought that as a platform to have it for conferences and things like that it was you know really interesting and as a sort of zoom replacement some of the functionality they got there for breakout rooms and things like that and it just looked good yeah little Dale Dale named after Dale Carnegie by the way favourite author and also the place where we used to go for on holidays when I was a little lad was a place called Dale in Wales on the Welsh coast so it's got a place in my heart from that as well so yeah well it's nearly quarter to seven here so that's why my little boy's up and about so it's nearly time for me to wrap it up and normally I hear his little footsteps upstairs but he obviously managed to escape from his mother's gaze to make it down here same same feeling yeah I'm going to run as well but always a pleasure to chat gents and good seeing you have a great weekend yeah I always love the new ideas that I get every time you come on I've got some more homework to do now but you can come to our office hours this is what we'll be doing is just brainstorming for people so yeah yeah so what time is that one going to be Tuesdays I have no idea I will send you a message when I figure it out myself yeah cool cool by the way have you been back on your bike since your 100 mile bike ride no I've not gone on once I'm probably going to go for a ride tomorrow morning but I need to get back into it yeah as well cool cool see you tomorrow night Alex yeah thank you for stopping by Michael it's always a always a pleasure oh I just I've been waiting for you to finish what information you wanted to give before I clicked on and then I kept watching that thing at the bottom and I said this driving me nuts I can't read what it says yeah I love to go yeah yeah I'll have to go back and you just have to move it to the left right right the little minimize icon isn't it minimize and maximize well thank you very much it's a little icon that comes on at the bottom where if you touch it it says subscribe or you're already subscribed and somewhere on YouTube oh that one of course yeah yes I know what you're talking about now I was thinking I've just looked it up on my mobile I've got the little like expansion button but yeah of course the little yeah and they and they warn you when you put that on there to be careful what you put on your screen because it will cover it of course they do and I read that four months ago and completely forgot anyway I just thought I'd mention it because because the buy your coffee one was the one I couldn't completely read and I thought if somebody wanted to buy your coffee they can't read it well thanks for letting me know I really appreciate it and thank you for everything oh no problem and I'll see you at office hours tomorrow so I'll see you there best best to you and the family thank you you too Michael thank you very much say hello to Gage for me oh he's right here right I'm going to wrap it up and then yeah get off to see my little boy who's open about and we'll be wanting to play with his little tractors and cars and yeah thanks to everyone who came along it's great to see you all here really appreciate you stopping by and yeah if you've got any questions then leave them in the chat or message me because yeah I will be starting to sort of make some shorts hopefully to answer specific questions if you've got any particular questions I'll get those ones up and then also I'll have a little think about when's the best time to actually do a Q&A live stream as well so I'll try and figure that out maybe for probably not this next week because I'm going to be busy with my conference all week but yeah for the week after that I'll start that one up so great to see you here Rich and Paul and the oh yeah that's what it's called in the watermark yeah where the little subscribe button thank you everybody I will leave you with my usual outro screen I still have not got I will get around to making one specifically for my live stream at some point but in the meantime I'll just leave you with this one and say thank you very much for watching and have an absolutely wonderful day and I'll leave some more links to some of my other content over on the right hand side for those that are watching on the replay have a great day bye bye