 Today, we're talking about Streamdex and specifically using multiple Streamdex together, and I have to say buying more Streamdex is not always the solution, but it certainly can help out in certain situations. So this topic has come up because I have a lot of calls with coaching clients where they are using the Streamdex and then they ask me the question, I run out of buttons, what do I do? And so, yes, as I say, buying another Streamdex can be a solution. But what I'm also going to cover though today is how to be more efficient with the use of a single Streamdex. And then I'll explain how I am using multiple Streamdex together as well. I'll also be talking about the pedals too. These are something that I've really become quite attached to. I did have a couple of issues with them. So I'll talk about that a little bit later as well. But, yes, somebody in the Take One Tech Academy, Jesse, asked me how I'm using the pedals because I think some people wonder, you know, what's the best way to sort of integrate these into a workflow? So I'll be talking about that as well. So just say a quick hi to everyone in the chat. Hi, Katie. Great to see you here. Hello, Mr. Moderator, Mr. Duman himself. Great to see you too. New face in the chat. And also, Bikki, you're absolutely right. Buy more and more Streamdex, as always, is the solution. Hey, Keely. Great to see you here as well. So let's start by just talking about the different models that are available because I do have some advice where that is concerned too. So let's just come over to the Elgato website. So the first Streamdex that came out was a 15 key device. And just in case you aren't entirely sure what a Streamdex is, it's essentially a collection of buttons in this case that have little screens on them so you can update all of the icons to make them all sort of relevant. And then when you press the button, it's going to perform some sort of action on your computer. And we'll be talking about how to program this a little bit later, although this is not going to be a sort of complete beginner's guide to Streamdex. I've already created a number of those and I've left links to those in the description as well. But anyway, the first Streamdex was a 15 key. Now, it has evolved slightly since then. So we've now got the Streamdex Mark 2, which is also 15 key. And then they came out with the Elgato Streamdex XL, which essentially was the same as the Streamdex, but just with more buttons. So the regular one, or the Streamdex Mark 2 now as it is, is a 15 key, whereas the XL is 32 key. There's also a little diddy one, the Streamdex mini with just six buttons. So these were the sort of offerings for quite some time. So the choice was really quite simple. How many buttons do you want? That was the choice that you had. I would always recommend with the Streamdex, obviously there is a budgetary consideration. They are different prices. But if you think that you've got a specific use for a Streamdex, and that is what you're using to base your decision on, you know, do you want the six key, the 15 key or the 32? What I would say is what you are probably not realizing is exactly how much it can actually do. So for me, what I did was I tried the mobile app. There is a mobile version of this. So if you're completely new to Streamdex, I'd highly recommend downloading the free Elgato Streamdex mobile app. I say free. It's a free trial. And just give it a go and see how you like it, and then decide if you want to buy the Streamdex. The mobile app, I think after the free trial is up, it's like a couple of dollars a month. I still maintain my subscription to that, just because I do use that when I'm on the on the go, and sort of traveling or whatever, although I don't really travel these days. But anyway, that's besides the point. So that is a good way to sort of try it out. But the point is that whatever you think that you might be going to use this for, if you are completely new to Streamdex, you may, like me, not realize quite the the massive amount of capability that it has. And it has become really just an essential part of my productivity. And as you'll see, my current Streamdex setup is I've got basically two Excel's, the Streamdex plus, which I'll come on to, and then also the two Streamdex pedals, which I'll talk about in a moment as well. So when it comes to deciding, as I say, if the budget is is not the primary consideration, and you're just basing it on what you think the number of buttons you need are, then I would always say go with the Excel because you'll certainly won't regret it. And as I say, the majority of my coaching clients, especially those who have bought the 15 key one, quickly find themselves running out of space, and are asking me, you know, how can I how can I deal with that? I will talk about some strategies to improve the use of whatever Streamdex you've got in a moment to. But let's continue on because after these three Streamdex were released, then sometime afterwards came the Streamdex pedal. And this is essentially exactly the same as the regular Streamdex in terms of the way that you program it. But it just basically has three buttons. So there is a big button in the middle here, and then one on either side. So obviously, you operate these with your feet. And it's a really great device. I bought mine when they first came out, but one of them when it first came out. And then I recently added another one into the mix as well, because I just didn't have enough buttons under my other foot. So I'll be talking later about how I'm using that one specifically. And then around about eight months ago, I think towards the end of last year, November, sort of time, they released this one, which is the Streamdex Plus. Now this one is quite different, or a little bit different at least, because as well as having the push buttons, as you can see there, it's also got a touch screen on it down in the center here. And then it's also got four rotary dials. Now I've covered the Loopdeck a lot on my channel as well, which is a similar device. But I'm not a fan of the Loopdeck software. But one of the things that I did keep the Loopdeck around for was the dials, because it had dials for things like, you know, adjusting volume brightness, I use it for things like brush size in Photoshop, in various other different software where you need to make sort of adjustments, the dials can be really useful for that. So this is something like a bit of a departure then from the other Streamdex in that you've got this sort of rotary motion in there. So I'll be talking about that a little bit later as well. Now if you're making the decision between, you know, should I get the Streamdex Plus, which is the obviously the newer model to the entire range, or something like the, you know, the XL or the Mark II or whatever, I would say that still, for me, if I had to just choose one of them, even though, you know, the rotary action there is useful for some things, if you can't see a way that you're going to, you know, that that is an essential tool for you to have that sort of rotary dial, then I would still say that one of the regular Streamdex would be the better option as a first, first Streamdex. But as I say, I do like the Streamdex Plus, I do like the dials certainly it integrates really well with, you know, the software for Streamdex. So it's just a really familiar way of using it. And compared to the Loopdex, which now actually is sitting sort of gathering dust on a shelf, this is a much better sort of implementation of that. So if you are deciding between the Streamdex Plus and the Loopdex, if that is the decision that you're currently looking to make, hands down Streamdex every time, the Loopdex software has just got so far to go, it's so illogical, and it's got some serious flaws with it still, even after, you know, several years of development. So I would always recommend the Streamdex over the Loopdex. I always say that I find myself, you know, I could recommend the Streamdex to anybody, you know, a family member, a friend, you know, whatever level of expertise they're at. Whereas I really can't recommend the Loopdex just from a point of view of if it was certainly if it was a close friend or family member, I wouldn't want to be tech support when they're phoning up saying, this doesn't make sense. How do I fix this? Because yeah, it's just not logical at all. So definitely the Streamdex Plus is a much better alternative to the Loopdex. So those are the basic five different models that we've got the Streamdex pedal, the Streamdex Plus, and then the XL, the Mini and the Mark II, which are basically the same things, but just with more or fewer buttons. So those are the models. So then comes the question of, okay, you've got the Streamdex Mark II, maybe the 15 key or maybe the six key, whichever one it is. What do you do then when you have run out of buttons? So there's different ways that you can manage the buttons that you've got on your Streamdex. And it's all done through the Streamdex app, by the way. So let's just have a quick look at that before we go on. This is the Streamdex app. You can come into here and select whichever Streamdex it is. So you can see I've got basically pedal left and right, Streamdex Plus, XL and XL2. And then I've got the mobile ones as well, which I use from time to time. But basically, if I just come into, let's say this one, not this one, let's come into this one. So this is the one I'm using at the moment. You've basically just got a collection of actions. As I say, I'm not going to do a full overview of all of this. I've done this in several videos before. But basically, you've just got different groupings of actions. And if you want to add a particular action to the Streamdex, you can just come down here and pick out which one it is. So let's say you want to just have a hot key. So you're going to press this. It's going to activate a keyboard shortcut. You're basically just going to drag and drop it. It's as simple as that to program and then assign the keyboard shortcut in there. But what do you do then when you are completely full up? You can see here that I've basically got one space left on here for something, which I've intentionally left blank for doing this demo. So what would you do then if you are full up? Well, there's three different ways that you can basically have more functionality on your or more buttons on your Streamdex. The first one is through pages. So when you are in a particular profile, we'll talk about profiles in a minute, when you sort of first load it up, then you can see down at the bottom here, I've got multiple pages. So I can come and click onto one of these and go to various different pages within here. So I've got multiple pages of buttons here. And actually, I've got a little icon just up at the top here, which allows me, if I press that button on my Streamdex, then that will sort of page left page right and go back and forth like that. So that is one way of basically having more functionality, more buttons. The next way is folders. And if I right click in here, I can say create folder and you can see it's created a little folder icon. Now, if I press that, then it takes me through to effectively another whole sort of page or another it is a folder. I shouldn't really confuse those two terms. And I can add a whole series of more buttons on here. As you can see with folders, I don't get the option to add any more pages. I've basically just got another 32 buttons. And then well, 31 plus this little back up arrow. So this is how I'd get back out of that folder. Now you could in theory create another folder within this. So then I could click on that button. And then I'm now in my that page. So this is now my like two level levels deep in that folder come back out. I'm in that original folder now and come back out again and back into this one. Now, if you are sort of starting out with this, this may seem like the logical way to basically have multiple different use cases, perhaps, you know, where you've got a page with a folder for each of the different things that you're doing. And then that is how you organize your your different actions. That's the way that I started out. And in fact, the most popular channel, most popular video, I should say, on my YouTube channel with like 15% of my total views is one all about profiles, because I went through the process of setting up my stream that using folders, because it sort of seemed intuitive to me, you know, with a file structure, much like I might have on a, you know, in the finder in the Mac, that is the way that my my mind was working. But profiles basically are separate and almost like separate instances, I guess, of the home screen. So you can see up here, I've got my take one tech record. But then if I go to one of the other ones down here, I've got different use cases. So I've got this one for OmniFocus, for example, you can see how I've got a different set of buttons in here. And now we've got this is just one page. But the so the difference between profiles and folders is that you can have obviously just multiple pages within each profile. But the other thing about profiles is you can actually link to a profile from any other profile. There is an action in the software here. In fact, if I just show you here, I've got an empty space. There is an action from Stream Deck in the navigation section. Oh, and incidentally, if you haven't updated your Stream Deck in a while, or if you haven't sort of played around with it for a while, it used to be that all of the Stream Deck actions were under one single heading, which was Stream Deck. And then it had all the things related to navigation, multi actions and so on, all in that that one section. At a recent update, a couple of couple of updates ago, they basically split those out into Stream Deck navigation, which is still Stream Deck navigation and multi action, which is still, as I say, multi actions related to Stream Deck. So if it is that you're coming back to Stream Deck for, you know, in a while or haven't updated your buttons and then suddenly it seems like things have gone missing. They haven't gone missing. They've just reorganized them slightly and split them out into here. But I digress. Anyway, what you can do is you can use this switch profile action. I'm just going to drag and drop it on here. And then basically you can just select whichever profile you want that button to switch to. And so by pressing that button, you can then switch to a different profile. So what I use is I've got a sort of system of a home screen. So you can see that that switch profile button is essentially what I've got up here. And that switches to a profile that I've called home. So when I press on this button, it's going to take me. So I've just pressed it on the stream deck. So this was kind of like my home screen. I do it slightly different now that I've got multiple stream decks. But here you can see I've just basically got links to all of the different profiles that I want to link to. Here is that OmniFocus profiles. If I press that button on my stream deck, it takes me to OmniFocus. I press the home button at the top there. It takes me back. And if I press my zoom one here, it will take me to this zoom profile and press the home button in the top corner. It will take me back. So I've basically got that home button in the top corner of every other profile. So that is kind of how I'm navigating. So one of the benefits you might think, well, why use this over folders? Well, first of all, as I've mentioned, folders don't have pages. But the other thing about this is that it means that you can actually link to a fault, a specific profile from anywhere, because the way that I found that I was using folders was I would basically copy the entire folder. Like if I'd got a little collection of actions that I wanted to use in this app or when I was in a different use case, I would copy the folder over. But then if I made a change in one folder, it wouldn't duplicate it in the copied folder, if that makes sense. So for me, I almost never use folders anymore. I just do it all with profiles and pages. So then when it comes to profiles and pages, when would you use, you know, one versus the other? I always just think of my profile is basically my specific use case that I've got. So right now I'm obviously doing a take one, take live stream. This is the profile that I have for that. And then I've got multiple pages that are for all of the other actions that I might need during a live stream or when I'm recording. So I would have a profile for a given use case. And then the pages are just for kind of spilling over when I need more space for the buttons. So I'm not kind of flicking in and out. So then this is why the the second Streamdeck Excel got added is because sometimes, you know, I've got I do literally run out of buttons on here. So I want to have all of these ones available. But I also want to have other things that I can do on my live stream. So I have now on my second Streamdeck Excel, just basically more buttons, more of the same. So if I go to my Excel to these are other buttons that I want to have available to me whilst I am I am live streaming. So just switch back to this. So as I said earlier, it's, you know, buying more Streamdecks is not always the answer. However, it can be really handy if you don't want to have to be sort of flicking back and forth between different screens. There is a certain muscle memory that comes with Streamdeck as well. So you'll get to know kind of where things are on your Streamdeck. So I found that, you know, during a recording or a live stream or a meeting or whatever it is because I use it a lot with Zoom as well. When you've got multiple pages, you don't always have that muscle memory of knowing like exactly which button to press because you have to think to yourself, am I on this page? Am I on that page? And so you do then have to I feel I have to sort of glance down to check, you know, am I pressing the right button or have I switched to a different page. So having the core buttons that I want to have available to me, having those over two Streamdecks instead. So you can see I've basically got one on one side and one on the other. Then it means that I kind of still know which, you know, where I need to press and it still has that sort of muscle memory aspect to it. So that was something that was that I found, you know, a justification for getting the second Streamdeck Excel. Now I mentioned there about the home profiles, which I think is a great way if you are on a single Streamdeck to sort of organize things. The thing that I found really useful about the Streamdeck Plus is what I've done is because it only has a few buttons on it in any case, maybe it's worth just taking a quick look at this one. So the way the Streamdeck Plus works is you've got eight buttons here. By the way, they're actually slightly larger than the regular Streamdeck. So you can see sort of the relative size, the buttons are, you know, a bit bigger and they're a bit more spaced out. So there's only really eight buttons on here. Now, if you are going to have pages of buttons on here, obviously, if it was done the same way as on the original Streamdeck, where you have to have a button for the sort of page left, page right, then you'd be left with even fewer buttons. But fortunately, what they've implemented on here is you've also got a touch screen. And if I swipe on the touch screen, that's how you swipe from one page to another. So that's a nice little feature that you don't sort of lose any of the buttons for having the page left and page right. But the way that I use this is I actually use this to switch my profiles on my other Streamdecks. So what you'll notice is if I show you this Streamdeck and then I press this button here, then it's actually going to change the profile on my other Streamdeck. And if I press this one, it's going to go back to my other profile. So you can see how basically I can control what's on the screen of one from the other. So what that means is that then for the profiles that I use, I've basically now got using the Streamdeck plus as my home screen, if you like, where I can choose what I want to show on my other Streamdecks. And then it is updating those. So just to show you how that's done, I've already shown you how you can switch profile with this switch profile action. And here you can choose the profile. But notice here also you can also select the device. So whether you want the current device or you can pick any one of your other Streamdecks. And then you can select the profile from that Streamdeck. So that means that pressing a button on one device can change the profile on another. What you can also do though is use multi actions. So multi actions to basically update your multiple Streamdecks. So if you right click here and go to create multi action, then you can drag on the same thing that we've just looked at, which is navigation switch profile. Let's do another one of those. So I could basically come in here and say I want to change my my profile on my Streamdeck Excel. Where is it just there? And then change that to one of these other ones. And then on this one, I could maybe change my pedals. And change it to one of them there. So just choosing things at random there. But you get the idea that basically what I can do is I can have a one press button on my on my Streamdeck Plus. In this case, I'm doing it on my Excel, but just the principle is the same and it will then change those profiles on all of those other devices. So that's why I find that using the Streamdeck Excel as a sort of sorry, the Streamdeck Plus as the sort of home device that I control everything from is working really well. And so again, if you are thinking about, you know, do I get a Streamdeck Plus versus an Excel? If it's your first Streamdeck and if you don't really have like a real need for the dials, then definitely the Streamdeck Excel is going to be is going to be my recommendation. However, if you do like the idea of the dials and you can see the use case for those, then this makes a really great companion app for the Excel, because as I say, you can do all of that sort of switching of profiles on there. So that's how I'm using the Streamdeck Plus. I'll just talk a little bit about the other functionality of the Streamdeck Plus, though, because the let me come to this one in here, switch my scene. If I come to my Streamdeck Plus in here, this is the way that it looks. And basically, it's exactly the same process for programming this. So you're basically just going to drag and drop your actions. But notice at the top with the Streamdeck Plus, as well as it's got the keys here, but it's also got dials. So this is how you program the dials. At the moment, there is not as much integration with plugins for the dials versus the buttons. There is just such a huge number of buttons for Streamdeck Plus. But the dials, obviously, it's a much newer device. So developers are slowly starting to build out their profiles. Of course, Ecamp straight out of the gate had their actions ready for the dials here. So Ecamp Live is the software that I'm using to live stream this right now. It's live production software. It's what I used to make all my videos, all of my course content. It's also what I use in Zoom as well. So having the Ecamp Live virtual camera going into Zoom is just a game changer. It basically means, you know, exactly what you're seeing now on the live stream. This is what I can be feeding into Zoom. So it's just great for leveling up your overall appearance and so on in Zoom in terms of, I can't do anything about this, but my presentation appearance, I should say, is what can be really sort of leveled up with Ecamp going into Zoom. I've got a load, of course, is all about that sort of stuff in the Take One, Take Academy. But I digress. In here, you can see that you've got some different options, so input level. And if I just flick, so I'm going to swipe on my Stream Deck Plus and it's going to swipe to a new page. I've got one here with just some blank spaces so I can drag on things like input level so I can select the microphone. So this would allow me to turn my mic up and down. So if I dial this down, then you should be hearing me getting quieter. Back up. There we go. I turned it down too far. So then you've got other things in here, such as scenes and so on, so being able to select scenes in Ecamp, overlays and so on. The other thing that you can do with these dials, though, because obviously you can see that there are only four of them, although when you switch pages, you'll notice that the function associated with that dial changes. So just in the same way that you've got pages of buttons, you've also got pages of dials. So that can be really useful if you want to switch between different things. You can see what I've got here basically. I use this one for zooming in and out when I do screen demos. So when I share my entire screen and zoom, do a big zoom in and out to a particular portion of the screen, I've got my mic level for Ecamp in here and then also guest level. So an interview mode in Ecamp. I've got a different one for that. And this is just my general system volume. And then I've got some things in here for things like brush size, opacity in Photoshop and in Premiere Pro as well, which I don't use too much, but I do use this little zoom function in there. So those are the sort of functions that I've got associated with those dials. So as I say, you can have multiple pages of dials, but actually a really useful feature of this is that you can create what's called a dial stack. And if I drop that in there, then basically here what I can do is I can add in multiple different actions for that specific dial. And then when you press the dial in because it does have some like travel on it, then it will switch through those different functions. So let me show you an example of one of those which I have got. I mentioned about having the input level for my microphone on here. Well, if I actually just press that button in, you'll see that it actually changes to here. It's now saying movie level. So now this is the Ecamp Live movie level. And if I press the button again, it's gonna change to the system audio coming through Ecamp. If I press the button again, it's gonna go to the sound effects in Ecamp, press the button again back to mic level. Same with the guest. You can have up to 10 guests in as interview guests in Ecamp Live. So here we've got guest one, guest two, guest three. And so I'm just pressing basically the button on the stream deck plus and it is cycling through those different guests. So that's quite a nice way of organizing those different levels. I should say as well that you can modify the look of this screen. What you'll see here is down on the button itself, you're gonna have a generic button here or a generic icon. And that's really pretty irrelevant because the button itself or the dial itself, I should say, is just a dial. It doesn't have any, it doesn't have any, whoops, Daisy. Sorry, I just zoomed my screen then. It doesn't have any screen on the dial. So you don't see anything on the, obviously the physical dial, but you do see it on the screen above. So the screen above is telling you what this dial is for as you've just seen. So you don't need to worry about what these look like, but I found that with these buttons here on the touch screen, what you can do is you can add a background to the entire screen. So here we've got this screen background there. You can right click on that and you can open this background library. So you can choose a particular background that you want from there. And you can see how it's updating it on the screen. Some of these are nice. You can update it and just add your own background in as well. So there's some sort of generic ones here. The thing about this though is as well, as soon as you basically add a background in, that one's not too bad. You can see that you can clearly see what those actions are. Whereas if you were using something like one of these, then you kind of lose sight of the information. So I want to be able to see the information rather than a pretty picture. So you can add any sort of background in. You can upload your own from a file. But what I found is it was not easy to just immediately see and that's what the most important thing for me is being able to see that. You can change the background on these though. So if I click into this action in exactly the same way as you can upload an icon to a button, you can change the background. Now, as I say, bear in mind that the information is something that you want to see on here. They do have a library of backgrounds and you can upload one from file. But I wanted something that basically was going to highlight the information. So you can see here I've got this sort of button style, which is basically it's got a space for the title of it. And then it's also got a space for whatever icon it is related to that. So if I come back to this one, you can see that here this is one for my screen demo. This is my mic volume. And you can see how basically using this background really makes that pop out. So what I've done is I've created a whole series of different colored backgrounds. So here they are, this sort of range of buttons here. And basically what you do is if I come back over to my Stream Deck Plus, and then I'll just show you how to do this. If you upload a file, so if I click on this button, for example, and then I click in here, you can upload from file, but actually I found that that one is, it brings it in a weird size. So what you want to do is create new background, and then it says drag and drop image. So let's just drop something a little bit more colorful. Let's say we're feeling in a pink mood today. I'll just drag and drop that one that I created on there, and then click on apply. And now you can see that the text sort of pops out a lot more on that one. And you can just update that as well. If I go to create new background, let's take one that is maybe a little bit different. So maybe which one this one. So I've, as I say, I've created these in all multiple different colors. So it means that either you can sort of fit these in with whatever style that you've got, whatever your color preferences, or you can sort of color code them as well. Now these aren't, you know, there's no huge amount of design got into these. So I'm making these available for free on my website. You can find those down on the store on my website. I've just dropped a link into the direct page for these as well. So on my website, if I just come over to that for a second, take one tech.io slash store. I have got a whole series of icon packs for Stream Deck, which are kind of like the square icons. So some of these are just the icon files. Some of them are the complete profile. Some of them work with keyboard maestro, which I'll talk about briefly later as well. And yet you can go and have a look at those on the store. But this latest one that I've added, this Stream Deck Plus, it's just free. So you can go and download that. And it's basically got these 60 icons. So it's essentially just got all of these 60 different button backgrounds, which I think just help make, you know, you can personalize them. I'm quite boring. I've just gone with the dark blue and gray, but I know people like to be colorful on their Stream Decks as well. So you can go and grab those, there's 60 of them. As you can see, very different color combinations there as well. And yeah, it's just gonna help. If you have got a Stream Deck Plus, it's gonna help that to stand out. So all you need to do is check out the link in the description or in the chat. That'll take you to this page. It's the checkout. All you need to do is just enter your name and email and then click the button and then it will send it through by email. And what you're gonna get in there is you're going to get the icons themselves, also, you know, the little images for the background, just like this. But I've also included in there as well, the actual keynote file. So that means that you can go and by the way, I made these in keynote. That means that then you can open up the keynote file. You'll see that all you need to do is just change the color. So there's basically two areas of it. There is the sort of gray bit at the top. In this case, it's gray, which is where the little title of the button is gonna be. And then you've got this main bit, which is the main body of the button. In keynote, you can drag and drop images and things like that. So if you wanna really customize them with your own images, then that's something that you may want to do. You may find that a particular action that you're using in Stream Deck Plus doesn't have an icon associated with it. And so I'll give you an example of one of those on my Stream Deck Plus, which is this one over here. I want you to have a little icon to denote what this thing was doing. And although it had this little plus and minus, I wanted to just show something more. So I actually went and made some custom versions of these buttons that have got my own little additions into them as well. So therefore, this button, there's actually nothing in there, except these two icons, which I added into the button myself. So that's another reason why I included the keynote file. If you wanna add your own little customizations to those buttons, it's easy to just drag and drop icons and things like that into a keynote so that you can really, really customize those. So as I say, it's a free download. You can find the link in the description. And yeah, it's just gonna help the Stream Deck sort of the information on the Stream Deck Plus specifically stand out a little bit more. So I thought I'd talk then a little bit more about the pedals as well, because as I say, this is something that Jesse asked in the weekly Q&A in the Take One Tech Academy. Perhaps I should just mention that since I have just mentioned it. The Take One Tech Academy is basically an online resource to help you elevate your online presence. As I said, I'll just read it up here, shall I? Master the tech and create engaging content that captures your audience's attention. So it's basically access to all of my different courses. So my beginner's guides, master classes, and then also monthly workshops. So the next one of those, by the way, is coming up on May the 9th. That's all about technical setup for virtual presentations. I've got another one the following month talking about AI. So you get access to all of these as part of the Academy. Then the accelerator courses, which are sort of cohort-based courses. And then there's also one-to-one coaching and weekly Q&As as well. So you can find out all about that at the Take One Tech Academy, takeonetech.io slash academy. And yeah, there's various different pricing tiers there available with different levels of sort of interaction and access to different parts of all of the content there. But anyway, as I say, this sort of live stream really was partly spurred on by the weekly Q&A that we had last week where Jesse was asking about my streamlet pedals and how I use those. So as I say, I do have two of those currently. And I find that they're really useful because if you've not been, you know, you're not used to using pedals, as most people aren't, to interact with their computer, it might seem like a little bit of a weird thing to do. But actually it can be really useful, especially certainly in like right now, I'm using it to switch scenes. I'm using it to do things like highlight my mouse. So if I don't want to be sort of glancing down to where things are on my stream deck, he says just glancing down at his stream deck. But if I was to come back over to that page that we were just on, I can switch to that scene with my stream deck. I can switch back to my main scene. I can switch to my other scene. So I'm doing all of this just with three pedals on the one stream deck. And then if I want to sort of highlight something on the screen, then I can do that. So I'm just pressing a pedal. And I find that having these kind of things as a stream deck pedal button just make total sense to me because it means that, you know, if I'm interacting with somebody on a Zoom call, if I'm doing a live stream just like I am right now, then yeah, having that just at the touch of a foot pedal actually is a lot more intuitive after you sort of get into it than reaching over to, you know, whatever it is, a button or anything like that. So yeah, that is how I'm using it for live streaming. I also use it on Zoom calls. And perhaps I can show you as well the way I've got this because you may think, well, what do you do with a stream deck pedal? It's only three buttons, so it doesn't mean it's really limited. Well, not so actually because the stream deck pedals also have profiles. So if I change over to my stream deck pedal here, and I'll just show you what this looks like. This is how to program the stream deck pedal on the stream deck app. Now you'll notice I've got icons on here. That's really useless. Obviously the stream deck itself doesn't have icons on the device itself. It's just you just knowing where they are. This is just because I've literally copied the things over from one of my other stream decks over to here. And so they do have icons and it just shows me where they are. So what we're looking at here is my left pedal. And you can see what I've got associated with this for my live stream right now is this one is, if I press that with my foot, that is my Zoom, my little magnifying glass. That, by the way, is an app called ProMouse. I often get asked about that. But that is what I'm doing to do that with my little magnifying glass. I've also got the middle pedal there on my left foot is my top down camera. So I can press that. It will switch to my top down camera. Let's switch back though. And if I go to my right stream deck pedal, then right now I've basically got the scene that I'm on, which is the, this is because if this looks a little bit weird, my screen is basically a 43 inch monitor. And so what I do is I share different areas of my screen. So I'm now basically sharing the sort of top left. Then this is the top center, which just happens to be where, if I click that one, that is where I've got my safari open. So that's how I kind of share screens with Econ Live. And then I've got this one, which is if I press that button, the middle button, then that is just this shot. So that's showing you basically how I'm using these two pedals specifically for live streaming right now. I'm using it to control all of my different shots. I find it's a lot, it gives a lot better flow for me personally than sort of constantly looking down or flicking between things. I can just do it with my foot without sort of thinking about it too much. When it comes to switching though, as I say, this is just a pedal profile. Sorry, I should say. So here I've got my live stream profile. I've got all sorts of different profiles here for, you know, when I'm working in Kajabi, Amazon, Zoom, all this kind of stuff. So what I do to switch profiles though, you already know then, since I mentioned it earlier, that you can switch profiles from one stream deck. You can switch the profiles on one stream deck with another stream deck. So what I've done, if I come back to my stream deck plus, I've got this little button here, which is my little profile switch button. Now, when I press this button, what it actually does is it doesn't do anything on this stream deck, but on my other stream deck XL on my right hand side, it opens up my pedals. So if I go to this one, and let me just go to my top-down shot for a second. Basically, we're pressing the button here as now opened up this one. And this is where I'm selecting my pedals actions. So if I come back to this for a second, so I'll come to this scene. Here, I've basically got a whole series of different profiles set up. So here is my profile for Kajabi. This is my live streaming one, Amazon, Zoom, and so on. And so when I click into these, like my Zoom one, for example, I've actually got a couple for Zoom. But if I go into my Zoom profile, what I can do now is I can also show you, you've got these little indicators which show you what are on the pedals. So if you're wondering, well, how do you know what is on the pedal, then you can have this little indicator open, which is called the action bar. And this will show you what is actually active on your pedals. So this is then the reason as well why you can use the icon because the icon that you have will show up in here. So this is typically what I use for a Zoom call. And basically what I'm doing is I've got some, this side is controlling ECAM. So this is just for a generic Zoom call where I want to be able to show myself and then usually my over the shoulder shock because I'm usually demonstrating something and then also some specific area of my screen. So this is similar to the ones that I use for live streaming. But then actually what I'm using here on Zoom is just I'm using the gallery left and right. By the way, with Zoom, there is a great Zoom plugin for Stream Deck. Although the kind of built-in functionality, let me just show you this quickly, is quite limited, sorry for jumping about, I just realized I am jumping about a little bit here. But since we are talking about it, where is the Zoom plugin? The Zoom plugin has basically got some basic features, but it also does have this custom shortcut control. And what that means is that anything that has got a short keyboard shortcut in Zoom, you can add to Stream Deck and it will be able to control it in the background. So you don't need to have Zoom as the active application. But one of those is for left and right of the gallery view. So usually I've got my gallery view on like 49 people. You can choose between 25 and 49, but then I want to be able to page left and right to see people when I'm presenting. So that's why I have those on the things there. And then this one is basically just the push to talk. So if I unmuted, then I use the push to talk on Zoom to temporarily unmute while I say something. So that's why I have that one on the pedal as well. That just makes sense. I don't have to scramble around to look to unmute myself and then mute myself again. Then we've got other use cases of the pedal. And so as I say, by the way, if I switch back to my live streaming one, which happens to be this one, you'll see that the pedals there updated. So with that, I was pressing a button on one stream deck. It was switching to my other profile. And these are multi-actions. So I'm basically using this to switch profile on my left pedal and my right pedal. So these things here are basically updating the two stream decks together. So that's what I'm doing with that. I also do have the stream deck pedals switching with the main stream decks as well. So if I go to my main sort of live streaming one, if I come back to this for a second, if I go to my stream deck plus, like if I go into this one, which is for my take one tech live streaming and recording, it does actually update all of them. So it doesn't just change one profile, it'll change profile on the two stream decks and also on the pedals as well. Incidentally, that action I mentioned about the action bar, which is the one that I use for this, I do have a button to show and hide these. So I've got a button on my stream deck, where is it here, on my stream deck Excel. So this one here with a little question mark on my pedal, if I press that, you can see how it toggles on and off those little things. And although I've got them over the stream deck window at the moment, those are just completely free floating and they float over any other app as well. So I can just toggle those on and off with the touch of a button. Now I think that there is a slight little bug in stream deck because it always used to be that this action bar used to appear in the stream deck section here. As long as you've got a pedal plugged in, it would appear in here, the action bar to be able to show and hide those stream deck pedals. However, now it doesn't show up, even if you've got the pedal plugged in, it doesn't show up if you are on a stream deck Excel, the mini, the regular stream deck, whichever one it is. However, if I switch over to one of my pedals now, can you see there, we've now got that action bar item. And that is the action bar item is the one that you want to show these little previews. But it seems a bit weird that you would have that associated with a pedal, a pedal action, if you see what I mean only because it's a bit pointless to have this as an action to sort of show and hide what the actions are, if that's making sense. So what I would recommend is, if you want to have these things as a button, as I've got it so that I can toggle it on and off with the touch of a stream, a button on one of my other stream decks, what you'll need to do is just drag and drop this action onto one of your pedal buttons temporarily, right click to copy, and then switch to one of your other stream decks, maybe not the pedal, but the stream deck Excel, and then paste it into there. And that's basically where I've got this from. So I don't know why that they don't include that in the stream deck actions if you are on one of the other stream decks as well. I digress slightly once again, as I often do. But just coming over to stream deck pedals again, or rather let's look at the different profiles that I've got for stream deck. Again, Jesse asked this question in the Q&A about what are the use cases for these? So I've shown you my Zoom one and for what I'm doing now for the live streaming. I've got a similar one for Amazon. So when I stream to Amazon, then I've got slightly different, well, I'm in a different profile in Ecom Live for a start. So I'm switching to different scenes and things like that. Then Premiere Pro, I don't do, I mean, for the channel, I don't do any editing. For my podcast, I basically have to trim off the beginning and the end and chop out some bits in the middle and drop in a little ad. So when I do my live streamer backstage podcast, I do minimal editing in Premiere Pro. But nevertheless, I do find having the pedals to be basically the cut and then sort of deleting the content that I've cut out. It means that I can basically just be sitting there in the sort of timeline in Premiere Pro and then do all of that with a series of basically foot presses. So slice, slice, delete, slam it all together, that kind of thing. So that is the extent. Can you tell I'm not an editor? I think that's not a technical term, is it? Slice, slice, slam it together. Anyway, that is the extent that I use Premiere Pro. So, but then for Photoshop as well, things like switching between different tools. There's certain tools that I use all the time in Photoshop and I'm constantly switching between them. Again, I do have them as programmed buttons on my stream deck as well. However, I just find, if I've got one hand on the keyboard, maybe typing in numbers or things like that, one hand on the mouse, then being able to do things with the foot pedals makes total sense. I've got a few others here that are related to basically different e-cam profiles. So I'm doing kind of more of the same. Just seeing Rich's comment. I'll come back to the comments, by the way, because I realize I've just skipped overload of them, but yes, I certainly am that Rich when it comes to my editing. Not a fan at all. Anyway, and then, yeah, so a lot of these use cases are more of the same, just different e-cam profiles and so on. I also use them in Excel. So I do lots of things in Excel where I'm doing the same kinds of things over and over again. And again, I'm often one hand on the mouse, one on the number pad, entering data or whatever I'm doing. And so yeah, just being able to do things with your feet. It's surprising how quickly you adapt to this kind of thing. And it is a bit of a weird thing to begin with, but then once you get sort of used to it, you then think, maybe I need a second StreamDec pedal, which is exactly what happened to me. I do need to just mention, by the way, about the StreamDec pedal. This isn't necessarily a known issue. However, it is something that happened with me. I got a StreamDec pedal. I used it for 11 months or something like that. I can't remember exactly when they came out now, or even more than that. Without any issue whatsoever. I then bought a second one and I plugged it in. And, oh no, in fact, it wasn't that. It was that I was moving the original one out and I'd got the second one on order. And in moving the first one into a different port on my dock, actually the StreamDec pedal just completely died. And yeah, it wasn't working at all. It was there was no light coming on on the back of it. It was literally just not there as far as the computer was concerned. I had got this other one on order and that one came. And I might be getting the order of this all wrong. But anyway, basically that one died too. And I can only assume, I asked Elgato and they said, this isn't necessarily a known issue. However, in the Discord server, by the way, if you're not a member of the Take One Tech community over on Discord, then definitely check that out. TakeOneTech.io slash family. You can find a link to that in the description. But there we talk about all of the sort of stuff that I talk about on my channel as well. Another little digression. Highly recommend it's free to join that. And most of the information in there is free. There is a sort of a section for the Academy members that is separate within that. But generally everything in there is sort of free to come and join the conversation. And so I asked in there though, I digress again, what if anyone else had had this issue with the StreamDec pedals? And a couple of people said, yeah, they had had repeated issues of the StreamDec pedal having this issue where it just suddenly stopped working on them. My assumption is because I used mine for, as I say, 11 months, no problem whatsoever. And then it literally died when I plugged it out and plugged it into a different socket on my powered dock, which is a CalDigit element hub, in fact. I wonder if there is perhaps something sensitive in them that maybe they got, I didn't even think this was possible necessarily with USB, it's such low power that it could have a power surge. But I wondered if that was maybe something because as I say, it was just when I was moving the things around. Anyway, I'll go to replace them. There was no issue with that. So I sent them back and they sent me two new ones. But from now on, just to be on the safe side, if ever I am gonna move them around in terms of which port they're plugged into, I'm always gonna make sure I'm powered down before I do it rather than kind of hot-swapping it if I want to do a better word, just in case that was an issue. What else am I using it for? So I use it in Descript as well. My pedals, this is I'm still talking about. My pedals, I use it in Descript. Chat GPT as well. I've got some certain things that I use with little snippets in there that I just wanna have to be able to just operate with my feet stuff that I use all the time. And yeah, basically, I'm totally into controlling things with my feet now. And I do find that it adds some extra level of benefit rather than just having it on a stream deck button. It also obviously frees up some stream deck buttons. So there is that thing as well. But certainly for camera switching, like if I just press my middle foot now, it goes back to this one. It just feels totally natural for me now to be doing all of this stuff with my foot. So that's kind of how I'm using my two stream deck excels, two pedals, and the stream deck plus. Would I add any more into the mix? You bet. And I would because I'm starting to look at more and more things now where I would be using companion. And I haven't covered companion on my channel because it's not something I've had a need to use to be honest, up until now. But companion is basically a third-party software service that you can use to, let me rephrase that, that a stream deck can be used to control. And in fact, it actually kind of replaces the stream deck application itself. And you just are using the stream deck as an input device. What's great about companion is, it can do some really more advanced things in terms of macros and stuff like that, but it can actually update the displays on the fly of the buttons themselves. So if you're using something like Zoom ISO or various other video production things where you want to actually have what is displayed on stream deck be sort of manually updating in line with what you're doing, then it's great for that. So what I would like to do is basically have that on a separate device so that I've still got all of the stuff that I'm currently using, but just have one device that is dedicated to that. So I'm likely going to be adding another one into the mix at some point as we go forward, or maybe a couple. But let me just come to the chat for a second because I do feel like I've been neglecting everybody in here a little bit, just rattling on. Great to see so many familiar faces. Hey, great to see you. Michael too. Hope everything's all well with you. Great to see you from Miniapolis. Miniapolis. I hope you're notapolis. That would be a tragedy. You've replaced your stream deck pedals twice now. Ah, so, right. Okay, so was that the same issue of them just basically dying? Because yeah, I know Mr. Moderator, who else was it that I was speaking to? Oh, Rabbi David, David Paskin. His had died as well. That is the only thing that I could see from me, that it was when I hot plugged them basically, unplugged from one thing and plugged into another. And I just wonder if it was that, because as I say, it was working flawlessly for that. So yeah. Hey, Jesse, great to see you as well. If you got any specific questions, by the way, then let me know about the pedals. So stream decks, yeah, chat GPT. Yeah, that's one I'm using a lot. The chat GPT button on my stream deck is getting used an awful lot. I think that it can't be long before they do that because they've already started, obviously, let's look at the evolution of the stream deck, shall we? Just again, because it's sort of on topic. The original stream deck, which is no longer listed on their site, used to be able to buy it as well, but it's no longer there. But the original stream deck, it was a slightly different design. It had a little sort of flimsy, plastic, separate kickstand at the back and slightly different. The cable was hardwired. You can unplug it. Then they came out with the stream deck XL and the stream deck mini, which were a slightly different form factor. They were still kind of looked the same from the front, but the stream deck XL, as you can see here, it's got this removable stand on the back. And it's just a slightly different look to it and certainly feels a lot more sturdy than the original stream deck. So then they came out with the Mark II, which was basically kind of an evolution of that because it still did have that stand, but it had these replaceable face plates as well. So you can see here, they've got these little sort of face plates that you can change on them. So you can really have it like completely customizable. So I'm wondering if at some point there will be a stream deck XL Mark II, which will bring it more in line with this one, yet you can change the color. Certainly I know there's lots of people who like to change the color, not least Keely also is in the chat, who has a white one, I think. But yeah, having the stream deck XL be able to change the color of that would be great. They have started doing the stream deck plus. I wonder if it's shown on here. There you go. They have to start doing the stream deck plus in multiple colors. So there you can get it in black or white and you can change the color of the dials on the front there. So yeah, certainly it would seem logical that at some point they're going to do the same with the 32 key, just to bring it all in line with that sort of range. So yes, that's my thoughts on that. We'll have to wait and see. So let's keep going down here. Hello, Eric, great to see you here. And you've got four as well. Welcome to the club. It is a bit of an addiction, isn't it? Any tips for propping it up at a steeper angle? Find the angle too slanted to see the buttons clearly. There are some third-party stands you can get on Etsy, although I don't necessarily think that they're steeper thinking about it. I know the ones that they've got on Etsy are, I can't talk in type. Etsy stream deck stands. They're more about joining multiple ones together. So I'll just show you this one. This was great if you've got two stream decks. And let's find it on Etsy. I'll just drop this into the chat. I think India's got one of these. India Degardo, she was the one that got me onto this. But if I come to my stream deck and press this one. So this is a way that you can sort of join two together. So in theory, the top one is a little bit more slanted and I think it's got the magnets in it so it does hold them well. That, by the way, is not dollars. It's not $1,700, that's in Thai Bart. So it'll be about $50, something like that. And they may well have different versions of this. Here's one for three of them. This one's for, I'll look at the regular one and two stream deck excels. Let's have a look at this one. What's this? I thought for a minute there, that was a bank of like 20 of them, but it's not, it's something different. But again, that is just a housing that holds multiple different things. So anyway, yeah, that might be a place to look though. Katie is take a look on Etsy. Certainly that is a steeper angle. That's interesting. A one that sort of hangs underneath the desk. A few other options there. Is that a bit steeper maybe? But yeah, Etsy anyway, in short, would be my best bet. I could just totally go down a rabbit hole to stop myself there. I love looking at stuff like this. Let's have a look at what else we've got in here. Here we go. Lots of people saying that they may get more. As I say, it is an addiction and there's a bit of a thing about, we talk about the gas gear acquisition syndrome and whatever problem you've got. Usually there is another bit of tech you can buy to solve it. Oh, Bicky's got a great setup. I love his setup and he's building a new studio at the moment as well. But yeah, having one for navigation of the others is great. And as I say, that's what I'm basically doing in my Stream Deck Plus effectively. I'm using the dials, but then the buttons I'm using for navigation. Can the Stream Deck be used with Linux? Do you know what? I'm not actually sure about that. Let's have a look. I know there's a Mac and PC. Certainly, I think you would be able to do that with companion because companion's kind of more browser-based, I think. Maybe I'm wrong about that. So there is a, I don't think it's a native download, but I can drop a link in the chat for how to set up with Linux. This is just, let me Google that for you. So I don't know whether how good this is, but this is how to set up Stream Deck on Linux or Ubuntu specifically. So yeah, I'm not sure. Not sure. Your mileage may vary on that. How did you get around programming your Stream Deck dials with mouse gestures using keyboard maestro? Yeah, so that's basically what I'm doing with the Stream Deck dials on the Stream Deck Plus. I mentioned that you can assign different things to them. So let me show you, and there was limited interaction. So this one here, which is for my screen demos. Let me just move these pedal things out of the way. This is where I share my full screen and then I want the dial to be able to zoom in and out. So it's really specific to my use case this is. But in that, there is a keyboard shortcut which is just in the settings itself, which is command, option command minus and option command equals. So that basically means that as I rotate the dial for this particular dial, it's going to sort of step the screen in. And in fact, if I just sort of show you what that looks like, am I going to be sharing the right thing here? Let me see. Maybe sharing the wrong screen. I'll give it a go. No, it's not working for me today. That's weird. Hang on a minute. Let me do that. That's weird and you can never mind. I'll move on and just assume it worked. Yeah, but basically the dial you can assign. Oh, there we go. It is working now. So you can see how you're seeing my entire desktop. You can see the different areas of my screen as well. By the way, I mentioned before that I kind of share either the top portion of my screen, the top middle, top right and so on. But this one here, if I turn the dial, it's basically stepping in and out. So this is how I'm kind of zooming in and out like that. So I'll just end that demo there. So that's a simple one. I've basically just assigned a keyboard shortcut to that. So if I come over to here, this is just in the system and it's hotkey. And by the way, there is a button press as well. So when you press the button, it's going to do something. So in that case of the one that I was just showing you, I've basically got a, let me get the comment off the screen. Sorry, Jesse, just so that we can see what I'm talking about here as well. The button as well, you can press it. Let me just get rid of that. So you can press the dial in as well. So some of these buttons I've got, you can see here, you've got rotate counterclockwise, what's the action, rotate clockwise and then press the tap. But some things are gestures. So some things in certain applications are gestures. Now in keyboard maestro, you can simulate those things. So I won't go down the whole keyboard maestro rabbit hole too much, but I will just show you because keyboard maestro, and I've linked to another video, I think, in the description or if not, I'll go back and do it, which is all about productivity and keyboard maestro and stream that work really well. Keyboard maestro is a Mac app. I should just qualify that. But this is basically what it looks like. So if I come in here and create a new action, I create a new macro and the trigger, I can give it a keyboard shortcut. So if I wanted to assign a rotary dial to something which required a mouse gesture, I could basically just come in here and give it a keyboard shortcut. And then for the actual action that it's going to perform is I could just come in here and say mouse, move or click mouse, and then I could say either move or click and then whether I want the right button, the center button and so on, or you can drag it as well. So I could say click the mouse button and drag to somewhere. So it's going to basically click and drag to a certain point, let's say 10 pixels to the right. So basically this button here, when I trigger it with a rotation of the stream deck plus button, it's going to basically click the mouse and drag a little bit. So if that is the way that you are doing things on whatever app you're using, that's how you can actually get mouse gestures into the stream deck plus. And the reason why this came up, Jesse's just mentioning that we talked about it before. It was because on the loop deck, this is the one thing that loop deck does have is much better support for gestures at the moment. But I'm guessing that this is something that will come to stream deck. It would be great in here where we've got the system and we've got basically hotkeys or multimedia. Multimedia is going to be like adjusting volume and playing pause and stuff like that. But if in here, we also did have mouse gestures to simulate swipes on the trackpad or pinch or zoom or all of that kind of stuff. Yeah, at the moment that's not just sort of baked into it but you can use a keyboard maestro to do that. So that's hopefully answers that one. Hey, great to see you here. Thanks for stopping by. Do you have to mouse click between profiles or can you use a button to switch profiles? I guess you mean in that, obviously you can switch profiles from one stream deck to the next. One thing that is a bit frustrating is actually when you are updating your profiles in here, it would be great to have a way to actually switch between the profile that you are editing in here. So at the moment, you do not the profile, the device, I should say. So at the moment, you do have to come in here and click on the device that you want to edit. There's no shortcut to open up the stream deck editing, the stream deck application to edit the buttons for a given stream deck, but I'm being just picky there basically, aren't I? By the way, you can also use the open command to open the stream deck app. So I think in here I've got one here which is basically to open the stream deck application. Obviously the stream deck app is always open in the menu bar in any case, but yeah, having a button here, so when I do want to edit the stream deck, I can just click and open and it will just open up. That was one thing that I added in. Also, if you do have the pedals where it's showing you the, let me just get rid of this comment for a second. If you do have the pedals where it is showing you what is on the stream deck pedal, also just clicking this button here. Let me get rid of that. If you just click the Elgato logo, that is also a shortcut to open up the app itself. So just if you are using that, then that's a nice little shortcut to get in to do any edits that you need to do. I think that that answers your question in terms of do you need to mouse click between profile or can you use a button? Yeah, so you can certainly use a button on the stream deck to switch between profiles on the device. But when it comes to actually editing, you need to just manually changed in there. Let's have a look. Hey Eileen, great to see you. Oh, thanks, Jesse. I'm really glad that you've been finding them useful and I've not been fueling the gas too much. Well, I have been fueling the gas, I think, but anyway, have you swapped out the springs on the stream deck pedals for different ones or have you left them in as standard? Yeah, so that's something I didn't mention, the stream deck pedal. There are basically three different springs for the buttons on each one, so you can adjust like the sensitivity of them. So when you press the button down, do you want it to, you have to put a lot of force on them or what? He says pressing the wrong pedal. Just talking about how easy it is with pedals to press the right thing and I went to the wrong scene, but there you go. I've actually, I did change them when I first had them, but in my replacement stream decks, I've actually must replacement pedals, I've actually just left them as they are. So yeah, I haven't changed those. Indeed, thank you for the warning, Paul. The gas, the gas is real. Let me just see. Doesn't this affect your laptop CPU performance using all these devices and other software on only one laptop besides ECOM software too? In terms of the pedals, the pedals aren't really processor intensive. So the pedals, the stream decks, the stream decks aren't really processor intensive. You can sometimes run into issues with the USB bus basically having too much stuff going through it. So that is a potential issue. I haven't had any major issues with the stream decks recently. A few months back, I did have something where it seemed like it was as if it would lose connection or something like that. And I didn't quite understand what was going on, but I tried moving them around, plugging into different things and it's been all right there. So yeah, in terms of that, it doesn't overload it. When it comes to using ECOM though, in general with other software, obviously the more things you've got open, the more things you've got running, then yes. So certainly when I'm doing things like demos like now where I'm actually also going into Discord, so as part of the Take One Tech membership as a YouTube member or as an Academy member, then you get access to the live stream backstage area. So I'm streaming right now into Discord as well. And then when we finish the live stream, we'll just have a chat, talk about more gas note out. And so I'm doing that. So that is taking up more CPU. When I'm doing screen sharing, screen sharing is notoriously heavy on a processor in any case. So I'll find that as soon as I go to a screen sharing scene, my processor will bump up. But of course, there is always the solution of bi-faster computer, which is my current gas focus right now is looking at the... Well, we're actually waiting for WWDC to see what is announced there in terms of new Macs that are coming out. But certainly, yeah, having obviously more things open does affect that. But I try and minimize it as much as possible, close down things that I'm not using specifically for the live stream. Chrome is also a bit of a hog, I find. So having multiple Chrome tabs open is always eats up the CPU. So for demos like this, I'll have Safari and Safari's good at basically not using the CPU for something that isn't sort of active on the screen. Hey, DJ Rob, great to see you here. Thanks for stopping by. The cockpit indeed. It's getting more and more things in there and it's going to be getting even more soon as well because all the new road products coming out, I'll definitely be trying those out too. So yeah, the cockpit is going to get a little bit more, a little bit more filled out. So I've still got a bit of space on my desk if I just quickly come over here. So these are the three stream decks that I use in general. This one is actually the one that I use when I'm working because my setup, I don't know if you can tell, but I'm kind of sitting at an angle to my desk because I have all my live streaming and for Zoom calls is all over here. So actually my main monitor, my 43 inch monitor is here. So when I'm not streaming, I'll be more kind of in the center of my desk looking at this. So this is the stream deck that then I kind of use for my general stuff when I'm not streaming. So I'm not kind of moving them all around. And then yeah, the second or third or third Excel would be more over to the other side when I do eventually add that in. But we'll be trying out the roadcaster duo and also the road streamer X as well. So that will be coming into the mix very soon as well. So yeah, still a bit of space on the desk before I need to completely upgrade my desk space. There we go. Yeah, Bicky, this is the thing I was saying. So saying I wish I, let me start that again. I can't read and talk at the same time. I wish they would allow to copy and paste multiple buttons at the same time. Yeah, it is true that because this is what I was saying about a slight frustration with this, is if you want to say copy some of these buttons onto another stream deck, there's a couple of options here. You've either got to copy individual buttons like this, then go to the other stream deck like this and then paste the button like that and then go back to the first one and copy the next button. So that is really laborious. You can import entire profiles. So sometimes I find that if I'm gonna be doing something where, especially when I've added this next, this other stream deck into the mix, then yeah, it was a case of, right, well, let me just copy over all the profiles and then at least I don't have to do the back and forth between the stream decks. And I can assign a button to switch between the profiles on that specific stream deck if that makes sense. You can put things into a folder and then basically just copy the folder over as a short-term thing as well. So let's say I wanted to copy this collection of things here. What I could do is I could say create folder. Again, this is laborious. It's not by any stretch, an easy way of doing it. But I could just come in here and paste all of these different things in here. So if I wanted this one, copy this one, go in there. So I could paste things like that and then when I come out, I could copy the folder and then I could switch to my stream deck too and then I could paste the folder and then go in on that stream deck and copy all the buttons out. So that is sometimes a quicker way of doing it than switching back and forth between profiles. But yeah, totally agree that it'd be much better if we could just sort of highlight whole groups of actions at the same time, copy them, hold down shift and basically highlight multiple different buttons at the same time and copy and paste. That would be a great feature request. Perhaps we should all go and put that one into the Elgato site. Incidentally, since we're talking about copying and pasting and importing profiles, probably worth mentioning here in the preferences, you've got the different profiles or the different stream decks in here and you can choose the different profiles that you've got in there. You can look at all the different profiles that you've got but you can then export. So if you've got a specific profile you can either export that individual profile and then import it into another stream deck but another thing to make sure you do on a fairly regular basis, certainly if you're updating things at least is just to hit this little down arrow just here. If I just get Bikki's comment out of the way for a second. Then if you hit the little arrow here and just go to back up all and create a backup because yeah, I think it was Steve Worthy did a little public service announcement in the ECAM community the other day just reminding everyone to do it because yeah, there's nothing worse than setting up these things and then suddenly something happens and you lose, you know, you don't have a backup of it. I've never had an issue where I've lost any data from them at all. In fact, ironically, yeah, I did when it was when my stream deck pedal stopped working. I thought, well, let me just try resetting it, deleting it from here and then plugging it again and reconnecting it. However, it didn't remember all of the stuff and I hadn't actually backed up my pedals at that point. So I did have to go and recreate those, but never mind. So yeah, definitely go and do a backup if you haven't done one already. But yeah, totally agree, Bikki, if we could sort of do that as a, you know, copying multiple things at once, that would certainly be useful. That's right, gas because more kit is always the answer. There is a balance there, isn't there? Let's be fair about this. There is a balance between having, you know, being overwhelmed by it. So I have had clients who basically, you know, want to reduce things. Somebody using a Rocaster Pro too recently and you know, various other things. And then they were, you know, well, let me just look at if I can get a pared down solution for the road. And so we came up with a solution for that that was, you know, much more small to form factor to take on the road. And then they kind of realized, well, do I actually need the Rocaster if this is doing exactly what I needed it to do? So yeah, gas isn't necessarily always the answer, but it is in my book and yours, Jesse, I know. So, yeah. Or multiple, yeah, so that's, I would love to see that as well. Just back to this thing of, you know, copying things around or have tabs or something like that. If we had a series of tabs in the top of the window where you could just tab between devices, that would be useful. Multiple instances of the window open, that would be useful as well. Tabs would be useful as well. If even for just multiple profiles on the same device, because I find myself sometimes copying stuff between profiles on the same device as well. So yeah, having something like that might be useful. But we shall see. I should just mention as well, by the way, that as I say, a lot of my coaching clients are using Stream Deck. And often what they're using it for is similar to me, which is for basically leveling up their presentations in things like Zoom and so on. And it is a great device for that. It can really speed up your workflow. And it's one of the sort of standout features for me, is using it on Zoom specifically. Because what you'll find in Zoom is, if you've ever been in a Zoom meeting where somebody wants to go and share their slides or their screen or something like that. And then they say, let me just share my screen. And then they go and find the button. And then they click on the screen. And then they've got to try and find the window that they want to share. No, not that one, that's the wrong one. And they bring it up. Or maybe they bring their presentation up. And then they've got their presentation on screen, but they're just a little box in the corner. Having a Stream Deck running your Zoom call in conjunction with Ecamm Live is just a game changer for me, because it means that you have any interruption in flow. And what you don't want to do if you are in the middle of a pitch, or if you are in the middle of an educational course or whatever it is on Zoom, whatever the thing is, be it a workshop or webinar or whatever, is not having that interruption in the flow. You want to be consistently sort of delivering your message and delivering your value. And using Ecamm Live with Stream Deck to do that and have all of the Zoom controls in there as well. It does kind of become your mission control. I mean, DJ Rob said there, the take one tech cockpit, that is it. It is a sort of command center basically for your meetings. And that is what a lot of my clients are using it for. And it enables you to just sort of be seamless in your delivery. So you're talking to somebody, you press a button or with a touch of a foot pedal and then you've got your presentation coming up and you are in the presentation. So it's not kind of you over to the side and a big slide deck, but rather an immersive presentation that's bringing information up on screen. I've talked as well about video pencil, being able to do telestration, writing on the screen with your iPad and having that just come up with a touch of a button as well and having it all be seamless. It really is a game changer. And that's why when I said about, if you're not sure what size stream debt you need, if budget allows, then get the biggest one because you'll find a use for all of those buttons. But this whole thing of basically leveling up your digital presentations on a digital stage is why I've created what I'm calling the digital stage revolution event. And ironically, it is an in-person event. So this is gonna be in October in Dallas and I'll leave a link in the description and also in the chat as well. And you can sign up to register your interest for that. It is gonna be a live in-person event in Dallas, as I say, but I am also gonna be doing it as a hybrid event. So it is gonna be available for remote people to join as well. So even if you don't think you can make it to Dallas in October, then definitely still go and register your interest and then full details will be coming out in the next few weeks. And the idea of this then is gonna be talking about over four days how to use all of this technology to really level up your sort of online presence in meetings and delivering your courses and so on. And I'll be talking about all the different tech that you use to do it. But then obviously it would be a bit weird to just do it all as a purely in-person event and not be sort of demonstrating these tools live. And so that's kind of the point of doing it as hybrid as well. It will be talking a bit meta really, talking about how to deliver events either live or hybrid, also either completely online or hybrid. And then we'll be showing how to do this as a hybrid event. So yeah, very meta. But definitely if you are interested in that kind of thing, then go and check out the details on the page there that I've linked in the description. Digital stage revolution is what it is called. Take one tech.io slash digital hyphen stage hyphen revolution. And yeah, that's more details for that will be coming out. There is gonna be limited places available obviously for the in-person event. So the point of registering your interest now is you will be first on the waiting list as soon as I announce further details in the coming weeks. So in terms of Stream Deck, you can find more resources about that over on my website. If you are interested in things like Zoom and this is what you are using it for, then you will find on my website right now, I have actually updated that to include a lot of new free downloads and so on. So if you go to takeonetech.io, then over on that page, you'll see that there are a lot of resources there. You can find more information about booking a call with me about the digital stage revolution about my courses and then also the upcoming workshops. So even if you're not an Academy member, you can still buy access to those as well. So you can find those details of all those workshops there as well. The Stream Deck icon packs. And then you'll also find some free resources. So again, if you are using Stream Deck for your Zoom meetings and things like that, then there is a whole guide for Zoom audio settings, AI powered course creation. That is something that I'm going to be covering in an upcoming workshop as well, but there is a free guide that you can get for that as well. And then also one about, this is a book that I wrote previously, the five step digital marketing blueprint, all about how to level up your online marketing game. So you can find all of those there on my website along with a load of other tools. So takeonetech.io is for that. So definitely go and check that out. For those that are watching on the replay, what I'll do is I'll leave a link to some of my other Stream Deck videos over on the right hand side here. And no doubt I'll be in the discord just in a moment with the folks in there with a little bit more gas. So thanks for watching and I will see you all next time.