 The Ecamm live version 3.9 beta 2 has just been released. So I'm gonna tell you all about it in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And it doesn't seem like that long ago. In fact, it was only just over two weeks, I think, that I did my last video on the previous beta, beta one. And here we are again with some more great new features. So let's dig straight on into them, shall we? So here we are with the release notes. And this is just to be clear, we are on version 3.9.0 beta 2. And I've got a feeling we're pretty close to the actual final release version here. So if you are not using the beta and you're still on the actual release version, then these features will be coming your way fairly soon, I would imagine. But if you are on the beta program rather, then definitely go and check for updates and just make sure you have got this latest version. Cause there are some great new features in it. And we'll start with the top three, which are all related to interview mode. And these are some features which have been requested, I know, quite regularly by many different people. And so I think there's gonna be a lot of happy people around today when they see what is now possible. So let me come into my demo mode. And here we've got our interview window. And in our interview window, we've now got a little bit of a change around in terms of the way things have been up till now. Because before, in the preferences on the, whoopsie daisy, wrong button, until now, the main ECAM live preferences that you access by pressing this little cog wheel here. It had the interview mode section within there and indeed it still does, but you'll notice that there are not quite so many little options in here. And that's because some of these have now been relocated over to the actual interview mode window itself. And what you can see is down at the bottom, we've now got this extra little cog wheel here. And so you can click on this and this will bring up this extra little panel. Now what this allows you to do is, well, a few things actually, there's some new things in here and some of those old actions that were previously in the main preferences have been relocated. So let's start at the top. The first one is you can add a page title and this is basically a page title on the browser window of the person that you send the interview link to. So for those not familiar with how interview mode works, basically you have a unique little link and you send that to who you want to be your guest and then they open that in their browser and then they can log in to the call or dial in or whatever you want to call it. Well, up until now that window has said Ecam live on it, whereas now you can actually define your own page title. So it's going towards actually being able to brand it basically to be more in line with your program or whatever it is you happen to be doing. Next is there is also similarly, before there was an Ecam live logo at the bottom of the screen for the guest, well now you can add your own logo and in fact they've got two different options so you can have a variant for light mode or if they're in dark mode you've got a little option for that as well. The next little bit of branding that you can now add in is basically an image for when you send out the link to people. So if you send it in messages for example, then normally it will go and grab a snapshot of the link so that it will put that in as a little sort of thumbnail of the link. Well now you can add a custom image in and that is what will appear when you send the link to people. So the next thing is the actual guest link domain. So previously it was just guest.ecamlive, sorry guest.ecam.live slash and then your little code. Now I know a lot of people me included would actually use a custom domain and sort of remap it. So I had for example takeonetech.live slash join was my join link but it was basically just redirecting to this link here. Well if you don't have a domain or you don't want to go through that hassle of setting that all up, what they actually do now is they give you an option of different domains to use. They all work, they just redirect themselves and basically Ecamm are just dealing with all the redirection. So here you've got a number of different choices. So if you don't want guest.ecamlive you can use something like click2join.us, click2join.live, callmy.show, callmenow.tv and so on. So there's about 14 or 15 different options that you can use there. In fact I can be precise, 14. There are 14 different options of domains and actually any of them will work. So you can just select the one that it's gonna give you out when you copy the link. The next thing we've got here is we've got a few of these are moved over from the old preferences location. So for example, default to dark mode. So that is whether the browser of your guest will be on dark mode or light mode by default and you can set it to default to dark mode. And the reason why you might want that is so that you don't get glare from a big bright white screen in front of your guest on their monitor. So that is why you might want to have that toggled on. Next you can have a show viewer comments for your guests so that they will actually see what is the stream of comments basically on your live stream. Also show viewer count so you can have that toggled on. And the next one down at the bottom here is turn off audio processing for guests. And they call this musician mode because it basically turns off any noise cancellation, echo cancellation, things like that. And so that is basically going to give you the sort of original sound if you like coming through from your guest. But there is one extra little one here which you may have noticed, which is allow private chat. And this means that you've now got, and I know a lot of people have been waiting for this, you've now got the ability to chat back and forth with your guest behind the scenes as it were. So I'll show you this in a moment, but basically it's going to bring up a second little chat window that is just for you and your guest. So that is basically what the options are that you've got to define your different settings for your interview mode. And so why is it that they have actually moved them into here out of the main preferences? Well, the reason is, similarly to the way you have profiles in scenes, you've also got different options for interview settings. So for example, if you have multiple different shows and you want to have different little thumbnails or different little icons or different headers and different settings for your different shows, then you can just create a new interview settings setup here. And so you can have multiple different setups. And that means that then when you are in your particular show, you can just toggle between the settings and use the ones that you want for that show. Now we already have profiles now in the beta as we had in beta one. So I will have left a link to that video by the way, I should have mentioned it at the beginning. If you want to know everything that's in the first release or the first beta. So with profiles, these settings are remembered from one profile to the next. So if you set everything all up for a specific profile and then you switch profiles, then it will remember which settings to use for which. I think the easiest thing is if I give a little demonstration now. So I've got somebody waiting to join the call. So I'm going to dial in. I'll say someone waiting, it's just me. I'm sorry to disappoint you. I haven't got any real friends, you know. So I have to rely on a second computer. So I'm going to add this and answer this call. So now basically I can assign me to this side. There we go. Well, that's a terrible picture, isn't it? Don't know what's quite happened there. Nevermind. So that is the guest has joined but what I really want to do is I want to go and go over to my other computer and I'm going to share my screen because what I want to show you is what it actually looks like from the guest's side. So if I share my screen like that, there we go. And I'm just going to add this into the call and I'll make that solo like that. There we go. So now I've got my picture in picture. I don't want that picture. I want this picture. There we go. So this is basically what the guest's screen looks like. And if I just take my border off for a moment, what you can see is, and now this one thing that does not seem to be working quite as it should. So I'm going full screen now. This might be a bit hard to make out because it's repeating the image. In fact, what I shall do is if I, no, forget that. I was going to try and make it a bit clearer but I don't think I can. This is basically the browser window that you're looking at now on the guest computer. And what you can see is there is a little icon down in the bottom left and it's not actually displaying. It was a moment ago, but it's not now. And that is basically where you add your little branded title. But what you can see at the top is that now the header of the tab says take one tech live, which is how I defined it in the interview mode. So let me just come back here because there is one other thing that I want to show you, which is, if you look down at the interview panel, so this is this one, so I'm moving around now, right at the bottom, we've now got this little chat window here or little chat icon rather. So if I click on that, it's going to open up a new chat panel. And now if I send a message like that, this is now sent a message over to the guest. And what you can see is there's a little chat panel opened up on the guest's computer over on the right hand side. And that now is sending that message from the, or from me to the guest. And what I want to do now is just actually type a little reply. There we go, a reply. And if I come back to my desktop now, you can see that that has appeared in here. So nothing interesting there, nothing new there, it's just another chat window. And this is in addition to the main chat. So if you do have a chat window open for your show, then this is actually a second one. And as you can see, it is titled interview chat. So that is basically how that feature works. I'm just going to hang up on this guy now because he's becoming a little bit annoying. There we go. So that is the interview mode and how those features work. Now let's have a look at some of the ones related to overlays because I think you're going to like those ones as well. So what I've done is I've created a new scene like this. And what I'm going to do now is show you what you can now do with camera overlays and image overlays. And that is if I click on the little sort of pencil icon to edit the shape. What we've got is we've got the same as before where you can select the camera and also the aspect ratio. But we've now got this corner radius tool. And what we can do is as if by magic, add corner radiuses to our images. Now, more than that though, what we can also do is we can select which particular corners we want them added to because over here, you can see we've got these little corners here and I can toggle those on and off. And what that looks like is now I've got corners just on two of the corners, three of the corners, one of the corners. So that is how that works. So that is actually great because now you can really start to make some interesting overlays or you can basically make some scenes where you might not even need overlays. You could just do it all with background images or in cases where you wanted overlays where radiuses were an issue in the past, you can actually solve those now with just actually by changing the radius of the picture itself or by of the image itself. This is something that if you wanted things with like large radiuses, but thin borders where they were overlapping another, say a screenshot or something like that, it was often quite difficult to get those to work. So you did have some limitations whereas this has now made it a lot more versatile. But more than that, they've also added not just the rounded corners, they've also added a whole new shape and it's not one they've invented necessarily but it is new for Ecam Live. And that is before we had the aspect ratio either wide, classic, square, circle or tall or custom. Well now we've also got squircle. I know, it is a word. And squircles are basically, I suppose, half square, half circle, but they're not really. What it is is it's just a different way of defining the radius of the corner. And basically there is a sort of longer radius start to the corner and a longer radius exit to the corner. But then in the middle, it's sort of a slightly shorter radius. So it's basically like a compound curve is the word I'm looking for. And by having this, it does just give a more sort of aesthetically pleasing look to the shape in my opinion and others opinion, I believe as well. And so you can just basically adjust that in the same way that you could with the corner radius tool. So that is basically how you can add the extra shape. You can see it there that basically in this corner, that's kind of quite a sharp corner here, but then it sort of flattens out as it comes to the edge. So that is another whole new shape and you could really make some interesting sort of overlays or as I say, you're not even using overlays, just use some different backdrops to the scene and then just simply put these over the top of it would work just as well. Now there is another thing as well, which is that these corner effects that we'd got with the four corners, actually now also apply to text overlays. So if I just bring up some text overlays, I've got a few here, here we go. And there you go. I've just shown you another little feature that has been added in. And so basically now what we can do is with that text overlays, you always could add corners to text overlays before, but now you just have this option to be able to define which specific corners they apply to. So that means you can make effects like this where I've got a rounded corner at the bottom here and a rounded corner at the bottom here, but then at the middle one, there is no rounded corners and here I've got the rounded corners at the top. So you can just make some better looking, I think, ways to sort of integrate text overlays. The other thing that I just sort of gave away there was previously you could always have text flying in from the left or right, so you'd edit the text and you could instead of being fixed position, you could have it fly in from the left or fly in from the right. Or now we've also got fly in from the bottom and the top as well. So if I just come up to here, change this one from the bottom and then save that. And then if I hide all of these text overlays and activate them again, then there you go. They can come from all sides basically. And that is the changes that they've made to text overlays and the camera overlays as well. And by the way, that also applies to images as well. The other thing that is slightly different if I just come and add on a screen sharing overlay. So that is the new new in the last beta screen sharing overlay. So if I click on this one, you can see the corners apply to that as well. So it remembers what the last overlay was. So I can toggle that off and now it's perfectly square. But what you'll notice is it has actually created the thing, the thing, the overlay to actually suit the aspect ratio of whatever it is you are sharing. So if I select this one, then it will be selected to that display. But if I had say an ultra wide display or if I was on my MacBook where it's not quite 1920 by 1080 but 1920 by 1200, then it just automatically defaults to that size. Whereas before you would end up with sort of letter boxing on it or columns down the side, depending on bars down the side, depending on what size it was. So that is just another thing that they have added in. And that is almost it. But there is a couple of other things here. So there is one other that I've been using that you may not have noticed, which is they've added a stream deck button to toggle between demo mode and on and off. And previously I was doing this with a multi-action on stream deck where it switched to e-cam live and then basically toggle the keyboard shortcut. Well now it is just built in as a single action into the stream deck itself. So if I come back to this one in e-cam live in the menu down here, basically you can see that there is somewhere down here, there you go live demo mode. So they basically just added a, an actual button for it. So that incidentally, if you're interested is what my one looks like. So I can toggle this on and off with my stream deck. So that is quite a useful feature. There's not many others that I've got with multi-action. There's one for hiding the UI actually, which I'll leave. So I'll be putting a feature request in for this. So with e-cam live, there is an option to hide the UI and that basically just hides the UI off the screen from the main preview window. So that one I've got as a multi-action, but yeah, if that one was a button as well that would be quite useful. But I think that that is actually all of the ones that I use multi-actions for and everything else they've slowly but surely added in the buttons. So the next thing that we've got in the actual list of features is add support for NDI tally and NDI, sorry, support for NDI tally for NDI input and output. I'll be totally honest with you. I'm not entirely sure what that one is. I'm guessing it relates to NDI and it's something to do with inputs and outputs. But that at the moment is the extent of my expertise on that one. If that means something to you, then it will mean something to you. If it doesn't, then perhaps you don't need it. I'm not sure, but we'll have to move swiftly on from that. So the next one is various issues with screen share overlays. So if you're on the main version, you wouldn't have noticed this, but on the previous beta, there was a couple of issues with screen sharing where if you've got green screen activated on the camera, then it would have some knock on effects to the screen sharing overlays. But apart from that, it was being pretty stable and I've been just using it all the time for these videos, but also for my virtual camera in Teams meetings and Zoom meetings and so on. And then it says a couple of other minor fixes. So that is basically a roundup of it. But I think if you think of all of the features that were in the first beta and all the features that are in this beta, it's really answered a lot of people's questions and the requests for things that they wanted and things that have come up regularly in either the Facebook group or wherever of people saying they wish it could do this or that. So really great upgrade to the beta. As I say, if you're on the beta program, go into e-cam live beta and download the new version. Oh, there is one thing that was mentioned in there, but let's have a little look down here, shall we? Because they have actually updated the icon as well. So instead of the one that's kind of like a square frame like that, they've got more of a sort of rounded frame, I suppose it's similar to a lot of other apps have in terms of the shape of it. So that is another minor change in case you're interested in the icon itself. That is about all for now. If you have been using the beta and got any great little tips or feedback, then definitely go and leave them down in the comments below. And while you're down there, of course, if you're not already, don't forget to like the channel and subscribe to the channel and turn on those notifications so that you get notified whenever I make any new videos. I will leave a link to my e-cam live playlist with a load of other e-cam live related videos over on the bottom right. But until the next video, have an absolutely wonderful day.