 If you use Ecamm live and don't know absolutely all of the preferences then this video is for you Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec and in this video We're just going to be running through all of the different preferences that you have in Ecamm live And the reason being is that often the questions come up in the group And by the group by the way, I mean the Ecamm live Facebook group So just let me hold on a minute and back up If you are using Ecamm live, and you are not in the Ecamm live Facebook group, then what are you playing at? it is such an amazing place full of thousands of people all using Ecamm live to do awesome things and Everybody's willing to share all of their little tips secrets all the ways that they get things done and it's it's just a great place to be really full of Lovely supportive wonderful people all there to help So definitely if you're not already a member of that community then head on over there and just go to facebook.com groups slash ecamm live and We end straight away and join the fun So with that said, yeah, let's get back to the preferences and first of all, I should probably tell you how to find the preferences So I'll just come into my demo mode So here's my ecamm live from my scenes and if you come up to ecamm live There's a quick way in this but I'll just show you the menu way first You can come down to the ecamm live in the menu and then come down to preferences and Click there and you can also see the hotkey for that is command comma, but it is also on the window itself So just down at the bottom right here of all this sort of stack of little menus or windows that you can open You can show and hide the system preferences from there as well So once you've got that open I've actually created another scene, but I've made a proper border for it yet So I hope you'll forgive me. There you go What do you think about that? It's My face and the system preferences. I don't know whether you'd prefer it without me actually on it But there you go. You're stuck with it now because I've done it So here is the ecamm live at preferences window So let's just run through these different sections that we've got all along the top and let's talk through what they all do So the first one we're in the general tab is play app sounds It does actually tell you what these do but sometimes it might not be entirely clear Although they are pretty pretty straightforward. So play app sounds. So do you want sounds from different apps and things like that to come through? Right on cue my iPhone just a bling then so unfortunately this cannot stop sounds coming through from external devices I honestly didn't plan that but there you go. So play app sounds. So that will allow sounds to come through from From the app itself So like if you've got comments and things like that coming up on lives live streams You can deactivate that if you don't want them to be heard. So I have that deactivated Show animated reactions. So that is when you're actually on a live stream And you've got the comments window if somebody likes it or hearts it or whatever Then there's a little animation that comes on to sort of draw your attention to the fact that somebody has done something Keep utility windows in front while live so The utility windows are all of the little floating panels basically that you come live has so your scenes tab and Things like that. So you may want those to always be at the front I don't actually have that checked never found it a particular problem But then I've probably just got enough space that everything is is never really covered up anyway So I deal with that in other ways But if you are using a smaller monitor you may want to have that so that you know your scenes tab for example or scenes panel Was always that was always on the top When returning to live mode with unpublished changes, so this is related to I don't know if you even know about this It was added in one of the more recent releases where you can actually go into preview mode Which I should probably make a video about that separately but that is where when you're actually streaming you can do some edits to the scene and Go into preview mode so that it's it's not actually going out to the other stream But you can sort of edit the scene on the fly and then you can publish that and then that will make that live So it's if you want to adjust your scenes while you are actually streaming So when returning to live mode with unpublished changes Ask so that's basically if I had sort of gone into preview mode made some changes and then wanted to return to the scene would it ask me first to just double-check that do I really want to do that so I have that on because Yeah, knowing me. I would probably be halfway through something accidentally press it and then have something published I didn't want to be going live yet. So I do have that to say ask But you can also say publish or reverse changes Next is automatically hide comment overlays after and then there's a period of number of seconds And you can enter whatever you want in there And that is when you're doing a live stream and you've got comments coming in and you can click on them in the comments Panel and they will appear in the stream on the on the screen rather and so you can have them also hide after a certain period of time No, I actually don't have this on because Sometimes if this question is coming up, you might want to leave them on for longer So I just have that off But you might want to set that to you know, 10 seconds something like that if you've got lots of comments coming through And you want to be able to put them up and then just disappear automatically you can do that I also have a button programmed in my stream deck to take the comment off the screen So that's how I deal with that. I can just do it manually and I don't really get that many Comments at the moment. Maybe a little bit later. I might need to worry about this But certainly at the moment not not a big issue for me Show Skype's active speaker camera. So I have never used e-cam live with Skype I've used it a lot with zoom but never with e-cam with with Skype I've barely used Skype for years actually, but there you go. But this is basically so If that's toggled on then if you're on a got a Skype call coming into e-cam live Then just it would bring the active speakers window to the front As opposed to you just sort of selecting who is the which which window is being displayed So that's what that is But I don't know how many people actually use Skype hands up or comment down below if you still use Skype It's not many people. I know nobody has ever asked me for a Skype call for In fact, no one's asked me for a Skype call for three years. So there we go It's all at zoom and FaceTime these days. But anyway, so the next one is now you may not actually have this because I had a Friend that I was talking about a e-cam live with and I recommended that they have this toggled on and they said they didn't even have that option And I think it depends on the version of or the the model of Mac you have So this is a used discrete graphics card for main screen So, um, yeah, that's just boost performance by driving the main screen with this extra discrete graphics card So I think later max, you don't necessarily have this. It just depends on how old your machine is Check for updates. Obviously do that frequently. Although usually when you open e-cam live It will tell you if there's an update available and then also you can choose the recordings folder So that is the folder that it just defaults to By the way, it is always quicker to store to a You know a local hard drive, but if you are short of space Then you could still have it Storing to a local hard drive, but there's a little application called hazel that you can use I'm going to do a video all about this and when I do I'll Remember to come back and link it here because you can have it perform actions. So Any files that are saved to a location You could have hazel sort of clear them up after a day or two and move them somewhere else So if you want to have a really fast Speed then you can have it saving to your local drive But then you could just have something like hazel that clears up all those files and archives them automatically A little bit later. So i'm going to be upgrading to a mac mini. I've decided to take the plunge Rather than holding out for the 16 inch macbook pro m series whenever they decide to release that And that's what i'm going to do I'm basically going to have all the stuff going to the hard drive But then we're going to have a larger external drive and have hazel just shift everything over to there The day after I've recorded it basically. So that's what i'm going to do with that But this is where you would change the recording folder Now the next section is the account section, but i'm not going to go into that one because that's got my personal email address in So i'll give that one a miss But all it's got in there is basically just for you to be able to update your details So you can go and have a look at that yourself. It's pretty self-explanatory There's not much to cover in there in any case The next one along is the stream now because i'm recording some of these will be grayed out But you can change these stream size from either low res sort of 720 1080p or you can go to 2k 4k So that is where you would change that then you've got the stream shape So you can either have the widescreen which is what we've got here You could have it square if you want to make videos for other platforms Maybe instagram or something like that Then you can also change it to the ultra wide so more like the sort of letterbox style with the black and white Tops and bottoms or sort of more standard old school not standard old school sort of four by three ratio as well So you can change that ratio in there the frame rate. You can change that as well So i've got 30 frames per second, but you can change the frame rate So i've got that matching what i've got coming out of my camera But it does go to 60 frames frames per second Just make sure if you're streaming you've got the bandwidth to cope with that Then high quality video mode. So this one Broadcasts in the higher bit rates, but as it says this setting may be automatically deactivated If ecam live can't stream fast enough. So i've never had any problem with that as such But yeah, I always just have that selected and same with high quality audio I think that that is just automatically on if that one's toggled on to be honest with you But yeah, I just have those both on so why wouldn't you want higher quality video and audio? Next is the recording format. So I just have that as mp4 And then we come into the video section. So the default source I have camera some people prefer to have blank so that this is basically When you are starting a new scene or creating a new scene Do you want it to start with a completely blank canvas and build something up or start with the camera? I don't know take your pick on that one personal preference I suppose thinking about it blank might even be a bit better. In fact, why don't we do that? There we go I've changed my approach live Live on this recording. Let's put that as as blank because thinking about it I suppose I do do more of my things Where I'm starting and building something out and rarely have it as just starting with the full on camera. Don't I so I'm teaching myself something here. Yeah, you probably already know this. So there we go. The default transition I've just always left that as the default because to be honest with you. I'm not really interested in any of these like anything More sort of flashy I tend to just yeah just fade from one scene to another you can actually have it so there's absolutely nothing on So no transition. So if I was to go back to the scene it just literally flicks back to it Or let's have a little look at some of these other ones white flash So that would go to that and you see there is a white flash on the screen The most ridiculous one which I hope nobody uses is the copier So that is just a little bit ridiculous. I'm sure that's just put in there as a joke Ripple There we go. So yeah, I'm not really a big transition fan myself If I am I would do them in sort of animated overlays, I guess so that's that Fade out when finished so fade to black when The stream or the broadcast ends or the recording ends Autoplay video files. I have that on because where I've got videos embedded in the scenes I usually the way that I do things. I actually want the video to trigger as soon as it goes into the scene But if you were doing something for example, I don't know talking over sporting events Or something like that Or whatever it may be you may want to have that switched off so that when you load a scene Maybe you've got some Footage queued up. You don't just want it to autoplay when you load up that particular scene. So that's what that is Show picture in picture above overlays. Well, I definitely don't want to do that because I mean this not this scene But this scene here, for example, if I come to this one This is a picture in picture And I don't want it to be above the overlay I want the overlay to be over the the top of it. So, um, yeah, definitely. I don't want that one to be on Show picture in picture in new video file and screen sharing scenes That is like if when you have a new screen sharing scene Or when you have a new video Scene so this is coming back to this this source Do you want to have a picture in picture as a default? And so I just have that one switched off because I don't necessarily want it like that Now this one, uh, I've got it toggled off But I'll have to say that originally I wasn't quite sure exactly what this was for or rather and I didn't have a use for it So show ndi and siphon titles full screen. So, uh, the ndi and siphon title sources Will fill the whole window instead of being Behind a picture in picture. Now. I'd got that one. Just the default setting is on But it was rich graham who was doing a little test of a now I forget the original originator of this idea where you can basically do have a four camera angle Video where you have a 4k set the size to 4k and then basically you have four hd Video sources coming in and you record your whole Production like that and then afterwards you can import this into final cut or something like that and then you can crop in to each of those four sort of quadrants and Basically, then you've got four different camera sources all recorded in ecam live And you could sort of switch between them and do your your sort of final camera switch in a production In an external editor, which was a great idea but one of the sources that rich was using was ndi and There was an issue where it was just filling the whole screen and couldn't get it to just fit into One of the quadrants and I believe that the solution to that was to toggle this one off So I've toggled it off just in case in the future I ever come to try that myself although being so averse to editing as I am I'm not sure I will but anyway, that's what that's for It's related to ndi titles and them being full screen, but You may not have encountered any issues with this Disabled built-in camera. Yes, obviously I've got a rather old macbook pro and macbooks cameras are Ridiculous I don't know what they were doing They've certainly let themselves down and not been on the ball considering What an amazing job they do with the iPhone cameras How they could have sort of let the the macbook cameras languish for so long being so terrible I don't know and also I would never want it coming on because it's coming on at the wrong angle really So with my little green screen behind Yeah, there's no no particular circumstances where I would ever want to use the built-in eyesight camera on my mac So that's why I've just disabled it The next section is the audio and the speakers so you can select the default speakers I have it going through my short mv7 monitor. So the the headphone output from my microphone Use echo cancellation. Well, if you're using Monitors in ear monitors, which really you should be Then you don't really need to worry about this It's only if you're using your your max speakers or some sort of external loud speakers And in the room that you would want to use echo cancellation Uh broadcast system audio when uh, she Shall start that again Broadcast system audio When in screen sharing mode Well, it makes sense to want to share the system audio in there because you might be demoing a piece of software or something like that Um, but you could also have it all the time I don't see why you would want to do that because then any sort of Pings and pongs and things like that might come through onto your production when you're not really sharing anything So it'll be totally out of context Or you can share it never So it never picks up any sound Next one is automatically mute microphone and guest audio during video playback So that's if you've got a guest if you are on the pro plan and you have an interviewee come on Then it would mute the microphone and their audio when you're playing a video Well, I don't necessarily do that because or I don't do that obviously because it's not toggled I don't do that because I don't really play videos and things like that as such The only video that I do have playing are on a sort of scene by scene basis And in there I've set the mute automatically because it's sort of muted within the scene if you see what I mean So, uh, but that is what that is anyway Mic delay, I don't have any mic delay on here because um, I've never really found the need to With my camera, but I understand that if you're using other ways of getting the the audio in in fact You tell me if I need to be doing this If anybody can if anyone can tell me that there should be a bit of a delay and then perhaps there should but I'm using my Canon eos 60d 10 year old camera over usb into my mac and Yeah, I don't think I need to add any particular delay But I believe with the Elgato capture cards then some people add a couple of frames To it so to sort of keep everything all in in sync So that's what that is anyway Next next is map or input channels one and two to left and right So this is if you do have actually left and right channels that need to be mapped to the sort of stereo I've just got my short mv7 and I don't need to worry about that But if you're using I guess some other external device then you might have distinct channels that you do need to map Otherwise it says all audio input channels will be combined So basically just go into the both sides both the left and the right and stereo will not be enabled When the echo cancellation feature is turned on so if you do have this one turned on then you won't be able to do that in any case Next is a mute movie sound on speakers So again, this is if you are playing a movie and you've got speakers then it will mute it on there But again, I don't have that so you don't need to worry about that if you are using in ear monitors And record isolated audio tracks I don't know if you knew this Some people don't but you can actually have when instead of just getting a video output This isn't on as a default instead of just getting a file output when you do recording on ecumlive You can actually have it export the audio tracks as well and that will be the microphone track as one track Any sound Movie sound track and things like that. Those will all be individual tracks So if you just want to take out the the audio from your mic, for example And don't want any of the background sound effects or things like that Then that is the way to do it Um, that's a great. I'd need to make a video about that I think because it is a great little feature And it's uh, hopefully gonna help me to get back on with my podcast But you have left languishing for myself for a little while So, um, yeah, I'll need to get back onto that. Next is interview mode So play ring chime when somebody tries to join your your Interview your live stream. So when you give them give out your link, it will play a little sound Automatically answer guest calls where you don't necessarily want to do that You don't like to get the notification and then answer yourself Just to stop anybody coming in gate crashing Send guests to green room So that puts them in a little waiting area before they actually come into the stream So in case, you know, you can answer the call and let them in But not actually bring them online onto the stream until you are absolutely ready Turn off audio processing for guests and this is called musician mode So this what came up in the in the group recently about musician mode So this is where it is. It's turn off audio processing for guests Now this basically will give a better quality of if you turn it off It will give a better quality of sound technically But you do need to make sure that they are Wearing headphones because it will turn off any noise cancellation that e-cam lives trying to do as well And it will use a higher higher bit rate as well And yeah, as I say, it can be can cause issues if they're not wearing a headset But and it also incidentally says chrome browser and a desktop computer is required I'm not sure why the desktop computer is required, but there you go. That's what it says I've never noticed that before, but yeah, it only works in the chrome browser. Anyway Next one web interface defaults to dark mode Now I had that switched on for ages because uh, well dark mode is the only way to go really isn't it? So I thought I'd just force that upon anyone who wants to come onto my stream There is another reason which I heard from dark rock, which was If you have it on normal mode, then the browser is going to be a more light or white window And so that can you know be quite bright in people's faces and can Sort of illuminate them more than perhaps they should be So turning it into dark mode will stop there being this sort of bright lights also in front of them So, uh, it wasn't just because you want to force your opinions on others this toggle here It was actually for a real reason. So Now I feel justified in and actually forcing everyone into using dark mode So that is what that is uh guest web interface displays comments for viewer and Sorry, sorry for your guest and the view account. So, um, yeah If you don't want them to see what everyone's saying on the stream seems a bit cruel really But you could toggle that off Or if you don't want them to know how many people are on the stream you could turn that one off But obviously I just leave it on and they can see the millions that are tuning to my live streams Next one is uh lower music and movie sound for guests when in off air mode and this basically means When you are muted and your guest is muted But there's still stuff going on like for example in the sort of intro countdown maybe for a live stream something like that Where you've got background music coming What this will do is it will lower the music when you speak so that they can hear you It's called ducking where one sound level goes down to allow them to hear the other one What it doesn't do at the moment though is it doesn't work the other way So it doesn't actually lower the the sound of the the volume in your ears so that you can hear the guest So hopefully that might come out as an extra feature at some point in the future Uh, the next section here is the uh guest view. So what do they see? Do they either see the broadcast or do they just see your face? Uh, like speaking back to them Uh, I think you're probably depending on what you're doing probably want them to see the broadcast So they can see what's going on and if you're doing any demos or something like that They can see what's up on the screen. They can see what everyone else is seeing. So That's what I have left that as as that Next one is a screen sharing. So include desktop icons. So if you've got stuff on your desk On your desktop can't show you your desk unless you've got a top-down camera But on your desktop then you can hide those Uh, then the next one is uh, show the desktop picture. Well, I don't actually have a desktop picture I have my desktop picture is a gray background. But if I just toggle that off Then in fact, I need to toggle this one off as well. There you go. It hides Well, now I've just hidden the interface as well. I don't know but it hides the the desktop picture So if you've got a desktop picture that you don't want to see you can toggle that one off Next one is uh, this ad margin when zooming to an app or window So in the screen sharing mode, you can either share a whole screen or you can share a particular window The active window if you have this one selected add margin when zooming an entire window Which is the default by the way, it leaves like a little border around it And uh, that kind of look quite nice depending on how you're sharing the screen But because I tend to like to have my screen sharing although I'm not doing here Have them all sort of fitting into a precise window then I actually turn that one off Um, but yeah, that's uh, that's personal preference if you want the nice little border around it So you see the little sort of drop shadow and things like that around the edge Then you can leave that one on Next is optimized for better quality or higher bit rate. So Oh, sorry higher frame rate I always go for better quality because I just want the image to look better So this is specifically on screen sharing as well If you're sharing things that are you know, quite small text or things like that then I'd rather it have the better quality rather than the frame rate So you can actually see the the picture better Uh, next is in include the mouse cursor So you do you want to be able to see that on the screen And then also you can change the mouse cursor size and then also show mouse clicks now I've got those on but actually, uh, I if this one down here is toggled on then I tend to use my pro mouse anyway And so this last one show everything when sharing the entire screen Uh, so this shares the screen contents with no changes This mode will include ecam live in the broadcast So I do do that because most of the time when I'm sharing my screen Uh, I'm either sharing my secondary screen that doesn't have any ecam live stuff on it Or I'm sharing my main screen that does Have the ecam live stuff on it and the reason is I want to show ecam live So that is why I have that one, uh, toggled on So that is that and then we're nearly finished now because the next few are just some little facebook, uh, linked in and youtube Settings and the first one is show the title field So if you're going to go live on facebook from within ecam live Then there'll be a little button to go live And then there will be also a little thing down at the bottom corner probably down this corner That will have a title and a description. So this basically just toggles on and off that that title field So then uh next is disallow embedding so it prevents facebook broadcast from being embedded in other sites So I don't actually do much streaming to facebook to be honest with you But I don't think I would mind people embedding it in their site. It's all just is extra exposure at the end of the day The the business page that it is assigned to is take one tech But here you could just click there and it would show all of your other pages And I've got quite a few so I'm not going to click on that one at the moment Pages that I manage and then uh, if depending on which page you're streaming to It can automatically cross post to other pages as well. So that's all set up on facebook site The next one is to do with um sponsor IDs and Sponsor ID for branded content posts. It's not something I'm familiar with, and I think if you need to use that It's something you would probably know what your sponsor ID is, but it's not something that I do personally Next with linkedin is just basically the nearest location. Well in case you weren't aware I'm in Thailand. So I have this to southeast asia This is the nearest uh location for your streaming server So you can just click here and change the the region that you're in and finally is youtube By the way youtube categories, which one do we do? I'm not sure how to and style Well, I do kind of like how to guide don't I but then it is tech. So is it science and technology? I'm not sure Some people do entertainment. I don't know that I'm particularly entertaining I'm not really sure which of these to go to so I go into how to and style. I'm certainly not stylish But the bit about how to about these videos, isn't there? So that is where you can select it You obviously can select this in video in youtube itself when you're uploading videos But this is just what it would default to when you're actually streaming to youtube from within ecamm live itself Stream latency now, this is one that gets people's back up quite a lot I think and just because they don't really understand it ultra low latency So that is this is basically when you're streaming How long it's taking for it to go out to the world and for you to hear what's going out to come back as well And so if you need to have comments, for example, you need to somebody posts a comment and you see it as quick as possible Then you would want ultra low latency but That creates problems it creates problems with streaming and most people default to the low latency setting But I'm not really that fuss. I don't I don't do things on on my streams Which are relatively infrequent compared to my videos. I'll stream at the moment once a week to youtube Whereas my videos are more or less daily or a couple of day And so the the stream latency I just have as normal because I'm not like asking questions expecting quick fire answers back So and I think that that just gives my stream the best possible chance really But I know some people go for ultra low latency and then they wonder why there is any lag like as if they think It's going to be instantaneous. Well, it's just not possible. So Yeah, probably low latency is a good option Or if you really don't care and you don't mind about that gap that's like lag between Reaching the interwebs and leaving your mouth Then just go with the normal Next is is it made for kids and I've heard people say You've got to be very careful about this one, you know, even if you're making stuff that you think is, you know Made for children You will go through a lot more hoops if you click this. So it's only really if you are making Content that is specifically for children and you're absolutely sure about that And if you are one of those people then you would know who you are and that is basically the The preferences we've done it. We've gone through all of those preferences What I think I'm going to do in a separate video because we're now at 30 minutes I don't want to keep you too long. I don't want to waste any more of your time today I will do one as well where we go through all the menus because there are a lot of things in the menus That I think people maybe aren't aware of or not necessarily aware of the implications of them So I'll do that in another video if there's anything that I've mentioned in here that you have any strong opinions or mild opinions Or are curious about then do go ahead and leave it in the comments And while you're there then also don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button And yet give me your feedback on what you think about the the preferences. It's one of I know it's a hot topic Anything that you are doing differently to the way I'm doing it Then I'm always open to suggestions and open to learning as you know I've changed my ways literally on this video itself I've thinking of a different way or a different approach to doing things So always looking for new ideas and things like that So that's all for this video, but do not go anywhere because as you know There's always more great videos coming up next. So enjoy some of those and I'll see you again soon. Have a great day