 If you've lost track of all of the great new features over the past several beta releases have become live Well, don't worry. I've got a roundup of them all coming up right now Hello, welcome to take one tech my name is Alec and this video is going to be something slightly different because it's actually an excerpt from my recent livestream And I do a weekly livestream on Fridays at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 5 a.m. For me here in Thailand So yeah, do look out for that and I always look forward to welcoming people to join me on the stream as well So if you just want to come and hang and chat then Do look out for that and then yeah, I always put a join link up So we can come and have a little chat about whatever the topic of the day is and today The topic happened to be all of the latest beta releases and in particularly it was about really when all of these features Actually do hit the final version of version 3.9 of the account live It's gonna be quite a massive leap for people who haven't been on the beta release schedule to try out all these features because to me We're on beta 4 Beta 3 was a sort of incremental update where they did just a couple of little minor fixes in that But one two and four have been to my mind. They could have just been major releases There were so many features packed into them that all were worthy of a Final release to my mind So I was blown away by it and when I started going through looking at like what had actually been added in I've kind of forgotten all of the great stuff that was added in in the earlier releases. So the earlier beta So that was the point of the live stream today. That's why I sort of focused on mostly And so what I thought I'd do is because obviously there was more things in the live stream as well I do a little update on my 360 videos 365 videos in a year challenge and some other things that I'm doing and stuff like that And then obviously the chat at the end so I thought some people may appreciate just a rundown of all of the features And so that's what I'm going to do now I'm just going to cut straight over to the the excerpt of all of the features And then I will leave a list in the the description as well of all of these features as well So this is just basically a rundown of them if you do want to see actual full demos of all of these features then I have done a video on beta 1 2 and 4 as Well, so I'll leave a link to those in the description if you want to go and actually watch those full videos But for now, I'm going to hand straight over to myself from the past And I'll see you on the other side So what I thought I'd do is just literally run through the things and I've sort of grouped them into Loosely into different sort of components or different things that they've added. So the first one is profiles This is something that lots of people had asked for and lots of people had workarounds because people use them for different things I how many profiles have I got? Let me just have a quick look because I've got One two three four five six seven eight nine eight twelve profiles So I've got two basically twelve different use cases for e-cam live Now previously the way that this was done is I had a whole load of folders and each folder had a load of Different scenes and things like that in it. So that's not really ideal because well It's just too many to too many to have in your list for a start, isn't it? So having profiles means you can basically have a whole set of a whole setup for One particular show or one particular use case that you've got for it And then you can just switch between them. And so that means that you know, you don't have all of your You know all of the overlays for one show are all in the list of overlays for the other way So you've got a massive big list It just makes it so much easier to To work with really the other thing about it is it's actually the way that the profiles work So it's it's it becomes like a package basically that has all of the assets for that profile within it And that means that you can just drag the profile out or rather export it I should say And then you can send it to someone and then they can open it up and they've got all of the things in it So they've got all of the videos and image overlays and things like that all Containing one file. So it makes it great for backup purposes, but also just for sharing between Between other people as well. So that is really really helpful As a feature and like I say that one alone is something that a lot of people had asked for so that's going to be pretty good to see that implemented the next one is Formatting so there's now lots of different ways that you can format now specifically really I'm talking about overlays But it does apply to other stuff as well. So I had a list here. There's quite a lot of these so Rounded corners on overlays Like I've got on my my camera board actually This is still a graphical overlay that I'm using here but to be able to put these rounded corners on camera overlays on Screen sharing overlays, which will obviously come to that was a new feature in itself And text overlays as well We've got the new shape this the squircle for the camera overlays, which I actually really like that It's got a nice sort of aesthetic look to it, hasn't it quite a pleasing look to it. So there's that then Yet rounded corners, that's quite versatile it can be on all corners or just one of them or two of them or three of them or whatever So that's pretty great More with text overlays as well So they can slide in now from the left or right as they could before but also from the top and bottom So if you're animating text on the screen by the way the animation that I've got down here That's running that in keynote, which was obviously what my last video was about or one of my last videos So I'm running this as a screen share overlay, but we'll come to that in a minute What else can you do with with formatting so well cropping as well cropping overlays? And it makes it much easier to you could always resize and have a custom size for your camera overlays and things like that But now to just be able to crop into them and resizing sizing them is is easier now You can just drag it on The side of the image and drag it and it will resize the the whole thing Whereas before you had to drag the corner and it was always a real pain to be honest because if you got near the Edge where like where the buttons were then you'd have to hide the UI and then grab them in it was just a little bit finicky to To actually grab those corners sometimes when you're organizing things Also now support for cut copy and paste of scenes and overlays so that is that makes things a lot easier as well And also the thing about that is you can cut copy and paste between profiles as well Which is obviously another new feature the profiles feature, but it means that you can yeah Just copy stuff between your profiles, which is really really useful What else did they add this is quite a long list? So yeah resizing duplicating. Oh, that's so that's it Yeah, you've got a contextual menu on the layers so you can actually send them a bit like you could do in you know Photoshop or an editing photo editing thing where you could you can basically move stuff stuff back in the stack So you can do that from the contextual menu menu You can also obviously do it in the overlays panel by dragging things up and down the list and that just sort of Arranges where they are in this stack The other thing is the adding stroke to the outside of things So like a border like I've got around the The camera here as well as I say this is a graphical overlay, but you can get the same effect now with just with the camera overlay So Yeah, that's why I think that these these sort of graphical overlays like I'm using here at the moment are going to be pretty Much redundant could you just build it all in e-count and I'm sure well I can't wait to see what else they're going to do in the next After this release what they're going to iterate on next because it's just it's just massive So let's have a little look what else they've got so they got another another couple of things This is something I haven't used but they've got Widgets HTML widgets that you can now run locally so before you could always like import things So you could have little widgets that pop up, you know when you get new subscribers or things like that But now you can actually create HTML widgets have them locally and have them running So that's something I'm definitely going to play around with I've never actually built any of those but I was gonna say obviously, but I do know about creating things in HTML So it'd be interesting to actually play around with that a nice little nice little project couple of extra fit fit fixes Keeping the widgets running in the background, which was which was a good one because it was always a case of when you if you Activated a widget overlay. So like for example, my buy me a coffee link If I activate that overlay, then it used to take a little while to just sort of load up before it appear on screen Whereas now you can have it so that it's continually running in the background and then when you toggle that overlay on It just appears with no load time. So that's quite useful So yeah, lots of basically Formatting things for the way that you can control the way things look on the screen And these are the ones that I think are going to make as I say most the overlays redundant And so the the next one is the big one Screen sharing overlays and all of the things they've done in that That was just it was always a pain point for me to be honest trying to explain to people how to do screen sharing in e-cam live well because they only really had the option of sharing the the the screen as a Like full frame and then you could always put the camera in and do picture-in-picture And then swap them around so that the screen sharing bit was picture-in-picture But it was a bit of a bit of a workaround really that was because it meant that when I'd got like my sort of Traditional I say traditional my usual sort of screen sharing shot where I've got my screen And then I've got my little picture up in the top corner The the picture of the screen was basically a picture-in-picture Behind that was full screen like my camera and then I'd got my other camera Overlay over the top of it and an image overlay over the top of that So it was a bit of a workaround really because it meant you'd always got this secondary camera thing running in The background whereas now just to be able to add the camera overlay as the the sorry the screen sharing as an overlay And then add in all of these little features It means you can do things well like that one that I did with my little stats where let me just bring that up again Quickly it's just to show so this thing where I got these stats up So that is just basically a little cropped-in version of a specific portion of the screen And then you can still see my mouse over it where you're not sharing the whole screen I'm also not sharing the whole app because that's just a little portion of the YouTube studio on running on Chrome So that's really great The one thing that they haven't got in there at the moment This was the thing that actually I put in as a feature request is when you are sharing the entire screen as a The source of the scene is a screen sharing There's an option that you can toggle in the in the settings to show and hide Or to show all of the the econ windows as well Now if you're doing stuff full-screen then you can obviously Do this in demo mode as well. You just do demo mode and then everyone can see everything But my specific use cases sometimes when I'm doing my demos I want to show a specific window or a specific part of the ecamm live interface So it would be great to have a screen sharing overlay, but then crop in to just that window The only problem is that little toggle that you've got in the preferences for ecamm live where it shows all of the Ecamm windows it only works if you've got the the source of the scene is the the screen sharing It doesn't work if you with screen sharing overlays at the moment So or at least it hasn't been for me. So I've put that in as a as a feature request anyway, or I Actually submit it as a bug but then it turns out to I think it was Ken or Glenn said it only works with the mains or screen Sharing as opposed to screen sharing overlays, but yeah adding in this feature is with the Being able to just add in screen sharing is is brilliant as an overlay and then with the latest Beta obviously this is what my whole recent series is about About green screen with it. This is another thing that I've made Videos about before with how I used it with keynote and there were lots of ways you could get keynote into Into ecamm and have this effect. So I did it previously with a Ndi source and then had that as the camera overlay So it was basically achieving the same effect but using Ndi But I'm not a fan of Ndi to be honest. I don't like the way it behaves sometimes with when you're doing screen sharing like that so you can shut down sometimes if you shut down the The the window so the keynote window for example, then it sort of totally lose it Ndi seems to lose that that that window. So if you open it back up again, then you have to go and reset Ndi or Set that window as the Ndi source again And it's just a bit of a pain whereas this one you can just toggle it on and off It's say it's quite quite easy and intuitive the other thing that I found with Ndi Doing it that way and I don't quite know why this should be But it always seemed as though when I did that with using Ndi and bringing a keynote presentation into ecamm And then toggle the green screen on I always found that it sort of affected the colors more than this one So this one the color that I'm getting now in this in this image below Is like as is as it should be it's accurate Whereas when I did it over as a camera overlay using Ndi this sort of like bluey color here that's in this sort of banner Would have been affected slightly because it's got a slight elements of green in it So it's as if I don't know the way to I don't know the technical reason why this would be But it's almost as if the keying is like more sort of precise I want to say that word precise for just removing just the green rather than other colors around it So yeah, I don't know I don't know why that is but it just certainly does seem a lot to better But to have it integrated in any case as a as a feature where you just toggle it on and off is just Pretty amazing really the other thing that this is great for is for Like when you're having transitions and things like that then you could do those in keynote now The other feature request that I put in which I don't know how trivial this is to do Was to basically have the same little toggle for the green screen for video overlays because This is great because you can bring in keynote presentations And so my specific use case for this is going to be when I'm doing more like presentation stuff either on zoom or for course material that I make Rather than the YouTube channel But it does mean that I've got keynote running now and all of these little transitions that I've got running our live Transitions in keynote. Well, if you think about making like a some sort of stinger or something like that that comes across the screen to Go between scenes and things like that if we could if we could make those in keynotes Which you can obviously and that's gonna be one of my videos this week as well But then export them as videos and just bring them into Ecamm and just toggle the green screen there It would make a lot of a lot of sense But again, I don't know how trivial that is whereas at the moment I have to export it then I have to remove the green and then have to bring it into the the scene Obviously you can do Slides with a transparent background and so if you've only got some basic stuff on the screen then that would work But it wouldn't work to do what I'm doing here where it's actually animating the the green components because what you can't do is sort of Subtracts from the the background during an animation you can only sort of say right well Here's the the writing I want to subtract this from the shape behind but it's sort of like a static thing then so so yeah being able to have green screen working with Movies would be great and it would just mean you could just bring a movie in that's got like green elements and just remove them with a little toggle So that's me wishing we'll see if it makes it in though. So so yeah, it's green sharing is pretty amazing Next we had what was it on my list cameras? So There's a few things being added so camera effects. I know this there's still a couple of feature requests that we're waiting for Michael I'm talking with you So the first one though is the camera effects window We've got a thing where if you set up your camera effects because they are Remembered on a scene by scene basis So if you've got a camera in you can tweak things like the color the brightness the temperature and all that sort of stuff And it's just for that particular scene But now there's a little button so you can basically just apply this to all scenes Which is great because it means obviously if you do want to make changes to your camera Then you can just set it up in one scene and then apply to all scenes. So that's quite handy And you've also got a button to rotate so you can rotate your cameras by 90 degrees or whatever you do silly things like that That's useful though with things like overhead shots where you might have your camera positioned and the way that it's mounted or whatever You want to be able to rotate it? So that's definitely something that something I've had before with an overhead. So that would be useful And then we've got things just little tweaks really about how you can when you zoom in you can constrain things onto an Axis so if I sort of zoom in a little bit Before you can always pan around like this But now if you just hold shift down it would just keep it on a particular axis. So that's that's quite useful I think So yeah, these are sort of like little minor sort of tweaks that actually do make a difference and add up to sort Really quite an amazing update overall. So what else did they add it in? I'll support for some of the cameras some of the newer cameras that have come out over USB So I mentioned that in my my other video, but yes for the a6600 the ZVE 10 DSC a7s and Fuji film fgx 100 s So those now just work when you plug in a USB cable. They just work over USB Which is great And then network cameras as well or something else they added in and then they've updated the virtual camera But I've used the virtual camera every day many times a day But it's I've not noticed anything I've not noticed what they've done So it must be just something like under the hood as it were So that is the the camera updates next is for streaming So now you can stream to Twitter now I've got to find out what what happened with this because I did actually add add in my Twitter credentials And then went to try going live and it said it I couldn't stream to it live So I've got I just go and check just time to go in I don't know if it completed the sort of authentication process So I just need to log into Twitter and see See what I can figure out about it, but certainly streaming to Twitter is a thing. So That's been added in. They've also added in a couple of other little things like the Twitch twitch ingestion selection so you can just select which server like local to where you are you're selecting So or you're streaming through so as we already had with the LinkedIn and the the Facebook one I think have that as well So that is that the next thing is interview mode big updates in there in terms of the way that works I mean the I think it was that beta 2 or beta 1 I can't remember now it's quite a while ago and there's been so many but Yeah, that's added some things so you can like customize your link title and things like that It's added in the chat for interview chat So when you've got people on the interview, you've got a put a sort of a chat between the people on the on the interview as well and Then what else do they add? Customization of the links title. Oh, you've got that. Oh, and then also being able to sort of brand the links that you send out to people as well You can add in your Obviously your domain and things like that into it or your name rather so customize the link But then you can also add your image for it the you know how it shows up when you send it out in messages and things like that And then also what did they add as well? There was also the logo So when the person on the other side is logging in It's got your sort of branding and logo on that actual the actual sort of login page for the interviewee as well So that's that's pretty pretty great. And then finally what we've got is Streamdeck so they've added some new stream deck functionality What did they add the mute? So you've now got with the mute key You can now mute specific interview ease or guests on the show I should say so you can set the key to to mute guests one two and three and four and so on They've also added in a play animated overlay button So before you always had show and hide overlays There's just a bit of a quirk with that though because if you had a video that ran to you know A blank screen at the end or something like that if you just use the show overlay button It would play the video and then it would go to the end where it was blank And then it would stay on screen So if you wanted to play that again when you press the button it would actually have the effect of just hiding it So you'd have to press the button again to get it to show again. So the the Animated overlay button basically it will just play the the animation regardless of if it is currently Technically visible as an overlay or not. So whether or not the overlay itself is toggled on it would just play the video So, you know that sort of fixes that problem There's then there's a few three that basically or two that I'd had before as multi-actions So I had to have a multi-action to switch to Ecamm and then toggle the keyboard shortcut and so one of those was Live demo mode. So now there's just a button for that And then also there's one to show and hide the window controls over the top of Ecamm So that's handy if you're doing sort of, you know before you're actually live or recording You just sort of adjusting layouts and things It's kind of good to just get all of the controls off the screen And so there's a button for that and then they've also got one to show and hide the the most recent comment as well Well, there you go. That is the roundup of all of the features. I'm sure to be honest I might have missed one or two out of there because there was so many to go through in the list It was very easy for me to lose my place So if you haven't checked out the videos that I've done where I actually go and demonstrate all those features Definitely check those out They'll be in the description for beta one two and four as I mentioned at the beginning beta three was just sort of a little few little minor bug fixes and things like that So yeah, highly recommend you go and watch those and I've said it before and I'll say it again I think this release is going to be a real sort of game-changer in terms of the way that people Use ecamm live or the things rather that they can do with it It actually takes it forward quite a few steps things before that we had to do with a few little workarounds and complexity and stuff Like that can now just be done in the application itself and certainly things like creating graphical overlays and stuff like that to sort of mask edges of the Cameras and things like that. It's just all built in so I think it makes it a lot more accessible for people where they're not necessarily gonna need to sort of have Designed graphical overlays and all that sort of stuff So yeah, I will no doubt be making some videos about how to make the most of all the new features once once it's released as well But in the meantime like I say check out those videos that I did of the the betas themselves And I'd love to hear what your thoughts are if you've been using the beta if you haven't but you're looking forward to it What is your favorite feature and all that sort of stuff? So definitely go and leave all of that down in the the comments down below always love to hear from everybody And then also while you're down there go and hit that like button as well and share it with a friend if you've got a friend who uses e-cam live and Obviously subscribe and turn on notifications. Now as I said at the beginning This was an excerpt from my live stream that I did today And I do do a weekly live stream at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on a Friday So so yeah, look forward to catching some of you there I'm also thinking because what happened at the end of this live stream was Or rather the sort of second half if you like when I had people on Joined by Michael and Greg they had a few questions for me about things related to e-cam live and so on So what I thought I'd do as well is perhaps sir Haven't actually scheduled this yet But maybe also be doing start doing a sort of weekly Q&A where I just answer any questions about e-cam live or any Tech and things like that or automation I've been doing a few videos about things like keyboard maestro and all that sort of stuff So I'll perhaps set up a Q&A Livestream as well. So if that sounds appealing to you then I'd love to hear from you in the comments as well and maybe some suggestions for times as well because I do realize that I'm sort of Cutting out a certain segment of the world at the moment by doing that the live stream at the time that I do So I know that most people in the UK and Europe are sort of in bed So I might look to do something. That's a bit more European friendly as a as a former European myself Maybe do something at a slightly different time than normal But anyway, yeah, love to hear from you what you thought about think about that idea as well So do let me know about that But in the meantime, I shall leave you now and let you get on to some of more of these great videos That are coming up over on the right-hand side and I'll leave my e-cam live playlist over at the bottom right Have a great day and I'll see you again soon You