 Hello, and welcome to the live stream today. We're talking about how you can use some of the new features in Ecamm Live to create a, well, something a little bit like I've got up here, in fact, a sort of live news show using green screen. But also a lot of what's going on behind me is just the shape features in Ecamm. And this whole stream has come about because of a couple of things really. Somebody in the Take One Tech Academy was looking to start a weekly live stream or a more regular live stream, in fact, thinking about the format of it. And we were talking about a news show for news in your industry. Now, I'm not suggesting that you necessarily want to have, this is to you, David, not necessarily suggesting that you want to have something that looks like a full-on news set by any stretch. But it was just this idea, and it's something that has been in the back of my mind for my content for some time now, is to have sort of updates around things that are happening in the creator space, and then actually for the purpose of chopping that up into short form content. The other thing is that I did a show over on the, well, actually a workshop over on the Ecamm channel. A couple of weeks ago now it was called Ecamm Tools and Tech. I've linked down to the whole playlist in the description. And that was a number of things related to things adjacent to Ecamm. And one of the things we talked about in there on day four was specifically lighting and green screen. And I went through and did a demo of how you can get sort of better effects with green screen. Or I should say better results with green screen. So I thought it would be useful as well to have a sort of practical application of that and show how and why you may want to do it. So just to sort of give you a little idea of what I've been looking to build out, I'll give you an example now of the sorts of things that I want to be able to do. So it is giving sort of updates on the latest news. So I can talk about Shure's new release of the SM7DB microphone, which came out just a couple of days ago. And then talk around that and talk about how this is a new device, which is essentially just the original SM7B, but with a built-in cloud lifter. So just in case this isn't supposed to be a full new show, but just engage your interested, I can pop up this and just sort of explain that. Yeah, the SM7DB. If you know anything about the SM7B, you'll know it's a little bit gain hungry. So often people would need to plug in an extra device, either a cloud lifter or a FET head in order to give that extra gain to then take that into whatever audio interface they've got. As it happens, the ROCUSTER Pro 2, the ROCUSTER Duo, have got really good preamps with lots of gains. So you don't actually need one when you're using the SM7B with a ROCUSTER. But nevertheless, a lot of people do need to use one of those devices. So the SM7DB basically integrates that thing with the cloud lifter, the game booster, the preamp with the inside the housing of the microphone itself. So all of that little thing, just a demo, that this is the sort of thing that I want to be able to do, to be able to show and put up on screen these different titles, these different overlays like this. Maybe I can go on to another one and have a little pop out here with this thing. Maybe I want to talk about something on screen. I'm going to press a load of buttons because I've just got everything set up as overlays. So you'll see how this is all going to go through. I'll show you the full screen and exactly what I'm doing in a moment. May want to do things with screen sharing, to be able to bring in screen shares rather than, you know, the my sort of traditional videos, which is kind of like me in a window or over to one side and then the screen share on the other side, you know, having something like this where it does look like it's sort of stuff coming on to the screen instead of that and still being able to kind of obviously demo things in here. Another thing then would be to bring up comments and there was a great idea in the, actually in the beta group I think it was when we were first trying out 4.1, about a different way to handle comments actually and it was this idea of instead of, you know, a little strip along the bottom with comments, being more intentional about, you know, when you want to actually bring in comments. So having something like this where you've got a specific dedicated space for them. And then I can just pop this comment up here. Obviously the sizing is all wrong because it's the first time I'm doing this. But here you go. Let me just come in and quickly edit the size of that text. That's the joy of ECAM. We can do that. So let me come in. Hi, Dan, by the way, while I'm just fiddling about with this, let me just say hi, Dan, to great to see you here. It is indeed 5 a.m. for me here. So there we go. And in fact, I've got the little bug up in there in the corner. So yeah, being a bit more intentional about where you're bringing these comments in. And as I say, first time I'm actually running this live. So obviously the comments are all going to be completely out of place as is the way these things go. Hey, Parker, great to see you here. Funny, I'm thinking a couple of comments that were in the very beginning aren't there. But anyway, there we go. Thank you for waking up. So well, to be honest with you, I get up at about three o'clock in the morning every day anyway. So I'm fully awake. I'm caffeinated. I've had my two coffees now. So if I take that down and take that away, then we could go on to like the next news story. And I've got another little pop out here. So one thing that happened actually last week was that the YOLO live in stream has had a firmware update. So this is a device for live streaming to vertical platforms. And now you can add in two streams at the same time. So if you want to stream to Instagram and TikTok, you can do that from that. And incidentally, I was just talking through a coaching client with this device. One of the reasons why I was so interested in this was because it allows you to stream to Instagram. And a lot of people don't actually have that ability. So there's a thing in Instagram's terms of service where you only can stream from the actual mobile app. They announced last year that they were going to be rolling out this feature so that you could stream from basically ECAM or any sort of desktop streaming software as well with a stream key. But to be honest with you, it's been a really slow rollout. And so the in stream allows you to do that. And you can actually just take an HDMI out of your computer into that and still use all of the ECAM goodness. You just set the video monitor on ECAM to that HDMI output. And then basically this just acts as the sort of bridge between ECAM and Instagram, all those other platforms. It is though, obviously, an all in one streaming platform as well. So it's got a built in battery and so on. So that is a digression. But I'll be going into that in a separate video. But what I'm trying to show here is these are the sorts of things that I want to be able to add up, maybe also adding up a segment to talk about what's coming up in the next week in terms of content and things like that. So this is the idea that I've been trying to build out. As you can see, I've got a sort of live video background. There's not much going on, but you can see, you can see just there. There's some lights going on and off on those buildings. This is like a live Bangkok scene. Well, say live, it's not a live scene. It is a recorded scene. But it's on a loop. So it's got some sort of slight bit of motion and movement going on in there. So let's talk about the actual scene itself then and what I wanted to achieve with this. I wanted something that had a little bit of depth to it. As I say, I've just talked about the actual video background there. I didn't want something just a completely blank or solid background of that video. I wanted something else, some other on screen elements to add a little bit of interest. So the idea of we've got this thing down here. So some sort of wood effect going on down at the back there with the impression of some sort of window behind. I actually saw, I forget where it was, I saw it on some other, I think it was on a TV show in fact, or TV news or something like that. This idea of a scrolling ticket that is behind you as well. So obviously you can have sort of information scrolling tickers at the top. So something like this. I don't know where all my buttons are at the moment because I'm just set up my stream deck for this. But something like this so you could have like, you know, some sort of information, a bit like, you know, breaking news style ticket, not that I'm going to be doing breaking news really with my thing. But that's obviously like an information ticket, but then having something in the background. And I found it was quite effective actually, when you think about chopping this stuff up into short form content. So just to give you a bit more insight, the idea of the, this will be an actual show that I do, the creator report. And I'll do it as a sort of 30 minute show, but then I'll split it up into shorter segments to then post that to TikTok and Instagram and things like that. So it was actually a sort of clip of a new show on one of those platforms that I saw this same kind of effect of something in the background, scrolling that just added a little bit of interest, I thought. So I've repurposed the idea for here. I've also got this thing going on on the side with the sort of video effect going on here. It is semi-transparent as well. So you can kind of see the ticket just behind it, but to sort of give some indication of maybe some sort of screen and obviously the particular thing that I saw, I say, obviously, it was obvious to me at the time was that this was part of a larger TV set, if you like. So, you know, obviously when you see a newsreader sort of in this close up shot, then you're often just looking at a portion of the overall studio. So that was just sort of part of the idea of this was to give some sort of indication of that. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go through and, hey, Wayne, by the way, I'll just say hello to you popping into the chat. In fact, let's do this the proper way, shall we? I can pop up my little comment window like this and then I can pop in your comment just like that. I'm currently using Switcher Studio. I'm watching today to see if my iPhone 4s on DJI Gimbalz can make the transition to Ecamm. I imagine I would lose the remote control Gimbalz. Let me think. If you can get the camera into Ecamm wirelessly, actually, there's a few ways you could do that. There is the Camo app. There's also Shoot is another one made by one of the folks in the Ecamm community. There's also NDI HX camera as well, which allows you to transmit the video from your camera into Ecamm as well or over NDI in any case. So that could be a way that you could get that in. The remote control of the Gimbalz though, yeah, you would need to have some way of doing that other than that. So yeah. Hey, Marinex. Great to see you here and hello, Eileen. Always a pleasure to see you too. Right, so let's go through the process of how this has all been built out. So let me take that off the screen. So what I'm going to do is I'll just go into my live demo mode and we'll basically just strip it back to its bare essentials and we'll see how we've put it all together. So again, fumbling around for the buttons. First time I'm using this setup. So what I'll do is I'll come in here. I'll go into my screen sharing here, my live demo, and I'm just going to go through and toggle off a load of these things. So what I've done is I've sort of organized, maybe I should just talk on this for a little moment, is over here I've just basically got my overlays window. This is all just done in one single scene. So there's no sort of multi-scenes, things like screen sharing, I'm bringing on as overlays, but I've split this down into a number of things. So we've got some sort of background elements. In fact, we've got the background image or the video. We've got the sort of window frame thing going on, the background ticker, the mid-ground, so this sort of stuff, actually that sort of wood framing and so on, and then some stuff in the foreground. So what I'll do is I'll just sort of go through and toggle this off. So those ones are already off. I'm going to toggle off that little time thing in the top corner. So I'll take that one off. Then we've got the main camera obviously. I'll take that one off as well. This is what's going on in the background. I've got the the mid-ground there, so I'll take that off, and then I'm going to take out the the background ticker as well, and then the the window framing, and then you can see that we've got that video, and it's kind of like slightly off-center because obviously that's the way it was framed in the shot, but this is just essentially a video. Now if I just unlock that, and I can move it around, there you go, that is the basic raw video in the background. Actually, when I downloaded this from Adobe Stock, the video seemed a little bit slow to me, so the oh sorry a little bit fast, you know like the blinking lights and so on, that are going on up over here. These kind of things were just really seeming like too quick, like these ones in particular, these little lights that sort of chase up the side of the building, although it's you know a real thing. It seemed like the Adobe Stock image had been sped up, so I actually slowed it down to half speed, so you've got this weird sort of frame rate issue going on with these cars down here. I didn't want to have the cars in shot obviously because of it looping, you would just see the same same things jumping about as the the video loops, so I wanted to take that off, but then I've got the where is it now, the background blur, so at the moment I've that was already left on, but can you see how that is sort of subtly blurring out that background? So I wanted to add here it is sort of without that blur and then I'll just add it on, whoops add it on, and it's just added that bit of blur to make it seem a little bit further in the distance, so it's giving that sort of camera effect, the bokeh effect. So there is another layer of blur coming in a little bit later, so for the time being though that is the background, there is then like a vertical window frame, so I wanted to add in something that appears as if it is some sort of frame and that is this one, this is just literally shape overlays, so what I've got is I've got a single rectangle there and actually the effect on that is that it is a plain rectangle with just a color of sort of dark gray color, but then I've added a shadow on it, but I've made the shadow sort of solid and that is what is giving this effect of it's almost like it's casting a bit of a shadow, but it also appears that it's got some sort of depth to it, so if you imagine sort of, you know, a gray front and then you can see the side of the thing as well, if I increase the distance you can see that that is the sort of shadow, and so just putting that there just adds a little bit of depth to that, so it starts to look like an actual, you know, potentially a window frame element, or at least in my head that is what I was going for, but then I wanted to, I didn't just want to have that as a sort of plain thing on the screen, let me just move this, the background around a bit, I think I've probably moved that slightly too much out of place, whoops, let me unlock that, I think it was around about there, something like that, with that big tall building in the in the shot, so yeah, then I wanted to add some more sort of interest to that as a as an element, so it didn't just look like a plain frame, so I wanted to give the effect of some sort of lighting going on, maybe on the outside of it, you know, so you're still seeing it through the window, because obviously you still got the depth there of the thing, so that is just basically two rectangles that are using the gradient fill, so it's a shape which is with a gradient fill, so in ecam now with, we've got shape overlays, that's the first thing that was added in, but here you can see that we can choose between either a solid color, a gradient motion would add, you know, some sort of rotating motion to the gradient, we didn't want that, but here I've basically just selected a solid color and then fading out to a transparent color, and that's what gives that effect of almost like this sort of lighting fading away, the wood panel, this was a an image, again adobe stock is my friend, so I've got this image that I got from adobe stock, and what I've basically done with the sort of midground section, I've done a number of things here, so first of all I've just used the wood panel down at the bottom there, I've also got this strip here, you know what in effect, in actual fact rather, this horizontal gray here, I'd actually made that in another application, I just bought the thing into keynote, when I was sort of planning out this, but this whole thing here you can see it's exactly the same process as this, so although technically I'm just realizing I haven't I'm going to remade this in ecum, this is just an image down below, this is just could be a gray shape overlay, and then this yellow graduated effect would be just the same as that, this part here is the exact same image, I've just sort of zoomed in on a particular portion of it, and then cropped out the edges, so that's how I've got this sort of strip down here, and again the lights on either side is just that sort of faded effect, exactly the same as we've got there, the other thing that I wanted to do though in that panel was I wanted to add in the that sort of scrolling video effect, so what I did was I just again, Adobe stock, I've got this video, in ecum obviously you can crop things, so just as I've cropped everything else, then I've just cropped this, so if I hold down the option key, this is basically just cropped in on this video, so that is how I'm doing that, but that, as it was just there, was a little bit on the bright side, so I didn't want to have anything too bright going on, so I did a couple of things actually, the first one I did was I sort of dimmed it, so I added in it just a square over the top of it, that basically just dims it a little bit, so it's not so intrusive, the other thing I've done is I should actually put in the background ticker as well, so I have that ticker scrolling, and this is basically, once again, it is just a rectangle here with the scrolling ticker in it, you can see how it's got a transparency to it, and then again, we've got these shapes on either side to give that effect just there. With the video incidentally, you can make any object transparent, so over on this side here, I wanted to have the sort of scrolling ticker, also slightly visible in the background to give this impression of, I'm quite liking the aesthetic of something that appears like almost like a glass screen, or something like that, or a glass screen even, and so there you can see slightly the thing coming through in the background from behind that, so the way that you do that is on any overlay, if I go to this video overlay, then you have got the opacity setting, so I can set that opacity there on that video at the side from completely transparent all the way to, you can't see through it at all, so I just had a slight transparency, just so that you could see that ticker sort of edging in from the side there, just like that in the background, so there we've got the scrolling ticker then going, let me just lock some of these, again just made up with rectangles and shapes and so on, so if I hide the mid-ground now, that's basically where we're up to, we've got that sort of thing that is going on in our background, I wanted to add another layer of blur on this so that it is just looking a little bit more subtle so that when you look at it on camera it's not so sharp, because obviously if you were, if it was in real life the camera would be, you know, depending on the focal range the background would be slightly out of view, so this then is, I've called this shape mid-ground blur because it's for the mid area, but if I just click into the settings here, this is another one of these use cases for the rectangle shape here, and so I've basically just got a rectangle that is completely covering here the the whole screen, so that is where that is, and all I've done is I've gone in here and the fill, this is where some of these effects come in, you've got the no fill, color, gradient or motion, which is the ones we talked about previously, but now we've also got this blur, zoom, motion, pixelate and all of these different kinds of things, let's just show you one of these other ones, if you want the comic effect, there's what it looks like, hex effect, which sort of pixelates out the background a little bit, you've got the twirl effect, so I had a question or comment on some of my, on one of my videos, which was the 4.1, you can 4.1 update, and like what's the purpose of all of these different effects, well the reality probably, I'm guessing, I haven't actually asked this question directly, but the reality probably is all of these effects are just part of a library that's available to developers in, you know, when they're developing for Mac, you know, where they can access these different effects, and so I doubt that, you know, they've physically gone in encoded by hand, this twirl effect, the pinch effect, the, you know, all of these different effects, so it's just a case of, you know, adding in or giving access to this library to then allow for these effects, so the ones that really, for me, are the useful ones, is the blur, because there we go with blur in the background, then the other one would be, let me have a look, the zoom, to be honest with you, again, that's one that I wouldn't use, it just gives a sort of zoomed effect, like as if you're, you know, warp speed type effect, same with the motion, it does a side-to-side blur, pixelate, I can see being really useful if you want to sort of pixelate out the screen, not that you would do it in this particular instance, but certainly when you're doing stuff with screen sharing and you want to pixelate out an area of the screen, then it could be really practical for that point of view, but for me, the blur one is this one that I'm finding is really useful for this specific use case, so that is kind of like our background shot that is done there, so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to lock that off, and I'm going to put my camera back in, so sorry, I'm back on the screen now, so I'm using obviously green screen, so what I could do is if I just pull over my camera, I've got my camera here, and if I just toggle off the green screen, you can see that I'm basically over the whole of the image there, just with a green screen behind me. As I say, I've linked to the video in the description, which is all about from the Ecam tools and tech workshop on day four, I talked about green screen and how to get the best results of it, some people think you just need to flood yourself with light, you end up looking well, it's not necessarily flattering if you're just blasting your entire, you know, all the light is coming from the front, the secret really is to illuminate the green screen and make sure that that is well lit, and there's a good separation between you and that, and that's going to give the computer the best opportunity to actually key it out and figure out where you are and where the green screen is, so that's kind of really one of the secrets with green screen, and if you go back and watch that demonstration that I did in Ecam tools and tech, you'll see that I did a sort of fireside scene where I simulated, you know, a flickering fire, and the lighting was really, really quite dim on me, but the back was still flooded with light, and I've got flags in place, let me just quickly switch to a different scene, so that you can see I won't go into a full green screen demo, but I'll at least show you from this side angle what's going on here, so I've got my lights in front of me, but the green screen, actually that's light that you can see there, that is not the light that is intended for the green screen, that's just shining on the back of me to sort of separate me a little bit more from the background, the one that's actually shining on the green screen, you can't see the light source because it's behind a, where is it, this sort of this flag, so it's actually a strip of cardboard, but it's a long strip light and it's behind that, so it's not spilling on me, only the light that I want to come on me is coming on me, that is actually going on the green screen, and I've got another one on the other side, so this is how I'm sort of illuminating the green screen, but you can have really dim light on yourself if the background warrants it, and then still be, you know, still have the good separation between you and the background, so don't just think you've got to blast your entire front with light, that is not going to give necessarily the best results, as we've seen with some examples of that, who shall remain nameless, so let me just come into then in Ecamm, so what we do in here is we've got the green screen that we just toggle on, and you can choose a backdrop in Ecamm, but obviously I've been building out this scene here, so all I wanted to do was use this feature here to use the green screen as transparent, and that means if I'd left that it would have used one of their stock backgrounds, but I just toggled the transparent on, so now I'm obviously transparent in the shot, the other thing that is a bit of a giveaway sometimes with green screen is if you've got something that is a really warm scene, and you are, you know, in real sort of daylight style light, or conversely if you have got something that's more like a daylight scene behind you, but you've got a really warm light on you, then that is going to look a little bit off, so let me just demonstrate what I mean, if I was like in a sort of daylight sort of lighting here, it almost looks out of place with the background doesn't it, because the the lighting on me is not really matching the sort of the background, and so what I'd done was, this is me with sort of, this is just exactly as the light is coming in from the lighting and the camera, I did just think that I needed to be slightly warmer looking just to match with the background slightly, so all I did in that was I did it in Ecamm, I just used this temperature slider, and I just touched it up a little bit so that it goes up to there, so it just added it a little bit more warmth to my pasty white skin, so that is how I did that particular part of it, obviously you've got access to all of the other controls of Ecamm for color, tint and all that kind of stuff, I would always recommend if possible, you ideally want to have these all at zero in an ideal world, because you don't, you want to be adjusting these in the camera rather than making lots of adjustments after the fact, because you you're obviously sort of losing certain things with it, with doing that, but the temperature is one exception where, you know, especially if you're using green screening, you're switching out between different scenes, I don't want to be getting into changing camera settings every time, it's over the sake of this, just to add a little bit of warmth there is the way to go, you can add a LUT, so a lookup table that adds a complete sort of color gradient effect to you, so that would be an exception where, yeah, if you've got a specific LUT that you are using, then you could equally just apply that here, so that is the sort of camera part of it though, that we've got the camera in there now, so then there are a few other elements that I wanted to add in screen, and one of those was this little time thing, I mean to be honest with you, it's a little bit gimmicky, I don't know whether I'd necessarily have that, but they're just up in the top corner, we've got the live time, that is made up of basically a number of different elements, so let's just quickly look at that, we've got the live thing there with a little emoji or symbol for that play symbol, we've got the place Bangkok, actually I'm in the northeast of Thailand, but no one would know where it was if I put that name, and then we've got the clock there as well, so that's just basically the timer feature in Ecamm, when you open up a timer, and you may have seen people or you may have used the countdown timer for a specific amount of time, you know for a live stream and things like that, but you can just click in here and you can choose to use a clock instead, so that is essentially what I've done, now you can set the backgrounds of the text elements themselves, so these things like the live, the Bangkok, the clock and so on, you could set a background for those individual elements, however just for the sort of precision of the sizing and everything like that, I ended up just using a shape overlay, so all of these little things up in this top corner here, that is basically three shape overlays and then the text and the clock are sort of separate over the top of it, I just found that for me it's sort of easier, and again this is a use case for shape overlays, easier to sort of create all of these things so that you can get the exact positioning, and then I put the text over the top and resize that, it's easier than kind of juggling three different text boxes with different spacing and all of that, so that's how I found that to be more useful way of doing it, so again the the shape overlays coming into play there. By the way I like to organize my overlays in general, you know in folders and the thing that you can do with that just while we're there is obviously you've got the little lock symbol next to any overlay, so if I unlock those then now I could be in danger of potentially doing something like that, dragging one of them, moving it, resizing it or whatever, but what you can do with a folder is you can, and this is not new to 4.1 but it's worth mentioning, this little lock symbol here, you can kind of lock all of those elements together, and I kind of gave it away there with that little move, because if I now move this you see how it moves them all together, so putting elements together like that and then locking them means that yeah you can sort of move things around, you do have to be careful, you are still at risk of you know resizing one of the elements for example like that, but generally if you're sort of hovering over the middle then you can sort of move and re-align them, move them and position them relative to one another, so once I've got it in place though, not only are they linked so they're going to stick together, but then I'll just also lock them like that, and so then this is sort of done as an element, that is my little time bug up in the corner, so I'll just collapse that one down and that is done. The next thing then that I could mention is that comment window, so I had this thing where it basically it comes out like that, it's got a number of elements, again it's this kind of like frosted glass appearance that I was I was going for with this, and then if I just pop up a comment you'll see what's going on. Hello illuminated revelation, let's use this as an example, I'm very interested in starting a news channel, this looks amazing, oh thank you very much. ECAM makes it easy, that's all I will say, and great to see you here by the way, and hello Timothy, great to see you too. The green screen is fantastic, especially the detail in the hair, that is the trick, that is the trick, I do have a head for green screen, see it's a lot easier with my luscious locks. And hello, hello the stream elements bot is running as well, that's great to know. Dan, I hope you don't mind me saying this Alec, but a reminder, we are nearing the end of Creator Week and Elgato has some big discounts, oh that is a great thing to point out actually, yes, Elgato is running Creator Week and there is some massive discounts on things like the green screen, so yeah, and it is massive discounts, it's like up to 30% off stuff, so if you want the green screen, something like this then Elgato is by far the best way to go. They used to have, when I first started looking at the Elgato green screens, they had basically a pop-up one on the floor, which was kind of narrow, and then they had a really pretty wide one that was like a pull-down, a roll-down one, a bit like a sort of roller blind. And I don't know exactly when it was added in, but they kind of snuck it into the store. The one that I've got at the moment is the same width as that roll-down one, but it is floor, floor, I was going to say floor mounted, floor standing. So it just sort of pops up out of the things, which is really easy to sort of drop it down to the bottom. So yeah, thanks for mentioning that because that's a great point. In fact, maybe David might watch this. I'll send him a message afterwards, but he was looking for some flat panel key lights. Obviously like the Elgato key lights. So now would be a great time to job on these as well. Hello. They're great to see you in the chat as well. Thank you for stopping by, and yep, almost everything is discounted. So let's pull up this slightly longer comment then, and I'll use this as an example. So what I wanted was this space for the comments to sit. And as I say, I've just got to give a shout out to Paul Dixon, who put this idea in my head because he did a really great demonstration of something he had created from for Laurier Petrucci of Livestreaming Pros, where rather than just the little strips along the bottom with a comment in, which is kind of like how a lot of people do comments when they're doing live streams in YouTube. Me too. It's one of these things that I just saw everyone else is doing and kind of followed the herd as it were. But with these new features in 4.1 of specifically text formatting, which we'll get into, what he had created specifically for Laurier was a dedicated scene that had some really nice design aesthetic going on. And it was this thing of, you know, you've got the specific space on screen for, you know, the comment to come in that looks a little bit different. I don't think I've done as good a job as him in terms of the way that he laid that out. But I quite like this, this sort of transparent glass like aesthetic. So what's going on here then is if I come back to the comment section, the comment itself is coming in up here. So when you add a comment in ECAM, it will just come in basically as an overlay. So we'll get into formatting of that in a moment. And then you can hide the overlay just like that. I say just like that. And that's with a stream deck button. Hey, Paul Dixon, the man himself. This is, I'm glad to, I'm so glad you're here because as I've just mentioned, this is definitely a shout out to you. I've been loving all the things that you've been doing in there, specifically the beta group went up 4.1 came out with all of the ways that we can use these effects. So yeah, Paul, you're my inspiration for a different more effective way of doing comments. So thanks so much. And don't judge me. It's not quite as good as yours. Anyway, let me just come down here and I'll just go through exactly what's going on. So the comment comes in as an overlay and we can apply some formatting to that. And with the comments box though, obviously I've got some different things going on in here. So I'll just show you that. So this is my comments overlay. And so what that means is that I can show and hide this. I can just hide it out of the way and bring it back. And I realized actually when I was doing this with the the animate features where you can have stuff sort of fly in from the left and right with the ECAM. You can't do that with a group. You have to do each element individually and sometimes you get a weird effect like let's say, for example, which is exactly what I did want to do. I wanted to have the the things sort of slide out a bit like my screen share slides out like that. I wanted to do the same with that comment box. However, because it's four different elements in there, they kind of don't come out exactly the same. So a feature request that I'm going to be putting in is to animate an entire group so that the whole group could sort of move in and out of the screen. Sort of a bit like this now that they're linked together. Like I'll just drag it. Like if that could just animate in and out of the screen like that. That would be that would be great, but you have to do it on an individual basis. So what have we got in here then if I show you these different elements? I've got the your comments. So that's just a text overlay. I've then got this little speech bubble thing. Again, Adobe stock just a little line drawing image. So I'll toggle that one off. And then I've got the background. Now the background is actually in two parts because I wanted to have a sort of frosted glass effect, you know, something like that. But I also wanted to blur the background slightly as well. And you yeah, the background of it there because the fill can either be blur or it can be a color. You're basically choosing between one of the two. So I basically just did both of them as two separate overlays. So there I've got I've got the blur going on. But I've also got the background fading of the background as well. So that's basically like my my glass panel if you like. Then I've got my speech bubble. And by the way, that was just really solid white. So I just adjusted the opacity. Did I? Oh, no, I didn't actually. I left it as it was. I take that back. Ignore me. I'm talking nonsense. Oh, no, it is. It is this one here. Yeah, I thought I did. So I just did the opacity because otherwise it was a bit too a bit too white. So I just dimmed the the line drawing there so that it was more the same as the sort of faint border around the the shape there. So let me just lock those ones. And then finally we've got that title back there. So that is an overlay or sorry, a collection of overlays under comments. And that is then I've just got that associated with actually with a stream depth pedal so I can just toggle it on and off when I want to bring up a comment. So let me just do that then. Paul created an awesome custom graphic for the show. Yes. Oh, did he? All right. By the way, I've got to go back and watch the replay of your your your LinkedIn live that you did. I haven't caught the replay of that yet. I like the idea of having a single scene with all the modular items. Yeah, it's funny. Actually, that just came out of by my other things tend to have like lots of different scenes. But actually, because of the way that I wanted to bring these things in and out, it just kind of worked out that I was like, well, yeah, it could be just just an overlay. Having said that, but you know, the dedicated scene that you did for for Laurier just looked amazing. Yeah, as I say, I was inspired. Hey, they're powered by purpose. Just took your course and I'm now a stream deck guru. Oh, that's so great to hear. Yes, the stream deck is an awesome piece of gear. And if you just sort of get to to master how to use it other than for just streaming, that's kind of part of the purpose of the course. So really glad you found it useful. Oh, thank you, Keeley. If you're getting some good use out of this, hit the like button. Thank you very much. Always good to have a reminder. I always forget to remind people myself. So the other thing then whilst we've got this comment up then is if we just take a look at one thing else that was added in ECAM 4.1 before with comments. If you made the comments sort of bigger on screen, then the little avatar also sometimes became ludicrously massive. So what they did is they added this little fader in. So now you can adjust and fix the size of the avatar. So just like that. So let's put that about there. The other thing that you can do with overlays with comments rather is if you just come and edit them, you can edit them just like a text box. We've got all of the same effects. Once again, I could have done the background of the comment itself. But yeah, it was Paul who sort of turned me on to the thing of, yeah, well actually if you create a standard scene, then we don't need to have a background or anything like that in the comment itself because now we can just sort of position it wherever we want over our, you know, whatever background that we are using. So clicking that little pencil icon though, the thing to note is in case you weren't aware is when you open a comment up like this, you can highlight the name, Discord Coach. If you need help, check out Keely, Discord Coach. But then you can also change the font of the text down below. So you have independent control over the name versus the actual comment. So if you change that in here, then that is where it's going to change into this as well. The other thing that they changed in Ecamm4.1 or I should say the functionality the functionality that they added in that and actually that is exactly right, Timothy. Why didn't I do that? Sorry, I've just got distracted by a much better idea. I could put the comment behind me so that it is not blurring out my shoulder. Yeah, I certainly could do that. That would be a better way of doing it, wouldn't it? Right, well, that's easily done because all I need to do is just go to the comments and then I'll just drag that down beneath the main camera and look at that. What a great idea. Thank you for pointing that out. I'll just have to watch that the text doesn't spill out over my shoulder as well. I can move that down above that as well and just hope I don't block that. I could always move out if there's a long comment in there. So I was talking about something then but I got distracted by an idea. That's me with rabbit holes. So the thing that there was added into 4.1 was a different way of handling text actually. So before the text box down at the bottom, if I'm pressing the right button, we had this little text overlay. It brings up a box here. You type in some text like this and then you click on add and it would add the text onto the screen. But when you scale it, it just scales the text like that. And the trouble with that was that then if you had the text font size set in here as 18 or whatever, technically I could have another text box that's got a font size of 18 but it's smaller. So even though if you look in both of those text boxes it will still say font size 18. It was difficult to get consistency because you could easily adjust something in one and then it'd be a different size to the other. So you could never really get them easily just easily get them exactly the same. So what they added into 4.1 and this is the way that the text the comments boxes work as well is they added in this thing here which is a text. Sorry, the first one they now call dynamic text. So these ones they call dynamic text but they added in this text box and this works a little bit differently. So more more text more text and what I'll do is I'll just I'll just copy that and I'll just paste it a few times like this not in search more text more text more text should have been a bit more prepared really you get the idea. So what they did with this though is this then becomes in a text box and what you'll see is that the text box can be bigger than the text. I'm just changing the shape of the box and the text is filling that up. It does have a couple of behaviors though. Either you can have it so that the text will sort of shrink to fit. It will always shrink to fit when it gets to a certain point but you can set it to truncate if you don't want it to do that. So here you can see it says text box shrink but you've got text box truncate as well. So if I scroll that down you see it's just going to cut off the text. There is no shrinking so you can get exactly the same the same thing the the what's the word you can get the the text to to fit in the box that way. The other thing to note is although we've technically got a separate button down here so the text dynamic text and the text box one thing to note is it's basically the same thing. It's just opening the text overlay box but in here you've got the style of the text is either dynamic text box or truncate. We have got a scrolling ticker as well so that's what I'm using for that background text in there. So let me just take this off the screen but all of that was to say that these new text overlays that's the same way that this is working. So if I click into this you'll see that if I go to edit text it's still the same thing here and you can choose between whether you want that to be a shrink to fit or a truncate. So if you wanted it so that the the comment would shrink to fit if it's a long comment and where where do we go? Let's find a long comment in here somewhere. I haven't actually got one but anyway you get the idea you can shrink to fit you can. In fact here we go we've got a useful one. So I don't understand the comment window how do you get that the comments populate into that window? How is this set up? Okay so this is just a comment here. The way that you actually do that is when you've got the comments up on screen if I just click on any comment it will hide it and add it in where are we now? Hey Michelle I'll just say hello to you you see that that comment has come in. If you want to set this up though in advance obviously because when you go live and this is something I didn't quite do properly because obviously when I started the stream my comments were a little bit all over the place but there is an option which is in overlays add placeholder comment overlay so if you want to get your styling and everything set up of your comments in advance of you going live the first time then you would click on add placeholder comment overlay and it basically just gives you like a dummy a dummy comment that you can then change the you can check the size of the avatar you can change the the name text and everything like that and get all the sizing and get it all set up but then basically when you are live you'll see in your comments list here the comments and then you can just sort of click on a comment and that will then come in over here it's putting my window to the back but you get the idea so where are we let's just come down a little bit where are we up to in the the comments here we go yep that says that is Keeley agreeing with the last comment but there so that is how that works though that is the practicality of it it's clicking on the comment and then it will just pop in and then you can either click back again like if I click in Keeley's comment there it will disappear off the screen that's one way of doing it there is also a stream deck button which is hide last comment so basically I've set up two stream deck pedals one is to hide the last comment and then another one is to hide that little comments window so it's a way that I can sort of bring in that just when I need to need to do it so that is the comment section the other thing obviously that has been sort of going on at the beginning of this was that I was also doing things like this and this is something else I'm testing out at the moment full disclosure Veed I'll pay me to make a tutorial video for them and also some mid-roll ads however as part of that I said I really need to test this out first obviously I'm not going to talk about anything if I don't believe in it myself but I'm pleased to say I have been really enjoying using Veed and so this was just an example of putting up a title but if you see my short form content going out then that's all been done with Veed and the purpose of this new show is to reap when I launch it not on the not right now but when the actual the proper show not the demo goes live is I'll be doing like I say a 30-minute segment and then chopping portions out of that doing it very intentionally that each you know five-minute segment or something will be a short form video and I'll be using ECAM to record it but then I'll be taking that into Veed.io to do the the captions and various other different things so but this pop-up though I've got here the way that it animates in and out this is something that is currently out of the scope of ECAM's animation so I am still a keynote guy through and through so what I've got is I've got keynote running here and if I just exit this and I did this as a full a full-screen keynote actually in keynote you could set the size whatever you want I could literally make this just a sort of little pillow box width thing at the bottom with just the animation but that animation there and I should probably mention I've got 25% of all my courses at the moment with offer code ECAM tech let me just drop a link into that in the the chat as well and in fact that ends today because it is 25% off through September and it's the 30th of September where I am so we've got basically about 24 hours or so depending on your time term but yeah so this is a keynote slide with a green screen and the thing just animates in and out part of the reason why I like doing this with keynote is because it makes it really quick to set up in ECAM I like to do the design aspect of like creating the scene in ECAM but for stuff that's kind of like I'm going to be updating every week or every show or whatever then having it as a template in keynote for me makes a lot more sense so what I need to do is I'll just toggle off the keynote overlay for now and then I'll exit my slideshow and I can just show you basically what I've got so always a bit big on the screen that is let me just make it smaller so you can actually see it it's still too big I'm moving it over from a massive monitor to a tiny monitor and it's all the wrong size right let me bring that up there and then we'll just zoom out so it's basically I've just got a series of slides and the thing about this is I could just duplicate each one of these slides or I could duplicate any one of these slides to create a new title so I've just got you know sure release new product announcement there is an animation that's going on in here so if I click on the animate which is already clicked click on the build order I've just got this thing basically animating in and out so I've got my little logo bug thing it down at the corner there I've got the the background then which is the the sort of white and blue strip moving in and then I've got this this wipe up of the the little firmware update thing as it says there and then the main title is here then it waits for me to press the the you know the next slide button which happens to be on my stream deck and then it will it will then animate out so the effect of that then is if I know obviously I've just got different ones for different things here but if I just play that as a slideshow in a window this is what the slideshow looks like to make it a bit smaller on screen once again if I just advance then basically there is just that building animation and then there is the build out incidentally one thing I wanted to do on this was I didn't want it to appear on the screen that everything was coming from the edge of the screen I wanted it to sort of build out from that little bug in the corner and that's why in here I've actually made this like right up to the edge so although these things here are flying in from the right you can see because I've got the actual bug itself over on the far side right up to the edge of this particular slide it appears that these are collapsing into that bug and then what I've done is I've just scaled this in Ecamm so if I come back into Ecamm and I'll just turn on my keynotes once again I'll animate this out now what I can show you is this is basically just a screen share so I've got keynotes open and what I've done is I've used the screen share green screen feature so here it is where is it now it is this one keynote lower third I've called it so if I just go into the settings of that particular overlay and I'll just turn off the green screen you'll see that I've actually cropped it in just so that I don't inadvertently touch it but it is there hang on a second where has keynote gone I've inadvertently minimized keynote there we go if you press the option key when you're clicking from one app to another you will minimize the application that you're in so if you are going to minimize or you're going to use the cropping feature make sure you click into Ecamm first that's what happened now just minimize keynote by accident but the point is though if I just hit the option key here I'll crop that down you'll see then if I advance the slide it appears that this title here is animating out from this particular bug even though it's going it's not it's not going right to the edge basically it's the effect I don't know if this is making any sense but I know what I was trying to achieve so that is how I'm bringing in keynote to do those live updates basically those live titles I should say forget the wording right so what I need to do then is the green screen keynote feature if I just come into that screen share overlay click on the green screen key then obviously that just gets rid of the green screen that is really the one thing that I'm doing outside of ecamp is these live titles but for me it just makes so much more sense to do from a production point of view the other thing about it is and I should show this because a lot of people may be not quite aware of this you want to play the video in keynote in a window so when you're in keynote there is an option to play in screen or sorry play full screen or play in window and so you want to do that so that you've got a floating window it doesn't just take over the whole of your screen some people want to see the speaker notes though and it's a common question that I get asked well if you are playing in window you've also got this little button up here clicking on that it says show presenter notes what that does is it opens up a second window which looks something like this the reason why this one's useful to have open specifically for these titles is what it means is you can see how quickly and easily I can go and just edit one of those titles in keynote before the live starts but also I can then use that it shows me what animation is coming up next so there's nothing on screen but I can see that that is the next one queued up so it's almost like as I'm going through I can see what's coming next but also if ever I want you to go back to something you can use the speaker notes here to just click between slides if I just thought I really want to jump to mention creator camp I could just click to that slide there and now suddenly I'm ready to just say yeah upcoming events creator camp just under two weeks away I've had a slight change of my travel plans but I'll be there at creator camp I'm effectively flying in just for that so it's 36 hours there and 36 hours back for basically two and a half days of creator camp so I'll probably be a little bit exhausted by the time I get back but yeah that is just to show you then that I can basically just queue up those different things I could take that one off the screen let's say we want to talk about the Shure SM7DB again then I could just click into that slide I can see which slide I'm up to and then I can get that queued up so that's why I prefer to have it in keynote is because it gives me control over you know being able to see what I want to put up on screen even but then also yeah just be able to to have that visual of you know what's coming up what's coming up next as it were the only other thing then in terms of you know stuff to cover on here that that I added in was I added in a screen share overlay I think I put that up at some point but that is essentially just a screen share keep pressing my wrong button once again I've got a screen share over here where is it this one and I've got that associated with a button as well one day I'll remember where all these are and that's just this one this is literally just a screen share overlay of my screen cropped into a particular area so whilst I'm talking about 25 percent off courses I can do a little demo of here's where you go and find them discord somebody was mentioning discord the discord beginner's guide is is in there we've got the ecamm live masterclass you zoom masterclass roadcaster stream deck and so on and I should say actually I can even queue something up for for this coming up this week is the keynote masterclass which I've been working on so that goes into more detail about how to use keynote with ecamm but just in general how to you know use all of the functionality of keynote and use it for presentations and of course work hand in hand with with ecamm and I could probably put up then that you know another little thing that I just added in was I wanted a sort of update a sort of coming next week ticker so that when I do these weekly updates I can talk about you know what I'm planning for the week ahead so this is what I'm planning for the week ahead a veed.io tutorial talking about how I'm using it for creating my content yolo live in stream and ecamm walkthrough so one of my coaching clients has literally just got one of these for streaming to Instagram so I'm going to do a full walkthrough of how you could use that with ecamm if you don't have that streaming built in and then what else is coming up this week it's just gone off the screen and I've almost forgotten myself but anyway this is how I would put these things up onto screen oh and the keynote masterclass that was the other one so yeah these are the courses though and you can get 25% off all of these at the moment and also you can get 25% off the ecademy academy which is a way to get access to all of the courses plus a load of other workshops as well in fact the workshop that we had earlier this week for the academy members was specifically about how to create a business or how to run a content creation business so rather than just you know being a youtuber it was about the actual practicalities of building a business out of this through products lead magnets courses and all of that kind of stuff so there are monthly workshops with the academy that you get access to and those are kind of like deep dives into those sorts of topics and then there's obviously weekly Q&A depending on the level that you're at in the academy where we just basically get all of our questions answered so you can get 25% off that at the moment as well and if you sign up to an annual subscription then there's even more savings there because you save 20% from the annual subscription anyway and then there'd be an extra 25% off with Ecamm Tech as the offer code so obviously using this as a sort of demo of these features if I just toggle this one off we can hide that that screen share and so the last sort of element then that I've got on the screen right now is this little ticker down below one thing that I've put in as a feature request is with scrolling tickers on Ecamm when you set a piece of text let's just bring up that text that we had before if I go into the text box here and edit the text we've got the style which we've already seen is dynamic the text box shrink to fit or truncate well if you switch to scrolling ticker it just immediately takes up the said that and it didn't do it oh I've got to save it first that's why when you when you've just set it a scrolling ticker and click on save that was the the trick then you see that that just takes up the full screen and is a scrolling ticker going across the whole screen the feature request that I and I'm sure others have put in is about how to is to sorry be able to set the size of the text box and then have it just scroll within that like if you don't want it going across the full screen so you can see that this one that I've got down here it's got like a different entry and an exit point and I've just realized my controls are kind of covering that up so let me just hide the the UI controls yeah so we've got the scrolling ticker but I've just got these little elements there and there that sort of block it out so let me just hide this ticker that's up here and I'll show you then the the one that I've called update ticker the coming next week I've got my fixed elements and then I've got the actual ticker itself so this one here with a little if you see something that's got text and then a little arrow that means it's a scrolling ticker that is the actual content that's the text box that's the one that I'm going to want to edit every week so although I've got them in a folder called update ticker and they're all locked together I've also got a subfolder in there which is these fixed elements that I don't need to change every week so I've put them in their separate folder so that it's just it doesn't clutter up the whole overlays list with a massive long list and this is basically we've got the coming next week which is a text box and then we've got a little this little red bar here is effectively just another shape overlay of a you know that color that's just next to that and then over on the other side hide the UI steering well clear of the finish button oh I see it's because I'm hovering over it is it hide the UI let's try that again yeah this one down at the bottom corner though that has got just a yellow text box and a dark red text box to give that effect so although the ticker is technically going across the whole of the screen and if I just hide this one here you see that the ticket just just go across the whole of the screen I've just put those elements on to sort of to block it out a little bit and when I collapse this all up out of the way now we've just basically got a lot of this stuff the one by the way which was that video coming in so I had that one at the beginning with a little video of the the short SMDB SM7DB with this one my intention would be that I'm going to be showing some different videos off each week as I talk about different things and so what I would do is now that I've got that element there at the moment it's just an overlay called SM7DB but I could just call that you know Item 1, Item 2, Item 3 or Video 1, 2 and 3 have that as a button on my stream deck and then I could use this new feature that was added in into 4.1 which actually allows you to replace the asset so here I've gone into the settings for that video file and I could just come up here and go to Replace Asset and replace it with the video that I want to show next week you know or you know the week after or whatever and so that means that you've still got the buttons queued up for these little video panels that are coming in and this is one of these things that is a great feature for doing this with Ecamm because it means you don't have to build out your thing every week and drag in overlays drag in new videos set up all the things with your stream deck you can have your stream deck set up with you know as I say if I plan that I'm going to do you know 6, 5 minute items a week or whatever I can just have Video 1 to 6 as a button on my stream deck and then each you know week as part of the show prep I would just go in and just replace the video for each of those different things there and then just I'm actually sign this one to a stream deck button as of yet but and then just hide it and it animates in and out and incidentally just in case I haven't mentioned or you weren't aware clicking on the little cog icon the animation there is this transition so you've got the transition flying from left or right or you could have it spin in so if I do that it will do something slightly different you'll see how whoops if I hide that you'll see how it sort of spins slightly into the shot personally I prefer the simple one sometimes less is more maybe it's even too much to animate it in who knows but yeah that's how I'd get those stories coming in incidentally this was a placeholder so I talked about placeholder comments earlier when you add in a placeholder comment it looks something like this and this is where you can just go and edit it so it's just a viewer name this is a placeholder so for the person who asked that is whoops I've just noticed my screen just glitched there was that's what those look like whoops I'm pressing too many buttons now in my overlays and there's my screen share again I'm still not pressing the right button there it is got there in the end right so what I will say is if I just get one of these up we'll just mention again that in fact where's this one this is probably a good one to put up just to have have the thing up on screen where are we now my this is where it doesn't work never mind never mind I'll just I'll just swiftly move on and imagine you had no idea of what I was just about to do let me just go through some of these comments though where is the stream deck course you can get the stream deck course actually I'm glad you asked it's 25% off for the next 24 hours and you can get it at takeonetech.io slash courses let me just hide the comments I probably need to put that up over there let me take that one off there so if you go to takeonetech.io slash courses there is a stream deck masterclass in there and the stream deck masterclass is not just I mean I bought this I bought my stream deck specifically for live streaming and recording content it was only when I got it that I realized just what an absolute powerhouse of a productivity device it was so the course is really split into four sections the first one is just general orientation understanding how to use stream deck what you can do with it and all of that kind of stuff but then it's really digging into in fact here we go we got it up on the screen look it's really digging into the understanding of what you can do with it from a productivity point of view as well so using it as the ultimate productivity tool so there's a whole thing on there and how I use it to set up my workspaces manage my apps and all of that kind of stuff in just in day to day use the next thing then is obviously for live streaming and recording which is it you know the use case of you could say that it was intended for so I talk about that and how to use it with you know ECAM and there's plugins for OBS as well so I touch on those too but then the other thing is one of my big uses for ECAM and the thing that just blew me away when I started getting into ECAM was how you can use it for virtual presentations, webinars I mean you could argue this is a bit of a webinar isn't it really it's the same kind of thing but using it for virtual presentations meetings and so on and as you can see I'm using Keynote with ECAM this could equally be going into a Zoom webinar a Zoom workshop, a Zoom call or whatever and so that is really you know a huge power of ECAM that it gives you that but what I found is with a number of people that are you know coaching clients or members of the Take One Tech Academy is they've been you know having this thing where that then becomes multiple different things that you're managing you're potentially managing a Zoom call you're potentially managing you know Zoom chat and things like that you're managing Keynote and ECAM and sometimes it can feel that you've got all of this different stuff going on and it's too much to manage some people have this experience for me the real power of the Stream Deck is that it allows you to have this sort of central hub that becomes your mission control basically for everything that you're doing and that then becomes the unifying component of it so there's a whole section on that specifically there's another thing though that's covered in the course which is about you've basically got a blank canvas when you get a Stream Deck you know you might be able to download some plugins they might have their own application their own icons associated and whatever but you're starting out with a blank canvas for your own user interface so how you're going to build it out so I talk about the organization side of things but also the design side of things and I use the analogy many times about you know imagine getting into a car and suddenly you know the buttons were all randomly placed the you know the controls of the car or maybe the design aesthetic if some weren't the same as the others it would be a really confusing environment to try to be in and operating and that's the same with Stream Deck I think it's very important to spend a bit of time being conscious and thinking about how you can design your design your workspace so that everything is consistent so I'll talk about that and how to do that so that's all in the course I forget exactly how many lessons it is I think it's 80 to 100 I can't remember exactly but yeah streamdeckmasterclass.com is the easy place to go as well but other than that you can find it at takeonetech.io and go to courses if you're also interested in Roadcaster roadcastermasterclass.com ECAM guess what ECAMmasterclass.com ECAM Live Masterclass you can find all the masterclasses like that so yeah that is where the course is and of course you can buy it as a standalone course but you also get access to that if you want to join the academy and then you get access to all of my courses for a monthly or annual subscription so that just provides a more cost-effective way to get access to all of the courses but also as I say we do the monthly workshops weekly Q&As and other sort of educational resources that you get as a part of that so yeah that is where to get the streamdeckmasterclass and incidentally I've also got a discord course as well as you would guess I did the discord course because my academy is the community side of things is on discord too so the beginner's guide to discord covers everything for how to use discord and also sort of the initial steps in setting up your own server as well the discord beginner's guide is $99 25% off for the next 24 30 hours or something like that so yeah you might want to check out that one as well if you're interested in discord in all of my courses there's usually like a little sidebar where it's you know if you need more help book a call with me with my discord course it just points to Keely so she's the one you want to speak to about discord consultations so yeah you'll find that in the course as well let's take a little look down you've got discord there's keely that's you putting your links in thank you very much discordcoach.com discord's really good I don't know which platform you're talking about if you're talking about discord though discord has been phenomenal for me in terms of just being able to have that sort of organization I mean Facebook groups if you've been in a Facebook group and you go to discord there's a sort of learning curve associated with it but you'll quickly realize like the power of that from a point of view of being able to have proper conversations rather than just a stream of consciousness for want of a better word in Facebook so yeah discord is an amazing platform and if you're talking about ecam hands down it's the best in the business here's a really long comment oh there we go I should have noticed that when we were testing for really long comments thanks rich yeah no hands there we go let me just come down the comments a little bit further hey duck great to see you here replace that asset yes indeed no problem you've probably already gone I just see I'm catching up this comment but thanks for stopping by Tim if Timothy if you are still here instead of converting to WebM you could export as HEVC from Keynote out for to have the the animated overlays with with audio I'm guessing let me see where it up to loads of chat in here there we go I'm trying to find trying to find where I'm up to in the chat lots of comments in here where we go where are we by the way I'm really looking forward to create a camp coming up in a couple of weeks it's going to be it's going to be great to finally meet lots of lots of folks in in real life as it were so many people I feel like are some of my closest friends and yet I've hardly I've never met anybody in the ecam community hey JP great to see you here thank you for stopping by another chat we've got to go and watch your replay of your thing that you did earlier this week and behind on all my replays this week well with that said I think I think we're we're about about done so what I'll do is I'll leave a link actually to my ecam four dot oh update that's for sorry four dot one update video that I did and I'll place that somewhere up here obviously with this particular setup that I've got I didn't create my usual outro scene and let me have a little look at this one last final comment before I go or any more comments feel free to drop them in have you had any issues connecting stream debt to the key lights so my key lights and in fact I haven't got my other camera rigged up but my key lights are Nanlite fours are 60 and it shows the the the fill light as well and there isn't a native app for Nanlite for stream deck there isn't a native plugin there isn't actually a native desktop app but there is a mobile app and so what I did was I had the mobile app run on the Mac desktop which is something you can do as of the previous version of macOS I think and so I've got the mobile app running and then I've just been a total geek and programmed keyboard maestro to go and physically click on buttons on the on the mobile app for me so that's that's how I did it I'm not recommending that for everyone but it works for me are you picking me up from the airport oh that will be cool all right well that's that's great don't don't blame me if I fall asleep in the passenger seat on the way from the airport doc I would have had 36 hours travel so just you have to just keep nudging me to to keep me awake so you were told it only connects on two point I'm not sure what that is there are ah sorry yeah the Nanlite the the Nanlite pavo tubes and their smaller lights work over bluetooth actually the key light and the fill light work over yeah 2.4 gigahertz so there is a little transmitter box which is the bridge between them so I've got one of these little transmitter boxes which is kind of tucked away beyond my monitors and where that is basically connecting to the falls of 60s and then the mobile app connects to those and you still get full control of them they show up as individual things but that is the the sort of bridge so that is the answer to to that hello Stephen great to see you here thanks for stopping in and saying hello great session thank you very much I appreciate that the key lights jump off the network regular if that's the Elgato key lights maybe my my Nanlite seem to be seem to be doing okay hey Richard great to see you here as well what am I using to display the comments screen share so the comments right now are I'm using the ECAM's comment overlay feature but I've got a plain background in the in the comments and so then what I've done is I've just created a background with the title again thanks Paul Dixon for the for the idea there with this thing where has it gone let me see these ones so I've just got a title at the top I've got that little speech bubble I've got a faded background and a blurred background so that's what I've done just to build up that into that to form so they come up on the side there that's what I'm doing there JP don't we're stopping at the dispensary on the way back oh yes the the pavo also has to you can you have the option of using those with others as well it's just that they the fours of 60 years is you've you've stuck on that basically so I have got my pavo tubes linked over Bluetooth oh I see yeah it's been it's been fine for me where I've got I mean I've got the nanolites here and I've got the the little box just behind the monitor so I haven't really had any yet any issues at touch wood this is of course when they'll go off suddenly and something will start to stop working anyway I'm rambling now thanks everyone for stopping by I hope you've found this interesting as I say for those watching on the replay at some point I can never do it immediately and so often I forget for the next couple of days but I'll put a video up here to the full 4.1 video that I created about all of the all of the new features in 4.1 because it is those features that have made a lot of this this background entirely possible today thanks again for stopping by I'll catch you very soon