 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We are talking about creating engaging presentations online or rather a couple of the tools and techniques that you can use to To present with when you're on things like zoom meetings and so on and the reason for this is that I've had a number of consultation calls this week with different people and basically for Different people asked me about different aspects of this and how do they do, you know, X, Y and Z. So I thought it was sort of putting it all together into a live stream. We're also talking about it on the creators pod, the podcast that I do with the catch 22 crew. And we were talking about what we like about ECAM and that is one of the things that sort of unites us all. And basically one of the things that came out from almost everybody was that aside from whatever else we use ECAM for as content creators, it also does really help to level up our sort of online presence in meetings and so on. And so that's what we're going to be covering today. And so really there are sort of three key points that I'm going to be talking about. And the first one is various different ways that you can use to get text on the screen when you are giving presentations. The second thing would be then the live video feature in keynote because that does have some applications. I will obviously be talking about ECAM live, which is what I use to create these videos and it's what I use when I'm going into zoom meetings using the virtual camera feature. I'll talk about that briefly as well. But there is also a live video option in keynote, which has its use uses as well. And then finally, I'll be talking about writing on screen using an app called video pencil. And I haven't done a full video about this, but I'll go through some of the setup steps. But this basically allows you to use your Apple Pencil to annotate things on screen, give yourself a little fake beard if you want. And all sorts of little crazy stuff like that. But it's really useful app because there's a number of different workarounds that we've had previously for annotating directly on screen. But one of the things that's great about the video pencil app is that you actually get to see the output on the iPad itself when you are drawing on it. So if I was to come down to this shot here, you can see that basically on my iPad now I'm seeing exactly what you're seeing. And so that means that I know like if I want to draw around this iPad, for example, I can see exactly where I'm drawing. And that's a bit of a game changer really, because previously the ways that we could write on screen were a little bit sort of needed a little bit of guesswork. Some people became masters at knowing exactly where the pencil was on the screen. But now to be able to actually see it on the iPad makes a huge difference. And so for me, this is just a tool designed by actually a member of the Ecam live community, but a tool designed specifically for this job and it does it really well. So there's no sort of work around here. So I'm going to talk a little bit about the various different setup steps involved in doing that as well. So that's the idea. Just a quick hello to obviously we've got some lovely people in the Discord chat, but then also Parker, great to see you here. And so the first thing I'm going to start off with is then the various different ways that you can basically bring text onto screen. And so what I'm going to do is just go into live demo mode for a moment, which is a feature of Ecam. I always say that as if people know what I'm talking about, but I forget sometimes that maybe people don't. So there's a feature in Ecam, which allows me to basically just share my entire screen and it's called live demo mode. So now hopefully if I come over here and do this, there we go, you should now hopefully be seeing everything that I'm showing you. So here I've got my Ecam Live, which is what I'm using to make this video, but you can also use the Ecam Live virtual camera feature. In fact, I should probably say that I always take these things for granted, but maybe somebody's watching wanting to make engaging presentations and knows nothing about Ecam Live. So Ecam Live is a live production environment for the Mac that allows you to create videos and live stream like I'm doing right now. And basically you can create a series of different scenes in it. So here we've got this window here that shows what is going out. So if I wasn't doing this full screen demo, this window would be what you would be seeing. So sort of like this. But then you can create lots of different scenes within this so I could have different camera angles and so on. So this is what we're going to be using basically as the basis to build all of these things out. But one of the great features of it is it has something called a virtual camera feature, which allows you to take the feed from Ecam Live into other applications like Zoom, Teams, or in this case I'm already feeding into Discord as well. And so then basically whatever you create in Ecam is then fed into that other platform and that platform would just see it as a camera. So that means that you can create, you know, all these different camera switching scenes and things like that in Ecam. And then that will be what Zoom sees. So there is ways to switch cameras in Zoom, but it's a little bit fiddly to actually go and do that. Whereas in Ecam you can just easily create these scenes and then just click between them using either a mouse in here or using a stream deck is a much better way. The stream deck actually becomes kind of mission control for online presentations in this sense. When you combine Keynote with Ecam and with Video Pencil and Zoom, they all basically can be controlled just from the stream deck. So that's the first thing. So we're sort of building this out in Ecam. But then what I'm doing is I've got Keynote over here. And so what we can do in Keynote is we can actually create certain graphics and things like that in Keynote and then bring those into Ecam as what we call overlays. So things that are going to basically sit over the top of my camera. And there's a number of different ways you can do that. I should say as well, there is in Ecam, so we've got this overlays window. This is where we can add different things over the top of the screen, different elements onto the scene. And so you can actually add text in here directly. So if I just have some text, there you go, it says text. I can add that in here. So we could just create things in Ecam directly, adding different text elements. We could add little bullet points. We can format this. We can change the size of it and all of that. That is great for certain things, little ad hoc text bullets or things like that that you want on the screen. I still feel that for me personally, when I'm doing something that is a formal presentation as it were, it still never looks quite like the traditional sort of slide deck and somebody talking to slides. But having all of the text and the flow and the things like that of the presentation done in Keynote, for me, still makes a lot more sense because it's a lot more versatile. You've got a lot more control over the formatting and things like that. Animations if you want to incorporate animations for things coming in and out of the screen. So I still use Keynote for these kind of things. So that said, as I say, you can just use text overlays in Ecam, but I'm not really going to cover that now because that's a whole other topic. If you do want to know how to do some really, really creative stuff with text overlays in Ecam, definitely check out Anna and Fulgians while they're on the Ecam Live YouTube channel. They've got their building blocks program as well and they do some great stuff specifically with text overlays. I'm not quite as fancy as them with that kind of stuff. So what I've got here though is I've got my Keynote. Let me just move this so it looks a bit better. And what I'm going to do is just add a completely blank slide. This is just a general presentation in Keynote. I've not done anything fancy. It's just one of the stock templates with just basically a blank slide. And I'm going to show you a couple of different ways that you can consider to actually bring text onto the screen. So the first way that you might want to do it. So I was speaking with someone just yesterday actually where they had a sort of scene in Ecam that was themselves and a co-presenter. And then they just had wanted to have some sort of headlines coming on the screen. Well, in that case, what you could do is you could create a presentation in Keynote and imagine that this is going to be the sort of like the backdrop if you like, where you're going to put your cameras and then any text that you want to have coming in. And what I mean by that is let's say we have, I'll just change the color of this background of this slide. One second. Let me come to here. Change the background format. And then let's just make it a plain color. I'm just making this a different plain color. You could obviously have a whole graphic on here to give it some other level of interest. But I'm just going to use a plain color here just so that you can actually see the contrast between what's on screen and the cameras and so on. So I'm just going to create a plain background. And now what we could then do is if I just play this in a screen. So if I play this as a slideshow, by the way, when you play slideshows in Keynote, the default is going to be that it's going to take over the whole screen. Whereas what you want to do when you're doing anything with Ecam, the question that came up in the Ecam community is you want to play it in a window rather than full screen. Because when you play it full screen, it's going to take over your whole screen. You then won't necessarily be able to see Zoom if you're going into Zoom, the Ecam interface as well. So you want to play in window. Now the way that you do that is from the menu up here, you'll see that you can choose whether you want to play full screen or in window. So you can select that as a default so that when you hit the play slideshow shortcut, it's going to go in window rather than full screen. The other way you can do it is if you want to have the option of which one to do just easily to hand. The play button is up here in Keynote, but you can just right click in here, click on Customize. And what you'll see is there is a play in window option there. And you can just drag and drop that onto the toolbar so that then you've got the option for it to play in window like that. So then when you hit that button, it's going to play in window. By the way, if you're playing in window and you're someone who likes to use speaker notes, you still can access your speaker notes by just clicking up on this button just up in the top right here. This one shows the presenter notes in a separate window. So you still can have your speaker notes open at the same time as it's playing in window, if that's something that you use for your presentations. So the point I'm showing you here though is that we do have now just a completely blank slide. And so what you could do in Ecum is you could then create a scene in Ecum. So if I'll get my scenes window down here, I'm going to create a completely new blank scene. And let's just call that Keynote. And so then what we want to do is decide what we want to show. Well, in this case, what we're going to show is we want it to be a screen sharing and we want to show the keynote itself like that. So you can see that basically whatever's showing on this slide is now showing in here. And then what we could do is, and I just, as I say, I've just made it a plain blue colour, but this could equally have, you know, some other background, graphic or something like that, your branding or whatever it is. But I'm just going to show you the sort of principle of it here. So then what we could do is have a couple of cameras over the top of those. I'm going to set a camera overlay on top of that. Like this. I can resize that. I'll change that to be the main camera. Like that. So let's say that you want to have something like this with maybe yourself and a guest. I'll just, I'm not going to go into everything that I'm doing here, but basically I can change the size and shape of these cameras. So let's say there was you and a guest, something like this. And then you wanted to be able to have like titles or something running along the bottom or coming up on the bottom. You say you're doing like an interview show or something like that. So this was the specific use case that I was chatting with someone about yesterday. And so one method of doing this then is that you can see we've got the basically whatever is appearing in the keynote slide is going to be behind our cameras over here. So what we could do then is if I just come back to this main scene and I'll go into keynote, what we could do is just add in any titles that we want to have coming along the bottom. So let's say title one, very original. And if I can spell, I can never type and I can never type and spell when I'm live streaming for some reason. There we go. I'll just change that to something like that. So there we've got there you look, I still haven't spelled it correctly. So we've got a title like that. And let's say we want to add in an animation to that so that it's going to fly in from the left or right. Let's just leave it like that for it's just to show the sort of principle of it. And then let's create a duplicate of that, maybe even have it fly out. So I'll have that fly out, or maybe this one, the effect. Not that it's that funny after the first time, but you get the idea. So then I'll put this one as two like this. So this will show you the effect. So if I click play in window, now what's going to happen is if I go back to that scene I created, so you can see that we've got this this scene with two of us here. So what I'm going to do is I'll just leave it on demo mode so that you can see like the two things. So this over on the left hand side is the keynote. This over on the right hand side is the is the the the ECAM live. So this is what would go out. So if I advance the slides now, you can see that the titles are going to come directly in. And this is purposely plain just so that you can understand how you would add your own branding and so on to it. So there's the whoops, there's the first one coming in and then if it's going to go out and then the second one would come up after that. So whoops, so I need to go back to that. So that is the the concept of basically having the whole of your keynote slide being the background that you're going to build everything up on top of. So that's one option. There is another option though using keynote with ECAM, which is slightly different and the way that you would do that. I'll just show you what that looks like full screen just in case there's any any confusion about what I'm doing there. So if I come out of my demo mode for a second, then you should be seeing this full screen now. Obviously, you wouldn't have two of yourself, you'd have yourself and a guest or whatever. But as I do this, you can see the titles are coming on like that. So hopefully that's pretty pretty clear. So the other option then is rather than having keynote in the background like that and your cameras over the top of it. Another option is to use the green screen function that we've got in ECAM for screen sharing. So you're probably familiar with the concept of a green screen, which is that basically anything that's green, the computer miraculously takes out of the picture and leaves you with either a transparent background or some other kind of background behind it. Well, ECAM in one of the previous main release of ECAM, they introduced this concept to screen sharing. And what that means is that you can basically create a slide in keynote with a green screen or a green background, and then it will only show anything other than the green. So this is going to be a lot easier and simpler to demonstrate. What I'll do is I'll go back to that main scene in ECAM. And what I'm going to show you now then is how we can use this idea of a green slide. Basically, what I'll do is in fact, what I'll just keep these two slides exactly as they are. And then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to change the slide color. So rather than it being a blue slide, I'm going to come into here and just select this green color. So now we've got a green slide here and we've got a green slide here. So the idea is then that if I play this as a slideshow in window like that, basically we've got a completely green screen and we can remove that and then it will show only the animation part. So the way that that is going to work is I've got a scene set up in ECAM which has just got a regular camera. So what I'm going to do next then is I'm going to basically add an overlay on top of that. So if I click on my screen share overlay, and so now you can see that we're sharing, in this case it's the whole screen at the moment is being shared. But what I want to do is just share a specific window which is my keynote window. So I'm going to show keynote so now you can see that it's showing keynote. So what I want to do is I want to have that covering the entire screen because we basically want to think about this green keynote slide as our sort of whole screen canvas. So I'm going to just drag that until it covers the complete screen. But now what I'm going to do is turn on this green screen feature for that overlay. So here it is here, green screen key. And what that's then done is that has removed everything that is green from the slide which at the moment is everything. However if I advance that animation what you can see is the text now comes over the top of my camera because it is not screen. So that's the way that that works. And if I just show you again by coming out of demo mode for a second then this is basically what that's going to look like in this case. Now obviously there the text is white text over this white text. So you may want to add something behind that, you know, some other part of an animation to come on screen as something that you're going to put there. So one way that you might do that is if I just come into demo mode I'll just exit this presentation for a second. Let me just hide this. Hide this overlay. Where's keynote gone? It's moved to my other monitor for some reason. So what you might want to do here is let's just do something really, really basic. I'm just going to put a shape that basically comes and covers the entire screen. Something like this. We might want to move it behind the text. Now you can just right click and click send to back. So that's going to go to the back behind that other text. But one thing that I always toggle on with when I'm working in keynote is you've probably seen the slide view down the side here that shows you all your different slides. But if you click on this view and have show object list this is a really helpful way to see all of the different objects that you've got in the slide and then you can sort of move them up and down just like this. So that allows you to sort of reorder them. So everything that's at the bottom is sort of further down in the stack of layers. So I can move that up to the top like that and then that will be on the top. So the way that you could do this then is if I, let's say, I'll change the color of this maybe to a dark blue, something like that. And then let's animate this on as well. So we'll have that maybe that could move up from the bottom. We want to build in. That's what I'm looking for. Or maybe just do something like this. Easier. Basically all of the functionality that you've got in terms of animations in Keynote you can basically add into this whole thing. So I'll add a build out as well and this one can be wiped as well. So basically what's going to happen is it's going to wipe across the screen. The text is going to come on and then the text will disappear and it'll wipe out again. So with this one you can click on build order for animations. This is showing you all the different animations that you've got on screen. So bearing in mind that I set up this one for the entry for the text over here. First of all, so we've got these as individual animations at the moment, each of them triggered by a click. So these are in the wrong order at the moment because at the moment the text would come in then the text would disappear as it falls off the screen and then we would have this rectangle behind coming in and then going out with another mouse click. So that's not quite what we want but you can rearrange these. So I can move this up to the top. And you can also down here select whether these things happen, how these things happen. So in this case this is happening on a click. So when you click the mouse button it's going to go to the next, it's going to initiate that animation. But what we can do here is if I have it so that when I initiate the first animation it's going to wipe in with this rectangle. But then this one here, the title, I want that to come basically either immediately after that first build, that build number one, or have it happening with that. So let's say that that can happen at the same time, like that. Then I don't want it to do anything until I'm ready for everything to sort of leave the screen as it were. So in that case I'll leave this as it is. So this second one here for where everything sort of falls off the screen. That's going to start on click when I click the mouse or in this case actually press the stream that button. I'll talk about that in a moment as well. And then I want the rectangle to go off the screen basically after the letters have all fallen off. So basically this is one action for things to come onto the screen. And then there's this gap and then when I hit the button it will all disappear off the screen again. So let's have a look at how that looks. This will all make a lot more sense when I actually just run this thing. So if I come back up here I will play this slideshow again in a window. Like that. And then what I'll do is I'll come out of demo mode for a second. And I want to put that screen share back over the top. So if I come out of my demo mode and then I advanced this animation you'll see what happens is what we've just set up. So basically your title comes over the top and then when I press the button again the letters are going to fall off and then that background bar will wipe off the screen again. So that is basically the two different ways that you can easily just use Keynote either as it being the entire background for your cameras over the top of it or you can use that green screen sharing feature to bring titles and elements and things like that over the top. So I use a combination of those really. It depends what I'm doing. More often than not it is the latter that I use where I use the green screen to have stuff coming on to the screen. I find that having elements that are just over the top of your regular camera view does give a much more sort of immersive presentation really. Certainly I should just say maybe there's one extra that I should just clarify as well that you could do. Obviously if you've got a traditional presentation let me just come into this because lots of people do have traditional style presentations. So let me just change the background for this a second. I will just need to get this off here as you can see. So let me just create a standard slide like this. In fact let's take one of these templates that they've got. So let's say you've got a presentation that has got whatever these templates are like this. If you wanted to just present an existing regular presentation then you can easily do that in Ecamm as well. I'll just play that in a window so you can see we've got these slides here like this. You could easily do that in Ecamm as well just by creating a scene in here where you have the screen share overlay to show your presentation. So I'm just going to come in here and for this one I'm going to select a keynote. And now we've got the presentation just there. You could make that much bigger on screen if you wanted like that. And then we could add a camera and we'll just add a front camera. And then we can change the aspect ratio of this one so we can change the shape of it maybe tall. You could give a presentation just like that and maybe I'll just add a background into Ecamm. I've got one in here just so you can see the difference between the actual presentation in keynote. So this would be another way that you could do a traditional style of presentation but where you still want to be featured on the screen because I do think it's important to... I hate presentations that I've seen in Zoom or in webinars where you're not actually seeing the person. They're just literally putting up a slide deck full screen on the screen. I think you definitely need to be on because there's so many little nuances and expressions and things like that that people don't get when you're just talking to slides. It's far more engaging number one at the bare minimum for you to be actually on the screen. So this would be a way for you to just incorporate existing slides and as I basically advance the slides you'll see that it's... You're basically seeing that but it's very much replicating the whole idea of somebody standing talking to slides on a projector or whatever they do these days. So that would be another... that would be kind of like a third way. But just coming back to what I was mentioning was that the green screen overlay method where you've got text that's actually coming on screen and you're still a part of it in that sense and just a sort of picture in picture almost then I would say that that would be my preferred way of doing it. So those are just a couple of ways that you can bring the text on. Obviously you can implement whatever kind of design style and aesthetic and stuff like that. So I'm just going to talk about the processes rather than you know actually designing these things in this live stream. The other thing that I mentioned though was the idea of using live video... The live video feature in Keynote and one of the reasons why you may want to do that is if you want to incorporate some sort of animations to your actual video feed. So in Ecamm you can select the camera you want. You can put it on the screen. You can adjust the size and shape of it and everything like that. So we've already seen that really the way that with that previous scene the way that I could adjust the size and shape of my camera you know within this screen I can move it around here. I can put it wherever I want it. I can change the shape of it if I want to change it to a different shape. So you do have lots of control over cameras in that sense in Ecamm but one thing that you can't do as such is do any animations. Tell a lie you can actually have cameras that sort of fly in so I'll just quickly cover that if that's something that you want to do. Let me just come back to this scene. So what you can do is you can have this transition. So it says fly in say from left from right from top from bottom. So that's the sort of limit of the transitions that you've got and the way that that works is if I go to a different scene and then I go back to that scene you'll see that the camera sort of flies in. So there is that amount of animation that you've got but you may want to add in some other animation and the way that you can do that is using the live video feature in Keynote and by the way this also means that you could use just Keynote sort of standalone going into Zoom for example and share a presentation and do some things with live video in there. It isn't anywhere near as versatile as using Ecamm so that's why I still would highly recommend using Ecamm but nevertheless I'll show you how the live video feature does work in Keynote. So what we need to do is I'll just hide this for a second come out of here so now I've got a I'll create a new slide I should say. So what we can do is add in a live camera element from within here and this is done from this media button just up at the top here. So if I click in the media up here and then I click on down here where has it gone live video so if I click on live video you can see that it's basically added in this camera this is one of my other cameras and then what you can do is if you click on here go to format and then live video and you can see that it says the source and it tells you the camera. You can add in any other sources that will potentially just be one in there to begin with but if you click this little plus you can just select any other camera that you've got attached to your screen. So or to your computer I should say. So I do have my other Sony LinkedIn so now you can see that basically this is a keynote slide but what you're seeing is if I just cover up EECAM for a minute what you're seeing is I've got a live video that is actually playing right now into keynote and that is coming from this camera that I'm looking at you at. So that is what's happening there but what you can do with this though is you can actually add animations to this just as you can with any other element. So one of the ways that you probably won't want to use it but I'll just show you to prove a point is if I click on animate and then I click on add effect then we could do something like what's one of these ridiculous ones. There you go swoosh. So we want that as a build in. So where was it? There we go and then I will do a build out which will be something different. Let's try that. There we go. So what that means is if I then run this as a slideshow and it's going to start completely blank to begin with because we've got a build in for the camera that means it's not on screen to begin with and then it's going to appear. So what we could do then is we could create a scene in EECAM and here's one I prepared earlier where basically you have just got a scene where you are using a screen sharing and the source is keynote and then what we can do is we can advance the slide in keynote which will bring in that video with the animation. So you can see how, whoops, that didn't seem to come on properly there. Hang on, there we go. Oh, I tell you what it is. I'm on the wrong slide. I'm on the wrong slide. I started my keynote presentation in the wrong place. Let me try that again. Try that in this place. That should work better. Let me see. I've obviously done something. Something not quite right. There we go. So you saw how that basically sort of had that animation of the camera coming onto the screen and then if I press it again, the animation of the camera going off. So it's just a way that you can add these animations to your cameras. Now, I would say that you don't necessarily want, you know, cameras spinning on and off the screen. It can be a little bit too distracting. There are potential places where you might want to use this though. Let's say you want to do something where you are sort of highlighting somebody and then it's flicking to somebody else, like while you're in a conversation maybe. Then if I come and show you how you might want to do that, let's say that we will just delete the animations that we've got on here. I'm just going to come in and delete those two animations. So I'll take that off there. So imagine that we've got basically two people speaking on screen. So I'll say that there's this camera here and then I want to have this camera here, but we'll change this to be a different camera. I'll change that. Let me add a different camera in. We can just add that one. That's my top down just to show the point. So you might want to have it so that, you know, let's say one is going to zoom in and then zoom back to the other one, like if you're doing a back and forth. So we'll just assume that these are, you know, different people speaking and I'll make this one bigger. So what you can use for this though is you can use the, what's called magic move and that basically is a tool in keynote that allows you to basically transition between two different slides, but it's a great way. It's actually a really easy way to have some quite complex movements going on without having to go through and animate all these things individually. So the way that works is if I've got this slide here and then I'm going to just duplicate that and then if I reduce the size of this one over here and I increase the size of this, you can see that we've basically got this slide with the larger sort of top down shot and then we've got this slide where the top down shot is smaller and I'm larger on the screen. So this is done by using the animate tool. So if I come over to animate, you can animate individual elements on the screen within the slide, but you can also set the transitions from one slide to a next. So, you know, fading from one to the other or things like that. You can do that in here. So if I click on add effect, then you can see this one here magic move and this is the one that we want. This is basically going to transition from one to another and then what we could do is basically if I duplicate this so that we've got that scene again and then if I click on add effect and magic move again, you can see it's going to go back to that one. So if I just make this a bit smaller, play it in window. Is that the right one? Let me just check them on starting on the right slide. That might help. So what I'll do now is if I go back into my keynote where I'm giving the whole sort of live view and what I'll do as well is I'll come out of my demo mode so that you can see how this looks. So here you can see we've got that first slide and then if I transition to the next slide, what you'll see is I actually get that animation of those cameras going from one to the next and then if I press to go into the next slide again it will do that animation back and so that's a way that you can use this magic move with different camera angles if you want to get that sort of more dynamic look into cameras on screen. So if you've got a specific run of show for example where you are showing, you know, screen sharing, showing slides, you want to have you sort of coming full screen and then disappearing off to the side and you want to have some sort of movement in it then actually creating this all out as a presentation in keynote can be a really good way to do that, especially if you've got a specific sort of run of show where you want to just be able to click through from one scene to the next or one slide to the next and everything be exactly where it should be. This is a really sort of useful solution for doing that. The other way that I've used this as well is actually the way that I did those little bullet points right at the beginning of this live stream. So if I come out of here for a second and I'll show you what I'm talking about, let me exit this slideshow. So what I've got here is I've got a basically three slides and this was what I did at the beginning. So if I, I'm not in demo mode so I'll just demonstrate this for you right now. So this was this thing that I did at the beginning where I basically, whoops, I need to be in, play in slideshow like that. So this was where I basically bought these things onto the screen like this and you can now see that my camera is moving. So that's something that you can't actually do directly in e-cam to just have your sort of camera animate that sort of slight moving over and then these elements came on screen and then I bought in these different bullets of the things that we were talking about. We're now talking about the second one, the live video and then those things disappeared off the screen. So perhaps now you can see how that was done and I'll just show you in keynote. My keynote always seems to go to the other monitor. So basically that is these three slides here. So I've got one slide with the camera and using the live video in keynote feature. I've got another one which has the text bullets and there's some animations on here and then I've got another slide which is the blank one with just me on it. But what you may notice is if I zoom out these two elements here are basically these two elements here. So this is a white rectangle and a dark blue rectangle and they're also in this first slide. And so what's happening is I just basically created these by in fact let me just quickly do it again. I can just show you the idea behind this. If I've got a slide, a blank slide like this, let's do something a little bit different. Let's bring on a circle. So I'll put a circle. So you want to bring on some bullet points on the side like that and maybe I could just change the colour of that. Make it something ridiculous blue and yeah that looks disgusting doesn't it. I don't know why I've got quite a good idea for design but whenever I do demos or anything like that I always seem to pick the worst possible colour combinations. It's weird. It's a little issue I've got in my little brain. I'll make it just the same colours as before but you'll get the idea. So basically we've got two different shapes here that we could have sort of moving on maybe we want some slight offset to them or something like that. So you might have like some bullet point that's going to come on the screen here. I'm just showing this as an example. So let's say that that is where you actually want these to be when the bullet points are coming on screen. So what I would then do is I would duplicate this slide and I would move these elements off the screen. So how about we just move that one out to here and I'll move this one out to here. This is just going to fly in from the side and I'll put that above the other slide. So we're going to start with these elements here off screen. Then we're going to go to this one where they're on the screen and then I'm going to also then duplicate this again and I will then move these off and let's move them off in a different way. Maybe I could rotate them something like this. They're going to rotate off the screen like that. So as long as they're completely off the screen so you can see what's going to happen is they're starting here. They're going to transition where they move onto the screen. We might have some text come up. Let me just copy one of these bullet points just to show how this is going to look. And then they're going to go off the screen. What we might also want to do though is move this camera because now it's cutting over the top of my shot. So let's just move this camera over a little bit like that. And now what we want to do is just add in for these slides specifically the first two though. We're going to go to animate magic move and we've got that already set up as 0.7 seconds. So let's have a look at what this actually looks like when I play this animation. So you can see how we've got a full screen now. This is our keynote. And if I advance the slides what's going to happen is it's going to do the magic move. Just elements moving from the side. Press another button and that text appears and then press another button and those things animate off the screen again. So it's just a way that you can add this sort of more dynamic look to your presentations or the way that you're bringing this text onto screen even if you want to have the text on the screen sort of separately to you. There are ways that you can do that and this live video feature is a good way to do it. As I say you can go totally overboard which I don't recommend on animations and explosions and all the kind of things that we can do with Keynote. I often think that less is more but actually having something to create that more dynamic look is going to help in my opinion. So that is live video in using Keynote. The final thing then that I want to talk about is the idea of illustrating writing on the screen and that's basically what we're talking about when we're using video pencil which is this idea of being able to just sort of write on a screen, draw things where we want to put them and so the video pencil is as I say it's an app that's been designed by someone specifically in the ECAM community Michael Forrest, I almost forgot his name there Michael Forrest and it's been designed specifically for this use case of being able to sort of illustrate, write, draw on the screen and the way it works is and as I said in the intro one of the things that sets this apart from other methods of doing this is that we can actually see you can see that I've got my iPad in front of me you're going to get this sort of tunnel vision you know, off to infinity because you're seeing in the iPad you can see that I'm seeing what you're seeing I'm making a hash of that explanation but you get the idea and so that means that if I'm wanting to annotate something like highlight if you want to learn more about your level up your zoom skills you can check out the zoom master class which I've just put down here so you can see how what I'm drawing on on the screen is I can be very accurate about it before we did this with again using green screen screen sharing of the iPad using notes apps or slides with green backgrounds this is just far better so I've left a link to the place where you can download the video pencil app in the description but there's a couple of steps that you need to go through to set up correctly so once you download the app it is a free app to download and then it's an in-app purchase I forget exactly how much it is to take off the watermark but you can try it out for free certainly and then I think it's about 35 pounds, 35 dollars, something like that so if you're doing any video presentations it's a bit of a no brainer for me to be honest for what it allows you to do when you have got the app open now this I wonder let me just try something I actually didn't set this up because I thought this would give us an even worse sort of tunnel vision but actually I think the best way to do this is for me to just use that top-down shot let's have a look this way and I will just zoom in onto this screen for a second this is going to be the easiest way for me to show you how the app is actually working so basically what happens is in this app you can choose the screen that you want to sorry the input that you want so you can have this so that it is showing the camera on either the front or back of your iPad and so in this case is showing my camera look at that very dusty my stream deck plus is quite dusty so then you can feed in the camera and this actually came about because of the app was originally for the camera being used as a camera itself and then you being able to draw on the thing whilst you're using as a camera so having used in the front facing camera and being able to annotate directly on that camera so the major update though was this ability for you to be able to write over whatever else is on your screen but that's the reason why you can actually select either the back camera or the front camera my finger covering it and then the ultra wide camera as well so those are the three built in ones in the iPad but what it can also do is take anything that's coming in over NDI so NDI is a network protocol that allows you to transmit video wirelessly or over a network I should say wired or unwired so that's another point by the way is this iPad is currently just plugged into power but I'm doing all of this completely wirelessly which is actually another real benefit of this because it means that depending on where you're setup you could actually have this elsewhere or if you maybe are doing something in a round table setting you can actually pass things from one to another I'll get to that in a minute Bicky so Bicky is just asking first of all hello, welcome and hi Pierre, great to see you here as well and oh thanks for the new studio I thought I'd finished, I've still got a couple of things to do but I'll get round to that the iPad worked in portrait mode it worked but then it would stop hmm, let me find out we'll see the video pencil doesn't change whether it's portrait or not which is not something I've thought about because I'm using it in sort of portrait over the top of Ecam, I'll try and figure that out so the way that this is working as I say is what I've got is coming into the iPad I'm seeing basically what is coming out of Ecam and wouldn't you just know it, there we go so now I can see what's coming out of Ecam but the way to actually do that is we need to enable it in Ecam let me just close down Keynote for a second that's getting in my way and I'll go back into demo mode so in Ecam Live you've got an option for output and NDI output and then you can choose here the resolution and that's basically going to show up on any device that is capable of receiving NDI such as the iPad and that's basically how I'm getting this feed of whatever is coming from Ecam is now appearing on my iPad so that's step number one is you need to turn that on in Ecam and then it will just show up as a camera, if I get that off the screen it will then just show up as a camera in the as an option in video pencil the app so that's step number one the next thing though which is the real sort of secret source of this is that we want to be able to write on the screen but if you imagine I'm writing on the screen we wouldn't want that sort of like feeding back to us as well like duplicating and so what they've got is if I click on settings there's a whole series of things here for contacting support there's also an access to join their discord server so if you are using video pencil I highly recommend clicking that one discord server to go and join there give your comments, feedback, feature requests and things like that but here we've got on this side NDI so I'm going to tap on there this is really bad quality actually isn't it in terms of the video I don't mean video pencil I mean my top-down camera zoomed in so here you've got the NDI bandwidth so either high quality or low quality I've put it high quality and so for that's for the input the thing coming in and then you've also got NDI output now this is the one that we want because it's saying send NDI output so we want to toggle that one on first of all that's basically for the output from the video pencil app going into Ecamm now this could be for if you were using the actual camera on the app itself I showed you that you can use the camera you know your iPad camera and be able to annotate on that you may want to be using your iPad or whatever actually as a camera source itself so this can do that but the way that I'm using it specifically is I'm using this option here which is called NDI loopback mode basically what that means is it's got a feed coming in from Ecamm which is this one but it's not sending that back out again all it's sending out is the things that we're drawing on the screen so that's the setting that you would want to have on here you're basically going to go in here and go into NDI high quality NDI output as 1080p that's what I've put it as and then the NDI loopback mode that's the one that you want to check to be able to do what I'm talking about right now so with that done then the way that you get that then coming actually onto your screen in Ecamm is we need to create an overlay so I'm going to come back into here let me just come back to this scene here what we want to do is we're going to have whatever is showing on the screen that we're going to want to annotate over it could be our camera it might be our keynote slides it could be whatever we can have those in a series of scenes so I've got obviously different camera angles over here got this one over here but that is the sort of main scene source what we're going to add is an overlay that goes over the top of that that is basically just for the writing part over the top of the screen and so we're going to come down here and click on actually it's although you might think it's a kind of screen it's actually a camera overlay that we want to add but what we're going to select is in here then you'll see that we should have this one video pencil so if we've got the NDI switched on video pencils open and it will be just working over the network so video pencil like that and you can see that I've just got video pencil showing over there and now if I write on here now I think that's happening because I've got two of them open let me just turn off my other one there we go here's one I prepared earlier so you can see that this scene here this overlay in fact the point is you can't see it let me find out how to get it there we go grab the corner of it so I've got an overlay here this is just a camera overlay it was causing a bit of an issue because I got two of them at the same time but this is the overlay which is as you can see just a video source from video pencil and so all I need to do is just line that up with with the total sort of screen area and that's going to then match up with what's on my my iPad so that's the crucial step is that this needs to be a overlay and it can be over the top of any scene so what I've done is I've actually put it as an overlay to show in all scenes and then I've assigned a stream deck button that basically shows and hides that overlay so if I open up my stream deck I have got this button just here this one with a picture of a pencil and basically when I press that you can see how it's toggling on and off that overlay to show and hide if I just add a few more things onto the screen so when I press that button on my iPad it's basically showing and hiding the the overlay that I can write on what that means is that I can have this open all the time while I'm giving a presentation or something definitely you want to lock these by the way so lock that overlay and then what that means is if I just come out of my demo mode it means that at any time I can just put the pencil on press the pencil on my stream deck right on the screen take it off there we go and then when I've finished I can hide it from the from the view by just pressing the stream deck button again it may be that I want to maybe want to want to make some notes take them off the screen whilst I demonstrate something and then come back again to those notes so that's how you can do that with video pencil so that is a really for me it's the perfect tool for it all of those other workarounds that I used to do with things like keynote and green slides and you know using the pencil to annotate on the keynote slide in here or there was very other different apps that people would use on their iPad this is just a custom designed tool that is made for the job it's also in active development as well so if you have got any feature requests then definitely join the discord server for video pencil and drop those in there one of the ones that a feature request that I've put in is for oh and I should say actually let me just say a few more things about it because I've only talked about implementing it what I haven't said is you do have down at the bottom here you can see all of these sort of familiar to the different pens and things like that of different colors if you want to write in different colors you've got just select the color that you want you can also tap on those change how big they are change the color of each of those individually so you can you know choose whatever you want to make them your own color palette and draw on the screen like that so you've got all of those you can flick between those different ones now you've got an eraser that you can just erase different parts of the screen and then you've also got another great feature which I've just completely overlooked is this one which is the what they call live titles this is just quite amazing actually and what that does is if I just draw and say a word where are they gone I need to turn them on so if I draw a line with this and say hello this is not going to work is it because I'm doing a live demo hello hello hello it's not speaking to me what this does when I'm not doing a live demo is that you can actually it might be my it might be something to do with my microphone actually but you basically draw a line while you're speaking and then you hold it and the text will appear so let me just try that one more time because I'm not doing it justice really it works flawlessly when I'm not on a live stream so let me try and see if this work will this work no it's not going to work it's not going to work for me it works every other time is amazing isn't it amazing anyway let me just clear these drawings so the fact is that you can change all of these different colors and things like that I'll just gloss over my latent failure there but one feature request that I have specifically asked for this is I would love to be able to just be able to tap on the screen to drop little markers onto the screen and this was specifically for a coaching client I've got that does athletics training and wants to be able to drop cones onto a specific spot on the on the screen so imagine you've got a screen that is showing a sports field or something like that and you want to just be able to tap to drop like where these different things are going to be or different positions on the screen so this is one of these things where sometimes you're doing these things and you have this idea and you think I'm sure that must be really easy to implement not knowing you know exactly how difficult it might be but my vision for that is that there is a little idea that you can and by the way you can add these all the I'm forgetting all of these features I'm going to make a full video about this and I'll remember all of these things that I'm forgetting today what you can also do is you can add in graphics if I click on media for example then I can add in any photos and things like that if you want to add those onto the screen you can do but what I'd love to be able to do is just have a series of presets for little icons or images that you could maybe add into this toolbar so you're adding your own custom icons and then in the same way that when you tap on a particular pen it writes on screen well imagine if you could tap on a particular icon and then you could just sort of tap to drop these on the screen instead you can't actually do it just by doing like this but some nice little pretty icons I think from a presentation point of view which is what we're talking about today that would be a really helpful little thing but video pencil as I say it's an Ecamm Live community member it's a great app and I highly recommend it if you're doing that in the chat you'll also find it in the description as well it's well worth the price and so yeah highly highly recommend it so those were the three things that I wanted to cover today if you want to learn more about using Ecamm specifically then you obviously need to go and check out my Ecamm Live masterclass go to Ecamm Live masterclass.com if you want to level up your online presentations on zoom and the light you can also go to zoom masterclass and incidentally the zoom masterclass includes the Ecamm masterclass because I don't think you should be on zoom without Ecamm quite frankly so you can find that at zoommasterclass.com and so those are really the sort of tools that I use on a generally when I'm doing presentations and things like that and if you can get away from just speaking to static slides I think you'll be doing a great service to yourself and to the people that you're presenting to as well that's everything for today it's my daughter's birthday so I'm keeping it nice and sharp and short today and I will catch you all a little bit later but if you are watching on the replay and you want to find out more about online presentations zoom and Ecamm I'll leave a link to some other videos on this subject over on the right hand side and I can't leave obviously without saying a big thank you to my channel members thank you so much for your support I really do appreciate it it helps keep the electricity running to my nan lights have a great day everyone, bye bye