 Hello, everyone. How are you all doing? Good to see familiar faces here, as always. Hello, Michael. Great to see you. Look at that. I'm finally getting the hang of this. The comments are actually coming in at the right size for a change. Normally, they just come in massive for some reason. Good to see you here. We've got the UK contingent here with Jeff and Chris as well. Good to see you both here as well. Did you get my mail, by the way, Chris? I did respond to it, but I think there must be something with the Dropbox link or something getting caught with the spam. I'm not sure, but I've re-sent something with it, trying to get it to you another way. Just let me know if you've got that. Greg, I've just seen your picture, by the way, in the Let's Get Live group. It looks an awesome setup. Can't wait to hear how you're getting on with your MacBook. Good to know that we don't need any docks and things like that to have so many screens running as well. Hey, Eileen. Always great to see you as well. Always a friendly face. Cool, cool, cool. Great, great. Glad you got it. I tell you what, this stream, I nearly, yesterday, I started setting it all up in Restream and put my thumbnail in, put the title in the description and stuff like that. And then I was just going to bed last night and then I just suddenly thought, hang on a minute, I don't remember actually submitting that. And sure enough, I came back downstairs and my Restream window was still open. I just hadn't pressed the submit button to actually schedule it. So it nearly wasn't scheduled. And then, just two minutes before the stream or rather a few seconds before the stream, I came to go and press Live and realised I hadn't changed from record over to the Restream. But we got there in the end and managed to get out on time. So I found a bit of a better week this week in terms of YouTube than the past, the previous three weeks. I feel like the past, the previous three weeks, I just kept coming in and making excuses for not having done long-form videos just because I've been, I had been really quite busy with work stuff. And so that had encroached into my little two hours a day of YouTube time. So this week, I have done a full seven videos. So that's, oh no problem, Eileen. I totally understand. I'm just pleased you could make it. So yeah, I've done seven videos this week. In fact, let's just get straight on into the stats, shall we? Having said that everything was in the right place, look at that, that's out of alignment, isn't it? Never mind. So it's day 365, week 24, day, sorry, it's day 169. Jumping ahead there. Week 24 or 24 weeks down, I should say. And so I'm still behind on my videos in terms of doing an average of one a day. But crucially, I haven't fallen further behind like I did for the past three weeks. So I did get out a basically a video a day for this week, long-form ones. Although I did sort of fall short on the shorts. Previously, I'd been doing all shorts and hadn't had enough of the long form. And then this last week, I haven't put out any shorts. So I've just got to get back into the consistency with that now next week. So that's my aim. But it has been my sort of best week in terms of channel growth, bearing in mind that we're 24 weeks in. Everything's pretty much jumped up by 10% in this last week. So there's definitely been some sort of change of momentum there. The subscribers have gone up by 63 to 674. The watch hours, I'm so close now to that 4,000 watch hours that you need to be monetized. Obviously, I'm not there with the subs, but still it's just that little milestone, isn't it? And then my views is about almost 40,000 views. So it is nice to see the numbers creeping up. And just because I normally do, let's just have a quick look at how this stats actually look in the analytics of Google. I'll just quickly switch this over. I should have been a bit more prepared. I was actually up. I normally get up at three, and then it gives me an hour to get ready. And then four to five is when I get ready for the actual stream. And it's, I say that, I mean, it's just basically organizing these stats and the stuff. It's mainly drinking coffee that I do actually in that hour. But today I got to put one o'clock for some reason. I don't know why, but anyway, I watched a couple of docs live streams. So that's always good and always productive. But let me come over to my, this one. So these are my stats. This is where my sort of stats changed really was around here. And that just coincided with the release of what was it? Was it the beta or the latest ECAM live version? I think it was actually the beta. Hey, Rich, good to see you. And you've still got the wrench. So make sure you keep them in check. So that's where my stats sort of jumped up really. And I started to notice that I was gaining a little bit more traction with things. And then this sort of period where it slowed down was basically the last three weeks where I've been a little bit quiet and not putting out such regular content. But basically, it has now sort of picked up again with this past week of averaging a video a day. And then yeah, this subscriber count is just sort of creeping up. Whereas, I mean, for the longest time, I was basically getting like, you know, between three and four a day, something like that. Whereas for the past sort of week, two weeks, there's definitely been some sort of climb going on there. So that's just interesting to note. Again, I'm not losing sleep over it either way. But it's just interesting to note. So I will be getting back to putting the shorts out this week, because it did have a an interesting impact on my sort of demographics and stuff like that. And whilst I know that regular viewers as it were prefer the long form stuff, I am interested to sort of throw the shorts into the mix to just in addition to that. So still doing an average of a long form video a day. But also I want to just get to do in a short day as well, just to see what impact that has on the channel overall. And basically just getting to doing it actually consistently doing both of them for a month. And the past month has not at all been consistent. So hoping to return to that consistency going forward. So what else has been happening this week? Well, we've got the news about the Loupedeck integration for Ecamm Live. I'm really pleased about this actually, because it sort of feeds the little tech devil sitting on my shoulder. But also it sort of solves one issue that I had or I suppose it's not really an issue. But the ability to control the the volumes and things like that to the sort of input levels and sliders and stuff like that in Ecamm, but then also in other applications as well. So I can see how the the Loupedeck is going to be good for that. Interestingly, oh, well, I say interestingly, it's this, you'd be the judge of that. But for me, one of the I've always been thinking about a roadcaster pro, obviously it's most YouTube creators these days, certainly in our group, I've got them on their desks. And the only thing that I could see that I actually personally needed it for would be for levels and stuff like that, because I only have a single mic and it is the MV7 and it's got USB and XLR out. So I just use it over USB. But I thought, well, at some point, maybe I might plug it into a roadcaster and then have all of the functions that you get with that. But really, I'm not sure what functions I would use on it over and above the sliders. And I'm wondering if maybe the Loupedeck might just give me that little extra functionality to negate the need for a roadcaster. But we'll see. I might still get one at some point. Maybe I might upgrade my mic at some point as well. It's only a matter of time, isn't it, before people in the Let's Get Live group end up having an MV7. So we'll see how that goes. Sorry, an SM7B, I should say. So we'll see how we get on with that. But let's have a little look at the Loupedeck, shall we? Because I did do a whole video of it on it, obviously. My, by the way, is arriving, I thought it was Sunday, but actually it's the 1st of November. So that's a Monday, not a Sunday. So yeah, not long to wait now. There is a discount code if you are an Ecamm Live user and you can get 15% off, which is pretty amazing really. And the other thing that really surprised me about this is there's no shipping cost. So it's really surprised me that, because normally whenever I buy anything tech, especially from sort of outside of Thailand, then usually I tend to find that the shipping and import cost is like another 25 to 50% on top. So I was really surprised at checkout when I checked out and there was just no delivery cost on it at all. No shipping cost. It's pretty amazing, that is. So it is a good deal. I noticed when it was actually shipped, it was shipped out of Hong Kong. So I bought it from the site and here the price is in euros. So I did pay for it in euros and bought it from here with the 15% off, which worked out at, what was that, 215 or something like that? 210, I remember. And I obviously haven't got the mental process to just work it out off the cuff. But anyway, so 15% off that. And yeah, it shipped out of Hong Kong. And yeah, it will be here very shortly. I was thinking I might have to wait a while, because sometimes the international shipments take a while, but they've obviously just got different locations where they can ship them from. So it was shipped yesterday and it will be here the day after tomorrow. So that's not bad for here, to be honest. I know in the US, you can get pretty much deliveries from Amazon within a couple of hours. I couldn't believe it. I was watching, was it Doc Stream once? And Tom Buck was on there and he was talking about, I think it was the Louis, Mike or something like that. And he said, Oh, I think I might have to get one of those. And then literally like within 15 hours, he was making a video about it. So it was pretty, yeah, pretty quick. I'm not used to speed like that here. But yeah, so this is the the loop deck. And the thing that is different about it to the stream deck. And I know, Michael, you would mention that you were on the fence about it. And that maybe my video might have helped you make the decision either way. It'd be interesting to know which way. The thing that's interesting about it is it has got these sort of tactile knobs on either side of it. But the buttons themselves are, it's just like one big touch screen. So you don't get that sort of tactile feel to it. So it's interesting, I'm not sure how I'd work with that because with my stream deck, I do tend to just sort of like plonk my hand on it. And then I know exactly where I am. I can feel the edge and know how many, you know, you're never, never far from an edge on it. So you can usually just sort of feel your way to whichever key you want. So I can sort of look down and just press whichever button I need. The only thing then is just actually remembering where all the buttons are. And I have a habit sometimes of moving stuff around. And so I still end up looking down. But in practice, in theory, I can just touch the buttons and know exactly where I am. In fact, let me just quickly stick up my, see, this is, I'm doing it now right now. I said, I don't know where everything is, but I'm looking down to do it. I'm going to stick that right up for anybody who fancies, jumping on and having a chat about the loot deck. Because, or if anyone's got one already, in fact, because that's what that's the thing that I see. I don't see that it would be a replacement to my stream deck. And if I had a choice between having some extra little knobs on it, or having this sort of tactile feel of the keys, I think I would probably definitely go with the tactile feel of the keys. But I shall reserve final judgment until it arrives. Now I went for this one, which is the the loop deck live, which I sort of think is, I suppose it's similar to the loop deck, to the stream deck XL in terms of, it's got fewer actual programmable buttons here, but then you've got all these other sort of knobs and dials and things like that. So it's probably about comparable in some respects. I know Doc says you can't compare them. They're not the same, but they're pretty, pretty similar, aren't they? They're input devices that you can program with shortcuts and things like that. So the other one though, I might live to regret not trying this one out. And at some point in the future, I may give it a go. So this one is the CT, which is basically the live, as you can see, the sort of top part of it is the same there. So it's pretty much the top part is the same. But then it's just got this extra sort of click wheel, not click wheel, this wheel at the bottom, this dial. And then this whole screen changes that you can display different things on that as well. And then you've got some sort of fixed buttons that don't have screens on them as such, but they are programmable as well. So yeah, I suppose if you're going to be doing heavy editing and things like that, I can certainly see that this would be a better choice potentially to have that sort of, you know, scrolling through timelines and things like that, and a lot more hotkeys that are tactile that you can feel for various different editing things. I just wasn't sure exactly how I'd apply that to some of the other applications that I use. I mean, my 3D work, that I don't really do so much of now. Anyway, I'm focused more on the stock stuff, the stock trading stuff. But yeah, I've got my sort of Space Mouse Pro that I use for my architectural stuff. So yeah, I'm not sure exactly the use case I'd have for that. But it would be interesting to try one out at some point. Now I did go ahead, even though I haven't got it, but of course I went and downloaded the software. So this is what the software looks like. My first impressions of it are it is not as intuitive as the Stream Deck. But then that may be because the Stream Deck is in many respects a much simpler functionality device because you literally have just got one thing that it does, isn't it? It's you can program the key to do whatever you want it to and just sort of drag the actions that you want onto the screen. Whereas this one, there is possibly a little bit more complexity to what some of these things can do. But just sort of going and having a little look through it at first glance, it does just look a little bit less intuitive to use. And certainly I know that some people in the group have said that. I think it was Keely actually who bought one and she sent hers back because she felt like it wasn't as intuitive. But you never know. She might give it another go now that it's got ECAM integration. I'm not sure. But anyway, so yeah, there's just the same sorts of things though, lots of different actions. We've already got the ECAM live installed there. So you do need to have, if you've already got a loop deck, you do need to have version five of the loop deck software and then you need to upgrade to the latest ECAM live, which is 3.9.1. And then that will prompt you when you install 3.9.1 to install the ECAM live loop deck profile. So once you do that, then you've got different actions, which are pretty similar to the ones that we've got for the stream deck actually. So you've got things like playing pause, live preview mode, live demo mode, I should say rather, and things like that. But then we've also got some of these other levels. So you've got basically levels for guests. So I can see that that's going to be really useful for people doing lots of interviews where they can have the volume levels or the input levels for guests. It's going to make that easier to sort of control that when you get people on who have got maybe their audio is not all at the same level. But then also you can change sort of movie, microphone levels, all this sort of stuff. And then, you know, if you're doing things like maybe recording a podcast or something like that, or live stream, I guess, where you just want to fade music in or out, then you've got these for these little rotary dials and things like that. So yeah, it'll be interesting to get that and play around with it. I shall be doing that obviously as soon as I get it. And you know that I'm going to be making videos about it as well. So yeah, the what's Chris said, ask. Well, yeah, I could always ask Santa to bring me a roadcaster thing is I've got quite a long list for Santa. And I don't know if he's always going to bring me what I want. It used to but not anymore somehow. But I'll put it on the list. I'll definitely try and get my list out to him. Roadcaster is good for people that do a lot of interviews. Yeah, so yeah, and obviously that's he's got four channels in and all the other channels and stuff like that. So yeah, I know a lot of people do use them when they're just doing sort of single shows, but it just seems especially with the MV7 and the MV7 and the I always forget the name of the app, it's the motive app, the short motive app, which does a little bit of audio processing. And it's not like I sound the absolute best, I possibly could, but I'm limited by my instrument really, aren't I? I mean, my instrument, not this instrument. So yeah, I've never never sort of felt like my audio is the thing that is is the factor on the channel that needs the most improvement, to be honest, it's the camera. Now I am waiting for the CVE10 or ZVE10 is not available in Thailand yet. Well, it is available, but it's just there's no stock. So I've got to wait for that. But that will be my next upgrade actually will be to upgrade my camera finally, because I have been still going on the the 10 year old Canon EOS 60D. So I'm still working with that at the moment. So definitely the camera I think is the next thing that I'll update. Yeah, for the SM7B, you do need something like a cloud lifter or something like that to go into it. I mean, that was part of the reason why I went with the MV7 actually originally was because I did consider the SM7B because it is kind of like the gold standard in certainly the level of stuff that I'm doing. I know there are far greater microphones and stuff like that as Doc is always telling us. But yeah, I did consider the SM7B and the roadcaster and the cloud lifter, but it was just like altogether as a package. It was quite quite a lot compared to the MV7. And the other thing that I chose this for was the fact that it is sort of portable. And I've got the dual outputs of the USB and the XLR as well. So I could always upgrade it a little bit later. Although in practice, probably what I'd end up doing is when I do get a roadcaster, I would just you notice the language I use then having just spent the past five minutes dismissing it saying, I don't think I need it. I've just started a sentence with when I get a roadcaster. Oh dear, the little voices in my head are becoming more dominant. But yeah, so if I did then I probably just would upgrade to the the SM7B at that time as well. And yeah, as you point out, you do need a booster like it. There's another one that Keith Powell recommends actually. So there's the cloud lifter and then he's got another one which is I forget what he's called now. But yeah, it just looks a nice little bit of hardware as well. So yes, the little tech devil on my shoulder sometimes takes over and gets to control my speech momentarily. I have I have it's it's it's inbuilt in me. I've got gear acquisition since that was it. Jeff, by the way, yeah, the fat head. Yes. Yeah, gear acquisition syndrome. I know that might have been actually so there was one that was basically like by a small boutique company out of Germany, I think, and it was so I have heard of the fat head and the obviously the cloud lifter. But there was this other one and it might have been that one. It might have been that one indeed. I'm not sure. But anyway, all of that is to say that now it is proclaimed with certainty that at some point in the future I will be getting a roadcaster and I will get one of those things. But first things first, focus on picture quality. I need to sort out my camera first. And I'm thinking of actually doing a proper sort of studio build basically. Because I just need to basically do something with my background and create something a little bit different. I have been obviously, I say obviously, I have been using this whole setup for like zoo meetings and things like that, which is why I went down the green screen route originally. In fact, I went down the green screen route because I was it was before COVID I was moving around different locations, hotels and moving from up in here, where I am in northeast of Thailand and down to Bangkok for meetings and stuff like that. So I had a sort of portable green screen that I used to do whenever I was on a zoom call and then also for creating course content that was back in the day when I was actually editing it all. So I was spending even more time in front of the green screen to go and edit it all later. But fortunately, no edits now. And so I do like the versatility of a green screen that you can just sort of change the background. So I do use it for different use cases. But I am thinking of just actually building a proper sort of YouTube space really. And it could be as simple as I still have the green screen for other things, but then just swivel my monitor around and have a scene over on the another side for my YouTube stuff. A bit like they did with the the Ecam live studio build. So if you haven't seen that, there's a great load of videos in there for that, where they basically did have just two walls. So it was in the corner of the office space. And then one wall was a sort of great wall that they could shine lights on to obviously give any any color. And then the the other wall was a I think it was like a wood panel effect for another another look to the other scene. So yes, I do, Jeff, run zoom meetings with Ecam just always. And sometimes I'm just basically using the virtual camera with a the green screen with a different background behind it. But then other times I am actually doing sort of like presentations and stuff like that where it's just actually going into the the meeting. So yeah, always always use that. In fact, there was somebody asking in the I nearly nearly missed this the start of this because I was reading somebody's question in the Ecam group, which I haven't got back to yet. But they had asked about if they are running a virtual event, or they're running an event, but they also want to sell tickets to a virtual event. And could this be done with Ecam? And I was just about to reply, but I thought I'd better come on my scheduled live stream instead. But yeah, I mean, you could just do something like a virtual event. If you've got an in in person event and you want to just film it, they had got a two or three camera setup. So they wanted to produce it through Ecam. And then how could they get that out? Well, you could easily do that just running it as a webinar. That's what I was about to answer. Run it as a like a zoom webinar so people can pay to get access. That means that they're not technically sort of part of the meeting. It's not like a meeting where you're going to see all the little squares of everybody. So they'd just join as a webinar and then they could just sort of feed it out through Ecam. So yeah, I'm actually going to create a whole course on using Ecam with Zoom. And it's sort of been in the back of my head for for a while now, really, well, almost since the start of the channel. But then it was watching Doc's stream this morning. And he was talking about because we were talking about the the affiliate program for Amazon, not for Amazon, for Ecam. And I just sort of mentioned that I don't really I don't think I've ever got anybody sign up to Ecam through my affiliate link, even though it's in all of my videos and stuff like that. But that's because everybody who watches my videos pretty much are Ecam users anyway. So they're not going to obviously sign up if they're already members. But he mentioned something about, you know, potentially making some sort of content or course material for people who are, you know, totally outside, but how to basically improve their that he was talking about architects because of sort of architectural background. So how to basically create a course for architects to give better presentations of their stuff to their clients, their work, I won't call it stuff, their work to their clients and things like that. So it just sort of really spurred me on to just sort of think about, yeah, I've just got to get to get into action and actually create this because I've got all of the material technically, but I just need to get out there and make it. And so having a course that is specifically for, you know, how to level up your Zoom meetings. And then obviously, Ecam would be the recommendation for that from an Ecam affiliate point of view. It would be good because obviously I'd be recommending Ecam, but only because you know how much I love it. In fact, let me come out of this scene for a moment. So yeah, I'm going to do a whole series on Zoom. I'm going to do a load of Zoom videos on this channel to be honest, but the problem I have is I've got so many videos to make and I don't really know which ones to do first. And so one thing that happened this week was my sort of community tab in YouTube opened up to me. So I think you have to have over, it used to be over a thousand, but now you only need over 500, but then it takes a little while for it to actually become active. And so that community tab became open. So I asked the question in there about what people want to see on the channel and stuff like that. So I am trying to prioritize it based on what people want, but I've also, like I say, got a load of content on it. And yeah, Kat's got a great course on that, hasn't she? I haven't done her course, but I've obviously seen her videos and she's amazing at it. So if I can do half as good as she does, then I'll be very happy. So yeah, I will be making a Zoom thing and I thought that that would be also something that maybe might be separate to the channel. I'll still do Zoom content on the channel, but there was another series I did of five videos which was about the green screen, screen sharing. And the thing is, I've done four of them and I just haven't got around to doing the fifth. So I don't know the best way to go about being a little bit more structured. I don't know whether to have like a week where I focus on what on the channel I'm talking about. Do I have a week where I focus on one thing and one thing only and then the next week I focus on another one? Or is it better to sort of mix it up a little bit so that you get little bits of everything throughout the week? I'm not really too sure about that. I'm still trying to figure out the best approach. So I'd love to hear your feedback. Should I have a Zoom week, a keyboard maestro week, a whatever stream deck week, obviously there will be a loop deck week. Would it be better to do it like that in chunks of weeks? Or would it be better to sort of filter them out like Monday is Zoom day, Tuesday is, I don't know, something like that. I'm still trying to obviously figure this whole YouTube thing out as you can all tell. Definitely I'm doing the keyboard maestro stuff because I did the beginner's guide and I'd got five planned and I've done one. I have done some of the keyboard maestro videos but they're sort of sporadic and few and far between and not necessarily focused on a set path. That's why I like the sort of course structure because from a personal point of view, if I'm going to research something or do something, I like to have just like a course that is going to tell me like these are all the steps and it's easy to follow. Whereas if you are sort of a YouTube researcher as I am as well, sometimes I don't know if I've seen everything or not. Like when I started with Ecamm, I watched some of Adrian Salisbury's videos. I didn't haven't done his course at all but I watched some of his videos and the thing I found was I never knew quite whether have I found everything yet, have I learned everything yet or not and so that's part of the reason why I made that mammoth four and a half hour zero to hero tutorial video for Ecamm because I know that four and a half hours a long time for people to sit through a video but I know that people did. I've had quite a lot of views on that video actually because people know that if they watch it from start to finish, they're going to have been told everything that they need to know. So there is that aspect to it and you reckon so weeks are better are good to and better to follow. Yeah well so that's what I'll perhaps do then. I'll have like a Zoom week. Maybe next week will be keyboard maestro week because that one's been waiting for a while and then I'll get on to doing a Zoom week. Mind you if my loop deck, see this is the problem things crop up. If my loop decks coming on Monday there is definitely a, there is definitely going to be a few videos about that coming out. Maybe next week might be loop deck week. This is the problem there is too much content to create. What I need to do is basically clone myself I think and get a few more hours out there. So I was thinking about that Rich. I need a new three to four hour video. I am going to do that one and I might even do that this weekend but it won't be three to four hours because I reckon I can probably do it in two. I reckon that people could be taken through from start to finish in like getting everything set up in two maybe two to three hours perhaps two and a half hours something like that because the last one was a lot of the time was spent making overlays in Keynote and you just don't need to do that in anything. You don't need to do that in I'm just laughing at Chris's comment. You don't need to do that in the latest version of ECAM obviously. So there's no need to go in and explain all the intricacies of Keynote and how you do this and that and you basically the last tutorial that I did that four and a half hour one. It was a mixture of teaching people ECAM but also teaching people Keynote as well and we've pretty much eliminated that apart from perhaps like if you want to do animated overlays or things like that then yeah there's not going to be anywhere near as much as that so I reckon if I was to remake that video now I could probably do something like that in maybe yeah two and a half hours something like that but we'll see. Oh Chris this is the challenge you see. So the loop deck arrives on Monday. What am I going to do? I'm definitely going to do an unboxing and I'm going to definitely be setting it all up for ECAM so it'd be rude not to make a video about setting it up for ECAM as well. Yeah it's a challenge. This is the problem and if they keep popping out with new updates and think that's the other thing over the past three weeks apart from me just being having my other work stuff which I'm going to I took on board what Rich you mentioned last week as well where you asked if you could see some of the other stuff that I do with ECAM and so I do want to make a video at some point just showing like some of the other stuff that I do just to illustrate the different use cases for it because I think it is useful. I've always tried to stay it away from like cross promoting like other businesses and stuff like that just so that this is a sort of more focused channel but there is a lot of use cases for it and when I see there was somebody in the ECAM community who said something to the effect of ECAM Live is expensive at whatever it was I forget the price of it now I know what it is monthly but they were quoting the the annual figure it was something like 300 and something a year to pay for it up front for a year and hey Rich I've got an answer for you on that just a minute though I'll come to that in a moment that Rich about pro mouse so yeah they were talking about in the the community how 300 and I forget the exact figure it is is it 370 380 if you're paying up front for the annual subscriptions to to ECAM and they were saying oh it's it's quite expensive and all this just to have a virtual virtual camera which is one of the pro features and I've got to stop just looking down at comments because you're making me laugh so they were talking about how expensive it is and I thought to myself it's actually like just over a dollar a day for ECAM if you can't create value at a dollar a day from ECAM Live you probably don't need it you probably don't need to get it if you if you can't create a dollar's worth of value every day from ECAM Live try OBS it's just it's just it's just laughable when I actually thought about like the actual cost of it and the you know people complain about I do get it I do get that the fact that you know if you're doing any of this then it the the the the costs all do add up don't they if you've got this and you're doing something else but if you're using it for your business as well and promoting the business and like one of the things that I've been doing recently is we're just raising funds for one of our businesses and so I'm creating basically like an investor a whole investor pack that is videos demonstrating the product and things like that so it's a software as a system product basically so it's yeah I've just been making all the content for that and showing showing how they works the principle behind it all the back-end architecture all the user interfaces and stuff like that and just giving walkthroughs and stuff like that of you know what the the product is basically uh and you know it's uh a dollar a day is just hilarious for e-cam live for the the actual cost of it for what it does it's it's quite astounding and like when I look through all the list of all the features that came in in this version of it and of 3.9 I've got no idea what's coming in 4.0 but I mean you've got to think a 4.0 release has got to be something quite big so we'll see um but yeah it's uh it's because anyway that's a bit of a digression so the point was that yeah Rich you mentioned last week about showing some of the other stuff I do so I want to figure out a way to actually make a video to show how I use it for other things to get maybe give some other people ideas of how they could use it and maybe get more value out of it because I think people sort of sit on it they have it for one thing but haven't maybe thought of like other ways that they can use it to you know ask as I say for their business or whatever so pro mouse I had a I do coaching calls that you can book at takeonetech.io slash consultation and so if you've got any like tech issues and stuff like that then I can jump on a call and help you with whatever it is pro mouse I can't necessarily help you with pro mouse I should I should retract that statement but things like stream deck and setting up ecam or any other sort of tech tech issues um so I was on there the day with somebody else who was a pro mouse user and we're getting the the the the pro mouse setup it was already set up but it just wasn't showing and in the end what what it was is um the for them this is the thing that gets me about pro mouse people seem to have a whole range of different problems there isn't the same problems there is there is there is one problem which crops up all the time which is just the fact that when they when people share an app in ecam live as the screen sharing and then they're moving the pro mouse over it and then they can see it on their screen but it doesn't come out in the output that one is easy to answer because that is basically that ecam live is sharing the app that you've selected to the exclusion of all other apps and as pro mouse is an app it doesn't show pro mouse so that's why and all you need to do to resolve that is share your screen and then crop in on the the app and then it will just show up so a lot of people have that issue not realizing what the actual underlying problem is and that isn't an issue with pro mouse it's just that ecam is you've told ecam not to show other apps so that's that one but then there's all these other things that that people have sort of differing problems with and so this lovely chap that I was on the the call with we were setting it up and basically his halo worked but then whenever he pressed the shortcut to show the the zoom feature or the magnifying glass that's the same thing the zoom feature or the the spotlight feature it just wasn't showing up on the screen never mind not ecam it just wasn't showing up on the screen so it made me think that that was something to do for something to do with the screen sharing permissions because in order for it to zoom the screen it's something related to it's actually got to have access to the screen in order to zoom it and that would be the same with the spotlight one as well but went through did all the troubleshooting things and all the settings were fine in the security and you know preferences and things like that where you give it access to screen sharing and so on so all of that stuff was there and in the end in uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it all worked again perfectly and so so that was working but I could see how these things because it just it's just always worked for me out of the box as it were I've never had any issue with it and I've never had any issue with it all the time I've been using with it so I don't know quite what why that should be but in any case I yeah I actually reached out to the developer so I'm I'm hoping that I'm going to get a response back this was literally a couple of days ago so to answer your question Rich I have reached out to the developer to get an answer because I've got three videos on my channel about it one of them is the first video that I did say now great it was the other two are troubleshooting videos for if you're having problems try this and I know that people have tried these things that I recommended and in some cases it hasn't worked so yeah I'm I'm getting to the point where I'm tempted to just take it down and then quietly use my pro mouse on my demos and if anyone asks me what it is I'm just going to say I don't know because yeah so yeah the the the pro mouse saga continues let me have a look what else we've got what's next six minute abs well I'll tell you what I'm I've got a lot of catching up to do to catch it with you speaking of six minute abs Greg you're looking in top shape for your competition so I certainly won't be competing with you anytime soon that's what I'm that's what I'm hoping Chris I want to get him on and just find out I mean it could be that there's there's some like things that in terms of the troubleshooting that I've just not thought about it's hard to it's hard to to know what could be the issue and I know that there is an issue with logitech keyboards with the not being able to use the function key but I'll see I'll see if we get anything back and if they've got any other solutions there as well oh hi Tommy nice to see you I think it's your first time on my stream so great to see you here you installed cursor pro and it's great software very well done and high quality excellent well there is cursor pro I know that Paul Duncan's mentioned that one a few times there is another one called mouse pose I used to use that before oh hi Chris hi Chris and Jeff so yeah it's it's there's mouse pose which is basically a similar sort of thing I don't know why I ever stopped using mouse pose actually it's a good question I should probably reinstall it and give it another go yeah so your pro mouse does not work yeah we've had to talk about this so you have the same problem it doesn't zoom uninstalled and reinstall but still doesn't work yeah we've got to get answers on this haven't we we have got to get answers on this because it's so it's so frustrating for me because I know what a great appetite is when it's working because like I say it just works for me so it is a bit a bit frustrating that and it's not just like if it was one person saying oh it didn't work then that's fair enough but it's it's a lot of tech savvy people that are having problems with it as well so like yourself Chris and like doc and like everybody else who's had issues with it they're you know they're all all tech savvy people who shouldn't really have issues with with software so I'll give them I'll give Curse of Pro ago as well though because I know I know Paul Duncan's mentioned that so I'll give that one a go and I'll also reinstall mouse pose as well and give that one another go I used to use that one years ago and then I stopped doing any sorts of where needed to do screen demos for quite a few years actually and then I sort of came back to it and I don't know why I didn't just go back to mouse pose a I think how did I hear about pro mouse I think I probably heard about pro mouse on mac break weekly with Leo report and I think it was an a recommendation from Andy Notco originally that I heard it from so yeah that's that's where I got it from hey Dean good to see you here hey it was great to see you on the base the other day on your your Facebook page yeah looking really really good you and the band and Sammy superstar I caught your interview with René Richie by the way oh we got every we got all the people in today and doc yeah it's Alec with it Alec with a C to be honest with you I still answer to Alex I'm just so used to most people just assume that it's Alex rather than Alec anyway so but yeah it's always a bit confusing when there's tours in the room isn't it I was just talking about you earlier doc by the way because I was specifically talking about my my new course that I'm going to be making for how to get better results with your zoom calls and ecome live and I thought about architects which I will market it to but I will make it a little bit more generic as well it's sort of been on my list of things to do from the outset really I've got actually sort of five different ideas for courses that I want to create because there was I forget who it was now on your live stream was it um I think it might have been Stephanie Stephanie Lou who said about information is free but people pay for organization and I know that that is not the case with me as well I'd rather have I do obviously I go to the University of YouTube but I do also you know if there's something I need to know where I want a structured flow to it then I will just pay for a course for it because then you know that you've covered everything so yeah the the live stream of yours earlier doc was really helpful and you know that I'm going to be putting that into action at some point very soon so yeah I'm going to do a mixture of mixture of stuff on this channel but then also obviously creating the course and I'll actually just do some proper marketing for that one as well because I do also have a marketing company so actually it would be rude not of me not to actually use the resources to promote my own stuff the one thing I don't do is promote this channel as you might have guessed through it but yeah I'll definitely be running create the course and then run some ads and I'll probably make a video about that to be honest about how to how to market a course online as well like on this channel that's you know tech related and figure out the way to talk about the tech sort of side of stuff hey alicio always great to see you here do you know what alicio you've had some such inspirational posts recently in terms of just that you know the messages that you have where it's just like a sentence or something they they really lift me up they do so I really enjoy seeing those and by the way that video you made for your sister I thought that was totally on point with the you know the promo video and you'd mentioned about how you just sort of try and out you've done many promo videos the whole thing came across awesome I thought and your sister man she's got an awesome mission and message as well so yeah really yeah really impressed with all of that and yeah so I've completely lost my train of thought now so in terms of in terms of the content yes coming back to you Chris I will think about a way to structure it more and yeah I definitely think that the loop deck is probably going to be a bit of a focus over the next few videos when it eventually arrives on Monday but I will get back to my my keyboard maestro the other keyboard maestro video that I've got to do is actually an e-cam live video which is my basically one button to set up everything and oh you're making me feel hungry doc watching and eating ramen well I shall yeah I'll probably have some noodle soup myself that's a common breakfast over here so yeah I'll probably have that for breakfast this morning and what's this one mirror magnet let me have a little look Tommy is mentioning you can look at mirror magnet two from the same developer another great software if you just want to add the camera on screen without e-cam or obs is great software all right I get you so yeah when you're doing screen demos to have the thing in yeah I know that I don't want to speak for you Chris but I know that Chris you're all into the e-cam it's just the it's just the ongoing pro mouse by the way doc if you didn't have if you just came we have been talking about pro mouse so yeah that's really the issue Tommy is just this this pro mouse issue which I don't have but lots of other people seem to have so we'll see what the developer comes back with because I have reached out to him so we'll see what he comes out with I'm becoming tech support you know for pro mouse I get lots of comments on the the video still like the first video that I did which is and this is the same one that comes back is like oh it's not showing in e-cam when I'm in demo when I'm screen sharing but there is just that that same issue so yeah that is that is that is about all I've got what am I talking about today that's about all I'm up to really is the next week is my loop deck week I will get those oh I know what I was talking about there we go lost my train of thought my what's it called now now my mind is gone but this is happening to me more and more I found the other day that I was just forgetting the most basic things that are on the tip of my tongue that I can't quite remember and I've forgotten the name once again of my yeah my favorite app of all time well second of course the e-cam live um this is this is happening more and more these days the the the the app that we were just talking about is literally on the tip of my tongue oh this is hilarious I've just been talking about it haven't I let me go back I'll it's in the chat so I'll find out let me see uh not pro mouse no we talked about pro mouse we've talked about pro mouse what else is it pro mouse can die in a liceos fire uh keyboard maestro thank you Michael this is ridiculous isn't it thank you everyone's screaming at their screen keyboard maestro yes so the point that I was going to talk about was the next keyboard maestro video that I'm actually going to make is the keyboard maestro video for uh that is it it is it's too much content that's the problem I've got too many apps on the brain and I can't remember them all the time so yeah keyboard maestro I'm going to make the video about keyboard maestro and e-cam live and basically how I set that up so to position all of my windows and things like that in fact I could probably just give you a quick look at that let me just quickly bring up my keyboard maestro because it won't take too long I'll be able to make a proper video about this and I'll probably make a total hash of this now I have been said that I'm going to show you uh but let me just come to e-cam live where I've got it so the thing about uh yeah it's funny isn't it there we go but um uh I'll take that it has really been happening to me a lot I tell you another thing that I do I always used to uh I used to have a little chuckle when my my parents would do this when I was younger but what I do now is when I'm calling any of my kids I cycle through all of the names before I get to the one that I actually want to speak to so there's uh there's Dale there's Jasmine and there's Emily and if I'm talking to Dale I'll just say uh Jasmine Emily uh Dale so I cycle through them all it's quite hilarious uh hey Louis great to see you here I do love I'd never noticed the uh the cowboy hat emoji before but uh I think it looks hilarious it's one of my favorites now so yeah great to see you here um uh apple script and automator yeah well I use those as well um I will get to those they they are on the list believe me I've got quite a long list my my list now I think is it around about 130 videos that I've got to make so it's a case if I go through those and I can never choose which one to do but they're all kind of like all my kind of 30 minute style videos basically so I've got a bit of a list and then there's still others that get added to them as well as well so um it is it's how I just need to clone myself really and make more of them um so yeah I will do those um and uh yes Jeff Moom as well so I do so my my e-cam setup let me just show you this shall I and then make a lot more sense in fact I'll stick this one up here and then I'll share this other screen uh so this is my keyboard maestro and um basically what I do is I've got um I've got a few different toggles because it with keyboard maestro you can um uh you can trigger a macro but you can also within a macro you can trigger other macros so that means you can set up little think of them like as well I think of them like code snippets little blocks of macros and then you can just sort of call those in to uh other macros depending on what it is you want to do so one of the things that I have is um my windows for um uh e-cam live I use a uh oh hang on a minute this guy is awesome I do like Don McAllister I haven't watched any of his stuff for for quite a while but uh he's he's he's a great guy I really like his his style and his things like that so uh I yeah I will doc I will be getting a a uh I will be getting a pay wall up but not in terms of limiting content that I'm doing here I will be making uh I will be making um uh tutorials and stuff like that or courses rather that are specific and that I have a a sort of pay wall up for that people obviously pay to get access but I won't be sort of withholding information from here either but uh yeah he's a he's a great great guy I don't know him personally but um uh I was your mate is he oh well that's that's great yeah I know him from years ago I haven't watched any of his stuff or noticed any of his stuff for um quite a few years now um but I was it was I've been into uh mac break weekly since I think it might even be episode one or two and this uh this week in tech so being you know following along with all those things and yeah Don McAllister was always uh up there in those circles wasn't he so yeah great guy um but yeah coming to keyboard maestro uh this is why I need to do these as recorded videos rather than part of the live stream because I just get distracted uh yeah you're right you're right I do need to uh I do need to do that I've got that's kind of the way I've been thinking you know like when I did my um keyboard maestro beginner's guide is like one two three four five then I've got the advanced and so on I haven't actually made those videos yet but I've done the same with some of my other topics where I've got them sort of labelled and they are in a sort of in fact uh which was the other one I did another one in a sort of structured flow like that I can't just uh can't just remember now but anyway I digress so let me get back to let's get back back to um how to um uh do this with uh uh keyboard maestro so what I've done is where I have my uh my windows in fact let me just come into live demo mode and you'll see what I mess my desktop looks like at the moment so here is my live demo mode and that I've got my yeah little zoomy feature uh so over here is where I've got my windows for the live stream and in the uh the window here you can choose what you want to show so you can choose to show the camera effects and toggle it on and off in fact this is one thing you can't actually toggle it off in the window now I'll come to this in a minute you can't toggle these off by clicking on there I have put in a feature request to Ken and Glenn to do that so that actually if you come and select this and click it then it will toggle it off um and I'll show you why in a moment uh but then also if you come in here you can obviously just hide these things if I just hide these windows now I won't hide the comments just because I don't want that one out of the way I won't hide the interview window and I'll just close that one down as well so whoops there we go so now I haven't basically got my my e-cam live windows open well what I did was I created in keyboard maestro I created a shortcut which is um this one and if I click on this one in fact let me just execute that I'll just double check that I haven't got anything in there oh no I can't do that one yet that will actually reboot everything so toggle panels so basically I've got a set of base panels uh if I just press run this one it basically just opens only the panels that I use for recording because I don't want all the chat and everything like that open so if I click on that macro it what it does is uh it goes into uh my um my window here it hides all windows so if you click on this one it hides the uh not that one this one hide all utility windows so my keyboard maestro triggers that to basically just hide everything so there's no windows on the screen and then it puts in just the windows that I want uh so if I go in and click on my this live one now so I'm over here on the in keyboard maestro so if I click this one to toggle my live panels and click run on that one you see how it's basically just opened everything uh but when I go back to recording mode I just click on this one I don't actually click on any of these they're all they're all part of a multi uh uh macro setup that I have linked to one button on my stream deck so if I did that one you can see I was just put up my recording windows so that's just basically two macros okay so I use that those particular macros when I'm recording for this channel or when I'm recording for any of my other channel not channels but my other content that I'm creating using Ecamm live and so having that as a little sort of sub routine I think of it as that I can call I can just drop that into any other keyboard maestro uh routine or macro then uh to bring it in so I've got a key that basically sets up all of my screens um for where I want things so if I just uh let me just come to my stream deck for a minute right I'll come to I did a video all about my stream deck and by the way my icon pack that I've got for Ecamm live stream deck is is available on my website as well I just literally uploaded it yesterday uh so if I come to um this panel here uh you can see that I've basically got these four different views which are basically four different quadrants of the screen for when I'm doing my screen sharing so the one that I've got on now in fact let me just drop this one off for a moment so that you can see um the one that I have uh open now is actually this one down at the bottom whoops Daisy no it's not it's this one down at the top up at the top so this is basically uh my sort of four quadrants of the the screen because my screen is a 4k screen uh and 43 inch and so the um the the corners are basically each of those is effectively hd isn't it so um I can either focus to this top corner the bottom corner or the bottom left or the the top left like that and if I focus down to that bottom one that's where I just got the the loop deck thing so if I click on this button down here you'll see that my picture changes to the loop deck uh and if I switch over to one on the other side of the screen my little picture in picture changes because then when I'm looking at that it looks like I'm looking at the right place so I've got these different areas of the screen that I've set up on uh on stream deck um so that uh whoops Daisy gone to the wrong one there uh so that um um I've always got the the particular area of the screen that I'm focused on so if I come into my live demo mode you can see if I just move this one around you just close that one out of the way um you can see I've got this place here up in the uh the top right where I've got my stream deck I've got this area down at the bottom which is where I've got my uh a web browser I've got this one over on the left hand side where I happen to have chrome at the moment and then I could also put something up in this top corner here as well let me just get the comments up just so I can see um so um so basically what I want to do is when I open ECAM live I want to make sure that everything's going into the right place so my browser windows are in the right place and things like that so that thing that I just showed you where it basically clears off all of the ECAM windows and opens just the ECAM windows that I want um it basically uh triggers that to close down everything that I don't need and open just the windows I want it also with keyboard maestro I've got another little subroutine that opens things like um like whether I need a stream deck open the stream deck app the browser windows and things like that uh and just puts those into the right and it opens those apps up but then I've also got Moom which is a window management tool and so the Moom is used for basically I've got a set layout for how I want everything set up and that basically triggering that Moom action then make sure that these things are all in the right place so if I go over to my bottom left what you'll see let me come out of demo mode you can see that my browser is exactly in fact I've moved my browser out of the way but that is it would be just perfectly filling this this window um my uh chrome is perfectly filling the window my stream deck up in the top is filling the window and if I had anything in the the top corner then that would be filling that one as well the reason why I use this top corner as well is because then I can do stuff where I need to demo the the menus and stuff like that as well so that is um that is how I uh how I use that and so when I'm in live demo mode uh when I'm in starting up rather it puts everything exactly where it needs to be and so that's basically one button and I also have the button to close down all non-essential apps and also background processes as well so that's another little sub routine I've got in keyboard maestro uh and then with um stream deck using the KM link the uh or KM what's it called KM link is it it's a there is a stream uh there is a keyboard maestro plug-in for stream deck but there's another one which I find to be better than that and it's called uh one second uh where's it gone here it's called yet it's called KM link and that one you just basically put in the name of the macro that you want in fact let me just show you show not sell uh well let's go to here just delete one of these out of the way so if I come to my uh keyboard maestro link one second back on into that scene yeah I'm not in the right scene hang on I'm moving too quick for my own good here there we go let me come over to stream deck so it's this one basically KM link so it appears in here and it's just there's only one action for it it comes in the custom buttons you do have to install it so you need to go into the the store uh the stream deck store and get the uh the plug-in for KM link but then it's just one button and you basically can just in here just assign any of your macros that you've got in uh in uh keyboard maestro to it and when you press the button it triggers the macro so I've got one button that basically just uh closes down everything I don't need it opens up ecam live it also switches profile so I did a video this week about how to switch profiles with a shortcuts or with keyboard maestro so I do it with keyboard maestro so it switches me to the right profile and then it puts all my windows in the right place and also all of the app windows it opens up and puts in the right place ready for recording so I'm literally ready to go at the press of a button that's that's the way it's sort of working for me at the moment um and I don't I don't yeah it would just be a bit of a hassle to have to do that every time so um I will be making a proper video about that about the full process with all of the instructions and the uh what I'll do as well is I'll actually make the um I'll include a free download for the um uh the keyboard maestro macros that I've set up to do all of this stuff like open all the windows and close all the windows and stuff like that so uh let me just get back to um some of these comments and uh oh Max Sparky oh I love Max Sparky yeah he's uh he's great he's um yeah he's got loads of uh loads of mac power users podcast I've been listening to for so long it's uh he's really great and he's got a really great um a great way about him in delivery style and stuff like that so yeah do definitely uh definitely a fan of Max Sparky um ah Michael's joining let me just get to some of these comments I'll just add you in Michael just bear with me one second I'm trying to get a series of different animated overlays to set up a uh launch during my recorded videos basically different subscribe buttons is multifunction with delays in between the best option uh a different series of different animated overlays um yeah you yeah that could be a multi-action you could have it with a sort of timing so that they come in at different times yeah definitely uh that would be an option um yeah I'm happy to talk through exactly what you want with that and uh help you with that um let me just get to some of these other hello Michael good to see you hello uh did you get uh let me just uh ah so um oh yeah he did so that is I'm just answering I'm answering uh Louis question to doc about his coloured windscreen it's a recorder reporter store dot com is where that comes from for the uh the mic covers for the sm7b um and oh he's already answered it look at that he's one step ahead um the video's coming soon Dean I will uh I'll try and make that one this week so that it can so yeah you can get it all uh all sorted uh I am indeed Tim uh Chris I always I always get confused and call you Tim and it's because one of my business partners is called Tim and I'm on the phone to him or talking to him all the time and then I just uh just get your name wrong so sorry Chris um I am doing that video with uh with yet all the introduction stuff uh the all the opening up of ecamp uh there we go I'm all caught up so how have you been Michael I'm doing well in yourself very good very good and uh I'm really keen to know what is your verdict on loop deck you mentioned that my video might have convinced you one way or the other well yeah I uh I've watched doc so long and he talks about the loop deck periodically yeah and you know and I had some questions about it then ecamp came out and said they support it and then you said that you were getting one but one of the things that concerns me and I'd like you to check it when you get yours Luria did a uh video on the loop deck I saw that yeah she was having an awful lot of trouble because the screen itself is so sensitive she was hitting the wrong button uh when she tried to slide to the next page she would hit a button instead and I'd like you to uh focus on that in your your tutorial also yeah uh it's one of the issues that I see with it I mean obviously I haven't got one in my hand yet but um yeah I do like this sort of tactile feel to the um the buttons and stuff like that and um yeah just an all glass screen I've used things that have got like all glass screens where the buttons just you know you just got to hit the right touch target on the screen and yeah it's not always I mean obviously that's what the iPhone is but I find that a lot of other products aren't quite the same in terms of getting those touch targets right yeah I was wondering if she had uh you know if there was a place on it where you were supposed to slide to the next page and she just wasn't hitting it or whether you have to you have to put your hand on the screen itself and risk hitting a button instead slightly yeah yeah could well be because I can see where that would be a problem for me with my shaky hands yeah yeah and Jeff said could it be long nails well fortunately I wouldn't have that problem yeah but yeah that could be it you know if uh yeah yeah it could be it just touching some other part of the screen but I'm I'm uh I'm prone to getting one but I'm gonna wait for your videos and see what you think right right well yeah not long my my it's I'm purely speculating here my instinct is if I just had to choose between one of them I would still choose the stream deck just because I do like these the tactile buttons but then I'm not doing stuff like editing either and it's literally my use case for it is there are there are some things where I'm going to be using the dials to adjust different things um but generally I'm not doing like the the larger the larger loop deck with the the the main dial I can see you know for editing as like a um you know scrubbing through the timelines and stuff like that it's just not yeah I would be interested I would be interested to know if the dials would uh function like you're trying to put a border and you want it to be a certain you know 8 9 10 11 yeah I'm wondering if that would work because again trying to do it with a mouse you have to really be barely move the mouse yeah well you think about moving the mouse and it jumps up to too many yeah so I would be interested to know what I know that they've they've done put in a lot of functionality for what the the dials can do but also it is kind of still a it's almost like a 1.0 release of the integration with ecam as well so I'm sure they're open to suggestions if we've got any ideas about you know how people want to use it to make it make it better right right and uh boy there was something else about the loop deck oh it'll come to me soon as I quit having a senior moment I'm having more and more senior moments myself so yeah um earlier when you were asking a question about uh one topic a week or one a day uh I put an answer in uh what I think is that what I think is that taking a week for something makes more sense because it keeps you focused on what you're trying to do instead of doing a Monday video and waiting for the next Monday for the next part to come through yes yeah yeah I mean to me that's that's the way I would rather see it yeah and to be honest with you I try and break my videos down into like a series of five like the green screen overlay one which I still haven't finished was a series of five my introduction to keyboard maestro was a series of five I did a beginner's guide to stream deck which was five uh and then I did have in my head like in or in the list in fact the intermediate videos and the advanced videos as well and they're all in chunks of five so yeah with with me wanting to do a video a basically average in a video a day I could have like a a random video and then I could have a uh five like Monday to Friday something like that and then my live stream obviously so um that would give me uh seven in the week so yeah perhaps there could be like five focused videos and then like one random one that comes up as well yeah yeah I'll I'll I will implement that this week yeah yeah it uh it just to me it makes more well it's like your uh green screen share and that's what I call it I leave that extra green yeah yeah yeah it is yeah it's uh it's too much of a mouthful otherwise yeah your green screen share you know I followed one two three and four and then expected to see five the next day and I never came and yeah and and that's not a complaint but you see where uh waiting and waiting no I can't yeah yeah by doesn't make as much sense as being able to follow it step by step through the week yeah I think another thing that I should probably do which I never do um but is actually record them and not release them until I have got the full series and then I wouldn't have that issue I mean in that in that particular case so that was that was it was doing four weeks ago in fact I think that was the last sort of block of videos that I did and then I had uh one week where basically I was just in a conference all day every day for a week then I had another week where I just got all of this other stuff going on work related so I've basically had the apart from this last week the three weeks previously we're all just um yeah only basically doing like one or two videos a week which is not for me is not uh not not enough to keep up the pace so um yeah it's you know and then and then they released they're gonna release uh 3.9 obviously so then when I did make a video I had to make a video about that and then yeah so it's uh I've got to catch up but perhaps making the videos like recording five as a series and then just releasing these uh props exactly props do that that's what I was going to say that would be the way to do it then they're all in the bag and you don't have to worry about you know obviously your business and your family yeah have to come first and that but at least that way everything is ready to go at once yes yeah yeah and uh while you're talking about 3.9 but do you know what was new in the new beta release say release this morning uh the yeah it was the I had the issue myself it was for um Canon cameras over USB uh so there was an issue it might be in other cameras as well but I had an issue with my Canon plugged in over USB where there was a it's um uh basically it just came across as having a really low frame rate uh so it was really sort of I don't know the technical term to be honest I might be getting this wrong but it was it it just came across as a really low frame rate on the screen uh it wasn't actually as bad in the output but it was still definitely there uh but on the screen it looked really pronounced that it was you know that sort of motion to it um so that was the only thing yeah so it's it's still there in the uh the the actual 3.9 release this is you know when they released it this this was there so they've uh worked on a fix for it and put it into the the beta so anybody who mentions that they've got this issue we can direct them to the beta and uh it's working it's working fine now so I updated and the problem was totally fixed yeah so I I uh I had actually gotten rid of the beta and was using the the regular 3.9 ah right then in the group when I saw that the new beta was out I said wait a minute there might be something I need so I went ahead and downloaded it again you know hope apart hope they were working on the green screen thing but yeah I'm sure it'll make it in I'm sure it'll make it but I didn't I see the little blurb that I usually see that says here's what we did with this beta it was just one line actually it was just literally yeah fixes an issue with uh I think they actually said DSLR um cameras uh frame rates or something like that but um yeah I'm still using the the the beta um because yeah I've still just staying even though it's technically the same well now it's not actually but as of yesterday it was the same as the regular version so I'm just staying on the the beta to see what new delights come out well I just I just wanted to make sure I asked you to double check that sensitivity of that screen on the loop deck oh yeah I'll be giving it a I mean I can I already foresee that as an issue so I'll be interested I'm hoping that it will just delight me and I'll see something different yeah you watch Luria's uh stream on the loop deck yeah yeah and and of course when I saw that I should have realized that that ECAM was coming out with with something yeah because otherwise she had no reason otherwise she had no reason to to do it yeah but she was having so much trouble with it I said wait a minute you know this is this is more of a problem for me than I need yeah because I've got the stream deck which works fine yeah yeah yeah and I'm I'm like you I try to memorize where the buttons are and I keep my hand down around the the the buttons and with that one you can't put your hand on a button and feel your way to the next one yeah yeah well that's gonna have to have the other one that I'm interested in have some specific specific purposes for me yeah make it worthwhile so the other one that I'm interested in let me just bring this up now uh I've been said that I've got all my scene set up I'm not sure which area of the scene I'm sharing here to move some things out of the way have you heard of monogram it's um but I'm only seeing you I don't see your uh oh you're in I tell you what it was hang on a minute sorry let me just go into my settings I did a demo the other day and I changed it because I was basically demoing something to do with interview mode and so I changed it so that you only see the host camera because I needed to do that for the demo can you see that okay yes yes yes so uh monogram is uh let's just go down and see basically that it's kind of really modular so you've got um sliders uh in this module and you can see this little sort of square shape the the modules are all either uh square or this sort of half high rectangle shape um so you can basically uh just pop them together in any configuration you want you have this one module which is kind of like the core module if you like um but then you've got this one which has got three buttons you've got this one which is a big dial sort of uh I suppose your jog wheel for editing you've got these dials here and then these dials and then you've got this one which is sliders and you can basically just mix and match these and put them into um let's have a little look you can put them into almost any configuration you want uh and change the sort of use case for it so if you're doing photo editing or something like that you could have three different ones stuck together um or you might want to have something for a different use case uh and you can just basically there I think they're even actually just magnetic so they just clunk together and as long as you've got this one main sort of control module then all of these other ones just um just join on to that and they just all all work so um I don't know if this is um if the these will integrate as yet with e-camera if that is something else where they'd have to um put in a um uh well I'm sure they would need to put in some sort of functionality that would allow it to work but uh that's another one that I've been looking at that just seems quite interesting in the way that you can basically just mix and match with uh with all these different things to create exactly the setup that you want and that one could be uh another one to be uh to look at you can see there it's just got these little contacts at the top and they just sort of clunk together and um yeah all join together so and is that monogram.com it is I'll let let me drop the link in uh whoops I'll do that it's monogram actually monogramcc.com so let me just drop the link into the chat where's my chat gone moved out of the way it's all very well having arranged uh windows but then if you sort of move them around midstream then you get them lost so yeah that's uh that's monogram I know that I think that doc was looking at that I know that keely um uh keely done in the group I think that she might have given that one a go I'm not sure I'll have to uh I'll have to check with it but just another bit of gear for the little voice on my shoulder to whisper to me about in the night time I don't know whether it's doc or alec well I've definitely got a duck on my shoulder I in fact I've got two I've got one that whispers about gear and then I've got another one telling me to get stuff done yeah my my little coach uh so um thank you rich for mentioning that my buy me a coffee link it's very kind of you uh Chris I agree focus weeks are much better right that's that's decided it I will make some uh distinct sort of like series of five a week and then one other random video a week as well I have rackham and stagham yeah I'll definitely need to get the back catalog and uh that means I've got to be even more productive over the next few days to actually just get some in the back catalog rather than just putting them out immediately and uh oh hey Richard great to see you uh yeah well that's the thing stream deck is if it wasn't for feeling like I needed to do it as a service to all of you lovely people I'm not sure I would be jumping quite onto the um uh the loop deck bandwagon just yet but I feel I've got to do it as a service to the to the community that's that's that's what I'm telling myself anyway it's not gas at all it's not gear acquisition syndrome no of course not could now do you have the ability to return um if it doesn't work for you I never even considered that option oh I just a lot of the stuff a lot of the stuff that I get I get from b and h or amazon and I always have the ability to return it if it doesn't work for me because sometimes seeing the picture and reading the description on the on the internet is not the same as having it here and trying it out right right yeah yeah yeah I bought it direct from um from loop deck from the loop deck website so um I don't know if that that does or not and I think that code only works at their website right it wouldn't work in amazon that's right yeah it is it is only at their website I still can't believe though that they yeah they didn't charge me shipping which is quite amazing to get 15% off and then not get shipping charged to Thailand is uh I was quite pleasantly surprised by that yeah but some companies do that yeah you know um uh of course I'm a amazon prime member but I don't pay shipping for them either yeah and uh and if it and if it isn't on prime I don't buy it at amazon right right because because you win that way you're dealing with another company other than amazon you don't necessarily know their uh reputation or whatnot yeah yeah yeah we don't wait I can order stuff from uh from amazon uh any amazon actually so us amazon or amazon dot co dot uk as well so I've ordered stuff from there to come here that always takes a little bit longer with the shipping and the shipping cost is a little bit more um but we've got something over here which is similar to amazon that everyone over here uses called lasada and it's sort of for southeast asia um and we can get lots of stuff on there actually um but you do have to watch out some of it is um from Thailand and then other other products come from from china and I did have a completely fake what was it a western digital those little my passport hard drives so I had uh I had one of those that I ordered from it which the price of it seemed reasonable it wasn't like a totally uh you know unrealistically low price or anything like that and I just ordered it but the the thing that gave it away was the uh western digital my passport drives when they yeah when they come if you bought a red one you'll get a red cable with it if you bought a blue one it'll have a blue cable and this one came everything looks perfect the box looked perfect and everything but the cable was was uh black in it and I thought that that is not what how they are normally shipped uh and so I actually opened the case of it like literally opened the the sort of the the hard shell of of the uh the the thing to look at the hard drive inside and sure enough it wasn't a uh western digital drive at all it was like literally a repurposed knockoff drive from something else so sent it back reported the seller and got like a full refund but uh yeah you you do get those sorts of things happening over here but a bit of a bit of a digression that but yeah it's I'm looking forward to the to the loop day I really really think I have some uses for it but again if it's going to be you know more trouble than it's worth I'm not going to go with it yeah well it's the it's the dials that I like and that's why I like the that monogram thing because you're not really getting the uh you know all of the other functions as well it's literally just that it's just these these sort of dials that you could use so that's the that's the functionality that I really want from the loop deck and so maybe this might be another option as well but I say they don't have actually don't have the integration for that in in e-cam as such so thank you very much Jeff for stopping by I appreciate it's very late at night there half past midnight in fact so yeah thank you for stopping by always great to see you uh oh and thanks as well for Jeff sent me a message the other day about one of my videos the the video quality and I really appreciate you taking the time to to point that out as well it just actually hadn't finished uploading and processing but um that was something else I just post my videos straight away as soon as I've uploaded them I don't have any scheduling usually to them um but what that means is sometimes it hasn't finished processing the the hd version or the 4k version and so basically if somebody clicks on it immediately when the video is first available then it could potentially be in a kind of lower resolution so that's made me think that perhaps the other thing I should do is uh even if I don't schedule them as such then I should certainly sort of schedule them for maybe two hours after I've made them so that it has time for YouTube to do the processing so that was great feedback that was Jeff much appreciated uh yeah I I don't know the last time that I actually returned to something apart from as I say that dodgy drive but um yeah uh loop deck equals content it does indeed there will be a loop deck series and uh Jeff says nice streaming to Adrian's group I'll be interesting to hear by the way I know that there's quite a few of you doing there the Adrian's course so I'd be really interested to see it how you've all got on with that as well never gave you enough time to make more content do you know what I haven't had enough time of recently is I've not had time to actually catch up with content from my favorite creators I've not watched your previous uh couple of weeks at least worth of stuff Greg I haven't watched apart from doc's live stream today and a few days ago and stuff like that I tend to catch those ones I haven't watched tom book's videos for uh it's gotta be over a month's worth of videos that I've not watched of his I've just haven't had time to be uh watching YouTube content I've been too busy uh trying to make it and not enough time uh watching other ones so thanks for stopping by Chris always uh always a pleasure and uh yeah very late for the the UK contingent but always appreciate seeing you here so so have you got a date by the way planned for your next live stream Michael have you thought about yeah I think it's gonna I think it's going to be this week oh but uh I'm still trying to put together what I can talk about on it and uh we'll go from there there's a couple of apps I use that that I think are uh I think they're worthwhile and uh actually just found out today that one of the apps that I bought some time ago is actually in uh set up set up right yeah so uh if people like what I say about it then uh they can get it there yep that's got quite a good affiliate program actually set up which is um basically if you send somebody to set up and they get the free trial then when they sign up they get a free month and then you get a free month as well so uh it's just another little thing that helps out with um is there is there a place where you sign up to be an affiliate with them yeah it's actually right in the let me just have a little look now shall I I think it's in the set up desktop app or it's certainly on the website let me have a little look here quickly I think I know you go to the app and then you go to view my account and then um you don't you don't actually have to do anything to sign up it's just literally they you've got your code already in there if you go to uh go to set up in um in fact let me just show you this shall I be easier uh I don't have any sensitive information on there there we go so that is my that is my set up web page so if I come into set up on the mac first of all let me just take you through these steps let's take a moment so this is set up on the mac and then if you go up into the top corner up here you've got your account and then there's a a button here to view my account and so when you go on to view my account um then there's this thing down here which says earn free months and then you click on that one let me just see I don't think it gives names it does actually tell you who's signed up I think so um yeah you can see in fact there we go nothing sensitive on there so if you click on that earn free months um basically you've just got a referral link here so you just copy this link you don't have to sign up for anything it's just literally there in there everyone who uses set up and then you just share that link with people and so I've just got a basically a uh redirect so if you go to take one tech.io slash set up it's basically just forward through to this URL and then there you can see the 16 people basically have clicked on my link and six people have subscribed so that's that means that I get a free month and they get a free month as well and at 999 basically it's $10 so it's basically $60 that's come from me talking about set up apps on the on the on the channel so it's not a huge amount but it's $60 that certainly covers well it's certainly covered my set up for the next six months doesn't it so yes it's uh yeah it's really easy way and um yeah that's uh that's that's how set up works so what's wrong see there we go so yeah just um anybody uses it can share that and share it with your friends and all that sort of stuff as well yeah well I'm I'm trying to figure out things I can fill my page with when people go to go to my video like you do so I thought the affiliate links would be interesting and uh you already told me how to do amazon and now set up yeah and uh just you know I I never really know what to put on that page but I can I can list my gear like you did yeah you know and where I got it and um what I use it for and whatnot uh-huh Greg is saying uh just a schedule for a recurring live stream and then you'll uh you just figure it out when it starts yeah great yeah what are the other affiliate links let me think so there's um you use TubeBuddy as well that one's got quite a good affiliate program um and um uh what are the others okay are any of them are any of them like amazon where you've got to get so many clicks or they take you off the program no it's just um just amazon's the one that does that in fact I my um so I've got my amazon affiliate and then I've also set it up you it's in the US but then you can also set up your amazon affiliate in other countries as well and basically if people click on your link but then they go through to the other country then they you'll still get credit even if they've bought the product in the other country but I actually just got my take one tech UK amazon affiliate uh they they sent me the notification saying it's been 90 days you haven't had three sales through that so most of my amazon affiliates traffic is just going through the US store um so yeah that's because most of your list is that's it yeah no doc just dropped out and he says batman and robin in full effect yeah hello doc yeah so that's what he did just create his schedule and then just get stuck in I often think about you know what to discuss I mean I've obviously got a thing that is the uh I suppose the sort of foundation of my live streams every week which is I'm giving an update on my channel because part of the thing is me just sort of sharing the experience and progress as I try and grow the the channel so I've always got that as a starting point but sometimes I'm at a loss to exactly what I'm going to say in the initial live streams I actually because I didn't have any audience I actually did the more like videos so it was I had a specific topic for each one and I sort of planned out what the topic was going to be for each live stream but um recently I've not really done that it's just been a case of it comes to the weekend I'm thinking like right what's happened this weekend what am I going to talk about but I don't know whether having a live stream that is more structured might be a bit better or whether to just leave that for um like recorded videos instead my problem with the lives is that I do get distracted I know that I should just sort of focus on something and not get distracted too much by the you know the comments there's a there is a process to you know look at the comments focus deliver what you've got to deliver and then come back to the comments but I don't know I just always end up reading them halfway through and getting distracted I was I was having that trouble on my stream when I was talking to you and the comments were coming up on the other screen and I'd have to keep looking over there to see where they were yeah and then I had to figure out how to put them up on the screen yeah and uh but we got that figured out yeah yeah it was really with your with your help of course it was really really good fun that was definitely looking forward to you and uh did uh tomorrow it was a tomorrow night yeah tomorrow night uh we'll have to tell of what we have planned yeah definitely yes yeah looking for I'm looking forward to that so that's the same with me actually so I had a three hour live stream I think it was the week before last or and it was one where I woke up and I said to be honest guys I'm just a bit tired I've only had a couple of hours sleep I had a meeting that ran on late on I do I have these Friday evening meetings for me Friday obviously it's Saturday morning here but I have these Friday morning meetings now which are nearly coming to an end but they are they're quite late for me they're way after my bedtime so it was uh yeah the week before last or maybe the week before that even where I said I basically got nothing I've been in a conference all week and I've had a really late night so uh feeling tired don't know what I've got to talk about and it was it was three hours so and the ones that I plan uh sometimes just uh I rattle through the material and then it's like right I've got I have got nothing now so yeah yeah I'm I'm looking forward to to that uh stream I wanted to make with you yeah yeah I think that would I think that would be fun yeah definitely we'll talk about it in office hours yeah it's a little bit of a tease there you know you've got to subscribe to uh Wrinkle City on uh on YouTube to uh to get the latest on that I picked I picked up a few subscribers I know yes you did I'm not surprised and I've had uh 60 some views which is you know for me is fantastic yeah yeah well it's the the ball's rolling now isn't it so yeah it is you've now got you've now got viewers to serve right and uh and I'm sure that doc expects it to keep rolling so I will yeah yeah and doc I'm not 97 oh I love that man and and yes I am going to Hawaii well you know you'll have to let me know have to let me know when you're planning it for well maybe I'll be there at a time when when doc's doing office hours or something we do it together or just or just not tell him and just gate crash yeah knock on his door like his friend does periodically yeah say hello doc anyway I did actually think of uh Conningley cropping his uh his background and uh cropping his background and using that as my green screen during office hours but I haven't got around to that yet yeah well I uh there was somebody that was showing off their office or sometime back and they happened to step out of the picture long enough for me to do a screen grab and I thought I'll use that as a green screen and then I thought no you can't do that you know that's somebody else's property but it was a thought well that's what we all do we all all have the same background as doc yeah that was quite amusing yeah I'm looking forward to office hours tomorrow I always look for you to one of the highlights of the week really but yeah looking forward to seeing how everyone's got on uh this week with their uh things and we've got a few things to go through I think in office hours everyone talking about what they plan to do for the rest of the uh the year yeah time to set some set some actions and I'm not going to tell you now because they're going to ask me tomorrow night yep I've got a load I'm one of my things is to get back into uh consistency which I've sort of done a little bit this week but yeah I felt like the the previous three weeks I was just totally out of it and only did like two or three weeks uh two one or two videos a week but yeah getting back to the video a week I'll also now set the intention to uh yeah have a five a series of five videos every week on a specific topic and I'll get that one done but I've also got to get back to the shorts because I didn't do any shorts this week so it's kind of like I went from one to the other oh I thought you had a bunch of shorts in a bank I've done all of those yeah I've put all of those ones out and so now I've back to uh I've got to record another bank of them oh okay so uh yeah I basically did those for three weeks of uh essentially one a day um in fact it was more than that wasn't it I can't remember now but um yeah I've got to record some more of those so yeah get back to doing a short a day and a video a day and keep that going for a month and then sort of review the the stats after that yeah you're doing great you're doing great every time I watch one of your videos you've had six or seven more subscribers yeah it's nice it's nice to see it sort of creeping up slowly but surely so uh yeah yeah I can't I can't keep track of it I can't make your congratulations banner because I don't know what number to put it well I've still got your one that you sent me when I reached 100 because you've been there from the very beginning Michael so I always appreciate your your support and encouragement that you give me so yeah well and I'll continue to be there as I I mean you and Docker my mainstay off I get up and I watch everything you two do and then the rest of the day I'm playing well you've been there you've not just been playing you've been putting it all into practice so it's great to it great to see that how about for your your um I know you make videos for your family and stuff like that how have you been getting on with those with using e-cam for that you've been doing a lot of those well I love doing it with e-cam because it makes it so much easier for me and then I show them the video like I showed that alligator video and of course they all get excited you know and they said oh there I am there I am uh I I video when we get together and do things uh all of my family lives in Tampa which is about 35 miles from me and uh except one brother who is up in North Carolina and but he comes down quite a bit and we get together as a family because we're all we have left we've lost our parents some time ago and uh so we we enjoy it we we get together and I video it and I you know cut out things I don't want in them and because I enjoy editing also right right and cut out the things I don't want put in some flashy stuff and and then show the video to them and of course then they all say well where can I download I said well no if you look in the lower right hand it's copyrighted you can't download it but I I have also made them several uh DVDs of of various videos so that they could play them at home things like one of my niece's weddings and uh or actually two of my niece's weddings and uh one of my niece's graduation from college and you know so uh I I made videos and put them on a DVD so they could have those as keepsakes so that when they pass away the kids can all say what do I do with this I think we all have stuff that we is important to us but when we're gone they're gonna say the hell they want with this throw it yeah well I know that I've got a lot of stuff like that in my my filing cabinets and things like that around the place and yeah I've I've thought several times I'm gonna have to go through my filing cabinets because there's stuff in there that is not necessarily any of their business and probably don't need anymore so I have a nice shredder let's just shred but any rate that's the way it goes and I've I've got hard drive on hard drive of of stuff that I'm doing of course where I'll be making ah so now vlogmas actually this raises a question um what exactly is vlogmas I know that it is a video every day in December but what's the structure to it because I did um leader this this year uh live every day in August uh and for that I thought it was just a case of we're all just going to go live every day and that's it I didn't realize there was a you know a full course structure to it almost so I still don't really know exactly how vlogmas works as in terms of are they pre-recorded videos are they live videos do they go into a particular group do we do them just on our channels do we do it into the LGL group do we yeah interested to know exactly where that is because I'll definitely be definitely be doing that obviously that just that is about to go on my list of notes for Dr. Maronite all right because I have a I have a list of questions for him yeah and one of them one of them is dealing with that problem I had with the video earlier in the week oh yes yeah kept cutting itself off ah yes yeah did you did you ever find anything about that by the way I know because the ones I made after that worked fine that's really interesting I made a I made a couple of test ones where I actually within the video had a stopwatch running so I could see how much was getting cut off and nothing was hardly anything was getting caught off a second or two but the one I tried to send you 35 seconds was cut off uh huh that's really strange so I don't know if it was just a fluke or vlogmas got it it's so he says uh so just videos every day all 31 days so yeah so have they got to be any particular theme or is there anything else I mean I'm doing if I'm doing videos every day anyway then I need to do something a little bit different in addition to that I think for the purposes of vlogmas so I'm just interested to see what I need to do is actually I suppose I just need to go back and watch the vlogmas videos from last year which I wasn't here I wasn't here for I wasn't I wasn't part of the LGL community at that point so I will be getting my merch ready though by the way for vlogmas so I'll probably be doing a few videos with that my recovering perfectionist and a few other ideas that I've got as well um I've already spoke to yeah with them I spoke to press and so actually I spoke to press and so a probably was it a month ago Sylvia and uh Andrew and uh they are just such lovely people they really are and the other thing about it is I've heard loads of people talk about press and so and how great they are and you know if you need any merch then that's the you know you've got to go to speak to them um and so I had pretty high expectations going into my meeting that I booked with them the call that I booked with them to talk about what uh what you know what my sort of ideas were and they totally blew me away like I know that they haven't they haven't started the stuff yet but what they proposed as a package and how they work and the way that they were and everything all the interaction with them was just amazing they're just such lovely people so uh it's just basically I've got to get them artwork and stuff like that over uh they can create it themselves but I've got um I've got all that sort of stuff sorted so uh in fact I need to actually let me do that today shall I because um there's a bit of a lead time to sort of get things up and running with it um so yeah definitely need to get that ready for uh before December so I can be sporting my own recovering perfectionist tops and hat so uh so Greg might be joining the the vlogmas and uh Naughty Paul late again standing the corner please never mind and uh my teacher's never said please yeah where's my stick gone yeah yeah uh no problem paul you're forgiven of course and uh twice on christmas day yeah I'll just have to think about uh vlogmas so yeah what to where to uh to do it to obviously I've got my regular videos and then I'll have to think of something a little bit a little bit different and a little bit special to do for that yeah I wonder if it has to have any particular theme or or can you just get on and talk here I am and here's where I live and there's the dog yeah well we'll talk it over with with doc tomorrow we'll make sure to bring it up and I I just I already made a note in fact I I would put my hand up but we both know what that does don't don't trigger the odd spot yeah well although I got a new uh poll today it just in fact it came while you were uh while you were online live and uh it's going to allow me to raise that camera up and use it as a top down all right yes put my ev 10 in the middle yeah yeah uh so uh that way I won't have that problem but uh I can't wave at the camera yeah otherwise it follows me everywhere and and uh there's software they had a software update to it this morning so I downloaded but it came with a warning not to not to uh upgrade to Monterey because it doesn't work with Monterey yet and I thought well I'm definitely going to put my ev 10 up because you know you want to be on the latest or at least I think you should be on the latest version of the operating system yeah that's what I always do I know some people hold off uh there's somebody I mean I've already been notified I've already been notified that it's there and that I should upgrade but uh I'm gonna now tonight after I get off this I'm gonna set up that other pole and then I won't have to worry about it not working yeah oh incidentally that that's um the you know we talked about the the uh the latest beta and it's got a fix for the uh the Canon camera frame rate issue that was specifically with Monterey so it wasn't there before it was only when I upgraded to Monterey that there was that frame rate issue with the camera over USB so that's why and um and because they had already released the 3.9 and then there was this frame rate issue that came out sort of literally the day afterwards it was when Monterey was released as well so that's why there was oh so you've already upgraded to Monterey yeah yeah yeah that's hard this is another whole thing that I've got to make videos about because um they've got integration with shortcuts now so shortcuts that you have on iOS which I use heavily as well that's now just on the Mac so I'll be making a lot of videos about that as well and I would watch that one and download them all yeah yeah I I've never uh I never really have learned everything that the operating system does I usually just learn what I need to use and and I know there's so much stuff that it does I mean I watch the presentation from from Apple Park and yeah you know and some of it just went right over the top of my head and no idea what they're talking about especially when they're talking about chips yeah I'm gonna get the I'm sure the people that are listening that are interested yeah understand what they're talking about in the chips all I know is it faster and better okay I'll take it yeah and uh when when your uh loop deck arrives my my uh new MacBook Pro is supposed to arrive oh of course yeah yeah yeah right right we'll see we'll see if they come through with it you know but uh it's supposed to arrive uh in fact they had no trouble charging my credit card already so I have to assume it's coming yeah but I haven't I haven't got a it's shipped yet right right going and of course of course they ship from China and uh sometimes the stuff will go right through immigration and and and customs and everything else and other times they hold it two or three days so you don't really know when it's coming right right uh I've had I've had stuff where I've even uh contacted the people I bought it from and said look you said you shipped it where is it you know and you'll get a note back well it's held up in customs in Alaska or held up in customs in Chicago wherever the plane landed and I said what's the problem you know they know what's in it they have the ability to open and look open look and send it on but any rate we'll we'll see well you'll have to let me know how you get on with that I mean I know that Greg has got his one in if you look in the LGL group he's got it all set up with his monitors and uh just plugged them all straight in so I'd be really interested to see how to hear how you're finding that Greg as well and yeah I like the idea about the t-shirt by the way he was it's a more merch tech to tech Greg Greg has more than than one monitor plugged into his MacBook yeah yeah so he let me just quickly grab the uh let me see where is it I'll get the LGL group on a shortcut here actually obviously on my stream deck and I can show you the picture because he loves a really nice setup I gotta say Greg I'm really impressed uh let me just get this up there we go um now I've gone out of that menu I need to go back into my calling one here we go in fact oh I shall come into this one that's a bit better uh oh my god that looks great doesn't it what a great setup it does and how is it that he can put three monitors into the MacBook I don't know uh we'll have to uh hopefully he can spread shed some light on it so uh yeah but just looks a really really nice setup that does what a great looking studio very nice very nice yeah I need to add I do need to work on getting myself a proper studio setup actually so yeah well I don't I don't have very much room in this little room so I mean like I can almost not quite but I can almost touch that that stand back there and uh and you know from the beginning when we first started can take four oh the new MacBook can take four and and the pro can do three um that's interesting so the MacBook can take four but the what the MacBook the MacBook pro I'm not sure about that he's saying the MacBook Pro can only do three all right right well that's right oh yeah that's that's that's what that's what he's got anyway so that's what um uh Greg's got he's got three yeah three monitors attached to it cool uh I got you well the max the max is four and the pro I get you so the the uh the the one with the max chip is uh is pro oh I can do four then because I have the max yeah I've got it gotta stay on the ball I was confused then for a moment oh I had something I was gonna say and it had nothing to do with keyboard maestro I lost it well I still I haven't upgraded my yeah so I'm gonna your other videos you also forgot the words for keyboard maestro I know I don't know what it is it it goes out of my head it's uh it's happened a few times with keyboard maestro specifically the other one you have sticking you have sticking out put it up on your screen so that when you want to talk about it all you have to do is look at it yeah yeah just have a list of my favorite apps around here yeah and and the names of my kids because like I say that's the other one I cycle through them if I'm calling Jasmine I'll go Dale Emily Jasmine yeah yeah it's quite funny well I I only have one kid and so I don't have to worry about it yeah how's he doing today he's doing fine except he's not getting any bones right but that's all right that was that was more of a joke than anything else well I'm sure when you when you start uh uh start doing more streams they'll let they'll start coming thick and fast yeah no uh but no he's he's doing very well um he I don't know how he can sleep so much but no matter where I go in the house he's right behind me and then when I sit down he's right at my feet and the only problem I have is whether I want to use the bathroom there's one right outside this office and it's not big enough for both of us to be in there at the same and uh and he doesn't understand why he can't come in but at any rate that's funny doc do you know it's one thing that I don't really use um uh any sort of voice assistance I've never got into actually using them I should probably uh it's surprise I surprise myself that I haven't done considering how I'm all about the automation and making things easier I don't know quite why I've never just actually got into uh into using these sorts of things I do use um Siri for dictation but oh that's funny um yeah I do use Siri for dictation but I don't do uh don't use it for other stuff I really should I really should uh I really should start I'm a bit behind I'm about how many how many years has that been out now where you can use uh Siri for actual voice commands uh I tell you the one that I do use actually I uh I don't I don't use an Apple watch anymore I use my um I use my isimilarchy watch a proper a proper watch um but when I did use an Apple watch for the first year when it came out um I did use it for my like coffee timer and stuff like that so I used to use um use voice for that you know telling it to start my coffee timer or do this or do that but uh yeah since I haven't been using the Apple watch I've just not really used a Siri at all do you use it much at all Michael yes and but see if Apple makes it I have it yeah yeah well I I caught the first Apple watch but to be honest with you I don't know why I don't know why the watch never took with me it's um I actually just really like my uh my this watch I've had for I think 12 years now which is uh it's just a big lump of metal it doesn't even you can't probably can't see it hasn't even got proper hands on it it's just there's two steel discs inside it it's just a big block of machine uh machine metal and uh I just uh I like the aesthetic of that so I've just never gone back to the Apple watch after I had the first one yeah no I I have the uh Apple watch I have the oh I mean like I said if Apple puts it out all the things yeah and and if I'd have been smart I never would have turned in some of my computers because my first Macintosh now is an antique yeah yeah but it it went by the wayside a long time ago and of course the MacBook Pro that I have now is getting traded in towards the new one and they gave me quite a deal on it so I couldn't say no yeah yeah uh and uh I mean they gave me I guess a little more than half of what I paid for which is not bad that's pretty good and I might have been able to sell it for more you know online but this way they just deduct it from the price of the one I'm buying and you have a lot of time cost involved don't you yeah and I don't have to worry about I don't have to worry about well is the check gonna clear from the people that want to buy it you know that kind of thing yeah so anyway it works fine for me I did the same thing when I upgraded my iPad Pro I just turned in the old one and of course I'm a stickler for keeping things neat and orderly and no scratches and whatnot yeah so I always get I always get the top dollar you know and they they tell you this is what will give you if it passes our test when we get it and it always passes their test because no scratches no dents no nothing I mean it just so anyway I usually keep my things in pretty good condition but there's there's always a a danger window within the first week if I'm going to break something I'll do it literally like within days of getting it where I'll just get it and drop it or something like that but if I get past a week then I'm usually pretty safe yeah no I of course I have I have sturdy desks and I make sure that everything is properly on the desk far enough so it can't be slid off and um but anyway it's uh I'm looking forward to it right now I'm still still waiting to set up the MacBook I have now because I've been playing around so much and watching so much on YouTube yeah I haven't gotten around to moving all my scenes well I moved my scenes over you know my profiles yeah but I have to go back in and even though they show up in the menu the picture oh you mentioned about the assets not being there I still haven't done a little test on that I need to um I need to test it and move some stuff over to my old MacBook as well and just test that and find out why if that's so yeah I'll do a little bit of digging on that well and I move I move all the folders that that the assets are in to the same place on the MacBook Pro that they were on the M1 Mac and on my iMac Pro and it still doesn't I mean I have to go find them and it brings them back in again yeah but uh but basically I have to kill the one that's there and reload it got you it's not finding it where it should but I don't know if there's a difference you know uh programming wise if there's a difference on how to find that that folder on the MacBook versus on the Mac mini versus on the the iMac Pro I mean it would seem to me it's the same operating system uh it should should know that's where it is well the way that um I understood that profiles work doc's just saying he'll help tomorrow so that'll be yet good but the way that I understood profiles work is it just has all of the assets together in a package and so when you send it to somebody it's got all of the images and everything like that but um I know that you mentioned about it was stuff that was in the background or something so I'm what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a test where basically I have images in the show in all scenes showing current scene and show in background and see if there's any difference it could just be something where something you never know it could be a it's like like your back like your background image now if I were to if that was my profile yeah and I wanted to bring it over to my other it would not show that picture but in the menu it would show that it was an option right right yeah get you so it's so it's the it is the green screen background as opposed to in showing the background in the scene the overlays you mean no no the no your your the background you're using right now that's not a green that you know that the blue um oh that one yeah I see I see yeah so so that that is one way it's it's showing background in the overlays tab yeah so all I'll do what I'll do is I'll do it today I'll just do a quick test where I've basically images in all of the different places and then see because in theory the way I understood it was everything would just be in that one package and you wouldn't need to import any other assets so I'll uh I'll do a little test yeah well I'm I'm I'm putting that that is uh actually that's already on my list to ask doc for tomorrow night so docs just mentioned another good one uh yeah that's that's also what I do my my danger windows are either the first week or the week that I'm about to sell it yet that is exactly the same if I've got anything to uh to sell then I can be sure I'll I'll scratch it or something yeah yeah yeah no well I'm I'm being very careful because they they gave me too much money from it to to have them say oh no you've got this and you got that and you know we're not doing it uh huh yeah the um yeah I'm gonna have to gonna have to have a little look at this because I'm I'm sure that the uh the thing about the the profiles was you know you can create a package and you wouldn't need to send out any other assets or anything like that it would just um it would just all unpack it all and put them in all the right place but I'll I'll do a bit of investigation today okay because you know the uh the size of the file is certainly big enough to have everything in it well that that's right and that's what uh Ken and Glenn said on the um the thing where they introduced I think it was in the beta actually where they were talking about it um where they did the sort of rundown of all the features in the group uh and then they mentioned about that they said just bear in mind that if you have got videos and stuff like that in there that the uh the file size will just get big because it's it is encompassing all of those those assets into the the thing so uh yeah but anyway we'll love to uh well we'll investigate further and I'll let you know what I'll find out anyway we will okay uh it's getting late for me oh identity rim two days before my beam release I have I have tire and rim protection on my lease doctor uh will the profile have fonts and music I think the answer is no but once you ask I don't know about the fonts I think that the fonts might have to be system fonts that's a very good question but the music certainly should be there I think um I'll I'll I'll test all of this today I'll I'll stick some fonts on my uh on my mac mini and then I'll transfer over to my laptop and then I'll see and I'll stick some music in there I'll do it I'll do a little test uh I might as well record it as well I'm doing it but anyway it's uh it's getting a little late I go to take care of him and uh head on out but thank you for having me on cool it's I think that's uh that's fonts don't carry uh but music does so that's the answer so fonts don't carry but the music care the music does yeah well fonts fonts you deal with your system that's that's what I figured yet yeah if you don't if you don't have it in the other system it's not going to it's not going to transfer over uh I mean I've I've come across that when I transferred files from one computer to another that I was doing in either uh Final Cut Pro or After Effects that I had to go bring the fonts back in so yeah that's that's understandable uh well and the other thing is you can share this with other people and you know if you if you're using paid fonts or like us on the the uh Adobe where we bring the Adobe fonts down they don't want you giving those away free to someone else that's it yeah yeah okay well it's always a pleasure Michael chatting and uh yeah it is it's a pleasure coming on and I'll see you tomorrow night great stuff all right Michael thanks for stopping by I'll see you in office hours you're quite welcome take care good night good night doc well it's uh about that time when I wrap up as well it's been uh just over two hours actually and I didn't think I had a lot to talk about today but it's always the way as doc you mentioned earlier they just don't seem to run on and I have heard my uh my son I'm in the basement down here so I always hear him coming running down the stairs and then into the the living room above me so my son's up and about so I'm going to wrap it up there and uh yeah I will no doubt be producing quite a few videos about loop deck next week it's arriving on Monday so expect a video out Monday evening or Tuesday it might be time for me to have a nap actually as well because I normally get up at three o'clock but I was up at one o'clock this morning which is how I was on your two live streams your one in the ecum group and then the one about the ecum affiliates as well really appreciate that by the way doc because it has sort of given me the impetus to get my paid paywall up for some of my paid content as well so I'll definitely try and get my act together and get that done within the next month or so by the end of the year start the year as we mean to go on thank you everybody for stopping by and saying hello and for all of your wonderful comments and doc's 2 p.m. I'm a master at power naps by the way my my wife actually just always laughs at me the fact that I can sleep literally anywhere I never have any issue it could be in a you know in a chair in the living room or it could be in a noisy airport lounge or anywhere at all it doesn't matter the noise does not affect me if I want to sleep I will sleep so it's one of my my superpowers I'm not sure what super super superhero there would be that has napping as their core super power but there you go that is me anyway so yeah I may have a little morning that myself thanks thanks again yet for all popping by and thanks rich I can see your comment copy just doesn't come up in the account yet great to see you as always and I'll see I'll probably see most of you actually in doc's office hours tomorrow if you haven't already head over to buy me a coffee dot com slash doc rock and sign up for office hours uh full of admiration for the group and it's just amazing so definitely head over to there I might just constantly permanently change my my link to doc's link because it's an amazing group so that's all for me I am going to sign off now and head to my end screen and say if you are watching on the replay there'll be some more great videos coming up next and I look forward to seeing you all again very soon all right have a great day bye everyone