 We're still talking about the Ecamm Live green screen screen sharing feature and this is video two of five. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec and yet we're still diving into basically the series of five videos all about how you can get the most out of the new feature in Ecamm Live which is currently in the beta but we'll be making it into the mainstream pretty soon I would imagine and this is where basically you can apply green screen to a screen sharing overlay and why is that important? Well, it means that you can use programs like Keynote or PowerPoint to basically create presentations with green backgrounds so that then when you share those into Ecamm Live it has a transparency that basically anything that you've added into your presentation will just appear magically over the top of your scenes in Ecamm Live so that it will allow you to do things like this. This is the example that I keep showing and there you can see we've got transparent text coming through. So what I thought I'd do in this particular video this video two of five is to show you a couple of ways that you can achieve basically that effect that I've just shown you and show you how to do some of the animation that I did in that in Keynote but then also to show you a couple of things that I've done in Stream Deck as well to make this whole thing a lot easier to work with so that is what we're gonna do today so let's start actually with the Stream Deck and get ourselves set up in the right footing to begin with. So I'm gonna come into my demo mode. Now if you remember from the video I did last which would have been earlier today, yesterday whichever time zone you're in I'm not sure. Then basically the screen sharing was as you can see I've got this green screen here which is just my Keynote presentation and then I've also got a little overlay which is of that which is this overlay up at the top here green screen share I've called it and you can see that as I move this around on the screen it's moving this sort of transparent box around and that is simply just the green screen and in fact if I turn off the green screen function which you do by clicking the little pencil icon in here by the way you can also do this in the settings in here so sometimes if you've got layers stacked upon each other or different overlays rather stacked upon each other sometimes it can be tricky to get to the one that you want to work with or just the settings but you can always do it from in here as well so here is that particular overlay I could actually just come into this little cog wheel and just change it from there that's often a lot easier than trying to do it in the scene itself if you know what I mean. So here if I toggle the green screen off then there you go now you can see that this is basically just the scene that we've got going on down here and now if I was to actually just advance this slide let me just get that lined up again if I was to actually advance this slide then we'll have another little animation come in and you can see it's just green but if I toggle the green screen feature then it becomes transparent so that is basically in a nutshell how that works so I have got that at the moment as you can see in all scenes so in case you weren't familiar with the way that overlays work in Ecamm Live there are three different sort of locations if you like that you can have an overlay you can either have it show in the background and so that will show in the background of all scenes behind everything else that stacks up on top of it it could also be something that is just unique to a particular scene and so here you can see it says show in current scene or you can have it show in all scenes and so that will obviously show in every scene so I have a lot of overlays that are shown in all scenes but then I just toggle them on and off as I need them and that is the way that I'm currently working with this particular one for this example there are times when I would be using this exactly the same methodology using the green screen screen sharing feature to share keynote slides and things like that but I might want it in a specific scene I'll talk about that in a later video why you might want to do that but for now it's just sitting here at the top but the issue with this potentially is at the moment it's showing and nothing because it's just a transparent green background so it's taking out the green but if I was to stop this presentation by pressing escape then now it's still screen sharing the keynote slide program however it's obviously we don't want to see all of that and it's still just keying out that little green bit so what we would want to do is come up to here and then just hide this overlay by pressing the little icon but obviously we don't want to actually be doing all this crap by moving the mouse so what I would recommend is you add this as a stream deck button to show and hide this overlay which is exactly what I've done so now I can toggle it off when I'm not using it but then when I activate the presentation like this I can tune it back on again and now it is active but obviously you can't see it it's just transparent if that makes sense so let me show you quickly how I did that and then the other thing that we wanna do is add in ways that we can actually advance these slides and things so first of all I'll come into my stream deck and out of demo mode too many buttons to press today and basically all we're gonna do is in Ecamm Live so if you come into your Ecamm Live plugin in stream deck if you are a stream deck user if you're not I highly recommend it and then down here we've got an action we've got loads of actions actually from Ecamm Live they've done such a great job of putting in all of these actions so that you can you don't have to rely on keyboard shortcuts and things like that but there is one down here somewhere which is this one show and hide overlay so you simply just add that one onto your stream deck and this happens to be this one I haven't made a proper icon for it yet so I've got the type over it I'm a bit like that I like to make my own icons for everything so anyway here we've got this this is the show hide overlay action and so here it's just selecting this green screen share and that is up here this green screen share so when I press that button it will just toggle it on and off so if I just come out of this for a moment basically you can see that I I've got my overlay over the top of it and I can just toggle that on and off like that by pressing that button so that is what I have done with that but now also bear in mind that basically what we're doing to get these animation effects is we're essentially just advancing slides in Keynote so what's the best way to do that? Well, you could just actually have Keynote as the active application and then sort of press next and click through them you could use something like a little clicker a little Bluetooth remote to advance the slides a presentation remote but then again, you would need Keynote to be the active application or you'd need to program it with keyboard maestro or something like that it all sounds too complicated, doesn't it? Well, fortunately, you don't need to do any of that because there is a Keynote plugin for Stream Deck as well and there's also a PowerPoint one as well so if you're using PowerPoint then you can do that with PowerPoint as well so I'll just come down here and you can see down here somewhere we've got Keynote, there we go and just in case you weren't familiar with how to get it let me just quickly show you where this is one second, just toggle that off, there we go if you come up to the top here to the Stream Deck Store and then you go to the plugins and then you come up here and you just type Keynote then you'll find it in there, there we go so install that plugin or if you're using PowerPoint just search for PowerPoint and then it will come and you can install that one and basically what that gives you is once the plugins installed, as you can see we've now got this set of actions that we can add just specifically for Keynote we've got play, next slide, previous slide, first slide, last slide and all I'm really using is the next and previous and then we've got the same for PowerPoint as well almost, so PowerPoint's got the same it's also got load presentation but then basically the same so that is how we're using that and I've basically just dragged those on so I've got two little arrows here for next slide and previous slide and that is how I'm basically cycling through those animations so that means that if I come back into this one and I come out of this view I toggle my green screen sharing back on then I can press my little button and it will just advance to the next slide which is basically the next animation and so that is how I'm using that with Stream Deck so what I thought we'd do is we'd just make a little example of actually how I made something similar to that overlay that's just popped on there so if I come back into my demo mode I'm gonna exit this particular presentation and I'm gonna come back into whoops just hide that one come back into this one that we're doing yesterday so it may have been today depending on your time zone I'm not sure but this is basically the little animation that we made yesterday a bit of a silly one really with these cameras so the way that this works is if I activate this animation you can see that these little cameras fly in and they're flying in on the screen up here as well and then I had them moving around a little bit and then just disappearing off the screen so very, very silly isn't it but anyway what I'm gonna do this time is I thought I'd make a little one with the sort of transparent text that moves in and have some sort of animation with that just to give you an idea of how the sorts of animations basically that you can do with Keynote and how you might use those with this so I've got a new slide there ready and what I thought we'd do is sort of change it up a little bit so that one had some sort of sliding panels coming in sort of diagonally and then some text coming over the top so perhaps what we could do is maybe some bars coming down from the top and some bars coming down from the bottom and then the text sort of scrolling right across the screen or something like that so let's give that a go so I'm gonna put on a shape first of all and this is gonna be our sort of bars so let's say that we're gonna make this how many bars should we have say eight, four come up, four come down so I'm just gonna make that like that so how big would they need to be let me get my style editor so we've got basically with let me just show you where this is as well so when you want to edit anything so we've got our green canvas basically that's our transparency if you like and now anything we add onto that and add the animation it's all going to sort of just appear on our screen when we actually run it so what I'm doing here is I'm creating some bars so I want eight of them and I'm gonna basically have four of them come up down from the top and four of them come up from the bottom sort of in this effect and then we'll have the text fly in so I'm thinking that they'll make these bars black and so what I want to do for that is now that I've added on a shape I just went up to the shape at the top and I just grabbed a rectangle so now I'm gonna go over to here we've got the format panel so if I click on that one and then what I want to do first is let's give it a color so I'm gonna make it black like that and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to adjust the size of it now you can obviously just do this by eye you can drag it like this and it will just sort of do the alignment for you but also what you can do is if you come over to the arrange panel over here you can actually specify the size completely so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna and the position as well first of all the position it's always from the top left corner so I'm just gonna make this zero zero because that means basically it's starting from exactly in this top corner here and now the size of it I suppose technically I should do this as a 4k you can just change the size in fact let me just show you I won't do it but let me show you where to do that so when you come into the document over here we've got widescreen so it's selecting the right sort of aspect ratio for us and you can come in here and you can change between standard and custom so we're widescreen or sorry you can change between standard and widescreen so 16 by nine or four by three but you've also got this one custom slide size now when it's selected 16 by nine it will just default to sort of HD 1080p 1920 by 1080 as it were so here you can see that but you could just change that to be 4k and actually create 4k overlays so that is another option that you can do to just make sure the resolution is the same as your output if you're outputting in 4k also if you made them in 1920 by 1080 you can just go in and change that and it will generally scale everything up so if you've got text and images and things like that on the screen it will just do all of the scaling so you can always go back and do that afterwards if you've got some old presentations that you need to do keynote specifically is quite good at maintaining that and doing the scaling properly obviously if you have got low res images in there it is going to be blowing them up to double their size so that might have a slight issue but in general everything will maintain its positions and it will all look good so that was a little bit of a diversion but let me come back to the format because now we want to set the size so the height of this is 1080 so I'm going to change this one to 1080 and then we want eight of these and it's 1920 wide so we need 280 for here 240 sorry, there we go so now we've got a bar and now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to copy this one across like this and then I'll copy it again to here I could go in and put all of these values in manually in terms of like the actual exact position of them but I'm hoping that this will just all nicely work out in the end now I've got something quite not quite right there let me have a little look there we go there we go that's where the gap was I'm just nudging these over until they are basically completely next to each other rather than having any overlap because this should all just perfectly stretch to the very edge there we go that's it so now I've basically got these four rectangles so what I want to do is I want to have some of them fly in from the top and some of them fly in from the bottom so let me just have this like this and what I'm going to do is now I'm going to add the animation so I'm going to come to the animate add an effect and then we want these to move in it's actually the the word and we don't want build out because we want them to actually appear first of all helps if they come in first before they go out so we'll have that as it is actually fly in there we go so that is basically now that isn't all we want do beg your pardon we do want move move in that's what we want not fly in there we go so that is moving in but it's moving in from the side at the moment so we want some of these to move from the top and some of these to move from the bottom so now that we've actually got those in there we basically want alternate ones so I'm going to just come and highlight the alternate ones on this side you can see we've highlighted these sort of alternate ones let's have these ones the direction over here we can change move we want those to go top to bottom and then we can click on the let me just move this out away a little bit you can click on the build order so that we can see when these are all happening because we do want them all to happen at once but I'll just get the direction done first and then these ones here we want these ones to move bottom to top so these ones we're going to have bottom to top so now what we want to do is if you remember from the last video we've got this build order which is basically going to tell us when these things these animations are going to happen and we want them to all happen with that first one so it all happens at the same time so I'm going to drag that onto there that's a shortcut way of doing sort of linking them all together but it's still saying after previous so we want it to happen with the previous like that so now if I preview it you can see what's happening this is just sort of moving in like that so that is what we've got there now what we could also do is we could play around with the timing of it if that's a bit too slow or a bit too quick so let's try that it's a bit faster isn't it so we'll leave that one like that and then what we want to do is now that we've got that there we want to have some text flying in don't we so what we could do though just before we do that is we might want to actually just put in the the build out while these are nice and clear and we can see them easily so what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a build out effect and then we're basically going to do exactly the same and what we want to do is have those move out but again we're going to have to adjust the direction of them so again I'm going to take these which way did this came so this came from the bottom so let's have it move bottom to top again as it moves out so we want alternate ones again whoops you see there we go I'll get that one that's over here instead it helps if you helps if you press the right button doesn't it there we go I was pressing alt instead of command which is how you select multiple ones so what we want to do with those is we want those to move bottom to top and then we want these other ones here pressing the right button and it works amazing isn't it next one is top to bottom and then again we want these all working together with each other so if I preview this now you can see that those are moving out one thing I forgot to do I forgot to say that they needed to happen with that particular action rather than after it so I'll come down to here where we want it to start start with previous so that's going to move out like that you notice there's a little bit of a bounce there so it sort of bounces up before it comes down I'm not sure that that is what we want in this particular case so we can take that off here we can move that bounce and unclick that and we can unclick it from here as well like that so now what we've got is basically the scissors come in and then they go out the other side now let's have a look at what that actually looks like on the output because it's interesting to see how that's going to look when we do this as screen share green screen so let's come to screen sharing and toggle that one on so now watch what happens when I advance this slide you can see it basically should whoops wrong one it started from the beginning I beg your pardon that's not what I wanted it to do it should now hang on a minute what's going on I've got the wrong slide selected that's why silly Billy right let's try this again there you go you can see how that basically just masked the screen and now when I advance again then it's going to basically unmask it so that's just basically applying that to over the top of my video isn't it so that's what we're trying to get to and now what I want to do is I want to animate some text actually in between those build in and build out of those those bars so I'm going to come and grab some text so that is basically just up here you come and grab a text box like that and then we can basically add in whatever we want so let's add this is our great text and in fact let's show you how how should we have this working should we have a big sort of cinematic scroll across the screen maybe that's what we should do let's do that so what we want to do is we just want to make this text massive so what I'm going to do to adjust the text isn't going to come to format and then I'm going to come to text over here and then I'm going to change the font this is the one that I use on my channel usually Gibson and then I'm going to change the size of it to let's see 300 how's that 10 times bigger that's actually probably still a little bit small there we go that looks a little bit better now we have got a slight width issue of this text box we could alter that by going into the arrange and changing the width manually but let's do it like this so we want this to basically just scroll across the entire screen like that so the way that I'm going to do this is I'm actually just going to I could have it sort of transition in and then transition out but it's really too big to fit on the screen in one go isn't it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually leave the text over here to start with and then I'm going to use the move tool so the move tool move tool is another animation so I'm going to come over to animate but rather than a build in or build out it's just an action that's going to happen on it and so there's no sort of appearing or disappearing although that will be the effect because it's currently off screen this side and I'm going to move it off screen to the other side so I'm going to click on add effect and we're just going to use this one this move like that and then you can see it just does put a little bit of a move into it automatically in a arbitrary direction which is usually left to right but basically this line depicts the movement that it's going to take but we have got the sort of the ending position has been sort of highlighted so I can grab this and you can see that just by moving this around it's actually moving the path that it's going to go on so all I want to do is I just want it to move directly across the screen like this and if I just bring it out this way like that you can see that yellow line that's appeared I hope you can see that the yellow line there is indicating that those two are on the same sort of horizontal plane so they're aligned with each other so I'll just leave that there and now what would happen is if I just preview that then you can see that that's going to scroll across the screen now that's a little bit too fast really because we don't want it to just always buy quite so quickly so if I do this you can see that that is effectively going to create the effect of scrolling text that might still be a touch too fast when it's on the biggest screen let me try four seconds there we go so there we've got our text now and the position that it's going to move from and to and the little animation bear in mind as well that what we want to do is we had this build in of all those rectangles and then we've got the build out where we actually want this one to appear right in between those don't we just like that because we want that to happen first and what we perhaps want to happen is I would say that we want the bars to come down first and then we want the text to go across but perhaps there could be actually a bit of overlap in terms of the time so the text starts running across before the bars have totally finished moving in so what I'm going to do is I'm going to have that start with build one now bear in mind that these builds all take 0.7 seconds so I'm going to have this one start with build one but I'm going to put a delay in of let's say 0.4 seconds so basically after those bars have started coming in for 0.4 seconds the text is going to then start scrolling across the screen by which time there will be over halfway across so this text will be scrolling on the the black background in fact let's make that 0.5 just in case and then once the text has scrolled across we then want to have the bars disappear again so let's have that one happen let's have that one happen immediately after we can adjust the timing a little bit afterwards but at the moment this is just white text so if I was to actually just preview this whole animation you see the borders in fact that's a bit small isn't it to see sorry about that let's make that a bit bigger let's try that again you can see that the bars come down the text scrolls across and then the bars disappear but there's no transparency in there which is in the actual text itself which is what we're trying to achieve so what I'm going to do is I'm going to select the text and then I'm going to come over to my color picker and I'll put the hex code for the green screen in the description by the way but I have actually just added it to the color picker here so come over to the format then come down to the font if you've selected text usually it will just select the text color anyway but if it hasn't then just come down to the format come to text and then come down to here where this little color wheel is and then you can change it to green so now we've got green text there I just want to check it has changed for the other end of it as well yeah it has so that is how we change the text now we may want to add something like maybe a drop shadow or something like that to it or in this case it's obviously on black so let's put a white border around it so let's come to the text again now there are actually a couple of places where you can add drop shadows if you come into the style which is where you might think it is because you can't immediately see shadows or anything like that in here you might think well I'll come over to this text this style and then here we've got a border well if you add a border to here what it actually does is it's actually adding let me just change the color of it so you can see it's actually adding a border around the text box rather than the text itself so however if you do use the drop shadow the drop shadow finally does actually apply to just the text rather than the box itself so it's a bit of a not necessarily consistent there but if I come over to the text the place where we want to add this is basically in this little cog wheel here so I'll click on that one and there's a couple of things that you can do you can add an outline or a shadow so we want to just add let's say a white outline so I'm going to come to here change the color to white and then I will make that a little bit bigger let's say 10 you can see that it's adding this little outline around here it might be a bit faint for you to see at the moment but it is adding an outline so now what's going to happen is if I just come back here and we'll play this let's play this in a window and then I will come to so I can get that one out of the way so you can see a little bit toggle my little green screen on and now when I play this there we go you can see through the text it's still probably a little bit quick that is to be honest for that it just the speed that it went across the screen it looked a little bit too quick so I might just quickly go in and toggle my green screen off and I might just change that so if I come down to the animation the build order you can always get back this is our text so let me just change the timing of that and I'll make that say five and a half seconds that will be a little bit slower in fact let's make it six and seven six and a half or seven there we go so that should hopefully look a little bit better so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come out of I'm going to actually activate this first then I'm going to come out of my demo mode so that you can see this full screen and then I'm going to toggle my little green screen screen sharing on and then let's play this and see what happens now one thing just to note that I nearly did which I did do in my first video by the way I left my little mouse on the screen so you don't want to be doing that because you don't want it to look like you've got a mouse somewhere in your scene so do make sure that when you are screen sharing it's easy to forget your screen sharing because it's obviously transparent you can't see it but just make sure your mouse isn't over the screen so I'll move that out of the way and then let's see what this slide looks like when I advance it oh and I've done it again I've gone to the completely the wrong slide you've got to make sure you've got the right slides of course as well let's try that again shall we so here we go this is what that animation looks like it's happened again hang on a minute something's not right here I must be pressing the wrong button one second that's what we want there we go I got there eventually so that is basically how you make an animated overlay that comes in with text that is transparent and fades out to a transparent background and that is all for this particular video but I am obviously as I say going to be making another few videos and in the next video what we'll look at is how to do some masking so that you can have things that appear that they're coming from behind existing elements that you've got on the screen even though that this is actually right on the top of the screen so that is what I'll be covering in the next video if you found this useful as ever don't forget to 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