 How you all doing? To be honest with you I wasn't sure if people would turn up today. With it being New Year's Eve, I wonder if people would have better things to do. But obviously there isn't much else going on these days so I've just got to say Carly, I'm really sorry to hear about that. That is just terrible news so yeah I hope you have a swift recovery from it. Not a good way to work to end the year is it? Although in some ways maybe it's good to get it out of the way in 2021 and so that you're you're all clear for 2022 but yeah I hope you're feeling better soon. Hey Rob, great to see you as always and it is 2022 obviously in the future so you lot are all so last year. Hey Randy, good to see you too and Jim, hello from Honolulu. I suppose you'll be one of the last to get out of 2021 weren't you over there? Back in the in the olden days in Hawaii and Pringles Domain, I don't know if I know your name but I can't remember it if I do so let me know your actual name unless it is Pringles in which case hi Pringles but it's always nice to call people by their name. Sammy Superstar, good as always to see you as well and Mr. Paul Duncan as well. The whole LGL family is here. Let me have a little look. Yeah indeed I'm in the new first live stream actually from the new studio so it's actually a real background for a change. That's right getting it out of the way now. Ali, okay okay Lee that makes it a lot a lot easier doesn't it? Lee. I'll remember that in fact I'll write it down now to embed it in my memory and then I'll remember going forward. So yeah how are you all doing on this fine New Year's Eve, New Year's morning, whichever it is for you. Well it's been it's been quite a year hasn't it in one way or another. Certainly it's been the year that I started my YouTube channel so it's not like I'm going to do a little bit of a review of what's happened in this year as I normally do with my channel updates but obviously everything that's happened with my channel has happened in this year. In fact really the sort of second half of it because I started on the 15th of May was my my first live stream. It's quite funny thinking back to that live stream because I didn't actually join so I know most of you here are in Doc Rock's office hours group. I actually did my first office hours the day after my first live stream so rather than getting all the help and support to get everything set up I just wanted to get all of that bit out of the way and done with and then start into Doc's group after that so basically my first live stream was literally to nobody. I started the live stream going there was no subscribers on the channel nobody knew that I was even doing it and so it was just me in my basement talking into the camera which was a bit of a bit of a weird sensation I've got to admit but part of the reason why I didn't want to go into you know like a support group before actually starting it is I just wanted to get it done and and sort of get the ball rolling and I thought if I go into a particular group then I'm likely to to start getting all sorts of other ideas and things that would actually get in the way of me doing what I need to do hey Michelle just got to say quick hello to Michelle as always I don't know if you're watching from the toilet today or if you're watching from somewhere else so yeah it's it's it was one of those things where yeah if I thought if I go along to Doc's and I think I was probably wise to be honest because seeing what everyone else was doing and hearing all of the the you know other ideas and things like that it could easily have just gotten in the way of me actually just making a start so in any case it has come on a little bit since then and I hit a bit of a milestone in the the last couple of days which was quite nice to get out of the way before the end of the year so I'll just give you a quick update as I normally do on my whoops he pressed the wrong stream like button then on my yeah my I'm still aiming obviously for 365 videos in my my first year and oh hey Greg nice to see you here happy new year to you as well so yeah I'll give you a quick update on my 365 videos in a year I'm still behind as I was at the end of last year now did I update that 183 I'm not sure am I really that far behind I think I probably am so it's day 232 week 33 and I've only done 183 videos but I have just cracked the thousand subscribers mark which is always one of those little milestones in the the YouTube journey 6,500 watch hours and 67,000 views these are still sort of boggling my mind to be honest these numbers because it's not necessarily what I was expecting when I started or at least I would have liked to have got it but I I didn't know entirely that it was gonna come or not and certainly nothing's taken for granted so so yeah this past this past month has been the month of Vlogmas and let me take you back to the 1st of December or the the live stream I did just before the kickoff of December and I said that what I was gonna do was I was gonna post a vlogmas video every day a regular YouTube video every day and also a short every day well I failed basically on all of those and there's no excuses I just didn't do it I think probably part of the the issue was that my my parents came to visit and before they arrived I sort of imagined that I was gonna just be doing exactly the the same stuff as I always have you know my same routine and and that would be that however I sort of underestimated of course when they arrived I just wanted to spend a lot more time with them so that's that's the issue really and given that my main priorities are sort of family and work and the YouTube stuff is kind of has to be secondary it's all done sort of in my free time in the morning when I when I get up early well now I've had to be shifting a lot of my work sort of stuff that time to that time and yes just my routine's been a little bit out because I've been I've been spending time with them so that is my little excuses out of the way and this seems like a good point to put up this message from Anton thank you very much I'll take that and I'll frame it and put it on the wall indeed Greg great to see you here yes you are it your soul last year Greg it is 2022 here I'm just waiting for yours catch up indeed yeah epic fail epic fail I do actually though feel feel quite positive about I say quite positive I feel exceptionally positive about 2022 mind you I feel positive about most things to be honest and one of those annoying people that you know even in a train wreck you know it'll be oh well look on the bright side and there's always a bright side to things so I know it's yeah waiting for everyone to catch up but yeah I'm feeling positive about about the new year and about about my goal really for the channel so the 365 videos in a year now that I've moved into my space also that is that is another thing that sort of took up some of the time in December I kind of decided that I was gonna put my studio build on hold until after the new year but then with my mom and dad being here I thought it'd be a nice little thing to do with my dad so we did this together and it was just to be honest although he came up with lots of great ideas it probably took us twice as long to do it together because we just ended up nuttering all the time and chatting so but it was really really good so I'm glad to glad to have glad that he was here to help out with it as well oh well thank you thank you Paul that's appreciated yeah that's it you've got got always got a look on the bright side haven't you I think there was a song about that but I won't I won't punish you all with me singing so so yeah I do I do feel positive about hitting my my goal it's just a case of doing a couple of videos a day on a few days over the next that over the next next four and a half months five and a half months so 15th of May as I say was when I started so that's basically how much time I've got to hit my my target and is there any way to make the comments pop up by themselves in ecamm Anton is asking there isn't as such no you can sort of hack it you can just take a screen share overlay and share the comments window itself so you just see the stream of them but then you are at the mercy of whatever anybody comments so yeah that might be a little bit a little bit risky depending on what people are commenting obviously you're exceptionally well behaved so so yeah there isn't a way that it would just sort of automatically pop them up there is a button for the stream deck that you can just pop up the last comment so if I was to hide this comment then there's one to just automatically put up whatever the last comment was so that's that sort of a way to to do it so I should tell you given that we're talking about the channel about a little thing that happened two days ago which was I hit my thousand subscriber milestone and so that means that I was eligible to to be monetized on YouTube for the YouTube partner program now I've heard a lot things about this about how long it can take to get to get accepted once you've actually hit the thousand subscribers you have to set up your Google ads adsense adsense account which is how you will get how you'll get paid now I have already got an adsense account I've had for 16 18 years now something like that so I just literally added it to that one so I didn't have to wait for that step of you know waiting until it got to until the adsense account was approved I already had the account so that was basically a tick in fact I've even got a little screen grab of normally in the monetization section on the YouTube you will see here where it's just showing you sort of your progress towards the different targets the thousand subscribers and 4,000 watch hours so once you actually hit that then it brings up this little step here and you can review partner program terms so that's just obviously terms and conditions you click that one sign up for Google adsense so then you would have to do that so if you are on the way to on the way to monetization it's definitely worth setting up your Google adsense account in advance ah thank you very much Paul Duncan that is officially my first super chat so thank you very much much appreciated and that will go straight into the coffee pot as well you know thank you very much much much appreciated and I've got to figure out a way to actually get those up in a much better way on the in fact I haven't even put that one up I need to find a better way to put that up on the on the screen I'll have to set up some sort of fancy alert or something like that but much appreciated ah no problem that's great for you to stop by I really appreciate you stopping in Jim so yeah have an absolute wonderful wonderful new year and enjoy the Japanese food I'm quite a fan of Japanese food as well great stuff Jim great to see you so so yeah just back to the monetization so if you are on the way to monetization it's definitely worth getting your adsense account set up in advance so you don't have to wait for that so because I had that already set up I didn't have to wait now incidentally I think you can probably go in and do this as soon as you actually hit the thousand mark but I did wait until I got an email from from YouTube before even going and having a look at it so it was actually yesterday my time at about I would say about 10 o'clock in the morning something like that that I that I went in to to check this so 10 o'clock in the morning I reviewed the partner program signed up for the AdSense oh Rob thank you very much sorry I've got to just obviously pause to acknowledge this this is a very generous and kind thank you very much much appreciated Rob and Lee's saying as well yes stream elements so I've got stream elements actually and in fact if I have my it's not always on on my live stream is it I love to figure out that yeah I have got a stream elements I've just never really dug into it the only thing it does at the moment is when it's on it will pop up when there's a new subscriber but definitely have to get the get that up and and running to acknowledge these lovely and generous people so so yeah so it was 10 o'clock yesterday I just clicked on the AdSense to do to set up that to assign it to my AdSense account it does take a little bit of a while even if you've got the AdSense account set up it just says it's just sort of processing it whatever I think that took about an hour and a half so I say well not really that long and then you get to this step where it says get reviewed and it's in progress now what it said here was YouTube will review your your channel to make sure it complies with the YouTube monetization from policy and you will receive a decision usually within a month so there was me expecting to sort of sit back and wait for a month before I got a decision but then check this out if I come back to here I've even got this as a little overlay look at that it was literally by 9 o'clock last night so this is my official welcome to the YouTube partner program having been approved for all of those steps 31st of December 9 0 3 p.m. so it literally happened like the same day and all just before the end of the year which was quite nice I don't know whether the YouTube approval people were twiddling their thumbs not doing anything by the end of the year who knows but nevertheless there we go it got it got approved in a matter of hours as I say 10 from 10 until well within 12 hours wasn't it anyway so that is all to say that I'm quite pleased that that's that's all gone through by the end of the year it was a nice way to to wrap out the the year basically and I thought I'd just take you through and show you while we're here so once you do get this one and it says get reviewed then when I came through this morning so seeing the notification just before I started this live stream I refreshed this page and then this one popped up to say you are now a YouTube partner get started and so clicked on that one and it took me through to this page where there's a little video telling you about you know how to be how to be a good conscientious YouTube citizen and how to make money on YouTube and things like that and then you click on the turn on ads so I clicked on turn on ads and then you get this one so the type of ads and so by default they're all checked so I just sort of left them all checked and clicked on the next button so that presumably I thought that would make them all available for to potentially add into the videos and then the next one was this one which has another video about the YouTube partner program but then here you can select which videos you want to monetize either I will choose all of them so I clicked monetize all and then that basically applied presumably all of those ads to all of my videos which actually is not quite what I wanted because you'll have to you have to bear bear with me if you watch any of my videos for the next few days and suddenly there is they're just full with ads I definitely need to go and address that because what I don't want to have is one of these video channels where you end up with a pre-roll ad ads right in the middle where you don't want them lots of little pop-ups and overlays and things like that so I've got to go back and just adjust my settings once I figured out how to adjust the settings and make sure that I'm not I don't want to come across as too aggressive with advertising on the channel at all because it really bugs me when people do it on their videos so do bear with me for the next couple of days about that let me have a little look yes so Greg you were recreating my e-cam setup on OBS and saw you oh yeah you were the one that put me over a thousand yes of course Greg thanks for that I appreciate that so but like I said you know subscribing on two channels you do need to you do need to know watch all my videos twice that's just that's just the rules you like my chat message on screen I should do a tutorial on how to do this do you know what I am going to make a total remake of all of my e-cam videos because I haven't actually made a full sort of start to finish e-cam series since I did the my my epic five-hour video so or four and a half so I shall I shall get onto that let me just remove this comment there we go so so yeah I will I will get around to doing that oh hey I lean great to see you I've got to say it has been a highlight of this year just getting to know all of you lovely people I know we've got most of the the people in the chat of the LGL fam if you're not by the way then I should just say if you want to if you're watching and you want to join a community of like-minded people then definitely go to buy me a coffee dot com slash doc rock and check out doc rocks community because that's that's where I am every morning on a Sunday morning Friday evening or afternoon for most people but yeah a really great group of supportive people all looking to help each other do great things so anyone who's not already in that group definitely head over to their highly recommended so where was I so yeah that is that is the where I'm up to with the monetization like say do bear with me while I just sort out the ads and not having them in absolutely every every video everywhere so what else I've got some notes today because I felt a little bit I want to say no it's just little bullet points because I felt like I've got quite a lot to cover and I could see I was going to get sidelined and as I already am who is that dot rock that everyone speaks I know I know what's with him and what is the big deal about that rock anyway I mean it's not like he just knows everything about everything and has total memory recall to remember all these facts so I don't know what the big deal is but anyway there you go we've got to support him so so yeah so that has been my my road to monetization I'm going to do a full video actually all about YouTube monetization like now that I've hit it because I have actually been able to monetize the channel in the interim as well so it's not like I've been sitting here waiting for it I did want when I started the channel I wanted it to be sort of cost neutral as quickly as possible and so if you take out my time it's been cost neutral if you factor in my time I'm getting paid a pittance but I'm sure that will change and I'm not I'm not bothered because I'm not doing it for that I'm doing it to expand my my own abilities so that's the at the point of the channel really but yeah as I say I did want it to be cost neutral so I'm going to do a full sort of breakdown of everything that has everything that I've done from start to finish to to monetize the channel and how that's worked out in terms of revenue and costs and things like that so expect that video in the next probably in the next week I am going to get back to regular daily videos I've done a couple over the last couple of days and then in fact I've done three over the last two days I've also got to do one final vlogmas one technically it's not vlogmas is it but I feel like it's a loose end because I did this series of videos about different things that I do outside of the channel and so there's one extra thing that I've got to cover so I might even do just like a delayed 31st video because I didn't do one on the 31st for my vlogmas but anyway that's a lot of waffling isn't it so what else has been going on well there is the studio build and this was basically what's put everything else back is spending the time doing this for about a week and it's been it's been really good actually and I'm so pleased to get out of the out of the the basement not like it was a particularly bad environment or anything but it's just nice to have a proper studio space as opposed to a virtual one so I've stripped everything out of the basement now so I should probably go and just do a little video of that and show you the space without the green screen so you can get an idea of what that's like but yeah it's just nice to be in there's been a few things that I've done in here that I've I've sort of shown over my my vlogmas video series so I did a whole sort of studio build series of videos and yeah he does indeed live on a small island in the pacific so so yeah it's it's been just sort of good but I see see how easy I get distracted by comments coming in it's been it's been really a good journey to sort of build out the studio and maybe what I should do is I have done a series of videos in vlogmas about it but once I've actually got everything done then I'm going to do a complete sort of official video showing all about sort of the build and how I've done it but what I could could do now is actually first of all I've now got a an overhead shot let's see if this works there we go hello so this is this is the a little logitech camera at some point I will upgrade that to a proper camera but you can now see that I do officially have legs albeit in shorts and I've now got a sort of it's not really a standing desk I talked about this before in fact let me just look at you so the the desk that I had before which is this one was just obviously a sitting desk but I wanted to I wanted to raise it up because the issue that I had was with the the green screen that I was using before the camera was on top of this monitor which is a 43 inch monitor and so it was quite high because the monitor is just by definition quite large and so the camera was sort of pointing down at me which you didn't really notice in the with the green screen because obviously the green screen was at the correct angle and so it was just enough that you didn't really notice that it was particularly looking down but then the background sort of corrected it all whereas if I'd been sitting down at this desk then it would have been basically looking down at the floor which is obviously not what I wanted I could have made the whole desk a standing desk but then the monitor would have been raised up and I would have had exactly the same position the same issue so basically what I've done is I've extended the legs a little bit to give to make this more like the height of a kitchen counter and then I've got a kitchen counter stool underneath but then when I'm doing my videos or live streams then I'm just going to be standing and I just got this little little desk that sits on top to sit my stream deck on so that that is still at a normal height and yeah this is kind of like my setup so I could actually just take it over to whoops a daisy not that one get this one back I could take it back to this one where's it gone if I come over to this camera top there we go so this is my setup at the moment now I'm getting a bit far away from the microphone aren't I I don't normally have a laptop on there that is my my old laptop I am making a course at the moment as well a lot of you know the zoom course which I've got to come on to in a moment in fact so I've been doing stuff with you know multiple computers at the same time to display and show certain things so normally I wouldn't have my my desk on there I got this yesterday actually because I found that when I was doing my videos everything was just a bit too low on the desk so I bought this when I went to the local hardware store and it was let me think what it is in dollars four dollars four dollars for a little riser for the desk so I think that that was probably bargain of the year just got in at the end of the year and so yeah that's the the sort of setup I've got my actual mac mini is underneath so I've got a little shelf underneath but yeah the little mac mini is underneath there and what else we've got in here I've then got the this is my overhead cam that's actually a little RGB light underneath there but I just put this little hood on it so it doesn't shine too much on my my head and then this is just a iphone 5xs I think it is I can't remember the the model but really old one but it's the camera's more than adequate for the occasional over-the-head shot and then this is just on a sort of one of these little boom arms and there obviously the desview t3 and my still my old Canon EOS 60d 10 10 year old camera I was going to upgrade to the Sony zve 10 and in fact it was one of the goals that I put on my Bimea coffee I did hit the goal and then it wasn't available in Thailand for ages and then it just got discontinued or rather they pulled the production of it so I'm now in a situation where I would love to have the zve 10 sitting on top of there but at the moment it's it's just not available so as soon as it is though I will be getting one I was tempted by two in fact but I'll just stick with one for the time being if I can get hold of one I'll be very happy and so that's going to go up up there I have still got a a green screen over there which is you can see it's made with I should do a separate video about that but that is just PVC plumber's pipe and then the little clips are clipping onto the the cloth over the top of the green screen and then I've got some little hangers to hang that up here so if I do need to do a green screen stuff which I still will do occasionally then I can do that I might actually just get a rolling green screen to put to put over here one thing that I am really happy with the way that they've come out is these acoustic panels so I'm going to do another video about about these how I made them so they're basically two foot by four foot two inches thick and then they stand off the wall by two inches as well and it makes such a difference to the the acoustics I've got my what are they called forget now none like pavo tubes over there that doc recommended I'm going to do something better with the mounting at the moment I've just got them on a stand and they are kind of like behind my head so normally you don't see them you just see the wash of light on the wall I'm going to put something on the wall so like some shelves or something like that and then I've got a couple more of the panels on this side and then over on this side I've got this sliding panel so I made one that was basically double size and I've got a window behind there and so this this can slide to reveal the window so it means that when I'm not recording I can open that and so where I am is actually we call it the cottage it's like a little a little cottage at the bottom of the garden and looking out that window looks into our vegetable patch so I've got a nice view out of there if if I'm not actually recording and then I've got another double panel over on the back behind the the monitor and that's blocking out another window there and that one's just sort of permanent obviously because obviously the monitor is in the way there is another window there and I'm going to have a curtain that basically goes across from this wall across to that other wall to basically block out the this sort of entry way to help keep the the noise down not that there is really much noise but it just helps with that and the light and my my daughter one of the things that she loves doing is designing her dresses and so she got a little sewing machine for Christmas and one of the one of the first things that I'm going to give her as a little job is to make me some curtains so I had some of the grey material left over so as a way for her to practice her sewing machine skills she's going to she's going to make the curtains for me so that's very nice she's been making all sorts it's like you can't keep her off it she's been making little clothes for the little clothes for her her sister's dolls she's been making pillows for her sister's dolls and all sorts of different things so she's just looking for any excuse to use it really so and it'll be nice for her to have a little input into the into the into the studio let me have a little look I'm just just catching up with the things oh thank you very much Michelle I've got to put that comment up thank you very much much appreciated you too I've loved all of your series that you've had you've been a lot more consistent than me this last month I've seen you and yeah I've always loved your your brand as I've told you before it's a really really nice look but what do I expect from the branding expert team shorts I know I saw I got a whole plan of shorts that was going to do and in theory they shouldn't take me too long I mean I do literally just record them and then they're done but yeah just other things got got in the way oh sorry of course that is team shorts as in my shorts as opposed to youtube shorts yeah there you go I suppose if I'm on youtube wearing them are they youtube shorts let's let's let's think about that one the drink far too close to the keyboard do you know what you might be right and the other thing is with this Elgato low profile arm that sort of sweeps across the desk I am just envisaging one day me moving the mic out of the way and then it just knocking something off but there you go you've got a very good point there Lee thank you very much Sammy and next year zv-e10 or a 6400 so I was just waiting for the the zv-e10 but then yeah it was quite gutted really when they announced that due to chip shortages it was being put on hold and got taken down from everything so yeah a bit annoyed about that ah you want to know about the clock right let me have a look now this is a non-brand clock but there you go let me have a bring this up a second there we go so it's just a big USB sorry moving away from my phone it's just a big USB digital clock and I like having it up there it's got the temperature look 27 degrees I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit that's uh yeah not sure speaking of temperature that's one thing that I haven't done is I've got a wire hanging down there that is for the aircon so I haven't got aircon in at the moment the fan is off at the moment but if it starts getting much hotter than 27 then the fan will be coming on and there we go just to prove it look first of January um I should probably put a link into it to be honest it's it's it's I didn't get it from Amazon I got it from uh Lazada which is the sort of um uh Southeast Asia equivalent of of Amazon we don't have Amazon as such in Thailand there isn't an Amazon Thailand site for example um but you can get stuff you order it from either the UK or the the US store and it can come here but that was from Lazada but it's just a non brand as such uh but it's uh it was what was it 400 but so that would be about 12 dollars something like that so I'll try and dig out a link actually and just drop it in and uh you'll be able to pick it up from there uh so check back I'll leave a link it is nice I've got a couple of them actually so one here and one in the kitchen it's just a nice big display uh and uh yeah I never never miss a meeting that way um so let me have a little look uh thank you very much Carly appreciate that what do you know what so when I was doing these panels I uh I was thinking about what you had said about making prints I think it was you that had said it about making prints then and then actually having that as the the cover form so I did I did consider doing that but just in the interest of time and everything I didn't uh although when I went to the the fabrics shop to buy the the fabric cover them in I did see uh some leopard skin leopard print uh it's fabric which I considered for a moment but I didn't want to I didn't want to tread on Michelle's brand I thought of going with Zebra they did have some Zebra print instead I thought well maybe we could start a sort of LGL safari uh but uh yeah I just went with the plain black and gray in the end I have actually got some lights on order so what I want to do is um have sort of backlighting so if I just come back a minute I've got to take this I've got a Christmas wallpaper on my phone I've got to take that off but I did uh I did uh want to basically so they're all standing off the wall by as I say two inches so what I'm going to do is put a colored light sort of behind it so you get a colored sort of wash coming out from behind them just to help them sort of stand off the wall probably not all of them just the ones that are in shot so those four and so I've actually ordered some lights for that that is on its way so I'll be getting that up probably in the next week or something like that so I'll see what effect that has I've still got to work on the the lighting and everything obviously it's just a version one but uh yeah I did think about going down the print route Greg uh you can also check on ebay for of course yeah yeah for the year zv e10 uh yeah I really should do that shouldn't I I mean why why haven't I done that is the question will I be doing as first of all hi chris will I be doing anything will I be doing how to how you use ecamm interview with zoom anytime soon could you include how to manage save the recording of it so that those who missed it can view it thanks um I will actually I'm sort of doing um so I'm doing it I'm doing a zoom masterclass which in theory should launch today but there's going to be an email going out today saying I haven't quite finished it so it's going to be delayed by it's going to be delayed by a week which interestingly is the amount of time that I spent on building this studio so that's that's the reason for the delay I just didn't have time um so uh so yeah there is going to be a whole zoom masterclass about that however I will do a specific sort of non-paywall video about that um because uh yeah it's uh it's a useful feature of ecamm so I'll have that on the regular channel as well about how to use interview mode interview mode and could I include how to manage or save the recording of it uh for those who missed it can view it so um do you mean do you mean save the recording in zoom so zoom obviously you can record that with zoom you can also stream to uh to youtube or facebook so you can actually stream it to a like the actual zoom thing you could have ecamm running bringing your guests in ecamm live as the virtual camera feeding into zoom and then within zoom have that streaming to youtube so it's recording the actual zoom side of things including your interviewee that would be the way that I would do that if I've understood you correctly um but yeah I will do a video about that and put it on the channel uh oh hey glender great to see you oh yeah to be honest with you as soon as jasmine my my eldest gets on uh on youtube any numbers that I've got are gonna be uh just nothing for her she's just a total natural on camera it's funny isn't it I mean docks talked about this before how uh things are you know ideas are put into our heads when we're kids you know that we can't do this or we can't do that and these these sort of things that hold us back as adults are often just instilled in us as children you know that we should be nervous about doing this or that or or the other but if you see if you see my daughter jasmine and uh so she's nine she's gonna be 10 in uh in 21 days uh and then there's my uh my emily who's the youngest daughter uh she's uh she's five if you see them on the camera they're just like they're just total naturals and they absolutely love it so uh they will be uh or jasmine will be starting her channel at some point I've just got to be very careful about it because you know it's uh kids on youtube is uh is always a bit of a concern isn't it but she would love to be doing some stuff so uh we'll have to figure out a way to a way to do that uh oh is that true if they have put the zv e10 back up then uh okay right well I'm on that then okay streams over I'm going shopping I need to uh I need to I'll do that immediately after because if it's available in the UK then um uh then yeah I'll definitely be able to uh sorry it's available in the US then I'll definitely be able to get it it's just that it had been taken down and last time I checked which was three days ago it still wasn't available in the uh certainly in the the Thai Sony store so I'll have to go back and check the US though that's uh that's great um I'm distracted now can you tell thanks for letting me know glow though Glenda that's that's awesome news um and you've just got your amazon link oh great that is amazing uh I tell you another thing that I keep trying is um the amazon influencer program so with that one you just basically go into the in fact shall I just try it now shall we have a little look because they don't tell you actually what the um what the criteria is to get into that so that you can then start um posting videos on uh on amazon uh let's have a little look it would help if I spelt it right wouldn't it so I'm going to just go through this process whoops Daisy don't do that now why is that opening like that one second I'll just show you the process so that we can uh have a look at this so here we go we uh you basically go to this thing affiliate program amazon.com slash influencers and then you click on sign up and then it will say use an existing custom account click on that and then you click on your youtube channel and then you click sign up with youtube and then you click on this one oh I'll probably have to go back and edit this out won't I there you go thank you for applying we appreciate your interest in the amazon influencer program unfortunately your account does not meet the eligibility requirements at this time so it's just a case of keep going back and trying this and uh and and yeah try uh keep trying so they don't actually say what the the criteria is for that but uh uh yeah looking forward to getting that one as well hey rich great to see you as always uh 2022 is going great it's uh couldn't couldn't hope for better well I'm here with all of uh all of you guys after all no problem Chris anytime and if you've got any other questions or video requests by the way then I'm always open to uh suggestions and always happy to uh make videos that are answering specific questions uh in fact to be honest with you that's kind of what most of my videos are somebody's either asked a question in uh office hours in the ecum live group or somewhere else and I just uh sneakily go and make a video about it uh best buy still has them as well does it right I'm on a mission I'm on a mission after this because that will make a a big difference because the moment this the camera that I'm using is a as I say 10 year old EOS 60D Canon coming in over USB which means that in this case the um uh the the the the uh I'm losing my trainer thought here the I tell you what it is I've just seen that the the message that uh about the delivery date from Paul so I'm getting distracted by comments again whoops I want to go to that press the wrong foot pedal there um so um uh I've just completely forgotten what I was talking about never mind I'll move on oh yeah it was the Canon so I'm basically only getting 720p out of that uh over USB so although ecum does sort of scale it up um it's uh it's it's obviously going to be better to have something that is a little bit more uh capable um uh not sure if it's back up again I'm just suggesting that when it goes back up here you have one uh I get no problem well I'll I'm gonna go I'm gonna do a bit of uh of chasing because uh yeah Paul's saying that it's still available and Best Buy as well so I'll I'll do a little bit of a little bit of digging and good to know that I've got some other options but what um Sammy said was great obviously checking for things like eBay and stuff like that I'll I'll find a way we'll get one eventually uh thanks Michelle um so let me just re revert to my my notes before I get completely off track uh uh yeah so I was going to talk about the zoom master class but I think I've already just sort of alluded to the fact that uh yeah I've got to send out an email today saying it's not quite ready uh because uh so one of the one of the things was I wanted to show off some certain things in the in the videos that I was doing for that that just looked better in a proper studio space rather than I can't do everything on green screen and the other place that I was just wasn't really conducive to doing that sort of stuff so uh mainly because I was literally at the back of the basement it was not not exactly the best most photogenic place shall we say so so um uh so yeah that was another reason to just get the the studio done so I will be getting on with the uh launching the course now I would imagine it's going to be in one week's time uh so I'm going to send out an email to that effect in it might be a bit soon but we'll we'll aim for that um and yeah it's funny isn't it I mean how I thought when I uh came into December just before my my parents arrived that I was just going to be able to pull out on exactly as normal not really stopping for for anything uh it was a bit a bit ambitious I think but there you go uh yeah Best Buy and uh eBay is the answer there's got to be someone selling one I don't know surely there's got to be somebody who's bought it and decides they don't want it or has just seen an opportunity to uh to to to sell it on so anyway I'll find one from somewhere I'm going to uh stick up my uh my little join link now for anybody who does fancy uh coming on in a and having a chat about 2022 or 2021 uh and how things have gone for them so in terms of me what I've got planned uh I've obviously got the zoom class to come out I'm also going to do a couple of other courses because uh I appreciate that uh I've got loads of videos to make I've still got this the same long list that just gets uh that I get I'm adding more videos to the list than I'm making so I've got uh I've got a long list and I'm not going to work I'm not going to run out anytime soon but I do appreciate that some people prefer the organization that comes with a course and I think it was uh was it Stephanie Liu on uh on Doc's uh show she was when he interviewed her and she said information is free people pay for organization and I kind of get that as well because I if I want to learn something I'll go to the University of YouTube all day long obviously but then sometimes if there's something I want to deep dive on then I will just go and do a course on it so I have got a few other courses uh sort of planned so one of them being an e-cam course I know obviously there is the the master himself Adrian doing the e-cam academy but there's well there's always people who like a certain person's style over and others and so there's always room I think for another option in terms of course and his is obviously the the academy where it's a I think that people join and do together but then um yeah it's uh it's it's always nice to have other options so mine would just be sort of a pre-recorded course of sort of start to finish but to be honest with you I'm going to do the videos on my channel in in the most part in any case I'm not going to hold anything back from that certainly but yeah sometimes it's just a little bit hard to find out all the bits that you've missed and that is actually why when I did my my epic four and a half hour e-cam live tutorial video like start to finish how to get it all set up the reason I did that was and I was in two minds as to whether to do that I thought it's four and a half hours too long for a YouTube video and the immediate answer that would spring to mind would be yes but I did actually get loads of views on it and it's one of the highest viewed videos that I've done and I've had loads of feedback saying that they really appreciated the fact that it was just all in one go because then they know that if they stop it and come back to it then they can pick it up where where they left off and it was just sort of start to finish how to do it whereas if you are on YouTube and somebody's got a channel you know like mine with lots of e-cam stuff how do you know if you've seen it all you know if you've seen little snippets of how to do this how to do that you never really know if you know everything if you see what I mean the other thing that I've been sort of thinking about as well is some of my content is technically well it is actually out of date like for example that sort of four and a half hour video that's totally out of date now because it wasn't it was for the previous version of e-cam live where we didn't have a lot of the amazing features that have been added in so I do need to go back and sort of trim out some of my videos I think because otherwise people are going to find them and think that that's the way they have to do things when actually there's a lot more simpler ways I mean the last update of e-cam 3.9 was just amazing for all the features it added in so definitely need to go back and and trim out some of those videos I think so that's one thing that I'm going to be looking at doing at the beginning of the year but I'm digressing so all of this was to say that I will be doing a proper sort of e-cam course that will be that was yeah just be start to finish how to how to get everything set up hey obs great see you happy new year to to you and everyone else obviously as well but yeah 3.9 was just was just awesome I can't wait to see what's coming in four there's got to be some for that to have just been a sort of like dot release so three point eight three point nine but to yeah to see what's coming in four I'm quite excited I'm sure they won't disappoint us it is funny as well when people talk about you know the development team and how many people are on the development team and it's just Ken and Glenn it's quite an achievement what they're what they're doing so yeah I'll be doing a course on that I'm also going to do a full-on productivity course as well about basically Mac productivity and how I've got things set up with things like keyboard maestro and stuff like that because I am going to still do my keyboard maestro series on the on the channel and all the sort of other automation but again having having everything come in in in in one place where it's sort of like start to finish how to get things set up then that would be yeah that was that's going to be really great hey Louis great to see you here hope you're having an awesome awesome end to 2021 and start of 2022 still my favorite emoji by the way cowboy emoji I didn't know it existed until until I met you so they talked about what did they and now you see I miss that normally I don't miss those sort of things I would get up early for them but I for some reason I've got it into my head that the 2021 wrap-up was actually like on New Year's Day as opposed to New Year's Eve so it's New Year's Day here I figured it was the day after so I'm a bit gutted I missed that I'm going to have to go back and and watch the the replay so yeah how about I keep the four hour ecambid as it is and and a card linked to a video you've created on the updated feature that is a thought yeah that is a very good thought um I did just think of remaking the four hour video to be honest because in actual fact the four hour video with the new updates of ecamb would probably be more like a two and a half hour video I mean the changes that they're putting because a lot of it was talking about creating overlays in keynote making little cutouts where you're going to put it over the top I mean it's totally it's totally the the wrong way to go about it now I mean now you can just literally have a backdrop a background image and then we can just put the borders on our on our camera overlays and all that sort of stuff so yeah a lot of it was spent on you know doing stuff in keynote that now people don't need to do in keynote or any other application for that matter another big one was the screen sharing so there was lots of little hacks and works around with screen sharing talking about using ndi to get little to get windows in uh my my thought is that it's actually that much wrong information for the latest version that what I do need to do is just uh it's just remake the video to be honest and uh so I will just do like a longer a long video again and then chop it up one thing actually with that video was my intention with it was that I was going to make this four and a half hour video or however long it turned it just happens to be four and a half hours I was going to make this long video of all the different sections of ecam and setting it up and then I was going to go in afterwards and like repurpose the content and just cut it up then into lots of different uh shorter videos so one about overlays one about all the different panels yeah all the different sections and I figured that actually out of the video of you know the start to finish thing I'd be able to get like 10 or 20 uh shorter videos however I ended up I mean I hate editing everybody that's that's my thing is I don't like editing but when I went back in to do it there wasn't a good flow to it because I was doing lots of callbacks to other videos so I was just doing it as like you know as if I was just telling somebody how to use ecam and so I was saying oh this is a bit like that thing that we just talked about and it was more sort of conversational and so I couldn't really chop it up easily into shorter sections so what I would do this time is I'd try to be a lot more conscious about bearing that in mind for those people who don't want uh I don't want to watch a four and a half hour video they do do just want it in little chunks then I would definitely be more conscious about bearing that in mind that I'm going to be cutting it up afterwards into shorter sections so yeah that's that's my sort of thought process on that I'm glad I wasn't the only one Glenda thinking it was on New Year's Day so uh yeah I'll have to have to go back and back and watch that one the just to end you about a free premiere course using existing content yeah that is a that is a good a good concept just sort of packaging up stuff that I've got I presume but I'll have a look at that thank you very much Rich and hey Mr Riley James Riley great to see you and so this is this is a thing Glenda I wonder if I should wait until four comes out to remake the video um I'll I'll have to try and do a little bit of um uh investigation and see if we can get an idea of when that is due and I'll have to go back and watch that video I don't know if they mentioned it in there but uh yeah that had totally occurred to me as well I don't want to go and remake a video and then like next week they bring out four I don't think it's going to be that soon but we'll see oh thanks James appreciate that um so so yeah there's the ECM course the Mac productivity course with keyboard maestro and all that sort of stuff that I'll be making as well and uh that is all basically our poll thank you the one with the information there's going to be a 3.10 before four oh well there we go then I will I will do it and um yeah I've got some I've got some videos to make I've got some catching up to do because as as I mentioned earlier I am in fact behind on my my goal so 183 videos and we're on day 232 I've got some catching up to do haven't I before day 365 but I'll get there that's one thing about goals is it does give you the incentive and motivation to actually uh do what needs to be done to actually hit them whereas if I hadn't really set any goal for the 365 then I wouldn't really be bothered that how many videos have done so goals are very important uh one of my goals was actually to hit a thousand by the end of the the year a thousand subscribers but it could never be a goal because I'm not in control of it there's this thing about uh smart goals so specific they've got to be specific so in that sense you know 365 videos in a year is one of them and so would a thousand subscribers by the end of the year uh m is measurable well you can measure how many videos you've done and you can measure how many subscribers you've done um the uh a I've got to think now is attainable so technically they are attainable they're not sort of something completely out of the out of the out of the realm of possibility um uh I've got no I'm I'm forgetting now s m a how to small spot r is uh is uh realistic and I'm I'm gonna get in this right now hang on a minute I've got I've got to actually look at this I normally have it as a little overlay the point I'm making is let me have a look bring this up the point I'm making is that I should just remember this off the top of m but it's gone completely out of my head for some reason the thing about the the number of subscribers is it's not something that is in my control relevant that's the one I was forgetting that I was thinking realistic I was getting confused so attainable relevant obviously relevant to what you're trying to do and time based so that's obviously set in a specific time but the thing about the number of subscribers is that's never really in my control I can't actually make people subscribe or you know control that number so the only thing that I can do is control the things that are likely to have an impact on that so that's why although in the back of my head the thousand mark before the end of the year was always a a thing that I was thinking it'll be nice to have uh I was never mentioned as a goal because well I'm not in control of it so I mean it's the same like I've got an idea in my head about the number of subscribers it would be nice to have by the end of the year but you know for the end of this year 2022 but um there's nothing I can do about it except just try and be consistent and provide value uh of course you did there we go if you want oh that's the wrong wrong comment that's what I wanted to show I just did a video on smart goals so um yeah I mean it's in in another course that I do all about uh marketing and that it's um it's part of that as well so it just one of those things it just totally missed my uh I'm getting my words mixed up now on the tip of my tongue and I just couldn't remember what it was um Paul is always in the know you're right there Glenda the man with the information oh hey Dina great to see you as well so um yeah in fact speaking of that the marketing course that's another thing that I've got to to revamp and update for for this year as well so that's going to be another little video production thing um that I'll be doing I've also got this I've got quite a lot of sort of course material to make actually that's uh some of it related to the channel but then some of it related to my other things so I'm going to be making a lot of videos in 2022 so there's one for the trading company and one for the marketing company as well and then um yeah these are the courses that are for sort of just general for the channel and stuff like that so uh yeah I feel like I've got a lot on we're also in the process of raising finance for the for the trading stuff that we're doing in terms of uh seed funding first of all and then an initial round of funding which will come in by the end of the the first quarter or something so it's just a really really busy time with work in general as well um so so yeah that is basically my little update and it's just gone six o'clock so somewhere in the world it's just gone new years new year there'll be fireworks going off somewhere in the world um so uh in fact somewhere in europe probably most of europe will have just gone into the new year so welcome to 2022 all of europe and uh yeah so apart from that that is my plans for uh for for the year it's just making those courses and carrying on making the content I am going to be building out more of the studio as I say got to get the the shelves and stuff like that although to be honest with you I'm I'm wondering about it now I'm wondering about I was going to have a shelving unit on the back but I'm actually wondering whether that might just make it look a little bit uh a little bit cluttered so I have to think about that I'm quite liking just the the plain background certainly on on zoom calls and things like that um I always used to use just the the virtual cam with green screen um but but yeah it is actually good on on zoom calls to just have a plain background so that people aren't distracted by trying to figure out exactly what it is you've got on your shelves so I'm literally right at this moment just having second thoughts about even getting a shelving unit for the back I may just go with some sort of lighting effects and maybe a couple of plants at the side or something not sure what do you guys think it's uh it might just end up being a little bit more cluttered the other thing about having shelves is if you do have shelves then uh the lighting is you've obviously got shadows and things like that to think about so I'll have to I'll have to think about it I mean I could just have a bit of a wider shot because I am actually cropped in a little bit I could just have a bit of a wider shot and have something of interest in there instead so uh so yeah what do you think shelves or no shelves let's make the decision now no no I don't have to think about it I've still got other stuff to put in here though I do need still need some more cupboards and storage and stuff like that because I've literally just got my desk in here at the moment so I've got a few bags and boxes on the floor with stuff yeah I know Rich that is the that is what I thought as well it looks like it's it's it actually just looks like a um like it's cropped in because the the panels themselves are black it's easy to mistake it for just literally like a square shot isn't it so um yeah I did actually think about that and I wondered whether I should swap round to the gray panels for the black ones so that instead of it being uh if I just quickly pop this up again in fact it's still open if I pop this up so at the moment I've basically got uh black gray black gray well if I swap those round then that one on the back wall would be gray instead and in fact the the tone of it you can see it's pretty similar color to the actual wall itself uh so it means you would still see it but it would actually um uh take up the light uh did the color of the light and then the same whoops same on that side so my shoulder's getting in the way there so yeah I did think about that it's um it it looks a bit weird doesn't it it looks like I've just got two black panels so um there will be a couple of a couple of plants going down there that will sort of come up and pop up there but yeah I think maybe changing those for the uh for the um the gray panels might help okay Dina we've got one uh one view one one vote for shelves I did so yeah I do think that the um the lights behind the panel will definitely help sort of pop them out and that was kind of the point of it because you can see just in there is actually a corner um but you just don't really see it because it's uh it's just in the darkness but there is a that that bit there is a gray panel that bit there is a black panel and in there is a sort of gap so actually the lighting that goes around the round the uh the the panel would sort of fill in that little gap okay controversial now we've got shelves and no plants oh wow interesting oh well there we go then I think that is uh that is that is enough we've got three votes for shelves nobody said no shelves so uh right okay that is that done back to plan a then I'll stick with the original plan uh well the original plan actually is technically a a dot two because the plants were were part of the plants there we go I'll I'll get rid of the plants though uh it's good though because I haven't actually got them yet so yeah so obviously I'm I'm in close sort of proximity to the mic so the mic does a lot of the work as well but I am going to make a video where it's sort of like a before and after with the um with the panels and without them because the room was just like so echoey and all I did was I literally just got the the filling for you know the the actual foam uh it's not technically foam it's whatever material it is but I just got the actual panel itself before it was in the wooden frames that I made and just sort of put it around the room it was just amazing the difference that it made it was it was quite astonishing so I'm going to do a video with a sort of different mic setup so that you can actually you know there's not you don't get this sort of proximity effect and you can hear what the actual room sounds like between between the two but yeah so yeah Paul the um the little tour that I did with my iPad um was uh yeah you could clearly hear the difference in that by the way I'm going to do a video about this as well this was something that I won at the leap into live uh uh thing I can't remember how I don't know if it was just random did I answer a question or was it just a random prize I think it might have just been random actually uh but it's this the iRig Micast HD and it's a little tiny little condenser mic that fits on uh on an iPad or iPhone it is magnetic so it just just fits on like that but they also give you a little sticky metal pad so it will just then sort of click to click to that uh clip to that uh and then basically you've got three different cables either to USB-C USB mini or lightning uh so it just plugs directly into the iPad and then there's a little switch on it where you can say whether you want the front facing mic the back facing mic or have both of them so it's good for interviews it's amazing though what uh what the sound quality is on it compared to the built-in mic uh and it's just a really neat little uh really neat little mic got a little windshield on there and then it's got the the gain so there's a little light on it you adjust the gain this is not a very good demo is it I need to come into a different shot hold on a minute let me come to this one uh there you go I don't know if you can see that any better there's little uh little buttons on it there so you can adjust the gain up and down uh then you can change the uh that's really not a very good picture in fact to tell you what I need to do I've got a little light on here that might make it a bit better there you go so um yeah you can change between the front and rear camera the gain on that side and then it's also got a video a monitor as well so audio monitor and then at the bottom there is a headphone socket and then that's the socket where you where you attach it to the the device uh so it's actually a really good little mic so I'm quite uh quite impressed by it to be honest and it was a really nice little thing to to win so I'll do a video about about that as well because it's uh yeah I can't remember how much they are I don't know if they're let me have a quick look for you because it is uh it is a nice little thing for sort of on the go um uh so I've used it with zoom calls when I've had to do zoom calls from my ipad and so I just have that and then have my uh in-ear monitors plugged into the monitor on the bottom of the uh the iRig let's have a little look what's it called micast I'll find out how much it is iK Multimedia so they were one of the sponsors of the uh the event obviously leap into live and uh yeah really really unexpected it's always nice isn't it when you get something like that iRig uh just get the exact name of it micast ht is the one and bring it up for you to have a quick look at there we go 74 euros 75 euros is is the price of it but uh yeah so plugs into the phone or into uh I suppose you could plug it into a laptop as well but then also into the um into the ipad which is what I've used it for hey Greg no problem happy new year to you as well hope you have an absolutely wonderful uh wonderful new year celebrations whatever you're doing and uh oh thanks Paul Paul's pot dropped the the link in for the the iRig so uh that is is that on special offer there let's have a little look how much it is in that one whoops it easy so all right so it's the uh I see so they got the same the same discount as on the iRig uh website um oh thanks Caleb really appreciate that nice nice nice of you to stop by and uh really appreciate the sentiment so thank you very much I'm glad you I'm glad you find them uh useful oh the the time stamps I'm still working on the time stamps I uh I didn't put them on initially then I got into the habit of doing it and also going back and adding them into uh to other videos uh and then I've still got a lot that I've just not done and part of the issue with me with time stamps is that uh obviously the whole thing about the channel is that I do the videos in in one take and record them and then upload them to YouTube and so I don't do any editing so I don't get to actually go through and look at where the time stamp should be so it means that I've got a as part of my workflow I've got to go back and actually watch myself which I never really looked forward to to be honest um although I do do it at double speed uh and then um yeah then uh I can just sort of add them in it's really one of those things I should probably try and uh try and figure out a way to get it done it's a pity that I can't just sort of think about it as I'm doing and adding in some sort of time stamp on the fly but uh anyway we'll have to have to see I will make an effort though it's one of my uh things for the new year it's to go back and actually clean up all of my uh content uh not I don't mean removing foul language but I mean clean it up in terms of making sure all the tags and things like that are there all the um thumbnails are as they should be so I'm going to go back and do a bit of a review using TubeBuddy to sort of look at where there could be improvements made to different videos and things like that but definitely time stamps is one of them I have got a separate database of all my videos actually so um yeah um so so you pretty much watch everything into except when live stream I do that with a lot of stuff as well and I certainly find that it's um it speeds up the process and most of it is is understandable I find as well when I watch my own stuff back at two speed it actually sounds normal whereas when I watch it at single speed it uh I seem like I've got quite a few pauses in so the double speed thing certainly yeah certainly helps but yeah I will go through and try and add in all my uh my uh my time stamps and things like that I know Paul's always there Paul is Paul is always there on the on the bottom I don't know are you so quick to be honest I often when we're in streams where you know I can add links in and things like that I often think oh I'll just go and grab the link and then I've gone and grab the link and then I come back it's like oh Paul's already done it he's lightning fast I think Maestro helps him actually I think that's his trick he's got Maestro doing the research in the background Maestro's his cat by the way um the stream that oh YouTube as well so yeah the you the so yes that is that does help so I made a stream deck macro set that basically allows you to pause and play YouTube in the browser but while it's sort of the not the forefront most app so you can obviously use keyboard shortcuts with or maybe it wasn't obvious with with YouTube when you're watching in the browser for play pause you know forward backwards and all that sort of stuff um but with keyboard Maestro you can activate keyboard shortcuts in an app that isn't necessarily the frontmost app so I made a whole set of stream deck icons and a stream deck profile with a stream deck profile with a keyboard Maestro macro set that allows you to basically control YouTube in the browser even when you've got something else at the front so that's what Rich is referring to it means you can sort of play and pause whilst you're maybe typing the notes in the in the YouTube studio or something like that uh got there in the end didn't I I do fumble over my words from time to time uh I got I got what you're meaning Caleb don't worry um that's another thing that I'm going to be doing this year is actually creating some more um key uh some more stream deck icon packs and do it with um uh with along with keyboard Maestro as well so I've already got ideas for stuff like that so in my little task planner I've got all the different macro and icon sets that I want to make so I do want to do those because that's one of the things about monetizing the channel that I'll be talking about when I get on to doing the the video about that this week about you know obviously reaching the monetization it was monetized from the beginning really with uh certainly with a help from Doc mentioning Buy Me a Coffee that was one of the first things that I set up and it was because of he uh you know he he obviously talks about that and so that was one of the first things that I learned from him uh when when I was doing my research to set up the channel but the other thing is the icon packs that I have for sale on the on the website they do you know sort of come in I sell a couple of those a day and so it's just a nice little extra uh income stream but also hopefully that they they do help people out as well so I will be making a few more of those as well um so do I enjoy standing instead of sitting with a new setup I do quite like it yeah you might notice that I move around a little bit more than I used to because before Doc always used to say about how I was always sort of completely stationary and motionless but now I am sort of rocking a little bit more for uh from side to side um but I tell you what I am probably thinking I'm glad I didn't go with like a total standing desk full time so although I'll be doing it for the videos and the live streams I will be able to sit back down afterwards um you're working on getting Final Cut Pro optimized with Final Cut Pro X is that I'm not in it I'm not in the I'm not in the know with the lingo on this one and uh the when I have done editing before uh originally I would use iMovie as as a lot of people did as a first step but I do use Adobe Creative Cloud and so from that we get Adobe Premiere so when I have had to do the occasional thing with editing then that is what I tend to use just because it's so occasional that uh that yeah I haven't been out and bought Final Cut for it because I want to avoid editing at all costs it's not something I look forward to I'm hoping that uh oh I see so with with Final Cut Pro X optimized with the stream deck um yeah so I'm uh oh thank you Rich he's just popped the link into my uh my store much appreciated I mean using stream deck with Final Cut Pro X hey did you know by the way let me just show you this because uh this might be useful if you're using Final Cut Pro I think we've got one in here let me come over to my stream deck view one second right here is my stream deck forgive me if you already know this if you go over into the um stream deck store like this and then we go to uh is it icons icons so I don't know if I'm being too quick there so in stream deck if you click on the little uh not the cot wheel this one here for the stream deck store that brings up the stream deck store and then go to icons um in here they've got some that are so we've got photoshop icon pack and they are just the icons rather than um oh no they in fact they're not they are they are linked with the um they are linked with the app itself but they're from there's a lot by this company here slide side show fx so they make really great icon packs having just told you about my icon packs they make really great icon packs as well I should add um and they do them for all different applications so you've got like the full adobe premiere they've got one for to vinci resolve uh photoshop I use that one from them uh I say that I don't use that one that one says install I use the premiere pro one I've got that one installed um but uh yeah side show fx I'm just wondering if they've got one for final cut so they've got after effects let's have a little look uh affinity photo so what it is is basically oh there so there you go there's the uh there's the final cut one if you go to their website side show fx they've got the full pack and they're I think they're about $15 something like that for a complete application uh pack um but then then here what they've done uh as a little sort of teaser I suppose is they've given a sort of partial icon pack in the in the store so this one you can get for free so if I click on install uh and then click on install there uh then I think it should once it's installed I don't think it sets up a full profile let me just have a little look I don't think it has got a profile don't think it is I think what it is is it then just appears I've got to find a blank page now on time there we go just create a new folder in here and then um I don't normally use folders but for the purposes of demonstration I will do then I think it would be would it be a hotkey let me just stick on this I'm just figuring this out as we go through I think it just loads them into your library of uh so open stream deck icon library so that's the one so once you've got the stream deck icon library so you do have to map the the controls yourself uh now this is just taking a little while shouldn't take this shouldn't take this long to load uh yeah so there you go so that has basically loaded them into there so if you map all of your uh your icons so we've got the affinity uh and I'm sure it should actually it should actually have put it into there but they're not there for some reason I did just definitely download them it should put them in the library but you can see here the ones that I've got before the affinity photo and the premier pro icon pack so from that you can just pick out and these are the ones that they include um but then there is actually on their website if you go and buy the pack for whatever it is $15 I think um then it's got the full uh full range of icons um so uh so yeah I've I've I create my own because whilst this is great that you've got all of these different tools I find the actual icons themselves to be a little bit sort of uh busy for want of a better word um a bit too much information I like sort of big bold uh icons that uh so something more like these uh as opposed to these ones which have got really quite a lot of little detail on it so that's why I tend to just just make my own but having said that these are literally for every every action that you might want to do in these apps so it's uh it is definitely a great resource uh and uh yeah check them out I'll just tell you quickly again what they were called just in case I sideshow fx it is so I'll just come over to that one and show you I show fx.net it is here we go so uh yeah and they do it's they're obviously icons for the loop deck for stream deck and uh for lots of different apps so that's their actual website uh the premiere pro ones actually look quite good so so yeah there we go a bit of a uh diversion talking about uh more uh more icons let's uh have a look where we're up to because I've lost track of the uh the the the comments a little bit uh so uh one thing I want is a 32 key stream deck I love my to be honest with you I I will be getting another 32 key stream deck because one thing that you can do is all of my things are in profiles so I don't really use folders except that last example uh for sort of ad hoc stuff all of my uh all of my screens my all of my actions are in different different profiles but you can switch between profiles so that means you have got like a home screen that just basically switches a series of buttons that switches to all my different profiles well if you've got two stream decks you can actually have one stream deck control the profile on the other stream deck so it means that I could have one sort of like core one because I have got some some core things that I want to have access to all of the time but then I've got another one like for now for ecamm where it's just got me ecamm stuff but I would still like to have access to all of the the sort of main core actions that I have as well so having two stream decks you could basically have uh sort of hotkeys to get to change the um the profile on the secondary one but then the the sort of primary one if you like has all of the core uh actions and macros and stuff like that so uh yeah if you've got more than one stream deck definitely check out how you can change the profile on one from the other it's a bit of a killer move to be honest um so uh yeah the stream deck when I got it I got it for doing the videos and for controlling ecamm live and then when I got it it just became like an extension of my my left left hand really it's it's uh yeah it's quite an amazing thing and to link it with keyboard maestro as well it's it's really it's just an awesome productivity tool so uh are they work with descriptor as well yeah so descriptor is something that I've sort of been on and off with to be honest with you I don't really do a lot of uh tech stuff or transcribing I should really just transcribe all my videos and upload all of the the captions taken from descript but I've been sort of on and off with it and I signed up for it when I first heard about it because it was like oh this is amazing isn't it you know it is quite an amazing service so I signed up for it and I paid for it uh for on a monthly basis I paid for it two months and I barely transcribed a thing so I canceled it and then I started it again and then I canceled it again and I've literally just yesterday started it again although I'm just I think I'm on there's a free plan I don't think there was a free plan originally was that I'm not sure uh oh no I tell you what it was it was I went to the pro because I wanted to do the um uh the thing where it can sort of learn your voice and then overdub and stuff like that so I did try that one out so anyway I'm back onto it now because I have got some stuff that I think I need to use a transcription for so uh yeah back on with that but um yeah Stephanie Lou again I think it was had all the shortcuts for um for that so uh so yeah you can do a lot of that stuff with descript with stream deck and uh I haven't I haven't re-signed up for Jarvis yet I probably do need to because I need to be thinking about some written content for some other stuff so maybe that's a plan for 2022 is to get back on with Jarvis and and with descript in in force and uh Glenda you're on with Premier now as well are you uh how'd they got a sale I've been on adobe created cloud for for ages actually so um there's I mean there's some great apps in there that I've not even touched that I should really just have a look at but it's just a bit of a uh yeah it's just a bit of a time sink but some of the apps that they've got do look pretty yeah pretty awesome um having little glitches that sometimes stream deck will give me an error message so had to set up a workaround uh yeah what sort of um it appears let's have a look it appears as icons I have to multi hotkey so open final cut pro then hotkey the command I want uh yeah so uh multi a multi action so it opens final cut and then does the hotkey command yeah so I what I do with those sorts of things is that's you can do it where it sort of brings the thing to the window if you do use um if you do use keyboard maestro at all then the in keyboard maestro there's a really simple macro which is basically to perform an action in another application uh so that means that you can sort of do things in the background or you don't have to sort of make the application the active application first um so uh so yeah that's one of the things that I've still got to make the rest of my keyboard maestro series I started it but I haven't finished it so I've got to I've got to get on with that on my on my channel as well uh please make the stream deck and keyboard maestro icons and profiles I'd love to buy just got the 32 key so I've got some uh on my site already actually so if I just uh I'll just quickly show you this for the benefit of those who might not be aware uh I don't really like self-promotion but here you go uh so if you go to takeonetech.io and then click on store then I do have a disclosure that you can actually make these yourself and I tell you how that I how that I do that um but these are basically the icon packs I've got at the moment so I've got this one's the the YouTube player pack so this one allows you to control YouTube in the background so it's not the frontmost application it's great the reason actually the reason why I made it was when I was watching tutorials and I wanted to be able to watch a tutorial where I was doing something on uh on you know on whatever application it was but then I want to be able to pause the tutorial and I didn't want to click out of the application pause in the YouTube player come back to the application do whatever I was doing and keep going back and forth so now with this YouTube icon player pack you can just control everything in YouTube from here um even if it's sort of in the background so that was the reason I created that I actually don't have all of these on my sort of version of it so the the the sort of things you got here is changing like full screen theater mode and so on you got play forward and backwards 10 seconds skip to the next chapter and things like that or that one skip to the next chapter skip to the next video pause turn on captions you can also use these ones to just jump to a particular point in the timeline so 20 through and all that sort of stuff and this one to change the the speed um I put all of those in this icon pack just because those are all of the shortcuts that are available in YouTube so so that's why I just included all of them in case people wanted all of them although for generally in the version I have on of this is I just have these sort of play pours I do have the speed one and the chapter markers and things like that but I don't necessarily have all of the caption ones in the one that I use but I just put them all in there for anyone who wants to to use them basically um this one is an ecamm live one so this is the one that I sort of use now so my ecamm profile is actually spread out over two pages so you've got the first four rows and then the second four rows in fact it's spread out over three pages because I've got some that I sort of swap in and out sometimes but generally it's kind of like the first page is what I use for recording videos and the second one is the one that I generally have when I'm doing my live stream where I've got like bringing guests in and things like that so so yeah and they're pretty pretty um focused on just what I'm doing with ecamm so it's by no means an exhaustive ecamm list list of icons but it's just the ones that I use so I just wanted to make those available I've got another one which is a two page profile pack for a keynote so doing things in keynote and it's especially good if you're making graphics and stuff like that so you know building groups merging shapes creating shapes aligning things and and so on uh so that's a two page stream deck profile for for that then I've got another one for zoom so there is actually a zoom um plugin for um for stream deck uh but it gives you limited um limited control over it so you've got things like mute on mute toggle video on and off uh join meeting leave meeting things like that um but there's actually a special action in there as well which is that you can activate any keyboard shortcut that's available in zoom even when zoom's in the background and it's part of the zoom plugin for stream deck so what I did was basically go and get all of the keyboard shortcuts for zoom much as I did here actually for YouTube and just create the pack that basically controls everything in zoom from one stream deck uh profile and then again I just sort of pull out certain ones of these that I have in different use cases for zoom so sometimes if I'm going to be on big calls then I'll have this one that you can sort of swipe between gallery view things like that and then for other use cases I have different ones so I sort of I've got various different profiles that include these but just the specific ones that I uh I need to use I'm laughing because this one here is just a little one uh two most of my compacts by the way are ten dollars uh but then this one is two dollars because it's literally just these nine things and it's just to control um it's to control pro mouse so that's the thing that I'm using on the screen and I'm laughing because everybody uh not everybody but a lot of people who have used pro mouse uh curse me for recommending it and it allows me to zoom and things like that the funny thing is it works for me but it seems like lots of other people it doesn't work for so I can highlight the screen and stuff like that um but I did create a pack so that's what I used to control pro mouse on from my stream deck um I've got another one that I created which is a calculator for for stream deck and it basically it just gives you clunky keys to use with whatever calculator you've got on your computer so clicking on that will open the mac calculator and then you can just use this because sometimes I just like typing on clunky keys with my calculator and then I did create this one which was the 3000 icon pack for stream deck I am very clear about it it's actually uh 150 icons in 20 different colors so there you go it's 150 pictograms on 20 different colors uh and so uh so they're just a collection of random random icons really that can be useful on your stream deck and in fact that in the background is what they all are um so so sorry about that bit of shameless self promotion that was just to by way of answering the um uh the icons for keyboard maestro and so on so there I haven't got specific ones to control keyboard maestro as such except that like all of the youtube pack uses keyboard maestro to to control the actions in the background the uh the keynotes one as well uses keyboard maestro to control those actions and so it's more of a case of keyboard maestro being the tool that I use to create the actions that are then triggered by um by the stream deck so uh so stream deck excel is definitely worth it yeah I mean some people I can understand when they're when they're considering getting a stream deck they might think oh well all I want to do is you know this I've got you know five scenes maybe and you know if they're going to use it with ecamm or obs or whatever they might just think oh I've got five scenes I've got these other things that I need to do so yeah the 15 or whatever it is would be it would be fine the thing is it's just as everyone who uses a stream deck knows once you get it you realize that there are so many more use cases for it so it's definitely yeah I always advise people if you can and you know your budget can stretch then the uh the 32 is definitely worthwhile and indeed yeah you can start off and you've always got extra space then so I'm not sure which one you're talking about there Rich but uh I wonder if that's controlling the other stream deck with one stream deck oh it must be yes so still learning how to use one stream deck yeah it's it's it's one of those things though once you get it it's totally intuitive I've tried it out with the mobile app it's not the same I mean it works the same but you know having the stream deck on the mobile and then using that to control the other one but the thing about stream deck is it is just a uh natural device do you know what I still have not properly dug in to uh loop deck can you believe that how long have I had that now and I've still not got it all set up and you know that was one of the things I mean I've got sidelined with other stuff in the past few weeks and whatever but still uh to have a gadget like that and to have not uh sort of done the work on getting it all set up and so on is I have to realize my yeah my microphone's been drooping let me tighten that up a little bit uh so um yeah it's um uh I don't I don't know I can't quite find them why that is because I'm normally someone who just dives straight into any new gadgets so uh having the loop deck which I've got on my desk and it's just not uh it's just not fully set up yet I've dug into it a bit I do use it for I actually use it for Photoshop I like the knobs on the uh and the dials so that you can do things like you know increased brush size and stuff like that so the one app that I do use it in is currently Photoshop um but apart from that I've just not got it into my workflow I don't I don't quite know why I don't know whether there's some friction there usually if something I don't just leap on it there's some sort of friction uh so I'll have to I'll have to figure out figure out exactly why that is um okay you're scared of keyboard maestro do you need to pay for it here's the thing about keyboard maestro uh it it can be daunting because of all the different things it can do but you don't have to start with everything it can literally do like anything you can imagine and so the mind naturally uh uh boggles at what it can do let me just pull up the website because I forget exactly uh how much it is it is think about keyboard uh 30 but it's what it's not one of these um you're paying for it monthly uh sort of subscription based models it is actually a a one-off payment uh keyboard maestro dot com uh let's have a little look there is a free trial and pricing is uh 36 dollars and so 36 dollars for version 10 which is the latest version and you can use it indefinitely so there is a there is a cost you could get the free trial first but if you watch the uh the beginner's guide that I did to it I don't I haven't done many videos on it or just look on the channel for uh keyboard maestro um uh just like search for keyboard maestro I've probably done about five or six or seven videos that mention keyboard maestro or use it in some way that'll give you an idea of kind of the sorts of things that it can do but there's two uh two mistakes or not mistakes two uh maybe approaches that people take to it when they first get it uh which are not necessarily productive one of them is they just open it up and they see like all of the potential options that they've got for different things and macros that they can create and the mind just boggles and they switch off and they think like oh no this is too too much for me uh or the other thing that they do is they get like really into it and think like this is amazing this can do everything that I want and then this is me this is what I did I went through on the you know the first week or two weeks I'd got it and I just went through and set up like you know hundreds of macros doing all these different things and then I promptly forgot about them uh you know they I didn't give them time to bed in as muscle memory and it's I'd I'd written all these things and then I'd forgot about how to how to uh you know trigger them all and I'd set up keyboard shortcuts this was this was you know 15 years ago before the stream decks and so it was all keyboard shortcuts that you were using to trigger them so imagine you know it's we all know you know command c is copy command v is paste well imagine if you suddenly load onto yourself another hundred or 200 uh keyboard shortcuts that you're expecting yourself to remember it's just impossible and so that's another thing that people do is they go down which is what I did is they go down this route of like oh I want it to do everything for me immediately the best approach with keyboard maestro is uh get a free trial and try out a few things and get an idea of if you think it's going to be something that's going to be of benefit to you and then just like start with one thing that you want to do uh and do that and get that one embedded into your mind or maybe two or three or something like that but just so that you don't overwhelm yourself sorry to use the oh well oh word if it's dock is uh uh watching uh at some point but um yeah don't get so that you sort of don't remember all of the different things that you've set up but it can be really really basic uh as well as you know in fact let me just quickly I'll just give you a very quick example of how basic it can be so say for example let me just pull up this uh which one that one there we go so here is keyboard maestro uh I'll just give you a really quick overview and a really quick example of a macro say you want to trigger something in a particular app now I've got e-cam live open right so in e-cam live you obviously have different profiles I say obviously perhaps you don't know you have profiles that you can switch between different profiles ah thank you Caleb much appreciated thank you very much really appreciate that and uh it will go straight into the coffee pot because this channel is fueled on coffee thank you very much this one's on you Caleb thank you um yeah so in in e-cam live you've got a profile so one thing that I've done is I've set up a shortcut I've kept talking about this video that I've got to make and I still haven't made it so perhaps that'll be one I do this week where basically one button just uh closes down everything I don't want to have open it opens e-cam it switches to the right e-cam profile and then we'll switch to the right stream deck profile so I do use e-cam with different use cases so the icon pack is for my uh take one tech but then I've also got one for other things so one button basically sets up all of these things it positions all of my my windows and things like that and then um uh yeah it does that all in one one push of the button but if you don't want to go that complex if you just want a button on your stream deck to change profile in e-cam live I'll show you now how easy that is to do in um uh in keyboard maestro so this is the keyboard maestro interface it's basically got down here uh groups of macros so this is how you sort of organize the different macros you've got so here you've got you can see I've got this group here that open which is pedals live stream so I've got foot pedals that I use to control things on my live stream and that is basically three pedals and so over in this column you've then got the actual macros that are within that group so just think of these groups as basically like the way that you want to organize your macros do your little shortcuts and things like that and then in this column then is the macros that are within that group in this window on this side you've basically got information related to if you've selected one of the macros then it's selecting then it'll tell you about that if you've got an actual folder selected then this window then displays information about that particular group or folder okay so when you install keyboard maestro though you'd basically just have nothing in in this macros one and you'd probably just have a couple of example folders in here so let's say you want to create a group for e-cam profiles so I've just clicked on the plus button at the bottom in fact can you see that let me just move that up a bit so that's now created an untitled macro group here and you can see there that it's automatically highlighted the name of it so I'm just going to call this let's call it e-cam I was going to say let's call it e-cam profiles but we're actually already got a folder called that so I'll call this e-cam folders demo so we've now created let's call it our first little group of actions and then if you come down to the the plus button to create our first macro assuming we haven't got all these others you click on the plus button there and it's now created a new macro so we're going to give that a name which is let's let me just pick one of my profiles just so that I can use it as an example in fact I've got one that's called just called this profile I'm in at the moment is take one tech or just tot so tot profile okay so now what we want to do is we want to actually uh you've got two things that you can do you can create either a trigger uh first of all which is what's going to actually trigger the action you can trigger actions by either a keyboard shortcut which is sort of the traditional way that people might do it but you can also have all sorts of other different triggers like when you log in or when you are on a particular wi-fi network or when you put the computer to sleep so if you wanted something like a backup process to happen once you sleep the computer then you can trigger it by that you've got wi-fi triggers wi-fi network so if you go to your coffee shop of choice and you log on to their network you might want to shut down any syncing and stuff like that so it's not taking bandwidth or whatever there's lots of different triggers but we're not going to get get into all of that we'll just consider that there's either a hotkey trigger but in actual fact if you leave it blank we can trigger it by trigger it by stream deck so if we're going to trigger a switching profile in stream deck then we'll just leave that one blank and I'll come to how to do that in a moment so then we want to come to the action now the actions this is where people just get a little bit mind blown by it and it can put people off because there's too many to choose from but this here is going to be the action that we're going to perform and actually you can sort of chain whole series of actions together so you can get quite complex with this but we're going to go with the absolute basic we're going to add an action now it categorizes so you'll notice if I just do that again when I click on this you'll notice that this window pops up and it's basically two columns so you've got categories of actions and then the action itself so the categories are the way that keyboard maestro is just sort of grouping these actions together but you can also look at all actions you can favorite some and then you can also get third party plugins as well but if I just leave it on all actions you can see that there's all of this big long list of potential things that you can do and that's where some people think like oh it's a little bit bit much this is I don't think I don't think I need all of this it's a bit a bit too much for me you don't need to obviously use all of these and you can just take exactly what it is that you want so there is a search function which is works quite well so if we want to activate a menu command from ecamm live to switch profile if I go to type in menu here so we've got this select or show menu item so we want to select a menu item so I'm going to click that one and you can see that it's added it down here now basically what this is doing is this can add in a menu item of any application that you've you've got running and the way it works is the menu title if you think about the menu bar in the in apple then the menu title is just the heading of that menu item and then you've got this submenu so if you you know in ecamm live we would go to profiles and bear in mind that when you create a new profile it does actually add it into the profiles menu so now we've got access to that as a menu command but then you might also have sort of submenus you know if you go through like a sort of menu tree so you can always add multiple items for this but you can also just navigate directly to it so if I go over to here instead of saying the front application if I go to ecamm live and then go to the menu here it actually it's got all of the different apps that I've got open at the moment and I can go to ecamm live and then profiles and then here you can see a list of all my profiles so if I click that one tot that is basically it we've now created a macro tot profile that when we activate it will make the in my case my take one tech my tot profile the active thing oh thank you glender much appreciated I'm going to have to go and make some more coffee thank you very much glender really appreciate that so where was I so yeah we've now created that as a macro now if we want to add this into our stream deck all we have to do is if I come over to my stream deck minute and I'll just go to a let me in fact I'll bring this down here instead one second just need to go to a little blank page go to this one so our space to add in a macro so here we are in in stream deck in fact let me try me that a little bit bigger I will go to a different view there we go so I've got my empty stream deck if you go to down here we've got there is a keyboard maestro plug-in for stream deck by the way but I prefer this other one which is called km link and so the way that you get that is you open up the stream deck store you go to plugins and then if you search for km link in here then oops daisy where's it gone I'll just type in km oh it's all one word it's all connected so km link no space then install that so that's keyboard maestro link and the way that that works is it will appear in the in the custom menu so if in down here rather than it appearing like ecamm live's got his own little menu because the km link is literally just one action it comes under this custom and you just drag it in as a button and then basically here it gives you access to all of your keyboard maestro macros and it will tell you the last modified macro or you can go through and you can just pick one of your other other macros and that's it so if I assign that in that that time and obviously a lot of it was me sort of waffling on about different things but in that time we've basically created a keyboard maestro action to switch profiles in ecamm and then pressing the this button on the stream deck would actually switch profile obviously I can't do it now because I'm in the middle of recording and I am actually in this profile but that is just an example of like you can be really basic with with keyboard maestro and you don't need to get overwhelmed by you know all of the potential options for it it's just a case of taking it step by step and so yeah there we go that is that that was a bit of a rambling answer really to answer Caleb your question or your point about being you know being a bit concerned about you know perhaps complexity of keyboard maestro so let me catch it with some of these comments so yeah I've never used discripses to getting back back off track again now I've got getting back on track rather yeah so the reason why I actually started using descript originally was because I did actually have a podcast and I say I did actually have I mean technically I still have I only did three episodes of it and the idea of it was I was going to follow along with my progression of built growing my channel and document that in a podcast and I did it for three three weeks but I think it was just the friction the friction thing was just for me you know the friction of actually doing it just got in the way and so I didn't do it so I've got to pick it up because I had somebody contacting me just recently I just happened to mention like oh I've just listened to your podcast and I thought oh so people are listening to it that means I should probably go back and actually keep doing it so am I gonna have a complete revamp 21 2022 design wise I was thinking about that because my whole overlays and stuff like that were more designed to fit in with my previous background although not really but they did fit more whereas I noticed these are not necessarily quite right so yeah I probably will at some point do a bit of an update to my general channel design yeah so adobe that's the thing about the adobe suite it's one of those things I do use it it's um I do use um I primarily use photoshop I use illustrator a little bit but I'm by no means illustrator is one of those apps that I've never really fully got into I use it occasionally when I need to do stuff um and I always find like workarounds to do things with it but I don't feel like I'm totally comfortable with that with illustrator but I do use photoshop quite a lot for different things in fact I probably use photoshop for things that I should use um illustrator for but it's just I'm that much into uh you know the photoshop way of doing things I use it for graphic stuff that I should like say probably use illustrator for but there you go I'll forgive you this time Caleb but try not to do it again for getting to click the like button I'm glad you like pro mouse I'm glad there's somebody else Carly who is is using it and likes it because it seems like I'm getting lots of people who are like like doc will curse me every time he uses it almost oh is that about the stream deck yes oh hey keely sorry I just got down to you in the comments oh thank you very much great of you to stop by I know we've got a bit of an LGL party going on in here I think that let's get live group uh oh and thanks much appreciated on the uh the studio oh Dale's snuck in as well hello Dale great to see you here uh oh and there we go Mr. Paul Duncan on the case as ever thank you very much for uh posting the link uh I know there's I should probably show you my video list but um I think it was about 100 and 170 videos at the last count that I still have yet to make uh it's just every time I think I want to put it up what I usually do is I prioritize if somebody asks a specific question then I'll just make a video to um to to to to answer the question but then there's all the other videos that I want to make or that I've you know I've got to that I came up with for the channel to make that I've still got to make so yeah there's there's uh yeah it's in hundreds now uh oh you're welcome Caleb uh do you know what that's another thing the link tree link yes I need to do that it's on my uh on my list in fact was it link tree that I even did sign up to but I haven't set it up or something I can't remember there was another one as well that some people were talking about um but uh let me just write that down I write it on my little index card and then maybe I'll actually get around to doing it uh because yeah it is it is useful um let's have a little look I nearly did I nearly did I have changed around my um my stream layout a little bit so what it is there was the last not the last two but maybe the two before that live streams when I was doing my sort of ending I uh rather than actually giving it a the proper ending it's just the stream just ended abruptly and the reason is because I've got two two pages on my econ profile uh one page is the one that I generally use for my videos and the other page is the one that I use for my the live stream and the position of the end uh end video in my recording page was in the same position on the other page for the start live stream button so what would happen was I would instead of pressing the end button I'd actually press the start live stream button but what that does is that presses the triggers the action to uh start stream but that's also the same button to end stream so it meant that uh yeah I'm rather than going to my regular sort of outro uh scene it was just uh it was just ending it so I've actually moved them around now so that shouldn't happen again so hopefully when I end this live stream eventually whenever that is um it will uh it will all flow smoothly oh hey Stefan great to see you thank you very much for stopping by on this uh to be honest with you I didn't I thought that there would be no people turning up today so I'm very pleased to see all of you lovely people here and uh oh great Lala's here as well so uh we're obviously another another fellow person in the uh in the 2022 already in fact I think you're an hour ahead of me aren't you in uh in the Philippines Lala is so uh hey Louis so when we talked I was pretty overwhelmed trying to learn many apps at once almost also pro mouse works flawlessly when I do a fresh reboot after that it goes downhill for me fast right well I have to figure out something about that then Louis um uh perhaps we can write a little macro to reboot it when uh when you are starting to start in a a video or something like that that would be yet that would be a little work around for it I am looking at other mouse alternatives uh there's one that's that slips my mind now that Paul has recommended before and then there's also mouse pose which I looked at before thing about mouse pose is it couldn't do the I think couldn't do the zoom in it does the sort of mouse pointer thing but it doesn't do the the zoom in that I that I used uh yeah well that's that that's the way isn't it so uh I've got to catch up with some Adina streams by the way I've loved the ones that I've watched and uh yeah although the one with the carrot did make me feel strangely inadequate but yeah oh she's just got such a great great concept for the channel uh so silver lining home place is the uh is the channel and it's a dnet oh it's just wonderful cooking that cooking channel uh all stuff fresh from the garden it's amazing you can go and see the thing being picked from the garden and then being transformed into a delicious cake what more could you want from a channel so let me have a look took me four minutes it simplifies how people oh right so the link tree think yeah yeah I definitely need to uh to get onto that I will uh I'll get onto that it might not be today actually new year's day but I'll I'll look at it maybe the beginning of the week actually right okay then well uh well there you go I've got a hard out then in one hour in fact I'm gonna gonna go off before then because I think my my kids will be getting up one thing that about being in my new studio because well I'm sort of down at the bottom of the garden is I no longer hear these sort of as my yeah my kids wake up and start running down the stairs so I don't get that that little alert tone that everybody's up uh yes we are we are we are in the future uh oh there you go look at that Paul Duncan as ever on the on the case with the the channel yeah so there are a load of different link tree things out there there was a what was the one that doc recommended was that um uh what was that one I can't remember to yeah well there was another one that you mentioned it wasn't link tree but um yeah I can't remember what it was uh well you've asked you've asked a question there Caleb uh so have I looked into affiliate links and presumed by that you mean uh linking to other people's products and services well it's oops Daisy it's funny you should say that because uh I use TubeBuddy on my channel to help me with all of my organization and to help me find the perfect tags to go with my videos it's also great if you want to do any find and replace text on your youtube videos so for example I recently went and updated all of the descriptions of my youtube videos with all of my amazon affiliate links and I did it all with find and replace in TubeBuddy and it took me about two minutes so to get your free trial of TubeBuddy head over to takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy so is that what you meant by affiliate links or how about I make all of these videos with ecamm live ecamm live is live production software that you can use to create videos on the fly in one take it's how I make all the videos for my channel get your free trial over at take one tech dot io slash ecamm like the music that you're hearing in these adverts head over to take one tech dot io slash epidemic to get your free trial of epidemic sound you can be guaranteed to find a wide range of royalty free of copyright free music that you can use in your youtube channels your tiktok videos uh and everywhere else you make content it's the one place to be for stock music want to be more productive on your mac then why not head over to take one tech dot com dot io slash set up and try out set up set up is basically a subscription service for just 999 a month you can get access to over 200 great productivity apps this is an affiliate link and the way the affiliate link works is if you try out set up you'll get a week for free to try out all the different apps but then if you do go on to sign up you will get a free month and i will get a free month and that is how the affiliate link works so head over to take one tech dot io slash set up and you can get lots of great apps there that i use all of the time so yeah so uh there we go i do have affiliate links but i just i made all of those little things obviously but i would just feel i never get to sort of work them into the videos because uh i just feel a bit corny doing that sort of stuff really and uh i do have them all linked in the description uh but yeah i did make all of those little things i've also got one for my own website so uh as well but i won't bore you with that um so for in terms of affiliates though i obviously have got a TubeBuddy epidemic sound uh the ecum live affiliate program as well and then obviously amazon affiliates i made a video about this as well uh recently and seriously TubeBuddy i do find a really great product and the find and replace thing is amazing so being able to just go in and update all of the links on oh sorry all of the descriptions of your video with the finding replace is a really great feature and so what i did was i although i sort of mentioned amazon affiliates and amazon sorry amazon products um when i was mentioning them in a video so if i was talking about something specific that was from amazon then i would drop a link in the description and say you know obviously the link is in the description but one thing that i noticed that other people did that i wasn't doing was actually just in the descriptions just having a list of gear that i use and stuff like that and so i wanted to add that into the bottom of all of my videos and at that time i'd got like you know 160 videos or something so i don't want to go through and update them all manually but i used uh TubeBuddy's find and replace function to basically go and add in all of those uh links into the description and what happened was in a month instead of getting you know a couple of dollars here and there from uh from amazon affiliate uh commission uh it just went up considerably and i had like 300 click-throughs onto my amazon affiliate uh onto amazon through my amazon links like in the first month which was you know compared to 30 the previous month and it's just you know people see the descriptions and then look down and see you know gear that i use and maybe they're interested in some of it and so they click through and the way the amazon program works is that uh you don't just get commission on whatever they buy from the link it's anything that they buy with in i don't know is it 24 hours or something like that or from that visit to the amazon so i can see what people are buying and some of it is the stuff that i've recommended or the stuff that my links are for but then a lot of it is stuff that people have bought in addition or you know they've gone to amazon and then bought something else so uh that really made a big a big difference to amazon affiliate commission um so uh so yeah that's another affiliate program that i'm with one of the things that i'm doing for the the zoom course that i'm doing is i've also got camo by reincubate and then also um speedify as well so i've got discount codes for them so recently i got signed up with their their programs as well but um uh yeah that's that's about it as far as uh as far as affiliate programs i know there's probably more that i could jump on but again it's it's how to actually fit those into uh into the flow without um you know i don't want to be too uh i'm i don't want to be too salesy which is a bit weird because i did a whole session on sales funnels in the doc rocks office hours a couple of weeks ago but uh yeah i don't i don't i try and avoid being salesy if possible so that's what i don't tend to mention the the affiliate programs but that is in answer to your question though about the affiliate links um uh doc uses flow code ah instead of link tree right i don't know who ron popol is actually i have to i have to look him up i'm guessing that is uh somebody does those kind of sales videos but i'll have a little look for him uh yeah i've just i've just got to try and do i suppose haven't i really but there you go i only tend to mention things when it's relevant to what i've been talking about i know it started there started a whirlwind uh let me have a look yeah i've tried to try to get a few things i mean to be honest with you the things about the affiliate links that was one of the things that i got set up right from the start so uh i have done a video about this the things that i did before actually launching my channel and it was setting up with you know amazon and all these sorts of things the tube body affiliate and all that sort of stuff so i did get that all set up right at the beginning before actually launching my my channel i appreciate all the comments uh oh yeah so when the the gear that i use and so i do as well by the way so while we're on that i have got a page on my my website so i'll just quickly show you that just in case you're interested i do need to update this i realized because i've just added a load new gear a load of new gear to the the thing but if you come over to the gear on my website then here basically i've got a thing about different gear that i use and where there's a video about it i've got a video so i did a review of the short mv7 so i've got a video about that the windshield so i use the sm7b windshield on the shore mv7 and it reduces popping apparently so uh there we go we'll see that was the bike and the mic on that i was using just this sort of cheap amazon one but i've since got the uh augato wave so i'm going to add that one in there as well these are the earphones i'm using kzcs10 uh or kzzs10 uh uk people rid me for uh using the american pronunciation of the letter z but i've just got into the habit of doing it so there we go um and then yeah some stuff that i use with my uh my camera lighting i've upgraded my lighting since this and then the teleprompter and that so i have got that gear guide on my on my website uh let's have a little look do you have something so that you can get affiliates even if they are from other countries so with amazon in particular i always link to the us website uh us amazon because uh that's where most the the largest number of my visitors come from the us not necessarily over 50 but just the that's the biggest value on the the list so i always put the us um amazon store links with amazon you can actually link it to other stores as well so if you set up with affiliates in the uk is separate to europe but then europe is like one for the whole of europe and then for other regions as well you can basically set those all up and link them to your main one so when somebody clicks on the link it will actually uh i don't know if it redirects them or if they go to there then they can buy it in their store then you still get the commission from it um but what they do is with them the um amazon commission i think it's you have to have three purchases within six months or something so once you sign up for the amazon affiliate you've got to have three purchases within six months i think something like that and if you don't get that then basically they just end the end the um your affiliate status um but they treat them all as regions individually so what that's meant was i created one for the us and one for the u k but even though i've got lots of sales through the us the uk one hadn't had any within three months so i got a notification or six months whatever it was so the i got a notification from them that they were ending that so in theory i suppose i could just go and restart it again um so there is there is that um but for other affiliates i guess um uh i guess you can do you know affiliate programs with people in other countries i don't see why you would not necessarily be yeah be able to do that uh and really interesting setting up so if that is if that is amazon then i can do a little video about that about how to set that up uh because uh yeah it's quite uh i won't do it now because i'd have to go into my amazon and i've already given away some of my email addresses when i did the demo earlier so i'll probably do that as a separate video um um uh yes so that's that's it it's uh it just got links in my my descriptions let's have a little look vegematic i'll definitely look him up though it sounds interesting sounds like it might be funny i don't know of course it is it's it's neither z or z it's zulu of course how how uh how how could i have got that wrong we all know that oh well i'm glad some of it was useful glender i i did i got what you said you don't need to retype all right you do french and english videos so find it complicated got you yet so uh yeah get in the right right i get you get in the right um uh thing for the right video i guess very good well uh i think it is almost about time for me to wrap it up because it's quarter past seven and i understand that eight o'clock there is a very important livestream which is the silver lining home place cookery show so uh what i need to do now is i need to go and just say hello to the kids uh briefly before i come back and uh and get on that stream so thank you everybody for coming and uh thank you for the the super chats which are now available i can't believe it finally thanks also for the coffee as well much appreciate it this is what fuels the channel starting at the time i do so uh yeah it's been uh been very nice spending new year's morning with you all nowhere else i'd rather be so i hope you all found it useful and i will sign off now and uh this time i'm not going to end it prematurely i have got the right button here so yeah thanks once again i hope you all have an absolutely wonderful new year for those of you still in 2021 can't wait for you to join us in the future and yeah wishing you all the best for the new year have an absolutely wonderful day i appreciate your spending time here