 If you want to know how you can use Ecamm Live to do on-screen Telestration and buy on-screen Telestration. I mean things like this then this video is for you Hello, and welcome to Take One Tech. My name is Alec and in this video we're talking about as I said on-screen Telestration or writing on the screen and This has a number of great uses. First of all If you are using Ecamm Live to as an educational tool to deliver course content then often we still want to give that sort of those written notes and things like that to our students and Especially if you are in a live environment where you just need to add some annotations or explain a point or something like that In the olden days, obviously the way to do it would be to and by the olden days I mean just a year ago Would be to turn your back on the entire class and start writing on a whiteboard or whatever or maybe looking down at a Projector screen or something like that to write on overheads and basically breaking the engagement with the audience Another reason why you might want to use this is in meetings when you're on zoom calls And I'll be doing a whole video in fact a whole series of videos about how to get the best use out of zoom in the modern age And incorporating that with things like Ecamm Live virtual cameras so that you can still deliver your best presentations In fact even better than you could before because you can do them directly to the audience Almost one-on-one just like I'm speaking to you now. I'm only speaking to you So this is the a great way to do that and as I say you can just simply write on the screen and it is a great system and It takes nothing more Then as you may have seen in my hand an apple pencil and it doesn't have to be the latest apple pencil This is the original apple pencil and this is with an iPad and it's not the latest iPad either It's actually a first-generation iPad Pro, but basically anything where the Apple pencil can be used with the iPad There are other ways to do this as well By the way, you can do it by hooking up an external Wacom tablet or something like that But I'm not going to get into that these at the moment. I'm just going to talk about the iPad method So how do we do the iPad method? Well, we simply if I come into my screen sharing mode for a moment or demo mode in e-cam live So here we are you should hopefully be able to see everything now all of my e-cam live So what I'm going to do is if I just close some of these down a little bit to make things a little bit easier for you to see I've created a new blank scene here. In fact, I've got a couple. So there we go. The screen's gotten blank Let me just delete this one. Oh, this is very unprofessional Isn't it here? I am talking about professionalism and I've got two to duplicate scenes. There we go So there is a new scene and it's completely blank. Well, let's get a picture back in here So I'm going to add a camera source. So that is me and there we go There is me my green screen in case you didn't know that isn't a real background. I Did do a video all about my green screen. So I'll leave a link to that in the description as well This is the default green screen But there we go. I'm back home again in my nice little purple virtual living room So that is the the background now all I'm going to do is I've linked my iPad so it's just connected over a cable to the the laptop and What I'm going to do in here is if I just come out of this application for a moment I'm going to add in a new camera source. So we come over to our overlays tab and I click on camera So that will just default to my default camera Which is my main camera and in here if I click the little pencil icon Then I can change this to be my iPad Pro So I'll click on that and now you can see my screen as I am seen on my iPad And hopefully that should have given it away a little bit because all that I've got on my iPad This is actually keynote open and I've got a series of green slides So I've just created a new slide and set the background to be green and there's one blue one in there Which I'll come to in a moment But essentially it is a series of slides now the aspect ratio of this little window as defaulted to this wide screen But actually what we want to do is the real magic happens with this Let me just uncover my face or maybe I should cover it back up again Whichever then the real magic happens when we press play on this and we run it as a slideshow So I'm going to Press the little play button now. So this is now running a plot a slideshow But the slideshow is obviously just blank green slides, but if I just come to my top-down shot as well There we go, you can see I've just got a set of blank slides now if I just pop back haven't said that to my Demo scene which is this one When you are in slideshow mode if I change the aspect ratio of this rather than Resizing this window and trying to get it fit to fit to the the whole screen If I just come into here and I select the custom It does cunningly actually default to Crop off those little black bars and it makes it the same size as the slide Which is kind of useful really and now I can line up that with the corner and drag it down to the bottom So now we've just got the whole of the iPad screen and I know you can guess what's coming really Can't you if I go into the camera effects because funnily enough, although this is the screen It's not classed as a screen sharing. It is classed as a camera source So I can come down to the camera effects area down here And I can change to my iPad Pro and then all I'm going to do is I'm going to simply switch on green screen and now it defaults to that Default background that the camera live always uses but we don't want that so I'm going to come to this transparent and now We have got transparency now the thing about transparency is In fact, let me just quickly while I'm just talking to you so that this you'll actually see what I'm doing If I add another quick camera feed and I'll change this To be my top-down camera. So there you go. Let me just change that to be Yeah, maybe I'll make it a square shot lie for a change. I'm usually all all about squares But I'll make it round for a change So there you go You can now see my iPad in the shot and you can see that I've got my old Apple pencil and Now what's going to happen is when I draw on the screen it is drawing on the the main screen as well that's all there is to it pretty simple really and You can either use the little backwards arrow there to go back Or you can if you've done lots of different notes These are obviously really very notelike that there you go You can just press and hold on the arrow and then there's also an option to clear all now one thing You will notice is that now I've clicked on that whereas before the screen was completely blank Can you see how that little pop up there that undo and clear all has actually crept into the shot? so one thing that you could do if you were really picky about it if you could move it out of the way and You could make it a bit bigger and then you could put that down there So that you never actually see see that clear all that would be an option for you if you were bothered about that But I'll just put it back for the time being just so that you do get to see the whole of the screen and Now I've really messed up my size is now how about I there we go pull that back there we go So then I could press it clear all now one thing to bear in mind is obviously the color of your background Now as you can see from my little in window shot In fact, why don't I make this full screen so that you can see a little bit better if I press that one? There you go. So you can hopefully see my little iPad Pro window and what I can even do is I can use the zoom in e-cam live Just maybe zoom this camera in a little bit. There we go. I'll just reposition it So now you should be able to see my iPad screen and as you can see you've got these different colors along the bottom So obviously one of the colors is green. That's not going to show up In fact, you can't even see that it's green because I've got the green screen on I think if I tilt it like that You can see we've basically got red yellow blue Green purple white or black So on my background at the moment the white one sort of shows up fairly well the black one as well It shows up fairly well or not quite as well as the white one actually, but then you can play around with those colors Depending on the you know if you could use this for writing on slides and things like that as well obviously by the way But the another thing you've got is you do actually have this little red pointer So if I click on that then that just becomes a red pointer So if you had some some slides or something like that up as well Or maybe if you were doing a demo of something on the Mac and you didn't want to use pro mouse Pro mouse is a great way to highlight something But you could always just have this live and then you can just point to something on here Or maybe you're watching maybe doing videos about I don't know replays of sports or something like that And you wanted to show you know where something is on the screen using that or maybe They're illustrating with this the the options are endless But one thing to bear in mind is the the color of the background and the color that you want now if you did ever Want to have green then obviously if I write on the iPad in green You can actually see in my little preview window up there in the top corner that I have got a green line on there But obviously the green lines are not showing on the screen Because of the green screen effect So what you could do in that case if you really were fixed on having green is if we just come out of Presentation mode and you can see the green screen is still applied to all of those Let me just turn the green screen off for one moment so that you can see what I'm actually doing One second Here we go in fact I need to be in demo mode for this anyway, so there we go I'll come out from that so I've just turned the green screen off But what you can do is you can get the same effect if you have blue slides and then in e-cam live You have the option down here, so we've got green screen But we could also turn that on and then toggle it to a blue screen and then again We've got exactly the same effect, but now we can if we want to we can use Green pen so now we can even have green on the screen if that's what we want I actually find green sometimes does pop out more than some of the other colors, especially with this background It does stand out a little bit Another thing to bear in mind is you can adjust the sensitivity of the green screen effect So that is here with this fade level. So just down where is it down here somewhere So this fade level you can move this up and down and as you can see at some point It just sort of cuts it out But then if you fade it up the other way then at some point it may crop the the Lines, but it does it sort of sharpen up the edge of the lines But this is probably a good point to make make if I get a different color pen So we've got a red line the yellow line We've obviously the blue won't work on this the purple. We've got white and we've got a black line You can already see that some of those are working better than others and if I turn the Adjust the slider here. You can see how quickly some of those disappear. So on a blue screen the Red yellow and green are the most persistent and will stay there and stay sharp and looking like good lines Much longer than the the white and the black But the white and the black do work if you just leave the default setting on econ live anyway So before I finish one other little tip that you might be interested in is Obviously if I start writing and I accidentally write over my face and that might not look so good So you might want to think about the exact areas which are sort of safe zones So maybe if we've got an area sort of around here Which we think is the safe zone where we don't want to write and we can write anywhere else The one way that you could actually do this is if I come back out of this for a moment I'm going to switch off my blue screen and I'm still sharing my whole screen obviously You can see what I'm doing on the iPad. I'm going to come out of the actual presentation That annotation that we have been doing has been done Whilst we are A minute Not looking at you, isn't it? So one second there we go. So it is It is possible when you're in the slides to actually annotate the slides beforehand and the when we're in the The full screen view these annotations are only existing in that in that sort of slideshow So as soon as I actually exit that then those disappear They only stay on the screen for that amount of time So what you can do is if you want to is you can come over to the blank screen And then before you've gone into the slideshow if I click on this one But let me come out of demo mode again so I can show you If I click on the bottom I need to adjust the size of this so that you can see what I'm talking about one second I'll make this a little bit better I should have planned a whole scene for this really shouldn't I I need to make a scene with a little iPad in it So that you can see what I'm talking about So when you're in the slide viewer mode as well as being able to sleep see all of your slides You can also see these little drawing tools are here as well if you've got the Apple Pencil So what I could do is I could come here and I could select a blue colored pencil And then if I knew that this was the safe area that I did not want to To write in I could literally just draw it like that You might want to be a bit more technical than that little scribble But I could draw it like that now what that's going to do is when I click into my slideshow I am going to see those boundaries that I don't want to Go outside of and if I pull that back to the full screen again the way I had it before I'll make a bit of a mess about this, but I'm hoping that you can still see what I'm trying to demonstrate There we go So we've now got that little outline of where I'm normally sitting in the frame And we want to know not to write in that area Well now if I just switch my blue screen back on Now you can't see that line, but I can still see the line on my iPad So it means that I've got now a little guide of an area in fact if I come like this You can see that I can still see the outline of that area And so I know to only write in the areas that are outside of that So if I just come back here As I say, I can tell that the area is basically around here And around here and I can see this but you can't see that So that is just a nice little way if you want to set some boundaries that people Won't be able to see as a viewer But you'll be able to see all you need to do is do them in a slightly different shade of blue Or green if you're using green screen And nobody will even know and you'll look very professional If you really wanted to, you could even make ruled lines So that you make your writing look extra neat and in a line But personally I tend to stick with the scroll So I hope that that has been useful And as ever, if it has been useful Don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button And maybe even share it with somebody else who you feel might benefit from the content of this video As I say, I will be making a whole series of videos About how you can use these sorts of technologies and little tips and tricks To up your Zoom meeting game That will probably be the next sort of large series of videos that I make So I hope some of you find those useful But until then, don't forget, there are always plenty more videos coming up next Until then, have a great day