 Hello everyone. How are you all doing today? It's wonderful in the future Rich. It's absolutely wonderful. I don't want to spoil the surprise though. It's a great day though. Hi Sammy. I saw your comment. It's not just popped up in my e-cam because it was before I technically went live. So you're very keen today. Great to see you here. Hi Jeff, UK contingent. And yeah well there's still a little bit of work to do on that but I'll come to that a bit later. Hi Rich and hi Vincent. Great to see you here as well. So yes I am. That's the point of this live stream. I always have some sort of topic down the top. I usually go totally off topic anyway so we will come to that though. Some plans afoot for a proper studio space finally. Escape from the basement and also escape from the green screen but I'll come on to that in a little bit. I hope you're all doing well. I've just got to say before I get into everything I'm really liking the e-cam fam jams. So if you are an e-cam user which I know you all are obviously watching this now then yeah these these zoom meetings which I'm not sure the exact schedule of them going forward but they will be pretty regular in the e-cam live Facebook group and then there's a link posted to the zoom where basically just come together and get a bit of work done and yeah I know obviously most of you in the chat were there as well. The time zones may not have worked for you Jeff but there will be other ones at other times as well. So it basically just a zoom meeting where we get together and just get some work done really in the company of friends. It did make me laugh a few people have asked for other recordings available. I don't think it's one of these ones you want to watch a recording of. It's basically just you know a group of people heads down getting some work done so but yeah really great idea. Yeah I've just got to say yeah if you haven't checked them out already then definitely look out for them in the e-cam group. Hey Aubrey nice to see you and yeah so I'll crack on with basically my update that I usually do my channel update. I'm trying out something today look at that let me just pop this up as well and say hi Paul. Now look at this no hands the comments gone. I'm using my foot pedals. Hey I'll work great to see you as well here nice to see you. So yeah let me crack on with my update on my channel as I always do at the beginning of my weekly live streams so we are going obviously for those that haven't been watching for the past 176 days. I'm aiming for 365 videos in my first year on YouTube and today is week 25 day 176 and I fell a little bit further behind this week to be honest but don't worry I've got a cunning plan. So I did basically three long form videos and then also this live stream I always count the live streams as one of the one of the 365 so technically four videos will have been done this week so I'm basically 22 videos behind you can see there 154 videos of on day 176 so I've got a bit of catching up to do but like I say I've got a bit of a plan about that so I'll mention that in a moment. For those that are interested I my subs have gone up by I think about I think it was 40 that they've gone up this week my watch hours I'm now over the 4,000 watch hours that you need for the monetization on YouTube not that that's going to be a big a big lump of money coming in or anything like that but it is just one of those goals isn't it it's just to hit that level so I am still aiming obviously for the thousand subs it'd be nice to just get to that level and then let's see where it goes from there as well and so the watch hours 4,200 and the views is 42,000 so I will just have a quick look at these stats because I haven't really actually looked at these since well I said really I actually haven't looked at these since last the last week in fact on the live stream so for the analytics what I always do on this is just change it to the lifetime oops let me get that thing off the screen don't drop block out all of that do we change it to a lifetime just so we can see sort of how its progress since I started so yeah there is the channel starting on the I actually set up the channel on the what was it the 13th of April I think it was but then I spent like a month actually just getting every that was literally when I had the idea so right I'll set up open the channel and then I actually did my first live stream basically a month later so it was a month of just sort of getting stuff ready getting all my overlays setting up ecam and all that sort of stuff so I'd literally done absolutely nothing at that time so that's what that flat line is and then it sort of hovered around this sort of area sort of pretty much consistent for about four months and then add this sort of jump up and it's been a bit erratic since then but that's because my posting has been a bit erratic over the past four four months some four months four weeks last week was actually all right pretty consistent I did seven videos in the week this last week though as I say it would be four and then the week before that there was one or two so I had a few sort of erratic weeks and so that's why you can see it sort of fluctuating widely over this this sort of period in here in terms of the watch time then this is basically the watch time goes up when I post and it goes down when I don't it's as simple as that so like this last week you can see that the week before I had quite a lot of you know my watch time was quite high on a sort of daily basis and then it sort of tailed off at the end of this week since my videos have tailed off at the end of this week so I'm not as I say I thought I'm never too bothered about the stats but it's always interesting isn't it? Subscribers they've dropped off a little bit in terms of sort of daily subscribers I mean not my overall and that again is because they go up when I post and they don't go up when I don't it's as simple as that so so yeah that's what the the stats look like and yeah I keep saying this but I will get back to regular posting I do feel like I'm out of my routine to be honest for the past really for the past month sort of out of the the overall swing of it I'm just getting up doing a video and then putting it out so yeah there's just been things that have popped up and this week so let me get the excuses out of the way shall I what are the excuses this week well I got my I got my loop deck last Sunday so I did my my loop deck unboxing and first reactions and what I actually did was I I nearly scheduled this live stream a week in advance after getting the loop deck I nearly scheduled it with the title like one week of loop loop decks or thing with it it was going to be a full rundown of all of my experience of using it and setting it up and everything like that it's a good job I didn't do that because I'll be totally honest I haven't actually done any further setup other than that initial video that I did which is totally not like me normally any new gadget that's it I'm all into it until it's all I totally fully understand it and it's all set up it's just the other things I've got in the way this week and I'm really surprised by it but yeah glad I didn't go ahead and schedule that that video that live stream rather because I wouldn't have had much much to say my foot pedals arrived on the day after that so I did a video on that and what I had planned to do then was do my keyboard maestro beginner series because I did do the beginner's guide to keyboard maestro video one but I'm sort of missing two to five which was the the rest of it and I started that months ago actually and it was just one of those ones that I did and I was going to drip out the others going forward but then on last week's live stream I was having a chat and getting valuable input and it was decided that what I need to do is just when I do these guides and things like that just have like a focus of one week where I'm focused on one specific thing get the series of videos out and then the next week I can move on to like another thing and and so on and so forth so that was the that was the plan and so that was going to be this week I was going to finish that keyboard maestro series so then what happened on Tuesday keyboard maestro 10 came out and it was just like a massive update it was absolutely massive in fact let me just quickly show you the release notes so here are the release notes there's 165 new features in it it's it's just it's just ridiculous it's an absolutely massive update so I thought rather than rather than go ahead and finish making my series what I need to do is actually just dig into all of this and see the implications of it because there are some pretty pretty cool new features so I won't go through them now because literally we'd be here for the rest of my day which and it's five o'clock in the morning here so it would be a long stream so I'm going to go and yeah just to summarize all of them and pull out the ones that I need to include in the beginners guide and stuff like that and so I'll get that that done so that is that's part of the reason why I didn't do my videos because I've instead of spending my I'm quite limited on time really for my youtube stuff so I just have the really it's kind of like a two-hour window in the morning when I just need to get up make a video and get it out and then if I sort of miss that I've kind of missed the boat really because I've got well I've just got other stuff to do so I'm quite strict about like the time that I can allocate to it so although I have made a couple of videos in the afternoon in the last couple of weeks I have found the time to I've made the time as Doc said it's not that we don't have the time it's that we haven't made the time so in fact the one that I put out yesterday or this morning for you whichever that I actually did last night my time at like seven o'clock in the evening so I have been trying to make time in other spaces but yeah don't like to take too much time away from that's kind of like my family time before bed and so on but yeah I did just get that out last night in fact that was about Squarespace and specifically doing URL redirects because quite a lot of people ask about this and people talk about things like rebrandly and things like that so for example like if I put up my my link for people to join the interview my ecam live interview link then I shorten it with takeonetech.io slash join or my ecam affiliate link is slash ecam or you know all those sorts of things and people talk about you know using a service like rebrandly and things like that to do it to do it with and that is good because you can get all of the tracking and stuff like that with it but for me I'm just doing it with my you know with just with Squarespace basically and you can do it with any of these providers so whether you're on Wix or WordPress or things like that you can add these links in so and specifically Michael had actually asked me about it so I thought well I'll just make a video and share it with everyone else as well so that's why I made that video a little bit late last night but yeah the point was I am a bit short of time so for actually making the content so if I sort of missed the boat I've missed it really and so yeah gotta get back to my regular scheduling and try and get back into it but the other thing is I've also uh been as I may have alluded to in the title of this and if you've seen my uh I posted it in several places Instagram Twitter and also in my community tab as well so we've got this sort of space in the it's actually a little cottage at the end of the garden actually a little room at the end of the garden with a like a bathroom in a living room not living room actually a bedroom bathroom and so on it's just been empty for um well good couple of years but just full of stuff basically so it's just been one of those rooms in the house or in the yeah it's just basically just basically got stuff in it so it's a storeroom basically so I cleared it all out the other day and I thought well what am I doing down here in the basement when I could actually just have this whole space as a studio and it's much bigger than this at the moment so where I am at the moment is basically it's not much bigger it's 12 foot by about eight foot something like that so in there it's actually 12 by 12 but it's just it's just not in a basement the ceilings aren't as low it's just it's just a better space all around really so I'm going to be doing a proper sort of studio in there really so getting rid of the green screen I'll still keep the green screen actually but just for some of the other stuff that I do with the ecamm but for the YouTube stuff and for my day-to-day sort of stuff zoom meetings and things like that I'll just have a like a proper studio space for it so yeah that is the that is the sort of loose topic of this of this stream really because I've got quite a few things to think about with it and yes indeed Rich it's about time really because it's also I can experiment with things doing that as well so I'm looking forward to just trying out some of the things there's lots of things I'm obviously learning in the in the community as well you know all of the things that we do in office hours where we're talking about setups and stuff like that so it would be good to actually put some of those into practice because I basically haven't really altered anything about my setup since I started and although I did do a load of obviously research and things like that before I got everything set up there's probably you know things that I could tweak and so on I'll probably update my change my lighting setup so some people say that my lighting's all right but to be honest with you there's nothing scientific about it it's literally just I've just flooded everything with light that's that's all I've done I haven't done any sort of nuance lighting or anything like that so I'll be interested to to play around with that with that and in specific specifically well let me tell you what I've got at the moment I've basically got two really low-cost softboxes so they're the sort of rectangle rectangular ones that you can get from amazon or wherever or your favorite local retailer and yeah there's nothing special about them they're just sort of generic generic softboxes you can change the color temperature by changing the light bulbs and it's got a head for basically four regular light bulbs so you can change the the color temperature by changing the light bulbs if you want to change the brightness of it take a bulb out it is literally that that level of adjustment so my approach was just like flood the scene with light and then the real thing is basically just the the background so yeah and it's interesting that it's hello hello tutor to you I can't remember your name actually not sure if I've seen you on here before but let me know your name so I can call you by your name and it's interesting that you mentioned about pro acoustic panels so I am actually going to make some acoustic panels and I found the locally sourced material to use for those the like the acoustic foam and stuff like that ah gym great nice to nice to meet you gym and yeah so what the where I am at the moment in my my basement it's quite lucky really because it's a a sealed unit basically that nothing ever changes you know the the sound is always the same although it's not ideal actually down here for sound but there you go and then it's there's obviously no change in lighting and things like that whereas in the cottage studio there are windows in there so first of all those issues with potential sound there as well there'll be more sound from outside although it's pretty quiet it's like we're pretty remote really and then we've just got this in the garden so what it's going to be is really the kids that are going to be the main sound issue so but I get that anyway in here because the living room is directly above so but I tend to record before they're awake which is kind of my secret trick there so it probably won't be an issue in that sense but then there is the light obviously as well so what I thought was I will be making some general acoustic panels to put on the walls but I'm also going to have like a sliding rail that goes over the top of the window so the acoustic panels I will have some in front of the windows that are basically going to slide across the window to a cover the window up for you know actors are basically a blackout but then also it will stop the sound coming through the other thing is in this room where I am I've got a big aircon unit over on the the wall there I use audio hijack to get rid of the the noise from it but the compressor I actually had put quite a considerable distance away so you never actually hear the noise of the compressor whereas often with aircon units you know the installers will just put the the unit the compressor unit on the outside will tend to be just you know fairly close by on the the wall on the other side so we definitely don't want to have a compressor on the other side of you know the studio wall basically so I'm going to have to think about rooting that one and put it a little bit a little bit further away so that we don't get the the sound and uh do you know what Sammy so recreate the green screen setup in real life I actually really thought about doing that it's a great idea that is and I did yeah to think about that I'm probably not going to do that though just because of it's going to actually be my working space so I'm going to set it up exactly as I need it for my work and then hopefully that translates over I will obviously be painting the walls gray it's to the uh taking the the color code that doc recommended and get my back wall at least create colored gray so I can still sort of light it properly but then in terms of the like in here I've just got a desk but then I want to have a desk and then also a workbench because I do do some other stuff like whatever it happens to be electronics or things like that so I'll I'll be having that and I may end up throwing in a few extra videos about stuff related to that because on this channel obviously tend to just do screen demos and the occasional top-down but there is some other stuff that I think is pretty relevant that I could also do if I had a set up that was a bit different to allow me to sort of film that without adding any friction so I don't want to get into having to take cameras off and film and edit or all that sort of stuff but if I had a slightly different setup that would allow me to demo some of that and do it in the same sort of frictionless way that you can do or that I do with with ecam then I'll I'll definitely probably add some of that into the into the mix and uh oh yeah so I just going back through the thing here so I did actually forget to mention and I've just noticed your comment vlogmas so that is my that is the trick that I've got on my sleeve because I will be doing that vlogmas by the way to catch up with my videos so that's obviously 31 so hopefully that should just if I keep doing my other videos as well which I intend I intend to then yeah that will just get me back ahead and vlogmas I'm going to do that's that's going to be separate to my regular video so I am going to carry on doing the tutorial style stuff and then my vlogmas videos will be completely separate to that because obviously the point of vlogmas to I suppose to a degree is for people who aren't actually posting to get them into regular posting so I'm I'm obviously posting so what I want to do is do something that's going to stretch me a little bit so I figured well if I just do two a day then that's that's stretching me from what I should be doing at the moment but I also saw it as an opportunity to do some sort of different sort of content I may even for those ones do some editing as well I might actually make some edited videos because that would be certainly a little bit out of my comfort zone I have done editing before I just hate it to be honest I really don't do hate it because I am my own worst enemy but yeah I figured if I do for that what my videos will be is kind of a bit more about sort of my background because I tend to talk here obviously about all the stuff that I'm doing for the channel and tutorials and stuff like that but I could probably share a little bit more about sort of my background and how I ended up being the broken individual that I am today happily broken so yeah that was the the idea with that and I should have turned my phone on to science shouldn't I that's very rude do beg your pardon let me do that right now I don't know that isn't actually should be on automatic because of the time of day but anyway there you go so yeah vlogmas vlogmas will certainly help me get my my numbers back up and let me just have a quick look at this before I get too far ahead of these it just feel like that yeah I've got so I can just pop the comment off pop it on pop it off pop it on all with my feet so let me have a little look yeah so the the other thing is although for my videos the the time of day that I do I don't really get any issues with noise because the kids are in bed but I do notice when I'm on zoom calls in the middle of the day if they're running and jumping upstairs the noise just does come through because the houses in Thailand are generally well you know relatively modern houses are all tend to be concrete so concrete columns and beams and concrete slab floors and things like that so what that means is if people are running about or little feet are running about upstairs or jumping off the sofa or things like that then the noise translates down directly so I don't get an issue with the videos but I do I do sometimes in my my professional work when I do actually need things to be a little bit more professional and quiet sometimes it can be an issue but so yeah moving to the the other studio space will be definitely definitely help with that of course you know what's going to happen they're just going to start running around and playing directly outside of there they're going to decide that now the garden's the place to be they're done with the living room let's go and play in the garden in front of daddy's studio never mind and yes more space more gear acquisition syndrome I do want to be quite mindful of that though and just sort of you know because part of the part of the reason for me doing things the way that I did with this channel was I did see you know when I was doing all my research before setting up the channel all of the you know people who do follow you know what's the absolute latest camera the latest lighting the latest this that and the other and feeling like they've got to have all of that before they get started and so that was kind of why you know I took the approach I did I basically bought this microphone I did I suppose I did buy the stream deck arguably for the for the channel as well although I now use that for everything so yeah it certainly helps but it's not something you absolutely need to make videos especially if you're not if you're editing obviously but I'm obviously all against that and so yeah it was a case of I did want to be conscious about like not going out and buying all the latest stuff to start the channel with so I'm still on my 10 year old Canon I am getting a zv-e10 though at some point in the near future there's a bit of supply issues with it in Thailand actually so I've got to sort that out and then yeah the lights as I say they're just generic stuff I mean they were what were they now I think in in Thai bar for two of them it was like a thousand bar or something like that 1500 so basically like 50 dollars 50 dollar light boxes and the bulbs you supply yourself from the local hardware store and that's really all that I kind of bought for the channel I suppose I've got these two little ulanzi lights on the side that I used to put a little bit of color on to either side of my head to sort of simulate the background a little bit for what good that does but that isn't it's like you know totally necessary so it was it was intended to be a kind of you know to sort of dispel the myth really that you need to have all the latest and greatest and you can just actually make a start with whatever you've got or limited investment and as I say I just invested in a microphone because I think audio is the first first port of call as everyone will tell you microphone lighting and then camera so I still haven't got round to do in the camera so although I have added extra stuff in as I've gone along you know like with the lily lily put and the desvu t3 teleprompter that I use again it's not not essential so I want to bear that in mind with the studio as well and just sort of add things in progressively as I go but I will need some stuff for setup yes so the cottage is not yet hardwired so that is one of the things I've got to do I'm basically going to design the the desk and everything like that in fact that's what I was doing on the the zoom call that we had yesterday in the ecamm group the ecamm fam jam co-working zoom session I was actually making a 3d model of it because that's I'm like that my architectural tendencies come back floating backs and yeah so I've been making a 3d model of the the desk that I want to make and then the shelving and all that sort of stuff and making sure that everything fits in so yeah I've got a hardwired for ethernet got to do a bit of painting in there got to do a few other little setups and things like that mounting things to the wall so my lights I've got mounted to the wall I've got some made some brackets that stick to the wall and then they've got the little spigots that your lights or fittings can drop onto so yeah I've got to do quite a bit so probably I would guess it's probably going to be like a month actually before I actually start doing stuff properly in the studio because I've got a bit of planning and making and stuff like that to do so yeah I've so I've seen a few different I've obviously gone to the University of YouTube and the the wood panels and then I'm going to make them so I've found a supply here that does proper like acoustic foam which comes in sort of big sheets and so what I'm going to do is is use wood and then the acoustic foam inside and then it's not that I have actually got some of the really crappy for one of a better word foam panels you know the really sort of thin ones that you see people with stuck to the wall in here just because the acoustics weren't good in this room at all it is basically this basement room is I'm essentially in a swimming pool a concrete it's like you know a foot thick concrete all the way around and tiled floor and actually half tiled wall as well so it's not ideal for acoustic so I did get some of those like sort of cheap foam panels to put on the wall here just to help do something whether or not they do I mean to be honest the mic and the noise cancellation is pretty good anyway so it's probably more a factor of that but for the yeah for the acoustic panels I'm going to make some with wooden frames and and the material over front so um and yeah that is uh oh I saw I actually saw that one made with the towels and it was it was it was pretty good that was I saw that exact video I'm pretty sure it was that one or at least I saw one guy doing that and um who is calling me at 5 a.m. uh I won't tell them I won't turn you the name it's actually a facebook message it's not a yeah it's not a call but uh I'll message you privately and let you know um uh do you sign up for vlogmas and when does it start and will other have an opportunity to follow yeah anybody can do it so with the there's actually a thing not just for the let's get live group or you know docs group so if you search on youtube for vlogmas you'll find that people all over the world are doing it and it's just a thing of doing a vlog a video log a sort of you know whatever you want to call it every day and I think usually it's from the first until the 25th until December but we're doing it basically every day in December so over Christmas as well and uh I was uninitiated until until Rich sent me the link to so in the LGL group the ones from last year so uh basically the thing was everybody just makes you you know make your own videos post them to your youtube channel but then there's somewhere in the let's get live group where you can post them and uh then potentially they did last year there would be like a sort of daily review of all the videos and things like that so just short videos I don't know the exact length maybe like five minutes something like that and then yeah there was a bit of a thing around you know sort of reviewing the the videos of the day and so on uh so it's really just intended to be a thing of like getting involved with it there's no sign up as such necessary it's just a case of doing your videos and then posting them in the on your channel and then posting a link to the channel in the uh in the group and so on so that's uh that's the point of it and people do different things and the thing that I'm going to do is just something different to what I'm normally doing I suppose I could just post my regular videos and wear a Santa's hat or something but that would seem to defeat the object so I'm going to do something a little bit different with my my vlogmas videos well no we didn't you may have gathered I'm just catching up with my uh my uh comments here so uh no you didn't miss anything yet we haven't built anything at all all I've done is started create a little 3d model in virtual space and it's interesting Greg that no the cottage isn't elevated off the ground for sound dampening however crucially it is elevated off the ground slightly in that you have to step up into it whereas in my basement you have to step down into it and we've got a problem in this house because uh the geniuses who had this house before us uh decided you get problems with with termites in in Thailand and so uh it's not unusual to have uh two anti-termite systems basically which is a system of pipes underneath the house uh that you can pump in uh basically insecticide to stop termites coming up and causing damage underneath the house uh well the um what they decided to do here was retrofit this but because there is a basement what they thought was well if we just drill through the walls then we can inject it in all around the basement uh floor as well however what that meant is they actually penetrated the water seal that you have in a basement um and so what happens here is as I had to cancel one of my live streams if we have extreme uh extreme rain uh and we've got like a uh a creek running around the side of our house and if the water level in that comes up too much then basically the whole water table rises uh and we start to get water seeping into the basement it only happens very rarely uh and it hadn't happened for years but then it obviously happened this year when I was uh live streaming so or at least the day before so it's not elevated off for sound dampening but it is high enough off the ground that I don't have to worry about flooding which is a little added bonus and uh there you go so uh no sign-ups just make and post videos every day uh for uh the whole month of December so uh yeah I'm uh I am going to do a little bit of editing for it I'm just going to stick up my uh join link if anybody fancies it coming up and joining for a uh a chat I'm sorry I just remembered what you did in in office hours Rich and I yeah that would have been hilarious if you had popped onto my live stream last week I think I think they they sort of say you know five to ten minutes something like that yeah uh hey Kath glad you could make it I know it's not the the best hour for you it's so great to see you here um I hope you enjoyed the the session the Zoom session yesterday and got some work done I got it got quite a lot done uh so yeah in fact I've got a little thing for that I'm dying where is it there you go uh oops I tell you what it is it's in the wrong scene that was a bit silly wherever I put it it was this one there we go the Ekam fam jam so that is that is it's going to be a regular thing in the Ekam live community and um yeah there'll be some of them run by docs I'll run some of them then there'll be people in other time zones running them like Chris Wood in the UK um and uh obviously Paul I'm sure and uh and other people as well so uh it can just become a sort of regular thing and there's something quite I don't know it's something quite nice really about just sitting there and getting on you on with your work but you've got you know in the company of other people uh and yeah really really good thing so it's just going to be posted in the in the group and then um watch out for the links and I will probably keep the same links going forward like per person because obviously doc will be using his account I'll be using mine and and so on but yeah really really useful um yeah so back to the studio though I've just got to think about um uh yeah we had a few music issues the other thing was they were planned for a year a year they were planned for an hour to begin with and so doc had made a one hour well actually it was about a two hour playlist um but we ended up going for nearly three hours yesterday so uh yeah we need to need to get a longer playlist I still haven't figured out by the way Paul that that thing with Epidemic and the the playlist I just didn't have that feature what was what was the feature the um uh I can't remember now there was a feature what was it called it was not playlist it was something else but anyway it just wasn't showing up in my menu so I still haven't got to the the bottom of what was going on with that uh hello Greg let me just let you in put you on guest number one got no picture that is that is that is Greg behind the mystery mystery picture but we've got no picture Greg I don't know if you can hear me at all uh yeah I'd looked I looked everywhere for it Paul I uh and it wasn't in the um uh it wasn't it wasn't in the sort of you know if I followed the logical path for me it wasn't it wasn't there no it didn't look like Greg's hair does it there are snakes in the garden in fact we had a snake in the garden just yesterday we get we get all sorts we get cobras we get uh yeah all all sorts of different uh snakes uh Jeff hey Greg how you doing uh yeah yeah we get we get really big cobras actually uh and uh we get cobras scorpions we get also these uh these centipedes with a big stinging tail they're about about this long and there's you get you sort of used to the animals in your own country don't you and what's dangerous and what's not and uh so like Thai people if they see uh like a cobra in the garden it's no problem the cobra is going to go and they you know they shoo it away but it's it it will just go uh if they see a scorpion it's no problem there's a way to deal with that you know you just get a stick and then it will just go to sticking you hook it up and then you can just go and you know throw it over the fence or something like that get it away from you but these centipedes nothing will shift a crowd of Thai people like these centipedes because they just they just go like straight on they don't move for anything they'll just go and if they come across you they'll like sting you basically and uh where snakes like if the snakes usually hurt you long before you see it and it's already making its exit they're not like aggressive in terms of they're not going to come and hunt you down to to get you whereas uh whereas these centipedes they just go across the ground and they'll if if the if you happen to be in its way and they don't they don't move to go around you they'll they'll they'll they'll have you let me just pull one up because it is uh they're pretty pretty massive I remember the first time I encountered one I was actually with a group of friends and we're all sitting around and then uh there was one of one of the table and I was there thinking oh that's interesting what's that and everybody else had already just scarpered so I just completely got out of the way that's quite a quite funny uh let me get some pictures of these there you go that is what they look like but they've got this they've got this stinging tail to them and they're they're huge you know they they can get up to you know almost a foot long some of them but they're just massive most of them aren't that big yeah yeah let me find one with uh yeah I mean look at this yeah sorry I don't know how she probably shouldn't put this up here but there you go there is one tackling a mouse or a rat yeah they are they are horrific and so yeah definitely I can't I literally can't even imagine what you're showing me right now so there is one there is one on somebody's arm wow wait that one's not dangerous or it is dangerous but it is dangerous yeah so there's that's the head end and that's the tail end but they they can sting as well so uh yeah the pretty just so we get those in the garden and what those like to do is they like to hide under stuff do you see how big they get sorry to horrify you all at your evening time um but yeah they they like to go like underneath stuff so they'll get underneath things and curl around so uh yeah Paul's not Paul's not coming to Thailand anymore uh yeah so if you're in like in the garden and you've got like you know things on the covering the ground and you'd like lifting him up or doing work in the garden whatever you have to watch out for these sorts of things yeah but the the snakes are right we also get um we also get these big uh these big lizards let me just see if i'm fine this one uh there was one of them uh and it we've got one that lives around or or don't find it these this this is this is a pretty cool video so uh let me just see this is I'll show you one of these ones that got into a 7-eleven hang on let me see how I can do this now right let me uh let me just put on this screen sharing overlay just while we're doing show and tell I'm gonna just put this here there you go and what I want to do is crop in right hopefully you should be able to see this so this is a uh this is a 7-eleven in Thailand whoops you're cropping a bit more sorry for the break in the usual scheduled programming but let me just play this now let me see also can you uh I don't know if you can hear my my sound let me just get this on a minute make system audio right have a look at this so this is a lizard that had just gone into a uh into a 7-eleven is that a Komodo dragon it's not but it's it's kind of similar uh yeah similar family I suppose but uh yeah they're pretty big so we've got one of those that lives in the creek just around the back of our house so that one sort of comes around it's another one of those things that like it doesn't uh they don't come you know they're not looking for trouble they're just quite peaceful really I suppose I mean they're a bit aggressive if you actually try and uh try and do anything with them but uh but yeah yeah the wildlife in Thailand that is classic yeah it's just snakes and stuff here but nothing like that yeah we have you know we have a good amount of animals I guess in uh in the Colorado area as well Paul wants us you know uh by the way Paul I was thinking um I was gonna suggest us to the co-working group we need more testing anyway I maybe we can just do them in zealous hey that's quite a cool idea because we have everything built in and we can have 15 people on stage I think at the same time let me just here I'm gonna guess it's Michael you guessed wrong let me see now where's all right one second it's rich isn't it no it's not rich either or it's Matt it's actually where's Matt I haven't seen Matt in a while no I haven't he's been quite busy I think because they've been opening up so they got back to work now I'm not seeing your picture I'm gonna have to spoil the surprise it's Aubrey but Aubrey I can't see your picture I had the same thing with um what was the issue on your side Greg when you tried to log in the first time did it just not come up so it couldn't connect or something and so I had to reload it um right maybe reload and then I reloaded it and then it worked yeah so Aubrey I'm not seeing your uh your picture I think I can hear you but I can't see your picture yeah I've taken cool cool okay okay she's gonna try and reconnect yeah so with the animals yeah we um we don't really have anything to worry about in the in the UK but with um I mean there's there's just literally almost nothing that can no no dangerous animals as such there so oh it's rich oh we got fake one tech wait he's got fake one hang on hang on let me put it back is rich do you usually have hair yeah what's going on here um come on your mic is on the wrong side um let me just let me let me go there you go all right I don't know what oh he just he just got no no there you go that's what I was doing okay I'm gonna I'm gonna sign out if you just take over from here rich I will let me see my uh look at my uh screen though take it yeah let me let's hear your your trend on stoke accent though stoke on trend are you guys hearing me yeah we can do is sorry I was on the wrong read a bunch of words over on descript and then we can just emulate his voice he wanted me to take he wanted me to take over and see I'm not seeing you guys I'm only seeing me am I supposed to be seeing the whole broadcast yeah I put you on uh I put you on the spot like yeah yeah oh I didn't okay I understand sorry I was looking at um get it now Aubrey I'm still not hearing you that's uh I'm not seeing you rather I'm not sure I can hear you but I can't I can't see you I'm not quite sure what's going on there maybe um um oh there we go hey Aubrey hang on let me just adjust your uh camera how you doing Aubrey oh hey there how are you doing okay sorry no problem do I need to try to hear you better I'm there I can I can move you how are you doing Aubrey we have iguanas and we have iguanas and dragons in the backyard on the cottage on the way to the garden oh it's gonna peeds and whatever I'm just no good it I'm done I'm done I'm uh I'm gonna shoot you guys I'll leave you all to it I should have a little stuffed animal or something that I can call him Dale a little oh look here's my son Dale be this little fish you should just head uh the book you should just hold the book up which book Dale Carnegie any of any of oh that's a different book yeah Dale they learn hard yeah that is a really good effect though rich it's actually it's pretty pretty it's pretty works pretty well isn't it I can't believe how I can't believe how good it is it's unbelievable yeah when I saw it I said this is fantastic sorry here's Kat gang on so how are you doing orbs anyway it's great to great to see you and have a chat yes it's great to see you and be around I am doing a good thank you cool stuff cool stuff how are you doing very good what's your cat jumping in front I thought it was another one was dragons yeah exactly I'll uh compare the cat to them so is all of you doing that vlogmas vlogmas this year I think I will try if it's if live streaming is allowed I will try actually I could do anything anything on video there was a guy rank Collins he did it every day he just took a walk and he edited the whole his little challenge the way he challenged himself was he did it he shot and edited it on the iPhone he used oh cool a few or something like that so that was his that's a way he approached it just as a challenge to try to do that every day so he did like a 10 minute walk and talked about whatever he was talking about anyway some of it was live but most of it I actually wrote um one of the first things I wrote for my son was these like 30 life lessons that I learned you know while on my in my first 40 years of life so I actually was thinking about turning those into videos because they're all like things that meant a lot to me anyway well that's a month worth right there that would work yeah and I wanted a video version of them anyway so that's a good excuse to put it all together see there you go you got a plane you're on it and how about you orbs are you doing vlogmas this year uh yeah I actually decided to um challenge myself and start early like now I'm like I was going to do every day November and December oh cool cool never mind it's the it's the warm-up isn't it there we go I'm saying all the way I think with any of these things it's about not beating yourself up if you do miss one or two I remember when I started uh uh meditating I used the the headspace app initially and um one of the things in there was it always had tracking like how much if you've missed a day and I thought well the last thing you want is a a meditation app making you feel bad if you've missed a day when you're supposed to be all zen like and then you miss a day like oh I've ruined my run streak yeah so uh I'm like yeah yeah so if you if you miss one doesn't really matter does it it's good to good to aim for something yeah we'll just go with that yeah yeah I just yeah I'm not gonna be like you Alec I mean you're doing like everything and then some well yeah I've been a bit I've fallen out of my routine recently though so but I'm not not beating myself up about it too much that's what we're for yeah yeah that's it that's it that's what docks for as well my little coach sitting on my shoulder there you go and what what did you do last year rich for uh vlogmas I mean back and watch I need to go back and just see what other people did but what was just random random random stuff it's on my regular channel I think that's a playlist but I did uh one day I went to the car wash one day I delivered an order to a customer one day I made cheesecake and dropped it in the middle of the kitchen we got a video it was pretty funny uh stuff like that made steaks I mean different things like that just stupid stuff it was just yeah I was just trying to get fast at editing and that's really what it trained me to do because you shoot all day and then you edit at night it takes a couple hours to do all that and then you have to post it yeah the goal was to get it posted for me my goal was to get it posted by eight or nine o'clock right I started those reviews about that time got you so right right so that was what I was trying to do but it was in a couple of times the English guys Chris Wood and there was another guy in Michael something their UK guys and they did their reviews at eight o'clock their time so that's way early for us so I missed those times right right got you so but they didn't want to wait till you know three in the morning to see a review so that's why they started taking over a couple of those but that's okay I mean you know it goes they do whatever that's why yeah yeah Doc said he didn't like the reviews but I really got a kick out of them they were good yeah I suppose it's a way for everyone to I mean it looked pretty the one that you tagged me in just so I could have a look at it it was pretty pretty cool it's a way to uh then you get to see everyone don't you're right well it gave you a way to be accountable and you know I mean not that it's there's nothing if you don't do it but it's just you wanted you didn't want to be the one well to me I didn't want to be the one that didn't post one yeah yeah it was great yeah for me it was fun so coming up I don't know what I'm like I don't know if I'm doing the same thing or not I might do something different I don't know anyway sorry to step on you the ops go ahead Noah it's just like you even have light bouncing off your head like I worked on this I worked on this a lot I wouldn't get the same I wouldn't get the same lights and the same four bulbs that he was just talking about you partially flooded your basement just uh that's right Albert so what about oh sorry it's all right he's just just Albert saying that he's used to seeing you on zoom on saturday or on comments yep there we go so what did y'all say about vlogmas it's like just uh it doesn't have a time limit or anything so sorry this will be my first you can do 30 seconds you can do an hour it doesn't make any difference they're not going to review an hour long video but if that but they might do two or three minutes of it and they'll you know they'll talk about your intro they'll talk about your audio and your lighting and whether it sounds good and that kind of stuff I mean this but it even then I mean they may not like there were a couple times they didn't get to everybody because there were so many so anyway it's yeah it's just just do really whatever you want to it's really not a it's really more of an excuse for you to do something just get yourself going yeah yep there we go quit screwing around like I screw around and don't do stuff and I have a list of stuff I want to do and I don't do it so anyway that's what it's for it's I find I'm very easily distracted so you might be surprised to hear but like it's like with the keyboard maestro thing where I plan to make all those other videos this week and then the new update came out so thought I've got to dig into that and then I started tinkering with all of my existing macros I was like right well what can I do here how can I streamline this and so I'm a I'm a bit of a one for that going down a rabbit hole hi Carly by the way that doesn't that surprised me about you because you seem like you're focused on getting stuff out like I want to make five shorts and you make five shorts it just that's the way it seems anyway yeah I think what it is is um I can be very focused on stuff but I can also be very focused on the wrong stuff at times so sometimes I can I can like think like oh that's that's interesting I'll just go down a rabbit hole with it and I can be really focused on doing stuff but um in the meantime there's other stuff that needs to get done that I aren't I'm not getting done and it just I set the intention of doing basically not a video a day but averaging a video a day and I'm already 22 behind so although it's no big deal and I'm not beating myself up about it I've clearly not set to kept to that sort of making time for it and I've got distracted well I thought you I thought you were ahead for a long time are you not ahead anymore no no in the beginning I was I was way ahead for like the first hundred videos and uh and so I was but now I'm actually behind by like 20 so I had missed days there's been days have gone by and you haven't posted a thing yeah yeah yeah and it was never it was never it was never a video a day it was always an average I wanted to do a hundred videos in my first hundred days but I wasn't ever I mean the first the first hundred days there were some days where I posted three and some days when I posted none uh so it was just like that yeah but the uh the past uh I had the this week I posted this would be like the fourth video I suppose uh the week before I did seven but then the previous three weeks I did like one or two each week because I just had a load of stuff going on with work I was wanting one of these like 16 day uh 16 hour a day conference things for one week no so there's all just stuff coming up but uh yeah vlogmas that's part of the reason for doubling up on the videos as well is I'll just catch back up so I just want to know that I'm surprised I'm surprised that you said that you'd lost subscribers when you don't post every day I don't I don't lose subscribers uh it's um I lose I don't have I don't gain as many new subscribers so it was my subscriber my daily subscriber count that goes down oh okay okay yeah I get it I see yeah yeah they don't unsubscribe they just don't no no yeah yeah yeah so I mean like last the week when I posted every day uh last week and got back into it and I'd had this sort of jump up in my subscribers which came about when um it was when I did a video about I think it was about the latest decam or something like that and there was a distinct jump up and it was the same week that I started posting uh shorts as well uh and I noticed the jump up then and so last week I was basically getting 10 new subscribers every day uh but then like this last sort of four days it's gone down from 10 every day to six every day to five every day to you know or you know step down so basically when I don't post videos obviously there's not not new stuff going out to reach people so I am still getting an increase but just not as much as uh as as um as when I post basically so but it's like the the shorts thing I mean about consistency and and stick into things the shorts thing started with uh um uh what was it I've got nothing right now TikTok this is my memory going TikTok so I started out with TikTok saying right I'm going to do five a day and I did five a day for six days got 30 out then and didn't do any more and it's because I hadn't really thought about it and put got it in as part of a habit of doing it basically so then I sort of rekindled this and said right well I'm going to do it as YouTube shorts so I put all of those out onto YouTube and I did a whole week of just YouTube shorts probably arguably too many uh because I wasn't posting the main content so that probably just became an annoyance in people's timelines you know seeing no not another not another short so but it was my intention to keep going and doing basically trying to average a video a day and a short a day and the shorts don't count towards my 365 gold they're sort of separate um but um I just need to get back into that and it's like if I just on a you know a weekend just record six or seven of them then I've got a week's worth of shorts so that's what I need to do but it's just again the past couple of weeks have just been uh timings have not been right to actually do that but I need to just get into a proper routine with that and get it into the flow of stuff well your studio will be fun to watch that you can document that that'll be good yeah yeah yeah I've got lots of uh lots of ideas for that and uh yeah there will obviously be the inevitable videos about how old are your kids how old are your kids so Dale's like two and a half uh then there's Emily who's five and Jasmine is nine oh so the nine-year-old's probably old enough to hold a camera and oh yeah she is she is yeah and actually she's much more of a sort of a natural on camera so she'll be having a youtube channel before you know it I'm just conscious about like not quite sure how to go about that or you know uh I don't know I've got obviously well you know yeah you don't want to expose them too much but I'm just saying if you need somebody to hold a channel while you're it's on a board putting together a frame or something like that yeah we make they make little videos so Jasmine and her sister make videos and send them to the grandparents and stuff like that and it's it's quite hilarious but there was somebody I was I was I don't know who it was was saying it was like some celebrity late night talk show celebrity was talking about how his kid gets on his phone and makes videos and says like it and just makes our recordings for herself yeah be sure to like and subscribe and whatever it is it's just pretty funny smash that like button that's exactly I was just about to say that's what jasmine says she's she records these videos she says don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe and she says and sends this to her grandma. Is that going to be a thing like who started that? I don't know but it's it is a thing yeah smash that like button it's like yeah even though the video never goes anywhere it's funny that the kids know how to say that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah jasmine's got it into got on to this thing about you know people can do like product reviews and things like that and then they'll get sent stuff so you know I was thinking right well what you want to you want to start reviewing you know Rolex watches or diamonds or no kidding yeah but she she wants to review slime well you know there's a kid that has millions of subs that makes lots of he's a 10 year old kid or 12 or something yeah that has been doing it for a while I don't know who it is but he's one of the top 10 tubers around yeah some of the ones that they watch they are like you know millions and millions of subscribers I think my there's a there's a guide if you've got kids you might have seen this guy called Blippi and he does right so he's so terrible but he is he's you know his net worth is something like 40 or 50 million now and he just makes these kids videos and if you look at like the channel analytics and stuff like that for him it's just phenomenal how much money there is in children's YouTube videos yeah right yeah yeah I think I think he's pretty cool actually do you know what I mean it's like it's a little bit silly obviously a little bit wacky but there's some it's not totally inane stuff like you get a lot of stuff that comes up on when the kids are watching YouTube that's just totally sort of nowhere you just can't see there's any sort of corporate yeah that's it I can't see there's any sort of like you know educational value in it or anything like that at all you know whereas in the in the olden days it used to be like kids tv and that you always felt like there was some thought had gone into it potentially do you know what I mean about what the the point of the that what they were watching whereas yeah it's easy for YouTube to be just a a source of total nonsense basically so uh yeah Ryan is is another he's huge he's a two or three hundred million dollars business yeah yeah really yeah I need to uh I need to start doing uh take one toys yeah yeah I think if I could forget paid for just playing with toys all day I mean to be honest with you I kind of feel like what I'm doing now is playing with toys really big boys toys aren't they but true yeah and get to where you get starting set they start sending your stuff for free like I think tom buck put one out today or yesterday where they sent him a hundred and fifty dollar mic arm they didn't ask for a video they didn't ask for anything they just said oh here's a gift yeah I've had a few people make one I've had a few people contact me like literally when I'd got like 10 subs somebody said oh will you uh review our product we'd like you to review our product all you've got to do is go and buy it on amazon leave us a five-star review with your video and then we're gonna throw it right okay then I forget that there was somebody those those those are the worst there was somebody wanted to send something like it was a I can't remember the brand of it it was like an off some of the brand mic or something like that but I didn't bother to be honest because it's not something I'm gonna use so I'm not really yeah I don't know I'm just just uh yeah I'm gonna be careful about those sorts of things I think is there a loophead video yet not a boxing one no that's so that's what I said about this this week I got it on the end on when was it Sunday but I just haven't got around I haven't even set it up yet I haven't done any more than I did in that video that's I know I've uh I've got to hold my tech head in shame with that uh well I'm super pumped about that by the way because I'm like oh man I can use it for music to do because if I'm playing guitar I can't press buttons but foot pedal oh yeah the foot pedals I am using the foot pedals the loop deck is a foot pedal let's just be oh sorry see yeah I missed yeah so there's two two bits of tech arrived this week there was the the foot pedals and then the the loop deck the foot pedals took no time at all to set up where although I tell you are I actually made a bit of an error in my setup video for the foot pedals let me uh quickly show you this because what I said was um I used um what was it called there was a an app that I used for it there was no carabiner uh elements to set up the foot pedals because basically the foot pedals there's three of them and they're mapped to a b and c so uh carabiner elements you can use to remap different key uh key strokes and things like that so I had it remapping the a b and c from the foot pedals to then be uh I think it was f 12 13 and 14 or something like that and then I used that in uh keyboard maestro to trigger whatever I wanted but then somebody I forget the name now in the group said well you know that in keyboard maestro you can actually just take an input from a specific input device rather than like just a global like you know a b or c uh so uh I didn't know that so that's something I'll learn about keyboard maestro uh and I can just quickly show you so in uh keyboard maestro here I've got it set up with my three foot pedals and what I was doing before was um let me just make that a bit bigger whoops that's the wrong one hang on a minute uh so basically with the keyboard maestro you can have like a hotkey so instead of um instead of hotkey you can come down to that and say this device key so basically now I've got my three foot pedals and then if I just click on one of them then you can see it's got the foot pedal and uh pedal a or the key a b and c so actually I could have done it all in uh in keyboard maestro rather than in um uh using that carabiner elements but there you go but yeah the foot pedals are great and I just used that then to flip back and forth so I've got one for switching back and forth between the scenes so that's my middle foot I've got one to go my main my main scene is that one although I've switched it to rich switch that back a minute before I forget there we go uh but if I yeah if I press the middle pedal it just goes back to that and then uh and then I've got one to take the comments off the screen as well but what you can also do with keyboard maestro is uh you can set up a macro to activate or deactivate macro groups so basically for my uh my setup as part of my sort of live stream chain macro group um where it organizes all of my screen opens all the windows are one I'm going to have one to switch it over to my live stream foot pedal macro group but then when I'm doing my other videos I can switch it over to a different group so it'll do different things so that's the way that you can sort of program that in the keyboard maestro uh yeah I've got quite a lot of keyboard maestro videos to come I've my list of videos now is like over 150 so I really do need rich you should just get on the case and start helping me out with them and now that you've got you've ever done any have you ever used apple script or automator yeah I do use apple script and automate it although the the new update with keyboard maestro replaces some of that stuff um and I'm not I'm not a really big apple script guy I'm not like somebody who just sits down there and thinks like oh I want to do this and I'll write the script like I know it inside and out I tend to be kind of like oh I want to do something let me figure out how to do it kind of person with that I used to be I have a lot of scripts that I've used like for 10 or 15 years that don't work anymore reliably so I have to actually open the script and run it by by it's rather than just execute it with a keyboard so yeah yeah I just I just wonder if I could use keyboard maestro to redo that stuff because I don't want to relearn apple script change I mean different software capabilities change commands change and things like that and I just I don't want to get involved in it anymore like I used I think the latest update in keyboard maestro 10 is is going to basically replace the stuff that I previously would have done with certainly with automator there was some things like you can create what I used automator for before was you make creating services so you know apple services that sit up in the service menu that you couldn't do that before we keyboard maestro whereas now you can uh so there's other things like that yeah um so uh yeah I'll uh I've got a yeah got a lot of keyboard maestro videos to to do and just to answer this question about the uh oh sorry gone rich I was gonna say I'll wait I'm patiently waiting so yeah that's probably going to be next week here sort of the my initial beginner's guide to keyboard maestro series and I'll stick some stuff in there but yeah okay in terms of these foot pedals the reason why I actually got them was I do do uh some stuff with ecamm live where I'm not sitting down at a desk so I'm doing like some standing presenting stuff um and so for that if I don't have the stream deck in front of me I'll be doing stuff where I'm presenting with like a keynote and that's just brought into ecamm so I'll be using my little remote thing for that um but then to do things like switching scenes and starting and stopping and stuff like that that's that was the uh my sort of use case for the uh the foot pedals uh so that's why I actually got them but then now I've got them it's a bit like when I got the stream deck I sort of figured out all these other use cases and actually it is quite handy just having the uh things so I can just take that comment off with a press of a foot a foot pedal um you know I am now thinking because this is a three-pedal foot pedal so now what I'm thinking is well I could just get like three of them and have nine pedals and then I don't you have to look down there and see which one you're hitting don't you have to no no because no it's it's under the desk I can just because my it's sort of between where my feet are so if I just move my feet in I can feel that my my feet are on the edge of the pedal now uh and so I can just just put it's just kind of becomes intuitive so I can feel like where the where the edge if you get nine of them you're gonna have a you're gonna have a or three I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to think and so that was great what uh never mind so what I was actually thinking was um uh actually hacking them up and taking the pedals and repositioning them because at the moment if I've got my the sort of ball of my foot in the middle of where they are they're a bit too far apart to sort of like have my foot pivoting like between them um so it works quite well with two feet um but what I could do is just sort of do a MacGyver job and remount them so that basically they're much closer together so I could literally just go back and forth between them but uh yeah and uh no I don't play the organ actually but uh it is very much like that isn't it let me uh just get us over to a different scene I'm not sure if Greg's gonna come back let me pop that one there and then I'll pop Aubrey in here there we go there we go gosh look at Rich he even has the fake one tick I mean I know it's perfect isn't it yeah yeah I'm impressed yeah you're gonna do something do it properly it was my how it was my Halloween costume so anyway we haven't exposed we haven't exposed Alex's audience to it except for that zoom call last week that I'll tell you what that was there was tears streaming down my eyes then when you're doing that it was all I could do not to do this last Friday so genius uh just quickly so Albert uh Kurt Nugent was talking about loopback device and the e-cam had discounts yeah so they have uh they do have a discount for um uh there's there's loopback which there's a discount for and there's the loop deck so the loop deck um if you you should have got an email about it if you're an e-cam live user I don't necessarily want to put out the the actual offer code here because it is it's like a it's a e-cam thing isn't it but there is a perks page for what I'll do is I'll message you Albert because there is a um there's a um uh a perks page for e-cam if you're an e-cam user that's got all of the discount codes and stuff like that so there is a discount for loopback which is software and there is also a discount for the loop deck and it's actually it's 15% off for the loop I can't remember what it is off loop back but for loop deck it is 15% off the hardware device and I was amazed as well that there was no postage when I ordered it I think for loop I think for loopback the software is 30 dollars off instead of 100 bucks I think that's the accurate thing right right right cool uh yeah there's some pretty good discounts in there people who complain about the uh the the cost because there are the occasional one who complains about the price of e-cam although it's not really for like a dollar a day so if you're going to use it for something it's it pays for itself but if you add up all the uh like the perks and the discounts and stuff like that you can it's pretty pretty amazing really did you sign up for a or a pulse video you've tried that I haven't so I've got a couple of those similar things that I use um but I haven't specifically tried that one although I did I did go on to it to look at it it's it's another one of these things about um like I keep meaning to do stuff with more stuff with descript and uh and um those sorts of things as well but uh it's just a case if I haven't got around to actually finding making the time and to uh to actually to do it and do all of that stuff so uh is it describes the same thing I did the trial and then it never I never I never used it enough and now I've got it and I need to either cancel it or yeah well I'm on the verge of of canceling it until I can say right well I'm definitely going to make time to actually do this as opposed to it just uh been there uh and then the other one is uh I always forget his name Jarvis uh so um oh forget it yeah same thing yeah yeah yeah so y'all want to make me feel better I'm not killing the one no no it's you didn't know like what there are so many tools we can't possibly uh you know can't possibly do them all can we well if all I had to do was make videos I'd be great but I have a real live you know 10 hour a day job to do and that's yeah I'm doing the video stuff to make that job better so it's it's not really I don't know yeah it's a battle but anyway that's the way it goes uh and and because because there are like so many of us as well it's okay so if you try and just see all of them and say right well I'm going to I'm going to do all of these then you still got to find time to actually work it in and it become a sort of like the muscle memory basically of just getting in and doing it so I need to just make sure I get like one part consistent first and then move on to the next one and sort of add things in like that but I'm really sort of you know shiny penny syndrome like oh what's that thing and go off down a rabbit hole with him so wow y'all are making me feel so much better I thought it was just me yeah we're all the same in the group yeah we're all the same yeah because my web is like um what is this can't hide me anymore uh oops I've just realized I've got your names the wrong way around another minute I thought I was being there sneaky there I'm just getting them in in the background but actually I put them the wrong way around that's what preview modes for bud it is yeah well I've got what I've got I'm hidden and I thought uh I thought I knew where they were but obviously not there's David Hunt I didn't know that our names changed are they fix it David hey can you reach that school except I don't have the cool no hair but it's kind of ish close close thanks thanks paul paul's just dropped the link to the perks page in there oh you got another password you have yeah do you know that stumped me for so long because I was trying to log in and I kept thinking it would be my own e-cam password and I was like using the same path because you know when when you're logging in with um like safari whatever it would just suggest the password that's the one that it knows for that site so it's still suggesting just my regular password and I couldn't get in for ages and then I emailed them and they sent over the the super top secret high security password but it's but it's not e-cam fam which you'd think it would be because everything is e-cam fam so it's just kind of fun I don't think it's e-cam plus perks either is it any I don't know what I was talking about maybe that was I didn't say anything did you say something no I didn't say I didn't know anything at all it could have been you though it looks like you looks like you've got the perfect alibi now yeah right bloody well right so you're using Jarvis David it'd be interesting to hear how that's going I mean I've seen all the demos and stuff like that I mean Joel did a great demo didn't he Jarvis in the in our little office hours uh session you had some videos that are crazy if you have you seen any of their their facebook group I did I went and watched some of the ones on on youtube I saw some of those but uh yeah they're insane it's it's unbelievable I can't get Jarvis to work that way when I sit down and try to do it I can't get it to work the way they like to work yeah yeah we're writing for my topic so maybe I need to just study more but yeah I give up I just give up and walk away sometime uh-huh the other thing I've been meaning to do with the script I think of these two is like together I need to get used to using them both but one of the things I've been meaning to do with the script is just drop all my videos in to create the captions and then upload all the captions for um uh all the you know the subtitles but it's just one of those things in it I'm not a fan of the script I don't think it does a good job oh is it not okay for me for what we do it doesn't do a good job and I use illustrator I'm not illustrator a premiere premiere premiere just came out with captioning as well or transcribing automatically uh in your in a most recent public version and it works just as well which is crap I mean it's fine but you have to edit it you have to add you have to read you have to read everything and make sure it's right you can't just I don't know I mean maybe it works better after you do it a few times and that's what I've heard but I don't I don't I don't like it it's hard to edit and editing in the script the interface is hard to me I don't like editing in a web browser it's just yeah but that's just I don't know I'm not a fan yeah yeah it was the the times when I have looked at it it wasn't one of those things that just struck me as immediately intuitive do you know what I mean it's like I don't immediately get into it so uh and it's it's just another one of these you know my whole thing is minimum editing minimum effort after actually creating the stuff so yeah I'm a big keyboard guy too and I guess they're keyboard friendly kind of to an extent but if you don't know the right I don't know it's yeah to me it's clumsy to edit in the script but that's right right there's people that do it every day and they build the whole business around it so I'm sure it's fine I just need to get over myself yeah yeah that's what one thing I find with the uh the the minimum time that I've had with loop deck actually I don't find the interface on that as intuitive as um a stream deck it's uh yeah it just doesn't uh it doesn't immediately flow exactly how things should work and so I've got to dig into that this weekend uh get my follow are you using that are you using that or not no not really no I literally just did the introductory video uh I'm using I'm using the dials at the moment for like whatever comes up so like the volume and stuff like that and in Photoshop you know for uh increasing the brush size and stuff like that it'll it'll do all of that but I haven't gone through and done the proper setup so I haven't got all of the proper tools in the place I'm just using like the default ones so I can totally see see the use case for it I just haven't got it into my proper workflow yet and I do like so it'll it'll it'll compliment your stream deck or replace it you don't you're not trying to replace it I'm not trying to replace it no definitely not and if I had to just choose one I would definitely still go for the stream deck I do just like the you know the clunky buttons the one issue that I thought that I would have with the loop deck was the fact that it's it's just a screen and so you don't get this sort of tactile feel of the buttons but actually there is there is like separation between them so you do get these sort of like raised edges between them so oh so you can feel okay you can yeah I mean you've you've got to be careful you don't actually put your finger on the touchscreen because there isn't a um you know you don't push it you literally just touch it so but you can sort of feel roughly where you know roughly where it is so it sort of removes that issue that I thought that I would have and but it just it feels really nice it's a lot smaller than the stream deck so it's smaller than I was imagining I'm not sure if that's set up maybe isn't I'll hold them up this way instead so that is the stream deck and then the loop deck is kind of it's quite a bit smaller it's basically goes up to oh no on the stream deck it's uh it doesn't go quite to the last last row of buttons it's yeah a bit smaller and I can also see how the stream deck's not really at all portable I wouldn't think that I'm going to throw that in my bag and go anywhere with it but this one really is it just feel pretty small and if you take the the stand is it's just just pops off the back and so then it becomes like really slim it's like you know a bit thicker than my phone I suppose but you could literally throw that in a bag they do sell a case for it I didn't bother with the case but they do sell a case that's um and obviously makes it as thick as the buttons but yeah it's really yeah it's really small I could see you know if you're doing stuff like editing and things like that you could have it in you know a bag with a laptop and you know take it out with you and stuff like that but yeah stream deck is not going anywhere yeah just yeah but I like that I like the tactile feel of the dials and stuff like that it's uh they do you know it all feels good uh good quality and solid and that um there is a bigger loop deck as well that's got the the the big wheel at the front as well the the sort of jog wheel or something so I think if you're really into editing then that would be a good uh you know potentially good addition as well but it's basically double the price so but as I so how much was the one you how much is the one you have two uh two fifty dollars I think it is this was two fifty euros it worked out from the store I don't know if you can get them that's the link that they gave us with the with the e-cam to go through to buy it from the loop deck store and it was two two fifty euros uh but then fifteen percent off so it was like two hundred and fifteen or something like that two hundred and thirty dollars at the euros but then there was no shipping on it either which really surprised me so and I got it within a couple of days um so including shipping I thought that was really good because I'm used to paying where did that ship where did it ship from for me it came from Hong Kong so is that a big deal going from Hong Kong to Thailand or not uh I usually have to pay for it yeah so um uh I'm just surprised that there was no shipping cost with it I did have to pay a little bit there's not like customs or any kind of international thing going on I did have to pay something like that so it was like another um what was it six hundred bucks something like that so that is like uh I suppose like ten dollars something like that twenty dollars oh oh oh yeah but I normally I normally have to pay shipping I'm used to paying like half the cost of that like if I buy anything from Amazon in the US which I tend to avoid but if I buy anything from Amazon in the US or the UK and I avoid it because of the shipping it's basically it sometimes is like you know fifty percent extra just to ship it to Thailand it'll say this ships to Thailand and it's like seventeen dollars and shipping's eighteen dollars or it's fifty dollars and shipping is seventeen dollars so it just becomes not cost effective to do that and that that's because Amazon are pretty good at adding in the worst case possible for the customs so sometimes sure you receive the thing and then you say oh you've had a rebate because it didn't cost as much as we anticipated so they're quite quite good about that so you don't have Amazon in Thailand there's no Thailand Amazon no uh we have a thing called Lazada which is uh similar it's like an e-commerce site um it's it's yeah yeah but um that's that's pretty good you can get you know loads of things from that um so yeah pretty pretty extensive so that's dense that tends to be whereby all my stuff for about my stream deck from there the mic from there and everything like that and it works out you know similar price to the US that's good yeah so uh I guess you know are you tempted by a loop deck no I don't have a room on my desk and I don't want to open on another can of worms how about you yeah you're gonna get one oh me no way I'm like yeah I'm like no I just need to actually get my stream deck set up yeah yeah so I obviously I obviously only did it for the to help out the the loyal viewers not at all my uh gadget uh geek in me but it was yeah with without any camp sorry say again I said that's a noble uh I can I can certainly see the like the dials though are going to be useful for some of the stuff I do so it would definitely be a case of just sort of in addition to the stream deck but uh yeah well after I've had it had it for a good while I'll I'll give a comparison a comparison because some people will be looking to choose between one or the other uh my sort of thinking at the moment if you don't need you know fine adjustment of things with dials then I definitely think the stream deck's the one for me when's the last time you did comment Alex I've just looking down now hey hey Dean oh great video by the way Dean he did they're doing the um the ecam what's called the ecam uh uh challenge at the moment in the group with the text overlays with ana reforgians and Dean did a great one so is he the one that did the the the instagram page in the middle of it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that was a fun one I remember yeah really really cool loop deck they were so loop deck were running a special where you could get the the case included but it it was it to run out at the end of October but also you couldn't then use the ecam code with that so it worked out that you paid full price for it but you got a free case or you could take the 15 off with the ecam code and because I didn't really think I'd be using it too much I went with the discount instead uh hey Michael I'm another UK contingent in the house uh yeah gas gas is always a an issue with me gear acquisition syndrome yeah I think that's with everybody yeah I've got a new ipad mini on the way as well I've been waiting for an ipad mini since uh I dropped one uh a few years ago and broke it and I ended up I went with the full size ipad pro I'll say full size the smaller the two actually so I've had that for years although my my daughter tends to pinch it and use it most of the time these days but I've been waiting for an update to the ipad mini and they did bring out one like two years ago but it was just the same the same thing and no real it just felt like they weren't really giving it much love but with this new one that's come out uh I thought it was time to uh to get back into it I like the form factor of it because the other ipad I just don't I don't take it with me it's too too big to carry around because when I go out I tend to use my uh my uh what's it called peak design uh tech case but I just use it as my little man bag with all my crap in but the ipad will actually fit in that so you know going out to the coffee shop and stuff it doesn't feel like I'm lugging something heavy around oh wow so you prefer the mini size yeah yeah definitely uh because if I'm doing anything like I know there's some people who do like lots of work on ipads but for me it's like my real work I'm doing on the computer but I like to have the the ipad mini for taking notes doing stuff like um I use omnifocus a lot so all my task planning and stuff like that I'd do on that um and uh yeah uh yeah the toms do help out with the gas issue don't they but yeah it's one of those things as well like it's they say like the best camera is the camera that you've got in your pocket so you know I've been it on your iphone and stuff like that for me it's like the ipad's the the one that you've got with you that you that's easy to carry around and I just found that the uh the regular size ipad is just a bit too big to just sort of be carrying around properly whereas the mini can literally fit in almost fit in your back pocket not that I would necessarily carry it around like that but it's just a lot more portable so more likely to carry it around with me uh yes watch out for sudden bursts of gas yep you gotta watch out for those they get you do use our ipads me well I have I had a mini years ago but and then I didn't use one in two though what was it this not the last one the one before I went ahead and got it and got the keyboard whoa I'm like that well it still is my laptop you know I have the mini and then I have that as much as I want the MacBook Pro I'm like my wife said no so yeah but yeah I use all the time great things me and my dude is just crazy right in here you know when I'm just take it and go so yeah I'm very thankful for it it works well works great do you use ipad rich? take your notes I've got one but it's an old one it's an ipad four I've probably had it for seven or eight years and it doesn't I think the latest the latest os it runs is 10 so it doesn't a lot of the stuff doesn't work on it anymore like I basically used it for Netflix and stuff like that I never really used it for anything got you yeah and I keep looking you know what craigslist is oh yes yeah yeah so I keep looking I have an alert for an m1 ipad to come across nobody's I mean they're they still want as much money as they want them to and right even the even the apple store the refurb part of the apple store yep doesn't they never have an m1 ipad they always have the a12 whatever is the one that's available got you right right but yeah I don't I don't want to pay full retail for it so no I'm not gonna buy one one of the things about the the mini is they don't have a like a keyboard case for it obviously because it's quite small but I've actually ordered one of these things let me just show you this because one of the things about these portable bluetooth keyboards for devices is they're usually too small and unworkable but this one is actually it's exactly the same size as a mac keyboard so when it's folded up it ends up being I guess so what's the size of it like six and a half inches by four inches something like that but when it folds out then it's actually a full-sized keyboard and it's so it folds out and it's got little legs and the battery life on it's really long and then there is a backlit version and one without a backlit and then you can sort of change the color of the backlighting as well but it seems to provide pretty good reviews it's only like $50 or something like that so I thought I'd give one of those ago to so I can still do my my typing on it if that's a full-size keyboard that's not a bad deal anyway you might be able to use it for yeah I'm using this I'm using one of these you know these apple space gray or whatever this thing yeah I'm talking about the full-size regular keyboard but if I could fold it up that'd be great yeah so I'll let you know how this one goes and then you compare it with three different devices as well so you can switch between them a bit like you can with oh wow logitech ones in fact this one is so there's they do make a smaller version as well let me just and there's one with a trackpad yeah this is this is the original version so this one is the original version where it's got smaller keys you can see that that's smaller then there's this one which they made with like a track pad with even smaller keys on it but then the one that I just showed you is the one I wonder if we've got a picture of it next to an actual keyboard uh but yeah it's just literally full-size so do we go so uh yeah well Duncan says once you make a video he'll decide yeah well video's coming so yeah the best the best one is in your pocket also the Sony or Canon about to drop again and again uh right are they coming out with some am I missing that are they coming out with some new stuff uh not sure about that not sure what that's referring to is there's some new stuff coming out okay just the zpe 10 is that what you're using is that what you're using orbs what yeah yes yes and how have you found that because that's going to be my next uh next camera actually I will let we'll upgrade mine oh fantastic I love it I think it's great I've been how do you see um kind of I've given up on Canon which is sad but we're stocking the crew everybody's like oh Sony is way to go yeah yeah so I was like all right just cut the crap cut all the stuff and just go easy ish so yeah I'm just gotta set up yeah it's nice I mean it's frustrating because I'm like dude with Canon it was so easy just turn it on it was already connected always connected and had the battery like it was great this I'm like every time you got a press a button press a button you know to get into streaming mode but all right right other than that I mean yeah I love it you're gonna love it fantastic I'll talk about that because I'm I'm sure he was saying that he's basically just got his on and switched on and he almost does he say he doesn't switch it off or I'm can't remember now but he's uh I think he's got his set up in such a way that it's basically good to go might be worth asking about that because I'd be interesting to know about that because yeah with my my I've got a Canon EOS 60D that I'm using and that's basically I just switch everything on and it's just there and and on yeah yep yeah exactly well I'll leave my zv one my zv ones around all the time I don't ever turn but yeah I don't ever turn them off right and they have you got those is it camo link is it you're using for that uh-huh yeah yeah yeah yeah just asking which which lens which lens do you use Aubrey do I have I forgot it's oh now I'm gonna have to see it's not the one that came with it right and this is really no it's not the one that came with it what was it Sigma 16 well no it's not 16 seem like crap I should know all this stuff is it one of those Ron Concoma whatever run well it was one of those where it was like on a massive sale and before when yeah yeah it was like it was like a $400 thing that was got it for half price or something I think something like that yeah I don't remember the brand I think the brand started with it on there yeah something like that right yeah yeah so yep I think it's great looks looks like yeah Sammy's just dropped back into the stream wondering what's going on yeah we've teamed up Sammy with my yeah my new partner yeah we're gonna work in shifts I'm the graveyard shift yeah this this this half of the planet and he's got the other yeah and what I was going to say what lens have you got on yours on the zv1 but it's there I've got it's the one that comes with it yeah yeah I don't have to make a choice on that yeah hey do you guys do daylight saving Alex uh no we don't hear no no I was wondering that myself do you do I start doing math yeah I'm gonna strip because right now it's 638 my time and 638 your time so all right right once in math yeah yeah I want to figure it out oh it's next week it changes is that so yeah the UK changes but they changed um uh two weeks ago uh so it's oh they did they don't all do it the same day no that's what I was thinking it's what and everyone just get together and uh because that makes it even more confusing doesn't it just do it or not do it and then do it all and then do it at the same time yeah let's all agree the day that we're going to do it and we all just get along I don't understand but Paul Duncan saying it's the mini me not not sure which is which is mini I think I got nothing oh that was that was your thing wasn't it on your videos last yeah that's still gotta go and watch those it'll haunt me forever 738 in Massachusetts yeah they changed oh yeah it was last last Sunday that they changed in the UK yeah we're just the same all the time but because we're um because we're quite relatively I suppose close to the equator we're in the sort of tropics so um basically there's no daylight to save it sort of goes light and dark at about the same time so we only have a fluctuate by like half an hour so in the in the sort in the winter it goes dark at half past five and in the summer it goes dark at half past six it's like that much change whereas north of the equator or south the equator south yeah okay oh but you're not so far south to where it's summertime in December yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah whereas in the in the UK yeah I mean where my parents are is in the far north actually in Scotland in Aberdeen and there you know sometimes it's light goes you know it gets light at three o'clock in the morning and goes dark at you know midnight or 1am or something like that in the summer but then in the winter it's you know really dark holy moly gosh so uh yes but yeah here it's just the same all the all the year round everything grows in in the UK we've got sort of growing seasons of uh you know nothing much grows in the garden over the winter whereas here's just all the time stuff growing it's it's quite good if you like gardening and planting fruit and vegetables and things like that uh our gym says it's 140 in there Hawaii that's the thing with it with our little community it's uh everyone's all over the place it's hard to keep track of where everyone are but I do try and remember Hawaii obviously because of office hours as well well it's going to change my day up because everything's backwards now in our chain and we change so it's gonna I gotta change the things around I would be good if everybody just had the exact same time and then we just still got up at different times so like here we'd say okay we're getting up because it's 12 o'clock we just get used to that but everyone would know the time everywhere it would make things it would make things simpler one thing done yeah yeah yeah okay so it's a broken on 12 millimeter f2 oh there you go UK and Europe fell back on Halloween messed up your streaming oh of course yeah because Keely goes to oh yeah she does do that yeah yes we do green and brown so in where I am actually we do have a cold season we're technically going into the cold season which is basically I suppose December and January and what that means it's still and I can't I can't do the conversion it's basically like 30 35 degrees centigrade whatever that is in Fahrenheit in the day but then in the nighttime it goes down to sort of 15 or something like that so it's still just as hot in the day but in the evening it goes really cool so I it's my favorite time because it means like sleeping without air con I tend to I you might see me on my videos coming up all my live stream with it like a fleece on and a hat because it's quite cold there's no heat in here so you just get used to it what's what's 15 degree let me have a look what I suppose the lowest it gets down to is like 10 really 10 c in f so that would be like 50 Fahrenheit is the lowest it gets like in the nighttime but then in the day it's like up to back up to sort of 30 which is like 86 so it just gets really cold in the night but then up but we don't have any heating here because there's it's literally like a couple of months so there's no sort of heating so it can be can feel a bit a bit chilly have it cold is it about 86 year round where you are yeah more or less it goes up to 40 sometimes as well so that's 104 so it's in that sort of like daytime yeah daytime temperatures are usually like 30 to 40 and average around like 30 to so what's that let me say 35 95 would be kind of I suppose a sort of maximum 30 35 but then it goes up to 40 as well sometimes yeah but then it's stable like throughout the night so in the nighttime temperatures is probably about like 78 something like that humid there yeah yeah very humid yeah yeah so we have humidity but then in the in the cold season though it's it's not as and not as humid but yeah I definitely prefer it here to the UK weather because at least here you know exactly what you're getting and you can sort of bet on it whereas the UK you can't really make a bet on where you could probably make a good bet on rain and drizzle and cloudy weather but there isn't necessarily quite the same sort of consistency to it of like in the summer for example you don't know whether you're going to get a good summer or a bad summer and yeah sorry I like I like the consistency here I do still even after being here for 16 years sometimes I walk out of the house and there'll be this really nice sort of sunny day which there is every day but it reminds me of being back in the UK when I would walk out of the house and think like ah isn't it a lovely day today and I still catch myself walking out of the house and something oh it's a nice day oh yeah it's been a nice day for 16 years it's not a surprise but it occasionally catches me I wonder if that does it ever get old though I bet it doesn't it doesn't really to be honest no I mean my mother doesn't like it too much here she finds it a bit too hot for her so it's a bit too hot but yeah for me I just love it I suppose it's easier for me to you know remove layers if I get hot so I'm usually I'm just wearing shorts like out in the garden that's it so it's easier I suppose easier for me to remove remove layers it's funny I just noticed my bend over my hair shows it oh it does it looks like it looks like you got a little too much yeah that's pretty funny great to see you David oh a quick quick question David says before he goes what mic are you using I've always wondered that actually you have got a really nice looking mic Aubrey oh thank you this is the sure deluxe uh 55 right right is that the that's the one with the it's got the the blue isn't it is it got blue yeah yeah yeah so and yeah this is just the throwback from like what Elvis stays I'm like I just thought it was cool it does it's one of the coolest mics you know goes with the well yeah yeah sorry my lighting is not set up yet it still looks cool yeah yeah thank you yeah yeah I've always always thought you might look great something a bit different to the the usual yep yeah it's funny both of y'all have the uh the I can't think so I've got the m I've got the mv7 but I've just got the sm7b windshield on it okay got you so that's cool yep so we say well that's good yeah I got my wife one oops I don't know if you'll be able to see oh cool cool the blue yeah yeah yeah cool yeah you all sound really good rich now with the the mv7 that's us I'm sorry I can always get mixed up yeah the sm7b yeah yeah yeah through the roadcaster with all the bells and whistles and yeah big bottom big bottoms and all that stuff so yeah yeah I like it yeah uh yeah the road caster still is still on my list for some point in the future but uh I just don't need it at the moment but I'll let I'm sure there's one there's one in Canada that's available as far as I know oh yeah how is that all right is she selling issue yeah yeah all right right put it on a boat to get it over there to you all right right yeah think about that make that happen uh Jim saying oh the uh blue led glow would look cool in Orbs Mike yeah it's it's good just having a little light on it actually to illuminate the uh the blue inside the like the little veins oh she's sold it it's gone oh for sure so David's got the mv7 and the sm7b she oh it's the same as this the sm mv7 with the sm7b shield yeah uh yeah too too late I missed the boat on that one literally yeah you missed the boat I literally missed the boat on it yeah yeah one of the things I thought about with the the road caster was obviously you know the dials to you know adjust things like fade things in and out and all that sort of stuff so that was part of the reason for the loop deck as well was if I can sort of simulate some of that stuff because you can use it to adjust the uh the sliders for the input levels on ecam so in theory I could sort of simulate some of that stuff you know like fading music in and fading it out and all that sort of stuff uh so I need to get that set up and play around with that no that might be worth having a loop deck for that because I hate messing with the sliders with the mouse yeah yeah the worst I mean the the numbers are small and you can't read them so yeah that might be nice to have if you had a little dial thing the other the other thing you can do with it is with the dials you can have one for the scene select so you can actually just ratchet down and scroll through scenes so if you've got a whole load of scenes set up you could use it to just flick down between them and scroll up and down you can do the same with the the overlays as well so if you've got a whole series of overlays you could use the dial to sort of flick up and down through them so I know some people use it where they've got a series of overlays that they won't come in one after another so you could have that with a dial to scroll between them uh what else can you do with it on ecam you can do um uh I think you can do some zooming on it as well uh of overlays and things like that um yeah I mean zooming in on like a screen share that kind of thing or you mean yeah yeah zooming in on the overlay I think I'm pretty sure you can do that I'll have to uh have to double check that let me have a look what else they've got um but then yeah you can set the uh you can set the audio levels so as well you can set audio levels I mean there's six dials so in theory you can have a dial for each of your guests so that if you wanted to adjust the um uh the you know if people were coming in obviously when you've got guests coming in interview mode they may have different audio settings and things like that so you can have one assigned to each person to adjust the levels of them and things like that um yeah I've got to do a full dive into all of the ecam integration that obviously just came out so uh I'll uh you know I'll be making a video about it but more on schedule right a bit slow really I should have had I should have had my ecam loop deck integration video out by now but there you go uh oh Keeley's got Apple TV for sale if you want that instead or an anti-Chinese cabinet well maybe maybe I need to go with a Chinese theme for my new studio build and that could be the first piece here you go yeah yeah uh yeah that's so that is the thing I um I do think that that can I can see the roadcaster obviously if you got because you rich you've got a show that you do with with uh getting in amber so you know right now so where you're actually running a show and with bringing in sound effects and all that sort of stuff it's uh that's a that's the the proper use case for it really uh whereas with me uh I still haven't got back to my podcast talking about you know not following through with things I did start a podcast and then it fell flat on its face but uh would you start a platform I started a podcast the first week that I started a YouTube channel uh or in fact the second week yeah and it was called I literally this is this is one of these things that I do if I think about something and plan it it usually goes all right you know I put a lot of thought into it so the channel I set this channel up and in the middle of April first video was middle of May and that's because I spent a month researching everything I needed to do set up all my you know e-cam stuff my overlays all that sort of stuff getting all the graphics ready for my website for all that sort of stuff I did all of the stuff that you need to do before or that I needed to do before just getting going um so then what happened is it's when these little ideas pop into my head and I put literally no real thought into them except just thinking that's a cool idea let me do it those are the ones that I normally fall on my face with so one week into YouTube and like I was just obviously seeing all these you know all these other ideas coming up one of them was like hey why don't I make a podcast to document my my youtube journey so then I thought yeah that's what I'll do what shall I call it uh my youtube journey yeah that's what I'll call it set it up I literally didn't do any research about it or anything like that created the the podcast registered it with apple or whatever uh found out afterwards that there's like 10 other people who have got a one called my youtube journey did you publish anything on it I published I published three episodes I did one a week for three weeks but I just hadn't got the the workflow for it so and in fact for that I did use descript for that to take out the like the um's and hers and stuff like that um which I just wouldn't do if I was carrying on with it and I just I just got out of I'd never really got into the habit of it but I hadn't put enough thought and planning into how it was going to fit into my my schedule so and for the longest time it was still in the descriptions like I'll check out my podcast as well so I actually took that out recently because there's literally three episodes but I need to figure out how to and and the channel was obviously all about me not doing any editing and so starting a podcast which involved me thinking that I need to go in and like edit it yeah which is probably a mistake I should have just done it as a video and have like a probably just do it like a live stream I mean um Greg has mentioned this a few times on that when I've talked to him about it saying well what I should do is just have the first half of these live streams should be the podcast where I'm just giving an update on because I always give an update on what's happened with the channel and stuff like that yeah so I should just do the intro a bit like um a bit like uh say say again sorry oh like yeah yeah yeah I mean he didn't do it like that he didn't give updates but he records it live on his thing and then he talks to you afterwards so yeah yeah and I was I was thinking a bit like um uh Tom and Heather do their couples table thing so that's that's like that's a live podcast that they're recording but it's going live over YouTube and then they do that and then they have questions and stuff like that so so yeah I've just got to do that really the thing that we do is a podcast I just I take the video part of it yeah I take the audio part of it and trim a bunch of stuff out of it yeah it's not visual so but yeah yeah it's okay so uh so yeah I've just got to I've got to get back to that but so so that is kind of like one one use case that I had you know because that one what I did was I recorded it and then I edited in like having music sort of fading in at the beginning at the end and that sort of stuff um and yeah I did three episodes uh and with hindsight it would have actually been quite good because it was literally about like what happens if you the point of my channel really is what happens if you just start and post consistently and I you know shared like the things that I'd set up how I went about it how it was grown and you know giving an update on my uh progress uh but now we've sort of leapt forward considerably from where I was at that point so I've kind of missed out that whole process so I would just start over yeah just start doing it just like you're saying I mean I'd change the name if you want or whatever but yeah it would be yeah yeah it would be easy to do I mean well easy you'd have to do it yeah yeah yeah I think I think it's that thing doing it as part of the uh the live means that I've just removed the element of um uh friction because that's the thing with me if there's something that's getting in my way that I feel like oh it's it's a hassle it just doesn't get done as much so well if you could record it I guess record it into your phone or into the script and let it transcribe the notes and then you'd have that much done and you could push a button to publish it from there yeah yeah yeah or you can record it in the anchor I think I don't know I don't know how that cheap uh I say cheap I don't know how that quick shortcut stuff works if it works well you won't have to use it regularly but but there's ways to do it without editing I'll have to uh I've said this before I'll have to give it a bit more thought and just get it get it as part of the show but I'll watch your videos how's that cool cool yeah the how-to videos so uh so yeah that's so that was my sort of thing about the roadcast of being able to sort of fade those things in and out but yeah the loop deck I could certainly do that now uh with um with this you could have a button to press to start playing the music and then like fade it out and then fade it back in and stuff like that so uh yeah maybe now I've got the uh maybe now I've got the equipment that I need to do it do it every Friday do do an episode every Friday on your lives when you're giving those updates just see okay now we're gonna start recording the podcast and do the podcast turn off the comments like knock does and just record your 15 minutes or whatever and then yeah you're done cool then we move on okay that's a plan I'll look forward that's a plan that's a plan and there we go there we go we've got it sorted I've got some accountability now some people ready to keep action I don't know cat does her life like that also does cats go out as a um a podcast then as well uh look I've missed a few comments here uh yeah shipping a uh antique chinese cabinet style and might be a little bit costly it might be quicker for me actually to just go across lao into china and get one directly we're not not not too far from china where I am uh have you ever either have you tested out the zoom p8 which is a competitor the roadcaster uh no I haven't I haven't tested out any of these sorts of things there's that other one the um is it tascam have come out with basically one that looks like a a knockoff but now I haven't tried any of those out same thing no same thing same type of thing anyway uh uh desk real estate is precious yes also obviously keely's the uh oh she's just gone and said it the minimalist approach uh I do like keely's whole setup I do like the whole aesthetic of it very very minimal uh I am going to need a bigger desk it's funny you should say that but that's exactly what I've been there I've been designing for the new the new studio so uh what's this one this one's like three foot by five foot I guess um but yeah I'm going to do a bunch uh much much longer one with a workbench and things like that attached so cool stuff well I think it is nearly time for me to go because uh little dale will be waking up any moment in fact he probably is already awake actually but he's just being extra quiet oh that's trouble that is that is a sign of that is a sign of trouble if ever they just disappeared outside and then suddenly me and may my wife would just say where are the kids what are they doing they're very there's something something's going on and then we'll go out and like dale will be covered in mud or something and the girls will be standing next to me yeah yeah yeah uh oh thanks jeff thanks for stopping by I appreciate it's very very late for uh UK and uh yeah look forward to seeing you in office hours tomorrow yeah uh yeah I'll have to send you over a list of videos that rich and you can get to work okay I'm just glad to go ahead and put my uh put my hair back on so yeah you're ruining the illusion I'm gonna make let me do the same then there we go there we go oh okay yeah I just got green because I like it no you've got a real cool background yeah I could I could do this I mean I have a different background I could staunchy oh here we go I'll be in Thailand there we go it's funny when you see people on zoom calls professional business meetings and then somebody always turns up with the uh the video beach group background yeah what do you think I like this look this this look is great I love it yeah faces yeah yeah people are fun people are fun anyway yeah like that on zoom that's another one where the background's half in and out well yours is all messed up too yeah that's awesome yeah yeah I do to be honest with you the um the zoom keying like when you do green screen in zoom I mean obviously if you've got an actual green screen it works better but like when you just got the background behind you it tries to pick out the person uh that one's pretty poor but the worst one for me is Microsoft Teams they've got a green screen effect in there and even if you've got a green screen you end up with like this sort of like one inch green line all around you it's holy moly I don't know I don't know how it even shipped like there's there's literally no point in it there's absolutely no point in it the zoom one is passable if you have good lighting and stuff like that but uh the team Microsoft either of you either of you use canva I don't use company but that background maneuver is unbelievable you can put a put inside a crowd and it will take the whole crowd out except for your the one person you want really it's I don't know how it works it's it's insane it works so good I don't know I used to be hardcore photoshop and I'm like that is amazing canva just changed my world well that you can't do that in photoshop not the way a camera does it not as good as camera does it right as fast I'm good in photoshop it just takes a lot of time to draw this stuff out camera does it yeah what's amazing yeah I do I do all my thumbnails in photoshop but I still you can probably tell I still use the same photo so one of the things I did in that month before I started was I just sat in front of the camera in the green screen and just took like a load of ridiculous pictures and then with those I think a lot of people do that so I just went and removed the green screen the photoshop way so I've just got a bank of them but I did I should probably try canva I did try it actually I don't know but I never went through and like signed up for him properly used it because it's well if you've already got everything if you've already got everything isolated you don't need to that would be the only use case that I could think of yeah that's the thing yeah it's just it it's just another one of those things that you just hear everyone talking about and the little shiny penny syndrome comes in of like oh what's that like doc keeps talking about it but I'm using photoshop and you know illustration stuff like that all the time so the only reason I would do it is to actually make videos telling people how to use it because I know I don't want to start making photoshop videos but having something that's all encompassing about for people who are setting up youtube channels and having all the tutorials and stuff like that they need to do it then I can see I can totally see why doc has done it because it's a it's a great tool to help out you know people it's obviously cheaper than adobe I'm guessing but yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's a a good tool for the for most people I'd imagine and he seems to be right well into it now so you know using it over photoshop so for what he's doing for thumbnails and that kind of stuff yeah yeah I don't think he's doing and he's doing instagram posts I guess on it and saying that's I mean there's a use for it I mean yeah yeah he's not doing color correction and you know big fancy no no no billboards and stuff like that but yeah yeah it's just another another time thing for me it's just another bit of software that I've got to stick on my list to get around to but I like it because you can move go to any machine any computer anywhere or the phone and edit something if you have to and all the files are there so that's kind of a cool thing yeah yeah so I think you could probably do that with a dope with creative cloud I just don't forget how to do it right right yeah I did what with the photoshop what always got me with that was with adobe creative for the cloud was you always had to pay for photoshop elements and the what's the other one that for on the iphone so they were like separate almost like a separate thing you got some of the photoshop but some of the adobe stuff but it was just in the last release that they said now that all adobe products are free on ios if you're not free but they're included that's a new thing yeah you're right it was a new thing it was it was weird though when you're paying for you know all of the adobe stuff and you know i have adobe stock as well uh to then these little ios apps are just not included in it it was always struck me as a bit weird that I did but anyway I fixed it I like Jimmy saying he's gonna have to do a real live at the beach yeah yeah make make it make it look crappy like it is actually green screen though and then just remove the green screen and it's the real scenes there behind you that's pretty fun yeah yeah all right i'm gonna ditch seven after seven there you go cool stuff well thanks for coming on rich and uh making fun with your uh your background and uh great to see you two orbs and uh yeah welcome any time to come and hang out and chat fantastic great well it was wonderful guys thanks so much cool we'll see you in office hours tomorrow we will take it easy i'm ready bye guys bye i need to uh i need to get up my doc rock link actually yeah buy me a coffee dot com slash doc rock to join our office hours group it's his office hours group but i think we all take ownership of it in some ways cool i'll catch you all tomorrow later cool stuff great right well that is uh yeah cool too that really did make me laugh rich about your your background and uh have a good weekend to you paul i'll see you as well tomorrow paul and uh great to see you keely as well uh i'll i'll have a think about the antique chinese chest maybe that could be the new theme for my uh my new studio uh and thanks everyone else for stopping by and coming in saying hello uh i'm gonna go now because my uh little boy dale has just woken up i can now hear the footsteps he must have actually had a lie in see you tomorrow jim and i'll i'll catch you all uh a little bit later somewhere on the internet if not in office hours or somewhere else all right have a great day everyone and for those watching on the replay i will leave a link to some other videos over on the right hand side have a great day everyone bye