 Hello everybody. How are you all doing today? Great to see you all here. Jeff, I can't put your comment up actually. Jeff, it came in just before I started, but yeah, Michael did a great job yesterday on his live stream. So really pleased to see him taking that first step and getting out on into the real world of YouTube. Matt, hi. Great to see you here as well. My fellow friend in the Asia region. Michael, let me get some of these up. Oh, and look at that. The comments are actually coming in the right size. Usually the first time I put a comment up in my live stream, somehow I've got the sides all messed up, but these seem to have been remembered from last time. So that's good. Hi Matt. Hi Michael. Rich, great to see you as well. And Neil, fantastic. So today I'm going to do something a little bit different to my usual live stream, because usually there isn't really so much of a plan as such. I give my usual update obviously on my progress with my little challenge that I've set myself, so I'll still do that. But then it's specifically today going to be a sort of Q&A about the latest update to Ecamm Live. And I'm going to run through a few of my favorite features. I did do a sort of full overview of them. Hi Paul. Oh, I'm clicking on the wrong place there. Hi Paul. I did do a full run through of all the features, but there's a few little details that perhaps I didn't, that were missed out and some that I didn't maybe explain as well. So I want to just cover a few of those and then some that just weren't actually mentioned at all. So I'll mention, I'll talk about a few of those and share a few little tips and things like that and some of the questions that have come up. But if anybody's got any sort of specific questions about the beta, not the beta, we're over that, the actual 3.9 release, then drop them into the chat and then I'll try to get to them all at the end. So let me just come and drop in my lower third. There we go. Just so that everyone's clear what we're doing. But I'll come and talk first of all about my sort of progress so far with my 365 videos in a year goal. And so we're on day 162 and it's been another slow week for me now. This is the third week in a row where I've only put out maybe one or two sort of full length videos as opposed to my shorts, which I've also not really done many of this week. Loads of other stuff going on in my sort of work side of stuff. So all my mornings have been taken up because I've been rushing to get a load of stuff created for all of that. So I've still actually been making videos. I've been making probably about three or four videos a day actually, but just not for this channel. So yeah, we're still a little bit further behind now 143 videos. So I've got a little bit of catching up to do in order to get back to back on track to be averaging one a day. I'm not counting the shorts. I've mentioned that before, but yeah, the shorts don't count. And there's been quite a good week for sort of views and things like that on the channel. So I've had 3000 views this week and 300 hours watched on the channel and 15 new subscribers, which I think might be the sort of most I've ever had in a week. And incidentally, I just sort of hit the 600 subs the day before yesterday. So there's been always yesterday. And so yeah, it's let me just bring you over to my screen share in a moment. I'll show you my stats. So yeah, basically the first 300 videos were took 100 days. Sorry, not the I'm not quite with it this morning. Can you tell the first 300 subscribers were in the first 100 days. But then the second 300 were 60 in the next 60 days. So it'll be interested to see what the next 300 come in. But I'll report back to you how we get on with that. So let me just take this one down. Right, so drop out the the lower third. So these are my my stats. Let me just zoom this up a little bit on whoops, it's going a bit overboard. There we go. You can see that now. So this is basically the views. So yeah, to have this sort of spike up that was actually when the the last major beta release came out for ecome. And I got quite a spike up of views then. And then that's also when I started doing my my shorts as well. So there was obviously more views then but then the watch time also sort of has been quite choppy really in terms of, you know, how much and it's basically these are coinciding with the the few long form videos that I've put out, which obviously makes sense if you put in out longer form videos, there's going to be more watch time. So I did like a couple of the week before last couple last week. And then there's been one this week, which was the big ecome one. So you can see that those others basically the spikes in watch time. So as soon as I get back to actually just doing regularly one a week, which should be next week, I said that last week though. But yeah, it's that that should all be a lot more stable and not so choppy. And the the subscribers have just been sort of fairly steady really, although there was a bit of a jump up in the sort of the baseline I suppose around the last the last three weeks. I'll just mention quickly again, something which I keep mentioning, but it's worth it for anybody who might not be might not have heard me talk about it before. Three weeks ago or four weeks ago now actually, I went through in my descriptions of all of my my videos. And I added in all of the links to the gear that I use. So if I come into my sort of content section, if I open up any one of these videos, then right down at the bottom, I've now got this section here, which is basically I've made it stand out more so more ways that people can contact me, things like that. And then also some affiliate links down there. But then down at the bottom, I've just got this gear list, and it's got all of my Amazon affiliate links to stuff that I use. Now I've never really sort of put Amazon links into my into my videos as such, apart from if I'm mentioning a specific piece of gear or something like that. But anyway, so I went through and did a find and replace with TubeBuddy, which it's part of the TubeBuddy legend level. But basically what you do is let me just come over to here, it's up at the top. Sorry, if you've heard this before, but it's worth repeating. Excuse me. If you click on this one here, then you've got this bulk video processing and do find and replace. And then if you click on there, you can basically find any text, these text boxes can be expanded as big as you like. So you can find any text and replace it with any text. So I basically went through and found all of my sort of descriptions, the standard sort of footer, and then I replaced it with those those affiliate links for Amazon. And in the last four weeks since I've done that, whereas before I would get like a few click-throughs to Amazon because they were in some of my videos. But in the last four weeks, I've had 600 click-throughs to Amazon and the conversion rates dropped slightly to about three or 4%, as opposed to four or 5%. But still it actually means that it is a sort of significant optic in the number of people that are buying stuff through my links. And that's effectively really paying for TubeBuddy legend at the moment. I mean, it's early days, it's only been four weeks, hasn't it? But we'll see how it goes. But at the moment, if it does maintain this sort of level of people clicking through on it, then it would actually have just paid for TubeBuddy legend. So it's worth having a look at doing that. And even if you're not doing something that's specifically like tech reviews or gear reviews or anything like that, people are still interested in the stuff you're using. I know that I am. If I ever see somebody's like, if they have an over-the-shoulder shot showing the desk, I think, oh, what's that that they've got there? So yeah, I just wanted to mention that for anybody who might find that useful. So that's where we are with the stats. I'm not going to spend too much time on that today. And yeah, if you know, Rich, I would, at some point, I'll probably will do that. I'll do a thing where I sort of show like the other stuff that I do with the ECAM. The reason why I haven't is because I never wanted to come across as this channel being a sort of like me pitching for the other stuff, because the other stuff is all sort of business related. And so, you know, it's all course material and stuff like that. So I didn't want to just come and look like I was just basically using this to promote other courses that are somewhat unrelated. So yeah, but I will, I'll perhaps share it in the group with you privately though. But what I've been doing this week is we're just doing a raise at the moment for the trading platform that we've got. And so I'm just creating some slides and things like not slides. I'm using keynote slides. I've got slides on the mind today, but bringing them into ECAM to do presentations for investors and stuff like that. So that's what I've been busy with this week. And yeah, ECAM just makes that whole process so much easier. And to be honest with you, it's like when you want to send a pack out to some potential investors you're looking for funding and things like that for projects, if you can send them a video and it's like looks really sort of professional and slick, then it just, just make a difference. It sort of shows the sort of level of detail and stuff like that that you're going to go into. It's also makes it a lot easier to actually demonstrate things and stuff like that. So the other side of Alec. I like that, Paul. Yeah, well, there's a few I suppose, so it depends which one. But yeah, somebody's also mentioned before about like Excel because I use Excel really heavily. So the thing that we're raising funding for is a trading thing. So I do a lot of analysis and stuff like that using Excel. So I could do a whole other channel on Excel power tips, but that market's a little bit saturated actually. And there's a few people that I always go to. So I just probably just divert people to there instead. But anyway, yeah, so getting on with ECAM Live version 3.9, which is just amazing. So if you've got any questions, drop them in the chat obviously. I should have done a little with that little graphic. I should have had a little Paul's little if it hasn't got a Q colon in front of it is not my question. But yeah, so I'm not going to go through all of the features or anything like that again. So Jeff, I've got that in the way there, haven't I? My plan for Mac tips tuition would be useful. Most of us use only the various essentials of macOS. Yeah, so that's that's what I will be covering that sort of stuff on this channel actually, Jeff. And I've got like a few things to do with sort of productivity and stuff like that that are in the list. And I've already started in a little bit of a way with things like my keyboard maestro beginner's guide and stuff like that. And I think that's I've got the video one of that, but there's actually five of that. And then there's another five sort of advanced video. So I've got them all mapped out. I've just got to actually sit down and make them also. I need to need to clone myself and be able to crank out the productivity a little bit more. Oh, hi, Eileen. Good to see you. As always, always like to see you around. So yeah, into the features then. So there was a few a few different ones that I wanted to talk about. And so as I say, it's things that maybe I didn't cover in my my video that I did about it. I'll leave a link to the video in the description after the after we've finished here for anyone who missed it. But yeah, with that with profiles. Hi, Greg, sneaking in just as I'm kicking off. I'm just going over the the features of ecom live version 3.9. So with profiles, somebody asked a question in the in the ecom live Facebook group yesterday about if they've exported profiles and bought them back in, does the stream deck still remember them? So there's a bit of a thing about what stream deck remembers and what it doesn't remember. But it does seem that like if you actually go to export a profile. So probably what I should do is share my my screen here in it. This is going to look like quite a mess now, actually. But in in profiles, you can basically come up to the top. And you can go to profile. And then there is this export pro current profile. So you can export it. And it basically exports it as a as a package. So you've just got one file, then that you can you can just it contains everything to do with the profile. It contains the scenes, any audio overlays, any, sorry, audio clips, any overlays that you've got video overlays or anything like that. And it encapsulates them all into one single file. So you can then just take it to another computer, double click on it and open it and it will just open the whole thing back up again. And it also means that you can send them to other people as well, or make them available as digital downloads. For example, if you want to make a whole set of scenes and a whole profile, and then you'd be able to sell those as well as a as a digital download. So that's another use case for it. But the the stream deck, if you've got it on your own computer and you sort of open the profile, if you've deleted it out of ECAM, and then you open the profile again, it the stream deck will generally remember all of the the sort of mappings that you had to it. The one thing that doesn't seem to work with the stream deck is if you actually duplicate the profile. So if you've already got a profile set up in ECAM, and then you duplicate it, then the the mappings won't work with the duplicated profile, even though once you're in that profile, all the names are the same. But where it does work is if you've got a scene or something like that in a profile, if you copy and paste it into the other profile. So that was one thing that I didn't really mention much, I don't think in my original video, but command C and command V works in scenes. And it also works in overlays as well. So now whereas before they just had the duplicate button for the scene. Now you can just select the scene and then command C command V to paste it. But it does work between profiles as well. So if you're in one profile and you copy the scene, go over to the other profile and paste it in, then it will just paste the whole scene and everything that's contained in it over. And that in that case, the stream deck does actually remember the scene that it's mapped to. So that means that you can set up sort of layouts or whatever. And then if you copy the scenes over to another profile, then you can adjust them and tweak them and all sorts and do whatever. But the mappings will still stay the same. So I'm going to try and do a little bit of digging to find out exactly the actual full logic and everything like that behind the coding of this, just so that I can get to the bottom of what works and what doesn't work, because it would actually be great if you just always knew, like say, if the scene name was the same, because I tend to have the same sort of names to my scenes. I've got like a titles one, I've got a main scene, which is this sort of view. Then I might have like screen sharing left, screen sharing right, do those sorts of things or top down camera. So I tend to stick to the same sort of naming conventions with my scenes. So it would be good if the stream deck, like I could just create a new scene with that name and it would remember it, but it doesn't do that at the moment. But I'm going to do a little bit of digging to see if I can find out more and certainly stick in a feature request for that one. So that was just a couple of things that I didn't really mention about about profile. So I just wanted to mention those. But the other thing is, somebody else asked in the group about can you switch profiles? Is there a shortcut to switch profiles? Now, there isn't technically a keyboard shortcut to switch profiles. But if you are in the profiles menu, you can see that all of your profiles are actually listed here as a menu. And what that means is that anything that is a menu item can technically have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. So there is an app called, let me just get it up for you. It's called custom shortcuts. So yeah, it's not that hard to remember, but I'll drop a link into the chat actually while I'm just here quickly. I'll just say hello. Hello Craig. Nice to see you here. I've never seen that emoji before, by the way. The little cowboy hat emoji. That's brilliant. Right. So this is custom shortcuts. I'll just quickly show you what this is. So this is an app. There we go. Oops a daisy. There we go. So custom shortcuts, that's cheat sheet actually. There we go. I want this one. Did I put the right one? Yeah, I did. Custom shortcuts. You can do it in Mac OS actually. If you go into system preferences, then you can assign keyboard shortcuts. But this particular app is just a lot more user friendly and easy to use. So basically when you open it up, it opens up like this. And then you've just got the apps. It'll be all the apps that are open. And so you can just come down to the bottom. Let me just move that up a little bit like this. So here you can see that basically I've actually got some of my profiles in. So let me just come up to have a little look at what my profiles are. So I've got one that's called, what's it, L-A-N-X. All of my, I've got this naming convention. It's actually not my invention, but it's from Merlin Man, which is basically three letters and then an X. And because they, if you're doing searches, you want stuff that when you search for it, you know that you're only going to find that thing. So I name all my projects and things like that with the sort of three letters related to whatever it is. And then an X on the end. So if I'm searching on Finder or wherever, I always, always find them. So, but anyway, so if I'm in e-com live, sorry, if I've got e-com live open, and then if I click on this plus to create a new shortcut, then basically you can just type in whatever the menu item is. So I had that one that was L-A-N-X, and you can see it's just sort of found it there, that profile of L-A-N-X. So then I could assign a shortcut to it. And that means that I could just flick between it with a keyboard shortcut. Now, I actually also do this in keyboard maestro as well, because with keyboard maestro, you can basically activate any menu command from any app. And actually in that case, the menu, the app doesn't need to be the active app. So you can sort of do it in the, in the background. I think Jeff just all keep mentioning keyboard maestro. So to set up the app, yeah, yeah. So I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll actually come in onto this, Jeff. So yeah, with the keyboard maestro, you can, you can activate menu commands. So what I have going on is I've got all of the menu commands, all of the, sorry, profiles mapped in keyboard maestro. And then when I'm starting up my, like setting up my e-com, I just press one button and in keyboard maestro, it basically triggers the profile or switches to the correct profile. Then it opens the windows because also in, in e-com, if you come over to the the window menu, you can see all these different things that you can see, like the bandwidth stats, the camera effects, comments, all these sorts of things. They're all just menu items up here. So these, these windows that you often just sort of toggle on and off, like the chat and things like that, these e-com windows that you can toggle off here. You can also do it in the, in this window menu. So I have a keyboard maestro macro setup to basically open just the windows that I want. So when I'm live streaming, for example, I want the chat window open and the, the bandwidth and all those sorts of things. But if I'm just recording, I don't need that. So I have the, it's a different macro triggers for, depending on what I'm using e-com for. But yeah, so that's how with custom shortcuts, you can basically do that. If you're not a keyboard maestro user, you can just assign a keyboard shortcut to those, those profiles just so that you can easily switch profiles with a little keystroke. This also works as well with overlays to a point. So if you have a look in your overlays, overlays menu, so I'm just coming back up to the top, you have to apologize if this is a bit small. I will have to apologize if this is a bit small rather. So down here, you can see that you have got recently added overlays in this menu. So it's, it's a bit of a workaround, but you can actually add keyboard shortcuts to some of the overlays if they are those sort of recently added ones. But anyway, so that is keyboard shortcuts. So I've dropped a link to that in the, in the chat, but yeah, it's, it's a great way to just sort of quickly hop between, between profiles. So that was asked by somebody in the, in the group. So I thought I'd just mention it here. Another thing is about screen sharing. So with screen sharing, there was one feature that I didn't notice that was actually mentioned in the, in explicitly in the release notes, and that is to do with system audio. So if I come back into demo mode and add a screen sharing overlay, so this is just a really matter what it's of, it's just my desktop. But if I click on the little, little button over here to the next to it, the little pencil to edit the overlay, you'll notice that there's this little toggle here, which is activate system audio capture. So if you've got something that you're sharing and you want to have a, the audio to play through, but most of the time you don't want it to play through because that's something in, in preferences, there is a screen sharing section. And then you've got something down here, which is basically to play, play audio. But now you can do that on a overlay by overlay basis. So here you could decide whether you want it to capture the system audio or not, or not to have it to play through. So that's just something to, something to be aware of, because I think it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the release notes. And I sort of didn't mention it on my last one as well. Then there's another thing that I'm just going to highlight again here, because I've mentioned it before on the video, but it is one of these things that I'm sure people who are not aware of it, it's going to catch some people out, and I wonder what is what's going on. So it's related to when you're using the cropping feature. So just in case you are unaware, you can now crop if you hold down the option on an overlay, you can now crop in. Let me just get this out of the way, make it a little bit bigger. It is a bit small on the screen, isn't it? I apologize. There we go. So now I've got this overlay on the screen, and I'm holding down the corner or the edge, and it just resizes it. But if I hold down option while I'm doing that, then I can crop in. So say I was going to crop in on that particular app that we were just talking about there, I could crop in like that, and then expand it out. The thing that is the, the sort of slight, I say slight issue, but something that some people might encounter is if they want to crop it, say I've moved this window to the side slightly, I think, oh, now I want to adjust my cropping. If I've been in that particular application and I move over to the, the, the ECAM, and then you can see it highlights the overlay, and then I hold down the option and I go to crop it, the application disappears. And that's because of a feature of Mac OS, which is that if you are going from one app to another, if you option click into the app, it will actually just close the other app that you were in. So let me get that one back up. Keyboard, where was it? Shortcuts. There it is. So I'm in keyboard, custom shortcuts. And then if I go over to my Safari window and I hold down the option key and click in Safari, then custom shortcuts will disappear. So that is a feature of the Mac so that you can just click into one app and it will minimize the other if you want by holding down the option key. But the effect of that is if you are in, if you're trying to resize your crop, your overlays window, and then you come into the overlays, if you hold down the option key without first selecting into ECAM, then that window will disappear. So all you need to make sure you do is having moved this app around, just make sure you do come and actually sort of click somewhere into ECAM just to make sure that ECAM is the active application. And then when you crop, then it's not going to have any effect on the other app. But if you are in the app and you hold down option and click into ECAM, then it will disappear. So it's just something to be aware of because I'm sure there'll be some people who will all be wondering what's going on. But I want to say some people, I mean, I was. I mean, I was until it was it was figured out. So that is one thing related to the screen sharing. Another thing related to screen sharing actually is about the green screen. Now, the green screen on the screen sharing, that's always a bit of a mouthful. We need to come up with a catchy name for that feature, actually, because I never know whether it's green screen screen sharing or screen sharing green screen. But either way, it's a bit of a mouthful. So but if you are doing that, so let me just come into. I'll add that overlay back in actually. There we go. So let me just bring this one up a little bit bigger so we can see as much of my face does it. In fact, it's probably better. So when you come onto the little little pencil icon over the left hand side, you've got this option to toggle on green screen. Now, I use this with things like slides. So if I play these slides, this is actually the slides I did for the for the the new version of ECAM. So let me just play this in the window like that. So now I've got my my slides that are playing here and it's green screen. I'm just going to toggle this one off a second. And then what I did with this was I had an overlay. So if I put take off my lower third a minute and I've got a screen sharing overlay. So now what's happening is I am actually sharing my my slides, these this green screen slides and I can prove that by toggling this one on and taking off the green screen. So I've basically got a green screen that is completely covering covering the the the screen. So I'll toggle that one back on again. And then if I if I come to this this keynote presentation, and then I was to play that, then you can see that it's basically whatever is playing in the keynote is then playing over the top of the the output. I've just realized I'm not actually I'm not actually in demo mode. I beg your pardon. That's a bit useless, isn't it? So there we go. That's what I was showing. I've got this these slides here. So this is basically my my keynote apology to that. So let me just put this one. So I've got the screen screen screen sharing overlay. I'll just make that to play in window. And so what I was trying to demonstrate was that yeah, this is in fact covering the whole screen like that. And then anything that you play in in keynote will just then appear on the screen because it's just removing the green screen element. So that is basically how I'm using that. However, there is another little thing to it, which is kind of like an additional little feature, I suppose, which is if I bring that other screen sharing overlay back, I'll just get rid of this one a minute and hide this. If you if you are sharing a portion of the screen, so I'll pop this one back up, if you actually activate green screen when there is no green in the screen, then what happens is it actually just hides the the background. So you can see how it's hidden the desktop. So if I was to put the these here like this, in fact, that one's a bit of a bad example because it has actually got some green in it. Let's go to this one instead. You can see that basically what's happened is activating the green screen has just eliminated the the background image from it. So it's almost like an extra an extra little feature, I suppose, that it just hides the the background from view. If you if you toggle on green screen, then it's just it's just totally removed that. So that's just worth pointing out. Hey, Phil, how are you doing? Let me have a look, you can zoom into the cursor on the screen, while in demo mode, if it's turn on in accessibility zoom, ah, right. Okie dokie. I'll let me do that now. I'll do that right now on the screen. And then everyone else can see how to do it. I was going to mention you today, actually, by the way, it's it's more like instant alpha for admin. It is except it is an alpha. So it is just sort of black. It's not you can't see through it. I don't think necessarily. But yeah, I was going to mention you today, Phil, by the way, because I love the videos that you've done about the borders and things like that. So I'll do a little demo and give a link out to your video on that one. Let me have a little look. Where's it gone? Accessibility and zoom. There we go. Use keyboard shortcuts. That one. We'll see if this is working. Have I got the right thing toggled there? I probably shouldn't have done this live, should I? So that one is control, is it? Ah, there we go. That's the one. So I can select the key, but it is control at the moment. I did not know that, Phil. So thank you very much. I've just been using my little pro mouse cursor. What I normally do when I'm doing demos as well is actually this is a 4k display, but I normally change it to 1080 and then it just looks a little bit bigger. But yeah, that's obviously a lot easier. So thanks for that, Phil. Right, where was I? So yeah, the green screen is definitely, I would say, one of my favorite features. And I was just talking earlier about the video stuff that I've been doing this week for some of my other things. And yeah, I use that with presentations so that, you know, the days of slides and stuff are a thing of the past, but it's good to be able to bring interactive content and stuff like that into video so that you can, you know, to help demonstrate stuff. I know that Doc says that there's no need for slides, but there is a need for slides when you're actually trying to impart something that needs, has got a lot of detail. And when you're talking about complex subject matter, sometimes little diagrams and bullet points do help to sort of burn those things that you want people to remember into the mind. So yeah, but yeah, just coming back to your point, Rich, I will think about how I can sort of share some of this stuff for people who are interested. Greg, it's the scroll option is easier. It is, yes. Oh, the scroll, are you talking about the same thing there? You mean this one for zooming in and out? That is, that is definitely a good little little tip, though, that is because it makes it much easier to zoom in on a particular part of the screen. Yeah, so yeah, that's the other thing it's like. And also, being able to make custom slides and things like that in keynote and then bring them into the the ECAM, it means that you don't end up sort of having lots of scenes and overlays and all that sort of stuff that I just sort of almost one time use. But the green screen is just amazing because green screen, screen share, green screen sharing, whatever it is, whatever we call it, it just makes it really easy to actually build these things on the fly. So I've got some templates in keynote setup with certain things like where stuff will come in or different animations or things like that if I want to add those in. And then yeah, it just makes it really easy to sort of make these things up on the on the fly really. So the other thing that I was going to mention about was actually interview mode, because now we've got a custom, custom URL, not custom URLs, but some customization, some white labeling that you can do on the on the interview mode. So if I just open up my interview mode window, and then I'll come into demo mode, and then I can actually just zoom in on this now then, can't I? So there we go. So where am I zooming into, zooming into the wrong place? Now, this is interesting with zoom, I wonder if you can, can you actually zoom into, can you move pan and zoom once you are into it? Little look, I'll just try this. Is there a way to sort of pan and zoom around the zoomed area or not? Not sure. But anyway, so the interview interview mode, you've got these customizations that you can make to it now. I'm sure I was doing it earlier. Let me have a little look, try and zoom on there. Not sure. So you can do make some customizations to this in terms of dropping in a logo at the top on the that's going to appear in the browser when the person clicks your link. And you can also add an image in there for people who are when you send it out in email, it's a bit like a thumbnail, I suppose, something like that. There was just one point to note that the join link that you get, which is not displaying down here at the moment, because I'm just live for some reason, but normally the join link would be down there. And although you can choose the the extension, so if I come back into the settings, sorry, not the extension, the domain, you've got all of these different domains that you can now choose from. So be my guest TV call me now dot TV call my dot show and so on. So you've got all of these different domains. But then the extension on the end of it, the after the slash is going to be your sort of unique number. Now, I think some people have thought that because you can actually rename these these this set of settings, then you that this would actually be the link that you have like after the slash. But it is still just the just the number string or string of letters and numbers that you have, that is the the link that you would actually send out. So what this does here this name here is if you're in the interview settings, then basically you can give the the the sort of page a title. And that will be what appears at the top of your your interview link page when they go to visit your page. So that's how they've got the the name the the name. I see Phil's just answering me. That's how you've got these different names. So I've got like take one tech and so on. So that that's just the name of it as opposed to anything related to the link. And now our perfect Phil. There we go. I've got a new toy. I've learned something new today. I'm really pleased you dropped on. There we go. So yeah, zoom and pan is so I'm using control to zoom and then move the cursor to the edge of the screen to sort of move around. It'd be good if there was a like a shortcut key you could assign to that so that it would you could actually just sort of keep the mouse in one place and zoom and pan around that way. But anyway, I really appreciate that Phil. Thank you. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to drop up my regular join link on here as well. So for anybody who fancies jumping on and actually chatting about anything like what's your favorite feature of the the latest version. In fact, I need to get rid of that and then I'll get rid of that and there we go. So if you go to take one tech dot io slash join if you want to jump on and have a chat about it. But there's so many new features. I mean, there's loads of stuff to do with text overlays, but I've made a conscious decision that there is a couple that know a lot more about text overlays than me. So anything that you've got to do with text overlays and our infusions, they're the people to see about those. Oh, I'll just mention, by the way, Phil the let me get I've got the link to I'll drop your link in a little bit later, but I really love what you had said about making the sort of different shape borders. So if you've got a camera overlay, for example, like this, and then add a an overlay for the the screen sharing. And then if I just just these, you'll see what I'm doing. This was a brilliant idea from Phil. And just make that one slightly smaller. And then basically, if I go and adjust the color of the the screen sharing overlay, I could change the color of that. And then there you've got essentially, I mean, that's a really quick you could adjust the sizes of it and so on. But it's just a way that you can get basically a sort of double colored border. And then I've not actually watched it, but I noticed just before I started, you've also dropped one in about the basically using transparency with that as well. So I thought that was a brilliant little, little idea that was to sort of get some better effects and making a bit of a mess of this now. Phil demonstrated it a lot better on his on his video. Let's get that right. There we go. All right, make this one smaller. You get the idea. So it's basically to have sort of double double line borders around your things, your overlays, and just sort of cheating a little bit to get that to get that effect. And just bring that one in like that. So there we go. So now I've got a double sort of border around it. So yeah, I mean, I don't know where to, I don't know what which is my absolute favorite feature. I mean, the green screen ones are definitely are definitely up there because I use that all the time, but there's just so many really. And I still can't quite believe that this is actually just a sort of dot release is not a 4.0. So it makes me make makes me wonder what they've got planned for 4.0. If this is if this is 3.9, they've got to have some some pretty amazing stuff coming up. I mean, that ability to I mean, I sort of glossed over it really, but the ability to white label interview mode is also like a really massive thing. If you're using this thing for business that you can send this out to people. And it's not sort of, you know, much as we love Ecam, it is nice to be able to have your own sort of branding and things like that on on it. If you're using it for that, I know people are actually now using like Ecam for things like where they have one to one coaching calls or things like that, then people, they just give them this link. And it's it's yeah, now with the branding, it's it just it just looks it looks really good. What else did we have in the the update has been so they added support for a whole range of new cameras as well. And then Sony have just released another one, didn't they, the a7 4. So they've just added in support for the a7s 3. And then Sony just released the a7s 4. So I'm sure there'll be hard at work on adding in the the compatibility for for that. And what else did we have the there was a couple in there for updating things in terms of the the camera effects. So that that's a big one for me is where you go in and you've got a you want to tweak something on the camera effects for one particular thing. Now they've also got it if I lift let me just do a little another screen sharing here. It's easier if you're sharing an e-cam window a single e-cam window because you can just actually add that in as a single window. So if I do screen sharing, and then I'll come in here and add in my e-cam clicking on the one button again. I've added a camera overlay that's why silly Billy. So if I come in here and change this one to be my primary display e-cam camera effects. That's what I want. There we go. I'm sharing the right thing now that always helps. So yeah in the the camera effects panel. I've changed my color there for my border. I've got to go to correct that. There we go. So this is the the camera effects panel in in e-cam. And they've basically added in down at the bottom. We've now got this this particular thing here apply to all scenes. So that means if you do some changes to your camera settings and things like that or your color correction or whatever you're doing within e-cam, then you can just now apply that to all scenes. So there was occasions when I'll do that and I think oh and I've got to go apply it to everything. And also with things like green screen background. So if I've copied a profile over then the backgrounds of a green screen for cameras are remembered on a scene by scene basis. So if I'd copied a whole thing over but I wanted to change all of my backgrounds, then I would have had to have done it individually before whereas now we can just do it all in one. So that's definitely a handy feature. And what else did they add in here? It was oh yeah also the rotate camera which is obviously good for if you're using a top-down camera and things like that. Now Rich is saying have I tried exporting profiles and importing from one machine to another. I haven't yet actually and I probably yeah I'll give that a go though because and to have another machine here. So I'll definitely yeah I'll definitely try that. My thing about the stream deck by the way is there's been a few people have asked me like to create profiles for them and stuff like that but with like the stream deck. So with my stream deck I've created I'm going to be releasing an icon pack about this making it over this weekend actually because with my stream deck let me just show you what I have with my stream deck. I do share this one and come here and share this screen so this is my my stream deck. This is what I'm using at the moment. So I've got a profile for when I do these videos and then I've actually got a couple of pages of icons but I've created my own custom icons form just so that I can see a little bit more what I am actually looking at. So like this one with a sort of picture-in-picture and then this one's the main scene, this one's demo mode, this one for top-down camera and things like that when if I want to put my mobile over the top of the screen and things like that. So I've created all these custom icons for different things that I do. So I'm going to make a more sort of generic one because these are obviously I've just happened to have the colors that I use for my channel on here but I'm going to make a sort of generic set because although you do get if I just come over to the the profile for Ecamm I keep saying this but Ecamm I've just got such an amazing plugin for stream deck. I think it's got to be the most complete plugin that you can actually get in terms of in terms of the functionality of it. So these are this is the sort of default profile that you get when you download the Ecamm plugin and then just look at all these look at all these these actions that we've got for Ecamm live it's amazing. There's pretty much nothing that you can't trigger with this there's a few things left out but yeah I'll come to that in a moment Craig actually yeah there's a there's an answer for that one so so yeah the the the the profile that comes with Ecamm is like this and so you've got these different scenes and so on. Now it does them obviously I say obviously when you actually activate a scene it will show you a little small preview of what the scene looked like so you can kind of see what it is but lots of these other things like if you're triggering overlays it's hard to see like exactly what they are so I did create custom custom icons for my my thing so that basically if I go into where is it gone it's one this profile so it makes it just easier for me to see what's going on and it also created the like the the dual colors so if you if you click in one of these the ones for this was actually a question in in in the in the group where somebody said why do the the scene buttons need to be sort of dual states you can see that they've got these two two different states and the reason is because it will actually show you the active active scene so if I click on one of these scenes it will change to be the active the active scenes if I click on that you see that my I'll come back again it changes the state of it basically so that you can actually see which is your active scene so that's why they are dual states so so yeah I'm going to make it an icon pack for that over the weekend and then that will just have like a series of you know stocks or layouts that you might have like for example of a comment of this page this is where this is this is the sort of page that I tend to have for my live streaming so I've got some different layouts here like if it's like a one up two up three up or if I had all four guests on at once then it'd be like that so yeah I've created these these icons but what some people have asked me for is to create them a whole series of profiles in ecamm or sorry create them a profile with a series of scenes in ecamm but then also have a stream deck profile for it as well related to all of the scenes so it'd be cool if you could actually just send somebody a zip file where they could import the profile into into stream deck by the way if you weren't aware of that you can just come into the preferences of stream deck come into profiles and then you can pick any one of your profiles so if I want to export this one I could just click on here and then right click and go to export so that exports all the profile with all the the actions and things like that and then you can also come and import that so it'd be great to be able to just send somebody a zip file that's got basically a stream deck profile that contains all the icons and then also an ecamm profile that has got all the scenes and overlays it's literally just be two files and then have it that when they open it it all works out of the box sort of thing but at the moment the stream deck links wouldn't necessarily work so yeah as I say I'll keep digging with the stream deck stuff and integration and then I'll get back to you but just come into your point Craig the question that you asked there so whoops that's the wrong one that one when you're using ProMouse how do you get it to show up when you are in screen sharing mode so basically if you are sharing an app if I if I change this now I'm going to share I'm actually going to share the stream deck app instead so at the moment I'm sharing my desktop but I'm going to come and share the stream deck app like that okay so always stop the zoom a little bit but you'll get the impression I'm now moving my mouse over the screen but you don't see my my ProMouse and that's because when you're sharing an app in ECAM it is basically sharing just that app and as ProMouse itself is an app then ProMouse won't show up so the way that I do it is I basically if you share the desktop and then crop in then you will see the app so this is now what I'm sharing is whoops I should come into demo mode probably if I come into demo mode then this this window here that I'm sharing this window up at the top I should do my little zoom thing really shouldn't I there we go whoops yeah so now what I'm doing is I'm sharing the primary display but I've just actually basically just cropped into that particular area so in that case it's sharing everything including the all the apps so that's including ProMouse as well so so yeah that is that that should resolve that that problem so yeah it's sharing the desktop so if I just come and reset that you'll see what's going on you can come to here and where is it now oh it's right click on it right click I think that's that's something that I didn't necessarily mention that was my overladen menu done that's still zoomed in that's why let me just hide this one I'll put it on the scene yeah so if I reset the crop on that you can see that I am hiding I'm showing the whole the whole desktop and then yeah so ProMouse is showing up there because it's got everything and I need to get this back by the way I did for anybody who is interested I have got a free template that I created that's on my my website for this this grid basically for helping me to lay out my scene so if I just move that out of the way I've got that just as an overlay so it's a here just a little overlay that's show in all all scenes and then if I come out of demo mode you can see it's basically split up into sort of halves quarters thirds whatever and then it just means that when I reposition stuff I can just drag it up and line it up with that side and then drag the bottom corner and line it up with with that side and it just helps me to get my scenes all set up set up quickly so I need to just actually do the cropping first on that don't I in fact I forget exactly where it was never mind I'll do it like this one second it just means that it makes it a lot easier to get things all lined up and sort of neat and tidy without without worrying I always do that used to do these things by eye but it was never quite right so now I'll just drag that across to there and then I've got my sort of screen sharing setup so yeah I'll drop a link to that as well in the in the chat and yeah so then I've just got a stream deck icon for that in fact I've come back to my screen sharing for a moment which is this one you see I've just got this little icon here and this basically toggles the the grid on and off so that's what that is um yeah so uh let me have a little look catch it with some of these comments can I share my my profile do you mean my econ profile or my stream deck profile I am going to be making a like a a profile that's both actually available on the the website so I'm going to get that all together I'm just going to tidy it all up because at the moment my stream deck profile is a little bit sort of bespoke for just the sort of things that I'm doing so I'm going to create one that's just basically got lots of different icons for specific you know sort of scene layouts that you may have and then yeah I will be doing a sort of a general econ profile as well so but like I say I just need to get it all sorted out that's the the the recovering perfectionist in me that I need to have these things uh need to have these things sorted before they're released but all right that's that's handy of course I didn't know that Paul the join link that was coming back to when I had the interview mode and I was talking about the join link it doesn't show up in interview mode uh in in demo mode I never knew that Paul that is pretty obvious that it shouldn't and it doesn't so yeah but I didn't I never knew that thank you um let me have a little look uh what else we've got here uh oh I've got caught up with some of these but I've obviously skipped over some of them uh profile export input works great just have to remember to make a file of any assets fonts music used in the profiles um I'm not sure about that one just have to make remember to make a file of any assets fonts music etc so the the in the uh this it used to be that when you would export scenes um it wouldn't export all of the music and stuff like that but in this version it actually contains all of the videos all the music and everything in that package so I don't know if I'm misunderstanding what the what you're saying there Paul perhaps might have got the wrong end of the the stick with that one but um yeah with the latest one basically it encapsulates everything to do with that particular profile in one single file so that's actually something to be aware of if you have got like large video files or something like that that are part of the the profile then it will export all of that as well and so you'll end up with quite a large file so these these profile files can be can be quite large uh I don't know if I'm I'm understanding your point there might have got that got that wrong uh yeah so now you can crop into an area of the screen you want to share make sure you click to ecam the active app that's it that's correct yeah uh yeah so um so uh yeah the screen sharing it's what they've added with the the overlays I mean I haven't opened I don't know if anyone else was using ndi uh what was it called I've it's that long ago since I've used it because I've been on the beta I've forgotten what is it ndi hx capture is it uh but anyway yeah I've not been not been using that at all since since this beta since the beta and now with the latest release as well it's just basically sort of transfer transform the way that we can now do screen sharing in ecam itself so yeah definitely a massive massive improvement I mean there's a big thing about it being a game changer and it really is I think it makes it a lot more accessible for people to just do everything that they want in the uh in in the app itself so hi Michael how are you doing I'm doing well thank you great to see you again and I'm not muted no you're not I have got the uh I've got the mug ready though okay just in case yeah it uh it's it was wonderful last night I had a great time yeah so Michael just did his first uh first live stream to youtube yesterday not his first live stream but first live to youtube yeah and um now I have a couple of questions for you that you've already uh touched on cool I am I am trying to take uh my uh profiles and etc over to the macbook right and they come up they come over fine and uh they um you see hi Greg say quick hello hey all of them there when I hit a background uh it doesn't show up I have to reload it into uh ecam this with the exact same name just sorry I missed a little bit of that just time again when you do what sorry okay all right I've I've got a folder of uh backgrounds like your blue one there yep behind your picture right yeah when I everything came over to the macbook except I mean all the menus are there and yeah and I can see the names of the background you know the the the gray background that I use and um but when I click on it you can't see it unless you reload it into ecam I see right right even even though it's the exact same name so I have to reload it into ecam and kill the one that that the profile brought over and I did bring the folder of all my assets over to the macbook too so I mean it it should have known where to find it is except it except that it's a a different computer and I'm wondering if it's saying you know is it in the same place or does the computer itself call it the same thing is that just the ones that appear in the show in all scenes does that is it just those ones like so far that so far that's all I've been working with yes I wonder if that I wonder if that might be uh if it's something like the ones that are showing the background as opposed to showing uh so it's your background image sorry is it yes yeah yeah the background I wonder if that could be uh I wonder if that might be a bug or something because technically with me certainly I know that it's brought in all the assets as well so but I've not not I've not actually checked that one so yeah well it uh it um it does bring in all the assets yeah I mean it it shows them in the menus on you know on my uh overlays menu yeah but when I when I click on them to show behind my picture yeah they don't come up I have to reload it in right right and I believe I believe some of my overlays were the same way that I you know the buy me a coffee and and whatnot yeah but I but I'm not sure I haven't I haven't finished playing around with it because I'm trying to get that one all set up and ready to back up so that when the new one gets here I just have to put it over uh but anyway I have had I have had that problem and and I don't know that it's a problem I'll do a bit of digging about that because I'm sure it should technically just bring everything in that was kind of the point of them so I'll have a little investigation well yeah it brought it brought the menu in with all the proper names but when you click on the name yeah it didn't bring the actual image got even though I have a folder of all of the assets yeah on my computer so that I don't have to go look for them you know like a lot of times you'll see doc will will drag an asset onto the screen to show it yeah but if he throws that asset in the trash when he gets off and come back on it won't find it yes yeah so I so I have a folder with all my assets on the computer yeah and I tell it that's that's where they are go find them there yeah so anyway that that was that was uh that was the way that happened hello Greg hey congrats Michael I I'm sorry I didn't get to catch your uh stream I I saw it in the feed and I'm like oh cool it clicked to go into it and I was like oh it's over already yeah well you can catch it on replay I will I will watch the replay uh yeah I'm actually exporting my profile as well to see what happens yes um Alec uh made it a good a good uh show he came in and helped by asking questions and actually uh did a lot of demonstrating too that I'm sure was helpful to a lot of people and uh and doc came to it and I was really excited about that and now I have to go to Hawaii you're sort of committed to going to Hawaii you know I thought about it overnight and I just said you know what I'm gonna do it yeah I'm gonna go to Hawaii but uh I I have to meet him I'm sorry I just I just have to meet him is there a reason to not just keep using the beta by the way I'm still using the beta if you if you are a beta user then definitely just stay on that path because there'll be more things coming out uh it's just that 3.9 is kind of the the official release or whatever you call it the yeah that's not the right term but yeah that's now just exactly the same as the latest beta but then obviously there'll still be some more uh more things coming down the pipe I'm sure whoa what's going on here no no Jeff tell Jeff I'm not going by Cessna I can still see you uh I can still see you I don't know if you're having issues on your side Greg but we can still see and hear you oh I was trying to somehow I was playing a scene in ECAM and I was like what the heck's going on why is it playing music all right right wait how do you import a profile did you say uh if you've got into uh ECAM if you've exported it just double click on it and it will just bring it in and make it the main profile but will it if I oh if ECAM's open uh yeah or it would open it presumably uh I've not actually tried it with ECAM shut no you mentioned that it does it yeah yeah double clicking it will open I just don't want it to open in the beta all right good it did open in uh yeah that all right cool that that copy and paste I think it's really useful as well just being able to copy and paste stuff but it actually work in between profiles as well so you can copy and one and move to another profile oh but you're right the stream deck did not bring over the way it was set up that was what messed me up I was live in my show and I was like oh I'll use the normal one and then I'm like oh no none of my stuff was in the stream deck and I was like yeah I had exactly the same thing and I open I open I thought what's going on it doesn't nothing's working what's wrong because it looked identical but obviously it just wasn't quite mapped to the same thing so right all right so would you think of the apple stuff by the way I didn't I don't did I hear your I don't think I've ever seen a video I didn't make a video about the apple stuff no uh it's just pretty awesome isn't it really uh yeah I mean they've they've I think they've answered a lot of the uh the complaints like you know bringing back all the ports and things like that is yeah yeah I did the um the stepping process basically so I you know I'd got me the lowest and m1 mac mini yeah and I thought they were gonna bring a new one out I was like okay maybe don't bring a new one out um but the problem is I you know probably 20% of the time I need my laptop and I sold my previous macbook like a few weeks ago a couple months ago so I just didn't you know it's like random things like I want to be upstairs instead of having to be in my office or yeah yeah a meeting and I'd like to do some work and I just don't have my laptop anymore so I ended up switching now to the 14 inch and I traded in my mac mini they gave me like 600 something bucks out of like 800 so oh that's pretty cool yeah uh yeah that is good I was I was I was all for I was I'd waited for ages to get a new uh macbook and then when I got this mac mini I'm now thinking like do I need it I'm just here all the time I'm not sure now so should have bothered but then I was pretty close to that to be honest but but that I was noticing like that it's either like don't stay upstairs with the family or have my laptop and I can be upstairs yeah random like that and I was like that's not worth it so yeah so you were you on a 15 inch before and you've gone to the 14 I've always been on a 13 inch oh okay right favorite mac book or mac laptop is the 11 inch air which they don't make any right right cool well I've always had the 15 but I was thinking well now it's instead of 13 and 15 it's now 14 and 16 and I could probably go down to a 14 that would probably be for the portability of it but I was doing things we'd like I think the chassis is pretty close to the same size yeah yeah I think so 14 inch screen is still a 13 inch size chassis it's just that they use the screen has got more space in no bezels yep yeah so now I have the new challenge of figuring out how to use my laptop open with my two monitors yeah you could leave it show me if you if you could but I'm like wait did I just really buy this like amazing screen like high refresh rate like everything to then have it close the whole time right yeah yeah so I ordered the Elgato the low profile arm today because I think the way I have my my my thing set up how do I change my camera yeah I can't if I go to this you sort of see I have this arm oh did that work out there yeah I have my that's my face cam up there yeah and I have a road arm coming right out in front of me and my camera's like right here got you know oh I'm thinking to put the laptop in the middle and just move the monitors over a little bit more so now I'll have the middle more open but I won't have here so hopefully I'll bring the mic on this table or something over to me just there we go we get the proper wide shot now there we go that's pretty cool thinking about I'll get rid of the PSA1 and just move this onto the low profile this way yeah yeah man I can move these monitors a little bit a little bit out and then have my laptop actually in the middle and I could use that as my main thing that I'm working on and then have periphery stuff kind of on the side yeah I like your lights that you got on the floor by the way the two colored lights on either side yeah you know they're cheap they were like those little flood lights I know Doc will probably say you know you should get video lights but yeah yeah they're there they look cool it's what I got for now right yeah on the ground my dog likes to eat them but when they're rotating they have like a color mode right right they're constantly changing so they're never the same yeah yeah yeah it's a cool uh I like that wide shot it's uh it's a cool that cool wide shot that is it's a face cam it's an Algado face cam it's pretty great right um but I will tell you one of the things I've been hoping for now uh is that camera the face cam needs a powered dock like otherwise all right it's super sluggish and for some reason you would think the powered USB-C dock or port on a monitor would be able enough to feed it it's not so I'm hoping the new MacBook Air laptop will be able to have enough juice going so I don't have to buy a dock still yeah yeah oh hey David popping in nice to see you here here another one of the LGL crew here we go uh yeah so how long have you got to wait for your MacBook do you see November 5th they said yeah and you've got me at the 16th of you Michael yes oh you've got your 16th did you get the new one Michael yeah because I had a 16 inch and uh if you remember in one of docs I think it was office hours he was talking about you know trading every two years is is the smart thing to do business wise and I've had the 16 inch for two years so I went ahead and bit the bullet and uh got the uh did you trade it in yes I did oh good yeah I did and they gave me uh $1400 for it so it wasn't bad that's not bad I I think like you on the gaps right because like there's not a new Mac mini yet so hence like I think this one's still worth a lot more than than the second the newer one comes out then got you it'll be yeah you're right because it's so cheap that like what you know you probably lose another $200 off then you're better off selling it on your own right yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly did you get the max Michael yeah yes I did I got the m1 uh pro max oh wow I got yeah I didn't I couldn't rationalize that my own brain yeah see I uh well because of what they gave me for my other one it made it a little easier of a bite yeah yeah that's true but but I uh I do a lot of video editing and I work with uh after effects and uh when I'm not home and I take it with me and I want to do some of that the better the the more power the better yeah I hear you I got the max the highest capacity pro one so it's not the max chip the other the middle sort of tier there yeah um so it was still like 300 more like but it wasn't like 800 more or whatever the the next thing was I wasn't expecting that max at the at the announcement you know when they went through and they started talking about the m1x I just thought like this is amazing and then they said like and then we got something else it's like whoa yeah it's like it's the one more thing yeah yeah and and actually mine is uh mine is due on the 2nd of November November oh that's nice well see I ordered it while they were still doing the demo on the uh the uh I tried to but the the site was broken you couldn't even get through the order and uh actually I was I got the order in but trying to get them to give me the credit for my old computer like kept crashing so that was actually the part that was holding me up from placing the order yeah well I I got the um I got it in and now I understand that that people that try to order them now they're looking at December and January right how much is that laptop going to be like seven thousand dollars no no that David that David's just dropped into the the chat he's getting in one max 64 gig but what size screen I got the 16 inch you got 16 yeah uh yeah no I won't have four screens someone's asking if I'll have four displays I'll have three um the two and then the yeah the $42.99 that's that's I mean it's expensive but wait a minute that's cheaper than I thought because I thought I saw the maxed out one oh maybe it's the two terabyte drive the hard drive that'll be it yeah yeah the drive that's quite a lot doesn't it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well I I only went with a terabyte because like doc says you can get fast external drives I don't need everything packed into the plus I learned a long time ago when you're editing video that the actual video you're editing should be on an external drive not on the same drive that the program is on so I've always done it that way yeah swap disk does anybody know if they have any thunderbolt extra there's thunderbolt four drives available yet so try getting a thunderbolt I've been trying to buy that stupid how the cow did any yeah you can't even buy the doc it's just like it's just been sold out and like you just have to like pre-order and cross your fingers that you you get a chance to be lucky enough for them to take your money well I I got the doc and but I was looking for a an external drive that I know might be thunderbolt four and I haven't seen any yet yeah I haven't researched that too much either I I put everything drop box and I sync it off to the cloud I don't edit video because I only do trimming I'm like I was making videos though how it makes real videos hi Neil hey there hi nice to see you I've seen you in the chat obviously this is the first time speaking so yeah great how's it going yeah very good very good are you in on the the mac upgrade cycle second sorry have you been looking at the new max at all yeah I've been looking to try and get a new one that there's a bit of a delay I don't know what the sorry I was then we can hear you I think you just need to talk don't worry about it I think if you if you mute the the actual the stream that's going out in YouTube and then listen from the browser that the interview modes in that there's usually a bit of a delay between that one and the the actual the one that's coming through and the the interview mode browser that makes sense okay perhaps a bit of leg now I understand fine thank you for using the interview mode so yeah thank so yeah the upgrade for I've been I've got my iMac running e-cam on once and it's 2017 so it's it's old yeah I just think anybody's using the new mac uh other than uh mac mini one I'm interested in at the moment I'm just using and um what's the problem like with the you're breaking up a little bit but I'm basically using the absolute base model mac mini so it's just the 8 gig one with 256 gig hard drive and then I've got an external two terabyte drive on it but I've not had any issues with it whatsoever so yeah even like from I think at this stage any any m1 mac is uh it's good to go with e-cam I mean I was using a much older laptop before that but yeah it's um yeah any any of them e-cam will work fine on great sorry for um pick up on the stuff I'm not sure trying the new internet and it's uh working fine unfortunately it's to be playing up today right I'm trying John is in the chat I'm sorry about that that's all right it's typical it's whenever you actually need it's crucial then it's uh it's I never had any problems with my internet here in the Thailand for like 10 years and then suddenly as soon as I started doing live streaming I've had more problems in the last sort of three months than I've had in 10 years before yeah it doesn't matter yeah so once like that definitely Alec yeah uh when I'm looking at the comments here is there a way I can respond to them I can't I don't see a place where I can type I don't think you can respond to them in in the the chat that is on the uh the interview mode window no and in fact I can't do that for me because I'm using re-stream as well so uh yeah well I want to say good good night to Jeff and I want to thank Eileen for her congratulations oh I missed that one oh yeah I see where's Eileen I'll stream the chat somewhere uh yeah good night Jeff thanks for stopping by uh it's season in the UK as well so uh yeah we'll see you in office hours on Sunday so loud liberation should I use ethernet or wi-fi connection with e-cam I have the fastest internet speed by the way always use ethernet if possible um yeah and ideally if you use something like speedify you can actually use ethernet and your wi-fi together and then it sort of combines them to get even faster speeds so but yeah definitely if you've always got the option of of using it then always use ethernet if possible uh and Neil how are you finding the latest e-cam update have you uh been using that one or are you uh you sort of upgraded yet and what's your favorite feature of that so I was a beat um I'll try before it's live and by I'm just a trying to do cool and on uh live streaming I think I've done some basics and basic tutorials like that so overall I'm liking it it's got some great especially plays and the runners and just makes the growth much more exciting to use so yeah for all it's it's yeah much easier to get set up and running with it isn't it and what what sort of videos do you make by the way yeah what sort of videos you make oh me sorry yeah I thought you said sorry um sorry we've got a bit of a delay what what sort of videos are you making uh Neil oh um great yeah I thought you moved into somebody else I'm a few tutorials the final occur and video and things like that my works IT it's sort of main passion but videography come my passions outside of world stuff and yeah I've been doing it now about a few years just a small channel I as much time as I want it to grow but um I think it is just great fun time yeah it's great to do a youtube channel on something that's a passion since I started this channel because I'm obviously talking about stuff that I love I find that it's dominating a lot of my mind space more than I was anticipating I'm always thinking about it it's nice to be able to make videos about stuff that you love how how's your stuff going there Greg I've got a few of your replays to catch up on I've got to confess I've not caught them live so I gotta go back and watch them all good I know we're at what you know we have many time slots but they're all pretty pride challenging for you to make in person yeah um yeah show is show has been good we're up to three shows a week now um so been busy I'm actually doing show notes right now for old episodes that I forgot to post for a couple weeks back uh busy fundraising so I've been talking to investors for the new company and um just getting ready next week uh we're actually have Kevin O'Leary on zealous oh cool running a pitch competition so shark tank style with uh five female founders so should be fun on one I think it's Wednesday we have him right one of our users is hosting him so is that one of your normal time slots is it or no it's not on my show actually I'll be there and I'm helping them run the event but there it's one of our users is actually hosting him on zealous so it's a very different experience right right not me running the show this time it's someone else running the show yeah that'd be that'd be really interesting yeah it should be fun um and then hopefully if it goes well hopefully we'll be live streaming to his channel actually so that'd be really cool and how about you Michael when's your next live stream plan for having just done the got the first one out of the way actually I just had some ideas today about one so it could be very shortly but I'm also making up some upload type videos yeah yeah to start getting stuff on because uh I have to go back and watch your your um video on on how to use TubeBuddy because I can't figure out how to put in my videos into this the you know the end card oh yes yeah yeah and uh so yeah I'm going back because you you did do quite a video on TubeBuddy once yeah I did do I did do one on that yeah um yeah but if you get stuff let me know yeah I haven't done any of them yet say that again sorry should we be doing like I haven't done any what does it do automatically no put in the end cards no no it doesn't um but you it's you can set up like a template or have a default one but it's basically just what it's going to recommend for people like at the end of the video but you can just have it set to do like an automatic choice so basically it will just pick whatever's best for the viewer so I tend to have like on my my end cards I've usually got two videos one of them is uh one that YouTube picks whichever is best for that viewer so they'll just decide which one they're most likely to click on and then I usually put another one which is basically the playlist of whatever playlist I'm putting that video that I've just played in is so yeah I didn't know you can do that and then you can also I also have the subscribe button on the end as well so uh for people who've watched to the end and I think most people for the whole channel or do you set that have to set that per video you do it per video but if you set it to things like defaults like you could have a recommended playlist and a recommended video and a subscribe button and then just as you're going through the upload process just have it add add it it's one of the one of the sort of steps you go through when you upload the video I think we're four we're four subscribers away from 100 oh that's cool well I think I've subscribed to you four times that's cool though but um yeah so the yeah the end card's just sort of part of the the upload process you can do it in in TubeBuddy though as well depending on the the level you're on where you can sort of bulk apply these things so you can apply them to bulk cards that will be the one yeah bulk end screens that's the one yeah bulk end screens yeah yeah so the the cards are the little ones that just come up in the the top uh oh god yeah yeah find link elements video elements thank you David he's saying don't forget to like subscribe and comment I have to forget to say that I always like could I just sorry yes just a quick question on on TubeBuddy you mentioned yeah yeah yeah what level of TubeBuddy do you have to have to be able to do what you're what you're doing now is that the um absolute at the top level long a lot of it you can do on the standard one let me just get it up because I was on the I was on the lowest level of TubeBuddy and then it was when I was in leap leap into live they had an offer on where you could get three months or something of the the legend level which is the top level and I'd never bothered with it before but it was um yeah having tried it it is pretty amazing actually some of the extra features like the bulk find and replace uh I don't know if you're earlier but I mentioned that that I had um oh yeah of course you were I mentioned about doing the find and replace on my descriptions and um yeah it's uh that's something that's in the legend level let me just quickly grab it up and I'll have a little look at the pricing um they've got I think is it three levels yeah they've got three levels and the uh the main difference I suppose I should be sharing this shouldn't I you need to use the video editor to add end screens no you don't need to if you're gonna have like a custom image or something like at the end of when I do the end of my live my videos I've got like my picture on one side and then like a little box is where the videos would go on the other um so in that sense you would need to have that built into your video but if you're just gonna have them pop up on the screen then that's done in the uh just in in YouTube itself okay uh switch over to this one stay deep and what I'll do is I'll just try this one over here and change this one there we go we've got us all back I'll put me as a little box somewhere else put me up there right so uh where was TubeBuddy gone now just closed it down I did I just did the uh the little trick that I mentioned not to do earlier about pressing the option so these are the the pricings for TubeBuddy and it's basically uh 720 a month for the pro but if you've got less than a thousand subscribers then it's 50 off so it's like four dollars or something three dollars something uh this one 15 20 and 39 for legend level so uh what's the difference uh there is a free version and then the uh so what's the the pro one is is 720 a month or four or three something so scheduled publish and scheduled video update so the scheduled publish one I mean you can actually do that in in YouTube itself so I wasn't really bothered about that one because you can just upload them and set a time that you want them to go out uh scheduled video update I'm not exactly sure what the difference is with that one uh it's uh to to change oh I see so you're going to change the features I see so if I uh if I cunningly knew when the next version of Ecamm was coming out I could change my things that where it says beta to just the actual release uh that's a little look sunset videos if you want to take some down I will be taking down some of my videos because um like as I'm going to make some more about Ecamm because all of the old ones that I've done about Ecamm are where I'm telling people to go and make overlays and keynote are pretty irrelevant now for some of them at least that aren't video overlays or something so you can have it sunset videos so it takes them down um what else is different uh so yeah the bulk features so this is it the bulk copy bulk end screen bulk delete find and replace um it's not available in the pro version which is the the cheapest level but it is available in the middle one so you don't need to go to legend it's five 15 20 per month for the star level which has got all of that those bulk features so legend has got auto translator and tag translator didn't know that oh and video a b testing yes of uh I'm going to be playing around with some of that with them basically testing different thumbnails and things like that to see which ones are actually working uh and publish to facebook that's another one that I've started doing so rather than um I used to just post a link to facebook of the youtube video whereas now I actually publish them natively to facebook so that's built in with the star and legend level and then uh what is this so then the uh it seems like legend is a few features I'm not sure I don't don't really use these actually so the the uh I'll click magnet I use that one is quite interesting let me just quickly show you what that is if I bring up tube buddy and then come over here there's this feature just up in the top corner uh where is it on so if I click on this menu and then click on uh is it on tools then this one click magnet this is quite interesting actually so uh you can see what's uh I think I've showed this one on my last live stream actually but it's worth having a little look again so it just does a little bit of analysis of your videos and then you can look at things like conversion rates click-through rates and stuff like that but it goes into a lot more depth than um than the built-in sort of analytics just taking a little while normally taking quite this long uh but one of the ones that was interesting here was uh I'll show you when it eventually pops up is about looking at the thumbnail so it actually analyzes your thumbnails for you so if I go into element inspector uh and then it's this one where you can see the click-through rate whether you've got faces or no faces in your videos or if you go into this one emotions it's actually looking at the pictures and deciding what the emotion is on my face uh and I'm either happy surprised I've got a few that are calm now apparently uh and uh I've not been disgusted confused this time or angry uh but you can see the click-through rates and so that sort of like YouTube surprise face it does work it's the highest click-through rate so I've got to try and get a little bit more emotional and put some some different emotions in there and see what happens but it's quite quite interesting that is and also the size of the picture you can see whether it works best with a like closing shot a further zoomed out shot it looks like the closer in my face is the less click-throughs I get which sort of makes sense to me and then text versus no text all of mine I got text in but also the text in the titles as well so you can see that this makes sense stream deck in the title is is my highest converting that makes sense on just my videos in general but I think that's because there are just so many more stream deck users in in general done like potentially sort ecam and so on it's like a ecams almost like a subset of stream deck so but yeah it's just got all the the words that to use that work best so it's yeah it's quite quite an interesting feature that one is so that is really powerful yeah it is really powerful yeah and I didn't go into there's another part of that actually if I go into this click magnet again it won't take as long to load now and then you can go back out of here you can look at this one's good as well CTR click-through rate opportunities so what that one does is it looks at the it's looking at where you've got a video that's got really good engagement once people get onto it but that also has a low click-through rate so there's something that people aren't clicking on it but once people get on it they're staying on it so it's the these are basically prioritized in where is the most room for improvement in terms of the getting people so this is a low click-through rate of 2.6 compared to my other ones but once people get onto this video they actually stay on it for longer so it sort of implies that the content's good but maybe my thumbnail or something needs to be worked on so I thought that that's quite an interesting little take on it and an interesting little tool to you know to allow you to make some changes there's also this advanced analytics which goes into sort of clicks views of the average duration that people have stayed on it and so on click-through rate and and so on and then you can do all sort of filtering on this as well like look at last seven days or whatever when you use those end screens though just to understand how this all goes together yeah you edit the video inside of here or like TubeBuddy will like help you edit it to do those changes TubeBuddy end screens let me have a little look where they are even like if they're recommending the A B test is it like you give it different images and so A B testing is in here as well video A B testing so what that one is is you basically it opens up in this for some reason what's it open up in the same window there we go so if you create an A B test you basically just pick a video and then you can choose if you want to do a thumbnail test you just click on that one and then you basically add in the you say how long you want it to run for so you can say how long you want it to run for or you can if I come back out of that you can also just do it to say run it until you've got some statistically significant results but if you select that for example and then click continue then you just upload another thumbnail so that's basically going to do a thumbnail test between those two and it'll tell you after 14 days or whenever it's statistically significant which one is the is the best basically but what you can also do is if you cancel that I'll just do it again so what you can also do is rather than change the thumbnail you can say you want to do a metadata test and so in this one you can basically choose different descriptions and things like that and it will still ask me for the thumbnail but there you can test the the tags and things like that and the descriptions and the title so you can test like everything yeah yeah basically but just obviously bear in mind to test one thing at a time as opposed to change the thumbnail the title the description and everything but you can just keep everything the same and just change like tweak one little thing but yeah you can change up here you've got basically all of the different aspects that you might want to change so so yeah I've got to do a bit more playing around with this one I've not actually used it yet so I've gone through the process of looking at it without actually creating anything different to try out with it but yeah so there's that's bulk processing as well you can update things so you can do that from here so the bulk processing but also it is just if I come out of this one why is that not showing down there we go it's also up here bulk tools is up here as well and it's not showing up on my screen but it's on the output at least that's funny I was going to say there is a there is a ton of stuff on on TubeBuddy I do have the pro version the the cheapo version because obviously I'm under a thousand subscribers so they take pity on us of course for that which is nice but what one thing I did find really useful is the is the keyword research tool and the description oh yes because I did a bit of testing on that myself and I got lucky with a couple of videos where they they sort of ramped up quite quickly in terms of numbers of views and things and it's only because I was looking at the the descriptions and trying to find something that wasn't you know well searched for but not heavy competition and that's a really good sort of thing to start looking at and but you could drive yourself crazy I think with TubeBuddy with all the analytics and everything you could spend all the time on TubeBuddy and never never create a video ever again I think yeah I think it's good once you've got some content as well just to be able to like going back and reviewing I'm glad I didn't sort of start with this because I would have been you know looking at it after my first two videos but when you've got a few it's it's quite good but the to your thing about the the keyword thing that's what I was using it for really for the first you know however long goes just on the the regular version and it's this as well I like these sort of best practices you know telling you to go and add these things it's like a little coach that sort of helps you through it but then also in the the tags I like the way that even just here with even without going into the tag general research tool just the fact that it's constantly sort of recommending tags and you can search and buy relevance keyword score and things like that so you can just literally choose to add tags from here to add in as well the other one is like being able to once you've got a selection of tags you can import those sorry you can copy them and then it will you can create a little list out of them so then you can create a new tag list so then when you're going into a new video you can just import a specific tag list so yeah it's got loads of I mean the but the base level is just really really good and like I say that's that's that's all I was using it was only only because I've got this free trial of it that I tried the legend but but if it's if it's paid for itself without in those links into the bottom do you add links into your do you use Amazon affiliates I started doing them and then and then I didn't get enough traction with them and Amazon affiliate it's only like you use use it for a certain period of time and then they'll say sorry right click throughs on this so I keep trying and things like that but yeah I sometimes get a couple of clicks here and there but it's it's very few and far between I should be pushing my videos more I think I was reading somewhere that YouTube is is sort of de-prioritizing tags now within your videos so they don't place as much importance in terms of search criteria and so on so I think it's the description the title yeah the keywords are the sort of the primary factors now people still put tags in I still do because it's interesting to see where you rank within the certain tags when you put them in your your video descriptions and things but I think it's not as important anymore according to YouTube anyway at least right right right I'm just catching up with the comments because I just realized I've had them I've had them covered all this time with my my browser Rich is asking have I done ab tested titles to oh sorry no he's saying you can do that yeah yeah you can do ab testing on on everything and do I have a discount code um I didn't have a discount code how did it happen this because I was I actually contacted them because they did they had an offer where it was basically if you sign up for TubeBuddy but I was obviously already signed up so I'll message you about it though Rich um and a couple of comments there let me see if I can get those out the trouble is Rich is not having the the mods we don't actually have mods I need to add a few more people in in fact the only mod that I've got is that actually on this so let me just remove that uh so uh getting ready to uh ramp up another 24 7 live stream interest are you really David you're doing a 24 7 oh I missed something there I didn't uh didn't know about that that's crazy I've got to rebuild that uh stream machine uh I'm not sure yeah so did you do one before then David a a 24 7 live stream yeah that sounds how does that work I don't know it works for a day like do you have like people with you and you so how do you go to the bathroom and stuff you know like that is tricky I suppose you can't see me from the waist down you never know what's happening do you uh done that Rich I'm just uh yeah just applying moderated status that's how you do it yeah be right back and in fact if you'll excuse me for a second I will be right back so unacceptable what have you uh what have you got coming up but else for the the week ahead Greg and oh how far off are you from your challenge by the way is three weeks three week film yeah uh we're getting we're getting close I just actually while we were on here I just registered informally so I I've now bought my entry into the show so I can't go back now I waited as long as I could but I cannot wait any longer and how many how many participants are there is it like a national thing or regional it's well people travel to do these shows from anywhere right um so but usually it's pretty regional I would say um but uh yeah I don't know you know maybe yeah probably like 100 competitors to maybe 150 total right but spread out across all the events right so um I only compete in a certain like there's three major types of um competition and I'm only in one of them and then um and then on top of that there's uh I do it by age and by height so there's like all these other little sub dividers into the way it all plays out so uh I'm often sometimes even uncontested in my category so that's pretty cool yeah so I mean it works out uh say hello to mr Elysio way popping in always nice to see you sir hello hello yeah yeah watch out watch out Elysio rich has got a wrench and how about you Neil have you how what's your sort of what's your schedule like for making videos do you have a sort of fixed recording schedule or well um I'd love to try and do it um every week but unfortunately it's been a sort of a monthly cadence um recently and then it's even been less than that sometimes just work seems to take over sometimes and then you find you just don't know how the time to be able to fit it in so I'm going to try and make a concerted effort it's getting colder here I live in Portugal so it's getting a bit colder now so uh time just go knuckle down and maybe try and do some more videos I used to do a lot more sort of I wouldn't say um sort of longer form videos where it would take me a lot of time to edit and go out I've done documentaries and things like that for people which has been really interesting and fun but it is very very time consuming so getting into live streaming and using ecam a bit like yourself just taking some views from yourself where you just do maybe one take and then just do a stream talk about a subject maybe get some questions on it and then move on it makes the whole sort of workflow and getting those videos out much more fluid I think so that's what I'm going to try and do anyway but uh yeah got a knuckle down and get some ids in my head now about what I want to talk about because so much competition out there and I'm thinking well can I can I get any people sort of listening to what I'm bubbling on about about a particular subject so we'll have to wait and see well there's there'll always be people yeah I mean that's that's kind of what I thought when I started as well you know it's like I'm talking about tech stuff and all this but I mean yeah you want to find a saturated market that's pretty saturated but at the same time is it really saturated in reality when you think of like millions of people and you know it's easy to look at people who've got youtube channels with you know hundreds of thousands of millions but don't necessarily need to set that as a goal so there'll always be that's right I think it's I think you're right sorry it's about giving value back I think to people right people come back to you if you're giving value and demonstrating that you're knowledgeable about something and they like you and everybody's personality is different anyway so that's it but it's a great channel that you have here and it's amazing some of the work that you've done and it's really interesting especially learning about e-cam and things like that so it's it's my go-to channel for for finding stuff out about e-cam at least and so thanks for doing all that yeah well to be honest with you when I started it wasn't intended to be an e-cam channel but it's I think it's kind of like 70% of my videos are e-cam it's just because it's like it's just that when I started using the app I just fell in love with it it's it's got this real sort of I don't know what it is about it it's just really it's got really mac like but it's just something that's really fun to use as well so I've yeah it's become my my favorite app yeah and then finding this stream deck as well which I bought for obviously making the videos and stuff but then realizing how how much that can be used for other stuff on the Mac and just as a general productivity tool that makes up pretty much the other maybe 25% of my channel and then there's 5% that's the stuff that I actually intended to do which was all about mac productivity and stuff so yeah but it's definitely liberating to be able to do it in in one take because I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to editing so I wouldn't have got anything out if I was having to edit these videos it's very time consuming definitely and you get you get to involved in it and I know you're a recovering perfectionist and I'm I'm a little bit like that where nothing's ever perfect nothing's ever right so you just have to say I'm done I've got to move on now or she'll just spend forever trying to protect it and it turns out I have a question on the mistakes got a sorry go on yeah I have a question uh you remember last night when we were trying to put the comments up on the screen yeah and you you told me I had to go make ecam active if you use that uh last comment uh button on stream deck yeah is it going to recognize that ecam is already active or oh yeah yeah so if I just press that it will just bring up whatever the last one is right but even if you're not on that screen like if I was demonstrating a program on my yeah yeah the monitor it's one of those ones that sort of embedded in ecam so even if I click into another app and then I press it again uh it will uh it should still work so there we go yeah yeah okay and then and then when it when you bring up the last comment will it automatically take the previous comment down yeah yeah so if I put that one up and then I press this it just replaces it oh okay the hide one yeah yeah that's what I need to know uh I just yeah so the previously this was my uh this was my favorite device which is my uh space mouse so this is for architecture so this this one in the middle has got this little sort of joystick if you like that can basically move in any field so it can pull it pull it up and down uh and then move it forwards and backwards left and right and also rotate it like that and also sort of tilt it from side to side and forwards and backwards so it's just basically you can manipulate a 3d model in any range of motion basically so one of the other businesses I have was an architectural design practice so that's for uh architectural design so I always used to be like this one hand on one mouse and then one hand on this mouse uh and that's how I would work but now that one's sort of being pushed to the side and the stream deck's taking its place so uh yeah uh the stream deck I'm still I'm still waiting for the stream desk a full desk just full of buttons that I could definitely do with the second one so uh yeah it'll be like an entran yes yeah yeah yeah this so this space mouse is um this one's got sort of programmable buttons as well so it's not actually powered on at the moment but basically all of these little buttons at the side are uh sort of hotkeys and you can program them as well uh so um yeah it basically means that with sort of one hand on that I can control my 3d package and the the mouse you can basically just sort of design a house without taking your hands off the those two things almost apart from the occasional number pad work and that program must run better on the mac mini oh yes yeah well everything everything runs a lot better on the mac mini uh I was gonna ask you real quick sorry about the mac mini and I'm sorry about the beginning where it was all I find out why that was now I was having I was running also the youtube at the same time it was just it just couldn't cope with both um yeah I was going to ask you about the mac mini so you mentioned about fun noise in your old mac that you used to use and that's one of the problems I have at the moment I've got so much noise reduction and noise removing going on because the machine's wearing away how do you find the mac mini is it is it quite quiet now even with ecam totally silent wow there's nothing there's not not a single sound yeah yeah uh is that the eight you got the 16 gig and one that you have the the eight gig they're literally the the the lowest model of everything yeah yeah cheapest one fantastic yeah I might be yeah I might be investing in one sound I've never heard the fan on mine no wow no that's impressive because this thing starts worrying away and it gets so noisy right I don't know is it there's one of them I think it's the laptops that don't have a fan the air the air doesn't know a fan at all yeah yeah wow that's impressive I'll be interested to see how the new uh MacBook Pro is going to be as far as quiet they they said on the on their presentation that it was quiet the the fan doesn't kick in unless you're using it in anger I'm sure that you probably won't even get to the point of stressing it it'll be interesting to try and push it to see how much you actually have to do to to get it to come on yeah as far as I'm aware that the fans are there like as a as a backup when you start pushing it but generally there'll be there'll be none not not on at all good good yeah I've still got my yeah still got an aircon on so I still have a bit of fan noise but it's from my aircon so I'm still using my audio hijack with the the noise cancellation but it's yeah the my macbook I don't miss that at all the sound of it just like a helicopter taking off I mean I'd got the mac I was using before this was a 2013 macbook so it was like it was really ancient and and also the fan had started getting this little um it's like that I don't know whether the bearings were going in it so it was going add this little like ticking sound to it as well so yeah and the other thing about that is although I'd got audio hijacked was canceling the noise out because my my in-ear monitors are plugged in directly to the microphone so I'm hearing I'm actually hearing the unfiltered noise coming through so I would literally have the fan noise piping into my ears as well even though it wasn't coming through on the stream but yeah and and you hear the stream through your your earphones that are plugged into the mic yeah I hear it so I've got the audio from the computer's coming through this as well um but it's just my actual voice sound is coming through from the mic and I'm hearing everything that's coming through from the mic directly as well so it means that the um uh like the aircon I can still hear that before the audio hijack's taking it out but I still hear the unedited version of it or unfiltered version of it yeah so when I had my macbook on the desk there was this constant it's pretty awful it's pretty awful I know that I noticed that you could all the mics I have you can plug your ear earphones into them but I didn't know if I would be able to hear the stream or just myself yeah I promise it's only monitoring the mic right usually yeah so this monitors the mic coming straight out of the back of the mic but then it obviously feeds the system audio into it as well but yeah so I get the the unfiltered mic noise oh okay I'll have to get you get your system audio back out through your microphone jack uh not through the jack but yeah through the in in my in ear monitors it's just it's just playing through this as well so I'm hearing everything oh right they're not wired to your microphone they're wired to your system uh the the mic is plugged in over usb into the computer uh and then that shows up as an output device as well as an input device so if I select my system audio to go to this mic yeah so I'm hearing that jack on the mic as an output from yeah yeah so yeah I'm hearing everything that's cool this and it's plugged into the mic yeah but but it's just it's just my voice part of it I'm hearing the anything that the mic's picking up as well so that includes the unfiltered sort of fan noise that I've got in the background that's the thing about it uh craig is saying that he reckons that final put pro will get that fan to turn on uh but that's right we don't know from what I heard the last time they optimized final cut so well for that it will be interesting to see actually yeah you'll have to let us know michael how you how you can yeah because they well they came out with an update to final cut and uh all of the final uh final cut you know what I'm talking about all those programs are called final cut all the final cuts yeah yeah yeah they just yeah compressor and and what they just came out with an update to that last week so uh I'm anticipating no problems I use um I still when I do edit I use premiere still um um so I don't know what I'm gonna do well I have premiere only because I have an adobe account yeah and I I can use any one of their programs uh but I don't I like final cut yeah I've heard it's it's pretty good and it's certainly faster on the new max yeah and one of well one of the new updates is that they now built tracking into uh final cut so you can actually track you know people and trap little signs over their heads and things like that which you couldn't do before you had to do it uh in like in after effects and then bring it in after effects we need more tutorials on that not something I use that isn't yeah I do use premiere though occasionally after like when I have to edit stuff for some of the other stuff that I do I do need to do like some editing occasionally um and I use it for that but nothing nothing heavy really but again that's just because I've got it because I'm on adobe I'm such an idiot you know what I just did a video for some investors I don't know why this thing crossed my mind I did it in quick time yeah I totally should have done it in um in e-calf because I was screen sharing it was as zealous down when I went wait did it just didn't even cross my mind um well I there's occasions where I've had to cut something out of my videos that I'm going to put on on these videos on youtube where I haven't like occasionally I'll press pause by the way like if I'm making a video in e-cam and something happens I'll press pause to stop it and restart the the recording but occasionally I'll miss it like my kid or running or something like that and so I'll have to chop some out of it and I used to do that in quick time just because I didn't want to open up any other editor so I just basically open quick time and chop chop the end off and then add another video on to the end because there's just a simple action in in the menu that you can do but it always I really realized after it through these audio sync way out for like the last half that I've added on so I don't do that anymore so I've just back to absolutely zero edits but yeah Craig's saying that uh the fans don't turn up on for on the the iMac pro for so they definitely wouldn't with the I would imagine with the latest Max then yeah I mean I like video or something right like I guess you're probably just never gonna hear the fan uh well that's good make me happy everyone who's everyone who's used Final Cut and Adobe Premiere I'm pretty sure that it's quite consistent everyone reckons Final Cut's better well you know the problem is the native thing yeah well when Adobe when the M1 came out you couldn't I couldn't even get my fonts to work from out from Adobe anymore because they hadn't actually made an installer that worked on the M1 Mac so like literally I was like how are you supposed to do this and we have to wait a whole bunch of time for it to happen somebody's asking Neil what what is the the camera and lens that you're using at the moment so I have my trusty old Panasonic GH5 and it has the Sigma 18 to 35 f1.2 nice with the speed boost it's a speed booster on there so that's what's given it that nice shallow depth of field and manual focus of course because the GH5 can't focus for for anything so I have to like stay completely still it's a great picture it is great yeah yeah oh thank you thank you yeah you're all putting me to shame because I'm on a 10 year old Canon EOS 60D with a kit lens so yeah I mean I've heard good things about that Sony camera the ZV-E10 thank you yeah yeah that one that seems to be very good a lot of people use that with its razor sharp autofocus and things like that so yeah yeah this is fine for me it's an old camera but keep using it yeah that ZV-E10 is uh I'll use ZV when I'm speaking to somebody else English otherwise I always revert to the Americanisms on my uh on my channel so it's always it's always beta and ZV as opposed to beta and ZV but yeah that'll that'll be the next one that I do when I eventually upgrade I reckon it's lots lots smaller camera you want to get say again sorry the Z you want to get that one yeah yeah the ZV-E10 yeah yeah I like to just a direct connect because I have a 60p-6400 and it's garbage over the built-in USB but if you if you plug it in by USB I understand that you're limited to uh 19 20 by 1080 720 on the Canon but the um apparently with the Sony that's not it's not actually the case the new ones yeah yeah but the one I have only does 720 over yeah because because one of the reasons I got it was I wanted to be able to stream in 4k because I have plenty of power on my internet so there's no no reason not to try yeah I'll I'll I'll just answer Craig I'll revert back to English uh beta and Z yeah uh it's not really so much intentionally it's just because I keep hearing it so often like when people are talking is uh talking about the beta I have a question for English speakers that why does the word hospital not have a preposition in front of it and that is an interesting one yeah I'm going to hospital yeah yeah like I'm going to get it yeah yeah so I thought about the only other word where this doesn't apply is church and university right so like like I don't know it's very weird like everywhere else you use them uh right well actually places with a like a noun based name basically seem to use that without a preposition which I always just like also like with money people say pound they don't say pounds like it's 18 pound five pence right like they like they still don't pluralize that one's yeah sometimes they do yeah sometimes people say oh it's 18 pounds 50 but then sometimes yeah say it was 18 pound or whatever yeah yeah I don't know but the hospital thing always bothers me I don't have another answer for the hospital one actually but uh yeah I'm sure there is a reason actually there probably isn't a reason because that's how English works it's just that way yeah that's true actually yeah uh yeah try and when you when you come to uh try and learn with that with Thai there's a lot more letters in the Thai alphabet but everyone sounds one way like if you if you if you've got something written in Thai there's only one way to say it whereas there's not like in English you could have a C that sounds like an S you could have an an S sound from an S there's lots of different ways to do it whereas if you learn the the Thai alphabet then you say it as you see it that's great that's great yeah I didn't even understand English until it took Spanish like because all the all the like tenses make more sense in Spanish right like and they do yeah yeah yeah yeah it's it's hard trying to explain that explain English to when you when you sort of actually stop to think about trying to teach somebody who's completely foreign to like Latin languages so like talking to somebody Thai and trying to explain think how things work in English is all right that's weird yeah yeah and like the way things are but uh if you if you hear the way say for example Thai people will speak English they'll put the sentence structure in the same structure as the the Thai structure but it makes sense because it's consistent in Thai whereas in English sometimes things are around one way one way and another way another it's it's a bit weird yeah but it's also like um like Yoda speaks kind of like they speak in Hindi right like so yeah yeah it's kind of that's a bit like Thai actually yeah yeah yeah Thailand is an awesome place to live um I didn't go back to the UK for 10 years after moving here to be honest because family were happy to visit me over here and uh yeah I've been here 16 16 years now and uh yeah it's it's awesome place awesome food weather people uh do you know what the one thing they call it the land of smiles Thailand it's like that's their sort of marketing slogan in the the tourist board here so uh it's Thailand land of smiles but everyone does genuinely smile and you walk around you know the markets and things like that and everybody's got a smile on the face when they see you but one thing I noticed when I went back to the UK for the first time in in 10 years uh was driving from Heathrow up to where uh my parents live in the sort in the Midlands near Manchester uh and driving up the motorway and I was struck by driving in the car and looking at all the other people on the motorway uh everybody looked miserable in their in their cars they just had this expression on the face that was just like like that that's the resting British face I've just got so used to seeing people like just everybody's I smile it makes such a difference when people got smiles on the faces so yeah it's pretty awesome do they do they drive on the left or right in Thailand it's the same as the UK actually yeah so okay the the correct side oh that was a transition for you then it was yeah yeah although they yeah the actual um uh how can I put this the uh the quality of driving is maybe not quite as good because they don't have such rigorous um driving tests over here all right yeah and there aren't always like as well defined lanes either that's right yeah and you could be going down like a highway and then there's a pothole in the middle of the road or you could equally be going down like a three lane highway and there's a buffalo in the middle of the road so it's yeah whereas all the motorways in the UK there's like you can't get on to them there's usually like fences and stuff like that on either side of them so if you've got like a high speed motorway then you don't have to worry about oh there's going to be a a cow walk out into the road or something like that but there it's here rather it's um yeah it's a bit it's a bit haphazard the other thing that I've noticed is where you've got like a central reservation in the middle of the road and then there's like you'd have to go like up the road and do a u-turn to come back to get to the place you want to go to if it's further to go the correct way to a u-turn then it is to sort of go the wrong way down the road to the nearest u-turn further back uh often people would just go the nearest route so they'll drive the wrong way up the hard shoulder to get to the uh the u-turn they want so yeah so I don't know if you've ever been to India but um so in India it's like I always used to joke there's like seven modes of transit you know at any time like including animals and whatnot and they intentionally built the sidewalks will be built like four like six to eight inches tall right so that cars won't ride up on them right yeah so you go like near the airport like the sidewalk is this high yeah like the lift right just to prevent cars from trying to drive over it um by the way did you see this comment from loud libation I did yeah uh that makes sense in some ways that's yeah a bit like going to university he's in the hospital he's going to hospital he's funny actually yeah it's not conditional uh no it's not I suppose but I do get sort of what he's saying um a not specific place like that part maybe but I would still say the hospital right like here at least I think most people would agree that sounds more logical I kind of agree with you as well to be honest but I don't understand why I don't say it that way I would still say hospital yeah yeah same here it might be it might be an olden thing though Alex because I'm I'm from Wigan originally so yeah all right right you know yeah yeah you know you don't do it either you don't do it either Neil um I don't know actually well my my wife is American so um you know we're with two people separated by language exactly so you know it's I have to think about it now what I say yeah I would always say is he had to go to hospital or they're going to or I'm going to I suppose if I say going to university that's a different thing that's like as in going to there as a as opposed to a place you'd say and if somebody's going to university yeah it makes sense not to say like if you say he's going to Cambridge you wouldn't use the preposition in front of it right yeah so it's like you just carry that rule over regardless of what thing you're putting there right like yeah you know like I'm going to James Hospital or I'm going to hospital okay same thing right yeah yeah it's a bit of a weird one you got me thinking now yeah yeah I agree it doesn't actually make sense the way that I say it but I'm not sure why why we do well it's consistent to the extent that for that for a place you don't put a preposition in front of it yeah yeah right yeah I'm going to London I'm going to Cambridge yeah you wouldn't say I'm going to that I'm going to the London that doesn't make right exactly right and so from a relative point of view like that's consistent that it is a place yeah holiday was another one right like you don't go on a holiday you go on holiday we go on holiday yeah yeah right right but actually we we say we're going on vacation also right so that's yeah that's pretty similar right right so it's not just the Brits like to keep their talks short yeah yeah we just we're just efficient yeah it's quite quite a few more than that probably probably yeah it's very regional as well that's that that particular aspect as well yeah yeah I I know when I hang out when I was in London a lot like all my my London friends would talk like where they came from in England or UK and I was like what are you saying are you make any sense right now none of those are words that is quite quite odd about the UK actually is the sort of diversity of accents and how they can be like really really regional down to I mean I'm from Stoke on Trent Neil so you know where it is but so I'm from I'm from Stoke on Trent but people who are like literally 20 miles south in Birmingham I've got a totally different accent people who are 20 miles further north in Manchester I've got a totally different accent and then like sort of west from there is Liverpool that's totally different and we're not you know we're we're separated by as much as you know I suppose a large American town and yet the accents are like completely different it's it's quite strange really how it's developed like that but it does make it challenging for people who are trying to you know learn English where they've got to learn this whole different language almost the funny thing is my child's nursery school teacher kindergarten teacher is an English chap speaking teaching all the Thai kids English and he's from Yorkshire so he's got like a really strong Yorkshire accent there's nothing wrong with that but they're all the Thai children now when they want to say coconut they say coconut he's got this really he's got this really strong Yorkshire accent so it's uh it's quite funny I have a question yeah go on in in England is bloody a bad word or a good word it's technically yeah it's a tame uh tame word I suppose really because I you know I was watching a few uh movies the other night and they kept saying of well that bloody car am I and I'm saying would know is he cussing or not yeah it is really yeah but it's uh yeah it's on the scale of things it's it's not like the highest ranking no no oh no no not at all it's way down I saw like Gordon Ramsay use it on a morning show in in England so like it was like yeah yeah you know like yeah yeah he's he's used a lot worse certainly yeah another funny word I'm uh cheeky cheeky yeah yeah do you not use that in in the US no very rarely right right oh I use that yeah and what does it mean like a little bit naughty little bit uh like uh yeah like you might say oh he's a bit of a cheeky chappy as well something like this might the most famous use I know of it is like people always want to go for a cheeky Nando's yeah yeah it can be a little like that as well like a little bit crafty little bit sly something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah well this this is turned into the uh welcome to uh language today it is amazing though it's good fun yeah so what you said Neil about like separated by a common language is that funny the sort of we spot like the differences in in the way things are said in amongst all of the other things that are exactly the same definitely definitely um this has been great fun I have to say it's been it's been really nice to to touch you all and and to join you at this late hour for me I think I think I will I'll bow out now it's a quarter past one yeah the morning we should go uh Alex Alex is about to run into the room I'm sure that's it any moment now well it's really nice to speak to you Neil because obviously I've seen you in the the comments and chatting things like that so it's nice to put a face to the name and have a proper chat it's a pleasure and thank you it's very nice and hopefully I'll I'll try and join again sometime anytime anytime all right all right take care of yourselves guys take care bye bye bye we'll see you as well cool okay okay Greg thanks for stopping by whoops there we go that's all right I've dropped my seat that was the one I wanted to go to yeah well we've uh we did a bit of a Q&A didn't we a bit of a e-cam live Q&A but yeah that was really interesting chat that uh well while I uh while I've got you oh yeah you have to go no no no it's all right you go for it okay uh I noticed on your page where you list everything that you whatnot uh how do you become an affiliate to like e-cam and to buddy and some of the others so that it not we're not necessarily to make money but like like uh you're uh uh buy me a car not buy me a coffee but like when you when you show where to get e-cam it's always your stream then you slash whatever yeah yeah so uh do you mean how do I create those links is that what you mean no no no or how do you become an affiliate how do you get the permission to do those right so if you uh with TubeBuddy if you're logged into TubeBuddy I'll just come back to this one a minute uh and then I'll just flip me back up on here there we go what's wrong one oh twice the phone there we go I'll get rid of that one and I'll get rid of this one uh right so in TubeBuddy when you are logged into it in fact I'm probably not logged into on this window I was on chrome I think wasn't I so if you are where have I gone there we go let me just move this chat down here uh so when you're in TubeBuddy you can go into where is it now uh back to home from the main TubeBuddy page then you've got an affiliate center here so you just click on that one and then you can set yourself up as an affiliate on that and then they'll give you you'll have a link which will be that's my link actually TubeBuddy.com slash TakeOneTech the way I do it where I have my links where it's TakeOneTech.io slash TubeBuddy or slash Ecamm that's that I've done on my side so my that I've set those links up and they are basically just forward into this affiliate link uh with Ecamm it is at affiliate.ecamm live I think you just have a little look I think it's that Ecamm I think it's affiliate.ecamm.com so here we've got the Ecamm Live Affiliate Program yeah so uh drop that in the chat that's the way so this is the Ecamm Affiliate Program and you can just sign up there and then it takes a couple of days for them to check it up they actually want to check a little bit you know just that you're a user and stuff like that but there's nothing much more to it than that so you just sign up there and then with that one as well you'll get a link which will be like Ecamm slash or Ecamm Affiliate slash something so what I've done to actually set that up on my side if I can actually show you that if any case anybody else is using Squarespace um if I go into my website uh bring this one up there's my website and then I'll come into edit it and then down here in the uh let's just move this window over a second move that side of the way this one here so you can see it now why is that not loading up do one second try that again uh it seems to be opening up by config oh there it is yeah so in the uh this is in uh Squarespace so if anybody's using Squarespace then it's basically in my settings and then advanced and then uh where's it gone URL mappings that's the one there are other ways you can do this there is a third party program which uh or service that doc recommends I can't remember but it's called now uh rebrandly I think is the one that he recommends so with that with rebrandly you can sign up to that and basically you can create your own links through that and it will link to wherever you want but here I've basically just set up my custom mappings in here so I've got this Ecamm one maps to ecamm uh dot com with my referral link I've got my buy me a coffee link uh tube buddy and all these other things so basically this is the little extension onto the end of my URL so restream epidemic youtube setup and all these sorts of things and then that just relinks to these uh these links here so that's the way that I've set that up so that when I do one of my uh little promo things like if I went to my tube buddy thing I could say if you want to try tube buddy then head over to take one tech dot i o slash tube buddy and there's the link at the bottom and that is how we get to uh uh we'll get to that so uh yeah that's how I'd I'd set that up but um yeah rebrandly is the other one so let me just quickly have a look at rebrandly because I don't use it but I know that doc recommends that one and that is how you can create um your brand on your links so basically you can create a uh a um your url and then you can have whatever you want after it so uh yeah that's how uh that's how I've done that and there's affiliate programs for everything really so uh you know for tube buddy for epidemic if you use epidemic sounds um yeah oh hey albert say hello nice for you to pop in hey albert great to see you here hope you had a good trip he's going to cleveland from south carolina uh nice wonderful um so yeah that's that's how I do my my links anyway in um uh and yeah there's this affiliate programs for most things and uh uh do you use amazon by the way have you got an amazon affiliate setup as well no I do not uh because uh I thought you had to be streaming in amazon to do that and then Neil Neil just said that if you don't have enough people click on you that they take it away from you anyway yeah you need it's within the first um I think it's 90 days is it or four months or five months or something like that you need to have three people that have clicked through on the links or something like that so um uh yeah that's um that's sort of one of the things to it so once you set it up you'll need to have uh it's just to see some sort of traffic going through it um I think it might be six months actually so you've got uh yeah got to have a sort of it might be three qualifying purchases within six months or something like that but certainly putting links in all like videos and stuff like that obviously depending on the sort of stuff you're doing um it's it did make a difference with that with my my amazon affiliate stuff yeah yeah well any rate I guess we could probably call it a night but uh again thank you for having me on oh you're welcome anytime and thank you again thank you again for last night because uh it helped to have you on there asking questions and doing some demonstration because I was running out of things to say well I mean that you've you've got such a sort of mind of information and knowledge and stuff like that like I never realized that you you you worked for Sony before and Apple and stuff like that it's uh oh yeah it's amazing I'm just thinking of all like the potential content and things like that that you could uh you know you could do videos on I'm sure there's there's an endless resource it's just sort of thinking about a few titles I caught I caught Doc's uh show this afternoon and he did he did quite a congratulatory speech on our our stream last night oh I love to go back and watch that he he he put up a picture of you and I ah that's nice and and it just it made me feel so good I tell you that man is is really a hero to me a me too certainly certainly you have been a wonderful hero but if it hadn't been for him I don't I never would have gotten started in this I don't know where I would be psychologically today I'm right with you he's definitely my coach is how he always signs off his videos you know I'm Doc Rock your content creation coach or you know in a lot of them and that's totally how I think of him well coach and mentor actually check out that video because he usually starts out by saying hello to everybody that's in the chat yeah and uh when he got to me he just went off with a tangent like oh god thank you so much yeah and and he even told me to come to Hawaii yeah yeah and I'm going we'll have to have a meet-up yeah so anyway I'm I'm going to sign off because he's he needs to uh go outside and uh I already been outside when I did my problem is I sit here uh or the camera's over there I see you're drinking and uh it runs right through me so anyway thanks so much my friend my best to you and your family okay take care thank you Michael sign off and thank you I will sign off for now bye bye see you soon Michael bye bye well uh yeah thank you everyone for coming and hanging out it was great to see you all here some new people and some uh old faces as well not old faces obviously but you know what I mean and watch out Rich has got a wrench now so I'll have to go and add a few more other people in there as well we'll have a we'll have a whole team behind us in future so yeah that's all for this this video but if you got any specific questions about the ecum live uh ecum live update which is what we were talking about originally wasn't it or if you've got any interesting questions about the differences between American English and English English and then let me know about those as well and uh I'll leave it there for the moment because here Mike little kids waking up so uh that is all for today and until the next time have an absolutely wonderful day and I will speak to you all very soon have a great day everyone bye bye that's it we've got the strong arms rich cool bye bye everyone