 In this video, I'm going to be talking about independently looping video, audio and overlays in Ecamm Live. A little bit niche, but if it sounds interesting, then keep watching. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And this video is in response to a question that was asked in the Ecamm community by Brother Phil. And the question was, how can we loop video and audio and text overlays or image overlays in Ecamm Live, sort of independently of one another? And just to give a bit of background into the exact use case of this, this is going to be something for Christmas where there is going to be Christmas music playing in the background, but then there are also going to be a sequence of videos that need to sort of loop continuously. And then there is going to be overlays in the form of things like scriptures and so on that are going to be put up. And then potentially also speaking over the top of those as well. So the thing about it is that all of these things are moving kind of independently of each other. So the music is separate from the videos and the overlays are separate to both of those as well. So they're kind of looping at different rates potentially. You could obviously do this in an external editor by actually just putting all the videos together, adding in the music tracks over the top of that and creating the loop in that way. But that wasn't the question. The question was, how can this be done in Ecamm Live? And it can be done in Ecamm Live just with one extra minor little step beforehand. And I think that this will give the results that Phil's looking for. And we can do it so that it's automated so that even the overlays are looping as well and the whole thing just runs in a continuous loop. Or we can do it so that the actual overlays are brought up manually if there's going to be any sort of spoken word over the top of those as well. So that's the plan for today. And so let's get straight into it, shall we? So first of all, what I've done is I've just got three random samples of audio and three random videos as well. So for the audio, what I've done is, that's not the right place. That is my audio interface, but it's not what I'm looking for. This is my folder. So I've got three audio tracks here. All I did was I went to Epidemic Sound and just typed in Christmas music and grabbed basically the first three instrumental pieces of Christmas music that were on the list. So incidentally, if you weren't aware what Epidemic is, Epidemic Sound is the resource that I use to get all music for my channel and for any other videos that I create related to the channel and you can get your free trial at takeonetech.io.epidemic and it basically takes all the headache out of using music in your videos. I did go down the Adobe stock route before because I have an existing license to that and you do get access to the Epidemic library as part of that. The only trouble is you have to go through and manually enter the license code into each and every video and it just wasn't worth it. For the amount of time that takes, you just go and sign up to Epidemic. You whitelist your channel and that's it. You can download all of the music that you like and sound effects and use them in your videos to your heart's content and there is such a great range of music on there. It's a great service. So that's what I'm using and I highly recommend it. So anyway, back to the main event which is this music that I've downloaded and having said how great the music on Epidemic is, this is going to be a random potluck because I did just download the three first instrumentals that I could find. So that's the first things that I've done. In fact, let's have a quick listen. Here's one. Well, I don't know if I'm selling this well to be honest with you. Here we go. It's just three instrumental. What's this one? Oh, Holy Night. And it's a guitar version of that. And the next one is the first Noel on guitar. There we go. You get the impression. So that's literally just three tracks just to demonstrate this with a sort of Christmas theme. I'm sure there are lots of other styles of Christmas music in there but I haven't really dug into it just yet. I need to though for Vlogmas, which is coming up and I will be doing a whole series of 31 in fact Vlogmas videos. So more on that later. So then what I did was I also downloaded three Christmas related videos and I did that using from a site called Pexels. So that's P-E-X-E-L-S and pexels.com and it's a free stock video and photo site basically. So you can go and search for videos and they've got quite a range of different videos on all sorts of different topics. Just search for something you like and they are free to use in your videos or things like that. So I've basically just got three videos and three audio tracks. So if I come back to this one and these are just, let me just bring this one up. Here we go. This is a little fireplace scene. There we go. Let me make that a little bit smaller. You get the impression. So it's just a little video there of a Christmas tree in a living room and so I'm just going to basically cycle through these three videos. Now there was one extra step that I mentioned in order to get this to work with the way that we're going to do things and that was to basically stitch these three clips together. So that's the one thing that I did outside of Ecamm and to do that what I did was I opened up the file so just double-clicked on it in the Finder and then if I just zoom in on my screen a minute. Come into demo mode. So this is the file in the Finder or sorry, in QuickTime on the Mac and then what I did was I went up to the QuickTime player menu at the top and then clicked on Edit and then there's just this option here Add Clip to End and that's an easy way to add clips onto the end of existing clips so obviously just basically stitching them all together. For what we're doing where there is going to although there is audio on these tracks we're not actually interested in the audio as such because we've got going to have our own audio. There's no problem but just one thing to bear in mind if you do use this method of stitching stuff what I have found before is that sometimes it causes audio sync issues just something to be aware of but like I say we're not going to be bothered about that because we are just using just the image itself or the video itself without the audio. So what I'm going to do now is actually come back into demo mode and I'll show you how we're going to sort of build this all out now. So here I am in demo mode I've got these different files so actually this is the one we want the stitched together clip the audio tracks that I just downloaded from Epidemic. So what I'm going to do is I've already created a folder so I'm in the sound effects panel in Epidemic and if you're not sure where to get that then you can come over to these menus on the left hand side the right hand side rather and then click this one that has the list of it's like a little note symbol with a list so this is the sound effects panel or sound effects window and so once I've got that open I've got this folder which is what I did and so I've already done that so I've got a Christmas Tracks folder which is currently empty so all I'm going to do is I'm going to take these three audio tracks and I'm just going to drag them into that folder so I'll put them underneath the folder and they are now inside of that folder so that is the music in place now what we want to do is actually have it start to loop so if I click on the folder you can do this on an individual track basis actually so if you come onto the track and you click on the little cog wheel then you've got different things here you can adjust the volume of them so I am actually going to turn the volume down on all of them because we don't necessarily want them playing at full volume if we've got other stuff going on over the top certainly for what I'm doing here I'm going to be speaking so I don't want them too loud so I'm just going to turn all the volumes down of all of them you can do this on the master volume by the way but I always just prefer to do it this way because if I let me show you that where has it gone? my volume panel in fact it's somewhere else on the screen let me just show you so you have got the master volumes here for sound effects so you can change things on there but I like to just adjust them on here as well so that if ever I want something else to play at a greater volume then I can do that without everything else blowing it out in any case that's up to you the way you want to do that you've got this option here which is basically loop now if I do that on a single track then it is just going to keep looping that track if I start to play it however if you have got stuff that's all in folders like this then what you can do is you can just actually put a loop onto the folder instead and so now if I start playing this what that will do is it will start playing it in the background and you can see how what I was talking about I can actually adjust the volume of it here as well but having sort of pre-adjusted all of them then it's just going to stay in the background so that is the music I'm just going to pause it for one second because I'm feeling quite sombre actually listening to that so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to deal with the video and what we're going to do with the video is basically have it running just in the background of all scenes and what I mean by that is in the overlays tab here when you're adding in different overlays you've got three options really you can either show it in all scenes here so any that are underneath this title are showing all scenes any that are in this section are just shown in the current scene but any that are shown down here show in background will appear basically in the background of all scenes as well so that is exactly where we want to put this video now at the moment if I just toggle my camera off I've got my little background image so I can turn that off and we've got a completely blank scene now behind me I'll just leave that off for the moment so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my this stitched clip that I created and I'm going to drag it into here into the background and let's just leave it completely in the background and now as if by magic if I turn my camera off we've got this playing in the background so now what we need to do is if I just come to this clip and edit it for one second whoopsie daisy in fact what am I doing now let me get to it let me click on this little arrow so as if I couldn't actually see it then for a moment when it was in the background so I'm just moving it up here so that I can get to this part this is what I'm looking for the little tracking what do you call it the time bar and then I'm going to click the little arrow here and what we want to do is loop so I'm going to click on loop for that one so that basically when it gets to the end you'll see it will just go straight back round to the beginning so that now let me just move it back into the background that now is just running in the background at all times so I'll stick my camera back on there for the moment so we've now got the clip running in the background if we were to start the music again we've got the music that's running in the background at all times and then we've just got my big face over the top of it so let's get rid of that for a moment now what we're going to do is actually build out the scenes that we're going to loop through so what I'm going to do is come down onto my scenes tab and then I'm going to click on the folder icon and we are going to create a folder so I'll bring that down to the bottom let me just drag this down let me just put this as Xmas demo and I'll drag that down to the bottom whoops we don't want it outside of there there we go hopefully your scenes tab won't be quite as cluttered as mine so I've now got this little demo area down here so let me just pop my camera back on for a moment and I'm going to create a new scene so this is now actually building out the actual scenes that we're going to be using so this is now an empty scene so let's call this scene one shall we this is where we're basically going to have all of our overlays so let's just say that they are text overlays that are going to have written text or scriptures or something like that so I'll come over to the overlays button and I'll click on the add overlay and that is for some reason no that is strange what's happening there let me come back to this a minute I'll try let me just try and add a camera overlay in there we go let me try a text again ah I see why let me just add that it was because it had bought the box up somewhere else and I couldn't see it there we go so I'll take that one off let us say that we're going to have whoops we're going to have scripture one and I'm guessing that this would actually be in maybe an image form or something like that so and that's got some text this will all make sense hopefully the actual content is a little bit of a silly example so now if I save that let's change the background shall we let's make it a different colour my colour picket is totally off screen as well that is because I'm zoomed in where is it it's over here bring that back up there so I'll change the background to be let's make it red shall we since it's Christmas reds a bit more of a Christmasy colour and let's make the text the text can be white there we go that was a lot more tricky than it needed to be wasn't it so let's say that we've got this obviously this is a really silly example isn't it so we've got this one and now let's say that we want to duplicate this now and I do want to make sure that this is actually in this folder so I'm going to drag that scene into that Christmas demo folder and now what I'm going to do is just duplicate this and we'll call this scene scene 2 and let's just edit this and call this scripture 2 obviously if you did want to put a camera in in fact let's just do this for for the sake of it I'll put my camera in there and let me get rid of that rather jarring green screen background and I don't know if you are going to be talking over it brother Phil or not but let me just put that in any case just in case and I'll make that let's make it a squircle shall we there we go and we'll change the border on that as well just while we're here messing about so there we go again this is all from a design perspective this is all totally shot isn't it in fact let me put this over this side how about this how about I make this one over here like that it's all a bit smaller isn't it but anyway you get the idea I'm just playing around here and just adding some stuff on to demonstrate so let me copy that one and then I'll just put that into scene 1 by the way in case you had missed the memo in ecom live version 3.9 you can copy and paste overlays from one scene to the next so if I come into this one and I copy that and then I go to this scene then basically I can press command V and just paste that in there as well so here we've basically got scene 1 and scene 2 so as I change that you'll notice although the position of that's just moved never mind if you notice the music in the background is just playing and the videos are now looping in the background as well and that's all happening basically independently of one another now because we have got these scenes in here in this folder what we can also do is we could add a timer into here so let's add a timer to basically advance to the next scene and what I'm going to do is I'm going to add the timer but what I want to do is make this transparent so I'll take off the background and then what I'll do is for the actual text itself and I'm also going to change the time from 10 minutes to basically 10 seconds so 15 seconds there you go and then what I want to do as well is if I just change the text so I want to change the text color to be transparent basically like that so now I've got a timer and it is transparent and it is just there so now what I want to do as well is if I click on the timer what you do is you say that when you've finished you want to go to the next scene so as soon as that countdown has finished it will just go on to the next scene and then what we're going to do is we're going to actually copy that timer copy I could have done this actually before but there you go let's have a little look if I restart it because it's actually stopped so restart it oh there you go it's actually worked so it's moved us on to the next scene now so now if I paste that time in there and we'll just double check that so that is auto-started on and go to the next scene is on so now what you can see in fact let me just change the color of this one just so it is really obvious that we are changing the scenes so now we're in this scene and when the timer counts down from 15 seconds what should happen is it will go on to the next scene automatically so you can imagine now basically building out a whole series of scenes if you wanted to with different overlays obviously with a little bit more design, thought and effort gone into it than this and you could either be talking over it and advancing them manually or if it was just something that was going to be played with these different messages and things coming up then you could just sort of get rid of the camera all together and let's put that up there and this thing would just loop endlessly now getting rid of my face again whoops wrong one so this is now just totally looping so if I come out of demo mode what you'll see is that this will just keep on looping now so there we go on the first scripture, all the music, all the videos all the overlays moving completely independently of one another as well so all the videos just changed there and then we're about to change back to scripture number one and so forth so the way that this works as well or the crucial element is just making sure that you have got the overlays all in a specific demo folder, in fact I'm just going to stop the music now I'm sorry to spoil Christmas let's come back to this and I'm just going to toggle my regular background on so that is basically the little trick there is to use that little looping thing with the overlays and the invisible timers so that it all just does run seamlessly so I think that that does answer your question brother Phil but if you've got any issues with it obviously let me know and I'll be happy to help out so hope that helped some more of you as well and if you did find it useful then oh that's a 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