Everyone, what is cracking? What's up, Alex? Alec, not Alex. Hey, how are you doing? Good, how are you? Man, we got 11 people already waiting. What's up, fam? Cool, cool. That's exciting. Are you guys excited for today? I'm excited. We got Mr. Ecamm here. He was showing me some things. I'm excited for the stream. What is going on? Cracking, you guys.  You know people that come on my stream.  I'll give it some time. That was perfect. That was absolutely perfect. See, I would've told you it was from Brooklyn, bro. That's so funny. What is going on, Dr. Elo? How are you doing today? Thank you for coming through. We appreciate you. Business growth ready. What kind of feedback? Bad feedback? You hear me okay? Yeah, Alec, we're all right. I think we're okay. No, I think we're good. All right. Purple paisley planner. Thank you for coming through. I appreciate you. Hey Gretchen, I'm gonna mute myself really quick. I didn't wanna blow everybody's eardrums out while I was yelling at the dogs again. What is going on you guys? All right, all right. My stream deck audio's acting a little funny. Mr. Camera Junkie, what is poppin'? How are you, Luis? What is going on? Hey one, hey peeps, Facebook user. The background and the sound effects. So is this better? I stopped it and started it again. And then what's with the background? Let me know. I may have to, I don't know what's happening with my stream deck. Everything was working fine when Alec and I were trying this before. Everything was okay. What is cracking? I know, I'm hearing it okay too. I don't know what's happening, but that's all right, it just ended. So hopefully, what is cracking you guys? Okay, now we're good. Now the music is gone. That's all I care about. As long as we're good there. Alec from Take One Tech, how are you, my good friend? Very good, thank you. Great to be on with you. I feel like we've spoken so many times before and yet it's the first time. I know, right exactly, that is so true. Like we're always messaging each other. We're always like whether it's in Discord, whether it's like on e-cam or let's get live or something. We've been on the funny one. Remember, oh my God, we cried. We laughed so much with the audio jungle last year. Audio jungle. Audio jungle, that was like such a funny stream. That was hilarious. But this is the first time you and I are on together. I'm very excited. So. Me too, absolute pleasure. We got some good stuff going on. We have Todd, everyone, when they come to the streams, they wait for Todd to come in. My stream deck is acting slow. But they wait for this. Everybody, what's for that? Let me unplug my stream deck. My stream deck is acting a little like laggy. So I'm gonna unplug that. But while I do that, why don't you tell the community?  So yeah, Alec from Take One Tech, I started the channel just over a year ago. And the whole purpose of me starting the channel was for me to practice the process of making tutorial style videos in one take because I was wanting to make course content for some of my other business interests and was basically pulling my hair out until it had all gone with editing. And I was not really my best, not really the best candidate for on-screen talent when it comes to editing because I found that if I knew that I could edit, I'd always try and retake things. And so then I'd end up with a massive job to do in the editing process. And that is just something that I didn't really enjoy. So I figured if there was a way that I could do this all in one take without the need for editing, then that would be the secret. I went down the OBS route and what little hair I did have left. I pulled the rest of that out with OBS. And then I saw Doc Rock on Mac Break Weekly talking about Ecamm. And yeah, that's how I got into Ecamm. And it's just enabled me to enable me to do everything that I've done on the channel really. I wouldn't have a channel without Ecamm. It's as simple as that because I wouldn't have the time to actually create all the content. And yeah, and so Ecamm coupled with Stream Deck, I bought the Stream Deck to control Ecamm with to make the videos and then realized that this was like a massive productivity tool. And so now that has become my favorite Mac peripheral if there is something. It's become my favorite bit of tech really to enable me to do lots of productivity stuff. So yeah, that's my little intro. That is dope. And so yeah, for those of you guys, like he said already, for those of you guys to understand, I think cause it's like, I feel like there needs to be more emphasis on it. Alec from Take One Tech, it's that literally he tries to do everything in one take. Right, like you don't, I know listening for me when I do prerecorded videos, my prerecorded videos, the amount of times that I start and stop and like delete it, like I'll end the stream. And I'm like, okay, let me try that again.  And it's like, I just need, and now I'm doing better with just letting kind of like bloopers come across and just, I hit pause, I used to literally hit record. And if I messed up, I would just stop the recording and start all over again. So. I can do that. I do do that. I messed up the beginning that it's the, if I'm talking about something I know about, then I've got no trouble sort of talking about it. But those little bit, the intros for YouTube where you've got to do the sort of hook to get people, videos for you effect, that bit still does not feel at all natural to me. And I often start and then within the first 20 seconds, I'm restarting, cause I've just messed up the hook if you like. So although it's originally, I was going to call it one and take tech cause it's all in one take as opposed to take one. So technically they not take one. Sometimes it's take two or three or four. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But definitely better than a hundred, right? And it's one of those things and you have your shirt on from press and so if you have your store, recovering perfectionist talk a little bit, a little bit more about recovering perfectionism and talk about your store. Well, yeah. I mean, this is part of the other side of the way to create these videos in one take is before I would be really self-conscious about, oh, I said this wrong or not wrong information, but just the phrasing of it or something like that or maybe pausing a couple of oms and urs might slip in there from time to time, things like that. Or just actually making a mistake. So in a lot of my videos, I'm talking about something and I get it wrong the first time, but then I say, oh, no, I've made a mistake. Never mind. Let me show you the right way to do it. I mean, it's just kind of rolling with those imperfections and before perfectionism was something that I think that perfectionism is amazing and great to strive for perfection because if you fall short of perfection, you're gonna be higher up than if you strive for mediocrity. But it's when perfectionism becomes a barrier to you actually putting stuff out. And so that was another thing about the channel really was just say, right, well, I'm just gonna go for it. And I did the first 100 days, 100 videos in 100 days. So that was inspired by Doc saying, you can't really judge how you're doing on YouTube till you've made your first 100 videos. And so it was a case of, right, well, let me just get those out of the way. And yeah, not really worrying too much about if it was perfect or not. And it still is far from perfect, but I'm happy with that now. So that's where the recovering perfectionism comes from. Yeah, and so you're one of the other people that, and you just did it recently, right? I think you ended what at the end of last year, you just did the 100 day challenge. It's like a couple of months ago you finished it. When did you finish your challenge? So I did 100 days was from the 14th of May last year until 100 days, and I hit that target. So then I did a stretch target of 365 videos in a year. So my one year sort of anniversary, if you like, on YouTube was on the 14th of May. I didn't hit that target though, but hey, I'm a recovering perfectionism perfectionist. So it doesn't really matter, you know? Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. I just had other stuff came up with work and whatever, but I ended up doing, I think it was around about 300 instead of the 365, so something like that. Yeah, just as good. That is amazing, 100%. Yeah, so, and I remember when you were doing it, I remember you were talking about it and stuff like that, and it was like every day, a new day, and you're doing it. And now I'm in the tail end of my challenge and exactly what you say about the recovering perfectionism, you know, I've just described it, that it's been, it allows me, I've found a new way to give myself grace for the mistakes, because right, you know mistakes happen, and I think I'm very similar, I'm very hard on myself. And I think that comes from like the corporate culture and like having a certain expectation where people need to like, they wanna see you in a certain way, and we have to deliver results in a certain kind of way. And so being so hard on myself, doing all of this, right, with having a full time job and basically taking a break for an hour and then coming down here and turning into a content creator, I've made mistakes along the way, but these hundred days have allowed me to say, okay, well, tomorrow's a new day, they'll be all right, you know, the community, they're not, and I think even with stuff like that, I think we, what is it like the mistake is more exacerbated from our perspective, looking at it versus our community, right? So when I do, go ahead, what were you gonna say? No, no, Kariana, I was just agreeing, it's from your perspective, you would notice the implications. Yeah, definitely. So I think like, so, and I know that you also do public speaking, well, prior to the pandemic. So the same thing with me, when I do like the first time home buyer seminars, if I used to, when I used to, of course, if I make a huge, like if it's a wrong, if I'm giving the wrong information, I have to perfect it. I have to, you're not perfect it, but I have to like correct it. But if it's a silly mistake that I use the wrong word in the wrong context, as long as it's not like the end of the day, right? It's not gonna get them denied for a mortgage. I don't point it out. Where I used to point it out before, right? And what I've found is that by not pointing it out, a lot of times people didn't even realize. So I think from right, the perfectionism is us as wanting to be perfect. That is just like the glaring headlights. And people were like, what, I didn't even know you made mistakes. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think that's similar as well to the, one thing that stops people starting is this sort of fear of failure. And with fear of failure, it's really like the thing that you're afraid of, I think in most cases is kind of a fear of maybe embarrassment, not succeeding at it perhaps. Then that comes from a feeling of thinking what other people are gonna be thinking about you. That's in a way you might be embarrassed about something. But then in doing that, you're actually putting like the worst possible case scenario of like the way someone could think about you. And assuming that's how everyone else is gonna be thinking. When in actual fact, if you do something, everyone's rooting for you to succeed. The people don't matter.  So we always put things in the worst possible sense, I think when looking at ourselves. Yeah, that is, oh my goodness. You listen in a nutshell, that is everything that every content creator should understand. And basically the basis of that is just having a community. And once you build out your community or once you become a part of a community, not even building out your own, but being a part of a community, right? The way we are with docs community, with Ecamm, right? With things like that, being a part of those communities, exactly that people are rooting with you. I've said that the people who show up, because I have the same probably 10 or 15 people that have been showing up every night for my live stream challenge without fail. Like K-Walk is here. K-Walk checks in every day for the live stream challenge. And I'm like, I don't think that they realized that they signed up for this challenge right along with me. I'm the one doing the talking, but they're still tuning in, rooting me on, right? Showing support, putting comments. It's like, you're just as much in this as I am. But that's huge, that community support. And it's like, all right, cool. It's not that much of a big deal. And it makes it easier to kind of pick back up and do it again tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. Cool, cool stuff. To be honest, I've got to mention again, I know you mentioned docs community and the Ecamm community, but both of those, I mean, but the Ecamm, I mean, docs community is amazing and part of the drop squad and all that. So having these sort of weekly one-on-ones and all that sort of thing is amazing. But the Ecamm one, I've just got to keep pinching myself to think that this is a community built around a piece of software.  It's just amazing that everyone is, I mean, it's helped me continually. Like I'm always learning something. Somebody put a video in the other day. I forget his name though. This is terrible. But he put a video in about how you can basically bring Google Sheets in as a widget overlay to Ecamm. I was like, oh my God, why did I not think about that? With the weather, I know. I was like, hold on. I need to like, I need to, what is this? I need to like, thumbtack this. I need to favorite this because I have to go back to this because how cool is that? That he's sharing that 100%. It's amazing. It's amazing. Well, so let's get into, because I want to make sure that we're going to do the giveaways. Everybody's probably here for the giveaways. They're not here for our pretty faces as much as we want to think that they're here for our pretty faces. They're really here for the giveaways. So let's share the screen with the giveaway and Paul will give the information. So we're doing things a little bit differently this time. We are, if you want to win because we know you guys all want to win is head over to IndiaD.live. Do not fret, Paul. Just put it in the comments here. IndiaD.live slash TOT giveaway. So make sure that you go there, fill out the information. All we need is, and this is my website. So it's not, your stuff is not being sold. It's not being, I'm not going to like farm your information. It's secure. Your name, your email address, your phone number. And then let us know where did you chime in from? Did you chime in from my page, Alex page or one of the Ecamm pages? And this is what we are going to be talking about today. So Alec has his own Ecamm live masterclass that we're going to go a little bit into next. He's going to talk about that over 130 lessons. And Alec has been so gracious to raffle away their giveaway and access to one of his Ecamm live masterclasses. So if you want to win that, you need to put in your information at IndiaD.live slash TOT giveaway. And the TOT is for take one tech giveaway. And then we're going to be giving away some icon packs. And those are just some example. We'll go into his store because Alex, how many Alec? I keep saying Alex, don't kill me. How many icon packs do you have? I think you have like what, eight or something maybe? Eight or 10, you have a good amount. Something like that. Yeah, I forget actually, I think at 80. It's like eight, you have a good amount. So we'll go into that next with the icon packs. But I just featured the Ecamm live icon pack that you created specifically for Ecamm live because obviously that's what we're talking about today. And then you have your total icon pack. If you scroll, can you scroll down some more? There you go, which includes over 3,000 icons. And Alec customized these himself. So why don't you talk about the icon packs? Like where did you customize them? And how long did it take you to do all of these? Yeah, so there's some that are specific to applications. So there's the Ecamm one, I've got one for Zoom, one for Keynote and some other applications. The 3,000 icons, I should say, is actually 150 different symbols with 20 different colors. So that's where the 3,000 comes from. All of the icon packs, I actually make them in Keynote because in Keynote you can select the size of the slide and so I just make a square slide and then it's just, because I spent so much time in Keynote anyway, it was just easier for me to just create these things in there, create a template. And so yeah, even though I use Adobe Creative Suite, I actually found that Keynote was an easier way to do these sort of simple pictograms if you like. Ooh, very cool. We should get together one day and even if we do a prerecorded video, I would love to see, because I've done it with using Canva, doing a customizing it, but not through Keynote. So that's actually pretty cool. Everybody is excited because like I said, everybody is here for the giveaways, Gretchen signed up, hey girl, hey, how are you? Paul just shot me a text message, he's getting the registrants. So just so you guys know and I'm gonna go through it very quickly, we wanna make sure that we don't get double registrants. I do wanna call to attention. There was, the winner who won on Sunday was kind of a double registrant, but it was not intentional. And I'm gonna take full accountability for that because she started off on Facebook and I'm always telling people, if you watch all of my streams, I'm always telling people, come hang out with us on YouTube. The fun is where it's at on YouTube. And so she ended up moving over to YouTube and I did confirm that. I looked at like the timing and things like that. So I'm gonna take accountability. I dropped the ball with not one, I didn't also talk about being disqualified. I didn't say that stuff. So now I'm just giving that. And there is at the bottom of that page, there is a disclaimer, please do not register more than once because you'll be disqualified. But that was a very, it was a non-malicious, I guess circumstance on Sunday. So I wanted to just clarify it with you guys in the community and to mitigate all of that. That's why we did this page here, where it goes to my website, you'll put in all the information. Paul has access to it on the backend and then he's going to send me all of the information. And then what we're gonna do, we're gonna do what we do because you know what we do is the, oh wait, hold on, that's the wrong one. Hold on, what am I doing here? The Wheel of Wonder. I tried to use your, I didn't do a good job at resizing. Don't get mad at me, Alec, I'm sorry. I didn't resize your image for the masterclass giveaway, but that's the image in the background. So as soon as I pull up the notes, we can start putting people in. Let me see, let me give Paul a text. Let me see. How can it be mad at the Wheel of Wonder? I know the Wheel of Wonder. Everybody loves the Wheel of Wonder, right? Let me just see, I'm just asking Paul. Hold on, he's texting me. Asking Paul if he start putting names, or I can just ask him here. Well, I didn't need to text him right anyway. Rupes wrong page. I'm like, listen, I'm trying to do these. Hopefully he's watching. Exactly, you would hope he's watching, exactly. I know he's texting me, for sure he's texting me. So even if he's not watching, at least he's watching the things, he's taking care of things, names yet on the note here. Okay. All right, so let me come back over here. So while we start, oh, that's what he did wanna remind me, because we wanna also, we're gonna close the giveaway towards the end of the stream. So we are, Alec, do you have a hard stop at an hour or if we go a little bit over an hour? What's your timing like? Cause I wanna, I probably shouldn't have put you on the spot live to do that, right? No, I'm cool. Any, it's 6.30 in the morning here. So I've got plenty of time. 6.30 in the morning on Wednesday. He is a full day ahead of us because Alec is in Thailand, if you guys didn't know. So he, it is a full, for those of you guys in the States, it is still Tuesday for us in the States. It is bright and early. So as soon as I spoke to Alec this morning, I said, hi, good morning. How are you? First thing bright in the morning. All right, cool. So let me put on the timer as well here. And yeah, we'll put the timer there. So we've been streaming for 22 minutes. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna change this. Let me edit this over here and let's do a timer for 40 minutes from now. So we are gonna do a timer from 40 minutes. So whoever comes in, people have 40 minutes starting now to come in, hang out with us, let us know you're here. Fill out the form on indiad.lives slash t-o-t giveaway. And then we're gonna give away some goodies. Ken is here, we got Mike showing up. Everybody's excited. Eric is only five hours ahead of only five hours. So he's still, oh no, it's still, it's Wednesday for him too there, but it's Wednesday like at two o'clock in the morning. Right, exactly right. He's always coming on the streams late. Oh my goodness. All right, so why don't we, Alec, let's get into your masterclass. I'll do the screen share.  Here we go. And talk to them about your masterclass. You have the floor, my good sir. Cool, so it's, yeah, it's basically a masterclass taking you from sort of beginner through to expert of e-cam live, but then also other applications that you might use around it. And the thing with it, the sort of inspiration came from, well, first of all, another masterclass I was doing, the Zoom masterclass, which is gonna be launching very soon. I've been saying that for a while, but I actually stopped doing that partway through because one of the whole things about the Zoom masterclass is to basically teach people who don't know about e-cam, how much e-cam can transform your Zoom appearance. But then in doing all the e-cam stuff for that particular course, it was kind of like, well, it's a no-brainer really, this is a course in itself because the majority of the way that you look better on Zoom is by e-cam. Correct, yep, 100%. So that's where this came out. And then also with my channel, I've got videos, you know, going back, in fact, of all the videos that I've done for the channel, I think around about 100 are e-cam. So I didn't set out to make a channel that was about e-cam. I set out to make a channel about the tech and the applications that I love using. And e-cam quickly became my favorite app, so hence there's loads of content there. But some of the videos that I've done, in fact, the longest video that I've got on the channel was a four and a half hour one take video that was start to finish with e-cam, how to get up and running with it. And it's still one of the most popular videos on the channel, but that was from e-cam version 3.8. So technically some of the information is out of date. Some of the ways that we do things are completely different. Like you don't need to make graphic overlays in Keynote anymore because you can do it all in e-cam with the borders and rounded corners and things like that. So I thought, well, what we need is something where it's like an online resource that's continually up to date so that you don't have to think, is this the latest information? Is there another way to do it? And that sort of thing. So that was kind of the idea behind the course that it is basically a continually updated resource covering everything, as I say, from beginner through to advanced. So it does cover the basics. So within the basic section, it'll take you through if you're totally unfamiliar with e-cam live, we've got everything about overlays and it's split down into the different types of overlay. So let me just zoom in a little bit. Camera overlays, image overlays, animated overlays. So they're split down into individual videos so that as e-cam is updated with new features and things like that, then it's just a case of, I'll update all of these videos as required so that it'll always be up to date. Introduction to scenes, how to do things with scenes, different types of scenes, audio, cameras and everything. So for the beginner really. But then we go and look at using e-cam specifically for live streaming. So there's a load of videos about live streaming, using it with meeting software. So I do talk about how to take it into Zoom, into Microsoft Teams, how to get the settings right in those platforms to give you the best results using e-cam with them and also with Discord as well. And then there's also stuff there about the stream deck because e-cam without stream deck is sort of missing something in my opinion. So I have got a whole section on the stream deck and the loop deck as well. So I do use both stream deck and loop deck. So there's an introduction to stream deck, how to use it, how to set it up, all that sort of stuff. And so yeah, it's covering everything really. And then also presentations. So one of the big things that I do with e-cam, one of the primary uses I have for it is for using in Zoom meetings but delivering presentations and online content and stuff like that. So using it with presentation software so that rather than just being a sort of talking head, talking to some slides, actually be having a more immersive experience where you're sort of integrating the slides with your presentation and using the green screen overlay feature so that you can bring in keynote slides but you'd be sort of a part of them as opposed to, as I say, just talking to the side of them. Right, right, yeah. So it covers all of that. And yeah, so not just e-cam but all of these sort of ancillary things that you'll use with it and then other software that you might want to use to help you with live streaming, things like that.  Fantastic, great stuff. So that, and yeah, it is lifetime access to anybody who does to sign up. So it'll be constantly updated as e-cam is updated with new features. It will be constantly up to date. Yeah, and I think, and so if for those because there are only one, we're only giving away one. So unfortunately there's 20 of you guys currently watching or 21 of you guys currently watching. We can't give away 21 of these. So only one lucky winner will get it. Talk to them about pricing for the other individuals who you want to definitely invests. If you want to learn all things, I know I'm always as much as I know about e-cam when I see Alec upload a video or even the stream deck, I have my masterclass. I always go and I'm always intrigued. Like how is he using it? What is he doing? What is, you know, the functionality? So you definitely want to listen and invest. So talk to them about your price points and what you have. Yeah, so the masterclass is $147 and that is one-time payment, but for lifetime access. So it's continually up to date. It does include $150 worth of bonuses. One of those is for new e-cam users though. So if everyone's already using e-cam then maybe that one won't apply. But there is some of the icon packs my Zoom icon pack, my e-cam live icon pack are included. Those are $10 in my store normally. So I include those with the course. There's also discounts on Camo by ReIncubate. So that's what I use for my, so you can use your mobile as a camera. So I've got a 10% discount on that and also Speedify, which is essential for making sure you've got a good connection to the internet and stable connection. So there's a 25% discount off that as well. And there's a few other different things in there that are sort of bonuses as for anyone who signs up. So that's the price point of it. Most of my icon packs are $10. I've got a couple in there that are just really small. So they are $2 on my store. It was seven by the way, I couldn't remember, but those are the different icon packs I've got so Zoom, e-cam, YouTube. Yeah, they're all $10. The 3,001 is 15. And then I've got this, the calculator icon pack and the pro mouse, which is $2 because they're basically just a few little icons. Very nice, this is awesome. And so we're gonna also get into pretty much next, going into, I guess we can probably do the e-cam live icon pack and Alec is gonna show me from a beginner's perspective. So I have a stream deck, I've used my stream deck, but like our friend, Mike Kola here, who purchased the stream deck about a year ago and still hasn't taken it out the box. Why? Mike, why? There's so many of you guys, I don't under, I just, it fascinates me that you guys have it and haven't taken it out the box. So for those of you guys like Mike and Gabe who just took his out of the box last week when he took my mini masterclass, Alec is going to be the teacher this evening and I'm going to be the student and he's gonna show us how to download one of his icon packs and how to customize the icons on the stream deck from basically start to finish. We're not gonna do every icon, but we'll do a few in e-cam live just to give you guys the general idea of it. And here is a reminder, if you guys wanna win an opportunity to win an access to Alec's, Alec, see that's what it is. When I go to say your name plural, it sounds like I'm saying Alex and it just throws me off. If you wanna win one of Alec's icon packs or access to his e-cam live masterclass, you definitely want to go over to indiad.live slash t-o-t giveaway, enter in your information and by the time this countdown is done, you can see we have 31 minutes for the drawing. By the time this countdown is done we will be moving over to what you guys love so much. Everybody's addicted to the Wheel of Wonder and we're gonna start adding in names here. Oh, Paul is already on it. So let me just come over here cause you guys love this stuff. And let's enter in our first batch of names, Boom Shakalaka. We have our first round of entries here so we'll continue to update this throughout the evening. All right. So Alec, and I didn't, how many icon packs, how generous are you feeling like giving away today? How many icon packs are you gonna give away today? You can give them all. Oh man, listen. All right, so he has seven so then we're gonna give away one. Go ahead. What were you gonna say? Yeah, yeah, I've got seven, but yeah. Do what you want. You're welcome to give them all away. It's not cool. All right, so let's give away seven. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna give away one of the icon packs to seven winners. So we're doing eight giveaways today. Man, that's tonight will be an action pack night. Keely, 100%, what is cracking, Keely? And I agree with her wholeheartedly. Let me move this over a little bit. She says, I love seeing how other creators create with the Stream Deck and other automation tools gives me lights. I agree. It blew my mind when Paul and I were sharing things and he shared his, you know, he just took a picture of his Stream Deck and I was like, but your Stream Deck looks nicer than mine. Like, how do I have a whole masterclass? And I like the way yours looks. Hold on, let's talk about it. And it's one of those things of finding the value, right? And understanding because we think differently, we operate differently. So understanding that and really saying, oh, I like that and just learning and growing from each other, I think is huge. All right, let's see. Let me see, what else do we have here? We want to give you, we want to give you something to ponder. What are you giving me to ponder, Gretchen? What? By the way, the icon packs, some of them are specifically, they've all got all of the icons as image files, but some of them are also specific profiles. So you can import the whole profile. I've got one for YouTube as well, which basically controls YouTube, but I wanted to control it in the background. So I also included with that the keyboard maestro macros. So I created a series of keyboard maestro macros, which allows you to basically control an application even if it isn't the front-most application. So with the YouTube player icon pack, that basically allows me to start and stop and speed up and rewind and everything. If YouTube is playing in the browser, even if I'm in another application. So that is really handy for when I'm watching tutorials to learn how to do something. So although some of them do include these profiles for Stream Deck, obviously the icons do also work for Loop Deck as well. So if you are a Loop Deck user, then you can use them with those as well, because I use the two together. Yep, we both do. We both use the Loop Deck and the Stream Deck. See, that's our, we just want to use all the tools and all the things. All right, so just moving the timer down a little bit. Why don't we get straight into, so what I'm going to do is I'm just opening up, I'm going to download the icon pack for Ecamm Live really quick. And then as soon as I download it, let me see, so I need to, let me go back. Hold on, I want to download. All right, cool. So now, and let me go back here. Okay, it's downloaded, what do I do? Literally now you teach, I downloaded it, it's in my Finder window. So now I'm giving you the stage. Okay, so if you've got the Finder window open within, you can see, I don't know if you can get that up or if you're just sharing a specific app. Nope. Oh, nope, let me change that over here just to do the page so it's easier. And let me just minimize this really quick. So it'll download in a zip file and then when you double click on the zip file, it will open up to a folder. So here's my downloads. The Ecamm Live is the second one, so I'm going to double click it. And now this is the folder here. Boom. Yeah. Okay. And so there you can see the different icons. So some of these are sort of two-tone and that's because we'll get to it in a little while but in Ecamm with scenes, for example, you can have it show a different icon depending on if it's the active scene or not. So the icons that we've got in there, there are a series of them based on sort of different scene layouts that you may have. So what I need to do is just have a look at what your stream that currently looks like, what you might want to add into there. Okay. So right now this is my, and these are all with the exception of this one button over here, that's music. Everything else is all Ecamm. So these are all run scenes on the bottom, previous and next scene over here, and then my camera switcher and my mic. Should I show what I've currently got my stream deck set up with help as well? Then I can basically just show you what I'm looking at here and it'll give a bit more context to it. So, and then we can get into. Which one are we gonna do? Are we gonna do, is it a window screen share? What I can do is I can share, I can switch my camera actually if I go to this one. I can show you my stream deck.  So there is my loop deck at the top, a lot of Ecamm cups on my desk. It seems like there is more Ecamm cups on my desk than anything else actually, but there you go. So this is what I have on my, let me zoom out a little bit. This is what my stream deck looks like. So these are basically all different scenes and the way that I've set these icons up is basically because of the way that I use Ecamm. I share different parts of the screen. So this one, for example, with this picture of a little person in the top and corner is showing me which area of the screen. I'm showing this one here with the head in it is basically a full, the main shot that I normally use. I've got other ones here for an over the shoulder shot and top down shot as well. And then these ones are all related to overlays. So a camera overlay where I'm bringing in the mobile, I should say rather than the camera overlay. And then we've got next scene, previous scene and things like that. So those are the sort of way that I've arranged those. I've also got some sort of sort of, what's the word, theme to them. So basically anything that looks like it's got these two sort of layers to it, that's basically signifying that it is an overlay. Whereas these ones that are basically showing you like which area of the screen with a picture of a person in it, they are basically different scenes. And then I also use ProMouse, which is the tool that I use for doing screen demos and things like that. So these three here are related to ProMouse. So putting a spotlight on the screen, zooming the screen, things like that. This one just here, this is the one that I set up, which is a multi-action. So that I mentioned before how I often don't do things in the very first take. I sometimes mess up the beginning and have to start again. So that is a little multi-action that I set up that basically stops the recording, then goes back to the main, the front, the first scene. But then also it presses the record button again because in Ecamm, when you press the end recording button, it will pop up that little thing up on the screen that says, do you wanna view the file, upload it to YouTube or whatever. If you actually press the record button on stream deck again at that point, it will dismiss that message. So having that as a sort of multi-action in there, sort of basically resets everything. And then I've got one here for, this is for my end scene. This is for a little stinger transition, which I've rarely used actually, but I set it up nevertheless. And then I've got buttons down here for, like and subscribe, buy me a coffee, all that sort of stuff. So they're all down there as well. And then on the loop deck up at the top, this is for where I have a scene set up for where I'm doing a promo or recommendation, if you like, for the main affiliates that I use. So whoops, a daisy, just gone to it by accident there. Hang on a minute. That's cool, that's okay. I liked it. So that is to do my little promo of Ecamm TubeBuddy set up and Epidemic, which are the ones that I sort of promote in my live streams. And then these are four different multi views. So I've got two people side by side, three people, four people and so on. And then these are for some like lower thirds. That's for demo mode at the top there. And then also when you go into a demo mode on Ecamm, using the accessibility feature to zoom in on a specific part of the screen, then I have that set to the dial. So I can actually just dial in the level of zoom using that. And then the rest of the dials on loop deck are all for the different controls of the mic, for sound effects system and things like that on Ecamm. So I find that the two of those devices actually work really well together. Yeah, I agree. The same thing I use mine, and that's a great setup. And it's so pretty. Mine is nowhere near as pretty. I need to get my life together. It's a little iPad stand actually. So it's an iPad stand holding the loop deck and then the stream deck is just on the bottom of that. So they are nicely sort of at the same level and angle and everything. Yeah, I was showing Paul says time to go shopping. I was showing the community yesterday. So there I found an Etsy shop online and he 3D printed a very similar stand to what you have. Oh, cool. I'll send you the link. It's not up for sale, yet he's putting it for sale because I asked him. I got the legs for the loop deck because you know that the legs that it comes with are very low angle, right? Horrible. So I did get upgraded 3D printed legs and I noticed that he also had stream deck stands. So I asked him and he was like, you know what? I never thought to use it, but I use both the same way you and I use both. He was like, let me build one out. He built one out and sent me pictures this weekend. They're gonna be up for sale this week and it looks just like your stand. It's a super cool stand. So remind me once we're done with the stream to send you the link because it's really nice. All right. Let's see, okay. So let's go back. That is great. Let me see. So let me go back to mine here. So now I have, so okay. So from a beginner's perspective, I have my configure stream deck. How are we gonna do this? Let's say using your icon packs. Right, so with the ECAM one, it's all just image files. So it's a case of once you have got a particular scene or something like that that you want to add one of the icons to, you've got one of the buttons there that is highlighted. And then you'll see down at the bottom, you can see where it's got the sort of information about that particular button. And there is the icon image over to the left there. And it's simply a case of just dragging and dropping the icon onto that space. Now, one thing about that particular button is that that's got the little two radio buttons down below. And what that means is that that button has two states. So it could be either on or off. And so with scenes, I've created sort of duplicates of the icons, one of them sort of light and one of them dark so that you can actually drop the two separate icons onto that. So you just sort of click on one of the radio buttons that you've got there and then drop the icon in and then switch it over to the other one and drop the second icon. And so then you'll see sort of on your stream deck, it'll sort of display which, you know, whether it's active or not. So first of all, I didn't know that you can drag and drop the icons from basically here onto the stream deck, think of figure, oh my goodness. All right, so let me make this smaller. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just try to split it here, all right.  You'll need to drop it onto the icon to the bottom part. It's a pity that it didn't make it that you could just drop it onto the actual top one. But I guess the reason they didn't is because it has got potentially two states for some of them. So I do find myself trying to drag it and drop it onto the actual button even now, just. Right. But this is cool.  So let me see, let me see scene one plus two. So let me just do, all right. So then what I'm gonna do is this one here, scene stream two. And so that's this scene here. I'm gonna click on this first button. And when I click on this first button, that's me and Alec, right? So that's scene stream plus two. So we're gonna come back over here. And all I'm gonna do is, and let me just go back to my screen sharing here. So I'm going to drag this just like this. Oh my God. I really did not know that you can do that. Do you know the amount of times that I was like, I would click on the icon and go, oh, how cool is that? And so now you can press on the little radio button next to it and then customize the second one. Then you'll see that as you go into that scene on your stream deck, it will change to be the light color, the active one if you like. Okay, so hold on. I clicked on the other radio color, yep. And then go into the one right next to it. And then drag it like that. Okay. So when that scene is actually active in Ecamm, then it will use the light colored one. But when it's not active in Ecamm, it'll use the dark one. So when you look down at your stream deck, it will basically light up showing you exactly which scene you're in basically. So that is how with this one, if I just quickly go to this, that is the scene that I'm currently in. Hold on, hold on, give me one second. So where is this one here?  So that is the scene that I'm currently in and it's got a light on so that I know that that is the active scene. And it just means that when you're trying to like navigate scenes and like flick around from one to another, you're always basically seeing which one you're actually, you're actually live with at that particular moment. So that's the reason for the two different icons for that. Listen to me. Listen to me. This is amazing. And Mike says, India's having way too much fun. I 100% wait, Gretchen says screenshot of India's face for that one. Listen, you guys can screenshot that. You guys don't understand. I need to, I don't understand. So this is what we're going to do over here. And let me see. So we're gonna come over to my physical stream deck over here and then I gotta change. Hold on, I gotta put Alec back on. We wanna look at Alec over here and there's Alec over here. So basically, here's my stream deck, right? I just gotta clear this out the way so I can see. Okay, cool. And so this is the, it's no longer active. So it's blue. So this was the scene that I did with Alec and I. So me and my guests side by side because I'm in the scene with the overhead camera. It's blue and so I'm gonna press it. And so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring in an additional camera overlay. And, oh look at my, oh I added, I forgot guys. What I was doing today, I added a background behind the scenes shot. How cool is that? That's, I'm back there. Thanks, cool. Anyway, totally forgot about that.  Look at this because now that is the active scene that we're in, that changed from yellow to blue. So that tells me, the yellow tells me, hey, you're in that active scene. How amazing is that? I 100% love that. Mind blown. All right, so let me go back over here. And so let's go back to this over here. And in theory, everything for the most part is gonna be the same. So do you have, let's see. I'm sure you have a next scene and previous scene. You have next slide, previous slide. Go ahead. Yeah, those arrows, you could use those forward and backwards arrows. Yeah, that one. All right, so. I actually don't tend to use the, I don't create a series of scenes and then go forwards and backwards. I always just have a specific button for a particular scene, but those arrows you can use for that. I actually use those for slides we're in keynote. So I use an overlay with green screen so that I've just got part of the keynote slide showing over the screen. And then I use those for going backwards and forwards through that, but yeah, equally the same icon for scenes as well. And so we're definitely on the same page with that. And when I go over my mini masterclass for the Ecamm on deck, that's exactly what I say. I show them what a run scene does and then I show what next scene and previous scene, but I always give the same exact spiel that you just gave. And I always say, I don't use it because right, so for people like you and I, we're going back and forth between different scenes, I feel like you can get very quickly fumbled. Like how I'm switching through so many scenes, you can get very easily fumbled with next scene, previous scene. That's only, so the only time, so it's so funny. And because you and I both work in, you know, a corporate environment during the day, that is when I do use next scene, previous scene, when I'm doing my presentations for the bank because I have a cadence. So not just for the PowerPoint itself, but also for the scenes. So I open up with like my bank intro with like the logo, then I go into my business card, then I go into the presentation. And then once I'm done, I work my way backwards. That is the only time, but that's because, and I'm repeating the same content literally. It's the same speech that I'm giving over and over again. So that's the only time that I use next scene and previous scene. Other than that, I'm just using one scene all of the time. Yep. But if just to show you guys again, so what I'm gonna do is this previous scene, I'm going to take this slide at previous over here, drag this down this way. And now it shows us that, right? And then let's see. If I come back and I highlight next scene, bring this over, slide next scene. And so now my stream deck is gonna look really cool like Alex's stream deck. And I'm very happy about that. Any other one that you think everybody should like use all the time? There is the one, if you scroll down at the bottom, there's one that says, in case of scene emergency. So right down on the very bottom row, sort of furthest to the left. Right, so what that is, is I would sometimes be doing something and I'd find that I would press the wrong button on, I'd go to the wrong scene. And so I just wanna get immediately back to the last scene I was, basically saying like, oh no, I pressed the wrong thing, I need to just reset, get back to where I was. And I think it's, I even forget the shortcut now in ECAM, let me just double check. I think it's command backspace is, let me say that in case that suddenly shuts everything down. Yeah, yeah, right, exactly, right. It's like, it's previous scene, but it's not actually the previous scene in your stack. It's the actual previous scene that you were on. And so by pressing that button, it'll automatically get you back to whatever the last scene was. So I always had that in sort of the bottom corner of the stream deck, so that it's like, oh, I've gone to the wrong scene, just let me take me back to where I was. And that was just using a keyboard shortcut in ECAM for that previous scene that you were on. Gotcha. What else? Yeah, it's the last you've seen is command backspace. So that's the keyboard shortcut for that. So how would you set that up? Would you set it up in what, like the stream deck, the system? So that one would, there isn't actually a button for it in ECAM itself. That would actually be a keyboard shortcut. So yeah, you would go into system. Actually what I would tend to do with that is make a multi-action, because if you press the keyboard shortcut command backspace and you happen to be in a different application, then it will activate that keyboard shortcut in that specific application. So the little trick to get around that is to create a multi-action. And the first action is to open ECAM. But ECAM is already open, so what it actually does is it just makes ECAM the active application. Okay, so let's do this from a beginner's perspective. So let me just go back up really quick. Okay, so multi-action, you press one button and it'll do multiple things. So to get to multi-action, we're gonna click on the stream deck plugin itself. Then we open it up. You have multi-action drag this over. It opens up an box. Go ahead. You can also just right-click in any one. There's a thing there to create multi-action as well. So if you're in a specific button, that's a sort of a bit of a shortcut. So then I'm gonna delete this, yep. We right-click and there's some three options. You can paste, create folder or create multi-action. All right. Okay. And so now from here. It will be a system from the system plugin. Go to open. Yep. And then you want to select Ecamm Live in there. So we're gonna click on choose. That's gonna open up a finder window. I'm gonna click on my applications. Choo, choo, choo. I'm gonna choose Ecamm Live. Okay. And then we want to do the hotkey from the same system menu. So we drag a hotkey over there. Yep. And then down in the bottom, if you just highlight where it says select and then do command and then the backspace. So command delete. Mm-hmm. Yep. The one just moved. I think that worked. So I think we might have actually, we deleted it from the actual thing at the top. So we got system open Ecamm in the multi-action. I think what it was is maybe we weren't in the actual content. So try to get over it again. Okay. Click to assign. And then where it says click to assign. Yep. Yeah, then just press command and delete. There you go. No. It's taking that out for some reason. Let me have a little quick look at this. Multi-action. Oh no, what do I do here? So, maybe it is. Second. Nope, yep, no problem. And just to give a reminder, because we are coming up to close the giveaways for the evening. We have less than six minutes. We have right about five minutes.  Slash t-o-t giveaway. I should have starred one of those comments. So let me just put t-o-t. Here we go. So you want to make sure that you, if you have not already, you only need to register once. If you have not already, register at indyad.live slash t-o-t giveaway. And you will be entered to win some icon packs and in Ecamm Alex. Alex's Ecamm Live Master Class. So we are, you got five minutes, Emra. Five minutes is when we're gonna close the drawing. You can do it, you can do it. Did we figure it out, Alec? Yeah, there is a backspace in the actual, the hotkey drop down. So that's it. I'm just trying to figure out how I actually put the modify key in there as well. So there is a backspace in there. So that's the way to add it rather than just pressing it because it's doing the same for me where it actually just deletes the actual action. Trust me to choose the most tricky one on the live demo. Right, exactly. Darn it. Let me see, so we do that. Oh, look. Oh, look, I got it. Look, oh, see, we're learning together. Okay, so we'll do the drop down and you hold, there you go, you hold down the command button. And then when you hold down the command button, you can see that it switches. So what I did was under the hotkey, click this little drop down and then hold down the command button and then we look for command backspace and that should have worked. Looks like it worked. Anything else that I need to add in here? So that should do it. So that should, although it looking like it just says backspace in there at the moment. I know. Just try that, do that one more time. Okay, so hold down the command button. And where is it, backspace? There it is. Okay, cool. There you go. So now when you press that button, we got there in the end, it should take you to the previous scene that you were on. Okay, so, all right. So let's customize this. So I'm gonna, oh no, I closed my stream deck by mistake. The software. So let me open the stream deck software again and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go back up and then this is the multi-action. This thing on the right hand side looks like some boxes layered on top of another. We're just gonna click this in case of emergency SOS button. Gonna drag this down over here and now it's on the stream deck. So then what I want to do is I'm gonna come back to my physical stream deck over here. That's this guy. It gets a little blurred out, that's okay. But what I wanna do is I'm gonna show you, it should take us back to the share. So in case of emergency, go back. It didn't work. Oh, there it is. Okay, maybe I didn't press it hard enough. There you go. It worked and it took us back to that page. So it's kind of a fancy undo. It takes you to the right scene. I love that because I am always messing up my stuff. So that is amazing. I love it. Very cool stuff. All right, so just a quick high level overview of you can see what we looked at. So Alec has seven different packs. The one pack has over 3,000 icons. You can see the amount of time and quality that he has put into customizing these icons. You can see I was like, I absolutely love it. So I can't wait to like get off with you guys and start customizing my stream deck to my heart's content. Let me see. So we said we were gonna, we went over your masterclass, what it looks like and the amount of time you spent into that. Over 130 lessons, lifetime access. Different icon packs. Giveaways. Is there anything else that we need to cover? What do you think? With the icon packs as well, there is a video obviously associated with each one. So with ones where I talk about how to use it with a keyboard maestro and stuff like that, then there is, don't worry if you don't understand any of those things. There is a video that goes along with each one that explains how to set these up. In fact, all of the icon packs, I made a video telling people how I made the icons and telling people how to set them all up. So technically they could go and watch the videos and do it themselves as well, but then making them available for $10 as well, if you can't be bothered to do it yourself or don't have the time to do it, then the icon packs are there. So I'm all about basically telling people how to do it and then just giving them the easy quick route if they wanna just purchase it as well. So there's a video explaining each one. Definitely, very cool, very cool. Let me see.  I definitely wanna connect with you. We'll schedule something because I think we should do whether it's a prerecorded video or a live stream where we show your method with customizing icons. I think that'll be really cool. Although just make your lives easier. Just support Alec and buy them. Like when Bradley, when Bradley had his gum road store for the overlays, I was like, he was teaching how to do his overlays, Bradley Vincent. And I was like, no, I'll just buy them from you. Thank you very much, make my life easy, right? Good. There is that. But the thing about Stream Deck is they are very personal and people are doing all kinds of different things. So even if you buy, I mean, the Zoom icon pack basically covers everything that you can do with keyboard shortcuts in Zoom. So that one is basically a complete pack. But with Ecamm, I mean, there's gonna be things that you might have, use cases that you might have at Ecamm that I haven't got an icon for, because they're very specific to my scene layouts and things like that. So definitely knowing how you can quickly and easily make them, I think is a really valuable thing. And yeah, there's so many other uses that people have got than there are icon packs available. I'm sure of it, not just from me. I should also say the other place, I'm gonna forget the name of it now, there's a great resource for icon packs as well. Sideshow FX, which they've got some really great ones, specific for like use cases, they've got all of the Adobe suite, all of things like Final Cut and so on. They do make a subset of those available for free on Stream Deck and Loot Deck. So if you go into the Stream Deck icon, the Stream Deck store rather and look at the icons, you'll find Sideshow FX have got a whole series of icon packs in there that are usually, I think around sort of 50 to 70 icons, but then you can go and buy their full icon pack for like Photoshop where there's over 300 icons, all specific for every task that there is in Photoshop. So I've just got to give a shout out to them because they've got some really amazing full links of full sets of icons for all sorts of different creative apps as well. Very cool. So I am just so you guys can see, thank you. We're gonna do, so I'm gonna give one last because the timer is done. Oh, I should do all of my overlays when I want to point to them right here. How easy is that? That's like perfect. Right? Yeah, I'm gonna steal that one as well. That's it, look how easy, me too. I'm like, okay, no, total wrong side of the screen. But this however is perfect. So the timer is exactly right. Like you can't get that wrong. It's like right in between you. The countdown timer is done. I'm gonna do one last round, one last run if you want to be registered for an opportunity to win either one of these icon packs. We're gonna give away one, so they're seven. We're gonna do one of each one. So we're gonna do seven giveaways and Alec is giving away access and access code to one of his master, or his masterclass to one lucky registrant. So there's eight giveaways today. You got, that's it. The timer is about to be closed by the time I go in and turn off the Kajabi site. That is as quick. So I'm gonna give you guys a few different seconds. And while we do that, just come back in and show you guys the Wheel of Wonder has been updated so far. So let me take a look at over here, perfect. So the Wheel of Wonder has been updated. I just wanna give last minute changes before I turn the page off. Man, everybody said that this was action packed. So while we do that, everyone says that this was action packed. So that's very exciting. Hey, Kali, how are you, girl? How are you doing? Thank you for, right, Gretchen. You know, I saw it this morning. It's Gretchen's birthday today. Wait, hold on. I'm like, I wanna like do all of the things. So, hey Kali, how are you? Gretchen, happy, happy, happiest of birthdays to you. I appreciate you. But K-Walk says this has been action packed. Kali said that she enjoyed watching the both of us together and someone else chimed in and also gave those sentiments. Everyone is loving the in case of emergency tips. So this has been extremely valuable for the community. All right, I got one more that just came in. I'm gonna wait, Paul is texting me. So Paul is texting me as soon as I get that text from Paul. Then I am going to probably swatch, okay, that is it.  Oh, let's see. So let me switch here because I have to come back on the back end and just turn the page off right quick. So now the page is off, let me save this. The, what is it? The registration. The registration, ladies and gentlemen, has now been closed. Oh, see how like I couldn't, is it here? Oh, I'm not gonna make sure it's always in the middle of me because like it was like, nah, there you go. No, over here, there you go. The registration has been closed. So now let us get back. This is what everybody's really here for. So let us get back to our screen sharing page. I have my registrants. The way we did it this evening should make, should mitigate any double entries. Paul was taking care of that. So we're good to go there. And I know you guys love the suspense music. So where's the music? Everyone loved this music. So let me make this full screen for us. And then, is it playing? All right. Are you guys ready? They, like the suspense was killing everyone when I did this. I know it's brilliant. Right, exactly. And then, you know, I took my time. All right. So now, okay, I'm gonna wait. Alec, when you tell me to click, I will click to spin. I'm waiting on you. Go. Wait a minute. All right, who's the winner? Who is the winner? Who is winning? Greg McCombs. So, Greg, we are giving away. So I'm gonna do seven. So let me pause this. I should have probably said that first. Greg and Paul is keeping, I should have done this the right way. Sorry guys. So we're gonna save the Ecamm Live masterclass for last. So the first thing we're doing is the, the icon packs. And Alec, what I decided was we're gonna do seven giveaways, but they can choose. So I'm gonna do seven people. And it doesn't, if they wanna do Ecamm Live, they can choose what they want. And then, Alec and I will coordinate with the winners and he will send you the links and all of that stuff directly. So the first one is Greg, you got an eight icon pack for Ecamm Live. So what I need to do is I actually need to remove this. So let me exit this full screen. Greg McCombs, let me delete that there. Okay. And everybody absolutely loves the suspense. All right. So are we ready? So let's do this again. Let's go full screen. And now let's do the suspense again. All right, Alec, I'm ready when you are. You tell me when to click. Gotta keep everyone waiting for a little bit. I know, I like it. I know, exactly. You're such a good sport. We need to do this together more often. We need to do this together more often. I absolutely love this. And, right, Howard, all right. All right, Howard. All right, so that is Howard. So that's number two. We have five more icon pack giveaways. All right, we removed Howard. All right, you tell me when to pull the trigger. I'm waiting on you, Alec. Cool, pull the trigger. All right, let's see. Woo, it was Greg, gregarious. Greg, all right, very cool. Congrats. Dr. Elo. All right, Dr. Elo, you have won the third one. Let me give you guys a break from the suspense. So it can kind of die down, and then I'm gonna build the suspense all over again, because that's what we do. So we got Dr. Elo, so we have winner number four. All right, so let me put my music back on. Let's get it starting. All right. Look at where Rich is waiting in it. All right, let me know, Alec, when are we ready? When are we ready? Cool, let's go. All right, let's go. Let me see. All right, let's see. Who's gonna be the next winner? Who is this next winner coming up? Is it Kali? Is it Avu? Is it Mack? Oh, that's a close call. Oh, Mack. Shark, Sharkowy? Sharkowy? Shark, Shark, Mack. Hi, that is the winner. All right. Okay, so that was, what do we have? Was that five? That was five. So we got two more icon pack giveaways. All right, let me see. So I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna click and... Okay. Hey, all right. Who do we got? Who do we got? Dale, Annette, Dale, Annette, Dale, Annette, Dale. All right. K-Walk, there's no way you're not registered. K-Walk, you better be registered. K-Walk, what the hell? How are you not? The registration has closed, my friend. I'm so sorry. Because they'll have me at the throats. Okay, so this is the last icon pack, right? Yes. Alec is like, whatever. I've lost count. Okay, this is the last icon pack giveaway. All right, so this is the last icon pack and then we're gonna go to the big one. All right. This is the last icon. Oh, Paul said I had five. Is it really five? That was four. Okay, okay, okay. You got two more. This is number five. Eric? Eric, you're right, Eric. Let's move, remove you. Look at the list is getting smaller and smaller. I'm actually what I'm gonna do is I'm going to add people back on so that everyone has an equal chance to win the master class. All right, so we have one more. So let me put the music back on. All right, this is the last one. Tell me when to pull the trigger Alec. Let me know. Go for it. All right, let's see. All right. I call the help from the assistant for help. All right. Gigi, Gigi. So the icon pack, seven people, 22 joined but didn't win. I'm so lucky. Listen, we got it. That's all right. That's these are good. It's odd. Okay, so that was fun.  So what I'm gonna do is we're going to put because I want it to be fair for the bigger giveaway. So we're gonna put everyone back on. So I'm sharing my page with you. So I'm just gonna delete here and K-Walk. You've been on since the beginning. I'm gonna put your name on for the big one because you have been on and you've been, how did we miss you? Because she was teaching. That's what it was. Or she was in a Zoom. All right. So we have that there and then I will add K-Walk. Rich isn't on here, neither. Rich is, is Rich on? What is, what is going on with you guys? Let me see. Let me text Paul because I saw a rich, big rich from promos. Let me see. I know that it's all on a, because this is the big one. All right. It's late for Alec. I know it's, well, it's early. It's early. Exactly. And Mike says to see Alec and India together is golden and the new ideas learned tonight is icing on the cake. Rich is not on. Rich, why didn't you sign up? What's wrong with you? Rich, you gotta sign up. K-Walk has been signed up to my stuff. If you don't sign up, well, it's too late now, Rich. Come on. All right. Let's go back. All right. Let's go back here. Rich, I'll put your information in because you have been here and you've been active and I'm not that much of a- That's true. He's that, he's already got all my stuff he's saying. Oh, okay. All right. So then you should have said that first, Rich. Jesus, Jesus. At least, you know, I try to be fair to the community. Fine. So Rich, you want to hang out with us on Thursday because on Thursday, you guys, the last week, the last day of giveaways on Thursday is when I'm giving away one of my master classes for the Stream Deck masterclass. So you want to absolutely make sure that you are through. All right. So I put everyone in fresh. We are good. Let me go back to full screen. Let me put on the music that everyone loves. All right. You want hardware. Well, you know, I'm giving away a $310, a promo. What is it? I'm calling it an Elgato level up package for- That package looks amazing. Yeah. So it's, what is it? The mini, I want, I want the stuff for myself. The key light, the mini key light, the arm, the Stream Deck pedal. I want all of that stuff. So basically whoever ends up signing up for the master class, if they win, they end up making profit off of it in reality. So Kali says that I need this track. Kali, I will send you the link. It's in the Stream Deck store. So the software that I'm, this music that I'm using, I got from free in the Stream Deck store. Okay. So I've given you guys enough suspense. We'll stay quiet for a second. And Alec, whenever you are ready, let me know. Let's do it. All right. Let's go. Let's do it. This is for the entry or to win access to the Ecamm Live Masterclass. Who is it? Mike, Gigi, Mike, Mike Reed. Oh yeah. How amazing is that? That is very cool. Very exciting. I just spilled water on my desk. So I need to make sure I don't like, it's all like, I'm like having a mini panic attack. I'm trying to stay cool on the camera. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. They got to keep a microfiber cloth close for like my, right? Yeah. Keep it close to like to wipe stuff down and it just sucked everything up. So how cool is that? I know, Gigi, that was very close. That was very close. So that is very exciting. This has been great. Alec, look, I'm right under an hour and 20 minutes we're at an hour and 18 minutes. So that was pretty good timing considering the streams that I do and the streams that you do because you can do some long streams too. So I know, very exciting. Everybody is saying congrats to all the winners. Can I give away the class? If you like, do you want to give away the class? Oh man, do you want to give away the piece? Oh, that's right. I think Mike's already signed up to it. I think that Mike is already signed up to it. Mike, OK, all right. So Mike, reach out to me and I'll hook you up on my end. So Mike, send me a message. So and Koa is saying that she wants me to be done. You hear her barking. So Mike, reach out to me. I'll hook you up on the back end. And now, because Mike has been so gracious, we have it was put back in the drawing. Put back in the drawing. Don't leave yet, Emra. Don't leave yet. Hold on. So let me come back over here. Let me do this really quick, because we have one last drawing. All right. Who's going to win? Who is it? Who is it? Who is going to win? Who is going to win? Dr. Elo Gretchen. Dr. Elo Gretchen. Dr. Elo. Oh, is this a good birthday for Gretchen? How exciting is that? All right. So Gretchen, for your birthday, you won access to, oh, I didn't, oh my goodness. I didn't even share my screen with you guys. What a doofus. What a doofus. Thanks, Rich. All right. Well, I pressed the button. I promise I pressed the button and I spun the wheel. You guys, you know, I don't even know. I can't even go back, but I promised Gretchen won. It was fair and square. I know I didn't show the wheel, Paul. Thanks for telling me late. Gosh, my bad, guys. But she won. So we're good to go. Mike, reach out to me and I will hook you up on the back end. S-O-S-S-O-S. I know, too late. Yes. Happy birthday to you. So that's a very cool present. Happy birthday to all of the winners. You can reach out either to myself. And so let me and Paul handle it with Alec. So just reach out to either me or Paul and we'll give Alec one nice listing overall. And we'll get him the information. And then Alec will reach out to you directly with the link or getting you into his masterclass because he's going to need some information for you guys on there. Any parting words, my good sir? This was fun. It has been fun.  But do you know what I mean? I feel like we know each other. It's been a long journey that we've got to know each other and it's the first time, actually, on-stream together. So, yes. Definitely. I know.  It's like we know each other. It was just like two old friends hanging out, having a good time. I had a very good time. So we definitely, I know it's hard because we're literally on two different days. You're in the future. I'm in the past. But we definitely should try to do this more often, help out the community and just give some cool tips and trips. Thanks, everyone, for coming and making it all fun as well. Definitely. It was good stuff, good stuff. And so let me do what I do. Where is, let me just escape out of here so we can do our countdown, our outro scene, if I can escape out. Hold on, guys. Bear with me. What's happening here? See, again, this is what happens when you have too much stuff, right? You have too much stuff. Oh, my music isn't playing at all. All right, well, maybe we won't. I mean, I can do one of my other streamdeck sound effects so I can. I mean, the music that I have in Ecamm is, I don't know, that's so weird. Oh, maybe. There you go. Cause I had sound effects muted. There we go. All right, my good, sir. I appreciate you. It has been great. You taught me some things, right? So it's one of those things. I hope that if it was for me, I hope that if it's anything that I, that the community could find value in is that even if you are, consider yourself an advanced user, support other community members and get to know your other community members because I learned stuff from Alec today and you saw that I was like, how cool is that? So. I'll be why in TV if they, are there any coupons for my course? So there isn't any running at the moment, but what I'll do is everyone who entered in their email, I can send a 20% off discount coupon code. I'll give that to you to send out to them. Nice. So we have the listee. It was worthwhile doing it this way because we have a list of organization. We have your emails. So Alec is going to create a 20% off coupon code for his masterclass. For those of you guys that signed up today. So that is like people are winning, winning, winning, that is great, great stuff. All right, you guys, I will catch you guys. Man, what was today? Today was day 73, 27 days to go. I think 26. No, today, I don't know. I know I'm in, let me see. So let's look at, oh yeah, yesterday was today. Yesterday was day 73. So today say 74, 26 days to go. Yeah, exactly. Oh, thanks for doing the math. I'm just a banker. Thanks for doing that. I just listened, I used calculators for that. All right, you guys, I will catch you guys. Manana, I appreciate you. Alec have a great day. You're starting off your day now and we will talk. Peace out you guys. Thanks everyone.


I'm here at the church of the Holy Sepulchre in the old city of Jerusalem and one of the things you would definitely miss are these bins here and I actually have seen these around Jerusalem, never had any idea what they were, Orin who runs a great website called TravelingIsrael.com did a great little short video about these so I'm basically replicating his efforts but explain these are actually bomb disposal bins but they're all locked now so basically what these were was that during times of less certain security in Israel they'd have these bins and you can just kind of see how intensely secure they are and any suspicious objects people would put them inside them, nowadays they're all locked and if there is a suspicious object which you will see happening in Jerusalem it's called a, it's a suspicious object and you'll see the bomb ordinance disposal teams called out, somewhat regularly the police will come close off the street and a sapper that's where they're looking for they use actually robots nowadays they'll send out a robot onto a bus sometimes somebody will leave their backpack on the bus just because Jerusalem is such a suspicious place the army will send out a sapper and that's what happened nowadays but I guess in previous times when things were less sophisticated this is what they had these literally bomb proof metal things and this is right inside the church of the Holy Sepulchre apparently there's also one outside the western wall I've never seen it but this one right here is quite conspicuous so these are one of the interesting things you'll see outside if you're traveling in the old city of Jerusalem


I was never going to lie, I was hitting, he kept on like bunting, like he tried to bun. I want to hurt you. I don't want to do that because he tried to bun you because he put it back on top. I want to know how you stopped the live though. And it won't count as he said. I feel real good out here though. What's up y'all, what's good? Can I see myself? What's good y'all? Are they actually talking? Yeah, they jumping in and out. I mean, it's me. Hey, you don't lie. You know you don't lie, girl. Love y'all. Hey from Italy. What's up, man? No, thank y'all for watching, man. You better help your phone, don't die. Gigi. Hey, what Gigi mean? Good game. Oh. Good game. Oh, is that for me? Let me see. That's my audience now. That's my audience. Hello, man. What's good? How many people we got in here? We got 26 people. G-World, yes. Yo. What's a UG tablet? I use a UG tablet. I got an Amazon. It's like a cheap version, but it get the job done. Nah, you the goat. You the goat, man. I make a video on how to make a YouTube. What does Chee World mean? Okay. My name was Chief. My grandma gave me a nickname because I had a rat tail when I was a baby. And then over time it started turning into Chee. And my aunties and everybody started calling me Chee. And then I just added world to it because I feel like I'm inviting everybody to my world when I'm creating. Yo, it's like Chee World. So I'm giving you my outlook on life. What's up? Hey, man, y'all leaving the comments which I think I should make more videos about. Do y'all like when I blog? You can tell them they want to see me again. Oh, that's what's up, bro. How many you got? Appreciate you. I'm going to do some more on the Nipsey hustle. Oh, the music I use in my vids is beats I make. And my friend make a lot of my beats as well. Because I make beats, too. So I just create a quick beat and I just keep adding it to my videos. I appreciate you, bro. My phone about to die, man. So if I go out, just know what happened. Hey, do y'all like when I blog? Should I start blogging more? Yay or nay? Somebody say yes or no? No, you don't like that? Yeah, somebody say yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, we got more years to know. Yeah, we got more years to know. Yeah. Blog it up. All right, y'all. I'm thinking about adding that to the content because I just don't want it to be. I don't want it to get, you know, I'm saying boring. So I'm going to try to keep it live for y'all. Chief. Oh, chief. I can do it. I can do it. How are they talking? How are they talking? Hey. Just ignore this. Okay. How to make perfect drama on Adobe Draw. Oh, it's pretty hard on Adobe Draw. It's like... Well, tell them I'm good on Adobe Draw. Tell them I'm my dreads. Yeah. It's been a while since I had all these done. Oh, I'm good on it. I'm going to go for you, man. Natural. The natural way is the best way. Hey, Braden. Hey, Braden. Man. I'm going to start going live when I draw on my channel. As soon as I get back, I might go live with y'all so y'all can ask questions. We've been here since three. Yeah. Nah, I quit. I quit that like two years ago. I don't smoke. Nah, I quit, man. I got a natural high. I like working on my computer more, but the iPad it's pretty it's pretty easier as I would say. What do I work? I work for myself. I'm a hustler. I'm a hustler. I pay for Adobe. I don't even know, man. He just let me use his account. Oh, your Procreate is real good if you're using like a tablet. That's like one of my favorite programs to use on the iPad. I really don't use Adobe Draw. But Adobe Illustrator and Procreate. But if you ain't got the money for Adobe Illustrator, you need to get Clip Studio Paint. That's the best program. And it's cheap. And it's a pretty dope program. Nah, pretty sexy, bro.


playing what's going on in St. Graven here with another video. Man, I feel like I haven't seen you on such a long time. But anyway, team keeping clean. In this video, we're here to talk really quick about the game we just finished watching between the Falcons and the New York Jets. And first and foremost, shout out to the Falcons for winning. And also shout out to the New York Jets for really fighting this game. I thought the New York Jets were gonna win. I really did. I'm just being honest. Ain't nothing against Falcons, but I feel like Falcons been kind of slipping by the New York Jets haven't been, they've been going sort of at a steady pace. They haven't been exceed, or they have been exceeding expectations, but this stock hasn't really been rising, but it also hasn't been dropping. So they've been going on a steady pace, but I felt like they've been pretty much in all their games for the most part. They've been doing their thing and they've been keeping up. They've been keeping up with all these different teams. And they, yeah, you're right, Pirro. They did have a lead this game, but they just didn't hold on to it. But anyway, before we get into this, let me introduce myself. Me, I'm engraving vids. This is my YouTube channel, engraving vids. And I'm a Ravens fan. And my Ravens actually won a game last Thursday. So it's not about us. It's not about us. But this is about the Jets and the Falcons.  If you are Jets or Falcons fans, or just a fan of football, period. Make sure you subscribe. Subscribe to the YouTube channel, turn your notifications on, and leave a like on a video. It's 20 people in here, but it's only four likes. Y'all make sure y'all click the thumbs up button. Now, this game was sloppy. That rain started coming down heavy. It started coming down heavy. But anyway, I want to fast forward, because this video's gonna be pretty quick. I want to fast forward to the fourth quarter. Fast forward to the fourth quarter. The Jets had a lead, but then the Falcons, they went right through a perfect, no, first we're gonna back up, because Tevin Coleman, when he got that long, when he broke that long run, I thought it was gonna be a touchdown. I really did, but shout out to the Jets, that ended up tackling. I don't know his name, but he deserves a lot of credit, because he didn't give up on the play, and that actually ended up saving the game for the Jets, because if the Falcons were to score the touchdown right there, no, excuse me, they did score a touchdown right there, excuse me. That saved that drive temporarily for the Jets. It saved the drive temporarily for the Jets, because Tevin Coleman could've easily scored a touchdown, because I do it, obviously he got the speed, and he was breaking the tackles. I thought he was gonna slip, because when he broke the tackle, he kind of like almost lost his balance, but then he called it and it started taking off. He took off, but he ain't take off far enough, but he took off, he took off far enough for Matt Ryan to throw a touchdown, a couple of plays later to Mohamed Sanu, which was a perfect touchdown, and especially in those weather conditions. In those weather conditions, for just to move the ball, it's a lot harder, so with the way the rain was coming down, you have to have a good running game. You have to, you have to. If you don't, you're doomed. If you don't, you are doomed. Unless your passing game is just that fire, where your receivers are catching in the rain and they making plays happen. But anyway, they scored, and then the Jets, they couldn't do it. Oh no, I think they ended up getting a field goal after that, and then following that, Matt Ryan and the Falcons had the ball, then the Jets stopped them from, they stopped them, so they forced a punt, and with that forced punt, Jeremy Curley went back to go catch the punt and he ended up muffing it. But thank goodness for the Jets defense, they held the Falcons out of the end zone right there and held them to a field goal, so they still had another chance, and the Jets just couldn't do it. They just couldn't do it. They could not do it. So I really thought they could win this game too. I really thought they could win this game. I thought the Jets were gonna actually come through and make something happen, pull, sort of. I wouldn't even really call it an upset if they were the one, but I mean, they didn't do it. They didn't do it. All the Bengals just won. Well, congrats to the Bengals, man. So yeah, it was tough, man. Tough game for the Jets. McCann, Josh McCann, a lot of respect for that guy. A lot of respect for that guy because that dude is real deal, man. That dude, we know him from being Ravens fans, that dude is real deal, he brings it. Oh, shout out to Matt Ryan too. I don't wanna just put this all on the Jets because the Falcons, their team too, they had to come in there and play a game.  So shout out to them. Y'all make sure y'all leave a like on the video. But yeah, Matt Ryan, he came in, did his thing. Not his best game, but definitely not his worst. There was a lot of fumbles in this game because all that rain, a lot of bad handoffs and whatnot. Just a lot of sloppiness and more so on the Jets. Something that stuck out to me at the end of the game was the Jets, their final drive. Their final drive, just the time management. The time management was just, it was just bad. It was like almost sickening, just watching the Jets. You were in a position, you gotta get a touchdown and win. You got a minute and seven seconds left. What's up Rashid? And they just, they were moving so slow like they didn't even care. They were just, oh, lolly gagging, taking their time, doing this, doing that. And they were just getting up slow. They didn't have any time now. So they were walking, it was almost walking to the line of scrimmage like in slow motion. Like they were like zombies or something like that. And I'm like, man, does this team even really care about winning, man? It was just like almost sad, man. It was sad. It was sad. And then after that, they won their last drive and then the very last play when they had two seconds left and they tried to spike it. And the defensive linemen ended up picking it off. But the pick didn't count because the penalty was like an illegal shift or illegal formation because the tight end wasn't set. And then there was a 10 second runoff because when you get an offensive penalty, whether it's a false start, is it any offensive penalty will cause a 10 second runoff? I know false starts do an illegal formation. Maybe it's any offensive penalty. I'm not 100% sure on that. I'm sure somebody in the comment section will let me know. That's why I appreciate y'all. But the Jets ended up getting a... The Jets ended up getting a... Oh, they ended up getting the penalty and it was a 10 second runoff. So that was the end of the game. And that was that. So it was just sloppy, man. It was sloppy. It just seems... They didn't mention it during the game that the team doesn't have any leadership because they are so young. They're a very young team, which is understandable. Understandable. So they got a ways to go, man. But the Falcons, somebody asked me before the season, oh, engraving, you think the Falcons are gonna have a Super Bowl hangover? And I said, no, I don't think they're gonna have a Super Bowl hangover. I said, I don't think they're gonna make it back to the Super Bowl, but I don't think they're gonna have a hangover, though. But yeah, Falcons did it, man. They did. Cause I feel like with Falcons, they talented team, but they're just different. And are they deflated from that last year Super Bowl game?  Like I said in a video before, you can't do that game over. There's no possible way you can get revenge for that game because it's the Super Bowl. It's the Super Bowl. And that's it. It's not a regular season game, it's not a pre-season game. It's not even a playoff game. It's the Super Bowl. You cannot possibly, you can't come back from that. You can't. There's no way you can get revenge on a Patriots for that game. You can't. Cause that's, it's only one Super Bowl every year. But are they still feeling that the effects of that Super Bowl? I can't say, but I can't say. But I don't see them doing much in the playoffs this year cause they just been so shaky, man. They've been so shaky. They've been really shaky. They haven't been solid this year. And I know their record, what are they, four and three? But they're real shaky four and three. Real shaky four and three. So they got a lot of improvements to make both on offense and defense. Cause their offense ain't been explosive like it used to be, man. It really ain't been explosive like it used to be. So we'll see what happens with that. But anyway, appreciate y'all watching, man. Thank you. Appreciate y'all. Chris, shout out to your team for winning all y'all Falcons fans. Shout out to your team for winning my boy Laval, Gamer Guy, all y'all, man. Matt, everybody, man. So appreciate y'all, man. Thank you for coming through. And I will see you guys after some of these four o'clock games. Appreciate y'all. Make sure y'all leave a like on the video. Subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't already. And turn your notifications on if you haven't already either. Appreciate y'all watching and I'm out, man.


Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in this session. We would look at the direct write-off method This topic is covered in introductory accounting course As well as the CPA exam as always I would like to remind you to connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so YouTube is where you would need to subscribe. I have 1600 plus accounting or I think finance and tax lectures This is a list of all the courses that I covered including many CPA Questions if you like my lectures, please like them click on the like button It doesn't cost you anything share them put them in playlist if these videos are benefiting you It means they might benefit other people Especially these days with the corona virus out there many students are relying on online Education and please connect with me on Instagram on my website for head lectures calm You will find supplementary information Especially if you're studying for your CPA exam or if you would like to supplement your accounting education So let's talk about the direct write-off method. What is the big idea here? Well, the idea is this When we sell on credit when we sell and we allow the customer to pay So let's assume we make a sale of $10,000 and we ask the client to pay us later We didn't ask them. We offered them to pay later. So here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna have an account receivable For $10,000 And we're gonna have a sale for $10,000 as well now A fact of life that some customers some customers may not pay their bill For many reasons now for you as an individual you should always pay your bill. Otherwise, your credit will be Negatively affected but the point is some customers may not pay some businesses may not pay because simply they don't have the money They they simply they cannot afford it. They're filing for a bankruptcy. There's a dispute. It doesn't matter The point is they're not gonna pay this account receivable So this account receivable cannot stay on the books as an asset because now it's misleading You're saying you have an asset of $10,000 in reality. This asset is worthless. Why is it worthless? because You don't expect to be paid. So what you need to do you need to write off the account you need to remove the account so one way to Write off the account is using what we call the direct write-off method the direct write-off method So simply put some customers may not pay their account Incollectible are referred to as bad debt. So this account receivable here of $10,000 Will be referred to what it's gonna be transferred not referred to it's gonna be transferred into an expense called bed debt expense There are two method to do this There are two method to account for bed debt. There is the direct write-off method method one and the allowance method is method two So I'm gonna tell you right now in this session. I'm only gonna cover the direct write-off. Although the direct write-off is not a Gap method. So it's not an acceptable method for gap The allowance method is a gap method. This method is the gap method But it doesn't matter for now. We need to learn both. We need to learn both So, how does the direct write-off method work pretty straightforward, let's walk Let's what let me walk you through an example. It's pretty simple pretty straightforward and easy to use Let's assume we sold that comes old $520 worth of goods to Jay Kent on August 1st year one simply put we debit account receivable Jay Kent 520 we credit sales 520 now we sit and we wait until Jay Kent pays us the $520 August August went by Jay Kent did not pay September went by Jay Kent did not pay so we kept sending notification to Jay Kent to pay But Jay Kent is not paying their bill. So what's gonna happen then? After after a period of time depending the company might have a six-month period a year two years Whatever whatever period they have at some point they will give up in other words They would say we don't think that Jay Kent is Is going to pay us so simply they will give up once they give up once they decide that they're gonna give up They're gonna have to write off this account. So this account has to be gone. This account is no longer a Valid account receivable. So what do we do when we write off an account under the direct write-off method? I'm being very specific. This is the direct write-off method We credit this account to remove it and we debit an expense called bet that expense by doing so We wrote off. We wrote off the Jay Kent account receivable We wrote it off wrote it off means we turn the account receivable into an expense. That's what we did So this is the concept of a write-off. This is the concept of a write-off So when did we do so? When did we do so is when we decided? We tech com decided that I don't think we're gonna give up. I don't think we're gonna be collecting the money from Jay Kent. Okay Also notice that the customer specifically is identified. We identified Jay Kent So when we remove the receivable we specifically identified Jay Kent notice that the specific customer is noted in the transaction So we can make the proper entry in the customer account receivable subsidiary ledger So we remove them from the subsidiary ledger Now let's assume remember we wrote them off. Let's assume somehow Jay Kent Decided to pay their bill. Let's assume on March 1st You know like we wrote off the account in January almost 50 days later They were able to make a full payment. What do we have to do if the previously written off account is now paid? Well, we have to make two Entries we have to make two entries the first entry is to reverse what we did on January 22nd Simply put we have to put back the account receivable on the books So we have to debit account receivable credit bet that expense to remove the to eliminate this entry basically those two entries Eliminate each other now what we do is we debit cash and we credit account receivable now We debit cash and we credit account receivable for five hundred and twenty dollars and the direct write-off method Why is the direct write-off method is not a gap method because this is what I told you at the beginning I told you this is not a gap method There are there are reasons why it's not a gap method and hopefully you kind of notice why it's not kept a gap method As I was doing the problem. Otherwise, let me tell you why the expense recognition principle is not followed What is the expense recognition principle the expense recognition principle require that expenses be reported in the same accounting period as The sale they help produce if you remember in Jay Kent the sale took place in August and the expense took place in January We're gonna be assuming this is year one and this is year two so we made the sale in August for Jay Kent for five hundred and $20 and the expense when we wrote off the account was in year two This is a violation of the expense or matching principle because the sale took place in one year The expense took place in a separate year. So this is one of the weaknesses major weaknesses of the direct write-off method now The materiality constraint permit direct write-off method if the result are similar to the allowance Now, we don't know what the allowance method is but simply put if the direct write-off and the allowance method gives you the same Answer the same number then you can use the direct write-off method. So simply put The direct write-off method usually does not best match sales With expenses, that's the problem with the direct write-off method. So who uses the direct write-off method? Well, I'm gonna tell you when do you use it for tax purposes? You would use the direct write-off method also small businesses uses the direct write-off method businesses that have low or no No write-offs. 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