I'm going to come on to voice. Hopefully you should hear me. Ope. Ope. That was my bad. It's fixed. I was worried there for a second. Voices in your head? Yeah, yeah.  Indeed, video voices in my head. Which that being said, and I will put this in chat as well, but we are also streaming this live to YouTube. So, and grab the link without making myself have a horrible echo. Okay. Here you go. Okay. I'm closing that. So today, and I will put this here too as well. Today we have with us Michael Bailey, Marcus Llewellyn in Second Life. Oops, I lost the second part of that. Who's going to present on screen capture and live streaming to YouTube, which is very meta because we are indeed streaming to YouTube. And a little bit about Michael. He's been working with technology for the past 24 years. Originally a programmer. He discovered Second Life in 2007 and then became invested in the Open Simulator project in 2009. Since then, he's acquired expertise in scripting and building virtual environments, as well as familiarity with the Open Simulator software and its configuration. And as an open source advocate, he makes heavy use of tools such as Blender and Open Broadcaster Studio, which he'll talk about today. He's streamed for the Open Simulator Community Conference, OSCC, since 2014, which is also coming up again. So I'm sure he'll chat a bit about that. He was instrumental in the OSCC 2016 live streaming setup, the coordination, training in the AV promotional materials. Currently he's a staff member at Avocon. He's dedicated to promoting projects for social good by means of video tutorials, presentations, or useful software and content creation. And to make it a little bit easier... Oh, and if you're going to follow along, because this is kind of workshop style if you want to do it today, you can download and install Open Broadcaster, and that's at obsproject.com. And in order to go through some of these steps, you'll have to have a verified YouTube account, and that's youtube.com. He'll go through that stuff too. And then lastly, for those who want to follow along, there is... His slides are available in World... I mean, sorry, outside of Second Life at that URL. And the workshop curriculum as well, which has a lot of the text. So if it's easier for you rather than kind of what I'm typing, you can also follow along there. And with that, I will turn it over to you, Michael. Alright, thank you. Thank you for having me here again. I think you need to probably unmute. Indeed. Yep, sounds good. Sorry. Yeah. That put me off kilter. Yeah, so thank you for having me here again. This will be the third time I've presented at Nonprofit Commons. So for some of you, this will be the third time you've seen it. And thank you again for coming again. But yes, I would like to welcome you all to this presentation workshop on Open Broadcaster Studio. Open Broadcaster, which is often simply referred to as OBS, is a tool that allows you to perform quite a few tasks with video and audio. Examples include desktop or window recordings, video device capture from sources like webcams or video cameras, and the ability to set up various types of sources in scenes that you can switch between, making it behave like your own miniature television studio. OBS is free. It's open source, and it is cross-platform with installation packages available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It has been under active development for a long time now, and it has a thriving community. And the developers are very responsive to the needs of their users and put out updates quite frequently. Although it has become most popular with people who stream video games, it has a lot more potential than that. You could use it to record in-world meetings, presentations, lectures, tutorials, much like we're doing now. And you could even use it to coordinate multiple cameras in a real-world setting like a classroom or a real-life presentation. You can add titles and text to your video. You can seamlessly transition to other sources, other inputs like if you need to show a video. You can seamlessly transition to YouTube or play an audio recording or show a website. Those are all part of OBS. You can do that all within that software. And you can record. You don't have to stream. You can simply record your presentation. You can stream. Of course, that's the broadcaster part of the name of the software. Or you can do both at the exact same time. But before I get into Open Broadcaster Studio itself, I would like to go over some useful information that is good to have on hand before you record or stream. There are some useful optional tools. And to augment OBS and get the most out of it, there's some extra hardware and software that you should be aware of. If you're going to stream from your desktop and plan on speaking, a good quality headset is a really good idea. Gaming headsets tend to have the best microphone quality. And the one I use is the Corsair Gaming H2100 headset. Gaming headsets can cost hundreds of dollars. And if you're budget conscious, this particular headset has a lower price point and great quality. It's a little bit older, so you may have to find it on clearance or something like that. But if you like what you're hearing right now, this is a good headset. Or of course, if you have lots of money to throw at a gaming headset, buy a better one.  These microphones can provide extremely good clarity when speaking. They're also quite sensitive and can pick up sounds from quite a distance, which can either be a pro or a con depending on what you're trying to accomplish. For example, my microphone can pick up sounds in other rooms of the house. So when I use it, I need to run around and tell everybody to be quiet or occasionally bother a cat. But that can be a good thing, for example, if you're using a microphone that you want to pick up sounds from the entire room. I personally use the Blue Snowball USB microphone, which again is a budget selection. But it's got great quality, pardon me, quality. And the Blue Brand has a number of microphones that you can choose from if you want something that's a little better, even than the Snowball. Can I jump in here for a second? Absolutely. Fidget asks if you are using a soundproof room. I am not using a soundproof room. No, no, I wish I had one. Basically what I tend to do is simply close all the doors. And there are, it's something I'll get into in a little bit. OBS does have some built-in utilities that let you, for example, filter out noise. So you can make use of that. So moving on, if you want to broadcast your real-world self, you'll want a webcam. Many of us probably already have one built into our laptops or all-in-one computers or have one with our desktop. But the quality of these can vary a great deal. And if you're not happy with yours, you might want to consider the Logitech HD Pro C920. And actually, or any Logitech HD Pro newer than that. And it works great under most lighting conditions. Even, we actually used one recently in a real-life event. And it works, you know, it's not the world's greatest camera, but it works surprisingly well in a low-lit real-life environment. And with USB extension cords, I could even easily see these being used as multiple cameras in a classroom or a small lecture area on the cheap. It has a wide field of view. It does 1080p video. And like I said, it works great under most lighting conditions. Having two or more monitors is a real boon when live streaming, because this allows you to have your viewer on one monitor fully maximized and OBS or any other related utilities on another monitor. And while you can certainly use OBS with one monitor by setting OBS to stream in a record and then putting it into the background, you won't be able to as easily monitor the live stream or make changes to it. And when using the full studio mode of OBS, where you can switch between scenes and sources, two monitors is practically a must. So if you're doing something that's especially important and you have an extra monitor on the house, go steal it from someone else. Something that is a definite extra but is great to have if you're doing in-world recording or streaming is a 3D mouse. And probably the most familiar one to many of us is the 3D connection space navigator, as the viewer has support for it baked in. Using this to control your fly cam allows you to have a nice smooth movement or even something that can resemble a crane shot or something even more fancy. At Virtual World's Best Practices in Education in 2016, I was filming John Pathfinder Lester's keynote presentation and he's such a pleasant, wonderful, joyful spirit. And of course, he came dressed as a mesh penguin. But not just one, he could and did summon a whole huddle of penguins to follow him around as he ran all over the stage. He threw fish at the audience and, you know, when he dismissed his waddle of penguins, they flew up into the sky. So it was a real, it was a great joy to film. It was a lot of fun to film. But wow, the 3D mouse sure came in handy when I was doing that keynote. And finally, on the tool front, getting yourself a camera hud can be a lot of help. A camera hud allows you to switch your viewer's camera to preset positions quickly and on the fly. If, for example, you have a panel of people on stage, something like we have here, you could do a preset for a close-up of each person, as well as a preset that showed the entire panel or maybe another preset for the slides and maybe another preset for the audience. There are a number of good camera huds on the Second Life Marketplace and they're definitely worth taking a look at. But if you'd like a free one, and it's a pretty basic one, but it works just fine, we also have one available here for you to grab a copy of. And this one is the progeny of the hud that we've been using at the Open Simulator Community Conference for the last four years. The original creator was Eswaldo Vellada and James Etloud, also known as James Lloyd, made further modifications and improvements to it over the years. And the version we have here contains my contributions that add more features and optimizations. It is Creative Commons licensed, so if you'll be able to take it, modify it and give it away. And to get it, all you need to do is make sure you just click in that big gray box that's sitting out on the stage here, which, and that will get you a folder that has the camera hud and also a note card with a list of resources. The slide screen is not cooperating with, there we go. So, we want to get the best quality for our audience to have the best possible experience in viewing our live stream. And one of the most important aspects of this is our upload bandwidth speed. Upload bandwidth is not the same as download. Download bandwidth is a speed usually advertised by internet service providers. Upload speed is different. When you're streaming, you're pushing data out, and that's upload. So, to get the best results, you're going to want to have at least 2.5 megabits per second of upload speed. This will allow you to have a 720p video stream at a reasonable quality. And if you're unable to determine what your upload speed is, some ISPs make it really hard to discover that number. A good way to find out is just to use a speed test online. www.speedtest.net has a test that can be a pretty good way to figure out just how much upload bandwidth you have. If you have less than 2.5 megabits per second, don't worry, you can still stream, but you're going to have to stream at a lower resolution like 480p. And the higher resolution you stream at, the more upload speed you will need. For a 1080p stream, for example, you'd likely want at least 4 megabits per second. And of course, more is always better, although I wouldn't bother going much higher than 8 megabits per second. At that point, you're just not going to get any more quality unless you're actually trying to stream at like 4K resolution, which probably most of you aren't ever going to do at least not anytime soon. And depending on the computer you'll be using to stream a record, you'll want to keep in mind that OBS can eat up a lot of your computer's resources. Just running OBS and your viewer at the same time on an average laptop can eat up a lot of your CPU cycles and memories. So make sure that you close any programs that are immediately necessary for the task at hand. This includes web browsers, Adobe or Autodesk applications, or anything else that might kick in and steal your computer's resources. Obviously, the more powerful your computer, the more programs you can keep running, but fewer is better. And finally, on this slide we'll talk about... I want to recommend that you use a wired Ethernet connection with your computer. While you can stream over a Wi-Fi, it's not a great idea. It's going to be a less dependable way to go. Wireless connections often drop network traffic and this can have adverse effects on a live stream. It can stutter, it will drop frames, and your audience will not get as good of an experience. And that's everything on your side of the Internet. And if you only want to record for archival purposes and later editing, this slide won't have as much relevance for you because now we're going to move on and talk about streaming services. OBS comes with presets for many popular live streaming services. And a lot of these services have been created with gamers and eSport events and that kind of thing in mind. And they often want payment for various comforts such as having no advertising or having an unlimited audience or being able to stream at high definition. And for this reason, this presentation is going to focus mainly on using YouTube as a streaming platform. Twitch, which is very popular, Smashcast, which has recently been rebranded from Hitbox, and Mixer, formerly known as Beam, are all gamer services. And the only one of these that I might consider taking a look at is Mixer because the interesting thing about Mixer is it's currently free and doesn't advertise and it has a unique and useful feature in that it's very low latency. In other words, it allows for great user interaction. What you stream has a very, very short delay. So if you move your mouse cursor, your audience will see that mouse cursor move maybe a second after you do. So they can follow along on a tutorial with you live much easier. Usually when you use the streaming service, the video your audience is watching will be anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds behind what has just happened to you. And this makes interacting with people who are watching a real challenge. So for those times when audience interaction is important, Mixer might be worth a look. And OBS does currently have built-in support for that feature of Mixer. So it's something that's just worth thinking about. And Facebook may also be a very attractive option for many. It's really hard to beat the size of the potential audience that it can bring in. I'm not as familiar with Facebook as I should be. Like I said, it has such a large audience but I've tried to avoid Facebook because it's so heavy on advertising. And Restream.io is the final one I'll touch on because it isn't itself actually a streaming service in the traditional sense. What it does is it acts as a middleman. It allows you to stream to several streaming services at once. So if you'd like to be on, for example, YouTube and Facebook at the same time, this service makes that possible at the cost of even more latency. So for example, if your stream lags as much as 30 seconds on YouTube, it's going to have to go through Restream.io. That's probably going to add another 30 seconds. So what your audience sees will probably be a minute or more behind what you're actually doing. So if that's important, it's something to keep in mind. We're going to use YouTube because it is absolutely free and it will not advertise on channels that don't have monetization enabled. Your audience size has no limits and if you have the right equipment, you can stream all the way up to 4K. YouTube does require that you verify your account. So you can find the link for that on this slide. This is the very last link if you haven't already verified your account and that's a help document that will tell you how to verify your account on YouTube. So finally, we can move on to Open Broadcaster Studio itself. And if you haven't already done so, you can acquire the software at obsproject.com. I think this slide is actually a little out of date. I think the website actually looks a little bit different now, but it's still very similar and it still has a very prominent download button. It makes it very easy to get the software and the right package for your operating system. OBS also has an auto update feature built into it, which is nice since the software gets bug fixes and enhancements on a pretty regular basis. So once you've installed and started up OBS, you should see something that looks like this slide here. But before we get into the main interface, we kind of need to slog through some settings to make sure you're set up to record and stream. And this is going to be the more arduous part of this workshop and presentation because we have to go through a lot of settings and these are important because these are the settings that make sure you get a good quality stream that is appropriate for your audience. So you'll see a row of buttons on the lower right hand side of the window and one of the buttons is named settings. So for those of you following along, go ahead and click on that one now. And a new window will pop up and it will naturally enough start off with a general settings tab on the left. And this entire window is really rather similar to the preferences window and the viewer we use where there are a bunch of tabs down the left and then settings on the right. And the general tab, there's really only three settings here that I'd like to draw your attention to. The very first option allows you to choose your native language. And there's a decent list to choose from in there including German, Dutch, Spanish, and French, a few others I believe. And the second option to draw your attention to is just below that and comes down to personal preference. OBS is a light theme by default but it also has the option to change to a dark theme. And personally, I really like the dark theme which is why I mentioned this option. I find this easier in my eyes but more importantly it moves the focus to the content and those of us who have used modern versions of image, video, or 3D software will have noticed that they've all moved to dark user interfaces for this very reason. And the final option to note on this and the general tab is a check box called automatically record when streaming. Live streaming can be a real handful and it is so easy to forget to hit both the streaming record button so this option eliminates that worry. So let's move on and moving down the left let's click on the stream settings on the left side. And this settings page is where we decide what service we want to stream to, if any. If you're only going to record, this stream doesn't, you can just ignore this one. But if you want to stream, this is where you decide what streaming service you want to use and all you have to do is select the service you would like and then enter a stream key. And for this workshop, we're going to choose YouTube and YouTube has a page that has a live dashboard for streaming. And you'll find that under your creator studio. And when you go to that live streaming dashboard and go all the way to the bottom of the page, you'll see a streaming key. And all you'll need to do is just copy and paste that streaming key into OBS and you'll be authorized to broadcast to your YouTube channel. Be aware that anybody that has this key can also stream to your channel so you'll want to keep it safe or only share it with trusted users. And if you need to, this key will normally never change, but if you need to, you can have YouTube generate a new key for you on the dashboard. And this streaming key thing is how almost all streaming services work. So moving on, we have our output tab on the left tab. And these settings determine the quality of your recording a stream as well as your computer's performance while accomplishing these tasks. At the very top, you'll see a dropdown called output mode. And by default, this is set to simple. And I recommend that you leave it there unless you have some experience with how video encoders work because the settings offered by the simple mode will offer very good results. Now, beneath that, you will see a frame called streaming and it has some settings associated with it. And perhaps the most important of these is your video bit rate. And this depends on how much upload bandwidth you have. If you have three megabits per second upload, that works out to about 3,000 kilobits per second. We're just moving a decimal point over a few places. So 2,500 is the default in OBS and will work fine for you and provide room for anything else that requires additional bandwidth. For example, if you're using Skype or something like that, or voice. If the speed test told you that you have something less than that, let's say it tells you you only have one megabit per second for your upload. You're going to want to lower that number down to something like 768. And at that value, you won't be able to stream at a high definition, but you can stream at a 480p definition. And that's about equivalent to an old style television set. So it's just good enough to get reasonably sized text clearly visible to your audience. If you have a lot of upload bandwidth, you can feel free to push that number higher. And again, I wouldn't bother going any higher than about 8,000 though. The next setting is called encoder. And this is what will compress your video before it is sent to the streaming service. And by default, this is set to software x264. And this encoder will make use of your CPU to encode your video. This encoder can provide great quality. Usually it provides the best quality, but if your computer isn't very powerful, it can seriously degrade the performance of both your stream and your computer. So you need to be careful, but you can click on that pull down menu and see if there are other options available. Newer Intel CPUs have encoder built right into them, and it's called Quick Sync. And this will take a lot of the work off of your CPU and make for a much smoother stream. If you have an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, these may also have built-in encoders and if they show up in the list, you can try using those as well. The last streaming setting we'll talk about here is audio bitrate. And by default, the audio bitrate will be 160. And that should be fine for most people. But if it is very important for you to conserve your upload bandwidth, you can knock this down to 96 or even 64. And a low audio bitrate like that is just fine if all you want to do is broadcast speech. But keep in mind that if your stream contains music or other more dynamic types of audio, it's going to experience distortions and chirps, and it just won't sound very well. Or very good. Below the streaming options, we have another frame called Recording. And the first option under there is a recording path. And this is where all video recordings will be stored. By default, this is the video folder that your operating system defaults to for each user that logged into it. And you'll want to be sure that you have plenty of free disk drive space available at that location. If it is located on a small drive without much room, you may want to change that location to another drive that has much more room. And under that, we have Recording Quality. And by default, it'll record at the same quality as your stream. And if you set your stream to a relatively high bitrate to 2,500 or higher, that's probably good enough. But if you want something that's, if you want your recording to be even nicer quality, you might choose either high quality, medium file size. And that'll give you a pretty reasonable file size or indistinguishable quality, large file size, which will of course be quite good quality, but a very large file. And then, unless you have a whole lot of disk space, and I mean a whole lot, or need a absolutely pixel-perfect version of your recording for video editing, I would not recommend that you use lossless quality, because that will eat up this space so fast your head will spin. Finally, there's the Recording Format. This default, oh, pardon me, I apologize. This defaults to something called FLV. But I recommend you use MP4 for this setting. This, that format, that video format is pretty ubiquitously supported by software, editing software and such, and by most online services. But you might happen, for example, to have video editing software that only supports QuickTime. So you might choose to use MOV instead. And I'd like to point out that you'll see it on this slide, and if you're following along, you'll see it if you've changed this. When you choose MP4, you'll get a scary warning on the bottom. That warning is, it's not untrue, but I have never had a recording break with MP4 ever. But you should just use whatever format works for you, and for me, that's MP4. So let's move on to the Audio Settings tab. And for these settings, we only need to worry about the ones you're labeled as devices. And when you look at those devices, you'll see that there are two output devices, and up to three input devices. By default, Open Broadcaster will choose your default playback and recording devices. And this stat typically is any built-in speakers or microphone on your computer. But if, for example, you wanted to capture and record or stream in World Voice, and you want to use a headset for that, you might change the desktop audio device to your headset speakers. That way, that's the only sound that gets recorded by your stream. Bings or bongs from Skype or other notifications, only voice will go over your stream. And if you want to speak on your stream as well, you're going to want to change the mic auxiliary device to your headset microphone. To be on the safe side, it's good practice to set any of these that you won't be using to disabled. That way, straight audio won't end up in your video. And finally, for the last settings tab, we're going to talk about the video settings. And there are just four settings here, and we only need to concern ourselves with two of them. The first is Output Scaled Resolution. This will set what resolution your final video, whether recorded or streamed, will be. And by default, it's going to be 1280 by 720, which is also known as 720p. And if you're streaming with a bitrate between 2500 and 3000, this should be a good choice. If you're streaming at a bitrate of 4000 or more, you might decide to change this to 1920 by 1080 or 1080p. If you don't have much upload bandwidth, going to a lower resolution is recommended. Although the image will not be as sharp, you'll have a higher quality overall. And in this situation, consider using a resolution that's as close to 480p as possible. If you don't have a lot of bandwidth and you try to stream at a higher resolution, your stream is just going to drop frames and stutter and look like a horrible slideshow. It's going to freeze and lock up a lot. The next setting we'll look at is the last one on this screen, and that lets you set your frame rate, also known as frames per second. Or simply FPS. By default, the FPS value will be 30, and this is what most streaming services expect. But again, if you have a lot of upload bandwidth and are struggling to get a good stream, I'm sorry, if you don't have much upload bandwidth and are struggling to get a good stream, you might try lowering this value to 20 or at a minimum 15. Traditional hand-drawn animation was only 15 frames per second, and this is just enough to provide a relatively smooth experience. But if you can, 30 is the ideal setting for this streaming. So finally, we are done with the settings. So you can click on the OK button, and these settings will go into effect. They'll also be there the next time you start OBS, and that was a long journey through a lot of options. But now that they're set, you should need to worry about touching them again. We can now just move on to what OBS was meant for, which is recording and or streaming. So let's go over an overview of the interface and its elements. At the top, you'll see a large black area, and this is your preview area. Once we've begun to capture something, it'll show up here, and what you'll see in that area is also what your audience will see. Now below that, we're going to go from left to right across the interface. And first, we have a list box named Scenes. By default, it will already have a blank scene listed, and just to the right of that, there is a similar list box named Sources. Both of these have a plus and minus sign on the bottom that you can click on to add or remove items. Those two list boxes have an important relationship. A scene is a collection of sources, and a source is something that you will capture to record or stream. When a scene is selected and you add sources, those sources will all belong to that single scene. If you were to create a new scene and switch to that scene, the sources box would start out blank again, waiting for you to fill it with new sources such as video or images or something along those lines. So in a review, a scene is just a way of grouping sources together. A source can be many things. You can capture your viewer, and that's what we're going to focus on today. But you can also use any single window on your desktop as a source. You can add text, images, video, and audio as sources. And you can rearrange and adjust each source in the preview area. And then after sources, we also have the audio mixer. All of the audio devices that you enabled in the audio settings will show up here. And any audio sources that... oh, and each device has a volume slider. A mute button that looks like a little speaker. And there's a little gear icon that has filters. And I'm not going to go into those too much. Other than to mention they exist because they can be handy. Fidget earlier asked about Do I Noise? Please prove my room. No, I don't. But I do apply filters to minimize noise. And each device will also have a little meter with a green bar.  And to the right of the audio mixer, we have scene transitions. And this will determine how switching between scenes will look. And there are only two transitions right now, and those are cut and fade. When switching between scenes, the cut transition will simply instantly switch from one to another without any special effect or interruption. The fade effect, on the other hand, will gently blend from one scene to the next. And finally, on the right side on the window, there's the row of buttons. You start or stop a stream or recording with the first two, and they'll toggle between those two states. So if you hit, for example, Start Recording, the text on it will change to Stop Recording. Then the next button down enables Studio Mode, which I'm hoping will try to have time to get into later in the presentation as it can really help make the magic happen if you're streaming any sort of live event or other complicated event. Can I stop you for a sec? Absolutely. Joey asks, what does it mean when you try to set a window capture but don't see what is in that window? So I guess seeing the black, oh boy. This is something I'll get into. I should be getting into that later in the presentation. I'll actually get into that when I'll address that. Sounds good. Let's see where was I. Studio Mode, which is awesome. Oh, and we've already been up to our noses in the settings button. We're all tired of the settings. So you know what that does, and I don't think I need to explain what the exit button does. That one's pretty self-explanatory. Finally, we get to do something more than listening to me yabber on about settings and details and hardware. We get to set up a source that we can stream. And we're going to keep things simple to get started. And we already have a scene that OBS has already created, and we'll go ahead and use that to add a source. So over in the sources box, down at the bottom, click on the plus sign. And a menu will pop up, showing you sources that you can choose from. There are three choices here for capturing the viewer, and which one you use will depend on your hardware and operating system. Some work under some combinations, while others won't. If you're using a Windows operating system, Game Capture is a good option. It'll give you the fastest and cleanest result, but it may not work with all hardware, especially laptops. The next one, and this is the one I'm going to encourage you to use for this workshop, is the Window Capture source. This source is available in all our operating systems, and will usually, except for Joey, usually work with any combination of hardware. And if both of these fail for you, your next option is to use desktop capture. And this is my least favorite, as it will capture everything that pops up on your screen, including notifications from apps, or a window that unexpectedly pops up and takes focus, but it will do the job if the other two won't. So as we go through the next steps, first try Window Capture. If that does not work, then try Game Capture. If that does not work, then try Desktop Capture. The settings for all of them are fairly similar, so you should be able to follow along, no matter which one you choose. So go ahead and try Window Capture, and a new window will pop up, and in this slide, that's the window on the left. And this window just wants to know what you want to name your source. You can name it something as generic as Viewer, although any name you want will work fine. And when you press OK at the bottom of that button, another window will appear, and on this slide, that's the window on the right. And this one wants to know what window you'd like to capture. If you're using Game Capture, it will want to know what application you want to capture. And if you're using Desktop, it will want to know, if you have multiple monitors, it's going to want to know which monitor you're going to want to capture. And at the top of this window is a preview area. So you can be sure you're getting the window that you want. If that stays black, chances are that capture source isn't working for you, and you're going to want to try one of the other ones. Now, I lost my place. Below the preview, there's a dropdown called Window. And what you want to do is click on this dropdown and look for your viewer in the list. And once you've clicked on your viewer, it should appear in the preview area at the top. And there is one more thing to consider on this window that all the sources should have. And that is whether or not you want to capture your mouse cursor. And I usually disable the cursor checkbox unless I'm doing something where the mouse is actually useful as a pointer for things like tutorials or something like that. But for recording and screaming a live event or a meeting or a news show or especially Machinima, your mouse cursor is only going to be a distracting element to your audience. People don't want to just see your mouse cursor sipping all over the place. So if you've set up a source and you successfully see your viewer in the preview area, you can go ahead and click OK and it'll return to the main OBS interface. The slideshow is not co- Oh, well it helps if I actually click in the viewer. I've got so many windows open and they're all of the viewer. All right, so it brings you right back to the main OBS screen and hopefully it'll look something like this slide. And if it does, that's fantastic because you now have something you can record or stream. Technically at this point, if you set all your settings correctly, you could start streaming and or start recording and people and it will record what you see in that preview area. But if you look at your preview, you'll probably notice that there might be some issues depending on your use case. There may be an empty space on one or more sides of the viewer. You may not want your window borders, viewer menus or your viewer windows to show up or other clutter like that. So there are a couple of ways to deal with this. And the simplest way to get a clean view is to use the keyboard shortcut, the keyboard shortcut, CTRL, SHIFT, F1. On some viewers, this shortcut, for example, Singularity and Alchemy, I believe, this shortcut will be CTRL, ALT, F1. And on a Mac, this key combination should be CTRL, OPTION, F1. And when you hit this key combination, absolutely everything, except your view of the world, will disappear. This includes all of the viewer user interface elements, avatar name tags, menus, favorite bars, windows, those will all go away. If you use the same shortcut, it'll bring them all back. Huds will still show up, so any HUD that you don't need while you're streaming and recording should be detached. And that's an easy way to do it, and I use that quite often, but it also cuts off your ability to do something like communicate in a world. So you can also choose to simply use your viewer preferences to turn off things individually, like name tags, voice indicators, hever text, floating chat and whatnot. Close any viewer windows that you don't need. You know, if you probably don't need your minimap, you may not need your radar. But if you do want to keep a window, for example, you might want to keep your chat window so that you can monitor in-world chat or participate in it while you're streaming. Or even show that in-world chat to your audience. But if you're going to do that, I recommend keeping that window as slim and off to the side as possible. And I recommend moving any windows you need to keep open all the way to the right side of the screen. That's the side of the viewer where most of the toasts or dialogue boxes or other pop-ups of the viewer are going to pop up on you unexpectedly. Me and the slideshow are not getting along today. Seriously? This is the slide I wanted. So whatever methods you choose to make your view as pretty as you like, once you're happy with it, you can further adjust that video source. First of all, the easiest thing is you can easily move the viewer window source by simply holding the left mouse button down on it and dragging it. So you can just drag it around and that's helpful for making sure that whatever source you have is centered or in the location you want it. And if you look at the source in your preview area, you will see that there's a red border all around it and small red handles on each corner on the top and bottom on the left and right. I don't know why they're so tiny.  So it can take a little bit of finesse to get ahold of one. So if you look at those handles, if you left click and hold the mouse button on a handle, it'll scale or resize the source. You can make it very small or very large or you can even completely distort it if you want. And more powerful yet, and probably the most useful thing if you want to hide chat windows or huds, is the ability to crop this source. If you hold down your alt key and hold down your left mouse button on the top, bottom, left or right handles, you can drag that border in and crop it. And you can tell that it's cropping successfully because that border will turn green. And the goal at the moment is to use all of those tools to make sure that no improper parts of the viewer show up, that there are no black bars on any side, and that you have it reasonably centered. And it's okay if some of the source borders go outside of the preview area just as long as everything you want to see is visible. And once you've done this, you are ready to stream a record. Can I jump in here for a second? Okay, sorry. Yeah, Joey brought up the, he was asking the question about the whole full screen, the preferences between full screen versus say the whole cropping and doing the portion of a screen. And then he was wondering how you deal with the bottom area where your icons or software are. I mean, you can certainly use that for cropping. I want another example that we, the cropping was useful for, and you can probably speak to this more so, Marcus. Marcus, the idea of when we did OSCC and the camera HUD. Yeah. Well, if you're, if your test bar is showing on the bottom, so that means you're using desktop capture. And of course, you can simply crop that out, like, like Yannin said. And because I've never been forced to use desktop capture, usually window capture or game capture have always worked for me. And there is a way to get rid of the title bar on the viewer using an optional tool that I won't go into and isn't part of the presentation. But if you Google for something called borderless gaming, it will turn the viewer into a basically what looks like a full screen application, but all the window borders and decorations have been removed. You can find that either on the Steam store, and it has a price there if you'd like to support the developer, or you can download it for free off of the developer's GitHub site. Does that, does that answer the question? He says it's in game mode when he gets the black bar at the bottom. Oh, right. So yeah, if you're in game mode and you have a black bar at the bottom, all you pretty much want to probably do is scale. Just just scale it out a bit so that it's, you know, the bottom, you know, it meets the bottom of the preview. The bottom of your source meets the bottom of your preview area. And like I said, if some of it is hanging off the preview area, that's fine. You just need to remember that only the area that's visible in the preview area is what your audience will see. And I think we can kind of go on. So if you've played with these tools and gotten used to them, yeah, you're ready to stream or record. All you need to do is hit on start streaming or start recording or both.  And when you've finished streaming or recording, you just click on those same buttons again to stop your stream or recording. And now I'm going to move on to one of the tools that I mentioned earlier. And this is the camera HUD. And if you haven't grabbed it, let's say you decided you didn't want to install OBS and follow along. You can still follow along with this part. Go ahead and grab the camera HUD. Technically, it's useful for more. You can use it for more than just streaming. We'll get into that later, maybe during the Q&A or something, but if we have time. But this part everybody can follow along on. And the camera HUD is really valuable when streaming or recording because it allows you to preset various camera angles and switch between them instantly. We're giving away this basic but functional HUD today and it'll come with a note card that contains some directions. You'll find the note card inside the HUD contents. And again, just click on that big gray box to get it. And once you've obtained it, you just need to find it in your inventory and wear it. And by default, it'll attach to the very top of your viewer. But if you're comfortable adjusting HUD positions, you can move this wherever you'd like. It will also pop up a dialogue asking for your permission to take control of the camera. And this will be more obvious on some viewers than others. On some viewers, it may come up as a big blue dialogue saying would you like to let it take control of your HUD and you click OK. On others, it might, depending on how your viewers set up and your viewers settings, it might just show up as a toast down like in a corner or something. So make sure you find that dialogue and accept the permission otherwise the HUD will not work for you. And when you do attach it and grant permissions, at first all you'll see is a small black square with a circle in it. And you can think of that as just the on and off button. And it starts out as off. But if we click on that circle, the HUD will activate and spread open and it'll show you all of its buttons. And you can see that there's a row of numbers and currently they're all dark gray in color for you. And that color indicates that no camera position has been assigned to a number. So let's start by setting one.  In our case, the presentation speakers, for example, might be a good choice. And once you've got your camera where you want it, all you need to do is click on the set position text over on the right. And lines will appear above and below all of the numbers. And this indicates that the HUD is waiting for you to pick a number. So let's just choose the very first one, zero and click on that. Once you've clicked on a number, it'll turn white indicating that you've stored your camera position. And if you move your camera again and select that number, it'll get a border all around it indicating that it's the active preset. If you press the escape key on your keyboard, the HUD will take control of your camera and snap to that preset. If you want the HUD to control what you see, it's important to remember the escape key. The HUD will only take control when you've pressed it.  Now we've 20 presets for you to use, and that's quite a few. So, slide slide slide, thank you. If you stored a lot of presets, you're going to need some way to aid your memory to recall just which preset assigned to which position. And in some future version of this, I'd really like to have actual text labels. But for now, what I've done is given you a way to assign a color to each button. And so hopefully that'll make it easier to remember just which preset is on which camera position. And so if we start by clicking on the set color over on the right, again, you'll see lines appear both above and below, indicating that a number is waiting to be assigned a color. So if you were to click on that zero, or if you chose another number, you choose that. The HUD will change into what is essentially just a color picker. And all you need to do is click on one of those colors. And let's say you want it to be light green. You can click on light green. And the HUD will select that color and turn that number into that color. And at this point, you can assign or reassign presets however you like. And while the viewer is control of your camera, you only need to click on a preset and the camera will snap to the position that you choose. That's my place. So many times I just start talking. I've done this so much that I actually have parts of it memorized, so I have to then I forget where I am. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, okay. So yeah, you can assign or reassign presets however you like. Just remember that, again, the escape key is very important. If you manually move the camera, the HUD isn't going to be in control anymore. So you need to press the escape key in order for the HUD to take control. And you can clear a position the same way that you've set one. So you can hit the clear position button. Again, you'll get the lines on the top and the bottom. You can click on a number and it'll turn dark gray. And just as before, dark gray indicates that nothing has been set for that button. And if you'd like to wipe the HUD completely clean, there's a clear all option. And if you click that, it's going to ask you, are you sure? Because it'll remove all of your presets. And there will be a little green check mark and a big red X. And if you're sure, click on the green check mark. And I put this in there because of course nobody wants their presets accidentally deleted. That would be horrible. One thing to note about the HUD is that it is region specific. So if you set up your presets in one region for your HUD, that same HUD will not work correctly if you teleport to another region. And that's easy to fix by simply creating a new copy of the HUD for each region you'd like to create camera presets for. You also don't have to worry about where you're sitting when you create the presets for a region. The camera views will stay the same no matter where you are in that region, as long as you're somewhere in that region that you created specifically for that HUD. And finally, be aware that the script in the HUD will reset. Or if the script in that HUD is reset, for any reason, you will lose all of your camera presets. And the HUD will go back to its blank state. So finally today, so much going on. We are going to learn about studio mode. Let's see, how much time do we have? Do I still have plenty of time, Joyce? We're technically kind of at the time, but I mean if you can probably either, I guess, finish this up quick, or I don't know if, yeah, probably a few more minutes if you can finish it up fairly quickly. I'll try to speed through this one. Studio mode is just really awesome because what it lets you do is if you press that studio mode button, as you can see in the slide, it opens up two preview areas. And the one on the left is the one on the right. The one on the right is what your audience will see. The one on the left is kind of backstage. You can create new scenes, add sources, all of that on the fly on the preview area on the right. And it won't go live until you hit that transition button that's in the middle. In essence, that's studio mode. So you can do things like, let's say you need to set up an impromptu subtitle or add some text or something like that. You can do that while you're streaming or recording or make changes while you're streaming or recording. For example, I sometimes have two viewers open. So I'll have two scenes and I'll have one scene for one viewer, one scene for the other viewer. So I can simply change to one viewer. And that's what will be broadcasted. And while that one's being broadcasted, go back to the other viewer, set my camera however I want it. Maybe I'll add another source for an image for the slides up in the corner. And then if I hit transition, it'll switch back to that other viewer. And this is where the magic really, really happens. And I'm rushing this. I'm rushing this. I'm going way off script because I normally explain this much more in detail. But that essentially is what studio mode does. And if you have questions about that, I'm happy to follow up. Please feel free to hit me up. And I can help you find that. And Shelly was asking a question about chroma key if you want to add names or underneath things or whatever. Yeah, it does have, OBS will allow you to, the sources have filters. So you can do things like chroma key or alpha masking. There are filters for straight color key or chroma key. It all depends on your use case. Great. And I think the slide before this was the one that had the resources listed, which is also in the note card, right? Yeah, that's in the note card. Yeah, I apparently have, yeah, if you need the list of resources that is in the note card that's in the gray box, apparently I've lost the slide for that one. I don't know how that happened. But yeah, there's a note card that's full of resources on basically where to find all the streaming services, some guides and tutorials, things like that. So any other questions before I wrap this up and let you guys move on to more NPC stuff? And I would like to say too, I talked to Marcus before this. I mean, obviously this is a lot in one kind of workshop sort of format that he's happy to go over this more like step-by-step if anybody reaches out to him. So please connect with him if you want more like hands-on tutorial or training. Yes, absolutely. I mean, that's why I've kept this slide up right there. I mean, make note of my email address. Feel free to use it. Hit me up in SL or I may have the exact same name on lots of grids over on Open Simulator, which is where I normally am. And I'd also like to plug something while I'm here. And that is part of the reason I do these is I do have a sinister ulterior motive. The Open Simulator Community Conference is coming up and it's scheduled for December 9th and 10th. And we are currently taking volunteers. And we like volunteers. If you guys, any of you are interested and if you haven't already volunteered, I think at least one or two of you have. Please do volunteer. We have openings for moderators, for greeters, and of course, streaming volunteers. And streaming volunteers tend to be one of the harder ones to get. If streaming is something you enjoy doing or something you would like to practice doing more of, by all means, please volunteer at OSCC to be a streamer. We'd love to have you. So yes, and that's another way to also help to practice this and not to be sort of afraid even though it is a technical thing. Besides what he went through today, he walks people through and does very one-on-one training for the OSCC volunteers in regards to streaming. So that's another way if you want to help out, you can learn that. It's really as long as your bandwidth is okay and you're able to kind of be walked through the steps, you're usually pretty good as a streamer. And there are folks who had no experience, like Beth Ghost-Raven, who once she started and got the training has been doing it for the last couple of years. So you don't have to be super techie in order to learn once you kind of get walked through it, I think. Absolutely. That has turned out to be one of my favorite streamers. So I encourage folks to kind of try that out. And then these skills are super useful, as he said before. You can use it to record just machinima stuff. If you want to document your educational nonprofit work, you can use the same thing. If you want to do an event in Second Life Open Simulator or even just stream your desktop of some webinar to stream it all directly to YouTube, all the same stuff applies. So it's super useful stuff to learn if any of that is interesting to you. So we should probably wrap up with my goal and the streaming tutorial. But thank you again for coming. And I know obviously it's a lot. Well, and it's always a pleasure to be here. And, you know, thanks again to those people who have listened to this for the third time. I can't believe you stayed for the whole thing. So yeah, I'll just say thank you. And just also mention that this, again, this is being recorded and streamed. So you'll be able to find this on the Avocon channel if you'd like to review it at any time. So thank you. Yeah, on YouTube. Yep. Thank you. And yeah, we will end things up here. But yes, conference.opensimulated.org is where you can go to for finding out information about that. And then the Search Avocon on YouTube. And I'll put a link into chat for that too once he finishes up that the other nice thing is sort of streaming like that. It goes right to YouTube and then it's set up where it auto records it and holds it there. So once you're done, it takes a little bit of time for YouTube to finish rendering it and then it's up and available live. So there's not even having to worry about uploading it. It just happens all together, which is nice. So then it's an archive video waiting for you to share with others afterwards. Okay. Thanks again, Michael. Absolutely. Thank you. And you know, feel free if you want to stop the recording for this, but thank you again. And we can probably move to an open mic real, real quick.


Jim. Hello, Yaron. And hello, everyone out there. I'm going to keep this fairly simple today.  Maybe next time. Maybe next time. Very simply, what do you think are some very good ideas or quotes or essays that very well reflect? Certainly the outcome of 2020 as a year and where we are today, especially as distinct perhaps from past decades. What do you think from Einran well represents today? From Einran. Well, I mean, I would otherwise, too. Yeah, I mean, everything Grand Road is obviously relevant and both inspiring and depressing and relevant to what's going on right now. In particular, I would look at the voice of reason. She's got two sections there. She's got a section on culture, which is, I mean, it's amazing to read because basically everything she said back then is right on. And you've got essays like the intellectual bankruptcy of our age, our cultural value deprivation, which is brilliant, global balkanization, which is all about tribalism. It's a perfect fall of time. The fascist new frontier. Fascist new frontier. Is that in that book? I don't know, but that's what comes to my mind when I think of this age. Yeah, that's another one. Fascist new frontier. You've got assault from the Ivory Tower, the professor's war against America. I mean, this is, what, 1972 or something? And she's already seen it. Anti-mask for a culture. What's that? Epitaph for a culture. And then in the politics section, you've got antitrust of rule of un-reason. You're going to see a lot of antitrust already have seen. I mean, the Trump administration went and sued both Google and Facebook. We'll see how those, the one that gets us all into trouble about a woman president. That's always fun. But yeah, all of these. How to fight against socialized medicine, hunger and freedom, the American school, why Johnny can't think. That's a Lena Peacock essay that is part of this, part of the voice of reason. The pulpedalists. Wow. The pulpedalists. Talk about what's going on right now in Washington and the cronyism. So tons, tons of content that is relevant. And I suggested this past, but I think partially to stay sane, partially just to keep sharp and not to get caught up in the little stuff that's going on, all the minutiae of American politics and culture today. I read an Ironman essay every week, one essay a week. Good idea. What would you say for somebody who's relatively new and maybe has only read some of her fiction? What are some of the best ways for someone who's new to access and find some of these many essays? Well, a lot of them on the Ironman Institute website for free. So on the Ironman Institute website on the campus, I think, and these essays are free. So you can read them online for free. Otherwise, I've got them all downloaded onto my iPad and I can flip it open and read any essay I feel like any time. So yeah, I would definitely download books like The Voice of Reason, Philosophy Who Needs It, Rooch of Selfishness, Capitalism Under an Ideal, and then just read an essay a day, an essay a week. And when you run out there, there are other places you can find more essays or just go online and read an essay a week up there until those get exhausted. There's plenty, plenty of essays overall. So it's incredibly prolific. Thank you. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  But at least the people who are liking it, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. And you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there. Help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share. And you can support the show at yourunbrookshow.com slash support on Patreon or Subscribestar or locals and show your support for the work, for the value, hopefully you're receiving from this.  You'll know what shows are on, when they're on. You'll get notified, right? So yes, like, share, subscribe, support. Like, share, subscribe, support. There you go. Easy. Do one or all of those, please.


Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from freesalon education. I'm here with a new friend Nick Stenson from Matrix and JC Penney, right? Yes, correct. We're gonna get into your title there where American Slon hooked us up with the interview So check out AmericanSalon.com Today what we're gonna talk about you have a lot of things going on right a little bit So we're gonna talk about juggling jobs and all different stuff And you have you you just have a lot of interesting things that I want to pull out of you So that doesn't sound right So so let's go let's start off with You are working with Matrix. What do you do for Matrix? I'm the artistic director on a design team as well as celebrity stylist for them. Okay, cool And you and you also are with JC Penney correct and what are you doing with them? So I am the senior creative director over the brand. Okay, we have 840 salons across the country Okay, so I oversee all creative direction for the company. That's it's very interesting to me JC Penney has taken a quick turn. Yes like with especially with the salon business. Yes So I really want to find out a little bit more about that.  All of JC Penney.  So a couple years back We said, you know when you think of like JC Penney and you think of JC Penney salons You think of oh, you know what my Grammy used to take me there when I was a kid Or you know, I remember going in when I was a kid Yeah So when I came on board and as the company has kind of evolved it says how do we take this amazing brand and give it some Newness right and new excitement to it So they brought me in a little over four years ago to kind of come in and oversee all creative direction So all education oversee all marketing digital social for the brand Okay, but then also within the last 24 months we have partnered with in-style magazine Oh, wow to now create a new salon concept called the salon buy-in style Okay, so we are going to be rebranding all of our salons to be called the salon buy-in style. Oh, that's cool I like that so that'll be and that'll be within JC Penney. Yes And JC Penney took a shift even within their stores So it seems like it was that when they decided that they wanted to change the branding of the salon or did that? I think it's been an evolution the last few years You know the company is evolving to the times and you know what the consumers looking for and how they shop And it's the same with how the consumers looking for a salon and the types of services they want and experiences they want Okay, and how do you um, how did you become so creative director of all the salon salons? How do you with 800 different places? How do you keep that under control? That's very interesting to me Sure, I have a salon with four employees, and it's hard enough It's hard to manage so tell me tell me what your positions like within that part of it Sure, so we have a little over 13,000 associates Okay, 840 salons. That's a lot of personalities a lot of personalities We you know, it's pretty cool. I'm very fortunate I have a design team of three that create all the trends that you see that come out of our salons Okay, plus myself and then we have a full-time education team of 55 out in the field So there's one per district across the country that goes out and teaches hands-on education to all of our stylists Okay, so what's great about that is we're one of the only organizations that has full-time educators number one and number two We do all hands-on education for our stylists great and not only do we not charge them to get the education We pay them to come to training nice, so we're all about really elevating our stylist skill set in making sure that they're Charged with the best tools that they need for their pocket in order to be able to give any type of service If you think about 840 salons across the country You have tons of different types of clients that are coming in and wanting a lot of different services Right, so we really want to make sure that no matter who walks through the door We can give them the service that they want and deliver on a really great experience awesome And so how has the growth been within the salons? It's been amazing it's really been amazing and you know what it's been a culture shift and It's been a percept a perception change and now we're going through an identity change So right now it's a little wonky because we're JCP salon and the salon buy-in style as we rebrand because as you can imagine 840 salons it cost a few dollars to do this So we have to do it really slow and steady and make sure that the formula we come up with is sound that we can roll out Across the country tell me like with that formula what what do you think you could implement from the formula that you've done? to start to grow those salons in Somebody else's line in the middle of America that just has one salon What do you think they could do a little bit different that you've seen that has helped kind of? Grow sure you know the JC penny company. I will tell you the number one Most important thing you have to remember is the people so you can spend a million dollars on a build out and make a Look the most amazing is the salon in the world But if you don't have the heart and the soul and the talent that is in there you're done It's dead in the water, so we've really invested a tremendous amount back into the experience back into the stylist back into really Training them on how to be that business person and be successful, and it starts with the consultation I mean it really starts when they booked the appointment Then it goes into the consultation the entire experience and then the way that they leave and then the follow-through with that And it's really building that infrastructure that has been so successful for us and getting it Consistent across the country because as you can imagine eight hundred and fifty you know forty doors Everybody's got a different way to do it right So what we want to do is if you're let's say on vacation and you're in New York But you live in LA you can get the same experience in both cities and that's something that's rare And it's something that we really want it's hard to do right and we want to get to the point to where all of our Salons are running at that same speed Yeah, so that we can ensure to the customer that hey, you know what come on in you're gonna get a really great service Yeah, and what we want to be is we don't want to be the cheapest guy in town You don't want to be the most expensive guy in town.  Yeah, you know, so it's it's something for value is there the value is there And so you have so JC penny salons like I think for me Being a salon owner. I think the number one thing has always been like implementing systems So do you The systems in place. What do you think from a consultation standpoint? Do you have it all written out? We do exactly the way that they you know should go about it. Yes, okay So we have actually a book called the client experience that we take them through there's actually two modules And it's it's a hands-on class basically and we do role-playing and we go through all the different points of Interaction the touch points throughout the service from the receptionist at the front desk to the person who shampooing to the person Answering the phone to the service provider all the way out until the follow-up and it's really about just Getting a hairdresser to understand the importance of that full-circle Experience about what you're applying on the hair all the time. Yeah, because a lot of times what happens is and I tell stylist This all the time I don't care how good you are if you're not really listening to the person in your chair Yeah, it doesn't matter how amazing that haircut or color was that time that person if it's not what they want Exactly, so then you lost. Yeah, you know So you have to have that that point of really paying attention Understanding and getting that connection with the person in your chair before the service ever becomes anything nice. So and you So what I also thought was exciting is you I I'm in the live streaming world Yes, you started some live streaming yourself like you how long you've been doing that a little over a year a little over a Year and it started out just JCP salons, right? So yeah, you know, what's pretty amazing about JC Penney? We have this big company right in our offices are in Texas Excuse me, and the one thing that I always found so amazing We have a TV studio in the building. Oh, wow that looks like something you'd see on 42nd Street I mean, it's like amazing city-to-the-art facility Okay, and I was like what can I do with this to connect our associates because when you think of you know 840 salons, it's hard to keep them all connected. Yeah, and you think about your four people that work Right, you want to keep them connected to feel that they're part of this culture, right? So my biggest thing was how do I connect everybody together? And then how do I also connect our vendors to our stylists in a bigger way? Right, so I came up with this concept called live-in extents And so it's basically a way because I was getting people that say to me Can you come to my salon? Can you come to my salon? I want to meet you I want to know like I want to pick your brain and although I would love to do that I remember the first week on the job my boss said to me well What's the first thing you want to do? I said the first thing I want to do is get into all our salons and she says and what's your timeline for that? I said well within the next year and she says How are you gonna do that? I didn't even think about it. Yeah, I was like what do you mean? Yeah, that's like five salons a day It's impossible.  How are you gonna reach so many people so this talk show concept is kind of like a cross between Ellen and Oprah Kind of set up and we recreated my living room in the middle of this studio. I have a live studio audience We bring in guests that come sit on the couch live studio real-life studio audience. Wow. Yeah. All right So it's pretty cool. We bring our stylists in they get with a wind trips to come beyond in the live studio audience Okay, I have all the industry's best presenters and educators around the country that I invite on to the show We do an internal magazine as well that kind of piggybacks off of it So like let's say I invite Sam Villa Let's say to come in and do a shoot with me for the cover of our magazine Then I invite him on the show and then he'll do a technical live right there Yeah, well, you know, we'll tape it and it could be played again and again for our stylists to really hone their skills You guys have that it's really cool It's really cool Then we raffle off like we do a spin it to win a thing or we raffle off trips to go to different vendors education My own education The latest in product innovation that's out there and everybody in the audience walks away with something So that's a it's a really exciting thing. It is especially for Because I know JCPenney salon. I got my frosted tips with there you go When I was a kid nobody But that's the thing like the evolution like finally company has decided to evolve and you know stick with the times You're doing a great job at that for sure. So tell me with all of that going on You also have a job with matrix. I do tell me tell me how does that work? so it's really a great marriage honestly between the JCPenney gig and the Matrix gig because I Talk about great places to come get your hair done. Yeah, that's JCPenney, right? I talk about great products to get your hair to look amazing You buy them at JCPenney and you can buy them at JCPenney. So it's this amazing kind of like yin and yang to each other Okay, I work on an amazing team of artists Artistic directors that create all the trends we do all the big industry events trade shows Workshops, okay, celebrity stylists for them. So I do a lot of on-camera stuff I'm actually gonna be doing something tomorrow on Las Vegas morning show So we do a lot of things like that I just did the Wendy Williams show and it's really about like makeovers and new innovation and products and how to make Everybody successful behind the chair and then for anything national like that for a consumer It's like how to get the look okay Very cool. And then so are you on social media and stuff? I am people follow you you can the easiest way is to Go to nextenton.com and then you could link up to me on anything. I'm on snapchat I'm on Instagram Facebook Not good. I have to be honest. It's awkward to me. It is an awkward platform It is like nieces are like nine and seven and they're like obsessed with it and every day They send me a snap. So I'm like snapping more of them But yeah, I always feel like I'm never as interesting as right people want me to be so it's so fun And like I snap and I look at it and I go that's down And even pictures like for social media like they're like people want to see what you're doing where you're at I'll take pictures and I'll be like nobody cares. Why am I doing that? Like what am I posting that actually? So there's a there's an app called beam which is very similar to snapchat, but it's like live, okay? But they don't let you preview what you just record. Oh, so it just puts it out there Which in a way is bad better I wish snapchat was like that because yeah You you record it and then it replays it for you and you're like, yeah I don't know I see every reason why I should not are you trying to connect it to your business Or are you finding it more of like just kind of a personal reach for people? So this is kind of how I'm doing it right now, and I don't know if it's right or wrong But anybody knows that answer with snapchat. I make it very silly like everything in my life That intends to be very serious. Okay, you know because I'm moving so fast and there's so many things that I'm doing so I think on like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram I I'm very business focused and then I'll throw a little bit of like out having drinks type thing But right, you know, it's a lot of business inherent in the industry where snapchat It's like literally like I'll be like I'm stuck on this airplane again for four hours on the runway It's the glamorous life, you know kind of thing So I try to make it a little more silly and fun because that's one thing that I it's interesting people are like We love all this information that we're getting from you We love what you're sharing with us, but like we want to know about you Yeah, and to me that seems weird like I think like why do you care? Like why do I'm not that exciting of a person but then people are like no We really are intrigued by like what do you do when you're not doing hair? What do you do when you're not on TV or what do you do when you're not? JCPenney or matrix. Yeah, they want to see your real life Yeah, yeah, and I think that that's just in general with people you look at some of the biggest celebrities and YouTube people and just different They're sharing their entire life exactly and but you're learning from them at the same time, right? You know, so that's very cool So tell me I guess the last little bit. Is there anything new going on with? Matrix you want to put out there because I know that you know you're sitting down here for that sure reason What's going on with matrix upcoming? I'll tell you there's so many good things happening at matrix right now We have amazing portfolios amazing range of products But something that's new that's hitting the streets pretty soon is a new product line called raw So it's our first organic line. So it has ingredients from places like Morocco I mean like really amazing totally different looks almost like the packaging almost looks like a milk bottle. Oh, that's you would buy So it's really cool. It's very disruptive in this in the you know market space And it's amazing product. We can't wait to launch this so that's coming this fall that comes this fall Yes, all right, cool. And so you can follow matrix everything matrix. Everybody knows that and And for you, what's what's next? I think the biggest thing right now is I have Been using a hashtag for the longest time and it's called I see your beauty. Okay, and it's something that I see your beauty Okay, so and it started off as like I just was looking at things and found it beautiful and started putting hashtag Well, it's morphed into kind of it's starting to get to be a movement in a sense And I'm challenging other people to say how do you this is how I see beauty. How do you see beauty? Okay? So it's funny people are starting to get obsessed with the whole I see your beauty Well, when you think about it, that's our function as hairdressers, right? it's to see beauty and somebody who sits in their chair and Probably beauty that they don't realize that they have right so I'm starting with like coming out with t-shirts and different things Like that because people are just obsessed with this whole hashtag thing So that's pretty fun and I'm kind of leveraging that a little bit more okay and working on that more to come I can't kind of go into a lot of details, but some exciting stuff for probably around holiday coming up All right cool And all they have to do is follow you on on social media everywhere and they'll get that information so awesome Well, thank you so much for sitting down. It's a pleasure American salon. Thank you for hooking us up Thank you interview and I appreciate you Thank you guys so much for watching definitely check us out on other videos and check out Nick Stenson on everything Social media. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you on the next video


This is stock number 20T16A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee headquarters. Today we are checking out this extremely clean 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. This vehicle has the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor and has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the Jeep with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle quality and condition wise before seeing it in person. It comes with 20 inch painted alloy rims. Go to your Fortira 26550R20 tires and if you want to check out more photos of this Jeep in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. These tires have probably about 60 to 70% of the tread left on them. Dark forest green metallic is the color. When we get around to the back you'll be able to see that dark forest green. Really a good looking color. It mainly looks black but when you get it in the sunlight you can definitely see that it is a green metallic. Hood's in pretty nice condition. It does have the HID headlamps, the factory fog lamps. I didn't see any denser dings or cracks on that front bumper. Passengers side fender is in really nice shape. I didn't see any denser dings on that and the passengers side rim. No scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the Jeep you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. In fact we offer a Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade if you have one, all from the comfort of your own home. You can see that the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Looks like those back brakes are brand new on this vehicle which we probably did on our safety inspection. As we come around to the back of the vehicle you can see it does have a towing package full four pin and seven pin wiring and receiver hitch. It does have the dual rear exhaust and you can see that green metallic in the paint there. Like I said once the sun hits it you can really see it. It has the manual raised gate. Back storage area is very clean it does come with the factory subwoofer and the sunshade. That gate closes like that. It also has the flipper glass on it. You've got to have the key in your pocket to do that though but it does have the flipper glass. They think they took that away in 2013 so this is probably the last year of that. Down this side just as clean as I pass under side. You can see the metal flake in the paint if you got your HD capabilities on. It's real subtle but it is there and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Down the rest of this side of the Jeep very very clean didn't see any dents or dings. It does have heated mirrors built in directional signals inside the limited package gives you the light tan leather interior. There are no rips there are no tears in the seats. Both these seats are heated power driver seat with lumbar we have factory all-weather formats and the factory carpeted formats auto headlamps power windows power locks power mirrors and memory driver's seat you get the nice wood grain trim tilt telescopic steering wheel and you can see that this one has 86,524 miles digital speedometer outside temp and compass display instrument cluster is very nice and clean comes with a leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left this one comes with the 430N radio which gives you AMFM serious XM radio capabilities and your factory navigation system this is also where your backup camera shows up down here you have your climate controls and your heated seat buttons as well as your dual climate controls stability controls tow-haul and your backup parking sensors you can turn those off and on this one does have remote start and this one also has the Quadra Track 2 system with the four-wheel drive low downhill assist control sport snow sand mud and rock settings as well as a neutral feature for flat towing you get in all-weather format on that side and the passenger seat is an excellent condition as well no rips or tears this vehicle has never been smoked in smells very clean has a power sunroof home link buttons map lights and your mirror there dashes nice and clean as well we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood so the back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here does have the latch child safety system for all your child car seat needs no rips or tears we have the all-weather formats back here and these seats are heated on the outboard sides and it does have a 115 volt 150 watt plug-in these seats fold down for extra storage and you can see they go down really nice and flat which is nice if you have to haul a bunch of the extra stuff and it does have the child safety locks on the back doors and we'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this Jeep is all the way around under the hood we do have the 5.7 liter v8 hemi motor engine bay is very clean runs very smooth this vehicle has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off Jeep has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go brand new brakes in the back and to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you will see link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more used inventory videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom a link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee limited with the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor thanks again