Ecam Live 4.0 has just been released and it is a massive update with some amazing new features and if you haven't been using the beta then these are all going to be completely new to you so I am going to go through all the new features of 4.0 in this video and there's a lot to get through so let's get on with it shall we? Before we sort of go through individually all of the you know dozens of features that there are I thought it'd be worth talking about just the kind of four headline features if you like the major things that are in this release. The first one being multi-streaming that is the ability to stream from Ecam Live to multiple different platforms without the need for a third-party service like Restream or one of the others. So that is a great new feature that lots of people have been asking for. There are some caveats with all of these things that we're going to talk about so I'll talk about why you may still want to maintain that Restream account a little bit later when we dig into the multi-streaming. Next off though we'll talk about the camera switcher so this is a new way of viewing the different cameras that you've got coming into Ecam Live so previously we've had that little strip with all the small little images of the different cameras that you've got coming in. Now we've got a dedicated window for it which actually the sort of simplicity of the window belies the functionality that it adds so this is a huge thing actually in my opinion and so we'll be diving into all the features of this new camera switcher functionality. Next is ISO video this has been a much requested feature within the Ecam Live community that is the ability to record not just your sort of primary recording but also to have individual recordings individual files of you know elements within there like your maybe your primary camera maybe your secondary camera if you've got guests coming in on interview mode to have a separate video file just of their feed. The reason why you might want this is if you want to sort of edit things together after the fact or re-edit things you know put them together in a different way after the fact or maybe just even just a repurpose at some of the contents of your interviews and you want to take out some of the the the guests words of wisdom and make those into you know vertical format shorts or whatever that happens to be well we can now do that with ISO video so we'll be diving into that and the uses and limitations of it as well. Then next up is related to interviews is this increase in the number of interview guests again it's something that a lot of people had wanted you know to be able to have more than four guests well now we can do. I say we can do because with these things as I've mentioned there is some caveats with all of this to be aware of and so that before we actually get into the implementation of these I thought it was just talking about that and the compatibility. So there is a couple of differentiators really when it comes to e-cam and these features first off is going to be what plan you're on so whether you're on the pro or the standard plan next is going to be whether you are on a apple silicon or the intel max so when it comes to multi-streaming in the early beaters this was talked about as being a pro only feature actually now that it's rolled out they are making this available to everyone so whether you're on standard or pro intel or apple silicon multi-streaming is is there for you to use. Next is this camera switcher again that is just a standard feature that is available on both plans and also regardless of the the type of computer that you have. Next is ISO video this is a really processor intensive thing to do because instead of just encoding one video you are encoding multiple videos and if it comes to you know obviously you can have a couple of different cameras you've got your main feed and then you've got you know potentially up to 10 guests you can see that there's going to be a lot of processing going on and so it is a pro feature and also it is just limited to those apple silicon computers as well. Now I should say ISO video is in addition to isolated audio so we've had isolated audio recording since well I can't remember what version that came into actually but that is the ability to record isolated audio tracks of all the things that you've got going into e-cam that was a pro only feature it still is a pro only feature but that still does work even if you're on an intel max. Next is the number of interview guests now previously the maximum was four and it still is if you're on an intel mac but for apple silicon as I mentioned this is going to go up to 10 so you can now have 10 guests there. There's another thing that I want to mention which isn't really a headline feature but whilst we've got this little chart up then that is widget overlays these are something that you can use to add various different web widgets onto your and into your e-cam live production they've made some big enhancements to this which make them really versatile and actually far more useful than they than they were before and they were always a pro feature well really great news this is now also going to be available for the standard plan so we'll dig into these a little bit later as well and we'll talk about all the enhancements that have been made to widget overlays amongst other things. So just wanted to touch on those four headline features but really there is so much more to e-cam live version four than just those features and so I thought it useful to actually break things down a little bit and so what we're going to do is go through this video I'll leave timestamps down below so you can sort of jump ahead or find what you're looking for but basically we're going to be talking about the interface changes there's changes to the way that you just even interact with e-cam live now so we'll talk about those then multi-streaming we'll dig into that these sort of technicalities of how to do multi-streaming scheduling streams and all of that kind of stuff then we'll talk about this new camera switcher and all the functionality and the the options that that gives you next is camera settings there's been some enhancements to that and some new functionality there as well then we'll move on to ISO recording lots to talk about with that one as well interview mode some changes there that I've sort of alluded to as well and then we'll talk about overlay so I've already talked about the widget overlays there's been some improvements there but also with text overlays as well next we'll talk about stream deck and loop deck lots of great new additional functionality added there some really useful things that I'm just loving so we'll talk about that and finally we'll talk about some general sort of compatibility changes that have been made to just make things make it work with other systems and services a lot better so that's the sort of agenda so let's start by then taking a look at some of these interface changes because there is a few changes and things look a little bit different let's start with a really easy one which is that previously the ecum live main window had a limit on how big that it could actually go to whereas now what you'll find is you can stretch it a lot further so it used to be a little bit of a frustration actually sometimes when I was trying to especially in the design process and lay stuff out and then it's you know quite small on the screen so it's really great now that you can basically just make this as big as you want so a great little feature that might not be immediately obvious to you so what you'll see now though is that there is a couple of other changes sort of aesthetically to the way things look on the screen and the layout you'll notice that we don't anymore have the little text down at the bottom that says the recording destination whether you want to go to YouTube or wherever it happens to be or whether you want to just record that was previously down here that's now being moved up to the top of the screen and you'll see here that there is this little drop down and when you drop that down you've got the option here to select whether you want to stream record and then also you can toggle on and off the virtual camera from here as well I should say that it says virtual cam it is actually the camera and mic so you'll see this little indicator that we have up here showing that the camera and mic are on and then when I toggle this one off those two things will disappear so this is not a new function as such you know this was always available from the output menu and then we could turn the virtual cam and the virtual mic on there it's just that we've now got this option to toggle it on one thing I like about this though is that as well as being able to toggle the virtual camera on you can actually toggle the recording and the streaming both off and what that means is that then you'll notice that the little record button down at the bottom that disappears so it means that if you're only using this as a virtual camera to go into zoom at you know certain times which is the majority of the time that I'm using ecam I'm using it for you know going into zoom or teams or things like that and so the ability to actually turn that off and just remove that unnecessary thing from the interface is a great little thing in my book so if I turn it back on though we're now going to record if you turn stream on then you'll notice that that brings up some other little things down the bottom but we'll talk about those in a moment so for the time being though I'll just stick with the recording one new feature that has been added in is the ability to add a little countdown to the record button so this may turn on by default when you first start but you have the option here to in the recording section to record only countdown and what that means is when I just get this out of the way and then I hit the record button you'll notice that it does actually count down on the button itself so it says three two one and then the recording starts so this was a feature that a lot of people have asked for the ability to just sort of basically count them in if you like personally I don't particularly use that feature myself because I tend to just you know hit the record button on the stream deck and I want to know that when I hit record I'm recording so if you don't want that function then you can just turn it off I'll just hit the end recording button for a moment and then you can turn that off that is in the recording section of the ecome live preferences and incidentally this is a new section within preferences so they have made some changes to the the preferences window we'll sort of come to these as we go through the different sections but I will just mention it so the recording section is now here we've got this record only mode this is where we're going to find all the stuff to do with isolated video and things like that we'll get onto that in due course what they've also consolidated is a number of the different destinations so things like facebook linked in there was previously a button for each of those along the top or a section I should say that you could click on along the top that's now all be moved into this destinations tab so that's where we're going to be looking at multi streaming and things like that but we'll come on to that in due course as well so that is the record button and the sort of slight change that's being made to that one thing that you'll notice now that I've ended that recording is on the screen right now there's another thing that's been added in which is whereas before we had an option to go to show the file in the finder or we have an option to send to youtube so that means that once you finish recording you could just hit a button and it would upload it to youtube that we've had for a long time but now what we've got is also this option to edit in descript so when you hit that it's going to actually upload it to the descript in the cloud and then open descript on your on your desktop so if you are recording stuff in ecum for editing in descript you can now basically get it in there with a single click which is it which is great so I'll just hit okay for that so in terms of other adjustments that have been made here what you'll also notice is we've got down the right hand side we've got one extra button and that's this one and this is for the camera switcher window so we'll talk about that a little bit later but that is just another addition to the interface to have that camera switcher button just over there to open up that window some other options in the in the menus as well and so in the recording section we've got this option here to add a marker and add a marker with info so what's what are those about well if I hit the record button so it's going to count in and start recording so now I am recording and if I go to the recording and hit the the little button up here to add marker what it's going to do is it's actually going to add a timestamp in a text file so I'm just going to hit it that is the M key is the shortcut for that there is a stream deck button which I'll be talking about a little bit later as well so I could add a number of different text markers you'll notice it says down at the bottom marker added so we can see that it's just added a marker in there and these are for you know timestamps in youtube for example you can add in timestamps so that's the way that I've got the timestamps down the bottom of this video you just add in the sort of time in and then you can add in some text to to actually add in the sort of the title for that particular section in youtube you may also want it to just actually mark a point so that you've got a reference maybe if you you know I've just said some pearl of wisdom during a live stream and you want to remember exactly the point that you said it then you can hit this marker to mark that point what you can also do though as well as just creating a sort of time you can actually add text to it as well so add marker with info if I click that button and then that's going to add a marker but also it's going to give me the option to actually type something in here so if I just type well it's typed in chapter so let me just type in chapter one to save me typing anything else and I'm just going to click on add and now it's going to add in that marker so the way that this actually works then is once we finish our recording if I hit on hit finish down here and then if I go into my recordings folder for ecum what you'll see is I drag it on here you'll see that on here I've got the recording over here and then I've also got this text file so if I open up the text file what you can see is it's got the 00 start and then it's got the first two that I did maybe that's a little bit small we just make that bigger the first two timestamps which if you remember were ones where I just literally hit the button so that was at 12 seconds in and 20 seconds in and then that one where I actually typed something you can see how that's actually put in the name of the chapter as well so that is a great little feature and we'll look later on at how you can do this with stream deck and it's when you use it with stream deck that I think it's got some real power in terms of you know planning a run of show and putting those chapter markers in as you go through it's a great little feature so we'll talk about that in more detail a bit later now another thing that's been added into the menu bar is another little feature which is if I go to the output and then we've got video monitor so that is where you can actually have the output from ecamm going to a secondary monitor that's what I use when it's going to my teleprompter so I can see what's going out in ecamm then you have that there with the video monitor what they've added now is the ability to flip that horizontally so sometimes people find it more easy to work with if they are seeing themselves kind of reversed on screen so it's more like the way a mirror would be so that don't find themselves pointing in the wrong direction so you now have that option in here to flip horizontally just know that it's only what you're seeing so if anything looks backwards like writing on the on the screen or anything like that then it's it's it's just the the monitor that's like that is not the actual output so that's a nice little feature that I know some people find it useful and just coming back into the preferences for a moment the other thing that is a new feature here which I didn't just mention before in terms of the the new arrangement of preferences is this one here the remote control so now you have the ability to grant access to ecamm for things that want control of it like stream deck loop deck and so on but you also have the option here to sort of revoke that access so if you have given things access to it in the security system preferences you know as you go through and install these things you can just sort of uncheck those there so stream deck loop deck being an obvious couple but then there are other ways that you can potentially interface with ecamm as well so that is just a new section there shortcuts that's not new in this version however what you'll find is that these are now remembered on a profile by profile basis so you may well have different shortcuts set up and this by shortcuts I mean the mac os shortcuts so you could have different shortcuts for different profiles and that means that when ecamm live opens you can run a shortcut maybe shut down some other apps when a broadcast starts maybe turn off on do not disturb when a broadcast finishes things like that again this isn't new for this particular version so I won't go into it too much but just the now it does actually sync on a profile by profile basis it also does on a profile basis it does actually remember these settings as well so whether you are set to stream record or virtual cam those will be remembered on a profile by profile basis as well so if you know you have one that is just to be used as virtual camera and then you can turn those off and that will be remembered as well so that is a few of these sort of just interface changes that they have made and there is more that we'll discover as we as we go through as well but the next thing kind of related to that we've seen how you can turn on the recording and the virtual cam and then also toggle on that streaming and that really brings this nicely on to streaming because this multi streaming feature is really really impressive but also it does sort of change the way that you set up and set up your broadcasts and schedule them in ecamm before there was one way of doing it now we're going to do it slightly differently so let's have a look at how we are going to do that so back over on this machine then by the way I'm just running ecamm on two machines so I'm sharing one with you now because obviously I can't show you how to schedule things whilst I'm recording so that's what's going on here once you select the stream though down here let me just clear this out of the way then you'll see a couple of things first of all any upcoming streams you've got so I've got one coming up in just a couple of days where I'll be talking about not just all of the new features obviously that's what this video is but I'll be going specifically into some of the use cases of not those really sort of high level features such as multi streaming and so on but I'll be talking about some of the little smaller minor features that people might overlook so that's what my live streams going to be about this week I'll leave a link to it in the description so you can go and check that out as well but in any case you will see any upcoming streams and you do see the little sort of thumbnail there as well but you can also see here where you've got where it says upcoming if you click this it is actually going to show you just a list of all the streams you've got coming up and it also shows you where they are going to and you can also see this little icon here this little pencil icon to actually edit the scheduled event we'll come on to that in a moment but if you've got lots of different events coming up you'll be able to see what those all are and select the one that you want to actually stream to so what you can do from here is if we want to schedule a new event we can hit this button down at the bottom this new button so if I click on that this is the way that we are going to then schedule a new a new live stream so the first thing is we've got this window that's popped up we can give it a title we can give it a description and then here because it's going to youtube I can set select the visibility so whether it needs to be unlisted public or private or whatever and then some additional platform options so there's going to be things specific to the platforms in this case latency made for kids and so on so you can either go live now and so if I was to hit that give it a title and description I'd just be able to hit the go live and it would just go live immediately or you can obviously hit the schedule button and schedule it for a specific time and in that case you can also add in an image for your thumbnail what you'll also see down here though is it does tell us our required speed so here it's saying 5.9 megabits per second this by the way is set to I think 1080p at 30 frames per second and that is the required bandwidth for the upload to actually deliver that stream so what we can do though is we can also add in other destinations because obviously we're talking here about multi-streaming so to do that I just simply click in here click on one of those other destinations so if I click on this one to Facebook for example then if there are any additional features that need to you need to bring in here or select then those will appear here by the way there is a feature in Facebook called Facebook cross posting which is something you set up on the Facebook side so if you're managing multiple different pages for example Facebook can automatically cross post it to those on the Facebook side and if you have got that set up on your your Facebook back end as it were then those would appear down here and you'd be able to select which of those other pages you want it to go to and that is just a way that you can actually sort of offload some of the the sort of bandwidth overhead if you like from your own computer is if you are streaming to multiple Facebook pages do it on their side and let Facebook take the the extra bandwidth cost from you but you can add in multiple pages though now with multi-streaming so it's not just streaming to multiple platforms you can actually stream to multiple you know YouTube pages multiple Facebook pages and it's just a case of going in adding those in so I'll talk about that in a moment but what you will notice is now that I'm streaming to two platforms you can see down here the required speed is given as 11.8 and so we'll talk in a moment about how you can sort of adjust that in the or check that I should say in your preferences but here as I say you can just go in and click add and add any other different destinations you want but if you want to add a new one that you haven't already got in there then click on the add destination this is going to take you into system preferences so you can click on here and then we could add a new destination in so say Amazon for example click in here add in your stream key and then just click on add here and it would add it into the the list there but you can also do this from system preferences so that didn't take you directly there but you can come into your sorry ecome live preferences I should say and click on destinations and here you will see the list of the destinations you've got and then you can click on add new destination and then that just brings up that exact same thing there if you go to additional destinations this is going to bring up some other ones and funnily enough it's the multi streaming destinations like restream multi stream using switchboard and one stream so those if you still want to use those then that is how you can access those and that actually brings us to a good point is why might you still want to use restream or one of those other services when we've now got multi streaming in ecam well do bear in mind that we are streaming to all of the different destinations from your computer and that's why when I went from just to one destination to two you notice that the bandwidth requirement went up and so if you're someone who hasn't got a great internet connection or you haven't got the bandwidth you want to stream to 10 different destinations and you haven't got 50 megabyte up speed then you're still going to need one of those other services so it's just something to bear in mind whereas with restream or that one of the other services you're just streaming once to them and they are dealing with the bandwidth requirements to stream to all of your different platforms with the ecam implementation you are literally streaming to all of those places directly from from your side so that is one reason why you might want to keep your multi streaming platform around there's another reason though which is that currently in the current version of ecam you have to set the stream resolution that you want and it needs to be kind of the lowest common denominator because it's going to be the same going out to all of the different platforms so I do my live stream a backstage podcast and it goes out to for the live part of it the live stream I stream to amazon and to linked in linked in the maximum resolution is 1080p whereas with amazon the maximum is 720 so what that means is that if I was to do that through ecam using the multi streaming then I would be basically limiting my recording to 720 as well so if you want to have a higher resolution recording then there is still something to be said for having one of those other services so that you can still recording 4k but stream to restream and have them send it at 720 to amazon so that's one of the two use cases that I see where you may still want to keep at restream around and indeed that's what that's what I've done for that use case but if you're only streaming to you know facebook and and youtube that in itself might not be might not be an issue so speaking of the speed then one of the other features that they have added in is a way to test what actual speed you are capable of and that and how many platforms you can speed stream to at any given time now you'll find that in the ecam live preferences under stream and you'll notice down at the bottom here it says required speed 4 and then you can select how many destinations if I've got one destination you can see the stream size I've got set to 1080p the stream stream shape I should say and the frame rate there 30 frames per second that's going to be what dictates this required speed so if I say one one destination then it's going to be that much if I was wanted to go to eight different destinations it would say I need 47.3 megabits per second you can see the little check mark next to it there and that's saying that I do have the required bandwidth for that and you can see down here it's got speed test result now this is something that is only available in I think it's Monterey and later so it's using an Apple functionality and so it's part of part of that so if you are earlier than Monterey I don't think you'll see this speed test result so I think that's the cutoff it's either that or one of the previous versions but it's it's basically related to the operating system in any case but you can see there it's telling me my speed is 82.1 so I'm capable of doing that 47.3 if I was to take this higher I still can't quite get over it at 10 destinations I should say that there is a limit by the way of 10 so regardless of your internet speed the current limit for how many places you can stream to with Ecamm is 10 so that might be another reason to keep those other platforms around if you are really streaming to more than 10 destinations if you are I'd love to know where and why in the comments so that is the speed test that is built in and that is how you're going to be able to see whether or not you have the required bandwidth to stream to all of the places that you want to stream to now in terms of actual live streaming whilst you are streaming there are a couple of differences and improvements that have been made there as well so first of all I'm not streaming right now but if I was you would see up at the top bearing in mind we're now streaming to multiple different destinations where before you could see the sort of number of viewers and thumbs up now you'll be able to just sort of click into this little box which will appear here which isn't there right now but it'll actually show you you know how many views you've got on the individual platforms from there as well what you can also then do is you can actually stop the stream on individual platforms as well so if you are you know streaming to multiple different platforms and then you want to end the stream on one and bring people over to another one or you know you've got a sort of after after show party going on one particular platform then you can end the stream on individual platforms and maintain it on other ones now one other thing as well is if the stream does fail on individual platforms for one reason or another network or whatever it happens to be it will still continue on the platforms that you're you're still streaming to the same goes for the recording if you're streaming to even just an individual platform and something that goes wrong with the the stream or that you lose connection or something is not going to stop the recording which it would have done in the past so that is some functionality which I'm not really showing you because I'm not streaming right now but that would be just up here I'll make another video specifically about that but one thing that I can say is whilst you are streaming then there's been some improvements made to the chat as well so where you've got the the chat window and where you'll see the comments come in let me maybe just make the main window a little bit smaller like that so if you've got the the chat window just down here for comments and reactions and then also the interview chat so I'm going to bring the interview chat window over as well he says trying to why is it not grabbing it it'll get it in a minute there we go so here we've got the two different chat window so when you are in interview mode if you've not used interview mode before maybe you're not aware but you do have a separate chat feature chat back and forth between the people in the interview window but one thing about that is sometimes the people on the interview side may not be seeing the comments because if they're not monitoring on the platform the comments coming in live and if it isn't a comment that you've actually put up onto the screen then they're not going to necessarily see them well now if you've got a comment in the main comments and chat window comments and reactions you can now just grab it and drag it across and drop it into the interview chat so think about that if you're doing an interview or something like that and you want to sort of queue up questions or maybe a virtual conference or whatever it happens to be you could be sort of queuing up different questions and putting in them in the in the the interview ease chat window so they can see them there as well incidentally that whole feature of just being able to drag and drop a comment that now works with with anything so with notes or anything like that as well it just drags and drops it as a text so if you've got anything that comes up in the chat you can just drag it into another you know notes file or whatever it happens to be if you want to keep it that way incidentally not a new feature but you do have all of the chat saved after the fact in any case from a live stream and it's saved as an SRT file so that is a kind of text file but maybe if you double click it it's not necessarily going to open if you do want to actually access that all you need to do is change the file extension from SRT to TXT and then you can just open it up in any text editor the way that looks is basically a series of timestamps with all of the comments and who left them in there as well but as I say not a new feature but just want to be aware of the other thing though that has been changed in the comments and reactions is it now does show little badges for when people are leaving super chats or you know super thanks or anything like that and then also if they are channel members or moderators so that's just another little indicator that you will have on the on the little chat so that you can make sure that you know if it's a channel member leaving a comment that you are aware of that whilst we're talking about chat another huge one for me personally is the fact that now we have amazon chat can be bought into ecamm so any messages that are coming through if you are streaming live to amazon very few platforms seem to have access to the chat on amazon i know be live which is a different platform they've had the ability to get the amazon chat but now thankfully it's coming into directly into ecamm so this there was a whole work around with a google chrome plugin that you could get to extract it and then use it as a widget overlay so i love it when there's some work around hack that we've had to find before and then now it's just available directly in ecamm so if you are streaming to amazon then yeah all of your chat comments will just be coming in just as as you would like them to so that's multi streaming an absolutely awesome feature and as i said at the beginning you know this is something that's available for standard and pro plan and again apple silicon and intel so everyone can use this just do bear in mind the bandwidth requirements and take advantage of that speed test to just make sure that you can actually handle the bandwidth so lots of new features there still lots more to come and i've just got to say that all of my ecamm live masterclass has been updated with all of these new features as well so if you do want to really take your knowledge and understanding of not just ecamm actually but the things that you use in association with it like taking it into zoom for zoom presentations using it with stream deck how to create immersive presentations how to make on-screen graphics like this even then you can find all of that in the ecamm live masterclass you get lifetime access so you know people have bought this previously will get access to all of these new updates that are coming with with that forwarder o been released and likewise you know if you take advantage and sign up to the ecamm live masterclass you get lifetime access so that any future updates you will find you have in there as well and it's really broken down into you know logical steps so all of the beginner stuff first of all where everything is in little bite sized chunks it becomes kind of like your online encyclopedia for ecamm live because if you want to find out about just one specific aspect or refresh your memory on one specific access aspect you'll find them all there broken down into little bite sized chunks so it's very watchable and bingeable as well you just go through sort of a couple of minutes at a time and then also i've got sections there and as i say keynote presentations all that i'm doing here today bringing these things in this is using a combination of keynote with ecamm so i talk about that in there as well and as i say just all of these sort of things that go along with it as well so ecamm live masterclass.com is where you can go and find out more all about that but let's crack on and the next thing then that i want to talk about then is another great feature which is the camera switcher and this is to be honest possibly one of my favorite features so let's have a look at how this all works i mentioned previously that there is this new button just up in the top corner here which is this one and this is going to open this camera switcher window but before i do that just to sort of reiterate that what we're talking about is this is the existing camera switcher that allows you to if you've got the scene source set as a camera and allows you to switch between different cameras so i could click here and switch to this one if the scene if the scene wasn't locked schoolboy error let me just unlock that scene then i can do it so if i was to click here then i can obviously switch camera like this and switch between cameras so that is the the existing camera switcher the the previous implementation of it but yeah it's not really big enough to actually see what's on those cameras it was just intended to give you a small visual cue enable you to switch between them while now this new camera switcher is basically a completely free floating window now the other thing about this was this one here on the screen this only applies if you are using the scene source as a camera so if i come up to source up here you can see you can choose either screen share camera or blank the thing was i always tend to build out my scenes starting from a blank scene and then use camera overlays that tends to be how i tend to build out scenes so in that case when i'm starting from a blank scene then this camera switcher on the screen was a little bit redundant as well because it wasn't really functional for the overlays on overlay camera overlays you set individually by overlay so with this one if you no longer want to see this on the screen at all then you can come to the settings and then in here there is an option where my settings gone i've got too many monitors here so the settings down here you can see this one show camera switcher in main window so if you don't ever want to see that little camera switcher you can just toggle that one off and then it won't appear because the other thing is it sometimes gets in the way when you're trying to you know do layouts and things like that so this is the way that i'm doing it now i'm not using that camera switcher at all i'm just using this one and the functionality that this gives you is if you want it really small just like it was before you can certainly make it like that and you can resize it and we've got exactly the same functionality that we just looked at so be able to just click into any one of those cameras and it's going to change the camera that you've got on your main scene however where this really comes into its own in my opinion is the fact that you can use this almost like a monitor to see all of the different cameras and for sure you know if it's just for you or maybe yourself in an overhead shot that might not be so critical but when you start adding in guests and things like that and then it's really handy to be able to see all of these guests and now that we can certainly have you know up to 10 guests and multiple cameras then being able to see those all together in this window is really useful if you're doing something like a virtual conference where you're using interview mode and you're just sort of bringing different people in up onto onto the virtual stage as it were then being able to say see just sort of visually if somebody's ready to come up or if they're you know even sitting in front of their camera or not is really helpful and you can see here it says guest one but obviously if you've got multiple different guests then all of those people would be lined up here as well but that's just the start of it what you can also do then from here is for each of these individual cameras if you think about the camera effects window that we've got not that one wrong window camera effects window written right at the top of it so this is where you can make adjustments to your you know camera settings and things like that previously if you wanted to change the settings for a different camera then you have to click in here and then you go and select the one that you want to adjust and then you can make the necessary adjustments or now you can actually do that directly from here so you can see this little magic one symbol which is also the same symbol to show and hide that camera effects window for each of these individual cameras you can now click on that and you can see that down at the bottom the camera effects window just here maybe I'll put it where you can see it a bit better as I change the the camera here it's basically changing the camera effects window that you're working with or the camera that whose effects you're changing that makes sense made a bit of a pixie of that there you go so that just makes it really simple to you know if you want to adjust this camera to just be able to go through and do it like that so a time saver and also it saves adjusting the wrong one I've done that before where I thought I was zooming in on one camera but I just didn't realize that I hadn't got the right one selected at the top the other thing that you can do with this as well though is these three little dots next to each of these individual cameras you can now show source in a separate window so this is useful as well if you want to sort of build out your own view of the the different cameras that you've got coming in maybe you want to view of your sort of main camera and then maybe the other ones are don't need to be so big you can just pop out all of those show source in separate window so you could make something like that and obviously I've got these all on the same monitor so it doesn't really make sense like this at the moment however if you imagine this being on the second monitor because you can just drag these across to a second monitor you could make any sort of layout that you wanted of you know all the different cameras if you were doing something in a live production environment where you wanted to have a monitor that had all of these on for someone else to see or maybe you're doing an interview show or whatever it happens to be and you want to be able to give other people views of themself or you know different camera angles or whatever it is you've got the versatility to do that with with with this camera switcher. The other thing that you can do from in here as well is you can also send the source from one of these videos directly to a specific monitor so you could have it you know go I've got two other monitors attached here so I could have this going out literally to you know full screen to one particular monitor again useful if you are in a sort of some sort of live production environment where you want to have this whole feed of one of these cameras going out to there or something and then you've also got the option to to just remove from the switcher as well so we've had that before if you know like you can you can use keyboard shortcuts by the way for switching cameras so if you just hit the number two it will go to the second camera number one will go to the first one four will go to the fourth one so that's just hitting the keyboard buttons obviously I tend to do it with stream deck but if you look in the list of cameras up here you can see all of the different cameras but you'll notice how some of these have got letters assigned to them whereas other ones don't and the ones that don't are basically not featured in the camera switcher so previously you would have to come into this menu and then you could just select which ones you want to include in the switcher whereas now you can just go in here and you can remove any one of these from the switcher but equally you can also go and add it back in as well so if I click on the little plus icon and then I can just pick that camera out of the list and I can just straight away add it back in like that as well so that's how you can sort of choose what cameras you want to be using. The other thing though that is really great about this is I mentioned before that I tend to build out my scenes starting with a blank scene and building things out from there well if that is how you build out your scenes as well there's a really great little trick here because if you change your source to blank and you want to just build out some scene quickly you can literally just drag and drop cameras from here onto your scene so if I want to put that one there maybe I'm going to have a guest over here and I can just drag and drop these like that so it's a really great way to have this as like basically a set of whatever you want to call it placeholders that you can just sort of drop wherever you want them to be. I've got my terminology mixed up a little bit there because I've just used the word placeholders it's on my mind because that is another great new feature of this particular release is the idea of placeholder cameras so up until now what you've seen me doing is I've just been going through and basically selecting the camera that I want to use if I would create it a whole series of scenes let's say this one which is my zve10 so if I've gone through and created a series of scenes and put that camera in each scene then there is this issue that can happen sometimes where if you've got multiple different cam links connected and cam links are the ways to take HDMI from your camera into the cam link and then take that into your computer over USB if you've got multiple cam links connected then the computer sometimes forgets which ones which it's not an e-cam thing it is a mac thing and so what can happen is people can create a series of scenes in e-cam with camera one two three and four and in Keith Powell's case seven but then what can happen is sometimes when you switch on the if you switch off the computer and switch it back on again then you can sometimes find that those have been sort of switched round because the the mac hasn't remembered where they which one was which basically which can be a bit of a frustration if it means you've got to go through and sort of adjust various scenes there is a workaround for this whereby you just sort of plug them in in the same sequence each time and so that sort of solves it from that point of view but what they've added in e-cam in this version is this concept of placeholder cameras and so here you can see in the camera switcher as well as all sources just up at the top here we've also got this one which says a slash b and that is this concept of having a placeholder camera whereby instead of designating a specific camera for a specific scene you can just put a placeholder there and then that means that you can assign the camera later and it also means that let's say for example you've got multiple setups maybe you've got a studio setup at home and you've got another one at the office and you take your laptop back and forth between them and you've left the camera there or whatever it might be and you want to use your you know built-in laptop camera when you're on the road but then when you're back in the office you want to use your you know built-in camera there or your fixed camera that you've got set up in your studio then you can use these placeholder cameras so here i've got two scenes i've got scene one which has got my main camera and then i've got scene two which is my top-down camera and imagine if i'd also got like lots of other scenes built out with all these cameras in it well imagine if my my cam links have been screwed up or something like that and it didn't remember where they were well now instead of going through each individual scene and changing out all of these different cameras and swapping them around to where they should be what i can do now is i can just come to this ab switcher here this one for the placeholder cameras and then i can just change the camera that is associated with that placeholder in ecamp so i can change this one to be the this camera for example and then i can change this one to be the cam link and so by just changing that in that one little instance up there that will go through and propagate through all of those scenes where i'd got that camera a and b so that is one way that you can use this is to sort of protect if your your camera your computer forgets which camera is which another great use case for this though is if you are someone who builds out entire profiles for people where you've got different cameras and things like that set up for them different scenes set up um well what you can do now is instead of having to you know educate them and tell them to okay here is the profile you can install this profile now you've got to go through every scene and select the correct camera that you want for each scene now you just basically put placeholder camera a that's the main camera placeholder camera b that's your secondary camera you can add more placeholders by the way so i can just keep adding more and more of these so you can add multiple placeholders so if you were creating a really complex thing with multiple different camera angles because you knew they had that set up in their particular studio you could create all of these things yourself and then just send over the the profile to them they'll import that into ecamm and then all you need to do is just explain basically the mapping so you'll say okay camera a is your primary camera camera b is uh you know whichever one it happens to be so that is a really great feature and i think that's going to be a huge time saver first of all it's going to be a time saver for me making these sorts of changes but it's also going to be a real help when you are you know sort of providing stuff either as a service maybe a paid service creating profiles for people and or if you're just collaborating where one person designs the show another one's running it on their machine you know running an interview show or whatever it happens to be maybe for your podcast it just makes it a much easier to make these one simple change and it propagates through the entire set of scenes so related to the camera switcher we've obviously got the camera settings as well and there's a couple of things to note in terms of that so let's take a look first of all something to note is that in the camera effects window when you are making a change to one of your sort of primary cameras that you've got those will apply also to any placeholders that are using that camera so what i mean by that is here i've got my sort of main camera if i come and select this one so now i'll just change my color just so that you can see something obvious now what you'll notice is if i go into the camera the placeholder cameras those have also been changed as well so you can't be in a situation where you've made a change to one and it hasn't propagated so it is it is global in that sense if hopefully that that makes sense so what i can do now is just reset this so that i don't look quite so ill and then the next thing down in the camera effects that's being added is a blur effect so just down at the bottom here you can see camera blur and then we can just increase that am i on the right camera let me just switch to eight this camera this should be the scene source for this switch on the blur effect there we go you can see how much it is sort of blurring me out there one thing to note about this is although it's going to blur the camera it's not the same as the sort of blur background effect that you may be used to if you've used something like zoom at teams where it can sort of artificially blur the background but keep you in focus so it's not doing that it's just applying it to the whole of the the camera so just something to be aware of you'll obviously see it as soon as you try it next is also this sepia cp a tone here so that's just another little thing in addition to the the black and white which was in there before now you have got mirror which is again this is not new i just wanted to point out because i mentioned earlier on that if you click mirror here it is going to flick your your your video output and that is actually going to be going out that is different to the one that i mentioned earlier which was in the the output menu and the video monitor to be able to flip that so if you flip horizontally in the video monitor that isn't what is going to be going out is only going to be going to be flipped for you but if you were to flip it in here then literally that would be going out so everything would be as you can see written backwards and so on in the background so that is the the new features that have been added into the camera effects window another thing to to note here which is slightly different before than before is if i were to come into this camera switcher and i add in my ipad mini and then i drag that onto here as an overlay just to sort of demonstrate this and then i disconnect my ipad mini you get this so and this is this applies to any camera now if the the camera is no longer connected and then you will get this this white box around it and this option here to sort of highlight the fact that there is a camera missing saying double click to pick a camera source and that will just basically pop up this same box as normal and then you could select it from there so obviously that was just to demonstrate but if you had got scenes with cameras and then the camera wasn't connected it will sort of prompt you to connect a different camera and obviously using the the placeholder cameras now as well hopefully that will be a bit of a thing of the past in any case so that is really the the camera effects and the additions that have been made there what i'd like to talk about next though is really linking in still with this whole idea of placeholder cameras because we're going to be talking about iso recording and that is kind of linked to this idea of placeholder cameras because in actual fact when you are selecting the cameras that you want to record and it is dictated by what you have set as your placeholder cameras so perhaps i should just show you this and it will make a lot more sense if i come into my preferences for ecum which have disappeared again here they are and we go into the recording section this is where we can set this up so first of all record all broadcasts is an option that you can check so that it records even when you're streaming obviously we have got control over that in any case from the little drop down to select whether we want to record or stream so you can override that but here is where we can select isolated video tracks and what you'll notice is it says in addition to normal recording record selected video sources to a separate file and then you've got these check boxes so you can check camera a and camera b and those relate directly to the camera a and camera b in the switcher so if you look here in these placeholder cameras camera a camera b you have got the option to add more so we can have b c d a e and so on and we can just keep adding more of those in but specifically on your local machine it is going to record up to two cameras so or i say up to two it's only two and so that would be obviously the main recording a camera a and camera b so in this case i've got you know four different cameras connected then at the moment we can only record two of those so you have to make that decision as to which ones you wanted those to be but just bear in mind then that whichever ones you want to record they those do have to be in the placeholder slots for a and b hopefully that makes sense and you've also then got the option to record the interview guests and that is for all interview guests so potentially here you could be encoding 13 separate recordings 10 guests two placeholder cameras and then you're obviously your main recording the thing to note about this is that whatever you've got your stream settings set up for ecam so if i come into a recording sorry output options i should say and i've got this set to high resolution 1080p if i got that at 4k the main recording would be at 4k but there is a limit on these placeholder cameras at 1080 so you're only going to get 1080 out of camera a and camera b and currently for the interview guests the limit is 720 so that's what resolution you're going to get for those recordings so you can have maybe 4k for your primary recording at 1080 for those two placeholders and then 720 for the interview guests and that's just down to i guess you know wanting to make sure people don't suddenly start encoding you know 13 4k streams and then wonder why everything's grinding to a halt on their computer so there is that you've also got the option then in here to apply camera effects to recorded video source so you can see how we can go in and tweak our camera settings you may want to preserve those settings and record that into the ISO or you can kind of bypass those so if you don't have that checked then it's basically going to just take the raw feed coming in so that's just something to bear in mind by the way if you are doing interviews the camera effects window is a great way to actually help you know sharpen up your guests you may give them the best instructions to you know come on being positioned in the right place on screen you know having their other settings of their camera setup correctly but to know that you can actually go in and adjust their settings for you know what is coming into your stream is really useful and then again if you're going to record isolated video you may want to carry those settings across so that's just something to be aware of record isolated audio and that's now also in here as well previously it was in the audio section so as I say the record isolated audio we've had that functionality for a while but it has just now moved in the preferences from the audio section into the recording speaking of audio then there's also the option here with camera a b and the interview guests you can choose to either have the program audio which means it's going to capture everything or you can actually record the isolated audio for that particular camera into that file so the sort of use case that I mentioned earlier about wanting to maybe repurpose content from an interview show you might want to have just the the guest and their own audio and nothing else on that particular file so you can set that there as well and then in here this is also where you can set the recording format so that's moved from I think it was just in the I forget which section it was in maybe the general before but anyway it's now all in this recording section and this is also where you choose your recordings folder where you want all of this stuff to be saved at save two and so then what you're going to get is rather than a single file if you've got any of these things selected then you're going to get a folder instead of a file and in that folder you'll find all of the different recordings all the different files if you've got isolated audio you'll see the audio in there as well potentially the SRT file for your chat if you've been live streaming as opposed to recording and then also your timestamps if you've been adding timestamps and using that new feature they'll just all be in one single folder next up then is interview mode and I've sort of been talking about this on and off with various other different things but basically the main thing to know about this is that's the the number of interviewees you can have on is being increased from four to ten bearing in mind interview mode is a pro feature in any case but the increase from four to ten is only for apple silicon again just because of the you know the processor required to handle that maybe that will change in the future in terms of you know more more people being able to added it on top of that ten who knows although god help you if you want to try and manage ten people at a given time on a particular live stream however there is a use case though for having up to ten people and that is that they may not all be on screen at the same time because one of the great uses for interview mode is if you are running virtual conferences or virtual events where you want to have your guest speakers coming in on interview mode and then you know that's going out either to a live stream or maybe into a zoom webinar or whatever it happens to be and so because you can now have more people in there what you may have is you know maybe four or three or five or whatever it is in and on screen at any given time but then just others kind of in the green room as it were waiting to come on and so that's a way that you can sort of manage that so there is a use case for having you know those ten people in even if they're not all on screen at the same time and again that just comes back to why that camera switcher is useful if you are doing something like that where you can actually see all of those people quite clearly on on your screen as the producer and then bring them in as and when and just sort of visually see that they're actually there and and ready to be coming on to camera next let's take a look at overlays and there's a few changes that have happened here so first of all let's look at widget overlays because as i said at the beginning these are something that was previously pro only and now it's both pro and standard plan on intel or apple silicon it makes no difference but there's this great new functionality which has been added because previously widget overlays and by the way widgets are ways to use essentially html code or web code javascript or whatever to display something on your screen and so typically they can be used for things like i have a buy me a coffee link that can pop up so if somebody buys me a coffee on a live stream then it will pop up on the screen subscribe accounts and things like that so that these little things that can basically send stuff onto your screen as it were whilst you are live streaming or recording you can program your own web widgets to do various different things as well but the functionality that's been added now is the ability to actually interact with them and what that means is it's really easy to use web widgets as a way to embed things like websites or even videos onto your screen so let me show you what i mean by this so i'm just going to go to my overlays window and then i'll go down to where it says this one it doesn't say anything but the widget overlay i should say click on that one the little globe icon and here you can give it a name that's the name that it's going to appear as in your overlays window but then here you can drop in the url so i'm just going to drop in the url of a youtube video my previous live stream another thing that's changed with widget overlays is the default size and frame rate so it's now 720 and the frame rate is 30 frames per second forget what it was before but it's increased slightly from before and there's a couple of other options here which i'll come to in a moment but for the time being the widget url i'll leave that like that click add widget and then it's going to load it up now it's going to start playing in a moment so not just the deck of cards this is a collection of 54 beautifully designed story teller tactics for the practical tips that will get your next presentation from dull powerpoint interact with the video so now i could interact with it i could turn the audio off bear in mind the audio is passing through from the widget as well so it's just going to play these play these ads skip ads that's going to go into the presentation but that's the thing that's different here about these widget overlays is that i can now interact with them whereas before you couldn't actually do any interaction so toggle that one off i can move this where i want it i can also use option to crop in so if i did just want to play a youtube video and crop into it then i can do that so that i don't have all of the rest of the stuff around it obviously i'm just sharing my own youtube video here so you definitely want to be conscious of if you are sharing something from youtube what it is you're sharing we're talking about what we like about this is how i could sort of bring in something as a widget rather than the way that i would have done this before would have been with a screen sharing that is one of the things that sort of unites us all and and the key thing to this is this interaction feature here so it's just this little one here to be able to toggle that on and off and if it's toggled on it means you can interact with it so you can use all the controls start and stop and so on and then you can also go back like that it's also great for just general websites so if i were to get a different widget in here for example if i just close this one down i'll go and add a new widget overlay here and let's just put in ecum.com like that and we'll add that one as a widget overlay then you'll see now we've just got the ecum website and once again you can crop it you can resize it we could scroll around it oopsie daisy not like that i hadn't interacted a bit a bit too trigger happy there if i toggle that one on though and then we were to go and say click in one of these other things maybe click in here to go to the next page then from here you've got these back and forth arrows to go backwards so those are just sort of back and forwards in terms of as you would get on a browser and then you've also got the this one here to reload if you want to reload the page as well now i mentioned about the those other little fun bits of functionality in the widget so if i bring up my youtube one again and i'll show that one and i'll bring up the settings you'll notice here it's starting from the beginning again so it started right from the beginning rather than where we left off so if you do want something to start from where you left off maybe a video or something like that then if you come in and adjust these settings the one that you would want is this one which says keep running so you can see you've got the option there to keep running you've got a couple of other things here which aren't necessarily going to be applicable to this kind of thing but fill entire frame the widget will fill the broadcast and can't be moved or resized so that's going to take over the whole of your screen rather than just floating so you may or may not want to do that and the next one here is high resolution mode may prevent smooth animations for larger widgets so maybe we'll just try that with this one and see the effect it has it's presumably going to reload and i'm going to play it in the ad but this is basically going to have a slightly higher resolution if i there we go an advert for coffee in tie so that is widget overlays and i think that is a really interesting use for widgets is to actually you know if you want to play videos and things like that online or maybe show websites then this is another way of doing it rather than doing it with screen sharing and this can be useful as well if you're maybe short of screen real estate and don't have space for ecam and a browse open it's to be able to do the sharing then this is another interesting and useful solution for that also on the subject of overlays there's been some additions to the countdown overlays or the timer overlays so you get to those with the overlays window and then down at the bottom here this one to add add a timer overlay and what's changed here is just a couple of minor things really first of all is the countdown to an amount of time is there they've added countdown to a date and time but they've actually added a calendar picker so we had that before but it was just you had to type in manually so now there is a calendar picker in there the other one that they've added in though is this one here countdown to a specific time every day so it's you know basically you could just set that to a default time you don't have to go and set a specific date but also it doesn't have to be a specific amount of time you know if you know that you go live at whatever time it is at 10 o'clock every day you could just set that to 10 o'clock and then it would always count down to that same time every time you start that scene up the other thing that they've added in here though as well is also in the stopwatch you can now disable the millisecond so you don't necessarily have to have that on if you don't need to be that precise about whatever is your using your stopwatch for so that is the few minor changes with the timer overlays another couple of things is related to camera overlays i've already talked about that idea of where you have a camera that's no longer on then you get that sort of little bounding box around it well they've also changed the way that guests come in so previously when you had interview mode on if I just show you what a guest used to look like you i'm sure you're familiar if you've been using ecam on interview mode this silhouette of a person that's what you would see as the kind of the placeholder for somebody um one of the interview guests you know into guest one two three or four as we had before um whereas now those are just shown like this with a white bounding box around them and it just says guest one and those don't actually show up on the stream as well so if you've got you know a placeholder for a guest and then they drop out rather than getting that silhouette they're just going to completely disappear next up is things related to stream deck and loop deck there's been a number of sort of iterations in terms of just updating general updates with in line with the updates to the loop deck and stream deck itself we've also got a new model of loop deck out as well the loop deck plus so that one has got some dials on it so there's some functionality added there and there's a couple of other really really useful features added in so let's just take a look shall we at what these new functions are so in the ecam live actions I say this every time but this has got to be like one of the most complete set of actions of any developer that's sort of making their you know integrating with stream deck it's just phenomenal to see all of these different things you can control so much of ecam with stream deck it can just become like totally mission control anyway I've said that so many times before but worth just repeating again it's great to see all of this control that we've got over ecam within stream deck so what's been added here is we've talked about that ability to add chapter markers previously that's now been added in 4.0 into the the menu items along the top and a keyboard shortcut well now we've got that here as well so you've got this add marker this is a new action that you can add in and the way that this works is you can basically just hit the button and it will add the marker just like before adding a specific timestamp for that you know every time you hit it but you can also add in marker text here as well so if you wanted to actually create a series of markers for a series of chapters throughout your video in advance then you could just literally be going through and hitting these markers as you reach that point in your live stream and then it's going to create this whole text file for you so there all you'd have to say is chapter one add another one for chapter two chapter three and so on or whatever the actual names of them are and then as you're going through your live stream just be hitting these buttons and it would then mark them off for you in your in your text file you've also got the option to pop up that dialogue box so if you remember when you hit the keyboard shortcut in ecam it's going to actually pop up a dialogue to give you know allow you to type in the the chapter marker or whatever so you can also do it that way as well so if you want to just have a button to press and then it's going to come up obviously if you're on a live stream you're unlikely to want to say to everyone hang on a minute i'm just going to make a note of something and type down the the title of it however for remote production this is great if you're remote producing for someone else then sure you've got time to hit the button and then be typing away in there so really useful to have that as a feature and so that is that add marker button just there the other one then that we've got is if i just take out this add marker the other one that we've got is um related to chat so we've had this add last comment to the screen if you are you know live streaming and also hide comment well now we've got this one which is called post comment and what that means is you can type comments in advance just as we've done with chapter markers you could type some specific comments in here and that might be i don't know links to your your website links to some offer you're running stock answers that you want to be able to post during a live stream and you can write these text messages out in here so like check out my ecum live masterclass like that and then during the live stream i can just hit this button and it will post that into the chat so that's a really really handy feature for all those links and things like that that you want to talk about as you are going through your live stream another great way though to use these things together is imagine if you've got a series of scenes set up in ecum live maybe you've got a scene you know with a title or something like that a bit like i've been doing today you know having different titles all the way through then what you can do for that is rather than have just a comment separately you could maybe right click in here create multi-action and then imagine if you went in here and selected run a particular scene in ecum so it's going to change to a particular scene then you're also then going to drop in a chat message that chat message that i've just put say you know check out my course or whatever it happens to be i'll just type some random letters in here and then you could also have in your timestamp down here as well so that way you could literally have your run of show programmed out in here and then as you're pressing the buttons it's first of all it's posting the relevant link into the chat it's switching to the relevant scene in ecum and then it's also then putting in that chapter marker for you so using multi-actions with these things is where this really comes into its own so really great to see these additions coming into into into the stream deck there's just so many so many of these actions in here if you are using ecum and you haven't yet got a stream deck check out the link in the description you've got to get one it's it it transforms ecum i think having a stream deck the other functionality that's been added related to stream deck is related to the stream deck plus with dials because if i switch over to my stream deck plus from in here the way the the dials work is you can basically adjust audio levels in ecum so not many people have got plugins for the that work with the dials in stream deck but of course ecum do so here are the ones that i'm using so far i'm not using phillips huber it's the only one that's got one in there at the moment and then you got stream deck system wavelength from algato and yeah look one loan company up here actually made a decent plugin for the stream deck plus and the way that this works is you basically have got a series of dials and you can just come into here and add on some things so let me just delete what's on here in fact let me go to another page like this here we go and i'll add on the ecum live input level to this dial and it will tell me that this is the primary mic but i can select anything from here so i could have it adjust not just the primary mic what's it easy to click off that for some reason i can choose the secondary mic movie system audio skype interview sound effects and so on um so this dial then is going to be adjusting that audio so at the moment it's set to primary mic so if i just dial that down what you should see is that i should be getting quieter as i dial it down and then i'll be getting louder again as i dial it back up what you can also do with the stream deck plus though is you can make what are called stacks so if i were to just delete something from here get rid of all of these so here you can create a dial stack and there it's a bit like multi actions in stream deck but you can basically where you sort of have this separate window and you just add different things in so here what i could do is i could add a series of input levels for ecum for example like this and then that could be my primary input this one could be a second mic this one could be movie levels whoops wrong one i like that and then the way that that works on the dial is that you see there is there's a mic level but then if i press the button as well so the dial rotates but then i can press it and as i press it it's going to change to mic two level and then i can make adjustments to that press it again movie level and make adjustments to that and that essentially is exactly what i've done over here so i've got my movie level and then system level effects level and so on so that's on that single dial but i can adjust multiple things and then i've also got all of my interview guests over on this one so as i tap through that is interview guest one guest two guest three and so on so i've just got those two dials one for interview guests and one for my other all the other audio in ecum so it's great to be able to have those on the dials i was previously using loop deck to control the audio in ecum anyone who watches my channel will know i'm not a huge fan of loop deck i find the user interface is not so uh not so great so it's great to be able to have that all in the one stream deck ecosystem because i find that it does it is a lot more uh flawless in terms of the implementation of everything there's a final few general compatibility updates as well so first of all is they've updated the compatibility with ndi just to bring it up to date with the latest ndi spec which is five five one but also they've added in support for deck link and this is from black magic this is a way another sort of video transfer protocol i guess is the way to describe that and this you can find in the output here so in the same way that before we've got ndi output and ndi being a way to transmit video over a network well you've also got this way to interface with any deck link devices that you've got so you can see black magic desktop not installed so i don't have it on my computer but here is where you would you would do that if you did and then there's a little what's this to find out more all about that on top of that just a whole load of other tweaks refinements and improvements and general sort of usability improvements so that really covers the bulk of the new features i'm sure there's going to be one or two that i might have missed in there if i have do leave a note and let me know in the comments if you've got any questions obviously feel free to shout out and leave those in the comments too and i will be doing a live stream as i mentioned on that this in a couple of days time and i'll leave a link to that in the description too that will be going into a little bit more detail into some of those features not so much the headline ones but some of those other features that i really finding that i'm enjoying most and the way that i am using those so that i'll be all covered on my live stream but what i'll do is i'll also leave a link over on the right hand side there for you to check out some other e-camp videos i've just got to say a big thank you also to my channel members i really appreciate your support and helping me keep on the studio lights have a great day everyone and enjoy e-camp version four