My name is Guiping Yan, a nematologist at North Dakota State University. I work on nematode disease on different crops. Today I will talk about nematode, religion nematode detection and reproduction in potato. Plain parasitic nematodes are very tiny worms. So most of them cannot be seen with naked eye. They only can be observed under a microscope. This tiny worm can cause significant crop loss and considered as one threat to crop production in the world. There are many types of plant parasitic nematode. Religion nematode today I'm going to talk is one type of nematode. So this nematode unlike soybean seeds nematode, they are never from a seed stage. They are moving all the time during their life cycle for root penetration, infection and feeding. So this nematode you know you won't see on these potato leaves. Most of them you know are underground. So we can't go to field you know see this disease caused by religion nematode. But you need to dig the plant out and take the sample from soil around the root zone. We can do nematode assay, very specific nematode detection assay. Then we can detect the nematode problem. Several religion nematode like pretty lankas any choice probably you know this nematode. And also other nematodes pretty lankas discriminatory neglect is and creonitis are harmful to potato. But this nematode are very similar in morphology. You can identify them particular amount species with microscope right away. So that's why we developed you know molecular method, DAA based method to help us identify this type of nematode. This is the funding support from North Dakota specialty crop block grant program. We developed a new real-time PCR assay for detecting and quantifying this nematode directly from field soil after DAA attraction. And also for direct detection and quantification this nematode from plant roots. In this way we can avoid time consuming steps of nematode attraction identification and counting steps and improve detection efficiency. Another important project I want to talk about is religion nematodes species pretty lankas discriminatory. You know for field trial to determine you know the nematode reproduction in different potato cultivars. You know this trial is very big we tested total of 60 cultivars just like this. You know but not here in a different location in southern county North Dakota. So there are 60 cultivars each of them in four replications. So totally we have 240 field plots. So a pretty big trial. You know we conduct for two years in 2018 and 19. You know from the first year of experiment we found the nematode had very good reproduction overall. Almost every cultivar along the nematode to reproduce. But in the second year the reproduction rate was pretty low. And most cultivars did not support nematode reproduction. While there is a big difference I think the reason might be the late sampling in 2019. You may know in 2019 pretty wide we planted late and we harvest late. So we have to take sample you know in October pretty late. So I like time you know it's pretty cold. So and also you know potato plant are yellowed and nematodes move out from soil. You know move out from root you know move back to soil. So that's kind of situation and the difference you know because of the environment. I think the environment play a big role in nematode reproduction evaluation. And I think a third year of experiment is necessary to confirm nematode reproduction in those cultivars. So and I think for religion nematodes you know as a grower you may want to know the management tool. I think soil fumigation, crop rotation with non-host crops and also keeping your plant healthy with good culture practice will be helpful. And should be able to you know managing this nematode. But as I said this is a new species a lot of things are unknown. So more information definitely is needed. In addition to work on religion nematode we also work on cis nematode, Cedabi rule nematode and other plant parasitic nematode. So if you have any question about nematodes or you suspect your field has a nematode problem. So just you know call us you know contact NDSU nematology lab. So we'll be there you know for you. Thank you.


We are glad to be here me and my team we will give you a small this will be more of a demonstration session and we will give you some tips and some you know some some things which are not available maybe or some things that we do on a daily basis and you will be able to also create tutorials maybe for our project maybe for your own use in your own colleges okay for your teaching learning purposes so first of all like sir already mentioned you have to have you have to first decide what you want to teach and you need to have your flow in place what you are going to teach first second third okay in the order of learning has to be established right in the beginning and then you start at the very first topic okay always proceed from simple to complex okay which I'm sure as teachers you are already aware of and you know use simple language okay the motive is to help them to learn it is not about how much we know and it's not about creating tutorials on what I know and how much I know it's more of you know teaching aid to the learners so be at a very simple level okay I'm not saying you have to dilute your content what I'm saying is teach in a simple manner okay don't use flowery language or very technically difficult words okay because it doesn't help the learner right they are they are accessing your material because they don't understand the textbooks so if you are going to replicate textbook language in your tutorials it's not really going to help your learners okay so make it simple for them to understand now we have some procedures that we follow one is we use screen casting so screen casting is basically capturing anything that is demonstratable on a computer monitor it can be a laptop it can be a desktop okay it doesn't matter what machine you're using but whatever is displayed on your monitor can be captured through software which are meant for screen casting so we have screen casting software in both Linux and Windows and also in Mac so on Windows you can use software called as cam studio C A M S T U D I O it's free and open source it has right now been bought over but it's still available in free and open source version okay so you can use it without having to buy it and without having to pay any license fees or anything of that sort so look up for cam studio and you know downloaded from the first available link it will mostly be a tech Smith link but you will find it on you know most software providing services on Linux you can use something called as GTK record my desktop okay it's as simple as that record my desktop so if you look up for that you will be able to find that so I am on a windows machine here so I will just show you so this is what the cam studio recorder will look like so once you download and install it on your system this is what it will look like when you open it there are very simple control buttons here record pause and stop okay very simple to operate we also have a tutorial on this on our website if you need additional help you can go through that so I will just do a very small brief recording for you this is the capture area so whatever I demonstrate within this square will be captured okay and it also captures the narration so say for example I open something else okay I open something here and okay so great and then I will just stop the recording okay now as soon as I finish my recording this is what it will ask me for it will always give you an AVI file as output okay cam studio will always give you an AVI file so let me just save it with some name test one two three and on my desktop so I can locate it easily okay so whatever I showed you whatever I did within that capture area is right there okay now for recording your narration you don't need any fancy equipments you just need a headphone with a mic input something like this okay it's available at a very low cost 200 250 and you have a good recording system so once I will just show you the file size of this so you have an idea of okay so it's 348 MB and it's it's what like hardly a minute right so if you were to create like a 10 minute long video it's going to be huge yeah it'll probably go into GBs so you need to use something here the icon that I'm moving here this is one of the free available video converters okay it's the recording in one shot or we can pause it to resume it again you can pause there is a pause button right and if you set the hotkeys for it you can control it through your keyboard without actually having to go on the interface of cam studio thank you so what we what we do is we you know we tune it to control s which is our short key so every time I need to pause I just have to do a control s and it will just stop the pause the recording for that time then you can rearrange your screen whatever else you want to you know you want to minimize some window you want to open some window you can do all of that and then do control pause again and it will start recording okay it saves you a lot of editing time okay so you need to use the pause feature very creatively so like I said coming back this is one of the video converters which are available free of cost on the internet okay mobile video converter media converter but there are many others okay this is just a sample so now you've seen that my file was 300 odd MB right so now I will just add this file here okay let me convert it to quick time and add file and here it is okay without much loss of quality I get a fairly good conversion now let us check the file size okay 6.67 okay so 300 odd reduced to 6.67 so this is what you need to do if you're going to use cam studio because of AVI format it's a huge file format so without losing the quality of your video or your audio you can convert it to a lighter file format okay now for those of you who are interested in learning about translation and dubbing we have very simple procedures that we follow the time script was displayed to you sometime back by condenser so you must have noticed that there is a begin time for each sentence okay so every sentence there is a begin time so one sentence may be beginning at 345 and the next may be at 356 and the third may be at 402 okay now what it shows you is that between 345 and 356 you have how many seconds you have 11 seconds right you have 11 seconds and you have this one sentence which in English takes 11 seconds to narrate right so when you're doing the translation you have only 11 seconds to speak exactly the same thing in the local language okay in the language that you are translating so that is where the time script really helps okay it helps you to know how much duration you have and what we suggest for translation in in very very briefly what I can say is translate each sentence sentence by sentence okay when you're doing the translation so you have the exact duration with you for each sentence and after you have translated that you know sometimes you find that I can't translate in that you know I need more words so you can merge it with the next sentence if it is in continuing with whatever you're saying so for example if I'm saying click on save okay now type the file name and then click on the save button okay these are this is a one single activity that's happening though it's narrated in three sentences so if my time is I mean I'm not able to fit in my words okay I can merge these three and I need to communicate the action to the learner okay without losing the meaning of what is happening on the screen I need to use my words very economically and very creatively okay so that I'm not losing the meaning of what is being said so for after you have done your translation and you have your script now okay so next thing is to give your voice for that right so we use a software called as audacity audacity works on any operating system a u da c i t y audacity okay so this is that so this is what audacity looks like it works on windows it works on linux and on mac okay so no problem it has the same gui the same interface so you just need to learn how it works it doesn't matter which os it is on okay so again very simple vcr controls here this one is the record button so when you want to record you just click on that okay and you record something and then it is captured okay I do a pause uh and I can play it back okay so uh like any audio software it has got a left speaker and a right speaker okay you have a stereo mode you have a solo mode or a mono mode also if you want to record and it will bring down your file size the audio file size okay now once you've done this recording okay now this is what we call as the project file now here you can do a lot of manipulation with your audio uh for example if while you were recording you know somebody opened the door or something fell and uh you don't want to do that recording all over again okay there are some disturbances that happened uh it's not uh superimposed on your voice okay it has to be apart from your voice see if something falls or some noise and I am narrating I can do nothing about it but if it is in a portion of the audio where I'm not saying something but it has got recorded okay then we definitely can remove it off okay we can delete it off without having to re-record okay so there are facilities in this software which allows you to remove noise and it also allows us to amplify the sound now when you play back and you find that the sound is much lower than what you expected it to be okay again you feel exhausted or you just don't want to do it again so you can just amplify the sound okay so uh do you want to just show the there are facilities which are inbuilt in the software itself for doing uh these simple things uh it saves you time so what we'll do now is we'll do a uh two sentence recording okay and we'll show you how to amplify it and how to remove background noise so Sakina here will record uh two or three sentences so we have uh seen the timed script in English let me show you the timed script in the language that is the Hindi language yeah so we will record five sentences from these okay so notice that there is a time column on the left and the uh narration on the right okay so it she has translated it such that it is exactly in sync with the English sentence fine just open audacity so we have the record button there and we'll just start the liberal office writer case spoken tutorial may abka swagat hai is tutorial may hum writer ke baare mein sikhenge writer may win the toolbar just pause it display it you can see that the audio is too low so we can amplify the audio also we just selected the audio go to the effect menu and then click on amplify it will automatically give you the value uh which is required for the audio to be amplified click on okay you can see that the waves thing uh the amplified audio display Praveen we have we have some uh background noise also here so we can remove that uh uh disturbance also just select a portion where you feel that the uh disturbance is there and then again go to effect we have option of noise removal click on it get noise profile then select the audio again go to effect click on noise removal okay and we will have a better audio fine so uh we'll just see the second sentence starts at the 10th second right writer may win the toolbar so Praveen just see if it started at 10th second no no so you so then we have to split the audio so for that we have control i we split we use the time shift tool we drag it and keep at the appropriate timing so likewise we split the audio according to the given time okay fine then we save the project file now this is what we call as the project file okay where you have uh you cut the audio use you have slided it to wherever it is supposed to be okay you've done all your amplification you've done your noise removal okay now this is your project file so there are two saves that you have to do one is you have to save your project file with all the modifications you have done and your original recording and the second save that you do is you need to convert it into the format that you are actually going to use okay it could be an mp3 by default audacity gives you an ogg format okay now what we showed you here is we have split the audio right now uh if i have to do this over here okay now shifted back okay supposing it's here and split it here split arbitrarily any any point okay now we have to move this it won't move i need to create that gap for it to move right so we always start with the very last sentence after we have finished our entire recording we start with the very last sentence and we slide it into its appropriate time which we have noted earlier and we we always start from the back and we come to the beginning of the file this is because you need to create that gap for for you to slide it right now i cannot slide the second clip because there is no space to slide it i have to move the third clip only then i can move the second clip and only if i move the second clip will i have space to move the first clip okay so it works in a reverse direction you always start with the very last sentence that you want to slide into place right so so uh this is your project file so like i said you have to save it twice okay now we have the project file show the save the saved project file okay there's an option called save project you save it so we choose one location here desktop and click on save so we have our sample dot aup format that is the audacity format and we also have one extra data file so when we merge this audio with the video this the data file and the aup file should be in one folder now we will finally uh export the audio in mp3 format just go to audacity going back to the project file okay now just slide this slide the third clip somewhere in the second clip somewhere else okay now we this is assume that we have done our you know we have time we have placed it according to the time that we want and now this is final okay we have done all the modifications that we want on this or on this project file so now is the time to export it into the final format for use so click on export we have various formats for saving our audio file ogg mp3 wav right so we'll be saving our audio file into mp3 format click on save click on okay just play that mp3 yes now we will show you how to uh merge it with a video okay like Kanan sir mentioned the videos are created in english right the screencast in all of it is in english so it also has an english narration okay so we'll show you how to uh how you can extract the english voice from the video and then take the hindi voice and put it into that same video okay and you create a new video so just close this audacity okay so any any doubts on the audacity part so because we are going to close this yes ma'am yes yes yes we'll show you that okay so ma'am here is a very good question that if you pause your recording or if you stop it's it's you have created one track one audio track now when you in the same project you're continuing after some time okay or you've taken a break so in the same project okay so now this time what it has done is it has created a second audio track okay like she said now they are on two different audio tracks how do we get it into one because the final output we need everything in place right so what we can do is very simple so we can just select the audio from the second track use the time shift tool and we can just drag and keep on the first track now we can close the second rack which doesn't have the audio okay this also means that after you have recorded everything and you realize you had to say one more sentence okay you can go back to that same file record that sentence and create the gap that you need okay wherever you need it and you just place it over there okay and you finally you have to get everything on the one single track thank you ma'am you want to say something one more point as she said I'll undo all the steps okay I'm recording the first sentence something is going on I'll pass it if I want to record the second sentence if I record even the first audio track will start record in that you can see that the both will start recording while whatever I'm speaking will record and also what it plays here that will also get record so for that select this tool and keep your cursor over here then if you press the record button that will start from that particular point so it won't overlap the previous recording and the fresh recording and also while exporting go to file export you can see there is an option button here you can play with the settings for reducing the file size for example if you downloaded any audio songs from the online you can see either 128 kbps or 320 kbps with the maximum file size if you want to reduce your file size lesser you can use any one of this by going down and also you can choose a joint stereo or stereo and you can click on okay so once you exported the file size will be lesser I'll compare to the previous thing I'll click on cancer it's okay now everyone saw how to record an English tutorial and how to record the dubbed audio now let's see how to merge both together I am showing you an English video hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on printer connection okay this is the English video the same video has been translated and dubbed into thumber launcher bar il valadu pukka mail muna il ulla it's okay now let's export this file go to file and export and click on options as I already said I reduce the file quality as 96 kbps to reduce the file size hope sir may mention that our tutorials are less weight for example rough we are thinking one minute video one mb we are concentrating on that so if you go with this kind of settings our our file size will get reduced I already exported that file so I'm not showing that again so here's the file dubbed mp3 and I have the English video played played the okay now I played both the things now let's merge both the things first tip what we have to do I already have an English video it's a kind of watching a dubbed movie first we have to remove the English audio from the video further we are using some command line tools that is called ffmpeg that will work on both I mean not both all the way all windows mac and linux ffmpeg to f ffmpeg okay so this basically will help you to extract audio from a file from a video which already has an audio and it will also help you to take another audio and merge it into a video file so you can go to the ffmpeg website and you can download the software based on your machine and you can install it and it is a free and open source software important thing is a it's a command line tool in each OS for example in windows linux mac there is a slight difference for example if I'm using that command in linux means I just have to type ffmpeg and space the options whatever I want before that I already organized my files into a particular folder I'll go to that folder so here you can see my dubbed mp3 and the English original and along with the audacity and data file it's okay first I'll show how to do that in mac first I want to remove the audio from the English video so I type the path where the ffmpeg is installed on my machine iphone i is a input file with this option we can input any number of input files but we have to mention that iphone i for each and every time so this is the file where my ffmpeg is there iphone i for input option and this is my English video next I want to remove the audio and I want only the video so I'll type iphone v codec paste copy paste iphone an so this iphone v codec denotes the video codec and copy will copy what the exact codec we all know that mp4 quick time I mean MOV WMA like that but each and every file format have some particular video and audio codec so this command will copy the same codec of the video iphone an denotes to remove the audio from that video now I'll save that file as English iPhone no audio dot MOV the same file extension this will take some time after that you can see here the English iPhone no video if I play that I can't hear any volume so with the help of this command the audio is completely removed from the video now the next step is we have to merge our dubbed audio into this video let's go back to the command line let's type the command application iphone i our file is English iPhone no audio so this contains only the English video next I'm giving one more input that is my dubbed mp3 next I'm copying both the video and audio codec and my output file name I give it as dubbed.mov again it will take some time to merge both the thing together I'll minimize you can see a file which is created dubbed.mov let's play that so my dubbed audio and the video join together okay there are few changes if you are working on Linux or Windows I'll show that consider this is my command okay if I want to do the same command in Linux I don't need to worry much just go back excuse me sir oh sir sir I have one question so as Linux is command-driven language but in Windows we do not have such platform for such kind of commands so I'm coming next to that we have we have the command line in Windows we have DOS prompt but all these Linux command like minus i minus these kind of options are not available or you have interface for Windows as well in which we can convert ffmpeg will work on Windows with the minor change I'll show you how to do that you can open the command prompt okay and do the same settings so as I show that right now I worked on more things sir what is there is any graphical interface available in the software to do all kind of things like if we go to menu bar and select remove voice such facilities available or not in the software okay there is no proper GUI for that right now for example few minutes before Nancy I'm sure that mobile media converter yeah it is based on ffmpeg I can show that for example as of now there is no good dub software software okay I'm opening the mobile media application show package contents contents you can see ffmpeg is inside that so everything is based on that ffmpeg command line tool but they are creating different GUIs I will prefer better go with the command line okay so okay as I said that this is the command which work on Mac if you want to do on Linux just remove this you don't need to mention where it is located mention ffmpeg space iphone and the rest of the commands so if you run this it will work on Linux if you are working on Windows as I said you have to mention the path in most of the windows it may be in c colon slash program files in some machines it may be in program file x86 or just program files and then slash ffmpeg this is the only different if you did on windows linux or mac in linux we don't need to mention where the ffmpeg is located by default it will call in mac and windows we have to mention exactly the path which is installed so that is the different otherwise the rest of the commands are same you can run those things there is a video which is how to use audacity and ffmpeg it's on our website so what is the benefit to use of the ffmpeg if it is easily implemented in the window movie maker file size is one concern that we will have easily through the file size we can easily convert it on this file size and the second is it's not open source right windows is a proprietary operating system you have to purchase windows right it is not free and open source it won't allow you to convert these into various file formats like some are not available in movie maker okay file formats limited file formats into which you can convert okay thank you


Ecamm Live Beta 4 has been released and it's another good one. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Ali. Now, about a month ago, they released Ecamm Live version 3.9 Beta 1 and I did a video all about it and it was packed full of great features and I thought, this is amazing. If this just gets released now, everyone will be really happy. But about two weeks later, they released Ecamm Live Beta 3.9 Beta 2 and I did a video about that one which I'll link to up at the top and that had even more great features and I thought surely now it's ready for release. Well, there was a Beta 3 that snuck in about a week later that was just a couple of fixes and things like that but I was waiting for the main release. Well, they've done it again because now we're onto version 3.9 Beta 4 and it's just got some awesome new features, some of which I requested myself as well as many other people requesting them as well and so that is what I'm gonna talk to you about in this video and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna run through the features first of all, very quickly and then I'll go and demonstrate some of them as well and I do give you advanced warning, there is a little bit of silliness in this video so apologies in advance for that but I'm hoping it's all to illustrate a point. So before I get into it, I do just want to say, I did say there'll be silliness, I do just want to say that I really love the new Beta. It's got some great new features that are gonna certainly change the way that I can or make it a lot easier to do the things that I normally want to do with Ecamm Live. There's lots of ways that I like to integrate graphics and things like that for not so much from my channel actually, but some of the other things that I use it for and this is gonna make it so much easier. So let's just get into the actual features, shall we? The first thing is related to cameras and the first one on the list is that there is enhanced support for network cameras or enhanced network camera support whichever way around you wanna say it. This isn't something that I use to be honest, I don't use network cameras but I know a lot of people in the community do so I'm sure you'd be very pleased to hear about the enhanced network camera support. The next is related to USB support. Now a lot of people don't realize that you can just plug in a camera directly over USB and in many cases Ecamm Live will just recognize it. Certainly with the Canon cameras for most of them it does do that. I didn't realize this at first myself, I thought you needed the Canon EOS webcam utility if you wanted to use it over USB. And whilst that is true, if you wanna use it directly into applications like Zoom and Teams and things like that, Ecamm themselves have just done all of the work for us. So they've got all of the compatibility built in and then obviously now I just use Ecamm as my virtual camera anyway. So, but now they've added support for some new cameras so whenever new cameras do come out they do need to do a little bit of work just to add in that compatibility. So the new cameras are the Fujifilm GFX 100S that is now compatible over USB. The Sony A7S III, the Sony A6600 and finally my next camera by the way, the Sony ZV-E10. So these now are all compatible directly over USB directly into your computer. I should say that I think there is a limitation of this way of getting the signal in over USB that you might only be able to get 720p. So I know that's the case with my Canon. I don't get the sort of full resolution necessarily out of it, but Ecamm does a great job of the upscaling in any case. So that's why people still do use things like the Elgato Cam Link 4K where you can plug in, go from HDMI on your camera to HDMI in the Cam Link and then plug that into your USB and then you can get a higher resolution. But nevertheless, it is still great to have that compatibility for USB built in and we just got these four new cameras added to the list as well. So next up, sorry about that. I did mention that there would be a bit of silliness. Next up is in overlays. And I'll go through all of this and demonstrate actually how it works. But just quickly, we've now got overlay stroke or outline. This is something that I put in as a feature request as did other people as well. And that's basically where you can see my camera screen at the moment and it's got this white line around it. That is just a border around the outside or a stroke. So you can now add that to camera overlays, to text overlays and also to screen sharing overlays as well. I really think this is one thing that's gonna sort of transform the way people use Ecam and sort of negate the need in a lot of cases for like graphical overlays, which I've made for all of my scenes and things like that before. Well, now you can almost just do it really without the need for that. So that is absolutely wonderful. Next up is the screen share green screen. This was another thing that I put in as a feature request because I do a lot of stuff with, again, not so much on the channel as such, but I do a lot of stuff with Ecam with presentations where I, well, basically what I'm doing right now, actually having bought in this little sidebar here with these bullet points. So I'm actually doing this now in, not PowerPoint, in Keynote. I'm gonna talk about PowerPoint later in Keynote, but then I'm just doing it on a slide with a green background. So I've keyed out the rest of the slide and you only see the bit that I want you to see. So that's something that I've used quite extensively before, but I had to do a sort of work around for that. So now to have it just sort of built in that you can do the green screen in Ecam is awesome. Next up is the text overlay window. So when you are editing text, before the window used to be just stuck right over the place where you were really putting your text. So it was a little bit awkward and I'll come onto that and it's probably easy to just show you that one in a moment. Next is the option to show the most recent comment as an overlay. Obviously, when you've got your comments in a live stream, you can always go and just double click on them and add them into the live stream. But this means now we've got a keyboard shortcut to actually just go and add that last comment into the stream. And that brings me on to the next section, which is a stream deck because we've now got two new buttons. One of them is to show and hide the window controls. So that's the controls that are all over the actual Ecam window itself. There was always a keyboard shortcut to do this. And so I used to have a sort of multi-action in stream deck to go and activate Ecam live and then to activate the keyboard shortcut. Well, now they have just added it in as its own button. So that's great. It means you can get the controls out of the way to see what you're doing, especially useful if you're just sort of preparing and editing things or not editing, but preparing overlays and positioning things, that's what I meant to say. Next one is the show last comment as an overlay. So that is that feature that I just mentioned previously. Well, they have actually just added in a custom button for it as well. So you don't need to go and set that all up. There's just a button to add in the last comment to your stream. Then by the way, when you do all this, if you want to get the update for, in order to get access to this, when you do update to the beta, you'll be prompted to update your stream deck plugin. So just, this is a little pop-up that'll come up during installation. So make sure you do update it and then you'll get these two plugins just appear in your stream deck. And while we're on pop-ups, there'll also be one to update your virtual camera as well. So make sure you do that so that you won't have any issues with your virtual camera running from Ecamm. And finally, the last thing is you can now stream to Twitter from Ecamm Live. So that is something that I shall certainly be trying out later, of course. You know that I will. And yeah, it basically just shows up as another destination in the same as you can choose between Twitch, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook and so on or to record. Well, now you can also just stream directly to Twitter. So that is a summary of them. Let's go and actually have a look at how these work. But before we do, I just wanna mention once again that I love this new beta. And so what I'm gonna do is I show you how some of these things work and then show you how I've done a couple of these little silly things that I've done today because they are silly examples that I threw together in a few minutes. And basically, it shows you how you can use Keynote with Ecamm Live to do something a little bit more special really. So I'll do a whole video about how to use Keynote with Ecamm with these new features because I did do one before which I'll leave a link up into in the top corner. And in that one, I talked all about the workaround that you need to do. Well, now there's no workaround, it just works. So I'll update that video at some point. But for now, what I'll do is I'll come into my live demo mode and then I'll give you a bit of a demonstration of some of these features. Here, by the way, down at the bottom, you can see I've got this big green thing. This is actually just my Keynote slides running. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create a new scene. I'll just come and create a new scene over here. Blank scene. Let's get a moving background. I'll just use the same one. This is just a moving video background that I've got. And then what I can do is I can come down and add it in a camera overlay. So I'll click on the camera overlay. Let's change the shape of this. So this was all in the previous beta releases where you can change the shape to be, let's have a squircle. I don't tend to use those ones so much, but they do have a very pleasing look to them. So now what you can see is that, as I say, this corner radius was added in in the previous version and as was the squircle shape itself. But now we've also got this one here, border width. So I can just move that one up and add a border to that particular overlay. So let me just move that out of the way, make it a little bit bigger. So now you can see that we've got a border around it. Let me just get rid of my green screen background. There we go, put my usual one in. And got a bit of a halo up of my head. And just, excuse me, move that out of the way. So you can also do this on text overlay. So let me show you with a text overlay. If I come down to over here, click on text overlay. Now, what you might remember is on the previous version, this text overlay box always opened up here. It was kind of like pinned to the actual frame. And what that meant is you couldn't actually get to what was behind it. Now that was a bit frustrating at times for me because often I would be trying to use the color picker to pick out a color from the scene that I was in. So if I'd created a background, something like this, then I would be, whoops, I've got that one looping. Let me start that to loop, there we go. I might be picking out a color from here, for example. So if this was over the top, you wouldn't necessarily always be able to get to the color that you wanted. So that's one use case for it. But if I just call this one text, and you can see here, you can add the stroke as well. So we have the rounded corners that were added in the previous version. But now you can also add in the stroke around the outside of the text box. Previously, the work around to do this was to have a sort of a blank text box that you could use and then you could use that to make the border and put the other one in front of it. That was, again, a bit finicky. Whereas now it's basically, here we go, we've just got the text on the screen. I can obviously use alt and drag to copy it. And let me just change this one to be text two, so that we can tell the difference between them. And we've got text one here. So the other benefit of having the text box off the screen is it means you can actually, as well as going in and editing this one, if you just double click on one of these, then you can go and make adjustments to that one as well. So say we want to change the stroke or something like that or the margin, then you can just go in and change it like that. And then if you click on this other one, it will activate that one. So you can just sort of flick between them as well.  So it perhaps would be nice if actually this box could persist until you close it. But obviously as soon as you press save, then it closes it down again. So you do still have to go back in if you want to actually physically make any major adjustments to the other one. But there you go, that is how the outlines work on text boxes, which I think looks really good. Not that particular example, but just the concept of them. So then the next thing that I'll want to look at is the screen sharing overlay. So I'm going to add in a screen sharing overlay. Again, you've got borders on this, but I'm just going to take the borders off for a moment. Let me take the borders off and I'm going to share. I've got my stream deck open down at the bottom. So I'm going to share that particular window. So I'll come up to here. Instead of the primary display, I'll share stream deck. In fact, this is probably a good idea just to quickly demonstrate. While we've got this open, I'll just move this down here. Just let's delete these text overlays or move them out of the way. But let's put it down there. So with this overlay that I've got now, let me just make the shape a little bit different. I will make it a custom shape. Now, obviously, we can crop in on windows, can't we? So since the previous beta, you can hold the option key and you can crop into the side of the window. Well, what you can actually do now with the screen share overlays is you can activate green screen. Now, this obviously doesn't have any green screen, but one thing that they've done is if you do actually come over to here and click on the overlay, you can see where we've now got green screen at the bottom. If there's no green in it, or even if there is in fact, what you're sharing a specific application. When you click on green screen, the other effect it has is to remove the background, even if the background isn't actually green. So it just means that you're only gonna see that specific app. So that's something that I used to do previously with, as I say, with the cropping where I try and crop in the side to get it to exactly the right size, just to crop in on that specific area like this, something like this. Well, now basically it's a lot easier. You don't need to bother doing that. You just simply select the application you want and then click on green screen, and then it will activate it. Oh, sorry. It will crop out the background from the desktop. One thing to bear in mind is if you do do that, but you do have green in your application or something, then that will obviously key that out as well. So that is one thing to bear in mind. It won't work in that instance. But if you are trying to key out the green screen, then it will work perfectly, which is what I've been doing down at the bottom with this keynote presentation. So in that case, what I've got is I've actually set the keynote presentation. I've got no radius on it. And then I've set that to my keynote. And then so you can see I've got this window here, and that is basically now, if I stretch that over the full screen, I've now got this whole window here over the top of my screen. So if I come back to my previous slide, whoops, Daisy, come back to this one rather, and then come back to my previous slide in here. There we go, that's how that was working basically. It was just showing over the top of it. And if I just come down one more time, then I've got this one that slid over the top of it. And as you can see from down below, all I'd done there was the actual text was just green. That's how I got that effect of the text running in. So let me just show that one more time. You can see that if you look on the bottom part, the actual presentation, you'll see that the text coming in is green, but the effect it has on my screen is that it gives that see-through cut out. And that's an effect that people do in editing software and things like that, but now you can obviously just do it in e-cam itself. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna take off that screen sharing for the moment and just come out of here. And this you can see is the presentation. Like I say, it didn't take me, I don't know, 30 minutes or something just to throw this together before we started before I started recording. And so I've got my little lower third, this little thing that came bouncing in. And it means basically you can use all of the animation effects. I wouldn't recommend going overboard with animation, to be honest. But you can use all of the different animation effects that you've got in keynote and you can use those in e-cam live. The only one thing to bear in mind is when you are doing this, you could share it out to an extra monitor. So if you've got a separate monitor, then you could just play this as normal and share that particular screen. But what I'd recommend doing is there is a play in window option. I did talk about this in the video that I did all about keynote with e-cam. But if you come into this play at the top, it is either play slideshow, which is the default. So normally just when you press, you know, to play a slideshow, it will play full screen. But you can also play slideshow in window. There's also a button for that in the menu bar that is not there by default. So normally you have this play button, but if you right click in the menu bar and click on customize toolbar, by the way, most Mac apps, if you click in the toolbar, you can customize it in this way. But somewhere in here, there will be one which says play in window, which looks like, I can even see the icon up here, but for some reason I can't find it in this group of icons here. Somewhere in there, there is play in window. There it is. So if you just drag that one up into the top, then you'll always be able to play in window. So now when I click on that one, it actually just plays it in a window. And then you can see that little animation that came in at the start. Now you can do this in PowerPoint as well. So let me just get rid of this for a moment, just get rid of that overlay. And I'll show you how you would basically do exactly the same thing in PowerPoint. So if I open up PowerPoint, and by that, I mean showing in a window rather than full screen. So if you open up PowerPoint and then you come over to the slideshow here in the ribbon, click on slideshow. And then you've got one here that says set up slideshow. So you click on that one, and then here you've got a few different options. And it's basically these top two that we're looking at. So the default is presented by a speaker full screen. Well, we want to click on the second one, which is browsed by an individual in a window. So if we click on that one, then now when we activate this as a slideshow, it will basically just pop up in a window exactly the same as the keynote version did. Well, there you go. That is Ecamm Live version 3.9 beta four. It's just packed with new features. I can't wait for this to be released. I'll be doing a whole series of new videos basically that are a new workflow really for Ecamm Live. I won't be using the same way that I've been using overlays and things like that before. I mean, graphic overlays to create borders and things like that. It's basically a whole new way of doing things and it's such a great update or will be a great update when the final version comes out. But in the meantime, if you haven't got it, definitely go and give this latest beta a try. And I'd love to hear what your favorite feature is or how you are thinking that you can be implementing some of these things yourself into your workflow. So don't forget to go and like and subscribe and comment down below with all of that. Doesn't this overlay look boring now compared to that last one? So I'll probably be doing a bit of an update of all of my overlays in the next week or so, I should imagine. If not later today. I'm usually one of these people that when I get an idea into my head, I'll just go ahead and do it. So we'll see. Maybe in the next video I'll be looking a little bit different. But yeah, great features, really love it. And don't go anywhere because there are some more great videos coming up all about Ecamm Live over on the right hand side. So until the next video, have a great day.