Hello, everyone. Good to see you all or see you all in the chat at least. Nearly didn't happen. I went to go and start my live stream and it said streaming error or couldn't start because of a problem, a little bit vague. But it turns out the problem was restream. This may well be the last time that I use restream. I was only really using it for Facebook and YouTube in any case now having knocked on the head the Twitch and Twitter. So I did kind of think I'll just keep the restream going so that I'm still posting to Facebook even though most people don't watch live there. I do get people watching on the replays but I think I'll just go and manually repost if I want to do that, save the bother and save on restream because it is a little bit pointless. So yeah, tried it three times with restream, rebooted, ecamp, tried it again, same problem but then just went straight to YouTube and no problem. So there we go. We got hit in the end though so good to see you all. Hi Jeff, great to see you here. Dina of course, always a pleasure, Aubrey, Keely, great to see you too and Rich and we've got, look who it is, it's Michael from the UK and also Greg in Singapore I believe, I think so. So yeah, great indeed, yes the emoji says it all. So yeah, let me see where we are up to. So I'm going to be talking a little bit about consistency today. To be honest with you, these live streams I always kind of have to have a little bit of a think the day before about what I'm going to talk about when I schedule it and so yeah, this is just something that's sort of cropped up with me a little bit over the past couple of days and well past couple of weeks trying to get back into my sort of consistent routine so I thought I'd just spend a little bit of time chatting about this. I do want to get speaking of consistency and just jump in the gun a little bit here. I do want to get a bit more structured with these live streams. Today is not going to be one of those days. I'm not there yet but just seeing the the way that Doc started doing his streams with more structure to them I think is a sort of a nice way to go and in fact I mentioned last week I think that my early live streams always did have used to have a sort of topic that I was going to be talking about and they were more kind of like I suppose a bit more like a regular one of my videos and that's largely because there was no difference because there was no one watching those either so that's kind of where I'm thinking of going with the the direction of it all. I'll give you my little update. In fact if I missed a few things out here no I think I think I've all caught up caught up and I appreciate the comments Keely. So let's come to this. I'll just stick this up. This is where we are currently in my 365 day challenge. I have been consistent the past couple of weeks in terms of you know posting regularly and oh hello Caleb great to see you here as well. I have been consistent in the past two weeks in terms of posting regularly although this week technically I will have only done six videos instead of seven so still one shot for my video a day average but at least I'm not falling any further behind so far with my videos so we'll see how that goes although next week's going to be a bit complicated. I'll come to that in a minute but yeah 203 videos day 267 so you can see there the shortfall that I've got to catch up with. I've got to do a video a day plus an extra 64 by mid-May so see how that goes. I think it's around about 70 subscribers this week so that's been sort of quite steady in terms of the number of subscribers a day coming on board so to all you new lovely people great to see you here. I know it's terrible isn't it Rich? Total slacker. Notably I haven't done any more videos for my Zoom course this week. I had done some last week and I'm almost there to be honest with you but next week's going to be a write-off as well so I was trying to squeeze those in with last week as well but this week I've just not had the time for that either. But I won't dwell on that or even draw attention to it. I am indeed still on the purpose focus goal so that is my goal for 365 videos in the year which is as I say up on May 14th. I forgot that right so yeah that's the plan. I'll just have a quick look at the analytics because there's a couple of things to sort of note. I don't dwell on this sort of personally in terms of I don't let it get to me or anything like that however it is interesting to note so I do just like looking at these things and obviously all of these things are totally relative to the sizes of channels and things like that but I did just want to share a couple of things. So with my analytics if I come to the lifetime view just to sort of see I always like looking at it how things have gone over time sort of relatively. So this is basically the last couple of weeks you can see where I've just started being consistent. Funnily enough consistency does have an impact and so putting out more videos means that more people are watching and being involved with them so therefore the watch time has increased. In fact let me just switch this over if I come into this one. With these charts you get these basic charts like this but then you can always click on the see more and then from here if I come into traffic and then this one splits this by the actual video as well but you can come over here and just click on this one and it will just show you the lifetime. What are we looking at there? That looks like oh that's revenue so that's another thing actually just well I'm on that. The revenue so these spikes are basically from super chats that came in during previous live streams but the ad revenue was kind of down here but interestingly these spikes or specifically this spike is actually from ad revenue so there has been a bit of a jump as I say draw your own conclusions after I mean I've only been monetized for just over a month and these are sort of daily figures so not enough of a sample size there to draw any real conclusions however you can see it was sort of down here but then now that I've been posting a bit more regularly then obviously more videos more views more advertising revenue so it has gone up to sort of so day before yesterday $10 on ad revenue the day before $7 so not exactly retirement money but still totally appreciate it all and it's all helps towards the cost of running the channel doesn't it at the end of the day but what I wanted to look at rather than that one is let me have a look at the traffic source or now this one views and then let me come back to lifetime for those that are interested and I'll just put in total there so yeah you can see basically that the last couple of weeks there's just been a definite uptick that comes with that consistency so really I had a bit of an uptick in views here and this was when I was being consistent I don't know quite what caused this it was one particular video I think there was an Elgato product out they're usually top performing videos and oh thank you very much Rich that's much appreciated and I'm just wondering why do you know what this is ridiculous I had turned on a widget or I created a widget just before this stream and I've clearly forgotten to activate it otherwise I would have got a nice little widget come up on the screen in fact I'll show you how to do that afterwards because I just learned it from doc but thank you very much Rich that is much appreciated so where was I oh this so this spike here yeah this spike here where everything sort of jumped up a little bit was when I was still being my sort of original consistent because here I was just posting basically an average of a video a day there was something that happened here where I got this jump up but then it kind of dropped back down slightly when this whole period here this like three months people keep talking to me about I'm consistent but this whole three months I was not consistent I was sort of two videos one week one video another seven videos another but it was just all over the place so if I had been consistent all the way through here no doubt that this chart would have continued on upwards and I would have been a lot further along now but never mind like I say I'm not letting it get to me because I did have other things to prioritize but the other way to look at this though rather than a daily chart is sometimes because you do get all of these spikes if you want to smooth it out then you can on this particular chart on the advanced one then you can change that over to weekly and so that does give a much clearer position picture rather of how things were I mean they were pretty flat in terms of not much improvement sort of week on week obviously there was a compounding of those views but it was the same sort of numbers every every week so yeah it's it was just there was one particular point where it just suddenly started going up and then it reached this other sort of plateau so I suppose the lesson from that is if you are doing something on YouTube at whatever level really I guess if things are just sort of going along and seemingly not improving I mean I could go and look at what was happening there but I haven't really done anything different as such I'm just doing more of the same sort of thing but yeah just sort of sticking with it and then at some point there may well be just some random event that causes it to to go up but speaking of being the same there was something that was said the other day about or it was basically about my intros about and Doc mentioned about how there could be improvements made in that area so I am going to I've requested a full-on beatdown for everything else that could be improved with what I'm currently doing with the channel because I have sort of felt like since then that actually there's not much that has changed really on my channel or the way that I do things so although I am sort of heading towards the goal on the whole point of the channel was for me to basically get better at this process of creating videos in one take that was kind of one of the driving forces behind it and also seeing what happens with the channel you know how the the process of growing a channel but it did sort of strike me the other day that hang on a minute I've not actually been sort of innovating in the actual channel itself I've not been doing much different and although I'm looking at these the analytics just out of interest I'm not really doing a huge amount to really capitalize on it and one of the things that I haven't done is I've talked about TubeBuddy and the analytics that you can do in terms of the videos looking at videos that are technically underperforming in terms of click-throughs but performing well once people get to them I haven't done any of these sort of optimizations so I kind of thought in my mind that I would leave that as opposed to thinking anywhere else I don't know whether you can where else you can think other than your mind but I had kind of thought that I would wait until like after the year was up and then go back and like revisit all of the content and try and see where I could optimize stuff but it's a bit of a missed opportunity to not be trying to do that now so yes I've got a session with my content creation coach and yeah hoping to get a bit of a beating and telling me where I should be focused and if anybody in the chat has got anything that you think could be improved on I'm always open to suggestions there are no bad suggestions actually I take that back there can be some very terrible suggestions but I'm always open to creative criticism so let me just have a little look if I've missed anything oh thank you you just watched the compilation of the studio setup yeah so I did that I did all of those videos over in fact that was this is probably the first is it the first I don't know maybe the first proper edited video that I've had well I say proper it was an edited video on the channel that was the one I posted yesterday which was basically a compilation of the seven days of building out this studio I mean it's still not not finished but those were the seven videos that I had over over vlogmas so I just sort of stitched them all together because a lot of stuff got lost during vlogmas and also the thumbnail has got a picture of me photoshopped into a Santa's beard so it's not necessarily it doesn't really tell people what is going to be in the in the video so I thought well I'll stitch them all together because I did have a quite a few comments and questions about things related to it so I thought I just put them all together and yeah I say it was an edited video it was literally stitching some videos together so nothing really too technical but I still hated it in terms of the process of doing it oh hi Carly great to see you here as well consistency is the key isn't it let's have a little look ah you're correct Greg that was when I that that spike is what Greg's talking about there yeah that was when I started doing shorts that's another thing about consistency I've still not got back into those I did intend to get back into those but yeah well I'll have to I'll probably park that till at least next weekend one of your channels is still on the oh that's interesting I don't know if you've how many how many watch hours have you got have you got the 4,000 watch hours and what's that I'd be interested to know what's the what's the feedback that you've had from them have you queried it have you got any feedback from them have they given any indication as to why this is be really interested to to know that or is it an AdSense thing one of the ways that I was able to sort of I suppose slightly fast track the process although to be honest at 8,700 it sounds really surprised at that but yeah one of the things with me was I did have my AdSense account already set up I just basically linked it to my existing account I know a lot of people they reach the thousand and then they think right what have I got to do now and one of the things is set up the AdSense account and then in doing that you sometimes have to wait for sometime for Google to send a thing out to prove your address and various other different things so definitely getting all of that stuff done in advance is is a is a help but yeah guessing by the fact that you've got 8,700 I'm guessing that isn't the issue in this case but it'd be really interested to hear more about that that's exactly what I want that is exactly what I want in the I should put some context to that if somebody just screenshots that yeah I'm I'm definitely looking for a bit of a traditional kick up the arse as we'd say in the UK to tell me where I get improved um oh yeah the yeah the studio build things um so next month are you going to release the updated video of your setup yeah to be honest I've still got lots of lots of stuff to do in in here so I do intend to upgrade my lighting upgrade the camera actually add another camera I've technically got another camera but it's a little bit a little bit lame really it's just literally a webcam and it's not even a high definition webcam in fact here we go there it is so you can see the the image quality is pretty atrocious with that really so definitely need to to upgrade that as well so what I intended to do was do that I've still not finished in the background as well I've got some shelves to put in and some other stuff in the room itself so I'll probably just try and get all of that done and then do a sort of update video of of how things are looking so that's the plan with that that'll be the 4000 watch hours I guess great and yeah send me a screenshot and I'll have a little look and the other software yeah I say I always like watching studio build stuff and things like that I mean that's where I got ideas from as well so yeah so so this week what did I have a look at this week so there's a couple of things to do with automating keyboard ecamm with keyboard maestro I've still got a few more of those to do I intended to do four of those this week but then I got distracted by the new ecamm live beta with the virtual audio I need to do a probably a bit of an updated video on that because there is one thing that a few people asked which certainly wasn't clear in the in the video that I made oh hey Kevin great to see you which was that the virtual audio from ecamm is still a one-way thing at the moment it's a one-way thing so if you're using virtual audio into let's say discord first because keely's here or zoom or teams or anything like that and then it is still like a one-way thing so if you were to which is which to be honest is the the use case that most people have they usually want to use ecamm to do their presentations things like that have it feeding into those applications and then be able to have stuff like you know sound effects or if they're playing a video as part of it have that going in and so that is the sort of one-way audio traffic if you like going into that if you were doing something where you'd got people on interview mode in ecamm live as well and you wanted to have this sort of two-way audio of the people in zoom also feeding back into your interview mode then for that you would still need something like loopback or something but hopefully there might be some other integration or something like that to come in further down the line who knows but for the time being that is the the way that it's working at the moment so I'll probably do an updated video at some point just explaining that and the whole sort of workflow behind it but it is a great feature because it does just make the whole thing easier I know loopback was always a it was always a bit of a pain for for a lot of people and although technically it's it's a relatively straightforward program to use the concept behind it and the idea behind it caused problems I know for a lot of people so yeah the fact that that is now not needed for the vast majority of people it wasn't needed for a lot of people in any case to be honest if you're only using ecamm to use your camera into zoom with effects it was only if you needed the audio to be going in there as well that that this thing was necessary but yeah so hopefully there'll be a lot more people not asking tech support questions related to zoom in the ecamm group and and on other tech creators channels as well so so yeah and then what there was another video that I did this week oh then it was just the the old studio build video so next week I've got a bit of an issue because I'm actually going on my first trip away for for for business that I've been on in um almost two years I did go uh popped down to Bangkok for a day uh last year but I'm going to be away basically Monday to Friday this week so I'm just trying to figure out how to do my uh keep my video count up and I'm either going to do a block of them this weekend so either today or tomorrow um but I thought it might be fun to try and uh sort of do some on the road as it were although I won't be actually on the road I'll be just in in a room somewhere else so it shouldn't be technically that hard uh I'll just figure out what I'm going to take with me don't want to be taking all my camera and everything like that so I'll probably just use my uh camo uh camera on uh using the ipad or something like that and then still probably take the stream deck or could I get away with just using the stream deck mobile app I guess I probably could uh thinking about it uh and then yeah just see how that goes actually doing stuff because I've got quite kind of used to having everything where I know where it is on this larger screen and so it is it's like a 43 inch monitor and so I've got all my e-cam stuff on one side and then all the uh different windows like this window or this window or this one they're all just sort of laid out exactly where I know where they're going to be and so or where I can see them all basically so just doing everything from just the laptop screen itself will be an interesting challenge so I may yeah may yet give that a go I will be back here for my live stream next week though so I won't have to do that one on the road but it'll be interested to see how I get on just doing it all on my old laptop it does mean I'll be back onto my uh older laptop I'll have to dust it off and see how that goes I've got kind of used to the m1 mic now so uh there is that um so let me just stick this thing up a minute if anybody fancies having a little chat about uh their consistent approach to in fact that's not the right one hang on a minute if anyone fancies having a chat about consistency and how to uh maintain it in their content creation and the importance of it to them then as always welcome anybody who fancies popping on for a chat so there is there is this constant thing about it where it is it's easy to sort of look from the outside and see that somebody's posting and so they are being consistent it is only in these last two weeks though that I really feel like I've got back to where I was in terms of just getting up and making a video which was always my routine in the beginning and so the sort of three probably even four months actually uh October November December and the first half of January it really just wasn't at all and I was trying to find time to fit videos in because I wasn't able to make the time in the morning I had to uh basically prioritize other things so it is only these last couple of weeks that have just sort of settled down a bit and I've got back into the routine but there's still things that I need to add back into it which is namely the uh the YouTube shorts I do still want to start producing those and have like at least one of those well one of those going out a day but have them still relevant to the content so that they don't just become basically an annoyance which is probably what I did when I started with those because I put out like three a day um so um yeah it was uh probably not the best approach for that but it is something that I want to get back into so I just needed block that time and just make them I'm thinking the best way to do that is to just actually make 30 of them because of the way that I would film them uh just again one take doing them and then it is it is something that I could uh something that I should technically easily be able to do if it's 30 of them for a whole month's worth then technically it should only take me I would say two hours if it's basically 30 minutes of actual content but then there's always that little bit of time before and afterwards as well so I definitely need to get back into that um but at the moment any sort of blocks of time that I had free then I will just still be polishing off this zoom course which has just been uh has been a a bit of a bit of a drag in terms of me actually being able to find the time to get to do it so uh but that will be uh that'll be top of the agenda when I come back next weekend from my trip I don't think I'll be able to really do that effectively while I'm away because I do need to have the setup for that because a lot of that I'm doing with two computers as well sort of demonstrating stuff with zoom and things like that so definitely need to be doing that here in the studio rather than uh from a hotel room somewhere so I'll probably finish that off beginning of the following week um so yeah consistency easiest is a planned schedule uh for a certain live stream one of the channels I managed we have under have three under 16 minute morning shows so it forces us to stay focused um yes I there's a great approach that is um I mean these live streams I've only missed one of them uh in fact no I missed uh there's two there's one of them that I uh I just basically didn't schedule because it was on Christmas day so I figured I'd be with the kids rather than here on the live stream and then there was another one where my yeah old basement studio was um uh on the verge of being flooded so I had sort of moved everything out of it and the place was a mess and I suppose I should have really just gone with it and found a way to do it but I didn't so I've only missed two so definitely having a schedule where you think right I'm definitely going to be here I am always here at this this time um with my uh with my sort of tutorial style videos uh the rest of them the recorded ones um I don't know why I don't do those as lives I think I I think it's just um uh yeah it's just uh those things are just I find to have the concentration of just being able to go in and do them focused um then uh then that's that's definitely the way that I need to do those but it's it is the same with anything it's just making the time for it and blocking that time so that's why in the beginning I was quite consistent I was you know doing a video every day more or less uh it was because I did always have this time in the morning and it was time when I was free from distractions as well so creating that time where you know that you aren't going to be disturbed is always a uh is always a winner there as well and so because it was always kind of four till six in the morning like now it's half past five in the morning I know that I'm not going to get disturbed nobody's going to be phoning me nobody in the house is up at this time as well it's only me um but uh yeah so that was uh it's just that just these last few months I've just had some other things that I've taken over at my uh my morning time uh but definitely yeah scheduling it is a great uh great approach and doing it live uh then you've got people who are waiting I mean that's why there's been a few times I've not really felt like doing this live stream to be honest like uh two weeks ago I was feeling quite quite rough and just really didn't feel like doing it but I did uh I did come on anyway because I knew it was scheduled so there you go what you're going to do so definitely a good approach um uh oh right yeah yeah the the one that's that intro great work on that um so yeah the shorts are useful for promoting stuff um my other thing with them as well was uh my videos obviously tend to be uh well I don't say it's long or short but they're about 30 minutes which for me I think you know for a tutorial video it could be uh considered a little bit on the long side I did do a four and a half hour e-cam live tutorial uh that is definitely on the long side um but um yeah the thing about the shorts for me is I wanted to make them so that they are they're all still like tutorials at the end of the day but they're more kind of like quick tip style things as well although I have done like I did a series of zoom ones promoting the as yet unlaunched zoom course I did a series on TubeBuddy and various different things like that so it was a kind of thing of um yeah my regular subscribers if they see them in their feed then it's still going to be something that like oh I can just jump into that and get a quick sort of one minute tip or something like that that was my sort of my sort of approach to them and uh indeed they can be repurposed for IG and TikTok and in fact my shorts really started as TikTok videos I thought I forget who it was in fact I think it was Ash Ball and was on Doc's show a while back and they were talking about TikTok so I promptly went and set up a TikTok account uh recorded 30 TikTok videos posted five a day for six days and then didn't post any more for another few months so there we go to the consistency thing again there's no point just darting out of the gate and then falling flat on your face but that's what I did but yeah it is it is good that they can obviously be sort of cross posted I'm always a little bit wary about just posting the same stuff to different places but I do feel that you know if there is a different audience on TikTok that are more used to that sort of format and that sort of length of video obviously then it's providing hopefully some value to anybody who watches it there um but then equally there's a lot of people who are subscribers to my YouTube channel who I'm sure aren't even on TikTok so uh it is just sort of giving them that uh that content as well so I'm not really too worried about that in terms of just posting them to all of the places so uh so yeah that is that is what I have been doing as well and uh so the shorts yeah this is the this is the thing this is repurposed content this is the constant dilemma that I'm in um capturing content repurposing content to me uh just feels like too much work it shouldn't do I know but it really does feel like it worked because at the moment I basically record a video the video's done it's done that's it um if I was going to repurpose any uh content like from a live stream now that I've uh got this time stump thing that was one of the videos that I did the week before so I've got a time stump thing for my uh stream deck uh so that it's capturing time stamps then it means I can basically just hit a button and it will capture the time stump and so in theory I could go back and actually uh you know cut out that little snippet and post that as a short but if I've got some little bit of information like that that is um that is useful for me personally uh it's actually easier to just for me to just open up ecamm and do it again you know for the minute rather than going and getting the video taking it into a video editor opening it up so I still don't think I'm going to go down the repurposing route just yet um I suppose if if I was doing stuff where I was doing like an interview show or something like that and wanted to extract something um or if it was like a uh I suppose a promo trailer for something that was edited together um but yeah for me it's still um it's still a case of it's just easier for me to just record them in in one take and then and then have them have them done um so yeah that's uh that's my thoughts on that I still have not done any repurposing of content um so uh yeah each uh each platform has a different user group for the most part so yeah they are different sort of separate audiences aren't they um that's well thank you very much that is a good point yeah and the people who follow people in multiple places uh will be happy to support wherever they see it so uh I've still not got my head around the way that uh shorts are served as it were on on youtube as well so the it may be the case that some people aren't seeing it on youtube but would see it on tiktok and vice versa I still totally have not got my head around tiktok in general to be honest um in terms of where the the videos are served I've got a kind of inkling that they are more served in your local area or or country I should say so um I'm suspecting that my tiktok videos are getting shown to a lot more people in Thailand for example than they are to people in the US um that's my sort of uh suspicion about that I don't know if that's true it's just kind of my little gut feeling on that so it'd be interesting to know about that I know you can obviously pay to do uh you know have paid uh paid promotion of tiktok videos so then you can pick geographies and stuff like that but I'm certainly not going down the uh the paid promotion route on tiktok it's just not not an avenue for me at the moment um so oh and by the way Caleb you'll notice that I now have a time stamp already in my description uh because Caleb mentioned in the discord about having a time stamp for the uh countdown timer on live streams so because my countdown is always exactly the same length then I've just put it into my uh pre uh pre predefined my stock description that I put into all of my uh my live stream so now it does just say zero zero countdown and then uh three minutes ten or whatever it is uh welcome so anybody who's watching on the uh the the replay can just click the time stamp to get straight past the uh the countdown um so yeah if you use relevant tags they can be promoted to a niche so I do do uh I do do tagging in my yeah my youtube my uh tiktok videos and in fact I probably do it more in tiktok than I do in youtube so this is another thing that I'm a little bit unaware of is um the relevance of hashtags or how well they work in youtube itself so um uh I tend to put them like if I'm talking about something specific like keyboard maestro uh stream deck e-cam live I tend to hashtag those like even in the title itself uh part of the reason for that is when I cross post the uh video to twitter which I do using tube buddy then it means that the title has already got the hashtag in so then it's got the hashtag on uh on twitter so that was kind of my thoughts about uh about doing that I'm not sure about um youtube how uh how how uh how how useful they are or how that affects search it's just not something that I've uh I've investigated so it'd be interesting to uh to find out about that uh because I could probably be putting just general hashtags in as well if it was going to make a difference but it's not something I've done and I only really kind of noticed this uh when in fact it was when I was making that compilation video in fact of the studio build because I copied the uh titles that I'd put in my other videos and copied those over into the description of this one um and then I just noticed that when I posted it it got like hashtag keyboard maestro because one of the related videos that I'd done was about that but there were no other hashtags so I went in and just sort of added in some more so be interested to um to see about that but with tiktok I always make the the title basically you know a selection of relevant hashtags um so uh uh the uh oh so yeah the um the yeah the the time stump for the countdown uh oh thank you Caleb I'm so I'm so pleased that you're so proud of me uh not as familiar with youtube as instagram so t instagram's another thing that I'm kind of like uh not really not really doing it effectively should we say that I do post occasionally I post a varying mix of things sometimes it has been kind of uh TubeBuddy milestone announcements uh other times it's just random pictures of the studio or something like that or if I've been on somebody else's show then I've posted the picture of that but I'm really totally inconsistent with my youtube my instagram approach um I mean tiktok's another thing that's just kind of when I make the uh shorts I'll post them to there as well but instagram I really need to uh have a little think of and take a good hard look at myself and what I'm doing on there because it's uh yeah a bit hit and miss to say the least um so uh yeah lots of room for improvement on that I mean the thing is with these things it's kind of like I'm technically I've got the understanding to do it excuse me a lot better than I am doing and to to do it uh with a lot more commitment because there are other things that I do where I've got instagram accounts where I'm doing them a lot uh a lot more effectively but with the uh with this youtube channel I'm just not really I've got really got into the swing of adding it in and I suppose it's because there are like a lot of a lot of moving parts there are lots of different things that you uh you could be doing lots of things that I could be doing uh in addition to the channel so the youtube I could be ramping up my uh my twitter side of things and the instagram it's just all coming down to a time thing but definitely the instagram has been one that's been on the back of my mind that I need to just be uh you know getting a bit more consistent with this and that I mean that can be done there's there's not really a huge amount of excuse for instagram in in my view for me personally because I know that I can do things with scheduling and stuff like that to uh to be a lot more effective so uh yeah definitely something that I want to work on as well uh so uh yeah so if if it's um I'm just trying to get my head around that I don't know why I've just I've just had a total brain might melt down on many I get what you're saying yes many platforms yeah I don't know I should have been able to work that out but for some reason my brain just melted at the end of it um yeah so there is there is there is differences between all of these as well but yeah I definitely need to get a better sort of instagram uh instagram game on um but yeah it's just uh this this thing about getting consistent with the videos again um I definitely do want to think about how to actually improve on uh on the general content as well so I'm still doing the same basic things I've changed he did he totally broke me it was it was one little glitch it was like one little glitch in in R2D2 you see I can't even say that now in R2D2 which by the way was a a great comment that I got over the last couple of days in fact let me find this comment it was a brilliant comment it actually it genuinely did make my day uh no it's gone now I can't find it it was a brilliant comment though it said um something like uh skip to eight minutes 30 or something like that if you don't want to watch eight minutes of R2D2 having a stroke it did it did make me laugh that was uh on one of my stream deck videos and it was probably because of my generally motionless monotonous tone um but yeah that's uh yeah Kevin just totally uh see there we go uh Kevin Kevin broke me it was it was not R2D2 it was C3PO there we go I'm done catching next week um so yeah if anybody has got any suggestions of totally critical uh reviews of uh what's been put out on my channel over the past uh eight months then always happy to happy to hear yes indeed bad Kevin come on go and stand in the corner you've uh you've broken me then yeah always happy to hear feedback I've got some ideas myself of things that could be improved upon there's lots of things that you probably don't notice but I just always notice with that's all right uh there's lots of things that um uh people perhaps don't notice but there are still things that are little sticking points for me um things that I can definitely improve on uh like uh for example every time I go to end a stream or a video I know where the button is it's just here I can touch it without even looking but for some reason I've got this little thing where when I'm going to end the stream I always just look down and I do it the same on the videos as well like at the end of it nearly every video I know exactly where the button is I can put my finger on it and thumb on it but it's kind of just like a little thing that I do so there's lots of little things like that that don't really affect the content as such but they're just little things that uh I need to iron out to be that little bit more um efficient with what I'm trying to do but then there are these other things that are like um glaring things that could be improved one so one of them was this thing of the intros and how to be honest I've been wanting to get rid of my little intro sequence that little animated thing that I have at the beginning this one I mean it's it's a waste of time really isn't it I mean what's it there for it's just there to as a little as a little um title sequence but it doesn't really add to the content so I've been thinking about just totally getting getting rid of that and the only reason I haven't done it up until now is because I've just got this little comfortable little workflow where I press a button and it records and starts some music I press another button and it brings in that title sequence and then when that title sequence has finished takes me into another one and my little lower third pops out and it's all just been uh comfortable I suppose and I haven't thought about um uh like an easier way to do it but that that little thing at the beginning I could definitely uh do something a lot shorter I mean I have got like a um a stinger somewhere which is basically uh where's it gone let me have a little look I've got it here somewhere something oh you see now there the size of it what's gone on there that shows you how long it is since I've used it because the size of it is all is all screwed up isn't it never mind I'll I'll have a little look for it so basically um yeah having something that's quicker I think could certainly speed things up so that uh if somebody's interested in what I've given in my little hook at the beginning telling them what I'm gonna cover uh then they don't need to uh they don't need to say I don't need to stay through it um so uh you think that it's not a problem to have that um and uh yeah I mean it isn't really is it it's not like it's not like a major thing it's not like I'm sitting through you know uh making people sit through 30 seconds or a minute of titles but it's kind of um it's kind of superfluous to requirements in my case it's a pattern interrupt that really isn't that long it's not like that's true yeah it's uh it just could be yeah it could be a little bit it could be a little bit smoother so these are these are the sorts of things that I'm I'm thinking about um so yeah open to any suggestions and uh clicked this morning you clicked your outro and then the stream didn't end so I was live talking away until someone contacted me right well that is uh yeah that is uh that is a little bit concerning isn't it I would I would hate that but um uh yeah I mean I've I've got mine automated so that when I do my outro it does just end the stream as well and it gives me 20 seconds so that I can put those uh uh YouTube end screen elements on and stuff like that um but yeah definitely definitely get into the habit of checking that um so uh so what do I think is missing or would like to improve in it um this is the thing really it's not that um it's not that there's anything like major that I think like oh this is absolutely terrible or anything like that um but it's just that there is there's there's always room for improvement isn't there in fact I think I just missed over uh yeah Jeff I mean this is the thing about being a recovering perfectionist it doesn't need to be perfect to make me happy where it would have done before so I'm quite happy we don't been unhappy about it now so I can be very unhappy about the way things are going but still be totally happy and not let it worry me uh which is something that didn't used to be the case I did used to really get uh uh stressed and frustrated over the imperfections whereas now I don't really mind so much but that doesn't mean to say that I'm just going to let everything go to total crap I still want to aim for something just to answer your question or your point Caleb it's um yeah it's not that there's any one thing that's like oh this is terrible it's just a case of um where is there that there are areas that are sort of quick fixes things that are easy to to improve upon and uh you know could have made things tighter I mean there are some there are some things that are that I just won't do you know like for example if you if you want to get the absolute best retention rate on YouTube videos then people will tell you that you know using the old jump cut so there's removing all of the breaths out between sentences to really keep people hooked and engaged and not giving them time to their mind to wander and switch off uh technically that is something that might give you higher retention rates but personally I can't stand those sorts of videos that are just it deliberately made to be ultra fast paced just so that you feel like you you don't switch off from them that might work in the vast majority of cases but for me I just sort of switch off from those because I don't like that particular style so there are some things it's not like I'm chasing um not like I'm chasing views retention rate and all that sort of stuff for the sake of it I've still got my core values which is the main driver but it's just thinking about like where could things be improved upon really um so it would be interesting to know what other people think of the little title sequence and uh whether it actually in the cold light of day does it actually add any value is it worth being there um I mean they've clicked on the video so they know that it's take one tech having a little silly animation like that um is that is that actually adding any value to the uh to the user and if you think about how many videos have done if let's just say there are some real glutton's for punishment who have subscribed and watch every video then uh add up all of those videos for 365 videos and add in all those little time sequence I'm taking minutes out of people's lives you know it's uh uh it's interesting um so uh the Irish connections I'm not sure that I've I'm not sure that I follow that now actually um so yeah I get that it is a sort of trademark it is a trademark but um I suppose so is just a sort of logo and the uh recovering perfectionist the uh brand recognition so I'm getting some I'm getting some I'm getting some positive feedback for the titles here I'm just thinking uh maybe I could maybe I could just tighten it down a bit something like that uh hey Chris great to see you not uh not seen you around for a while I know it's very late in the UK so uh but yeah great to see you hope all's all's well um and uh in your intro add the title of the video yeah that's a that's a good idea um hang on a minute I've just I've just only just realized it's something you said that YouTube does optical character recognitions on the frames of your video is that a fact that is unbelievable does it really do that oh that could change everything if I uh if I yeah if that if that is the case I had no idea about that um right my mind my mind is worrying now because if that is if that is a fact then that is uh that is great I will I'll look into that uh no problem I hope it's uh all uh all being good uh Chris I hope you uh hope you're doing extremely well and uh the busyness is a very positive thing for you um so there is there does seem to be quite some support for my little intro there maybe I'll just maybe we'll just try and reduce it half half the time of it I was looking at my um my video things let's have a let's have a little look at this because I do keep a separate uh running excel file that I've got some additional video metrics in so I catalog them all and I can tell you where has it gone now I'm figuring that by the time I have finished my 365 videos in a year challenge it's going to be about a week of recorded content so kind of non non stop if you were to sort of watch all the videos end to end it would be actually a week of content at the moment it is 109 and a half hours of actual uh of actual video content so if you were to literally just go and watch end to end all of it um yeah at the moment it's uh coming up to uh coming up to four four or five five days worth so by the time I reach the the middle of May I'm guessing it will be around about a uh a week of of uh of content uh I'm not sure where I was going with that there was some reason why I was uh um oh yeah it was just it's just the amount of the amount of time that it is is all taking um so seven to ten seconds is the sweet spot for the for the little intro before yeah for intro before the content so yeah that's I mean I try and keep my my little sort of this is for you if sort of intros I do try and keep those quite quite tight um but uh yeah maybe it maybe maybe I'm sweating it over that that little intro I'm not sure but uh I might still try and tighten it up make it a little bit shorter um so I see so this optical character recognition this has got me interested now I'm uh I'm just going to actually find out the answer to this right now it does YouTube OCR frames in your video let's have a little look so uh this is telling me that they see how I can do it maybe I need to do this maybe need to do this offline maybe it's not the ideal viewing but I had never heard that before that is amazing um I know that I know that we can do it but I had not heard that they uh they do it uh you can handle the truth yeah I mean that is that's actually quite quite amazing I'm definitely going to look into that because uh one of the things that I've done when I've done sort of planned videos like I've done the the updates on ecam or things like that uh then I'll usually for those I'll have uh an overlay done in also I'll have a presentation done in keynote that I bring in as a screen share overlay with green screen so that then I get like the little titles up on the screen and stuff like that um so that would be a way to actually uh sort of punctuate the different parts of the video as well I know that doc has started doing this a bit more now as well with his live streams so having you know sections and putting up just the bullet of that section um so so yeah that's really interesting that they do OCR and having that up at in the little intro might be a little bit tricky to build that into the actual intro itself uh coming back to uh Michael's point I'll have to have to think about that but thank you so much for mentioning that because uh I'm definitely going to be looking into that now that's another little thing I also need to use the um uh the keyword explorer and stuff like that in TubeBuddy I uh I had a bit of a a bit of a fluff last week when I was talking about tags in YouTube and then looking at the keyword explorer and getting those two conflated because there's a big difference between keywords and tags and it was tags that I was not so hot on these days with YouTube I don't spend as much time sort of thinking about them um but definitely keywords for the SEO benefits of the YouTube videos that's something else where there's definitely probably room for a little bit of improvement in uh in you know being at the search ability or discoverability is the word I'm looking for for my content as well um what's one feature you would love to have added to my streams um do you mean in terms of the uh do you mean in terms of what like what do I want to add in to my streams to improve upon them hey Paul great to see you uh slipping in here and um yeah what's the what's the one thing I'd like to have improved on my stream so definitely a bit more structure I do always feel like these are rambling uh in terms of the direction of them I just start off with one thing and then go off on several different tangents and uh often don't know whether I've even covered what I intended to cover in any case uh which is quite different to my videos really because the videos do tend to be uh on point you know to a a degree I still waffle yeah that's a given um but uh yeah I think a little bit more structured to the the live streams would be uh would definitely be uh definitely good uh sometimes I wonder if I've been um what's the word uh constructive in the way that I've talked about things or demonstrated things in the live streams just because of this this sort of rumbling nature of it it might not feel this way for you I'm not sure but uh certainly from this side that's the way it often feels um doing different things like just neatening up things um oh thank you very much I'm glad you I'm glad you like the tangents so uh yeah I appreciate that comment uh so Keely I have a suggestion the structure that you're talking about will give you the chance for more pattern interrupts with visuals uh scene changes etc um yeah that is that is true so having those those sort of blocks and um uh I guess sort of like like doc's doing isn't it really with putting those things up to have punctuated uh points throughout the thing will sort of add to that structure but also as you say those little pattern interrupts as well so yeah definitely need to uh work on that there was a few things that there was one thing that in fact that'd been saying since um in fact since I got uh got monetized and I got the first super chat and then realized I haven't got a widget to come up to just actually acknowledge people so I've been saying for four weeks oh I need to go and make one of those I need to go and make one of those I use stream elements so I should be able to just go and make a graphic anyway so then today on the ecamm stream with doc he was talking about uh nerd or die so I thought right well save me the hassle of actually going and doing it why don't I just go and get one of those uh and then that will save me the time so um yeah let me just show you what I did there because he mentioned this on the stream this morning uh this morning for me this afternoon this evening for you who knows wherever you are um so I just went over to uh nerd or die and then I went to this shop and then I looked for uh what was it alerts and sounds and then there's various different ones here and which one did I get I got uh it was just a sort of plain one this one focus I didn't bother with all the overlay so it's 30 for all the overlay packs and everything like that I literally just wanted some little widgets to pop up on the screen um so I there was a somewhere else I got it from actually in fact here is it was this the alerts so it's $10 so save me opening any sort of package to make these I thought for $10 is it is a no brainer so I did that and one thing that doc mentioned on his stream today was the fact that with these things they are basically like a one-click install so uh you've got this super um uh what do they call it instant uh install or one-click install uh so what does that actually mean so what I did was when I uh downloaded it I got this thing and it came as a zip file and then in the zip file uh basically what you've got is um you've got either stream labs or stream elements uh I'm using stream elements and I wanted to install it in my youtube so I just clicked this which is a url and you just double click on that uh and then it will take you through to stream elements now I'd already got a stream elements uh account so that's what my previous widgets although they were pretty they're just basically the ones built into stream elements with a pretty uh ordinary so I went into here and when I double clicked on the link in the the download it basically just bought this straight into my stream elements open up stream elements and put the thing in here so this is it focus alerts and then from there what I was able to do was go in and make a few changes uh so that one was basically just all uh black um stream elements is not uh paid actually no it's it's a free uh free service as far as I remember um if I paid for it I would have been using it a lot more so yeah it is it is free there are there are I think there are perhaps paid levels but for what I'm about to show you it is just free so that stream uh what's it called nerd or die to actually buy the the overlays and stuff like that that you pay for but as I say for what I'm going to show you now it's just $10 um but then stream elements itself is free and what stream elements allows you to do is build out a layout of where you want these different things to appear um and then this then becomes a widget that you can use in ecamm so um yeah these these things now basically this is like a if you think of this as the screen this is the screen area and so if I come into down here we can emulate and we can simulate what's going to happen like with a subscriber alert or a super chat or something like that so if I simulate this now uh no it will actually appear on our main regular scene so you're going to probably see it twice uh in fact have I toggled it off no it should be there so there you can see it's it's shown it on the uh the stream elements screen but where you can see it now over the top is also just actually on it's now coming through on my actual stream as well um but you can just go in here uh these are the alerts and then you've got settings and then basically there's different things for a subscriber alert member alert super chat alert or a tip and then for each of these you can go in and edit them so you can go and change the things like uh the color the font all that sort of stuff uh the size the position and everything like that so you can go in and tweak these so whatever you download from um uh nerd or die don't know why I keep forgetting that whatever you download from there uh then once you actually bring it in you'll be able to tweak things like the uh the colors and things like that so um so yeah I went in and just downloaded it I think the original one was just black and white so I just added in my colors so if I just come back to this regular view for a moment and then I'll do that again I'll simulate it uh it helps if you switch it on so it didn't pop up unfortunately when Rich made his very generous tip um but um it should have done something like this uh and popped up on the screen so uh that is the way that it works basically this is still pretty plain as they go I mean you can get all sorts of fancy ones as well but uh that was just something that looks a little bit better than the one that I had before on the the built-in stream elements one um great for you to uh stop by Kevin I really appreciate you coming by and great to see you so uh nap time's over uh and for me another nap time is never very far away I am a bit of a power napper in fact that was something that Jeff mentioned earlier um that I forgot to mention yes not sleeping these days I was up at one o'clock this morning uh so normally I'm up at three but I was up at one o'clock and oh thank you very much Paul Duncan you've seen your your names up in lights so it does work then so that's that's great that's the first time that's actually been legitimately triggered and working so thank you very much Paul much appreciated um so uh is uh oh yeah I see that's it yeah it is paid and yeah it's pretty pretty good so then when you come to do this in um your ecam the way that you do it in uh let me just come back to stream elements a minute because I've sort of missed out a little piece of the jigsaw here um basically in stream elements once you have um uh made any changes make sure you go ahead and save it up here um but then there is a little um button here which is this one which copies a link so that copies the link of the overlay URL and then what we're going to do is come into uh ecam so I'm going to come in here and I'll just zoom in like this and so then what we're going to do is add in a uh an overlay here so you come to this little world symbol am I sharing that yeah I think so so then you come into this one here with a little globe single so symbol which is basically a widget uh and then what you do here is you just type in what you want it to be called and then paste that URL into there and then you can leave this as it is and or you can have it fill the entire frame but you may need to just move it around one thing about widgets is you can actually crop them in the same way that you can with a any other overlay in fact so this this white outline that I've got here that's the outline of that particular widget so you can still press the option key and crop it so I'll do that by the way with my buy me a coffee widget so that my buy me a coffee widget is um somewhere up at the top where is it in fact it is in here this one buy me a coffee widget so what I did with the buy me a coffee widget is I didn't want to have the thing at the bottom because I had sort of created my own little widget here that constantly pops up with my little buy me a coffee link so I only really wanted the one which was the thing for when somebody actually goes on to buy me a coffee and that one pops down so I just crop the rest of it out because I just use the option key on the edge of it and crop that out so just bear that in mind if you are playing around with widgets they are cropable as well so yeah that is that is how to basically add those things in from stream elements um so how how on earth did I get onto this topic seeing as how uh yeah Paul's just got up the little squirrel I haven't got though yet the squirrel sound effect on yet I should have um uh um cannon for the win I'm not sure what that's a reference to oh it's just the fact that I'm using a cannon not for long I'm afraid I am going team Sony um also I am going team Sony I'm afraid yeah so I've got um uh my camera is a 10 year old cannon eos 60d and uh I am going to be going over to uh the Sony camp I'm afraid I'm not really I'm not really a camera guy to be honest when I um when I bought this camera it was so I'm so sorry to disappoint you Caleb um when I bought my this camera it was actually it was before my uh my first my first uh uh daughter was born and so I had visions of you know wanted a camera obviously to capture capture those precious family moments um and the trouble is with these cameras is they are well certainly that one is uh it was often on a shelf more than uh more than it was being put to use and I think I had visions because it's it's it's almost like the ultimate tech gadget really I mean think of all the settings all the buttons things like that it should really be right up my street I mean photography in general should be because uh uh there's a technical aspect to it there's there's all sorts of different things that technically should just tick my boxes for things that I'd be interested in but I just never really got into into photography so uh yeah it was uh that it probably had not been used until I started to do my uh my channel it had not been really used I mean I did do some videos uh I suppose the year before that as well uh but generally yeah it's just those family moments the phones we've got in a pocket now are generally the the ones that we uh the we reach for and uh yeah so I'm afraid Caleb I am I'm going to be I'm going to be leaving team coming although not that I was really a team player and I'll be team Sony um the dog squirrel sound yeah I think I have got it somewhere but um yeah I need to I need to I need to sort out my I've got a few that I need to add on to my yeah my stream deck um um I've spent too much time with doc and the others yeah that that might be it the the influence has run off rubbed off on me I mean to be honest with you my yeah my approach to this has generally been uh watch what doc's doing and then do that so uh I mean guess where I've heard about these lights that I've got behind the none like pavo tubes uh well heard about them from him first I mean obviously he's now upgraded some to some other ones so I've got some other ones that are on my list on my wish list now as well but yes and it's only a matter of time I suppose before the roadcaster and the SM7P find their way onto my desk uh although I still have not found it I'm not I'm still not convinced by the roadcaster so I'll I'll see I might keep with the the old minimum minimal mv7 for the the time being um but yeah that's definitely where the the Sony influence has come from I can guarantee it um so uh where did this all come from though this came from what I would like to improve on my oh that's that's how I got into the stream element stuff was because uh you would ask the question Caleb what would I like to improve on my my live stream so that is one of them it's just sort of generally uh production quality um adding in some more structure to the the live streams as well although I appreciate that you appreciate the rumbling nature and uh we we're you're also holding off on the roadcaster so there's a is it just you, Keeley and me that are holding off on it I suppose there are others as well but it's um yeah I'm I'm not finding the the sort of need to jump on it with sound effects can be triggered by stream deck and so on so yeah we'll have to have to see uh but it is it's been on my list since day one and I still haven't completely scrubbed it off yet so we'll we'll find out how is your finger by the way I've got to I've got to ask I hope everything is uh I hope it's not not hurting too much after the little kitchen incident um it is isn't it it is it's the the thought leaders I'm following the true thought leaders of the group uh in terms of the uh the roadcaster and Caleb you've got a digital version of the roadcaster um what's what's that what what do you mean by that a like a is that like a sort of soundboard or something like that um because obviously we can do that with um we can do that with stream deck as well with all the sound effects um ah this yeah not uh not pleasant well I hope it's uh I hope it's feeling feeling better soon and fair play for carrying on just for to give this some context uh cutting uh Dean a cut a finger during a live cooking show uh just carried on it just totally carried on like uh the show's got to go on that's uh that's commitment um so uh yeah interested to know what that is though Caleb because that's always been my thing I can see how uh with um uh like fading in music and stuff like that with the the roadcaster then um uh I can see how that's something but obviously I don't have any uh music that I fade in and out as such I did always think for my podcast which only ever made it to three episodes and speaking of consistency that is the topic I was consistent for three weeks and then just stopped with that one as well oh hey Anna great to see you here um so um uh yeah it's just it's just not something that's found its way in to my workflow and in fact one thing that was missing with the uh you know if you were going to replace the roadcaster with a stream deck and the sort of built-in functions of ecamm with the uh loop deck you can now obviously use the the knobs to control the the volume and stuff like that but that is another thing that I have still got this on my desk my loop deck and I've still not gone through and set it all up I mean I have had other things that have got in my way but there's something about it I don't know what it is there's something about it that has just added some there's there's too much friction to it for me to uh just to build it into my workflow so I've always thought well I'm just going to have like a weekend where I just dig into it and get it all set up and uh really figure it out um but it's just not something that I've done which is it's almost unbelievable for me to be honest that I've not uh not gone through that process yet having had it since when I can't remember November is it so there's there's something there that's uh not quite gelling with me even though I've not even dug into it properly yet it's quite it's quite bizarre I can't put my finger on it I'm going to have to do a full uh thesis an evaluation of my uh psychological state related to that because it is a bit weird um and well of course Keely that is uh that is testament itself I mean I'm talking about not having had uh a roadcaster and um not sure that I need one I knew were the opposite you actually did have one and then realized that you didn't need it so um yeah uh I think I just need to scrub it off my list don't I it's just uh it's total gas that one is gear on my part gear acquisition syndrome um yeah so uh oh for Dini yes yes hoping you have a swift recovery uh the food did look good though the food did look good so uh so yeah that is um so Keely you found the loop deck high friction too and put a weekend into it I don't know it's it's just funny isn't it it's uh it there's definitely a little thing that is um that is holding me back with that um having not that it it's not that it's holding me back it's just that it hasn't immediately excited and inspired me in the same way that um the uh the stream deck did for some reason it's a bit weird um we've had this conversation before though I'm I will try monogram at some point I think but uh I won't go down that rabbit hole again today um roadcaster pro and sm7b for that late night radio voice so the thing about that is um how would we go about I say we uh I'm talking about me how would I go about replicating that without the actual roadcaster because that is more the microphone I think isn't it so um that's one of the things about the mv7 is obviously you've got the sort of built-in control of it which is not not a patch on I'm sure the the actual hardware device um but it'd be interesting to know like if you weren't going to use the sm7b with the roadcaster um I've not really looked properly into it I suppose what I need to do is I need to go and watch a podcastage with bandrew yeah we were talking about him the other day rich as well but yeah podcastage is a great um youtube channel where he just does all audio um microphone related stuff so I should probably go and have a little look at that but yeah it does sound really great you sound great with it and uh and you too paul you've got a great a great voice on that as well um so stream deck for the win uh oh of course because rich yeah you do your show with uh with amber so yeah definitely uh I can see the the the way that you uh that you need that um replicate it with an mv7 and a motive yeah this the motive app is pretty yeah pretty decent and uh it's also good on the mobile as well I don't know if you've played around with that keely but it is it is good that you can just plug it into your uh your mobile and get all of the mv7 goodness on the mobile unfortunately it's a bit disappointing that apple um don't allow you to use that in uh in face time so you can't use it for that they've there's some little thing about using uh third party microphones with them with apple that they won't they won't let you let you do it you can use it you can use one that's plugged in over a um uh obviously the the jack if you've got one with a headphone jack on the you know like earphones with the headphone microphone built in um but not uh the mv7 unfortunately but you can use it with other applications so it can go into uh into the the phone or the ipad or whatever um the roadcaster pro voice settings that do the magic yeah so uh who knows who knows uh what I mean by that is who knows maybe it will still find his way onto my my desk um but yeah motive apps is is pretty good and I do like the uh relative portability of it as well um you know that can I'll probably take it with me when I go to Bangkok uh because I've got some meetings and things like that although having said that no I won't do that at all what I will do I've not really used this I've uh used it for some zoom stuff but I have got a little uh the road lavalier mic so I'll be taking that one I think uh this will be total overkill don't even be cutting this around with me um but this is pretty good actually the uh the audio quality from that um and then I've just got a little uh a little usb dongle so this one can have headphones and uh the mic go into it so that one plugs into my usb socket and then just this one with um with headphones is a massive improvement certainly on the built-in mic um but also using um um uh audio hijack that is uh um yeah that can that can really improve it in fact look at that just in time great minds think alike jeff already have audio hijack for processing um yeah so um yeah so with uh with this the the sure I am just using the the motive stuff but I suppose I should really play around more with the audio hijack stuff I haven't actually played with it in terms of um uh you know all the compression and stuff like that but you're totally right I should I should actually dig into that a lot more than I did I have done um so uh yeah there we go yeah those that lovely of mine though it's quite uh it's quite impressive the the audio quality that you do get considering it's obviously such a tiny tiny little thing but it is uh it's certainly um uh a lot more effective than even larger technically uh microphones but they just aren't as aren't as good quality um well we are quite far off the topic of consistency aren't we I suppose we're talking about consistent audio though so let's just uh let's just say that um yeah yeah don't don't let Doug know um at least we're not mentioning Luke back as much as we used to so uh that will keep him happy um uh yeah but it's it's it's one of those things isn't it the the whole gear thing it's like where where do you draw the line and uh I don't think my audio is too bad as it is so does it is it really something that I need to focus on in terms of improving or not uh there is always room for improvement I definitely need to sort out my yeah my camera though um and uh get that get that up to scratch because that is definitely an area for uh for improvement um that is right audio hijack's always a yeah obviously a computer uh workload rather than a specific piece of hardware definitely better to offload stuff where you can I guess um although I'm supposed to be the max these days it's uh it's not a not a major drain compared to the the video stuff um that is a very good point Keely you've made there uh not that that surprises you because I know that all of your points are very good it does indeed do that so it is it's creating the settings and then it is then in the in the microphone itself rather than being done on the on the computer uh you're not on drugs that is well you may well be but that is a still a fact um that is indeed the way that it the way that it works so it's not like a separate app that's something to do the processing on the on the computer itself um so uh yeah I've lost my train of thought once again I definitely need that little squirrel squirrel sound effect uh so yeah the the plan for the next week though uh just to just to wrap up with that because I think I'm pretty much done with being consistent or talking about consistently I've been consistently talking about consistently uh consistency for the past hour and a half uh or inconsistently talking about it because I've gone off on various different tangents but um I am shorty out beep boop um so um yeah next week I think I'm what I'm going to do is I'm going to uh pre-record some videos this week just to get a few oh this weekend just to get a few in the can as it were um and then I'll try and do a couple on the road because that will be interesting and just to see how that works with different setups and it's just one of those things getting out of my comfort zone as well um so uh oh Michael you've got road mics with focus right and on windows and the new beacon mic looks to be able to replace all that gear what's the yeah what is that I'm not sure what that is I'm going to have to do a quick search what's that beacon mic b a c n or is that ah I see never heard of that beacon builds world-class studio equipment for everybody do they now indeed let's have a little look then while we're here because I've not actually heard of this beacon an audio controller for everybody hmm an audio controller for content creators well hey I'm a content creator I create content do you know what I'd never even heard of that is that a new thing let me have a little look that that that interesting to um yeah I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to dig into this otherwise you're just going to be watching me uh scrolling and uh searching that looks pretty nice uh I obviously don't know what it does oh how it works but certainly as a device it looks quite nice um I'm gonna have to look into that so is that what is that for audio inputs and right 149 dollars 199 dollars mute right I'm going to have to uh I'm going to have to investigate this because I don't know what it is but it looks nice and that's worth a look for me so I will uh I will have a little look at that um if certainly if it's gonna replace a lot of your what's keely telling me now hang on a minute it said oh Canada did it now where was it where was that I don't know where that is keely let's have a little look oh there it is we aren't just headquartered in Canada they're designed and assembled in Canada too we were at heart to use local and reputable partners for the production of beacon mix and beacon mix create there we go there we go we've got it ah epos fox did a chat thing on it right I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to investigate this because it does look kind of kind of cool that does um hmm I'm just saying keely that aesthetic would not look out of place on your desk that is pretty cool yeah exactly right well on that note I think um I think I am I think of a need of a little bit of oil for my circuitry do you put it so just uh see 3po but or oil on his circuitry I'm not sure um but I certainly need it and another coffee so be consistent be consistent be consistent we'll just uh leave it on that and the uh moose mics and moose mixer right here folks I am uh with that I am going to uh sign off and go and read a little bit more about this new bit of gear that I don't need but we'll still be putting on my wish list so for those watching on the replay don't go anywhere though you don't go anywhere you stay right where you are because there is plenty more stuff coming up next but for all of you lovely people that have been here it's been an absolute pleasure chatting with you all have a wonderful day and I'll see you all soon


Hey, welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are live in San Francisco, of Pier 48 at the GE Mines and Machines Conference. It's their fifth year they've been doing it. It's bigger than ever, 3,000 people. Pretty much the who's who of GE. If you need to network with anyone at GE, you should get up to San Francisco before the end of the day tomorrow. But we're really excited to be here. It's the first time we've really come, and as advertised, Beth Comstock just stopped by.  But the man who's up next needs no introduction. He only goes by one name. There's Bono, there's Cher, and then there's Hima Makalau. Thanks for joining us. Good to see you. Awesome, thanks for being here. Absolutely, so we last caught up about, we were talking about six months ago, at GE predicts transform, 1700 developers, just went GA, five months have passed, six months have passed. What's happened in the last little while? Actually it was Feb 28th or so when we went GA. We talked in August, transformed. That was our first developer conference. And we went from 1,000 to almost 19,000 developers. How many, 1,000 to what number? 19,000. 19,000, that's pretty steep, right up to the right. Yeah, and so we went from pretty much zero partners to around 250 partners. We went from zero applications to really big three applications. So the growth has been tremendous. I've always said this, a platform is nothing without its partners. And so we've had a lot of the partners come help that, fill that gap with the platform and sort of take the platform to the next level. But it's hard to start a platform. You need the apps to start a, nobody ever just goes and buys a platform or participates in a platform and it's a competitive world for the developers. But as Jeff Emel said in the keynote tonight for this morning, you guys are all in. He said he's in it to win it. And clearly the numbers support that statement. I think the key is no platform has succeeded without its applications. And we talked about this last time. For the industrial customers, the technology doesn't matter. What matters to them is the outcomes, right? And so for them, it's like, how do I get to the outcome faster? And so we have sort of invested in asset performance management. We acquired a company called yesterday, ServiceMax, Field Service Automation. It's a key part of how we offer services to our customers, right? We sell assets and we do maintenance on them. Field Service is a big part of that. And so we acquired the company that enables those applications, gives the applications to the customers to manage their field service tasks much better. And then the last sort of application category is digital thread or brilliant manufacturing. All these assets get made in a manufacturing plan. How do you increase the productivity of that manufacturing plan? That's an area we've invested in. So you can think of these three pillars, asset performance management, the digital thread or brilliant manufacturing, and field service are the applications that ride on top of the platform that accelerate the development and outcomes to the customer. But I think what's really powerful in the platform statement is that you recognize, you guys have a long history, you're very good at what you do, but you don't have all the smartest people in the room inside your four walls. So to open up the platform to partner ecosystem, whether that's developers, whether that's partner companies, whether that's competitors, whether it's third party analytics, is really a statement that we see the bigger picture. It's not just about GE and what GE does. I think Bill made this statement earlier today. The incumbents in the software space are going to get hit by just the same in networking companies. The mobile operators got hit by open, open source, extensible platforms. We have the luxury of saying that's our sort of DNA. We're going to build a platform that's going to enable different businesses to come in, partners to come in, and build applications without us doing everything. I throw this number out, and I don't know if it's going to stick. 10% of what the platform is going to be is going to be done by GE. The rest of it will come from 10%. The rest of it has to come from partners, has to come from ISVs, has to come from the system integrators, delivering the applications, has to come from ISVs like ServiceMax and others who are building on top of the platform. Other sort of domains have to be built on the platform. And I think that's where, as we bring in the ecosystem along with us, both ISVs and the SI's and the OEMs, and that sort of extends to the edge of the market also. If you look at it, we talk about the platform as an edge-to-cloud platform. Edge includes sensors, it includes gateways, appliances, and that's where we are partnering with Intel, partnering with HP and so on, and the Dell's, so that we have millions of these gateways that can run the platform. People think of platform as just cloud. A large part of the platform is running in these operational environments, and so being able to create an ecosystem of these manufacturers, OEMs, to run the platform, that is the key. You would have heard the term predict system today, so that's our approach to how do you take all of this and run it in various environments that the customers are comfortable with? So how far are you on that journey to only being 10%? Assuming it was all you day one, or maybe it wasn't all you day one when you went GA nine months ago? I need my job for a long time, so we're going to do this one. Still make it and make it your way. So we're going to, I think when I said the 10% we're going to continue to contribute to that key part of the platform. There's going to be a lot of layers that surround it, which will continue to do acquisitions, will continue to partner with ISVs, but building a cloud platform, building a platform is a multi-year journey. That's what I tell my customers, right? Don't think today you're going to have everything that you need. You got to step on, and this is what Bill says, right? The digital transformation is a journey. You don't get done on day one. So step on the train, continue to work with us. It's a collaboration, it's not a customer relationship. Beth also said that same thing. That's what I was looking at my nose. Beth's phrase was in the emergent era, which I just loved this morning, that get comfortable with uncomfortable. We're not there, we'll never be there. We have a thing inside that we talk about. We're always here, we always want to go there. It's kind of like the mirage on the freeway, right? It just keeps moving as you keep moving. All of us have to be on the train. We all go together. And then, I think Beth also said this, right? It's also a cultural change for all the customers and for us. It's no longer leadership hierarchical. It's about collaborative. It's about a bottom up style. And so that's the big part of this cloud movement. It's a big part of this platform movement. Yeah, I think she said, you know, organize around information flows instead of a hierarchical. And it was interesting too, I think when Jeff said, you know, put good people in positions to execute and really to change a management style. And it's a 130 year old company, but clearly there's a huge investment. And the leadership is all in. And if you don't have the leadership in, then, you know, it's just kind of words on a slide. I think that's the key about this. You know, one thing that's been amazing to me was someone asked me, one thing that you've been surprised at with GE, it's the buy-in that we have from the leadership, right? When Jeff is all in in this, right? And not just from a technology, not from what we do as investment. It's also about the culture. He always says this, right? This next generation is about doers, not just leaders, right? If you look at traditional industrial companies, it all starts and stops with the leaders. But now it's the doers, and that's what he said. The people who do it are more important or as important as the leaders who do it. Right, but it's funny, the parallel, because it predicts is a cloud, even though it's a cloud edge, we do a lot of stuff with Amazon on the public cloud on the consumer side and the enterprise side. And Andy Jassy is quietly underneath Jeff's guidance there, building, you know, one of the most successful software companies of all time. And so for Jeff, I'm out here to say that GE wants to be a top 10 software company by 2020. I hadn't heard that before. Maybe I haven't been paying attention to the, to the quarterly calls, but that's a pretty bold statement for a huge big iron, industrial, planes, trains, and automobiles company. You know, I got goosebumps today when I read one of the press releases that talked about Exelon partnering with Power, does an enterprise software license deal with predicts. That's like the story of traditional software companies. And you know, GE Digital is being talked about in the same context. And so it starts with Jeff, you know, sort of giving the support to drive this change, both technically and culturally, and from a leadership standpoint. I mean, we already are in the top 15 something, but we have said, we compare ourselves to the top cloud companies in the world. The Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, that's who we compare with. We don't compare ourselves with the SAPs and the Oracles. I mean, they're good partners, but that's who we want to be, right? And so it's always, we have that luxury of starting from nothing if I have to say so, at least from a platform standpoint. But with his support from a top down, influencing the leaders to buy it into the digital transformation, buy it into the platform. And a large part of adopting the platform has to come from these applications. You know, that's a hard challenge, right? Every team wants to move at its own pace. So he helped us bring that together. Right. And to be successful the platform and to have partners and to have developers, you have to be attractive to developers. We do close to 100 events a year. And everybody wants the developer. Everybody wants the developer. And you come from some of the classic enterprise IT space, but what you offer is two things that are so appealing to developers today. A, the ability to do open source and do cool technology and work with Docker and work with some of these cool and innovative things. But more importantly, work on big problems, right? And big problems. And you know, it's summed up in what I think is really an interesting television commercials about, you know, this is the place as a software engineer that I can solve really, really big problems. Absolutely. I mean, it's like, someone asked me, why do you work here? It's like working on things that matter, working on things that make a big impact. And so one thing that the developers who I talked to, I was, I think you and I exchanged, had a conversation about this. I did a keynote at Facebook's at scale conference. Right. Who would have thought someone from GE Digital of all places would do a keynote at a Facebook conference where there's a lot of developers who are more hacker like and so on, right? But a lot of my engineers when they were at the conference got stopped and were asked like, what is digital about? What is predicts about? Because everyone's curious. How do I work on something that makes a difference? How do I work on things that makes a material impact for health, for power, for energy, for transportation? Right. And that's what we do every day. The use cases we deal with and that's what we give to the developers. That's what we give to the partners. That ability to target use cases, have use cases that they can build on that make that impact. And that's what excites, I don't know if you've seen this, I've seen a difference in what developers look for these days. Right. They want to make something that matters. They want to make something that matters. They want to be able to see it. Yeah. And they want to see it. But I'm curious on the Facebook at scale and for those who haven't been, it's a really geeky. It's a really geeky show. It's hardcore. Why did they invite you? What was your talk and why do you think that they would do that? Because from the outside looking in, it looks like a complete mismatch. Yeah. And I had the same question. Why would you want GE to talk about it? Besides you're a nice guy and you're very ticklish. Yeah. I think the key was, it's all about scale. What they were interested in was, how does GE deal with the scale of the data, the scale of the computation, that we have to enable to our customers. And so they want to understand how are we dealing with the hard challenges, right? And that's what, because if you look at the kinds of problems we deal with, you know, we've talked about this, the jet engine, one gigabyte of data or half terabyte of data. How do you build a data infrastructure? How do you build a compute infrastructure so that the data scientists can deal with that data from multiple flights, multiple airlines and do some outcomes? That's what was exciting to them to understand. How do, how have we been able to solve that problem? And so we are on that journey. You know, we're building that cloud. We're building that edge infrastructure so that we can collect the data at the edge the right way. And that was the message, that was the learnings that they were interested in sort of understanding how we do that. The other thing I think is so interesting in the way you guys parse the buckets of data in so many different ways. We were talking earlier about the digital twins or whether the digital twin is a part. A system, an ecosystem, an entire field, you're collecting data and parsing that in eight ways to Sunday. And that was the other part. One of my, part of the conversation was about industrial machine learning. Machine learning, which is a part, a big part of the digital twin is about the scale. And so that's what was interesting to the audience that to go back to your digital twin, and at the basic of it, it's a combination of the virtual model of the asset, the analytics that can operate on the asset, and the data that's coming from the asset so that you can make some outcomes, right? And so being able to do that at scale and be able to give that ability to the customer so that just like we go to Google and say, find me the closest restaurant that serves Indian food, you should be able to ask that digital twin, when is the last time a particular asset, a locomotive of the same type failed so that I could do predictive maintenance on that? So you can see the parallels in us, a digital twin of us in Google, or a digital twin of us as a shopper in Amazon, we will have the digital twin of the assets in the periodic cloud so that operations folks can ask those questions to extract outcomes, to extract knowledge, and to do that at scale is what is interesting. And the other thing that's fascinating to me is this kind of bifurcation of analysis to the individual and the aggregate, but not the average anymore, right? Everything gets lost in the average, but now you're simultaneously at the individual unit level as well as taking a more macro view where you can get bigger trends. I mean if you look at it right, any enterprise, they want to optimize their individual assets, but they also have multiple of these systems in place so that they can do a macro level optimization. And so that's what, if you look at what they're trying to do with the twins, I don't know, I heard the number 250,000 twins or something, we got to find that out, the exact number, but the amount of data that's there and the amount of questions and intelligence that's there, it's a mind blowing for me. So let's shift gears a little bit because as we talked before, you came on, you weren't able to come this morning because the cloud needs its code, right? You still got to push code, you still got a day job. So in terms of your day job and what you guys are working on, on predicts, what are some of your kind of short term priorities? How is that evolving as you guys are now building a bigger ecosystem? You've got traction in the marketplace. What are some of your priorities? What are some of the things coming up next for you? Absolutely. I think fundamentally just continuing on the digital twin theme, our ability to let create millions of digital twins in the cloud, that's why we're investing a lot in our graph engine, we're investing a lot in the model, standardized models where customers can put their asset definitions. That's a big area because at the end of the day, that's the bread and butter of the platform so that customers can create their twins. The second comes this ability to run the analytics at scale against the data streams that are coming in at high volume, right? And so we're investing a lot in high ingest capabilities in the cloud so that these gateways that are running in the edge can put in a lot of data. All right, Spark and that kind of stuff. Spark and Kafka and those kinds of things. And then we're investing a lot in being able to truly be an edge to cloud platform where you can write these analytics and move them using Docker, using various container mechanisms in the edge. And so we're building the ability, we have an edge SDK called the machine where you can deploy these applications and analytics in the edge and you can manage this topology in the cloud.  So we're investing a lot in the security front. So you're a busy guy. Yeah, like you said, right? The cloud doesn't wait for mines and machines. All right, well, Hima, I appreciate you stopping by and let's get back. You got to go push some more code probably. Tomorrow's the new day, right? The sun comes up again. But really appreciate you stopping by. Thanks a lot, it was always fun talking to you. Absolutely, so you see, mom, Jeff, you're watching theCUBE. We're at G-Mines and Machines at Pier 48. Thanks for watching. Thanks, man.


I accidentally slipped and I threw a Sphere at one and believe it or not.  My name is DPG and if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you seem want to see more Be sure to subscribe. So our first four. This was a glitch I legit fit I thought it was a glitch so I went back out But and I found another couple of bandits and I purposely this time Try to capture another one and I did and you'll see in the on-screen now You can get a little message in a bottom right corner of the screen saying basically it's prohibited So I'm like really is this actually a thing? Craziest thing is guys. I've got them while those in my poker deck No poker box. Oh, I'm a poker deck doing my poker box They don't appear in your poker deck But I've looked and I can't find him But it was in my poker box and I've equipped him to use them now in my party Syndicate fog So we're gonna take I'm just gonna throw him out. See what happens Does he run off? No, he starts fighting things Wow, so you can actually catch people and they fight with you. Okay, so that's Bizarre but amazing at the same time. I'm guessing you can capture anyone vendors Bandit, I don't even everything guys. That is absolutely wild And I can call him back This is unbelievable. Oh Ready go, do you know why? Oh, I mean to the water shot. I can't So they've just thought of everything for this game as mad as it is so I Saw a bad take last night actually About this game. I think I don't know it was PC gamer. Maybe I saw on Twitter I'll put a screenshot on the screen now talking about how bad the game is because of animal cruelty And this is because of this thing right here Later stages of the game. You can't was not later stages. I guess it's quite mid game. Actually, where is it? You'll see in a second. It's like a cleaver, I think Is it right at the bottom is it I thought it was higher up than that Where is it? It's like a knife. It's not that look like a knife though It must be something I haven't unlocked yet then Well, basically there's a knife or a cleaver you can unlock. I've probably gone past it. Well, I saw it so bad Basically guys you can sacrifice your own pals with them.   There's a couple of vendors. One of these vendors actually sells pals This guy right here. I thought you know what can I sell this dude this bandit? And you know what guys you actually can You can go out there Tame humans and sell them on for a profit of 270 gold Which isn't actually bad if you think about it now as I was on about Quick second ago about PC gamer and their negative review in the game due to animal cruelty And killing tames and I mean it's a game people had the people sinks. I mean it's just Kind of world we live in now wait until I get a hold of this They can actually capture and sell on people. I can't imagine the headlines.  You can see he's got the handy work work suitability So we'll actually help you craft things which is pretty cool. Now. I'm wondering about NPCs like this and About vendors. I wonder if you can tame and capture a vendor and what it would offer you Although I don't want to mess up my game want to keep these vendors here And I know if I just do that absolutely cap my ass But yeah, I'm pretty sure this goes a lot deeper than just capturing standard bandits you find out in the open world But yeah guys something you probably didn't know So do what you gotta do with it guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out If you like what you see and want to see more kick his ass be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one