I always love it when companies release a product that's totally
thinking outside the box.
In the case of the stream deck pedal, you have to wonder if it
actually works.
I finally got my hands on one and tested it out, so I'll let you know
what I think today.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Today I'm gonna put the stream deck pedal through its paces and see
how it works and what you can actually do with it.
There are links in the description if you want to check it out for
yourself.
Do you need one of these things?
Well, let's take a look.
All right, so here is the stream deck pedal unit.
For those of you not familiar with what this is, it's a pedal you can
use to control your live stream.
Spring sets,
pedal stoppers.
So we've got four sets of springs at different rates, pedal stoppers,
so it tells you how to change the tension on the springs.
All right.
So we've got three buttons here it looks like, and there is our USB
for our cable.
Nice thick, long braided cable here, metal backing plate.
Very nice.
Well-built unit.
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Now let's hook this thing up and see how it works.
All right, so we have our unit plugged in and we are at the El Gato
downloads page.
We're just gonna select our product here, stream deck pedal, and it
looks like it uses the same stream deck software that we already have.
If you're not familiar with it, you just download it and install it.
Then once you're finished, it'll bring up the software.
It'll ask you if you want to copy profiles from another stream deck
and you can select which one.
I'm gonna select, don't copy.
And here we go.
We have our stream deck pedal.
It has three buttons and all you need to do is select what you want it
to actually do.
So this is pretty simple.
I'll show you how it works.
Here we are in OBS.
So you can see that it gives you an actual overlay of the three pedals
that stays over top of everything, which is really kind of cool.
But this is my usual live stream tutorial page.
You can see I have a bunch of different cameras.
We can switch to different scenes and the scenes have different items
and cameras and everything else in them.
So what we're gonna do is set up our pedal to change from one scene to
the next, the most simple of tasks.
So all we have to do is open up our stream deck.
We're gonna go to O B S and we're going to go ahead and select scene
and we'll assign a scene to this left pedal here.
And what scene?
Well we are on scene three, so let's have it changed to scene four.
And of course as with all of these, we can set a new icon, we could
create new ones, whatever we want.
Uh, let's just select an icon here that's somewhat interesting.
Let's see here.
How about that?
There we go.
All right, so now we have uh, and let's call it scene four.
And there we go.
So now we have a button that should switch us over to scene four.
All we have to do is press the button on the pedal, which I'm gonna do
right now, and boom, changed this is over to scene four.
Pretty cool.
So if we want to go to scene three, we can go ahead and select our
middle one here.
We'll go back to scene three, we'll call it scene three.
And we'll go ahead and select an icon for our pedal.
That one will work.
So now if I go ahead and click the pedal, it will take us to scene
three, and so we can go back to scene four.
Very, very cool.
All right, and then we can have another one, um, on the end here.
We'll have it changed to scene five.
Bam.
All we have to do is pick an icon and there are hundreds of icons you
can download icon packs.
There are really a lot of different cool stuff that you can do here.
So we'll change that right there.
And there we go.
So now we have a scene five set up.
We have all three of 'em.
It looks like it's in our little unit up here.
So if I switch to scene five, here we go.
Switching over to scene five, we can go back to scene four, Man.
We can easily go to scene three as well just by clicking on the
pedals.
So it does work, it works fairly well.
You can obviously use the same functions with stream deck that you
would use for any of this.
So you could set up one of these pedals to mute.
You can set up the pedals to do multi actions.
So if you wanted to change a bunch of different things, you can
actually use the pedal as a shift key to set up different things on
your stream deck if you wanted to.
So the pedal has so many cool functions and features.
The big question is what's it like to actually use, can you actually
feel the different pedal heights and everything else?
Like I should be going, um, right here, I should be going to scene
four right here I should be going to scene five.
And it seems pretty easy to figure out how to go and do everything
that you need to do.
So I actually really like this thing.
I think, uh, this is gonna take my livestream to the next level
because there are definitely certain scenes where I'm pressing the
button every single time when I see something flash up and I can set
those simple scenes into my foot pedal and it fixes everything.
I kind of really like that idea.
Now in settings, you can adjust the sensitivity of the pedal, you can
change the device name and change whether you want the l e d on or
off.
Pretty simple stuff.
And you don't have to have this on your screen if you don't want.
Now, if you want that little floating action to come back, if you've
disabled it, you can click down here and right click on here and then
you can go and show the action bar and it will bring it back up just
in case you accidentally got rid of it and you like to have it as a
reference.
I think it is kind of nice to have it as a reference and it will stay
over top of anything that you do.
So if I bring this up, it stays over top so I can always tell what
scene I'm switching to.
Obviously if I have my icons labeled better or something like that, I
can always tell.
So it really does make it pretty simple.
So I've been using this thing for a couple of weeks now and I have to
say I really like it.
There are two kinds of streams I think it's really useful for.
Number one, if you do some sort of demo or teaching content where
you're not at a desk or you're using your hands to show something, the
pedal is really, really useful.
Number two is super complex streams where you're looking to simplify
just a few functions that you use constantly.
And that's my case.
Now, the one drawback that I can see to the stream deck pedal is the
price.
For other stream deck gear, I always say you aren't paying for the
hardware, you're paying for that amazing software, but in the pedal's
case, you're only getting three buttons.
The equipment is sturdy and it's gonna hold up really well.
But $90 is a lot of coin for three buttons.
Plain and simple.
That's why I think if you aren't in one of those two cases mentioned
above, the stream deck pedal might not be for you.
Like I said, there are links in the description below and if you want
to check it out for yourself, these things do go on sale from time to
time.
So don't hesitate to take a look and see what the current pricing is
and if you wanna see the new stream deck plus and what what it can do,
you should check this video out.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.