- If you've ever tried to stream a full screen presentation
then you know that it can present some challenges.
It can be enough to make you wanna throw your slide deck
off the deck.
So now it's time to take notes on some key tips
to make powerful points in your keynote.
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And while it is possible to share your presentation software
like Keynote using Ecamm Live as soon as you go full screen
then you lose the ability to see anything else
except your presentation.
So here's how you can stream your presentation
in full quality using Ecamm
while still maintaining the ability
to do picture and picture, overlay, graphics
and seeing your presentation notes and times
and next slides up and seeing all of your stream information
and keeping an eye on the chat.
Basically having all the information you could want
right in front of you at your fingertips the entire time.
So what you'll need are two capture cards.
In this case, I'm using the ATEM Mini
and the Elgato Cam Link .
Now having to capture cards seems kind of extreme.
Why would you have that?
But the reason I think this is a good solution
is because I think there are a few people out there like me,
how lucky could you be where you maybe bought the Cam Link
and loved it but then later on, you wanted
to bring in multiple cameras.
So you upgraded to something like an ATEM Mini
and now you've got a Cam Link and an ATEM
those are two separate capture cards
and you can use them at the same time.
And then you'll need two computers
which at first sounds a little crazy and expensive.
But for example,
my main computer is the Mac mini my base model Mac Mini
which I absolutely loved did an entire video
about how powerful it is.
And my second computer is just my 2013 MacBook Pro
which is, I think Apple considers this vintage
but it still works great.
And my keynote presentations have a lot of graphics.
They have a lot of video.
They have a lot of animations transitions.
They're very large files.
And this older MacBook Pro plays them just fine.
So you don't necessarily need to have the most
high end computers in the world
but you need one computer to run your stream
and handle all that.
And you need another computer to handle your presentation.
And then of course you'll need
Ecamm Live to put everything together
and any HTMI cables you might need for your specific setup.
So in this case,
I've got my camera running into the ATEM Mini.
And for this example, I'm only using one camera
but normally when I'm doing a presentation
I'll have two or three cameras connected.
And then into the Cam Link, I am connecting my MacBook Pro
which will be running my keynote presentation.
So now a couple of things are happening over here in ecamm,
I've got my sources and one
of them is black magic, which is the ATEM Mini.
And the other source is the Cam Link .
So both capture cards are going into Ecamm Live
and I can switch between them or create scenes around them.
Now, what you might notice is when I select the Cam Link
it just shows a blank background.
And that's because Ecamm is acting
as a second for my MacBook .
So on my MacBook here
I actually have my Keynote presentation.
But what Ecamm is seeing is the second display,
and you could press command F1 and mirror the displays.
And then whatever's on my MacBook will show up over there.
But for this setup, you want them to be separate displays.
So you want your main display over here
and then you want a second display over there
because when I press play on the presentation here
it's gonna do that, what is that?
Aereo don't know what that was.
We'll just pretend it didn't happen.
So now here, I've got the full screen title card
for my presentation, but on my MacBook
I can see all of the presenter notes.
I can see the next slide.
I can see the current time.
I can see the elapsed time.
However you set up your presenter display
and then I can just cycle through this pretty quietly.
'Cause as I'm talking about things, I can just
push the button and it will advance to the next slide.
And it will go through all the different points.
I could use a wireless presenter remote if I wanted
or if you're not sitting at a desk
maybe you do want to use one
because you're gonna be in front of a backdrop
maybe even in front of a green screen.
And then you can see superimpose yourself with no background
over your, and so this is the basic setup.
I've got this computer with the presenter display.
I've got the full screen presentation on my Mac Mini running
through ecamm, but I can still see everything.
I have all of the Ecamm controls.
I can see comments.
I can have a browser window open.
I've got everything totally set up.
Now to take this to the next level,
we need to use some scenes within Ecamm.
So let's create a brand new scene
and let's called that Keynote, Keynote FS actually
for full screen.
So now we've got one scene here
which is Keynote Full Screen.
My default scene can be me on camera.
And then when I do Keynote Full Screen
it'll bring up the full screen presentation
and I can very easily go back
and forth just by pressing command two command three
'cause it's scene two and three.
Or if you've got like a stream deck set
up with scene triggers, you could do that as well.
And so that works,
so I can talk and go, blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
Hey, look at my presentation.
That's advanced to the next slide.
And then I can cut back to me
and that could be all that you need.
But if you know me, you know that I like to push things
just a little bit further.
So let's make this a little bit better.
First, did you know that using scenes in ecamm
you can create multiple shots using the same camera.
Here's what I mean by that.
I'm gonna create a new scene
and I'm gonna call it close up.
This is gonna be so uncomfortable but it's a good example.
On this closeup scene I'm gonna do the zoom
and pan feature and I'm going to zoom in and crop in on me
and then lock the scene, so I can't make any changes.
And so what I've done is I have one scene
that is just my default camera shot
but now I have a scene that is a closeup.
So I'm not switching cameras or anything,
but within this I have two different camera angles
and you can do that just at the push
of a button or have it cycle through automatically.
For example, do you know why the pencil never broke?
Because it had a PowerPoint?
Do you know what you call it when you make a reminder
for yourself never to forget your keys?
That would be a Keynote. (ba dum tshhh)
So we've got now multiple angles set up with this.
We've got our Keynote full screen
but let's do another new scene.
We're going to call this Keynote PIP.
Because it's Keynote picture and picture,
and we're gonna go to source
and we're gonna start with a blank source on this scene
and then we're gonna start adding things in.
So the first thing I actually want to add in is an image.
This isn't a traditional overlay
because I'm actually using it as a background image.
But I think this is a cool image.
And I've been doing a webinar
for my podcasting course all about launching your podcast.
And so it makes sense to have the background
be something podcast related.
Next thing that's add in a camera.
And in this case, it's not going to be me.
Let's start with the Cam Link .
So the actual presentation, and let's make this pretty big.
Now as I go through it,
you can see all of my animations are popping up,
but I specifically centered it off to the side a little bit
just so I could add in another camera
and this time it is going to be me.
And I'm going to change this to, I like doing the tall ones
make this just a little bit bigger
than one thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move these around
just a little bit.
It depends on what side I want to be on.
If I do it this way
I'm on the right side of the presentation.
And since I'm looking at the screen a lot
when I look at the screen
it looks like I'm looking at the presentation.
What I could do also if I wanted to be
on this side is reorder things a little bit.
And then now though, when I look at the screen
it looks like I'm looking away from the presentation.
So I can actually just mere that.
I don't have any words on my shirt.
The words in the background are gonna be a little backwards.
So it depends about the problem.
But now when I'm looking at the screen
it looks like I'm actually looking at the content.
So now we have a scene, which is just my full screen scene.
We've got the closeups run
and make those really good points.
We've got this over here for what I want to just
do full screen presentation goodness.
And then we've got our picture and picture overlay
fancy thing for when I want to jump in and pop up on screen.
Because if you were seeing me give a presentation
in real life, I would be talking and the screen would be
in the background with the presentation.
And I like being on screen during presentations.
So now I have all the options in the world
in order to do those things.
I could even since I'm using ecamm Live
I could even pop up a comment on screen.
If I wanted to, I could make different overlays
that involve comments.
So you can kind of see how the options
and the possibilities are pretty much endless
with this setup, but it solves that huge problem
of how do I present something full screen
without it ruining everything else.
And for me personally, one thing I can't stand when
somebody gives a presentation is when they just
have their presentation window up and you see them clicking
through the random slides and you see all their slides
and there's nothing interesting happening.
I much prefer when you can see the transitions
you can see the animations.
You can't see what's coming next
because it just looks so sloppy.
You can't see the controls and the menu options.
I mean, come on,
if you're going this far with your presentation
take that one extra step and make it an 11 out of 10.
And that way you can give the best presentation you can pop
up points, you can talk to them,
you can bring up comments from the chat.
You can be as dynamic of a presenter as possible.
All we're doing this as a one person production team.
And one last thing to address is the amount
of gear that you need in order to do this.
I can just hear people saying,
oh, so I'm supposed to get two of this and two of that
and set everything up.
Yes, if you want this exact result,
you do need those things.
However, this is all set up based
on stuff that I don't think is that uncommon
for people to have.
I think there's a lot of people who will buy a Cam Link
and then upgrade to an ATEM.
And now they've got to capture cards, I think in 2021
for people who do online presentation streams
that kind of thing.
Having two computers, isn't super uncommon,
especially if one of them is an older computer that maybe
you don't use that much anymore.
And the other one is your main computer
or maybe you've got a friend
or a spouse or partner, whoever, and you can just
borrow their computer for your presentation.
So when you look at it that way
I think it becomes a lot more manageable to actually
create something like this with what you've already got.
So if you took notes, this should be key
in helping you level up your PowerPoints and sliding on
in to better slide presentations.
If you want to know how to level
up everything else to do with your live streaming setup
check out some of these videos right here.
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