Every once in a while, a new piece of live streaming gear comes along
that completely revolutionizes the way that we stream.
It turns the entire process on its head.
It takes all streams to greater heights, and this here, Elgato Stream
Deck Plus is not that piece of gear.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Now the Stream Deck Plus has been looked at by every other streaming
channel out there, and they're gonna tell you how absolutely amazing
it is, and I'm not here to tell you that they're wrong at all.
What I will say is that the stream deck plus is not for every
streamer.
It looks fancy and it's really well designed.
It's actually amazingly sturdy.
So let me show you what's actually in the box.
All right, here's our stream deck box.
Pretty cool stuff.
I'm looking forward to getting this thing and taking a look at what's
inside.
Haven't really had it open just yet.
We've got our stream deck plus manual and that is pretty much all
that's in there.
I have a cable,
pretty nice braided cable.
I like it.
The buttons all have very precise movement and lots of clickies.
Pad on the bottom and the port is right here.
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Now, if you have any other Elgato gear, you're certainly not gonna be
surprised that this thing is well built.
But where Elgato really shines is the software integration and the
ease of the use and the stream deck plus is no different.
So let me show you the install process and how the setup works.
For the install, what we're gonna do is go to the Elgato downloads
page and you just select your product on the left.
In this case, we are getting the stream deck, plus you select your
platform on the right and then you just click download.
And once it's downloaded, you just have to double click on it and
click next.
You're going to accept the license agreement and click next.
And then you're going to just click install.
It's going to ask you if this is your OBS folder.
I have OBS open at the moment, so I'm going to have to select the
reboot.
If you don't have OBS open, you can just select that and you're good
to go.
I just click okay.
And then it's going to go ahead and install this, and I click finish.
And because I already have a stream deck, some stuff is gonna come up
so I can transfer my profiles and all that kind of stuff by clicking
install profiles.
And then I can copy over my current stream deck profile.
So it automatically populates with some of the pages that I already
have.
And you can see when I put 'em side by side, obviously the stream deck
has a lot more buttons.
So you can easily change your pages for your buttons by just scrolling
like that on here.
Obviously you can put different faces on here.
All you have to do to do that is right click here and go to uh, open
Background Library.
You can scroll through.
There are lots and lots and lots of different backgrounds, or you can
create and upload your own and basically use whatever you want.
So in order to create a button, it's the same on all of these.
So if we want something for OBS Studio, we could change a scene or
whatever by moving it in here.
Maybe we want to go to a different scene, we just select what scene we
want, we title our button, we can change the picture, all that fun
stuff.
As far as dials go, there are dial controls down here.
So you can use different ones to adjust the brightness and stuff.
If you have the Elgato lights, you can adjust the temperature and the
color of the Elgato lights.
But as far as the volume control stuff, it's down here in the volume
control center.
We'll go into the manual detection.
You can stick these anywhere you want.
You can put the title on here and you can select the application that
you want to control the volume on.
So you can do Steam or Firefox or Google Chrome or an OBS browser
page.
Pretty much anything that you want, you can set up to control the
volume.
And then of course, you just adjust the volume right here.
You could also see that you have two different selections here.
One is just for dials.
So these are all the ones that you can put on the dials.
You can set up hot keys for these where you can just drag them over
there.
So that means that you can use the click to assign, rotate left or
right.
Um, you can tap or press to change the different things that work with
that particular dial if you want to use hot keys.
The other nice thing is you can do something that is called dial
stacking.
And here you can stack up as many different functions or features as
you want from over here.
So you could do hot keys and you can do, you know, adjust brightness,
or you can do the volume detection, whatever you want.
You can stack those hot keys on top of here.
And then you can select which one you want of the multiple hot keys
that are stacked.
So it works pretty easily.
You can have practically infinite numbers of things stacked on just
one dial, which is really pretty cool.
Overall, this is a really well built unit and for the right person,
they're absolutely gonna love it.
The question is, who's the right person?
You can check out the stream deck, plus there are links in the
description below.
And it sets up just like any other stream deck, but with a touch
screen and the knobs, it does have some extra functionality.
And this is where I diverge from other live streamers who looked at
the stream deck plus.
You see, the knobs are just not a feature that most streamers are
gonna find all that useful.
While you can adjust the sound levels for virtually everything, and
you can adjust the levels of the color and temperature on your Elgato
lighting, who actually does this while live streaming, except in truly
unpredictable environments.
Now, almost every streamer I know streams in a studio environment and
has all those things worked out before the stream.
So for me, the standard stream deck or the stream deck XL with more
buttons are much more useful streaming gear, and I highly recommend
them.
Where I think the Stream Deck Plus really comes into its own is when
you're a streamer, but you also do edited content.
The Stream Deck Plus is an amazing time saver when it comes to
editing.
You can program the dials to move the playhead for exact cuts, zoom in
and out of the timeline.
And especially for color grading, really fine tuning it is so helpful.
And the buttons can be used as well.
So you can create an absolutely amazing editing rig for a really
reasonable price.
Oh, and you still have access to infinite buttons for your live
streams.
So if streaming is all you do, I think you'll get more out of the more
buttons that you're gonna get in the original stream deck.
But for editors who also stream, you're gonna absolutely love the
Stream Deck Plus.
So do you guys think I'm wrong?
Let me know in the comments below.
And if you wanna learn more about the original stream deck, 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.