foreign just dropped version four and it's the biggest update I've ever seen them do and in
this video I want to highlight not only the new features but explain how and why the whole app
is evolving and don't be tempted to just jump to the features that you recognize because some
of these are game changers and you may not have ever heard of them so why the huge update well I
believe it's in response to a changing audience you see I used to refer to ecam back in the day
as a tool for live streaming or doing Facebook lives but now a big proportion of ecam's customer
base aren't even live streaming so what are they using it for firstly they're using it to record
but without going live maybe podcasts YouTube videos interviews tutorials for online courses
Instagram videos Tick Tock videos things like that using all of the powerful features here in ecamm
but not necessarily going live with it secondly another huge audience are purely using ecamm
to level up their Zoom meetings or Ms teams or wherever they're going taking The Branding taking
the way that we can do slick presentations and things in here and simply use this as a virtual
camera into those other platforms and in response to this shift in audience ecam have changed the
whole navigation to make it more intuitive should we take a look now this is obviously going to be
an overview video showing you the highlights but I'll point you to our full playlist at the end
that will individually take you through all of these features in more detail so here are the
biggest changes that you need to understand in the previous version of ecamm the navigation is
all down here in the bottom right corner where you select a destination or choose to record
only now in the new version it's gone instead of heading down there to the different destinations
to plow through you now just go up here and right at the top you say do I want to stream
record or use the virtual camera and notice that with stream unselected at the minute I I've got
a record button down here when I turn stream on I get this new button down here now I reckon you
should always keep this record turned on you don't ever want to do a live stream that you're not
recording and there's no reason why you wouldn't want to have the virtual cam switched on all the
time as well so really you're choosing whether to live stream or not so as we're selected for
streaming why don't we jump into this one first it's one of the biggest updates for the first time
you can now stream to up to 10 destinations all at the same time without needing to use an additional
app like restream this is amazing head into the preferences area here and the destinations tab to
add all your potential destinations in advance a very simple tool would just walk you through this
helping you add them in as you can see here I've added as many as I can think of but by
putting them here in advance it means that when I click on new and I decide I want to schedule I can
now list down all of those destinations that I've already entered and it becomes a simple
case of clicking in one or multiple of these to create this multi-stream I enter a title
and a description I select the visibility so this is for YouTube in this case we want it to
be public additional information that I can add in for all these different sites I can schedule
it down here with this nice calendar view I can add an image in and when I hit schedule and here
I've now got an upcoming live tomorrow which we put in our thumbnail title and the description
would be there and I can head over to any of these posts by just clicking here go to the
event or copy the event URL so if I want now to be able to send this out to my email list and
invite people across I can say copy the watch page URL and let's just paste it in here to show you
this is the link you're sending them to and they'll have a button that says to notify them if
you want to update all these locations at once you can click on the pencil and change them around in
here if you want to go in individually and change them around I can go in and edit in YouTube Studio
or it will do the same for Facebook and I can just put something specific in there that maybe is just
relevant to that destination really powerful if I decide I want to remove one of these destinations
I can just click on it from here and remove it from the event and it's now not going to go to
that and it will delete out the notification I love this I'm actually going to delete all of
them from here I think I'm right in saying yes uh LinkedIn doesn't work from here you'd have to go
to it manually and so let's just do that because we don't want people over on LinkedIn wondering
what's happening tomorrow a delete event how good is that and as you schedule multiple events
they'll all appear in a little list down there so if like me in the middle of an academy you've
got daily lives going out you'll be able to see them all individually you can edit them all all
from within this control panel fantastic then I don't know if you spotted there but when we
just looked at those destinations they've added in here destinations for Amazon live and for
Instagram live so all we need to be able to drop in is the stream key for Amazon and there's even
a tutorial there to tell you how to walk through and set all that up this update also allows you
to see the live view count add comments and see the new followers that are joining you on that
Amazon live stream and as I mentioned Instagram are now rolling out the ability to live stream
from a desktop computer and e-camer on the ball with that and they've put a destination in there
too I just haven't got access yet so I can't do a demonstration for you so that's some exciting
streaming updates what else have they done well if you're an interviewer here's a few exciting
updates first you can now have up to 10 guests on the broadcast with you which sounds like a total
nightmare to me but I know some of you want this I guess if you've got a panel on there
or something you can now do it another update you can now split not only your audio feeds but your
camera feeds too although you are going to need to have an apple silicon Mac an M1 or an M2 this
means that when you record an interview at the end you'll have the mix plus a separate video and
audio file for you and each of your guests this is a big deal if you are an editor want to be able to
mix that afterwards you've got multiple guests and you don't really notice on the live but they're
just slightly off well afterwards you'll be able to mix and balance that or change who's on camera
at what point some of you are going to be just going crazy over this one and it's not only for
interviewing and having those guest feeds coming in if you use multiple cameras you'll now get a
clean feedback from two cameras that are attached to your computer plus the broadcast so I've done
it in the past where we've had two cameras working and I've used the main feed as a screen recording
so in effect I've got two camera angles plus a screen share this now allows me to record tutorial
videos that I can edit and mix after and if your cameras can handle it this can be done in 4k now
talking to multiple cameras some of you have been dreaming of this for years ecamm have now given us
a lovely camera switcher window it's a new icon at the top here and when I click on it I can get my
different cameras I've got two cameras attached here this is offering my iPad I can remove that
from the switcher and look I can increase the size of these I can increase the shape of it
and if I want to take that even bigger I can say show Source in a separate window
and now I get these two floating windows that potentially with other monitors I could have
these things full size that's going to be massive for some of you I know I've spoken to folk before
that are trying to set up Church streams or conference setups and you need to be able to
have the ability to see these cameras in detail and know which camera you're switching to well now
you've got it and it isn't just seeing the cameras as themselves like I've got cam link 4K cam link
4k2 I can actually create placeholders in here and call it camera a camera B I can keep going with as
many of these as I want and while at first this might not obviously seem a big deal trust me as
you start to get used to this it really is and I think this is the way that we need to get used to
adding cameras as overlays into our scenes it now works very much like how adding a guest I
don't have to take John orb Sarah or Jim I can set up a scene with guest one guest two guest three
and then as they come in I can allocate who I want to that different placeholder and it's the
same here now with the camera switcher in the past I've been super frustrated when I've made
dozens of scenes and I've set it up with Cam link and then maybe I've gone away we've come back and
I've plugged in another camera only to find that the camera that I wanted is now called camlink 2
and I've got to go back through all those scenes and re-link them this way I would now bring a
camera Source in and I would call it camera a and then afterwards in my switcher I can come
back and I can choose which camera I want to be camera a this would also be a big deal if you were
setting up scenes in advance or maybe for somebody else and you don't have the cameras connected yet
you can now use these placeholders and then use the camera switcher to sort which camera
is going to camera a camera B camera C and as I say I think it's going to be a great discipline
when setting up scenes to be talking in terms of cameras a b and so on and each of these lettered
camera placeholders don't need to be a different camera you can use the same camera but change it
so camera a can be my front camera here camera B could be this same one and instead of actually
needing to go down to my camera effects tab I can click up here it opens the camera effects
and maybe I decide that camera B is just the black and white version of the color make so all these
changes I'm making over here I haven't had to do beforehand I've just simply chosen is this camera
a or is this camera B and we've put multiple cameras in here we haven't hit a limit yet so
someone's going to ask me how many cameras can you add to this or how many different scenarios can
you do we haven't found a limit yet let me know in the comments as and when you do now this is
all fun but in a real world scenario of this when Owen and I are on camera together this is really
useful let me demonstrate hello Owen hello we can set camera a to be this wide screen of both of us
we can then set camera B to be the same camera but I can click my effects and I can zoom in down here
and let's go with Owen on this one so Owen is now camera B
we can add camera C we're going to select the same camera but on this one
we're zooming in over to my side so now when we select camera a or we can go to camera b or camera
C we can tweak this a little bit and certainly if we're bringing it in as an overlay I think
we'd probably put us into boxes this is a big deal and to be able to do this out of one camera there
are times when we want to be able to put comments on screen in the middle of us and have both of us
sit in either side of it or sharing the screen and that's sitting up there he can be seeing
this as three cameras that we're getting out of one pretty cool thank you Owen I'll let you go
now the last big update that I want to draw your attention to is the new inbuilt bandwidth Checker
you no longer need to go off to the website to see what your internet speed is before you go
live ecam's got it built in now come down to your preferences click on stream and down the bottom
here it will tell you we're still set for these three destinations it's suggesting it's going
to take 20 Megs and it did a speed test here to tell me that my connection is giving 664 at the
moment so understandably we get a nice green tick if you're on an internet connection that was less
than 20.6 you would be getting a red mark on here that would be telling you you can't go streaming
to this amount of destinations and what I love with this we can go to a speed Checker site and
it will tell us what our internet upload speed is what it won't tell us is what is required and
notice how this changes on here if I go for one destination it brings it down to 6.9 if I change
1080 up to 4K okay first let's give me a warning to say that it's not going to do the isolated
video recording in 4k that's okay notice though that it's taken me on here 4K one destination
is now 17.7 Meg if I were to bring it down to 720 you can see that that's only taking four
Meg so this is really informative to be able to help you if you're on those lower internet
speeds making these changes here will make a big difference and actually if I just come back to
1080 here which would be my default notice how this changes how it multiplies up every time
we add a destination in so while it's tempting to think we can go out to 10 destinations you
might be really pushing it on here for your internet and it might make more sense for you
to go to one destination and just point people over to it want to drop it down even more even
the frame rate up here will make a difference to that internet requirement any point you can
hit and do a speed test and actually it's not only in here every time that we want to create
a new live look right at the bottom here it says that the required speed in this case will be 15
because we've got three in and notice that look in real time as I'm changing this that is going
down telling me yes you can go ahead or it'll give me a red light to say no amazing hey that's pretty
good okay so those are the big updates but here are a few more to Highlights so you don't miss
them I'll whiz over them quite quick there's a digital blur and CPR effect camera effects now
includes a digital blur that you can put over the front of this and a sepia tone as well record only
mode will now begin after a three second countdown or you can turn it off if you prefer it the other
way when you've got a live scheduled and you're getting ready to go live there's a mouse over
hint on that go live button that indicates which destinations you're going to be going out to and
then similarly there is a new status pop-up with individual view accounts and statuses for each
of those destinations during your live so if you're curious Midway through the live who's
actually watching it'll tell you how many are on Facebook YouTube LinkedIn all your different
destinations and if you want to there's also the ability to end one of the individual destinations
part way through the stream I can see a use for this where maybe you're going out publicly and
also into a group that people pay to be in and maybe you close off the public version at some
point and say right now we're exclusively going in into the membership group goodbye to you guys and
now you're just talking to your paying members your VIP guys I could really see a use for this
and a final one that excites me if you're up to date with your Mac and you've got an iPhone
notice how when you bring your phone near your computer it says do you want to use the camera
this continuity camera feature is built in here so literally you just click to start and it will
wirelessly see your phone as a camera source and the results are staggering so there it is
your all-new ecamm live what do you think which of those features are you most excited about or maybe
you already knew about them you've been playing with them in beta tell me how you're getting on
with it I'm proper excited about these I think we should say a big thank you to Ken Glenn and the
entire ecam team for once again over delivering with an awesome update and as I said at the start
be sure to head over to our ecam tutorial playlist where I go into all of these features in way more
detail and if you really want to learn how to get the maximum out of ecam please register for our
next ecamm live Academy come and join us for the live boot camp thanks as ever for your interest
let us know if you've enjoyed us by giving us a nice thumbs up and I'll see you in another video