Daily Note - May 27, 2022

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Feels Like: 69.8°F

Business

• I set up Ecamm prefs using this tut: How to Use & Setup Ecamm Live Tutorial | My Settings for Live Streaming & Recording Videos - YouTube

• Checked the levels from Cam 4k audio in Ecamm and had to turn Rode down to 10 so that it doesn’t go in the red when I have a loud burst.

• The Cam Link 4K button on stream deck changes the Source, it’s not a scene, so pressing the Starting button after that doesn’t switch back to that scene even though the button is highlighted in the stream deck.

• Each scene has a source: camera, share screen, or video

• When I went to the live stream on the iMac to see what it looks like, the countdown was delayed by about 20 seconds!

• It looks pretty sharp at 1080p.

• I signed in with my google account, but I don’t see where I can type to chat. I had to click hide chat, then show chat, but then it says to create a channel to join the chat??

• The delay made it hard to test screen sharing

• While in the screen sharing scene, the ecamm overlays stayed over the browser and I couldn’t get rid of them using “hide others”. While in Ecamm, shift-cmd-H will hide the utility windows. But then if you try to bring them back with shift-cmd-J, it will bring all of them back, even ones I don’t need.

• My brother says the delay is normal. He’s not sure about 20 seconds, but at least 10.

• Bought Ecamm Live subscription. monthly for now. found 10% off coupon on retailmenot

• I created a new stream, but it didn’t show me the YouTube link. There’s a view watch page menu item under the main Ecamm menu. shift-cmd-f

• Delay is 27 seconds this time

• The countdown timer is staying on the screen when I change from starting soon to me full screen. If I remove it from camera scene then go back to starting soon, it disappears there too.

• Why are there a bunch of duplicate overlays? I tried to delete some, but I have a bunch of empty Show in Background items.

• There’s hiss with the mic. To test with USB mic, I need longer USB-C cable. I found a long cable (the one from the stream deck). It sounds the same. USB is a lot louder though, but that means more background noise.

• It was the HVAC fan that was set on medium. I made it low, always on and it’s much quieter. Next maybe try setting it to auto, but it doesn’t look like I can just turn it off completely temporarily? Or maybe auto means only when the A/C is on, so just set it to higher temp while I’m livestreaming.

• Looks like the solution to the countdown overlay is to make it go to the next scene when done: Using Overlays | Ecamm Network Help Center

• Updated Railsdevs profile. Need to add the focus on automation to my blog and GitHub profile.

• Had a nice Zoom chat with one of my newsletter readers. We talked about music, my business plans, and Jekyll.

• Registered for the free Circle Community growth summit on june 7 and 8.