How to Setup Ecamm: Creating Scenes, Overlays & Live Streaming Destinations (BEGINNER TUTORIAL)

When you get eCam to go live like a pro, it can be very intimidating. I mean, look at all the different things around the screen here. Where do you begin? Well, that's exactly why I'm here. I'm going to help you get started so you can live stream quicker, make it more fun, and build your audience. So, let's get right into it. I go live every single Monday on my YouTube channel Deep Pocket Monster, and it's some of the most fun I've ever had. It happened. How many people are watching right now? 8,500 people. Yeah, 8,500 people watching a grown man open Pokémon cards. But, that's not the point here. The point here is that live streaming is great both for deepening the relationship that you have with your existing community and getting discovered so you can build that community, too. So, I started on eCam. It's my all-time favorite tool. Let me show you exactly how to use it. Okay, so first things first, we're going to need to set things up. And if you haven't gotten eCam already, make sure you go to smartpassiveincome. com/ecam so you can grab it from there or even try the 14-day free trial because you'll be able to test all these things out and you have access to everything during that free trial. Where do we begin? Well, there's a lot happening here, right? And we don't need the camera effects for now. That can come later. I'm going to get rid of that. If you need to get the camera effects back, just click on this little wizard um wand here. So, I'm going to get rid of that. Then, we don't need sound effects as well, although you can have sound effects, too, and there are ways to sort of make that even easier using a special tool that I have over here, but I'll show you that in just a moment. So, for right now, we have sound levels, and that's important because we want sound to come in and we want to ensure that our mic is connected. Um if you want to just make sure, you can click this drop-down menu, you can choose from all the mics that you have access to, and just make sure your main microphone is the one that you want to come through. Now, there is scenes here. This is going to be our most important item right now, and then later we're going to talk about overlays, some fun things that we can do and overlay on top of what people are seeing. But, for right now, let's just talk about scenes. A scene is what people see, the setup of your screen. And you can have multiple scenes, as kind of many as you want, and you'll be able to switch between scenes. For example, if I want a scene of me here and just my face, I just make sure if I scroll up here, you'll see there's a bunch of different cameras here. I can also switch cameras. I can go to my Osmo Pocket 3, as you can see here. But, I don't want to have to click a button every time I want to switch cameras, right? If I want to go here and then I click and go over here, that's too much work, right? And plus it would interrupt the stream. So, I want to make sure I create a scene, a scene with this view and view. So, this is my default scene here, and I'm going to click the plus sign to create a new scene. And now it's my MacBook Pro camera, which I don't like. So, I'm actually going to get rid of this as an option. So, to do that, I'm going to go to eCam preferences, disable built-in camera. Yeah, I don't want that as an option. So, I'm just going to click this second camera here and remove myself from the options here. Now, so this scene will have this camera, and I'm going to call this side view. And I'm going to go back to the first scene by clicking on the play symbol there, right? There I am. This is front view. So, I can switch between side view and front view. And what's really cool about this is you can create different hot keys. For example, I can create a hot key and I can make this one Q, and I can create a hot key and make this one W. That way, when I click W, there I am. And if I hit Q, there I am. Now, like I said, there's a special tool that I use, and it's called the Stream Deck. This is it right here. I don't know if you could see that, but the Stream Deck is awesome because you can set different buttons for it, and I'll show you at the very end cuz that's a little bit more advanced, but this is a tool that I recommend you buy. This is the 32-button Stream Deck, but uh there is a eight-button and a four-button and a 16-button, I think. So, anyway, we'll get to that later. But, we're setting up scenes. Let's set up another one. I want a scene, and I'm going to call this mix view, and I'm going to select this main camera. But, now I'm going to hit this little plus symbol over here on the second camera and see what happens. Now, there's two of us, which is pretty cool. Let's say that I want it to be instead on the lower left corner. I'm going to click this little button over here, and now you'll see I have that little setup similar to what I had on Deep Pocket Monster. As you'll see over here, I have myself in the lower left-hand corner, and then I have my phone as a camera where the cards are shown on my hands, as you can see. So, anyway, back to here. I can swap these if I want to. I'm just going to click this little gear icon and swap the cameras. Now, this is the big one. This is the small one. Anyway, I can create a hot key for this as well. Let's make this one E. So, now I got my front view there. I got my side view here. And then I got the transitional view here with both of us. Now, what's really cool is eCam is a great tool that you can use to bring guests onto your show live as well. You can even use eCam to just record videos. You don't even need to go live, in which case you'd click this drop-down menu and close off stream and just record only. Now, it just records into my computer, and I can edit it and kind of use it as a pre-recorded video later, which is pretty cool. But, I'm going to click stream because you'll see

that there's openings of other things here and some destinations, and that determines where we stream. And again, there's a lot here. We're going to take it one by one. You also notice something called virtual cam. This is something that's always on for you, and that means that if you are in Zoom or any other thing, Google Meet or whatever, you can actually choose eCam as your camera input for those things. So, this is something I love to do. I love to go on Zoom and use eCam as my camera, and then through eCam I'm using something like this, and live during a Zoom call, I can switch between cameras or bring in overlays or even put sound effects in and other fun things like that. So, that's what virtual cam is, and so I'm not going to go too deep into that because I want to show you some more things here. So, let's talk about overlays. Overlays are things that you can overlay on top of your scenes. You can have them unique to specific scenes or overlay on all the scenes. So, let's actually add an overlay right now. I'm going to click this little button here, and I'm going to add a uh this was for a previous project, but I'm going to add in Etta James At Last album cover. I can actually move this to the side, and I'm going to put it over here on the upper left-hand corner. And over here, you'll see some controls, right? I can hide it, and I can bring it back. I can even create a hot key for this as well if I wanted to, and I can put this here and type hot key. Let's make this one R. Actually, let's make it uh let's make it J for Etta James. That way, I know. And if I hit J now, you'll see it comes in and out, which is really nice. Now, the cool thing about this is I can show it in the current scene. However, if I move to one of my other scenes, I'm going to go to this scene over here, it's gone. Where did Etta James go? Well, it's because if I come back here, you'll see that Etta James is show in current scene. There are certain times where you would only want something to be shown on a specific scene. However, I kind of want to show it in every scene. So, I'm actually going to drag and move this up to show in all scenes, and now when I switch to my side camera here, there she is. And I'm going to hit J to remove her and bring her back, which is pretty cool. So, you can have this be something again. You can imagine what you could do with this. You can create like a newscaster thing, and now I'm kind of broadcasting about Etta James. I can bring in a face. GIF as well. So, let's actually bring in an animated GIF and show you what that looks like. Same thing, I'm going to click this, and I'm going to go to where I know there are some animated GIFs. Pikachu wow. I'm going to open that. And there's Pikachu. He comes in and out. It's just a animated GIF. You can go get GIFs from kind of anywhere. However, I want to move him kind of more toward the bottom just so he pops out from the bottom there, and there we go. And I want him shown in all scenes, and let's create a hot key for him, and let's do P for Pikachu. Now, if I hit P, he goes away. Okay, let's stop Pikachu for now, but let's talk about Etta James a little bit more. What's really cool about these overlays is that there are different ways that you can improve the look of them. So, I'm going to go into this little pencil icon here, and let's go transition, and I want it to fly uh in from the bottom. So, now if I click on our special hot key here, which is J, she comes in from the bottom and then reverses on the way out, which is really cool. So, again, there's some fun optimizations that you can do as you begin to play with this stuff. And again, if you are live, whether you're live on YouTube, Instagram, on TikTok, Facebook, wherever, you can have these things show up, and they definitely help you stand out from everybody else just kind of like looking at their screen. Now, another cool feature of eCam is that you can, while live, play a movie. It's as if you play a movie file directly to everybody who happens to be watching. So, let's try that. I'm actually going to click this movie file kind of up here in the upper right-hand corner, and I'm going to choose a hype reel. This is a hype reel used for the opening of my Deep Pocket Monster live stream. So, let's go here. Anyway, this is just a fun way to start the live streams, but this is in the front view scene. Typically, I like to have the movies play on a separate scene. You can also overlay a movie if you want and have it kind of squeeze into a corner, but I'm going to go back to the Cam Link 4K, which is my camera here, and I always like to make sure things are separated by scenes. That way, I can just switch between them, and I know what's happening. I want to switch to the movie scene. So, let's go here and create another scene. This is going to be uh hype reel movie. And now I'm going to click on the movie and bring it in. And there it is. Back to front view, the movie stops. I'm going to click movie. Let's just make the hot key M there. M

front view side view split view at James. You see how we're starting to build sort of our library here, which is pretty cool. So, this is really neat. We've already upgraded our live streaming capabilities, but how do we know where to go live and how to properly do that? Well, we'll get to that in just a minute, but I want to talk about some overlays just a little bit more. Very simply, you can add a call to action with some text here. So, let's try call to action goes here. Let's change the font and the sizing a little bit. You can change it and squeeze it up and down in the actual overlay and broadcast here. So, you can see I can just do that here. Call to action goes here. This might be a point in time in which I say, I'm going to put this in all scenes. I like to have them in all scenes, but again, there are cases where you'd want them in specific scenes, but I'm going to type C for call to action and as you can see, the call to action comes in. So, if I say, "Hey, go and grab e cam at smartpassiveincome. com/ecam, it's live. However, I have a very fancy and professional looking call to action, a piece of text that comes in right there. Arrows are great to include. You can grab your images from royalty-free image places, wherever you'd like, or you can create them yourself. But again, this is just so fun to work with and it can get very confusing once you start to add too many things. So, I would recommend just adding a couple things every time you go live so that you can build that library, so you can get those gears going and impress people along the way. Now, let's talk about going live. There's a few things to keep in mind here and some settings things that we need to do first before we actually get started. So, I'm going to go to e cam and hit preferences and we're going to go to destinations. This is where you want to include go live because again, one of the benefits of e cam is you can go live to many places at once, at the same time. Now, I have a lot of destinations here as you can see. This is the Deep Pocket Monster Facebook page, which I'm not logged into, but all you need to do is go to add new destination and you can choose from a number of different things. We got LinkedIn here. We got X, YouTube, Facebook, so many different places, which is fantastic. Once you do that, when you go live, you can hit new and you can choose any of these destinations, kind of all of them, if you wanted to, and put a title, put a description in, put a little thumbnail, and you're good to go live. Preferably, however, when I live stream personally, I want to make sure other people know that it's coming. So, what I'll actually do is go into YouTube first, schedule a live stream, and because my destination here is connected to that, it actually automatically populates this so that you can see here, I have some lives coming up for Smart Passive Income, one about live streaming, another one about strategy for social media. They show up there. And then when I want to go live, I just hit a button because it's already connected and then poof, it automatically broadcasts onto YouTube or wherever else I want. And again, I can now connect with an audience and interact with them, which is really cool. Let me show you what it's like to schedule a broadcast on YouTube just to show you how this works. So, I'm going to hit create, go live, and you can see I don't have any upcoming scheduled streams right now. But I'm going to go to schedule stream and I can choose from previous streams and just to show you, yeah, I've been live quite a bit every single week. But I'm going to set up a new one just so you know. You can put the details there. You can put stuff in the description. Put thumbnail, right? All that good stuff. I'm not actually going to go through with all this, but I'm just showing you some stuff. There's a thumbnail just so we can move forward. Eventually, this is test stream. Next. Monetization, yes, you can monetize your live streams. In fact, many people do that and YouTube will automatically play ads for people who are watching live or as the broadcast goes live. And you can actually change the settings to be a little bit more aggressive with ads or have them be kind of few and far between. It's really nice that you can choose that and we try to go more toward a medium frequency for those who do not have YouTube Premium while watching our live streams. And we do generate a lot of revenue, not just for people watching live, but for people who watch the replays. This is another benefit of going live in a setting like e cam where you can kind of play with overlays, different camera angles, all those kinds of things because it's a little bit more produced while live. So, it's better for the replay viewer as well. And if you have monetization available, then you can generate revenue from that as well. Customization, I do like to have the live chat there. Of course, there's a live chat summary, which AI kind of gives you after, a leaderboard, which is for people who engage, they get like a little ranking, a one, two, or three, depending on how much quality engagement they offer. And then you can actually have these for anyone, subscribers, you can only have subscribers comment, and you can have members of your channel if you happen to open up membership for your channel. And live commentary, I'm

not even sure exactly what that is. Participants that you approve for your channel. Okay, so again, that is on the YouTube side of things. Live reactions, I usually turn off. Those are like little hearts and emojis that people can kind of click. Slow mode, that is very useful if you happen to have a ton of people like I do sometimes. It reduces how often a person can comment and it kind of puts some time and space in between so it's not crazy. You can actually have a trailer for your live streams. This is one of the benefits of scheduling them ahead of time. You can create a video that is hidden from everybody else except when people go to your upcoming live stream, there's a little trailer that plays, which is pretty cool. You can get people prepared. You can give call to actions to subscribe or let people know what's coming so that they come to the live stream and watch. However, I'm going to hit continue and this is where you can make it public and schedule it ahead of time and that way that schedule gets pulled out and put into e cam so that it literally counts down. You can see the one here I have it says 19 days left. If I go to the one that's coming later today, you can see that one's 3 hours and 27 minutes. And it doesn't go live automatically. You still have to click to go live. It doesn't kind of just go when the countdown timer hits zero. It just shows you how much time left until the live stream happens. You still have to click a button to broadcast just FYI. However, just going back here, unlisted means it's only viewable to people who you share the link to. Members only, you can share it with all channel members. I have a membership on the Deep Pocket Monster channel. And private is a great one if you want to just make it private and sort of practice a little bit if you want, which I do highly recommend. I'm going to click out of this because I don't want to actually schedule that. And that's generally what you need to know to get started. Yes, there are a million other things that you can do and I'm going to show you some other things here while we're here because there's just a lot of things that I've learned over time. So, let's dive into that. Let's go back into preferences here and we're going to go into recording. Yes, you can record when you go live as well. That way you can kind of pull those out and turn them into little clips, which I've done many, many times. I share those clips from my live stream on Facebook and on social media and they do get seen. So, there's a lot of benefit again to live streaming. You can chop that up. However, you can choose your recording's folder and that's just so you know where they go. Now, just keep in mind, those files often become really big, so just make sure you have space on your computer or else it's just not going to work, right? Let's go to interview. Yes, okay, interview is important. Now, there's nothing we need to worry about in the preferences here, but if you want to bring guests on like I talked about earlier, there's a little button here you can see with two people. I'm going to click on that and you'll see me there. There is a link here. I have this link hidden because if you were to go to that link, I would get a call from you and then I could actually put you on camera whether I'm just recording this or going live. This is typically when I do a live interview. I'll be doing this later today with somebody, a guest on our live stream. They have this link. They will quote unquote call in and when I answer, they're not on the live stream yet because I can place them there. In fact, let me show you what that's like. Again, remember, we want to stay organized. So, I'm going to create a new scene and I'm going to call this Pat plus guest and I'm going to hit me there, but I'm also going to hit this guest one because when a person calls in, you can assign them as guest one and you can have multiple guests on. I think up to four, maybe even more. I'm not exactly sure. Even if I wanted another guest, right? And another guest. I'm going to remove guest two. So, if a person calls in, I can assign them guest one and then I can have this be the Pat and guest sort of side by side scene. But let's do another one where I do guest. And now let's have this guest scene be just the guest. So, there's the guest right there. And let's say I'm like talking. It's Okay, like I start the show. It's like, "Hey everybody, I have a great a guest on the show. Welcome. Let's chat a little bit. " And if I wanted to, I can get fancy and put text in there. That way when this person comes in, I can put their lower third in. I don't have to edit that in after. I can have that prepared ahead of time, which is pretty cool. Remember, call to action what? C, right? Call to action goes here. I can make this a little lower third and I can have multiple. I can have my name. I can have their name, right? If it was there, right? Guest comes in, I put in their name. Awesome. And then I want them to talk and just them because they're off telling a story or something, right? That's pretty cool. Maybe I want to come in and I set up the scene. Let's set up another scene. Guest with little Pat. Nobody sees the names of these, by the way. Well, you are seeing these names, but let's go guest with little Pat. So, let's do guest. Then I'm going to put me in there, but I'm going to have me be little me. There I am. So, the guest is talking and I can still react here in the lower left-hand corner. In fact, maybe I want to be on the right-hand corner. I can just move it around. Maybe I want to make myself a little bit bigger. There's a lot of ways to frame this. And once you get fancy, you're able to actually create your own overlays. You can do them in Canva, for example, so that you have a nice little background, right? In fact, let's just do that right now. I'm going to show you how easy that is to do. I'm going to go into Canva. I'm going to create a custom-sized 19 20 by 1080. I'm and

I'm just going to do this uh really fast. Let's do tools. And I'm going to create some shapes here. We're going to go here and just make this the whole thing. Probably could have just colored it. Now I'm going to get a different shape and I'm going to go here rounded and blue. And let's put this here. I'm going to copy and paste that. Let's do another one here. Little too big, but that's okay. You know what I'm trying to do. Maybe not. I don't know. We'll see. And let's go text. My show name here. Again, you're going to do a lot better than me because I'm just rushing this for this example. Let's make this uh let's make this yellow so it stands out. Cool. It kind of looks like the Super Fans book colors. All right, let's download this. And this is going to be a JPEG. All right, my show name here has been downloaded. So, let's go over here and literally just from downloads I'm going to drag and drop this. Uh actually, let me create a new scene. Again, try to stay organized. Uh let's do background test. All right. And in this actually, let's just drop this here, right? This is I want to show this in current scene, right? Now, let's add Now, here's where a lot of people get mixed up. If I click on my camera, right? It's like, "Oh, what just happened? Where did the camera go? " Well, it's behind this because that's an overlay, right? I want to overlay the video. this video that you're seeing here on top of this. So, how do we do that? Well, there is a video overlay here. So, let's go to video overlay. There I am. And let's do another video overlay. But this time, let's pick uh let's pick the guest. So, if I go to little pencil here. Video source, let's do guest one. And there is where guest one would be. Let's click out of that. There. Hello. Welcome to my show. There's my guest over there, right? Because I've assigned it. Let's just for fun choose the side camera. That's going to be my Osmo. There I am. There's two of me. Right? And this is again what people would see. How cool is that? And again, you can get fancy over time. You can have motion graphics, other things like that. This is how we level up our live streams. Now, the last thing I want to say is you don't just have to stream horizontally like we traditionally had to do. There's a lot of live streaming platforms, YouTube included, that prefer the vertical. There's vertical live stream. In fact, on YouTube, it's a completely different feed. It's for the shorts feed, right? The live streams via the shorts feed versus the long-form feed and what we traditionally see. So, how might we set ourselves up to go live and how do we go live on both short form and horizontal form at the same time? Let's figure it out. Step one, I need to enable dual mode. That's if I want to stream both horizontally and vertically at the same time to multiple places. Again, we're getting advanced here. Ecamm get can get advanced with you. Uh if I just want it to be vertical in general, I can go to options, video shape, and vertical. And you'll see that and again, we only we can create different scenes for this as well. Let's go to front view and there I am, right? But this is no good if I want a horizontal view. This is if I'm streaming to something like a uh YouTube vertical shorts feed or of course TikTok or Facebook uh or anything like that, right? But let's go back to where we were, video shape. And this was wide. This is where we were before. Let's enable dual mode. And actually, let me get my scene ready or my screen here ready cuz uh for I know what's coming. Options, video shape, dual mode. There we are. We got dual mode. You can see me horizontally and vertically. All right, let's move this and let's make sure that the frame size for each of these is exactly what we want. So, let's go to Ecamm preferences and we're going to go to shape and size. You can see the horizontal canvas size here is 1080p. Vertical canvas size, I want to make that a little bit higher. Obviously, you want to make sure your system is enabled for that and hopefully you have a good enough Mac for this. Okay, so now the question becomes how do we stream and where do we stream on vertical and horizontal? Can we do both? Yeah, let me show you. If you're setting up a new stream here as far as destinations are concerned, I'm going to go to add and let's do Card Party in vertical. That's a channel I have. Let's do the Pat Flynn channel horizontal. And let's go both vertical and horizontal or horizontal and vertical on the Smart Passive Income YouTube channel. Boom. So now, when it's vertical as I can see here, the Card Party one is vertical, they're going to see this view right here. Right? The ones that have both, it

depends on what device they're on. And the one that is horizontal, the Pat Flynn, they'll see this one here that you're seeing. Right? And that's pretty cool. So, I want to get rid of this because that's not where I want to go live right now. But I do want to show you that you can actually uniquely design each of these for each of those experiences as well. So, let's go back and actually create some scenes once again because we want to keep things organized. So, new scene. This is um background uh horizontal plus vertical. Let me click my camera there. You'll see it on both. But let's bring in that overlay. Actually, overlay here. And actually actually, I can bring in that overlay here as well. But as you can see, that doesn't work out really well, right? So, let me go back to Canva and I'm going to redesign this real quick. Let's go here. And here. Again, you know what I'm trying to do. Okay, there we go. That looks kind of nice. And let's resize this in fact to the vertical. Okay. Need to readjust this a little bit. Didn't do that like I thought it was going to. But it's okay. We're good and maybe I put some call to action here. Please subscribe. All right. I'm downloading. JPEG. Oh, this is going to be cool. Okay. Let's pull that one now and put it into the vertical. Boom. And now we can do the overlay situation like we did last time. Let's go and create a video. This is me. Want a little border around there kind of like that. Sure. Then let's do another one. And this one will make guest number one. So, source guest number one. Great. I'm just going to go over here and do the same thing. And kind of just make this nice like this. It's not the correct size, but that's okay. And actually, if I wanted to, I can just copy paste on my keyboard and then select guest one. All right. So, now we have unique formats and designs for each horizontal and vertical. I can live stream to all these places at the same time. This is so cool. Ecamm just enabled dual mode. Thank you to Ecamm for sponsoring this video. Uh just one of the most amazing tools, such a cool crew over there. Katie and Doc and the entire gang over there. They care about people and their live streams. They educate so much and I'm happy to pass this forward to you and hopefully you can get access to it as well. If you go to smartpassiveincome. com/ecamm, go and check it out. You can download the free trial. Uh no credit card required to do that. But if you do want to upgrade, we do get a little kickback for that as an affiliate. So, thank you so much for that. Thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing your live streams and how they work out for you in the future. Uh appreciate it. Go get it. This is awesome.