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00:11 okay excellent how's uh how's everyone doing
00:20 today I hope that everyone's doing great sorry hopefully today's stream should be a little bit better
00:26 um I don't think we'll get back up to 30 frames per second like I had hoped but it should be a lot better than last week
00:34 I spent quite a few hours debugging and trying to get a higher frames per second
00:41 because I'm streaming from my laptop yeah Wirecast is just very CPU bound
00:48 right now and my poor little 2016 MacBook Pro just doesn't quite have
00:55 enough CPU power for it um so that was a learning experience I was quite interesting but I will
01:02 definitely be going over my current setup um and I ultimately I really do love it
01:09 I'll show you all the stuff that I use maybe maybe we'll start off with some hardware and show you what hardware I
01:16 use and then I'll show you some software and and we yeah you know I'm happy to go into after I go through all the audio
01:24 and video stuff I'm happy to you know pretty much go into anything any questions you want if you want to learn about what I use for anything so yeah
01:32 without further ado let me go ahead and hopefully this will work it works pretty well last week first off thank you very
01:42 much for coming Rina and Carl and Lloyd and Rob Paul thank you for coming Paul Blair and
01:49 obviously Dani grizzle and so first off what I'm gonna show you I get because I used Wirecast
01:57 the software to do my live streams I mentioned that earlier and all of that
02:04 is is pretty cool and they have an iOS app and what that allows me to do is it
02:11 will allow me to basically stream from my phone through in through my Mac and
02:19 ultimately out to the live stream right so I'm gonna go ahead and connect my camera here
02:31 okay there we go you should be well it is like really zoomed in hold on one second
02:39 oh let me uh let me fix that really
02:47 quick not sure why that happened it was
03:13 Oh's because i had it in portrait mother i think sorry one second i forgot to set this up beforehand bad
03:22 Joe boom okay
04:44 shoot oh yeah is there audio now oh yeah there we go there there's the audio not sure what audio was going on with the
04:53 phone if I if I take that out take out my accessory oh yes
05:02 okay okay anyway so not sure why the why
05:14 the iPhone mic isn't working it worked last week and actually it was uh it was annoying because it was producing an echo last week so well I'll try to have
05:23 to talk pretty loud so that you know this mic can can work here so I'm gonna split my camera around and we'll see everything that's that I currently am
05:31 using here so this is my desktop right so I have two five k LG displays
05:39 now and my main machine is now my 2016 MacBook Pro and so yeah so that's my
05:48 2016 MacBook Pro that is they Blackmagic external GPU okay so essentially that is
05:56 plugged directly into the MacBook Pro and then that display is plugged into
06:02 the eg PU and then that display is actually plugged into here if we back
06:15 here a couple things and this is a thunderbolt doc it's a Cal digit
06:23 Thunderbolt doc and that has basically a bunch of USB stuff as well as this display plugged into that so they say I
06:32 wanted as few things to connect directly to my laptop as possible via Thunderbolt I do have an external SSD Thunderbolt
06:40 right here as well this is a samsung SSD Thunderbolt 3 Drive super expensive
06:47 crazy fast as well um this over here this little unit right down there that
06:53 is a a DAC so digital audio converter so that I can play music
07:07 that's on my desk and I've got this little stand right here so that I can you know just plop my MacBook straight
07:14 in there it's really good I have a power mate um I love this thing it's really cool works great for video editing and
07:21 whatnot I'm changing volumes I have a few like various macros because you can like push it it's a button you can do all kinds of cool stuff with it got this
07:31 new this new keyboard it's called a key cron and I really really enjoy that oops
07:38 there we go and it has a whole bunch like cool lighting stuff it's my first kind of foray into mechanical keyboards
07:45 and I really like it and it's got this cool like wood walnut wrist wrist thing and then over here I have a stream deck
07:54 okay and stream deck has basically I started from scratch the other day and I
08:01 deleted everything that I had and basically it allows me they're like pre-programmed buttons right so if I push this button I can have it do various things on my Mac and stuff like
08:09 that so pretty cool pretty cool I like it um I have a lot of buttons it's something that I have on my to-do list is to try to reprogram this the one
08:18 button that I have right here right now is an undocking so like on my set up
08:26 here um I do have you know I should have used my gimbal so that you know the video is not as jumpy that probably
08:34 would have been a smart move but anyway when I click that button it essentially um does a very it disconnects it unmount
08:42 that SSD it um because when you have an external GPU you have to actually disconnect it it's like ejecting it so
08:50 you have to eject that external GPU and then I quit various apps that I know I don't want to use when I'm on laptop
08:58 mode so that's kind of like my undock button right there so when I click that it does various things you know ejects
09:04 the external SSD ejects my eg PU quits a few different apps and whatnot and then I can unplug my
09:11 you laptop and take it with me okay so um these LG displays have pretty decent
09:18 webcams but I do have an external one that this is the one I was using earlier
09:25 when he looks on me um the quality this I just really like it it's a Logitech ID alone one of the logitech's I think it's
09:34 a 920 or it's one of the it's there the HD model of Logitech webcams and I like because it's nice and it's a wide-angle
09:41 on and whatnot and if you'll notice hmm I guess what you can see is on my displays I have them on arms they are
09:50 not on displays I have them on arms and one thing I also did is I put this on a little mic boom stand because the reason
09:59 it gives me a little bit of freedom to move that that video that web came around uh and a lot of times you know
10:07 when I'm doing what you know web work if I or live streams I'll be banging on the desk and my monitors will shake I don't
10:15 want the webcam shaking so that's why it's on an external boom arm and if you look in the back wall there I created
10:25 this little this little rest that has various holes drilled into it that I can then plop that wherever I want
10:32 oh you can see it a little bit better here with my mic boom so this is my mic it's the high opr 40 and you know got
10:40 this little Weaver space you know thing and if you notice that is on the same thing so I can reposition the mic or
10:48 that webcam back there and any of those holes and then I can kind of move them
10:53 around and do whatever I want what kind
11:08 engine subwoofer so right down there love these speakers they are the only thing you know you have to have one of
11:15 those digital analog converters because they are analog speakers so yeah you need to have one of those
11:23 yeah in the video description I'll try to link to all the stuff that I have if you want to see there's my lunch yep
11:31 nice we at we had ribs last night so it's rib it's a rib salad basically okay
11:38 so hopefully you guys can still hear me I might be far away let me try to bring
11:47 it a little bit closer so that's my desk right and then over here hopefully you
11:53 guys can still hear me but this is Mike you know I bought whole server rack and
12:09 my premium so that's 286 mic preamp okay
12:17 and then this is a powerline conditioner so that you know things like all my
12:23 audio has nice clean power there's no you know loss of signal or you know just
12:30 gets apparently better tone this bike is awesome it's I really love it was pretty
12:39 inexpensive and probably one of the best things I've gotten for my audio setup here further down this is my mixer so
12:48 down here I have an audio mixer because because my high Oh Mike right this guy
12:56 right here because this high Oh Mike is um an XLR input it doesn't have any sort of USBs you have to have something like
13:04 that mixer now to be honest in hindsight that mixer is a little overkill alright so I probably didn't need something that
13:12 big there are some really great things if I were to do it again I'd probably buy something different a scarlet or something like that and those are really
13:21 nice little you know XLR to USB basically I use that mixer so that I can plug my XLR into that and then that has
13:28 USB that goes into my computer right there's I've used it for a few other things but to be honest it's been way
13:36 overkill but since I already had it I didn't want to buy anything else so let's go back to see what else I got
13:41 down there so here I have a robo which
13:50 isn't really used anymore and then
13:53 knowledge so yeah go back
14:07 okay so hopefully that was I don't know I I probably should have used that it probably would have been a good call for
14:15 me to use a little gimbal for my phones cuz there was probably all shaky and whatnot sorry about that I didn't even think about that before
14:23 and I should have I ever use my phone again for a thing I'll make sure I put it on a gimbal um down there because you
14:31 prize guys probably couldn't hear everything I have a PC backup power so that if power goes out all my devices
14:39 here aren't gonna fry and all that just all that jazz right because we want backup power the mixer is unnecessary if
14:49 you yes that is true so well no I need the mixer because um the preamp doesn't
14:56 have USB so right so yeah essentially I'm using that as the glorified xlrd USB
15:03 thing right but the preamp is freakin awesome I had the mixer before um and then um you know as I upgraded things the that
15:11 mic preamp is awesome but basically I have the mic plugged into the preamp and then the preamp plugged into the mixer
15:20 and then the mixer has the USB out that goes to my Mac so so yeah that's the real reason I needed that and but yeah
15:28 those there's something called a Scarlett I eight or something like that um that looks probably perfect for my needs and most other people's needs as
15:36 well down below I had a Synology nas that's where I love that thing that
15:44 thing is awesome it it runs all my backups obviously it's a network attached storage and all that jazz right
15:51 so yeah so that's good also I use that as my plex server I run plex on that and
15:59 instead of using like iTunes sharing and stuff like that Plex is freaking awesome so like I have all all my local move
16:07 mostly for movies I use it for movies and any like video courses that I've purchased I throw it in Plex and then I can watch it from any device from Apple
16:15 TV from all my iOS devices from any Mac and the Plex apps just awesome so um a lot faster than the
16:23 native Apple ones actually so Plex is cool I love it I even bought the pro version of it just to support them the
16:30 Drobo that I have down there that almost I hardly ever use that at all um I'm probably gonna get rid of it it's firewire now it's really old um I just
16:40 have a lot of data on it right now I'm just using it as like backup I mean cuz it just has like 16 terabytes so um yeah
16:48 why get rid of it it's just kind of like a backup disk for me who cares how fast it is it's long as everything's backed up right and in the back of power yeah I
16:56 talked about yeah I did talk about the backup power yeah that that's really cool I like that little the little rackmount stand that I bought um I got
17:05 that last year it's kind of clean up my office and stuff especially well also the power line conditioner in the preamp their rack mounts so it's kind of an
17:12 excuse as well um but I really like that it kind of keeps everything nice and tidy in one spot instead of having wires all over the place okay so I'm software
17:22 let me see if there's any more questions about my hardware here real quick water by the keyboard yeah yeah water by the
17:30 keyboard yep don't spill it okay um let's go ahead and share my screen here
17:44 we're gonna get a little bit of Nirvana in here cuz we'll get a little picture-in-picture going on
17:51 this is Wirecast and this is the app that I use to do the live streams right
17:58 so it's taking me a long time to really get to know Wirecast I'll be honest it's just yeah
18:06 it's taken me a while to kind of get into it and really understand how it works basically great bunch of shots down here
18:13 and I I can see here like this is this is where it's like queued up and then if I click this button it's what goes live
18:21 right and then it kind of transitions so let me go back to the way it was so this allows me to like transition to shots
18:29 like for example this this right here is if I click this this will go back to my iPhone one thing I though I had initially this
18:37 plugged into my iPhone this is an external mic that I bought from my iPhone and I'd never used it with Wirecast but it kind of just worked with
18:44 everything I've used it with so possibly you might the audio on my iPhone didn't work because I had this in here this is a great little mic though umm if you
18:52 want to record video on your iPhone um it's a was it sure it's a sure md-88 and
19:01 it's just quality it's really good I notice a big difference actually the the big thing is is this little windshield
19:08 its directional right so um yeah this is a great little mic if you need to do some video work on your iPhone's okay I
19:16 mean it has a lightning port right so it plugs right into the Lightning port there's a bunch of other external ones actually rode has a new like thing is a
19:25 Bluetooth wireless uh you know lapel and I'm looking at that but I'm just gonna
19:31 stick with this one for a while okay so yeah this pretty much the software I use this handles everything right um it's
19:40 really cool I can I'm recording currently I'm recording locally to that external SSD as well as streaming to
19:48 youtube right um now actually I noticed I'm streaming at 30 frames per second right now that is freaking cool because
19:55 I wasn't able to do that last week so cool whatever I did I think I fixed it hopefully the quality is going pretty good Oh what lights am i using oh man
20:04 good call I have to show you those those are freaking cool uh hold on let me um let me get back to my iPhone really quick
20:20 okay
20:45 they're super thin they're just like and then they have these extendable pole
21:37 - I thought EO decided to kick in okay sorry uh the audio on the iPhone decided
21:47 to start working again and so anyway sorry about that um let me show you the
21:54 controls on that so if I go over oh shoot its controls are on the other side of my Mac darn it hold on one second I
22:02 mean I'm gonna hide my video I'm gonna show this video okay come here
22:15 shoot I'm trimming it let's see if I click on this okay okay so if you see this little um I'm kind of trimming my
22:23 Mac menu bar off I'm not gonna try to fix that right now so essentially if you
22:30 watch me right I'm gonna go ahead and make these lights brighter and like crazy bright right and I can make
22:39 them really low most of them I haven't like around 15% is like almost all I need because if I turn these off I'll turn them off like this is my this is my
22:48 video right look look how bad it is right the lighting is absolutely horrific right so yeah that's why I got
22:56 these because I wanted light - right so light video and light is key right so these lights are spectacular
23:05 I love that you can control them from the Mac actually that stream deck that I had it down on my desk um one thing that I had before I switched to this laptop
23:14 all my old stream deck setup is on my Mac Pro um and I just haven't moved it over yet but I can program various settings for these lights in that stream
23:22 deck because that stream deck don't the thing that had all those buttons right um that's also maybe al gato so of course all their their products kind of
23:30 work together which is really nice and like I can have preset you know things for various light settings so let's say I want you know cooler light or if I
23:38 want you know warmer light um you know you can do you know all that kind of stuff so really really love these lights
23:45 there they they were not cheap and but I really really like them okay let's go
23:51 back to my normal setup here about Wirecast if you notice it just went like
23:59 it's really cool um took me a while learn kind of how to get that all working really well but yeah pretty cool um so that's pretty much it for my live
24:07 stream to be honest um you know there there are some things I don't know I don't have that configured on this Mac
24:14 huh on my Mac Pro if you remember um I configured in accessibility you can like zoom in so that yeah I don't have it
24:23 configured here um I need to do that so I could you know I was zooming into parts of my rapidweaver app and stuff like that that's just a part of the Mac
24:30 OS 10 system preferences the zoom ability and I think I just said it to you know hold down command or caps lock
24:38 or something like that and just scrolled with my mouse and it would dynamically zoom into the screens that you can see something a little bit better so that's
24:45 pretty cool um you guys aren't getting any more oh it's gone okay cool I saw that it was gone
24:53 hey cool yeah that was definitely my phone sorry about that um okay what other what other things don't use for
25:08 video right I really only use it for live streams um one thing that is actually quite cool I haven't really used it too much for it when I did the
25:16 conference I used it so if you attended my conference um basically I can you have Wirecast become a virtual camera so
25:25 it shows up as a camera um you know like it shows up as a webcam so basically the view is so I can like share my screen
25:33 and I can do all the Wirecast of fancy stuff like have the Weaver space thing down on the bottom corner here
25:40 and I can do all that with as a virtual webcam so like I can let's say I'm using zoom right you know I use doom a lot and
25:49 I can if I used Wirecast as a virtual webcam I can then basically use Wirecast to stream into zoom which is kind of
25:58 cool so yeah another thing that I'm I experimented with last week I wanted to
26:04 do it this week but I didn't is I'm I'm it saying like I'm shouldn't modify my
26:11 streaming settings while I'm out here I signed up for a service called restreamed IO and what that's going to
26:18 do is I mean looking at the screen doesn't really do much but um what that will do is that allow me to simultaneously stream now that you see that I'm actually streaming it's 30
26:27 frames per second now which makes me really happy um I'm going to try to stream to YouTube
26:33 and Facebook live right so so at the same time basically I can stream to restream and then restream - IO will
26:41 stream it out to YouTube and Facebook and then I could even have like in a lot like maybe Weaver space slash live and
26:49 then have like an embed right there on the live stream so that you can just go straight to my website and watch the live stream there so really cool I'm
26:57 experimenting with that service and hopefully I'll start using it pretty soon I've actually I've owned it for like six months and just haven't had time to how
27:06 to really do that let me turn off I've if you didn't hear that my computer every 15 minutes tells me what time it is
27:13 so it's quite loud it says it's 12 o'clock okay um so regular video work
27:20 right what do I use so I use 2 2 apps primarily I'll use ScreenFlow is my big
27:29 one right so I'm not gonna do a whole ScreenFlow tutorial what's this yes
27:45 I'm not gonna stop sharing my screen actually okay so I use ScreenFlow to record videos you know to record screen
27:54 recordings and so for example all the videos that I did for foundation six all those short tutorial videos that I did
28:02 um a week ago I think I published those a week ago um I did all of those I recorded all of those using ScreenFlow version 9 is out and that's what I've
28:11 been using um to be honest I haven't looked at really what is new and and fabulous about ScreenFlow 9 um I just continue using I've been using it for
28:19 years um now one thing I do have to say I'm I'm trying to move to is to use
28:25 final cut more so some of the video the videos that I did for the Weaver space conference those were all done and
28:33 edited in Final Cut and so I'm trying to find a decent workflow for when do you ScreenFlow when to use final cut final
28:41 cut just has obviously a lot more professional transitions it one reason I really started using Final Cut is um
28:49 it's not here in my office but I do have a Canon 5d and when I'm shooting talking head videos a lot of times I'll use that
28:58 and the the video files that come from that are ginormous and they pretty much make adding them into ScreenFlow
29:07 completely unusable like you can not it is light right it for many many many
29:13 years and it is not usable ok so I just finally bit the bullet decided to try to
29:21 use Final Cut and working with those video files and Final Cut is like a dream come true so that is pretty much
29:28 why I'm trying to move to final cut because it's just faster um for editing especially editing video footage from
29:34 you know an SLR um you know 4k or even HD video coming from a 5d is actually
29:42 really great in Final Cut um and I've made it I made a bunch of friends actually a buddy of mine he has a website called motion master templates
29:51 he spoke at the conference this year and he makes Final Cut plugins so I've been playing a lot with his plugins and trying to add a
29:59 little bit extra finesse and flair I'm published many of those those things I'm just learnt and learning phase right now but hopefully you'll see some stuff
30:07 going on um a couple tidbits if you do want to use ScreenFlow ScreenFlow is where does it what does it do better
30:16 than final cut screen recording like if you want to record your screen um ScreenFlow is perfect for that like
30:24 there's really nothing else better out there for it to be honest because afterwards like you can like make your mouse bigger it tracks a lot of things
30:32 that's specific to screen recording okay where I started um you know hitting the limits of ScreenFlow is when I was
30:40 bringing in external videos and trying to edit you know more of movie like videos with ScreenFlow and it was kind of not liking that right but if you're
30:49 doing screen recording ScreenFlow is awesome it is the bee's knees um definitely start there and buy it from
30:56 the Mac App Store why do I say that um if you want to use it a multiple Mac's or a lot of your wife and maybe your kids to use it um when you buy it from
31:05 the Mac App Store you can install it on as many computers as you want but if you buy it directly from Telestream then
31:13 you're limited to I think two machines and they like locked it down like there's really really really strict about that so buy it from the app store
31:21 and luckily um every year they release a new version normally around November timeframe and when they release a new
31:30 version on the App Store they have the upgrade pricing on the App Store for everybody so like in November I bought
31:37 ScreenFlow 9 for like 49 bucks I think on the Mac App Store but if you missed that window like you have to pay full
31:44 front full price or buy the upgrade straight from them so um yeah unfortunately if you don't have ScreenFlow now um you know yet pay full
31:54 price for it but every November you can get the the newest version of ScreenFlow does even if you didn't own it before at
32:01 all um I mean all this would be fixed if Apple would just hunker down and allow upgrades in Mac App Store right but
32:09 well okay I see a bunch of questions here I'm still using the magwell video
32:16 capture so I've never Danny I've I do have the magwell and right now but um basically the
32:26 magwell allows me to attach my Canon 5d to my Mac and use that for live streaming in
32:33 theory um I I haven't actually tested it for live streaming I've hooked it up and got my 5d recording to my Mac um but I I
32:42 haven't used it for live streaming yet um it's just one of those things I also have down here one thing I didn't show
32:49 is I didn't you know I have a green screen that I have yet to actually use for a live stream I tried like two times
32:56 wait if you guys remember and one time I like fell ten minutes into the stream and there was oh yeah anyway that was
33:04 something else
33:13 um so let's see what other things final cut is great yes starts at 1:29 yes Mack
33:20 only black magic oh yes that capturecard from black magic looks awesome it's definitely on my wish
33:27 list um Danny you showed that to me on a hangout a couple weeks ago and yeah it's on my wish list now and I really really
33:35 like it well I it looks really slick and it would it would negate the need for that magwell card that I got okay
33:43 wouldn't it work for would be better to use clips from ScreenFlow than to bring bring them into Final Cut than the other way around
33:51 yes so if in the future if I want to make like videos where I records video for my 5d and then I want to intermix ScreenFlow video I'm definitely going to
34:08 project where I then basically merge it all together okay um now I do have to admit those final cut videos because they were so short like I just did them
34:17 all inside ScreenFlow um and I didn't use final cut at all for those mostly just for speed like I know ScreenFlow like the back of
34:25 my hand and um I'm getting better a final cut but I don't know like back of my hand so I don't want to get those
34:33 videos out the door as soon as possible and they were I didn't have any videos of me it was just 100% screen recording
34:40 so that was perfect for that okay cool um so yeah any any questions on curious
34:47 um about what software I use for various things I guess oh yes now I didn't just like dive into my Applications folder and we can look at you know what I'm
34:56 doing its stuff like that with that with that interest you guys I get a lot of comments on or you know questions about
35:04 that so let me go ahead and see if I can add a quick
35:27 okay I just is gonna duplicate a shot really
35:36 quick get rid of that cropping so you guys can see my Mac minibar
35:47 there okay
35:59 sorry one second let me just go ahead and make sure that okay
36:16 okay let's just share my entire screen actually our wall so you guys can have my beautiful face to look at we'll put
36:23 it back okay is there a reason is there a reason you do not use a lavalier
36:31 microphone so oh I guess for my eyes there is some so when I'm recording with
36:41 my SLR um I used this bad boy and this the audio from this is just freakin gold
36:48 I am looking at some lavalier mics um you know Road has one like a Bluetooth one now you just clip on the back and
36:55 and it goes into you know obviously is livelier you can put it wherever but this has been awesome this is a zoom
37:02 zoom h5 um and it has various mic attachments right so um this is the
37:08 shotgun mic attachment and basically I I mount this to a tripod and I pointed at me you know pointed at me like this when
37:17 I'm talking and I have it just outside the video and the video that this are the audio that this has that this
37:23 captures is just crisp like super super crisp um really clean audio so I really
37:31 love this and I haven't gotten a lavalier just because I I love the audio from this so much um when I did some of
37:38 the videos for the conference I had one where I was standing I was I don't remember the the sales video that I did
37:44 for the conference i sat on my sofa and then I did some talking from the sofa and um I was further away from this than
37:53 I normally am and that would have a lovely or would have been perfect for that but I don't have a lavalier so
38:01 anyway uh yeah thanks for the reminder but this is what I use when I when I do a lot of recording with my SLR and stuff this is this is what I use and it is
38:09 golden um really really awesome I like that a lot um and my daughter had
38:18 borrowed all of my one thing I didn't I won't get into today when I record with my SLR I like an entire like setup like
38:26 I have lights and I have tripods and I have things coming off my tripod to hold my mic and to hold the you know screen that
38:34 I can see myself and I got like an entire setup it's way overkill pride for the projects that I do but I think it's kind of fun and my daughter's been
38:43 trying to make videos sold she stole all of it's in her bedroom right now okay well what would be good to put any
38:52 specials you were buying ScreenFlow November oh yes yeah yeah that would be yeah and I try to put you know stuff in
39:07 go ahead and go ahead and let's I don't
39:15 even know what apps to kind of talk about right now I guess we can kind of look at what what I have running right now I guess one thing I should say is if
39:24 you look at my dock like I keep my dock support like pristine like my dock is pretty much empty um
39:32 and I do that on purpose so essentially what I do is I have no active apps
39:40 inside my dock at all if an app is in the dock it means it's running right so I have Safari open because I have the chatroom
39:48 and then I have wire obviously Wirecast um if I have zero apps running the only thing here is Launchpad and finder I
39:56 have long I to be honest I hardly ever use launchpad but I don't know I just kind of kept it there and then yeah
40:03 that's it um I so that way it's really easy for me to know what apps are currently running because if it's in the dock it's running that's just kind of
40:11 how I am I really like that and how how do i launch stuff like my big thing is oh hold on my other display is my main
40:20 display let me go ahead and move this over okay
40:27 this this is my beloved Alfred and I just hit command enter and then I launch
40:37 if I want to launch an app I just say you know and all the pages right I just typed the word pages and that
40:44 right and I can arrow over go to recent documents and I can explicitly open up a document that I know I've had open right
40:51 um just golden like Alfred I couldn't live with that Alfred on my Mac um it is definitely one of the few apps that is
41:08 calculations right really quick so you can do math straight in there that's I use that for that all the time too yeah
41:16 you can find you know you can find contacts in there right so Jo workman um
41:23 you know and you know I if I hit enter would show me all that you know my phone number and address since this is the
41:30 live stream I'm not going to do that Quicksilver is very similar yeah I used to be a Quicksilver user but yeah I
41:39 moved to Alfred quite a few years ago and and yeah I love it I love it so yeah Alfred is great um
41:48 what's up in my mac mini bar let's have a look up here okay so up here in my mac
41:58 mini bar so here this is just a little thing for my power mate that I showed you had on my desk this is a nice little
42:07 app that I have and this allows me to that actually this I guess this you can consider this one of my streaming apps
42:14 because it allows me to have some granular control over my webcams so like I can normally I turn auto focus off
42:23 because it'll it keeps if you remember last week it I had auto focus turned on and it kept making me out of focus and
42:32 whatnot so you could do that you can adjust white balance and all kinds of stuff so this is like a five dollar app on the App Store and it's great I love
42:40 it the only thing I wish you could do it can't it's not you cannot control any of the Apple webcams so like if you have a
42:47 laptop you cannot use this to week the Apple FaceTime camera I have no clue why I wish you could because apples filters
42:56 for that or whole and it's white balance in this lighting and stuff is absolutely horrible so but anyway if you have an external webcam um
43:03 yeah this is great it's just called webcam settings um this is a little um if you can see this this one is called
43:11 brightness menu let or something it's not even like you have to download this off github and basically it allows me to
43:18 I mean you can easily save to displays here you can easily set the brightness of the displays so yeah I use that a lot
43:26 this is the the thing that controls my lights this is a little thing for stream deck so I can open up stream deck and
43:34 configure all the various buttons right so stream deck that's that fat piece of hardware I had on my desk allows me to
43:41 configure what those what every single button in there does right really cool um these two here these are awesome
43:49 this is one of I want to probably one of my favorite apps is called tooth fairy and it it allows you to create various menu let's so I have two I have two
43:59 different Bluetooth headphones I have sony MDR 100 phone and then I have the
44:06 Apple earpods Pro and allows me to you know create as many of these on my desk or on my many wires I want and when I
44:14 click on that it attempts to connect to that those headphones so like if they're paired with your your let's say your your iPhone and you want to switch to
44:23 your Mac you just go to your Mac menu bar tap on it and it'll connect to your Mac really really cool ok this one
44:32 called sound source it allows me to configure you know various outputs for different apps and volume levels for various apps it's it's kind of a cool I
44:40 like this stuff from rogue amiga rogue amoeba and yeah I like that that's just ScreenFlow this is a part of
44:50 an app called ISTAT menus so this is their weather component to it but this allows me to see like various CPU usage
44:58 and memory usage and disk usage and all kinds of stuff about my Mac I love ice that menus and if you're new to the
45:08 world of EGP use this little doodad here when you have an e GPU connected um this is what shows up and then I can disconnect that if I wanted to which I'm
45:17 not gonna do right now cuz it would kill my stream okay next up is this little
45:23 doodad and this is an amazing app that I could not live without called bartender and it wears bartender gonna open up
45:32 here it is okay bartender allows you to now if I click on this you'll notice I get a lot more menu items and these are all the menu
45:39 items that I had hidden by default and if I didn't have our tender my mac menu bar icons would probably go like way
45:48 past halfway on a 27 inch display right so yeah bartender is awesome it allows you to configure what menu items you
45:56 want to display hide or show and all kinds of stuff so just gives you a lot of configurability there okay actually a
46:04 new one that I recently picked up when we find it we turn it on
46:09 let's see if this whoops sure how this
46:18 will work
46:32 oh well this is something I bought too whenever I use a key basically if I type
46:41 a keystroke it should display it up on the display um and it's not right now I'm I don't know why access is granted
46:49 not sure why it worked when I use my
46:57 maybe he doesn't like this external keyboard or something not sure anyway um okay any other questions bartender is on
47:07 setup oh yeah actually you know that's a great thing I do use set app and I owned
47:14 most of the apps before set app but I owned Alfred beforehand but setup is a great app yeah I pay you know I don't
47:24 remember how much per month now but I get access to tons of apps and one app on your clean shot man that app is is
47:31 awesome that is the world's best screenshot utility it's clean shot freaking great app absolutely amazing
47:48 tooth fairy yes um oh wow webcam Sadie's is $10.99 now Wow okay um I mean if
47:56 you're gonna be doing webcam work yeah it's kind of essential um so and it works really well I don't want to bore
48:05 you guys by going through my apps folder um yeah you know I got a lot of apps I'm
48:11 sure all you guys do too um here I could just peruse through some of these oh maybe I'll call out a few of my favorites obviously one password we
48:21 can't live without one password right I mean it amazing app um I'm trying not my best to use affinity photo and designer
48:29 um I bought publisher on Black Friday even though I I've never even used it not sure I'll need to use one I'll have a need for it but um Ark you know I
48:39 bought art to do some backups and I have to admit I've been bad and never used it yet so but that's like a great backup
48:47 app bartender we talked about this is that brightness menu let app that I use to control the brightness from my Mac
48:54 menu bar see this is a new one um color
49:01 slurp someone told me about it right and there's tons of different various color apps I just install this haven't really played around with it much but it's a
49:08 new color app you can download it for free and then like I forget there's like an in-app purchase to purchase the pro version or something like that but
49:17 someone I trust said it was it was really awesome so I'm gonna give it a shot because yes it has some annoyances
49:24 and then there's some I have a bunch of color apps installed I've never found one that I truly love so I don't maybe
49:30 color slurp is one that's that's gonna be do it I don't know we'll see did you
49:37 do - I've talked about - and previous one in previous things that's an amazing
49:45 tool for documentation for CSS and HTML and and all that stuff super super cool
49:53 encrypt me is a great VPN app if you need that fantastical that's my calendar of choice
50:09 better but the service is good good notes man okay I don't have my iPad
50:16 right here but good notes is it's the like that app on iPad they
50:23 basically they're their Mac version a lot it's basically like a viewer but it is the app is made for the iPad and the
50:31 Apple pencil and if you need a note-taking app or even a way of marking up PDFs and stuff like that good notes
50:38 is absolutely the it is awesome um I love it I think it's really good it's really changed how much
50:46 I use my iPad for various things I really like it so check out good notes I think I put it as a part of my newsletters just cuz I've really been
50:55 using it a lot and I like it so umm yeah but I don't have my iPad or else I try to show you a little bit of it right now
51:04 let's see keep it that's my my Evernote
51:12 replacement app it's kind of like my digital filing drawer ival I keep a lot of my personal stuff in there so I'm not gonna open that up right now cuz as I'm
51:20 not sure what doc will open up but that's my digital filing cabinet it has everything in it and it uses iCloud um I used to use Evernote but I move
51:28 everything off Evernote in to keep it and it's awesome I can like share folders with my wife so she has keep it on her laptop and you know like let's
51:36 say medical she deals with a lot of medical bills and stuff like that and I'll scan it throw it in a folder and said keep it and it automatically gets
51:44 to her laptop as well awesome stuff awesome I love this work that Omni Omni
51:53 group does um I don't know if for some reason I buy all their apps and then I I don't use them as much as I as I think
52:03 I'm going to pick up that was the other color picker app that it was close to being perfect but I don't know it just
52:11 never never got there for me so pickup obviously rap we all love rapidweaver rocket is a fun little app
52:20 um it allows you to insert emojis um let me just open up like text editor or
52:28 something like that
52:33 okay so if I uh I I just do you helps if
52:43 I learn how to type Oh does it not work in TextEdit back
52:57 maybe it doesn't work in TextEdit it's odd oh I changed it to equals I forgot
53:07 there goes so if you type you know so you could you could have a like a trigger key I said to equals I recently
53:16 did that cuz : was was getting used by and getting annoying so I'm playing around with different triggers but yeah
53:24 basically you can you know if you do equals and then start typing a an emoji you just oh yeah that's the one I want it so it's a quick way of inserting
53:32 emoji um really fun really cool app I think there's a free version as well if
53:38 you want to use the free version sequel
53:45 pro I've kind of stopped using sequel pro and I've moved to a new one that I'm trying to get used to where's the code oh it's inside of the
53:54 setup folder it's in set up called sequel studio I do like some things better about sequel Pro but um it's kind
54:03 of it's free and open source and yeah there's just some bugs in the in the latest version of Catalina that haven't
54:11 been fixed and it's just a little annoying anyway uh here's tooth fairy I talked about that tower I've talked about that on different ones it's my
54:20 version control system what apps do I haven't set app or setup here's a folder
54:26 setup uh clean shot is a freaking great I I talked about clean shot icon jar I've talked about icon jar before give
54:35 us that sequel studio pro timing is a is a good app this touch touch retouch that's like magical like I don't use it
54:43 very often but if you have something that you need to get like scrubbed from an image it's pretty magical anyway
54:50 bayar is awesome as the Evernote replacement yeah berries um so if you need notes and stuff I I think so
54:58 um I used Evernote mostly as like a digital filing cabinet so um you know just basically a place to store PDFs um
55:05 Evernote was really good for that too and I mean you can store keep it you keep it gonna have notes but yeah um it's not great for that I use an
55:13 app called drafts actually oh I figured out why that little that keyboard thing it's showing these keyboard shortcuts of
55:21 my other display instead of on this display I'm interesting I'm gonna figure out if I can move that to my secondary display do I normally screen share this wondering during screen screen whatever
55:30 um I use this app called drafts and it's kind of like my digital just scrapbook I would see this as last week's um you know I basically I type everything into
55:39 this and then move it or copy/paste it somewhere so pretty much every piece of text that I've that I've typed a goes into drafts and then it goes somewhere
55:48 else from there um so yeah drastic scan like my digital notebook right now
55:59 default folder X yeah that's a good one it's kind of one that works in the background you don't really it does this job really well um to be honest there it
56:08 has a ton of features that I don't even use but default folder X is definitely a good one too okay so anyway that's it
56:16 guys um yeah hopefully you enjoyed today umm maybe another time I can I can try to do it maybe a little bit more formal
56:24 or structured you know chat about all my various components and and things but
56:33 hopefully hopefully you enjoyed today hopefully it was okay for you and everything worked out okay yeah well
56:40 we'll talk to you next week I'm glad the live stream scenes the quality seems to be pretty good it seems like I'm streaming at 30 frames per second now which is really awesome
56:49 and and yeah I'm I'm really excited about that so hopefully you enjoyed you know seeing
56:56 my setup if you have any questions I'll try to get together a list of all the all the gear I've been I've been wanting
57:04 to put like together a page on my site that has like you know slash uses that just lists out everything that I use and my favorite stuff so anyway hope that
57:13 you uh you had a good time today hopefully my camera my camera videos didn't give you a motion sickness or anything and and hopefully oh I won't be
57:23 on the hangout this week but make sure you check out the hangout there's been gonna be a bunch of really great guys out there and yeah well we'll talk to you
57:31 guys next week Cheers bye