One thing she did highlight was that guests might experience a slight delay in the broadcast. Louise had no problems joining in and while some tools allow a greater number of guests, she agreed that 5 seemed like a reasonable number. Just to push my luck I decided to add another face to the mix and invited Louise Brogan to the guinea pig party, taking us up to 5, the maximum number of people you can feature at any one time.Īgain (thankfully!), it worked fairly seamlessly. Katie did mention that she appreciated the step-by-step joining instructions I gave her beforehand (it’s always good to know that the boxes popping up on your screen are the boxes you were expecting to pop up on your screen!) so that’s definitely something to consider when you’re inviting guests onto your own show.Īnd Then There Were Five… Listen at Clare reckons that if you have a guest who’s not super tech-aware, the process is even easier to use than Zoom. The guests had no problems hearing one another and were able to join with ease. When filming the show episode that accompanies this post, I wanted to experiment with Ecamm’s interview mode by inviting three special guests onto the episode at the same time: Tim Lewis, Katie Simpson and Clare Jossa.Īnd I was pleasantly surprised, and not a little relieved, that it worked perfectly. And unlike other streaming tools, Ecamm does allow you to do this ahead of time, which gives you one less thing to worry about once you’ve started recording. However, you can use overlays to adjust how people look, for instance, making some guests’ screens appear larger or smaller depending on what’s going on in your show at any particular time. My only bugbear with that is that everyone appears in a row. Using interview mode, you have the option to bring in multiple guests at the same time, which is great.
When they log on as a guest from the link you’ve sent them, they’ll need to click the ‘join’ button, add their name and then select the camera and microphone they want to use - this will send a sound notification to you, the host, to let you know that they’re ready and waiting. You can bring guests in through their phones or tablets, but my recommendation is to send them a web link they can use to join your live. It has several cool functions over on the left I can select my chosen scene, I can use different overlays, there are sound effects, and then there are the functions that I might need to apply when my guests join me, like green screen options and the ability to zoom in or out (i.e make sure my guests look awesome!).īringing in Your Guests Listen at Īnd it’s pretty easy for your interviewees to jump on board too.
#ECAMM LIVE ZOOM PRO#
How it Works Listen at Įcamm Pro users will be familiar with the main screen. Even better, it’s really high quality too.
I’ve been using it now for a month or so and have to say that I’ve found it incredibly easy to use. The feature is available on Ecamm’s Pro version and it allows you to bring guests in via a web link. You can see, then, why I’m so excited that Ecamm has introduced their beta version of the interview mode feature. But it can be buggy, you can’t get rid of the Skype logo from the corner of your screen, and it has a tendency to suck all of the processing power from your computer - not ideal when you’re trying to live stream. Now, in this grand scheme of things, using Skype wasn’t so terrible. However, without this dedicated interview mode feature, I had to resort to inviting guests on my show via Skype.
#ECAMM LIVE ZOOM MAC#
Okay, 2017 might not seem like a billion years ago but in terms of live video tech it might as well be! Back then, if I wanted to bring a guest onto my live show, things were pretty complicated.Īs a Mac user, I’m a big fan of the Ecamm Live streaming tool (you can try it for yourself here).
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As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK.How It Was in the Olden Days! Listen at He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher and consultant. He’s founder of Seriously Social - a blog focused on live video and social media tools. He helps entrepreneurs to level up their impact, authority and profits by using live video confidently. He is the founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy and is the host of the Confident Live Marketing Podcast. We’ll focus on knocking down the 3 main barriers these entrepreneurs face when creating live content - camera confidence/mindset, tech/gear and content marketing. It’s aimed at established entrepreneurs who want to level up their impact, authority and profits through the power of live video, webinars and podcasts. The Confident Live Marketing Show is a weekly live video show and podcast. Don’t miss an episode! You can subscribe on Apple podcasts here - or on other podcast players.
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