want to know how you can make great looking overlays for your ecam live productions or obs then this video is for you hello and welcome to take one tech i do apologize i may myself laugh there a little bit uh rather sad isn't it so today we're talking about how you can make overlays for your ecam live productions but yes it does work for obs or any other video production software that you may be using and this video is all about how to do that in keynote now this was part of a much larger video that i made a sort of start to finish a tutorial about how you can get your ecam live setup going from zero to a full production setup with overlays transitions and all that sort of stuff and i'll link to that video in the description because yeah it is quite long at four and a half hours but this video is just an extract of that that is exactly how you can you make your overlays in keynote so without further ado i'll cut over to that video and i'll join you on the other side so what do we want to do now we need to actually go and make the overlays for these scenes so let's just recap those just quickly so that you can remember what we're doing we're going to make a border around this one we are going to go to for the screen sharing we're going to have a border but with sort of like a picture in picture sort of style to it then we've got the top down which is two next to each other so we're gonna have a background and then a border around these ones as well and then we've got this this one is going to be very similar to that screen sharing one in fact we can probably use the exact same uh template for the overlay just having different things in each window and then we've got our countdown timer so what i'll do now is i'll stop sharing for a moment and then i'm going to start with keynote and i'll open a new file right so what will happen when you open keynote is it will open a page like this and there are a couple of different things you can do here first of all if you were making a presentation there's all different templates and things like that but we're just going to start and use a blank one i have done a video specifically about how you can do some things in keynote but here we're going to go through start to finish how to make all of these overlays in in keynote so the other videos that i've done specifically about keynote i'll link to in the description or in the in the top corner as well so one thing you need to make sure you do is if you're doing a a bit for video purposes is just make sure you've got this size correct so we're doing overlays for a sort of typical video output so we want this 16 by nine so make sure you click that there you can change it later but let's just get it right from the outset and then we want to have this as a blank uh template so either white or black it doesn't matter we're going to do something different with the background anyway so now we've got our blank template now with these overlays we're going to have them where they are obviously over the top of our scenes and so we want the uh the background or we want to be able to see through them because these are frames that are going over the top of our scenes now as a default the background will be a solid color but what we can do here is you can change between solid or no fill so if it's no fill then that will effectively uh be transparent with keynote you can add more slides down the side uh so this is the sort of slide viewer if you don't have that one uh open then just toggle this little uh little thing at the side so you may have a view that looks more like this so if you want to see all your different slides then come up to the view menu and click navigator that's quite useful to be able to see that down all the different slides you've got because we're going to make a few different ones for each of those those scenes and we want to make them transparent but rather than just this one slide we want to apply this to all of the slides that we're going to make so in here you can click on this edit slide master down here and if you haven't got this panel open by the way i should probably just mention that this is the format panel that we're looking at so these three here if i click on that now we've got the format it's called an inspector in apple terminology this uh format inspector or the an animate or the document settings so we're in the format one here and we can change the background or it was just down here that i was mentioning so click in the edit slide layout now all of these slides that have appeared in the side column are basically different templates that you can use so when you add a new slide in you can choose between these different templates well we don't actually want any of these and so we're going to build out all of our own so i'll just delete all of these now unfortunately you can't go in and just highlight them all and delete all of them as you might be able to do if they were actual slides you only seem to be able to go and do them one at a time so i'll save you that right so i've deleted all of those uh those other slides that we didn't want all of those master slides and now that we've just got one left what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go to this background setting and then now i'm gonna change rather than you can change the colors of the background from anything you want but we just want this completely blank so rather than a color fill i want to change that to no fill and that means that we're starting with basically a transparent canvas so anything that we put on it will be over the top of this transparency which is what we want for what we are creating um now the once we've done that we can uh click done so now we've got a blank slide that we want to work with but we perhaps do actually want something that is going to apply to all of these different templates don't we because we're going to create multiple different scenes and so it might be an idea to start with something as a base that we're going to use behind all of these these scenes so i'm actually going to go back into that and one thing you might want to do is have like a background around your border so if you look at the picture that i've got on my screen now so i don't mean my actual screen share i mean the full screen with my little picture in the top corner there and then we've got this border on the side and we've got the picture of the uh the apple display and things like that well you might want to have that as a as part of a sort of standard image but we're going to do something a little bit different because well first of all i can't actually share this one with you because it's uh from adobe stock so the image that i've used in here is a licensed image so i can't make that available to uh to everybody uh without you actually going and doing it yourself so i want to create something here which i am freely allowed to share with you and also that makes it easy for you to go and change this up yourself so what i thought we'd do is we'd start with a base image in the background that we're going to build our overlay up over on the top of if this isn't making sense don't worry it will do shortly so what i wanted to do was find an image to use as a background image well there is as i say i use adobe stock which is something where you pay to have access to the adobe stock footage and stock image.music library and there is another service you can use though which is something called unsplash.com i will link to that in the description there are other services like canva and things like that there's a lot of people talk about canva for making graphics and overlays but that's a subscription service whereas if you just want the odd image also i might be wrong on that there might be a free version of camber now i'll come to think about it but this is specifically not for creation but just for getting your stock imagery is unsplash.com and uh this isn't an affiliate thing it's a free site you can go and sign up for free and there's basically a huge number of downloadable images you can just search in whatever you want to search for and so i just did a search for abstract background because we just want something that's going to feature in the background and i came down here and i thought which ones of these look nice and that one sort of took my fancy this one here and so i've downloaded that one already and then we're going to use that as our background now just so that you understand how unsplash works um so if i come into here when you click on it you can download it for free and just so that you're aware of the licensing because whenever you are using any sort of content that you've downloaded you can't always just do a search uh legally do a search on google grab an image and stick it in your presentation on there on youtube some things are obviously licensed and you have to be careful about that specifically with you know high quality graphic images and also with music and uh incidentally i suppose now might be a good time speaking of music to talk about the music that you've got in your creations and your youtube videos because if you do have any music like i featured music at the beginning and at the end then epidemic sound would be the place that i'd recommend to go to get that that music and you know that they've got a huge library of music there and you can use any of it in your your videos to put on youtube knowing that you're not going to get any copyright strikes or anything like that it really is a great service it's what i use for my music and if you use my link take one tech dot io dot epidemic then uh you'll be able to get a free trial and then yeah the in terms of the affiliate what i got from it because it does help me out a little bit as well but all it does really is it just adds on an extra month i think to my subscription for anybody who signs up that way so it won't cost you any more you'll get a free trial of it anyway and then i'll just get an extra month out of it if you do sign up but it's what i use and what i recommend i did a video actually about adobe stock music because that is what i did originally when i first started making my videos because i had the adobe stock license uh but unfortunately there was a bit of a a bit of a hassle to go through ev for every video to go through and uh get rid of copyright strikes even though i technically owned the license but i'll link to that video as well because it's worth uh worth having a look at if you've already got an adobe stock license and you think that that might be an easy route to go to for music i ended up signing up to epidemic myself anyway but like i said that's another tale for another video which i've already made so i'll link to that in the description so coming back to here and just to be totally clear on the licensing for unsplash.com if you click on here it tells you the license and as you can see uh where is it i've got the wrong thing highlighted here so the license is as it says here all photos can be downloaded and used for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes and there's no permission needed though attribution is appreciated but not necessarily required so i've linked to the specific uh image that i've got from here so that that's in the description so you can go through and uh yeah if you want any by the same artist for example then you can click on here and you can see who that is jeremy bishop on unsplash thank you very much jeremy much appreciated and the reason why artists would put their images for free on unsplash is because they also obviously have a catalog of other images and if you like their work then presumably you will click through you'll see their other catalog and then maybe they have other images on maybe paid services like adobe stock or shutter stock or things like that and so it's just a way for them to get their work out there as well and but we benefit from it as well the what is not permitted is as you can see photos cannot be solved uh sold without significant modification and uh compiling photos from unsplash to replicate or similar or competing services so we're not allowed to obviously take this image and post it on other ones for our own use and things like that for our own you know to sell it basic sell it on well as i'm doing this as a demonstration and as i'm making all of this content available for free afterwards and uh as i'm also giving attribution i think i've passed all of these these criteria here so that's all to say what i'm about to show you is uh totally above board and legal and that is why i can include this image as well as part of the presentation in the in the presentation pack so i think i've covered myself there don't you right so let's come back to this presentation because what i want to do is use that image as our background so all i'm going to do is i'm going to go over to my finder window now i've moved that onto a different uh window here haven't i so i need to just bear with me one second i'll drag this over onto this desktop and i'll drag this desktop back here there we go and i've got my example files here so now what i'm going to do is as you'll see in a minute i'm just going to drag there's that image that i downloaded from unsplash thank you very much again jeremy i'm just going to drop that into the slide and now that's inserting and there we go we've got that image in there now i'm just going to zoom out the slide a bit and let's uh see where we're going to put this because i think that this will make quite a nice attractive background to the to the slide so there we go we'll put that around about there and this is going to be the base then on which we're going to build so this is a good point to mention that once when we've built out all of our different scenes and slides and things like that if you want to change these to make them your own or you don't really like these colors or this slide or anything like that all you need to do to change the background of all of your slides is to come over here to click on edit slide layout and you just delete this and you put in a completely different image and it will change it on all of these overlays okay i'll mention that again at the end because it's quite important when you get all of these downloads as i say i'm going to provide all of the actual frames that we make as images but i'm also going to provide this keynote file so you can go in and edit it yourself because you know probably don't want everybody using all the same same overlays so it'll just allow you to go in and make this your own i'll mention it again at the end and you'll see exactly what i mean about it in fact we perhaps even will do a little demo of that just so you can see how easy it is but for now we're going to come out of the uh master editor and we're going to think about those scenes that we want well the first one we had if you can remember was the front on face unscene and we just said well we're just going to put a border on it well it's very easy we'll come up here to shape at the top so we'll click on this shape button here and we'll click on uh let's make it a rounded rectangle i'm making them rounded rectangles you could have it square you could have it circle or pick a pardon for knocking the mic and making a bit of noise there i'm using rounded rectangles because there's something i want to show you a little bit later on which um can be an issue if you're using multiple cameras in the same window with rounded corners that are overlapping specifically but i'm getting ahead of myself here i'll tell you about that afterwards uh now another little tip you can obviously drag this shape to be whatever shape you want and we can make this as a you know a cut out for our overlay um but there is one slight problem with this is well not a problem but something you might want to think about is if you you are using those uh specific camera sizes in ecam live so the 19 by six or whatever it was uh i think that nine by six uh then you want this to be the same size as that so we can actually specify an exact size so let's say we wanted this to be like a uh you know the same sort of aspect ratio as the screen then if i come over to the arrange i can it's called a range but you can actually it's a range in size really so you can change the exact position of it but what we want to do is we want to keep this to that particular aspect ratio now the easiest way to do that is and a standard size would be 1920 by 1080. so if i put that in i would know that that would be exactly the same aspect ratio 1920 by 1080. so there we go that's made it exactly the same size as sort of hd basically but now the problem is it's too big however by setting those that size first we can then come and click on this constrain proportions and then whatever we do to change the size it will always lock it in so i can drag my mouse anywhere and it will lock it to that aspect ratio and that's just a good way to actually get into the process of having it as a sort of fixed aspect ratio so i'll just drag this out to make it a little bit bigger so in fact let me just zoom in my screen might help a little bit so you can see a bit better as well uh if i make that like that and then i'm going to just color the thing itself the shape itself so if i come into style i'm going to do color fill on this one and we're going to make it just black because all we're going to do afterwards just makes it easy to see which bits to remove all we're going to do afterwards is we're going to actually delete that black there's one thing that you can't do at the moment in um keynote you can do some transparency of of images so like if i wanted to make that transparent i could come and click on this color wheel here and then if i drag my color palette over which should pop up you can see i can actually make it transparent but it's not making the background transparent it's only making that particular shape and what we want to do is we want to actually make this whole thing transparent so that we can see through it to the camera that is behind us so we are going to have to do that actually afterwards outside of keynote but i'll show you how to do that and let's just make these corners not quite so rounded make it a little bit less and we might want to put a board around that as well so that's done over here we've got the border control so i'll click into here and no border so we want to change that to a line and then we want to select the color of the line so let's just make it white so that it pops out quite nicely from the background make that white and then we perhaps want to make it a bit bigger so it's five points at the moment let's make that let's say 10. you can either type it or you can use the little up and down arrows uh so if i make my screen a bit bigger hopefully you can see that a little bit better so that is the um the border that we've got for that one i can't seem to get it so it's just zoomed enough for you to be able to uh see it without it being too far zoomed out but never mind uh one other thing about keynote is there is some sort of snapping so if you just drag this across you'll see when it snaps onto that center vertical line there that yellow one and you can move it up and it will snap onto that line there as well so now we know that that is dead centered in the picture so i think that looks about right for our border so what you've got to imagine is in our full frame shot if i just flick over to that one that's basically going to be a border that is all around our screen so let's go back and think about the others that we had to build out uh in fact let's just refresh our memory shall we or rather let me refresh my memory we also said that we were going to do this uh screen sharing one didn't we so what that one needs is we need to have a sort of border around uh the the actual camera and then we also need a border for where the screen is going to be so let me come back over to my screen sharing again and what we could do here is we could actually use this one as a starting point and we could come up to this one and if we just right click on it and then we click on duplicate now you can see we've got two of them in the sidebar and so what we want is we want to have the screen sharing was sort of a little bit smaller so if i click into here and i'll drag the corner and it's remembering that sort of aspect ratio put that there and then the other camera was vertical wasn't it so we want that one in the side now what we could do because we've got this aspect ratio the correct way for it being landscape but we want portrait if you press down command and drag any uh any item on the screen it will uh should duplicate it i beg your pardon it's uh it's the option key not the command key press down the option key and drag it you can see how it's made a duplicate of that but we want this the other way around well an easy way to do that is if we come to the corner here you can see we can scale it in and out but if you press down the command key then you can see it changes to that little icon for uh for rotating it so i'll hover over there change it to rotate and now i can turn it round and you get that little marker to tell you how many degrees you've turned it so you can change it to let's make that 90 degrees so it's perfectly straight and if you can't get it exactly right then you can always come into the arrange tab here at the top and then you click into the rotation there we go i wasn't quite right so just make that 90. so now we've got a window that is 90 and we want to just reduce the size of that i hope this is all making sense if if by the way you have any issues with anything i'm talking about uh before or after and can't quite follow along or you've got any problems with the downloads or anything like that then do feel free to reach out to me either in the comments below or through my website take one tech dot io uh i'm fact it's probably a good time to mention it isn't it so yeah my website is take one tech dot io and uh you can go there if you come up into the top then i've got the uh the store which is where i have my own icon packs and things like that there's only one up there at the moment actually and i will be doing some other overlay packs and things like that as well that will be available in the store but i would urge you to download this free one and see if you can't just actually make them yourself so with that said let's get back to the video and uh yeah the screen sharing so there we've got our one and if you remember we'd created those two different scenes which were going to be the same so this overlay here we're going to use it for if i come back to this one we're going to use that for our screen sharing so it'll go over the top of this and we're also going to use it for the phone view that we had which is this one and the next one we had was a top down view so let's go ahead and make that one next flick back over to keynote and what i'm going to do now is let's just do the duplicate function again because that's the easiest and then i'll just grab this shape here and let's make it a square so let's say we want these to be square then we'll go to the arrange tab at the top and then you can see the size of it here a bit of an odd size but let's say we want to just make them 850 by 850. oops i've typed that wrong there ah it's because i've got constrained proportions that's why so if you want to change it from that locked aspect ratio do make sure to toggle that one off it's almost like i made that mistake on purpose isn't it there you go so toggle the constrained proportions and now we can make it 850 by 850. and there we've got ourselves a nice little square but now we want one for the other side so let's just highlight that this one here and then we'll just press delete to get rid of it and then we'll drag this one so remember to press the alt or option key and drag it across another key you can hold down is if you hold down the shift key at the same time it will lock it onto the same either horizontal the same diagonal path or the same vertical path so it's got that sort of snap to it so i'm holding down option and shift to move that around and then now that i've got those two next to each other if you highlight two objects like that so i'll click to shift to highlight them both and now drag the two of them together that centering feature still works on multiple items as well so now you can see by highlighting the two of them i've got those two things absolutely centered uh horizontally and vertically so it'll just look right on the screen won't it so what's next the next one was we were going to do a countdown timer nearly forgot about that so for this one let's make an entirely new slide because we want to have that little i think round would work well with this background so here we'll just go up to here and click add new slide the benefit of get rid of getting rid of all of those slide masters before is that it means you've only got one in the picker if you had multiple different slide masters with different styles and layouts and things like that then they would all appear here um so let me click in that blank one so now we've got a blank slide and i think that looks quite nice actually for a background so what we'll do now is we'll add in a where we're going to have our cutout so i'll click in the shape let's make a nice round one as i say i think it would work well with that again if i just click a corner and drag i can drag this sort of shape from a circle it will become an ellipse but if i hold down the shift key it will lock it into that aspect ratio as well so i can make it uh just drag it and it will remain as a circle so let's make this uh how big do we want it i don't know i think it works quite well actually with that little sort of sweeping uh curve to the the bottom there so i'll leave that about that size and we want to put a border on that as well i think so let's go back to the style tab and i'll go to color fill oh it's already on color fill but i'll change that color to black so i'll just go to the color picker there's one thing that i often get caught out with on a mac and uh i don't know it's just me but when you when you click in something like if i want to change the color here you have to make sure that this little uh sort of color wheel icon next to it is highlighted so you might have somewhere in fact let me just activate a border on here just to show you what i'm talking about because it sometimes catches me out even after you know decades of use i still get caught out by it can you see how this one has got this slight uh green uh highlight to it behind the actual color wheel it's highlighted green whereas this color wheel down here is highlighted gray and what that means is in this color picker the one the apple color picker that pops up what we are changing now is this color here so if i click in here and we say we want that to be black and we click back black so that's pretty obvious isn't it but now say i wanted to change this border and so i click in here and i thought maybe i don't want one of those colors maybe i want that color but maybe i'll actually want to change that to white you'd think that because i've just been selecting this color out of this palette that this would also be the active palette for that little drop down but it isn't because we're still highlighted in this part here so what you have to make sure if you want to change the line color is you would actually activate the color wheel button here and then you can change the color do you see what i mean now this may be just me i don't know but if you are new to a mac it's something that i think might infuriate you if you don't know how to change it so i thought i'd just mention it and apologies if it is a a very simple thing but it still gets me i still find myself clicking and thinking why isn't the color changing but there you go i digress so the um lime border we've got our black background that we're going to remove afterwards and then we've also got our border so let's go ahead and change that to white so that it looks the same as the other one and it has remembered actually that the previous line weight that we had for our last border was 10 so which remembered that from the last object we added and so that can go there now this might be good time to add in a little think about where we're going to put the clock and any text on the scene as well and you might want to have a whole section i mean you could have something here where you actually put in the details of the stream or something like that but for now i'm just going to keep things simple and show you how to add in some text so we'll go to the text at the top up here and we'll click on that one and we'll just click in text and now we've got a little text box a little teeny tiny text box so we'll drag that to make it a bit bigger and then let's also change the uh the typeface and the the size of that so in fact we'll leave the typeface as it is obviously you may have your own branding and own style and things like that that you want to use do make sure that you are consistent with those things across all of the things that you do in your videos uh but for now we'll just leave it with helvetica the very plain and unimaginative helvetica but we'll make this text a little bit bigger let's say uh 300 is that gonna be a bit bit on the big side there uh so let me just drop that down to 100 because all we're going to write here is a stream starting soon so we'll go into here and i'll just type stream starting soon dot dot dot there we go so it's automatically wrapped down onto the bottom line because i had actually selected a width so if i drag this out you can see how it's just changing the the width of that there might want to make that a bit bigger a shortcut for that is to press command plus to increase the size or command minus to reduce it so we'll put that there it perhaps doesn't pop out quite enough off that background and i don't know what you think about that but it could perhaps be have a bit more definition so i'll click on that text again and then i'll go up to the text up at the top here and then i'm going to come down to the different controls we've got so i don't know if i made this clear before but this is where we changed the the typeface the bold underline and so on and the font weight uh there we go and then we can also do things like you know alignment and stuff like that that you're probably familiar with if you've used office applications and things like that so i won't bore you with that detail but if you want to add a shadow to it it's perhaps not immediately obvious but it's this little cog wheel just here so just next to where you've got the bold and italics you've got this little cog wheel and that allows you to do some extra things so if i click in here you can change things like the character spacing and the baseline and you know adjusting things like that superscript subscript and so on um but we won't get into too much of that but the two that you might be interested in is either outline so i click on that you shall see what happens again let me change the color of that just so that i'll change this after back afterwards but i'll just show you what i'm doing so i've got a black outline now and if i just increase the size of that hopefully you can see it's just outlining the text basically um and so we could leave that or we could go to shadow so i can drop shadow and oops come out from here i think i've just dropped out of that uh that window for a minute so where where was i oh there shadow there we go it's it's put in the shadow now at the bottom and then you can change the uh let me just take off the outline so it's clear what we're changing here you can change the sort of offset of the shadow how many pixels it is so the further that is away the further it moves uh you can also change the opacity the blur so how much is spread out hopefully you can see what's happening with that as i click the blur up and down um and then the other thing you can change is the angle so the angle of the shadow behind the text so so yeah it's up to you where you put this and if you have it too far away it doesn't really help it pop out so i tend to have it if i have these on is maybe something like 10 pixels or something like that there we go and i like to have them sort of pop quite a lot so i tend to have quite a low blur excuse me and there we go something like that it just helps the text to pop out so if i just toggle that on and off you can see without it and then if i toggle it back on again you can see that it's uh oops daisy i've uh seemed like it didn't actually remember that then i'll put that back hopefully you shall see this i'll put that to 10 again i don't quite know why i didn't remember that but there you go once we've set it up it's done so hopefully that should just help that text pop out so when it's on the screen it will just look a bit better bear in mind when you are adding any text to your uh your overlays the devices that people are going to be watching your content on so this might look great when people are watching on a uh on a desktop but when they're watching on a mobile then uh yeah you just have to watch that and really watching a demo like this on a mobile is not ideal because i obviously need to show you the full screen uh to show you all the controls and things but i'm sure that watching on a mobile these are looking quite small if you are indeed watching on it on a mobile but the same goes for big title screens like this uh it's best to try and keep the the text as bold and as big as possible so that if people are watching on a small screen then it is uh it is all still uh readable so with that in mind what i might do is actually just make that a bit bit bigger one thing you could do is you could capitalize it and you could either do that manually i think go and change it all to caps but you can also do that in the little wheel again in this capitalization so let's just say that we want it all caps so stream starting soon so it's nice and big and bold and clear and we could put that centered or we could just have it over to uh over to one side i'll leave that up to you and then let's say we're going to put a countdown timer somewhere in this area here and i'll just leave that blank because the actual countdown timer itself we're going to do in ecamm live well we've hit a bit of a milestone now because now what we've got is we've got the outline of our overlays for our um main window for our picture in picture windows and for our side-by-side shot and for our stream starting soon and i think that they look quite good to be honest it's almost like a graphic designer did them whereas really it's just little old me in keynote and a free stock image but all of this sort of background uh as i say you can get that for free from shutterstock and what i'll show you now is let's actually just go and add in another image and i'll just show you this uh now so that you can see how easy this is to do before we actually go any further so let me just come back across to uh i didn't really prepare for this so but i think it's useful to do now i think about it let's just say you didn't like that and you thought that that looked absolutely rubbish well perhaps you like this style more so let's go to this one and then i'll click on the download button and we're going to use that as our background image so i've downloaded that one and i'll just uh i'll go back to that and get the link for it after so i can make sure that i do link to both of these people let me just quickly mention his name just in case who made that one uh k j r corporate so thank you for your image so let me come back to uh to this scene now so remember i said about you can easily change the background image right well if i go to get that picture from my downloads where's it gone right here if i come to this window sorry i'm just working on another screen here to get my uh downloads folder up okay downloads and so we've got this other image so what i want to do now is if i want to change the look of all of these scenes i can go to edit slide layout where we've got this image i could just literally drag this new image over into this and then now that has added that image i would obviously delete the other one oh you don't have to you could actually what you could do in fact i'll show you that after as well so here we go we've got this one now i'll just drag that across so that's now filling the background now what we do is we close slide master and look at that we've got an entirely different look for our overlays so now we've got three overlays with different images in haven't we let's be a bit more clever about this is uh let's go to edit slide master again what i'm going to do is i'm just going to duplicate this and i'll delete this picture from this one in fact no i won't i'll delete uh the background picture from that one and then in this one i'll delete this one because i do want to make out that first one so now you can see that we've got two different slide masters this is a good way to demonstrate you see how i've reverted back to my original but if we did want to make this uh make a slide with that other one when we click add slide now you can see we've got both of those so we can choose between the background so that is how if you want to make templates for you know perhaps you're doing different productions or things like that you could make them uh have just different slide masters and then uh yeah change the backgrounds in each one so i hope you can see how easy that is you can go to unsplash.com grab a different background throw it into the background with a matter of two or three clicks and you've completely changed the look of this whole sort of pack of overlays so what we're going to do now is i'm going to show you how to get those into ecom live so that's the next part how do we get these into ecam live i'll just delete this one because what we're going to do is we're going to export those so let's go to uh file up in the top menu i've got my uh got my finder window on my other screen completely covering my ecam so just checking that you could see me and i'd covered myself up so we'll go to the file menu and then in the file menu you come down to export to and we'll go to export to images there we go and from export to images if you wanted to just export one or two of these maybe you'd made some extra you know some new slides and you didn't want to export them all you could just uh select you know from slide one to four or one whichever but as it happens we want all of these don't we so let's just do like that um you don't need to worry about this one this is if you were doing a presentation bear in mind that this is this is not a graphics package it's supposed to be a presentation software so it's designed for you know you've got slides with information on and maybe you have different scenes and transitions and things like that in keynote so this toggle here is basically if you had like multiple things building out in your keynote presentation do you want those each exported as a separate image but in this case we can just ignore that in terms of the file format we want these to be png because bear in mind one thing we haven't done yet is we haven't actually made them as transparencies because we need to have that transparent background to be able to see what's uh what's behind and although the slide masters are transparent which we'll need later while we make some animated overlays uh the actual um background at the moment in those black boxes is still solid black so we need to remove that and jpegs can't have transparency whereas pngs can so we're going to export those as png okay so and then we don't need this one on at the moment but later we will so let's just leave it toggled export with transparent backgrounds uh so now we'll click on next and what it's going to do is pop up a little uh save dialog box and it's going to ask us where we want to save this to so let me just go to this folder here where is it example files there we go and there's that unsplash file so i'll leave that in the in the downloads as well and i'll add that other one to it as well from my desktop so just to recap all again all of these things that i'm creating now will be available on the website for free and so you just go to my website and i'll put a link to it i'll probably put it in the store actually but then it will just be a zero dollar price so you just be able to download it that might be the easiest way uh thinking aloud uh for how to make this available so that i've got all the infrastructure there in order to make digital downloads available so if you go to the store and there'll be a section called free stuff and you'll just be able to download it there um or if not i'll root you somewhere else but all of the links will be in the description fear not all of this stuff will be available so here we want to call this what we're going to call this we're going to call this ecam overlays right so those are ecam overlays so if i click export now now what that has done is if i get my finder window back to show you and now here's my finder you can see we've got this folder ecam overlays and in there we've got a single image for each of those overlays that we've just created but they've got that black uh solid black background okay so what we want to do is remove that well the easiest way to do that is actually in uh preview which is when if you open a file an image file on your mac then it will usually open up in the preview so just in case you've got some other video sorry some other image editor set as your default then you just right click on that and click open with uh preview so there's lots of different image editors that i've got that i could use on here but i'm just using preview app so i do have that set as my default anyway so let's just highlight all of these like that and i'll just double click to open them all and now these should all open up in preview now the question is where is that window going to appear obviously it's appeared on my other monitor so i'll drag this over to where you can see it so it makes it easier for you so here we go now these are all opened in preview and so now we've got our different scenes look at different overlays so what we want to do one simple step with each slide is if we go up to this markup up in the top corner in the toolbar you click on that and it loads some extra little tools that you can annotate or things like that well the one that you want is this little one hiding over here which is the magic wand or instant alpha it looks like a magic wand but the tool is actually called instant alpha by the way in images an alpha channel is a transparency so instant alpha is going to turn the thing transparent so what we need to do is we just need to take our mouse and we're going to click in that black area that we want to change if i click in there click and hold the mouse and then just drag and you can see how it's highlighted that area red if i still holding down the mouse dragged further it would change the sort of sensitivity if you like of what was being highlighted and eventually it would highlight the whole area but we don't want to highlight the area we just want that black part highlighted so highlight that red and you can see there's these little i hope you can pick up that there's these little uh sort of dotted lines scrolling around it to show that it's been highlighted and then we just press the delete key it's turned grey because i've got a gray background to all of my windows but that now is transparent in the middle and that is perfect that is exactly what we want to be able to go over the top of our images okay so now we're going to come into the next one and we're just going to repeat that in all of the different tools the in all of the different overlays up at your pardon take a drink of water and so yeah we come back to this one and as i say the tool is still selected so let me just drag that over there click on delete we'll do the same on this scene uh delete for this one delete on this one and then the last one was this one that we're going to use with our picture in picture uh incidentally there was something that i was going to tell you in the powerpoint section which i didn't mention before i meant to mention it but i didn't so let me just zoom in and show you what i was going to say i said you have to be careful with rounded corners and that is because um if you've got a solid black background like this one it doesn't really matter what's going on in the corners because you're covering all of it anyway so the sort of picture shot that you're going to be covering is disappearing behind this overlay so it doesn't really matter however if you've got one and it doesn't matter on this one or this one either whereas on this one you've basically got one camera shot which is over the top of a second camera and so if you imagine like the line of the camera window would be coming out to here so if you had like a really rounded corner on it it would completely cover with the background on this side but on this side where it's sort of encroaching onto the top of the other window if this radius here was like really um large or the border was really thin then what you would see is on this edge you would actually see the camera shot protruding out underneath the uh the um the border there it might be easier to explain it when i'm actually in the shot but yeah that was one thing i mentioned with round corners just being careful to make sure that when you actually put them the overlay onto the top of the camera it does actually cover it specifically where you've got two different camera shots um overlaying each other but maybe i'll explain it later so um there we go we've got our now transparent overlays just click close and then it will save them automatically or ask you to save them so we'll click on save uh save there we go it's asking me to save them one by one there we go last one so now we've got our four overlays in our little finder window and they are in fact transparent i hope you found that useful and if you did then don't forget to go down and like and subscribe and turn on those notifications so that you get alerted anytime i make any new content and also don't forget that all of the uh icon packs and templates and things like that that i've talked about in these videos are available as a free download from my website so simply head on over to take one tech dot io and there you'll be able to see at the top of the page there is a link to the actual full tutorial that this is an extract from but also just below that you'll see that there is a area where you can download that full icon pack and template pack and make it your own so yes that's the place to go and also that's the place to go if you want to contact me as well that's the easiest place there's a contact page on that website but also you'll notice just down in the bottom right hand corner there's also a little chat box you can always get in touch with me that way incidentally if you're not already using it then this whole video has been produced with ecam live and it's the uh my video editor uh my video production environment should i say of choice uh certainly better than what i was using before obs and so yeah it's uh highly recommended it certainly made my life a lot easier and yeah if you head over to take one tech dot io ecam then there you can get a free trial and try it out for yourself and see what all the fuss is about well that's about all for now but as i said this is actually an extract from a much larger four and a half hour tutorial that i did which will take you from zero to a full production setup in e-cloud cam live including obviously all of the overlays and transitions and things like that and linking it to your stream deck and designing all of your stream deck icons and all of that business everything that you need to get going with your video production and streaming so i'll link to that video uh down below as well or you can just go and find it on the top of my web page as well but for now that's all from me and i'll link to some of the other videos from that tutorial also to the right hand side and until the next video have an absolutely wonderful day you