If you make video tutorials on your Mac then you might find it useful to use your iPad as a video monitor for your iPhone camera. It’s easy using Shoot.

With Video Pencil Camera you can map shortcuts on your Mac to Video Pencil on your iPad.

If you have an iPad and a Mac, it’s easy to draw on your camera in Teams.

It’s my birthday!

So for the day of June 4th I’m offering a discount of 45% off all my apps and in-app purchases!

The Squares TV App Suite as been growing steadily over the last few months.

In last week’s lab I described everything I’ve made and how it all fits together with this neat little diagram.

Hi, every Wednesday I go live on After Hours for a one hour lab where we discuss all the ways to use my growing suite of iOS and Mac apps.

During last week’s session I went into detail on some of the inner workings of Video Pencil as I’d changed the way Live Titles are drawn onto the screen and I thought it was quite interesting.

• Comparing Video Pencil connection options
• Getting Video Pencil Audio into your Mac
• Switching Video Pencil Camera over OSC with Beat Sheet
• Lower thirds for your guests with Beat Sheet
• Workflow analysis

Shoot offers a rock-solid connection from your iPhone’s camera to your computer, giving you total control.

Draw on anything on your iPad.

Camera • Photos • Videos • Desktop

Shoot’s new remote control feature is something you won’t find anywhere else. You can connect the app to squares.tv and control the camera settings - ISO, shutter speed, focus and zoom, from any web browser.

You can control exposure, focus, zoom and even the brightness of your iPhone’s flashlight from any browser with Shoot Pro.

If you want to avoid adding motion graphics for every tap and swipe in your screen recording during post-production, you should add a feature into your app that displays touches when you record.

Are you looking for a device frame for your motion graphics in Motion or After Effects promoting your iOS or Android app? Here’s the best place to find them.

Well, any language that Apple supports anyway.

It’s time to talk about cameras. But I’m not going to talk about Sony vs Canon vs Nikon vs Blackmagic here. There are loads of YouTubers and bloggers far better qualified to tell you about all the latest gear.

Instead, I’ll give you a bird’s eye view of your different options and how you’d use different cameras with your computer.

Last week I saw someone struggling to draw labels using their telestrator (or whiteboard or lightboard or whatever we’re calling it!).

This gave me an idea.

I’ve been asked why it’s called Squares TV. I’m not particularly good at marketing and branding so the reasons are confusing and relate to my personal history. Let me explain.

If you’re live streaming or on a Zoom call, nothing is more disruptive than connection problems. Different things can happen but here are the main ones.

Now that you have a good internet connection and decent audio let’s talk about lighting.

I joined Doc Rock live and we talked about our Amigas.

I made a Mac app that lets you move MIDI tracks between your Deluge Synthstrom Deluge and your Mac via MIDI files with a simple drag and drop interface. Here’s how it works.

I don’t know about you but I’ve always found it hard to ask for feedback on the things I make and do. But feedback is important.

What’s the next thing you should fix about your video? Do you need a new camera? Do you need to tidy up your backdrop? Improve your lighting? Improve your microphone technique? Add music? Plan your content better? Get a hair cut?

If you want to look better in your live streams or on video calls, you might think that getting a good camera is the first thing to do, but you’d be wrong.

Shoot is now free to download! Also I have made a new video showing how to use Shoot‘s “telestrator” feature, and updated Beat Sheet with a Stream Deck plugin. Read on to learn more.

Short answer: nothing - ignore it!

I love building things but I’ve fallen behind on my emails. Here’s some stuff I’ve done over the last couple of weeks. We need to talk about the latest Can You See My Screen podcast, Beat Sheet and how Shoot has been translated.

With Shoot Pro you can use your phone’s microphone on your streams using Ecamm Live.

Here is how to have a really easy, quick virtual whiteboard in OBS, Ecamm Live or Zoom without any mucking about or doing any weird stuff to make it work.

Craig Steele and Daniel Devine run sophisticated online workshops for schools and businesses, on advanced technical subjects like AI and cyber security.

Instead of using keyboard shortcuts, Beat Sheet now connects to Ecamm to retrieve all of your scenes, letting you pick them by name.

Rabbi David Paskin, aka Torah Tech Guy, “helping people use great tech to share and create great Torah”. Together we begin to answer a simple question: “How do we create digital experiences that aren’t terrible and boring?”

How to stream music with multiple auto-switching cameras on YouTube, Twitch or Facebook Live.

Maintaining eye contact while talking to people on Zoom or Ecamm can be a problem.

If you’ve solved this problem with an external display and teleprompter rig, now you can easily add a Beat Sheet overlay with your cue cards.

When connected over USB, Shoot works by directly mirroring your phone’s display which means that it is possible for notifications to appear if you don’t follow a couple of extra steps.

I’ve got so many things to talk about today, including new features out now in Shoot, Office Hours Global, BeatSheet for Mac and a discount code for Ecamm Live.

Imagine if you had been subscribed when I sent out this email?

Olu Sobanjo does YouTube and video training as Story Sellers Consulting helping people attract their ideal clients, build trust and sell more. We had a warm and enjoyable conversation about building confidence on camera, recording live video and telling great stories.

Plan and run better videos, live streams and immersive remote presentations.

Shoot has advanced manual controls, but what do they all do?

I had a lot of stems that I wanted to load onto my Deluge but it was a time-consuming and error-prone process through the hardware UI. Don’t get me wrong, the interface is far beyond what is available on most comparable sequencers, but sometimes you just need a computer.

Last week I did a live stream where I got into detail on audio practices, software and hardware for live streaming. I talked about techniques and gear and answered a few questions.

Free tools for Twitch. Stream profile manager for variety streamers.

Michael Forrest discusses audio latency and monitoring, macOS audio routing with BlackHole and Audio Hijack, background noise, how to be loud enough (but not too loud), software and hardware compression, mixer, recorder, microphone and headset recommendations.

I just released a free tool that lets you speed up your video editing workflow by converting your script into a timeline ready for Final Cut Pro.

This post shows how you can write a script in Final Draft (or any other script editor that can convert to .fdx) and instantly convert it to a Final Cut Pro timeline complete with captions, placeholders and action as ToDo markers.

Have you ever found yourself lying awake at 1 o’clock in the morning on a Sunday, worrying about all the little chores you’ve forgotten to do? Sometimes you feel guilty that you haven’t replied to an email from three weeks ago. Or you remember that your tax return is overdue and you’re building up fines. You lie there remembering all the little jobs that have slipped between the cracks, but you’ll forget them all the instant you sit at your desk and look at your email the next morning.

When you connect a camera to OBS over HDMI or AirPlay, you may find that your microphone goes out of sync on stream. I built a little tool to make it super-simple to calculate the exact number of frames you need for Mic Delay.

When you connect a camera to OBS over HDMI or AirPlay, you may find that your microphone goes out of sync on stream. I built a little tool to make it super-simple to calculate the exact Sync Offset you need to add in Advanced Audio Settings.

You’ll need a webcam driver and Magic Lantern.

Linking to my interview with Eerde and some information about my plans for 2022.

Live streamed church services and musical performances have been providing many people with much-needed community and human connection since the beginning of the pandemic. But how do you set something like this up?

With Shoot - Clean Camera Feed you can control your camera from your Apple Watch when you use your phone as a webcam. Here’s how.

This isn’t ideal but it works if you want to plug your iPhone into your laptop and use it as a camera in WebEx and don’t mind it showing up as “Sharing QuickTime Player”.

Here’s a Ruby Script I wrote to save lots of space on my Zoom L20 but it might work for other recorders too. I freed up 27.1GB of space on my 64GB card without deleting any data (because mostly-silent WAV files compress very effectively!)

I have three(!) new videos to share with you this week.

The first is the latest interview for Squares TV getting into the details of how Paul Dakeyne produces his DJ streams.

Paul Dakeyne is a veteran producer and club DJ who performs every week, live on Twitch. His DJ skills are flawless, the music’s always fun and his stream sounds and looks fantastic.

In this video you’ll see how to use your phone as an overhead camera, adjust the image with manual camera controls, and draw on the live video with Shoot’s virtual whiteboard feature.

Also, you’ll learn how to fold a perfect origami crane.

I wanted to offer something useful to new users of Squares TV and had the idea of a “rig explorer” - a simple interactive diagram that guides you through the details of different kinds of audio/visual streaming rigs.

A look behind the scenes.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that the Shoot’s subscription prices will increase on Monday, so if you want to get all of Shoot’s pro features at a lower rate, act fast!

How to get in touch.

How to get started

Some advice from RuPaul on how not to look urgly.

The first thing you’ll notice when starting out with video production is that you can’t see everything properly or it looks weird or grainy. So when should you start investing in lights?

What does an expensive camera give you that your phone’s camera can’t?

Where do you need to be in relation to that microphone?

When I first started streaming I didn’t understand trolls. Here’s what I learned.

This is a command line trick to make sure the Twitch clips you download will have audio when you import them into Final Cut Pro or Ecamm Live.

Jofamo is the young Bob Ross of Twitch. His streams are a welcoming place where he creates art and engages with everyone. If you’re getting started with your own channel, or looking to grow, or even if you just want to know what Twitch is all about, there’s something for you here.

TLDR: Everything once it goes on the computer.

If you don’t want to spend hours each week editing your podcast, you could try recording the whole thing live, in video format, with overlays and music breaks, all on your Mac.

Live streaming is an effective way to connect with other people and less time-intensive than video production. But when you’re live, a lot can go wrong. Squares TV offers you insights and tools to help with the technical side of going live.

How to use Shoot and AirServer to use your iPhone as a wireless camera for OBS

Shoot is a low-cost way to use your Apple device’s great camera in Zoom if you can’t use Continuity Camera.

Here’s how to connect your iPhone as a camera to OBS on a Mac.