[0:00] This little thing is an Elgato
[0:01] Streamdeck and then this big thing is a
[0:03] Stream Deck plus XL and I'm not a
[0:06] streamer but I'm someone who has gotten
[0:07] a lot of use out of both of those over
[0:09] the years so I thought it'd be
[0:10] interesting to share a different kind of
[0:12] perspective on Elgato's Stream Deck gear
[0:14] outside of the Twitch and Kick and
[0:15] YouTube live streaming world because
[0:17] it's something a ton of people don't
[0:18] really talk that much about. And
[0:20] depending on your gear and your setup
[0:22] and the kind of content that you make,
[0:23] you could get a lot of mileage out of
[0:24] this stuff too. Now before we get going,
[0:26] Elgato sent me both of these to check
[0:27] out and this one came from the Doom the
[0:29] Dark Ages collab and I bought this cover
[0:31] to put on it because you can interchange
[0:33] what the covers actually look like and
[0:34] then I got the Stream Deck plus XL a
[0:36] couple of weeks back and I've kind of
[0:37] baked that into the setup and found
[0:39] something to do with all the different
[0:40] buttons and knobs and things that I
[0:42] never knew that I really needed but
[0:44] Elgato's always been super interesting
[0:45] to me going all the way back to when I
[0:47] first started making content because
[0:48] they've always had really good gear but
[0:50] they've always been at that kind of
[0:51] prosumer level and I think I heard that
[0:53] term from Harris Heller or somebody a
[0:55] couple of years back and I've just kind
[0:56] of stuck with it because it's true. It's
[0:58] professional consumer stuff. You look at
[1:00] something like the Stream Deck plus XL
[1:02] and you could easily see that in a
[1:03] newsroom or in a live setup and I will
[1:05] say I know professional people that
[1:07] actually use Elgato gear in their real
[1:09] professional world setups. In fact, they
[1:11] have an entire professional line that
[1:13] they kind of made just because people
[1:14] were using it for that. And then you get
[1:16] down to the audio stuff which Elgato's
[1:18] been putting a lot of money into over
[1:19] the past few years like the Wave 3, the
[1:21] Wave DX XLR mic, the Wave XLR itself
[1:24] which is a really good interface for
[1:26] what it is. And all of that gear is good
[1:27] but it's not necessarily what a
[1:29] professional audio person would go for
[1:31] compared to what you might find from
[1:32] somebody like myself that started off
[1:34] with a Blue Yeti from 2009 and then just
[1:37] gradually upgraded through stuff over
[1:39] time. Elgato makes a ton of great steps
[1:41] but the trick in finding value in stuff
[1:42] like the Stream Deck and the Stream Deck
[1:44] plus XL is in aligning with the kind of
[1:45] content creator that you are because a
[1:47] ton of people don't need anything that
[1:49] I've talked about here so far. We're
[1:51] living in a time where the most popular
[1:52] people online are blowing up with
[1:53] nothing but an iPhone. I I I look at
[1:55] Case so all the time as somebody who has
[1:57] driven completely by his personality and
[1:59] the setup doesn't matter at all. He has
[2:01] just been killing it with exactly pretty
[2:02] much what he started with and is doing
[2:04] great. But, if you want to go for a
[2:05] higher quality podcast production or
[2:07] just a set kind of like I've got, then
[2:09] this kind of stuff can come in handy.
[2:11] But again, it comes down to what kind of
[2:12] content you want to make and what kind
[2:14] of creator you are personally. So, to
[2:16] talk about the Stream Deck and the
[2:17] Stream Deck Plus XL properly, we've kind
[2:19] of got to start off with the kind of
[2:20] content that I make and that is
[2:22] short-form content every single day. I
[2:24] put out at least one video a day if not
[2:25] two or more depending on what's going
[2:27] on. But, the content that I make,
[2:28] whether it's the gaming news, which is
[2:30] my bread and butter, or the product
[2:31] reviews, or the game reviews are all
[2:33] driven by information. And over the
[2:35] years, I've upgraded the audio and video
[2:36] gear. I've added a couple of Elgato
[2:38] Prompters on the middle and right. And
[2:40] then I've got different speakers and
[2:41] headsets and headphones. Tons of
[2:42] different stuff like that. There's a lot
[2:44] going on here. And a lot of the gear in
[2:45] my setup, specifically the lights on my
[2:47] right and left plus the prompter in the
[2:49] middle and the prompter on the right are
[2:50] made by Elgato because they do make some
[2:52] of the best prosumer level content
[2:54] creator gear that's out there, for sure.
[2:56] Which is a lot of the reason I find a
[2:57] ton of value in the Stream Deck and the
[2:59] Stream Deck Plus XL because a lot of
[3:00] this Elgato stuff works directly with
[3:03] both of those devices to kind of make
[3:04] them one-stop shop hubs. But then, a lot
[3:06] of the stuff behind me also isn't
[3:08] actually Elgato gear. Because what a ton
[3:10] of people don't realize is that I
[3:11] control all the lights in the office
[3:13] with my voice and now with the Stream
[3:14] Deck Plus XL. So, I can say, "Alexa,
[3:16] turn off the office."
[3:19] "Alexa, turn on the office."
[3:22] And now we're back. "Alexa, make the
[3:23] office red."
[3:26] Perfect. So, when I'm recording
[3:27] something about Diablo, immediately
[3:29] change that, throw some Diablo gameplay
[3:30] up on the monitor, and I'm good to go.
[3:32] Maybe some Xbox news drops. "Alexa, make
[3:34] the office green."
[3:36] And we're ready to record. And the way
[3:38] all of that works is that the light bars
[3:40] on the left, middle, and right are all
[3:41] connected to Alexa and then down below
[3:43] the desk, I've got an Amazon plug and
[3:45] also one on the left. So, everything in
[3:47] here is basically kind of on the same
[3:48] circuit if that's the right electrical
[3:50] terminology. So, having all of that in
[3:52] the back of the setup also works really
[3:54] well with the Stream Deck because that
[3:55] makes this even more of a hub for me to
[3:57] control every single little thing. And
[3:59] the other thing that I almost forgot to
[4:01] mention here is that my monitor
[4:02] situation is very, very weird. So, like
[4:04] I said, I've got one prompter here, one
[4:06] prompter here, an ultra-wide monitor
[4:08] down below, and then this monitor on the
[4:10] back that are all routed into the one
[4:12] computer. So, that's four different
[4:13] monitors that I kind of have to
[4:14] manipulate all the time to do different
[4:16] stuff. Which is another reason why I
[4:18] love the Stream Deck Plus XL. So, let's
[4:20] go ahead and get into it. This is the
[4:21] configuration that I've landed on over
[4:23] the course of the past couple of weeks,
[4:24] and I think this is potentially one of
[4:26] the most convenient and handy ways to
[4:28] control tons of stuff in my setup
[4:31] without having to open up a ton of
[4:32] different windows or click between
[4:33] programs. These are some really handy
[4:35] things. So, let's go from left to right.
[4:37] Up here on the top left, you've got
[4:38] toggling the lights on and off. So, if I
[4:40] literally push this button, boom, my
[4:42] lights go off. If I push this button,
[4:44] boom, my lights come back on. And then I
[4:45] can also control those lights with all
[4:47] of those different buttons down below
[4:49] and the two knobs. I've got default left
[4:51] and default right, and these are pretty
[4:52] much my presets. So, when I sit down in
[4:54] the morning and I turn on the lights
[4:55] like we just did, I'll hit both of
[4:57] these, and boom, my lighting is exactly
[4:58] the way that I want it to create a kind
[5:00] of shadow on my face and make a shot
[5:01] that's a little bit more dynamic. Then
[5:03] we've got four buttons that were
[5:04] actually carryovers from the original
[5:06] Stream Deck when I imported this profile
[5:08] over onto the Stream Deck Plus XL, which
[5:10] again is roughly uh double if not triple
[5:12] the size of this one. I'm not going to
[5:14] count those real quick, but these
[5:16] buttons were always super useful because
[5:18] they pretty much uh increased and
[5:19] decreased the lighting on the left and
[5:21] the right respectively. So, this was a
[5:22] great way to add a little more
[5:23] brightness if for some reason my ISO was
[5:26] changed or something like that, and I
[5:27] needed to record something really
[5:29] quickly. Super simple way to do that.
[5:31] But, I've since replaced that with the
[5:32] knobs that are down there on the left.
[5:34] Now, the cool thing about the Elgato
[5:35] software is you can stack things here.
[5:37] So, right now I've got brightness left.
[5:39] If I push this, it turns into brightness
[5:42] right. So, you can see they're both set
[5:43] at 27 and 3% just like the presets. But,
[5:46] let's say I'm thinking that my right
[5:48] needs to be a little brighter. I want a
[5:49] more even shot. I can then turn that
[5:51] knob, crank it up, and now it's matching
[5:54] on 27 on both sides. But now let's say
[5:56] this looks a little bit washed out
[5:57] because my right panel is always a
[5:59] little bit uh colder when it comes to
[6:01] the temperature of the light. I can then
[6:03] go over here, toggle this to the right,
[6:06] and make it a little bit warmer. So,
[6:08] maybe I want to feel more like that. Or
[6:09] if I want it colder, I can do stuff like
[6:11] that. So, you've got so many options
[6:13] that are just built in here with this
[6:14] couple of knobs to where you don't have
[6:16] to go in and tweak software on the fly.
[6:18] If you're ready to record and you want
[6:20] to make a slight tweak, this is ready to
[6:21] go. But going back up to the buttons for
[6:23] a minute, next to lights turning on,
[6:24] I've also got a music stream shortcut
[6:26] that literally just opens up a default
[6:28] web browser. Super simple thing. And
[6:30] then also I've got this toggle to mute.
[6:32] So, this is from Win Tools, a super
[6:34] handy widget or series of widgets you
[6:36] can get from the Elgato marketplace
[6:37] because they've got tons of stuff you
[6:39] can pick from. If what they have out of
[6:40] the box isn't going to be enough for
[6:41] what you want to do. But what I use this
[6:43] for is if I'm listening while I'm
[6:45] writing a script, I can hit this button
[6:47] and it pauses the output for that
[6:49] specific application. So, instead of
[6:51] having a pause shortcut, which they have
[6:53] here built in right out of the box by
[6:55] default, this actually just turns off
[6:57] the audio coming out of the source that
[6:58] I would be using music for, so it
[7:00] doesn't affect anything else on the
[7:01] machine like DaVinci Resolve if I'm
[7:03] editing there, or maybe I'm playing a
[7:05] video on the back monitor. It doesn't
[7:08] pause that in the middle of my recording
[7:09] and then I not know it. So, it's a way
[7:11] more convenient way to do that. Then
[7:12] we've got extend and PC only, then
[7:14] ultra-wide and back monitor. And these
[7:16] are four of the buttons that I use the
[7:17] most. And so, what these do is extend
[7:20] turns on all of the monitors, so I can
[7:22] manipulate programs and throw a window
[7:24] up on this prompter, that prompter. I
[7:26] can use this entire real estate and then
[7:28] throw something up on the back monitor,
[7:29] no problem. But if I'm booting up a game
[7:31] and it's having an issue reading the
[7:32] monitor, or I want to save some of the
[7:34] power because driving all of these
[7:35] different screens can take a lot of
[7:37] power out of the GPU, I can hit PC only
[7:39] and then and just does the output on my
[7:41] main screen and turns off the two
[7:43] prompters and the monitor back there.
[7:44] And it looks like these are Windows
[7:45] display settings, which also happens to
[7:47] be what HDR toggle is. And this is a
[7:49] super convenient one for me because if
[7:52] you're like me and you talk about
[7:53] current events like gaming news, you're
[7:55] probably taking a lot of screenshots to
[7:56] throw in YouTube videos. And if you're
[7:58] taking a lot of screenshots, depending
[7:59] on the way that you do it, that can be a
[8:01] big pain if you're on Windows because
[8:03] Windows 11 and HDR just do not get
[8:06] along. So, with screenshots in Microsoft
[8:08] Edge, for example, which is something I
[8:09] take a lot of throughout the week,
[8:11] depending on the website, depending on
[8:13] the instance, I don't know, it seems
[8:14] very inconsistent, those HDR screenshots
[8:17] might look completely outblown. So,
[8:19] instead, if that happens, having to go
[8:21] in and toggle HDR off, go back to the
[8:23] program, take your screenshot, this
[8:25] button literally does it in the Windows
[8:26] settings for you without having to open
[8:28] any kind of Windows at all. But I don't
[8:30] want to skip over ultrawide and back
[8:31] monitor because these are two of the
[8:32] newer additions to my entire little
[8:34] stack here that I've got on the Stream
[8:36] Deck, but they're very useful because
[8:37] these change what your primary display
[8:40] is at any given time. So, for example, a
[8:41] couple of weeks back I was recording
[8:43] Battlefield 6 footage for a previous
[8:44] session before season 3 dropped, and I
[8:46] wanted to record in 16 by 9. So, instead
[8:49] of having to crop down and change the UI
[8:51] on this big super ultrawide, I was like,
[8:53] "No problem. I'll just play it back
[8:54] there on the other monitor and move my
[8:55] keyboard and mouse back there." When
[8:57] Battlefield 6 boots up, it automatically
[8:58] goes to what your primary display is.
[9:00] So, instead of having to go in, tweak
[9:02] the settings in Battlefield, try to move
[9:03] it around, I was just able to push this
[9:05] button, it boots up back there, I set up
[9:07] OBS on this main monitor, and I'm good
[9:09] to go. Then when I'm done recording and
[9:10] I want to go back and edit my footage
[9:12] into DaVinci Resolve, I can hit
[9:13] ultrawide and now this is back to being
[9:15] my primary display, so my timeline opens
[9:17] up and we're good to go. Again, no
[9:19] Windows menus, no display settings, it
[9:21] just works. But now I want to bounce
[9:23] back to what's up here next to that mute
[9:24] button, and this would be my headphone /
[9:27] audio section. And I've got a ton of
[9:28] different audio equipment in this setup
[9:30] right now. I've got a pair of studio
[9:31] headphones that are going into my Beacon
[9:33] Studio, which I picked up over the
[9:34] weekend. Uh then I've got the
[9:36] SteelSeries Arena 9 speaker system and
[9:38] then also a SteelSeries Nova Pro Omnis
[9:40] set of headphones for gaming as well.
[9:42] And so throughout the week, depending on
[9:44] what I'm doing, I'm switching back and
[9:45] forth between those multiple times
[9:47] throughout the day. I pour a cup of
[9:49] coffee, get some lo-fi going in the
[9:50] morning, figure out what I'm going to
[9:51] make a video on, switch to my studio
[9:53] headphones to edit the video that I
[9:55] record, then I go back to the
[9:56] SteelSeries speakers, then when I get
[9:58] home from work, potentially I might want
[10:00] to throw a game on, play some
[10:01] Battlefield or something, and then I
[10:02] need a gaming headset. So, I'm going
[10:04] back and forth. Which is where the audio
[10:06] device buttons come in, and these kind
[10:07] of function like toggles. So, right now
[10:09] I've got it set to my headphones coming
[10:10] out of the Beacon Studio, and then my
[10:12] speakers, which are the SteelSeries
[10:13] Arena 9s. And then this device matching
[10:15] drop-down right here lets you choose
[10:17] between an exact match where it's got to
[10:19] be verbatim exactly what you've picked
[10:21] or fuzzy. So, if you just have one set
[10:23] of SteelSeries Arena 9s, if for some
[10:26] reason the naming scheme changes or the
[10:28] maybe plug you've got it in changes,
[10:30] it'll try to find the right match so you
[10:32] don't have any kind of issues when you
[10:33] push that button, and it should work all
[10:34] the time. And 98% of the time it works
[10:37] for me. That 2% is like whenever I've
[10:39] changed something, so like whenever I
[10:41] unplugged the Beacon Studio, it didn't
[10:43] automatically assign whatever I plugged
[10:44] in next. So, it's absolutely no problem
[10:46] with any of the software, it's literally
[10:48] just a user error, but it's just
[10:50] something you've kind of got to remember
[10:51] to go in and do if you change things
[10:52] around like I do. So, if I'm on the
[10:54] speakers listening to music, I can hit
[10:55] that one button, switch to the
[10:57] headphones, then I can hit the other
[10:58] button, switch to my gaming headset, and
[11:00] again, no going into Windows audio
[11:02] menus, no changing things around, no
[11:04] going into any kind of weird software.
[11:06] Like I've been saying, it just kind of
[11:08] works. Then to the right of that, you've
[11:09] got three that are honestly kind of
[11:11] fillers, but they're nice to have at a
[11:12] glance. So, here we've got a speed test,
[11:14] and you can set this to do it however
[11:16] often you would like. So, I've got it
[11:17] set to every 60 minutes, and you can
[11:19] have that on your screen at any time.
[11:20] Then when you push the button, it'll
[11:21] automatically run one of the tests. So,
[11:23] you can see right now running a speed
[11:25] test, and then boom, you've got like a 2
[11:26] ms response time, 550 down, 950 up,
[11:29] we're doing great. And next to that,
[11:31] we've got RAM usage, so if I'm recording
[11:33] something or playing a game, I can kind
[11:34] of keep an eye on that. Plus ping, if I
[11:36] want to make sure that my connection is
[11:38] really good to the server. So, again,
[11:40] really nice stuff to have. Not a
[11:42] necessity at all, but I got to say that
[11:44] does look pretty cool on the Stream
[11:46] Deck. And then top right, I've just got
[11:47] a shortcut set up to clear everything on
[11:49] the desktop, which is super handy if I'm
[11:51] filming something on the desk and I've
[11:52] got a camera coming this way recording
[11:54] my desktop. I can just get everything
[11:56] gone without having to minimize all of
[11:58] the windows and then get them all back
[11:59] up with the push of a button. Now, let's
[12:01] make our way down to the middle chunk
[12:02] with office on and office off. Now, this
[12:04] is something that I found on Reddit that
[12:06] I think is super cool. So, I was trying
[12:08] to find a way to instead of me
[12:10] controlling the lights with my voice, I
[12:12] could just have them on my Stream Deck.
[12:14] So, if I didn't want to make a lot of
[12:15] noise and I still wanted to have my
[12:17] lights on, I can push a button and boom,
[12:19] the entire office turns on. Push it
[12:21] again, boom, entire office turns off.
[12:23] The way that this works is that a
[12:24] service called Voice Monkey can create
[12:26] prompts that you can then connect to
[12:28] your Alexa account. So, when you do
[12:30] that, you can basically kind of feed
[12:31] Alexa things without actually saying
[12:33] anything with your own voice. And I'm
[12:35] sure that I'm turning on everybody's
[12:36] Echo devices right now. But, I set it to
[12:39] say the exact same thing I say when I
[12:40] want to turn the office on. So, instead
[12:42] of me having to say that out loud, if I
[12:44] want to turn the office off, I can just
[12:45] push this button and I think I pushed
[12:47] the wrong one. I opened DaVinci Resolve.
[12:49] Oh, no. Trying it one more time, pushing
[12:51] the office off button, everything in the
[12:52] office goes off, then pushing it and
[12:54] turning it back on, boom, everything's
[12:56] on. No voice control needed at all. Now,
[12:58] if I wanted to, I could pay for the
[12:59] premium version of Voice Monkey and add
[13:01] all the different colors that I would
[13:02] normally want to have an entire panel
[13:03] set up just to do that, but feel like
[13:06] that's a little bit overkill, so I'm
[13:07] just going to keep the basic Voice
[13:09] Monkey subscription, which is free. So,
[13:10] you can just make an account and all of
[13:12] this stuff just kind of works. Now, like
[13:13] I mentioned, I accidentally pushed
[13:15] DaVinci Resolve and you can actually see
[13:16] that. So, that dot on the DaVinci
[13:18] Resolve button means that it's open. So,
[13:19] if I go back and I close that, that dot
[13:21] should disappear in a minute once the
[13:23] entire program gets gone. And boom,
[13:25] DaVinci Resolve has now closed. But,
[13:27] these are all just shortcuts to some of
[13:28] the stuff that I use the most every day.
[13:30] So, like I said, I edit in DaVinci
[13:31] Resolve. I've got CapCut for my
[13:33] captions. Then, I'm a big Notion guy, as
[13:35] well. I make a ton of videos throughout
[13:37] the week. I've got embargoed stuff that
[13:38] I know that I can't talk about until a
[13:40] certain point. And then, I've got some
[13:41] brand deals that are coming. So, to keep
[13:42] everything organized all in one go, I
[13:45] use Notion where I built out this entire
[13:47] dashboard to keep track of everything
[13:48] I've got going on. And that plugs into
[13:50] Notion Calendar, that then plugs into my
[13:51] Google Calendar, so I can see exactly
[13:53] what I'm doing on any given day,
[13:55] potentially two, three, four weeks out.
[13:57] And that's really nice. I'm sure they've
[13:59] got tons of other stuff I could do, but
[14:00] these are just shortcuts to open Notion
[14:02] and Notion Calendar if I need to get to
[14:04] things at a glance. Of course, Steam
[14:06] shortcut. And then, the Elgato Camera
[14:07] Hub. Now again, this just opens and
[14:09] closes the application. But, if I did
[14:10] want to, there are tons of different
[14:12] things you can throw on here between the
[14:13] dials and the keys for the Elgato Camera
[14:16] Hub. And if you want to kind of file
[14:17] things down, you can just say Camera Hub
[14:19] and see everything you can do right now.
[14:21] Now, the Camera Hub could be its own
[14:22] video. But, if you're somebody who uses
[14:24] the Elgato 4K webcams or anything like
[14:26] that, you've got a refocus button, you
[14:28] can apply an effect, you can add a lot
[14:30] to your shot, tons of different stuff
[14:31] you can do in here just at the push of a
[14:33] button on a Stream Deck. And they've got
[14:34] even more over here on the dials, too.
[14:36] And I've thought about using some of
[14:37] these, but for me, I just use the scroll
[14:39] wheel on my mouse to go up and down on
[14:40] the prompter. But, you can adjust the
[14:42] camera here. You can change the prompter
[14:43] control, the prompter display if you
[14:45] want, prompter appearance, prompter
[14:47] scrolling. So, if you just kind of want
[14:48] to go back and forth on that with just
[14:50] one of the dials on the device, you can
[14:51] do that, too. Tons of different options
[14:53] here, but I've just got it set to where
[14:54] it just opens and closes. And then, of
[14:56] course, OBS, which is what I normally
[14:57] record in. Although, I am recording in
[14:59] Meld today, so I might throw Meld on
[15:01] here, too, and maybe replace this other
[15:03] button above it, which is Feedly.
[15:04] Because of the way social media is right
[15:06] now, especially in the gaming space, I
[15:08] just set up my own RSS feed with direct
[15:10] sources to GameSpot and IGN and Game
[15:12] Informer and Polygon and all the other
[15:14] different sources that are out there to
[15:15] try and figure out what's going on
[15:17] throughout the day without having all
[15:18] the noise that comes from a lot of
[15:20] what's going on across all the different
[15:22] social media platforms. And the last
[15:23] kind of nice to have button is my
[15:25] YouTube subscriber count. Now, this is
[15:26] not the ideal option. I've still kind of
[15:28] been thinking about getting one of those
[15:30] subscription counters you can have on
[15:31] your desktop because I love looking at
[15:33] numbers. It is not healthy, but I love
[15:35] looking at numbers. On my key it just
[15:37] says 73.9, but if you're somebody who's
[15:39] working your way up, it should be able
[15:40] to get more granular with just having
[15:42] four digits available to show on the key
[15:44] itself. But, for me it's also a nice
[15:46] benchmark where I can see it go from
[15:47] 73.9 to four tomorrow and then to five
[15:50] and to six and it kind of feels good to
[15:52] show that progression even if it's not
[15:54] as granular as I would personally like
[15:56] it. And then we've got window mover.
[15:58] Now, this is super handy for somebody
[15:59] like myself because depending on what
[16:01] I'm doing, I might want my screen set up
[16:03] in a slightly different way. So, I like
[16:04] having one on my left that's a little
[16:06] smaller, one on my right that's a little
[16:08] smaller, and then one big window in the
[16:09] middle because again the super ultra
[16:11] wide is super handy for that kind of
[16:12] thing. So, if I'm on a browser and I
[16:14] wanted to take up the middle of the
[16:15] screen, I can push this button and that
[16:16] window automatically snaps to the middle
[16:18] of the screen. Or if I want to throw my
[16:20] YouTube stats up on the right, I can
[16:22] push this button and boom, it goes over
[16:23] on a small window on the right without
[16:25] messing up the other ones on the screen
[16:27] either. And then these two buttons are
[16:28] pretty much the same, but they just
[16:29] split the screen down the middle. Now, I
[16:31] would like to see a third option added
[16:33] because what I do when I have DaVinci
[16:34] Resolve open is that I have one larger
[16:36] window and then one smaller window on
[16:38] the side. Did not have that in the
[16:40] options down here, but yeah, it's okay.
[16:42] And finally, we've got the last two
[16:43] knobs. Now, I would consider these to be
[16:45] kind of filler again like some of the
[16:47] other shortcut buttons that I've got up
[16:48] on the top that are nice to have, but by
[16:50] no means are integral to your workflow
[16:52] at all. But, as somebody who likes to go
[16:54] for a run from time to time or might be
[16:56] going and driving somewhere, seeing the
[16:58] weather at a glance, being able to see
[16:59] the time at a glance, it kind of makes
[17:01] this more of a hub for your desktop
[17:03] versus just like a utility key panel.
[17:05] And then over on the right you've just
[17:06] got the time, but there's so much more
[17:08] you can do here going into the options
[17:10] tab because you can throw something like
[17:11] Spotify on there and actually have it
[17:13] running, see what song you're listening
[17:15] to, if you want to throw a user volume
[17:16] control on here with one friend that's
[17:18] always coming into Discord way too hot,
[17:20] you can do that, too. And then you can
[17:21] stack these things, too. So, if you want
[17:23] to throw a dial stack on here and you
[17:24] wanted to go in and actually add, let's
[17:26] say, Spotify and you wanted to throw the
[17:29] user volume control on there, then you
[17:31] would go back out and you can push this
[17:33] button and toggle between them. So,
[17:34] you've got Discord control on one,
[17:36] Spotify on the other. So, you can really
[17:38] kind of do what you can do with the rest
[17:39] of the folders on the regular Stream
[17:41] Deck keys and have more things here than
[17:43] you would think. Which again, going back
[17:44] over to the left, is kind of what I did
[17:46] here where I've got one dial just for
[17:48] the brightness and one dial just for the
[17:49] temperature instead of having those two
[17:51] things take up four different dials and
[17:53] that's kind of all I could do. Now, this
[17:54] is just my setup right now and there's
[17:56] so much more you can do because again,
[17:58] you can make entire different pages of
[18:00] stuff. Like you can literally go and
[18:02] just change everything and have a second
[18:04] panel that's just as big as this one
[18:06] with six new dials, all of these
[18:08] different keys for a totally different
[18:10] use case. And then going to the Elgato
[18:12] marketplace, there's even more you can
[18:13] do over there. And this is where I think
[18:15] a ton of people that are way more
[18:16] hardcore than me are going to find a ton
[18:18] of value in the Stream Deck Pro XL
[18:19] because you've got stuff like DaVinci
[18:21] Resolve fast lane that gives you tons of
[18:22] different options to bake directly into
[18:24] DaVinci Resolve. So, this can kind of
[18:26] become like an editing hub for you. And
[18:28] you see some that we've already talked
[18:29] about here, too, like the window mover
[18:31] that we just discussed. They've got Mac
[18:32] icons if you want to use one of these on
[18:34] a Mac, different kinds of styles if you
[18:36] really want to get in here and make this
[18:37] thing your own. But for me, having owned
[18:39] the original Stream Deck as well as this
[18:41] new Stream Deck actually, now that I
[18:43] think about it, I had the original one
[18:44] way back in the day. Uh and then the
[18:46] Stream Deck plus XL plus everything else
[18:48] they've got in the Elgato stack, the
[18:50] marketplace is really kind of where
[18:51] you're getting a ton of value out of it.
[18:53] Again, you can see screen savers, sound
[18:55] boards, different plugins, which I think
[18:57] is really where these things really pop.
[18:58] Like the control center to control all
[19:00] of my lights, that's what I use for
[19:01] that. YouTube stuff, if you're live
[19:03] streaming there or on Twitch, streamers
[19:05] get a ton of use out of these. But that
[19:07] kind of brings me back to the top, the
[19:08] value in a Stream Deck goes way beyond
[19:10] streaming for somebody like me that's
[19:12] just editing stuff throughout the day
[19:14] and has a lot of automation baked into
[19:15] their workflow. Now, if you have more
[19:17] Elgato products, you are inevitably
[19:19] going to get more value out of just
[19:21] having a Stream Deck or a Stream Deck
[19:23] Plus or even the Stream Deck Plus XL,
[19:25] for sure. But, I'd love to hear it from
[19:26] you down below. If you're in the Elgato
[19:28] world, whether it's the original Stream
[19:30] Deck, which is still supported, or the
[19:31] new Stream Deck, or the big one, or the
[19:33] small one, whatever you've got, how are
[19:35] you going to use it outside of just the
[19:36] live streaming space? Because I feel
[19:38] like these things get a lot more mileage
[19:40] than they're given credit for. And of
[19:41] course, huge thanks to Elgato for
[19:42] sending me one of these to check out and
[19:43] bake into the setup because it is
[19:45] getting a ton of use, and I'm excited to
[19:47] continue exploring and trying new stuff
[19:48] with it and baking it deeper into the
[19:50] setup as the years go on because so far,
[19:52] so good. And of course, if you're new
[19:53] here, you like what you see and what you
[19:55] hear, hit that subscribe button for
[19:56] videos like this and gaming news shorts
[19:58] throughout the week to keep you in the
[19:59] loop, and I'll catch you on the next
[20:01] one.