5 STREAM DECK Tips & Tricks For Beginners!

[00:00] so you just bought an Elgato stream deck

[00:03] maybe you have the new stream deck Neo

[00:05] with the eight buttons or maybe you got

[00:07] the big 32 button XL stream deck and you

[00:10] don't have any idea what buttons to put

[00:12] on

[00:13] it why did you buy something if you

[00:15] don't even know what you're going to use

[00:16] it for here are five beginner friendly

[00:19] ideas that you can Implement right now

[00:22] now if you want a more advanced video

[00:24] I'm going to be releasing another video

[00:26] later this week with five Advanced ideas

[00:29] so subscribe if you want to see that

[00:31] video by the way if you don't have a

[00:32] stream deck or you're thinking about

[00:34] buying one I do have 5% discount codes

[00:37] for literally every single one even the

[00:38] one with the the knobby boys they're

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[00:42] no rush you don't have to use them right

[00:44] now you can use them whenever you want

[00:46] or if you have an iPhone or iPad you

[00:48] could just use a stream deck app for

[00:49] free they give you six free buttons that

[00:52] you never have to pay for you don't have

[00:53] to enter in any payment details and

[00:55] everything I'm going to show you today

[00:57] works exactly the same in the app the

[00:59] first tip tip is to use pinned buttons

[01:02] now Elgato added a feature somewhat

[01:05] recently that allows you to pin your

[01:07] most used buttons so that they're always

[01:09] available on your stream day so even

[01:12] when you navigate through folders or

[01:14] swipe through pages those buttons will

[01:17] always be there you just right click on

[01:19] any of your buttons and pin it and it's

[01:21] going to turn gray so you know that's

[01:22] been pinned I like using this for things

[01:25] like my view count stats my most used

[01:27] OBS scenes or like my mic mute button

[01:30] and as you can see when I navigate

[01:32] through folders those buttons are always

[01:34] on the stream deck you can still

[01:36] override your pinned button so if there

[01:38] are certain pages where you want to use

[01:40] a different function where that pin

[01:42] button is you can still use it but if

[01:44] you delete that button it's going to

[01:46] revert back to whatever you had pinned

[01:49] in that slot number two is to use hot

[01:51] keys this sounds pretty obvious but if

[01:55] there's anything that you want your

[01:56] stream deck to do that it doesn't have

[01:58] native actions for you can just drag

[02:01] over a hot key button and then that

[02:03] button will simulate any key combination

[02:05] that you enter you can give it a label

[02:07] or even make your own custom icons so

[02:09] you don't have to remember what that key

[02:11] combination does you just look down and

[02:13] then you just read it and it just tells

[02:14] you I know some of you are like wow

[02:16] nutty that's great I I I figured I could

[02:18] have figured that out on my own but I

[02:20] have Microsoft power toys on my

[02:23] computers and power toys has a lot of

[02:25] hot keys for doing really useful things

[02:28] for example if you press Windows shift C

[02:31] it pulls up this really useful Color

[02:34] Picker or if you press Windows shift uh

[02:38] Tilla the little Dash thing uh it pulls

[02:41] up fancy zones which is like a super

[02:44] Advanced Windows snapping feature this

[02:46] is amazing I love this but did you know

[02:49] that Windows also has a built-in emoji

[02:52] keyboard so if you press Windows period

[02:56] you can search for whatever Emoji you

[02:58] want you can also navigate through

[03:00] virtual desktops by pressing Control

[03:02] Plus Windows left and right or if you

[03:05] use like a video editor there's like a

[03:07] million different hot keys to remember

[03:09] if you use like d Venture resolve like

[03:11] how the hell am I supposed to remember

[03:12] all these keys I don't I have a folder

[03:15] full of hot keys and I don't even know

[03:17] what these key combinations are but they

[03:19] have labels on them so I know exactly

[03:21] what these buttons do if you have a

[03:22] stream deck plus you can even use the

[03:24] knobs to do anything you want this works

[03:27] really well for video editing you can

[03:29] set up the dials so that when you turn

[03:31] left on a dial it presses left right it

[03:34] presses right and then when you click

[03:36] into the dial it presses control

[03:38] backlash so that way you can scrub

[03:41] through your timeline in Daven Kai

[03:43] resolve just by turning the dials or you

[03:46] can make Quick Cuts by clicking into it

[03:50] number three is quick folders I'm going

[03:53] to take full credit for this feature

[03:55] because I had a meeting with Elgato like

[03:57] two years ago and I suggested this idea

[03:59] to one of the technical managers alato

[04:01] back me up this story definitely

[04:02] happened okay I'm 100% that it happened

[04:05] I call it quick folders but I believe

[04:07] the actual feature is called folder Auto

[04:10] exit basically if you're in a folder

[04:12] there's a little radio button that says

[04:15] Auto exit and if you turn this on it

[04:18] automatically backs you out of that

[04:20] folder as soon as you tap on one of the

[04:23] buttons within that folder it doesn't

[04:25] sound like a big deal but I find this

[04:27] really useful because I have a lot of

[04:29] OBS scenes and rather than making 20

[04:32] different buttons on the top layer of my

[04:34] stream deck I can shove all of my OBS

[04:37] scene buttons into a single folder so

[04:40] that way if I want to switch scenes it

[04:42] only requires two button presses to

[04:45] change scenes as opposed to three it

[04:48] sounds like a really minor thing I get

[04:49] it but you guys know how it is when

[04:51] you're a streamer you have to be the

[04:53] onscreen Talent the producer the

[04:55] lighting guy the audio guy all at the

[04:58] same time and these little shortcuts and

[05:00] little ways to save brain energy just

[05:03] make a big difference and allow you to

[05:04] focus more on entertaining your audience

[05:07] rather than worrying about how your

[05:08] stream is

[05:10] produced hey so I need this video to be

[05:12] 7 Seconds longer so I can put Min roll

[05:14] ads in it um so I wanted to wish you a

[05:17] very happy

[05:19] birthday there's like a 1 in 365 chance

[05:23] that I nailed it okay back to the video

[05:25] number four is global Styles now you

[05:28] probably already know this but every

[05:30] button on your stream deck can have

[05:31] their own labels with different fonts

[05:34] sizes alignments and the thing is if you

[05:37] want to change all the fonts on all of

[05:40] your buttons all at once you used to

[05:43] have to do that one by one and if you

[05:45] have like 60 different buttons that's

[05:46] super annoying but thankfully a little

[05:49] bit ago they added a new setting that's

[05:51] basically like a global style setting so

[05:54] you can set up the default font and text

[05:56] alignment for all of your buttons and

[05:58] then apply that that style to all of

[06:01] your existing buttons from one menu

[06:04] super handy but I do wish that Elgato

[06:06] would expand the font options because

[06:09] it's pretty limited my favorite font is

[06:11] the trebuchet Ms font but if you can

[06:14] copy my settings here I I think this

[06:15] looks pretty good all right last one is

[06:17] a little bit of a silly one but I'm

[06:19] going to call it secure buttons now

[06:22] we've all accidentally hit the start

[06:24] streaming button on our stream deck

[06:26] super awkward when you're like recording

[06:28] a YouTube video and then you mess up

[06:29] like 20 times in a row only to realize

[06:32] that you are actually streaming the

[06:34] whole time we've all been there right

[06:35] some buttons like the OBS record button

[06:38] or the stream button have a long press

[06:41] option so if you turn on this checkbox

[06:45] these buttons will only ever activate if

[06:48] you long press the button if you short

[06:50] press it nothing happens you'll see a

[06:52] little triangle saying it didn't work

[06:54] but yeah this is a really simple idea

[06:56] that I'm glad that Elgato implemented

[06:58] but what if that's not secure enough for

[06:59] you what if you still find yourself

[07:01] accidentally hitting the stream button

[07:04] well for mine I actually made a folder

[07:06] put this stream button inside that

[07:09] folder with a gigantic message saying do

[07:12] you want to stream and then when you

[07:13] click yes that's not the stream button

[07:16] because it's actually another folder and

[07:18] then inside that folder it says are you

[07:20] sure about that and then you press Yes

[07:21] again it goes into another folder and

[07:23] only then will you actually find the

[07:25] real stream button okay maybe that was

[07:27] Overkill but imagine there's like a

[07:29] stream deck plugin where it like made

[07:31] you solve like a capture to start the

[07:33] Stream So you're like you like clicking

[07:34] the button it's like oh find the fire

[07:36] hydrants or something that would be

[07:38] hilarious someone make that that would

[07:39] be awesome anyway just some simple ideas

[07:41] for those of you that are new to using

[07:42] the stream deck if you guys want to see

[07:44] that more advanced stream deck ideas

[07:46] video subscribe I'll be releasing that

[07:48] soon I want to show you some ideas that

[07:49] you've never seen before and I mean like

[07:51] actually never seen before yes we all

[07:54] know about that Windows mover plugin

[07:55] okay we don't need like 20 other people

[07:57] to make YouTube videos about that okay

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