How a Non-Streamer Uses the Stream Deck + XL (Real Setup)

[00:00] This little thing is an Elgato

[00:01] Streamdeck and then this big thing is a

[00:03] Stream Deck plus XL and I'm not a

[00:06] streamer but I'm someone who has gotten

[00:07] a lot of use out of both of those over

[00:09] the years so I thought it'd be

[00:10] interesting to share a different kind of

[00:12] perspective on Elgato's Stream Deck gear

[00:14] outside of the Twitch and Kick and

[00:15] YouTube live streaming world because

[00:17] it's something a ton of people don't

[00:18] really talk that much about. And

[00:20] depending on your gear and your setup

[00:22] and the kind of content that you make,

[00:23] you could get a lot of mileage out of

[00:24] this stuff too. Now before we get going,

[00:26] Elgato sent me both of these to check

[00:27] out and this one came from the Doom the

[00:29] Dark Ages collab and I bought this cover

[00:31] to put on it because you can interchange

[00:33] what the covers actually look like and

[00:34] then I got the Stream Deck plus XL a

[00:36] couple of weeks back and I've kind of

[00:37] baked that into the setup and found

[00:39] something to do with all the different

[00:40] buttons and knobs and things that I

[00:42] never knew that I really needed but

[00:44] Elgato's always been super interesting

[00:45] to me going all the way back to when I

[00:47] first started making content because

[00:48] they've always had really good gear but

[00:50] they've always been at that kind of

[00:51] prosumer level and I think I heard that

[00:53] term from Harris Heller or somebody a

[00:55] couple of years back and I've just kind

[00:56] of stuck with it because it's true. It's

[00:58] professional consumer stuff. You look at

[01:00] something like the Stream Deck plus XL

[01:02] and you could easily see that in a

[01:03] newsroom or in a live setup and I will

[01:05] say I know professional people that

[01:07] actually use Elgato gear in their real

[01:09] professional world setups. In fact, they

[01:11] have an entire professional line that

[01:13] they kind of made just because people

[01:14] were using it for that. And then you get

[01:16] down to the audio stuff which Elgato's

[01:18] been putting a lot of money into over

[01:19] the past few years like the Wave 3, the

[01:21] Wave DX XLR mic, the Wave XLR itself

[01:24] which is a really good interface for

[01:26] what it is. And all of that gear is good

[01:27] but it's not necessarily what a

[01:29] professional audio person would go for

[01:31] compared to what you might find from

[01:32] somebody like myself that started off

[01:34] with a Blue Yeti from 2009 and then just

[01:37] gradually upgraded through stuff over

[01:39] time. Elgato makes a ton of great steps

[01:41] but the trick in finding value in stuff

[01:42] like the Stream Deck and the Stream Deck

[01:44] plus XL is in aligning with the kind of

[01:45] content creator that you are because a

[01:47] ton of people don't need anything that

[01:49] I've talked about here so far. We're

[01:51] living in a time where the most popular

[01:52] people online are blowing up with

[01:53] nothing but an iPhone. I I I look at

[01:55] Case so all the time as somebody who has

[01:57] driven completely by his personality and

[01:59] the setup doesn't matter at all. He has

[02:01] just been killing it with exactly pretty

[02:02] much what he started with and is doing

[02:04] great. But, if you want to go for a

[02:05] higher quality podcast production or

[02:07] just a set kind of like I've got, then

[02:09] this kind of stuff can come in handy.

[02:11] But again, it comes down to what kind of

[02:12] content you want to make and what kind

[02:14] of creator you are personally. So, to

[02:16] talk about the Stream Deck and the

[02:17] Stream Deck Plus XL properly, we've kind

[02:19] of got to start off with the kind of

[02:20] content that I make and that is

[02:22] short-form content every single day. I

[02:24] put out at least one video a day if not

[02:25] two or more depending on what's going

[02:27] on. But, the content that I make,

[02:28] whether it's the gaming news, which is

[02:30] my bread and butter, or the product

[02:31] reviews, or the game reviews are all

[02:33] driven by information. And over the

[02:35] years, I've upgraded the audio and video

[02:36] gear. I've added a couple of Elgato

[02:38] Prompters on the middle and right. And

[02:40] then I've got different speakers and

[02:41] headsets and headphones. Tons of

[02:42] different stuff like that. There's a lot

[02:44] going on here. And a lot of the gear in

[02:45] my setup, specifically the lights on my

[02:47] right and left plus the prompter in the

[02:49] middle and the prompter on the right are

[02:50] made by Elgato because they do make some

[02:52] of the best prosumer level content

[02:54] creator gear that's out there, for sure.

[02:56] Which is a lot of the reason I find a

[02:57] ton of value in the Stream Deck and the

[02:59] Stream Deck Plus XL because a lot of

[03:00] this Elgato stuff works directly with

[03:03] both of those devices to kind of make

[03:04] them one-stop shop hubs. But then, a lot

[03:06] of the stuff behind me also isn't

[03:08] actually Elgato gear. Because what a ton

[03:10] of people don't realize is that I

[03:11] control all the lights in the office

[03:13] with my voice and now with the Stream

[03:14] Deck Plus XL. So, I can say, "Alexa,

[03:16] turn off the office."

[03:19] "Alexa, turn on the office."

[03:22] And now we're back. "Alexa, make the

[03:23] office red."

[03:26] Perfect. So, when I'm recording

[03:27] something about Diablo, immediately

[03:29] change that, throw some Diablo gameplay

[03:30] up on the monitor, and I'm good to go.

[03:32] Maybe some Xbox news drops. "Alexa, make

[03:34] the office green."

[03:36] And we're ready to record. And the way

[03:38] all of that works is that the light bars

[03:40] on the left, middle, and right are all

[03:41] connected to Alexa and then down below

[03:43] the desk, I've got an Amazon plug and

[03:45] also one on the left. So, everything in

[03:47] here is basically kind of on the same

[03:48] circuit if that's the right electrical

[03:50] terminology. So, having all of that in

[03:52] the back of the setup also works really

[03:54] well with the Stream Deck because that

[03:55] makes this even more of a hub for me to

[03:57] control every single little thing. And

[03:59] the other thing that I almost forgot to

[04:01] mention here is that my monitor

[04:02] situation is very, very weird. So, like

[04:04] I said, I've got one prompter here, one

[04:06] prompter here, an ultra-wide monitor

[04:08] down below, and then this monitor on the

[04:10] back that are all routed into the one

[04:12] computer. So, that's four different

[04:13] monitors that I kind of have to

[04:14] manipulate all the time to do different

[04:16] stuff. Which is another reason why I

[04:18] love the Stream Deck Plus XL. So, let's

[04:20] go ahead and get into it. This is the

[04:21] configuration that I've landed on over

[04:23] the course of the past couple of weeks,

[04:24] and I think this is potentially one of

[04:26] the most convenient and handy ways to

[04:28] control tons of stuff in my setup

[04:31] without having to open up a ton of

[04:32] different windows or click between

[04:33] programs. These are some really handy

[04:35] things. So, let's go from left to right.

[04:37] Up here on the top left, you've got

[04:38] toggling the lights on and off. So, if I

[04:40] literally push this button, boom, my

[04:42] lights go off. If I push this button,

[04:44] boom, my lights come back on. And then I

[04:45] can also control those lights with all

[04:47] of those different buttons down below

[04:49] and the two knobs. I've got default left

[04:51] and default right, and these are pretty

[04:52] much my presets. So, when I sit down in

[04:54] the morning and I turn on the lights

[04:55] like we just did, I'll hit both of

[04:57] these, and boom, my lighting is exactly

[04:58] the way that I want it to create a kind

[05:00] of shadow on my face and make a shot

[05:01] that's a little bit more dynamic. Then

[05:03] we've got four buttons that were

[05:04] actually carryovers from the original

[05:06] Stream Deck when I imported this profile

[05:08] over onto the Stream Deck Plus XL, which

[05:10] again is roughly uh double if not triple

[05:12] the size of this one. I'm not going to

[05:14] count those real quick, but these

[05:16] buttons were always super useful because

[05:18] they pretty much uh increased and

[05:19] decreased the lighting on the left and

[05:21] the right respectively. So, this was a

[05:22] great way to add a little more

[05:23] brightness if for some reason my ISO was

[05:26] changed or something like that, and I

[05:27] needed to record something really

[05:29] quickly. Super simple way to do that.

[05:31] But, I've since replaced that with the

[05:32] knobs that are down there on the left.

[05:34] Now, the cool thing about the Elgato

[05:35] software is you can stack things here.

[05:37] So, right now I've got brightness left.

[05:39] If I push this, it turns into brightness

[05:42] right. So, you can see they're both set

[05:43] at 27 and 3% just like the presets. But,

[05:46] let's say I'm thinking that my right

[05:48] needs to be a little brighter. I want a

[05:49] more even shot. I can then turn that

[05:51] knob, crank it up, and now it's matching

[05:54] on 27 on both sides. But now let's say

[05:56] this looks a little bit washed out

[05:57] because my right panel is always a

[05:59] little bit uh colder when it comes to

[06:01] the temperature of the light. I can then

[06:03] go over here, toggle this to the right,

[06:06] and make it a little bit warmer. So,

[06:08] maybe I want to feel more like that. Or

[06:09] if I want it colder, I can do stuff like

[06:11] that. So, you've got so many options

[06:13] that are just built in here with this

[06:14] couple of knobs to where you don't have

[06:16] to go in and tweak software on the fly.

[06:18] If you're ready to record and you want

[06:20] to make a slight tweak, this is ready to

[06:21] go. But going back up to the buttons for

[06:23] a minute, next to lights turning on,

[06:24] I've also got a music stream shortcut

[06:26] that literally just opens up a default

[06:28] web browser. Super simple thing. And

[06:30] then also I've got this toggle to mute.

[06:32] So, this is from Win Tools, a super

[06:34] handy widget or series of widgets you

[06:36] can get from the Elgato marketplace

[06:37] because they've got tons of stuff you

[06:39] can pick from. If what they have out of

[06:40] the box isn't going to be enough for

[06:41] what you want to do. But what I use this

[06:43] for is if I'm listening while I'm

[06:45] writing a script, I can hit this button

[06:47] and it pauses the output for that

[06:49] specific application. So, instead of

[06:51] having a pause shortcut, which they have

[06:53] here built in right out of the box by

[06:55] default, this actually just turns off

[06:57] the audio coming out of the source that

[06:58] I would be using music for, so it

[07:00] doesn't affect anything else on the

[07:01] machine like DaVinci Resolve if I'm

[07:03] editing there, or maybe I'm playing a

[07:05] video on the back monitor. It doesn't

[07:08] pause that in the middle of my recording

[07:09] and then I not know it. So, it's a way

[07:11] more convenient way to do that. Then

[07:12] we've got extend and PC only, then

[07:14] ultra-wide and back monitor. And these

[07:16] are four of the buttons that I use the

[07:17] most. And so, what these do is extend

[07:20] turns on all of the monitors, so I can

[07:22] manipulate programs and throw a window

[07:24] up on this prompter, that prompter. I

[07:26] can use this entire real estate and then

[07:28] throw something up on the back monitor,

[07:29] no problem. But if I'm booting up a game

[07:31] and it's having an issue reading the

[07:32] monitor, or I want to save some of the

[07:34] power because driving all of these

[07:35] different screens can take a lot of

[07:37] power out of the GPU, I can hit PC only

[07:39] and then and just does the output on my

[07:41] main screen and turns off the two

[07:43] prompters and the monitor back there.

[07:44] And it looks like these are Windows

[07:45] display settings, which also happens to

[07:47] be what HDR toggle is. And this is a

[07:49] super convenient one for me because if

[07:52] you're like me and you talk about

[07:53] current events like gaming news, you're

[07:55] probably taking a lot of screenshots to

[07:56] throw in YouTube videos. And if you're

[07:58] taking a lot of screenshots, depending

[07:59] on the way that you do it, that can be a

[08:01] big pain if you're on Windows because

[08:03] Windows 11 and HDR just do not get

[08:06] along. So, with screenshots in Microsoft

[08:08] Edge, for example, which is something I

[08:09] take a lot of throughout the week,

[08:11] depending on the website, depending on

[08:13] the instance, I don't know, it seems

[08:14] very inconsistent, those HDR screenshots

[08:17] might look completely outblown. So,

[08:19] instead, if that happens, having to go

[08:21] in and toggle HDR off, go back to the

[08:23] program, take your screenshot, this

[08:25] button literally does it in the Windows

[08:26] settings for you without having to open

[08:28] any kind of Windows at all. But I don't

[08:30] want to skip over ultrawide and back

[08:31] monitor because these are two of the

[08:32] newer additions to my entire little

[08:34] stack here that I've got on the Stream

[08:36] Deck, but they're very useful because

[08:37] these change what your primary display

[08:40] is at any given time. So, for example, a

[08:41] couple of weeks back I was recording

[08:43] Battlefield 6 footage for a previous

[08:44] session before season 3 dropped, and I

[08:46] wanted to record in 16 by 9. So, instead

[08:49] of having to crop down and change the UI

[08:51] on this big super ultrawide, I was like,

[08:53] "No problem. I'll just play it back

[08:54] there on the other monitor and move my

[08:55] keyboard and mouse back there." When

[08:57] Battlefield 6 boots up, it automatically

[08:58] goes to what your primary display is.

[09:00] So, instead of having to go in, tweak

[09:02] the settings in Battlefield, try to move

[09:03] it around, I was just able to push this

[09:05] button, it boots up back there, I set up

[09:07] OBS on this main monitor, and I'm good

[09:09] to go. Then when I'm done recording and

[09:10] I want to go back and edit my footage

[09:12] into DaVinci Resolve, I can hit

[09:13] ultrawide and now this is back to being

[09:15] my primary display, so my timeline opens

[09:17] up and we're good to go. Again, no

[09:19] Windows menus, no display settings, it

[09:21] just works. But now I want to bounce

[09:23] back to what's up here next to that mute

[09:24] button, and this would be my headphone /

[09:27] audio section. And I've got a ton of

[09:28] different audio equipment in this setup

[09:30] right now. I've got a pair of studio

[09:31] headphones that are going into my Beacon

[09:33] Studio, which I picked up over the

[09:34] weekend. Uh then I've got the

[09:36] SteelSeries Arena 9 speaker system and

[09:38] then also a SteelSeries Nova Pro Omnis

[09:40] set of headphones for gaming as well.

[09:42] And so throughout the week, depending on

[09:44] what I'm doing, I'm switching back and

[09:45] forth between those multiple times

[09:47] throughout the day. I pour a cup of

[09:49] coffee, get some lo-fi going in the

[09:50] morning, figure out what I'm going to

[09:51] make a video on, switch to my studio

[09:53] headphones to edit the video that I

[09:55] record, then I go back to the

[09:56] SteelSeries speakers, then when I get

[09:58] 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

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[19:59] loop, and I'll catch you on the next

[20:01] one.