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back in march of 2017 elgato released the stream deck an utterly unique 15 key

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keypad with screens on each key designed for live streaming it's got integration

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with obs twitch twitter Windows elgatos

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and products and in august 2017 they added xsplit allowing for us to finally

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use the stream deck for our weekly podcast the WAN Show but i rarely stream

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so why is my twitter feed full of requests to review this thing i'll tell

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you why because they know i don't care what anything was designed to do

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i care about what it can do and so as the king of macros i'll be looking at

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this product from two angles its intended use and how i use it

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tunnelbear makes really simple privacy apps so people can enjoy a more open

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internet to try tunnelbear free go to tunnelbear.com LTT

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opening up the stream deck software for the first time you'll be greeted by a

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bunch of actions on the right just drag them onto the buttons on the left try

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them out in real life and they all pretty much work exactly as you might

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expect you can control your twitch chat post pre-written messages on twitter

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change scenes sources and mics in obs and xsplit take screenshots record your

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screen and even record the last x minutes retroactively if you also have

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an elgato capture card sweet and there's a whole lot more but you might be

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thinking wait taryn can't we already do all that stuff using keyboard shortcuts

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well no not all of it for one thing keyboard shortcuts aren't always easy to

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remember and depending on your game they can end up conflicting with other

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commands furthermore because of the magic of API integrations it can even do

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things like toggling slow mode in twitch chat

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without you having to manually alt tab to the chat window and position your

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cursor and then alt tab back to where you were so the stream deck just makes

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it a lot easier to execute these commands when you're live streaming a

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game or whatever else and i was also pretty impressed by the ease of the

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setup and configuration process but let's go deeper what if 15 actions isn't

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enough for you fear not you can put actions in folders to fit up to

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actions onto a single stream deck wait did i say 210 i mean unlimited a recent

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update allows you to nest folders inside of other folders

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dog anyway what's the stream deck like to use while streaming not sure what to

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tell you without sounding repetitive assuming you've set everything up

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correctly it works exactly as you'd expect also the automatic dimming of

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inactive scenes and sources makes it really easy to tell what's going on just

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by glancing at the stream deck it just works

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so for serious streamers the value is pretty clear and that's been thoroughly

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covered by people who are a lot more into that scene with that said it

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wouldn't be a taran video without a list of complaints and suggestions so here we

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go the current gui doesn't make it obvious that you can right-click here to

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get more options the web-based image creator is cool but it requires you to

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save an image onto your computer before you can put it onto the stream deck

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which adds an extra step the integrated cord is too short the concave keycaps

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can cause reflections making the screens hard to read there's significant

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parallax on the keys which combined with the stand's limited adjustability means

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that finding a good viewing angle can be quite difficult

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the stand flops around when you pick it up and it also doesn't really work in

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portrait mode which is also not supported in the software one of my

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units suffered from image retention which elgato insists is rare having

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never been a hardware issue but i still wish there was an automatic sleep mode i

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wish we had options for font size color and position and simple background

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colors on the keys i wish i could dynamically change a key's image and

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function based upon say an ini file

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somewhere as controlled by a script of my own making i wish that multiple

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stream decks per computer were supported and i wish that gifs were supported even

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though it would mostly just be used for fun but despite all this i still really

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like the stream deck and i've been using it daily at work for several months now

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but not for twitch streaming i use it for video editing and folder navigation

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you may have seen my diy 87 macro keyboard video a while ago there have

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been several developments since then and i have more macro keys on my desk than

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ever before so the stream deck fits in perfectly it's Windows integration means

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that you can assign websites hotkeys and even the direct opening of programs

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scripts or files an extremely powerful feature in the right hands

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and these are the right hands wink so after painstakingly

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restructuring all of my autohotkey scripts to work in such a way that

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individual functions with parameters could be launched directly from single

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keys on the stream deck i was able to consolidate my peripherals from this

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to this and all of the code for that is on my github linked below by the way i

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only did it that way because i literally ran out of key combinations but you can

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probably just use the hotkey command and have that trigger a script that's a lot

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more simple now if 150 dollars sounds

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too expensive and you don't think you need all these features you certainly

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could create a poor man's stream deck by binding some

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keyboard shortcuts onto a decent numpad like this one and you could use auto

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hotkey for application directing and or detection you could also add lua macros

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or interception to make it independent from the normal numpad

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and then you could print out little images onto envelope stamps cut them out

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and paste them onto the keys you'd end up with something that looks like this

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and for only 17 but it's a real pain to get all of that

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working so while it is more expensive i'd definitely consider the stream deck

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worthwhile for productivity freaks you guys know who you are and serious

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streamers alike i still wish it supported gifs though

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but you know what else doesn't support gifs the massdrop exclusive sennheiser

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hd 6x headphones currently available for

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only 200 with free shipping to the usa these are based on the sennheiser hd

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650s which are still widely considered to be the best headphones under a

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thousand dollars by the audiophile community they sound smooth and laid

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back with balanced mid-range and a natural sounding bass

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sorry i mean bass there have been no adjustments to the sound signature from

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the hd 650 to the hd6xx the visual aesthetic has been updated to

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a deep midnight blue with black name plates they've got soft ear pads with

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elliptical ear cups that follow the ear and a detachable six foot cable so go

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check them out on mass drop at the link below thanks for watching give the video a

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like dislike get subscribed get belled or don't whatever you can buy the stream

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deck on amazon if you want also check out our merch store and community forum

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we have so many things let's see i think i have a macro for ending the