1. Download the app (you do not need to sign in)

2. Open the DMG file

3. Drag CueCam Presenter into Applications
   

4. Launch CueCam by navigating to your Applications folder, via LaunchPad or use Spotlight.

5. You should see a message saying that Apple checked it for malicious software and none was detected. Click “Open” to continue.

6. You will now see a checklist of set-up steps

2. Click “OK” to allow CueCam to use your webcam or any other cameras connected to your computer 3. Click “OK” to allow access to your microphone (so CueCam can mix this with other sounds)

4. Click “Allow” next to “Screen Recording Permission”. This will take you to System Settings.

5. Look for CueCam Presenter under Screen Recording and turn on the switch. You will need to authorise this change with Touch ID or using the password for your your Mac account. This setting will take effect next time CueCam is launched.

6. Click “Install” next to “Install Camera Extension”
   
7. Note the instructions before using the button “Click here first”
   
8. Click “Open System Settings”

9. Enable CueCam’s camera extension and use Touch ID or your password to continue.

10. Back in CueCam, now you can press “Install” next to “Install Virtual Mic”

11. Enter your password to install the virtual mic. 12. Now you’re ready to restart your computer. Click “All Done” and then restart your Mac.

When you log back into your Mac, CueCam Presenter is ready to use!

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Using CueCam as your Mic and Camera

In your call, use the small arrow buttons next to Audio and Video.

Select CueCam Audio as your microphone.

Select CueCam as your camera.

Turn on Original Sound for Musicians

Your audience won’t be able to hear audio from videos and screen shares via CueCam unless you turn on “Original Sound for Musicians”.

Enable this by going to Zoom’s Settings window.

Ensure this is enabled for any meeting in which you are using CueCam.

Take over a call with your CueCam presentation

1. Reveal CueCam’s “Program Window”

2. Share this window in Zoom

This will have the added benefit of making text sharper, although your camera video frame rate unless you check “Optimise for video clip”

If you are already using CueCam as your microphone, leave “Share sound” unchecked.

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CueCam Presenter is the best way to use Video Pencil with your Mac.

In order to draw on your webcam, you need a virtual camera where you can share and draw

What about Video Pencil Camera? Video Pencil Camera (VPC) is an older way to connect your iPad, fully replaced by CueCam Presenter since 2024. CueCam does everything that VPC did, but better.

1. Launch CueCam Presenter on your Mac
2. Launch Video Pencil on your iPad

You should now video from CueCam’s on your iPad and see your drawings on your Mac.

Troubleshooting

• Make sure both your Mac and iPad are on the same Wi-Fi network or connected via USB

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Go to CueCam’s app menu and select “Install Stream Deck Plugin...”

You can now use CueCam’s custom actions on your Stream Deck.

Note: This is only available if you have a paid plan

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When do you need to sign in?

You can use most of CueCam’s features without signing in at all.

Sign in is required only when

• You want to upgrade your plan
• Access discounts if you already paid for Shoot, Video Pencil or Beat Sheet
• You want to access your paid plan
• Use AI features
• Access CueCam Cloud (coming soon)

You don’t need to sign in to:

• Use the live camera
• Connect to Shoot and Video Pencil
• Create scripts

How to sign in

1. Click “Sign In”. This will launch your default web browser
2. Sign in to the website using your Apple ID
3. If your browser requests permission to open CueCam, press “Allow”

Troubleshooting

If you use Safari, keep an eye out for blocked popups.

If you see this icon, click it and then allow CueCam to launch.

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The simplest way to use Video Pencil in Ecamm Live is by using CueCam’s virtual camera. This way, all compositing will be done by CueCam and you can simply select it as a source in Ecamm.

However, you may have require more complex scenes than CueCam can create (e.g. multiple cameras, side-by-side layouts or using Interview Mode), in which case you’ll need to send Ecamm’s output to CueCam and use the Video Pencil transparent layer provided by CueCam.

This will allow you to see your Ecamm scene on your iPad and draw accurately with Video Pencil. You can just leave CueCam running in the background for the iPad connection alone.

IMPORTANT: You do not need NDI! CueCam creates an optimised connection between your Mac and iPad automatically.

Enable Virtual Cam feature in Ecamm Live’s Output menu.

Open CueCam’s Dashboard via the Live Camera, status bar menu (your Mac’s top right system menu) or via the Dashboard sidebar in a document.

Select Ecamm Live Virtual Cam as your main camera in CueCam.

Enable CueCam’s Syphon output in CueCam Presenter → Settings

Add a layer in Ecamm with the source “Video Pencil via CueCam”.

Make sure this layer fills the canvas (using the trackpad or mouse wheel is easiest) and lock it!

At time of writing (CueCan 2.0.4, build 94), you may need to keep CueCam’s Live Camera window open for this to work. In future versions this won’t be necessary.

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Start OBS Virtual Camera

In CueCam, go to Live Video and select OBS Virtual Camera as your main camera.

Enable CueCam’s Syphon output in CueCam Presenter → Settings

Add a new “Syphon Client” layer called “Video Pencil”.

Select “Video Pencil via CueCam” as the source and check “Allow Transparency”.

Make sure this layer lines up perfectly at a 16:9 aspect ratio and you’re all set.

IMPORTANT: You do not need NDI!

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All Shoot Pro Webcam features are unlocked if you have an active CueCam subscription.

Use your iPhone or iPad as your main camera

Launch Shoot on your iOS device.

Your device appears in CueCam’s toolbar.

Select Shoot as your main camera in CueCam.

Your main camera is now Shoot on your iPhone.

Use your iPhone or iPad as a second camera

Launch Shoot on your iOS device.

Your device appears in CueCam’s toolbar.

In the Dashboard click the arrow on the right of the Share button and select your Shoot device.

To trigger this from a card, use the Add (+) button and select Shoot.

Your main camera will appear as picture-in-picture by default. You can toggle the main camera with the Main Camera button in the Dashboard, or per-card using Card sidebar in a document.

Shoot’s interface on the iPhone

When you use Shoot with CueCam Presenter, its user interface changes accordingly.

In the above diagram we can see some extra features.

1. Program Feed toggle button - when CueCam is sending a program feed or video call window (more about this below) you can toggle the feed from your Mac using this button.
2. When running a presentation, your teleprompter text appears next to the device’s camera. This allows you to read your notes while maintaining decent eye contact with your audience.
3. Here you can see how CueCam’s virtual camera is visible on the iPhone, with the card’s title visible.

Steps to ensure smooth operation

• Enable Do Not Disturb mode on the device running Shoot. This is to stop calls, notifications or other interruptions from putting the app in the background.
• Do not activate Continuity Camera as you will have to physically unlock your phone again to relaunch Shoot. Continuity Camera is not visible in CueCam as a source by default to help reduce the risk of this happening.
• Power the device running Shoot. You don’t want the battery running out and when you’re using CueCam’s two-way video connection it can increase the load on your device.

Controlling your camera settings

Lots of remote control and camera settings are available from within CueCam on your Mac.

1. Program Feed - you can toggle the program feed from your Mac. Here you can see that CueCam’s virtual camera is being sent the iPhone. Using this select box you can select a different window on your Mac, for example your current Zoom call.
2. Settings are available for the device’s currently-select camera, marked here.
3. If you have saved camera presets in Shoot, they will appear here and can be selected with a click.
4. You can tweak your iPhone’s Zoom, exposure and white balance settings here. Click the reset button next to a slider to go back to automatic settings. Note that ‘EV’ only applies when you have long-pressed on your iPhone screen to lock focus and exposure. Conversely, ISO and SHUTTER only apply when you have NOT locked focus and exposure. The front-facing camera doesn’t have a FOCUS control, but the back cameras usually do.
5. Face Follow - enabled this setting to have Shoot keep your face in the centre of the shot. This is particularly useful when using picture-in-picture as it will keep your face in the middle of the circle. When presenting slides with Face Follow active, if you use a left-hand-side or right-hand-side layout, Shoot will centre your face on the other side of the frame so you don’t have to worry about moving out of the way of your titles.
6. You can select a different camera with one of these options.
7. Enable Grid on your iPhone to line yourself up and use the level feature to make sure your device is perfectly straight.
8. You can activate CueCam’s green screen controls if you are using a background.
9. You can add a background image (mostly relevant to green screen usage0
10. You can apply a Camera LUT on your Mac by dragging a LUT here.

Understanding Face Follow

Face Follow keeps your face in the centre of the frame.

You can adjust the rate (a higher number means it will track more quickly) and scale (a higher scale will make your face bigger in the frame by cropping more of the edges.

When running CueCam presentations, Face Follow is aware of the currently-presented slide layout and will move you out of the way of and left or right side content automatically, returning you to the centre of the frame (or picture-in-picture circle) in other cases.

Using Shoot as a teleprompter

When you run a presentation, teleprompter notes are automatically displayed in Shoot.

If the teleprompter isn’t quite aligned with your device’s camera you can drag up and down on the phone screen to move it.

If the text is too small, you can pinch to change its size.

There is a teleprompter toggle inside Shoot if you really don’t want this. Scroll the left-hand-side menu until you see a T in a box.

Viewing your Mac’s Zoom / Teams / Meet window on your iPhone or iPad

Click the device running Shoot’s icon in the toolbar.

Ensure “Send program feed to Shoot” is checked.

Select the window of your meeting in the dropdown.

Now your device’s screen will display your meeting window.

Drawing directly on your camera in Shoot

Shoot has a built-in telestrator. Access this feature by scrolling down the left-hand bar and looking for the telestrator icon (below the “5” in the image below).

You can pick different colours, dim the background, undo and change the Live Titles language using the toolbar at the bottom-right.

Clear your drawing with a double-tap.

Pausing the image from Shoot

Tap with two fingers on the device running Shoot to pause the video.

This lets you draw using Shoot or via Video Pencil on a separate iPad, without having to keep the device or action steady.

A second two-finger tap resumes the camera feed.

You can also use the “pause” button in the left toolbar of Shoot.

Get your camera level

Turn on Shoot’s grid (this won’t come through to CueCam) to activate the “Level” feature.

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Virtual Mic (CueCam Audio)

Before deleting CueCam, remove the Virtual Mic via the Output Menu.

Alternatively, this can be removed by deleting the file at:

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/CueCam Audio.driver

Camera Extension (CueCam)

Deleting CueCam Presenter from your Mac (via Finder) should result in a system prompt to confirm that the camera extension will be removed in the process.

However this macOS feature does not work 100% reliably.

If the camera extension is still present after deleting CueCam

Reinstall CueCam and uninstall the camera extension through Output menu.

Then you can delete CueCam again.

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When you run CueCam you will see your webcam preview with your camera on the left and the Dashboard on the right.

1. Virtual camera preview
2. Shoot and Video Pencil buttons (showing connected iOS devices)

How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

How to use Shoot Pro Webcam with CueCam Presenter

3. Dashboard
   

The Dashboard

The Dashboard is available throughout CueCam and lets you control your audio and video, share content and toggle Aside 3D to quickly move out of the way of your content.

Learn more about the Dashboard in the video tour:

CueCam Tour

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1. Go to Live Camera, the Dashboard sidebar in the document or your Mac’s status bar menu
   
2. Click the arrow next to “Main Camera” and select your preferred camera from the list.
   

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1. Install and launch Shoot on your iPhone or iPad. Get Shoot.

2. In a CueCam document, click the Camera button to reveal the Dashboard

3. Click the triangle to the right of the Main Camera button and select your Shoot camera

Select your device’s the Front Camera if you want to be able to use Shoot’s built-in teleprompter and program preview.

Troubleshooting

If you don’t see Shoot, please check the following:

• Are your devices on the same network?
  Make sure all devices are on the same WiFi network, or plug them into your Mac with a USB cable
• Do you have restrictive Firewall settings enabled?
  If you change your Firewall settings on your Mac, you should restart your computer before trying Shoot + CueCam again.

Workaround Sometimes force-quitting Shoot on your device or restarting CueCam will resolve connection problems. (But please tell Michael if you have persistent problems!)

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1. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera

2. Click Main Camera to hide your main camera

3. You can click the same button again to bring it back

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1. Reveal the sidebar

2. Find your main camera and click the ⚙ gear icon next to it

3. Drag an image or click the space to browse for an image

4. This image will show any time you hide your main camera

This image will also be used as your background if you use a green screen: How to use a green screen

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When you’re on a call, it’s usually best to frame yourself like this:

If you are using a lot of slides, it’s worth being off to the side a bit, like a newsreader.

Lining yourself up inside CueCam

You can access these layouts and more inside the camera settings area of your Dashboard.

Face Follow via Shoot

If you are using Shoot as your webcam you can turn on “Face Follow” to keep your face centered.

Access Shoot from the menu and check “Face Follow”

This is great if you’re presenting slides, because Face Follow adapts to your current slide layout. Here is a card with a title in the middle. Face Follow keeps you centered.

Face Follow on Shoot automatically moves you to the side so that you don’t block your left-aligned content area!

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1. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera

2. Click “Share” to share your Desktop

If you have more than one monitor

Click the triangle on the right of the Share button, navigate to Displays and choose your preferred desktop.

This desktop will automatically be used whenever you click the Share button.

You can also set your preferred desktop via the top menu: Present → Shared Desktop → ![...]

See also: How to share your desktop from a Stream Deck

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Option 1

1. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera
2. Click the triangle on the “Share” button and click “Share Image...”
   
3. Select an image from your computer

Your picture will now show on your webcam.

Option 2

Drag an picture from Finder directly onto the Share button or camera preview.

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If you have a camera plugged into your computer you can share it as a second camera, with your main camera appearing picture-in-picture.

If you have an iPhone, you can launch Shoot and select this as a second camera in the same way.

On the dashboard, click the arrow pointing down:

Overhead camera tip

Turn on Shoot’s grid to get your phone perfectly level!

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Option 1

1. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera

2. Click the triangle on the “Share” button and click “Share Video...”

3. Select a video from your computer

Your video will now play on your webcam.

Option 2

Drag a video from Finder directly onto the Share button or camera preview.

Sharing the video’s sound

To share the video’s sound, you need to use CueCam Audio as the microphone input for your video call.

This allows CueCam to mix your microphone with other audio sources like videos.

Changing the volume

When a video is playing, you’ll see an audio source in the Dashboard.

Click on the main part of the button to mute and unmute the video.

Click the pink bar for more settings:

You can turn headphone monitoring on and off for this video.

The change the volume, use the fader on the left.

Try to keep the volume in the green!

See also How to share a YouTube video on your webcam

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1. Open your YouTube video in a web browser
2. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera
3. Click the triangle on the “Share” → “Windows” → select the name of the browser window containing the YouTube video

Your YouTube video will now be presented on your webcam, and your face will appear in the corner in picture-in-picture mode.

Sharing the video’s sound

To share the video’s sound, you need to use CueCam Audio as the microphone input for your video call.

This allows CueCam to mix your microphone with other audio sources like videos.

Changing the volume

When sharing your browser, you’ll see an audio source in CueCam with the tab’s title.

Tap the main part of the button to mute and unmute the audio.

Click the pink bar at the top of the button to see more controls.

Use the pink slider control to change the volume. Try to keep it in the green.

Change picture-in-picture

If you don’t want your face in a circle, just click the Main Camera button to hide this. Another click brings it back.

Alternatively, you could download the video from YouTube with an app like Downie, and then share from your computer. This is probably a better experience for your viewers as you can avoid showing them ads. How to quickly share a video from your computer

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Option 1 - Dashboard on your Mac

1. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera
   
2. Click “Text...” and start typing
   

The text will appear along the bottom of your webcam feed.

Change the size or font

Fonts are managed per-document in CueCam, so changing the font size will change it for all shared text, including bullet points and titles.

Go to the Slides menu.

Here, you can change the font size, or select a different font from the Font menu.

Option 2 - Live Titles on your iPad

If you have an iPad, you can use Video Pencil‘s Live Titles feature to add text to your stream.

You will see CueCam’s virtual camera on your iPad screen to see exactly where you’re adding the text.

The size of the text is set by the length of the line you draw.

Change the font with the T icon in the Video Pencil toolbar.

Here you can add fonts and languages for quick selection.

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Aside 3D allows you to temporarily move whatever you’re sharing to the side.

How to quickly share your desktop

How to quickly share a video from your computer

1. Share your desktop or a video.

2. Open the Dashboard from the status menu or by showing the Camera

3. Click the “Aside 3D” button

Your shared desktop or video will move to the bottom corner to let you speak to the camera.

Press the Aside 3D button again to bring it back up.

Using the keyboard

You can press the “A” key to toggle Aside 3D, as long as you are not currently editing a card’s text.

You can also toggle Aside 3D from your Stream Deck: How to toggle Aside 3D from your Stream Deck

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When you share full screen content in CueCam, your main camera will be shown as picture-in-picture in the corner.

This can appear one of two ways:

You can be in a circle in the corner.

Or if you have a green screen, you can appear overlaid directly on the background, a bit bigger!

Toggling picture-in-picture

When you’re sharing something full screen, the main camera icon in your Dashboard (accessible via the Live Camera, Mac Status Menu or Dashboard sidebar) shows a person in a circle.

Cilck this button to toggle picture-in-picture.

To enable green screen picture-in-picture mode

Access your camera settings at the bottom of the Dashboard. You will see the name of your main camera.

This reveals the Green Screen toggle.

Turn it on to access the settings and you’ll see your picture-in-picture mode change to match.

More more info about green screen settings, see How to use a green screen .

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If you are sharing your desktop or an app (not a single window) you can zoom in using any preview window or using Video Pencil running on your iPad.

In a preview window

You can use the Live Camera, Teleprompter Window or any document where the camera preview is active.

Zoom in by pinching on your trackpad or the scroll wheel or gesture on your mouse.

To pan, click and drag with the left mouse button.

Use the Reset Zoom button to go back to full size.

Via iPad

Video Pencil displays your camera preview directly on your iPad so you can see where you’re drawing.

If you’re sharing your desktop, it allows you to use a pinch gesture to zoom in.

You can also drag with two fingers to pan around the zoomed desktop.

Use the Reset Zoom to go back to full size.

See How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

Customise the “Reset Zoom” position

When sharing your desktop, you can “Save Zoom for Share” to customise the Reset Zoom button to revert to your preferred size.

Document preview

If you are using picture-in-picture and/or Video Pencil, you will see this in-context on your desktop as you zoom and pan around using your Mac or iPad.

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You can change the video format via the Output menu option “Output Shape”.

Here you see a preview in Quicktime (but you can record directly in CueCam).

This feature is only available to customers with an active subscription.

Aside and screen sharing behaviour

Note that Aside 3D has different behaviour in vertical mode.

Instead of appearing at a bottom corner, the layout will adapt to be better suited to a vertical format.

Slide content will always fill the screen.

You will see different layering depending on your green screen settings.

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1. Open the Stream Deck App

2. Search for the Website action

3. Drag to a button

4. Ctrl+Click on the Sharing button and select “Copy Deep Link”

5. Paste into the URL field.

6. ![OPTIONAL] Choose a better icon (I like the one shown here - find it by searching for “Play” via “Open Stream Deck Library”)

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1. Get Shoot on your iPhone or iPad
2. Go into Settings, scroll down and under “Experimental” turn on Virtual Green Screen
3. Select your last numbered camera and Shoot will use your depth camera to create a virtual green screen
4. You can adjust the green screen settings via CueCam’s sidebar

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Install CueCam’s Stream Deck Plugin

1. Open the Stream Deck App
2. Scroll to CueCam Presenter’s section
3. Add a button for “Aside 3D”

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If your camera is set to a logarithmic colour profile, you can add a LUT.

Access your camera settings at the bottom of your Dashboard (found in the Live Camera, Mac Status Menu or Dashboard document sidebar).

There is an area marked “Drag LUT here”.

Grab your LUT in .cube format and drag it in.

Looking good!

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CueCam Presenter has an chroma key feature with advanced controls.

You can access these settings via your Dashboard in the Live Camera window, the document side bar or the status menu. Green screen configuration is applied and saved with each camera source.

Click to expand the camera settings.

Use the Green Screen toggle to activate the effect. You can adjust the similarity, smoothness etc... to fine-tune the setting.

To pick your background colour, use the Key swatch.

Changing your background

You can add a background image behind your chroma key by dropping an image into the Background Image slot.

This will be used to fill out your frame.

When you share content your picture-in-picture effect is no longer presented in a circle, but neatly overlaid over whatever you’re sharing.

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Video Pencil lets you brighten up any video call or live stream with the Sparkle Wand tool.

This want is available in Video Pencil on your iPad.

You can test it by tapping the dotted circle in Video Pencil.

How to make sure your audience hears your sparkles

The sound is automatically brought in when you use CueCam with Video Pencil.

To ensure your viewers can hear it in Zoom, make sure you have “Original Sound for Musicians” turned on (otherwise it will get removed by voice isolation / noise reduction features).

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You’ll need an iPad running Video Pencil. How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

The spotlight tool appears at the bottom.

Share something you want to highlight.

Now tap the spotlight tool and draw a rectangle around the area you want to focus on. You can then draw immediately.

Long-press for more options

You can press and hold for more options.

• Darken or lighten the mask
• Change behaviour:
  • Don’t Clear - adds a spotlight leaving the current drawing intact, and does not clear any existing spotlight first
  • Clear Spotlight - clears the current spotlight
  • Clear Drawing & Spotlight (recommended) - clears the current drawing and spotlight so you can show a detail in one go without having to manually clear / reset etc...
  • Darken All - darkens the entire background ready for drawing

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You can play back videos in CueCam on your Mac or from your iPad using Video Pencil.

Loading a video directly inside CueCam

There are many ways to load a video in CueCam on your Mac.

• Drag a file in to the Live Camera preview
• Right-click the Live Camera preview and select “Share Video...”
• Click the arrow on the Dashboard’s “Share” button and select “Share Video...”
• Drag a video onto a card in your script and present that card

If you load a video from a card it will play automatically.

If you select a video live then it will be paused to give you a chance to unmute and adjust the volume before playing.

You’ll then need to press the play button, visible in any of CueCam’s windows and in the Dashboard system menu.

Loading a video on your iPad

You can load a video into Video Pencil directly on your iPad using the Media button and tapping either “Pick from Photos...” or “Pick from Files...”.

When you select a video on your iPad, playback will begin automatically.

Any videos you have recently loaded can be accessed directly from the same menu.

Note that any video playing from Video Pencil will appear on top of anything being presented by CueCam Presenter (as it uses the drawing layer which covers everything).

Scrubbing through videos

There are two ways to scrub through a video.

The fast (but less accurate for longer videos) way is to use the timeline slider next to the play button.

If you need fine control (e.g. when telestrating a sports play) you can use Video Pencil’s Shuttle Wheel.

Using the Shuttle Wheel

Place your finger on any part of the wheel and rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise to scrub through the currently playing video.

The faster you rotate your finger, the faster the video will go, or you can slow right down to find the exact frame you’re looking for.

The Shuttle Wheel works whether the video is playing inside Video Pencil or from CueCam on your Mac! (BETA Version)

There are three buttons to the left of the wheel: the “Auto Clear” toggle and undo/redo buttons.

Auto Clear

If Auto Clear is enabled, whenever you scrub the video your drawing will be cleared.

This makes it very easy to telestrate on dynamic action.

If you press Undo after your drawing was auto-cleared, your latest drawing will be restored.

You can tap the button to switch this feature off and on.

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A CueCam presentation is a sequence of “smart cue cards”.

Anatomy of a Smart Cue Card

1. The play button immediately moves this card to your teleprompter and its content to your virtual camera.
2. The text area contains a combination of teleprompter text and an slide content (highlighted in pink)
3. Here we see a slide image called DNA.jpg - this will show up on your virtual camera
4. A slide title is denoted with a leading # character and will show up on your virtual camera.
5. Attachments (like a video, screen share or second camera) and triggers (like opening a link or starting a recording) appear on the top right.
6. The “Add Content” button lets you browse all the possible available types of attachments and triggers.

You can scroll through the content menu to see what’s available.

You can drag cards, just make sure you’re not over the text area - your mouse cursor should be an arrow.

Cards also have a context menu if you right click.

Your mouse cursor changes to a text selection tool when you’re over text so you can select, copy and paste content.

Preview Editor

The preview area is to the right of your list of cards. Any changes to the inline content or visual attachments will show up on the right.

This is not your live webcam unless you are currently running this presentation. The “PREVIEW” indicator shows this.

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Running a presentation

When you press “Start” or click the play button on a card, the preview editor will be replaced with a view of your virtual camera, with a LIVE indicator.

You will see your teleprompter text above the camera preview and the Dashboard slides out from the right.

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What is a card?

A card starts with text for your teleprompter.

Think of it as a cue card that reminds you what to say next.

Tagging some of the text on a card puts that text on a “slide”.

What is a slide?

A slide is made up of text, images, videos, screen shares or a second camera.

Tag your teleprompter text to make it appear on slides.

Here you can see the slide created by the tagged text on the card.

Slide alignment

Slides are arranged according to their “alignment” setting.

Text and images are arranged at the bottom, top, left, right or middle of the screen according to this setting.

How do slide images work?

Slides have “inline” images and one “background image”.

You can add as many inline images as you want by dragging them into the text area of your cards.

You can add a background image by dragging it onto the card’s “+” button.

Inline images can be turned into background images via the popup editor.

You can use background images to show full screen content or as something to appear behind your text and inline images.

Background images can be set to “fit” or “cover” the background via the popup editor.

What is a trigger?

Cards can trigger various actions, inside CueCam or on other applications.

You can add triggers using a card’s ![+] button.

Popup editors for attachments and triggers

Triggers and attachments an be clicked to reveal a popup editor.

This is how you control, for example, how a video plays.

The card sidebar

Open the card sidebar to see all of the selected card’s attachments and triggers at once.

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On the Welcome screen, click “Generate a Script”

Enter a brief for Chat GPT.

Describe your audience, describe the talk under “Brief”, describe your desired outcome and set the number of cards you’d like.

Click Generate Script to continue. This might take a few seconds.

A new window will appear showing your new script.

Let’s add an image: click the plus (+) icon on any card and select “Generate Image”.

Enter a prompt for Dall-E and click “Generate Image”

After a few seconds, your image appears, but it’s at the bottom of the screen.

Click the Card button on the top right to open the sidebar. You can now choose a new alignment mode for your card.

And now the image appears on the left!

You can move the title underneath the card using cut and paste and change the text to something more interesting.

Click between the cards to start expanding your script.

Try the presentation by pressing “Start”

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1. Click “Add Layout...” at the bottom-left of CueCam’s document window

2. A new card will be created after the currently selected card.

3. Pick a template.

4. Edit the text in the pink areas to change the text. If you delete any special symbols (like ##) then the title will be removed.

5. Click pinned images to change them

Different types of

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CueCam is built to be a great teleprompter.

You should create your cue cards with your teleprompter in mind.

All the text you add to a cue card will be visible in your teleprompter.

This is a typical card. It includes a title in a way that can be shown on screen while being read from the teleprompter.

Imagine if CueCam kept the teleprompter text separate from the titles. In this case when we save-as to make next week’s script, we’d need to change the number twice - once on the card and once in the slide editor. By keeping text and slide content in one place, we can avoid mistakes!

Try to keep your cards concise - it’s easy to flip to the next card and they’ll be easier to read if they’re short.

The teleprompter window

If you have an Elgato Prompter or similar, you will have a separate display for this device.

CueCam has a teleprompter window that you can drag onto this display.

This window can include your camera preview or another window from your computer, or you can make it transparent and drag another window behind it.

Using your iPhone as a teleprompter

If you are using Shoot as your webcam, your teleprompter will automatically appear on its screen.

Navigating cards

You navigate your teleprompter with the big pink button.

When you’re presenting, the pink button will display a preview of the next card

Cards can include bullet points (using the * syntax)

If your card has bullet points, these will be revealed one at a time and the pink button will update accordingly.

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Add a blank card

Click the “Add Card” button to add a new blank card after the currently selected card.

Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Enter to do the same thing.

Insert a blank card above another card

Hover over the space between two cards and click.

Add a card with a specific layout

Click the “Add Layout...” button to choose from a selection of slide layouts.

You can apply any of these layouts to a blank card by using the button in the preview area to the right.

Add cards using one or more images and videos

Click “Add Media...” and browse to your content. Drag around multiple files or click while using the Shift or Command keys.

When you click “Open”, all media will be imported and attached to cards.

You can also drag and drop a set of images into the area below the last card to achieve the same effect.

How to generate a card with AI

Click “Generate” to start.

Enter a description of the content you need and use the slider to select the number of cards.

Check “Create image prompts” to include image prompts for Dall-E.

Check “Upload script for context?” if you want Chat GPT to continue your existing script, matching its tone.

Click Generate.

Wait a moment or two while the new cards are generated.

If you checked “Generate image prompt” you can use the “Generate Image...” button on any card to add an image.

Click Generate Image.. to show and edit the prompt.

After a few moments the generated image will be inserted into your card (with an appropriate filename!).

Check “Background image” if you want a 16:9 image for use as a background.

If you don’t love the results, you can use Undo to try again.

How to duplicate a card

Making sure you are not hovering over the text area (your mouse cursor should be an arrow, not a text bar), right-click any card and select Duplicate 1 Card.

How to delete a card

Making sure you are not hovering over the text area (your mouse cursor should be an arrow, not a text bar), right-click any card and select Delete 1 Card.

You can multi-select cards to delete more than one.

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Using the Layout Picker

With any card selected, choose a layout from the picker in the preview area to the right.

This will create or update tagged text and apply the correct alignment in one click.

Using the Add button

Click the Add (“+”) button on your card and select from one of the text options:

By typing

You can type title tags directly by starting any line with one of the special characters #, > , * , ^, etc...

# Heading 1 ## Heading 2 (”Subheading”) ### Heading 3 (”Paragraph”) * Bullet

> Quote ~ Attribution

^ Footnote

! image.png Adds any image already in the document bundle (so you can copy-paste this text to put the image on other slides but you have to drag the image to the card if it’s not already in the document bundle)

Top tip, the # character is in a weird place on UK Mac keyboards - press Alt+3 to type it!

Setting the text position and contrast

You can change the position and lightness or darkness of text by using the Card Menu (up top) or the Card Sidebar (on the right).

Via the Live Camera

If there is no currently selected slide, the Slide button can be clicked to type text directly onto your webcam feed.

Live via your iPad with Live Titles

Using your iPad, draw a horizontal line and say the words you want to appear.

The size will match the length of the line.

It takes a little practice and is easier if you use your finger than with an Apple Pencil.

Keep holding until the text appears or try again if the line wasn’t straight enough!

This text will automatically appear within CueCam if it’s connected to the iPad.

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Use the “Add” (+) button

• Click the Add (+) button
• Scroll down and select “Background Image”
• Select a file from your computer

Using drag-and-drop

Drag an image on your computer to the Add (+) button (or anything else in the “attachments” area)

Via a layout

Select a layout with a background from the layouts menu.

Click the image attachment and then click “Replace...” to choose a new image.

You can select any other image from your document using the picker on the left.

With Dall-E

You can generate a background image using AI by clicking the Add (+) button and selecting “Generate Image...”.

Enter a description and check “Background Image”

In a few moments you will have a result. Use Undo if you want to try again!

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Using drag and drop

Slides have “inline” images and one “background image”.

You can add as many inline images as you want by dragging them into the text area of your cards.

Using the Add (+) button

Click the Add (+) button and select Image.

Click the attachment to replace.

By selecting a layout

Select a layout that includes a slide image.

Click the attachment and use Replace... to change it.

Generated using Dall-E

Click the Add (+) button and selecting “Generate Image...”.

Enter a description for your image.

Click “Generate image” and wait a few moments.

And there you have it (usually it generates better filenames).

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Use the Add (+) menu

Click a card’s Add (+) button and scroll to “Media” → “Video”

The image will be converted.

Now you can preview the video with the controls on the right.

Drag and drop to a card

Drag a movie file from Finder directly onto a card to convert and import.

Drag and drop to the end of the document

Drag a video to the end of a document to create a new card.

Use the layout picker

Select the “Movie” layout from the Slide Layout picker.

Click the card attachment and use “Replace...” to change the video.

Record directly onto a card

You can record CueCam’s current output directly onto a card via the sidebar.

Add multiple videos at once

Click “Add Media...” to create cards by multi-selecting videos and images.

You can also drag multiple images to the end of the document.

Add without converting

If you don’t want to convert your video files to 1080p h.265 encoding, you can skip this step by holding the Option (⌥) key when dragging a video onto a card.

Editing video settings

You can access video settings by clicking the attachment or by opening the Card inspector on the right.

Presenting a video

Click the ‘play’ button on the left of a card to present it as part of the current deck.

Muting videos

Open the video settings and select “Mute Video”

Muting your mic during video playback

Open your video’s settings and select “Mute Mic”

Trimming videos

Click the “Trim” button on a video’s settings to set start and end points.

Click “Trim” when you are finished.

Changing the video’s volume

Adjust the playback volume using the slider in a video’s settings.

Or use the Dashboard fader while presenting it.

Looping a video

Open the “End Action” picker in the video’s settings. Select “Loop”.

Continuing a presentation when video has finished playing

Open the “End Action” picker in the video’s settings. Select “Next Card”.

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To use a video as a background you can attach a video as you usually would ( How to add a video to a card) and then change a couple of settings.

1. Mute the video
2. Enable “Loop”

To see an example, select the Video Background layout from from the Layout Picker.

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Click on a card’s Add (+) button, scroll down to “Second camera” and select a source.

When sharing a second camera, your main camera will be shown picture-in-picture.

In EDITOR mode you can click to hide this, or change it through the Card sidebar.

If you use Shoot as a second camera (it works great as an overhead camera!) then you can access its controls from the card panel.

How to use Shoot Pro Webcam with CueCam Presenter

How to remove a second camera

In the dropdown menu, select the blank space at the top to clear the selection.

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You can share a screen, app or window from a card.

Using the layout picker

Select “Share Screen”, “Share App”, or “Share Window” in the layout picker.

You may now be prompted to select a window or app. You can navigate your windows using the dock, Cmd+Tab etc... and click on one to select.

Your default desktop

If you share your screen, by default your “Default Desktop” will be attached to the card.

To change your default desktop, share a different screen from your Dashboard.

Your default desktop is indicated with a check mark.

You can also change this from the Present menu.

Using the Add (+) button

You can select a screen, window or app directly using the Add (+) button.

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You can share a website by sharing a browser window and automatically opening a link.

Do this in one step by using the “Share Website” template. This will share your default browser and open a link.

Click the url attachment to change the website.

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If you have an Apple device connected to your Mac with USB, you can share it from your Dashboard or from a card.

Share from the Live Camera / Dashboard

Click the arrow on the right of the Share button (or right-click). Click “Apple Devices” and select your device.

Your device will fill your screen and you will appear in picture-in-picture.

You can select a frame through the Share Button right-click menu. Select from a library of devices to find the one you need (powered by Fastlane Frameit).

The device frame will be automatically downloaded and applied whenever you share this device in future.

It looks great with Aside 3D!

If you rotate your device the frame will fill the available space.

Here it is again in Aside 3D.

And you can now draw with Video Pencil.

Sharing from a card

Click the Add (+) button and scroll to Screen Sharing. Click “Apple Device...” and select your device.

Click the attachment to change the frame (this frame will always be used for this device, not just on this card).

You can also access these settings via the Card sidebar.

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Bullet points are added by starting a line with a * character, e.g.

* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
* Bullet 3

You can type them or add them through the Add (+) button.

You can choose from a range of layouts to determine where your bullets will appear by using the Card sidebar, the Card menu, or with keyboard shortcuts ⌘+1, ⌘+2 , ⌘+3 etc...

When you present a card, bullet points will be revealed one at a time when you press the Next button.

You can put notes in brackets if you want to add more details for your teleprompter.

Your teleprompter will filter the notes for each bullet point to keep you focused.

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You can add quotes via the Add (+) button.

The “Quotation” part will be selected so you can paste your quote or start typing. Edit the part after the ~ to set the attribution.

You can change the layout using the Card sidebar, the Card Menu or with the keyboard shortcuts ⌘+1, ⌘+2 , ⌘+3 etc...

If you would like to add a citation to your quote (and you probably should!) then you can use the ^ Footnote syntax.

> Quotation ~ Attribution
^ Footnote

This will add a footer with your attribution.

If you would like to label your footnotes, add a ^1 to the end of your attribution and change the footnote to ^1 Footnote, like this:

> Every child begins the world anew — Henry David Thoreau^1
^1 Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1954

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Footnotes appear at the bottom of the screen and can be added to slides with the ^ Footnote syntax.

Use the Add (+) button to add via the menu.

The text will be selected ready to replace.

On screen, this looks like so:

If you add extra content, the position of the footnote will be adjusted accordingly.

You can add a number to a footnote and it will appear in superscript format, by placing a number after the caret(^), before the space.

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You can make a simple, easy-to-edit, lower third by adding text and/or images into a CueCam slide.

Using the layout picker

The easiest way is using the layout picker’s “Title & Icon” option.

Here you can customise the text (without deleting the text tags # ).

Changing the icon

To change the image, click the attachment.

Adding more text

To add more text, you can use the menu.

Adding more images

You can add more images by dragging them from your computer into the card’s text area or using copy-paste from anywhere.

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You can change the overall text size of a document but all text sizes are defined by the tags used and the context in which they are presented.

You can make text dark or light to make sure it is legible on different backgrounds, but you can’t change the colour.

You can change the background colour of text if you use certain rendering modes (available via the Doc tab).

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You can rearrange slides by dragging cards or the sidebar thumbnails.

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To share a CueCam bundle on Dropbox, first move it to your Dropbox folder.

Now use “Copy Dropbox link”. (No need to zip the file first.)

When you share the link, you can make life easier for your recipient by editing the URL to end with dl=1 instead of dl=0.

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In your other app, export your slides as images.

Create a script in CueCam

Use “Import Media...” to import the images.

You can drag and drop images and videos into the space below the last card

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Share a YouTube video by sharing your default browser and triggering a url to be opened.

Paste the URL of the website into the URL trigger card attachment.

Use CueCam’s virtual mic to hear audio from the video.

You can adjust the volume using the Dashboard or directly on the YouTube video.

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You can trim videos attached to cards inside CueCam.

This is non-destructive and will not affect the source video (or your file size!)

Start by clicking the video attachment (you can also use the Card sidebar).

Click “Trim”

It’s easiest to drag trim points in the large video preview.

Don’t forget to press “Trim” when you’re done.

Now this video will start and stop at the times you set.

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If you have a set of images to use as cards, you can add these using the “Add Media” button at the bottom of the card list.

You can then multi-select the images in the file browser.

Each card will get a full-screen image.

You can customise slides with the popup-editor or the Card sidebar (this lets you multi-select cards to change multiple cards at once).

Alternatively: drag and drop

If you select a set of images in Finder you can drop these directly into your deck and a card will automatically be created for each.

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If you have a set of videos to use as cards, you can add these using the “Add Media” button at the bottom of the card list.

You can then multi-select the videos in the file browser.

A card will be created for each video.

You can customise video playback with the popup-editor or the Card sidebar (this lets you multi-select cards to change multiple cards at once).

Alternatively: drag and drop

If you select a set of images in Finder you can drop these directly into your deck and a card will automatically be created for each.

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Branding / watermark overlays are attached per-document.

Overlays are anchored to the top-right of the presentation and should have a transparent background.

In your script, go to the Doc tab. Click the placeholder labelled “Overlay” to browse for an image.

It won’t necessarily appear straight away.

When you run the presentation, you will see the image at the top-right of the video.

This example looks bad because we didn’t add any transparent padding to the image.

Add a 20px margin to make it look less crowded.

If you want to place your branding in any other corner, make a transparent image of size 1920x1080 and place the logo anywhere you like!

This may have changed by the time you read this to make it easy to switch to vertical or square video formats.

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While many keyboard shortcuts can be seen in the menus (such as the View menu shown below), some might not be quite so obvious.

Card navigation

Within any card you can use any of the usual macOS keyboard shortcuts for editing text, for example:

⌘A → Select-All: Selects all text on the current card

⇧← and ⇧→ Select text (character-by-character)

⇧⌥← and ⇧⌥→ Select text (word-by-word)

⇧⌘← and ⇧⌘→ Select text (line-by-line)

The up(↑ ) and down (↓) arrow keys can be used to navigate within a multiline card, but if you are at the beginning or end of a card’s text, you can continue to the next or previous card.

To quickly navigate between cards, jump to the beginning or end of a card’s text with ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ and then continue to the next or previous with another stroke of the arrow key.

Running presentations

When you are running a presentation, if a CueCam window has focus, you can use ⌥⌘→ and ⌥⌘← to present to the next or previous card.

Use ⌘. to end the current presentation.

Opening windows

Use ⌘⇧D to show the Teleprompter window.

Use ⌘⇧Lfor the Live Camera.

Aside 3D

Some keyboard shortcuts, like Aside 3D, use single-key commands.

These are most effective when the Live Camera window has focus.

Video Pencil

You can control Video Pencil with keyboard shortcuts in CueCam but it’s a better experience if you use a Stream Deck.

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CueCam presentations are document bundles that bundle video, image and audio assets.

You can share a bundle with a friend or colleague and they will be able to run the same presentation with ease.

Documents can be uploaded to a centralised repository if you want to make presentations available within your company.

Uploading bundles

On a Mac, these bundles appear as a single file, but systems like Dropbox or OneDrive, or email clients, might see them as folders. It’s useful to understand this when sharing.

On most platforms you can share a zip (secondary-click “Archive”) to avoid this problem.

Dropbox tip

If you upload to Dropbox and copy the share link (no need to zip first), you can provide the smoothest experience for your recipient by changing the url to end with dl=1 instead of dl=0.

Version control (git)

CueCam bundles work well with version control systems like Git.

All content is encoded in JSON format with attachments appearing as separate individual files.

This makes it easy to compare versions and track changes.

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CueCam Presenter comes with a simple-to-use beautiful countdown timer that you. can easily add to any presentation.

To use this timer, you need to set the start time of your presentation.

In your CueCam presentation, open the Doc sidebar.

Click “Set start time” under Countdown to create the timer.

E.g. If you are starting at 5pm:

When you press the Start button, the timer will appear (unless the start time is more than an hour away!).

This looks best if you create a background to match. You can find an example by selecting the “Video Background” layout.

You can create something that looks like this:

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Add an image to your Media library by picking from files, photos or using paste.

Once you have the image in your library, long-press to show its options.

Give the image a good filename to make things sensible. You can now either draw immediately or scroll down to “Copy Link to Trace”.

Once copied, you should be able to paste this to your Mac.

In your CueCam document, click “Open a URL / Link / Website”

Click the URL attachment and paste in the link.

Now when you land on this card, the tracing image will be loaded.

You can trace this image and your audience will see only your drawing!

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First add a video to your media library by using Pick from Photos... or Pick from Files...

Now in the Media menu, long-press that video.

If your video contains chapter markers

If your video contains chapter markers, use the toggle switches (or PAUSE ALL, UNPAUSE ALL) to automatically pause the video at this point.

Adding pause points manually

Use the video player at the top to navigate your video.

Tap “ADD PAUSE” whenever you want a pause point. You can change your mind by tapping the row that appears under PAUSE POINTS.

When you load this video you will see the pause points indicated on the timeline.

How to load a video into Video Pencil from a card

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CueCam music playback is “event-driven” instead of being attached to a specific card. You can start, stop and fade music up and down with a trigger on a card.

This means that you can add and remove cards or video sequences at will and the music will keep playing until you want it to stop or fade out.

You can fade down music when you start talking and have it fade back up when showing a title sequence.

How to start music playback

Use the Add (+) button on a card to create a “Load Music” trigger.

You can then click on the trigger to select a music file. This music file will be bundled into your document so make sure you have the right to share it if you send your document to someone else. You can load most Apple-friendly music formats like mp3, m4a etc...

Now you can set the volume and fade time of the track. The fade time is indicated after the file name on the card attachment button.

Changing the music volume with a fade

If you add a fade, it will affect the currently-playing music. If no music is playing, nothing will happen when the card is presented.

Use the Add (+) button to create a “Fade To...” trigger on a card.

Stopping music

If you want to stop the music on a specific card, you can add a “Stop Music” trigger with the Add (+) button.

If you want to stop the music immediately, you can use the Music button in the Dashboard.

The Dashboard’s music button shows playback progress, the current LUFS volume, a large Stop button and the currently playing track name.

You can mute the music without pausing playback by tapping in the lower part of the button (but not the Stop button), or you can stop it completely using the Stop button.

If you click the pink area you can see monitoring options and a volume control.

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The simplest way to use CueCam with Ecamm is to select CueCam’s virtual camera as a source in Ecamm Live.

Select CueCam Audio as your main mic input. Always leave it at 100% or you will not get the benefits of CueCam’s LUFS metering.

This gives you:

• Automatic Video Pencil and Shoot integration
• All of CueCam’s live and card-based sharing features (slides, images, videos, window, second camera and more)
• CueCam’s Aside 3D, camera LUT and green screen features
• Audio from videos, screen shares and other CueCam / Video Pencil sound effects
• The benefits of CueCam’s LUFS audio meters

You can add any additional branding and custom overlays in Ecamm to use in your live streams, along with other features like Interview Mode.

Drawing on your screen or videos

If you want to draw on a video or your screen using Video Pencil, be sure to share content via CueCam, not Ecamm.

How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

How to quickly share a video from your computer

How to quickly share your desktop

Keynote and Powerpoint presentations

Build your presentation inside CueCam instead of sharing, for example, a Keynote window.

How to import slides from Keynote, Powerpoint or other applications

Use the right program feed in your teleprompter

When live streaming, use CueCam’s teleprompter to share Ecamm’s Program Window instead of using CueCam’s Virtual Camera for a more accurate view of what you are sharing.

Understanding the teleprompter window

Switching Ecamm scenes from CueCam cards

You can drive your Ecamm-based stream from CueCam by triggering scene changes from cards.

With Ecamm running (and after accepting permission for CueCam to control Ecamm), you can add an Ecamm scene to a card.

Click the Add (+) button and scroll to Ecamm Live Scene. Under this option you will find all of the scenes in your current Ecamm profile.

You will now see the Ecamm scene selector in your card. When this card is presented, Ecamm will switch to the selected scene.

How to draw on an Ecamm Live scene that doesn’t use CueCam as the main source

CueCam exposes a Syphon feed of the transparent layer from Video Pencil.

You can add this as a camera overlay to any Ecamm scene.

Make sure it fits edge-to-edge full screen by snapping to the centre and then using the mouse wheel or track pad to zoom it to the maximum size.

Lock the layer so you can still drag your Ecamm window.

In order to see Ecamm’s output on your iPad, either select Ecamm’s Virtual Camera as a source in CueCam or select Ecamm’s NDI output in Video Pencil.

First enable NDI.

Then select the source on your iPad.

In future it will be possible to switch iPad cameras directly from CueCam but if you need this urgently, please add a suggestion in the Discord. How to request new features for CueCam Presenter

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The simplest way to use CueCam with OBS is to select CueCam’s virtual camera as a Video Capture Device in OBS.

Add a Video Capture Device.

Call it CueCam and press “OK”.

Select CueCam as the source and press OK.

This brings through CueCam’s virtual camera.

Select CueCam Audio as an input. Since you’re using CueCam, it may be better to do this per-scene, since you won’t need as many scenes but it’s likely you might want a scene where CueCam’s audio is muted (for a countdown timer and music loop, for example).

Click the + icon in the Sources panel and select “Audio Input Capture”.

Call it CueCam Audio and click OK.

Select CueCam Audio as the source and click OK.

You now have CueCam’s audio in OBS. Always leave CueCam’s volume at 0.0 dB inside OBS or you will not get the benefits of CueCam’s LUFS metering and mixing.

This gives you:

• Automatic Video Pencil and Shoot integration - drawing on anything, iOS devices as wireless cameras
• All of CueCam’s live and card-based sharing features (slides, images, videos, window, second camera and more)
• CueCam’s Aside 3D, camera LUT and green screen features
• Audio from videos, screen shares and other CueCam / Video Pencil sound effects
• The benefits of CueCam’s LUFS audio meters

You can add any additional branding and custom overlays in OBS to use in your live streams.

Drawing on your screen or videos

If you want to draw on a video or your screen using Video Pencil, be sure to share content via CueCam, not OBS.

How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

How to quickly share a video from your computer

How to quickly share your desktop

Keynote and Powerpoint presentations

Build your presentation inside CueCam instead of sharing, for example, a Keynote window.

How to import slides from Keynote, Powerpoint or other applications

Use the right program feed in your teleprompter

When live streaming, use CueCam’s teleprompter to share an OBS’s Window instead of using CueCam’s Virtual Camera for a more accurate view of what you are sharing.

Understanding the teleprompter window

Switching OBS scenes from CueCam cards

You can drive your OBS-based stream from CueCam by triggering scene changes from cards.

First, you will need to set up OBS’s WebSocket Server.

Check “Enable WebSocket server”. Create a server password and note the Server Port.

Open CueCam’s Settings window.

Enter the OBS server port and password.

Ensure that your OBS Scenes are named correctly. Scenes are selected by name from Ecamm so they will not be found if you change their names later.

Click the Add (+) button and scroll to OBS Scene. Under this option you will find all of the scenes in your current OBS profile.

You will now see the OBS scene selector in your card. When this card is presented, OBS will switch to the selected scene.

How to draw on an OBS scene that doesn’t use CueCam as the main source

CueCam exposes a Syphon feed of the transparent layer from Video Pencil.

You can add this as an overlay to any OBS scene. Click + and select “Syphon Client”.

Name this layer Video Pencil.

Select “![Video Pencil via CueCam] Video Pencil Layer” and check “Allow Transparency”.

In order to see this on your iPad, activate OBS’s Virtual Camera. Here’s how it looks when it’s running.

In CueCam select OBS Virtual Camera as your Main Camera.

Now you can see your OBS feed on your iPad using Video Pencil and draw on it, live on stream.

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The simplest way to use CueCam with mimoLive is to select CueCam’s virtual camera as a source in mimoLive, along with CueCam Audio.

This gives you:

• Automatic Video Pencil and Shoot integration
• All of CueCam’s live and card-based sharing features (slides, images, videos, window, second camera and more)
• CueCam’s Aside 3D, camera LUT and green screen features
• Audio from videos, screen shares and other CueCam / Video Pencil sound effects
• The benefits of CueCam’s LUFS audio meters

You can add any additional branding and custom overlays in mimoLive to use in your live streams, along with other features like Interview Mode.

Drawing on your screen or videos

If you want to draw on a video or your screen using Video Pencil, be sure to share content via CueCam, not mimoLive.

How to use Video Pencil with CueCam Presenter

How to quickly share a video from your computer

How to quickly share your desktop

Keynote and Powerpoint presentations

Build your presentation inside CueCam instead of sharing, for example, a Keynote window.

How to import slides from Keynote, Powerpoint or other applications

Use the right program feed in your teleprompter

When live streaming, use CueCam’s teleprompter to share mimoLive’s Program Window instead of using CueCam’s Virtual Camera for a more accurate view of what you are sharing.

Understanding the teleprompter window

Switching mimoLive layer sets from CueCam cards

You can drive your mimoLive-based stream from CueCam by triggering layer set changes from cards.

First, set up your layer sets in mimoLive:

Click the Add (+) button and scroll to mimoLive layer set. Under this option you will find all of the open documents and available layer sets.

You will now see the mimoLive layer set selector in your card. You can run through your script and present a different layer set when you present a certain card. When this card is presented, mimoLive will switch to the selected layer set.

How to draw on an mimoLive layer set that doesn’t use CueCam as the main source

CueCam can expose a Syphon feed of the transparent layer from Video Pencil. You can add this as a layer in mimoLive.

Enable CueCam’s Syphon output in CueCam Presenter → Settings Next, create a Syphon Video Receiver source.

Configure the layer with the little three-dots button.

Click the large “Video Pencil Layer” from “Video Pencil via CueCam” to select this source.

Make this the top layer and you will see it as a transparent overlay on your feed.

In order to see mimoLive’s output on your iPad, either select mimoLive’s Virtual Camera as a source in CueCam or select mimoLive’s NDI output in Video Pencil.

Using CueCam’s connection to see mimoLive in Video Pencil

To use mimoLive as a CueCam source, first add a Virtual Camera output in mimoLive.

In future it will be possible to switch iPad cameras directly from CueCam but if you need this urgently, please add a suggestion in the Discord. How to request new features for CueCam Presenter

Using NDI to see mimoLive in Video Pencil

Alternatively, you can use NDI.

Add an NDI output in mimoLive.

Select this in Video Pencil.

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Click the Add (+) button on a card and select “Add Keystroke Trigger”.

Click the card attachment to choose the receiver app. You will see a select box to choose the target app, and an empty area that says “Click to add shortcut”.

Choose an app and select a shortcut to finish creating the keystroke trigger.

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You can load a video into Video Pencil on your iPad, using a trigger on a CueCam card running on your Mac.

Long-press the video in your Media menu in Video Pencil and tap “Copy Link to Load”

In CueCam, select “Add a URL / Link / Website”.

Paste the link and now the video will be loaded (with pause points) when you present this card.

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Video Pencil can be controlled from CueCam Presenter using the Video Pencil toolbar item.

You can right-click any of these items for a deep link.

This will give you something like cuecam://ipad-control/select-tool/1

To trigger this change from a card, add a URL trigger:

Click the trigger attachment and paste in the url.

Now when you present this card, the relevant tool will be selected.

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You can control apps that support OSC from CueCam.

An OSC Client has an address and a port number, and a number of named parameters that can be controlled.

Here is Ableton Live using the Connection Kit module OSC Send to control a Utility module.

With this set-up we can toggle an Ableton track from a CueCam card.

1. Add target app in CueCam

Edit the newly added “app” to have the correct name, host and port number.

Add a new OSC Trigger to a card.

Select the target app.

Set the address and value to send.

You can send multiple values to the same address with the add value button. (For more addresses, add more OSC Triggers).

Now when you present this card, you should see the effect in Ableton.

Please contact Michael if it doesn’t work - it’s not well-tested!

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If you have a presentation that you want to include in the context of a longer presentation, say a technical how-to as part of a general introduction to a product, or you want to go into detail of a product feature during a sales call, you can set up a CueCam script to jump to a different script and back.

If you have two scripts, “Script A” and “Script B”, and you add a “Jump To Card” action to the second card of Script A, here is the order in which the presentation will run as you press the “Next” button.

We actually jump to another card using its deep link, which gives you even more flexibility if you need it.

How to set up “Jump To Doc”

In the destination document (”Script B” below), secondary-click on the first card and select “Copy Deep Link”.

In your main document (”Script A”) click the Add (+) button on the card you want to jump from.

It’s worth adding a note saying where it will jump to avoid confusion in future.

Click the trigger and paste the deep link.

Now when you present the card with the Jump To Doc trigger, the presentation will switch over.

Note that when the second presentation is finished, instead of “Stop” you’ll see “Jump Back”.

Note that after Jump To Doc has been triggered, pressing Stop anywhere else will result in a return to the initial presentation, so use this feature with care.

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Open the Dashboard via Live Camera, the status menu or in a document’s sidebar.

Click the pink bar along the top of the microphone button.

In the panel that appears, click Disconnect.

You can now select a different microphone.

Why is it like this? In other tools it can be easy to end up on the wrong microphone without noticing, which is the easiest way to quickly degrade the quality of a presentation. CueCam makes this a two step process so you can be confident that the correct mic is being used.

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CueCam mixes audio from your main microphone, videos, screen shares and music.

Select CueCam Audio as your mic input in Zoom, Teams or elsewhere.

You can choose which audio is sent to your headphones.

Usually you want everything except your main microphone to be in your headphones.

The reason not to include your microphone is that it will be distractingly delayed. Your microphone or audio interface may provide a direct monitoring feature to mitigate this problem.

Audio meters

CueCam provides LUFS metering, which is the most accurate way to measure how loud something sounds.

You will see green indicators when your levels are around -23 LUFS which is the perfect volume for your voice.

How to choose what goes to your virtual mic

Here we are hearing audio from the main mic (”RODE NT-USB”) but a currently-playing video is muted.

You can toggle whether an audio source is muted by clicking on its icon.

How to choose what you hear in your headphones

Here we can see the main mic is not going to headphones but the sound from the video is.

Look at the headphone icon to see the headphone monitoring status.

To change this, click on the headphone icon and then click the “Headphone Monitoring” button.

Alternatively, you can use a secondary (right or two-finger) click to show the context menu and toggle it there.

Changing the headphone output

Click the arrow under the headphone icon and then use the picker under the volume control.

Changing the headphone volume

To change the headphone volume click the arrow under the headphone icon to show the fader.

Capturing audio from screen shares

You must share an app or a window to send its audio from CueCam.

Additional audio sources

Add extra sources by clicking the —+— line in the audio dashboard.

A new panel will appear for each new source.

Multi-channel interfaces

If your interface has more channels than usual, you will see a selector to choose the input channels.

Setting audio delay

Some cameras will add lag to the video. You can adjust the audio delay of an audio input to keep your audio in sync.

Show the audio panel by clicking the pink part of an audio pad and enter a delay in the Delay field.

If you don’t know the correct delay, you can use CueCam’s built-in delay calculator.

Adjusting your audio delay with CueCam’s built-in delay calculator

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If you are using a USB camera or using Shoot, then you may need to adjust your audio delay.

CueCam provides a delay calculator to make this easy.

1. Navigate to your Live Camera

2. Right-click your Mic button and select “Delay Calculator”

3. Get ready by raising and opening your hands

4. When prompted, clap and keep your hands together

5. Click the audio peak created by your hand clap

6. Find the frame where your hands meet in the video by clicking the timeline

7. Click “Save Delay”

Your audio will now be perfectly in sync!

Edit your audio delay manually

1. Click the pink area of the mic pad

2. Edit the delay time

Working with a secondary video/audio source

You can set different audio delays for different inputs.

You can add another audio input by clicking the line below the other inputs.

You can then share a second camera and use the Delay Calculator on this second input to keep them in sync.

For example, I (Michael) sometimes play live music on stream and I have a multi-channel audio interface. My music equipment is elsewhere in the room so I set up Shoot pointing at it.

I can synchronise this second camera to my big sound card to make sure the music stays in sync.

This can all be independent of the main mic and camera used for my CueCam presentation.

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If you already paid for one of the apps that works with CueCam, or you want to migrate from Beat Sheet, your purchases can be discounted from your first payment.

If you bought Shoot and/or Video Pencil

1. Download and install CueCam Presenter
2. Sign in to CueCam Presenter inside the app
3. Launch Shoot and/or Video Pencil on your other device(s)
4. Your discounts will now be available when you go to purchase.

If your Shoot or Video Pencil discounts don’t appear

Try clicking the account status indicator on CueCam’s launch screen (the little red x or green tick)

If problems persist, contact michael@squares.tv.

If you bought Beat Sheet

CueCam cross-references your https://squares.tv account (where Beat Sheet is purchased) with your Stripe account (the payment platform) to calculate your Beat Sheet discount.

Your Beat Sheet discount will show up at automatically at purchase, as long as you used the same email address for both platforms.

You may have problems if you purchased under a different email address to the Apple ID used to sign in to CueCam.

If your Beat Sheet discount doesn’t show up automatically when you go to purchase, please contact michael@squares.tv for help.

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Plans you have purchased are listed on your account page.

Click on a row under “Your Plans” to see more.

Here you can see information about this Plan.

Click “Manage Subscription” to go to the Stripe billing portal and manage your payment information.

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Plans you have purchased are listed on your account page.

Click on a row under “Your Plans” to see more.

How to add somebody to a seat

1. To add somebody to a seat, enter their email address under that seat.
2. ![optional] You can customise the email that will be sent with the invitation by editing the text under Invitation Email.
3. ![optional] Use the Preview button to see how this email will look before you save.
4. When you press Save Plan they will be emailed with information on how to use it.

Only one person can occupy a seat

If you change an existing email address assigned to a seat, the previous occupier will lose access.

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The “Manage Plan” page gives you an Invitation Link that you can send out to a group of people.

Anybody with the link can now claim a seat on this Plan.

The link will stop working once all the Seats on the plan are taken.

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It is easy to reassign a seat in an active Plan.

Simply change the email address next to a seat and press save.

The existing occupant will be informed that their seat is no longer available, and an invitation will be sent to the new occupant.

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You can remove yourself from a seat by clicking “Relinquish Seat” on your Account page.

This is useful as it allows somebody else to use an otherwise-filled Plan via an Invitation Link.

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CueCam Presenter features a big pink “Play” button that you can use to start and navigate your presentation.

Before you start it looks like this:

Here’s a very short presentation:

When you first press the Start button, the Virtual Camera and Dashboard are revealed. This lets you adjust your Main Camera and audio settings if you need to.

The text of the pink button changes to preview the next card’s content and reveals the “Stop” button to the right.

Clicking the button takes us to the next card and shows any attached shares, triggers or slide content.

When you reach the last card, the pink bar changes to become the “End Presentation” button.

Cards with bullet points

If you have a card with bullet points, the big pink button changes to reveal these bullets one at a time.

Here we have landed on a card with bullets and the pink button changes to show “Next Bullet: First thing”.

Clicking the button reveals the first bullet and changes to show “Next Bullet: Second thing”

When all bullets have been revealed, the button changes to show “Next Card” and will continue to the next card when clicked.

Keyboard shortcuts

You can use the shortcuts ⌥⌘→ and ⌥⌘← to navigate your script a CueCam window is focused.

Stream Deck

With CueCam’s Stream Deck plugin installed, you can add the Next button.

On a Stream Deck, the button will update while you are presenting.

Start:

Next Card:

Next Bullet Point:

End Presentation:

Here’s the recommended configuration for a Stream Deck Foot Pedal.

Apple Shortcuts

CueCam Presenter works with Shortcuts.

Options are currently limited so feel free to ask for more on Discord.

How to request new features for CueCam Presenter

Deep Link

You can trigger the “Next” action with a deep link by calling the url cuecam://next from any other application.

You can test this by pasting it into Notes (and pressing space to make it into a link).

Click the link and CueCam will navigate to the next card.

Considerations

CueCam can only present one document at a time but the Next action is a global behaviour. This means that you may sometimes need to intervene to make sure the correct presentation will run, if multiple presentations are loaded, by clicking the “Start” button in the correct window.

If you trigger a “Jump To Doc” action then the End Presentation action will be replaced with a Jump Back action at the end of the jumped-to doc.

How to jump to another presentation

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CueCam’s teleprompter window is designed to be used with a connected teleprompter device like an Elgato Prompter, or a Glide Gear teleprompter with a Liliput monitor or iPad running Duet.

Once set up correctly, a teleprompter will appear to your Mac as an extra display.

You can reveal CueCam’s teleprompter window with the toolbar button.

The teleprompter window has various functions.

1. Your camera preview
2. Your teleprompter
3. Audio level of your virtual mic (using LUFS)
4. Presentation navigation and recording controls.
5. Source selector (more on this below)

Drag it to the teleprompter’s display to continue. For best results, make it full-screen.

Changing the position

You can drag the teleprompter to a different position if you need to.

Changing the width and font size

Hovering over the teleprompter text gives you more controls.

Below we see:

1. Font size - click the big and small A buttons to change the text size.
2. Max width - drag this bar left and right to change the maximum display width.

The teleprompter area will always take the minimum possible size based on the currently-displayed text.

Audio monitoring

Your audio meter should be in the green for a good -23 LUFS signal.

If you get too loud, you’ll see a warning in your teleprompter.

Alternative sources

If you want to use this window for your remote video calls, you can select your Zoom, Teams or Meet window from the selector at the top.

Alternatively you can use the “Transparent Window” option. The teleprompter window always stays on top of other windows so this way you can drag any other windows you need onto your teleprompter and keep the CueCan’s HUD on top of everything else. Here it is dragged on top of Ecamm Live’s Program window.

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1. Reveal CueCam’s “Program Window”

2. Share this window in Zoom

This will have the added benefit of making text sharper, although your camera video frame rate may suffer.

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With CueCam Presenter you can build scripts based on cue cards.

What is CueCam Presenter?

When you run your presentation with a device running Shoot connected, you’ll see your teleprompter notes on the device’s screen.

If the text is too small you can pinch to change its size.

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You can access an active community of Video Pencil, Shoot and CueCam Presenter users on Discord.

To join, follow this link: https://squares.tv/discord

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Feature requests for CueCam Presenter should be made via the CueCam Suggestions Discord channel.

To access this channel, first join the Squares TV Discord server via https://squares.tv/discord

You can then review the current feature requests in #cuecam-suggestions channel.

If nobody else has suggested your idea before, use the “Create Thread” button to start a new thread.

This can be hard to spot on mobile as it requires first tapping the text field.

Now the “Gift” button has turned into the “Create Thread” button.

Please give your thread a descriptive title.

It should be a single feature request.

You can add more information within the new channel once created.

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Bug reports for CueCam Presenter should be submitted via the CueCam Issues Discord channel.

To access this channel, first join the Squares TV Discord server via https://squares.tv/discord

You can then review the current feature requests in the #cuecam-issues channel.

If nobody else has already reported the problem, use the “Create Thread” button to start a new thread.

Using Discord on Mobile

This can be hard to spot on mobile as it requires first tapping the text field.

Now the “Gift” button has turned into the “Create Thread” button.

Bug Reporting Guidelines

Please give your thread a descriptive title.

It should be a single problem. Create additional threads if there are multiple problems.

You can add more information within the new channel once created.

Please provide screen recordings and/or screenshots to make the report as clear and easy to reproduce as possible.

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