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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