Ecamm v4.6 Beta

Download Ecamm Beta

Ecamm v4.6 Beta is now ready for testing! The new version includes over fifty changes, including new features, user interface changes and fixes. If you'd like to help us test out the new version by trying out the new features, download the Ecamm Beta using the link above.

Watch the Beta Livestream

Join Ken and Glen as they walk through the beta's key changes and demo the new features.

Customizable Sound Pad

With the new Sound Effects grid view, your sound effects window becomes a sound pad. Set custom colors and add images with drag-and-drop. Colors and images show up automatically on your Stream Deck.

Sound Effects grid with custom colors and images.

Find Out When You're On Mute

Speaking while the mic is muted? Ecamm now detects this and display a message in the main window. This feature requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or newer.

Ecamm showing a Speaking While Muted warning.

Search Scenes, Overlays, and Sound Effect

Quickly search your scenes, overlays and sound library.

Scenes window filtered using the search field.

Introducing Multiview

Ecamm's new Multiview is designed to give you a quick overview of your cameras, guests, preview and program feed, and audio levels. View it on a connected display, or view it in its own window.

Multiview showing cameras, program feed, and audio levels.

Other Highlights

  • More Languages

    The entire Ecamm app is now in French, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese.

  • Name Your Placeholder Cameras

    Assign nicknames to placeholder cameras to make them easier to identify.

  • Saved Window Layouts

    Quickly save and restore window layouts from the Window menu.

  • NDI Output for Guests and Cameras

    Send individual cameras and remote guest feeds over NDI.

  • H.265 for YouTube and Record-Only

    H.265 (HEVC) is now supported for YouTube and Record-Only, offering more efficient encoding and better image quality than H.264 at the same bitrate.

  • Add Sound to Your Overlays

    Attach a sound effect to an overlay and have it play automatically when the overlay appears.

Testing and Providing Feedback

Once you've downloaded the beta, please test, test, test all of the newest features and fixes and let us know how things are working (or not working) for you. We also have a great beta test community on our Beta Facebook Group and a beta channel in our Ecamm Discord.

Download Ecamm Beta

You can keep both the Ecamm beta version and normal version in your Applications folder. However please note that some new features such as named placeholder cameras and Sound Effect colors/images may not be preserved when switching between the beta and the non-beta versions of the app.

Need to submit a problem report or ask a question? Click the orange chat button in the bottom corner of the site, or pick Contact Support from the app's Help menu. Be sure to include as much detail as possible, and be sure to mention that you're using the beta version of the app.

Here's the complete list of additions and changes:

New Features

  • Adds a search feature to the Scenes, Overlay, and Sound Effects windows.
  • Adds a sound pad mode to the Sound Effects window with customizable sound colors and images.
  • Adds a muted speaker warning for the primary mic input. (Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or newer.)
  • Adds the ability to assign nicknames to placeholder cameras.
  • Adds a Manage Profiles preferences panel for bulk exporting and bulk deleting of Profiles.
  • Adds a Video Source NDI Output feature to the camera switcher.
  • Adds support for saving and restoring window layouts. (In the Window menu.)
  • Adds an option to have a three-second countdown before saving a photo.
  • Adds a menu item to move all windows to another display.
  • Adds support for controlling Ecamm with Shortcuts or AppleScript.

User Interface Changes

  • Adds a button in the main window for Blank source mode.
  • Adds French, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese localizations.
  • Movie and countdown end behavior now includes an option to go to any Scene.
  • Adds an Apply/Cancel button to the Zoom & Pan settings.
  • Allows the use of command-arrow keys to advance the cursor when editing text.
  • Adds the ability to right-click on items in the Sound Effects window.
  • The Preview Mode indicator color is now green instead of yellow.
  • Encoding preferences are now in their own section of the app preferences window.
  • When in Preview Mode, the Scenes window now shows a red outline around the program scene when it’s different than the Preview scene.

Overlays:

  • Adds an option to create a QR code overlay.
  • All aspects of comment overlay styling can now be configured for individual scenes and canvases.
  • Fixes various issues with promoted comment overlay size, position and styling.
  • Adds a right-click menu item to exclude a Show In All Scenes overlay from a specific scene.
  • Adds an option in the overlay popover to assign a sound effect to play when an overlay is shown.
  • Allows for dragging a movie from the Finder to an existing movie overlay to replace the movie asset.
  • Adding a comment overlay to a locked scene no longer adds the overlay to the Show In All Scenes section.
  • Adds the ability to right-click on items in the Overlays window
  • Adds an option to automatically hide comment overlays when the Scene changes. (On by default.)
  • Adds a Resize To Fit Canvas menu item to the overlay contextual menu.

Streaming

  • Adds support for recording and streaming to YouTube using H.265 (HEVC). (On by default.)
  • Adds a stream resolution limit picker to the Shape & Size preferences.
  • Add the ability to assign a YouTube category when creating or updating a broadcast.
  • Adds an option to see items scheduled in the past in the scheduled broadcasts popover.
  • Adds a Constant Bit Rate (CBR) option to the Encoding preferences.
  • Adds a YouTube Members chat tab.
  • Adding a Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, or X destination now uses the Mac’s default web browser for login.

Outputs

  • Adds support for multiple video monitor displays.
  • Adds a multi-view video monitor feature.
  • Adds support for showing a sound level overlay on video monitor displays.
  • Updates NDI to v6.3.2 and now includes NDI v6.0.1 for macOS Big Sur and Monterey users.

Ecamm for Zoom

  • Adds the ability to name recent Zoom meetings.
  • Ecamm for Zoom’s Exclude Visible Inputs From Active Speaker Camera feature now properly supports Dual Mode.
  • Zoom guest cameras will now be re-added automatically after returning to/from a meeting or Breakout Room.
  • Fixes an issue where Zoom guest cameras were not re-added properly after a Zoom meeting reconnection.
  • Fixes an issue where Zoom chat messages could show up in Ecamm’s Comments window more than once.
  • Adds support for Zoom Production Studio mode for webinars and events.

Elgato Stream Deck Plugin

  • The Play Sound key now includes sound pad custom colors and images.
  • Adds a Take Photo Stream Deck key.
  • Adds a Zoom Waiting Room On/Off key.
  • Adds a Zoom Admit All key.
  • Adds a checkbox to the Zoom Mute All key’s settings screen to allow/disallow participant unmute.