Video Pencil Help

Video Pencil on your iPad and CueCam Presenter on your Mac. CueCam is free to use as a virtual camera that works with Video Pencil automatically. In Zoom or Teams, pick CueCam as your camera.

Watch the Beginners' guide to drawing on your webcam.

No, but it's usually the easiest way. You have two options:

• With CueCam: CueCam publishes Video Pencil's drawing as a Syphon feed that Ecamm can use. See How to use Ecamm Live with CueCam Presenter.
• Without CueCam: connect Video Pencil to Ecamm over NDI. See How to draw on Ecamm Live with Video Pencil.

Yes. CueCam Presenter grew out of Beat Sheet, Video Pencil Camera and Shoot's Mac tools, and it's where all new work happens.

Video Pencil Camera is no longer supported. To use Video Pencil on your Mac, use CueCam Presenter instead.

It removes the watermark. Everything else works in the free version, so you can try it all before you buy.

Yes, while they're connected to CueCam. With a CueCam subscription, Video Pencil and Shoot have no watermark whenever they're connected to CueCam on your Mac. To use them without the watermark on their own, for example with Ecamm or OBS, buy the app's own upgrade.

Yes, what you paid is discounted from your first CueCam payment.

• Video Pencil or Shoot: sign in to CueCam Presenter, then open Video Pencil or Shoot on your iPad or iPhone. Your purchases sync to your account and the discount appears when you go to buy.
• Beat Sheet: the discount appears automatically when you buy, as long as you used the same email address for both.

See Access discounts for Shoot, Video Pencil and Beat Sheet users if your discount doesn't show up.

If you use CueCam, pick No. CueCam has its own connection (Cuetinuity), which is better optimised than NDI, especially over USB. Pick Yes only if you send video to and from Ecamm, OBS, vMix or similar over NDI.

• If you can, use a USB cable.
• On Wi-Fi, lag usually comes from an unstable network, not lack of bandwidth. Busy or restricted networks (offices, schools, churches) cause most of it.
• On NDI, you can lower the resolution on the NDI side.
• To run NDI over USB, see the Internet Sharing trick.

The Video Pencil layer isn't lined up with the frame. In Ecamm, snap the layer to the middle and pinch with your trackpad until it fills the frame exactly. Draw something and adjust until the iPad and the output match. Don't add a border to the overlay, because it shifts the alignment.

Yes. Video Pencil can record on the iPad, and can export the drawing on its own as a transparent video. Save recordings before you close the app.

Email michael@squares.tv or send Michael a message on Discord with the email address of your Apple Account, and he'll add you.