If you’ve ever wanted to record widescreen and portrait video at the same time, Ecamm Live just made it ridiculously easy with their new Dual Mode. In this video I walk you through how to enable it (it’s currently in the Ecamm beta), and why this is a game-changer: you’re not just cropping a 16:9 video into a 9:16 frame. You’re creating two independent layouts—one built for YouTube, and one built for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok—so your framing, overlays, and lower thirds actually look right on every platform. I show you how to customize each canvas by duplicating your camera source and positioning it differently in each layout, so you can stay framed perfectly even if your normal widescreen shot has you off-center. Then we go a step further with scenes: you can build totally different scene designs for horizontal and vertical, add backgrounds, borders, rounded corners, text placeholders, comments, screen shares, videos—the whole Ecamm workflow—then switch between them live or while recording. I also cover multi-platform streaming where Ecamm can create two separate streams (portrait and landscape), plus quality controls so you can set different resolutions for each recording. The end result: one take, two perfect files, way less editing.