I just wish there was a way to make it so the screen could either:
A. Have all of the faces on screen but equally sized or...
B. Make the switching less...spastic? Is that the word I'm looking for? It's hard to explain.
The screen sharing is baked in and very spazzy.
Either you manually drive it the whole show while also trying to participate. Or you let it auto jump.
What happened yesterday was a comedy of errors. My sound on my machine (which was hosting the entire hangout) died for no reason 2 minutes before we went live.
I ended up coming in from another computer and what we all saw during the show is not what the host machine recorded. We all saw the screen switching. For some reason it recorded just me and from the far out angle.
No matter how prepared you are Google hang out can be quite glitchy at times. We might want to try you tube live at some point and see if it has better options.
Believe me my intent was not to have the camera on me the whole show.
Actually, my secret goal is to be kicked off the show I started for gross incompetence. How am I doing so far?