[PLUG] Resolved, sort of: Background on Zoom in Linux?

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sun May 24 14:51:29 UTC 2020


On 5/23/20 11:40 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 5/23/20 8:33 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> ...
>> In the settings section, the Virtual Background button wasn't available
>> before. After I signed up for a free account, that button appeared.
>> However, when I clicked on it and tried to put up a background, it said
>> my machine wasn't powerful enough, but let me do it anyway. When I chose
>> a background, it worked, but not well. A lot of video noise. Oh, well.
>> Since the laptop is the only machine I have with a camera, and since it
>> works without a background, I'll probably not use a virtual background.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> Or you can go old school motion picture production:
>
> 1.  large(-ish) poster prints
> 2.  set up projector screen and use 35mm slide projector
>
> You'll have to play with lighting and camera exposures a bit. Movies and
> TV shows were done this way LONG before green/blue screens and CGI...or
> even video overlays.

And rear projection. That way I wouldn't have to stare into the light 
coming from the projector. However, it would mean building a projection 
booth onto the side of the house above the front door, since I'm sitting 
in front of an outside wall with no window. That would probably look 
weird. :-)

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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