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Replace Webcam Background with AI-Powered Virtual Background Changer

Rithu V — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:42:15 +0000

Looking for ways to remove or replace your webcam background without using a green screen?

You’ve come to the right place!

In today’s post, we’ll show you how to blur, remove, replace, or change your webcam background using a user-friendly screen recorder called Vmaker. Since most of the built-in desktop webcam applications don’t provide virtual background features, you can try using a user-friendly screen recorder to change and remove your webcam backgrounds.

Without any further ado, let’s see how it’s done.

How to Change Your Webcam Background With AI-generated Virtual Background Images?

Prefer reading? Follow these simple steps!

Step 1: Sign up & download Vmaker

Head over to Vmaker’s home page and sign up for Vmaker.

As soon as you sign up, you’d be directed to Vmaker’s dashboard.

Click on the ‘Download Vmaker’ option. You will be presented with options to download the application. Currently, Vmaker is available as a Windows application, Mac application, Chrome plug-in, and iOS application (beta version).

Download the application that’s compatible with your device.

Step 2: Select screen + webcam option

Launch Vmaker on your system. A small pop-up box will open up.

Select the screen + webcam recording option.

Step 3: Click on the virtual background feature

Now, you can make use of the AI-powered virtual background feature to hide your personal space. Click on the virtual background icon below your webcam bubble.

Step 4: Remove, blur, change, or upload your own background image

As soon as you click on the virtual background icon, a pop-up box with the following options will appear.

Now, you can select anyone one of the virtual background images available.

To remove your webcam background completely, select the ‘Remove Background’ option.

To blur your webcam background, select the ‘Blur’ option.

To add your own image from your device, click on the upload option, and select the image you’d like to add as your webcam background.

Step 5: Record & Share

Now that you’ve changed your webcam background successfully, you can start recording your video.
Just click on the Start Recording option in the pop-up box, and the recording will start.

Once you’re done with the recording, you can stop the recording by clicking on the red dock icon on the left corner of your screen.

Now, you can share the video with others on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.

That’s it. You’re done!

Now, you can easily turn your webcam on, and have fun experimenting with different virtual backgrounds every day.

Bonus Tip: You can edit your recording using the Vmaker AI video editor for free.

7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Miss Adding a Virtual Background To Your Videos

Here’s a list of the top 7 reasons why you shouldn’t miss adding a virtual background to your videos.

1. It Builds Brand Recognition

Adding your brand image to your webinars, live streams, and tutorials helps people identify your brand easily.

With a clearly designed brand background, you can easily present your brand’s message to your audience. By adding your brand colours, logo, and motto to your virtual background image, you can easily register your brand in people’s memory. Occasionally, you can also add a few of your premium services to the image.

Tip: Make sure to create a logo with special tools or hire a designer to help you out with all of these tasks.

2. It Covers Up Your Messy Personal Space

We all know how hard it is to record videos while working remotely. Setting up a proper home office space isn’t easy. It involves a lot of time and energy. This is where a virtual background set-up comes to the rescue.

You can simply start recording your video by enabling the virtual background feature. You don’t have to worry about how your room looks anymore!

3. It Helps Maintain Professionalism

We all have adapted to different working styles post the pandemic. We’ve started to work in cafés, hotels, beaches, and so many other locations. However, it’s still important to maintain a professional image while we record meetings, webinars, and podcasts.

With a virtual background, you’d be able to look professional and presentable. You can even take a casual photo of your office layout and add that image as the virtual background for your videos. When you record videos using a screen recording software like Vmaker, you’d be able to add your own images as the virtual background for your videos.

☛ Bonus Read: How to Screen Record with Virtual Background on Windows

4. It Creates a Unique Presence Through Customization

When you’re able to add your own brand image as your virtual background, you have the liberty to personalize your background to your own preferences. Instead of just sticking to your brand’s logo and colour codes, you can try adding relevant product images, gifs, brand messages, etc. To make your visuals stand out, consider using a professional photo editing service to enhance image quality and ensure your background looks polished on any screen. These images and gifs can also be funny or promotional.

5. It Provides Privacy

When you have a virtual background feature, you needn’t worry about your kids or family interrupting your space.

The virtual background feature will help you filter out unnecessary movements in your background and allow you to record your videos peacefully without any disturbances.

6. It Helps Maintain Uniformity

Employers can also make use of the virtual background feature.

They can easily add a professional touch to their online meetings by requesting all their employees to use the same brand image as their virtual backgrounds. This, not only maintains uniformity but also helps employees stay focused during the conversations.

☛ Bonus Read: How to Screen Record and Webcam on PC

Bonus: Tips & Tricks to Make The Best Use of Virtual Background Feature

Have are some additional tips to help you make the best use of the virtual background feature.

1. Take Care of Your Lighting

It’s very important to have the right amount of lighting while creating your videos. Make sure you choose a place that is well-lit.

Avoid sitting in front of windows as it blocks the natural lighting and makes the videos darker.

Additionally, you can also use external lights to give that extra lighting to your room.

2. Avoid Unnecessary Movements

Whenever your webcam senses a movement, it will affect your virtual background and create an odd halo effect on the image.

So, avoid unnecessary movements while recording a video with a virtual background. To reduce the number of unnecessary movements, you should make sure you place your laptop in a fixed place.

3. Use the Right Resolution

Using the right resolution is also crucial. Take a note of the screen ratio of your teleconferencing software and create virtual backgrounds for that particular resolution.

The quality of your image shouldn’t be compromised either. When your pixel quality is too low, your background image will become granular and look unprofessional.

And, when you save the image, especially if the images are generated by AI, try saving the file in an RGB.jpg file format. This file format provides the best quality of images.

4. Use a Good Quality Webcam

We all know that most of the built-in webcams in laptops aren’t good enough. To record videos of decent quality, your webcam should at least capture a resolution of 720p or higher. So, check whether your webcam captures videos at the right resolution.

But, if you’re someone who records videos regularly, you can go ahead and purchase a 1080p webcam. It’s becoming more common and affordable these days.

Now that you’ve thoroughly understood why it’s important to change your video background and know how to make the best use of it, you can easily add them to your recordings and start recording your videos at ease!

What’s new in Vmaker? AI Virtual Background, Computer Audio, Privacy and Security

Jerwin Joshuah — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:36:25 +0000

Vmaker has been buzzing with updates and the latest ones take the game a notch above. We’ve brought in some really cool features that aim to make your videos stand out and give you complete control over the privacy settings of your Vmaker videos.

As part of the latest updates, the three new features that have been launched on Vmaker are

AI-Powered Virtual background
Computer audio recording
Advanced Privacy and security

If you’ve been following our product roadmap, I am sure you knew these features were coming and they are finally out for you to try out!

Let’s look at these sparkling new features in detail and how you can use them on Vmaker.

Virtual background

This is by far the coolest feature you can get your hands on Vmaker. If you’re recording your screen and webcam with voiceover, you’ll absolutely love this feature. With Virtual background, you can customize your background in the webcam bubble using some really cool default backgrounds. Not just that, you can also upload a custom background image from your PC or have a transparent background. If humor is your winning formula, you gotta try this feature with some really quirky backgrounds. For professional use, you can upload a picture of your office space or a corporate environment with a pleasant ambiance. Your viewers will think you actually recorded the video from the place that they see in your background.

Virtual background and frames feature on Vmaker

The already available frames feature perfectly complements the virtual background feature on Vmaker. Users get a plethora of customization options that allow them to create the perfect webcam bubble with a background that complements the video. For example, a gamer can use the frames feature to use a square webcam bubble and add transparent background to achieve a unique webcam look.

Here are the steps to use use the virtual background feature on Vmaker

Step 1: Launch Vmaker and select the screen and webcam recording option

Step 2: Click on the virtual background icon near the webcam bubble

Step 3: Choose your preferred background from the default options

Step 5: Click on remove background to completely remove the background from your webcam bubble

The virtual background feature can come handy for different use cases. Here’s how this feature is helpful for the most common use cases

Training/Tutorial videos

Training and tutorial video creators can choose to add their brand logo, tagline, or a picture of the office space to enhance the look of the video.

Presentation videos

Presentation videos particularly can benefit from the virtual background. It allows you to use backgrounds such as office spaces. Even if you are working from home, the virtual background can give a professional look to the videos with an office setup-like background.

Gaming videos

Most commonly gamers prefer having their webcam background transparent while recording games. This along with the frames feature allows you to have a square webcam bubble and a transparent background.

Educational videos

Adding a background that reflects the topic or the subject covered in the video. This helps grasp the attention of the students and the video helps them connect to the subject in an engaging way.

Recording videos with computer audio

The key to an engaging video is crisp and clear audio. If you work from home or have a workplace that has sound intrusion enough to disturb your video’s audio, the computer audio feature can come in extremely handy to you.

This feature allows you to record the audio directly from your computer with headphones connected while recording videos.

The prerequisite for using this feature is a headphone connected to your computer. For example, if you’re attending a meeting with your headphones connected, you can choose to record the audio of the meeting directly from the computer.

Let’s look at how to use the computer audio feature on Vmaker

Step 1: Launch the Vmaker application and select the current tab recording

Step 2: Click on the computer audio button

Step 3: Click on start recording

The audio from the video that you are recording will be recorded directly from the computer.

While using the Vmaker desktop application, the steps have to be followed. However, the current tab recording option need not be selected.

Advanced privacy and security on Vmaker

With advanced privacy and security settings, handling the visibility of Vmaker videos has been made extremely easy. You can set up privacy at two different levels on Vmaker. The first one is master privacy settings and the second one is privacy settings for individual videos. You can choose to use the privacy level that best suits your needs. Let’s look at the two levels of privacy settings in detail

Bonus Read: Check all the Features of Vmaker Screen Recorder

Master privacy settings

Under master privacy settings, you can control the privacy of your videos primarily in two ways.

Disable download for all videos

As the name suggests, disabling download for all videos will remove the download button from all your Vmaker videos. If you are looking to share your videos with others but don’t want them to download your videos, you can disable downloading in the master privacy and security settings section.

Make all my videos private

Under master privacy and security settings, you can make all your videos private by enabling ‘’make my videos private’’. This means only you will be able to view your videos. Anyone other than you with the link to your videos will not be able to view them.

Privacy settings for individual videos

Disable download for individual video

If you want to have privacy control over a specific video, you can do that using the disable download button on the player page. Before sharing the video, you can choose to disable the download button so the viewer can be restricted from downloading the video.

Make video private

You can choose to make the specific video private by enabling make this video private. This means nobody else other than you can view the video. This video comes in handy when you want to make a video private after it has been shared with someone. Do note that to control the privacy and security of videos individually, the master privacy and security settings must be turned off.

With the advanced privacy and security settings, you get to flexibly control the privacy of your videos in the most convenient way.

Try the three new features on Vmaker

It’s time for you to try out these features on Vmaker! They’re focussed perfectly on creating an engaging video recording experience, along with enhanced recording quality. Not just that, you get complete control over the privacy of your videos. If you still haven’t had the chance to use Vmaker, you can sign up right away and experience.

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