On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 14:21 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 19:09 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > I would like to replace the background behind in my webcam video feed > > with an image. However, that is not possible, as it requires a “green > > screen”, which I do not have. So, my idea is to use a virtual camera > > with a background image chosen by me and feed that into Zoom. Is that > > possible on Fedora? > > If I google around, apparently there are things that can do the green > screen effect with zoom without a *green* screen, though they may be > Windows/Mac. > > The point of using green screens is to have a uniform colour behind you > that's very opposite of skin tone (blue or green being the most common, > though the BBC had used yellow too) and from anything that you're > wearing, that the keying device can detect as being background instead > of foreground. You can research chromakey or CSO (colour separation > overlay) for more info about it. > > It doesn't have to be a screen. A suitably vivid colour bed sheet > stretched tight will do the job. We've used fabric from a dressmakers, > and blue cardboard pinned to the wall. But that's not always practical > to do at home, and with people in lockdown they can't go out and buy > things. > > If you want to avoid the insides your home being shown on a webcam > meeting, your simplest option is to hold the meeting somewhere else in > your house that's less personal. Such as sitting in a position so that > your loungeroom curtains are the only things visible behind you. I've > seen journos working from home park themselves in front of their big > screen TV and use that as the background. Just a few days ago the BBC had a story about second-hand booksellers doing a nice trade in selling batches of serious-looking books that people could place strategically behind them :-) (Apologies for going OT) poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
