Welcome back by now those of us were fortunate enough to work from home
should be very used to the video conference the zoom meeting the team's
meeting the meeting in Google Hangouts and whatever other video conferencing
tool that you can have now there's a variety of tools out there that can
allow you to change your background in zoom however that's built in and talking
of backgrounds the BBC archive has released hundreds of empty sets from the
BBC archive that could potentially be used as a zoom background to counter
that little bit more conversation and to make things just a
little more fun and not sterile and starchy in that meeting so here we go
and I'll put the link in the comment section
the BBC Erica by BBC co uk work I've empty sets collection that will take you
to the joy of sets which is great as you can see in here there's loads of sets
going from sitcoms for Only Fools and Horses dad's army Steptoe and son
porridge Fawlty Towers that good life you name it Yes Minister they're all in
here and then for entertainment set she's probably bit more in the front of
more people's minds such as Strictly Come Dancing things like that so using
these set pictures and of course it's always a bit of science fiction with you
know quarter mass Blake 7 Doctor Who and what-have-you get anything to zoom
couldn't be easier I've got a zoom meeting down here
typical zoom interface click new meeting no ok so I'm not gonna start my video
yet I'm using my collaboration Colonel account what we're gonna do we're gonna
go in to choose virtual background now you see zoom has picked up a few
backgrounds for us already here no nice bridges bit of grass space also
some video now adding in pictures from the archive couldn't be easier click on
the + click on add image I've got a folder of backgrounds and I could be pop
yeah in the start bridge of the Starship Enterprise
great stuff move my head around tracks quite well my hands depending on how
gest if you're going to be could be a bit of a problem adding other
backgrounds as well again add image kind of put Game of Thrones Millennium Falcon
and again you've got like Saturday morning swap shop and you can see the
image is mirrored when people join in they'll see it the right way round you
can also rotate your image should you want to hear I am upside down
no body apparently there you go why do you want to do that I don't know
probably put any on what device you're on let's add another one the perb have
EastEnders there you go where are you pay that's sort of thing so you can have
quite a lot of fun with it and this is typically you know I'm using no green
screen I've got a high back chair as well we should probably interfering with
it but my image is quite clear on the screen so great so that's static images
what about video images so let's go on to plus add video
let's go to downloads now I've got some videos here as well so I've got some
fire now this is gonna loop in the background with the Ricardo logo as well
at the bottom or a Ricardo logo and it'll keep on looping quite a good
effect as well might be a bit too distracting this is an mp4 file it's not
very big but here's one that six Meg a zombie invasion open that truth of a
video okay and what do you actually put it in so here it is a white background
doesn't really that well well I'm wearing the hear of shuffling zombies
coming across the screen how cool would that be for a Halloween stream well
again you know just a candle a little bit fun if you're meeting with work
colleagues I'll see you if you've got something
serious going on you're not going to use it you use a bit of common sense as
opposed isn't it so hey there you go that was to add video and static
backgrounds and also you know I bring a look at the BBC archive with all the
gold that's been in there over the past couple years hope you've enjoyed the
video check back for some more tech videos in the future see you soon
you