hello it's ricardo yes folks i have been absorbed by the cartoon universe how did i get this
effect i'm using zoom at the moment as my video conferencing tool of choice and i'm applying a
filter using snapcam now this particular filter has enabled me to change myself into a pixar
cartoon style avatar of myself how cool is that and certainly a talking point for perhaps your
next school class outing or even conference call or especially with family and friends if you're
running weekly family and friends quizzes but how did i do that well i'm going to walk you through
installing snap camera integrating it into zoom and going through all the steps
now what you want to be doing to get this software is get yourself the snapcamera.snapchat.com
and you get the official snap camera website this will allow to download
the particular version of snapcam for your pc or mac os device there are some system
requirements that are all stated on the download screen in particular windows 10 64-bit or newer
and mac os 10.13 or newer at the moment on as this video is being done it's not available for
ios or android now read the licensing agreement if you're happy with it say you've read the
agreement and agree say you're not a robot put an email account in and download the version for you
once you've downloaded the software of your choice for your platform of choice it's time to
guide yourself through the wizard typical standard windows wizard select your destination do you want
desktop shortcut bang click next it'll install and all you have to do is wait for it to complete
and then select to run the software once you run the software you'll be taken to the next screen
now as you can see i'm in snapcam after it's successfully loaded and at the top featured
section you can see the cartoon style filter by snap ink there are several in there as well that
the community have have created as well you can you know raise your eyebrows turn yourself into
a cat there's lots of other community lenses you can put on you can say on a work from home
you can have math equations floating around you
you can put your tie on your head oh my god you can even do some sort of studying
filters as well there's loads that's being created by the community even let's face it
selecting toilet paper you can give yourself a head full of toilet paper anyway
we're here to talk about how to get this working in regards to your meeting software of choice
and getting snapcam set up properly so let's get cracking so first off if you don't see
this um you have to go into the settings section of uh snapchat just a little cog wheel up in the
top right hand corner click on that and you'll see your snapcam settings now to choose your camera
i've got several cameras and i've got some xsplit pick your camera of choice so i'll be using my
main camera which is a hd pro webcam c920 it's a 1080 webcam which is great i'll use that get some
good clarity choose your camera resolution and usually given a few resolutions there as well i'll
go for the 1920x1080 um frames per second webcam so we'll click on that and set your microphone
and all the rest of it as well and you're good to go click on back and that's basically what you're
going to see and when you start selecting all your different filters like that's me
as anime for example which i think is quite good actually i quite like this um in fact i'm i'm
torn between this one and with that one to be perfectly honest but we're talking about this
one so we're going to stay with this one right so what you see here in snapcam right is great
now what we need to do is get snapcam this feed we're getting here which is taking the image from
your webcam putting it through a filter in snapcam into your conferencing software of choice whether
that be zoom whether that be teams google meet or even sticking it into obs or streamlabs obs
so once you can see this on the screen you know your configuration in snapcam is working
now it's on to the bit of software your conferencing software or streaming software
to do the configuration there so let's go and take a look
so here i am in zoom that popular conferencing application that has saved many a person's bacon
since the original start of the pandemic i'm not displaying any video at the moment
if i go down to the bottom left hand side you can see i've got my microphone and
i've got my start video at the bottom as well let's click on that you can see my webcam feeds
i've got the webcam i've got snap camera now that's the virtual webcam that sits in between um
the camera feed and zoom i've got my other aspects as well i've got something for stream labs i've
got my logitech capture as well so i want to focus on what i'm doing in regards to snapcam
no dramas right so i'm going to go and select snap camera here and i'm going to start my video
and there you go so what's happening here is is that the feed is going into my camera
it's going into snap camera the filter is being applied and that filter output is being sent then
to zoom because our camera of choice is the snap camera virtual filter so when you go down to zoom
you can click on that and then whatever you've set in snapcam you get in zoom incidentally
you can have snap camera running at the same time in a screen and if you're a
bit fed up of that particular one then you can go and put in another filter
viking for example
and then automatically it changes to somebody with a viking hat on
get a nice viking beard it's quite good and it tracks quite well i've got a lot
of light coming in this way uh the room is very white so if you've got a green screen
you're also going to get a better effect now also in zoom you would have noticed that
clicking on the video selection at the bottom of the screen you can choose a virtual background
okay uh you can blur your background which might make it a little bit easier you can set a picture
a bit of grass etc etc now if you want to put additional filters on top of that like a pair of
sunglasses from what you're doing within zoom then you can do as well put a bit of fairy lights up
do what you've got to do this is going to be quite resource intensive on your machine however as well
so be wary if you're using a lower spec machine that just sort of scrapes
in through the specification of snap camera be very aware that um you need
you know a decent webcam you're going to need at least the minimum spec of snap cam that's been
listed on their website or you're going to run into trouble as well and try not to do anything
else too extensive on the pc while this is going on perfectly good for streaming as well though
will depend on the game you've also got running using things like streamlabs obs as well that's
obviously going to have an impact on what you can do for streaming so there you go i've been ricardo
as i'm sure you can see and i've been using the snapcam filters to turn myself into
a pixar cartoon style avatar now don't get in trouble at work
but it's certainly good for a lot of user family and friends thanks
very much for watching and check back for more videos in the series
on how you can apply this effect to other tools as well see you soon
you