hello it's ricardo and welcome back to a little bit of fun with microsoft teams as you can see
i'm not looking myself today i'm looking a bit cartoony and what i've done is i've
applied myself to a filter that's sitting in between my video camera and microsoft teams
that's changing me to look like a cartoon character a little bit like pixar so how
did i do it well i'm using a tool called snapcam it's available on pc and it's available on mac os
not the ipad though or the iphone just so we're clear but you can use it on a multitude of video
conferencing software not only microsoft teams zoom google meet but also things like streamlabs
obs and standard obs anything that requires that you have a video feed and a camera so
how did i do it i'm going to take you through the installation of the software where to get it from
how to install it and how to set your cameras and how to get it working with microsoft teams
now what you want to be doing to get this software is get yourself to snapcamera.snapchat.com
and you get the official snap camera website this will allow you 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 inc 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 you want to 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 steadying 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 snapcamp set up properly so let's get cracking so first off if you don't see
this you have to go into the settings section of snapchat is the 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
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 microsoft teams and you can see that in the microsoft teams sort of like
pre-meeting interface where you can set your background filters turn your video on or turn
your video off it's already picked up the feed for my snapcam feed okay because it's looking at my
default webcam now if you don't get this you're gonna have to go into the settings option right
and check out your camera settings now as you can see it's set to snap camera which is the
feed coming from snap camera select that you can select different feeds as well now if you
want to go back to our normal image without snap cam working right if you click on that you'll see
it won't it'll freeze now the reason for that is is that the feed is still being used by snap cam
to get it back to a normal image you're going to have to close snap cam down completely and
exit from the software then you're gonna have to stop your video and then restart your video
so i'll just demonstrate that there's my snapcam icon we're gonna quit that great what we should
be able to do now is go into settings make sure my webcam is selected turn my video on
and here i am back to normal um dead easy so in to ensure that you get your snap cam feed coming in
make sure you've selected the right feed dead easy and make sure you've selected
and you've got running snap cam you may need to put in and start running it again from the
default menu so it says no camera input available that's because i'm using it in microsoft teams
and that's how it's going to get its knickers in the twist so turn your video off click on snapcam
select your input feed hd pro webcam 920 choose your resolution i'll go with the 1080 one click
back and my feed is back and now i can start editing adding and editing any filters i want
to put on there so we're going to go with i think perhaps the anime style now and there i
am in full anime goodness and it's that easy so have fun with it that's more fun with microsoft
teams using snapcam by snap inc and using the filter called cartoon style or anime style as
well there's two really good ones there as you can see i'm going to add those to my favorites
because they really are good have fun with it let me know in the comment section
how you get on and what people think of what you've done with your time i'll see you soon
you