hello and welcome back well you may have seen the news that being a cat
on a zoom or google meet call is the thing for you well how have people done it
well it's all over the news isn't it here we've got the bbc in the uk um and it says viral i'm
not a cat filter is decades-old software and it was installed or pre-installed it would seem on
some dell laptops and the particular lawyer in question has got stuck with this cap filter um
effectively interfering with um the video feed on his zoom call this led to an awful
lot of questions on why a cat avatar couldn't be removed from um his zoom call and more importantly
how could other people make themselves be a cat well there's a few ways of doing it
one of the easiest ways of doing this if you can install software on your pc ie some enterprises
don't allow you to do that is go along to snapcamera.snapchat.com this is affiliated
to snapchat there you go and it is an official site so hopefully no virus is there but this
is the snap camera official site so i would say more than likely there isn't any but use your own
antivirus software as you can see here it provides you filters that sits in between your camera
and your meeting product of choice whether that be google meet whether that be cisco microsoft
teams whatever so what you do well first off you click on download once you've clicked on download
it gives you some brief system requirements and people who have seen some videos on my channel
have said hey well i can't get it working and they're using an old laptop there is a minimum
hardware requirement of this windows 10 64-bit or newer or mac os 10.13 or newer uh the hardware
minimum requirements is an intel core i3 or amd fx 2600 for me really all comes down as well to the
graphics card as well i'm running um a gfx 1070 on mine i don't get any problems go all the way
down look at the snap camera license agreement which i would encourage you to have a look at
if you're happy with it make sure you don't contravene any of your work standards of
business conduct by installing software onto your pc if it's your own pc well it's up to you
click i have read the agreement you haven't got to put an email in but if you want updates you can
put it in there select that you're not a robot and say install download for either pc or mac
then give you the snapcam interface and you can put different filters in in here as you wish um
quite a few working from home ones which you'll be familiar with if you've got zoom and also google
meet and also microsoft teams for that matter you can select any of these to apply different filters
perhaps you might want to have a cat sat on your head go or rambo style with a tie on your head
going to the main screen you can see a list of community filters that have been
built and there's some quite humorous ones as well i've got some favorites in there
a little bit of boba fett you've got the helmet tracks your head very nicely or you could be a cow
or even a pineapple the quintessential potato that everyone used to see carrots
vikings the list is actually endless i think this is one of the best ones personally but
it seems to be all about cats so here we are as a cat now how do we get this
feed into something like google meet microsoft teams a cisco webex or zoom well
it's quite simple if you've got the good hardware for it so what you do is is you select your
your choice so we're gonna go with say the viking which i think is great
settings at the top you can see the little cog that brings up this screen make sure your camera
your laptop or pc webcam is here now mine's a microsoft virtual camera you can see i've got
some other ones um installed as well select microsoft live camera okay and then click on back
once you're in this position and you can see yourself working on the screen next minimize this
and go into your program of choice now you can see i've got my filter all set up in google meet for
example if you select the three ellipses at the bottom right hand side of the screen and click
those and you can go down to settings and then from settings you click on video make sure
the camera feed is set up for snap camera there'll be a drop down list of whatever ones
you've got on there you can see i've got a few stream labs obs face rig all that sort of thing
click on snap camera okay and there you are it'll come in straight off the bat so that's google meet
now here i am in my zoom interface as well we're going to try and hit
all of the major video conferencing tools so i'm going to click on new meeting
there we are and using my computer audio everything's great you see my video is actually
running here but there's no picture displayed clicking on the up arrow into video settings
or you can select a camera on the list right nice quick list if you click on snap camera
you can see there i am now also you can see i've got a green screen on as well so we can
choose a virtual background um we can take off the green screen we can put something on i don't know
my video i have a green screen i don't have a green screen you can put a picture on see a little
bit of c-3po a bit of x-wing fighter or you can do the weather or if you honestly you can just have
a normal background once you've done all this how do you not get caught by this tech like this texas
lawyer did when you go to do some serious work um and take all this off and return it to your
normal video feed well okay in zoom what we do we could typically go to the top and select
microsoft live camera go down to your snap camera select on settings make sure that's done all right
microsoft live camera make sure everything's done there you could close the software down
and there you go once it's closed down the feed link is interrupted and your face will
return to the screen it's all about the video feed and making sure you've got your video
feeds right and making sure it's set to your camera and not snap camera or something else
you may run into problems if you do run into problems doing this my advice is basically stop
all video a picture is better than humiliating yourself as something funny in front of the wrong
audience because i already did these day in age you know i mean it really does make
things look utterly ridiculous in regards to google meet it's very similar maybe having some
fun with some friends on a call or your classmates outside of class or working hours then you've got
a meeting you've got a class to attend how do you get your face back and maintain your dignity
quite simply down to the three ellipses bottoms at the bottom do it all in reverse into settings
into video change snap camera back to your camera of choice for example mine's the
microsoft live cam select this select end you may need with this to stop your video
and then start it up again and then you can also close down snap cam
and i have been returned back in my busy work area and my dignity such as it is has been restored so
that's how you put a filter on become a cat become a pineapple become a viking put additional filters
in zoom um and in google meat that's how you do it in google meat as well and also more importantly
how you get it off all right and you return your webcam feed to normal it's all about those
camera settings thanks very much for watching hope you've enjoyed this short video on how to become a
cat a viking or other comedy character in your fun meetings but be careful when putting it on
your work pc or other things that you're going to need to use in a more when i say serious basis
try and maintain your dignity any problems put some comments in the chat
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