What is Zoom?
Zoom is a video-conferencing application that is very useful in modern business organizations. It is a very reliable and popular audio and video conferencing platform. You can use this application for video calls, collaboration, communication or chat and webinars on laptop or PC, mobile phones, room systems, and telephones.
Zoom Room is the conference room solution based on original software that is used around the world in meetings, conferences, training and offices, and classrooms. Zoom helps the organizations and companies to bring their employees together to do more work in a good environment.
To conduct the video conferencing and bring people together from around the world through your phone or web camera, Zoom uses cloud services on the internet. Zoom uses two services i.e. Zoom Meeting and Zoom Room. Zoom meeting means video conference meetings hosted on the Zoom platform and Zoom Room is the arrangement of the physical hardware that helps you in scheduling and holding the conferences.
Best practice for virtual background for Zoom
- Prepare your real background-
- If you want to get good results in virtual zoom backgrounds, Zoom always recommends you use a single color background especially green color, and with high contrast. You may choose any color but ensure that the chosen color will not reflect light.
- Never forget to use the surface as a background of your video call that is very close to you.
- Avoid wearing the clothes the same as the background or the virtual background.
- Camera
- If you are using the webcam or your mobile camera, you make sure that it is not dirty and it is not covered with anything.
- The camera with better resolution always gives you a better result. So it highly recommended using external webcam.
- Lighting
- Make sure that lighting should be uniform and it is not much brighter or too opaque.
- Never sit in front of the windows and remember that the sun moves during the day.
- You should put a lamp in front of your face to create a professional image in from of other participants. You can choose a ring of LED lights also.
- Background Image
- Always use a better quality image with high resolution.
- Free virtual office backgrounds will help you to better your video conferencing call with Zoom.
- Zoom recommends you to use the background image with 16:9 formats and the resolution will be 1280*720 pixels.
- You can use videos for a background with a minimum resolution of 480*360p and a maximum of 1920*1080p.
- If you have a background image that includes text, make sure to uncheck the “invert my video” option that you may found in the video setting.
The fastest way to create an image of good quality that you want to use as your virtual background is to use a template called Canva. You can select a wide variety of free professional backgrounds for Zoom.