It’s very light and will flap around if you have airflow in the room from a ceiling fan. Back view of green screen standĮven a entry level setup like the one I have will suffice The green screen backdropĪs for the green screen backdrop, I went with a cheap non-woven fabric version. However, it is still steady enough when used indoors. This version stands on a single pole and will wobble a little. I bought a cheap cross bar stand to hold up the green screen backdrop.

I didn’t really see a point spending too much on this whole setup. I personally went with an entry level, low cost setup as this really is just for web conferences. There are two main parts to the green screen setup. 🤨 But a clear white or solid colour wall may work too, depending on your attire. Technically, you don’t really need it to be green, though that is usually the best colour unless you like to dress in green. This is the reason why you will need to a green screen setup. Chroma (colour hue) because the technique involves keying in on a range of colours that it would composite over with another image or video. If you don’t already know, chroma key compositing the technique of removing backgrounds of a subject in the video. Get a green screen for your virtual background on Google Meet Using a virtual background on Google Meet using OBS 1. This will be a pretty long article with lots of photos and screenshots.

To make this work, you do need to buy a green screen to make this work as it is not an fully software option. Therefore, I now think I have the best setup for MacOS users to present yourself over a virtual background on Google Meet.

After some Google-fu, I came across a working virtual camera plugin for OBS that works on MacOS! I’ve previously used CamTwist to power my iPhone webcam setup but it has a rather poor Chroma Key plugin.

If you have been trying to get a good setup for enabling virtual background for Google Meet, read on.Ī quick background: Google Meet is the corporate standard at my workplace and we have recently been advised not to use Snap Camera for all those fancy virtual background effects. If you haven’t notice yet, this is my third post on my WFH (work from home) hacks, specifically on the best web conferencing setup I can get.

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