Add Chroma Key green screen feature to Microsoft Teams meetings/recordings, similar to blur feature
Would like to add Chroma Key green screen effect for Microsoft Teams Meet Now meetings and recordings, envision working similar to new Blur feature, want to key out green screen background and replace with an image and/or Microsoft Stream / YouTube video -tg
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Tim Howland
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If you do have a green screen (for zoom calls) and then use teams with a virtual background, it helpfully draws a green fringe under your hairline. Awesome if you want to cosplay as Shrek, but not so awesome for non-halloween work.
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Bluejay
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Seconded! Or i guess 779th'd
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MS
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ZOOM is the Benchmark for using Greenscreen technology. TEAMS works only as a basis if you don't have something better. It works only if you don't have a background which is too close. TEAMS also cuts off your hands if you move them too far infront of your face.
Microsoft: Do it better! Look to ZOOM with the integrated Greenscreen enable button. -
SadBunny
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It is unbelievable that Teams gets so many Office collaboration features, but the work on actually professionalizing the meeting experience seems so lackluster.
Most importantly, chromakey/green screen for good presentations, and actual full screen for people who want to work on a project together.
It's almost like Teams meetings are only intended for people who just want to look at each other's faces all day, and the rest of the content quality is just blatantly ignored. It holds both technical co-workers (development teams!) and trainers/speakers back in actually using this tool.
The weird thing is, I'm sure MS has *plenty* of those on payroll... They must have these same concerns. Don't they actually use Teams? Or are they just ignored by the product owner?
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Anonymous
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This feature would be great, instead of using OBS to create a Chroma Key filter or switch entirely to Zoom. Thanks
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Anonymous
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Especially in this day and age, Microsoft Teams needs to add the Chroma Key green screen effect. The Teams virtual background still shows so much of the actual room and is spotty. I have a green screen I would love to use with Teams to have much better picture and privacy in meetings. Zoom seems ahead of the technology on this one, would love to see Teams catch up quickly!!
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JW
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i don't see a reply from MSFT on this topic, and it's a huge issue out here in the real world. How do we see interaction and comment from MSFT like when on different vendor's forum the vendor adds some value?
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John Dabs
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Zoom backgrounds are amazing with a green screen. I cannot use the background images on Teams because they look so unprofessional. Very disappointing and I am sticking to Zoom and suggesting that my clients use Zoom when we work together so I look good as a professional trainer/speaker.
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Chelsea Bass
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How is it February 2021 and Teams STILL does not have this feature?
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Massimo Scola
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I agree with all the others. Many people work from home and some have to give webinars with thousands of people. Having the ability to use green screen feature (like Zoom does), would make any presentation or videocall with customers/suppliers etc. more professional.
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Eric
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I tried a green screen. It looks great in Zoom, but is worse than nothing in Teams because the background still sleeds through--and now it gives me a green aura.
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DS
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this would be a real professional add-on
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Anonymous
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Please add
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Xavier Theoret
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In a corporate environment it is not easy to use OBS. A simple slider and color picker like Zoom would do nicely.
Beside you can create a green screen for 6$ by assembling 6 cardboards from the dollar store. Look it up on youtube.
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Nagui Bihelek
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The virtual backgrounds are too fake looking because as you move and talk sections fade in and out. It's not as professional as using a real Green Screen and having Chroma Key to filter out the Green background and get a clear sharp depth of field between speaker and background.
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Anonymous
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Not everyone has a green screen. I get that but surely it can be that difficult to add support for this as an optional feature. Using OBS looks almost as bad as the "no green screen magic" background effect.
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Anonymous commented
Absolutely for sure needed.
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Rob Kerr
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Switched to Teams from Zoom earlier this year, but the lack of proper green screen support is one of the remaining gaps vs. Zoom that is causing me to switch back to zoom.
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Anonymous
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Finally got a green screen for professional web meetings, which works great for all of my Zoom meetings. But the MS Teams meetings look amateurish due to outlines not being sharp. Please add green screen functionality the same way as offered by Zoom.
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Bjørn-Tore Lund
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This really should be implementet, but for those of you screaming that you need this right now I would advice looking into setting up a virtual camera in a software like OBS. That way you can make whatever greenscreen setup you need and simply choice "OBS webcam" in Teams.
You find some information on how to get it working here: https://streamshark.io/blog/using-obs-as-a-virtual-webcam-on-windows-and-macos/