

If you give people someone to relate with (or project onto), they’ll be more invested in what you’re saying.īut there’s nothing relatable or unique about generic “business” people standing in a row with their folded arms and dowdy suits. Human faces make presentations more effective. Rule of thumb: No art is always better than bad art. If the only purpose of an image is to fill in negative space, you’re probably better off leaving it alone. Why?īecause cute Clip Art is useless if it does nothing to help your audience understand what you’re saying. Imagery is essential to your presentation. Say it with me: This is not a time for clip art To re-impose your video on the slides, click Merge Video and Slides.Don’t let that happen to you. Take stock of your bag of tricks and rid yourself of these bad habits that make PowerPoints look like a relic of a bygone era.You can still navigate slides in the meeting controls. Your participants will now view your slides as a normal screen share and your video feed will be sent as a separate feed.If you want to stop imposing your video on top of the slides and have it sent as a separate video feed: Click and hold the center of your image, then drag your mouse to reposition the image on the slide.Click and hold one of the 4 corners of the image, and drag your mouse to resize the image.To reposition or change the size of your video: To navigate through your slides, use the next and previous buttons in the meeting controls. Once the share has started, you can manage your video and slides from the meeting controls. If your video is on, by default it will be imposed over the slides. Once the presentation has been imported, the slides will be shown as your virtual background. Browse, and select the PowerPoint presentation file.Click the Share Screen button located in your meeting controls.Sharing a presentation as your background Note: If a participant is on a version lower than what is stated above or joining from the Web client, a Zoom Room, or 3rd party endpoint, they will view the slides as a normal screen share, and the presenter's video will not be imposed over the slides. PowerPoint or Keynote (macOS only) installed locally.System meets the requirements for Virtual Background.Sharing a presentation as your background.If they are on any version older than 5.2.0 or record to the cloud , the recording will record the slides and video as a normal screen share recording. If the host or another participant records the meeting locally, they must be on at least 5.2.0 or higher for the video to be embedded on the slides.

If the presenter records the meeting locally, the recording will also have the video embedded on top of the slides. Note: Sound, transitions, or animations embedded in slides are not supported. It also allows you to manage your presentation directly from within the Zoom meeting controls.

Sharing your slides as a Virtual Background allows your participants to view your video imposed directly on the screen share. While you can share PowerPoint presentations or share Keynote presentations in meetings, you can also share your presentation as a Virtual Background for an immersive sharing experience.
