[Upbeat Music] And knowing full well that after I put this video out, I won't be able to do this anymore because all my colleagues will know that I'm doing this. [Laughs] I found a way to shoot a one minute video, and loop it, of me looking into the camera, and sticking that in my Zoom meeting So here's how to do it. So before I get into this video, I want to really say, don't do this. [Funny noise] No, seriously. I know, yes, we're all overwhelmed with Zoom meetings these days. And realistically here I'm just messing around, I do really love my job. And when I was in the zoom meeting I was present in the Zoom meeting, I was just messing around with it. So I just made sure that—I am going to make sure again that I'm unmuted on my zoom call. Because I figured out a way to record a one minute loop of myself just looking around and now I don't have to stand there. So I thought about making a motion GIF and then sticking that in there because you can put an image up. And I'd been putting an image up every once in a while just because I don't want people looking at my messy kitchen like this. So I wanted to try to do that, but I found out that the photo file is only very, very small. It's like two megabytes or something like that. Very, very small, so that's not going to work too much. So I tried that—didn't work. So I went in and you could do those virtual backgrounds. So I thought, okay that's kinda cool. So I looked into the virtual background and you can upload a video. So this Zoom meeting has been going for 42 minutes. I have a one minute looped video. Nobody's noticed yet. Alright, so I made a video of me looking into the camera for a minute and then I wanted to loop it. So all I really did was I looked into the video. Now, I think I may have overdone it a little bit because I was kind of looking around just like—I'm looking at my monitor and looking down at my keyboard, like everybody else does. I might have overdone it, but anyway, shot the one-minute video. I made sure that I had the same look into the camera at the beginning and at the end. So, you know, this, that, that, back to this. And there's my loop video right there. It just loops. And at the end of the loop it does have a little bit of a—like a click. Nobody's noticed. Nobody's noticed. Stuck it in the virtual background. Now the virtual background is a video that goes in the background and it has you in front of it and it's using your camera. So the way I got around this, I took a little piece of paper, taped it to my camera so that it's just seeing that as a virtual background and not seeing the camera. So that was able to kind of fool the virtual background. And I tried it out yesterday, and I had a two-hour-long meeting and it worked pretty well. I can just sit here and do—my mics muted, I can just kinda walk away. And I'm still in my zoom call. So I have an external camera, a DSLR that I use for my zoom and an external microphone. And I told the Zoom to take my laptop little camera in there, And I pasted over top of that camera. So if I actually do need to talk, I'll turn the video of that camera off. It'll go to my image. I'll turn my virtual background off and then I'll turn my other camera on, and then it has a shot of me and then I can talk. I'm back live and my lighting is completely different. Now, yesterday, my lighting changed, so it was nice and bright like this. It's the morning right now, so it's nice and bright. And then my virtual meeting was a three o'clock, so the Sun moves from there to the front of my house. So my lighting completely changed, and just for the fun of it, I changed my shirt as well. The lightning also is completely different when I click it on. When I change it, so I'm actually going to change my background light to a whole different color. And I'll turn off and turn back on, I've got a different shirt on. Maybe I'll take my glasses off. Nobody really noticed. So I'm gonna try it one more time, And then after that, this video will probably come out and everybody will know what I was doing. But anyway, it's just an experiment. Again. Don't do this. [Funny noise] If I'm doing zoom recordings with my students now, I'm going to check for this and I'm going to start calling them out to answer questions, and if I see their cameras change I know that they're pulling my trick here. But anyway, it is a kind of fun experiment to do, to see if anybody actually notices. Feel free to try it out or not. I take no responsibility for your results. If you like these videos, please make sure to hit the like button and the subscribe button and all that fun stuff. I'm still new at doing these YouTube videos, but it's been a lot of fun so far, so I hope you're enjoying this and I'll see you here next time.