<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:37 PM Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" target="_blank">evan@telly.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 11:48, Colin McGregor <<a href="mailto:colin.mc151@gmail.com" target="_blank">colin.mc151@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Last night for the UU meeting I APPEARED to be in a very neat and tastefully furnished den. The truth was I wasn't. Zoom allows you to set-up a virtual background, which works best if you have a green screen behind you.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Green screens work best, but it can be any plain colour. A plain white wall as your background works fine for most people.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True, but... When the likes of members of the Serial Diners have say tried doing this with a white wall the results have always been ... disappointing. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There are commercially made green screen kits (metal frames, green fabric all in a neat package), but at least when I was checking these were all sold out at the usual on-line suspects.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I usually found the kits to be overpriced. Easier and cheaper to buy the frame and fabric separately.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B011TY0YII/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00" target="_blank">This is the frame I bought</a>, still in stock at the online bookstore.</div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The green backdrop is what seems to be out of stock locally, but <a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32810278954.html" target="_blank">is available offshore if you don't mind the wait</a>. </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">As for potential backgrounds, they're everywhere now. A search on "zoom backgrounds" yields lots of choice.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good points...<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></div></div>
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