Rainbow and Video Virtual Backgrounds
Several folks have been asking me this: how complex is it to get a virtual background when using Rainbow, just like when using Zoom?
Turns out, it’s not all that hard.
You basically have two options:
- You can go down the professional road and film yourself with a green background. There are some great offerings and the best reviewed one by many semi-famous people is the Elgato collpasible chroma key panel. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, this is what chroma keying is: compositing yourself over a background that will replace all areas sporting the same shade of green,
- Or you can use one of ’em newfangled fancy neural networks that will remove the actual background and substitute one of your choosing through educated guesses. As you can imagine, this mostly works. Depending on the software being used, you will get vastly different results. I also don’t imagine you want to run the video signal through your own Python scripts so I am going to talk about turnkey software.
This is going to be pretty straightforward:
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