
To engage in the smoothest possible meetings, close any applications you don’t need to use for the meeting itself. This process requires the energy of your CPU. Zoom uses your processor to send the images to your network card, which transmits the data to its destination. When streaming 30 frames per second, your camera is taking 30 pictures of you each and every second, then sending them to the processor with instructions to forward the images through Zoom. As the writer for Zoom’s blog post puts it: Key among them is limiting the applications that use the two resources precious to any Web-conference app: processor power and network bandwidth. Minimize network and computer disruptionsĬlose competing applications: The folks behind Zoom have tips for making the best Zoom calls that really apply to any video-meeting software. What a great home-office video-calling setup looks like. Other software on your computer, or the microphone itself, maybe be applying changes or effects that are competing with the Web-conference software’s settings.

This setting is usually enabled by default, and fine to leave on, but if you hear complaints from others that your voice is fading in or out or echoing, try disabling this.

Whether you’re occasionally working from home, regularly meeting while working remotely, or preparing for a rare video job interview, these tips will help make your virtual presence pleasing and professional. Here’s the best advice from Wirecutter staff, as well as from a few of our expert sources, for getting good video and audio. Nearly every meeting at Wirecutter is a Web-video meeting, and over more than five years of talking to one another through tiny cameras, we’ve learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. But even if you have the best webcam, there’s a good chance that your lighting, your backdrop, your connection, or even your unconscious habits are making your Web meetings less polished than they could be. Like parsley in your teeth or a hole in your pants, a bad video-call setup is something you’ll hear about only from people who care about you.
