In this tutorial, Shaun Whynacht demonstrates a free method to brand Zoom meetings using custom video filter overlays. He first creates transparent PNG graphics in Canva—designing left and right versions and separate 600×600 thumbnail images that label each overlay. After downloading the PNGs, he accesses the Zoom web portal (Account Management → Account Settings → Meeting → In Meeting Advanced → Video Filters) to enable and manage custom filters. He uploads the PNG, positions and scales it for both desktop and mobile views, ensuring the overlay does not cover the user’s head. Shaun then replaces the default white thumbnail with the labeled 600×600 image so the filter is identifiable in the Zoom app. Finally, he showcases a practical use case: adding a QR code overlay that meeting participants can scan to book appointments. The video ends with a call to subscribe and engage with the channel.
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In this video, I'm going to show you how you can use Zoom and Canva to create a graphic just like this. You can actually create multiples and load them in any meeting you have. So let's hop over to Zoom. You're not going to need any specific plugins for Zoom or anything like this. If you have the paid version, you are able to do it. So there's a couple steps that come along with this. So I went in here and I made graphics, um, and you can make it any size or any shape that you need. The bigger that is, the cleaner the graphic's going to be. So I went and laid it out. I made a right and a left, uh, sorry, left and a right one. This is the right one that we're going to use here. This one should actually say left. That's there. So once we've done that, what we're going to do, even though I have it on a black background, is we're going to download it as a PNG file, making sure that it's transparent, right? So we're going to use just the right one. I've already put the left one in, as you saw in the opening video. So we're going to download just that file to the computer. So there it is right there. We're going to download it. Now here's the part that is hard to find if you don't know where to go to get it. Keeping in mind that if you use the program version, you cannot add these in the software here. That's the, the one that's actually loaded on your computer. You have to go to the web version. So once we're in here, once we're logged in, we're going to go down to our account, and we're going to go into Account Management and then Account Settings. Once we're in here, we're going to look for the Meeting tab and then In Meeting Advanced. It's going to auto-scroll you down. You can scroll down here. You're going to pass the Virtual Background section, which you can manage here. But below that is video filters, which is what we want. And we're going to make sure it's turned on. And we're going to say manage custom filters. So now we're going to choose the file from the computer. So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to grab that one we just did. So there it is there. And it's going to allow us to then place it and scale it to where we want on the screen here. So we're going to say okay, that's Make sure where your head is, that your head's not gonna be covered up by this logo. So we're gonna click next. Now it's gonna give you where you'd want it on a mobile version. Now if you have enough headroom in the mobile version, you can put it over top. I'm still gonna make it a little bit smaller, just like that. Now here's the next step. We're gonna go in here and we're gonna call it right, but the thumbnail, this is key. This is what it's gonna look like in the app when you go and load it. So what I mean by that is if we go to video here and choose video filter, it's this icon right here. Right there. If we left it the way it is, so the way— let's close that. If we left it the way it is, it's just going to be white. You're not going to know which one it is. So what we did in Canva— love Canva— we come back here, we just made a square image with 600 by 600, and we made one that said left and one that said right, and we downloaded those. So now we're going to come back here to the account. We're going to say change thumbnail, and in this case we're going to use the right one, and we're going to say open. And now it's going to look like that, and we'll click save. There we go. Let's go back to our downloaded version, and we're going to open up video filters. Now we see left and right, so we got left selected. We want right. It's going to pop over there so we can go back and forth. You can have a lower corner, so you can choose in a meeting. So let's say you create one of these, it's a QR code that people can scan to book an appointment for you. Create it in Canva, throw it in here, middle of the meeting, open up the filters, choose the QR code, and it will show up on the screen. How cool is that? If you like this and want more tips, go ahead and subscribe to our YouTube channel and leave a comment or a question Love to hear from you. Thanks for watching.
