Overview

In addition to sharing PowerPoint presentations or Keynote presentations, you can also share your presentation as a Virtual Background to create an immersive sharing experience. Your participants will be able to view the video directly on the screen share if you share your slides as a Virtual Background. From within the Zoom meeting controls, you can also manage your presentation.

Please note:

Slides cannot be embedded with sound, transitions, or animations.

The video will be embedded on top of the slides if the presenter records the meeting locally. For the video to be embedded on the slides, the host or another participant must be using at least version 5.2.0 or higher. In a screen share recording, the slides and video will be recorded if they are on a version older than 5.2.0 or are recorded to the cloud.

Prerequisites

Presenter requirements

• Desktop client for Zoom
  • Windows: 5.2.0 (42619.0804) or higher
  • macOS: 5.2.0 (42634.0805)] or higher
• The system meets the requirements for Virtual Background
• PowerPoint or Keynote (macOS only) installed locally

Viewer requirements

• Zoom Desktop Client
  • Windows: 5.2.0 (42619.0804) or higher
  • macOS: 5.2.0 (42634.0805) or higher
  • Linux: 5.2.0 (440215.0803) or higher
• Zoom Mobile App
  • Android: 5.2.0 (42588.0803) or higher
  • iOS: 5.2.0 or higher

Note:

Participants who are on a lower version or connecting from the Web client, a Zoom Room, or a third-party endpoint will view the slides as normal screen shares, and the presenter’s video will not be imposed over the slides.

Sharing a presentation as your background

• In your meeting controls, click the Share Screen button.
• Select Advanced.
• Select Slides as Virtual Background.

• Choose a PowerPoint presentation file.

• Then click Open.

Once the presentation has been imported, you will see the slides as your virtual background. By default, your video will be imposed over the slides if it is on.

Managing slides and video

Your video and slides can be managed from the meeting controls once the share has started.

Changing slides

The next and previous buttons on the meeting controls are used to navigate through your slides.

Changing video size and position

Reposition or resize your video as follows:

• Click, the … under the presentation menu.

• Select Resize My Video.
• You can resize the image by clicking and dragging one of the 4 corners.

• Drag your mouse to reposition your image on the slide by clicking and holding the center of your image.

Remove the video from the slide.

If you want the video to be sent separately and not imposed on top of the slides:

• Click, the … in the presentation menu.

• Select Split Video from Slides.

• You will now be able to show your slides as a normal screen share, and your video feed will be sent separately. The controls for navigating slides will remain the same.

• Click Merge Video and Slide to re-impose your video on the slides