

Don’t make any sudden moves, or strong expressions of excitement or agreement, that might cause your boss to notice you and ask for your opinion. While you need to make those small, subtle motions to appear alert and present, this is not the time to overdo it. Make sure it’s the ‘I’m listening’ nod, not the ‘I agree we need to come in on Saturday’ nod. Blink your eyes, and slightly tilt or nod your head from time to time, to signal that you are indeed paying attention. Zoom will indicate that it is recording in the upper-left corner (don’t worry, this doesn’t show up in the video itself). While looking at the camera, press Alt+R to begin recording, or click the Record button at the bottom of the window. Record your loopĬenter yourself in the frame. Use Zoom’s own recording feature to record yourself intently looking into the camera.

From Zoom’s main screen, click the orange New Meeting button. We recommend that you always have the same background, so as not to tip off your boss, or simply use one of Zoom’s virtual background still images.

To create our looped video we’ll use Zoom itself, which you can download for free from the Zoom Download Center. You can also see the size of the original and zoomed GIFs before downloading, as well as explore other GIF properties such as the number of frames and frame delays in the GIF information area.This is the main screen of Zoom. You can view and compare the input and output GIFs directly in the browser by turning on or off the GIF animation viewer. If you want to keep the pixel sharpness in the output GIF, then disable the option "Smooth Zoom". By default, the program averages the nearby pixels when the image is zoomed and the image gets a little bit blurry. For example, a 50% zoom reduces the frame size by half and a 25% zoom shrinks a GIF by a factor of four.

This way you can get a smaller GIF than the original. As an extra feature, we also allow entering a zoom level that is less than 100%. The zoom level is set in percentage, where 100% is the original size of a GIF, 200% is a GIF twice as large, and 250% is a GIF that is 2.5 times larger. It increases the width and height of each frame (maintaining the aspect ratio) and returns the enlarged GIF. This is a browser-based program that zooms GIF animations.
