Empty BBC Sets: For video calls

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Whataday Founding member 7 May 2020 11:58pm

This is awesome:

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Give your video calls a makeover, with this selection of over 100 empty sets from the BBC Archive.

Who hasn't wanted to host a pub quiz from the Queen Vic, conduct a job interview from the confines of Fletch's cell, or catch up with friends and family from the bridge of the Liberator in Blake's 7?

Click on an image to bring up a full quality downloadable version, right click and select "Save image as...", then set it as your background image in your video conferencing application.

Cushty!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/empty_sets_collection/zfvy382

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JasonB 8 May 2020 8:59am

Will these work in Zoom and will you need a green screen?

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030293 8 May 2020 11:25am

JasonB posted:

Will these work in Zoom and will you need a green screen?

No green screen required. Just decent lighting and stable place your webcam.

For those who use Microsoft Teams, you can also add custom backgrounds to that via the following filename -
C:-Users-*your username*-AppData-Roaming-Microsoft-Teams-Backgrounds-Uploads .
Save your image in there and then it'll appear in the Background effects on the app. It only works with images though and not video

*In the filename I've replaced the backslash with a dash as for some reason it won't show.

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Whataday Founding member 8 May 2020 11:54am

I notice The View have their own now:

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scottishtv Founding member 8 May 2020 12:03pm

Whataday posted:

This is awesome

Great link! My flat is actually starting to look like Del and Rodney's these days.

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Whataday Founding member 8 May 2020 12:47pm

I was about to say that the famous bar doesn't seem to have a hatch for Del Boy to fall through but I think it's just closed in this shot.

http://teach.files.bbci.co.uk/archive/sets/1988_Only_fools_and_horses_wine_bar_hi000322321.jpg

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Night Thoughts 8 May 2020 2:05pm

I was on a call with someone a couple of weeks ago who had one of the 70s Newsround sets as his backdrop (this one: https://youtu.be/D3kMBA5P4Yc)

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Steve in Pudsey 8 May 2020 3:54pm

Transdiffusion did those Newsround ones.

I'm tempted to do a Nationwide one.

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Pete Founding member 8 May 2020 4:06pm

030293 posted:

JasonB posted:

Will these work in Zoom and will you need a green screen?

No green screen required. Just decent lighting and stable place your webcam.

For those who use Microsoft Teams, you can also add custom backgrounds to that via the following filename -
C:-Users-*your username*-AppData-Roaming-Microsoft-Teams-Backgrounds-Uploads .
Save your image in there and then it'll appear in the Background effects on the app. It only works with images though and not video

*In the filename I've replaced the backslash with a dash as for some reason it won't show.

Also works on macs ~Library - application support - microsoft - teams - background - uploads

The key thing is you need to use one of the default backgrounds first, otherwise the folder won't exist and it won't work even if you make it manually.

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Stuart 9 May 2020 9:26am

This is listed as the TARDIS 2019, but I don't recall ever seeing it on screen . . .
http://teach.files.bbci.co.uk/archive/sets/2019_Doctor_Who_tardis_2_hi060213437.jpg

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Blake Connolly Founding member 9 May 2020 9:29am

That's Ruth Doctor's Tardis. Much nicer than the current one.

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Stuart 9 May 2020 9:42am

Blake Connolly posted:

That's Ruth Doctor's Tardis. Much nicer than the current one.

Of course it is, thank you. I agree, it is far better than the current one, even after they made some changes.

Empty BBC Sets

For video calls (May 2020)