HD video (1080p) will only be activated for selective use cases such as large format broadcast events. HD video (720p) will be activated for 2 participants or when a Zoom Room or Conference Room Connector joins a group meeting. Note: As our world comes together to slow the spread of COVID-19 and stays connected through Zoom globally, we are working to quickly scale our bandwidth during this unprecedented demand.įor the time being, standard video, not HD video, will be activated when 3 or more participants join a group meeting. This problem has gotten worse since COVID hit, since the huge pressure on Zoom’s infrastructure has led them to essentially disable the sharing of a webcam in HD regardless of your settings ( accessed September 7, 2020):
But since you’re just piping in a single virtual camera into Zoom, it’s treating your feed like a webcam – smooth and low quality, making it difficult to read text.
Perhaps you can see the problem already – if you’re sharing your slides with you overlaid on top of them, you want your slides to be high quality and your video camera to be smooth. In short, it assumes that you want your webcam to be smooth at the expense of quality (it’s weird to have choppy video of you talking) and your screen sharing to prioritize quality at the expense of smoothness (you’re often showing a static image with text on it, and that text must be readable). The reason for this is that Zoom is constantly making tradeoffs between quality (resolution) and smoothness (framerate) to optimize video, and in doing so is making a lot of assumptions about the nature of your video.
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