Record video with virtual backgrounds

Create content from anywhere in the world, without actually leaving your room, using virtual backgrounds in ScreenPal’s free screen recorder or video editor.

Create professional, branded content or add a bit of fun and humor to your video, depending on your audience. A virtual background can help you to engage your students, showcase your brand, and make a lasting impression on your audience.

Add a virtual background

Customize your background

Record from anywhere

Protect your privacy

Remove, replace, or blur

Replace your webcam background

Upload your own background image, select one of our free backgrounds, or choose from a variety of free virtual background images in our stock library, all while using our free recorder. The best part? No green screen required! ScreenPal uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately insert your virtual background.

Record with confidence

Create content from anywhere, protect your privacy, and eliminate distractions and interruptions. Quickly hide a disorganized room and look presentable and professional on camera. Build faith in your brand by using a background that includes your organization’s logo and colors.

How to add a virtual background

Launch

Open the screen recorder and select Camera or Both. Click the webcam options button in the webcam preview window.

Select a webcam background

Select a free virtual background image from our list, explore our stock library, or upload your own image. You can also blur or remove your background if preferred.

Save

Start recording! when you’re finished, save and share your video. You can host unlimited videos for free using ScreenPal’s free content hosting platform.

Get started with virtual backgrounds for free

Why use a virtual background for your webcam video?

Education

Wow your students by creating videos with captivating backgrounds that are relevant to your subject matter. Help your viewers stay focused on your lesson, not your cluttered office.

Business

Hide clutter and other distractions with a virtual background. Showcase your company by using your logo as your background. Build trust with clients using background images that illustrate your company’s mission, values, and culture.

Personal

Enhance your personal story, send a fun video message to friends, or create the perfect video for social media with the perfect background image. Spread some holiday cheer to your family with a Christmas virtual background.

Create engaging videos you can access anywhere

Replace, remove, or blur your webcam background

With our virtual backgrounds, blur and removal tools, you have plenty of options. Blur your background for more privacy. Remove your webcam background completely to display more content on your screen during a product demo or lesson. Or let your creativity shine with a lively virtual background that will capture your audience’s attention.

Open the virtual background tool

Host and share your content for free

Host unlimited recordings in one easy-to-access location using our free video hosting platform. Create a recording using a virtual background, then upload it to ScreenPal. From your Content page, you can edit a video’s details, add captions, protect your content with visibility settings, and quickly share a link.

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Free Screen Recording

Our free screen recorder gives you everything you need to start creating your own stunning, engaging screen and webcam videos. In additional to virtual background, free features include:

Record screen and/or webcam

Record area, window, or screen

Capture your microphone

Record unlimited no. of videos

Remove or blur background

Draw while recording

Music (including free stock)

Add closed captions

Save video files

Create animated GIFs

Upload to content hosting

Quick share to social

Create screen recordings for free

Upgrade for all you need in a screen recorder and more

Our full video creation suite offers advanced screen recording, seamless video editing, unlimited hosting & robust content management.

Unlimited screen recording time

Interactive storyboard editor

Script recording mode

Easy drag & drop video builder

Record computer/system audio

Blur any part of your video

Easy, integrated video editing

Change webcam shape & size

Auto Speech-to-Text captions

Expanded stock music library

Hide your webcam or cursor

Automatically remove silences

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Virtual backgrounds: Frequently asked questions

What is a virtual background?
What is the best way to add a virtual background to a video?

To successfully add a virtual background to your video, you’ll first need to find video editing software that supports this feature, enables you to create high quality videos, and offers the option of creating videos without a watermark.

ScreenPal provides products that are accessible and easy to use. We offer all the tools you need to create high-quality videos that will engage any audience. Our free plan allows you to access many great features, including virtual backgrounds, the ability to add captions files, narration, and music to your videos, and the use of editing tools such as cuts, overlay text, arrows, shapes, crop and resize, and animated transitions.

You can also add a Zoom virtual background by creating a custom background image file using our image editor and uploading it to use with Zoom or other video meeting platforms.

Why choose ScreenPal for virtual backgrounds?

With our apps, you can easily and quickly add virtual backgrounds to your recordings before or after you create them. Just upload your own unique image, select one of our free backgrounds, or browse the extensive collection of virtual background images and videos in our stock library.

ScreenPal also enables you to easily edit your images and videos, host your content for easy sharing, better understand your audience with video analytics, create polls and quizzes to boost viewer engagement, and much more.
How do I use a virtual background with ScreenPal?

There are two ways you can add a virtual background to your video. First, you can select a background from the screen recorder before you begin capturing content. Second, you can create your recording and then add a background from the video editor once its complete. You can even add multiple backgrounds throughout the video using this method.

Once you’ve chosen the perfect background image, our background remover does all the work for you. This tool has AI built in to automatically detect you and seamlessly blur, remove, or replace your background.