How can I look less red on Team calls?

Anonymous
2024-01-26T17:37:30+00:00

I have a new macbook pro (14" M3) and find that when I use teams I look much redder than normal, like I've a sunburn. I don't have this problem using google meets. Is there some way to adjust the settings so my face looks normal in meetings?
I have the latest version of Teams. I've tried going to Teams settings and switching from FaceTime HD camera to my iphone and it's even worse. I've tried it with green screen on and off and adjusting brightness. Thanks in advance for your help

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Anonymous
2025-02-20T17:25:08+00:00

Hello,

From Microsoft Engineering we want to provide an update on this issue. Thank you all for reporting this problem and we appreciate your feedback and insights. 

As several reported, Teams desktop shows a red tint for video rendered in meeting stage, which is easier to notice when viewing preview video stream. The team found a problem with how the video rendering was configured for displays with certain profiles, resulting in wrong color space adjustment. A fix for this was released in Teams Client version 24267.700.3135.7488, that is now rolled out to all users and clouds as of January 12th 2025. 

Although this change improves the experience for majority of the scenarios and make the tones more accurate where viewing video feeds in Mac devices, there are still certain cases that can result in wrong color adjustment, especially when viewing Mac camera in remote machines or with multiple displays with different presets. Our team is working towards keep addressing remaining scenarios with more changes through the upcoming months.

Thank you,

Oscar A

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-18T09:18:03+00:00

    Ran into the same problem, but needed a quicker solution .

    An upto date version of MS teams does support the use of a virtual camera, which the free software called OBS can create

    but before creating that virtual camera, you can edited the colour balance via one of its built in filters.

    So install the free software called OBS, use a search engine of chat gpt to locate/create instructions.

    Create a scene, and use the filter called colour correction to adjust the redness displayed by the

    webcamera, and the start a virtual camera option. Teams will enable this virtual camera to be selected instead of the selecting the web camera directly.

    Note that on an M1 Chip 1mac, with 16 gig or ram, that OBS uses up 35-38% of the CPU.

    This could be a factor if, when you are running teams, you are also doing another CPU intensive activity.

    A added option when using OBS with teams is that you can also drop in a lower thirds type title in front of the video of yourself, adding your name, title, workplace etc

    or logo onto the video that is displayed by the virtual camera. Probable some of these are options in teams.

    Regards Colm

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-25T08:46:00+00:00

    Definitely happens on the receivers end too. I am wearing a hot pink jumper today - identical to my colleagues (work merch), and mind looks red, not pink

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T16:49:45+00:00

    Same issue Here

    Keep me posted please

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-03T11:37:55+00:00

    Same issue.

    Switched to using the B&W filter.

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