Draw on your video feed during a meeting
To draw directly on top of your live, moving webcam video using your iPad and PC, you can use a clever app called Video Pencil. It is designed exactly for this purpose and turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for your computer's video feed. [1, 2] Here is how to set it up:
What You Need
- Your Windows PC with Zoom installed.
- Your iPad with an Apple Pencil.
- The Video Pencil app installed on your iPad (available in the App Store).
- A USB cable to connect your iPad to your PC. [1, 3]
The Setup Steps
- Connect the devices: Plug your iPad into your PC using the USB cable. [3]
- Open the App: Launch Video Pencil on your iPad. [2]
- Link the camera: In the Video Pencil app menu, select your PC's webcam as the video source. Your live camera feed will immediately appear on your iPad screen. [2]
- Turn on the Virtual Camera: Video Pencil acts as a "virtual webcam" on your computer. It takes your PC webcam feed, overlays whatever you draw on the iPad, and sends it back to your PC. [2, 4]
- Open Zoom: Start your Zoom meeting on your PC. [2]
- Switch Zoom Camera: Next to the "Start Video" button in Zoom, click the small arrow (^), and change your camera source from your normal webcam to Video Pencil Camera. [2, 5]
How You Use It
Now, you don't even have to use Zoom's screen-sharing feature. You simply look at your iPad and sketch using your Apple Pencil. [2, 6] Whatever you draw—like circling something behind you, drawing a mustache on yourself, or sketching a diagram over your shoulders—will appear smoothly live on your main webcam box for everyone in the Zoom meeting to see. [2, 4] Would you like help setting this up, or would you prefer a free, built-in Zoom method that uses a static snapshot of your camera feed instead?
[1] https://squares.tv [2] https://www.youtube.com [3] https://catherinemadden.com [4] https://www.youtube.com [5] https://www.youtube.com [6] https://sph.unc.edu