Just today, I recorded a video to provide training and just uploaded it.
What I didn't realize was that five minutes in, my microphone picked up my sweet child screaming about how she stepped in cat vomit and now theres cat vomit all over the house.
Yeah I'm not doing two takes and wtf microphone, why are you picking up sounds that far away?
I'm preparing to be mocked once people watch that video.
Meanwhile I've forgotten to turn off my music playing on speakers nearby my PC and apologized about my music once I realized only to get "what music?" in response. I'm not sure what sorcery went into this mic design, but it's great!
Edit: Also, use an audio editor to record that so you can splice different takes together. It allows you to get each part perfect rather than having to decide at some point that it's good enough because you have to record the whole thing in one take.
Power point has a slide record mode that lets you redo individual slides, too. It was essential when I had to get a presentation to fit into a 3 minute timeslot while I tend to ramble.
A friend of mine once attended a university lecture where the prof briefly ducked out to the loo... and neglected to turn off their wireless microphone, which was still connected to the classroom speakers.
goddamnit this appeared elsewhere as well but it reminds me of my favourite episode of masameer county.
"what about your cousin? he married a european woman but his genes are so strong all his kids look like monkeys. 'Grandpa! Grandpa! We love bananas! We don't know why!"
while it blares into the function hall the two recently reconciliated families are dining in.
We usually just do audio in our meetings, but I always leave my headphones in my office if I have to go to the bathroom. I don't care if I'm muted or not.
They'd just be looking at the palm rest for me. Laptop is closed and under the monitor stand, having it open just makes Window's show how well it does desktop scaling.
I once saw a university thesis defence back during lockdown, one old guy professor was doing a Donald Duck impression and was wearing nothing below the belt thinking that the camera won't pick it up anyway.
Then he got up to get something... and the thing flopped into view.
One of them (Zoom I think) at least used to be able to pop up a request for attendees to turn on their mics. I was glad to see it required permission, and I was not glad to see the host must have clicked that request.
The last two Dell laptops my work provided me with have little sliders that physically cover the camera. I use them all the time while working from home.
Joke is on you; my camera is uninstalled, I am "computer illiterate", and I would rather install a toe trigger on my shotgun than work anywhere where I would have to do virtual meetings with a camera enabled.
He was on a phone, so it's not like we had a clear full view, it was more like seeing some bits of hairy belly, shoulders, etc. But you could still clearly tell what was going on.
Most of the newer laptops I've picked up some have hardware switches, but they do have a physical shutter that can be flipped over the camera which IMO is better as I can visibly see the camera is blocked
You can get a little plastic window with sticky on one side and keep it closed when you don't intend to use the Webcam, my laptop now has one built in for the Webcam which is cool
All they would see is blackness since my work laptop stays closed. I have an external webcam that I plug in as needed. I also keep it angled up when not in use so, in the very best/worst case where I forgot to unplug it, you get a view of my cieling.