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No matter what app you use, though, we recommend checking its settings for these features: Zoom, formerly our chosen Web-conference software, has good default settings, and so do most Web-meeting apps. Whether you’re occasionally working from home, regularly meeting while working remotely, or preparing for a rare video job interview, these tips will help make your virtual presence pleasing and professional. Here’s the best advice from Wirecutter staff, as well as from a few of our expert sources, for getting good video and audio. Nearly every meeting at Wirecutter is a Web-video meeting, and over more than five years of talking to one another through tiny cameras, we’ve learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t.

But even if you have the best webcam, there’s a good chance that your lighting, your backdrop, your connection, or even your unconscious habits are making your Web meetings less polished than they could be. Like parsley in your teeth or a hole in your pants, a bad video-call setup is something you’ll hear about only from people who care about you.

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