How to Blur Your Background, Use a Virtual Background, or Stand Inside the Scene (Pro)

TL;DR

Front-camera background effects (Pro) are Blur, Virtual background and Cutout. They use on-device person segmentation, with a Fast or Quality setting. The Cutout layout removes your background and places you full width over the rear scene.

The problem

You’re recording in a messy room, a busy cafe or a corner you’d rather not show, and the front camera shows all of it. Or you want to look like you’re in the scene you’re filming rather than a bubble over it. Outside an editor, most phone cameras don’t let you change what’s behind you.

What DualCam offers (Pro)

For the front camera:

  • Blur: softens the background, with an adjustable intensity.
  • Virtual: replaces it with an image from the built-in library or one of your own, with optional softening.
  • Cutout: removes the background completely.

In a PiP layout, a cutout lets the rear feed show through behind you. The Cutout overlay layout goes further: you’re cut out and placed full width, bottom-aligned, over the rear camera’s scene, so you stand inside the setting.

All of this runs on the phone using person segmentation.

Steps

  1. Choose a layout. For the standing-in-the-scene look, pick Cutout.
  2. Open Front Background in the settings and choose Blur, Virtual or Cutout.
  3. Adjust blur strength, or pick a background.
  4. Choose Fast or Quality segmentation.
  5. Check the preview before recording.

Getting a clean result

  • Light yourself evenly, and avoid a background close in colour to your clothes.
  • Stay in frame and fairly still. Edge quality drops when you move fast or sit at the edge.
  • Use Quality for a locked-off shot, Fast when you’re moving or recording in 4K.
  • Watch battery and heat. Segmentation plus two cameras is heavy, especially in 4K.

Without Pro

Free users can still frame themselves in a bubble. Opening a Pro-built setup on a free plan falls back to the standard layout.

FAQ

Which effects are there? Blur (with adjustable intensity), Virtual background (library or your own image), and Cutout (background removed).

Do effects appear in the saved video? Yes. They are applied to the recorded frames as well as the preview.

What does the Fast/Quality setting do? Quality gives cleaner edges around you at a higher processing cost. Fast is lighter.

Is it free? No, background effects and the Cutout layout are Pro.

The app DualCam →