Improve your video & audio experience

You might also want to decrease the quality of your video if you experience:

• Video or audio delays
• Poor network connection
• Low battery
• Limited data available
• Other quality issues

Send resolution (maximum)

• Full High Definition (1080p)— Option is only available on computers with a 1080p camera and enough processing power. Uses the most data, but your camera sends the highest quality picture.
• High Definition (720p)— Uses more data, but your camera sends a high quality picture.
• Standard definition (360p)— Uses less data, but your camera will send a lower quality picture.

Receive resolution (maximum)

• Full High Definition (1080p)— Uses the most data, but you receive the highest quality picture.
• High Definition (720p)— Uses more data, but you receive a high quality picture.
• Standard definition (360p)— (single feed) To save more data, the other participants' thumbnails turn off.
• Audio Only— To use the least amount of data, you won't see any video.

Important: 1080p isn't supported in Firefox and Safari.

Anyone with a compatible device can receive 1080p video. Only these editions can send 1080p video:

• Business Plus
• Business Standard
• Education Plus
• Enterprise Essentials
• Enterprise Plus
• Enterprise Standard
• Enterprise Starter
• Google One subscribers with 2TB or more storage space
• Google Workspace Individual
• Teaching and Learning Upgrade

You need:

• A browser version that supports video framing:
  • On Windows, Mac or Linux: Chrome version M91 or up. Learn how to check your browser version.
  • On Chrome OS: Version M91 or up. Learn how to upgrade your Chromebook.
  • On Windows or Mac: Edge (Chromium) 91 or up.
• A browser that supports WebGL.
• Hardware acceleration turned on.

Enable hardware acceleration

Enable on Windows or Mac:

1. At the top right of a Chrome window, click Menu Settings .
2. On the left, next to "Advanced," click Down Arrow .
3. Click System .
4. If available, enable Use hardware acceleration.
5. Restart Chrome.

Check WebGL support

Check if your browser supports WebGL at webglreport.com. Verify that “Major Performance Caveat” is marked as “No.”

If your device is unstable or crashes, your browser might disable WebGL. You can’t enforce WebGL on unstable WebGL devices. In some cases, it may help to update graphic card drivers or restart your browser. Learn more about WebGL support.

When video lighting adjustment is on, Meet is able to detect if you are underexposed and can automatically enhance brightness to improve your visibility. Meet will prompt you to turn this feature on if you're underexposed and your device supports automatic recommendation. If you don't want Meet to automatically adjust the light, you can turn off video lighting adjustment.

To help devices better run real-time video, you can process background lighting adjustments in the cloud. This feature saves battery and processor power and optimizes video meeting quality.

Enable graphics acceleration 

Check WebGL support

Check if your browser supports WebGL at webglreport.com and verify that “Major Performance Caveat” is marked as “No”. Your browser might disable WebGL if the device is unstable or cause crashes. You can’t enforce WebGL on unstable WebGL devices. In some cases, it may help to update graphic card drivers or restart your browser. Learn more about WebGL support. 

Meet adjusts between device & cloud-based processors

Adjustments between device and cloud-based effect processors are automatically done by Meet. It prioritizes cloud-based effect processing for devices:

• With a 4-core CPU or lower (fewer than 8 logical cores)
• That use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Tip: If you use VDI, but no GPU is available, cloud-based effect processing is used. This may result in limited effect feature availability. Learn how to prepare your network for meetings.

Automatic recommendation for video lighting

Automatic recommendation is only available to participants on a device with 2 core or higher with hyper-threading. 

Adjustments between device and cloud-based effect processors are automatically done by Meet. It prioritizes cloud-based effect processing for devices:

• With a 4-core CPU or lower (fewer than 8 logical cores)
• That use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

This feature is currently available for Windows, ChromeOS, and Linux machines that comply with device-based processing requirements.

Cloud-based effect processing is currently available for:

• Curated static background images (not available with VDI)
• Blur
• Lighting adjustment

Important: Visual effects that use cloud accelerator are available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Workspace Individual users in eligible regions:

• Central Asia
• Europe
• Northern Africa
• North America
• Southeastern Asia

Support for additional regions is being added.

1. On your computer, open meet.google.com.
2. Join a video meeting.
3. Before you join or during the meeting, click More   Apply Visual Effects .
4. Click Appearance Adjust video lighting .

Enabling light adjustment may slow down your device. You may want to turn this feature off to allow other apps to run faster on your computer.

Turn on Portrait touch-up

You can lightly touch-up your appearance before or during a meeting. You can select:

• Subtle: Skin smoothing, eye bag lightening, and eye whitening to a lesser degree.
• Smooth: Skin smoothing, eye bag lightening, and eye whitening to a more obvious degree.

1. Before you join a meeting, at the bottom of your self-view, click Apply visual effects .
   • During a meeting, hover over your self-view. At the center, click Apply visual effects .
2. Click Appearance enable Portrait touch-up
3. Select an option from the drop down:
   • Subtle
   • Smooth