Camera AI
Background blur, virtual backgrounds, Smart Framing, Auto-Light, Beauty filter, and Eye Contact: every effect runs on your Mac's own GPU. No frames leave your device, and all of it is free on every plan.
Step 1 of 7: Enable Camera
Enable Camera
Toggle your webcam on to add a personal touch to your recordings. The camera appears as a floating bubble you can drag anywhere.
All 7 steps as a list
1. Enable Camera
Toggle your webcam on to add a personal touch to your recordings. The camera appears as a floating bubble you can drag anywhere.
2. Background Blur
Blur your background to keep the focus on you. Choose from three intensity levels.
- Background blur runs entirely on your GPU
- No data leaves your device
3. Virtual Backgrounds
Replace your background entirely with a solid color, gradient, or custom image.
4. Smart Framing
OwnClip automatically follows your face and keeps you centered in the frame, even if you move around.
- Uses spring physics for natural movement
- Maximum 1.4x zoom to maintain quality
5. Auto-Light & Beauty
Enhance your lighting automatically in dim environments. The beauty filter adds subtle skin smoothing.
6. Studio Look
Make your real webcam look lit and composed instead of webcam-flat — live, right in the preview. Pick one of four looks (Natural, Studio, Cinematic, Broadcast) and dial the intensity; the lighting adapts to your virtual background so the key light always comes from the right direction.
- Studio is the everyday choice; Broadcast is the safest on projectors and bright rooms
- The look is live — what you see in the bubble is what gets recorded
- Toggle it from the camera bubble or in Settings → Camera
7. Eye ContactBeta
Reading your notes means looking away from the lens, and everyone watching can tell. Turn on Eye Contact in Settings → Camera and OwnClip steers your pupils back toward the camera, so you look at your audience even while you read. Natural corrects small deviations and backs off when you genuinely look away, so glancing at a second screen still reads as a real glance. Stare holds your gaze on the camera continuously, which suits reading a script end to end.
- Pair Stare with the teleprompter to read a full script while holding the camera
- Strength controls how far the correction goes. Start around 70% and adjust from there
- You can also turn Eye Contact on per clip from the video editor, after recording
- Good to know: Eye Contact is applied when you export, not in the live preview, so the recording window will still show your real gaze.
- Good to know: It needs a one-time 292 MB download the first time you switch it on. Until it finishes, recordings export normally with your gaze untouched.
Stays on your Mac
Every camera effect runs on your Mac's own GPU while you record: separating you from your background, following your face, compositing the blur. Eye Contact is the one exception: it is heavier, so it runs once at export instead of live. Either way, no webcam frame is ever sent to a cloud.