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Check out the getting started guide at https://www.nimagna.com/getting-started.

In short:

1. After installing Nimagna, select the “Nimagna Camera” in your favorite video platform, e.g. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, etc.

2. Start Nimagna and add your content, e.g. a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation, images, videos, etc.

3. Ensure that you're captured well by your camera, i.e. you're filling the entire frame of your camera.

4. Now, the stage is yours and you can start presenting or recording.

You can also use Nimagna with multiple cameras. Nimagna supports USB and wireless webcams, or your mobile device as camera inputs, if those are available on your computer.

You can use Nimagna with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Skype, Riverside, Go To, BigMarker, Goldcast, Livestorm, Airmeet, and most other video apps or streaming software.

Select the "Nimagna Camera" as your camera device in the device settings of the video app or streaming software:

• How to enable "Nimagna Camera" in Microsoft Teams

• How to enable "Nimagna Camera" in Zoom

• How to enable "Nimagna Camera" in Google Meet

Nimagna is free to try for 30 days. After the trial, you can choose one of our paid plans to continue using Nimagna. During your trial an unintrusive watermark is placed in the upper right corner of the output video.

The Nimagna app currently runs on both Windows and Mac:

Windows: Nimagna works on Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit systems with Intel® Core™ i5 processor, 8 GB RAM and Intel® Iris® Plus or Xe graphics. For optimal experience we recommend an Intel® Core™ i7 processor, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 or better graphics.

Mac: For Nimagna for Mac, you must have macOS 12.3 or later. You can choose from macOS Apple Silicon or macOS Intel installation of the Nimagna app. We recommend macOS Apple Silicon for optimal experience and support all M1, M2, M3 and M4 chips. For macOS Intel, you must have at least an Intel® Core™ i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and either an Intel® Iris® Plus or AMD Radeon™ PRO graphics card, but performance will be suboptimal.

To check your system type and find out which installation to use (Apple Silicon or Intel):

• Open the Apple Menu (top left).

• Select About This Mac.

• In the Overview tab look for Processor or Chip and check if it says something with Intel or Apple, e.g. 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, or Apple M2.

The Nimagna App is a very sophisticated video production software that requires access files, devices and applications of your Mac. Apple takes good care of privacy and security and, thus, new apps require consent of the user to access those resources.

The first time you use the Nimagna App you must allow MacOS to open the downloaded app and the app to make changes to your system to install the Nimagna Camera.

The macOS permissions dialog will guide you through the necessary steps to

1. Install the Nimagna Camera

2. Grant access to your camera(s)

This video shows the necessary steps:

You can always review the permissions that you've given or declined and installation state by using Help -> Check macOS security and permissions.

For Windows users that have Norton 360 installed as an anti-virus and firewall protection solution, there might be warnings that show up on first use of Nimagna, because Nimagna communicates with various servers and is still quite an unknown program such that Norton considers it a risk:

👉 To use Nimagna, please select "More Options" and then "Always allow".

Note: Such a warning shows up for MainApplication.exe and NimagnaService.exe, potentially multiple times.

If you missed the above dialog, follow these steps to allow Nimagna in Norton 360:

1. Open Norton 360 and select "Settings"

2. In settings, select "Firewall"

3. In firewall settings, first select "Program Control", then select "Add"

4. Select "Program Files\Nimagna\Nimagna App\MainApplication.exe"

5. Under "Options", select "Allow always", confirm with "OK"

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with "Program Files\Nimagna\Nimagna App\NimagnaService.exe"

After defining both firewall rules, the firewall's "Program Control" settings should show entries for both Nimagna App and Nimagna Service:

Audio is not transferred by the Nimagna Camera. You can select any of your audio sources separately in your video app or streaming software.

For good audio quality, especially if you’re distancing yourself from your computer, we recommend using a conferencing speakerphone such as a Jabra Speak 510, or a wireless microphone like the RØDE Wireless GO.

You can use your presentation remote control as you would for a normal presentation. The Nimagna app will react to both Page-Down/Right-arrow key for next slide and Page-Up/Left-arrow key for previous slide.

For a complete hands-free experience, Nimagna also supports gesture control (in our Pro and Enterprise plans) without any presentation remote or clicker.

If your presentation remote supports configuration, you can configure it to call up save shots: “1” for focusing on the content, “2” for focusing on the presenter and “3” for focusing on both content and presenter. “0” will toggle pausing and restarting the automatic director.

1. Open Settings

2. Navigate to Devices

3. Scroll down to the Camera section

4. Select "Nimagna Camera" from the drop down list

1. Click the ^ icon on the "Start Video" button and select Video Settings

2. Select the Video section

3. Select the "Nimagna Camera" from the drop down list

4. Enable "Original ratio" and "HD"

There are two ways to share high-quality video in Zoom:

1. Using a paid Zoom account

High-quality camera video is only available with Pro, Business, Education, Enterprise Zoom accounts.

First, you have to enable the HD video settings, both in Personal and Account settings:

• Personal > Settings > In Meeting (Advanced) : enable "Meeting-HD Video Quality"

• Admin > Account Settings > In Meeting (Advanced) : enable "Meeting-HD Video Quality"

Second, you have to contact Zoom support and enable the HD video feature for you. Simply enabling 'Meeting HD Video Quality' won't change the quality of your video calls, due to changes made by Zoom in 2020.

• Use chat, phone or email to contact Zoom support and make sure that you tell them to "enable group HD video quality in the backend of your account". The word "backend" is important, as else they will just tell you to review the guidelines and settings.

Please make sure that both you as a presenter and your audience adheres to these Zoom meeting guidelines:

• Put the meeting window in full-screen mode.

• Use speaker mode.

• Meet Zoom's bandwidth requirements.

• HD enabled in Settings in the Zoom desktop client or mobile app.

For further information, please review Zoom's support article on "Enabling HD video for Zoom Meetings".

2. Using the Second Camera sharing feature

Without a paid account, you can still share high-quality video with your audience, just slightly more cumbersome.

1. Start your Zoom meeting.

2. Start a screen share by pressing the "Share" button in the meeting interface at the bottom.

3. Go to the "Advanced" tab on the top of the sharing dialog.

4. Click on "Second camera" and press the "Share" button.

5. On the top left of your Zoom meeting window you have a button labeled "Switch camera". Press the button until you see the Nimagna camera.

1. Click on the button with the three dots

2. Select Settings

3. Select the Video section

4. Select "Nimagna Camera" in the Camera drop down list

Press the record button at the top right. After a few seconds, during which you can prepare for the recording, a display shows that the video recording is switched on. To stop the video, press the Stop button. After recording, the video file is immediately available for you to use and distribute on any channel.

In the recording settings (3 dots, Settings, Record) you can configure the microphone, specify how Nimagna saves the file or how it handles videos that contain an audio track. You can also make advanced settings for encoding your video files here.