Video background GIF (outdated)

Note: This is outdated and doesn’t work with the new Teams App from oct 2023 any more!

You can have an animated video background for your webcam video on MS Teams.

  • Get a GIF file from any source
  • rename it and change its file extension from .gif to .png
  • copy this file and rename the copy to have the suffix _thumb

You should now have two file: <name>.png and <name>_thumb.png. Copy both these files to %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads.

Then open the video effects settings in MS Teams. There should be new entries for all you new gifs enlisted.

Teams gif background