Background tools are available on the iOS, macOS and Android versions. They aren't available in the web browser version.
Teleprompter.com gives you three ways to deal with whatever is behind you. Blurring is its own tool; the other two live together inside Remove Background, where you flip between a true green screen key and Magic Remove. Here's how to pick.
Blur Background — the quick tidy-up
Blur softens your background instead of replacing it, so a busy room stops competing with your face. It's the fastest of the three and the most forgiving: a blurred bookshelf still reads as a bookshelf, so a slightly imperfect edge around your hair goes unnoticed. Apply it after recording from the Recordings panel — see How Can I Blur the Video Background? — or blur live while filming with Portrait Mode and the depth bar, described in How Can I Edit the Recording Resolution in Teleprompter.com?.
Magic Remove — the convenient one
Magic Remove uses AI to detect your background and separate you from the room automatically, with no green screen and no setup, so you can drop in an image instead. It's the right call when you want a genuinely different background and you're filming wherever you happen to be. The trade-off is fine detail: automatic separation is weakest around flyaway hair, glasses frames and fast-moving hands. See How to Replace Your Video Background.
Green screen replacement — the precise one
This is a true chroma key against a physical green screen, and the other half of Remove Background. It asks the most of you up front — a screen, space to stand away from it, even lighting — and gives the cleanest possible edges in return. If your composite has to hold up on a large screen, or you're cutting between shots that all need to match, this is the one to use.
One current limitation worth knowing
The key is not adjustable. Key colour, tolerance and spill suppression cannot be changed at the moment — there are no sliders to rescue an unevenly lit screen or to pull green off your shoulders afterwards. What you do in the room is therefore the whole game: if the key comes out ragged, the fix is to relight and shoot again, not to tweak a setting.
Which one should you use?
- Messy room, no time: Blur Background.
- You want a real background swap and don't own a green screen: Magic Remove.
- Precision around hair, glasses or hands: green screen replacement.
- You gesture a lot or hold up a product: green screen replacement — moving hands are where automatic separation shows its seams.
- Filming on the road: Blur, or Magic Remove.
Getting a clean key
Since the key itself can't be tuned, a few minutes of setup does more for the result than any control would:
- Light the screen evenly and separately from yourself, so there are no bright patches or shadows falling on it
- Stand well forward of the screen to avoid green spill on your shoulders and hair
- Don't wear green, or anything shiny enough to reflect it
- Open the app, go to the Recordings panel and tap the video you want to edit
- In the editing options, tap Remove Background
- Switch to the green screen option rather than Magic Remove, and choose the image or colour you want behind you
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