Thank you so much. I wonder why Zoom does not record such videos for their support section . This is what I would need from them. Thanks for sharing and taking the time, you rock.
Great Video! This spoke directly to the question I needed to be answered about which views get recorded. You even covered some other questions that arose once I got that answer. Thank you very much for going over what other people neglected.
I thought you might like to see the immediate application to which I applied your tips. While I did do a live video feed on youtube, I replaced it with the version I recorded with Zoom so that instead of a brady bunch view it was a speaker only view. Again, my thanks. ruclips.net/video/DE2A7DF5TuA/видео.html
OUTSTANDING! Precisely what I needed. I can't tell you how long I searched and how many videos I watched trying to find this exact info about recording in Zoom! Wonderful idea to show zoom screen and recording side by side, which answers a lot of questions I would have had. Thank you immensely!
Glad it was helpful! However, there are so many different variations in the settings that I still highly recommend doing a test recording with your personal setup, just to make sure everything turns out the way you want.
@@BenFinio Yes, I've been trying some testing with my teddy bears and will be doing a rehearsal for a group recording tonight. I want to be sure I'm clear on something when I pin a video to keep from showing a different participant on my screen if they make a noise. If I'm recording, will the recording still show the pinned video? I don't seem to have the release level that offers spotlight yet.
@@eloisejordan-weesie46 sorry for the delay - we just had a baby at the end of October and I haven't bene online much since then. I am trying to catch up on comments now but am a little sleep deprived :-). Were you able to figure this out?
You did an amazing job! Thank you so much. I was looking for the answer why it wasn't show my video as a host in a big screen while I was locally recording my online class but it showed one of my student video instead. However I find it strange since I have "Mute all" the microphones already. After that I checked my recorded video, I'm surprised that it did showed my video as an active speaker not my student's video as I saw. I suspected what I saw on my screen was not exactly what I got recorded and you have clarified & explained it very well.
You're welcome! FYI I just made a new video that covers some new features like rearranging gallery view and multi-pinning: ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Thanks! Depending on the type of event, it might still be a good idea to do a dry run, just because there are so many different settings you can change.
Thank you, Dr. Finio. This is extremely helpful. Could you also please cover screen sharing with and without side-by-side view, and whether or not being in full-screen mode impacts the recording?
Hi Marvin - I have another video about side by side view here, but in short, that mode is only available when someone else is sharing their screen, not when you are sharing yours: ruclips.net/video/5xNom7S3ffs/видео.html. However, you can get a similar effect if you have two monitors (share one screen and have gallery view or speaker view on the other): ruclips.net/video/qvoXMStoNcw/видео.html. I don't *think* being in full screen mode yourself will affect your recording, but unfortunately I probably won't have time to test it myself. If possible I'd recommend just doing a quick test of your own to make sure you get the recording you want, before recording an entire meeting and finding out it didn't turn out right.
Thanks a lot for sharing! Quick question: Is there a way to "STOP UN-MIRROR" and leave it mirrored in the recordings? Or is it default and un-switchable?
Not that I know of - I think the recording will always be un-mirrored. It looks like others have asked similar questions in the official Zoom forums: devforum.zoom.us/t/broadcast-of-mirror-image/208/9
Will zoom record mobile screen of every participant?..what if a student plays video games during meeting in his phone..so can teacher see that..plzz tell??
Hi James - I don't think that's possible unless you're using the cloud recording setting that records speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files. Then you would have the speaker-only file separately.
How can I record this setup above? Video File 1 - Active Speaker Video File 2 - Gallery Separated audio files (each participant have a individual audio track)
Hi Luis - If you have cloud recording enabled, there should be an option to get separate video files for active speaker and gallery view. However, I don't think it's possible to get separate audio tracks for each participant.
Hi Dr (of Philosophy) Finio! Thank you--very useful. I believe that the chat is only saved if recording to the cloud. I'm curious if recording to cloud is any different than recording to the local computer for everything else you demonstrated. And what are the pros and cons of recording to cloud vs locally. Again, really helpful. And thank you to your daughter for sharing Magic and her other friends!
Hi - one of the major differences is that in cloud recording there is an option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files. So if you wanted to do any editing/splicing the different views together, it would give you that option. They have a big FAQ about local and cloud recording here that might be worth reading: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360040771752-Frequently-asked-questions-about-local-and-cloud-recording. Aside from differences there, I think the other major difference is convenience. If you EVENTUALLY need your recording online for students to access, then if you record locally first, you have to upload it manually somewhere later. Whereas depending on your situation, cloud recordings might be immediately available to students (e.g. at Cornell, Zoom is linked to our learning management system, Canvas, so the cloud recordings show up there automatically). Some people have expressed concerns that if you have slow or unreliable home internet, it could affect the cloud recording and you're better off recording locally, but I have not experimented with this.
Amazing job, this was so helpful! Question about what shows up in recordings- i did a test run for recording to the cloud on a general meeting with live polls. I noticed in the recording the polls did not show up even though I was "sharing results" to the participants. I do want these visible in the recording for students. Do you know how to enable settings so the Polls are shown in recordings? I do not want to have all the thumbnails/ Zoom controls show up however, just the polls and active speaker screen share and video. Thank you for your help.
Hi - unfortunately I'm not sure if there's a separate setting that would just allow you record the poll results. The only workaround I can think of is to take a screenshot of the poll results, paste them into another program like Powerpoint, then share your screen and show that...but that is cumbersome. Alternatively you could read the poll results out loud (25% of people picked A, 10% of people picked B...).
Thank you .That was great Ben! But what if the hosts records the meeting and multiple people are also recording the meeting and everybody does different actions on their desktop, how then would the recording be saved ? Will it be the same for everyone(As how it is saved for the host) or not? Hope for an early reply.
Hi Sadiya - I have not experimented with multiple simultaneous recordings but I BELIEVE the view will follow whatever the individual person doing the recording is doing, and for local recording they will all wind up with their own local copy. For cloud recording it may be more complicated and depend on the organization or who the host is etc (for example, I teach at Cornell and Zoom is integrated into Canvas for us, all our recordings show up there).
Great video. What if I am teaching 1 student and I want them to see me and have Zoom record me but I want to be able to see the student while I am teaching. I am trying to figure out how to teach a private yoga session where I can watch the student to give feedback and they can watch me. I am the host using an iPad mini.
Hi - this is a really common question so I made another video about it - search my channel for "how to see everyone but only record yourself in zoom." Sorry for the delayed reply!
Your videos have helped me a great deal as I navigate Zoom as a library programmer. Just curious if the spotlight and pin features work the same in a webinar. I am running a webinar, which I am planning to film. Ideally, I would like the recording to show only the person speaking. Each panelist is going to speak for a few moments and then one of the panelists will speak for about an hour. In an ideal world, the chat would not show up in the final recording. The Zoom articles are pretty non-specific when it comes to what final recordings will look like.
Hi Sally - unfortunately all my tutorials are for meetings and not webinars. I don't think my institutional license through Cornell will even let me host a webinar myself to test it, I can only host meetings. If you are able to schedule your own webinars, I would just try a test version yourself. Either log in on multiple computers or get some family/friends/coworkers to join so you can simulate what it would be like to have a panel of speakers, and see what shows up in the recording. Sorry I can't be of more help!
I think you should be able to pin instead of spotlight, which only requires two people. See this page: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362743-Pinning-participants-videos and this video: ruclips.net/video/nF2Ki4tbsqM/видео.html
thank you for your videos, very helpful. I am trying to record myself as host "only" (not students). I can't find anything on this. Let me know if you know how it can be done.
Hi Christopher - see the video around 2:00 - if you're in speaker view then the students won't get recorded. If you have cloud recording enabled there is also an option to record speaker and gallery view to separate video files.
If you are using a third party screen recorder it will record the entire screen regardless of what you do in Zoom. See this video ruclips.net/video/reeul8T4H04/видео.html
Are you screen sharing when you record? There is a "show Zoom controls when screen sharing" checkbox in the settings, changing that may get rid of it but I'm not sure.
Why do you share your entire monitor instead of just the PowerPoint? Does that make a difference? Also, is there a way to record all of the participants while sharing your screen?
Hi Kristy - you're correct that if you only want to share the Powerpoint, it's better to just share the Powerpoint and not the whole monitor. Sharing the whole monitor can be easier if you want to share a lot of programs because you don't have to stop and re-start sharing for each one, although there's a new feature that lets you share multiple windows at once: ruclips.net/video/D_xZd5WC9VU/видео.html. If you want to record all the participants at once while screen sharing, then you need a Pro account with cloud recording, where there is an option to record shared screen, speaker, and gallery views all to separate video files. I don't believe you can do this with a local recording, which is what this video shows.
Thanks Ben, what we needed for our recorded online meeting was to have the Host record all the presenters and when shared also the Powerpoint presentation. Every time we played back the recorded session all Participants were not shown. By hit and miss we went to settings and changed the selections for Share Screen to enter full screen, scale to fit, and side by side. Then on Recording we selected Record video during screen sharing. We were able to record and play back all presenters and the current speaker and the power point. Does this make sense?
Hi George - I have not tried adjusting all of those settings. I do know there is a cloud recording option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files, if that would be useful, but it may be disabled by your organization (I can't turn it on at Cornell).
Hi Ben, what would you recommend if I want to record share a PPT on Zoom and ensure that Zoom just records that, along with my voice, given that there will be other people present who I do not want to record? For example, I record with Spotligh on, will it also record my screen with PPT or will Spotilight only record my cam? Overall, it's the screen I want it to record, and not mine nor anyone else's cams.
Hi Neil - a couple options: 1) See the video around 4:55. If you minimize the video thumbnails while recording locally, they will not show up in the recording at all. Downside is you can't see anyone when you're presenting. 2) If you have a pro account, there is an option in cloud recording to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files, so you could use that, and you would still be able to see people while sharing.
@@BenFinio Hi Ben, I have an insitutional account, but can only see 3 file types to download : chat file / audio / and shared screen with speaker view. Is that because i was not using the "gallery" during the webinar and so there was no file for it or have Zoom's file types changed?
@@academicenglishskillsuk to clarify were you doing a regular Zoom meeting or a webinar? All my videos are only for meetings. Webinars are a separate feature and I'm not sure how they differ.
@@academicenglishskillsuk Ok - I have never actually tried the cloud recording thing because it is not enabled for my institution. I thought it gave you speaker and gallery view recordings to download regardless of which view you were in during the meeting, but I could be wrong. Maybe try a practice meeting and make sure you toggle between gallery and speaker view?
Thanks Ben. Do you know if there is a way to record a screen share and video, but have the video be LARGER than the screen-share or at the very least, side by side and equal, when recording in the cloud?
When cloud recording there is an option to record screen share, speaker, and gallery views all to separate video files, but this option may be disabled by your organization (I can't enable it at Cornell). There's also a "swap video and shared screen" button when viewing someone else's screen share, but I'm not sure what that would do to the recording (if the participant records instead of the host), I haven't tested it.
Hi, I just found you on RUclips and like how you explain things. I use Zoom and do screenshare and record my class. I like the Gallery view of the students and I move them to the top of my screen. When I look at the recording the students video are vertical in the middle of the screen not on horizontal on the top as I saw them. How can I get the recording to have them on the top horizontally or to the far right vertically?
Hey Ben-- thanks for this, love the side by side, very nice visual. Question-- if I am in gallery view so I can see all my clients during the Zoom... but want the recording to only be me -- would I spotlight my video but keep it in gallery and would that work? thanks for any advice you can offer
Hi Dodie - if you are doing local recording on a single computer I am not sure if that will work, I think it will still record gallery view. At 3:17 in this video I switch to gallery view without ever canceling the spotlight, and the recording still shows gallery view. If you have a Pro account there is an option in cloud recording to record speaker and gallery view to separate video files, so you could use that. If you have a second monitor you can also do it with that, I have a video about that here: ruclips.net/video/qvoXMStoNcw/видео.html
I have not tested this since I don't have enough computers, but I believe there is an upper limit (maybe 4 thumbnails). You might be able to find this on Zoom's official support pages.
If someone is screen sharing it will also record what they're sharing, otherwise it does not record other things on the screen (like if you bring another window in front of Zoom).
Good video, Ben Thanks. I tried recording separate files for speaker (me) and gallery view, but the video for the speaker view was not very high quality while the gallery view video was sharp. How do I get a clear recording of speaker view?
Hi - unfortunately I don't think there's much you can do. The actual resolution of your video in Zoom will generally be lower than the max resolution of your webcam due to bandwidth limitations (on Zoom's end, even if you have good high speed internet yourself). So everyone looks OK in gallery view since the individual camera views are pretty small, but when you blow one up to full screen in speaker view it looks grainy.
@@BenFinio Thank you. I do a lot of videos with a professional-quality camcorder for my online kung-fu school (I have live classes on Zoom also). Some students don't want to see themselves on the video replays, which have always been gallery view. In the classes, I demonstrate movements and correct the students who attend the live class. Instead of recording these sessions in gallery mode or low-quality speaker view, I'm just going to set up my camcorder to get a clean feed of me during the live classes and use that as the replay. Thanks for helping me reach this conclusion.
@@KenGullette for what it's worth - that is such a common request from people doing fitness classes that I made a separate video about it: ruclips.net/video/Wc87YQk-RQs/видео.html. BUT that doesn't resolve the quality issue. If you want a good HD video of yourself then you're right that it's probably better to just do it with a separate camera.
A bit off topic, but I'm trying to use Zoom out from the HDMI port of a laptop to go into an HDMI input of an ATEM Mini Pro video switcher for live streaming a video podcast. I've done a little experimenting, and set Zoom to Dual monitor. Can't quite figure out how to get what I hope to. Basically I want to show out the HDMI port what I guess would be the split screen Gallery View of me and one remote guest, THEN be able to toggle to just the guest only on screen, no thumbnail of my video, then back to the two shot when desired. I want to hopefully do this without outputting any controls showing, maybe with keyboard shortcuts. I was hopeful that I could keep the controls on the laptop screen, then just have the video output like I wanted on the "second monitor", which, of course, would be the input feed to the switcher, but this doesn't seem to work. With dual monitor deactivated I can just drag the instance of Zoom over to the HDMI output, but that's not desired. I hope this was clear and made sense. I appreciate any info or tips.
Hi - unfortunately you're out of my depth here, I have not experimented much with the dual monitor feature or done any podcasting. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Hi - sorry, I have a bunch of three-week old comments that I never got notifications about for some reason. To the best of my knowledge you can't get rid of that box, Zoom puts it there automatically. If (as the host) you spotlight yourself or a certain participant, you could at least get it to stay in one place instead of moving around as Zoom automatically tries to determine who the active speaker is.
I might have already posted this question, but wasn't sure ... so forgive me for doing so again. I recorded a 2.5 hour interview on zoom and the sound and picture are out of sync. Can you suggest what I might need to do to avoid this? I know that I can work it out in Imovie, but would feel better not having to do that. Thanks. Great tutorials!
Were you doing a cloud or local recording? Unfortunately I'm not sure what you can do about that in advance, it might depend on your computer (local) or your internet connection (cloud). If you are using an organization's Zoom license I would contact your IT department. I had a similar problem at Cornell with different screen recording software called Panopto. IT was able to fix it after the fact, but I'm not sure what the root cause of the problem was.
Why when I am recording a zoom in thumbnail view it only records those who have their video on. Those who’s video is off does not show in the recording.
I give vocal training online, so in a 1-on-1 situation it's important that both of us appear on the recording. I set it to gallery, with us next to each other, but the recording jumps between us, mostly NOT catching the important moments from each side, probably because it follows the "speaker" - often singing - and is generally too late as the exercises are brief and require immediate imitation! How can I get zoom to leave it alone? Would really appreciate help on this. Thanks!
Hi - I have a few newer videos on my channel about the multi-pin and multi-spotlight features, check those out and they might answer your question. I always recommend doing a test run (set up a meeting with a second device if you have one, or get a friend to join) so you can figure out the exact settings you want.
Hi Doc Ben, thank you for sharing this! But how about if you're only meeting with one person? There seems to be no "spotlight option" when there are only 2 participants. Appreciate your help!
Hi Joseph - you're correct, I think spotlight requires three or more people. In a two-person meeting I think each person can pin the other person though.
When I finished recording a video of myself talking on Zoom, there was no audio that can be heard when I replay it. The audio issue persists in my recorded video even after I use "share computer audio" while screen sharing. Is there a way to fix this issue?
Could other people hear you during the meeting? If so, unfortunately I'm not sure why the audio wouldn't show up in the recording. The "share computer audio" checkbox is a separate feature that allows you to share audio being played from your computer's speakers (e.g. a song playing on your computer) in addition to the sound detected by your microphone.
Hi Ben, how come my local recording shows a blank frame of participants' who turned off their video? The participant's name and/or picture is blank. thx a lot.
Thanks - fyi I just made a new video that includes some new features like rearranging gallery view and multi-pinning: ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Thank you so much for this video. I have a situation that is near impossible to solve. Its that little right hand dropdown participant window that keeps showing up after we record our videos. I don't see it while I am recording but it shows up after I record and there are 5-6 little dropdown boxes that block my power point presentation. This problem only happens with the recorded videos. I wonder if you have a more detailed video on this subject. Thank you.
Hi - unfortunately I have gotten some other comments on this but I have not explored this one in detail. As you can see at 4:58 in this video, when I minimize those thumbnails, they disappear from the recording completely. There is a "show my Zoom windows to other participants when screen sharing" option in Settings -> Share Screen - maybe make sure that is turned off?
Great video! Is there a way that I can record just my speaker screen whilst still seeing gallery view? For example I want to send my participants a recording of our fitness class but I only want them to see me in the recording yet whilst I am doing (&recording) the class I want to have my screen on gallery view so I can see everyone. Thanks in advance ☺
Hi Ben, thank you for your video. We had a zoom meeting with about 50 attendants and there was one speaker plus me as a translator. The host spotlighted both of us so it was easy to follow, but in the recording we were not spotlighted side by side. Is there a way to have both speakers visible at the same time in the recording?
Hi Eva - I made this video before they released the multi-spotlight feature. This one is newer but honestly I cannot remember if I tried multi-spotlight here (this pandemic is so long and I've made so many videos that I can't remember it all...): ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Hi Ben, is there a way to record the gallery view but hide your screen or someone else's screen from the recording itself, so only select screens are recorded in the gallery view. As in, say someone is recording an interview between two other people and wants to do a gallery view but doesn't want their screen to show, just the interviewer and interviewee.
Hi Michael - you could mute your own video and then select "hide non video participants," or right click yourself and select "hide self view." The downside is that then people won't be able to see you in the live meeting either. There is a new multi-pin and multi-spotlight feature: ruclips.net/video/RZIn9AxSRrU/видео.html so you could try spotlighting only the people you want recorded, although I have not tried this. In order to test it you can just log in to the same meeting on multiple devices (that's how I do these tutorials) or get some family/friends to join.
Hi Ben - thanks, very useful video. My question would be, what if you wanted to share your screen, for other participants to see live, but you wanted to keep on recording as many of the participants as possible, not have the recording dominated by your screen. Is that possible, do you know?
Hi Paul - your best bet is to do cloud recording and enable the option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views to separate video files. Then you could use post processing/third party video editing software to combine them however you want. However, this option may be disabled depending on your organization or Zoom license. It's disabled at the admin level for me at Cornell, I can't turn it on.
Zoom should hire you. I spent half an our browzing Zoom instructions and your video finally hit it :). Thank you. :)
Thank you so much for the calm and helpful descriptions. Hope your Daughter knows what important work her toys are participating in.
This was great! I was wondering how to record only one person's screen in a Zoom meeting, and you answered it. Thank you! :)
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The side by side comparison was really helpful. Glad I found this video before recording my lesson for the CalTPA and have to redo it again.
Thank you so much. I wonder why Zoom does not record such videos for their support section . This is what I would need from them. Thanks for sharing and taking the time, you rock.
Thank you, Ben. See the zoom meeting and the recorded view side by side was helpful.
so helpful!!! just what I have been searching tirelessly for!! keep it up!
Great Video! This spoke directly to the question I needed to be answered about which views get recorded. You even covered some other questions that arose once I got that answer. Thank you very much for going over what other people neglected.
I thought you might like to see the immediate application to which I applied your tips. While I did do a live video feed on youtube, I replaced it with the version I recorded with Zoom so that instead of a brady bunch view it was a speaker only view. Again, my thanks. ruclips.net/video/DE2A7DF5TuA/видео.html
OUTSTANDING! Precisely what I needed. I can't tell you how long I searched and how many videos I watched trying to find this exact info about recording in Zoom! Wonderful idea to show zoom screen and recording side by side, which answers a lot of questions I would have had. Thank you immensely!
Glad it was helpful! However, there are so many different variations in the settings that I still highly recommend doing a test recording with your personal setup, just to make sure everything turns out the way you want.
@@BenFinio Yes, I've been trying some testing with my teddy bears and will be doing a rehearsal for a group recording tonight. I want to be sure I'm clear on something when I pin a video to keep from showing a different participant on my screen if they make a noise. If I'm recording, will the recording still show the pinned video? I don't seem to have the release level that offers spotlight yet.
@@eloisejordan-weesie46 sorry for the delay - we just had a baby at the end of October and I haven't bene online much since then. I am trying to catch up on comments now but am a little sleep deprived :-). Were you able to figure this out?
Helped big time. I recorded a maths class for over an hour and a small portion of the screen has been covered.
Thank you! The side by side comparison helped me see exactly what will be recorded.
Preparing to record a live Music Recital via Zoom and this was very helpful!
Yes!! All my questions answered. I'll be saving this video to refer to later. Thanks Ben!
What a life saver. Such a great, detailed video. Thank you!
Thanks for this. I made the mistake and didn’t record in the spotlight view and now I have to do it over. This video is extremely helpful.
Glad it helped!
You did an amazing job! Thank you so much. I was looking for the answer why it wasn't show my video as a host in a big screen while I was locally recording my online class but it showed one of my student video instead. However I find it strange since I have "Mute all" the microphones already. After that I checked my recorded video, I'm surprised that it did showed my video as an active speaker not my student's video as I saw. I suspected what I saw on my screen was not exactly what I got recorded and you have clarified & explained it very well.
Glad you found my video helpful, thank you!
Thank you for making this this was amazing
Really useful and clear explanation of local recording. There are some slight differences if recording to the cloud.
You're right and I just realized I never mentioned that in the video description. I added a note about it.
the ONLY video that helped me to solve recording meeting (exact video) issue! Thank you!
You're welcome! FYI I just made a new video that covers some new features like rearranging gallery view and multi-pinning: ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Super helpful! I thought I was going to have to do a dry run, but you've answered all of my questions.
Thanks! Depending on the type of event, it might still be a good idea to do a dry run, just because there are so many different settings you can change.
Thank you, I am about to record an interview today this and the next video on this was exactly what I needed!
Love this video! You answered all the questions that I had about recording!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Dr. Finio. This is extremely helpful. Could you also please cover screen sharing with and without side-by-side view, and whether or not being in full-screen mode impacts the recording?
Hi Marvin - I have another video about side by side view here, but in short, that mode is only available when someone else is sharing their screen, not when you are sharing yours: ruclips.net/video/5xNom7S3ffs/видео.html. However, you can get a similar effect if you have two monitors (share one screen and have gallery view or speaker view on the other): ruclips.net/video/qvoXMStoNcw/видео.html. I don't *think* being in full screen mode yourself will affect your recording, but unfortunately I probably won't have time to test it myself. If possible I'd recommend just doing a quick test of your own to make sure you get the recording you want, before recording an entire meeting and finding out it didn't turn out right.
@@BenFinio Thank you very much.
Thank you for this great tutorial! You clearly answered many details which I wondered about.
Extremely helpful video! Thanks!
Thanks a lot for sharing! Quick question: Is there a way to "STOP UN-MIRROR" and leave it mirrored in the recordings? Or is it default and un-switchable?
Not that I know of - I think the recording will always be un-mirrored. It looks like others have asked similar questions in the official Zoom forums: devforum.zoom.us/t/broadcast-of-mirror-image/208/9
Wow! Tremendously helpful! I was wondeirng if you knew how to get rid of "speaker is talking" bubble during the zoom recording?
Not sure how to get rid of that, sorry!
You just saved my life 😅 THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO!
That was very helpful, thank you so much!
Will zoom record mobile screen of every participant?..what if a student plays video games during meeting in his phone..so can teacher see that..plzz tell??
this has been very helpful! thank you
Hi Ben, How can I continually record only my image, even when I'm viewing my students on gallery view?
Thanks for your help,
James.
Hi James - I don't think that's possible unless you're using the cloud recording setting that records speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files. Then you would have the speaker-only file separately.
Excactly what I was looking for, thanks! :)
GREAT JOB! I'm sharing this with my colleagues!
Great, thank you!
How can I record this setup above?
Video File 1 - Active Speaker
Video File 2 - Gallery
Separated audio files (each participant have a individual audio track)
Hi Luis - If you have cloud recording enabled, there should be an option to get separate video files for active speaker and gallery view. However, I don't think it's possible to get separate audio tracks for each participant.
I offed the video and its recorded by teacher’s can they see what iam doing
This is so useful thank you!!
Thank you! This is exactly the information I was looking for
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Dr (of Philosophy) Finio! Thank you--very useful. I believe that the chat is only saved if recording to the cloud. I'm curious if recording to cloud is any different than recording to the local computer for everything else you demonstrated. And what are the pros and cons of recording to cloud vs locally. Again, really helpful. And thank you to your daughter for sharing Magic and her other friends!
Hi - one of the major differences is that in cloud recording there is an option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files. So if you wanted to do any editing/splicing the different views together, it would give you that option. They have a big FAQ about local and cloud recording here that might be worth reading: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360040771752-Frequently-asked-questions-about-local-and-cloud-recording. Aside from differences there, I think the other major difference is convenience. If you EVENTUALLY need your recording online for students to access, then if you record locally first, you have to upload it manually somewhere later. Whereas depending on your situation, cloud recordings might be immediately available to students (e.g. at Cornell, Zoom is linked to our learning management system, Canvas, so the cloud recordings show up there automatically). Some people have expressed concerns that if you have slow or unreliable home internet, it could affect the cloud recording and you're better off recording locally, but I have not experimented with this.
Thanks for the nice and quick explanation!
So it’s inverted when it’s recorded?
Amazing job, this was so helpful! Question about what shows up in recordings- i did a test run for recording to the cloud on a general meeting with live polls. I noticed in the recording the polls did not show up even though I was "sharing results" to the participants. I do want these visible in the recording for students. Do you know how to enable settings so the Polls are shown in recordings? I do not want to have all the thumbnails/ Zoom controls show up however, just the polls and active speaker screen share and video. Thank you for your help.
Hi - unfortunately I'm not sure if there's a separate setting that would just allow you record the poll results. The only workaround I can think of is to take a screenshot of the poll results, paste them into another program like Powerpoint, then share your screen and show that...but that is cumbersome. Alternatively you could read the poll results out loud (25% of people picked A, 10% of people picked B...).
Very nice! Keep the tips coming.
Very helpful and clear! Thank you.
Thank you .That was great Ben!
But what if the hosts records the meeting and multiple people are also recording the meeting and everybody does different actions on their desktop, how then would the recording be saved ?
Will it be the same for everyone(As how it is saved for the host) or not?
Hope for an early reply.
Hi Sadiya - I have not experimented with multiple simultaneous recordings but I BELIEVE the view will follow whatever the individual person doing the recording is doing, and for local recording they will all wind up with their own local copy. For cloud recording it may be more complicated and depend on the organization or who the host is etc (for example, I teach at Cornell and Zoom is integrated into Canvas for us, all our recordings show up there).
It was very helpful. Thanks
That was very useful. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Super helpful thanks Ben!
Thanks so much this guide, it really helps me a lot 😁👍🏻👍🏻
Actually mine came out opposite. When I record, its full screen, when others see it, there is a black bar all the way around.
Great video.
What if I am teaching 1 student and I want them to see me and have Zoom record me but I want to be able to see the student while I am teaching. I am trying to figure out how to teach a private yoga session where I can watch the student to give feedback and they can watch me. I am the host using an iPad mini.
Hi - this is a really common question so I made another video about it - search my channel for "how to see everyone but only record yourself in zoom." Sorry for the delayed reply!
Your videos have helped me a great deal as I navigate Zoom as a library programmer. Just curious if the spotlight and pin features work the same in a webinar. I am running a webinar, which I am planning to film. Ideally, I would like the recording to show only the person speaking. Each panelist is going to speak for a few moments and then one of the panelists will speak for about an hour. In an ideal world, the chat would not show up in the final recording.
The Zoom articles are pretty non-specific when it comes to what final recordings will look like.
Hi Sally - unfortunately all my tutorials are for meetings and not webinars. I don't think my institutional license through Cornell will even let me host a webinar myself to test it, I can only host meetings. If you are able to schedule your own webinars, I would just try a test version yourself. Either log in on multiple computers or get some family/friends/coworkers to join so you can simulate what it would be like to have a panel of speakers, and see what shows up in the recording. Sorry I can't be of more help!
Seems like you need 3 people for Spotlight to work. I just want to only record the guest only, even when I am asking questions. Any thoughts?
I think you should be able to pin instead of spotlight, which only requires two people. See this page: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362743-Pinning-participants-videos and this video: ruclips.net/video/nF2Ki4tbsqM/видео.html
Very helpful. Thanks
thank you for your videos, very helpful. I am trying to record myself as host "only" (not students). I can't find anything on this. Let me know if you know how it can be done.
Hi Christopher - see the video around 2:00 - if you're in speaker view then the students won't get recorded. If you have cloud recording enabled there is also an option to record speaker and gallery view to separate video files.
@@BenFinio thanks much
What if we are using a third party app in zoom meeting what wull be recorded
If you are using a third party screen recorder it will record the entire screen regardless of what you do in Zoom. See this video ruclips.net/video/reeul8T4H04/видео.html
When I record my zoom classes, on the recording video the toolbar show a grey block, what setting will remove that?
Are you screen sharing when you record? There is a "show Zoom controls when screen sharing" checkbox in the settings, changing that may get rid of it but I'm not sure.
Thanks for this! But .....i may get recordered even if my vedio is turned off????
If your video is turned off then I don't believe you will be recorded.
@@BenFinio r u 100 percent sure about it??
Hi Ben,... thanks for the video. it is really helpful. A quick question, is there a way to get the mouse pointer recorded in zoom?
Hi - I'm not sure, to do that you might need a third party screen recorder.
If a someone unmuted and talks would that record?
Yes, it records the audio of everyone who is in the call (as long as they're unmuted), not just the person who is doing the recording.
Does this mean that whatever the children does during the class on their mobiles will be recorded???
No, your screen will not be recorded unless you are screen sharing.
@@BenFinio Okay.Thank you.
Tremendously helpful! Thank you
Good day!
Just like to ask,
Im using my ipad for a zoom meeting.
And ill be using my iphone voice memo to record,
Will zoom be able to detect that?
It is relay a very helpful video. Can I ask how to record All participant at the same time?
make sure you are in gallery view when recording. i don't think this will work if there are more than 24 participants in the meeting.
Why do you share your entire monitor instead of just the PowerPoint? Does that make a difference? Also, is there a way to record all of the participants while sharing your screen?
Hi Kristy - you're correct that if you only want to share the Powerpoint, it's better to just share the Powerpoint and not the whole monitor. Sharing the whole monitor can be easier if you want to share a lot of programs because you don't have to stop and re-start sharing for each one, although there's a new feature that lets you share multiple windows at once: ruclips.net/video/D_xZd5WC9VU/видео.html. If you want to record all the participants at once while screen sharing, then you need a Pro account with cloud recording, where there is an option to record shared screen, speaker, and gallery views all to separate video files. I don't believe you can do this with a local recording, which is what this video shows.
terimakasih, saya sudah mendapatkan penjelasan dari video anda. terimakasih banyak.. sorry i can't english
Sama-sama! Saya tidak bisa bahasa Indonesia tapi saya menggunakan Google Translate.
Iam a student if my teacher will start recording will my screen will recorded plzz answer
No but you should still pay attention to class!
What if I was recording? And I minimized zoom and went to another tab like fb ? Will zoom record that as well?
Can I record in zoom only my video in order to read from my screen share?
Thanks Ben, what we needed for our recorded online meeting was to have the Host record all the presenters and when shared also the Powerpoint presentation. Every time we played back the recorded session all Participants were not shown. By hit and miss we went to settings and changed the selections for Share Screen to enter full screen, scale to fit, and side by side. Then on Recording we selected Record video during screen sharing. We were able to record and play back all presenters and the current speaker and the power point. Does this make sense?
Hi George - I have not tried adjusting all of those settings. I do know there is a cloud recording option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files, if that would be useful, but it may be disabled by your organization (I can't turn it on at Cornell).
Hi Ben, what would you recommend if I want to record share a PPT on Zoom and ensure that Zoom just records that, along with my voice, given that there will be other people present who I do not want to record? For example, I record with Spotligh on, will it also record my screen with PPT or will Spotilight only record my cam? Overall, it's the screen I want it to record, and not mine nor anyone else's cams.
Hi Neil - a couple options:
1) See the video around 4:55. If you minimize the video thumbnails while recording locally, they will not show up in the recording at all. Downside is you can't see anyone when you're presenting.
2) If you have a pro account, there is an option in cloud recording to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views all to separate video files, so you could use that, and you would still be able to see people while sharing.
@@BenFinio Hi Ben, I have an insitutional account, but can only see 3 file types to download : chat file / audio / and shared screen with speaker view. Is that because i was not using the "gallery" during the webinar and so there was no file for it or have Zoom's file types changed?
@@academicenglishskillsuk to clarify were you doing a regular Zoom meeting or a webinar? All my videos are only for meetings. Webinars are a separate feature and I'm not sure how they differ.
@@BenFinio No, it is just a Zoom meeting.
@@academicenglishskillsuk Ok - I have never actually tried the cloud recording thing because it is not enabled for my institution. I thought it gave you speaker and gallery view recordings to download regardless of which view you were in during the meeting, but I could be wrong. Maybe try a practice meeting and make sure you toggle between gallery and speaker view?
Thanks Ben. Do you know if there is a way to record a screen share and video, but have the video be LARGER than the screen-share or at the very least, side by side and equal, when recording in the cloud?
When cloud recording there is an option to record screen share, speaker, and gallery views all to separate video files, but this option may be disabled by your organization (I can't enable it at Cornell). There's also a "swap video and shared screen" button when viewing someone else's screen share, but I'm not sure what that would do to the recording (if the participant records instead of the host), I haven't tested it.
Hi, I just found you on RUclips and like how you explain things. I use Zoom and do screenshare and record my class. I like the Gallery view of the students and I move them to the top of my screen. When I look at the recording the students video are vertical in the middle of the screen not on horizontal on the top as I saw them. How can I get the recording to have them on the top horizontally or to the far right vertically?
Hi - unfortunately you can't control where that appears in your recording.
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Useful. Thanks!
Thanks sir!
Hey Ben-- thanks for this, love the side by side, very nice visual. Question-- if I am in gallery view so I can see all my clients during the Zoom... but want the recording to only be me -- would I spotlight my video but keep it in gallery and would that work? thanks for any advice you can offer
Hi Dodie - if you are doing local recording on a single computer I am not sure if that will work, I think it will still record gallery view. At 3:17 in this video I switch to gallery view without ever canceling the spotlight, and the recording still shows gallery view. If you have a Pro account there is an option in cloud recording to record speaker and gallery view to separate video files, so you could use that. If you have a second monitor you can also do it with that, I have a video about that here: ruclips.net/video/qvoXMStoNcw/видео.html
nice infor - wat if there are more video participants - does zoom record all videos on during screen share ?
I have not tested this since I don't have enough computers, but I believe there is an upper limit (maybe 4 thumbnails). You might be able to find this on Zoom's official support pages.
So helpful thank you so much!
does the zoom record the screen or just the meeting?
If someone is screen sharing it will also record what they're sharing, otherwise it does not record other things on the screen (like if you bring another window in front of Zoom).
Good video, Ben Thanks. I tried recording separate files for speaker (me) and gallery view, but the video for the speaker view was not very high quality while the gallery view video was sharp. How do I get a clear recording of speaker view?
Hi - unfortunately I don't think there's much you can do. The actual resolution of your video in Zoom will generally be lower than the max resolution of your webcam due to bandwidth limitations (on Zoom's end, even if you have good high speed internet yourself). So everyone looks OK in gallery view since the individual camera views are pretty small, but when you blow one up to full screen in speaker view it looks grainy.
@@BenFinio Thank you. I do a lot of videos with a professional-quality camcorder for my online kung-fu school (I have live classes on Zoom also). Some students don't want to see themselves on the video replays, which have always been gallery view. In the classes, I demonstrate movements and correct the students who attend the live class. Instead of recording these sessions in gallery mode or low-quality speaker view, I'm just going to set up my camcorder to get a clean feed of me during the live classes and use that as the replay. Thanks for helping me reach this conclusion.
@@KenGullette for what it's worth - that is such a common request from people doing fitness classes that I made a separate video about it: ruclips.net/video/Wc87YQk-RQs/видео.html. BUT that doesn't resolve the quality issue. If you want a good HD video of yourself then you're right that it's probably better to just do it with a separate camera.
A bit off topic, but I'm trying to use Zoom out from the HDMI port of a laptop to go into an HDMI input of an ATEM Mini Pro video switcher for live streaming a video podcast. I've done a little experimenting, and set Zoom to Dual monitor. Can't quite figure out how to get what I hope to.
Basically I want to show out the HDMI port what I guess would be the split screen Gallery View of me and one remote guest, THEN be able to toggle to just the guest only on screen, no thumbnail of my video, then back to the two shot when desired. I want to hopefully do this without outputting any controls showing, maybe with keyboard shortcuts. I was hopeful that I could keep the controls on the laptop screen, then just have the video output like I wanted on the "second monitor", which, of course, would be the input feed to the switcher, but this doesn't seem to work. With dual monitor deactivated I can just drag the instance of Zoom over to the HDMI output, but that's not desired.
I hope this was clear and made sense. I appreciate any info or tips.
Hi - unfortunately you're out of my depth here, I have not experimented much with the dual monitor feature or done any podcasting. Sorry I can't be of more help.
@@BenFinio I appreciate the reply. Then how can the color box that highlights the current speaker be disabled?
Hi - sorry, I have a bunch of three-week old comments that I never got notifications about for some reason. To the best of my knowledge you can't get rid of that box, Zoom puts it there automatically. If (as the host) you spotlight yourself or a certain participant, you could at least get it to stay in one place instead of moving around as Zoom automatically tries to determine who the active speaker is.
I might have already posted this question, but wasn't sure ... so forgive me for doing so again. I recorded a 2.5 hour interview on zoom and the sound and picture are out of sync. Can you suggest what I might need to do to avoid this? I know that I can work it out in Imovie, but would feel better not having to do that. Thanks. Great tutorials!
Were you doing a cloud or local recording? Unfortunately I'm not sure what you can do about that in advance, it might depend on your computer (local) or your internet connection (cloud). If you are using an organization's Zoom license I would contact your IT department. I had a similar problem at Cornell with different screen recording software called Panopto. IT was able to fix it after the fact, but I'm not sure what the root cause of the problem was.
Why when I am recording a zoom in thumbnail view it only records those who have their video on. Those who’s video is off does not show in the recording.
I think that's intentional on Zoom's part and I'm not sure if you can change it.
I give vocal training online, so in a 1-on-1 situation it's important that both of us appear on the recording. I set it to gallery, with us next to each other, but the recording jumps between us, mostly NOT catching the important moments from each side, probably because it follows the "speaker" - often singing - and is generally too late as the exercises are brief and require immediate imitation! How can I get zoom to leave it alone? Would really appreciate help on this. Thanks!
Hi - I have a few newer videos on my channel about the multi-pin and multi-spotlight features, check those out and they might answer your question. I always recommend doing a test run (set up a meeting with a second device if you have one, or get a friend to join) so you can figure out the exact settings you want.
Hi Doc Ben, thank you for sharing this! But how about if you're only meeting with one person? There seems to be no "spotlight option" when there are only 2 participants. Appreciate your help!
Hi Joseph - you're correct, I think spotlight requires three or more people. In a two-person meeting I think each person can pin the other person though.
i thought that it will be recorded what we are looking our background websites
When I finished recording a video of myself talking on Zoom, there was no audio that can be heard when I replay it. The audio issue persists in my recorded video even after I use "share computer audio" while screen sharing. Is there a way to fix this issue?
Could other people hear you during the meeting? If so, unfortunately I'm not sure why the audio wouldn't show up in the recording. The "share computer audio" checkbox is a separate feature that allows you to share audio being played from your computer's speakers (e.g. a song playing on your computer) in addition to the sound detected by your microphone.
Hi Ben, how come my local recording shows a blank frame of participants' who turned off their video? The participant's name and/or picture is blank. thx a lot.
Hi Faisal - I'm not sure, I have not tested that. I assumed it would show the same thing you see in the meeting but that could be wrong.
Great! That’s what I was looking for! Thanks a lot :)
Thanks - fyi I just made a new video that includes some new features like rearranging gallery view and multi-pinning: ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Thank you so much for this video. I have a situation that is near impossible to solve. Its that little right hand dropdown participant window that keeps showing up after we record our videos. I don't see it while I am recording but it shows up after I record and there are 5-6 little dropdown boxes that block my power point presentation. This problem only happens with the recorded videos. I wonder if you have a more detailed video on this subject. Thank you.
Hi - unfortunately I have gotten some other comments on this but I have not explored this one in detail. As you can see at 4:58 in this video, when I minimize those thumbnails, they disappear from the recording completely. There is a "show my Zoom windows to other participants when screen sharing" option in Settings -> Share Screen - maybe make sure that is turned off?
I'm using dual monitor and the one that is recorded is only the speaker.
I want the gallery view to be recorded. How will I do that?
Dual monitor recording is pretty confusing, see this video: ruclips.net/video/MjEDbJwHeFM/видео.html
Really helpful, thanks!
Great video! Is there a way that I can record just my speaker screen whilst still seeing gallery view? For example I want to send my participants a recording of our fitness class but I only want them to see me in the recording yet whilst I am doing (&recording) the class I want to have my screen on gallery view so I can see everyone. Thanks in advance ☺
I've gotten this question a lot so I made an entire video about it! Hope this helps ruclips.net/video/Wc87YQk-RQs/видео.html
Hi Ben, thank you for your video. We had a zoom meeting with about 50 attendants and there was one speaker plus me as a translator. The host spotlighted both of us so it was easy to follow, but in the recording we were not spotlighted side by side. Is there a way to have both speakers visible at the same time in the recording?
Hi Eva - I made this video before they released the multi-spotlight feature. This one is newer but honestly I cannot remember if I tried multi-spotlight here (this pandemic is so long and I've made so many videos that I can't remember it all...): ruclips.net/video/z8xRiOPqE9U/видео.html
Hi Ben, is there a way to record the gallery view but hide your screen or someone else's screen from the recording itself, so only select screens are recorded in the gallery view. As in, say someone is recording an interview between two other people and wants to do a gallery view but doesn't want their screen to show, just the interviewer and interviewee.
Hi Michael - you could mute your own video and then select "hide non video participants," or right click yourself and select "hide self view." The downside is that then people won't be able to see you in the live meeting either. There is a new multi-pin and multi-spotlight feature: ruclips.net/video/RZIn9AxSRrU/видео.html so you could try spotlighting only the people you want recorded, although I have not tried this. In order to test it you can just log in to the same meeting on multiple devices (that's how I do these tutorials) or get some family/friends to join.
very useful!
Hi Ben - thanks, very useful video. My question would be, what if you wanted to share your screen, for other participants to see live, but you wanted to keep on recording as many of the participants as possible, not have the recording dominated by your screen. Is that possible, do you know?
Hi Paul - your best bet is to do cloud recording and enable the option to record speaker, gallery, and shared screen views to separate video files. Then you could use post processing/third party video editing software to combine them however you want. However, this option may be disabled depending on your organization or Zoom license. It's disabled at the admin level for me at Cornell, I can't turn it on.
That was a really useful video, thank you :)
You're welcome!