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Local Recording

Published November 2016

Zoom offers the two recording options

Local recording is available to free and paid subscribers. Local recording permits you to record meeting movie and audio locally on your computer. The recorded file can then be uploaded to your company streaming server or public streaming server such as Vimeo or Youtube.

Cloud recording is available to paid subscribers. Cloud recording permits you to record meeting movie (active speaker) and audio in the Zoom Cloud where the file can then be downloaded and/or streamed from a browser via HTML five or Flash.

• A Zoom Basic (Free) account is required
• Account Admin can enable or disable in Account Management
• User can also enable or disable in Profile page
• Zoom client version Two.0 or higher is required on PC or Mac

How do I commence Local Recording?

Note: You must join the meeting audio either through telephone or computer audio in order to record the meeting’s audio.

The host can record. While you are in a Zoom meeting, budge your mouse around the screen to toggle the menu bar.

Two. You can also click on Participant to assign someone to record

Trio. All participants in meeting will see a recording indicator in the upper-left corner of their screen and all dial-in participants will hear a message informing them that the meeting is now being recorded.

Or, if you’re the host you will see this button emerge in the upper left corner:

You can record the active speaker, content sharing with active or sub movie panel, gallery view or M4A audio.

By default, only the host can record each Zoom meeting. This can be switched by having the host permit specific users to record the meeting through the Manage Participants panel. Each resulting recording will be in the layout of choice by the person who is recording.

The Zoom meeting will be recorded in the current layout that the host is recording. For example, if the host is recording in Gallery View the recording will be in gallery view. This is independent of what the participants are viewing, so if I participant is watching the meeting in active speaker view and they embark recording because the host granted them recording the resulting recording will be in Active Speaker.

Note: If you stir the active speaker display thumbnail to the edge of the screen or to extra monitor from the one you are presenting from the thumbnail will demonstrate up in the surrounding black bars on the recording.

Example: Thumbnail on the main display.

Example: Thumbnail moved to another monitor or edge of screen.

Accessing your Local Recording

To access your saved recorded meetings. Open your client menu. Then, select "Meetings" and from here select "Recorded".

All recorded meetings are stored locally on your local device or computer.

Note: Your recorded meeting will be converted and added after the meeting is ended.

Using your mouse, toggle over your saved recording to view your options:

• Play Movie: Selecting "Play" from your zoom client will play the saved meeting with your default media player
• Play Audio: Selecting "Play Audio" from your Zoom client will play the saved meeting audio with your default media player
• Open: Selecting "Open" will permit you to view your saved file in your local device or computer’s folder
• Delete: Selecting "Delete" will erase your meeting from your zoom client only

Note: After deleting your saved recorded meeting, it will still be saved to your local device or computer.

Note: If your computer/device unexpectedly loses power during recording Zoom cannot ensure the integrity of your recording files when you restore power. Your recording will most likely be corrupted.

After you have ended your meeting. Your recorded file will be converted and saved to your local device or computer.

To access your recorded meeting folder: please select open from: Meetings > Recorded > Open. You will have four (Four) different file to choose from:

• M3U playlist (a playlist to play the individual MP4 files – Windows only)
• MP4 file/s (movie file or split movie and screen sharing files – Windows and Mac)
• M4A file (a single audio only file)
• VLC player (MP4) file (single file for movie and screen sharing view via VLC Player- Windows) (Release Trio.0 and below)
• MP4 file (single file for movie and screen sharing) (Release Trio.Five and above)
• Talk (txt) file (single file for in meeting group talk)

Note: Screen sharing recording would take about 20M of storage per hour while movie recording would take about 200M of storage an hour. This is an estimation as the resolution and types of movie or screen sharing content could switch the storage requirements.

Note: The VLC player (MP4) file and single MP4 (mac) file can also be opened by Quicktime player. You can convert the file to .MOV and edit using iMovie.

Switch Location for Recording

You can switch the location of where your recorded meeting file gets stored at on your computer.

Open your Zoom client and select "Settings" then select "Recording." From here you can

• Switch where your recorded file will be stored at
• Select an option to pop up a location selection each time when meeting completes

Related video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJnWg6Ma8g