There are a couple of methods to record a zoom meeting. Let’s take a look at how you can record a meeting in Zoom.
How to Record a Meeting in Zoom?
When recording a meeting in Zoom, you can either save it to your hard drive, or you can save it locally. Saving it into the cloud requires a Pro, Business, or Enterprise account. So, we will talk about the Local recording first. Local recording lacks some features but has all the basic features you need. It records the meeting as a participant, which means that if the meeting is in speaker view, it records it in that specific view. Also, Local recording is only available in the desktop version. To record a meeting, you must enable recordings first and then get to recording. Here is a detailed guide on how you can record a Zoom meeting and save it to your hard drive.
Enable Recordings in Zoom
If you’re on a basic account, you have to turn on the recording for yourself. But, if you have a paid plan and multiple users or groups, you must turn it on for everyone. Here is how you do it.
For Yourself
To enable recording for yourself, follow these steps.
For Users
To turn on recording for yourself and all the others using the same account, you need to sign in as an administrator so you can change the Account settings. Follow these steps to enable the Local Recording:
For User Groups
You can enable recording for user groups by following these steps given below. But you need to be an administrator to edit user groups.
Record a Zoom Meeting
Once you have enabled recording, you can record a meeting as a Host. To do so, follow these steps. To stop or pause recording, you can click on the Pause/Stop recording button. When you end the meeting, the recording will be converted into .MP4 format. You can also give permission to some participants to Record a meeting. To do so, you can follow these steps.
How to Record a Zoom Meeting Into Cloud?
The Cloud Recording option is only available for accounts on the paid plan and is enabled by default. Cloud recording can be used on all devices, including iOS and Android. The recordings are stored in Zoom’s web portal. But, it takes a long time to process the recorded videos. However, it has more features than local recording, like being able to separately record Active Speaker, Shared Screen, and Gallery View. You also get access to audio transcription. To start a cloud recording, you can follow these steps: You can stop or pause the recording by clicking on Pause/Stop recording.
Where Can I Find Recorded Zoom Meetings?
If you haven’t changed any recording settings, you can find the local recordings in the default folder. The default folders for different OS are given below.
Windows: C:\Users[Username]\Documents\ZoomMac: /Users/[Username]/Documents/ZoomLinux: home/[Username]/Documents/Zoom
For Cloud Recordings, you can view them through the web version of Zoom. Here are the steps to view cloud recordings. You can change where the local recordings are saved on your PC. To do so, follow these steps.
