Zoom can be a convenient way to record your screen if high resolution isn’t desired. If you just what to record a presentation with no live audience, you can start a recording in your personal meeting room and share a screen with your PowerPoint. There are two ways to record a Zoom meeting: a Cloud Recording or a Local Recording.
How to create Cloud Recording in a Zoom meeting:
- Log into https://osu.zoom.us/ with your name.# and university password.
- Start a meeting as the host.
- Click the Record button in the Zoom toolbar.
- Select Record to the Cloud to begin recording.
- To stop recording, click Pause/Stop Recording or End Meeting.
- When you are done with the meeting, click Stop and the recording will be queued for processing.
Zoom will send an email to the host’s email address when processing is complete. See Ohio State’s Manage CarmenZoom Cloud Recordings guide for additional information about managing your cloud recordings. These recordings only stored for 120 days. For longer-term storage, you could move your recordings to video hosting like MediaSite.
How to create a Local Recording in a Zoom meeting:
- Login to https://osu.zoom.us/ with your name.# and university password.
- Start a meeting as the host.
- Click the Record button in the Zoom toolbar.
- Select Record on this Computer to begin recording.
An advantage of a local recording might be that you get more direct access to the .mp4 video file, in case you want to edit it with video project software like Adobe Premiere Pro.
For more information about managing local recordings check out these support articles:
- Local Recording overview
- Starting a Local Recording
- Accessing Local Recording files
- All Zoom Recording guides
Video about recording in Zoom in general:
More resources about recording in Zoom:
- See this CarmenZoom Recordings article for more information about Zoom use at Ohio State.
- See this Info about the resolution of recorded video from Zoom article for recording resolution options. By default, Zoom records at a resolution of 640 x 360px at 25 frames per second. However, it is possible to change the resolution to HD by selecting the HD option in the camera settings. The recording resolution is affected by the resolution of the video and the network bandwidth. If you need a higher resolution for creating an educational video, you might consider another recording app like MediaSite Moasic. The maximum resolution of Zoom recordings when all conditions are good is 1280 x 720px.
- See this page for more about Video Resolutions from the Zoom Community.