Cloud recording is automatically enabled for all paid subscribers. When you record a meeting and choose Record to the Cloud, the video, audio, and chat text are recorded in the Zoom cloud. The recording files can be downloaded to a computer or streamed from a browser.
Cloud recordings can be started on the desktop app, as well as the Zoom app on iOS and Android. Zoom also offers computer recording, which saves the recording files to your computer. Cloud recordings allow you to record the meeting in multiple different recording layouts including active speaker, gallery view, and shared screen, and can be configured with a variety of cloud recording storage options.
Cloud recordings cannot be embedded on websites, in order to protect the security of the recording.
There is a limit of 150 files that can be generated from a live session's cloud recordings. This includes different recording layouts, audio-only files, chat transcript, and language interpreter views. If you need more than 150 files, Zoom recommends ending the meeting and then restarting, which resets the file count for that live session.
Pausing a cloud recording does not create a separate file, but stopping a recording and starting a new cloud recording does create a new file.
Cloud recordings generally take about 2 times the duration recorded to process, but occasionally may take up to 24 hours due to higher processing loads.
For example, an hour-long meeting with only 30 minutes recorded would typically take 30-60 minutes to process.
Only hosts and co-hosts can start a cloud recording. If you want a participant to start a recording, you can make them a co-host or use computer recording. Recordings started by co-hosts will only appear in the host's list of recordings in the Zoom web portal.
Need to catch up on a long meeting or webinar? Smart Recording allows you to get the key takeaways in a quick and digestible format through recording highlights, and identify action items to take after the meeting or webinar with next steps.
