Zoom Clips admin guide

Zoom Clips offers a convenient solution for capturing both personal video and screen activities, allowing users to effortlessly share their recordings with others. This feature is particularly valuable when demonstrating product features or showcasing various functionalities. Users can conveniently access their Clips through their app or web portal, and receive notifications about views, comments, and replies related to their Clips. The feature can be enabled or disabled at the account, group, or user level.

Learn more about using Zoom Clips.

Requirements for enabling or disabling Clips

Table of Contents

Feature comparison between Clips Basic and Clips Plus

The following table compares the features available for accounts with Clips Basic or Clips Plus. Learn more about Clips Basic and Clips Plus account availability.

 
FeatureClips BasicClips Plus
Clip amountCreate up to 5 clips per userCreate unlimited clips per user
Clip duration2 minutes maximum duration per clipUnlimited duration per clip
RecordEnabledEnabled
EditEnabledEnabled
ShareEnabledEnabled
CommentEnabledEnabled
Content libraryEnabledEnabled
Translated captionsDisabledEnabled
View analyticsDisabledEnabled

Clips Basic availability

Clips Basic is available to the following account types:

Clips Plus availability

Clips Plus is available to the following account types:

How to enable or disable Clips

You can enable or disable Zoom Clips for the entire account, a group of users, or at the individual user level.

Account

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
  3. Click the Clips tab.
  4. Under General, click the Clips toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
  6. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
  7. (Optional) If Clips is disabled and locked, click the eye icon image.png to make Clips invisible for your entire account.
    Note: The Clips tab will not appear in the Zoom web portal or desktop app of your users, but as an admin, you’ll still be able to access the setting in your portal to enable it when desired. This option is only available at the account level.
  8. (Optional) For more customization, review additional Zoom Clips settings and enable or disable them as needed.

Add cloud recordings to Zoom Clips for your account

You can allow meeting hosts in your account to share their full or part of their meetings recorded to the cloud externally as clips.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
  3. Click the Recording tab.
  4. Click the Allow users to add cloud recordings to Zoom Clips toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. (Optional) Click the lock icon to prevent your users from changing the setting.

Group

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click User Management then Groups.
  3. Click the applicable group name.
  4. Click the Clips tab.
  5. Under General, click the Clips toggle to enable or disable it.
  6. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
    Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and needs to be changed at that level.
  7. (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
  8. (Optional) For more customization, review additional Zoom Clips settings and enable or disable them as needed.

Add cloud recordings to Zoom Clips for a group of users

You can allow a group of your meeting hosts to share their full or part of their meetings recorded to the cloud externally as clips.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click User Management then Groups.
  3. Click the applicable group name.
  4. Click the Recording tab.
  5. Click the Allow users to add cloud recordings to Zoom Clips toggle to enable or disable it.
  6. (Optional) Click the lock icon to prevent your users from changing the setting.

User

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Settings.
  3. Click the Clips tab.
  4. Under General, click the Clips toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
    Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You need to contact your Zoom admin.
  6. (Optional) For more customization, review additional Zoom Clips settings and enable or disable them as needed.

How to access and manage clips on your account

Admins can view and manage clips created by users on their account.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Clip Management.
    The list of clips for your entire account will display information including clip name, owner, file size, and creation time.

Search for clips created by your users

  1. In Search by clip name or tag, enter the name or tag of the clip you’re looking for or in the Owner box, enter the name of the owner.
  2. (Optional) Click Advanced Search to filter by time, when the clip was created, and status.
  3. Click Search.

Manage clips created by your users

As an admin, you can manage clips in your account by renaming them, changing their thumbnails, and deleting them.

To the right of a clip in Clip Management, click one of the following icons:

Share clips created by your users

  1. In Clip Management, to the far right of a clip, click the more icon , then click Share.
  2. For general sharing, on the General Share tab, do the following as needed:
  3. For embedded sharing, on the Embed tab, choose the embed code size settings and copy the embed code or thumbnail.

Access deleted clips in your account

After deleting a clip, it will be accessible for 30 days from the date it was deleted, then will be permanently deleted.

  1. At the top of Clip Management, click Trash .
    A list of clips deleted in the past 30 days will display.
  2. Identify the following:
  3. To the far right of a clip, click the more icon ( ), then select one of the following:
  4. (Optional) In the top-right corner, click Empty Trash to permanently delete all clips at once from your account.