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.

To use Zoom Clips, follow this guide.

Requirements for enabling 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

Account

  1. Sign in to the Zoom Web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
  3. Click the Clips tab.
  4. To the right of the following features, click the toggle to enable or disable the setting.  
  5. (Optional) To the right of Clips , click the lock icon to prevent your users from changing the setting.
  6. ( 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.

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) C lick 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. To the right of the following features, click the toggle to enable or disable the setting.
    Note: If any of those toggles is greyed out, the setting is locked at the account level and needs to be changed at that level.  
  6. (Optional) To the right of Clips, click the lock icon to prevent users in the group from changing the setting.

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 User Management then Users.
  3. Click the email/name ID of the user you want to enable Clips for.
  4. Click the Settings tab.
  5. Click Zoom Clips.
  6. To the right of the following features, click the toggle to enable or disable the setting.
    Note: If any of those toggles is greyed out and cannot be changed, the setting is locked at the account or group level and needs to be changed at those levels.  

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.