Student Orientation

Creating Zoom Videos 2—Setup Video Transcript

Thomas Yazer: In your first recording on how to record a Zoom video, I taught you how to set up your account. In this second video, I'm going to teach you how to start the video recording system and also how to manage the session and then, of course, to record one.

So what we're going to do here first is we'll sign into your regiscollege.zoom.us site. You notice this is the landing page. Click on Sign In. And as I mentioned earlier in the first video about creating your person meeting ID link, now you can either use the original link here, or you can personalize a link down below. Either way, you'll start this link, put it in your browser, and your meeting will start.

And your meeting's going to look a lot like this. So you can see here we have a basic Zoom landing screen when you join. There's no one else here but yourself. You have a Join Audio, Share, Invite Others option.

Now, the Join Audio button is probably the most important tool here. You're going to want to come in and use the chevron, this little arrow button, and choose the right devices you're using for both recording and for listening. So your speaker and your microphone choice will be available from this Join Audio button down in the bottom left-hand corner.

Same thing goes for your video-- click both buttons. Enable your webcam. Enable your microphone. If you need to adjust your webcam because you have two of them, click on the chevron, and choose it from the option list.

So I'll start my webcam. There I am. You notice I have a lot of light coming in from the front. So there's sort of a nice skin tone.

Behind me, there's not too much light. If there's a lot of light, like a window, it's going to affect the way your webcam looks. It's not going to look as natural. So make sure you're aware of that.

What you want to do is wear clothing that's usually solid colors. You want to avoid wearing stripes and checkers, things like that. Red doesn't show up very well for some reason, and so forth. So make sure your video is set up the way you want it to be.

Now at this point, you have your audio going. You have your video going. What you'll want to make sure of are the recording buttons and the sharing buttons.

Now, to record, you'll simply click the Record button. And you'll have two options-- recording to the computer and recording to the cloud. If you record to the computer, it means that the program will put a file on your computer with a video. You'll have to upload that video into YouTube, things like that, to share the video.

But we're going to actually use the record to the cloud function, because we have access to a Pro account at Zoom. So click on Record to Cloud. What's going to happen is, the top left-hand corner, you'll see that there's a little icon that has the cloud and a red dot in the middle. That means it's indicating it's recording. So at this point, my video's going to be recorded. And when I'm ready to stop recording, I'd simply click the Stop button down in the bottom right-hand corner.

Now maybe you were going to be sharing presentations. And what you'll be doing is click on the Sharing button. And you'll be looking at these different options that are available to you.

Now, the screen or screen two will be all the different types of screens that can be completely shared. If I choose screen one, my entire desktop is going to be shared with all my other people who are looking at the video. Screen two-- be my other desktop monitor.

Whiteboard will be a white screen that you can use for doodles and writing on the screen using your mouse or a stylus. iPhone, iPad-- same thing. You'll have an opportunity to share what's on those different devices.

And then below this will be all the open programs that you'll be using for your presentation, whether it's a browser, individual program, could be something like a spreadsheet, a Word document, a PDF, or PowerPoint. You must have these documents open before you click the word Share. So if you want to click this little green button down below to open the Share button, you have to have those options open already.

Simply click Share. And I'll click there, my Google screen. Click Share. And now I'm actually sharing on my recording whatever is on this screen.

Keep in mind, there's a top floating tool bar menu-- looks very similar to one we saw at the bottom of the screen. We have the additional new share and pause share features as well as an annotation feature. If you click Annotate, I'd recommend using the Spotlight tool, which is this little red dot there that goes around.

Click x to make sure that that menu system goes away. And also you want to go to the More button. The More feature will allow you to choose the pause and stop recording from here as well.

Ok, so at this point, you've made a recording. You stop your share. You go down to the bottom of the screen. Click Stop Share there.

And it's going to take about ten to 15 minutes for the recording to show up in your account. It'll take another five or ten minutes for the transcription service to actually register any audio that's been transcribed. So give it about a half hour or so before you go and grab the link, which is in the third recording video that you'll see in this training.