I watch this video every time we need to record something for work to make sure I get it right. - we use sign languages interpreters so its really helpful as Zoom likes to focus on those who speak - not helpful when people are signing! Thanks so much

Important to note this is for local recordings. In cloud recordings, pinning doesn't change the active speaker on recordings, but spotlighting does.

Wow, I couldn’t really wrap my head around all that but all your videos have really helped me! I’m so glad you taught us how to spotlight people which has been awesome. 😉 Thanks Ben!

This video is a LIFE SAVER! 😍 Answers all my doubts and confusions after 100 times of trying 🤣

Lifesaving video going through all the many settings on Zoom - Thank you for this tutorial!

Thanks for this video - I had got totally confused trying to pin two participants, and the recording only showing who is speaking at one time - even though I can see both on my screen while live. Recording to the computer NOT to the cloud helped me with this and, even though you didn't mention this per-say - your video helped me think outside the box :D thanks again

This was a great video. Came close to answering my questions. We use Zoom in trial depositions. The thumbnail of the deponent is always so small when sharing screen for an exhibit. Recorded locally in may be able to be increased a bit. Your recording at 11:45 gets the two panels almost equal. Exactly the effect we are looking for. Then at 12:25 it increases the thumbnails to an marginally acceptable size. Please see if you can address this in another video. Thanks, Jim

Thank you all for helping, it worked out...Yeah!

Ben, you're so kind for replying to everyone. Quick question: if you are sharing your screen but then you'd to speak to the group without the slides for a bit, do just hit stop sharing and Zoom will put you back in the main presentation mode - full screen? I assume you'll lose your place in the powerpoint file?

This is awesome, thank you. My colleague and I are pulling our hair out over this stuff!!! We've got the problem of the speaker view thumbnail, showing over the top of the powerpoint in the screen recording. How do we get it to view like your screen sharing video did, where the thumbnail appears in a black box to the side? Thank you for helping us tech strugglers!!!

Thank you so, so much for this video!

I wish I could figure out how to make the spotlight video and screenshare the same size. I hate that recordings mean a thumbnail video and large screen share.

Ben, great video. I 've several of the comments and your replies and I have similar one. I've been recording webinars and find the video's of the panelist are always pinned to the top right and I'm looking for a way to record side by side, similar to what you featured in a shared screen from another user. I've been testing different configurations, recording to the cloud, and watching without success. To your knowledge, if I am the host/zoom subscriber, while screen sharing, is there a settings configuration that will record all of the panelist in a side by side view? Shared screen on one side, videos on the other. I find the overlapping default to be very annoying. Thank you very much!

SO helpful Thank you!

May be hide video panel will record PPT in full screen? Thanks for exploring different option during recording. Helps a lot! May i know will auto transcript be recorded during screen share? i've never use this function before, so when will the participants see the auto transcript too?

Please make a similar video for cloud recordings 🙏🏽

How do you zoom in or do a close up on a. Spotlighted person while recording and sharing from the web at the same time?

Great video! I'm trying to do something similar where I spotlight two speakers while sharing my screen, but I'm still having trouble with the recording. I only want those two spotlighted speaker's videos to show up in the recording but it seems like other participants are still shown even when the spotlight is on. Is there any way to hide participant videos in the recording and only show two or three selected speakers videos while sharing a screen?

Hello Ben, like you mention at 4:32 I also am experiencing the same problem as to why Powerpoint is not recording in full screen mode. Do you have any solutions?

What are u using ! A laptop or a phone ?

Thanks for sharing! Good video!

I’m recording to the cloud. When I spotlight a second device to show my students something in more detail, the recording comes back as that device in gallery view and it is then hard for students to go back and see the detail in that screen. Is there any way to get that second device to stay large in the zoom recording?

I shared my screen and used gallery view and then moved the participants to the top of my screen horizontally. The recording shows the participants vertically sort of in the middle of the screen. Almost like they were moved. Is there something i need to do to have the recording capture them correctly?

How do I make a local recording of only the spotlight speaker without recording screen sharing ?

Early Jan 2022, I'm learning Zoom and for some reason, every time I go into screen share, it just goes to full screen. I've tried with and without the "side by side" box in the settings for screen share and it doesn't do anything. I also cannot access the view at all when in screen sharing mode. It's bizarre to me that something that is so easy to use in some ways is so incredibly counter-intuitive in others. I've tried a number of different options for screen sharing and they all seem to lead to the same results.

Thanks!

In a bit of a pickle. I need to record my zoom meeting, it will be an online production and some of my actors (kids) have not memorised their lines, I need to share my screen (script) BUT I do not want to record what I am sharing, is that possible?

I'm overwhelmed, too much information in one go & you speak so fast! I'm stuck with recording on zoom... I'm using my smartphone as a 2nd camera (i joined as participant), top down view for filming a tutoria. I want to switch between that & my laptop (host device) so i can speak to laptop camera at various points then switch back to top down view. But once I check the recording, it's only recorded the phone view. Yesterday it only recorded my laptop view... arghhhhh! I shared & gave permissions, pinned, unpinned etc. I've tried everything. Can you help? 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 thank you!!

Love this video. I am looking to find out when screen sharing and recording, if it is possible to to move the window to where I want it instead of it permanently being anchored in the top right of the recording as you have at 4:50. Is it possible at all to change this? If i wanted that to be at the lower right corner instead on the recorded video ouput?

Hey - you note that you do a similar video with a dual monitor - I only see the version from last year. I am sure I am just missing it. Point me in the right direction?

Hi Ben, I just want to find out about a really simple option which you might have covered but I must have missed. If I want to record only me, but want to have the screen I see in Gallery View, can I do that by Spotlighting my video? Or when I then switch to gallery view, will it stop recording just me and switch to recording all? If that doesn't work, what does? Thanks!

I’m wondering if there’s a way to make one or two (or more) spotlighted people larger. I wasn’t sure when you said that there was a lag, I didn’t know if that meant that you could make them larger for the video recording or not.

Do you know if it's possible to have multiple people share their own screen and be able to see all those screens at the same time in some sort of gallery view?

Ben, do you know what happens when a Host records to his/her local drive and then a co-host does all the spotlighting or pinning. Is the resulting video like the results we see here in this tutorial?

Super Helpful, thank you. Looks like I can share my screen while spotlighting the speaker so I can run her slideshow for her. Awesome. What about sharing a graphic on my screen while sharing my computer audio that is on spotify or itunes?

Hi Ben, this is an excellent video tutorial, Thank you for sharing your knowledge. One question, I've been trying to fix my problem by trying different recording layout settings but still no luck. My problem is, my Zoom never produces a side-by-side layout with a gallery view during a screen share. The recording only captures one small thumbnail on the top right corner of my screen for the person who's speaking together with the shared screen. Also, I tried spotlighting 3 speakers together but the produced recording was still the same (only a small thumbnail for the person who's speaking) What should I do? Thank you! Note: I also chose the gallery view and the side-by-side layout. Thank you. Hoping for your help.

Hi Ben, your practical knowledge on Zoom is !!!. Quick question : As a meeting host when I share my screen , the participants video line up as small thumbnail on my screen. The grey separating line between the shared screen and the thumbnails is not available. Thus , as a host I can not increase the size of those thumbnails. This grey line is visible in the participant's screen and the size of thumbnail can be manipulated by dragging those grey lines. How can a host increase size of thumbnail?

Hi. How to screenshare advmace with ppt as background and spotlight at the same time?

Hi Ben, thank you so much for your detailed explanation. How do you think if I want to interview someone while screen sharing, and I just want to get large video recording of the speaker without shared screen view? Can Zoom recording feature do that? Thank you in advance!

hi i realised when im hosting and sharing a powerpoint, i spotlighted a person, but the host recording doesnt show the spotlighted person it only shows the powerpoint. is there a step that im missing?

Thank you very much, really useful video! I have an issue with screen sharing and recording when it comes to the thumbnails - despite having the option of "record video during screen sharing" turned on in the settings, when I or other people share their screens, while I record locally only the screen/presentation etc is showing, without any thumbnails. I also have tried to pin, spotlight etc, still no window of thumbnail of people showing. Not sure how to fix it, any help would be much appreciated!

Hi Ben ! - is it possible to record a Zoom meeting while we're at ANOTHER screen watching something else . . say , KZfaq video ? Thank you !!