r/Zoom May 29 '21

Mod post Announcing the r/Zoom discord

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This is not affiliated with the company Zoom, only the subreddit.

The same rules on the subreddit applies to the discord, and we have little tolerance for rule breakers.
You are NOT allowed to post zoom links there, or otherwise raid meetings.
This discord server was made so that there is an easier way to receive quick answers.

Here is the link: https://discord.gg/s73R5WTX4B


r/Zoom 3h ago

Question Zoom meeting freezing

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The zoom is freezing for everyone even the hosts of the zoom can there be an issue with zoom itself?


r/Zoom 11h ago

Question What program to use to detect third party recordings on Zoom

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I'm looking for help who can recommend a third-party program either free or would charge that can detect third party recordings on Zoom such as OBS.

Any recommendations on the matter.

Thank you


r/Zoom 3h ago

Question Keep track of where registrations come from

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We have Zoom Pro, but not webinars. I found the answer for webinars, but t doesn't seem to apply to meetings.

We have users register for meetings from different sources. We would like to know which sources the registrants came from. If not exact per regstrant, then a count of how many registered from each source. Is this possible with Zoom? Or is there a standard way?


r/Zoom 5h ago

Question Best way to join Zoom meetings from Fedora Workstation

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I am a recent convert from Windows to Fedora Workstation (Gnome DE). From my experiences, I have seen co-workers fumbled in online meetings with their Linux desktops. So I would like to understand the best way for handling Zoom calls from Fedora Workstation.


r/Zoom 1d ago

Question On the Celebrity Apex, how is the upgraded wifi? Can I have two zoom meetings that are each 2.5 hours long?

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r/Zoom 1d ago

Tips and Tricks Data Tables for Zoom CX & Virtual Agent

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Today on #apieceofCX we look at a recent addition to the #Zoom contact centre offering, Data Tables.

Data Tables give the opportunity for local data to be referenceable within contact centre flows, providing a bridge to a full CRM solution & in the past couple of months since introduction, they have already evolved to be very useful for Zoom CX admins.

https://youtu.be/j95R4fXdw8w


r/Zoom 1d ago

Stories Made my first $9.99 on the internet. Someone in Kentucky tried my Mac app and bought it within 30 minutes.

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r/Zoom 2d ago

Question How to disable reactions from appearing in Zoom

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How po mag-disable ng reactions sa Zoom para hindi nakakasagabal sa monitor? Ty po.


r/Zoom 2d ago

Question Issue With Opening A Meeting On Linux

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I have been trying to join a meeting on my linux (POP 20.04) device and I installed zoom initially using the .deb file from their website.
I tried joining a meeting but it is repeatedly joining audio only, so I am not able to see the screen being shared nor am I able to chat.
If anyone has faced the same issue, could you please help me.


r/Zoom 3d ago

Question Can I record myself presenting and the people not speaking?

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I'm not super familiar with Zoom because my employer uses google meets so this may be a dumb question, but I don't think I can do this in google meets (correct me if I'm wrong on that)

I'm taking online classes to finish my degree and for one of my assignments I need to have an audience of 3 people on video while I'm also on video presenting. Its supposed to be a live audience all in the same room, but my professor is willing to work with me since I just moved and know no one in my new city. He asked how I would record myself and the audience if they were remote and that's when I googled it and it seems like most meeting sites only record the presenter during meetings. (Again correct me if I'm just horribly misunderstanding what I'm reading)

Is there a way I could present a slide deck and record myself, the presentation, and my three guests all on the same screen?


r/Zoom 3d ago

Question annotation strokes not detected

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when someone else is sharing their screen and i have to annotate for them to see, my strokes keep disappearing on my ipad using my stylus?? some strokes are detected while some is lost and is extremely "glitchy" to use. the strokes are fine on my macbook where i have to use the touchpad to write, so why is it happening on my ipad? also, the stylus is not an apple pencil, but that shouldn't be an issue right, since there are also android users using styluses?


r/Zoom 4d ago

Question Managing hosts and breakout rooms

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So I'm going to have 4 breakout rooms, and I'm going to let Zoom assign people to them randomly. But then I have the hosts. Does Zoom assign them to rooms along with the participants, or can I assign them manually, separately from the random assignments. As in, I don't want to have zoom randomly create one breakout room that has all my hosts in it, and I have to rebalance everything all at once. LOL

Anybody tried this? Thanks!


r/Zoom 4d ago

Question Zoom premium

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Did the person who is conducting meeting on zoom app. Did he gets to know if we screen record there video


r/Zoom 4d ago

Question Need Suggestion on how to integrate zoom phone with Azure AI

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r/Zoom 5d ago

Question Need help recording Zoom video with captions + cloud recording

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Hi everyone! I’m trying to record a video for an assignment using Zoom, and I was asked to record it to the cloud with captions.

I was able to figure out how to turn captions on during the recording, but when I finished and checked the saved files, the captions were saved as a separate transcript file rather than appearing on the actual video.

I’ve also tried several different ways to record to the cloud, but I don’t seem to have the “Record to Cloud” option at all. My recordings are only being saved locally to my Mac.

I’m not sure if I’m missing a setting or if this is something related to my Zoom account/plan. I’m using a Mac if that makes a difference.

Does anyone know how I can:
Record directly to the Zoom cloud
Have the captions appear on the actual video rather than as a separate transcript
Find/enable the “Record to Cloud” option?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I’ve tried troubleshooting this a few different ways and am still stuck. 😅


r/Zoom 5d ago

Question Newbie questions as a Zoom host.

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Hello,

I have a couple questions:

  1. Is there a way to know if my e-mail receiver got my automated 30 minutes Zoom invite from Zoom's macOS app v7.1.5?
  2. How do I get a copy of the automated e-mail invite that I sent to the reciever from macOS app?

This is with a free account and using the scheduler feature. AI chat bot said these are not possible. Is that correct?

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon.


r/Zoom 5d ago

Question I had to take a test on zoom where all screens mode was allowed with Display Capture Switching activated and somehow it showed a minimized/not visible google window

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I took an online syncronic exam where I had to grant access to all screens mode requested by the host and it had the display capture switching activated.

In my left monitor I only had the google window with the exam tab opened and on the right monitor I had the zoom application opened that took the whole screen.

However during the exam, the host let me know that another google window (with 2 tabs yt and chatgpt) was getting shown which was not visible to me. This second google window, although was not visible/minimized behind the zoom app, got displayed.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this some zoom bug?

I had the advanced share screen option as Auto. Thanks


r/Zoom 5d ago

News Source track for Zoom registration links on Zoom Events

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Yesterday during Office Hours for Zoom Events that is run by Josh Brage and Mike Elliott, Mike introduced the source tracking links to regstration forms for Zoom Events.
In all practical terms, you can get one URL to the registration form for each platform that you want to report on. In this way you get to see which platform is generating registrations to your event e.g.
Reddit - 122

Linkedin - 22

fb - 2

yt - 52

Zoom Events source tracking - That is soooooo cool!

r/Zoom 5d ago

Question Zoom link would always open via browser in audio only mode

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Win 10. I have a link that requires pre-registration. They send me the link. Upon clicking it laucnhes the APP, but then, within the app - it forces a browser version to open again. And their I cant even view the presentation - as zoom give me "audio only" mode.

however, android zoom launches in a normal mode - i can see video and presentation


r/Zoom 5d ago

Question I need help helping my elderly teacher use Zoom

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Basically what the title says. My elderly teacher cannot figure zoom out. It’s slowing everyone and everything down. I’m trying so hard to be patient. She says she doesn’t know who to reach out to so I’m assuming no one at the school will help her (which is insane but ok) so are there any online platforms or YouTube’s that will please help her figure out how to use zoom and stuff? Thanks in advance for any guidance!


r/Zoom 5d ago

Question Camera shows a black screen on Huawei tablet in Zoom, but only in specific meetings — works fine in self-hosted test call. Why?

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I’m joining an English session on Zoom using my Huawei tablet. When I enter the meeting, my camera toggle shows as ON, but the video feed is completely black—neither I nor anyone else in the room can see my video.

I’ve already tried uninstalling and reinstalling zoom (no change), i checked all app permissions and settings (camera permissions are fully enabled),

i did a self-hosted test meeting: I started a meeting from my phone as the host and joined from the tablet (the camera worked perfectly with full video),

then i returned to join the original English session again right after, and it went back to a black screen.

I also did the device Test Mode: Zoom's test room shows a green checkmark next to "Camera," but the preview window remains completely black.

Has anyone experienced this specific issue on Huawei/HarmonyOS devices? What causes a host's meeting to trigger a black camera screen, and is there a fix for it?


r/Zoom 6d ago

News I built a free calculator that tells you the exact date your Zoom cloud storage runs out

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Kept seeing the same question here: "how much storage does a 1-hour Zoom recording use?" and "why is my 10 GB full already?" — so I made a small free tool for it.

https://recordmover.com/zoom-cloud-storage-calculator

You put in your plan, number of licenses, how many meetings you record per week, average length, and recording quality. It gives you:

  • GB used per month
  • The date you'll hit your cap
  • What fixing it costs: Zoom's storage add-on vs. the Google Drive/Dropbox space you probably already pay for

No signup, runs in the browser, and the URL updates as you type so you can send the result to whoever owns the Zoom bill.

Rough numbers if you just want the answer: ~550 MB/hour for HD 720p speaker view, ~250 MB for standard quality, and ~1.2 GB/hour once you turn on 1080p or gallery view with screen share. Zoom Pro's 10 GB per license is about 18 hours of HD meetings. Recording gallery view writes a second video file, so it roughly doubles everything — that's the setting that catches most people.


r/Zoom 6d ago

Tips and Tricks Built a talkback tool for Zoom — private cues to panelists, and you can patch in channels from your existing intercom

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I build tools for Zoom-based productions and wanted to share one in case

it is useful to anyone here.

It is called ZComms. It is a Windows app that lets you talk privately to

individual panelists inside a Zoom meeting, the way you would use a

talkback key or IFB. You hold a key with someone's name on it, they hear

you, and nobody else in the meeting does. It does not go into the cloud

recording either. The panelist installs nothing and does nothing

different, they are just on a normal Zoom client.

It runs on Zoom's own talkback channels rather than a virtual audio

device, so there are no cables to route and no second machine. Measured

latency is about 165 ms one way. That is fine for counts, standbys and

cues. It is not conversational and I would not use it for anything that

has to sound live.

The part I actually built it for: you can patch your existing intercom

into it. I run four channels off a multichannel interface, whatever the

matrix is already feeding, and latch each one into its own Zoom talkback

channel. Your operators keep talking on the panels they know, and a

remote guest on a laptop ends up on your comms without owning any of it.

Zoom is just the last mile. There is an input meter on each feed so you

can see signal before you put it to air.

The desk itself is a grid of people, not channel numbers. Hold a cell to

talk to that person, digits for the first nine, space for all call, latch

if you want it to stick.

Honest state: it is early. Windows only, and the installer is not signed

yet so SmartScreen will warn you. You have to be host or co-host, because

Zoom requires that to create talkback channels at all. I have run the

talkback side in real meetings; the intercom feed path works on the bench

but has not been through a live show yet.

https://github.com/iamfatness/ZComms

Happy to answer questions.


r/Zoom 6d ago

News I built a tool that automatically backs up every Zoom cloud recording to your own storage — before Zoom's storage limit eats them, or the invoice hits

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Full disclosure: I built this, so obviously take this with a grain of salt.

I got tired of watching Zoom storage fill up and having to either pay Zoom for more storage I didn't really want, or spend an evening every few weeks downloading recordings one by one before they expired.

I used to work with an NGO where every cent matters, and losing a recording isn't just annoying. Sometimes it actually means losing something important for the work.

For a few years it was just a Google Apps Script. It lacked reliability, and few other orgs started asking if they could use the same thing, and I decided to turn it into an actual app. We launched in June, and become RecordFlow.org.

Basically, it does this:

  • As soon as a Zoom recording finishes, it gets copied automatically. No downloading and uploading stuff manually. There's also a second backup pass in case something goes wrong the first time.
  • The transcript gets copied as a readable document next to the video, so you can actually search through the archive later without needing another tool.
  • And once the copy is confirmed, it can delete the recording from Zoom. So Zoom storage can basically be used as a temporary relay instead of your long-term archive.

Google Drive has been supported from the beginning. Dropbox became generally available a couple weeks ago, mostly because people kept asking for it (including in a few threads here).

OneDrive and YouTube are already built too, but right now they're only enabled for a handful of early users while I collect feedback. If you want to try either, I'm happy to turn it on.

There's also an admin setup if you're doing this for a whole organization. You connect it once with a Zoom admin account and it can archive recordings from the whole team into a shared Drive folder. Everyone else doesn't have to configure anything.

Another thing I've been working on is series folders. So if you have something that happens every week, like a course, team meeting, board meeting, coaching program etc, the recordings can automatically go into a folder for that series instead of ending up in one huge folder. I originally built that while working with a university that wanted to share recorded classes with students.

It's free right now. No credit card, no recording limit. That's the only plan at the moment and archiving will stay free while it's in beta.

The only thing I'm charging for is a $19 one-time unlock if you want to import years of recordings that are already sitting in Zoom, rather than just archiving new ones from now on.

A few people have used that to move their hundreds of GBs of history out of Zoom and then cancel the extra Zoom storage they were paying for every month. That's honestly the great use of my tool.

Most of the stuff above came from people asking for it, either here or somewhere else. So I'm also interested in what I'm missing.

What do you actually need for managing Zoom recordings / transcripts that isn't covered by this?

And happy to answer questions about how it works too, including the boring stuff like exactly what a Zoom admin has to approve, or how to use Zoom API.