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Smart recording brings the power of Zoom AI Companion to cloud recordings, allowing you to organize your cloud recording into sections called smart chapters, get the key takeaways in a quick and digestible format through recording highlights, identify action items to take after the meeting or webinar with next steps, and provide the host analytics on key meeting and conversation factors, including talk speed, talk-listen ratio, longest spiel (or monologue), filler word usage, and patience.
Important Privacy and Security Notice
To generate recording highlights, smart chapters, and next steps, you must have a cloud recording and audio transcript processed and available to view. You will receive email notifications when the recording and transcript are finished processing. These emails include links to view your recordings and transcript. Recording highlights, smart chapters, and next steps can be edited by the owner of the cloud recording (the host) or a user with permission to manage cloud recordings.
Requirements for using smart recording
How to Manage your Cloud Recordings with Smart Recording
Once the cloud recording and audio transcript have finished processing, you can go to the Zoom web portal to manage and edit the recording highlights, summary, smart chapters, and next steps. You can also trim the recording, download the files, and more.
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Sign in to the Zoom web portal with your New School NetID and password.
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In the navigation menu, click Recordings & Transcripts.
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On the Cloud Recordings tab, click the name of the recorded meeting or webinar.
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Click the video thumbnail.
How to use recording highlights
If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will highlight the most important parts of the session. You can manually adjust highlights as needed and can save highlights as separate files to cut unnecessary parts of the recording.
Edit the audio transcript and recording highlights
To the right of the cloud recording video, in the Audio Transcript panel, you can do the following:
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To edit text in the transcript, hover over it, and click the pencil icon.
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To highlight a specific paragraph, hover over the paragraph text and click the highlight icon.
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To remove a highlight from text, click the highlight icon again.
Adjust highlights using the playback bar
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Open the cloud recording.
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Below the playback bar, click Edit Highlights, then use these options:
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To add a new highlight, click a portion of the playback bar that doesn't contain an existing highlight.
Note: If the recording doesn't contain any highlights, click Add Highlights below the player to get started.
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To edit an existing highlight, hover over an existing highlight (yellow portions of the playback bar), then click and drag the small circle at the beginning or end of the highlight.
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To remove an existing highlight, hover over an existing highlight (yellow portions of the playback bar), then click Remove.
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When finished, click Done.
Save highlights to a new video clip
Cut unnecessary parts of the recording by exporting highlights and saving them to a new clip that you can view, edit, and share. If you share this video clip, viewers can only watch the recording highlights. This will also cut the associated files (audio and transcripts).
Note: The new video clip uses your account’s recording storage capacity.
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Below the playback bar, click Save highlights.
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Enter a name for the recording.
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(Optional) Select the Add to Zoom Clips check box to also add the recording to Zoom Clips.
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Click Save.
Share recording highlights
When you’re ready to share the recording with viewers, you can either save the highlights to a new video clip so viewers can only view the recording highlights, or you can share the original recording with highlights. If you share the original recording, viewers can choose to watch either the highlights only or the full video.
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Locate the recording.
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To the right of the video you want to share, click Copy shareable link.
The recording link is copied to your clipboard.
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Share the link as necessary by pasting it anywhere for others to view, such as in an email, chat message in Team Chat, or text message.
Learn more about sharing cloud recordings and adjusting sharing settings.
How to use smart chapters
If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will automatically group the recording into different sections with timestamps. You can click on a chapter to watch the part of the recording starting at that timestamp. Viewers who watch the cloud recording can see the smart chapters and next steps.
Edit smart chapters
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On the recording, click Edit Smart Chapters.
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On the playback bar, you can do the following:
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Adjust the start and end times for that chapter.
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Click the split icon to split the chapter into two separate sections. If you split the chapter, you must enter chapter text manually.
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Click the trash icon to delete the chapter.
Note: Adjusting the start or end times, or deleting a chapter, will automatically adjust the chapters before and after the chapter you’re currently editing.
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(Optional) Update the Chapter Title.
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(Optional) Update the Chapter Text by entering an overview of what that section of the recording is about.
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Click Save.
Copy the smart chapter overview to share with others
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On the recording, click Chapters Overview.
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At the top of the dialog, click the copy icon to copy the text to your clipboard.
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Click Close.
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Share the text as necessary by pasting it, such as in an email.
How to use next steps
If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will automatically examine the end of the recording and look for cues to identify any next steps for you. You can keep the next steps as part of the recording, as well as the text out to others.
Next Steps are located below the Audio Transcript panel of the cloud recording view. You can do either of the following as needed:
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Click the pencil icon to edit next steps, then click Save.
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Click the copy icon to copy the text to your clipboard, then paste it anywhere you want to share it with others, such as an email or chat message.
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