- Are you wanting to edit your Zoom video recordings
that are either saved on your hard drive
or in the Zoom Cloud?
well in this video, I'm gonna show you five different ways
to edit, trim, cut, and remove parts of your Zoom recording
so that you can spruce them up a little bit.
You know live conference calls
and video chats can be kind of awkward
to rewatch after the fact,
so if you want to trim the beginning out
of a video completely, or the end,
or remove an entire section, or even just split a Zoom video
into multiple shorter videos,
then this is the video that you're looking for,
so let's dive right into this here.
You might think that you need
to actually have some fancy video editing software
on your computer to make this happen
and you can use a video editing software
but there are some browser-based options
that I'm gonna show you as well.
But the first thing that you're going to need to do
is locate your Zoom recording.
So if it's recorded directly on your hard drive,
you're going to have to actually find it.
I usually save mine to my desktop so it's easy to find.
And if you saved your Zoom recording to the cloud,
you'll have to log into your Zoom account in your browser,
navigate to your recordings, and then download it.
Secondly, you'll need a software program
to actually edit that video file.
If you're on a Mac, iMovie is hands-down
the best go-to video editor out there.
You probably already have it installed
and all you have to do is open it up,
import your Zoom recorded file,
and it should be an MP4 file, and then add that clip
to your timeline there along the bottom.
And here is where you can trim the ends
or split the clip to create multiple sections,
or simply delete the section that you want to remove.
When you're done, just export the file using the button
in the top right-hand side of your window.
And if you have trouble with the exporting process,
I actually have an entire video walking you
through the proper right way to export your video
so that you can then upload it to YouTube
or social media, whatever you wanna do with it.
So I'll link to that down in the description.
If you are a Windows user, then give Filmora a try.
It's not free but it's great for beginners
and it's affordable as far as decent video editors go.
So Filmora is also available for a Mac
and it works a lot like iMovie, how I just showed you.
You simply import your clip, drag it down to the timeline,
trim the ends or split it into sections,
and then export it as a video file.
Now if you're on an iPad or an iPhone,
and you want to edit your videos there,
look at LumaFusion or Adobe Premiere Rush.
It's going to be a little bit trickier on a mobile device
especially if you have a long Zoom recording
'cause you're gonna run into some storage issues,
so if you can, try to do it on a laptop
or a desktop computer.
And it is possible to edit your videos
without any actual video editing software at all.
For example, YouTube has a YouTube editor,
so for this you'd need to upload the video
to your YouTube account.
Don't worry, you don't have to make it public,
just make sure you save it as a private video.
And then within YouTube Studio,
choose the video that you just downloaded,
and on the left-hand menu choose Editor,
and you can make the same trims and cuts there
and then save it.
You'll have to download it once it's done processing,
if you wanna upload it somewhere else after the fact.
And I actually have a whole YouTube video
explaining the exact process,
beginning to end, step-by-step,
how to edit videos using the YouTube editor.
And again, I will link to that down
in the description below as well.
Some other web-based options are quite a bit more limited
in what they can do but look at Kapwing
which has a seven-minute limit on their free plan
and a 40-minute limit on their paid plan.
Or Animoto which claims unlimited downloads.
Both of those web-based editors are linked down
in the description below.
You know editing your Zoom recordings
is a great way to make them more enjoyable to watch
after they're no longer live anymore especially
if you're going to be sharing them with colleagues
or uploading them to an online learning platform
or even just to your YouTube channel.
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