they're here now so yeah i gotta go hey welcome back in our previous tutorial
we showed you how to get the best results from your webcam footage today we're looking at how
to optimize zoom to record your calls we're then going to be jumping into HitFilm express for a
quick overview on how to trim out those unwanted moments oli you're a mute oh you're a mute mate
nailed it we're going to be doing this using completely free software zoom and HitFilm
express so you don't have to spend a penny and can follow along if you're doing live streams
podcasts meetings or just catching up with family let's begin begin by opening the zoom application
you can download and install this from the zoom website link in the description when we're logged
in and ready head over to the gear icon to enter the settings once in let's enter recording options
there are two ways to record in zoom one is locally so on your laptop or desktop the other is
cloud-based storing your files on an online drive that you can then download later in this tutorial
we'll be looking at the local base as it's included in the free version so first up where
would you like to save your files use this tab to choose a location on your laptop or pc for the
recording to be found once completed alternatively you can select this option to manually choose a
location after the meeting has ended the next option is to record audio separately
for each person who speaks this is a great feature because as we mentioned in our previous tutorial
audio is so important because this also allows you to have complete control over the situation
and avoids any overlapping right any questions uh no i would say yeah absolutely no go ahead um what
no you you go first no no it's fine no you're good i forgot what i was going to say so you go
there you are very important for what we'll be doing later optimize for third party video editor
we definitely want to tick this the next option timestamps will apply a date and time of the
recording though this is something that we could do in HitFilm if your meeting will require some
screen sharing enable this option to allow those reviewing the call later to be able to
see what you're all talking about finally keep temporary files let's say that you're doing a
tutorial for an example and the wi-fi cuts out well this feature allows you to have a
recording of everything up to press meaning that you haven't lost that entire session
last thing that we can do before entering the call is enter our video settings
and make sure that enable hd is active now we can go ahead and exit our settings and just jump
into a new meeting as the admin or the person who set up the call i have the ability to record this
down here in the options or by pressing the shortcut alt and r if you are with other people
that may need to do the recording you need to assign that to a participant in your call you can
see that i'm recording in the top left hand corner here i also have the ability to pause and stop
this recording at any time it's important to note that once you actually hit stop your video will
not be converted until the end of the meeting this will be converted into an mp4 format for you so
you can then use it in anything that you like this does also mean that if you start and stop again
you will be creating two separate files in your display settings we recommend that you record in
active speaker view this will make it easier on your editing process and keep the attention on
you and your colleagues presenting now the call has come to a close i will end this meeting and
wait for the conversion to complete a new folder will open with all your video and audio files
alternatively in the zoom app you can go into meetings and then recorded to find all your
previously recorded meetings and where they're located now we're set to jump into HitFilm
now we have an excellent HitFilm basics masterclass to learn all the tricks for
editing and getting the most out of any video work though we'll be going over a couple of key basics
right now because you're a busy person okay with HitFilm open we want to first open a new project
for ease we can stick with the default settings our timeline will actually be able to alter and
adapt to our import so let's bring in our footage using the import icon go to a file location
or you can open the file window and simply drag and drop your files once imported drag
your footage into the editor timeline as we went for the default we now have a prompt
informing us that our settings are different from the footage to remove this in future enable
remember my choice and select yes make sure to also bring in and align your audio files
we have this beginning of the video where we're getting ourselves prepared okay yep and i am now
recording great cool so i want to cut this out in order to get to the main bulk of the meeting
there are two ways to go about this number one is simply by using the trimming tool and
set the clip to a new duration be sure to then drag this clip to the beginning of the timeline
alternatively all for moments are taking place in the center of the recording
we can use the slice tool clicking either side of the moment and then hitting delete on the keyboard
now switching back to our arrow tool to close the gap as in our zoom settings we enabled separate
audio recordings we can use those to maybe silence any overlapping audio or interruptions
for our next tutorial we could probably look into something with a bit more like marvel stuff
into uh yeah yeah i can talk now we could mute the channel altogether by either deleting the section
as we have previously done or we could keyframe the audio to dip quieter for that time hold
ctrl over the audio level to bring up the target place two keyframes before and after the moment
and drag the line in the center down to lower the audio level now you're clear from the distraction
with our recording cleaned up let's export this out select the export tab and head to add to queue
this will bring us to our export window in this tab we can set the file format
HitFilm has a collection of presets for all social media platforms but if in doubt you
can't go wrong with youtube 1080p click the name to set the title and location to save then hit
export you've now successfully recorded and edited your zoom call thank you for joining
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