Hello folks and welcome back to another video today
we will be diving into zoom which is the video conferencing software that I use and
Could be quite popular now as a way to communicate with you and your team now zoom does a host of things it has
Meetings webinars conference rooms phone systems and also chatters Wow it so in today's feature
I'm going to show you how I use it for meetings and also live streams as well, which I've recently been using
I'll also go over the pricing plans
We'll start with that and give you a tour of my account and a few of other settings abilities that you can use
In there are different types of pricing on Zune there's the basic plan the pro plan and the business plan
Now I was on the free plan for many years and I'll explain what the free plan includes
But I've recently moved to the pro maybe as of six months ago
the reason why I moved is because it has some capabilities allow me to do a few live streams and also
To give me more access to avoid any of their limitations. So on the free plan you can host up to
100 participants per call and if you have a group meeting
Say above three people you will be limited to 40 minutes per meeting you can however have unlimited
one-to-one meetings and you can have an unlimited amount of
Meetings a month in the pro plan you get all of that
You can also add and bolt-on new participants as well as a meeting duration limit of 24 hours
So there's no limits to the meetings
you can also customize your personal meeting ID something I'm yet to do and you also have 1 gigabytes of
mp4 or m4 a cloud recording storage as well as a whole host of
Administration abilities and reporting here. We are inside of my zoom account
Now the reason I like using zoom over some of the other tools
I previously use Skype quite a lot and I found that zoom was much more reliable
the reliability came in the form of meetings barely having any blips to a point that I actually
decided to use for the majority of time to record my
Meetings or interviews through podcasts through zoom because it was so reliable
Now what's cool is if you get sent a zoom invite you can join
Straightaway and if you have it installed, it will naturally open up a bit like Cisco WebEx and also Skype as well
So this is what dashboard you get if you have been invited to a meeting
It will appear up in this sort of like schedule
you can also start a meeting here join one also begin sharing your screen straight away and
Scheduling a meeting now personally. I've never used the scheduling a meeting tool
I probably will start using it in the near future up here
You can go to meetings and you can see any upcoming or recorded ones
I've never recorded a meeting, but I've actually recorded it to my local storage and I found it pretty good now
what's cool is you can actually
Create a personal meeting ID. In this case. This is my personal meeting ID, but you can't actually give yourself a
specific URL inside the settings
Which means that people can actually go on that link every single time so you don't have to reproduce a link
Every single time you go through it
I'll start using that with woven's
Conferencing tool that they're looking to add so you can also enable certain features when you're just about to start meeting
But let's show you inside of each meeting. So when you enter a meeting you can join with your computer audio
And what's cool is what I always liked about the software is on that left hand side you can
Automatically change your microphone your speakers and also test your speakers
And if you want any additional settings, you can go into audio settings and change anything there
you can also go to those video settings and actually
Change some of the things for example touch up your appearance
Hide non video participants spotlight my video when speaking and do a whole host of other minor
modification now there are a bunch of things in settings that I'll jump into a little later but as a sort of set up it's
quite easy to get things going
And all you have to do to invite someone is press the invite button down at the bottom and press that copy
URL and what's hand is if you have that persistent personal meeting link
It means that they can automatically get what they need to know
You can also connect it to an email provider like Gmail or Yahoo
And actually send it on to someone
You can manage your participants down in the bottom and you can even chat with them as well, which is helpful
for example
If someone's having technical difficulties with their own microphone and you can chat and communicate what the issue may be
you can also share a screen what I like about the sharing of screen abilities is you could share pretty much anything that's on your
desktop so you can also use a whiteboard to demonstrate something and also you can plug a phone in via airplay or
via cable you can also share just a portion of your screen as well as well as a computer sound only and
also content from a second camera
so for example
If you were demonstrating some of a bit of artwork that you're doing and you had a camera set up on it separately you can
Organize that you also have the ability to share files in Dropbox
Onedrive Google Drive and box now one of the things that I use quite persistently as a record feature
You can click here and you can record the meeting and what's cool is after the meetings finished
It will give you a download
Of that meeting so instantly start recording and if you had that Pro account you could record straight to the cloud
There is this new reactions feature
which I haven't used there now inside of them more if
You have a certain setting then you can go to zoom my account settings to set up you can have custom live
Streaming and I believe it's on the pro account. You can actually have a
Custom livestream and I'll show you how I go about doing that
So when you press custom livestream, you can actually setup a streaming URL which is an streaming key
Which is provided by YouTube livestream
so you'd copy that into the URL and key areas and then you'd
Copy the live streaming page, which is the page that it pre plans
To be released on so I do this for my live videos on YouTube
And what's cool as I can you zoom exactly how I would use zoom
I can share my screen allowing them to see the end product
And actually it's fairly seamless if you want a basic
livestream set up
You can also live stream on Facebook. That doesn't include Facebook groups. This is something I tried to pull together
You can also live stream directly to YouTube if you wanted to set up that direct integration
But for me, I do like that custom live stream setting ability
You can also stream to workplace by Facebook, which is a platform a team communication platform, which is useful
To use now
you can check up in the top left-hand corner about your
Passwords and your meeting IDs and you can also see whether your client connection is encrypted
If you want to end a meeting
You can end it for all or just leave the meeting, but you can basically shuts the entire meeting down from there now
Inside of the settings they do have them things like the use of dual monitors
Theme settings as well as show the meeting duration. You can also change some of the chat settings that you may have for example
For example the ability to show link previews and also unread messages to appear
Now one of the settings that people do like is the virtual background settings
so for example
If you wanted to put yourself inside of San Francisco
Zoom will detect the background and you will now have a background
A lot of people have been creating some really
Funny ones of these on a product ton and you can go ahead and and image or add a video to the background anytime
So if you wanted you sat in the Bahamas, then that's something you can do. I may just do this for my next meeting
You can also choose where you locally store your files
Which is perfect and you can also choose to add for example settings like ads at the time stamps
optimized for third-party video editor and also keep temporarily recorded files
Now what's cool as well is you can see your statistics
This is something I believe is only available in the pro account
But you can see how much
Use has been taken up from your memory how much pressure it's putting on your bandwidth and also any latency issues
Scheduling a zoomkour is pretty easy as well. You can pick the time invite the right people and
generate all the relevant codes and you can also
Connect it up with your Google Calendar
and that's something I've done when I've logged into my Google account few more things zoom apparentiy at the moment is removing the
40-minute time limit on basic free accounts for any k-12
schools
That have been affected by what is happening at the moment so you can obviously take advantage of that
This is becoming a really popular tool
For students looking to communicate with other
Teachers especially in university colleges and even schools as well. So they also provide a video webinar software
So for example, you can host up to a hundred attendees, which means it you have an interactive video
panelists and that can be viewed to anyone between 10 100 to
10,000 view only attendees you can also host the controls like muting unmuting
Panelists and also do a Q&A and livestream on the relevant platforms panelists knots at 32 pound a month for 100 attendees
Zoom also has a ton of other packages like an audio only plan which start and a hundred-pound
Where you can call any landline any number and you'll have no issues
They also have something called zoom phone which is 8 pound a month
per user and apparently acts as a single app for voice and
Video and voice mail and messaging and meetings and conferencing so allows you to seamlessly make and receive
PSTN calls over cellular voice cellular data or Wi-Fi connections
So zoom is available on all devices and provides you with a pretty consistent service in my opinion
Seems to be the best one out there that I've ever tried and I will be sticking with it
Especially in the future to record podcasts and interviews so folks
I hope you enjoyed this overview and leave a like if you found it valuable
And also, please do subscribe before brand-new, but hopefully you can find as much value as I have found from zoom
Anyway, folks a big THANK YOU, and I'll talk to you all very soon Cheers ever. Bye