Make the Most of Your Zoom Call Recording With These 7 Tips!

Zoom Calls Content Repurposing: How To Edit and Use Your Recording

Whether you've heard of the term "content repurposing" or not, if you feel like your zoom call is valuable enough to record but requires editing, you're thinking about zoom content repurposing. Content editors, high-end media production agencies, and social media managers that work with celebrities use content repurposing to make it seem like certain media personalities are everywhere.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems impossible to shoot as much content as Gary Vee, Tony Robbins, or Joe Rogan. But if you've ever wondered, "can I trim a zoom recording," you're closer to having 30 to 60 pieces of content from a single zoom meeting. And when you record one meeting a week, you can make it seem like you have a large team dedicated to producing a dozen clips for you every day.

Here are the 5 steps to zoom call content repurposing:

1. Save your zoom call recording

2. Decide the most valuable parts

3. Clip the pre-selected parts

4. Adjust the trim and crop size (highly recommended)

5. Optimize for sound-off (highly recommended)

How To Save a Zoom Recording

Saving your zoom call is the easiest part, as mentioned above. You simply need to hit the record button. Some zoom users end up shutting the zoom app too early, which interferes with the call recording process. Others don't know where the recording is saved. Let's briefly go over that.

Your zoom calls are saved in the "Zoom" folder inside your "Documents" folder regardless of windows or mac. On mobile, you can view recordings by tapping "Settings", then tapping "Recording", and choosing the "Open" option next to "Local Recording".

How To Decide the Most Valuable Parts

Your Zoom Content can be repurposed for TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook, among other social media platforms. But for the content to become an algorithm-friendly hit, it must be valuable.

Look at the ContentFries Virality-Predicting Table below to know which part of your zoom call has the most potential for virality:

You can go about it in one of two ways. You can listen to your entire call, note down areas that you find valuable, then judge each one until you find one that reaches the recommended score in each category.

We advise an alternative strategy. Simply mark portions of your Zoom recording that educate or evoke an emotion, which makes sharers generally look good. If the portions include content that everyone is saying, discard it. If it's not stuff that's been said over and over, keep it.

In our experience, if you bet on volume, something will organically hit the sweet spot across all the metrics.

How to Clip the Pre-selected Parts

You have three options to clip pre-selected parts. The first is to use an offline video editor like the Windows Video Editor. The second is to use a virtual assistant, and the third is to use ContentFries. Here are the pros and cons of each.

<table> <tr> <td>Editing Method </td> <td>Advantage(s) </td> <td>Drawback(s) </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Offline Video Editor </td> <td>You can pay one time for some editors </td> <td> <ul> <li>It takes 15 to 30 minutes to clip one portion and export it.</li> <li>You have to manually subtitle the video.</li> <li>You need to know how to edit videos.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Virtual Assistant </td> <td> <ul>

<li>It is completely hands-off once you communicate your needs</li> <li>They might offer subtitling as well</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul>

<li>It costs $10 to $15 per clip with subtitling and $7 per clip without subtitling.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>ContentFries </td> <td> <ul>

<li>You don't need to know how to edit videos. The editor is built for the layman.</li> <li>You can clip 5 to 7 videos from the Zoom meeting and have them subtitled in less than 30 minutes once you understand the flow.</li> <li>Context Editor automatically optimizes your video for feed, reels, stories, etc.</li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul>

<li>It costs $9/month for 300 minutes of exported clips (includes 30 minutes of automatic subtitling). Higher-priced tiers with more capacity can be seen here.</li> <li>It takes 15 minutes to get used to, but you can churn out clips in less than five minutes after that.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table>

To clip pre-selected clips with an offline editor, you can use the "trim" or "split" tool. Most offline editors allow you to cut the part before and after the portion you want to use.

The following video shows how to edit a zoom recording on ContentFries.

How To Split a Zoom Recording Into Two?

You can create two or more clips of a zoom recording by following these steps:

1. Import the video into a video editor of your choice

2. Drag it to the editing interface

3. Split the video in the middle

4. Delete the second half

5. Export the video

6. Press Ctrl+Z to undo the deletion

7. Delete the first half

8. Export the video with (part 2) in the title

9. You have the two halves as separate videos

You can also stop your zoom recording in the middle of the meeting and start it again to get 2 recordings by the end of the meeting. With a drag-and-drop editor like ContentFries, you need to just move markers on a timeline to select the beginning and end of the clip.

How To Adjust the “Trim” and “Crop” Size

This step is technically optional but highly recommended because it optimizes your video for each type of audience. The standard Zoom recording dimensions are 16:9, which is ideal for Youtube. But even Youtube is giving infinitely higher reach to its Shorts category video. These take up the whole screen like TikTok and are supposed to be 9:16. They also have to be trimmed to a maximum of 60 seconds.

The steps to trim and crop video on the average editor are:

• Create a blank template of the specific dimensions

• Add the video on top of the template

• Resize the video, so it fits in the middle

• Add a logo at the top

• Add your website at the bottom

• Trim to the exact duration

• Export the clip

In ContentFries, you can simply use the context editor and generate Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok-ready content by checking the boxes. The clip duration can be selected by moving simple markers on the screen.

How To Optimize for Sound-off

Finally, you need to make sure your video doesn't get skipped 80% of the time it appears in a feed or a story. People browse social media with sound-off. This is true for every social media product except TikTok and TikTok-adjacent content. And even there, subtitling improves engagement.

Optimizing for sound-off means having legible subtitles that cover each portion of the dialogue at a higher frequency than average cinema subtitling. With video editors, this task is next to impossible. It takes hours to do one-sentence subtitling. Subtitling a few words at a time to maintain suspense would take at least one hour for a single video.

ContentFries does this automatically. Yes, you read that right. Your video gets optimized for sound-off play with a click of a button. Here's what one ContentFries user has to say about this feature:

"In my experience, the CF automatic captioning has a 99.9% accuracy rate. Instagram's auto-subtitles are almost always wrong, and Youtube skips words that aren't isolated. I had given up and was individually subtitling my videos until I got a ContentFries subscription." -- Ibrahim Dar, Digital Media Creator.

ContentFries for Your Zoom Calls: Repurposing and Editing Made Easy

Now that you know how to save, trim, and edit your Zoom calls in a variety of ways, it is time to make everything simpler with Contentfries. The ContentFries platform is a cloud-based content multiplier that can help you turn your Zoom call into one month worth of content. In this section, we will cover the different ways you can use your Zoom recording for your social media.