I need to record a ZOOM meeting reliably on my laptop with Audacity HOW?
Audacity can record the input OR the output from your soundcard.
You can only record everything if you can hear yourself from your headphones/speakers. Recording Desktop Audio With Audacity.
Or, Zoom Recording.
The Zoom method should be more reliable because you’re not running two applications at once and you are less likely to get interrupted-glitchy audio.
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— Get Zoom to record it.
— If you have a quiet, echo-free room, set up your computer for free-air conversation. No microphone or headphones. Then set up your phone to record the room. I used to do international production meetings like this.
— Special software inside the computer is last on the list. Zoom takes over the sound services inside the computer and you have nothing to say about it.
— The broadcast version of this is two computers and a sound mixer. The Zoom computer thinks its talking to you, when in reality, it’s talking to the sound mixer. The other computer is recording the mixer show.
Denise and I are three time zones apart. This was a production test, so the production is a little sucky.
You were expecting us to say “Push this button.”
Koz
Really. Get Zoom to do it. Depending on your license, you can get Zoom to provide individual sound files for each office.
There is an even sneakier way. Set up a computer on your meeting that has no microphone. Its job is to log into the meeting and listen to everybody else.
Then record the speaker sound. The worst problem with this technique is the end of the meeting where everybody forgets that computer is still recording.
“I didn’t turn it off. Did you turn it off?”
We should remember that Audacity can’t be used for surveillance, law enforcement, or conflict resolution. You wouldn’t be doing any of those things, would you?
Koz
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Thank-you for your kind reply. I’m trying to record the Zoom audio/video presentation of paid (crapton $$$) mentoring for my business. I was advised by the host that Zoom recording was not adequate. I was hoping I could accomplish the task using Audacity but I don’t see directions (specifically “record Zoom meeting”) I’m a hopeless literal, nothing was obvious.
There is no simple recording of both sides of one of those meetings. The software has to work both directions, microphone and speaker, keep them from interfering with each other (feedback), automatically set volume and quality, and eliminate background noise so you can have fifteen people in a conference without crazy loud noises.
You can’t break into something like that without throwing the balances off and crashing a conference. The manufacturer’s know that, so they make it really hard.
I hear alarm bells. Let me read this back to you. The only unconditionally stable way to record a Zoom meeting is forbidden.
There’s a conflict.
Koz
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