To obtain a higher quality final file of your interviews recorded with Zoom for your podcast, please enable and use multi-track recording in Zoom.
First, enable local recordings in your account
To enable or disable local recording for all users in the account:
– Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
– In the navigation menu, click Settings.
– Click the Recording tab.
– Click the Local Recording toggle to enable or disable it.
– If a verification dialog appears, click Turn On to verify the change.
For complete instructions, go to Zoom’s support article here.
Make sure that you are recording to a local drive and not to a cloud-based drive:
– Open the Zoom desktop client, and click Settings.
– Click the Recording tab. This will open your recording options that you can change using the client.
For complete instructions, go to Zoom’s support article here.
Check the settings for Zoom on your computer:
How to record multiple audio files
When recording locally, the host can record all participants’ audio streams as separate audio files, one file for each participant. To enable this option:
– Open the Zoom client and click Settings.
– Click the Recording tab.
– Enable Record a separate audio file for each participant.
– Record and save the meeting to your computer.
– Once the meeting is over and the recording has processed, open the recording folder.
– Within the folder, open Audio Record.
– Once in the Audio Record folder, each participant’s audio track will be listed as its own file, with the file name beginning with the participant’s name.
For complete instructions, go to Zoom’s support article here.
Important Note
When recording to multi-track, it is absolutely imperative that no participant mutes their mic during the recording or the files will not be aligned. DO NOT MUTE YOUR MIC AT ANY TIME DURING THE RECORDING! Remind your guest multiple times before starting the interview recording not to use mute! Noises that are picked up while you are not speaking can and will be edited out.
Upload the whole folder of tracks for the interview to Dropbox for us to edit.
These settings and instructions are current as of 3/24/22.
Contact us with any questions about this process or to schedule an appointment for assistance. We are happy to run a test recording with you before you try this with a guest interview.