How to Edit and Repurpose Zoom Recordings

Wondering how to get the best bits from a longer video? It’s called clip extraction.

With a bit of editing, you can turn a recording into several useful videos for your website, social media and other parts of your marketing.

But here’s the key – use a text-based editor.

In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to take an existing Zoom recording into Descript, improve its appearance, tidy up the conversation and create different versions for different purposes.

We’ll work from a full-length recording through to a shorter highlights video and individual vertical clips.

What you’ll learn

• How to improve the appearance of a Zoom recording with branding, titles and captions
• How to edit a conversation using its transcript
• How to remove repetition and filler words without making the video feel unnatural
• How to select the most useful parts of a client testimonial
• How to turn a landscape conversation into shorter vertical clips
• How to make sure each clip makes sense on its own

The tutorial uses a real client testimonial as the example, but the same principles can be applied to interviews, training recordings and other conversations.

This tutorial was recorded using an earlier version of Descript. Some menus and features may have changed, but the editing techniques and workflow still apply.