How to Edit Your Zoom Settings

To edit your settings in Zoom eg. turning on your video, click on the little settings icon in the top right corner.

General Settings: Some of the settings that you can change are: Enabling full screen when using dual monitors, confirmation when leaving a meeting, and adding Zoom to your menu bar. Using system settings, you can also select the light or dark theme. Additionally, you can select your Reaction Skin Tone when using emojis. 

Video: Here you can “Enable HD” on your video, which gives the video a sharper look to it. You can also decide if you want your video to be mirrored with these settings. 

If you select “Touch up my appearance” it acts as a filter and gives a little smoothing to your face. You could select “Always show video preview dialog when joining a video meeting” to allow that dialog when joining a meeting. You can also select the ratio of the camera that you’re using. Right now I’m using my main camera, but I could select my other camera from the drop-down menu. 

Audio: Within audio settings, you can test your audio e.g. your microphone and speaker; The quality of your audio when testing it is indicated by the output levels going up and down. 

Share Screen: Within the Share Screen settings you can determine what it looks like when the screen share is happening. The settings you can toggle include: Entering full screen when a participant shares screen, Maximizing Zoom window when a participant shares screen, Scaling to fit shared content to the Zoom window, Side-by-Side Mode (Show the shared screen content beside of the participant’s video), and Silencing system notifications when sharing desktop. 

Chat: You can determine if you want the chat to be saved, or the left sidebar theme for example. Some of the other settings include showing code snippets, allowing people to send messages, and enabling push notifications for messages.

Virtual Background: In my Zoom settings I can see that I already have a few virtual backgrounds uploaded that I have created. To learn about virtual backgrounds in-depth, view the tutorials in my 90 Day Youtube Challenge. 

Recording: Under “Local Recording” you can record the audio and video from your Zoom meeting. You can decide where to store your recordings in a dedicated folder and it will show you how much storage you have remaining. You could select an option where it asks directly for you to choose a location to store the recording when the meeting ends. There is an option to optimize the recording for a third-party video editor, which allows for some increase in file size. There is also an option for a timestamp to be placed on the recording, so that way when you’re watching it, it’ll show you how much time has passed. There’s an option to record during screen share and adjust where the location of the screen share is placed. Lastly, you could select the option to “Keep temporarily recording files.” 

I like to record a separate audio and video file for each meeting because I have a podcast. This way, when it’s time to edit the audio if my background is noisy or somebody else’s is, the noisy audio could be cut out. So if you’re recording for a format like a podcast, it’s a great feature to use. 

With “Cloud Recording” you can view how much storage space you have and can manage said space.  

Statistics: Under this section, you can view the recorded experience of your Audio, Video, and Screen Sharing. The feedback that you’ve received, then keyboard shortcuts and accessibility.

These are just some of the settings that you can edit. The ones that are my favorite, that I like to usually change, are the Recording, Virtual Background, and making sure I have the proper video. 

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