Record Your Zoom Podcast Interviews in Separate Audio Files
When recording a podcast interview using Zoom, we recommend recording to your computer and making sure to record each participant in separate audio files.
Why?
If there are distracting noises on either side, your podcast editor has the opportunity of muting the noise so that the speaker’s audio can be loud and clear.
Note: If you record to the cloud, you won’t have the option of recording the audio in separate files.
Steps to Update Your Zoom Recording Settings
- Launch the Zoom app on your laptop.
- In the upper right corner, click on your profile image to reveal a menu.
- Select Settings
- In the Settings screen, on the left of the screen, select Recording.
- Check the box for “Record a separate audio file for each participant who speaks.”
Your future recordings will now have separate audio files for each participant saved to your computer.
Your audio and video files will convert into mp3 and mp4 files after your Zoom meeting has ended and saved to the folder you’ve designated.
Within the folder, you’ll see these files plus an Audio Record folder
- audio_only
- playback
- zoom_0
Within the Audio Record folder, you’ll find the separated audio files.
Again, please note, that separate audio files won’t be captured if you choose to record to the cloud.
We believe that when using Zoom for podcast interview recordings, having separate audio files is the best practice. It’s better to have them and not need them than have a recording disaster and wished you had them.