How to record Zoom, Google Meet, or any online meeting with subtitles?

Tired of scribbling down frantic notes to remember what people say during a meeting?

Wondering if there are any ways to record, save, and share meetings quickly without breaking a sweat?

Worry not. We have your back.

With the right set of tools and techniques, you can easily record, share, and save your meeting recordings to the cloud within a matter of a few minutes.

Today, we'll show you how to record, share, and save endless number of meeting recordings to the cloud without burning a hole in your pocket. As an additional bonus, we'll also show you how to add subtitles and translations to your recorded meetings.

Let's get started.

How to Record a Meeting in Teams, Zoom, Meet, or Webex With Subtitles & Translations?

We'll be taking you through this process with the help of a screen recorder called Vmaker.

Now, you may be wondering why you should be using a third party screen recording application to record your meetings when you can just record it using the native application.

Well, the answer is simple.

The native video conferencing applications like Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Skype, and Microsoft Teams provide only limited recording functionalities. They don't come with advanced editing functionalities and will only let you record videos at a compromised quality. Also, a few video conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams don't let their participants record their meeting without the host's permission.

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That’s why we recommend you to record meetings with a professional screen recording software like Vmaker. With Vmaker, you can easily record, edit, share, and save your meetings to the cloud at 4K HD quality. The best thing though, is that it allows even its free users to record unlimited number of videos seamlessly.

Now, without any further ado, let's quickly learn how to record online meetings with subtitles and translations.

Step 1: Sign up & Install Vmaker

Sign up for Vmaker and click on the ‘Download Vmaker’ button on the dashboard.

Sign up for Vmaker

The application will get downloaded to your device.

Step 2: Record the Meeting

Now, you can launch Vmaker on your device, customize your recording preferences, and start recording. Make sure you select your recording mode, recording quality, and audio inputs.

Record the Meeting

You can also enhance your recording further by customizing it with advanced features. Just click on the horizontal dot matrix on the top right corner of your recording pop-up and choose ‘Preferences.’

recording mode
recording quality

You will now be able to enable additional features like noise control, recording count down, etc.

Once you've customized your recording completely, you can hit the ‘Start Recording’ button.

customized your recording

Now, you can join your online meeting. Vmaker will keep recording your screen with both computer audio and microphone audio.

recording your screen with both computer audio and microphone audio

As soon as you are done with the meeting, click on the ‘Red Dock button’ on the left corner of your screen. The recording stops and gets transported to your dashboard.

record meeting with subtitle

Step 3: Edit the Recording

Now, you are free to edit your recording. You can use Vmaker’s built-in editor to remove the unnecessary parts of your recording.

To access the Vmaker AI video editor, click on the Edit Video option on the player page.

record zoom meeting and add subtitle

Right after you click on the Edit Video button, you’ll be taken to the editing canvas that looks like this:

Edit Video and add subtitle

Step 4: Add Subtitles

You need to click on the Subtitles button in the bottom left corner of the video editor. Then, you’ll be able to see options to Auto-Generate captions and manually add subtitles.

Vmaker AI is known for generating accurate subtitles. So, instead of uploading an SRT file, you can make use of Vmaker AI to generate auto-captions for your meeting recordings.

generate auto-captions

Right after you click on the Auto Generate option, Vmaker AI rolls up its sleeves to generate subtitles for you.

Vmaker AI can understand up to 35 languages and can also auto-translate them into 100+ languages.

Auto Generate option

If you want to make any changes to the subtitles, you can click on the text box on the left and edit the word as you like it. You can also change the timeframe of the subtitles using the time stamps generated by Vmaker AI.

If you don’t want subtitles during a particular timeframe, you can delete the portion using the bin symbol right there.

How to add subtitles to a video automatically | AI generated

Step 5: Customize the Subtitles

Once you click on the Subtitles Styles, you’ll be taken to a tab with 3 ways to customize the subtitles.

i) Presets

ii) Edit Styles

iii) Viral Styles

Customize the Subtitles

i) Presets:

You can pick any preset you want from this section. These subtitles are like the cult-favourites in the subtitles section.

ii) Edit Styles:

Using this option, you can customize the subtitles entirely from scratch. You can change the text style, add background to the text, apply effects, and even select a custom animation to your subtitles.

Subtitle Presets

iii) Viral Styles:

This section has the subtitle styles that most of viral content creators use. They have stellar animation effects that can surely create an impact on the audience. This section is not only for social media videos. These subtitles can help you turn even the boring meeting recordings interesting.

Step 5: Share with everyone

Once you've generated the subtitles and translations for your online meeting, you are free to share it with everyone. You can either choose to share it instantly on social media or download it to your local device.

subtitles and translations for your online meeting

But, even if you don't download the recording, it still gets saved to Vmaker's online library from where you can access it anytime.

That's it. You're done.

You now know how to record, share, and save your online meetings to the cloud with very minimal effort. You can use this method to record any online meeting - be it Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, or Skype. Vmaker can record it all with the tap of a button.

Sign up for free and start recording your meetings now!

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