How to Record Zoom Gallery View instead of Active Speaker View

Submitted by Chris on Wed, 04/15/2020 - 10:43
How to Record Zoom Gallery View instead of Active Speaker View

Zoom defaults to "Active Speaker" view when a meeting is recorded to the cloud. For smaller meetings and classes, you might instead want the "gallery view" so you have a better view of everyone in the meeting.

 

Good news! For cloud recordings, you can change the default recording view from "active speaker" to "gallery view". (Note: To my knowledge, this option is not available for "local recordings" but I have yet to test this fully).

 

Before you start your meeting, log into you Zoom account in your browser. Then, go to Settings -> Recording -> Untick "Record Active Speaker with Shared Screen" and tick "Record Gallery View with Shared Screen". Then, be sure to click "Save". 

 

How to Record Zoom Gallery View instead of Active Speaker View

 

Now, when you start your Zoom meeting and record it, the gallery view will be the recorded view. The "with shared screen" part means that if someone shares their screen, that will be recorded full screen during that time (instead of the gallery view of the participants).

Note: As the meeting organizer, it doesn't actually matter whether you use active speaker or gallery view during the meeting. The recording will be whatever is set in your recording settings, as described above.

 

Bonus: How to record active speaker, gallery view and shared screen separately?

In the screenshot above, there is also the option to record "active speaker, gallery view and shared screen separately", which means you'll end up with three different recordings of the meeting.

This can be helpful if:

  • you're not sure which view you'd prefer to have recorded
  • you're interested in editing together the 3 video sources later
  • when someone is sharing their screen, you do not want a shared screen to be recorded instead of the gallery view (This seems like an unlikely scenario, but possible!)

 

 

Have you ALREADY recorded your meeting?

Thanks for your questions about this in the comments below! I wish I had better news!

If you have ALREADY recorded your Zoom meeting, unfortunately there is no way to change the recorded view from active speaker to gallery view (or to active speaker, gallery view and shared screen) afterwards. Zoom only records the format you specified BEFORE your meeting was recorded.

 

 

Comments

Submitted by Jeff McMahon (not verified) on Sat, 05/09/2020 - 12:38
very helpful!

Submitted by Michelle (not verified) on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 18:23
Hi Chris, Thanks for a great article! In your first note, you mention that "There is also the option to record "active speaker, gallery view and shared screen separately", which means you'd end up with three different recordings of the meeting." That's exactly what I'm looking for, as it will make editing the video much easier. How do I do that? I don't see an option for that in the Zoom settings. Any information you can provide would be appreciated. Michelle

Submitted by Sam Kanter (not verified) on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 00:09
Is there a way to record the host’s screen as he switches from one view to another? I use my own account for two views of piano lessons - how can I be assured of recording camera 2 (mu phone, a participant) for student’s viewing later?

Submitted by avadhut (not verified) on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 09:04
hi , thanks for this information ; i did try it; it worked; i could save the settings, the recording also came out in gallery layout; however ; the sequence of tiles (of participants) that i saw as host; and what came out in recording was different :) . this messed up our recording , as we were trying to pass on a message in particular sequence.. have you come across this ?

Submitted by Delta (not verified) on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 18:51
Thanks for this article! Super helpful. I had one question I wanted to see if you knew the answer to: If I select the option "record active speaker, gallery view, and shared screen separately" will it still only record the first 25 participants in the gallery? Or if there are more people will it record multiple pages of gallery participants? I'm hosting a Zoom baby shower in two weeks and wanted to record as much of the experience as I can and we're expecting 75-100 viewers, which would be 3-4 pages of gallery. Let me know. Thanks so much!

Submitted by Tim (not verified) on Wed, 07/29/2020 - 15:07
I have the same question, I broadcast to youtube and facebook and when I switch to gallery view, and move to page 2 and 3 Only page 1 is broadcast. Would love to know how to broadcast pages 2 and 3 when I select them.

Submitted by CoCo (not verified) on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 13:02
can you change the recording after it's been recorded?

Submitted by PB (not verified) on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 10:26
Was this ever established? Is it possible in the back end to change the recorded speaker view to Gallery view in Zoom. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance with this if it is possible. Thank you

Submitted by Debbi (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:57
My recording eliminates the speaker view when I share the screen. Can't I record both in one screen?

Submitted by stacy nowak (not verified) on Thu, 06/25/2020 - 19:19
I saved the ZOOM recording locally and cant find/open/retrieve the Gallery view of the recordings, only the Speaker viewings. And the Speaker viewing is of me, it should be of the other person. Really need help here. Thank you in advance.

Submitted by Muhammad Qidwai (not verified) on Sun, 07/05/2020 - 17:02
I have recorded a session and later noted that only one person visible while speaking. I forgot to do gallery view. Can I do an edit to have both on same screen?

Submitted by Dawn Bayman (not verified) on Wed, 07/08/2020 - 12:05
We are recording Candidate Forums for the League of Women Voters. Last night we had 4 candidates, a timer and a host, but only 4 of the screens recorded in Gallery View. Why did. that happen? Do I need to change settings? Obviously we need to treat all candidates fairly and this is a big problem. (I do have the Speaker view recording but would prefer to keep everything in Gallery view.)

Submitted by D. Hall (not verified) on Wed, 07/08/2020 - 15:46
Hi Chris. A group of my friends recorded a Zoom in active speaker view but they meant to record it in gallery view. Is there any way that it could have recorded both ways and they just have to figure out how to access the gallery view recording? thank you

Submitted by Kathryn (not verified) on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 10:59
How much of this also applies to webinars, or is it just for meetings?

Submitted by Pam (not verified) on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 17:19
Hi. Zoom recording is not recording the gallery view. I adjusted my settings to make sure that “Recordgallery view with shared screen” is ticked. It still is not showing the gallery view. Please help

Submitted by Joe (not verified) on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:19
Anyway to change your recording to Gallery View, after the recording? Even though the settings were only set to Speaker view? Lol.. I doubt it, but just thought I'd ask. I didn't no about the pre settings in Cloud recordings. Ughh... Thanks!

Submitted by CJ (not verified) on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 23:51
I don't see the option to change the setting for LOCAL recording, only for cloud recording. How do I get the gallery view recording for LOCAL recording?!?!

Submitted by Marita Gormaly (not verified) on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 16:09
Thank you, this was really helpful. Is there a known issue with this feature while on local recording? With same zoom settings on two calls, one recording came out in gallery view while the other in active speaker view. I didn't change any settings on either call so I'm at a loss. I worked around it today by switching to cloud recording and following your steps above. Thanks so much for any tips.

Submitted by Ed (not verified) on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 09:43
Is there a way just to record the speaker even if we look at the gallery view during the event? We are running Zoom yoga classes and using a second yoga teacher is positioned in front of the screen to give feedback to the students while the primary/filmed yoga teacher teaches the class. We want the recording just to be of the primary yoga teacher and anyone else we spotlight but NOT the gallery view. IS there a way to do this? Thank you.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 16:34
if you already recorded it and it was in speaker view, is there a way to edit it to gallery view?

Submitted by Oscar (not verified) on Sat, 09/19/2020 - 10:51
by far the clearest explanation of this feature--and I have read quite a few!

Submitted by Liz (not verified) on Sun, 09/20/2020 - 23:33
My lap top doesn’t have the options you are speaking of. How can I record the gallery view on my laptop? Thanks. Liz

Submitted by Jack (not verified) on Thu, 09/24/2020 - 16:57
I'm running into the issue for my podcast where I'm doing a 1-on1 zoom interview (only 2 participants) and if a person calls in without video, it only records the speaker view even if my settings say to record gallery view. For these situations, I want to be on camera the whole time but can't seem to get a recording of that. It only records speaker view which is a problem because it results in me not being on camera. Any solution to this?

Submitted by elsa (not verified) on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 14:36
Hi i have a recorded meeting in gallery view... is there a way to change it now to speaker view? Thank you!

Submitted by KAsey Biagioni (not verified) on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 21:43
Thank you.

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 13:59
Is there a way to record that will include the main speaker and my window of me. During the meeting I have my little window on the screen, but the recording after class only shows the speaker. I’d like to be able to record the screen I see during the class high include me as well. Thank you

Submitted by henrydart (not verified) on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:23
this is really helpful

Submitted by Melissa Schulz (not verified) on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 11:23
Hi Chris, I've searched the internet and this was the best response I could find, so THANK YOU! I'm trying to record a meeting WITHOUT the chat being visible in the recording. (But would love to see other participants and the ppt on the screen.) I think recording the three separately is the only way to do that, right? AGAIN, THANK YOU!!!

Submitted by pedro (not verified) on Thu, 03/25/2021 - 18:24
great article and really helpful!

Submitted by MelB (not verified) on Tue, 03/30/2021 - 15:49
If I Zoom record as host but a participant is speaking/sharing etc, can I toggle to other screens without interrupting the zoom meeting recording? Will it only record who is sharing on the zoom window regardless of me leaving the screen?

Submitted by A P (not verified) on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 17:04
I’m currently unable to record my face and screen at the same time, could you please provide me with some guidance on that? I press record with my camera on and screen share howveer when I download the recording and play it, my face isn’t visible

Submitted by Cece (not verified) on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 17:47
Does recording in gallery view require more cloud storage space than recording the same session in speaker view? All of the sudden I'm getting notices that I am out of storage space when I am not recording any more sessions than usual. All my sessions are deleted after three days.

Submitted by Sala (not verified) on Sun, 04/18/2021 - 08:02
I googled and you solved the problem. Thank you!

Submitted by CC Zoom (not verified) on Mon, 02/21/2022 - 14:33
I have a specific order I want to place the participants in the gallery view. I can drag and drop them on my screen but when I record it, it doesn't seem to know that I'm moving the tiles around. How do I do this?

Submitted by Ellen Bernstein... (not verified) on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 15:51
Any chance we can record in gallery view instead of active speaker, when using dual monitors? It looks like that is not possible, but it's not clear in the documentation. Thanks!

Submitted by Catherine (not verified) on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 16:25
Hello, I do not see a way to record in speaker view when saving the file locally. I teach classes using gallery, but for the recordings I only want them to see me. The cloud recordings are not nearly the same quality so I would prefer to save them locally. Is there a way to record in speaker view and save locally even though I am teaching in gallery view?

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