Want to collaborate over video but can’t align schedules? Try asynchronous video

Sometimes an email or a chat just won’t cut it. You need to hop on video with someone to show them how something works or elaborate on a topic, but their chat presence shows they’re away. How do you collaborate over video, without having an actual meeting? Asynchronous video, that’s how. 

Many people are turning to asynchronous video tools, like Loom, as a quick and easy way to record themselves and their screens and send high-quality, short-form videos to colleagues and customers. And so to help enable clear communication, cut back on wasted time, and accommodate collaboration across time zones, we created an asynchronous video offering, Zoom Clips, now in global public beta.

Send and store important videos

Zoom Clips allows you to easily record, edit, and share high-quality short-form videos both internally and externally. With our new asynchronous video offering, you can demonstrate important information with teammates in a pinch, add a personal touch to your collaboration, or just share a detailed project update without having to join a live meeting.

These videos aren’t just here and gone, either. With Zoom Clips, you get a dedicated content library where you can manage, share, rename, download, or delete your clips. It’s all of your content in one place, and you can easily find specific clips by searching based on title or tags. 

Plus, you can share this content with others at any time. Once you’ve provided access to a video, people can view, leave comments, or use emojis to react to a clip, and you can track views to get a feel for how those clips are landing. You can even respond to viewers’ comments, providing an easy way to answer questions and promote engagement, and track video metrics, like completion rate, to get a sense of how your content is being received. Now, you can effectively collaborate with others over video — on your own time.

How to record and share a clip

Get started

There are a few ways you can get started with Zoom Clips. You can access Zoom Clips and launch the product from three different places: 

• The Zoom desktop app 
• The Zoom web portal
• The Mac menu bar or Windows system tray

Hit record

Once you have clips pulled up, you can choose what exactly you want to record and how you record it. Once you click “Create Clip,” you can: 

• Keep it simple by recording just you, just your screen, or both
• Create targeted content by selecting the screen you want to record, or record your entire desktop
• Add a unique touch with a virtual background and keep it professional with noise suppression and video quality options

Make a few tweaks

It’s hard to get things perfect on the first try. You might have moments where you tripped over your words or your dog may have barked in the background. Good news: you can edit your clip to make it exactly how you want it. When you edit a clip, you can:

• Change the clip name and add a description
• Add tags to make finding it easier later on
• Trim unwanted sections from the clip to get a pristine final product

Get eyes on it 

Once you’re happy with the final cut of your clip, it’s time to share it with your target audience. You have a few options when doing so. You can: 

• Share the clip via email from the web portal 
• Copy the link for a quick plug and play
• Control who can view your clip by adjusting the settings. You can toggle sharing settings to give access to anyone with the link, anyone in your organization, or only invited users

Consolidate your video content 

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable is a video when communicating with others? By having a central, consolidated place to record, keep, and manage video content, you can enable clear communication and save time and money as a result. Asynchronous video solutions like Zoom Clips helps you get to the bottom line quicker, establish clarity when there’s confusion, create a visual for complex subject matters, or just add a personal touch. It’s video collaboration on your timeline — there whenever you need it or want to revisit it. 

And it’s already part of the platform you know and love. As a new addition to the Zoom One bundle, Zoom Clips brings asynchronous video into our existing suite of meetings, chat, phone, and whiteboard solutions, helping you communicate whenever and however you need to. You can create clarity across teams and get more done, so you have more time to focus on what really matters. 

Zoom Clips is included for all Zoom One customers, including Zoom One Basic. To learn more about Zoom Clips, visit this page.