Speaker 1: Yo everybody, Kyle here. Welcome back to another CMAQ tutorial. In this video, I want to show you how to record interviews remotely via Zoom. And you can use Zoom for free up to 40 minutes in a group call with multiple people on the other end or an unlimited amount of time one-on-one. You can also save these calls to your computer to be edited later into a video interview. To get started, you first have to download the Zoom app and create an account, which is both free to do and easy to do if you have a Gmail email or a Facebook account. Once you have the app installed and you've signed into your account, you'll want to schedule a meeting with the person that you want to interview. Zoom makes it very easy to schedule a date and time to host a call. There's a button labeled Schedule down in the bottom of the app. You get to name the scheduled meeting. I'm going to be calling CMAQ MPV engineer, Caesar. So I'm gonna call this Kyle and Caesar. Then I get to pick the date and the time of the call. I'm gonna pick it for later today. I'm going to have it generate an automatic meeting ID. I don't want it to use my personal meeting ID all the time. That way I don't get unwanted guests in my call. I'm also going to require a meeting password. I'm gonna make it a little bit easier. This time I'm just gonna call it CMAQ. I do want video for both myself and Caesar. So I'm gonna switch video to on. And I know that Caesar is going to be answering this call on a computer. So computer audio and telephone audio is on in case he happens to call in through his telephone. But I do know he will be calling from his computer this time and then for calendar events, iCal is a Mac based calendar event. Google calendars works on both Mac and PC. And then there are other calendar options to choose. Zoom will create a calendar event based on the type of computer that you and your guests have. It's not that big of a deal if you select the wrong one. Under advanced options, you can turn on things like a waiting room. If this is going to be a group call and you're worried about people who aren't invited to the call trying to get their way in, AKA Zoom bombers, you'll want to enable the waiting room. In this case, it's just going to be a call between Caesar and I. I don't feel like I need to turn the waiting room on. Enable join before host means Caesar can jump into this call before I arrive. That's fine. Again, if you're worried about unwanted people ending up in your call, you may want to turn this on. Mute participants on entry is definitely great when you're giving some sort of presentation. But again, this just being a one-on-one call between me and Caesar, I don't feel like I need to turn this on. And the last option is automatically record meeting on the local computer. That's what's going to automatically start recording the call on my computer. It is very important that you make it clear to your guests that you will be recording this call. In the state of California, it is illegal to record a call without consent from the other persons in the call. And you have to have that consent first. You cannot start recording and then ask if they're okay with it. I'm not going to check automatically record meeting. I'm going to ask Caesar if it's okay to record the call once we're in the call. Once I click schedule, it's going to generate a link for me to share with Caesar. It's going to add it to my calendar in my Mac. I can take this meeting link in my calendar and share it with Caesar. So I'm going to copy the link and it has the password embedded. If I wanted to keep it secure and send the password separate, I would only copy the section before where it says question mark password. I'm going to copy the link and send it as a text message to Caesar. Paste the link and text. Now when Caesar clicks on the link, it's going to ask for a password. So I need to send him the password as well. I'm also going to click on the link to open it up and it's going to open Zoom. When recording an internet call, it's important to wear headphones. If you have the headphones that came with the phone with the earbuds and the microphone in the line, these are going to work the best because they already give you the sound in your ears and the microphone is nice and close to your mouth. The closer you can get the microphone to your mouth, the less environmental noise you're going to pick up for the other person to hear you. Same thing on the other end. I've already let Caesar know he should wear earbuds while recording this call. Now I'm going to wear my over the ear headphones because I have this mic patched into both the video and Caesar's call. All right, I've just joined the call. Yeah. Hi Caesar. Hey, how's it going, Kyle? Great, great. I just wanted to do a quick interview with you today about how it's going working from home. Is it all right if I record this call today?

Speaker 2: It is absolutely okay to record that call, Kyle.

Speaker 1: Fantastic. So if I take my mouse and bring it down to the bottom of the screen, there's a record button. And now it is recording the call to my computer. All right, Caesar. Welcome to the low down, at home edition.

Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Since this call was just Caesar and I, I left it in active speaker view, which cuts between whoever is talking.

Speaker 2: Some of the awesome things of working from home is getting to spend more time with family, make good food, and also be able to kind of take over that regimen and realize that we got to get some workout in there, you know, some little exercise.

Speaker 1: Definitely. I have not been working out as much as I probably should.

Speaker 2: Yeah, me neither. All I'm doing is a 10 pushup challenge every day. And it's been about five days, so we're going strong.

Speaker 1: All right. Very cool. How many pushups are you able to do in a single go? Right now it's just 10. I started with- If your call is with multiple people and you want to see all participants in the call at the same time, switch your view to gallery view. That's awesome. You made like progress. Yeah, it feels the first day- The recording will also record the grid of all the participants.

Speaker 2: And now it's more like, I feel like I just got to get it out, you know, get it done.

Speaker 1: All right. Well, Cesar, thank you so much for being a guest on the show.

Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for having me. Everyone keep creating and thank you Lowdown Live Home Edition.

Speaker 1: All right. Thanks, Cesar. All right, so now I can hit pause, stop recording, or I can end the call and that will end the recording. I'm going to go ahead and keep Cesar on the line and hit stop. Great. Now that I've ended the call, Zoom is converting that call recording into a .mp4 that I can use in editing and edit together in with other interviews or cut sections of the interview out to make it more concise, however I need it to be. By default, Zoom saves the video file and the documents folder on your computer. But you can change this by going into the preferences in the Zoom app. And that's it. You're recording a call in Zoom. Download the Zoom app, create your account, schedule a meeting with your interviewee, ask for permission to record them, start the call, click record, and then when you're done, hit stop. That's it for this CMAQ tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it. I look forward to seeing the interviews you put together with this new information. Subscribe to the CMAQ YouTube channel, follow us on social media, and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.