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July 21, 2026

Feature Request - Mark Chapters whilst making Recordings

  • July 21, 2026
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Here's a feature request that I know would be very useful when recording bigger events:

 

The request: to include a “start new chapter” option whilst recording meetings.

Rationale: when we are recording complex hybrid events on Zoom we would like to mark a chapter break in the recordings, and then have that split the recordings into separate files based on those chapter markings.

  • For example, for a hybrid meeting the recording has begun but the event has not yet officially started.  We would like to press a “start new chapter” button when the event begins, so that when we download the recordings after the meeting, there is a separate recording which begins at that chapter point.
  • Or, the hybrid meeting breaks for lunch but we don’t want to stop the recording in case we forget to restart the recording when the meeting resumes.  In this case, we would press the “start new chapter” button when the meeting breaks for lunch, and again when it resumes.  Then we would have separate recording files and would not need to edit the lunch out of the footage afterwards.
  • When we have events which run for say 12 hours, we often find that the recording will stop after so many hours and then split itself into multiple files.  We would rather be in charge of when the recordings split.
  • At present what we sometimes do as a workaround is to stop and then restart the recording manually.  But this is problematic because the recordings miss some of the meeting whilst doing this, and Zoom announces “recording stopped” and “recording started” notifications which are disruptive in a hybrid meeting environment.