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How to spotlight host for everyone even with only one participant

levitate
Explorer
Explorer

FEATURE REQUEST: This comes up all the time for my teachers and I. When hosting, we would like to be able to spotlight our video for everyone, even when there is only one other participant. Currently the option to click my host thumbnail and select "spotlight for everyone" when hosting say a group meditation class, is only available if there are more than one participants. This can be a bit jarring, as this is super important for recording classes to make available to clients after an event. Without this option, when participants talk, the recording captures them too, and there have been some ruined recordings where the active speaker view stayed on a participant instead of the host. I'd love to see this option even if everyone is just one attendee. Can anyone put me straight or add this to the future development map?

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bsj
Newcomer
Newcomer

We have the same issue.

We use zoom at church to show service but can't spotlight for everyone until we have three participants

Why??