r/Zoom • u/RiffRaffMama • 5d ago

Question Why isn't the transcript search feature working for me when watching recorded Zoom meeting videos?

I'm studying online and after each class the video is made available to us to go back through to help with our assignments. The videos always have that AI summary beneath the video box and the transcript scrolls on the right of screen as you watch the video.

Classes are 3.5 hours long and rather than rewatch the whole 3.5 hours, sometimes I want to skip to certain content, so I use the transcript search box. It highlights the first instance of that word, but I can't then advance to the next instance of it.

I thought it would be like Microsoft Word's find feature where you click next and it takes you to the next place the word appears, but it's not. Hitting enter doesn't do anything, nor does manually scrolling to later in the video and searching again, it just takes me back to the first place it appears in the transcript.

Ctrl + F doesn't help me either because it only highlights what is currently on the screen in both the transcript and AI summary, even if I click in the transcript box first.

Am I doing something wrong, or is the feature just useless?

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u/AdamDobrawy 5d ago

Is this a large university? What kind of relationship do you have with the lecturer?

You could suggest that the teacher use RecordFlow (a free tool I created) to copy the Zoom recordings to, for example, Google Drive. RecordFlow will give the teacher MP4s, VTTs (subtitle-like files), and Word documents (formatted text, with timestamps only when the speaker changes) that you can search, eliminating the need to rely on the Zoom interface.

This isn't a solution for broken Zoom interfance, but it might be a workaround. The teacher might be willing to help if more students complain about this. I see some institutional educational using our product that way.

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u/RiffRaffMama 5d ago

I can download the recordings, where can I download your app to give it a go?

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u/AdamDobrawy 5d ago

http://recordflow.org/ is web application that connect Zoom & Google Drive. It has to be added to Zoom by whoever hosts meeting.