How to Record Skype Meeting [Windows/Mac]

Want to know how to record Skype meeting? Be it a business meeting, study discussion, or some family get-together. Skype and Skype for Business are separate software, and allow you to take advantage of extra features like a recording.

Business enterprises use Skype for Business to streamline their business and communication needs. For many entrepreneurs and small-time businesses, this tool offers solutions to record and manage their corporate recordings since it is an efficient and inexpensive platform offering excellent features.

In the content below, we will be looking at how to record Skype meetings on Windows and Mac, along with free recording software with better features as an alternative.

 

Setting Recording Options Before Recording

Skype supports users to customize many options, like customizing Skype virtual background. Now, before moving on to the recording steps part, let us see how we can customize the recording options on Skype for Business to manage the files later.

The two ways you can follow to open these settings are:

Option 1. You can Hit on the Gear Icon right next to the options. This will invoke an Options dialog box. Or select the downward-facing arrow next to the settings, then navigate to Tools > Options.

Option 2. A list of settings you can tweak around appears on the left pane in the Skype for Business options window. Now, click on the “Recording” settings.

After setting the recording options, you can now follow the methods below to record Skype Meetings on Windows/Mac easily.

 

How to Record Skype Meeting on Windows (with Skype for Business)

The Windows OS lets the users record the Skype meeting directly through the app. Since Skype for Business can be used as a Skype video recorder, the whole recording process is quite straightforward, and below are the detailed steps to get your video recording on Skype for Business.

Step 1. Navigate to the Skype for Business website, and download it. If you have a business account, sign in using it. Or sign up to create one to use the app.

Step 2. So, once you join or start a meeting, click on the More Options menu button beside the settings (Gear Icon). Now, select the “Start Recording” option. If the “Start Recording” option is dimmed, the audio is disconnected, so press the microphone icon to enable audio and start the recording.

Step 3. Now, the indication for the recording process and the controls are shown at the bottom. The controls include pause, resume and stop recording options.

Step 4. Even if you are a participant or the meeting organizer, you can record the meeting. To know who is recording the Skype for Business meeting, point the mouse cursor on the red recording button. This also indicates that the meeting is under recording.

Step 5. After recording your meeting for presentation, meeting, or anything. To stop it, click on the more options again, and press “Stop Recording“. Or just click on the grey square box to stop the recording.

Step 6. Now, after the end, you will get a notification to indicate the end of the recording. Skype for Business file is stored in MP4 format and is compatible with Windows media player.

Step 7. Wait for a while until the program processes the recording, you will receive a notification, and the app saves the recording. Now, the file is ready for viewing and sharing.

 

How to Record Skype Meetings on a PC

Microsoft has yet to give its nod to Skype for businesses to record videos on Mac. According to the company’s guidelines, recording on Mac using Skype has yet to be introduced. Therefore, if you want to record a Skype meeting on any computer, try a third-party tool – EaseUS RecExperts.

EaseUS RecExperts stands out as a professional screen and video recorder with excellent features. It records Skype meetings with a virtual background. You can replace the original meeting background with a classroom, studio, scenery, etc. Blurring the surroundings is also easy for it. It even offers an AI assistant to extract the meeting discussion as a text file. Scheduling recording tasks can let it record automatically.

Record Skype meetings via EaseUS RecExperts now:

Step 1. Go to the video meeting that you want to record and launch EaseUS RecExperts on your devices. Choose the “Full Screen”  recording mode to record the whole screen or the “Region” mode to record your customized area.

Step 2. Then, choose to record the system sound, microphone sound, webcam, or none by clicking on the according buttons. You can even record webcam with AI background. When all is done, click on the red “REC” button to begin.

Step 3. The recording process will start after a three-second countdown. If you want to pause the recording, click on the white double vertical bar (“F10”). To end the recording, click on the red square sign (“F9”).

Step 4. It saves your recordings in MP4, GIF, AVI, and more. After recording, you will be led to the recording list interface. Here, you can even use the AI assistant to export meeting discussions to text files.

 

How to Manage Recordings

Now that you have a screen recording of your Skype meeting, let us see how to manage and share it. Skype for Business recording manager can be accessed in two ways. Here you can operate on recorded videos and make them ready for publishing.

The first method is to access the recorded files from the Skype for Business main window. A menu appears if you press the downward arrow or drop-down symbol next to the gear icon (Settings).  Now, hover over the Tools and then select the Recording Manager.

Or a rather easy way, but it can only help if you are in a meeting. You can select on More Options and select Manage Recordings right under the Start/Stop Recording.

In Skype for Business Recording Manager, you can preview/view the recording, rename it, delete it, browse the location, and publish it.

For sharing with other participants, you can use the publish button. Once you click Publish button, a “Save and Publish Windows opens with options to name the file, select the location for saving, and options to choose what parts of the recording you want to include, like video, audio, messaging, and presentations.

Now, when you feel everything is set, just press OK to save it and share it with the participants later.

 

Conclusion

Preserving a video to cherish or revisit it for some purpose is a great option, and Skype for Business offers you to record Skype meetings on Windows, but the feature is yet to come for Mac users. This post helps you in learning how to record Skype meeting on Windows and introduces the powerful screen recording tool EaseUS RecExperts for Mac. Hope this post helps.