Looking for a solution to add timeline markers to video recordings

Description
Similar to this Community post ( Adding point markers to a video recording - Zoom Community ), I’m looking for a way to add timeline markers to points on the timeline of meeting recordings (this would not need to be supported in Zoom’s UI). This does not have to be purely using Zoom API and metadata storage. I’m open to all possibilities, such as:

  • Creating a Chatbot command which can be triggered in a meeting, if it can be used in Meeting chat (providing my own back end for storing these timestamps and associating back to the meeting recording)
  • Creating a Zoom app which provides the UI and integration for marking key moments during the meeting with optional notes (same approach to back end here)
  • Some way to inject content into the transcript or video metadata which can be used to parse out these key timestamps (we are already using Webhook events to download the recordings, including transcripts)

Update: a potential approach would be to use the meeting.chat_message_sent webhook event, and use the timestamp of a chat message with a specific prefix e.g. mark: as well as optional description to store these timestamps of key moments

Hey @ptrin,

We run meeting bots at scale and have definitely encountered similar questions so hopefully we can be helpful here. If you don’t mind having the time markers be manual/user-triggered, the chatbot approach (e.g. with a custom slash command) or a Zoom-app approach are both definitely viable. The most straight-forward/simple solution would probably be to use chat message webhooks, since this wouldn’t involve a bot.

To your point, you would probably want a specific prefix to identify which messages should be used for key moments. If you wanted to automate this end-to-end, you could also look into detecting key moments by feeding your transcript/video through an AI model or service to automatically determine these without having to rely on any user input. This is what some of our users do and they find it works really well for them.

Hopefully this is helpful - let me know if you have any questions!

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