We have an unusual use case that we need clarification on please. It’s to do with auditions, where we want to set up a video call between a Casting Director and an artist, and make sure the right footage is being captured. We’ve conducted an in-depth proof of concept and still have a few questions and concerns, so if there’s someone out there who can confirm with certainty how the app will respond that would be awesome.
In an audition, there is usually a conversation between a Casting Director and an Artist before the actual audition starts, and then again between “takes”. Our intention is to turn off the Casting Directors’ video, but not their audio, and then only capture the artist’s video in full screen. This bit is vitally important - we don’t want to show a black screen representing the Casting Director’s side of the conversation. It can still capture audio from both sides (although the Casting Director won’t be talking, so it doesn’t matter). Then, each time the Casting Director presses record and pause, we need to save a clip to our Vimeo account for future use.
To facilitate the above, we are planning to use the Zoom API to set up each Casting Director with a Zoom account, with appropriate presets applied to these Zoom accounts to drive the required outputs. And we’re also likely to use Vimeo’s Zoom app for getting the footage from Zoom over to Vimeo.
Our questions are as follows:
- We’ve found under some circumstances that Zoom records the Casting Director, usually because they haven’t turned off their video in time. We’ve heard that there is a setting in account creation - handled via the API - that would automatically ‘hide non video participants’ in the recordings. Is this the case? We seem to recall seeing this as an editable configuration in our conventional Zoom accounts, but can’t seem to find it any more…not sure whether it’s been removed?
1b. Note there may also be multiple participants (artists, casting Director and clients) in these calls, where we would just want those with video turned on to be captured. Any thoughts on how we might optimise for this approach?
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We’re also unsure whether there’s a risk these settings might change again in the future. As we’re about to invest significant time and money building these features, can anyone give us confidence that these particular settings are stable?
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We’ve noticed that the version saved to the Zoom cloud - which generally follows the required behaviour, with artist only footage being captured - looks different to the version saved to Vimeo via the Vimeo Zoom app, with different users being captured. Does anyone know why this is, and what might be done to prevent it? Can default settings such as ‘hide non-video participants’ be setup with the API and Vimeo integration?
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We’re curious about the option to ‘Optimise the recording for 3rd party video editor’. Does selecting this influence the Vimeo integration also as the quality seems lower or compressed?
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Is there a way to make sure that the account created for the Casting Director has the Vimeo app already enabled?
Not sure if i should have posted this in Marketplace apps topic as it overlaps.
Please help! 