Pause, stop and automatic stop
How to pause a recording and resume it, how to end it, and when it stops by itself.
- For: All members
- About 3 min
What you need
- Start recording on a computer, as in Record an online meeting or Record an in-person meeting.
Steps
Press the two-bar Pause button
CautionWhat is said while paused does not go into the transcript.
TipWhile the recording is getting ready or reconnecting, the button cannot be pressed: wait a moment.
TipIf you stopped the browser’s sharing while paused, the screen for choosing what to share opens again when you resume.
CautionA stopped meeting cannot be recorded again, so use Pause when you only take a break.
CautionIf you close the screen before the saving is done, words not yet saved are lost.
TipTo create the minutes later, open the meeting marked Capture stopped in the meeting list: it brings you back to this screen.
When the transcript is in the small window, the same buttons at its top also pause, resume and stop. Only Stop in the small window asks End the recording? first.
When you finish
Except for the time it was paused, what was said is saved as the transcript, and you can go on to create the minutes.
When it stays silent
When no sound arrives and nothing said becomes text for 15 minutes, the recording stops by itself. 2 minutes before that, a notice starting with “It has been silent for a while.” appears at the top of the screen and in the small window.
If the meeting is still going on, press Keep recording in the notice: the count starts over, and the recording goes on. Nothing is counted while paused.
When it stops by itself too, the transcript up to then is saved, and the screen for creating the minutes shows Recording ended automatically after 15 minutes of silence. at its top.
When you are asked whether the meeting is still going on
While recording, the sound level is checked every 10 minutes. If the last 10 minutes are under 30% of the meeting so far, the top of the screen and the small window show Is the meeting still going on? If you allow notifications, your computer also tells you while you are not looking at the screen.
If the meeting is still going on, press Still going. Recording goes on, and the same question does not come back until the sound is about as loud as during the meeting again. If the meeting has ended, press Stop recording.
This question never stops the recording. If nobody answers and it stays quiet, you are reminded every 10 minutes.
When a pause goes on for long
After 45 minutes paused, a notice at the top of the screen and in the small window says in how many minutes the recording will end and be saved. If you are not resuming yet, press Keep paused to start the count over.
After 60 minutes, the recording ends by itself, and the transcript up to then is saved.
When this month’s transcription time runs out
If this month’s transcription time runs out during a recording, you get an extension of up to 60 minutes, and the time until which you can record appears at the top of the screen. Pausing does not move that time.
At that time the recording stops by itself, and the transcript up to then is saved. To check what is left, see Check what is left this month and your AI credits.
If something does not work
I pressed Stop by mistake
A stopped meeting cannot be recorded again. The transcript up to the stop is saved, so you can create the minutes from it.
If the meeting is still going on, start recording it as a new meeting with Start recording in the meeting list.
Back from a break, a notice at the top says the recording stopped
If you stopped sharing while paused, the notice says Screen sharing was stopped. Resume to choose what to share again. When the recording stopped for another reason, the notice says that reason.
To go on, press Resume in the notice, and when the screen for choosing what to share opens, choose the meeting’s tab (or window) again. The audio from while it was stopped is not recorded. For more, see Recording stopped or was interrupted.
The recording ended by itself in the middle of the meeting
Why it stopped is shown at the top of the screen for creating the minutes. If it says Recording ended automatically after 15 minutes of silence. no sound reached the audio you chose, so it counted as silence even though the meeting went on.
A stopped meeting cannot be resumed: record the rest as a new meeting. To find why no sound came in, see Fix missing audio or interrupted recording.
“Stop recording and leave?” appeared
It appears when you try to go to another screen while recording. To keep recording, press Stay here.
Stop and leave ends the recording and saves the transcript before you leave. No minutes are created yet: open the meeting from the meeting list later to create them.
I closed the tab of the recording screen while recording
Closing the tab interrupts the recording. Within 60 minutes, open the meeting marked Recording interrupted in the meeting list, and choose to record the rest or to finish with what was saved.
The steps are in Recording stopped or was interrupted. After 60 minutes, the recording ends by itself with what was saved.
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