Hangouts Google a communication platform; With the function of sending and receiving instant messages too, you can make video calls. Also, you can record a video call with sound on Hangouts with multiple friends, just like on Facebook and Skype.
Starting or starting a conversation with Hangouts is very easy; you can talk with 10 users at the same time, these voice calls are free. They are direct calls to mobiles or landlines in Canada and the US and in other countries around the world they have a cost.
Google Hangouts will allow us to have new quality conversations with family or friends through video calls, as well as share conversations and record videos. Hangouts provides the opportunity in two methods to record the calls. How to execute these steps? Here we explain all.
Record a video call with sound in Hangouts Meet
Make a video call with Hangouts, you can do it with different participants just like what you see on the screen. The recording can be in MP3, MP4, AAC, MOV files.
You must access the Hangouts video recording settings, this will record the voices and documents that are exposed. If not, you are the sponsor of the video call, you must use an external video call recorder.
To record during the video call, click on More and then on record video conference. Then the recording will start and all users will see that the video call is being recorded. To end the recording, click More again, select Stop Recording. The recording will be saved to Google Drive in the Video Conference recordings folder.
Record conversations in Hangouts
You can use 2 external ways of Google Hangouts to record video calls or voice calls:
1. Record on Hangouts with Screen Recorder; This is a program that records Google Hangouts conversations on your PC screen, in this way you can save recordings of voice calls as well as video through Hangouts on your PC.
What you record will be of excellent quality, both the images and the sound. You will need to download and install Aiseesoft PC screen recorder.
2. Record with Hangouts On Air; With this external method you will be able to broadcast videos through a YouTube channel or Google+ page and thus edit the videos. To do this, go to Google Hangouts On Air and click Create a Hangouts On Air.
Then a dialog box will appear, enter your name, in settings adjust the audience and decide who you want to see the video. Then add more people than you add to Hangouts. Although, the video in On Air will be a mandatory Public video.
3. Record Video Calls with FonePaw
This call recorder on your Windows or Mac computer. Select the recorder and click Video recorder. Then choose what you want to record for this click on Advanced Recorder and on lock and record window and select the Hangouts window. Thus, during the video call who use other applications will not be recorded.
Enable system sounds, activate the camera in Hangouts and the microphone, so that the voice and the voices of the calls are recorded. Click Rec at the beginning of the video call, so the recorder will record the entire call.
Tips to record a video call with sound in Hangouts
- To adjust during the call, click on settings and in recordings, select Allow so that it is move the recording region at the time you are recording.
- Verify that the camera or microphone is working properly.
- Make the call in a quiet place so other sounds don’t interrupt the call.
- End all the applications that you are not using on the computer so the call will flow better.
In conclusion, can you record a video call with Hangouts? Of course you can use external recorders without any inconvenience and you can also use Hangouts Meet when you are the sponsor of the video call. With these simple steps you will record a video call to watch it later or to show it to others.
