How to Use Video for Sales and Webinars 

Yes. The Desktop Studio connects to Zoom just like a webcam and microphone. From Zoom’s perspective, it’s a standard input, so there’s no disruption to existing workflows.

Yes. The Desktop Studio still feeds into Zoom Events the same way. Zoom receives the video signal as a webcam input.

Yes. While Zoom recordings are limited by Zoom’s own compression, the Desktop Studio records a high-quality local version at the same time. This provides a clean master recording regardless of Zoom’s limitations.

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The Desktop Studio can record locally using a high-resolution switcher recorder while Zoom continues to handle the live session recording of meeting participants. Each is treated as a separate recording to be edited together after the session.

Yes. You can record external guests and audience participants within Zoom as normal. The local recording focuses on the in-studio camera and presentation.

No. Participants are managed inside Zoom, not as physical inputs on the switcher.

Yes. External speakers are captured via Zoom and combined with the high-quality local recordings during editing.

Yes. The switcher controls what’s sent from the studio to Zoom. From there the Zoom audience controls what they want to see.

Yes. Assigning a dedicated host to manage pinning during the session can influence what appears in the recording. This needs to be tested and standardised. Zoom recordings are baked into Zoom’s own logic and don’t always reflect live pinning behaviour. That’s a Zoom limitation rather than a studio issue.