Record a Webinar You Are Attending
Capture the whole session, slides and audio, with no time limit and nothing to install on a work laptop.
- Free, no time limit
- Nothing to install
- Editor built in
How to record a webinar
Open the recorder
Open REQO in Chrome or Edge with a webinar on screen and press record. Nothing to install, no extension to approve, and no admin rights to ask IT for.
Share the webinar tab, with its audio
Pick the tab the webinar is playing in rather than the whole screen, and tick "Share tab audio" so the presenter is on the recording. Your notifications and your other windows then stay out of it.
Cut it down to the part you needed
A ninety-minute webinar usually contains ten minutes you will return to. The transcript is the fastest way to find them: search for the term you came for, and trim to it.
Why the host's recording is not the answer
Most webinars promise a recording afterwards and a good number never send one, or send it a fortnight later behind a form. Recording your own screen removes that dependency entirely, and it does not need the host to enable anything for attendees.
It also gets you the version you want rather than the version they publish. The follow-up recording is usually trimmed to the marketing, and the twenty minutes of questions at the end, which is where the useful answers are, is the first thing cut.
There is no time limit here, which matters more than usual: webinars run long, and a free tier that stops at forty minutes stops exactly when the Q&A starts.
Getting the audio right
The mistake that ruins a webinar recording is capturing the screen and not the sound. Chrome only offers "Share tab audio" when you pick a TAB, so choosing the whole display gives you a silent video of somebody talking.
Your microphone is a separate track, so you can talk over it as you record - noting what a slide is about, or reading a question you plan to ask - without that ending up mixed into the presenter's audio beyond recovery.
What to do with ninety minutes of video
Nobody rewatches a webinar. What gets used is a two-minute clip of the one slide that mattered, sent to the two colleagues who needed it, and that is a trim and a share link rather than a file in a shared drive nobody opens.
Because the recording is transcribed, the searchable text is what you keep even if the video is not: paste the passage into the notes where the decision was made.
Recording a webinar: questions
Can I record a webinar if the host disabled recording?
That setting stops the platform from recording for you; it does not and cannot stop your own machine from capturing its own screen. Whether you SHOULD is the separate question above, and for anything you plan to share the answer is to ask.
Do I need to install anything to record a webinar?
No. The recorder runs in Chrome or Edge, so there is nothing to download and no extension to approve. That is usually the deciding factor on a work laptop you cannot install software on.
Is there a time limit?
No. Recording is free with an account and there is no cap on how long a recording runs. Free exports carry a small REQO badge; Pro removes it.
Can I send it as a link instead of a file?
Yes. Every recording gets a share page, which is usually the difference between it being watched and it bouncing off a mailbox attachment limit.
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Edit the recording
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Free, no install, and the recording opens straight in a full editor.