Connecting YouTube
- Email support@recordflow.org and we'll enable YouTube on your account.
- Choose YouTube on the connect screen and sign in with the Google account that owns your channel.
- RecordFlow asks for permission to upload videos and to read your own channel back. It cannot change or delete videos it didn't create, and cannot touch your channel settings.
Where your recordings land
Your own YouTube channel, as a private video titled with the meeting topic and date. There are no folders — the video is the top-level thing. In the admin app that also means no per-member sub-folders: every archived member's recordings land in the one channel.
What gets archived
- The video recording, uploaded as a private video on your channel
What it doesn’t archive
- Transcripts, chat logs and AI Companion summaries — YouTube stores videos, not files, so there is nowhere to put them. Pick a file destination if you need these.
- Audio-only recordings — YouTube rejects an upload with no video track.
Deleting the Zoom original after archiving
Supported. Turn on auto-delete in your RecordFlow settings and the Zoom copy is removed once the archive is confirmed. YouTube re-encodes what it plays back, but it also reports the size of the file RecordFlow uploaded — and RecordFlow checks that, plus that YouTube finished processing the video and didn't reject it, before anything is deleted from Zoom. If a video is still processing the deletion simply waits for the next day's check. Worth knowing before you turn it on: a video that passes every check can still be removed later if your channel is struck or suspended, which no check we run can see coming. If the recordings are ones you couldn't stand to lose, keep a file destination too.
If something isn’t working
- My recordings aren't syncing — Usually a cloud-vs-local recording mix-up — check this first.
- Where are my recordings on YouTube? — They upload as private videos on your own channel — here's where to find them.
Other destinations
One destination per account, and you can switch at any time — recordings already archived stay where they are, only new ones move.