Zight Screen Recorder for Slack

What is Zight Screen Recorder for Slack?

Show your Team and customers what you're seeing with shareable screen recordings - right from Slack! 

Create Zight screen recordings right from a Slack Channel

• record full-screen audio & video 
• record a specific application window
• up to 4k video quality
• unlimited videos (limited on Free Zight accounts)
• unlimited recording time (limited on Free Zight accounts)
• no other applications or chrome extensions required
• recordings saved and searchable in your Zight account
• each recording has its own unique share URL

Receive your Zight notifications in Slack

Getting Started with Zight Screen Recorder for Slack

There are a few ways you can get started by installing Zight Screen Recorder in your Slack Workspace.

• Slack App Directory
• App Installation Link
• In your Slack Workspace, in the apps channel, search for "Zight" and click the "Add" button to install it

Authorize Zight to connect with Slack

Adding Zight Screen Recorder to your Slack Workspace is a two-step process. Once you click "Add to Slack", Slack will request permission for Zight to access your Slack Workspace.

Sign in or create a Zight account

Once permission is granted, you are required to sign in or create a Zight account. If you are already signed in to Zight then this step will be skipped.

Connecting your Zight account with Slack

After signing in to your Zight account, you will be requested to connect your Zight account with Slack. Click "Allow access" to continue.

After allowing access, you will be prompted to open Zight Screen Recorder in Slack

In your Slack Workspace, you should see a Slack channel labeled "Zight", located under the Apps section.

How to start a Zight screen recording in Slack

There are two ways to start a screen recording in Slack

1. Slack Slash Command
2. "More Actions" menu

Starting a Zight screen recording using Slack's Slash Command shortcut

1. In a Slack conversation, enter the following slash command in the compose text area: `/Zight` and hit 'enter' on your keyboard or click the send message button

2. A Slack Bot message should appear. Click the button 'Click to start recording' 

3. In your web browser, accept Camera & Microphone permissions

4. Click the button 'Record screen as video'

5. Choose your screen or application window to begin the recording countdown 

Why is the Zight Slash Command not available? 

Share playable Zight links in Slack

When the Zight app is installed and authorized for link previews, paste an eligible public Zight video or image share link into a Slack message. Slack expands a video into a playable preview with its title and, when available, its description. Image links show an image preview with available title and description.

The preview also includes:

• Add a comment — opens the item’s Comments section in Zight. This button appears only when comments are enabled for the item and workspace.
• View — opens the original Zight share link.

Privacy: Zight does not create a rich Slack preview for password-protected, expired, disabled, incomplete, non-viewable, or unsupported items.

If a public link does not expand: Ask a Slack workspace administrator to reinstall or reauthorize the Zight app so the current link-preview permission is granted, then try the link again.