Why you shouldn’t shoot video over Zoom

It turns out that the REASON Zoom is so good at keeping a steady feed going is that it makes compromises in other areas; specifically, the areas that make video files look and sound pretty. Many people come to us frustrated that even though they’ve invested in all sorts of high-dollar webcams and microphones, their footage still looks cruddy.

And more often than not, Zoom is to blame. Without getting into specifics about specifically what it’s specifically doing, just know that it’s built to to crush files to smithereens.

So what can we do about it? Here are three distinct options: