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Recording widget

The Recording widget embeds a meeting recording in the room. It's a simple video — playback only. No transcript, no AI summary, no speaker labels — just the recorded video itself.

Need transcript or AI summary too? Use the Meeting widget instead — it attaches the calendar meeting and pulls the recording, transcript, and AI summary into one popup. See Meeting widget.

What it does

The Recording widget pulls a recording from your notetaker — either the native Katalyz notetaker or an external one connected to your workspace (Modjo, Gong, Claap, etc.) — and embeds the video for in-room playback. That's it.

How to add

On the floating build bar at the bottom of the editor, locate the widget — in the primary widgets row, or under the ⌄ All widgets popover if it's not there.
Drag the Recording widget onto the target section.
Pick the recording from the list — recordings from your connected notetakers (Katalyz, Modjo, Gong, Claap, etc.) are all available in the same picker.

The selection pill — Recording controls

Click the recording to select it. The pill mirrors the [Image widget pill](→ 02-rooms/03-widgets-content-storytelling/03-image-widget#the-selection-pill-image-controls), left to right:

Size — dropdown with Small / Medium / Large.
🌙 Dark mode (captions) — flips the caption block to dark.
Edit resource (sliders icon) — opens the edit popup for the recording's title, captions, and the Replace recording action.
🔄 Replace recording (refresh icon) — shortcut to swap the recording while preserving caption content and design.
Design (paintbrush icon) — opens the contextual Design panel.
Expand on click (diagonal arrows icon) — toggle. When on, clicking the recording opens the fullscreen viewer.
⋮ More — Edit resource (same as the sliders icon) · Duplicate · Delete.

What buyers see

A standard video player — play, pause, scrub, fullscreen. No tabs, no transcript pane, no summary.

When to use

Demo handoff — sales records the demo with their notetaker (native or external); drop the video in the customer's room so a buyer who missed it can rewatch.
Reference conversation — embed a key call so both sides share the same context, without needing a separate dashboard.
Quick visual proof — show a recording without the overhead of transcript / AI summary.

You want transcript + AI summary too → use the Meeting widget.
The video is hosted elsewhere (YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, an upload) → use the Video widget.

Privacy

Recordings are visible to everyone with access to the room. To restrict who sees a recording, place it in a section or page with appropriate visibility — see Controlling visibility.

Updated on: 18/06/2026

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