A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for securely controlling playback of a recorded collaboration session. A plurality of video feeds is received from a plurality of client devices of users participating in a video meeting, wherein each video feed is encoded by each client device in an encoded format that distorts the video feed, wherein a unique key is used by each client device to encode the video feed. The plurality of video feeds are stored in the encoded format. A request is received to view a stored video feed, wherein the request includes the unique key used to encode the stored video feed. In response to determining that the requesting entity is authorized by a user of the stored video feed to view the stored video feed, the stored video feed is decoded and provided to the requesting entity.