Record and play back Adobe Connect meetings

A host can record a meeting or training session. When played back, the recording shows exactly what the attendees saw and heard. All pods and interactions in a meeting room are recorded, except for the Presenter Only area and breakout rooms. You can start and stop recording at any time, to control what content gets recorded. A host can create a reference archive of meetings and make the recordings available to attendees.

When recording a meeting, consider the following:

• If you use VoIP and the Video Pod to broadcast audio to meeting attendees, all audio is recorded automatically.
• If you use the Universal Voice solution, you record the audio with the meeting. All telephone-based audio is recorded, and can be played back with the audio conference. The audio heard through computer speakers during an Adobe Connect session is played back. If the audio broadcasting was stopped during the session, users on a telephone can continue to talk and listen to each other, but they are not heard through computer speakers.
• If you do not use Universal Voice, you can use your speakerphone and your computer microphone as recording devices. All audio input to your computer is captured and recorded but is not broadcast to participants. (Because audio is not directly integrated with the meeting in this case, the quality can be lower than using a direct method.)
• If you use an integrated telephony adaptor, begin your recording from within Adobe Connect, not from a telephone key command.
• The meeting recording is assigned a URL and added to the Recordings page associated with the meeting room in Adobe Connect Central. To play a recording, you need an Internet connection, the recording URL, and permission to view it.
• Adobe Connect administrators can change recording settings to adhere to standards for governance. These settings affect how meetings and training sessions are recorded and what is recorded. For more information, see Working with compliance and control settings.

Start recording a meeting

Stop recording a meeting

The meeting recording is saved and is available for playback at any time.

After recording a meeting or training session, you can use the built-in editor to remove sections of the recording. The editor is useful if the recording contains periods of silence or unnecessary information. Following are some tips for editing recordings:

• To edit a meeting or virtual classroom recording in the Content library, you must have Manage or higher permissions for the recording. If you created the meeting or virtual classroom, you have these rights by default.

• To edit a recording under Meeting > Recordings or Training > Recordings, you must have Host permissions. You can create an index using time tags to enable participants to easily view and navigate through the recording. You can also edit/delete the existing auto-generated time tags.

  In addition, you can also create sections within a recording using chapter markers. You can hide the names of participant interacting over chat and retain the content of these interactions.

• The last edited version of the recording is saved and includes all information from earlier editing sessions. The link to your recording does not change after editing. Users given the link and rights to access the recording see the most recent version saved, including any edits that were made.

• Multiple users can open a recording in edit mode at the same time. However, after one user saves their changes, others editing at the same time receive an error when they try to save their changes.

• In addition, you can also hide Chat Pod, Attendee Pod, or Q&A Pod or a combination of these pods. To protect the privacy of individuals, you can also hide the names of the attendees.

Editing a recording is useful if the recording contains sections of silence or unnecessary information that you want to remove before making the recording available.

You can convert and download an Adobe Connect session recording offline, in MP4 or FLV format. This conversion happens on your local system using the Adobe Connect application for desktop.

A host or presenter makes the recording URL available so attendees can play the recording. Every recording is automatically assigned a unique URL and is stored on the Recordings tab for the meeting room in Adobe Connect Central.

When you play a recording, a recording navigation bar appears in a space below the meeting room. For optimal performance, a high-speed Internet connection is recommended for recording playback.

You control who has access to the recording:

• Any user invited to the meeting using the invitees or enrollee tabs in Adobe Connect Central can view the recording if given the recording URL.

• Hosts can view information, such as permissions, if they have rights to browse to the Adobe Connect Central folder where the recording is stored.

• Anyone with Internet access can view the recording if you make it public. Alternatively, you can move the recording to the Content library and set specific user permissions (moving the recording to the Content library is irreversible.)

Hosts and Presenters typically share a recording with the attendees by sending an email containing the URL of the recording.

For each meeting recording, a new indexed event is created for every chat message, layout change, slide change, and camera start or stop. Each event is listed in an Events Index, along with a timestamp. You can filter and browse the index to quickly navigate to specific events.

You can view all recordings made for a particular meeting, change permissions, rename, or move a recording, or view a content report for a recording. Also, a recorded meeting can be used as content for another meeting. (If a recording has been edited, edits are preserved if the recording is moved to the Content library.)

You can access all the recordings owned by you, directly in Home > My Recordings tab. You can sort the list of recordings, search for recordings, or launch a recording. Use a minimum of three characters in the search field to search through the recording names. For more information, see Adobe Connect Central home page.

If you are an administrator or have Manage permissions for a meeting folder, you can view the recordings that have been created from a meeting room.

An administrator or a user with permissions to manage a specific Meetings library folder can move meeting recordings from the folder to the Content library.

Moving a meeting recording to the Content library is useful if you want to give access to people other than the original invitees.

Recordings when moved to content library can be tracked under the Reports for Number of Views and detailed Time In and Time Out of registered users.

Only an administrator or a user with permissions to manage that specific Meetings library folder can delete a meeting recording.

If you delete a meeting room, you can retain the associated meeting recordings. You are prompted to move all the recordings to your My Content section. You can choose to not move the recordings and delete them along with the meeting room.